On January 23, 2002, Riaso Stadium, La Coruña.

The first game of the highly anticipated Copa del Rey semi-finals due to Real Madrid's **********, Atletico Madrid's away challenge to La Coruña officially kicked off.

In the stands of Riasso Stadium, nearly 30,000 La Coruna fans were making noises, but thousands of Atletico Madrid fans from afar were also not willing to be outdone, and the two sides started another battle in the stands.

Gao Han stood in front of the coach's seat and watched the game silently.

After Atletico Madrid was relegated from La Liga, the team was demoralized, and La Coruna took this opportunity to take advantage of the situation and poached three stars, including Bellon, Capdvilla and Molina.

Nowadays, these three players have become indispensable and important members of La Coruña. Although Capdvilla has not played as the main player, she is also an important substitute on the left, not to mention the core midfielder Belleron and the absolute main goalkeeper Molina.

With this grudge, the battle between the two sides has attracted the attention of fans.

At home, facing Atletico Madrid, La Coruña sent all its main players.

Although Iruetta was born in the Basque region in northern Spain and played for Athletic Bilbao most of his career, his coaching style is not like the northern team at all, but more like Barcelona in the south, emphasizing control of the ball.

Left winger Fran is good at controlling the ball and organizing, and is more like a front midfielder. He and Belleron are important ball handlers in the frontcourt of Coruña. Victor on the right is also not a traditional winger. He is not good at breaking through and crossing, but is good at inserting from the back.

In addition, he has a very impressive state this season, and he has directly squeezed Dutch center Roy Makai out of the center position. Not only is he excellent in physical fitness, but his feet are also very delicate in all-round center Tristan.

La Coruña is quite outstanding in ball control and offense.

With double midfielder configuration, Mauro Silva just celebrated her 34th birthday, but she is in good condition. She is one of the most outstanding midfielders in La Liga this season. She partnered with Sergio with both offense and defense and is very strong.

This pair of double midfielders is one of the best in La Liga.

As for the defense line, Romero on the left is the main player, and even Capdvilla cannot shake his position for the time being. The central defender is Cesar's partner with South African international Naibit, and he is also the main player who cannot be beaten.

The only one who didn't play the main player was the right side, and the starting lineup was Argentine international Scaloni, but that was also because Spanish international Pablo was seriously injured and broke his bones and missed the season early.

The goalkeeper is Molina, the former main goalkeeper of Atletico Madrid.

La Coruña sent all the main players, and Atletico Madrid, who played away, did not dare to be careless.

The 4312 tactics are still the 4312 tactics, with goalkeepers Cech, defenses are Jankulovski, Carvalho, Marchena and Dario Serna, and the three midfielders are Sedo Keita, Guardiola and Marcos Senna.

The frontcourt tridents are Kaka, Villa and Torres.

Gao Han’s only adjustment was Deke, because the midfielder had played many games in a row, so he arranged a rest.

Standing in front of the coach's seat, Gao Han raised his head, looked at the dark sky, and thought to himself, will it really rain tonight as the weather forecast says?

But no matter whether it rains or not, he will decide this game!

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For Atletico Madrid, Berellon's relationship is very complicated.

Like all those who came out of the Canary Islands, he was low-key and restrained, with rich and strong feelings.

Although he has only been at Atletico Madrid for two years, he is quite grateful to this capital team, but it is also very complicated.

On the one hand, he officially established his first-class midfield position in La Liga and entered the Spanish national team. But on the other hand, at the most difficult moment of Atletico Madrid, he chose to leave and joined La Coruña.

This choice made him feel helpless and regretful.

But if time goes back and ask him to choose again, he will still do this.

Those who have not experienced that nightmare season personally cannot feel the desperate and terrifying emotions in Atletico Madrid at that time. Everyone is training and playing in fear.

With Atletico Madrid's lineup and strength that season, he should not be relegated no matter what.

But in the end, he was downgraded.

The team's strength and lineup are not at all problems, and even if they play casually, they will not be relegated; Ranieri and Antić are both famous coaches in La Liga, and their coaching skills are unquestionable; management and financial problems have been solved one after Old Hill was released from prison...

But relegation is like a curse, but it eventually fell on Atletico Madrid.

If there is really a curse in this world, Berellon believes that the curse of Atletico Madrid's relegation is the human heart.

It is the psychological problems of everyone in the club, from players to management.

Atletico Madrid returns to La Liga, and Berellon is also very happy.

But now, he is wearing a La Coruna jersey, and he has to fight for La Coruna.

So, at the beginning of the game, he abandoned all the distractions in his heart. He, along with his teammate Fran, and Sergio and Mauro Silva behind him, hoped to help the team stabilize the rhythm and firmly grasp the ball.

This is what he is best at and is also the most familiar.

The stands at Riasso Stadium were as crazy as ever, and the fans cheered at the top of their lungs, just like usual.

But the sensitive Belleon quickly felt a strange feeling.

The pace of the game was not as he expected, and was controlled by him and his teammates.

Atletico Madrid has used oppression and pressing from the beginning, forcing La Coruna to speed up the pace.

The players of the Bedsheets Legion covered the entire court almost everywhere through active running, leaving them with no way to comfortably take the ball and pass the ball.

La Coruna always passes three or four times, either the ball is cut off or the ball is lost.

Once the ball reaches Atletico Madrid's feet, it will not be easy to grab it back.

Unlike La Coruña's ball control method, Atletico Madrid's ball control relies on the active running of the entire team, forming multiple contact points around the ball holder, thereby ensuring the success rate of passing.

Faced with Atletico Madrid's organized team ball control system, so far, many La Liga teams have not found a reasonable and effective way to restrain themselves, so they can only choose to retreat.

But La Coruna's lifeline is to control the ball from the front, and retreating is to die.

As the core of the soul on the court, Belleron naturally understands this deeply.

Therefore, La Coruna cannot retreat, can only advance.

Perhaps, Sedo Keita can be used.

Judging from the situation after the opening, this Black Dazhuang seems very abrupt and out of place in the entire tactical system of Atletico Madrid, and often cannot even keep it at the same rhythm as the team.

Guardiola clearly saw that there was no chance in front of him and wanted to pass a few more shots and sort it out, but after the ball reached Sedo Keita's feet, he was harassed by the defensive player, but he directly stepped forward with a big foot.

The same situation has occurred more than once, and even often leaves your position.

So much so that Guardiola had to reduce the passes to Sedo Keita's side, and at the same time reminded Mali's midfielder many times to maintain a suitable distance and not to blindly leave the position.

Whether it is 4312 or 4231, once the distance between lines is not kept tight enough, it is easily torn apart by the opponent, causing disconnection.

Belleron soon realized this.

On the sidelines, Iruetta's eyes lit up and she smiled.

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"I thought Sedo Keita would become the second Marcos Senna, but now it doesn't look like it at all."

In the visiting team fan group at Riasso Stadium, Javier Matayana sat with Xiao Hill and others and frowned and said.

Gao Han’s experience of digging out Marcos Senna is a classic and is still talked about by fans and media.

So, when Atletico Madrid announced that it would introduce Sedo Keita from Ligue 1 Lorient for a winter break for one million euros, everyone speculated whether the Mali international would become the second Marcos Senna?

But judging from this game, the two have completely different styles.

"He's too tall." Paul Futrey nodded.

Anyone who is familiar with Gao Han’s military use can see that his preference for midfielders, especially those who often leave the position among the three midfielders, take the initiative to push forward and grab the left and right midfielders. He has always used short players.

This is not without reason, because generally speaking, short players are more flexible and respond faster, have more advantages in a narrow range, and are more suitable for Atletico Madrid's high-pressing oppressive tactics.

Neither Deco, Marcos Senna, nor Gabi, they are not the mainstream midfielder types in La Liga.

Because of this, Baptista's performance was not satisfactory after playing a few midfielders, so Gao Han moved his position before he became Kaka's substitute, and even topped the front line.

Sedo Keita is 1.83 meters tall and is not short in Spain. She has excellent physical fitness and plays football. Although she has delicate footwork and good skills from training, she can be said to be both offensive and defensive, but she is not the same as Deco and Marcos Senna.

From the beginning of the game to the present, Sedo Keita's role is not much visible, but the disadvantages are fully exposed.

"Gao Han wants to improve the hardness of the team's midfield with him?" asked Xiao Hill.

Judging from the game, the running coverage, defensive ability and even physical confrontation of the Mali midfield are quite good.

Neither Matayana nor Paul Fottery understood, and there was indeed such a possibility.

After all, Sedo Keita has just joined the team and it still needs time to adapt, but in a hurry, isn't it a bit of a risk to let him replace Deco in this game?

Even if the transfer fee of one million euros is quite large for Atletico Madrid, even if it is really a waste of money, no one will blame Gao Han for a moment.

But no matter how you look at it, Gao Han doesn’t look like a targetless person.

He would have his ideas if he wanted to introduce Sedo Keita.

Then what exactly is it?

What is the point of this Mali midfielder worthy of Gao Han?

As everyone was puzzled, a burst of exclamations suddenly broke out in the stadium.

After realizing Sedo Keita's weakness, La Coruna immediately consciously made a trap to this point and quickly harvested prey.

Sedo Keita made a pass mistake and was intercepted by Mauro Silva and handed over to Belleron.

After getting the ball, Bellello made a straight pass without thinking, and passed it directly to the feet of center Tristan.

Suddenly, the Atletico Madrid giants and Matayana in the stands were shocked.
Chapter completed!