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After the game started, Atletico Madrid and Southampton were testing each other's offense and defense.

Atletico Madrid's tactics are 442 double triangle strangulation and defensive counterattack tactics.

Southampton's tactics today are also 442 anti-counterattack tactics.

This is Coach Adkins' first intercontinental game in his life, and it's an away game, so Coach Adkins is very conservative from the beginning.

However, Simeone is obviously more conservative than Coach Adkins.

Because this is also the first time Simeone has led a team for the Europa League.

So when the two teams came up, they felt polite. They were both working hard to control the ball, pass it back and forth, and observe the opponent's position and movement.

In the first ten minutes of the game, neither side had any decent offense, but instead had several waves of very brilliant defense.

First in the 3rd minute, Diego Costa took the ball and broke through from the center. Gu Ran and Mikel intercepted the midfielder. Then in the 7th minute, Lallana received Gu Ran's pass and went straight in. Before he could wait, Passed to Sturridge, it was strangled and destroyed by Atletico Madrid's double triangle combination.

Because they are both defensive teams, the coaches of both teams are also afraid that if the offense fails, it will leave a gap for the opponent to seize the opportunity. Therefore, neither team had a good offense in the early part of the first half. .

Simeone never pursues a good-looking process.

Same goes for Adkins.

The fans at the scene were almost depressed.

The two teams were like legendary martial arts masters about to compete. Everyone came in a hurry to see the passionate collision between the two masters. In the end, the two masters just made Tai Chi gestures and protected each other. Holding his own life gate, he circled around the field.

Some impatient fans began to boo.

Simeone is in no hurry anyway.

Coach Adkins is even less anxious.

In the group stage, there are 6 games to be played. A 0:0 away game against Atletico Madrid is acceptable. What’s more, with Gu Ran and so many fresh-blooded young Mavericks here, we must first fight off Atletico Madrid’s physical fitness, and then when it comes to the game In the final stage, Southampton still has a great chance of winning.

Players from both sides engaged in various strangles and counter-strangles on the court.

Southampton's focus is on the wing, and breakthroughs are also from the wing. Even if Gu Ran gets the ball from the center, he takes the ball and breaks through to the wing to attract firepower and pull Atletico Madrid's formation.

However, Atletico Madrid always followed Simeone's request, and the two full-backs shrank, forming a double triangle strangulation in the midfield and backcourt, allowing Southampton to break through at will on the wing, but it did not give Southampton a chance to cross easily.

When the offense and defense are out of position, Atletico Madrid does not attack from the wings, but flattens the double triangle, uses the midfielder to directly connect with the forwards, forcefully attacks Southampton's center, and forces Southampton to press high to consume energy.

As the saying goes, the layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway.

To laymen, whether the game is good or not depends only on whether it is lively or not, while for experts, whether the game is good or not depends entirely on the tactical game and detail control between the two teams.

Southampton's young players are still a little restless. Although Coach Adkins asked in the pre-match tactical meeting to focus on defense, to consume Atletico Madrid's physical strength and find Atletico Madrid's flaws, they were naturally unwilling to play in such a boring scene.

In the 23rd minute, left midfielder Chamberlain found an opportunity and continuously broke through on the wing. This was Chamberlain's fifth wing breakthrough in this game. Although Chamberlain is very fast and has poor defense-breaking ability on the wing. Very strong, but to be honest, the reason why Chamberlain was able to break through so many times smoothly is also related to Atletico Madrid's shrinking defense.

Atletico Madrid's tactic is for the ball carrier to come in, come from the home backcourt, and then strangle you in a double triangle.

As soon as Chamberlain reached the bottom, he was surrounded by a double triangle and was unable to break into the penalty area or return the ball.

Southampton's tactical requirement in the first half was to defend and not to expose Atletico Madrid. So when Chamberlain sprinted from the wing, Southampton only had forward Sturridge rushing into the penalty area to respond, and Gu Ran also came from the back midfielder. The position instantly sprinted to the midfielder, level with Lallana and Salah, ready to go forward to respond.

If Chamberlain can break through by his own ability, or pass the ball to Sturridge, then Gu Ran, Lallana, and Salah will definitely rush forward and launch an attack.

However, if Gu Ran leads people to the rescue without waiting for Chamberlain to break out of the strangulation, then Atletico Madrid will obviously be "encircled for reinforcements" and form a local melee. At this time, once Chamberlain loses the ball, Atletico Madrid will Jing's midfielder can pass a long pass across the melee zone and directly to Forlan or Aguero.

But this time, it seems that Chamberlain has a good chance.

Sturridge had already rushed in to respond, and Salah immediately took up the receiving position in the middle of the penalty area.

As soon as Salah moved, Lallana also moved, and Lallana moved directly towards Sturridge to connect.

Only Gu Ran did not rush into the double triangle strangulation.

And at this moment, Chamberlain's turn pass was intercepted!
Upon seeing this, Gu Ran immediately rushed forward to intercept Diego Costa.

However, Atletico Madrid's double triangle strangulation can not only strangle, but also form two lines of defense in place.

Before Gu Ran could get close to Diego Costa, Diego Costa made a precise pass to Fran near the center line!
Mikel and Henderson quickly intercepted Forlan, but Forlan easily got rid of Henderson, and before Mikel rushed up, he passed the ball straight to Aguero who was crossing forward!
Atletico Madrid's counterattack came too fast!

Southampton carefully defended the center for most of the half, but it was broken like a flash of lightning!

At this time, it was too late for Gu Ran to retreat and pursue Aguero. Even at full burst speed, it was too late.

Southampton can only rely on the last line of defense.

Rudiger and Luke Shaw came up to double-team to defend Aguero, while Jaidi and Van Dyke blocked Aguero's breakthrough route and shooting angle in the penalty area.

However, Aguero during this period was simply the son of God.

Or, to be more precise, Maradona's hand is the hand of God, then Maradona is God in football, Aguero is Maradona's son-in-law, and he is not divorced yet, so Aguero Quero is half son of God.

Southampton's defense is considered to have been tested for a long time, but it has only been tested by the English team and has never been tested by the half son of God.

Aguero swayed left and right, easily getting rid of the young and inexperienced Rudiger, and then used his body to fight, forcefully pushed away Luke Shaw, dribbled the ball to the right side of the penalty area, and pulled it in a very short period of time. Create a shooting gap!
Aguero directly kicked the goal!
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