This game started as a great contest, but Atletico couldn't resist
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The high-speed counter-attacking power of the team gave up points, and was eventually driven to a collapse, allowing
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Control until the end of the game.
The first round of the encounter.
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In the 1-0 away win at Atletico Madrid, they relied on Giroud's amazing inverted golden hook, and added the Atletico Madrid player's mistake led to Giroud is not offside, this first point is very critical, because to be able to get this away goal and also win, resulting in Atletico Madrid in the second time this time to cooperate with the visit to the Stamford Bridge is not possible to put out a complete defensive counter-attack, Simeone has to take into account!
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The likelihood of a deadlocked defense makes it imperative to maintain strong offensive pressure in the formation, and this gave the
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A bunch of attackers with speed great opportunity
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Laying out a 343 with Azpilicueta, Zouma, Rudiger at fullback, M. Alonso, James at wingback, Kovacic, Kante at the back, and all three of this season's newcomers, Werner, Havertz, Ziyech, at attacker, were put on the field.
Atletico Madrid played 442 with Gimenez, Savic, Lodi, Tripier in the back line, Koke, Saul, M. Llorente, Carrasco in the midfield, and Suarez and Felix in the forward line.
In fact, if you want to be safe, Atletico should have to line up a single striker, Felix or Suarez would be better to start with one, but the result of the first round of the fall made Simeone have to line up both of them, and the result is that Atletico's midfield organization ability has weakened.
Atletico played mainly with Felix dropping back to be the half forward who could control the tape and blitz on the counterattack, while they relied on Carrasco's instant explosiveness coming straight up from the left flank to pump or slot in and grab a point, and Tripier's upward passes were the focal point of the game as well
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On this side, Tuchel is actually a coach who uses offense to cover up defensive weaknesses, and he knows very well that Atletico must not be allowed to push into their own half of the field to organize, if Felix really starts to work around the 25-yard mark, then he will have two passing targets, Suarez and Carrasco, with Atletico's passing skills, it's definitely possible to make passes that rip through the defense instantly, and it will occur a certain number of times in one game, and sooner or later they will be able to seize the opportunity to score. Sooner or later, they'll be able to capitalize on it and score.
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Pouncing forward at the start, trying to push the line of scrimmage at least to the center line
Tuchel put in Kante in order to limit Felix and Carrasco, and the result was quite effective, and not only that, M. Alonso ran up to the front right after the game started, and he didn't go back to the defense at all, because Kante was at the back to fill in the position, so Alonso didn't care about the side of the defense, and kept on plunging into the right of Atletico, which affected Tripier to a certain extent and prevented him from pressing forward, so there was little of either downward passes or diagonal passes. This affected Tripier to a certain extent so that he couldn't press forward, so Atletico's passes, whether it's a cross or a straight pass from the right side, rarely appeared!
And not long after the game started.
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's speed came into play, and Werner sprinted out of position a couple of times because the
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Werner's backfield deliveries weren't precise enough, so Werner went up the wing, and it was clear that he was being given more of a holding job than a goal-scoring one, and instead of attacking the ball, he mostly tried to wait for his teammates to come up and pass it out.
Atletico had replied to the pressure at one point midway through the first half, when they pushed into the
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outside the penalty area, when it was evident that once Atletico had been allowed to arrive at the
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of the waist, even though
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With all the players in position and two rigid midfielders in Kante and Kovacic sitting in the center, Atletico were still able to form a threatening shot on goal
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Another change since Tuchel's arrival is that the center backs run forward to join the attack or boldly come up to clear the ball, and it was evident in this game as well, where it was Zouma who ran forward to mess with Alonso on the left side, it was Rudiger who ran forward in this game, as when
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When the attackers of Atletico are very strong, the opponents will surely be a bit backward and dense position, the midfield is to carry out man-to-man sabotage, at this time, if the center back suddenly go forward with the ball, all of a sudden it will become no one to watch the defense, Rudiger rely on the tall and big, a few steps to rush to the Atletico Madrid 18 yards outside the penalty box, to give Atletico Madrid a great deal of pressure on the defense!
indeed
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Several center backs are slow to turn, even Azpilicueta, now also because of age, to turn back to chase the opponent almost can not fully get the position, so Tuchel let the center backs boldly forward, even if you can not break the ball, must form a nuisance, which will create the opponent's passing error, the attacker will not be easy to get the fatal position, back to chase the center back is also more capable of blocking, in fact, this is also the In fact, this is also a stopgap measure, but at least no opponent has been able to fully crack the
And Atletico themselves seem to have some problems, twice in the game I saw Suarez complaining to Tripier who was passing forward from the back, and once on a set piece on the 28th, it was clear that the two didn't have the right timing and Suarez couldn't get the ball, and the situation continued, equating to a tacit problem with Atletico's direct deliveries from the right side of the field
