The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 570 The Simplest, The Most Terrible
In fact, many things in football tactics are very simple in the final analysis.

Just like an offense, all offenses actually revolve around one purpose, that is, the time difference.

The reason why a player can score is because he can shoot before the defensive player arrives, and let the ball cross the goal line before the goalkeeper. A certain player in the game is unguarded at a certain time.

Well, sometimes things seem very, very simple, just like this attack by Tottenham Hotspur.

Both Ribery and Cavani gathered at the top of the arc in the middle. Fabregas rushed forward to further strengthen the pressure on Barcelona's defense, while Marcelo on the left took the ball forward and was hit just after crossing the center line. Barcelona's defence, with the Brazilian left-back re-passing the ball back into his own half, to Beckham.

Beckham has been in good form recently. He held back his strength to show his strength, and won the affirmation of Capello, and was able to enter the England national team's South Africa World Cup list. In everyone's eyes, Beckham Tom is also an indispensable player for the current England national team, because his long passes and free kicks are England's sharpest attacking weapons.

Facing Marcelo's return pass, Beckham stopped the ball forward with his right foot. Because there were no defensive players around him, he deliberately stopped forward. A curveball.

This pass is not high, but the arc is large and the speed is fast. From the left side of the arc of the center line, the kick crossed a large area of ​​the field and landed on the right side of the Barcelona penalty area.

At this time, Messi, who had been cruising on the right all the time, rushed forward quickly. After the ball bounced off the ground, Messi had already caught up to the right side of the ball, turned to the left, and stopped the ball to the left with his chest. Stopped directly into the Barcelona penalty area.

At this time, Abidal and Busquets also chased back into the penalty area. The former was close to Messi's body for the first time, while the latter deliberately fell behind a certain position to ensure that he could help defend in the first time.

After Messi entered the penalty area, facing Abidal, he stared at the French left-back. His figure suddenly changed. The entire short body leaned to his right side, and it looked like he was about to make a pass. .

As Ye Qiu has always said, sometimes the simplest things on the football field are also the most effective.

It’s like Messi’s feint, which is very simple and can be used by everyone, but when used by different people at different times and in different places, it can achieve two completely different effects. The key lies in one word, the time difference !

After Messi rushed into the penalty area, Abidal was close to the body quickly. At this time, he did not have enough time to make a rational judgment. Therefore, when he saw that Messi was about to make a fake move, he did not have enough time to go to the bottom. To distinguish whether it is true or false, as a defender, the only thing he can do is to respond to Messi's movements.

This is also a very, very important concept in the defensive concept, which is to prevent the offensive players from launching a frontal attack to the greatest extent, because once the frontal attack is made, the offensive players have a lot of choices, while the defensive players fall into absolute passivity.

Abidal moved with Messi, but the Argentine's right leaning did not control the ball, but after the right leaning, the center of gravity changed, from the original right leaning to the left leaning completely, and the left foot gently moved the ball forward , took advantage of the situation and waded through the deceived Abidal.

At this time, whether it was Abidal who reacted, Busquets who chased back, or Mascherano in the small penalty area, they all rushed over immediately to double-team Messi.

Three-on-one, but Messi swung his left foot quickly after wading past Abidal, and hit a curved shot with the instep of his foot. The whole shot was very fast and connected very well. After the shot, Busquets' block came in front of Messi, and the ball went past Mascherano with a strong spin, even though Valdez reacted immediately and flew to save, But the ball still got into the upper left corner of the goal, 1:0!

It's very simple, without even too many coordination routines. It's just Beckham's long pass transfer. After Messi stops the ball, he relies on his personal ability to get rid of the defense, and then kicks the goal. The whole process happened in the blink of an eye. In!
Everyone in the entire White Hart Lane Stadium was shocked by Messi's goal in an instant. After two or three seconds of silence, there was a deafening cheer, and all the fans in the audience shouted in unison. Looking at Messi, all the Tottenham Hotspur players frantically rushed towards Messi who had already rushed to the sidelines to celebrate, and surrounded him.

1:0, Tottenham Hotspur temporarily took the lead!

Everyone was obviously taken aback by the sudden goal, because it came so suddenly and too surprising, even before Messi scored, no one was prepared for the goal, because the previous half For more than an hour, Barcelona had an absolute advantage in possession of the ball, and their pass success rate was also high, while Tottenham took more shots, but did not create a real threatening opportunity.

But who would have thought that the first threatening shot would directly result in a goal!

While everyone in Tottenham Hotspur was celebrating wildly, Barcelona was hit by this sudden goal. For more than an hour, the possession rate they worked so hard to maintain did not bring them the slightest help.

As Ye Qiu said before, the ball possession rate is actually a double-edged sword. There are good and bad tactics on the tactical level, and the same is true in the player's psychology. The good side is that when you hold the ball The ball possession rate is high, and can always create a threat, even when scoring a goal, the player's psychology will be more confident, but if it is the other way around, a high ball possession rate will be a kind of pressure.

To give the simplest example, it is like a person whose monthly salary usually exceeds [-] yuan, but suddenly one month, his salary is less than half of the usual salary, what do you think he will do? What kind of psychological changes?
Ye Qiu knew how to take advantage of the situation on the field. After seeing Messi score, he immediately waved his hand, signaling the players to push forward and launch a counterattack against Barcelona.

This has two purposes. The first is to maintain the current lead. It is best to use the morale after the lead to strive for another victory. But if you can’t make another victory, you can also achieve the second goal, that is Bring this advantage and morale to the beginning of the second half.

In fact, although Tottenham Hotspur made three more threatening shots in the last 10 minutes, they still failed to break through Barcelona's goal, but they managed to completely suppress Barcelona in the last 10 minutes.

So much so that when Sacchi commented at the end of the first half, he thought that Guardiola lost to Ye Qiu in the head coach level.

"For a long time, Ye Qiu has been the kind of head coach who is very good at putting on momentum. Ferguson and Benitez are both. They belong to the kind of head coach who is very good at taking advantage of the situation on the court to create an advantage for themselves. Mu Rinho is different, they belong to the type of meticulous preparation, through careful preparation before the game, they drill and instill in the players all the situations that may happen in the game, so as to achieve the effect of contingency in the game.”

"Guardiola and Wenger are somewhat academic. Of course, strictly speaking, Ye Qiu is also somewhat academic, but not as academic as Guardiola and Wenger, and this kind of academic is often good at tactics. It is designed at the frame level, but it is relatively weak in terms of game response.”

Speaking of this, Sacchi also sighed, "In fact, in the first half an hour, Tottenham played a diagonal attack, that is, through the long pass from the backcourt, they directly found the two sides of the Barcelona penalty area. , looking for Ribery and Messi's offensive routine has appeared several times, but Guardiola obviously did not pay enough attention to it."

"Of course, you can say that Tottenham Hotspur didn't pose a threat in the first few attempts, but the problem is that as a manager, you should have this kind of anticipation ability that smells danger coming and responds in advance. , I think Ye Qiu has always done a good job on this point, while Guardiola is relatively weak in this aspect."

"There is also a stark contrast. In the last 10 minutes, Tottenham Hotspur scored a goal, and Ye Qiu took advantage of the situation to launch a fierce attack. At this time, Guardiola obviously had no intention of adjusting the team and allowed the team to be beaten passively. His idea should be to save it until the halftime break to deal with it, but he ignored one point, that is, conceding the ball, coupled with the passivity in the last 10 minutes, will have a great blow to the players' psychology and morale .”

"Ye Qiu is very targeted. I even think that he is already planning the tactics for the second half in advance. If I'm not wrong, Tottenham Hotspur will start the game in the second half."

Speaking of this, Saki laughed, shook his head and said: "Very smart change, when you think I will rush to attack after the start, I just don't rush to attack, I defend and counterattack, score a goal, and gain an advantage, When it hurt your morale and forced you to make changes, I suddenly counterattacked, and even if I couldn't score a goal, I would disrupt your plan."

"We can see that strategy and tactics are on Ye Qiu's body. Tottenham Hotspur is like his arm. He can play whatever he wants and wherever he wants. Where to hit."

When Sacchi said this, the commentator laughed. Anyway, the first half was over, so he asked: "Mr. Sacchi, do you think there is hope for Tottenham Hotspur this year? You know, They've already defended their title once!"

Sacchi heard the voice and smiled, "Leaving aside other possible factors, I think Tottenham Hotspur's chances of defending the title are still very high, but I have studied Tottenham Hotspur very seriously. season, I think they need some luck."

"Luck?" The on-site commentator obviously didn't understand.

"If Tottenham Hotspur eliminates Barcelona, ​​the opponents in the semi-finals are Bayern Munich and Manchester United. I think from the current performance, if they meet Bayern Munich, Tottenham Hotspur have great hopes of reaching the final. , but if you meet Manchester United, I think it is very difficult, because Ferguson's control and adjustment of Manchester United have also shown results in the recent period. Before AC Milan suffered a double kill by Manchester United at home and away. I think Ferguson's team In fact, the combat effectiveness may not necessarily lose to Tottenham Hotspur and Barcelona, ​​especially their defense!"

The central defender combination of Vidic and Ferdinand can be said to be the best central defender combination in European football at the moment, not one of them, and in the past few years, they have cultivated a good enough tacit understanding, plus the midfielder this season The adjustment is very good, and the trident in the frontcourt also performed quite well. Manchester United's overall strength is very balanced, and it is indeed underestimated.

And everyone can actually taste one thing very clearly from Sacchi's comments, that is, Sacchi has basically judged that Tottenham Hotspur will eliminate Barcelona, ​​is it because of Messi's move in the first half A goal?
The start of the second half was very consistent with Sacchi's judgment. From the beginning, Tottenham Hotspur launched a fierce impact on Barcelona like a tiger descending the mountain.

If it was in normal times, Barcelona's defense would definitely not be broken by Tottenham Hotspur so easily, but perhaps it was what Sacchi said, and the advantage at the end of the first half was maintained until the beginning of the second half, while Tottenham Hotspur's first threatening attack of the second half pierced through Barcelona's goal, and it was Franck Ribery who scored the goal.

This is a corner kick caused by the cooperation of Messi and Alves on the right. Beckham took the corner kick and accurately found Ziglinski in the front point. Ukraine manpower beat Pique and headed the ball When the ferry arrived at the back point, Ribery was about eight meters away from the goal. He directly swung his left foot and volleyed through the goal of Valdes, 2:0!

After scoring the goal, the entire White Hart Lane stadium was completely boiling, and all the players and fans were celebrating wildly.

Strictly speaking, Tottenham Hotspur's performance in this game was not active, and the team's state was not outstanding. Both goals seemed more like the embodiment and performance of the players' personal strength, but Tottenham Hotspur's defense is very impressive, especially the restriction on Van Persie.

Ye Qiu is very familiar with Van Persie's technical characteristics. This is a player he single-handedly selected and cultivated. Therefore, the coaching staff of Tottenham Hotspur specially arranged a big net for Van Persie in this game, and directly defeated the Netherlands. The man is in the middle of the net, so that he can neither receive the ball nor pass it.

After the first goal in the second half, Tottenham Hotspur did not slow down the offensive, but continued to launch a fierce attack on Barcelona, ​​and was threatening Barcelona's goal time and time again, forcing the La Liga giants to adopt a defensive strategy .

Guardiola took the lead in making the first substitution adjustment of the game in the No.60 second minute. He replaced Alexis Sanchez, who performed poorly in the frontcourt, with midfielder Sedu Keita, and let Keita Return to the midfielder to play on the left, and strengthen the defense of the midfielder, especially the defense on the left.

You know, Tottenham Hotspur has always been known as flying on both wings. Franck Ribery and Marcelo on the left, Messi and Alves on the right are all very sharp offensive combinations, and Keita's playing It can further strengthen the defense on the left and freeze the right attack of the active Tottenham Hotspur.

After the substitution this time, Sacchi shook his head and made a judgment, "Guardiola has given up this game. Although the score of 0:2 is not satisfactory, at least there is still a glimmer of hope. Campo, Barcelona still have a chance!"

"However, now Tottenham Hotspur has obviously disrupted Barcelona's plan and rhythm. The idea is to keep the score and save the final at Camp Nou."

Although such a strategy is a bit conservative and may even cause dissatisfaction among the fans, it is not completely unreasonable. After all, if you want to counterattack now, you have to press out and continue to attack. According to the current advantages of Tottenham Hotspur, it is really pressing out and playing. , Although it is possible to score a goal, the possibility of being scored again by Tottenham Hotspur is also very high.

Sometimes, all the head coach needs to do is to weigh the pros and cons, but each head coach has his own personality and characteristics, so their standards for weighing the pros and cons are completely different.

With Keita on the field, everyone in Barcelona clearly felt the coach's intentions, and Tottenham Hotspur gradually slowed down their offensive after a while, and at No. 705 minutes, Ye Qiu Soon Falcao replaced Cavani. The latter had worked very hard for the game, and now it was time to come down and rest.

After that, Ye Qiu replaced Messi, Hazzard, Beckham, and Phil Jones. They were all very obvious match-up substitutions, and at the same time, they were making further adjustments to the players. Physical fitness, especially several core players including Messi, are currently in the stage of physical adjustment.

Perhaps seeing Tottenham Hotspur's substitution, Guardiola also quickly replaced Van Persie with Bojan, but this was already a substitution that happened in the No.804 minute, and after that, Barcelona has always It is difficult to organize an effective attack.

In the end, with the whistle of the Swiss referee Massimo Busacca, this focus battle that has attracted much attention from the outside world finally came to an end. Tottenham Hotspur relied on Messi and Ribery With two goals, they finally defeated visiting Barcelona 2-0 at home.

This victory also allowed Tottenham Hotspur to occupy a favorable position in the promotion of the quarterfinals, but no matter who it is, they still dare not be careless, because Tottenham Hotspur must visit Camp Nou stadium.

The Camp Nou battle is the key battle that determines life and death!
(End of this chapter)