Defending deep and hitting them on the break? Because that is what AM were doing.
One thing that I noticed yesterday, was the first time in years that I've seen someone being able to press Barca up high- pushing up onto their defenders and succeeding time-and-again. Atletico wasted chance after chance to make it 6-0.
I've never seen Barca so rattled in the last decade- once every 10 minutes, 2 or 3 Atleti players would put a Barca defender under pressure and nick the ball of him or intercept it, but in the next move, they either lost it, gave it away, misplaced a pass or mishit the goal.
Anyway- I think the atmosphere had a huge part to play in it- along with Simeone's pressing. Barca were shitting themselves so much- it wasn't even a joke(but oh how I laughed! Thoroughly gloating
).