The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 785

Tottenham Hotspur defeated this season's number one opponent, Liverpool, in the Community Shield 2:0, which also made the British media both gratified and helpless.

It is gratifying because, in the past few seasons, Tottenham Hotspur has always been the benchmark of the Premier League. Tottenham Hotspur continue to perform at such a high level, which also means that they are very hopeful in the Premier League. Continued to perform well in the Champions League this season, and even continued to perform at the highest level in the Premier League.

Helpless is because the stronger Tottenham Hotspur, the less suspenseful the Premier League championship will be.

Some people say that the Premier League has begun to enter the era of oligarchs, and Tottenham Hotspur is the first oligarch to emerge, because he has completed five consecutive Premier League titles in the past five seasons, while Liverpool, Manchester City and other teams At any moment there is a possibility of a second and third oligarch.

But Wenger doesn't see it that way. Arsenal in the new season can be described as ambitious, but the time has entered August, and they claim to have 7000 million pounds in their hands. The team did not spend a penny of the 7000 million pounds.

Wenger watched the matchup at Wembley Stadium live. He pointed out in an interview with the media after the game, "Tottenham Hotspur's victory will cover up many problems, such as Pirlo's aging. No media will notice this after the game!"

In fact, Wenger was right. After the game, almost all the media praised Tottenham Hotspur, and even praised Pirlo, but they ignored a very important point. , That is the state shown by Pirlo, which has indeed declined a lot compared to the previous two seasons.

Of course, this can also be explained because he participated in the Confederations Cup in the summer.

When Ye Qiu heard what Wenger said about Pirlo, he immediately refuted, "We should have more expectations and patience for him. There is no doubt that he is 34 years old, and we cannot do it again." It requires him to run unscrupulously like a young man, but I believe that he can do more things that young people can't do, such as his passing."

Ye Qiu also revealed that Tottenham Hotspur have been making physical adjustments for Pirlo since he returned to the team to help him better adjust to his state, but Ye Qiu also emphasized again that because the team will continue to have more Line combat, so the rotation of Pirlo and even the entire midfield is imperative.

This also reflects Ye Qiu's attitude towards the renewal of the midfield. Pirlo is off, Matic and Strotter are on. This is an inevitable result, but this process should not be too fast or too hasty.

After this game, many media also made predictions about the new season's Premier League championship, thinking that Tottenham Hotspur is still the favorite to win the championship, but the advantage is not as big as the previous two seasons, but considering this will This is Ye Qiu's last season as coach, and the possibility of winning the championship is still very high.

"In the past two decades, when talking about English football, you will definitely talk about the Red Devils Manchester United. When talking about Manchester United, you will inevitably talk about Ferguson. In the past 20 years, Ferguson seems to have become synonymous with English football."

"But Ferguson has retired, and the halo hanging over Manchester United seems to be dimmed, but football has never lacked influential heroes and legends, so Ye Qiu and his Tottenham Hotspur turned out to be the Premier League. A record of five consecutive championships and two successful defenses of the Champions League in six years, this report card is enough to make Tottenham Hotspur a synonym for the Premier League in the new century!"

"In the past few years, everyone has said that the Premier League has entered the era of Tottenham Hotspur, but we think there is a threshold that Tottenham Hotspur needs to cross in order to do this, and that is Leaf. Autumn!"

"Everyone thinks that Mauro Tassotti will be Ye Qiu's natural successor. This kind of boot room culture has had successful precedents in Liverpool, Ajax and other teams, and there is no one else. He is more familiar with and understands Tottenham Hotspur than Mauro Tassotti, and Ye Qiu has been consciously cultivating Mauro Tassotti to succeed him in the past few years."

"But we all know that Tottenham Hotspur have left a very deep imprint of Ye Qiu on their body and soul."

"This is Ye Qiu's last season, but it's Mourinho's second season back in the Premier League, Pellegrini's first season in the Premier League, Moyes' first season in the giants... "

"Maybe, after many years, looking back, we will find the legend of this season!"

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With the overwhelming publicity in the media and the anticipation of countless fans all over the world, the new season of the Premier League finally kicked off slowly. As the opening match, Liverpool won 1-0 at home with Sturridge's goal. Beat Stoke City.

Benitez's team has just suffered a defeat in the Community Shield, so in this game, Fatty Bei focuses on stability. After all, the start of the league does not seek to enter the state prematurely, but to enter the rhythm of the league steadily.

But it was claimed to have 7000 million pounds, but it was later raised to 8000 million pounds. But so far, Arsenal, which has not spent a penny for more than two months, encountered a shameful humiliation at the Emirates Stadium in the first round of the league. 1: 3 defeat at the hands of Aston Villa, Belgian center Benteke scored twice.

Belgium is indeed a strange country. It is mixed between Germany and France. After crossing the English Channel, it faces the United Kingdom, and next to it is the Netherlands. Whether it is Germany, France, the United Kingdom or the Netherlands, they all have very Visible and clear national culture and identity.

But Belgium has always given the impression that it is soy sauce, but the headquarters of the European Union is located in Belgium.

In fact, Belgium is a bit like a low-key prince in Europe. Their culture was once brilliant, but it was an outbreak after a long period of precipitation and accumulation, and then fell silent again after the outbreak.

The same is true of Belgian football. They were once the European Red Devils, but in the past period of time, they did not have too impressive stars, but the football of this country is just like their culture, low-key, restrained, after After the accumulation and precipitation of the past few decades, Belgian football began to usher in an explosion.

Today's Belgian football talents are emerging in large numbers. Tottenham Hotspur has two stars Kompany and Hazard. The youth team has Andreas Pereira, Januzaj and Yuri Lai. Dimans three teenagers, plus Courtois on loan, Tottenham Hotspur has a large number of Belgian players.

This also has a certain relationship with Tottenham Hotspur's early attention to Belgium. Anderlecht is currently Tottenham Hotspur's partner, and this team is searching for young talents in Belgium to provide European football. The five major leagues provide an endless supply of talents.

Like Lukaku, Benteke, Dembele, Witsel, Fellaini, Vermaelen... The surge of talents in Belgium is bound to make the European Red Devils make a comeback again, and there is even hope for a big fight.

This time, it was Belgian center Benteke who killed Arsenal!

After the game, Wenger and Arsenal issued a purchase request to Aston Villa based on the positive attitude of "If I can't beat you, I will dig you to death", but Aston Villa has a clear price tag, which is not 3000 million pounds. Just don't knock on the door.

This frightened Arsenal's half-stretched hand, and quickly retracted it.

But it’s no wonder that Witsel switched from Benfica to Zenit for a transfer fee of 4000 million euros, and he also transferred from the Portuguese Super League to Russia. As a player like Benteke who has proven himself in the Premier League, the transfer fee is too low , It is indeed a bit unreasonable, and the center is only 22 years old.

When Arsenal was hesitating whether to get Benteke, Tottenham Hotspur's first round of the league was an away game against the south London team Crystal Palace. As a result, this time Tottenham Hotspur beat Crystal Palace 5-0 away , Laid a very solid foundation for the start of the new season.

In this game that took place at Selhurst Stadium, the veteran Pirlo, who was sworn by the media before the game, was about to be relegated to the sidelines, and the team's new aid Lewandowski became the team's absolute main character.

Crystal Palace played at home. In the first half an hour, Crystal Palace used its tenacity and pressing oppression to cause a lot of trouble for Tottenham Hotspur. But at the critical moment, Pirlo made a subtle pass, and Lewandowski After taking the ball in the penalty area and turning around, he hit the goal in one go, opening the scoring for Tottenham Hotspur.

And just 2 minutes later, it was Pirlo's diagonal pass again. Ribery broke through from the left and made a low pass. Messi scored from the back and scored, 2:0!

Afterwards, Crystal Palace adopted a defensive strategy, and made two consecutive substitution adjustments during the intermission, all of which were focused on strengthening defense, but Pirlo made a long pass shortly after the start of the second half, and it was Lewando again. Fowski's volley shot after rushing into the penalty area made another victory for Tottenham Hotspur, 3:0!

With the passage of time, Crystal Palace's physical fitness became weaker and weaker. In the last half hour, they were almost beaten by Tottenham Hotspur. Ribery and Ramsey's successive goals helped Tottenham Hotspur Finally locked the score at 5:0!

The head start of the league start won Tottenham Hotspur the applause of the whole house.

But at the same time, Manchester United beat Swansea 4:1 at home, Manchester City beat Newcastle 4:0 at home, Chelsea beat Hull City 2:0 at home, West Ham United beat Cardiff 2:0 at home, and several strong teams in the Premier League won. They all played well in the first round, only Arsenal lost at home.

After finishing the first round of the league, because Tottenham Hotspur will participate in the European Super Cup, the third round of the Premier League has been adjusted to the middle of the week. In the third round of the league, Tottenham Hotspur will challenge away Arsenal.

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The Emirates Stadium has been Tottenham Hotspur's favorite place for the past few seasons.

Arsenal in this North London, strictly speaking, can no longer be called North London, because Tottenham Hotspur have gone south to the Stratford Stadium in the city center, and more seriously, this is A London derby.

Before this London derby, Arsenal announced that they had introduced German star Ozil from Real Madrid for more than 4000 million pounds. A heavy signing.

Wenger is also in this game, and can't wait to arrange Ozil to start, hoping to use German stars to impact Tottenham Hotspur's formation, kill Tottenham Hotspur at his own home court, and win this game London derby.

Ye Qiu made adjustments to this game. Tottenham Hotspur's goalkeeper and defense didn't change much. Ye Qiu just replaced Kyle Walker with Azpilicueta, but in the The midfield has been adjusted. Matic replaced Pirlo in the starting lineup. Vidal became Matic's midfield partner. The frontcourt is Hazard, Messi, Ribery, and the forward is Lewandowski. Base, Tottenham Hotspur changed tactics.

Regarding the change of Tottenham Hotspur, before the game started, everyone who got the starting lineup was surprised, because after taking Pirlo, Ye Qiu not only did not arrange Ramsey, who became more and more creative and innovative. A midfielder with passing ability starts and takes him down instead.

But many people were also surprised that Ye Qiu was not conservative, because he took down a midfielder and replaced him with a player like Hazard who has excellent wing assault ability, which made him a This game has set a tone, and that is offense!
At the beginning of the game, Tottenham Hotspur surprised many people who thought they would lose their creativity, because they found that Tottenham Hotspur did not play conservatively. He is launching an offensive, and the configuration of the double midfielder is very interesting.

Relatively speaking, Vidal is on the right and Matic is on the left. The former presses forward and the latter lags behind. Both players cover a wide area, especially Vidal, who frequently presses to the front of the opponent's penalty area. Once the ball is lost, he immediately throws himself into the counterattack, making him look like a frontcourt player rather than a defensive midfielder.

Similarly, Tottenham's defense is not actively pressing up, but more in the center line.

Arsenal's midfielder in this game arranged a four-midfield combination of Flamini, Wilshere, Rosicky and Cazorla, but from the beginning, they were suppressed by Tottenham Hotspur. This is an area where Tottenham don't fight for possession and attack once they get the ball, while Arsenal, despite having possession, find that the more possession they have, the more dangerous they are. .

Quick, that's everyone's first impression of this game.

Arsenal played fast and Tottenham pressed and countered very quickly because they were playing in Arsenal's half.

Matic served as the team's late defensive player, coupled with the pressure of Marcelo and Azpilicueta on the two wings, it was almost difficult for Arsenal to push the ball to Tottenham. In the stabbing half, more can only use long passes.

But the long ball went into Tottenham's half and Arsenal didn't have the slightest advantage.

In this case, Arsenal looked like they were being beaten by Tottenham Hotspur in their own half.

No.16 minutes, Hazard faced Jenkinson, made a one-on-one breakthrough and made a cross, Lewandowski nodded the ball forward, Ribery volleyed from the back, and the ball hit the net, 1:0!

After that, Arsenal quickly stabilized their position, but still failed to find a way to break the cage of Tottenham Hotspur. It was difficult for them to resist because of the pressure in the frontcourt of Tottenham Hotspur, especially Vidal The wide range of running and grabbing, as well as Matic's delayed interception and blocking, make it difficult for Arsenal's pass to penetrate in front of Tottenham Hotspur's defense to create a threat.

In this case, Arsenal can only take more defensive.

However, at 10 minutes, after Matic broke the ball at Wilshere's feet, he passed it straight to Messi. After the Argentine got the ball with his back and turned around to get rid of the breakthrough, he went straight to the right rib of the penalty area, and it was Ribery again. Plugged in, after getting rid of Gibbs, in the right corner of the penalty area, kicked directly at the goal at a 45-degree angle, and pierced Arsenal's goal again, 2:0!

But in less than 5 minutes, Vidal returned to defend and steal the ball, Thiago Silva made a long diagonal pass, Hazzard broke through from the left and then made a low pass to the penalty area, Lewandowski scored in front of the goal, 3: 0!

Throughout the first half, Tottenham Hotspur easily took a three-goal lead, and Arsenal had almost no ability to resist in front of Tottenham Hotspur.

For those who were skeptical and worried about Tottenham Hotspur's change before the game, they are now surprised to find that Tottenham Hotspur once again showed a completely different style from before. They are faster and sharper. , is also more deadly.

At first glance, they seem to be a little passive, for example, they don't have much possession of the ball, and once they steal the ball, they start looking for scoring opportunities, which makes the game very fast, but the problem is that they don't seem to be in possession of the ball, but they are firmly control the situation.

Arsenal's ball possession rate in the first half was 49%, which seemed to be evenly divided, but in the first half, Arsenal didn't even have a chance to shoot the goal. They only had two shots. On the contrary, Tottenham Hotspur , 2 shots were shot in the halftime, such shooting efficiency is amazing.

Matic is not Pirlo, he is faster and more concise, the ball hardly stops at his feet, and turns out as soon as he gets the ball, he is more like a perpetual motion machine, running non-stop, non-stop moving, running the whole game The moving distance is as high as [-] kilometers, and the ball is passed out immediately when it reaches his feet. He maintains a very calm and rational mental state all the time.

"He completely dominates the entire Tottenham Hotspur midfield. No matter who enters this area, Matic will make him breathless. He is a terrible calm player!"

Richard Keith, who was in charge of the commentary, said with emotion, "As early as in Southampton, we clearly realized that Matic has the potential to become a top midfielder, but when he came to Tottenham Tottenham, we found that what he has shown is already at the level of a top midfielder, because under the support of this powerful tactical system and the star teammates around him, Matic's burst of strength is indeed impressive. Amazing!"

After finishing speaking, Richard Keith laughed jokingly, "I don't know that Mourinho, who was sitting in the stands to spy on the military situation in this game, saw Matic's performance in the first half at this moment. , how will he feel?"

The live TV camera really gave Mourinho a close-up, but the Portuguese's face was very calm.

But in the eyes of many people, this kind of calm itself is not calm!

(End of this chapter)