The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 594 Raul's Value

In the past, Tottenham Hotspur's signings were more completed before the team's training camp, but this summer's situation is a bit special. Affected by the World Cup in South Africa, Tottenham Hotspur's signings were a bit delayed, resulting in It was not until the end of July that the last player introduced, Raul, entered the team.

Because of this, the Amsterdam Invitational Tournament held in the Netherlands became the first collective appearance of Tottenham Hotspur's first team, and considering that the other two teams participating in the Amsterdam Invitational Tournament are from Serie A Rome and La Liga. Villarreal, the warm-up gold content is still very high, it is a good test for Tottenham Hotspur.

In July, Tottenham Hotspur played a total of three warm-up matches, two of which were against England's low-level league, and the other was Celtic from the Scottish Premier League. Tottenham Hotspur won Three consecutive victories, but the performance is not very satisfactory, but considering that the international footballer who participated in the World Cup failed to return to the team on time, this is not very convincing.

And just when everyone was looking forward to Tottenham Hotspur's first main lineup appearance, Ye Qiu did not use the full main lineup in the first game against Villarreal in Amsterdam.

Goalkeeper Petr Cech, Alba, Kompany, Nastasic and Kyle Walker in the defense, Coutinho, Yaya Toure and Ramsey in the midfield, and the inside trident in the frontcourt. Marr, Raul and Ribery.

This disappointed some Dutch fans who wanted to watch Messi, because Ye Qiu didn't even put Messi, Cesc Fabregas, David Silva and other players in the squad for the game, that is to say, They will not play in this game.

Although many substitute players played the game, Tottenham Hotspur's performance in the game was not bad at all.

At the beginning of the game, Tottenham Hotspur showed a strong desire to attack, especially the two young midfielders of Tottenham Hotspur, Coutinho and the 19-year-old Ramsey, in Asia. With the support of Ya Toure, he showed excellent organization and ability to deliver the ball, delivering shells to his teammates in the frontcourt time and time again.

Especially Coutinho, who played for Tottenham Hotspur for the first time. Although it was a warm-up match, this Brazilian midfielder is ambitious and wants to play in the Tottenham Hotspur team in the new season. More games, so he showed his outstanding personal ability and strong desire to play.

After adapting to the start in the first half, the Brazilian teenager quickly showed his threat of holding the ball in the midfield. He once passed the ball with his left foot to the ground for more than 20 meters, and tore open the ball sharply. Behind Villarreal's defense line, it precisely fell to the feet of Raul at the front of the penalty area.

This is Raul's first game after officially joining Tottenham Hotspur, and he has only participated in two Tottenham Hotspur training sessions in total, but Raul looked a little bit in the game No running-in is required, just plug and play.

I saw the soul of Spain in the past, on the left side of the arc top of the penalty area, after pulling out the opponent's central defender, leaning on the opponent with his body, when everyone thought he would take Coutinho's beautiful kick When the through ball stopped, he chose not to stop the ball, and picked the ball directly to his left with his left foot.

This kick crossed the defensive player. Ribery on the right quickly slanted into the penalty area. After the header hit his front, he followed up with a low shot from his right foot, but it missed the goal slightly.

Although he failed to score a goal, when Ribery walked back, he ran to Raul's side, reached out to give Raul a high-five, and obviously praised Raul for his beautiful kick. It was given very comfortably, and more importantly, very suddenly.

As early as during the training in the team, everyone was surprised to find that Raul fits Tottenham Hotspur's tactical style very well, both in consciousness and technically. His ability to touch the ball with one foot is quite Excellent, and his off-the-ball running and coordination awareness, as well as his ability to understand the game are very outstanding.

Of course, as you get older and experience more, your consciousness will naturally improve.

Didn't you see Manchester United's veteran Scholes, when he was young, he had the passing and organizational awareness he has now?
Ye Qiu has mentioned many times within the team that the most important thing for a professional player is to keep learning and improving, and he admires Raul's agility when he plays football. This is not simply an innate talent, but continuous learning and continuous accumulation, the kind of interspersed running that makes defensive players extremely passive, and the effect brought about by an excellent pass.

Many players are accustomed to being passive when running without the ball, that is, to find out the weak spots and weak links based on the defensive team's position. In order to ensure the team's connection and support, the most direct and effective way is to run to an area away from the defensive players.

This is one of the most common ways of running without the ball because it is simple and easy to learn.

There is another kind of active running. He doesn't worry about your defense arrangement at all, because he has only one purpose, to find your loopholes and attack your loopholes. In terms of military tactics, it is to hit the enemy. In the area that has to be defended, this will force your defensive players to dismantle and fill the gap no matter how well organized and strong the previous defense line is.

Active off-the-ball running is difficult, because it has very high requirements on the player's game ability, but if you have this kind of off-the-ball running ability, no matter how bad your skills are, you can still rely on this ability And among the ranks of first-class stars, such as AC Milan's Inzaghi.

Inzaghi's technical ability can even be described as bad, but why can he achieve today's achievements?

Many people say that Inzaghi is a spirit fox in the penalty area, and some people comment that he is a hunter who lives on the offside line. In fact, in the final analysis, he is evaluating his awareness of running without the ball.

Ye Qiu's player Huntelaar in Ajax was a very traditional finisher. Ye Qiu always believed that Huntelaar was a bit out of date, and he also possessed very good active off-ball skills. Running ability, and his stopping and basic skills are quite solid, and his shooting skills are also typical Dutch shooters, but the problem is that modern football can hardly accommodate such a classical shooter.

Raul can also be regarded as a very good star in active off-ball running, not even losing to Inzaghi at all, but what is even more commendable is that he has top-level skills and awareness. As a traditional No. [-] and a half player, Raul has adapted well to the transformation of modern tactics. He can cover the offensive area in the most difficult way for the opponent to defend. Because he has the insight of a top midfielder on the court space, he With the ball, he can make a very subtle pass.

It's as if Raúl dropped back to catch Coutinho's pass. Frankly speaking, Coutinho's pass was beautiful, but Raul received it even more beautifully because he not only received it, but also passed it out. A wonderful pass that the defensive players didn't expect at all, even Ribery himself couldn't think of it, so that Ribery himself was a bit unexpected.

But if you look carefully, you will find that Raul does not pay attention to Ribery's movement at all.

You will feel very ridiculous, right?If you don't look at it, how can you find out the running route of Ribery?And his speed?How to give such a precise pass?And it's the most uncontrollable pick pass?
This must talk about a misunderstanding that many fans have, and that is the eyes!
I still remember that when Ye Qiu heard Van Basten training Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Huntelaar, Van Basten once said that in order to become a top shooter, one must have a The basic condition is to grasp the position of the defensive player and the goalkeeper at the moment of kicking the shot, and to predict them during the period when you complete the shooting action.

But you must know that this is only a foundation, and only with this ability can you be qualified to become a top shooter.

But Van Basten also said that on this basis, all top shooters must have some other qualities, such as shooting skills and choice of footwork, which was the main force of Tottenham Hotspur last season. Center Falcao is one of the best active players.

But in Van Basten's view, the deadliest shooter has excellent footwork after possessing basic qualities, but at the same time must know how to deceive goalkeepers and defensive players.

To describe it in the simplest terms, you should use your body, eyes, posture, and movements as much as possible at the moment when you finish the shot, and you can even tell the goalkeeper that I will shoot you to the left, and then deceive the goalkeeper. and the defender, but you are actually shooting to the right, then you have succeeded!

This is actually not a secret anymore. Quite a few teams now keep telling them when they are training scorers, don’t look at the direction you want to hit the goal, but look in the opposite direction when shooting. It's all become customary.

But whether he can do well, or in other words, whether he can succeed, is the standard to measure a player's strength.

Just like Raul just now, he didn't go to see Ribery at all, but the problem is that every move of Villarreal's defenders and Ribery's every move is like a video, in Raul's mind He didn't need to look at it, he could clearly grasp everything around him, and then pass the ball.

This is the true embodiment of Raul's strength and value!

Messi was sitting in the stands of the Arenal Stadium. He watched Raul's every move on the court very clearly. This was a task that Ye Qiu had arranged for him before. Not only him, but also others players, even those on the bench.

Ye Qiu once talked with Messi. He felt that with Messi's technical skills, it was a pity to play on the side. He should play in the middle.

As a professional player, Raul's weaknesses and shortcomings are speed and physical confrontation. Messi's skills are also top-notch, and his physical confrontation ability is also quite good. His starting speed and explosive power are also outstanding, but what he lacks is Raul's This kind, the ability to control the overall situation with ease between the defense line and the midfield line.

In his previous life in Barcelona, ​​Messi played in the middle of the frontcourt, but in fact his weakness in seeing the space and looking for loopholes in the defense is also obvious, but relying on the effect and function of Barcelona's huge system, he uses the surrounding teammates to surround Messi to intersperse Running covered up this problem to the greatest extent, so it was later said that strangling Messi is equivalent to curbing Barcelona's attack.

The reason for this is that the combination of Messi and other Barcelona players is a 10+1 combination, rather than a fusion of eleven players, and now Ye Qiu hopes that Messi can get in touch with Raul more. Learn, learn some valuable experience from Raul, and then strengthen your own strength.

Not only Messi, Ribery, Neymar, Cavani, Cesc Fabregas, David Silva and others are all like this. Ye Qiu feels that if everyone in the team has Raul's With this awareness and ability, Tottenham Hotspur will be invincible.

Of course, this is pure masculinity, and it is impossible to realize it, but Ye Qiu feels that we should work hard towards this aspect.

If we say that Messi still didn't believe Ye Qiu's words before, after all, Raul has not shown any convincing performances in the past few years, but through the previous internal training and today's game, Messi believed it !

Only those who play football, especially professional football, can understand how commendable Raul's actions are!

In Ye Qiu's view, the biggest role of veterans is that they are old and experienced. Moreover, Ye Qiu has introduced veterans like Beckham and Raul who have excellent professionalism and self-discipline. Set the best example for the young players in the team and bring valuable experience to the young players.

For example, players including Alves, Marcelo, Kyle Walker, etc. are all practicing hard to pass the ball, including Franck Ribery, Messi, David Silva, etc. are all practicing free kicks. It was all influenced by Beckham. The Englishman practiced alone after the training session every day, and this wave of extra training even affected the youth team.

Because in Theobald, every once in a while, Ye Qiu transferred a few young players from the youth team to the first team for joint training. As a result, they brought this trend of the first team to the youth team, which formed a kind of Theobald has a very unique training atmosphere.

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Tottenham Hotspur played Villarreal, and Raul failed to score in the end, but he connected Tottenham Hotspur's offense very well in the frontcourt. He appeared in the frontcourt, Can create space for teammates very well, and can also pass good balls.

In the end, Tottenham defeated Villarreal 2:1 with goals from Neymar and Ramsey.

Among them, Neymar's goal came from Ribery's oblique pass, and Ramsey's goal came from Coutinho's through pass.

In this game, the performances of Tottenham Hotspur's two newly joined Brazilian teenagers were impressive. Neymar was very active in the frontcourt, and Coutinho was also very effective in passing the ball in the midfield. threat, but the two Brazilian teenagers also have deficiencies. For example, their physical fitness needs to be improved, especially their upper body strength. The fast-paced Premier League looks very thin.

After Tottenham Hotspur defeated Villarreal, Ajax also took advantage of home court advantage to beat Roma 1-0, while Tottenham Hotspur loaned Brazilian teenager Lucas at Ajax ?Moura assisted Suarez to score the winning goal in this game, which also made the Brazilian teenager famous.

In the second round of the match the next day, Tottenham faced Ajax.

Tottenham Hotspur's starting lineup for this game is just an appropriate adjustment based on the first game.

All the international players who participated in the World Cup in South Africa are still in the process of intense physical reserves and adjustments, so Ye Qiu does not plan to arrange for them to play the game now, so including Messi and others, they still have not been able to enter the squad.

Ajax's frontcourt attack combination, Hulk, Suarez and Lucas Moura kept attacking Tottenham's defense line at the beginning of the game, and quickly used Hulk Erke's header broke through Tottenham Hotspur's goal, which was another assist from Lucas Moura.

Seeing Alba being knocked to the ground by Lucas Moura, Ye Qiu, Mauro Tassotti and other coaching staff all felt a little funny. It's not that Alba is not capable enough, but that Lucas Moura The style of playing is very strange.

"I always feel that the Brazilians' playing style and their rhythm are very strange!" Ye Qiu found it difficult to understand. Perhaps this strangeness was not only reflected in casualness, because he always felt that the Brazilians played football suddenly or suddenly. If you shoot quickly, or suddenly slow you down, it always makes you a bit unable to keep up, which is a very awkward feeling.

Not only Lucas Moura, but also Coutinho, Neymar, Marcelo and Alves, and others like Robinho, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, etc. This is so, even Rivaldo and Kaka, who claim to be the most European style of play, have such a unique weirdness.

They may have some problems cooperating with European players, but they are very skillful and smooth when cooperating with European players or players from South America. Just like Lucas Moura's cross just now, it was obviously a bit slow , Suarez rushed over his head, and he hadn't passed it yet, but Hulk seemed to be waiting to receive his pass.

Perhaps, this is the result of players bred by the same culture!
In the end, Tottenham Hotspur lost 0:1 to Ajax and received their first defeat this summer.

Regarding the team's regrettable loss to Ajax, Ye Qiu feels that there is nothing to say about it. Ajax's strength is not bad, especially the attacking combination in the frontcourt. In the second half, if Ye Qiu hadn't used Nas With Tasic replacing Alba and limiting the active Lucas Moura, Tottenham will concede more goals.

There is no way around this, Lucas Moura is now holding back his strength to prove his strength to Tottenham Hotspur, hoping to enter Tottenham Hotspur's first team next summer, so the Amsterdam Invitational It became his best stage.

After Tottenham Hotspur returned to London, it soon ushered in the Community Shield match against Chelsea.

(End of this chapter)