In fact, a lot of things in football tactics are very simple in the end.

It's like an offense, and all offenses actually revolve around one goal, and that's the time difference.

A player is able to score a goal because he is able to shoot before the defender arrives, to get the ball before the goalkeeper can pounce and cross the goal line, and the passing and running are also designed to create a time difference, so that a certain player in a certain area is left undefended at a certain time.

Sometimes, then, things seem very, very simple, like this attack by Tottenham Hotspur.

Ribery and Cavani were both clustered at the top of the arc in the middle, Cesc Fabregas rushed forward to further increase the pressure on the Barcelona defence, while Marcelo on the left took the ball forward and was defended by Barcelona just after crossing the halfway line, and the Brazilian left-back re-passed the ball back into his own half and handed it to Beckham.

David Beckham has been in good form of late, and he has been holding back his energy to show his quality and earn Fabio Capello's endorsement to make the South African World Cup squad for the England national team, and in everyone's opinion, Beckham is also a player that the current England national team cannot live without, because his long balls and free-kicks are England's sharpest attacking weapons.

In the face of Marcelo's return pass, Beckham stopped the ball with his right foot, because there were no defenders around him, so he deliberately stopped a little forward, caught up with himself, and quickly picked up his right foot to make a curling ball.

The pass was not high, but the arc was large and fast, and it was left in the middle arc and crossed a large area of the pitch and landed on the right side of the Barcelona penalty area.

At this time, Messi, who has been cruising on the right side, rushed forward quickly, and when the ball hit the ground and rebounded, Messi had chased to the right side of the ball, turned to the left, and stopped the ball to the left with his chest, and stopped directly into Barcelona's penalty area.

At this time, Abidal and Busquets also chased back into the penalty area, the former was close to Messi for the first time, while the latter deliberately fell behind a certain position to ensure that he could help defend at the first time.

After Messi entered the penalty area, facing Abidal, he stared at the French left-back, his body changed suddenly, and his whole short body leaned towards his right side, looking like he was about to cross the bottom.

As Ye Qiu has always said, there are times on the football field where the simplest things are also the most effective.

It's like Messi's feint, it's very simple, it is a person, but different people, at different times and in different places, can achieve completely different two effects, the key is still one word, the time difference

After Messi rushed into the penalty area, Abidal quickly got close, at this time he simply did not have enough time to make a rational judgment, so when he saw Messi a feint to go down, he simply did not have enough time to distinguish whether it was true or false, as a defender, the only thing he could do was to follow Messi's movements and respond.

This is also a very, very important concept in the defensive philosophy, which is to prevent the offensive player from attacking head-on as much as possible, because once the defense is attacked head-on, the offensive player has a lot of options, and the defensive player is absolutely passive.

Abidal moved with Messi, but the Argentine's right leaning did not control the ball, but after leaning to the right, the center of gravity changed, from the original right to the left, and the left foot gently moved the ball forward, taking advantage of the situation to pass the deceived Abidal.

At this time, whether it was Abidal who reacted, Busquets who chased back in place, or Mascherano in the small penalty area, they all rushed over as soon as possible to trap Messi.

Three to one, Messi is after a trip past Abidal, the left foot swings quickly, hit an instep arc ball, the whole shot is very fast, the connection is very good, and after he shoots, Busquets's block came to Messi, and the ball is over Mascherano, with a strong spin, even if Valdés reacted immediately and flew to save, but the ball still drilled into the upper left corner of the goal, 0

It's very simple, not even too much coordination routine, just Beckham's long pass transfer, Messi relies on his personal ability to get rid of the defense after stopping the ball, and then kicks the goal, the whole process happens in the blink of an eye, and the ball is in

Everyone in the entire White Hart Lane stadium was shocked by Messi's goal in an instant, and after two or three seconds of silence, there was a deafening cheer, all the fans in the stadium chanted Messi in unison, and all the Tottenham Hotspur players rushed to Messi who had already rushed to the sidelines to celebrate, and surrounded him.

0 Tottenham Hotspur took the lead for the time being

Everyone was obviously taken aback by the sudden goal, because it came so suddenly, it was too surprising, and even before Messi scored, no one was prepared for the goal, because for more than half an hour, Barcelona had an absolute dominance of possession, and their pass success rate was also high, while Tottenham Hotspur, although they had more shots, did not create a real threatening chance.

But who would have thought that the first threatening shot on goal would directly form a goal

While everyone at Tottenham Hotspur was celebrating, Barcelona were demoralized by the sudden goal, and the players were visibly frustrated on the pitch as they found that the possession they had worked so hard to maintain for more than half an hour had not been able to help them in the slightest.

As Ye Qiu said before, possession is actually a double-edged sword, there are good and bad at the tactical level, and the same is true for the player's psychology, the good side is that when you have a high possession rate and can always create a threat, or even score a goal, the player's psychology will be more confident, but if it is the other way around, high possession will be a kind of pressure.

To give the simplest example, it is like a person who usually has a salary of more than 10,000 yuan every month, but suddenly one month, he gets less than half of the usual salary, what kind of psychological changes do you say he will have?

Ye Qiu knows how to take advantage of the situation on the field, and after seeing Messi's goal, he immediately waved his hand and signaled the players to press up and launch a counterattack against Barcelona.

There are two purposes for this, the first is to maintain the current lead, it is best to use the morale after the lead, and strive for the next city, but if you can't go to the next city, you can also achieve the second purpose, that is, to bring this advantage and morale to the beginning of the second half.

In fact, although Tottenham Hotspur made three more dangerous shots in the last ten minutes, they still failed to break through Barcelona's goal, but they managed to completely suppress Barcelona in the last ten minutes.

So much so that when Sacchi commented at the end of the first half, he thought that in the battle at the level of the head coach, Guardiola lost to Ye Qiu.

"Ye Qiu has always been the kind of coach who is very good at playing momentum, which Ferguson and Benitez are, they belong to the kind of manager who is very good at taking advantage of the situation on the pitch to create an advantage in his favor, while Mourinho is different, they belong to the kind of fine preparation, through careful preparation before the game, all the situations that may occur in the game are practiced and instilled into the players, so as to achieve the effect of adaptation in the game."

"Guardiola and Wenger are a bit academic, of course, strictly speaking, Ye Qiu is somewhat academic, but not as strong as Guardiola and Wenger, and this academy is often good at tactical framework design, but it is relatively weak in terms of game response."

Speaking of this, Sacchi also sighed, "In fact, in the first half an hour, Tottenham Hotspur played diagonal attack, that is, through the long pass in the backfield, directly found both sides of the Barcelona penalty area, and found Ribery and Messi's offensive routine, which has appeared several times, but Guardiola obviously did not pay enough attention." ”

"Of course, you can say that Tottenham Hotspur has not posed a threat in the first few attempts, but the problem is that as a manager, you should have the ability to anticipate when you smell danger and respond in advance, and I think Ye Qiu has always done a good job in this regard, while Guardiola is weaker in this aspect."

There is also a stark contrast that in the last ten minutes, Tottenham Hotspur scored, Ye Qiu launched a fierce attack, at this time Guardiola obviously did not adjust the team's intentions, let the team be beaten passively, his idea should be to stay until halftime to deal with it, but he ignored one point, that is, the goal was lost, coupled with the passivity of the last ten minutes, the psychological and morale of the players will be a big blow.

"Ye Qiu is very targeted, and even I personally think that he has been brewing tactics for the second half in advance, if I guess correctly, Tottenham Hotspur will start the attack in the second half."

Speaking of this, Sacchi laughed, shook his head and said: "Very clever change, when you think I will attack after the opening, I just don't attack, I defend and counterattack, score, get an advantage, hit your morale, force you to make changes, I suddenly counterattack, even if I can't score, I will disrupt your plan." ”

"We can see that strategy and tactics, in Ye Qiu's body, whatever he plays, Tottenham Hotspur is like his arm, he can play how he wants, he can play wherever he wants."

When Sacchi said this, the commentator laughed, anyway, the first half was over, and he asked: "Mr. Sacchi, do you think there is any hope for Tottenham Hotspur this year?" You know, they've already defended their title once."

Sacchi heard the voice-over and smiled, "Leaving aside other possible factors, I think Tottenham Hotspur still have a very good chance of defending the title, but I have studied Tottenham's season carefully and I think they need some luck. ”

"Luck?" The on-site narrator was obviously a little confused.

"If Tottenham Hotspur knocks out Barcelona, the semi-final opponents are Bayern Munich and Manchester United, I think from the current performance, if you meet Bayern Munich, Tottenham Hotspur has a very high hope of reaching the final, but if you meet Manchester United, I think it is very difficult, because Ferguson's control and adjustment of Manchester United has also shown effect in recent times, before AC Milan was beaten by Manchester United at home and away, I think, Alex Ferguson's side are not necessarily inferior to Tottenham Hotspur and Barcelona in terms of effectiveness, especially in their defence.

The center-back combination of Nemanja Vidic and Ferdinand can be called the best center-back combination in European football at the moment, there is no one, and in the past few years, they have cultivated a good enough tacit understanding, plus the midfield has adjusted well this season, and the front trident has also performed quite well, Manchester United's overall strength is very balanced, and it is indeed underestimated.

And everyone can actually taste one thing very clearly from Sacchi's comments, that is, Sacchi has basically judged that Tottenham Hotspur will eliminate Barcelona, is it because of Messi's goal in the first half?

The start of the second half was very much in line with Sacchi's judgment, and Tottenham Hotspur launched a fierce attack on Barcelona like a tiger from the start.

If it was in normal times, Barcelona's defense would definitely not be so easy to be broken by Tottenham Hotspur, but perhaps it was said by Sacchi, the advantage of the last moments of the first half was maintained until the beginning of the second half, and Tottenham Hotspur's first threatening attack in the second half penetrated Barcelona's goal, and the scorer was Franck Franchi.

This is a corner kick caused by Messi and Alves on the right side, Beckham took this corner kick, and accurately found Ziglinski in front of the point, the Ukrainian manpower pressed Pique, the header was ferried to the back point, Ribery was about eight meters away from the goal, directly picked up his left foot, volleyed, and penetrated Valdés's goal, 0

After the goal, the entire White Hart Lane stadium was completely boiling, and all the players and fans were celebrating wildly.

Strictly speaking, Tottenham Hotspur was not active in this game, the team's form was not excellent, and both goals looked more like a reflection of the player's individual strength and performance, but Tottenham Hotspur's defense was very impressive, especially the restriction on Robin van Persie.

Ye Qiu is very familiar with and understands Van Persie's technical characteristics, which is a player he has single-handedly promoted and cultivated, so in this game, the coaching staff of Tottenham Hotspur specially arranged a big net for Van Persie, directly covering the Dutchman in the center of the net, so that he can neither receive the ball nor pass the ball.

After scoring the first goal in the second half, Tottenham Hotspur did not slow down the attack, but continued to attack Barcelona fiercely, and also threatened Barcelona's goal again and again, forcing the La Liga giants to adopt a defensive strategy.

Pep Guardiola took the lead in making the first substitution of the game in the 62nd minute, replacing Alexis Sanchez with midfielder Seydoux Keita, who had a poor performance in the front, and allowing Keita to return to the left side of the midfield to strengthen the midfield's defense, especially on the left side.

To know that Tottenham Hotspur has always been known to fly on both wings, Ribery on the left side plus Marcelo, Messi on the right side and Alves, are all very sharp offensive combinations, and Keita's presence can further strengthen the defense on the left side and freeze the active Tottenham Hotspur attack on the right side.

After this substitution, Sacchi shook his head and made a judgment, "Guardiola has given up this game, although the score of 0 is difficult to be satisfied, but at least there is a glimmer of hope, back to the Camp Nou, Barcelona still has a chance"

"However, now that Tottenham Hotspur has obviously disrupted Barcelona's plan and rhythm, Barcelona is gone, it is difficult to have a chance to fight back, and it is far from the time to give it a go, so Guardiola's idea is to keep the current score and save the final for the Camp Nou."

Although such a strategy is a bit conservative, and may even cause dissatisfaction among fans, it is not completely unreasonable, after all, if you want to fight back now, you have to press out and continue to attack, and according to the current advantage of Tottenham Hotspur, if you really press out to play, although it is possible to score, but the possibility of being scored by Tottenham Hotspur is also very high.

Sometimes, all a manager needs to do is weigh the pros and cons, but each manager has their own personality and characteristics, so their criteria for weighing the pros and cons are completely different.

With Keita's arrival, everyone in Barcelona clearly felt the manager's intentions, and Tottenham Hotspur gradually slowed down the offensive after attacking for a while, and in the seventy-fifth minute, Ye Qiu quickly replaced Cavani with Falcao, who had worked very hard in this game, and now it was time to come down and rest.

Then Ye Qiu successively replaced Messi, Hazzard, Beckham, and Phil Jones, all of which are very obvious substitutions, and they are also further adjusting the physical fitness of the players, especially several core players, including Messi, who are currently in the stage of physical adjustment.

Perhaps it was seeing Tottenham make a substitution, and Pep Guardiola quickly replaced Van Persie with Bojan, but it was already a substitution that happened in the 84th minute, and after that, Barcelona have struggled to organise an effective attack.

In the end, with the whistle of Swiss referee Massimo Busaka, the focus of attention finally came to an end, and Tottenham Hotspur finally beat the visiting Barcelona 0 at their home stadium thanks to two goals from Messi and Franck Franckis.

The victory also put Tottenham in a strong position to qualify for the quarter-finals, but no one dared to be careless as Tottenham had to visit the Camp Nou a week later.

The Battle of Camp Nou is the key battle that determines life and death