Chapter 324: Neglected team

Chapter 324 The Neglected Team
La Liga kicks off at the end of August.
If Atletico Madrid won the Europa League last season, they will go to participate in the European Super Cup-but in the end this year's European Super Cup is played between UEFA Champions Inter Milan and Europa League champion Luton.
And Atletico Madrid did not even qualify for the Europa League last season, so this season for the team, they can devote themselves to domestic competitions.
There is no need to go to Southeast Asia for gold. This allows the team to have a very complete pre-season training. This is of course a good thing for Gao Bo's first season when he takes over Atletico Madrid, because it allows his training plan to be fully implemented. Go down and will not be disrupted halfway.
The team has always been in the training base, but occasionally Atletico Madrid will go to other places in Spain to play warm-up matches.
On August 9, the team played a game against the Spaniard in Catalonia. The Spaniard's head coach Gao Bo happens to be quite familiar-he is the future head coach of Tottenham Pochettino.
Atletico Madrid's performance in this game is going to be a little better, but they did not score. Atletico Madrid and the Spaniard played away to zero.
But even so, the media and fans did not see what style of football Atletico Madrid wanted to play.
Because it was a warm-up match, Gao Bo did not send a starting lineup. He completely used two lineups in the first and second halves, and at the same time kept changing players during the game.
In fact, Gao Bo did not mean that he wanted to deliberately confuse the main force and the substitute. His main purpose is to let more players try to find the feeling of this tactical system in the game, and let more substitute players play the game.
In fact, for a team of Atletico Madrid's level, it is difficult to say how big the difference is between the main players and the substitutes. After all, Atletico Madrid is not a small team like Luton.
In Luton, Gao Bo only rotates in some games that have to be rotated. The gap between Luton’s main and substitutes is still very large. After all, in such a team, he wants to gather a strong enough main lineup. It's not easy.
However, Atletico Madrid is different. They are also La Liga giants anyway. They have a deep background. They must have a reserve of personnel and a strong sense of rotation.
After being supplemented this season, the team's main force and the strength of the substitutes have been greatly improved, which makes Gao Bo more comfortable in the use of players.
On August 15th, the team and Mallorca had a warm-up match. Mallorca was fifth in the title league last season, and Atletico Madrid was eighth. However, Mallorca has left a lot of people this season, and Atletico Madrid has added a lot of manpower, so the media think that Atletico Madrid will have more advantages in this game.
But it turned out that Mallorca defeated Atletico Madrid three to two.
Gao Bo's team suffered the first defeat of the warm-up match.
This failure seems to have cast a shadow over Atletico Madrid's prospects for the new season.
The new season will start in half a month, but Atletico Madrid seems to have not yet fully found its rhythm.
Many Atletico Madrid fans are beginning to get a little worried.
However, Gao Bo was not too worried, because Gao Bo did not care about the outcome of this airport game. He has been adjusting and looking for the weaknesses and possible problems of the Atletico Madrid players on the field.
The warm-up match was originally used to find problems, and after finding out the problems, they went to the training to solve them.
On August 20th, Atletico Madrid had a warm-up with Sporting Gijon!
The starting lineup sent by Gao Bo in this game is generally regarded by the media as the main lineup of Atletico Madrid in the new season. Because the new season is about to begin, it is time for Gao Bo's Atletico Madrid to show his true main force.
Goalkeeper De Gea, center-back Godin and Ujfalusi partner, right-back Barrera, left-back Antonio Lopez, midfielder Kanter, Modric, Thiago Cardoso, forward Reye S, Aguero, Griezmann.
Combined with the performance of these players last season, the media's speculation is not unreasonable. This lineup seems reasonable at first glance, with rich defensive experience, a balanced offensive and defensive midfield combination, and the forwards look very good.
In the first half, Atletico Madrid was already 2-0 ahead of Sporting Gijon.
In the second half, Gao Bo changed all the starting lines again and put on a lineup.
In the end, Atletico Madrid defeated Sporting Gijon 3-0 and won a warm-up match.
This game gave Atletico Madrid supporters a sigh of relief. The coach took office. At least from this series of warm-ups, the team's state is steadily rising in instability.
This shows that Gao Bo's work is still effective.
Atletico Madrid has been in decline for many years, and fans dare not expect too much. Gao Bo made a bold move this season, cleaning a large number of people, and then introducing a large number of people, which made the fans start to look forward to.
This season...maybe we can qualify for a Champions League?
The fans thought with some uncertainty.
With Atlético Madrid's achievements in previous years, it is already a very bold idea to get the top three.
In fact, in the major media’s pre-season predictions, Atletico Madrid is a neglected team.
The major newspaper "Aspen" in the Madrid area made a report on the season outlook.
The Spanish media has the nature of a mouthpiece. For example, "Aspen" is regarded as a Real Madrid mouthpiece by the outside world.
However, "Aspen" is self-proclaimed as a neutral media...Emmmmmm Spain media is not neutral.
In the "Aspen" report, Aspen, a self-proclaimed neutral media, certainly did not quickly expose its Real Madrid attributes.
He first introduced the situation of last season's champion Barcelona.
"Being eliminated by Inter Milan last season was regarded as a disgrace by Guardiola. Therefore, Barcelona's goal this season is also naturally placed on defending the league and regaining the Champions League. Guardiola's team is signing this season. There is a big move! Villa is the most important signing. Barcelona spent 40 million euros to bring the super striker from Valencia to the Nou Camp, but outside of Villa, Barcelona also spent 20 million to bring in Mascherano from Liverpool and 10 million Euros to bring in Adriano from Sevilla. Barcelona continued to strengthen this season, and their strength is also It must be even more terrifying!!"
Then there is Real Madrid.
"In order to break Barcelona's rule over La Liga, the Galacticos has found a new captain-Madman Mourinho! The champion coach who won the Triple Crown at Inter Milan last season, will be driving the Galacticos this season. Go to challenge the Cosmos team Barcelona! And although Real Madrid only spent 80 million euros to buy players this season, they bought six newcomers in one go: Canales, Di Maria , Leon, Khedira, Carvalho, Özil!! Mourinho’s warships are ready to go, and they will be very much looking forward to this season!"
Barcelona and Real Madrid are naturally the focus of the major media when making season predictions, because for La Liga, it is possible that only Mourinho’s Real will be able to deal with the current Barcelona in La Liga. Madrid.
As for other teams, "Aspen" has introduced Valencia and Sevilla in turn~EbookFREE.me~ These are the third and fourth places last season, so " Aspen believes that these two teams can play the role of spoilers this season. They are unlikely to win the championship, but if they serve as a spoiler, they have this strength.
As for the other teams, "Aspen" just skipped it in one sentence.
When talking about Atletico Madrid,
Aspen
said:
As Madrid’s second largest team, Atletico Madrid has completed a coaching change this season and brought in many players. However, it has sold Diego V We have yet to see how they perform in the league after Lan."
Not just the "Aspen" newspaper, almost all Spanish media, before the league is about to start, when doing season previews, they are focusing on Barcelona and Real Madrid, at most focusing on playing Valencia and Seville are the two top La Liga teams.
As for Atletico Madrid....... Now in Spain, not many people think they can make much breakthrough in the new season. The players they have introduced now are nothing in the eyes of people today. The most famous Modric is just a relatively good midfielder in Europe.
Godin's strength is good, but can he be compared with Ramos, Pepe, Pique and others?
Boateng? A defender of the Bundesliga mid-range team.
Kanter? Griezmann? Sandro? Even if they won the Europa League, in the eyes of people, they are also from the lower league.
Not many people think that these players can shake the status of Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Everyone ignored Atletico Madrid.
Except for Gao Bo.
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