Chapter 324 The Neglected Team

Chapter 324 The neglected team

La Liga starts at the end of August.

If Atlético Madrid had won the Europa League last season, they would have gone to the UEFA Super Cup - but ultimately this year's UEFA Super Cup is between Champions League winners Inter Milan and Europa League winners Luton.

Moreover, 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 to make money, which allows the team to have a very complete pre-season training, which is of course a good thing for Gao Bo to take over the first season of Atletico Madrid, because this allows his training plan to be fully implemented. Go down, will not be interrupted halfway.

The team has always been in the training base, but occasionally Atlético Madrid will play warm-up matches elsewhere in Spain.

On August 9, the team played a game against Espanyol in Catalonia. The Spaniard's coach Gao Bo happens to be quite familiar - he is the future Tottenham coach Pochettino.

Atletico Madrid's performance in this game is going to be a little better, but they did not score a goal. Atlético Madrid and Espanyol played a zero-to-zero away game.

But even so, the media and fans did not see what style of football Atletico Madrid was going to play.

Because it was a warm-up game, Gao Bo did not send a starting lineup. He used two lineups in the first and second half, and kept making substitutions during the game.

In fact, Gao Bo did not mean to deliberately confuse the main force and the substitute. His main purpose was 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, with a team of Atletico Madrid's level, it is difficult to say how much difference there is between the main force and the bench. 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 force and the substitute is still very large. After all, in such a team, if you want to put together a strong enough main lineup Not easy.

However, Atlético de Madrid is different. They are La Liga giants after all. They have a deep heritage. There should be some personnel reserves, and the awareness of rotation is also very strong.

After the supplement 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 played a warm-up match with Mallorca, which finished fifth in the league last season and Atlético de Madrid eighth. However, Mallorca has left a lot of people this season, and Atletico Madrid has added a lot of people, so the media in this game think Atletico Madrid will have more advantages.

But it turned out that Mallorca beat Atletico Madrid 3-2.

Gao Bo's team suffered the first defeat of the warm-up match.

The defeat also seems to cast a shadow over Atletico Madrid's prospects for the new season.

The new season is still half a month away, but Atletico Madrid seems to have not fully found its own rhythm.

Many Atlético Madrid fans are starting to get a little worried.

However, Gao Bo is not too worried, because Gao Bo does not care about the outcome of the 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 game was originally used to find problems, and after finding the problems, they were solved in training.

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 start, and it is time for Gao Bo's Atletico Madrid to show their real main force.

Goalkeeper De Gea, center back Godin and Ujfalusi partner, right back Barrera, left back Antonio Lopez, midfielders Kante, Modric, Thiago Cardoso,

Strikers Reyes, Aguero, Griezmann.

Judging from the performance of these players last season, the speculation of the media is not unreasonable. At first glance, this lineup is very reasonable. The back line is experienced, the midfield is balanced in attack and defense, and the forward looks very powerful.

And in the first half, Atletico Madrid was already 2-0 ahead of Sporting Gijon.

In the second half, Gao Bo once again replaced all the starters and replaced them with a lineup.

In the end, Atletico Madrid defeated Sporting Gijon 3-0 and won a warm-up match.

This game slightly relieved Atlético de Madrid supporters, the new coach took office, at least from the perspective of this series of warm-ups, the team's state is steadily rising amid instability.

This shows that Gao Bo's work is still effective.

Atlético de Madrid has been sinking for many years, and the fans dare not expect too much. This season, Gao Bo has made a drastic move, cleaned up a large number of people, and then introduced a large number of people, which made the fans have expectations in their hearts.

This season... maybe we can qualify for a Champions League?

The fans thought with some uncertainty.

With Atletico Madrid's achievements in previous years, it is a very bold idea to get the top three.

In fact, in the pre-season predictions of major media, Atletico Madrid is a team that is ignored.

The big newspaper "Aspen" in the Madrid area made a season preview report.

The Spanish media have the nature of mouthpieces to some extent. For example, "Aspen" is regarded as the mouthpiece of Real Madrid by the outside world.

But "Aspen" is self-proclaimed as a neutral media... EMMMMMM Spain's media is not neutral.

In the "Aspen" report, the self-proclaimed neutral media Aspen, of course, did not expose its Real Madrid attributes soon.

He first introduced the situation of last season's champion Barcelona.

"It was a shame for Guardiola to be eliminated by Inter Milan last season, so Barcelona's goal this season is also to defend the league title and regain the Champions League. Guardiola's team is recruiting this season. There is a big move! Villa is the most crucial signing among them. Barcelona spent 40 million euros to bring the super striker to Camp Nou from Valencia, and out of Villa, Barcelona also spent 20 million to introduce Mascherano from Liverpool, and 10 million euros to introduce Adriano from Sevilla. Barcelona continued to strengthen this season, and their strength also It must be even more terrifying!!"

Then there's Real Madrid.

"In order to break Barcelona's domination of La Liga, the Galaxy battleship has found a new captain - madman Mourinho! The champion coach who won the Triple Crown at Inter Milan last season will be driving the Galaxy battleship this season. Go and challenge the cosmos team Barcelona! And this season, Real Madrid only spent 80 million euros to buy players, but they bought six new players in one go: Canales, Di Maria , Leon, Khedira, Carvalho, Ozil!! Mourinho's ships are ready to go and they will be highly anticipated this season!"

Barcelona and Real Madrid are naturally the focus of the major media when making season predictions, because for La Liga, the only one who can deal with Barcelona, ​​which is now in its prime, is Mourinho's Real Madrid. Madrid too.

As for other teams, "Aspen" introduced the two teams of Valencia and Sevilla in turn, which were the third and fourth place last season, so "Aspen" believes that this Both teams could act as spoilers this season. It is unlikely that they will win the championship, but if they are the spoilers, they have this strength.

As for other teams, "Aspen" just skipped it with one sentence.

When talking about Atletico Madrid, "Aspen" said: "As Madrid's second largest team, Atletico Madrid has completed a coaching change this season, bringing in a lot of players, but after selling Diego Verde After Lan, it remains to be seen how they perform in the league."

Not just the words of "Aspen", almost all Spanish media, before the league is about to start, when doing season previews, they focus on Barcelona and Real Madrid, at most Valencia and Real Madrid. Sevilla, the two La Liga teams.

As for Atlético de Madrid....now in Spain, not many people think they can make a big breakthrough in the new season. From the perspective of today's people, the players they have introduced are actually nothing. The most famous Modric is only a relatively good midfielder in Europe.

Godin's strength is good, but can he be compared with Ramos, Pepe, Pique and others?

Boateng? Just a defender of a mid-level Bundesliga team.

Canter? Griezmann? Sandro? Even if they win the Europa League, in the eyes of people, they are from the lower leagues.

Not many would think that these players can shake the status of Barcelona and Real Madrid.

All ignored Atlético de Madrid.

Except for high waves.

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