From the pre-season analysis of Atletico's steady progress, to now every ball game is terrified, everyone's expectations for Atletico seem to be gradually drifting away, adding many offensive players, but the offensive firepower is still not improving. It also makes people wonder if everyone in the Sheet Corps is still "sleeping" on the sheets.
In the past few games, Atletico have been labelled as "lack of offensive finishing ability". Getafe, who met the bottom in the 6th round, was actually scored first in the first half, the strong offensive line, actually could not find the opportunity to finish, and finally relied on Suárez's personal ability to use his personal skills to score two goals.
Almost all of the injured men returned, except for Thomas Lemar, who was still injured and joão Felix was banned from the second game. The full-team Atletico should have been better able to get Diego Simeone to schedule.
Although it is the second game of the 3 consecutive away games, but facing the furnace owner Alaves at the time, the pressure on Atletico should not be too much??
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > starter:</h1>
Jan Oblak Jan Oblak
Felipe Felipe Augusto de Almeida Montello
Stefan Savić Stefan Savage
Kieran Trippier Kieran Trippier
Mario Hermoso Mario Hermoso
Marcos Llorente Marcos Llorente
Geoffrey Kondogbia Gefrey Condobia
Rodrigo de Paul Rodrigo de Paul
Yannick Carrasco Yannick Carrasco
Antoine Griezmann Antoine Griezmann
Luis Suárez Luis Alberto Suarez
For Atletico's current matches, there are personnel scheduling in each game. Although this year's lineup can be said to be the best in the history, but the excessive number of people seems to make Simeone somewhat not hard, need to adapt to the distribution of the playing time of each star, but the position is only fixed, and the situation of more monks and less porridge often occurs.
If you want to talk about Atletico's worst midfield in recent years, Saul is definitely on the list, losing its competitiveness from the previous most potential midfielders being placed in various positions. And now Marcos Llorente is definitely facing this problem. In his emergence last year, the combination of the middle road and Suárez has also become Atletico's best siege duo, and the role of supporting the attacking midfield in the middle has not only liberated his dribbling skills, but also given Atletico fans unlimited imagination in terms of speed, but unfortunately this year in Simeone in order to test the lineup of the case to play many different positions, the offensive midfielder in the early part of the game, the full-back (wing-back) in the back, the defensive midfielder in the 6th round, not to say that this test is not good, but letting the players lose themselves in the position will cause the opposite effect.
Then there's the felipe's position, although felipe has always been the top 5 center-back in the league in La Liga, but it is true that in Diego Simeone's system, the shortcomings of standing in the middle will make him not fast are magnified a lot. In the two games of the season, it can be seen that he often has small flaws in defensive judgment errors, and whether he can enter the system as soon as possible will be the key to whether ma Jingwei can maintain the depth of the defense.
The final strikeline combination is very interesting, the previous two have experience working together in Barcelona, but with a Messi in the middle, there is really no chance to observe how the two are connected. Both are extremely demanding players who operate in the middle, although the functional attributes are different, one is like an opportunity creator, and the other is an endpoint. But both players are very dependent on running positions, and whether there will be tactical maladaptation needs to be observed.
There is also a special need to observe the role of Antoine Griezmann, perhaps 2 years ago he was the main ball holding point of the team, but now that Atletico has more ball holding points than Marcos Llorente and others, the first passing choice will no longer be him. How to change roles will also be a problem for the grid. Of course, it is not difficult to see that these Simeone games are still experimenting with Antoine Griezmann as the core of the team's play, perhaps to give Atletico time, and the acceptance after 7 to 8 games will be the key.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > the course of the game:</h1>
In fact, in the sixth round, Simeone clearly wanted to let de Paul, who entered the team this year, share more of the responsibility for the offensive points, especially in the absence of captain Koke Mereodio, often seeing him threatening opponents with sides or straight plugs.
He was often seen moving on the right in this game, which also liberated Marcos Llorente from having to bear the right side in the past and not being able to play the normal result.
At the start of the race, Atletico did play a lot of offensively, and even let the defenders come forward to participate in a lot of attacks, not only our common Hermoso but even Felipe's position was a little more in front of the usual. It can be seen that Simeone's mentality is to catch the opponent off guard, score goals first in the recent lack of offensive line, and then use the team's strength of the defense to defend.
Unfortunately, this result allowed Alaves to immediately catch the opportunity to attack, and they were quite sharp in their counterattack, which was originally set to be an Under dog. A 3-minute crossing ball, coupled with a small flaw in Felipe's defense, allowed the danger to come directly, and finally seemed to dissolve into a corner, but this is also the beginning of the nightmare.
A set-piece kick came in four minutes and the player in the Alaves penalty area was given an important headpiece by the opposing captain without Savage following. 0:1 Atletico were again the "best" results to fall behind in the first half.
Although there are still 90 points to recover the time plus stoppage time, the situation that the Sheets Army is still "sleeping" in bed these times is really not optimistic. Sure enough, the midfield did not have the captain Melodio to help stabilize the hearts of the army, and everyone's passes were very absurd. De Paul was unable to grasp the distance after several splits, and Jeffrey Condobia was unable to control the ball, and he was bound to lose the ball as soon as he was clipped. Mario Hermoso lost his standard, each side change is not ideal, in total, the entire game of 4 long passes are not successful, 3 crosses are also successful, for him more and more heavy in attack, such performance also hurts Atletico's attack.
And the only 1 cross success, it depends on the help of Suarez, in a good pass to the box to rush out of a good opportunity Suarez really unfortunately did not grasp, has almost defeated the two centre-backs, the shot of the ball let the team hang there after all.
Mario Hermoso is not in good shape, and Atletico naturally want to increase the opportunity to create attacks in the front. And this solution, perhaps, is that Grizmann, who returned from Barca, whether it is a rebound in the receiving near the middle circle or a reception near the box, can take away Alaves' solid penalty area defense for the team, especially pulling out one of the opponent's wingers, and the free space also allows Atletico to execute more crosses.
At 15 minutes, such a time will be generated, Griezmann and de Paul after intercepting the ball to hit the wall to cooperate also into the opponent's warning zone, unfortunately the two are not familiar with the tacit understanding, de Paul's last foot did not pass out, but also wasted the opportunity.
How could Atletico, who had the highest possession, give up attacking, at 18 minutes, Gríezmann's split, suárez pulled out of the middle, Llorente also sneaked into the box, but in the case of incomplete grasp of the ball, naturally there was no way to form a chance to shoot.
What we often see above is the offensive situation on the right side, but what about the left side? Naturally, it was caused by the hermoso break that we mentioned earlier. Today's Hermoso did not perform well, and after a few one-two opportunities, as a wall, he was always unable to accurately pass the ball to the teammates who inserted the ball, which also made Savić, the right centre-back, have to take on more passes to attack. Trippier, who tried to use the side change to find the right side several times, could not find the opportunity directly with the big foot, or had to change the side by means of a back pass, which somewhat slowed down Atletico's attacking opportunities and rhythm.
It's Griezmann again, and in the 26- and 28-point period or even 30-point period of intense offense, whether it's using the header to give Llorente a test shot, or a cross after forcing the ball to be picked up, or even relying on his own dribbling ability to kill the bloody road. The mistake was to make up for the aberration of today's team's pass masters, and indeed, it also caused Alaves to spend more people to defend the French elf.
By the 39 points later in the game, it was also by Relying on Grízamnn in the offensive line connecting Atletico, dribbling near the penalty area to Hermoso, and the cross opportunity also gave Llorente a head-on goal. And the last threat of the first half also ended after this time.
Summed up, the disconnection for the ability to pass the ball made Atletico's originally unsuccessful attack more critical, the center-back part was similar to the three-point analysis of the opening game, Felipe did have too many things on the split or some defensive actions, resulting in many thrilling pictures.
In various stats (Alaves: Atletico Madrid)
Possession was 29:71
Dribbling passed 3:9
Passing success rate: 71%: 87%
With almost all the offensive data won, whether the waste of opportunities can be improved will be the key to whether Atletico can win this game.
The tactics of the second half, sure enough, were designed by Simeone, initially moving Marcos Llorente more towards the middle and then having Antoine Griezmann help ease the attack on the right. There was also Jeffrey Condobia in the back to help with the post-steal split, which increased the chances of attacking even more.
But the most important scheduling is definitely to take de Paul as the main tactical core, almost every play after the second half is for de Paul to initiate, and more exaggeratedly, almost all the teammates get the ball the first time they find him to organize the attack. This aspect really needs to affirm Simeone's resilience and courage. Shooting a player who has only played a few games as the core of the tactics really takes a lot of courage, and this is also the tacit understanding of the Argentine compatriots! Maybe when you first bought de Paul, everyone knew that he would be the core of the team's offensive and defensive conversion, but they didn't expect him to be in position so soon.
In total, de Paul's offensive stats in this place include 1 Key passes, 4 fouls, 78 passes, 15 crosses and 11 long passes, almost all of which are the top of the team.
The set-piece at the 52-minute mark, although no one had the chance to shoot, was "stolen" to a ball after a bounce point. Since almost the entire team was brought in the attack, Leaving Marcos Llorente alone to defend near the center circle, it was of course the end of the day when Alaves launched a counterattack.
The 53-point counterattack, the line is to use the speed of Marcos Llorente alone, and then Kieran Trippier to foul, this side also saw Rodrigo de Paul's defensive basic skills are not actually top-notch, in the acceleration or out of the foot is indeed not the smoothness of these teammates. It is also a problem that he will need to face in the future, if he does not improve the defense too frizzy, the impact on the team will be more than just a yellow card.
Diego Simeone also finally made a change of formation, changing the formation to a 4-4-2 adjustment. Diego Simeone has prioritized the replacement of Mario Hermoso as the first step in the most formation change in recent times, removing a centre-back to a nominal full-back, usually Renan Lodi, and then replacing Kieran Trippier as a full-time midfielder.
The next move is something I can't understand, and after replacing the crispy skin, Simeone often let Marcos Llorente play full-back. It's not that the prince can't play full-back, but for the opportunity cost, this is the most unprofitable, and he does strengthen the defensive level on the wing, but the loss of offensive creativity in the middle is the most puzzling for Atletico fans. Hopefully, Cholo will be able to explain after a few games that saul Negus was previously "transformed" because of a shortage of manpower at the time, but now it is a manpower explosion, and such a dispatch is really puzzling.
In this situation, we can clearly see at the 64th minute that Marcos Llorente cannot be reported to the role he should have, although there should be some pressing, stealing, but the quality of the pass often makes him confused, often he can have the ball but the handling of the ball is absurd.
Atletico really had to find a new way to play at this time, during which Angel Correa dribbled in the penalty area and the multiple changes in the back of the ball did have an effect. 68 points passed to Antoine Griezmann's head, 71 and Mateus Cunha, 74 points long straight into the attack, bringing many threats to the opponent.
Atletico's attack seems to be a lot of certainty, and it cannot be said that they are creative, but the "creativity" of the defender group is indeed not flattering. At the 76th minute, Montero made another mistake in the opposing position war, the judgment of the high ball in this game was 3 times, the number of missed people was 2 times, and such a mistake would be a fatal flaw in the defense of such an important team as a defender; in the other 86 minutes, the defense on the right side also had problems, Anderson and Savage actually defended the same person and were pulled away from the space in the middle, which was also an invisible small mistake, fortunately Alaves did not handle the ball well in the end. Otherwise, the consequences are really unimaginable.
In the end, Atletico swallowed the first defeat of the season 0:1. Perhaps it is really as many people say, do not shed tears without seeing the coffin, and really have to think about the pain to have the possibility of the ball. Shooting, passing, or defensive stats are crushing opponents in terms of statistics. But why lose?
The first point, of course, is the most obvious flaw – the "catastrophic" ability to finish, with many threatening balls, but that is only a "threat" after all, and can not cause real damage, so that Atletico, although often invincible, but also unable to win the game.
The second point is the configuration of the tactics, in the past, Diego Simeone always only used a fixed formation to face the game, last year hovered in the middle of 3-5-2, 4-4-2, and before it was a big fan of 4-4-2, the changes will be in the fixed position of the player turnover; but now it is different, there are many more players with more offensive talent, in the midfield Diego must have more arrangement considerations, this year is not only 3-5-2, 4-4-2 will be used, more such as 3-4-3, 4-2-3-1 has appeared more than once, and many players have begun to find their own position. I just hope that the changes in this area are still experimental, or the players will start to get lost!
The loss of the second game of the three consecutive away games is definitely not the event expected by the team, and the third game in the league will still face Barca, and the away battle is still an uphill battle. How to quickly help players get back to form will be the most important problem for Diego Simeone to solve.
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