Super Marshal

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the Valencia City Stadium was boiling!

On the court, some players are celebrating the team's good start excitedly, while others are pulling their heads in dismay, just like a defeated rooster.

The same is true on the sidelines.

Although they were also promoted to the first team this summer, the reactions of the two coaches after the game were completely different.

In front of the coaching area of ​​the home team, Granero, the new coach of Levante, is embracing his assistants.

Zambrano, the head coach of the visiting team Atlético de Madrid in the coaching bench of the visiting team, was ashen-faced, not daring to show his head.

He is using this method to avoid the cameras of reporters and live TV stations.

On the scoreboard of the Valencia City Stadium, an astonishing score was displayed, four to one!

According to international practice, the home team is at the front and the visiting team is at the back.

This is a total fiasco!

At the beginning of the game, Atlético de Madrid showed a strong desire to win, turned away from the goal, pressed heavily, and successfully used the exquisite cooperation of the two centers Kiko and Salva to break through Levante's goal and take the lead.

But after taking the lead, Atletico Madrid did not slow down the pace, but continued to press on, intending to expand the score.

But at this moment, Levante launched a counterattack, and striker Keku seized the opportunity and scored an equalizer goal.

After being equalized tragically, Zambrano still did not choose to retreat, but continued to ask the players to increase their offensive investment.

On the other hand, Levante stayed in their own half and adopted a counterattack tactic.

Finally, in the twenty-sixth minute, Levante seized the opportunity again. After Kaikou succeeded in countering offside, he broke into the penalty area, crossed the goal, assisted his teammates to score, and reversed the score.

Conceding goals in a row, Atletico Madrid's army is unstable.

During the intermission, Zambrano even yelled at the performance of the players, demanding that in the second half, we must increase our offensive efforts to equalize the score as soon as possible, or even reverse it.

But what I never expected was that Levante's defense was unexpectedly tenacious, but the counterattack was extremely sharp. In the 52nd and 68th minutes, two counterattacks resulted in goals, and finally locked the score at four. one.

This is a result that no one would have thought of before the game!

But it just happened!

Zambrano sat in the dugout, and even when the players walked off the court, he didn't go over to shake their hands as is customary.

The distrust, suspicion, and even accusations from the players made him go away.

"You bastards, you don't work hard, do you think I can't see it?"

"If you work harder, the defense will be so easily broken by the opponent?"

"If you worked harder on the pitch, would Levante have gotten a chance so easily?"

"Now that I lost the game, you actually blame me instead? Suspect me?"

"Damn it, I'm not done with you!"

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Although Zambrano tried desperately to avoid the camera, his hideous expression because of anger was captured by the live TV camera and presented in front of all the fans.

That's the downside of having a live broadcast!

Gao Han naturally saw it too.

"Zambrano was too anxious, too determined to win!"

This is Gao Han's own opinion after watching the live TV broadcast of the entire game.

"Well." Cantarero also agreed, "The overall strength of the first team is still better than Levante. If Zambrano can slow down the pace appropriately after leading the game, it is estimated that Levante wants to play. Fighting back is not that easy."

But Gao Han didn't see it that way.

"I think the most important thing is the aging of the defense and the mentality of the players."

Atletico Madrid's first-team defense is aging and this is a serious problem.

In fact, this problem has always existed in the past few years.

Don't look at Atletico Madrid's relatively simple and rough style of play, but in fact, this is a very typical La Liga team that attaches great importance to the team's offense. It can even be said that Atletico Madrid's tactics itself revolve around the striker.

From Kiko and Penev during the double crown, to Vieri, to Hasselbaink, and now to Salva.

In Atletico Madrid's tactics, the powerful center always occupies a vital position.

Therefore, even if they are relegated and Hasselbaink is sold, Atletico Madrid will immediately do everything possible to poach Salva, the top scorer in La Liga.

Use a powerful center to suppress the opponent's central defender, threaten the opponent's goal, and then through the forward movement of the defense line and the overall pressure of the midfield, firmly suppress the opponent, and then maximize the advantages of the powerful center.

But such a tactic has two major risks.

First, the back line moves forward, which puts higher demands on the defenders, especially to achieve quick advances and retreats.

But now Atletico Madrid's defense is full of veterans, obviously unable to adapt to such a tactical play.

Zambrano sticks to the team's traditional style of play and does not adjust tactics according to the characteristics of the players. It is purely to exploit weaknesses and avoid strengths.

In the 88th minute, in the final stage of the game, the red card of veteran central defender Fernandez is the best example.

"Another point, and the most important point, is that the players' hearts are broken."

Gao Han shook his head, "At least in terms of team pressure in the midfield, I don't see the players doing their best."

Team pressure in the midfield is the basis of Atlético Madrid's traditional style of play.

If this link is missing, the defense line rushes up, but allows the opponent to play the ball easily, it is purely courting death.

Therefore, in the game, Levante counterattacked almost one by one!

"I heard that after Zambrano was promoted to the first team, he had a very unpleasant fight with a group of veterans in the team." Sergio Garcia said with a sneer.

"Oh?" Gao Han just remembered that his assistant and Zambrano seemed to have formed a bridge.

"I heard it too." Garcia shrugged and said disdainfully.

"After Zambrano entered the first team, he directly increased the amount in training. At the same time, he also put forward higher requirements for the players in terms of tactics. The veterans headed by captain Aguilera responded on behalf of the team. The result... …He was determined to do it his own way.”

Gao Han nodded, this is indeed very similar to Zambrano's style.

"Moreover, after Zambrano promoted the first team, he publicly stated in the first press conference that he will vigorously implement youth reforms in the team, especially the defense."

After hearing this, Gao Han shook his head and laughed, "He is too self-righteous!"

There is no doubt that Zambrano's coaching performance in the second team is indeed shining, but that has nothing to do with coaching the first team.

Sometimes there are things that can be done but not said.

It's like he's going to promote rejuvenation, right? Does it make sense?

Yes, very right, very reasonable.

But the problem is, if you say it so blatantly, the media and fans are certainly happy and think you are awesome, but what will the veterans think? What do you think?

Professional players are human too, and they will have all the emotions of ordinary people.

Zambrano is really bad at handling this.

Perhaps, he had thought about it, but he was too optimistic about his own prestige.

Optimistic, he felt that even if he said it, the players would still work hard for him.

But is it possible?

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The disastrous defeat in the first round of the league soon affected Atletico Madrid.

Early the next morning, when Gao Han arrived at the Sports City, he could clearly feel the changes on the faces of the club from top to bottom, from the security guard at the gate to the staff in the Sports City.

Gives a very depressing, depressing feeling.

When Gao Han came to the youth team's training area, he saw the team's equipment manager moving things to the first-team training area.

"Hey, Anthony." Gao Han passed by and greeted casually.

Anthony Lilalandi raised his head, saw Gao Han, and squeezed out a stiff smile, "Hi."

"Did the first team not rest today?" Gao Han asked strangely.

Lilalandi shook his head, "It is customary to rest, but... Zambrano changed the plan."

"Oh." Gao Han nodded.

"I won't tell you, they are rushing to set up the training ground."

Watching Lila Randy leave with his things, Gao Han looked at the first team training ground from a distance.

Inside, Zambrano was directing the coaching staff to set up the training ground, but strangely, no one spoke.

This is professional football!

Very cruel, very realistic!

But Gao Han has no spare time to pay attention to others, because he knows very well that if he loses, he will be in a worse situation than Zambrano now.

Even at that time, Zambrano was the first to attack him!

He absolutely does not allow Zambrano's mistakes to happen to him!

So, he wants to win!

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Atletico Madrid's second team defeated Toledo 5-0 in the first round and took the top spot in the first group of the second league, but it was not stable.

Ranked second in the standings is the second team of Real Madrid.

The team's performance in the first round was also quite eye-catching. With Portillo's hat-trick at home, they beat Fuenlabrada 4-0 and also got a good start to the season.

Sporting Gijon II also beat Caudal 3-1 at home, with Pino scoring a goal.

After a round of the league, Atlético de Madrid's second team also collected first-hand information. In addition, Cantarero is familiar with the second league. Based on the experience he provided, Gao Han can already preliminarily judge the strength of the opponent.

If there is no accident, the ones who can really challenge the Atletico Madrid second team should be the Real Madrid second team, the Sporting Gijon second team, and Zamora and Ourense, who won the first round and performed well last season.

As for Toledo, despite the disastrous defeat in the first round, Cantarero still has a high evaluation of this team. He believes that as long as the adjustment is made, Toledo will still be the most powerful contender for the group championship this season.

On the contrary, Fuenlabrada, Alcocon and Deportivo's second team had a sluggish performance in the first round and were not favored.

In the second round, Atletico Madrid's second team will go north to Pollade Xieluo in the south of Gijon to challenge the newly promoted Xieluo team away.

This is a semi-professional team that has been established for more than 80 years. They were all in the low-level leagues before. This season, they were promoted to the second league for the first time. They drew with their opponents away in the first round without any information.

Because of this, Gao Han didn't dare to be careless at all.

Because he knows that often the more such an opponent is, the easier it is to capsize in the gutter.

While Gao Han was concentrating on preparing for the second round of the league, Zambrano was also actively preparing for the game.

This time, both teams will play on the same day.

The opponent of the first team is Huelva.

Interestingly, last season, Huelva ranked 21st and had already been relegated.

However, Atletico Madrid was relegated from La Liga to La Liga, and the second team of Atletico Madrid, which was originally in La Liga, was forced to relegate to La Liga.

As a result, Huelva, who should have been relegated, stayed in La Liga instead.

And everyone also feels that playing against Huelva at home will be an excellent opportunity for Atletico Madrid to get out of the shadow of the first round defeat.

Therefore, this battle has attracted the attention of everyone in the club.

On the contrary, the second team, no one cares.

Thanks to [Wen Tao] and [mikasy] two book friends for their rewards!