The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 427 Fanny's true biography?
1：0小胜卢顿，2：1险胜水晶宫，1：1战平沃特福德，5：0大胜南安普敦。

Tottenham Hotspur played a total of four warm-up matches in the middle and late July. In these four games, the team achieved an unbeaten record of three wins and one draw, including a 7-5 victory over South Africa. A wonderful game like Umpton, but overall, the outside media is still not satisfied with Tottenham Hotspur's performance.

In the 5:0 victory over Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur adopted another set of tactics, 4231.

The goalkeeper and the defense basically remained the same, but changes were made in the midfield. The double midfielder Ye Qiu arranged the combination of Fabregas and Lucas, and the frontcourt was separated from Ribery and Cavani. On the two wings, Arshavin occupies the front midfielder position alone, and Carroll is at the forefront of the team.

This set of tactics is different from the 433 tactics used by Tottenham Hotspur before, because Arshavin was used to play the midfielder, or the shadow forward, and it even looks more like a free man in the frontcourt. France, and Fabregas's position with Lucas is relatively late, responsible for organization and passing.

Arshavin is obviously more suitable for this kind of tactical play. He played very well in the middle of the frontcourt, assisted twice, and also scored a goal himself, and almost every offensive plan of the team has his shadow , This also made Ye Qiu realize how he should activate the Russian Czar.

Not only that, in this game against Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur's ball possession and efficiency were very high, the entire midfield was running very smoothly, and the control was also in place. It is difficult to have the opportunity to create a threat.

Needless to say Fabregas and Asavin, Lucas, the Brazilian midfielder, was known for his offensive and defensive skills when he was in Brazil. His skills, passing and ball-holding abilities are not weak at all.It's just that the rhythm has always been slow.

Unexpectedly, his slowness formed the control triangle of Tottenham Hotspur's midfield with Asavin and Cesc Fabregas. Qiu even replaced Modric altogether later, and directly tried to play a diamond-shaped midfield tactic, leaving Lucas behind, Modric and Fabregas in the middle, and Arshavin forward.

But this diamond-shaped midfield style of play, Tottenham Hotspur has never practiced in training. The game against Southampton was played for nearly half an hour, and the effect was good. Very good, but the efficiency is not high, the rhythm is slow, and the midfielder lacks width, Ye Qiu thinks the effect is not very good.

Ye Qiu has always felt that the slow ball-handling style is difficult to achieve in the Premier League, because the Premier League is a league that advocates aggressive play. Many people say that La Liga does not pay attention to defense, but they have not seen La Liga teams. The cutting of passing lanes is part of their tactics and a way of defense.

Therefore, to say that La Liga does not pay attention to defense means that they do not watch the ball, or only watch the games of the Western Super League.

When you meet a La Liga team in the Western Super League and play with that kind of crushing advantage, no matter how good the defense is, it's a scumbag!

Compared with La Liga, the Premier League's style of play is obviously more extensive. It cannot be said to be open, but extensive.

This is a very strange league. It is full of passion and a manifestation of the most primitive charm of football, but it is still at a level that cannot be said to be very, but at least relatively backward at the tactical level. Especially the middle and lower reaches of the team.

Therefore, the Premier League teams are the real ones. It cannot be said that they do not pay attention, or that they do not know how to organize a good defense. This is also related to the fact that many Premier League teams insist on trusting local coaches. In the world of football, how many British head coaches have had success abroad?

Even though it is now known as the Premier League's prosperity, among all the famous British coaches, Ferguson from Scotland is the one who can do it. The other Moyes, frankly speaking, Ye Qiu feels that he is only in the Premier League, and he may not be able to play in other leagues. change.

Football is a kind of thing that is very mutually reinforcing. Strict ball-handling tactics must be more advanced than extensive British tactics. Otherwise, Ferguson, Wenger and others don’t need to pursue mainlandization all the time, but you have to feel very strange Yes, if you pursue ball possession tactics to a certain extent, in the Premier League, you will even be defeated by the extensive British tactics in turn.

Therefore, there are many, many things in the history of football, many, many tactics, they are all in a cycle, a cycle that repeats itself.

Advanced does not necessarily mean superiority, nor does it necessarily mean good.

Therefore, in the last half hour of playing Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur had an absolute advantage in possession of the ball, but they were unable to score. Instead, the team scored five goals in the first hour, which is definitely worth paying attention to. Research.

So, after playing Southampton, before the team was ready to go to Amsterdam, Ye Qiu held an internal tactical discussion and analysis meeting in Theobald. He kept talking to himself for more than two hours. The players explained and analyzed the problems and situations that occurred in the past few games.

Many people said that after Ye Qiu reorganized a set of tactics, his team's entire familiarization and implementation process was relatively slow, and there would always be a period of time when they played awkwardly and uncomfortable, and there were times when new players treated them. Reporters from the country said that Ye Qiu seldom did specific drills on how to cooperate and what kind of route to fight, which made them very confused.

When the reporter conveyed this question to Ye Qiu, Ye Qiu smiled and said that this was his own style.

"Some head coaches like to give players a lot of restrictions. He will formulate a lot of very detailed tactics and tell you when to do what and when to do what. But if you suspend a player's action at random, and Ask him, why do he do that? He'll probably tell you that's how we play in practice."

"But there is also a head coach who doesn't like to have so many restrictions. He doesn't even ask the players how to act or how to move, but he will tell the players, how I want to play next, what is your task, Then you think about what you should do, how to cooperate with your teammates, use your imagination and creativity, think more, think more!"

"I can't say which kind of thinking is better, but the former can easily encounter some obstacles, because when he finds what he is used to, he has brought them many successful goals and scored goals every day and every training. After the non-stop practice routine is destroyed by the opponent, he will not know how to play the game!"

"Don't tell me there is no such team, I tell you, look at the teams that have performed poorly, they are almost all of them, and what I want to do now is not to tell them how to do it, but to let them know what to do. They think for themselves, I leave my position and enter the opponent's position, what is my purpose? How can I carry out a targeted attack?"

"When I see my team-mates in trouble, how should I help and meet them? When I dribble forward, what is my purpose? To pass? To shoot? When I dribble back, what is my purpose? What is it?"

"Why did we suddenly slow down the game? Then suddenly speed up the game? Why did I pass this ball? Why didn't my teammates pass me the ball?"

"Many people say that the biggest reason for a player's sluggish performance on the court is the body, such as injury, fatigue, etc., but I don't think so. I think the biggest reason for a player's poor performance is his ignorance and his lack of understanding of the opponent. The ignorance of the tactics, the ignorance of your own tactics, the same ignorance of what you can do, what you can help the team."

"So, as the head coach of the team, I have to instill in my players a kind of thinking, a kind of thinking of seeking knowledge, let them work hard to understand, what is the purpose of everything they do, and as long as If the eleven players in the team know exactly what to do and how to do it anytime and anywhere, then the team will be invincible!"

For this reason, when the team had just trained last season, when facing these players for the first time, Ye Qiu jokingly said that when he first came to London, he was afraid of getting lost, so he always walked the same road back and forth , So there have been several times, when encountering a traffic jam, the taxi next to me had already detoured those streets, but I still foolishly honked on the road.

This self-deprecating case made the players laugh, but it told all the players a very straightforward truth. Ye Qiu didn't dare to detour because he was not as familiar with the streets of London as those taxis. And now that he's familiar with the streets of London, he can scurry around like those taxis.

Therefore, if you pay attention to Ye Qiu's pre-season training camp, there are two things he values ​​most, one is the pre-season physical reserve.

Ye Qiu has always felt that taking a lot of time in the middle of the season will easily lead to injuries, so unless it is really necessary, he will generally not take a lot of time in the middle of the season, at best he will do some training to adjust his physical fitness.

There is also a tactical analysis meeting, and this kind of meeting usually combines game videos in a targeted manner, and this requires a strong analysis team behind Tottenham Hotspur's coaching staff, Peter Brandt is this The supervisor of the analysis team, and the entire analysis team numbered as many as ten people.

Of course, these ten people are not only responsible for video and game analysis, but also training, including analysis of other aspects. They have to submit an analysis report to the coaching staff almost every day, as the coaching staff arranges training and games An important basis for this, and this is also Ye Qiu's habit since the Ajax period.

Say goodbye to July and enter August.

The team crossed the English Channel to Amsterdam, and the next day ushered in the Amsterdam Cup, with Tottenham Hotspur taking on Lazio in the opener.

Ye Qiu attaches great importance to the Amsterdam Cup, not only because the opponents are very strong. Apart from the host Ajax, Lazio in Serie A and Atletico Madrid in La Liga are both top league teams. The warm-up match for this event has become very valuable.

The international players who participated in the America's Cup also returned to the team one after another, but Ye Qiu also treated them separately. For Thiago Silva, Marcelo, Cavani and others who played relatively few games, because they The physical fitness and state are adjusted well, so they are all in the squad for this game in Lazio.

Messi, Mascherano and Vargas are all adjusting their bodies and making reserves for the new season, so they didn't even make the squad for this game.

In the first half against Lazio, Tottenham Hotspur lined up 433. The goalkeeper is Cech, and the defense is Marcelo, Hangeland, Thiago Silva and Arbeloa. , the midfielder is Beckham, Yaya Toure and Fabregas, and the frontcourt is Gareth Bale, Van Persie and Ribery.

When the game progressed to the 18th minute, Marcelo suddenly went forward to cooperate with Gareth Bale on the left, but was blocked by Lazio's defense, Marcelo protected the ball and knocked back, Fabregas inserted Going up to respond, a through ball penetrated Lazio's defense. Van Persie stopped the ball on the left side of the penalty area, shook the defender and hit the goal from a small angle, 1:0!

After taking the lead to break the opponent's goal, Tottenham Hotspur's offense appeared to be more ambitious, launching rounds of offensives against Lazio one after another, but Lazio is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Tottenham Hotspur had more chances. Instead, in the 41st minute, they used Tottenham Hotspur's mistake to form a counterattack and create a corner kick. The opponent took advantage of the corner kick and scored, 1:1!

Although the first half ended in a tie, Ye Qiu still made four substitutions at midfield. After replacing Arshavin, the team became 4231 again, and Carroll also replaced Van Persie as the team. Arrow Characters.

The warm-up match against Southampton made the British high center famous. Carroll, who performed a hat-trick, was even called by the British media as Tottenham’s hope of scoring after Ruud van Nistelrooy left the team. It was after he scored a hat-trick in the warm-up match that many people exclaimed that he had got the true biography of Ruud van Nistelrooy.

As everyone knows, Carroll didn't bother to learn how to shoot from Ruud Ruud at the beginning.

Regarding the media hype, Ye Qiu has always remained on the sidelines, because he feels that Carroll is just one of the changes in his team from the beginning to the end, because Carol is indeed a player who has too much. There are obvious shortcomings and deficiencies.

The first is his physical flexibility. Tall and strong, he looks like a standard British center forward, but his explosive power and flexibility are his weaknesses and shortcomings, which limits his role.

Secondly, technology, Carroll has a certain technical background, especially when facing a team like Southampton that is not as strong as Tottenham Hotspur, this aspect of him will be magnified, but once he meets For a strong team, his weakness is obvious, so he can't become a tactical fulcrum similar to Drogba's retreat to take the ball, and he also lacks the ability to turn around with the ball after taking the ball, coupled with his flexibility The lack of speed and explosive power makes his most threatening area not in the low post, but in the high post, especially in the opponent's penalty area.

So to play Carroll as a striker, you have to cater to his characteristics. What's interesting is that Tottenham Hotspur also has an Arshavin. Put Carroll up front and Arshavin cruising behind him, then use the wings to transition the ball from the back to the front.

In this way, Carroll can play the greatest threat, and Arshavin can also play his own advantages.

With this mentality, Ye Qiu rehearsed the team's 4231 tactic in this match against Lazio. The difference was that this time, Beckham was arranged by Ye Qiu to return to the right side he was most familiar with.

As a result, Arshavin took the ball and divided it to the right. Beckham stopped the ball and rubbed the ball to pass. Carroll scored with a header in the penalty area, 2:1. Tottenham broke through again in the 63rd minute. Lazio goal.

This goal also became the last goal of the game. Tottenham Hotspur successfully defeated Lazio 2:1 in the Amsterdam Cup opener. Di Carroll became famous again, scoring four goals in two consecutive games. Carroll really wanted to compete with his predecessor Ruud van Nistelrooy.

But the British media shouted joyfully, but Ye Qiu had no intention of accommodating them at all. Two days later the team ushered in Ajax, but this time Ye Qiu continued to use Van Persie, Ribery and Ashley? Young's offensive combination, further try and examine the team's offensive routines, after all, he has to prepare for player injuries in the middle of the season.

As a result, Tottenham Hotspur played very chaotically throughout the game, and there was no way to attack at all. In the end, they took advantage of the opportunity of a set kick in the frontcourt. Beckham assisted Hangeland to score. The team also relied on With this goal, they defeated the home team Ajax 1:0.

With two consecutive victories and three goals, Tottenham Hotspur finally ranked first in the Amsterdam Cup with a total score of nine points and won the championship. Atletico Madrid defeated Lazio 3:1 and won the championship. The group is second, Ajax is third, and Lazio has lost two games in a row and can only fall to the bottom of the group.

With the end of the Amsterdam Cup, Tottenham Hotspur won the championship of this warm-up match, but they have not been able to play the kind of devastating offense in the second half of last season, which is also clear to many people I realized that Tottenham Hotspur has not been able to get out of the changes brought about by the team's tactical adjustment after Ruud van Nistelrooy left the team.

Returning to London from Amsterdam, the draw for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League was held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, with Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool as the third and No.4 teams in the Premier League to participate in the qualifying round .

This is the first time for Tottenham Hotspur to participate in the UEFA Champions League in decades. Almost everyone is full of apprehension, uneasiness and expectation for this team's Champions League journey.

According to a Tottenham Hotspur fan in an interview with the media, Ye Qiu’s coaching staff has incomparably rich experience in the Champions League. I believe this experienced team can bring the young Tottenham Hotspur Stable Champions League results.

As for the team's Champions League performance expectations, Tottenham Hotspur fans are also very cautious, saying that they will strive to participate in the group stage!
Relatively speaking, Ye Qiu's ambitions are bigger.

"I hope to help the team qualify from the group stage!" He said with a confident and calm smile.

(End of this chapter)