The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 599 The Return of the King

Shakhtar Donetsk, Braga and Partizan Belgrade, these are the three opponents drawn by Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League group stage. According to the interpretation of many experts, Ye Qiu and UEFA seem to have passed honeymoon period.

The reason for saying this is because although these three teams are not very well-known powerhouses, in fact, these three teams all have good strength, and they are all powerful teams in their respective leagues.

Shakhtar Donetsk is a veteran team in the Ukrainian league. It is a frequent visitor to the Champions League group stage and even the knockout round. Everyone will be familiar with this team, and although this team does not have the strength to challenge Tottenham Tottenham, but they still have the ability to cause trouble, especially considering that UEFA, which specializes in disgusting people, arranged for Tottenham Hotspur to visit Ukraine in the ice and snow in the fourth round of the group stage in November. People freeze into popsicles.

Braga was the runner-up of the Portuguese Super League last season. From the fact that they were able to suppress Porto and enter the Champions League, it can be seen that the strength of this team is not bad, and from the past season and this season's Champions League Judging from the performance of the Portuguese Super League, Braga is also a very difficult team, because there are [-] Brazilian players in their team, which can be said to be a Brazilian team.

Partizan Belgrade is relatively weak in this group, but this Serbian team has excellent offensive power and a major weakness in defense, but has a strong home combat ability. A big test.

All in all, there are no underdogs in the Champions League group stage, and looking at the group where Tottenham Hotspur is in, the strength of the North London team is well-deserved, but Braga and Shakhtar Donetsk in the group are both With the ability to disrupt the situation, this group is also a very troublesome group.

Relatively speaking, Barcelona's luck is much better, thriving, and the other three teams are underdogs.

At the same time as the lottery was drawn, UEFA also began the awards ceremony for last season's Champions League awards. Last season's Champions League champion Manchester United became the number one winner, including goalkeeper Van der Sar, midfielder Sneijder and striker Rooney , became the best player in the position, and the best defender was given to Thiago Silva of Tottenham Hotspur.

For Tottenham Hotspur, it is more or less a consolation prize.

The most suspenseful thing was the award of the best player. In the end, UEFA President Michel Platini personally presented the award, and awarded this award to Wayne Rooney, who made great contributions to helping Manchester United win the Champions League.

This made it difficult for Messi, who was sitting in the Grimalti Conference Center in Monte Carlo, to hide his disappointment. He was also selected for this shortlist, but unfortunately, he still failed to win the award in the end. Rooney took The award is well deserved.

Last season, Manchester United was able to win the Champions League, relying on the concerted efforts of everyone in the team, so Rooney's winning the best player actually means that everyone in Manchester United won this award together, because Manchester United won the Champions League. This season, I played football with a very strong integrity.

In fact, judging from the situation in last season's Champions League, football as a whole clearly occupies an overwhelming advantage, whether it is Mourinho's Inter Milan, Ye Qiu's Tottenham Hotspur, or Ferguson's Manchester United, all Known for their integrity, their teams have a very obvious characteristic, that is, they do not rely too much on a certain player.

Although Tottenham Hotspur last season had Falcao, the European Golden Boot, and superstars like Messi, Ribery and Fabregas, the overall performance of Tottenham Hotspur has always been Relatively stable, although they were eliminated by Manchester United in the semi-finals, everyone can see that Tottenham Hotspur lost a bit unjustly.

On the other hand, another type of team, such as Real Madrid or Chelsea, the former is very dependent on Cristiano Ronaldo, while the latter is too dependent on Drogba, so these two teams Neither did well in the Champions League because everyone knows how to stop them.

To paraphrase Beckenbauer's original words, the strongest link is the weakest link.

Applied to football, your best link is also your weakest link.

So, in Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo performed very well, but behind this represents that Real Madrid is very weak, the same reason also applies to Chelsea and Didier Drogba.

According to this theory, Ye Qiu feels that balance is king, that is, it looks very balanced. There is no so-called strongest or weakest. There is no obvious difference between his strongest position and his weakest position. There is a gap in strength, the whole team has no obvious advantages and no obvious disadvantages, this is a really strong team with full combat effectiveness.

Just like Manchester United last season!

Ye Qiu was sitting next to Messi. He clearly felt Messi's unwillingness. What he could understand was that this kind of unwillingness was not because he couldn't afford to lose, but because he refused to admit defeat. Therefore, Ye Qiu admired Messi's attitude. Don't admit defeat, because this can spur Messi to continue to improve, and almost none of the outstanding players will be willing to admit defeat to others.

In Ye Qiu's view, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are like the talented, optimistic and positive Mozart in the field of music, and the passionate and cynical Beethoven. It is difficult to have an accurate standard to judge who Better, it can only be said that both players are equally good, but they belong to two different environments.

Some people say that Mozart's music has healing properties, he can turn things as hard as iron into soft fingers, Beethoven's music is full of destructive power, can make weak things become extremely strong, the former makes Man sees confidence and hope, and the latter gives courage to conquer.

The Times once described it very vividly and aptly. Cristiano Ronaldo is a personal hero. His teammates had to choose to rely on him.

Messi is an individual teamist. Although he also pursues individualism, his pursuit is not magnified like Cristiano Ronaldo. Instead, he compresses his own pursuit of individualism, integrates into the team, and helps the team To realize one's pursuit of the ideal of individualism on the basis of

Ye Qiu patted Messi on the shoulder and smiled confidently, "You will definitely have a chance to reappear on that stage!"

After hearing Ye Qiu's words, Messi also smiled slightly and didn't say anything, but his expression had already revealed the thoughts in his heart, that is, he was full of expectation and desire for this.

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After two weeks of suspension, the Premier League reignited the flames of war on September 3th. In this game at noon on the 3th, Manchester United suffered a [-]-[-] away game away to Everton at Goodison Park. A draw, but that's clearly not the point.

The point is that Manchester United conceded two goals in stoppage time at the last moment, which is absolutely unimaginable in the past, and this is not the first time Manchester United conceded a goal in stoppage time this season. The game was also tied in stoppage time, and this is the case with Everton now.

After the game, Ferguson said that this had something to do with Ferdinand's injury and the young player Evans starting, but this is obviously difficult to be convincing, after all, Evans' performance in this game is still very good.

In the final analysis, Gary Neville on the right is old. In fact, no matter whether it is playing against Fulham or Everton, the team's consecutive conceded goals are inseparable from Gary Neville's right. The defense is indeed unable to keep up with the increasingly tense rhythm of the Premier League. At the age of 35, it is difficult for him to adapt to the current competitive pressure of the Premier League.

But on the right side, Fabio and Rafael’s performance fluctuated a lot. Both O’Shea and Brown were unable to take on heavy responsibilities. Originally Ferguson wanted to introduce Maicon, but was cut off by Manchester City halfway. Now Manchester United’s right side The serious shortage of people has become Manchester United's biggest weakness.

Compared to Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur's away game against West Bromwich Albion, Ye Qiu was not affected by the pre-match media, but still adopted the team's originally planned rhythm, arranging arrangements including pulling Young players such as Musai, Phil Jones, Varane and Alba made their appearances.

With the end of the World Cup, the national teams of various countries have also launched a new round of reorganization, including players such as Kyle Walker, Phil Jones, Coutinho, Neymar and Nastasic. This makes Tottenham Hotspur select the starting lineup for this round, and Ye Qiu arranges those players who have no national team assignments, or have little playing time, and return to the team earlier, because West Bromwich Albion Chi is not Tottenham's opponent.

In fact, in the end Tottenham beat West Bromwich Albion 2-0 in the away game with the goals of Ramsey and Fabregas. In the absence, one pass and one shot helped Tottenham Hotspur get three points, and the team's league points quickly rose to fourth place.

It is worth mentioning that Manchester City drew with Blackburn 1:1 at home in this game. Joe Hart, who was very eye-catching in the first round of the league, attacked because of his confidence in less than 15 minutes. Too sloppy, resulting in a mistake in cooperation between himself and Kolo Toure, and was scored by Blackburn.

And this is not Joe Hart's first mistake. A few days ago, in the England national team's game against Switzerland, he once handled the ball at his feet and made everyone scream. This is obviously Joe Hart. Hart is dealing with the side effects of the nearly overwhelming praise he has received since the start of the season.

Falcao, who scored consecutive goals in the first three rounds, also fell into a scoring shortage in this round, and West Ham United lost 1:3 at home to Chelsea. Ancelotti's team has performed very well recently. The winning streak leads the Premier League standings.

Arsenal won Bolton 4:1, while Liverpool also beat Birmingham, the two teams were ranked second and third in the league.

In this way, after four rounds, the top four in the league are Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur.

When Ye Qiu was interviewed by The Guardian reporter Sean Ingle, regarding the start of the Premier League so far this season, he felt that this did not explain anything, because the league has just begun.

"The league is a very long journey. Only four rounds of the 38-round league have been played. The results achieved now are not convincing at all. If you want to look at the performance of a team, start from November, if you start from November From January to March next year, Chelsea and Arsenal can still maintain the current ranking, I will admit that they are the favorites to win the championship!"

Regarding Ye Qiu's remarks, many people thought it was a dead duck's mouth, but some people thought it was very reasonable.

The opponents that Chelsea have faced so far, except for West Ham United, there is no relatively strong team. Although West Ham United has many stars, they are only playing with a lineup for the time being. They are obviously affected by the national team, so they lost to Chelsea.

"As the league progresses, the back and forth between Champions League games and national team games, this is the real test for a team that wants to win the title, and for Arsenal, their performance in the first half of the game will never be convincing. , the key depends on how well they perform in the second half of the race!"

Perhaps Wenger will not admit such an evaluation, but it does not prevent everyone from viewing Arsenal in this way. Who made them lose their advantages in the second half time and time again in the past?
After finishing the fourth round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur sat at the White Hart Lane Stadium and ushered in the Portuguese Super League runner-up team Braga.

Speaking of this Portuguese Super League team, there is also a bit of relationship with Tottenham Hotspur, because the latter currently has a record that has a lot to do with Tottenham Hotspur, that is, they once In the 1984/1985 UEFA Cup round of 64 knockout rounds, they lost to Tottenham Hotspur with a total score of 0:3 in the two rounds.

Also because of this, and Ye Qiu kept some of the team's main international players in the weekend league and did not do their best, so many people speculated that Ye Qiu was trying to kill his opponents in the Champions League.

In fact, in this match, Ye Qiu really used his main lineup to play.

Tottenham Hotspur's starting lineup and tactics have been adjusted in this game. The goalkeeper is Cech, and the defense is Marcelo, Kompany, Thiago Silva and Alves. The field is a combination of David Silva, Yaya Toure and Cesc Fabregas, and the front field is the trident of Ribery, Raul and Messi.

At the beginning of the game, Tottenham Hotspur launched a round of fierce attack on the Braga team, especially the veteran Raul, who once again started in the Champions League, tried his best to win the game. Goal, as he only needs two more to match German legend Müller's European goalscoring record.

Because of this, Tottenham Hotspur have tried their best to create the conditions for Raul to score goals from the beginning of the game. Many people even feel that Ye Qiu deliberately stayed in the midweek Champions League for the purpose of In order to ensure that Raul can score.

Fabregas, who has just passed and shot in the league, was very active at the beginning of this game. He had a precise through ball in the 6th minute, tearing apart the opponent's defense , allowing Messi to quickly cut into the penalty area from the right to catch the ball, but was thrown down by the opponent's goalkeeper.

This was an undisputed penalty, and after Messi got up from the ground, he shook his head with a wry smile, grabbed the ball from the ground, and stuffed it directly into the arms of Raul who came to help him, "Fix him !come on!"

Raul was taken aback for a moment, but quickly understood what Messi meant. He is also a well-informed person. He has experienced so many things, but he would not express his touch and gratitude on his face because of such an incident. on, but he still walked over and hugged Messi's shoulders. This was already the most expressive gesture he could do to express his gratitude.

"come on!"

Tottenham Hotspur's teammates came over one after another, cheering for Raul non-stop.

The 33-year-old Raul gently put the ball on the penalty spot, slowly backed away, facing the opponent's goalkeeper, took a light step, rushed to the ball, and pushed hard with his left foot. Pushed directly to the lower left corner, the ball crashed into the net, 1:0!

The whole White Hart Lane stadium cheered for Raul's goal. This goal allowed Raul to catch up with Inzaghi's 68 goals in the European war and 69 away from Muller's European war goals. Only one step away!

As if stimulated by the goal shortly after the opening, Tottenham Hotspur began to play a series of offensive storms, especially the main stars who regrouped in the starting lineup for the first time this season. They played hearty offensive football at home, playing Braga again and again.

No.205 minutes, after David Silva retreated to get the ball, he turned and got rid of the defender, but soon used his skillful skills to sway the opponent's midfielder and went straight to the left side of the penalty area. Ribe After quickly catching up, Li shot directly and pierced Braga's goal again, 2:0!

But just 9 minutes later, Tottenham Hotspur scored the most beautiful goal of the game.

After Ribery attracted the attention of two defensive players near the left corner of the front of the penalty area, he insisted on relying on his excellent dribbling ability to pick a pass in the middle. Raul gave the header to Cesc Fabregas at the front of the penalty area, Spain The non-stop ball was directly stuffed to Messi on the right rib, and Messi crossed to Raul who inserted into the penalty area from the center.

The most beautiful scene appeared. Raul was sprinting forward at high speed, facing Messi's pass, he was a little unexpected, and quickly knocked back to Messi. At this time, Messi obviously thought that Raul would get up by himself. Because his kick was obviously to give Raul a chance to kick, so he did not expect Raul's counter-kick.

Facing the sudden return pass, Messi stopped the ball a bit messy, but he quickly used his outstanding ball sense to control the ball under his feet, like a top, and after turning around the players behind him, he turned his back to the ball. Hitting the goal, the heel of his right foot knocked the ball in front of Raul, and when the Spaniard rushed forward, he happened to face the goal directly, forming a one-handed fight!

With Raul's strength, of course he would not miss such an opportunity, he directly pushed the ball into the bottom of the net, 3:0!

All the fans at White Hart Lane rushed out of their seats, but they were not only equaling Müller's legendary European goal scoring record for Raul, but also Messi's exquisite heel assist this time , even Ye Qiu on the sidelines applauded vigorously, not only for Raul who staged the return of the king, but also for the incomparable Messi!
(End of this chapter)