Green Field Eunuch

Chapter 568 Simone, who attaches great importance to it
Granada is making intensive preparations, and Atletico Madrid is not daring to relax in the slightest.

Their head coach, the "Fighting Coach" Simeone, attached great importance to the match.

Diego Simeone's playing career was quite successful, winning a total of 7 club titles and representing Argentina in three World Cups and winning two Copa America titles.

After retiring in 2006, Simeone, like many retired players, chose a coaching career.

In December 2011, he arrived at Atlético Madrid, succeeding Manzano, who had a poor coaching record, as the head coach of his former club.

The Rojiblancos' performance has been poor; they made it to the round of 32 in the Europa League, but only finished tenth in La Liga.

Simeone, who took over temporarily, began to transform Atlético Madrid step by step.

They ultimately won the Europa League title with a nine-game winning streak.

Simeone's Atlético Madrid has a very distinctive style. They emphasize defense, value interception and interception, and are willing to give up possession to devote more energy to counter-attacking.

With their concise and efficient style, they are more like an old-school Italian team than a Latin-style La Liga team.

Tactically, Simeone also places great emphasis on the team as a whole and does not rely on the performance of any one player.

It can be said that this Atlético Madrid team is very similar in style to Simeone during his playing days.

He has a tough playing style, is well-rounded in skills and tactics, and is also cunning.

But at this moment, Simone was having a bit of a headache.

Because he had never fought against Shan Yongzhuo before.

Atletico Madrid did lose to Roma, led by Shan Yongzhuo, in the 2009-2010 Europa League final, but Mancini had not joined Atletico Madrid at that time, and the team was centered around Aguero and Diego Forlán. Most of those players are no longer in the squad.

Although Simeone's Atletico Madrid defeated Guardiola's Manchester City in last season's European Super Cup, Shan Yongzhuo was competing in domestic matches at the time and did not play.

Therefore, Simone's impression of Shan Yongzhuo came entirely from videos and reports.

This forced Simeone to take it very seriously.

After all, Shan Yongzhuo, who is known as the world's number one football star, is terrifying just by looking at his number of goals.

Simone dared not relax for a moment.

Therefore, he fielded the lineup he believed was the most suitable.

In defense, Godin and Miranda anchored the center, with their main focus being on marking Shan Yongzhuo.

Simeone gave instructions to the two players: when defending Shan Yongzhuo, they must not be too gentlemanly and must use all the necessary small tricks. Even when they do not have the ball, they should use positioning to squeeze him and use small tricks and trash talk to affect him.

In short, they used every possible means to influence Shan Yongzhuo and interfere with his performance.

Meanwhile, in midfield, Gabi, as the playmaker, can focus his energy on organizing the attack.

However, another midfielder, Mario Suarez, was also assigned by Simeone to mark Shan Yongzhuo.

Suarez's task was simple: to stop Shan Yongzhuo the moment he dropped back to receive the ball.

In this way, Godin, Miranda, and Suarez formed a small encirclement, completely blocking Shan Yongzhuo.

This is Simeone's strategy.

As for Harry Kane or Flores, he didn't even consider them a threat.

The threat posed by Shan Yongzhuo is always the primary concern.

Soon, the match arrived. On that day, the Calderon Stadium was packed to capacity.

Atletico Madrid fans were very excited to come to the stadium to cheer for their team.

On the one hand, Atletico Madrid's strong performance since the start of the season has given them tremendous confidence.

On the other hand, many Atlético Madrid fans also want to see Shan Yongzhuo play live at the away game.

There were quite a few Granada fans, but their presence was largely drowned out by the Atletico Madrid fans.

Only the cheers of Shan Yongzhuo's women's cheerleading team can rival the fervent support of Atletico Madrid's fans.

However, this time, the way these Spanish women cheered was somewhat unconventional.

They unfurled a large banner that read: "Single, please break up, you belong to everyone!"

Spanish media, witnessing this scene, jokingly remarked: "We've always known that Dan is very popular with female fans, so it seems that the news of his relationship has dealt a major blow to female fans worldwide."

"It seems that sometimes being too popular isn't a good thing."

The Granada players watched this scene with undisguised envy.

Van Dijk said with a smile, "Single, you belong to everyone, let's do the math."

“Granada has a population of 300,000, and we’ll calculate your female fans as 50,000, and distribute them equally among each female fan for one day.”

"My God, it would take you 136 years to spend a single day with every single person!"

Van Dijk's words drew sighs from his teammates, while Feng Xiaoting, standing next to him, brought up a different topic.

"You guys don't know this, do you? Brother Shan has even more female fans in the country."

"You need to know that China has at least 13 billion people, at least that's what the official sources say."

"That means there are at least 100 million female fans of Dan Ge in China."

After saying that, Feng Xiaoting put his arm around Van Dijk's shoulder, who was still in a daze, and said with a smile, "Fergio, you do the math, how many years will this take?"

"..."

Upon hearing this, Van Dijk was taken aback for a moment, then smiled wryly at Shan Yongzhuo and said, "Shan, I think you might need to face at least 100 every day so that you can give every female fan of yours a sincere blessing in your lifetime."

"..."

Upon hearing this, Shan Yongzhuoli's face darkened. These bastards, the competition is about to start, and they still have the mind to joke around.

“Fergio.” Shan Yongzhu felt he should adopt the older brother’s stance: “Don’t just joke around. You’re facing Diego Costa in this game. That guy is not easy to deal with. He’s a very cunning fellow and a complete villain on the field. Don’t let him find an opening.”

"Don't worry," Van Dyke laughed. "If he dares to cause trouble, I won't mind letting him experience my power!"

Shan Yongzhuo breathed a sigh of relief, finally managing to change the subject.

To be honest, Van Dijk's ability is still very reliable, although he is not yet the anchor of Liverpool in the future, and he has some minor flaws such as being impulsive.

However, Van Dijk is now showing great composure. In the last two games, he performed poorly, so Pellegrini and Torrente devised a special tactical plan for him.

I think I should be able to perform well in this match.

(End of this chapter)