The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 541 Leading the standings

Benitez's life is not easy. His life in Liverpool is like Wang Xiaoer's new year, and every year is not as good as every year.

From the majestic appearance when he first landed in the Premier League, to when he defeated Ye Qiu's Chelsea and won the UEFA Champions League, he reached the pinnacle of his life that year, and he also reached the pinnacle of Liverpool in recent years.

But after that, he began to go downhill. This has his own reasons, as well as various factors such as the team.

For a long time, even now, he still feels that he is not really that familiar with and understands the Premier League, because many things that happen here, and many contradictions that arise here, are incomprehensible to him. , and it is always full of games between capital and football.

Professional football is not simple, he understands this, but the Premier League is even more so.

In the past few years, he has been improving Liverpool almost every season. He knows exactly what he wants, and he has a very, very clear thread in his mind, but the problem is, this set Sometimes the context seems to be very close to him, and in many cases, it can be achieved only by introducing a player, but after he got this player, he realized that it was so far away from him, so unreachable.

The first half of last season was the period when he felt he was the closest to the championship. His team led the Premier League for a long time. He felt that everyone in the team was performing better and better. I understood his intentions, but later, when it entered the Christmas and winter break schedule, Liverpool ushered in the embarrassment of Lianping, and he found that he was wrong.

Ye Qiu once commented on him in a private exchange, thinking that he is a tactical genius that even Ye Qiu is ashamed of, but when it comes to instilling his own tactical ideas in the players and communicating with them, he is a complete Otaku.

Sometimes when I think about it, Benitez really envies Ye Qiu, at least everything seems to be going well for him, but Benitez himself knows that Ye Qiu's success is not because of his good luck, but because of his good luck. It was he who was always planning for a rainy day.

There are many ways to solve problems in this world. Wait until a problem arises and then try to solve it slowly. This is the worst kind. If the problem has not yet appeared, prepare to solve it first. This is a moderate one. ; Another way is to kill him directly under the covers without waiting for the problem to arise. This is the most ideal one.

When Ye Qiu mentioned in an interview before the game that the most important thing for Tottenham Hotspur this season is to build a good team's defensive system, Benitez knew very well that this season's Tottenham Hotspur will be stronger than before, the reason is very simple, because Ye Qiu has finally decided to adjust the old problem of focusing on offense and light defense.

Offensive and defensive balance is a real strong team!

Some people may think, wow, it's simple, adjust the defense, the big deal is to introduce excellent guards, adjust the tacit understanding, isn't it done?With the current strength and financial resources of Tottenham Hotspur, it is not a problem to introduce anyone!

This is a mediocre statement. A truly top-notch coach would not do such a thing. Just like Ferguson, he would not casually bring in defenders when he was killed. The reason is very simple. On the surface, the midfielder is the superstar. The stage, but the midfield is where the most money is spent.

The adjustment is divided into soft and hard, the former is milder, the latter is more aggressive, the former is calmer, and the latter is more likely to cause waves, so as long as a fan knows, it is necessary to adopt soft adjustments, that is, within the existing player framework Adjust the team's defense without making large-scale changes to the team's overall technical and tactical framework.

The hard adjustment is very simple and rude, spending money, recruiting people, and then building a strong defensive system, but in this way, once the defense and the midfield are not compatible, the team will immediately collapse and polarize. Time can only completely overthrow and rebuild, just like Ferguson this season.

According to the current situation of Tottenham Hotspur, if they want to reorganize a defensive system, it is impossible to complete without spending [-] million transfer funds. So from Ye Qiu's point of view, the [-] million he needs Save it, and it's not worth the money.

Soft adjustments are the part that tests the level of Ye Qiu and his coaching staff, because soft adjustments need to consider more aspects.

To give the simplest example, Tottenham Hotspur have been short of a strong center since Ruud van Nistelrooy left the team two years ago, so they rely heavily on pulling and interspersing in positional warfare. This is true in itself, but it is a flower. Coincidentally, if you blindly play with this kind of tricks, you will pull and beat your opponent at the beginning, but later on, everyone is familiar with it and is used to it. How can you continue?

The emergence of Gareth Bale last season must have given Ye Qiu a lot of excitement, because the Welsh winger is completely different from Ribery and Messi. He hardly has any tricks, and he relies entirely on hard power To attack the opponent's defense, everyone saw that Tottenham Hotspur's attack power skyrocketed.

With the strong rise of Tottenham Hotspur, more and more teams will adopt cautious defensive tactics against North London teams, especially for their weaknesses and deficiencies. Capable teams will do everything possible to consume Tottenham Hotspur, because you have to play positional warfare, you have to intersperse and pull, then you have to oppress my 30-meter area.

This is the so-called high-intensity pressing and pressing in the midfield.

But don’t think that as long as the overall movement is handled well, the physical consumption will be small. It’s wrong. Once the opponent intends to consume you, it will be difficult for Tottenham’s physical fitness to maintain the entire game. Even if you can start the game, In the middle of the season, you will also fall into a physical crisis, and you will still have to be crippled by the opponent's counterattacks again and again.

Maybe someone said again, can I relax the oppression?

Okay, if you relax the oppression, Messi, Ribery and others will have to retreat and be forced to stay away from the threat area. This kind of frontcourt interspersed running and passing and receiving of the stab is also unfavorable, and the retreat means that your frontcourt players have a larger running range.

This seems to be a very unsolvable chain, doesn't it?
But from Benitez's point of view, at least in this match against Liverpool, Benitez could see that Ye Qiu had found a solution, which was to use a powerful center forward to attack the opponent's defense line and serve as the ball. The weapon used by the army to attack cities and pull out villages.

Just like this game, with Falcao attacking Liverpool's defense in front, Messi, Ribery, David Silva and Fabregas don't need to press too high, because even if they don't Pressing up like in the past, Liverpool's defense still dare not press up because there is a strong center forward.

And as long as Ribery and Messi can retreat properly, the entire midfield of Tottenham Hotspur can also retreat appropriately, and the backcourt can also move back naturally, so that it is completely possible to organize an effective set. The overall chain defense will produce a new round of overall defensive effect.

So, what are the benefits of the new defensive system?

It's very simple, because Tottenham Hotspur's defense is not so high. The previous method of placing an efficient fulcrum center in the frontcourt, waiting for the backcourt to steal the ball and then quickly counterattack with a long pass will be difficult to work. , and on this point, Benitez felt that Ye Qiu was influenced by Ferguson.

Ferguson introduced Benzema, Carlos Tevez and Rooney this season to form a new trident. To put it bluntly, he wants to take this path, and he will continue to follow Manchester United's previous passing and cutting route instead of Barcelona's passing and controlling route. Not to mention the combination of transmission, cutting and control that Ye Qiu advocated.

Because this path is most suitable for Manchester United, Ferguson has laid an extremely solid foundation in the past few years, what is needed now is only appropriate changes in personnel and help players integrate into the team, so overall, the price paid The smallest, but the richest possible harvest.

If you want to talk about the team that has gained the most in the transfer market this year, it must be Manchester United!

As for Liverpool, Benitez can only see his tricks now, because after selling Harvey Alonso, looking at the entire European football world, who dares to find someone who can directly fill Harvey? Lonzo's open midfielder?

I didn't see Ye Qiu selling forwards and defenders, but he didn't want to sell Cesc Fabregas and David Silva?
The reason is simple, the midfield is the key!
And in this game, Liverpool's defeat was in midfield!

For this, Benitez is also helpless, the midfield is disorderly, especially before the first half is over, Tottenham Hotspur scored four goals for you as soon as they came up, completely beat Liverpool Confused, Benitez is powerless about it.

In the second half, although he made further adjustments and strengthened the team's midfield defense and protection, it was still useless. Tottenham Hotspur obviously played very confidently, with more confidence, and was finally defeated by Franck Ribery. Two more goals.

6:1, no one expected that in the first round of the new season, the Red Army Liverpool would encounter such a big humiliation of Tottenham Hotspur at the White Hart Lane Stadium, and Benitez was even worse throughout the game. With his head down, he sat in the coach's bench, thinking about some problems with a blank face, because he could predict what would greet him after the game.

Perhaps, he should thank Torres, because the Spaniard also scored a goal for Liverpool at 0:5, which somewhat saved Liverpool's face, but overall, this was a big defeat and a catastrophe .

It was also at this moment that Benitez realized that Ye Qiu was right. Liverpool was no longer Tottenham Hotspur's sufferer. Count on being able to adjust Tottenham Hotspur!
Tottenham Hotspur beat Liverpool 6-1 at home.

Manchester United beat Birmingham 1-0 at home.

Arsenal reversed Everton 2:1 in an away game.

Chelsea's 2:1 embarrassing reversal of Hull City at home.

With the start of the first round of the Premier League, the eyes of fans all over the world are gathered in England.

The team with the most eye-catching performance in the first round was undoubtedly Tottenham Hotspur who beat Liverpool 6:1 in the strong dialogue. Almost the media all over the world called this game an epic victory, especially He played such a wonderful and eye-catching offensive football in the first round of the league, which made everyone full of praise.

For all the coverage of Tottenham's thrashing of Liverpool, much of it was devoted to Romedal Falcao, the young Colombian centre-forward who was an instant hit but wasn't The best player of the game.

After the first round of the Premier League, the best player in the first round of the Premier League was given to Messi, because the Argentine star not only contributed three assists, staged a hat-trick of assists, but also scored a goal of his own. Scored four of the goals and performed very eye-catching.

Although the Argentine superstar who almost switched to Manchester City this summer only scored one goal in the first round of the new season, his tactical value on the field is obviously better than last season. More importantly, he is not only on the offensive end, but also performs very well in connecting midfielders.

In the words of Martin Samuel in the column, "He is doing Tottenham Hotspur what Maradona was able to do in Naples!"

The number of goals decreased, but Messi attracted more attention and repercussions, and Ye Qiu also repeatedly stated in an interview with the media after the game that the team will help Messi determine his own development path again, because the goals Does not represent all of a player.

"All great players are remembered and impressed by what they did on the football field, not just by scoring goals, that's what I said to Messi!"

As for Falcao, who has made a sudden appearance after joining the team, several players in the Tottenham Hotspur team also gave high praise and appreciation, especially what many people think should be rejection. Falcao's Messi, he even said, "Falcao is a player with outstanding strength. He joined Tottenham Hotspur and brought us an improvement in strength. I think this is very good. With him, we can score goals more easily!"

In addition, there are two more eye-catching teams in the first round of the league, Manchester City and West Ham United.

They are all teams with big signings. Both Manchester City and West Ham United beat their opponents 2:0, but the performance of the two teams is not too impressive, especially Manchester City. Mark Hughes has obviously Become Manchester City's biggest obstacle.

Claudio Ranieri is very familiar with the Premier League, so his West Ham United is not obvious, but the process of the game is very stable, and he scored three points with a stable performance, which is worthy of recognition and also opened a good start for the new season .

And because of the impact of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Premier League schedule for the new season should be appropriately compressed, so after the first round of the league, the second round will start directly in the middle of the week, with Tottenham Hotspur challenging Hull City away.

This team, which had just put Chelsea in an embarrassing situation at Stamford Bridge, returned to its home court this time to welcome Tottenham Hotspur. Phil Brown vowed before the game that he would strive to defeat the enemy at home.

But in the end, no one expected that Tottenham Hotspur once again defeated Hull City cleanly 5:1.

But that wasn't the scariest thing, what really shocked everyone was that Romedal Falcao scored yet another hat-trick for two consecutive league rounds to lead the Premier League with six goals scorer list.

All the fans, journalists and professionals around the world were shocked. If they were given a scalpel, what they would most want to do now would be to cut open the head of Romedal Falcao and explore it carefully. What's in the center's head?
To score two hat-tricks in a row is definitely a jaw-dropping feat, especially in a league of this level like the Premier League. The kind that is difficult to enter, but very easy to enter.

In the last game against Liverpool, he scored a hat-trick in the first half. This time it took a little longer. Five minutes into the second half, he scored his third goal of the game.

With six goals in two rounds, Falcao has almost risen rapidly in a surprising way in the new season, especially after playing against Hull City, he was elected the best player of the game and became the best player of the season. The best player in the Premier League round became the object of praise and admiration of fans all over the world almost overnight.

Messi and Cesc Fabregas scored the other two goals for Tottenham.

But there are also many media who believe that Falcao's scoring momentum is only temporary. The reason is very simple. Messi, Ribery, Fabregas and David Silva all scored goals and assisted each other. There are comings and goings, and this is also part of the teamwork of Tottenham Hotspur in the past, but in the first two rounds of this season, although Falcao scored six goals, he did not have an assist.

Of course, during the game, he also tried many times to play for Messi, Franck Ribery or other teammates, but the effect was obviously relatively mediocre, not to mention the comparison with the previous Van Persie, even with Cavani. Than, he is not as good at this point.

That's why many experts believe that, despite the fact that Erkao's scoring momentum is so fierce, no one can do anything to him now, but once he fails to score, all criticisms and accusations will be overwhelming. A real test for him, and for Tottenham.

Regarding such remarks, Ye Qiu, who topped the Premier League standings with two consecutive victories, didn't take it seriously at all. He felt that everyone didn't need to be obsessed with this kind of unknown whether it would definitely happen, and everyone should pay more attention to enjoyment Football right now.

As for this round of away game capsized in the gutter, an upset 0:1 loss to the newly promoted Manchester United, Ye Qiu did not forget to throw stones at Ferguson, "I hope that whenever I look back in the future, No Manchester United name in the standings!"

"Because they fell too far!"

Who made the old boy Ferguson gloat when Tottenham Hotspur performed poorly?

But as competitors, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool all won successively, Ranieri's West Ham United also won, and Mark Hughes' Manchester City lost 0:2 at home to Everton, which is true Not surprising at all.

In the third round of the league, Tottenham Hotspur ushered in West Ham United!
(End of this chapter)