Strictly speaking, this is the third time that Ye Qiu has sat in the stands to watch his team's game.

The first time was when he was sent off in the middle of the game, the second time was the away game against Porto before, and now this time is the third time, but it is obvious that the three experiences give Ye Qiu a completely different feeling.

The first two times he commanded the team indirectly through his phone and notes, he still had a sense of involvement, still felt nervous and focused, but this time he felt completely isolated from the game, acting as a complete spectator, which made him feel very uncomfortable and very uncomfortable.

Because for the first time, when he found out that when he sat in the stands, watching his team being bombarded by his opponents, watching his team being beaten by his opponents, and he himself couldn't do anything about it, that feeling was too aggrieved and too depressing.

Rafael Benitez is definitely the number one in today's football, and it's hard to say whether he's the best, but at least he's one of the best tacticians, not only does he have a great sense of tactics, but he's also very good at learning and learning from them.

Many people say that Liverpool are a lot like Chelsea last season, as Benitez often makes a back three of Steven Gerrard, Xavi Alonso and Hamann, much like Chelsea's 43l tactics last season.

Of course, the front court is different, Chelsea at that time the front court was Ronaldinho and Frank Lampard, the center was Drogba, while the front field on Liverpool's side was Reese and Luis Garcia, and the center forward was Barosh, Chelsea focused more on the ribs and the middle, and Liverpool focused more on the wings.

This also has something to do with the general lack of attacking ability of Liverpool's full-backs, if the full-backs lack attacking ability, if they can't put two players with some wing ability in the winger position, then the whole team will be completely crippled, and Xavi Alonso's excellent long-pass dispatch will also be useless.

Therefore, Ye Qiu feels that no matter whether Benitez admits it or not, his Liverpool's tactics are definitely cloned Chelsea's tactics, and then improved and adjusted according to his own characteristics, and finally came up with Liverpool's tactics this season.

But this does not mean that Liverpool's tactics are worse than Chelsea last season, from the perspective of personnel quality, Liverpool is undoubtedly at an absolute disadvantage, after all, Chelsea is a big name in the team, the overall strength of the team is strong, but Liverpool is biased towards practical players, the overall quality must be different.

Benitez's set of tactics has his superiority, that is, defending on the wing.

At the beginning, Chelsea used full-backs to participate in the attack, relying on the team's strong midfield, although this made Chelsea as a whole balanced, and the performance was very good, and the defense was also very solid, but it was always a weakness and deficiency, but Liverpool on the contrary, adopted a defensive full-back plus offensive winger side attack and defense combination, to ensure the maximum extent of wing defense.

Theoretically, Liverpool's defensive full-back approach ⊥could liberate the midfield to a certain extent, with the likes of Xavi Alonso and Steven Gerrard both attacking and attacking experts having more opportunities to get involved.

There are two sides to everything, and there must be advantages and disadvantages.

Adopting a combination of defensive fullbacks and offensive wingers, if the distance between the two is not grasped properly, it is likely to repeat the weakness of the previous Ajax period, that is, the disconnection of the wings, and for this, Benitez adopts forward pressing tactics, defending high, and pressing the defense forward, but in this way, the defensive recovery and turning flexibility is a problem.

The other is that Reese and Luis Garcia are divided into wings, and the distance between the striker Baros and the back three is too long, which directly leads to Liverpool's lack of attacking in the middle, and even directly causes the lack of Liverpool's offensive ability.

Therefore, in many cases, Benitez gives Gerrard the greatest freedom, allowing Gerrard to step forward at any time to participate in the attack according to his own observations, but Gerrard's characteristics do not belong to the type of player who connects the front line and the midfield, so Liverpool's attack is too reliant on the wings, which is another problem

There is also an equally serious problem is Baros, as a striker, the Czech is obviously not suitable for the single striker tactic, especially this single center forward tactic at the top, not only Barosh is not suitable, Cisse, Pongler is also not suitable, Morientes is theoretically suitable, but his playing rhythm can not adapt to the Premier League, and the performance is relatively average.

In this game, Ye Qiu's defense obviously adopted the strategy of putting the side and locking the middle.

The three lines remain compact, with the centre centred in the centre, and as soon as Liverpool push down the 30-metre zone, Chelsea's two full-backs immediately maintain close contact with the centre-backs, blocking Liverpool's in-line cut-ins and forcing you to cross.

Baros is not a formidable centre-forward, with Liverpool's headers coming back again and again under the guise of Cannavaro and Gallas, while the Czechs have struggled to take even the slightest advantage of Chelsea's defence.

In this game, Ye Qiu's midfield lineup also changed, Deco became an important member of the team's backward defense, he always dragged behind the three midfielders, and Davis and Parker used a large area of running and pressing interceptions.

It is important to mention here a very important consideration regarding the configuration of the midfield defenders.

In the eyes of many people, the defensive midfielder is divided into a position and a defender with excellent awareness like Makelele, and a large area of running and covering like Gattuso, I believe that many people feel that this is just a difference in defensive methods, but I don't know if anyone has considered it, which is actually the difference in the tactical system they adapt to.

The area covered by the back waist is relatively small, and if it is in some teams with poor pressing and pressing, his weakness will be exposed, that is, if Makelele goes to AC Milan to replace Gattuso, it will definitely be a big tragedy, because the other three midfielders of AC Milan do not run and press much, and the midfield exposes a lot of space, which requires defenders to keep running to complete the coverage and fill the holes, which is not what Makelele is good at.

Therefore, in Real Madrid, the superstars in front of him are not pressing, and Makelele needs a partner with a large running range, such as Elguera, Ye Qiu is even thinking that if it is a combination of Makelele and Beckham, maybe the effect will be very ideal, at least there will be no rapid fall of the first phase of the Galaxy Battleship.

Gattuso, Essien, and Davies are all the kind of covering midfielders who run widely, and their biggest role is to fill the gaps, so the premise is that there are gaps for them to run to fill, and if it's the kind of team that is very well-defended and presses very tightly from front to back, they will be able to play a smaller role.

For example, in the previous Chelsea period, many fans said that Essien likes to run blindly and runs without wisdom, in fact, there are indeed reasons for this, but there is also a very important part of the factor is that the team's tactics are very meticulous, when Essien found a loophole and wanted to run over to fill it, he had already been blocked by his teammates in advance, then he ran halfway, he would find that he didn't need to run anymore, and what he did before became useless, and it became a blind run.

Why did Ye Qiu use Davis last season and not Davis this season?

Because last season's Chelsea were relatively loose as a whole, Ronaldinho basically did not engage in defense, and other players also needed to adapt to the team's tactical system, which gave Davies room to play, and the presence of Dutch wild boars can also fill Chelsea's midfield holes to the maximum and play a key role.

But this season, Chelsea's tactical system has taken shape, everyone has a tacit understanding, and the whole system is tight from front to back, and Davies has less room to play, but it is Makelle who plays an increasingly important role, which is the reason.

Ye Qiu has always felt that every professional player has his fixed characteristics, and the most important thing for a head coach is to dig out the characteristics of the players, and according to the characteristics of the players, blend a set of stable tactical systems.

In the same way, the manager needs to arrange different players and form different tactics according to different opponents in each game, which is the biggest role of the head coach.

In this game, Ye Qiu arranged Davis, Deco and Parker to start, which was indeed a helpless move, because Makelele was absent, and in Ye Qiu's view, the most trusted thing in the team was Deco, so he arranged Deco to delay, Davis and Parker both took a wide range of coverage and scramble, plus Cannavaro and Gallas gave proper support to the midfield, blocking the lack and weakness of Chelsea's midfield position, and also blocking the offensive threat inserted in the middle of Liverpool.

From the beginning of reaching the final, Ye Qiu spent ten days, constantly instilling his tactical ideas for the finals to the coaching staff such as Teng Carter and Roland, focusing on defense, playing counterattacks if they can counterattack, and defending to the end if they can't counterattack, and dragging the game into a penalty shootout when they don't lose the ball.

And Ye Qiu spent a lot of days practicing the penalty shootout, he collected the characteristics of all Liverpool players to take penalty kicks, and handed over the penalty habits of all Liverpool players to Cudicini, and even specially asked people to imitate the penalty habits of Liverpool players to help Cudicini train, until Cudicini knew everything about it.

For Ye Qiu, he can't directly command the game, and he is facing a tactician like Benitez, what he can do is to ensure that the team can hold up to the bottom smoothly as much as possible, and strive to win the championship, defensive counterattack is undoubtedly the safest way, and what the coaching staff has to do is to adjust the team's defensive structure.

It's not difficult for people like Teng Carter and Roland who have followed Ye Qiu for many years

This is also the only limit that Ye Qiu can do

The transition between attack and defense in the game went very quickly, very quickly.

Although Ye Qiu sat in the chairman's stand and failed to get first-hand data from the coaching staff, he could feel it, because almost every minute, the ball was changing rapidly, which also showed how fierce the competition of the game was, but at the same time, it also reflected that both teams had worked targeting.

The process and enjoyment of the game are still there, and it can even be said to be good, because fast-paced games are often easy for fans to be fascinated and forget the time, but in Ye Qiu's view, the offense of both teams did not play their own characteristics, Liverpool's attack was not strong, needless to say, but Chelsea was sent off the pitch because of the absence of many main players, and the coach was sent off the field, and he did not play an attack, and both sides did a lot of work on defense.

The first half ended 0, and after the start of the second half, there was still no change, and the same tactics were still adopted.

If it was in normal times, Ye Qiu was worried about the continuous passage of game time, but in this game, he wished that the game time would go faster, and it was better to skip 0 minutes directly and go directly to the penalty shootout, because he felt that Chelsea would definitely be more sure to win in the penalty shootout than in normal games.

As the game progressed at a fast pace, the physical consumption of the players on both sides was getting more and more serious, Ye Qiu saw Parker in the stands after a defense, there were cramps, when he raised his head and looked at the time, he found that it had been more than eighty minutes, and the game was about to enter overtime, but the two sides did not make any substitutions at all.

This is because both sides know very well that this game has been played so far, it is obviously not a duel in tactics and player strength, the tactics of the coaches of both sides are very good to restrain each other and cancel each other, and the gap in player strength is not large, and now the more important thing is the contest of player willpower.

With a substitution now, you have to take the risk of the substitution, especially for Liverpool.

Ten Carter replaced Parker with Essien immediately after Parker's leg cramp and continued to adopt the same tactics, because both players belong to the kind of midfielders who run and press in a wide range, and the impact of the substitution is not very great, and Essien is full of energy and can ensure the vitality of Chelsea's midfield to the maximum after coming on the field.

Benitez also seemed to be aware of the problem, and in the RU minute, Colwill was replaced by Luis Garcia, and the Spaniard also cramped, and after coming on, Colwill was pulled into the middle, Gerrard was on the right, a bit like a right midfielder, and Reese's position was a proper retreat, and he also played as a wing-back.

Tengkart followed Ye Qiu's pre-match arrangement, and after Essien came on the field, he appropriately expanded the team's defensive range, on the one hand, to prevent Liverpool's threat, and on the other hand, to wait for the opponent to make mistakes.

I have to admit that Liverpool is indeed a team with very high tactical execution, under the coaching of Benitez, the tactical literacy of this team is ridiculously high, and there was not even a single threatening mistake in the whole game, which makes it difficult for Chelsea to threaten on the counter-attack.

And Ye Qiu is not there, Tengkat and the players do not dare to invest too many troops in the counterattack, after all, if there are more troops invested in the counterattack, the defense will definitely be weakened, as long as the timing is not good enough, Liverpool may seize the opportunity anytime and anywhere.

As the minutes passed, the players on both sides gradually had physical problems, especially after the 90-minute official game, which began to enter the half-hour overtime, and the players' physical fitness was frequently problematic, and some players kept cramping.

Liverpool took the lead in making adjustments, and after going into extra time, Benitez immediately replaced Finnan with Smitchell, and put Traore, Hyypia and Carragher into a back three, obviously to further strengthen the team's attack, Smitchell's passing and playmaking skills are very good, and he went up to improve his passing ability

Benitez, meanwhile, brought on Cisse for the underperforming Baros, and the Czech striker, who was overwhelmed by Chelsea's defence throughout the game, was so poor that he was rightfully replaced.

Ye Qiu made a series of changes to Liverpool before the game, and let his assistants adjust and choose according to the situation, including that after Liverpool changed to a back three, the team should actively adopt a side counterattack strategy.

Therefore, Liverpool moved on this side, and Chelsea also began to make substitutions, Deco came down, Evra came on, Gudjohnsen was pulled back to the midfield, Rooney played in the middle, Ribery went to the right, Evra occupied the left side, and made full use of Evra's abundant physical energy to impact Liverpool's defense.

Patrice Evra, who was more fit and fit, was clearly an important counter-attacking point for Chelsea, with Franck Ribery on the right and Patrice Evra on the left, with the pace of both players threatening the Liverpool defence, making it difficult for the Reds to put all their energy into attacking.

In the 100th minute, it was Chelsea counterattacking a long pass, Evra rushed in quickly on the left, got the ball and went down to the bottom line to cross, Hyypia pressed Rooney's header, but failed to reach it, Ribery responded at the back point, but because the ball was disturbed by Hyypia, he turned the direction and misjudged.

Although they couldn't find the back of the net, Chelsea seemed to have tasted the sweetness and soon launched another attack, this time from the right, when Son Jihai cut in and crossed, Rooney won the ball and shook Hyypia before scurrying a quick volley that went just wide.

Two successive waves of attacks threatened, and Gudjohnsen went down with cramps immediately after that, and Chelsea made an immediate substitution, bringing on Joe Cole for Gudjohnsen in the 103rd minute to further strengthen the attack.

In the second half of extra time, Chelsea seemed to consciously strengthen the team's attack, especially after Liverpool switched to a back three tactics, the weakness of the flanks was exposed, Evra and Ribery kept hitting back and forth on the two wings, Rooney also created a great threat in the middle, and Joe Cole passed the ball in the back, Chelsea's offensive began to improve.

But in the stands, Ye Qiu couldn't sit still at all, he stood up directly from his seat, and shook his head incessantly, he didn't know if his players could see his movements, if they could, then they should know that this is a trap.

One of the deadliest traps

On the one hand, playing a back three is to strengthen the attack, but at the same time, it also exposes the weakness of the wing defense; The problem is that Chelsea are exploiting Liverpool's flanks to create chances, but they are also risking a counter-attack.

There are pros and cons, there are two sides to everything, and now Chelsea have clearly been consciously seduced out by Liverpool to play.

This is the advantage of the head coach standing on the sidelines to command, and if Ye Qiu is here, he will definitely stop the players' actions as soon as possible, but the person who is standing on the sidelines and commanding now is not him

If you keep playing like this, the goal will be dangerous