This is a game where everyone is focused on
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Because they've had so much going on lately, the Greenwood case must have been a big blow to the team's morale, and it's been hard for Ronnick to get him to slowly stabilize his hitting on the right wing, and now the guy's probably got to go to jail, and
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There's also an internal furor over whether or not to get a new captain.
There were some changes to the starting lineups for both teams, with Atletico's Carrasco and Koke both unavailable for the game.
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Less McTominay, Atletico put away Suarez, Griezmann, Lemar, and Simeone looked like he was trying to put in attackers to overwhelm the second half.
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Instead, they play a strange formation that looks like a 4231 but actually looks like a 3 center backs
Ronnick, for some reason, swung Lindelof at center back to start at right guard, in fact
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With all the wingbacks in the lineup, including Wan-Bisaka, Dalot, Telles, I think Ronnick may have been trying to get LukeShaw to go up and attack as much as he wanted, but really
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They don't have the resources to play 3 center backs because they don't have a right back who can play that formation, and everyone else is basically a winger who isn't very good at defending or working in the midfield, so they play this deformed 4 backs, but Luke Shaw will be fully committed to the attack when the game starts, and it's possible that Ronnie is playing Lindelof at right back because he wants to be fully committed all the way up the field, and that he's not going to be able to play in a 3 center back. I've seen Lindelof playing right back outside the box a lot in games, so it's possible that he's actually playing right back!
This lining up proved to be a disaster, Atletico were in good form, Komdogbia, who was supposed to replace Koke, showed a fairly high range of running, and Herrera beside him had a similarly big run, and pressed at the beginning of the game
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I've got it, and then I've only been playing for five minutes.
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The whole thing was a mess. Pogba was supposed to be at the back in the opening half, but he kept running forward to the right, which caused Fred's range of motion to increase exponentially, while Rashford and Sancho were blocked by Atletico on the left and right flanks, and they couldn't help out in the middle, which resulted in the middle being completely crushed by Kondogbia and Herrera.
Lindelof looks to be at right back, but he's not as effective as a right back, and with Podba running off, Fred has to keep filling in the space in front of Lindelof, and Rashford can't come back in to help organize the game. In fact, it's a whole group of people, and if you're going to play as a right back, you have to move forward in order to maintain the density of the side, but Lindelof knows he's not fast enough. Lindelof knows he's not fast enough, it's not that he doesn't go forward, it's that if he does go forward, even if it's just into the center of the field to help the defense, Atletico will definitely be hitting him in the back, and it didn't take a few minutes for Atletico to figure it out, Lodi, Reinildo were all coming over, and Felix was moving to this position!
At 6 minutes.
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Lodi came up with the second point, then Fred was chasing the ball, Lodi slowed down the pace, Fred stumbled, Lodi took the opportunity to push the ball forward and crossed it, Felix was beautifully placed in the center of the field to score from 8 yards out.
Maguire could have taken a step forward and chased the ball, even if he didn't manage to take it, he could have restricted Felix, so that DeGea would have had a standard of judgment to make a save, or at least be sure that Felix wouldn't have thrown his head at the other side of the field. Maguire stayed on his feet and allowed Felix to go out, and Lindelof desperately tried to take the ball out of his hands at the earliest possible moment. In fact, Fred chased the ball out, but Atletico defender Reinildo was already on the side, Lindelof didn't dare to let him go to block Lodi, of course, it was also because of the lack of speed, Lodi could have let Lindelof come out and then pass to the side of the ball Reinildo's!
I'm behind in the early part of the game.
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Instead of being extremely passive, Atletico immediately hit the ground running, and overall the first half was all about Atletico pressing the
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And since Atletico was playing Lindelof all the way, either he was not defending well or he had a speed disadvantage, Atletico was even able to use a long pass to get Lodi to pick up the ball at the spot, and this section of the operation was almost 100% successful because Lindelof had no way to get the ball before Lodi did.
However, as the game progressed, some strengths and weaknesses slowly emerged, such as Lodi's handling of the ball is too monotonous, to the 33rd minute that time he even took the ball to try to do hard work, Lindelof although he was led by him to run around, but did not have a whole loss of defense to let Lodi with the ball into the penalty area, and Felix many times the run was great, but Lodi did not pass, on the whole Atletico Madrid lack of attacking tactics, Kondogbia is very active, by the end of the first half he has even gone up to the front several times and shot. Kondogbia was very active, and by the end of the first half he had even gotten up in front of the ball a few times and shot.
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The midfield was a complete rout, but most of Atletico's shots were actually straight pumps when there was no other way to attack, not carefully orchestrated shooting space
At the end of the first half, Atletico had a set piece, Lodi crossed the ball from the left side again, the ball was blocked by Beefy in the center and bounced to the far post, almost being headed by Vrsaljko, but it hit Lindelof's face first and then bounced to the crossbar and didn't go in, Atletico missed the best chance to open up the scoring, and also resulted in the final draw.
