The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 783 The Silent Leader

Tottenham Hotspur traveled to three cities in China and played four warm-up matches. Although Tottenham Hotspur was seriously not in the best condition, especially some international players who participated in the Confederations Cup, their performance was even more sluggish. , but still relying on their own strong strength advantages, they defeated their opponents and won four consecutive victories.

In the four warm-up matches, they beat the Guangzhou team 1:0, the Shanghai team 3:1, the BJ team 2:0, and the national team 4:1. The last two games were held in BJ. On the day when the national team played the game, the team was also received by the Prime Minister. This is the first time that all European giants have enjoyed such an honor in China.

But the reaction of many Chinese fans to this is not too surprising. After all, in the eyes of many people, this team seems to be China's own team. In the past few years, domestic fans have basically supported Thomas. Turnham Hotspur.

After the mighty trip to China, Tottenham Hotspur went to Qatar and played a warm-up match with the Qatar national team. As a result, the two sides drew 1:1, which caused a carnival in Qatar. After all, this is the world football The top giants team feel extremely honored to be able to draw with such a team.

For Tottenham Hotspur, the opponents on the court are far less threatening than the climate here, especially the astonishingly high temperature weather, which made them all very uncomfortable, so after playing a warm-up match, hurriedly Busy back to Europe.

After returning to Theobald, the first thing Tottenham Hotspur did was to rest and summarize.

It is mainly aimed at the performance of Tottenham Hotspur and some problems discovered by the team during the Asian tour.

During this trip to Asia, Tottenham Hotspur were most satisfied with two players, Lewandowski on the forward line, this player took on the role of the team's arrow very well, Although in many details, it still shows that the cooperation between him and his teammates is not tacit enough, but there is no doubt that he played quite well.

Another eye-catching performance is Matic, the main defensive midfielder of Southampton last season, after switching to Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu arranged for him to start in the first game against the Guangzhou team, and played full The whole first half, and indeed, it was his excellence that made Tottenham's first half look solid.

Lippi, the head coach of the Guangzhou team, was full of praise when he mentioned this player to Ye Qiu after the game, thinking that he really has the strength and qualifications to play the leading role in Tottenham Hotspur, but Lippi also mentioned that Matic Still young, you can continue to sculpt and improve.

As for Strowman, he also participated in all five warm-up matches, two of which were against midfielders and three against central midfielders. His performance was also very good, which proved his own strength, but also showed that the coach The contradiction between the group and him is exactly where he should appear.

Mitrovic had two opportunities to come off the bench, but failed to score. The Serbian center forward, like his compatriot Nastasic, is the future star of Tottenham Hotspur. Does not have the main force.

But the busiest thing for the coaching staff is not to evaluate the performance of the players. After all, this is pre-season training. Their most important job is to start adjusting some players in the team's tactical system according to the problems exposed in the training camp and warm-up matches. The role in it, such as the running route and cooperation between Messi and Lewandowski and Ribery and another winger.

For this, Ye Qiu has to admire Mauro Tassotti, this kind of typical Italian head coach, they can often make tactics so detailed that you find it cumbersome, and as long as you look at Mauro Tassotti I am afraid that most of the tactical notes written in the past few years will become dizzy and unable to read them after reading the beginning.

Now many media and fans are admiring Tottenham Hotspur's wave-style offensive and defensive system, but they don't understand what the real core of the wave-style offensive and defensive system is. They can only see some superficial things, such as How players stand, how to help defend, how to run, how to run, how to pass the ball and so on.

These have to be interested in fans who love tactics, or reporters and media who write football tactical analysis, but Tottenham Hotspur's entire tactical system is not just these, it even goes deeper and further refines .

For example, Tottenham Hotspur's wave attack, many people admire the second and third waves of attack, but they did not notice that Tottenham Hotspur's rehearsed methods and routines for launching the second attack There are more than a dozen types, but in the game, it is very likely that none of them will be used, and the players will adopt a brand new routine on the spot.

Perhaps seeing this, someone will ask, if this is the case, why do you need to practice these routines?

This is the problem, because if these routines have not been practiced to the point where they are at their fingertips, how can the players perform on the spot?

Do you really think that Messi can play well by throwing him in a brand new team that has never practiced together?
Italian coaches have always done a good job in tactical refinement, so we can see that Serie A teams, even the weakest teams, are often well organized defensively and tactically, but Italian football The team has a fatal spot, and that is the winger!
Sometimes Ye Qiu even wondered if the decline of Italian football had anything to do with the rise of wingers?

Throughout the history of Italian football over the past 100 years, their wings have never been strong, even in the era of Herrera's chain defense, Sacchi's Milan dynasty, or Juventus at the turn of the century, or In the later period of Inter Milan, their style of play tended to tend to be in the middle.

So, interestingly, Italy is rich in central defenders, central midfielders and center forwards, but not in wingers.

Compared with offensive players on the wing, defensive players are still relatively good. After all, Italian defense attaches great importance to the wing, but even Donadoni, who is known as the best winger in the history of Italian football, is actually more like a An imaginary central player, not a pure wide attacking player.

So now there is a saying in European football that it is easiest to play against Serie A teams, just hit the side and crush them to death!

The influence of Italian football's subtle influence over the past years has made Italian tactics seem to be becoming more and more conservative, losing a kind of vitality, but at the same time they have gradually tied themselves up.

I have to say that the performance of Prandelli's Italian national team in the European Cup is really amazing, especially the routine of using Pirlo to attack diagonally, which makes up for the lack of Italian wing attacking players. defect.

When Mauro Tassotti first came to Tottenham Hotspur, he was very uncomfortable with Ye Qiu's style of play as a winger from the Netherlands. This is also the weakness of all Italian coaches. They can't use it well. winger.

The bad use mentioned here does not mean that they are used badly, but that they cannot play the biggest threat of winger tactics and play the most powerful offensive power of wingers in their hands, because this is the same as what they have insisted on in the past few decades. Something is inconsistent.

However, during the seven years at Tottenham Hotspur, Mauro Tassotti has been immersed in this whole set of Total Attack and Total Defense concepts and winger tactics from the Netherlands, and he and Ye Qiu have been involved in the past few years. During the year, the Italian defensive concept, the Dutch offensive and defensive concept, and the traditional characteristics of English football were effectively combined.

This is the birth of Tottenham Hotspur's wave-like offensive and defensive system!
There is also a very important tactical concept that must be clear, football tactics are relative.

I still remember that Sacchi once said that when a player can play a role in the defensive system, he can play the same role in the offensive system, and vice versa.

Many people don't understand and think this is nonsense, but is it really nonsense?

Some players who seem to have no offensive ability, is he really no offensive threat?
If there really isn't one, then let me ask you, the opponent held the ball to attack and he successfully intercepted the ball. While destroying the opponent's offensive threat, it is actually precisely when our offensive threat is the greatest.

This is because football tactics, offense and defense have been integrated.

Therefore, for Tottenham Hotspur, it is not a problem to exchange Pirlo for Matic. On the surface, Pirlo's offensive and organizational skills are much stronger than Matic, but in fact, it is really important to put it here. In a set of tactics, as long as they are run and coordinated well, there is really not much difference between the two.

But Matic's age and movement, that's an advantage in itself, isn't it?
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After Tottenham Hotspur returned to London, they still focused more on solving the problems encountered during the team's warm-up match. After entering August, the team went to Southampton to play a warm-up match. The 2:2 game ended in a draw, and Tottenham still equalized in the second half.

In this game, Ye Qiu still arranged the main lineup of last season to start. The three players in the midfield were Pogba's partner Pirlo and Vidal who performed well in the warm-up match. There was one goal, but Southampton scored two goals, one of which was caused by Pirlo's dribbling.

In this game, Adrianse specially arranged for Coutinho to stare at Pirlo. The Brazilian performed well and helped Southampton get a 2:1 lead in the first half with two assists.

Ye Qiu made adjustments in the second half, Matic replaced Pirlo, Ramsey replaced Pogba, Tottenham Hotspur's midfield has changed, the midfield has been stabilized, and the ball is much smoother , but the offense still hasn't made much progress.

After that, Ye Qiu replaced Hazard, Neymar, Drogba and others successively to further strengthen the offensive. In the end, relying on Neymar's goal, the score was equalized, 2:2, the two sides drew, but in the end In more than 20 minutes, Tottenham Hotspur had the advantage, but failed to score.

Regarding this situation, Ye Qiu also shook his head. On the one hand, it is not difficult to understand because the team has just passed the training period and their performance is average. Another point is that Southampton's strength has improved a lot this season.

The joining of Nkuru and Lovren immediately became the team's main central defender. Although Matic left the midfielder, Sandro joined Southampton, plus the original Nick Powell, Will? With the presence of Hughes, Lallana, Lucas Moura and Coutinho, Southampton's strength has improved significantly.

But what caught Ye Qiu's eyes the most was the Italian center Immobile, who scored twice and was elected the best player of the game. This Italian center played as the single arrow in Southampton, who played offensive football, and there was a library behind him. Tinho, Lallana and Lucas Moura passed the ball and immediately showed his efficient side, and he was very comprehensive.

"As long as Southampton's lineup is well integrated, it is estimated that this season can compete for the Champions League!" Mauro Tassotti is still very optimistic about Southampton's strength. It's huge, but in fact the quality of the personnel is very good, and the integrity is very strong, so as long as Adriance is trained, there is still hope for the Champions League.

Ye Qiu understood what Mauro Tassotti meant, that Adrianse was no longer suitable for Southampton.

This is not crossing rivers and tearing down bridges, but the truth!

In the past few years, Adriance has laid a solid foundation for Southampton's continental tactical system, but now after several years of accumulation, the team has begun to look forward to a reality, that is, to go out of the Premier League and enter European competitions At this time, if Adrianse can follow the progress of the team well, then he can continue to stay, otherwise, he will be left behind by Southampton like Mancini.

Mancini's biggest problem is that his improvement rate is far behind the team's improvement rate.

"How are you thinking?" Mauro Tassotti asked with a smile.

Ye Qiu shrugged, "I have no choice, I must continue to use Pirlo at the beginning of the season!"

In fact, with Matic, Ye Qiu feels that the Serbian is fully capable of replacing Pirlo, but the problem is not in the technical and tactical level, but in the locker room and the fans.

Unexpectedly, he won Pirlo directly without saying a word, which is obviously not acceptable to Pirlo, even if he promised to accept rotation when renewing the contract, but the problem is that you have to give him a chance to perform first, and the players in the locker room, you Taking Pirlo without giving him any chance for no reason will chill the hearts of the players.

As a manager, the biggest taboo is to cool the hearts of subordinates.

Therefore, many times when fans watch some European teams, it is obvious that a certain player is performing badly, but he plays in every game. They will think that there must be a problem. In fact, everyone knows that there is a problem, but the head coach It may be necessary to arrange for this player to play for various reasons.

It's like Pirlo, the core soul of the team's peak in the past two years, can he just win it?

Therefore, Ye Qiu must continue to use him. When he is used, other people in the locker room start to have a voice, and they all start to feel that Pirlo is indeed old. The media and fans also start to feel that the team should make adjustments. , then Ye Qiu stood up again at this time, and with a big wave of his hand, he took down Pirlo, and it seemed logical.

Sometimes Ye Qiu can't bear it, but professional football is so cruel, you are old, you can't run anymore, you start to go downhill, then you are destined to be abandoned sooner or later, so Zidane is very proud. It is undoubtedly a very wise choice to abandon others before being abandoned by others.

And Ye Qiu believes that Pirlo is a smart person, he understands all this, but he still has something to pursue in his heart, that is the World Cup, otherwise, he probably would have dumped Tottenham Hotspur this summer.

"As I said, I'm paving the way for you this season!" Ye Qiu said with a smile.

In fact, this is what the media has been worrying about all the time, that is, Pirlo's succession issue has not been done well, and Tottenham Hotspur has formed internal friction, just like Harvey in Barcelona. Everyone knows that he should be taken down. At the very least, they should be on the bench, but no matter who is replaced by Barcelona as the head coach, they still have to continue to use Harvey.

Sometimes it's not because Harvey wants to be a ball bully, because his idea is very simple, just keep playing, but it's not because the head coach and management are too weak, but because this is a management method.

Mauro Tassotti just smiled, because in his opinion, this season is more of a transitional nature, and according to the agreement between the team and Pirlo, after the contract expires next summer, he will not renew. Covenant, so this issue will be well resolved, and will not be left for next season anyway.

At this point, the attitude of Tottenham Hotspur's management is still very clear, that is, not to make internal conflicts public, because this will lead to a breakdown of the team's internal unity.

Regarding the team's failure to beat Southampton in the away game, Ye Qiu defended Pirlo in an interview with the media after the game, thinking that Pirlo mainly participated in the Confederations Cup, which caused him to be physically tired now, "I believe that in the new season Before coming, he will be able to adjust to the best condition, because he is still a vital member of the team."

As for some opinions from the outside world that Ye Qiu will abolish Pirlo's main position in the new season, Ye Qiu also denied it, "I want to say that Pirlo is very important to Tottenham Hotspur, not only On the football field, he looks like the silent leader of the team!"

There is no doubt about this. Pirlo has been the core of the team for the past two seasons. His prestige in the team is not lost to Messi and others. After all, Messi has never been a very authoritative person .

"But I believe everyone can understand, including Pirlo, we have to prepare for the future. Matic and Stroman are our preparations for the future. I think their arrival can share Pirlo's burden very well. The midfield burden of Tottenham Hotspur, and they will carry the banner of Tottenham Hotspur's midfield in the future."

Pirlo also said in an interview that he can still contribute to Tottenham Hotspur.

"A lot of people remind me of my age, but I don't think age can be an obstacle for me to continue playing football. I feel that my current state is improving. The head coach also told me that he still trusts me very much, so what do I do now? I don’t even think about it, I just want to adjust my state and repay the trust of the team and the head coach!”

(End of this chapter)