UGB Chapter 182 Octopus and bear's paw can't have both (thanks to Pegasus 2 for rewarding and
Chapter 182 Octopus and bear's paw can't have both (thanks to Pegasus 2 for rewarding and
Chapter 182 Octopus and bear's paw can't have both (thanks to Pegasus 2 for rewarding and adding more)
Chapter 29 You Can’t Have It Both Ways
After winning the game at home, Madrid successfully surpassed Barcelona in the standings, occupying the top spot in the standings.
Real Madrid, which kicked off two hours later than this game, challenged Athletic Bilbao in an away game. The Basques drew with the Galacticos at home. Atletico Madrid three points.
It is of course something to be happy about successfully widening the distance from competitors, but Simeone is not happy either.
Since January, the La Liga schedule has been quite tight, basically coming in a rhythm of one game in three days.In such a tight schedule, the most worrying thing is the team's injury problem.
However, injuries in the middle of the season are always unavoidable. At the end of the game against Real Sociedad, Felipe sat on the grass and did not get up after completing a tackle to clear the siege. He was then prompted by the team doctor to be the rear thigh muscle. strain.
In the post-match inspection, Cork also suffered from injuries.In this way, despite a big victory over the opponent in the league to reach the top of the list, the sudden loss of two main players still cast a shadow over the team's response to the next schedule.A week of consecutive double matches has stretched Atletico Madrid's bench depth.
Fortunately, the team's forward line configuration is quite sufficient, and the three outstanding forwards make Simeone's formation relatively more generous.Especially with the presence of Li Qingshan, a center forward who doesn't seem to get tired at all, Atletico Madrid's thickness in the forward line has deepened a lot.
Anyway, now Simeone is [-]% satisfied with the team's successful introduction of Li Qingshan in the winter transfer window.With the presence of such a striker, Diego Costa and Villa can rotate with each other, so as to ensure that the team's strength on the offensive line will not be weakened.
Simeone, who was supervising the team's training on the sidelines, was not happy for too long. He quickly saw something that made his eyelids twitch.
Villa fell to the ground during a confrontation and was carried to the sidelines on a stretcher.
Sure enough, Simeone cursed secretly in his heart.Villa suffered a muscle strain, and his team was once again downsizing.Villa's injury left Atletico Madrid with a gap in the forward position.
The sudden reduction of three awards made Simeone feel a lot gloomy.In particular, Atletico Madrid's opponent in the Copa del Rey semi-finals was their city rivals-Real Madrid.
It stands to reason that the Copa del Rey has reached the semi-finals, and as long as they survive three more games, they will be able to defend this important domestic championship.
But in Simeone's mind, the most important thing this season is the league, especially since the current league situation is very favorable to Atletico Madrid. Dedicate more resources to the Championship Championship.
This may be the struggle of a team like Atletico Madrid. They can't be like a big team like Real Madrid. Even the value of the substitute lineup is dazzling enough.
If the opponent in the Copa del Rey semi-final was another team, Simeone would not be struggling as he is now, and he would not hesitate to use his second team.However, when the opponent is Real Madrid, such a decision is not easy to make.
Especially Simeone played for Atletico Madrid in the player era. In the 1995/1996 season, Simeone helped the Sheet Army win the La Liga championship and the Copa del Rey championship. Of course he knows the meaning of the Madrid derby.
It is not even an exaggeration to say that Atletico Madrid was originally established to play Real Madrid.
In April [-], Real Madrid organized the Spanish National Championship and met Athletic Bilbao in the final. Although there were only a few Basque students in the field, they cheered and Bilbao scored [-]-[-]. beat Real Madrid.Subsequently, the Basques at the scene were not satisfied and decided to continue to torture Real Madrid in Madrid.Under the leadership of their captain De Acha, Bilbao's Madrid division "Bilbao II" was born.
Until [-], because the second team was going to play against the first team in the national championship.The second team can only be independent and renamed Atletico Madrid.Since then, this team has taken root in Madrid and has become the object of pursuit by the working class, while Real Madrid has chosen to combine with the rich, celebrities, nobles, and members of the royal family in the upper class.The estrangement between the two sides began to be mixed with class emotions. As the confrontation in football became more and more intense, the hostility between the two sides became more and more profound.
More than 100 years have passed, and it is obviously one-sided to say that the fans of Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid are still as distinct as they were more than 100 years ago.If your parents were a steel worker who lived and worked in the south of Madrid all his life, a loyal Atlético de Madrid believer, and you, as the son of a worker, even if you became a lawyer or a doctor in the future and squeezed into the circle of high society, but Most of these children are expected to continue the beliefs of their parents and support Atletico Madrid.Today, the lifestyles of Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid fans are no longer as distinct as they were more than 100 years ago.However, the entangled century-old grievances and grievances between them are an eternal topic that the media exaggerates and fans talk about.This makes the Madrid derby more concerned.
People always like to generalize, but sometimes this kind of one-sidedness is not unreasonable. The first sentence of the Real Madrid team song is "Come on Real Madrid", and Atletico Madrid is "Let us go to the Manzanares River"; The Real Madrid team song is Domingo, the king of operas in the world, and the Communist Party singer Joaquin Sabina praises the Atletico Madrid team song. Respect" symbol.The confrontation between two teams with very different styles in Madrid has plunged the city of Madrid into an atmosphere of confrontation.
As the coach of Atletico Madrid, Simeone certainly knows the attitude of Atletico Madrid fans towards the game against Real Madrid.But at this time, as the head coach of the team, he must make certain trade-offs.
Whether to send all the main players to fight against Real Madrid in the away game, or to strategically choose to abandon the Copa del Rey and concentrate on the league.
Now these two options are in front of Simeone.Emotionally speaking, Simeone certainly hopes that these two fronts can go hand in hand.However, the team's continuous injury situation sounded the alarm for him. If he cannot make a decisive decision as the head coach, perhaps in the end, both of these two championships will miss Atletico Madrid.
After Simeone waited until the team doctor came to report Villa's injury to him, he let out a long breath, unable to hide his anger.
Villa's calf muscle strain will require him to miss at least two weeks.In the case of a dense schedule, injuries are inevitable.
Simeone put away his emotions and made a quick decision.
(End of this chapter)