On March 10, in the 27th round of La Liga, Real Madrid defeated Real Betis 3:1 away.

On March 18, Real Madrid scored two goals in a row after conceding one goal at home, reversing Malaga 2:1.

On March 21, Galaxy Battleships visited the Love Song Stadium. Facing their favorite opponent Villarrell, the Yellow Submarine vowed to fight to the death and Xavi Garcia also showed outstanding strength, but it still could not prevent the team from suffering a 1:6 defeat at the Love Song Stadium.

Three days later, on the 24th, Real Madrid beat Real Sociedad 5:1 at home. After the game, the whole game caused a sensation to celebrate Real Madrid's early winning. This was also the earliest game in La Liga history to announce early winning. It also directly made the remaining 8 games of La Liga completely lose suspense. Real Madrid's lead was surprising.

On the 27th, Real Madrid challenged the Greeks away. With goals from Aguero, Kaka and Ronaldo, they returned 3:0 away and ended two rounds early, entering the semi-finals with one foot.

On April 1, Real Madrid challenged Osasuna away.

From the second minute of the game, Real Madrid scored a goal, and then scored 6 goals in one go, sweeping Osasuna, Parejo, Morata and other youth training players with an unstoppable momentum, allowing everyone to see Real Madrid's nearly invincible strength and talent reserves.

In the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals knockout, Real Madrid slaughtered the Greeks 5:0 at the Bernabeu and successfully advanced to the semi-finals with a total score of 8:0. In another stadium, Barcelona drew 0:0 against AC Milan away, but returned to home but played AC Milan 3:1 and successfully advanced to the semi-finals.

Real Madrid faces Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich faces Chelsea, and the Champions League semi-finals returned to the strong dialogue. Everyone believes that Real Madrid has the most hope to enter the Allianz Stadium. The key is to see who will become Real Madrid's opponent. Is it Pellegrini's best skill or Mourinho continues to reach the finals.

On April 8, Real Madrid was at home. When Valencia tied 0:0 in the first half, Yang Cheng replaced the main star Iniesta in the second half. Xiaobai's two plans finally helped Real Madrid defeat Valencia 2:0 at the Bernabeu Stadium. The media praised Real Madrid's outstanding performance after the game.

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Diego Simeone was flipping through the thick scout report in his hand. His brows did not always frown like Manzano, just like when he received Atletico's invitation last Christmas, looking relaxed, even if this time he was facing Real Madrid and his former mentor, Yang Cheng.

In the King's Cup in December last year, Atletico Madrid was beaten by a double defeat by the Class C team. Head coach Manzano was dismissed. After that, they invited the club's former celebrity Simeone, whose coaching performance in Argentina, made Atletico Madrid's management full of confidence in him.

Fans of the Bedding Legion love Simeone. The first training session that appeared in Argentina's midfielder attracted 5,000 Bedding Legion fans to visit. Simeone quickly reorganized the mess left by Manzano, leading Atletico to stabilize the situation, and its ranking in the league standings is gradually improving.

Many people say that Yang Cheng's beloved disciples have finally gradually become independent. From French head coach Blanco to Diego Simeone today, they are all players under Yang Cheng's past, but one strange thing is that they have not adopted tactical styles similar to Yang Cheng's.

Just like Simeone's Atletico Madrid, the Argentine said frankly as soon as he took office. What he most wanted to see was a strong, combative spirit and quick counterattack. This is not only Simeone's style, but also Atletico Madrid's style, so the Argentines are also committed to creating such Atletico Madrid.

Direct, concise, and pursue depth, Simeone's football creed is very simple, but very practical. He even publicly declared in the newspaper that the team will give up ball control and put the results of the game first. He attaches great importance to defense and strives to build a steel defense line to ensure Atletico Madrid is in danger.

It should be said that Simeone's Atletico Madrid's success in the past few months, at least he quickly built a team he wanted. Although he has not yet met his requirements, he can at least fulfill his tactical ideas. After all, Atletico Madrid's style has always been like this.

Welcoming Real Madrid and the Madrid derby, Simeone's shoulders are very heavy.

"Herman, this will be our biggest problem this season!" Simeone put down the report in her hand and said with a smile.

Hermann Boggs, former Argentina goalkeeper, also joined the team after Atletico Madrid's relegation and helped Atletico Madrid complete its upgrade. Now he is Diego Simeone's right-hand assistant. Both of them are at the same time as Atletico Madrid's meritorious players.

Boggs smiled bitterly, "Do your best!"

Many people say that there is no sign of Yang Cheng from Simeone, and they believe that Simeone does not seem to be influenced by Yang Cheng at all, but only when they are close to Boggs can they truly understand that Simeone is actually deeply influenced by Yang Cheng, but what he advocates is not Yang Cheng's offense, but his defensive philosophy.

Doing all his strength to prevent the opponent from passing the ball into the 32-meter area and avoid losing the ball in the threatening area and being hit by the opponent with a fatal counterattack. These two principles are Simeone's football creed. In addition, he also highly praised the high-intensity compression tactics that Yang Cheng insisted on, which are the fundamental and basics of Simeone's tactics.

In private, Simeone praised his former head coach a lot. He believes that Yang Cheng fully reflects his unique football philosophy, whether in Inter Milan or later Liverpool and Real Madrid. Many things are still deeply influencing Simeone even now.

The latter used the tactics at Atletico Madrid were 442, but they were quite similar to Inter Milan's positioning style back then, which shows how profound Yang Cheng had on him. However, reporters usually do not dig out these deep things, and they do not have the mood or time.

"To be honest, Diego!" Perhaps seeing Diego Simeone hidden deep worry, Boggs couldn't help but remind him, "I think you think Yang Cheng is too strong? Don't forget. He has not lost the ball, and he has also lost a lot of money, just like the South African World Cup losing to Spain. This proves that he is not invincible!"

Simeone looked up and looked at his assistant, laughing and shook her head, "You don't understand, Herman!"

"He is a very special person!"

As he spoke, Simeone seemed to recall the scene when he and Yang Cheng worked in Inter Milan. He was once the main force under Yang Cheng, but later he was sold. However, Simeone had no complaints about this, because it was an acceptable transfer for all professional players.

Although the process was short, Simeone learned a lot from Yang Cheng's hands, and these things have now become effective weapons for him to preserve himself on the football field.

"When he was in charge of Inter Milan, he was already very good. Now he has become more mature and more terrifying, especially since his entire tactical system framework has been completely formed. It is difficult to defeat him!"

This should be the highest evaluation and praise that the arrogant Simeone can give to his opponent, that is, Yang Cheng was his former mentor. If it were someone else, I'm afraid he wouldn't expect to get this evaluation from Simeone.

"But, Hermann, don't think I'm afraid of fighting!" Simeone suddenly laughed, "I respect him very much, and think he is indeed very good, but I'm not afraid of him, and his Real Madrid!"

After a pause, Simeone smiled and the shaking buzz cut looked very much like Yang Cheng's image. "You know, the most admirable thing about him is that he will never give up. He will never admit defeat. This is also the most precious thing I have learned from him. Now I want to return it to him!"

"I will give Caesar's back to Caesar. I want to see if my teacher is really that strong!" Simeone was full of warlike blood and seemed to be full of expectations for the upcoming Madrid derby.

But I don’t know if he is looking forward to his student competing with his teacher Yang Cheng, or his Atletico Madrid defeating Yang Cheng’s Real Madrid? Maybe both are there!

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"Mr. Yang Cheng!"

At Calderon Stadium, before the game started, Simeone and Yang Cheng met in front of the player channel. The Argentine walked up to Yang Cheng politely and stretched out her hands, looking very respectful to Yang Cheng.

"Diego!" Yang Cheng shook hands with him and nodded with a smile, "You did a great job at Atletico Madrid!"

"Thank you, but I hope to do better, Mr. Yang Cheng!" Simeone answered provocatively.

Yang Cheng shook his head, "I didn't learn anything else, but I learned to be arrogant!"

Simeone smiled and said, "Let's see!"

"Then I'll wait for you!" Yang Cheng also accepted the challenge with a smile. He also wanted to see how capable and good the former player had. He didn't mind teaching Simeone a lesson so as not to be arrogant.

"It seems that you are the same as you!" Benitez said with a smile when he saw Yang Cheng walking over to the visiting team coach's seat.

He was also in Inter Milan back then, so he also knew that Simeone was the man. Now seeing Simeone challenged Yang Cheng when she was facing Yang Cheng, isn’t this a very good look like Yang Cheng’s appearance back then?

"Please, Rafa, he is him, I am me!" Yang Cheng smiled, but he still recognized Simeone's coaching level in his heart. The strength of this Argentine is definitely not bad. "This kid thinks that if Atletico Madrid remains unbeaten after he goes to power, he can challenge Real Madrid. I don't mind giving him another lesson!"

Seeing Yang Cheng like this, Benitez couldn't help but laugh and shook his head, saying that they looked like him, but they really looked like him!

But during the game, Yang Cheng and Benitez immediately couldn't laugh because Simeone's Atletico Madrid did have enough skills to create problems for Real Madrid.

In this game, Real Madrid's starting lineup was goalkeeper Casillas, the defense was Aveloa, Kompani and Ramos, the midfield was Delarede, the midfield was Parejo, Kaka and Iniesta, the three forwards were Ronaldo, Aguero and Messi, and Yang Cheng, in addition to rotation, was sent all the main players to play, which shows that he was not at ease with Simeone.

Simeone's starting lineup is also good. The goalkeepers are Courtois, the defense are Felipe, Godin, Pereira, Juan Fran, the midfielders are Gabi, Thiago, Turan and Diego, and the double strikers are Falcao and Adrian.

In order to strive for the European Championship tickets for next season, Atletico Madrid tried its best to attack in this game without any slackness. Although Real Madrid has won the championship ahead of schedule and accepted Atletico Madrid's lineup after the opening, they are still not ready to let the enemy in the city. Both teams will attack with all their strength.

Although Simeone, who played at home, was not arranged completely in the 442 formation in the game. He arranged the team's defense strictly according to two four-person defense lines. Moreover, both players in the midfield retreated back.

Simeone's idea was very clear. He allowed Adrian to retreat deeply, with the purpose of limiting Real Madrid's midfielder De La Reid and curbing Real Madrid's midfielder's midfielder's shot route. At the same time, it also allowed two midfielders Gabi and Thiago to retreat very far behind, blocking the space between the midfield and the defense line, and preventing Real Madrid from effectively sending the ball into Atletico's penalty area.

At the same time, Simeone's defense position actually confirms Mourinho's previous remarks, that is, the defense line cannot be arranged in the penalty area. He sets up defenses at the front of the penalty area, and at the same time lets both full-backs shrink the formation to the middle, further limiting Real Madrid's mid-range attack.

Tulan is the left forward. Diego is more cruising behind Falcao. He is responsible for delivering shells to his forward teammates. Adrian retreated deeply after the opening. He almost broke away from Real Madrid's defense and followed Drarede.

Simeone's tactics were very clear from the beginning. I was not in a hurry to attack. I first held my head and defended steadily. As long as I was defended, I would slowly plan a stable counterattack opportunity. In order to achieve the goal of steady defense, Atletico Madrid simply gave up the ball possession and allowed Real Madrid to cooperate smoothly on the ground.

This made Real Madrid completely advantage from the beginning of the game, but once the ball entered Atletico Madrid's half, it was immediately under strong pressure and defense.

This can be seen from Real Madrid's 25 minutes into the opening game and only got three shots.

The first shot was in the 5th minute. Ronaldo headed the ball, and Aguero followed up and shot high.

Then in the 8th minute, Kaka scored a ball to the right. Messi followed up and grabbed the opponent's left back, Felipe, but the ball was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper.

In the 18th minute, Real Madrid got another shot opportunity. Ronaldo dribbled the ball from the left and passed it to Messi, but the Argentinian failed to seize the opportunity and knocked the ball back to Iniesta. Xiaobai shot with a long shot at the front of the penalty area, which was high.

Three attacks failed to pose a threat, which also made people intuitively discover a fact that Real Madrid was a little bit invincible and did not score points.

"You apprentice is not simple at all!" Benitez looked at Yang Cheng with a smile. The latter was also watching the game seriously. From his expression, it can be seen that Simeone's starting tactics are very targeted.

Real Madrid plays 3133. Although Ronaldo and Messi are ahead, they are actually very much cutting in, and there are no full-backs. Therefore, in terms of wing offense, Real Madrid is more focused on assists, and the team relies more on running and pulling to create loopholes, and more on mid-range strikes as an important means.

Simeone has four people in the back line, and both left and right full-backs are shrinking in the middle, which is clearly necessary to make a fuss about the inward cutting tactics of two Real Madrid wingers. Gabi and Thiago, plus Turan and Adrian who are retreating, Atletico Madrid's midfielder has a good protection for the defense, and does not give Real Madrid too much space or gap.

"It's a bit not simple, but that's all!" Yang Cheng said with a smile.

Usually the head coach says that tactics affect the situation of the game, but the situation of the game also affects the transformation of tactics in turn. The relationship between the two is complicated and complementary. The key is to rely on the head coach's adjustment and on-site command.

Judging from Simeone's performance, the Argentinian was obviously very satisfied with the tactics and formation after the opening. He always sat in the home team coach's seat, slowly crossing his legs, watching the game, as if the game was proceeding according to his plan and arrangement.

"Falcao is indeed a very interesting striker. He did a good job in several off-ball running and receiving treatments, and handled it very smartly!" Yang Cheng had long admitted the strength of the Atletico Madrid forward, and he also kept pointing out Falcao's threat before the game.

If Atletico Madrid wants to play a defensive counterattack, the biggest bargaining chip is actually Falcao!

While Yang Cheng was talking, Atletico Madrid finally got a chance to counterattack. After Diego got the ball in the middle, he sent a straight pass to the right. Falcao was cruising on the right side, grabbing the ball before Averoa and breaking through. Kompani immediately approached from the middle and formed a pinch of Falcao. The two teamed up to form a clamp on Falcao, forcing Falcao to rush to shoot long shots in advance before entering the penalty area. The ball was so high that it didn't know where it went.

Yang Cheng received applause from Kompany's reaction this time. The Belgian's steady performance has become the biggest gain on Real Madrid's defense line this season. His performance is indeed getting better and better, which can be seen from this reaction.

"This kid is actually going to make a trap, actively seduce me into the trap, and play offensive tactics, and then he slowly looks for opportunities to counterattack. The abacus is good, but I don't know if he underestimated Real Madrid's strength or overestimated Atletico Madrid's level!" Yang Cheng smiled confidently after Falcao's shot was lost.

Sometimes, the huge gap in strength cannot be easily filled by the head coach's tactics.

At least it is difficult for Simone to fill the gap between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid in terms of individual strength, especially when facing Yang Cheng.
Chapter completed!