The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 561 The Successor

Ferguson's Manchester United are always good at making efforts after Christmas. This is something that everyone familiar with the Premier League knows.

Manchester United and Arsenal seem to be two completely different teams. The Gunners often start amazingly, but decline rapidly after the winter break, while Manchester United, no matter how they start, their performance after the winter break is always impressive. The team has to admire.

Just like now, after Christmas, although Manchester United lost to Fulham before the festival, they soon defeated Hull City 3-1 away and 5-0 at home in the two rounds of the Premier League within three days after Christmas. Wigan Athletic won two consecutive victories and successfully won the opponent.

Although Ancelotti is a newcomer, his performance in the two rounds after Christmas was pretty good, with one win and one draw, and he scored four points. However, his ranking in the Premier League standings was pulled down by Manchester United. The Red Devils went well. They caught up with Chelsea and climbed to the No.2 position in the league standings.

Tottenham Hotspur's two-round schedule after Christmas also had one win and one draw. On the 26th, they drew away with the same city team Fulham. Coupled with the Christmas carnival, it has something to do with it, and Ye Qiu is also very clear that the first game after Christmas is a very troublesome thing.

0:0 draw with Fulham, but soon, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Ranieri's West Ham United 2:0 at home, and continued to maintain their position as the league leader. After January, the FA Cup will be ushered in immediately. Tottenham Hotspur's opponent is Peterborough United from the British Championship.

In the case of multi-line battles, the cup insists on using substitutes and young players. This is a strategy Ye Qiu has drawn up early on. Therefore, in this FA Cup, Tottenham Hotspur still mainly focus on young players. On the bench, go to the away game to challenge the bottom-ranked deputy squad leader of the Championship.

As a result, in the away game, Tottenham Hotspur beat Peterborough United 4-0 and successfully advanced to the fourth round of the FA Cup.

The third knockout round of the FA Cup is held on January 20, which is Saturday, and there is no game in the middle of the week. The weekend is the No.17 round of the Premier League. Therefore, Tottenham Hotspur will be arranged in the middle of the week. In the 3th round of the supplementary Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Manchester City, which had just changed coaches, 0-[-] at White Hart Lane with Falcao and Cesc Fabregas scoring twice.

I don't know if it was influenced by what Ye Qiu said in Abu Dhabi before, Manchester City finally made up their minds to kill Mark Hughes and fired the native England coach, just like Ye Qiu's previous life, please come Mancini.

Back and forth, many things still cannot get rid of the influence of Ye Qiu's previous life, but this is not about reincarnation or the like, but because there are indeed not many famous football coaches who can accept Manchester City's invitation, and Manchester City is full of plans. Chini can be regarded as the coach that best meets Manchester City's current requirements, and more importantly, he is currently unemployed at home.

Famous coaches are a rarity these days, especially those real first-line marshals, such as Ye Qiu, Mourinho, Ferguson, Wenger, Benitez, Ancelotti, if you count those veteran marshals , such as Lippi, Capello, Heathfield, etc., in fact, they basically will not move.

In other words, even if Manchester City has money now, they can't dig these big gods, so Manchester City can only settle for the next best thing and find some small gods. Looking at it horizontally and vertically, they performed well in Lazio and helped Inter Milan win consecutive Serie A titles. The champion Mancini is undoubtedly a more suitable candidate, and he can barely be regarded as a famous European coach.

Looking at the European football this season, among all the teams that have changed coaches, there are actually two that can attract Ye Qiu's attention, one is Chelsea's Ancelotti, and the other is Real Madrid's Manuel Pellegri Ni, as for Mancini who came to Manchester City halfway, Ye Qiu felt that the Italian head coach was very capable, but it was difficult to create surprises.

It’s not that Mancini doesn’t have enough ability or tactical literacy. On the contrary, Mancini must have coaching ability, and the Italian coach has never been a problem in terms of tactical literacy. The key lies in Mancini’s temper. , and his control of the locker room, these are problems, and Mancini's use of troops is rarely surprising.

This is also the characteristic of many Italian coaches.

Why does Ye Qiu pay more attention to Ancelotti?

A very important reason is that Ancelotti is another Chelsea head coach who attaches great importance to technology and creativity after Ye Qiu, and has always maintained the framework created by Ye Qiu in the Chelsea lineup. Under the circumstances, Ye Qiu is looking forward to what Ancelotti can do.

But judging from the progress of this season, Ancelotti still has the problem of adapting, especially to the Premier League, but it has stimulated Chelsea's offensive power. The current offensive strength of the Blues exceeds Manchester United, second only to Toth Nam Hotspur.

And Pellegrini is another type of head coach. He can often bring you surprises, but once you start to place high hopes on him because of surprises, he may let you down. The reason is simple. Ye Qiu has always felt that Pellegrini has problems with player control.

Many people said that Ye Qiu is very good at controlling the state of the players. In key games, the team has fewer injuries, the players are generally in good condition, and the team can play at a reasonable level. The coach controls the team from all aspects and fields, and forms a reasonable and effective cooperation mechanism with the players and the coaching staff.

In the 09/10 season in Ye Qiu's previous life, Pellegrini coached Real Madrid. It was definitely a successful season. Chilean engineers can get a more relaxed coaching environment and a longer period of trust. Real Madrid doesn't need Mourinho at all.

Why do you say that?
One of the strongest evidences is that when Pellegrini was in charge of Real Madrid, they lost twice in the league to Barcelona, ​​but after the league ended, the gap between Real Madrid and Barcelona in the standings was only three points.

Maybe that's why everyone doesn't have the impression that two defeats to Barcelona are not just six points, because Barcelona won by six points, Real Madrid lost six points, and the difference was twelve points, and in the end they lost by three points. It means that outside of the two derby games of the century, Real Madrid performed much better than Barcelona.

Of course, the loss of the Derby of the Century, the humiliating loss of the Copa del Rey, and the continuous stop at the top [-] of the Champions League all reflect Pellegrini's flaws and shortcomings, that is, the key games, he adjusted the team's state, activated The player's fighting spirit is not enough.

But none of these can conceal Pellegrini's astonishment in his first season in charge of Real Madrid, because he has just arrived and has no impressive resume, and there are many internal problems and contradictions in Real Madrid, so these defects and deficiencies are all possible. Forgive and give him more time to make amends.

But unfortunately, Pellegrini's journey to Real Madrid came to an abrupt end after one season.

From the above cases, it is not difficult to find a very interesting problem, that is, coaching changes often represent labor pains and reorganization, and may even cause the team to experience turmoil.

Ye Qiu has always had a clear plan for his career. He has ideals and pursuits, but he also has a career and a family, so he knows very well that it is impossible for him to be the head coach of Tottenham Hotspur. At the age of Ferguson, what he wants to do most now is to build all aspects of Tottenham Hotspur, whether it is the team's management power distribution, or the team's entire tactical offensive and defensive system. this basis.

And he has been cultivating the future successor, that is Mauro Tassotti!
Ye Qiu has now gradually handed over the training to Mauro Tassotti to take full responsibility. He just told Mauro Tassotti what he wanted, and then let Mauro Tassotti play and adjust. How to establish Mauro Tassotti's authority, and then examine Mauro Tassotti's abilities in all aspects.

For example, what is his ability to deal with the relationship with the players in the team?How well does he fit in with the rest of the coaching staff?When he faces some key games, or when the team has an emergency, what about his adaptability and handling ability?

This will not be a short period of time, even if Mauro Tassotti is about to be 50 years old, but just like his predecessor Capello, what he is doing now is a kind of accumulation, and The purpose of accumulation is for the future. After taking charge of his own affairs, he can quickly take over the scepter from Ye Qiu and become the head coach of Tottenham Hotspur.

In Ye Qiu's position, the team's head coach is like the soul of a team, like the CEO of a multinational company. They must be carefully selected, go through multiple assessments, and possess Someone with incomparably rich experience, but more importantly, he must understand and be able to successfully manage the team.

After defeating Manchester City 3:0, Tottenham Hotspur soon ushered in the No.20 round of the Premier League. The team played a 1:1 draw and failed to beat their opponents, but what is interesting is that Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea all drew, while Manchester City beat Blackburn 4:1.

In the middle of the week, we ushered in the League Cup semi-finals. Tottenham continued to play with a young lineup and challenged Mancini's Manchester City away. Two goals, 2:1 defeated the visiting Tottenham Hotspur.

Although they failed to beat their opponents away, the performance of this group of teenagers from Tottenham Hotspur is still impressive.

Throughout the first half, Tottenham Hotspur performed the best. This group of teenagers not only limited Manchester City's offense well in defense, but also played a quite threatening offensive in offense. Hazard scored the first goal for Tottenham Hotspur in the No.207 minute.

But the situation turned around at the end of the first half. Nastasis and Varane made a fatal mistake when defending Adebayor. Wright Phillips broke through Coentraon from the right and made a pass. Debayor overwhelmed Nastasic in the top fight and ferried to Bellamy, and Varane overthrew Bellamy when he missed the man.

Although the referee did not give a red card, but only a yellow card to warn Varane, he gave Manchester City a penalty. Adebayor personally made the penalty and opened the scoring for Manchester City.

This goal severely damaged the morale of Tottenham Hotspur's group of young players. Even though Ye Qiu kept encouraging the players during the halftime break, in the second half, Tottenham Hotspur's group The teenagers still performed very poorly, and Mancini took the opportunity to encourage the team to press heavily.

In the end, in the No. 705 minute of Manchester City, Adebayor made another victory and helped Manchester City complete the reversal.

In the post-match press conference, Ye Qiu spoke highly of the performance of the young players. He thought that playing Manchester City away would not be easy for any team, because Manchester City is already a very strong team in the Premier League. This team has very good stars, and the overall strength is also quite good.

"I am satisfied with the performance of the team, especially this group of young teenagers. I can clearly feel their progress. It is indeed a pity to lose the game, but I want to say that this is only the first One round of the game, we have a second round, I will not adjust the team's lineup in the second round, because I firmly believe that this group of young people is worthy of my trust, and we will knock Manchester City out of the league at White Hart Lane Cup, I'm sure of it!"

Ye Qiu's words immediately caused an uproar from all the reporters. They announced the starting lineup a week in advance, and they didn't plan to change the team's lineup. They continued to play with this young lineup. I really don't know what to say about Ye Qiu. What about overconfidence?I still really believe that this group of young players can create miracles.

You know, any one of Manchester City's lineup is a famous European star, and in Tottenham Hotspur's starting lineup, the biggest player is Beckham, but everyone knows that Beckham Already old, regardless of whether it is Pogba, Phil Jones, Ramsey, Hazard, Nastasic or Varane, they are obviously just young players with potential.

On the second day of the League Cup, when all the reporters and media interpreted Ye Qiu's words, they all agreed that Ye Qiu had decided to use this League Cup to bet on the future of the young players. Use this crucial battle to motivate young players and help them accumulate richer game experience.

"In the final analysis, for Tottenham Hotspur, the League Cup and the FA Cup are always just training grounds!"

Ended the first round of the League Cup and returned to London from Manchester. Tottenham Hotspur ushered in the Hull City team at the White Hart Lane Stadium with a full main lineup.

The result surprised everyone. Tottenham Hotspur played at White Hart Lane at home from the very beginning. Spurs opened the scoring first, followed by Franck Ribery, Marcelo and David Silva, who established a four-goal lead early in the first half.

In the second half, Tottenham Hotspur's offensive continued unabated. David Silva made another goal and scored twice. Then Falcao and Fabregas also scored successively. Tottenham Tottenham beat Hull City 7-0 at home.

The unlucky Hull City faced Tottenham Hotspur twice in a row this season, and both games ended in disastrous defeats. This also made the former Birmingham head coach Steve Bruce, who took office midway through the season and is known as Ferguson's favorite disciple, feel Extremely frustrated, at the post-match press conference, he even said that the team had tried their best to attack Tottenham Hotspur, but they were still unable to threaten the home team, and there was nothing he could do about it.

Ye Qiu even mentioned with a smile that when Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United competed for the league championship, it was Steve Bruce and his Birmingham who sniped Tottenham Hotspur at a critical moment and helped Manchester United, and before this game, Steve Bruce also wanted to repeat the same old tune, but Tottenham Hotspur obviously would not give him such a chance.

"We are no longer the Tottenham Hotspur team!" Ye Qiu smiled confidently.

Tottenham Hotspur beat Hull City violently, Chelsea and Manchester United also defeated their opponents successively. Following closely behind, these two teams still refused to relax, especially Manchester United. After Christmas, the performance of the Red Devils has also improved a lot The big improvement, especially the overall offensive and defensive system of this team, looks much more orderly. The four rounds of the league after Christmas have three wins and one draw to remain unbeaten.

And after Christmas, Ferguson insisted on using Lars Diarra to start for four consecutive games. The performance of this French midfielder has also improved considerably compared to the beginning of the season. He is very stable and experienced in defense, and his ability to play is also very good Excellent, although occasionally he still sticks to the ball and misses the opportunity to fight, but it can be seen that Ferguson is constantly beating the midfielder.

Not only has Lars Diarra changed, Sneijder has also returned to the main lineup. He and Carrick form a strong complementarity. The former and the latter have played out their respective characteristics very well. Coupled with Las Diarra, who has an excellent interception ability in the midfield, Manchester United's midfield has been greatly improved.

The midfield is hardened, and the trident composed of Carlos Tevez, Benzema and Rooney in the frontcourt is becoming more and more attacking. In this game against Burnley, Manchester United scored three goals respectively. The player scored, and the previous 5-0 victory over Wigan Athletic was also a game where the Trident performed well.

All the signs are very clear that after half a year of running-in and adjustments, this Manchester United team has finally reloaded, and no matter at any time, as long as Ferguson adjusts the team well, the Red Devils Manchester United will be the Premier League champions The most powerful contender.

It is impossible for Ye Qiu to forget that when Manchester United and Chelsea competed for the championship, Ferguson maintained consecutive victories and finally caught up to the final feat. Although Tottenham Hotspur defeated Chelsea in the last round and gave Manchester United a league title, But Ye Qiu was very impressed by the red devil's relentless pursuit before this, and the catching up momentum of the winning streak.

And no matter what, Ye Qiu didn't want Tottenham Hotspur to become Chelsea back then!

(End of this chapter)