The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 612 The Responsibility of the Midfielder

"Beep!!!!"

When Shakhtar Donetsk was about to launch a quick counterattack, the core midfielder in the team, the Brazilian player William suddenly kicked the ball out of bounds, and the referee Massimo Busacca also blew the whistle immediately After the whistle sounded, he quickly ran towards the goal of Shakhtar Donetsk.

On the right side of Shakhtar Donetsk's top area of ​​​​the penalty area, Tottenham Hotspur's starting striker is seen. The game is very good, and the Spanish striker Raul, who scored a goal, is lying on the ground , and the surrounding Tottenham Hotspur players rushed up quickly, but there was no conflict with the Shakhtar Donetsk players.

Soon, I saw Massimo Busacca walking over to understand the situation, and Shakhtar Donetsk's main defender Rakitsky was explaining to the head coach. He kept saying that he and Raul were just He bumped into each other during a summit fight, and he didn't make any extra moves.

At this time, the score on the field was 1:2. According to international practice, the home team is at the front and the visiting team is at the back. With the goals of Raul and Eriksson, Tottenham Hotspur temporarily took the lead.

"Hurry up and take a look!" After Ye Qiu saw the referee Massimo Busacca's gesture, he immediately asked the team doctor to rush up to understand the situation, but at the same time, he turned his head sideways and glanced at the bench. , "Let Coutinho hurry up and warm up!"

The last sentence was obviously explaining to Fatty Luo. It was a precautionary measure. After all, he didn't know what Raul's situation was like. The only thing that was certain was that he had a bad premonition.

Sure enough, soon, the team doctor made a gesture towards the sidelines, signaling to lift Raul out of the field, and the referee allowed it.

With Raul's appearance, the game was quickly restarted, and Tottenham was temporarily in a one-man game.

"How is it?" Ye Qiu walked to the sidelines and asked with concern.

Raul, who was already sitting on the grass, shook his head and smiled wryly at Ye Qiu who came over, "I bent my leg when I landed, and it hurt!"

This reassured Ye Qiu a little, and then looked at the team doctor who was checking the injury, and the latter nodded at Ye Qiu: "It's not a big problem, but I need to rest, hurry up and get on the bench!"

Ye Qiu nodded, and patted Raul on the shoulder, "It's okay, have a good rest!" After speaking, Ye Qiu turned around and walked back to the coach command area, but at this moment, the entire Donbas Arena Suddenly there was a burst of thunderous cheers, and Eduardo da Silva, who had just switched from Arsenal this season, rushed out of Tottenham Hotspur's penalty area and kept waving his arms , celebrating his goal.

On the red scoreboard, the number representing the number of goals scored by the home team also quickly changed from the number 1 to 2. Shakhtar Donekets equalized the score, which made many Tottenham players feel angry. But very helpless.

"What should we do now?" Roland Shepas was a little depressed, a little unwilling, and even a little angry. He was too unkind. He injured his player and took it to the sidelines to rest. It's too shameless!

"Mauro, what do you think?" Ye Qiu looked at Mauro Tassotti, who didn't seem too nervous or anxious.

For Tottenham Hotspur in this game, the question of whether to win or not is really not a big problem, because there will be another home game next, as long as Tottenham Hotspur wins this home game, they will be firmly ranked first in the group. No. [-] status, so it really doesn't matter whether you win this game or not.

Of course, Mauro Tassotti could see that Ye Qiu was testing him on purpose, so he smiled and said, "Needless to say, although the morale of the Donetsk miners is high right now, we are going to do it where his morale is the highest." Time to completely defeat them, so that they can be convinced, isn't it?"

"Well said!" Ye Qiu praised, "Let Coutinho come here quickly!"

Soon, the Brazilian midfielder came to Ye Qiu's side, and was almost pulled by Ye Qiu, "After you go up, don't play the midfielder, play on the left, let Neymar go up and play forward, I want Goal again, kill Shakhtar Donetsk, understand?"

"Understood, head!" Coutinho nodded heavily in agreement.

"Go!" Ye Qiu patted Coutinho on the shoulder, telling him to go to the fourth official's side to go through the formalities for playing.

Taking advantage of Shakhtar Donetsk's equalizer, Coutinho also completed the handover and the game was quickly restarted.

Shakhtar Donetsk can become the veritable number one team in the Ukrainian Super League since the new century. This has a lot to do with the fact that this team has many high-level foreign aid from Brazil and other countries, but in the final analysis it is because of Shakhtar Donetsk. The Romanian head coach of Shakhtar, Mircea Lucescu.

Frankly speaking, if you want to find news about this head coach from the newspapers, you will find that there is very little, very little, but in Ye Qiu's view, Lucescu belongs to the kind that is ignored by the media A person of the famous coach level, the performance of the Shakhtar Donetsk team he led in the past few years in the European arena is enough to prove this point.

Lucescu is a professional player. After retiring, he coached in Romania. After winning the league championship, he landed in Serie A, but his performance was very bad. Almost all ended in short-term coaching. He has coached Brescia twice. Having coached at teams such as Pisa, Reggina and Inter Milan, he is most famous for promoting Pirlo.

As early as the Brescia period, Pirlo was valued by Lucescu, and then Lucescu went to Inter Milan, and then brought Pirlo to Inter Milan, but Lucescu didn't stay in Inter Milan for too long. As a result, Pirlo and Inter Milan missed out, and then Lucescu successively coached teams such as Galatasaray and Besiktas in Turkey, and both achieved quite good coaching results.

In 2004, he began to coach Shakhtar Donetsk, and then in the 04/05, 05/06, 07/08 and 09/10 seasons, in just six years, he won four Ukrainian Super League titles. The championship trophy, and in the 08/09 season, Shakhtar Donetsk also won the Europa League championship, which is a remarkable achievement.

In 2009, there was such a news that the Romanian Football Association originally hoped to hire Mircea Lucescu as the head coach of the national team, but Lucescu rejected the invitation. As a result, the Football Association invited It was also a big joke at the time to appoint his son as the head coach of the national team to replace his own father.

Perhaps because he had nearly ten years of experience in Serie A, Lucescu's coaching style pays great attention to the rigor of the tactical system and also attaches great importance to defense. This is also seen as Shakhtar Donetsk's past few years. An important reason for the excellent results this season.

And this team is also very rich and powerful, and there are many well-known stars in the team, such as the right back captain Srna, this is not just an old monster in FM football managers, but also well-known in European football Yes, Manchester United once wanted to introduce him to fill the gap on the right, but Srna's salary in Shakhtar Donetsk was too high, and he was unwilling to cut salary, and the tax here was low, so he rejected Manchester United's transfer invitation .

In addition, Douglas Costa, the famous little monster in Brazil, as well as Brazilian midfielder William, and Croatian striker Eduardo Da Silva, who played for Arsenal before and switched to Shakhtar Donetsk after breaking his leg.

From this series of player lists, it can be easily seen that Shakhtar Donetsk is not a team without strength, especially in their home stadium, the Donbass Arena, the team's Champions League. The home record is very good, which makes this team very confident and tenacious to play in their own home.

The temperature in Donetsk in November this year is not low, even similar to London in England. Even at night, the outside temperature is about four or five degrees, and the temperature inside the stadium will be slightly higher, so the weather It cannot be an obstacle for Tottenham Hotspur.

In addition, Shakhtar Donetsk's Donbass Arena also uses mixed turf. This kind of mixed turf is to implant the fiber network into the soil two centimeters, and then plant turf on it. After the grass grows, the roots will follow the fibers. Mix them together, and mix and implant about 3% polyethylene leaves on the grass cotton, so this kind of turf is softer, tougher, and more permeable.

According to the characteristics of players playing football, the friction of the ball on this type of mixed turf is smaller, the speed is faster, and the bottoming is better. It has been promoted throughout the Premier League, and even Wembley Stadium will The front has also been replaced with mixed turf.

Therefore, the most troublesome weather and venue in Ukraine in this game are not a problem.

If they really lose, Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur will have no excuses, they can only say that their skills are not as good as theirs.

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Many people say that Tottenham Hotspur seem to advocate individual play and have a lot of tactical freedom.

Ramsey has always been amused by this, because when Ye Qiu came to this team, he had already come to North London from Cardiff, from the Chigwell training base back then to Theobald now At the training base, he has witnessed the growth and progress of Tottenham Hotspur along the way.

Contrary to what everyone thinks, Ye Qiu has been emphasizing responsibility all along.

I still remember that when Ye Qiu came to Tottenham Hotspur from Cardiff, when he talked about his tactical thinking in the team, he once said such a sentence, "No one can play football as he wants in my tactics. !"

These words may sound domineering and awe-inspiring, and give people a very domineering and strong desire to control, which is completely a kind of dictatorship, but it is this kind of thinking that has created the current Tottenham Hotspur.

Yes, no one can play football as he wants, and everyone must place a prerequisite in front of expressing himself, that is, how to better help the team.

"When you play behind a striker, your most important role is of course to help the striker in front, but you also have to help the team win the game, so you have to control the distance between the midfield and the striker line. , otherwise they will lose contact."

"But as a player behind the striker, you are also in front of the defender. You provide help for the striker and you must provide protection for the defender, so you must press the opponent when the team does not have the ball. You must It is the responsibility of a midfielder to learn how to protect the line of defense behind him!"

This is what Ye Qiu said to Ramsey at the beginning. He has always emphasized that the team is a whole from front to back, an indivisible whole. People slaughter, so this requires mutual help, the players in front provide protection for the players behind, and the players behind provide support for the players in front.

Before you know it, Ramsey will be 20 years old soon, and it has been four years since he came to Tottenham Hotspur. In the past four years, he has been cultivated by the Tottenham Hotspur coaching staff , and has long been familiar with the entire offensive and defensive system of Tottenham Hotspur. He is working hard to let himself learn how to help the players in front to attack while protecting the teammates behind him.

This is his responsibility!

Every time he's on the court, he runs a lot of range, he's been working hard all the time, but he's always had a lot of ups and downs, and sometimes when he thinks he can be good and good, he's a mess. , but sometimes he surprised himself when he was completely unaware that he could perform well.

He felt very depressed about this. He once asked Messi and Ribery why they could maintain a very good state for a long time. The two teammates did not hide him and told him a lot of experience and lessons, but he Still not much improvement.

Until not long ago, during a training session, Ramsey heard the team's consultant Bobby Harms, a youth training expert who had trained superstars such as Cruyff and Van Basten, he Tell Ramsey, don't think too much, and don't keep thinking about how to express yourself, do your job well, and slowly learn how to help the team better, that's enough.

Ramsey began to follow what Bobby Hames said, and his performance began to improve. In the League Cup, he played against Arsenal and Newcastle. Pretty good.

In this fourth round match of the Champions League group, although many people think that it doesn't matter if Tottenham Hotspur can't win, Ramsey knows that all Tottenham Hotspur players and fans hope to win .

How to take it down?
Ramsey doesn't have many thoughts in his mind, because he has never been a player who can dominate the situation on the field, and he is not a controlling player who can become the core of the team, so he can only do what he is best at. , don't think about everything else, and try to use your strength to fulfill your responsibilities.

When Neymar held the ball in the frontcourt and was forced into a little embarrassment by the opponent's defender, Ramsey appeared in front of him. The Brazilian immediately knocked back to Ramsey, and Shakhtar Donetsk's center The field was quickly covered by Ramsey, and the Welshman quickly knocked back to the back line and handed it over to Alba.

The Spaniard hit Cech back, the Czech took the ball, Eduardo da Silva wanted to interfere with the goalkeeper, Cech passed it to Alba again, and Alba had already run back to his own half when he passed it again Come catch Ramsey.

Tottenham Hotspur are used to Ramsey's wide range of running back and forth. The Welshman's running ability is well-known in the Tottenham Hotspur team, and he is also very hardworking. .

Ramsey took the ball with his back to the attacking direction, was pressed, knocked back again, and passed it directly back to Cech.

The Czech didn't wait for the ball to stop at his feet, as Eduardo da Silva was watching from the sidelines, so he passed the ball straight to Thiago Silva, and the Tottenham captain clearly felt that At this time, some changes should be made, so I simply moved forward with the ball.

With Thiago Silva's dribbling forward, Tottenham Hotspur's midfielder has an extra player. Shakhtar Donetsk's defense is a bit messy. I don't know how to defend. Turnham Hotspur felt the pressure was much relieved.

Soon, Alba also came up, Tottenham Hotspur began to have their own stable possession of the ball in the front of the opponent's 30-meter area, passing back and forth a few times, Ramsey also participated in one of them, but nothing substantial The effect is more of a transition, but it ensures the stability of Tottenham Hotspur's frontal possession of the ball in the 30-meter area.

Gradually, Ramsey had a feeling that the left side of the team was active. Coutinho and Neymar both began to lean towards this side consciously. Shakhtar Donetsk's right back Srna and central defender La Sometimes the distance between Kitskis will be very large, and Neymar also saw this and began to cruise on this side consciously.

Could this be an opportunity?

Ramsey thinks it is possible, but he feels that even if it is not an opportunity, at least it should be able to disrupt the opponent's penalty area.

So Ramsey also consciously responded to this side.

Alba once passed the ball to Coutinho on the left. The Brazilian took the ball on the left. He was very skilled in dribbling and had a very good sense of the ball. This made Ramsey very envious, and he quickly took advantage of it. With my own foot skills, I found a gap in Srna's body, and went straight to find Neymar in the rib.

Sure enough, at this moment, Ramsey saw very clearly that Coutinho and Neymar were going to hit each other's ribs, and it was impossible for him to participate in it at this time, but he could support his teammates. That is, when Neymar has no chance, he will choose to pass the ball.

Neymar received a through ball from Coutinho and faced Rakicki in the penalty area. He made a false move to go to the bottom, but he failed to pass Rakicki. This young Ukrainian central defender is also very capable. Excellent, known as Ukraine's best central defender after Ziglinski, and is not tall, but very flexible.

Seeing that he couldn't get rid of Rakicki, after an emergency stop, Neymar switched the ball from his left foot to his right foot. Before the defensive player double-teamed, Neymar made a cross pass to the position a little bit from the penalty area line.

I saw that Ramsey, who originally wanted to run to meet Neymar's pass, appeared in this loophole just right, and there were no defensive players around. Facing Neymar's gentle and steady push, he had almost nothing to do. Without the slightest hesitation, he raised his right foot and volleyed directly.

At this moment, he remembered Bobby Harms' words, do your job well, and slowly learn how to help the team better!
Turns out, when you do that, goals and great performances follow!

(End of this chapter)