Chapter 537

After the Cup defeat, Guardiola's explanation has still been approved by many media. In order to prepare for the Champions League early, the media absolutely supports such a plan. Although in the cup, Bayern has lost, but think about the possible future of the Champions League defending, for Guardiola's choice, the media is now full of praise.

Guardiola has not been too much embarrassment, after all, as a world-class coach, Guardiola has always had a good relationship with the media. He has never been a coach who likes to fight against the media, so in many cases, the media are willing to say good things for him. Faster, lost the cup, for Bayern said it is not a big deal, for the coach who just led the team to win the league, the Bundesliga media is still full of support.

The media did not doubt that Guardiola was just making excuses for his failure. After all, the Bundesliga media want to see Bayern win the Champions League again, and they are willing to believe in Guardiola. Their idea is just as strong as the Bundesliga media's desire to see Wolfsburg's successful victory over Atletico Madrid, which will make the Bundesliga team win the Champions League final for two consecutive years.

Last year's Champions League final, Bayern and Dortmund meet in the final, which makes the German media all very proud. This year's Bundesliga also seems to have the possibility of replicating last year's success. Bayern and Wolfsburg are now in the top four of the Champions League, and the media also hope to see them win the La Liga team again and fight again in the Champions League final.

To be sure, Wolfsburg seems less famous than Dortmund, but Atletico Madrid are also less famous than Real Madrid. Since Wolfsburg can come here all the way as a dark horse, it's not impossible for them. For the two teams in the Champions League, who are still winning glory for the Bundesliga, the media are also looking forward to seeing the two teams create brilliance again.

And it's not just the media that are looking forward to continuing to create glory in the Champions League. Wolfsburg players are also looking forward to this. In fact, after the match with Bayern, Wolfsburg's players have put their heart and soul into the preparation for the upcoming Champions League, and even left the remaining four rounds of the League completely behind. At the last moment, Wolfsburg chose to give up the United match and chose the Champions League as their goal.

On the one hand, it's because the Champions League is more important. On the other hand, it's also because the rest of the league is not very good.

Wolfsburg's last four rounds are against Hamburg, Freiburg, Stuttgart and menshing. If you really want to win these games, it will not be very easy. The first three teams are ranked 14, 15 and 16 in the league now. Even the highest ranked Freiburg have not got rid of the shadow of relegation zone. In order to avoid relegation, they will certainly work hard in the game. The last team, menxing, is now sixth in the league. For them, a place in Europe will make them very excited and impossible to give up easily.

The pursuit of opponents will make these teams become excellent hard bones. After all, no team can sit back and watch their team relegate. And Wolfsburg, who is destined to lose the league title, will be bored if they fight with these teams in the league. It is obvious that there is no need for their own team to further work hard, and they have to spend a lot of effort to deal with the relegation team. This is also a rather unnatural thing, which may make the two clubs feud, and Wolfsburg are not prepared to do so.

In contrast, it seems more valuable to strive for victory in the Champions League. Therefore, Wolfsburg also made a decision early: there is no need to fight for the League results, the second and third are acceptable, the two results are not different for them anyway, as long as they can get the results in the Champions League.

The results of the top four, in fact, for Wolfsburg, has been a satisfactory result. To be able to enter the semi-finals has already achieved the goal that many teams dream of pursuing, and it is very difficult to go further. However, since we have reached this position, it is a pity not to try.

Therefore, after defeating Bayern and confirming the successful qualification of German Cup, Wolfsburg also put their energy on the Champions League. Although they are not like Bayern, they can give up the cup for the sake of the Champions League, but at least for the sake of the Champions League, they are willing to see how to deal with their opponents.

During this period of time, what they mainly do is to watch Atletico Madrid in their own team and learn all the information about the opponent they are going to face.

And after understanding, they also found that this opponent is really not very easy to deal with.

Their opponents are very strong, which they have known for a long time. Atletico Madrid's League performance this season can be described as very excellent. Now the 34 rounds of La Liga have passed. Atletico Madrid is 4 points ahead of Barcelona, the second in the league, and 5 points ahead of rivals Real Madrid in the same city. They have led the league table. Such achievements have long let the players of Wolfsburg know that they are not easy to deal with.

It's not easy for any team to beat the two teams of the Western Super League, especially the two male players of the Western Super League now. It seems that there is no sign of recession: to be sure, compared with the three digit points they got a few years ago, they seem to have retreated a little, but just look at the fact that they are still ahead of Bilbao, who is fourth in the league Athletic nearly 20 points, you know they are in La Liga, still overwhelming advantage. While they are still able to play such a result, Atletico can keep pace with them, which has to make people admire their strength.Wolfsburg know how hard it is to compete with the super strong teams. After all, there is such a giant in their league. Last season, Bayern center injured for half a season, but also keep pace with them, this season Bayern staffing further strengthened, easily away from Wolfsburg more than a dozen League points. To compete with such a team, on the one hand, the other side's excellent strength makes it impossible for his team to make mistakes in any game. On the other hand, he also needs to have a strong psychological endurance to keep going all the way.

Now it seems that Atletico Madrid have done both well, otherwise, they will not be the first in the league. Over the past season, Wolfsburg have heard a lot about Atletico. Whether it's their top goalkeeper kurtuva, or their excellent striker Diego Costa, or their midfield cork, as well as coach Simone and others, this period has always been a very eye-catching name. It's hard for Wolfsburg not to know. And the strength of this team, Wolfsburg up and down also want to have a good look.

In the past few days, they have been watching the video in their own team, and they also have a lot of knowledge about Atletico.

"First of all, we have to admit that our opponent is really strong. It's no accident that they can be at the top of La Liga. Look at their defense. It's really great. Such a guy will be a good opponent

After studying the video of Atletico, Wolfsburg players are also talking about their feelings. For this opponent, manzuki first expressed his own views, and his views also made the teammates around nod.

Indeed, if Atletico Madrid has anything that the players care about the most, it is the monkey team's defense.

The tactics of Atletico Madrid make Wolfsburg feel a little familiar: in terms of high-level closing down, they are very similar to Dortmund. Their round up is as sharp as Dortmund, which will cause great trouble to the opponent. However, after the failure of front court round up, their backward defensive level and defensive strength are very similar to Bayern's level last season In addition, they have a very good grasp.

Their defense seems to have successfully combined the advantages of the other two teams in the Bundesliga, and this defensive feature is also amazing: as an old opponent, the players of Wolfsburg are very clear that Dortmund's excellent counter seizing is largely due to their excellent cooperation in the front court, which also makes their defensive ability in positional warfare slightly insufficient . Bayern's positional defense is of course very to get, but comparatively speaking, in order to retreat in time, their front court force is inferior to Dortmund. However, Bayern and Borussia Dortmund failed to achieve such a perfect connection between the front court counter attack and the back court positional defense, and Wolfsburg can imagine how much effort it takes to have such a defensive ability. With this kind of defense, Atletico Madrid is really terrible.

All along, the defense of La Liga team is not particularly praised. Compared with the generally good offensive skills of La Liga team, La Liga team seldom gets the unanimous recognition of football in terms of defense. Barcelona even in the strongest time, their defense is not top, and Real Madrid's defense, is from time to time become the laughing stock of the world football. Compared with their two opponents in the same league, Atletico Madrid's performance in defense is amazing. Such defense can be called the top.

Wolfsburg have already met with Chelsea in the previous Champions League games, but even if it is Chelsea, it can not be said that they are more successful than the defence of Atletico Madrid. Chelsea pay great attention to the middle and long-term interception and sweep, their back makes them a very good hard bone in the face of any enemy. However, in the sense of defensive hierarchy and overall formation, they are not as good as this Atletico.

The advantage of this more integrated defensive strategy is that they can better balance the attack and defense, which is what Atletico Madrid has done well.