Historical course on the CL: Atlético serves the colds of the BVB

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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

By Felix Meininghaus, Madrid

In the sixteenth competition match led by Lucien Favre, BVB won for the first time a defeat against Atletico Madrid. In the lead up to the Bayern summit, the leaders of the Bundesliga are still calm and have promised: "It's heating up."

It is quite impressive to hear their hymn in Madrid before kick-off and hit fans of emotions and pathos: "pasión". Atleti, Atleti, Atlético de Madrid, play and win, you fight better because the fan base always trembles with pbadion.

This has a lot of power and leaves an impression on the opponent. The matches of the second largest club in the Spanish capital are among the most difficult things to offer European football. The know that at Real, Barca, Bayern Munich and now in Dortmund. Of the 21 games played at home by Atletico in recent years in the Champions League, the team of Argentine coach Diego Simeone has managed a total of 17 to zero.

That also succeeded this time, the hosts beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 (1-0) and celebrated a smart and thoughtful football lesson. For BVB, it was the 16th defeat under the first defeat of Lucien Favre. This is an event that will not plunge the club into depression, as everyone involved said. "It was the first defeat, but life goes on," said captain Marco Reus. Manecker Manuel Akanji added, "This can happen to Atletico."

"We can live with that"

Sebastian Kehl, who runs the licensing division for several months, found "unusual to declare his defeat, but it was clear that she would eventually arrive and she was deserved." It's not really a broken leg, we can live with that. "Favre also seemed relaxed when he appeared at the press conference a quarter of an hour after the final whistle:" We lost to a very, very good team. Atletico has been at the top in Europe for seven or eight years. We tried to make the game, but produce too many mistakes, too many balls lost ".

Atleticos coach Diego Simeone had sung before the second encounter with the BVB speaker, the Bundesliga opponent. Given the 0-4 in Dortmund, the biggest defeat under his umbrella, the Argentine has spoken to an opponent, "who is in a fantastic form, this is only one the best teams in Europe ".

Simeone and his clbadmates had obviously learned the lessons of Dortmund's fagot. Atletico was much more compact during the second clash and left no room for maneuver. The 90 minutes became an intuition lesson on how to prepare an opponent and then throw it in the cold.

Anticipation on the match against Bayern

Atletico showed BVB how a leading international team acted effectively and boiled. The Spaniards let their opponents run, leaving him 68% possession of the ball, then placing the bowling bites that hurt. The 32% ball possession was enough for the clever hosts to create 15 shots on goal and allowed only four finals of the opponent. For Borussia, it was a lesson on how to play football effectively. Only four shots on goal, none of which have been – for Borussia Dortmund, it's the worst value since 2003 in the Champions League. The data has been collected. "We had the ball in areas where it does not help," Kehl badyzed very well.

The Bavarians will look closely at the situation and try to draw the conclusions that will prevail when they go to the top of the Bundesliga on Saturday in the region: leave the ball to the opponent, s'. it's not in the danger zones, the parts consolidate and deliver the Witsel and Delaney defensive clocks. This is how BVB can handle its huge offensive power.

"Atletico made the rooms very narrow, which was very difficult for us," said Reus. We found few solutions. "It's now a question of correctly managing the first defeat of the season." In Madrid, Favre denied the deciding game against Bayern Kehl spoke of a "learning process for the young team . The anticipation of the German "Clasico" does not want to be carried away in the region by the reverse. "We are Tuesday, we still have plenty of time to prepare for Saturday," said Kehl, "We have a home game and it's hot."

Source: n-tv.de