Atletico Madrid arrived in the capital of Kazakhstan the day before the match against Astana.

Obviously, Simeone didn't expect any team to adapt to the venue and local climate, and he didn't expect much hope or expectation for this away game. After taking a seven-hour flight and hurting his butt, Simeone felt that as long as the team didn't lose, it would be a good result.

The domestic media from Kazakhstan is waiting at the airport, waiting for Atletico Madrid players to arrive.

It seems they are normal news reports, but every Kazakh journalist is looking forward to seeing something different from Atletico Madrid players' faces.

Sure enough, when Atletico Madrid players appeared in front of them, almost everyone looked tired and looked bad. They shrank their necks and hunched over, hurriedly passed by the Kazakh journalists and boarded the bus.

There is nothing at the Atletico Madrid fans here to welcome them and cheer for them.

For ordinary Atletico Madrid fans, Kazakhstan, which is located in the hinterland of Asia, is too far away. Air tickets are expensive, accommodation is expensive, and the journey is tiring, which makes them intimidated, and no one comes with the team at all.

At that time, Atletico Madrid will face a completely "away game" at this stadium, and there will basically be Atletico Madrid fans in the stands.

Seeing the Atletico Madrid players with dark eyes, frivolous feet and pale faces, the Kazakh reporters smiled happily. This is the picture they wanted to see when they came to the airport!

Such a team, Lao Shi came to the cold Astana on an expedition, and still wants to go back alive?

Think beautifully!

Things that were not done at Atletico Madrid at home must be completed at our home court this time!

The goal is to defeat Atletico Madrid and win the first Champions League victory in the history of clubs and even national football!

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News that Atletico Madrid players arrived in Astana that night appeared on the TV screens of Kazakhstan and Madrid, as well as Chinese fans.

Everyone can see the scene that Kazakh journalists saw at the scene.

The newscasters all said in voiceover: "The Atletico Madrid players seemed very tired. They did not stay at the airport or accepted any media interviews. They just got on the bus to the hotel. They seemed to be eager to lie on the soft and comfortable mattress and have a beautiful sleep..."

In addition to the hardships of the journey, the entire Atletico Madrid team encountered a big problem when they arrived in Astana, that is... cold!

The day when Atletico Madrid team arrived in Astana, the local temperature was minus 11 degrees Celsius. Every Atletico Madrid player was beaten by the cold when he walked out of the plane.

They felt very uncomfortable after riding the plane for so long. When they encountered the cold current again, it was really "injury".

News reports also mentioned this, and Spanish TV told Atletico Madrid fans the temperature at that time, which made everyone amazed.

November 2, for Madrid, it was still autumn, and it did not enter winter. Although the temperature was lower than before, it was still above ten degrees.

And Astana is actually more than ten degrees below zero, and the temperature difference between the two places has reached almost thirty degrees. It is really hard to imagine what trouble Atletico Madrid will encounter in the competition then...

In addition to temperature, Astana's venue is another problem.

Because Astana is cold in winter, it is difficult for the local climate to have football fields with natural turf in winter. Therefore, Astana's home stadium is like some Russian stadiums, with artificial turf. Only in this way can we ensure that sports competitions can also be held in winter.

But this has made Atletico Madrid players suffer.

They usually play natural turf, and there are big differences between the two. The friction coefficient and the foot feeling are different, which gives people a completely different feeling.

Professional players are very sensitive to the venue.

In the past, Chinese fans had jokes that mocked the national football team, saying that the turf was not good, so they did not perform well. This was a satirical Chinese team that they did not look for reasons on themselves and only knew how to shirk responsibility. In a sense, they were right to sarcastic, but from another perspective, it is indeed scientific to "if the turf was not good, the turf was not good" was indeed scientific.

It is not just a problem for Chinese players to be unable to adapt to artificial turf, but European professional players also have similar problems.

So on the night of arrival in Astana, when the entire Atletico Madrid team came to Astana Arena to adapt to the field, Atletico Madrid coaching staff was very serious and asked everyone to take the training of the adaptation field seriously.

They didn't come a few days in advance, so they only had this opportunity to adapt to the venue. If they couldn't get used to artificial turf this time, they would know what would happen in the game.

Just take tackle as a common move during the game.

There is no problem with making it on natural turf, it is very smooth and natural, and it will not hurt.

But sliding shovels on artificial grass are torture for every player who tackles. The turf made of plastic is very frictional. Coupled with black rubber particles, the player will rub against the turf and produce high temperatures during the tackle, which will cause the player to be "burned". Moreover, due to insufficient friction, it may also cause the player's knee ligament to bear too much burden.

This training class that adapts to the venue is no less intense than that of regular competitions.

In the end, every player was covered in white steam all over his body, as if he had just come out of the bathhouse.

The assistant coach Boggs, who wore a thick down jacket and wrapped himself into a fat man, frowned when he saw this, and showed a deep melancholy expression.

Simeone, who was also wearing thick clothes, advised him: "Think about it, 'Professor'. You have to think so. Fortunately, the last round of our group stage was to play Benfica away, not Astana, otherwise that would be really deadly."

The last round of the Champions League group stage was December 8th. It was one month later than now, and the temperature would definitely be lower than now, and maybe heavy snow would occur.

At that time, playing in that environment will definitely be torture for Atletico Madrid. The Ali Samiyan Stadium in Galatasaray is not the Hell Stadium, and the Astana Arena will be the real hell.

After hearing Simeone's words, Boggs looked up at the sky and thought about it. It seemed that this was true. After thinking about it, he felt much better.

"But the luckiest thing is the Turks. They actually came here in September. It must have been not so cold at that time!" Boggs sighed.

"Just that way, they still couldn't win. We can't take it lightly. This away game will be very, very... difficult to play."

Simeone used three "very" in a row to show how difficult the game was.
Chapter completed!