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On the second day, the major European media made headlines about Tottenham Hotspur's 40-thrashing of Real Madrid away, which once again made Tottenham the favourites to win the UEFA Champions League.

Many European mainstream media have commented that if Tottenham Hotspur last season was an upset, then this season's Tottenham Hotspur has proved its strength with facts.

Even Spain's As, which is close to Real Madrid, wrote a front-page commentary on the game, arguing that Tottenham Hotspur's four-goal win over Real Madrid was well deserved, and that Real Madrid had nothing to say about the loss.

"Juander Ramos is known as a cup winner in Spanish football, because the biggest achievement of his coaching career is the domestic and European cup championship trophies, and interestingly, Ye Qiu is also known as the king of the cup because the team he leads is best at playing cup games."

"Starting with Ajax, he has led the team to four Champions League finals and three trophies, including the most recent one, the miraculous reversal of Manchester United at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, and his two League Cup finals, plus the domestic cup competitions in the Eredivisie and the Premier League, it is not too much to say that he is the king of the cup."

"This game is not only a contest between two cup experts, but also a confrontation between the old giants and the European upstarts, Real Madrid, who have nine Champions League titles, only won one, but the new Champions League champion Tottenham Hotspur, the confrontation between the two new and old giants also makes the game full of suspense."

"But in the game, we saw that Real Madrid, who should have been more confident and more sophisticated, did not have the calmness and experience that nine Champions League titles should have, but Tottenham Hotspur, known as the nouveau riche team by many Real Madrid fans, showed their outstanding technical and tactical level at the Bernabeu Stadium

"Ye Qiu said in an interview before the game that Real Madrid has stopped in the round of 16 in the past four years, and that is because they are unlucky and have signed with the giant teams, but the secret meaning of these words is not to remind Real Madrid that you played too poorly in the group stage?"

"We saw that Tottenham Hotspur showed a very comprehensive and diverse attack in this game, with both Gareth Bale's very impactful wide impact play, as well as Messi and Van Persie's delicate combination in the box, David Silva's possession in the middle, and Cesc Fabregas's lethal pass, plus the forward pressing of the two full-backs, all created huge problems for Real Madrid's defence."

"Relative to Tottenham Hotspur, if we look at Real Madrid, our attack is completely uninspiring, in the last few years, we have hardly anything new, we have been repeating the attacking routines of the past year after year, and when Juan Ramos came to power, he changed the team's tactics to 44, which has obviously been abandoned by all the top teams."

"Yes, Juande Ramos always said that tactics are dead, people are alive, but why is it that our midfielders have always been crushed by Tottenham Hotspur again and again in this game? Why did our captain have to run back from the front line again and again to support the midfield? ”

"Nine consecutive wins in La Liga have completely carried us away and made us start to have the illusion that we have a revival, that we have returned to the ranks of the European powerhouses, but this 04 rout is a reminder that we are not yet"

"Compared to Real Madrid, Tottenham Hotspur showed a very rare balance of attack and defense in this team"

"At the beginning, Juan de Ramos adopted a rushing tactic, Tottenham Hotspur retreated steadily without hurrying, used his own defense to block Real Madrid's attack, and induced Real Madrid's wing to press, and then used two counterattacks to break through Real Madrid's defense by Gareth Bale on the left side and create a threat, which is based on the team's solid defense."

"With the team leading by two goals, Real Madrid began to panic, Juande Ramos was afraid of conceding the goal and immediately pulled back the team's formation, Tottenham Hotspur seized the opportunity, pressed forward steadily, immediately shifted the team's tactics from defense to attack, and created two more goals, which is the attacking side of Tottenham Hotspur."

"Ye Qiu is indeed a cup expert, he knows very well that in a more tactically targeted cup competition, attack and defense must reach a balance, and can switch at will in the game, so as to be able to go to the bottom, so after last season's thrilling championship, this season he introduced Ziglinski to further strengthen the team's backline."

"Perhaps, for this game, many people will feel that Real Madrid lost very unjustly, but from the perspective of the game process, Real Madrid only lost four goals is luck, if the luck is a little worse, maybe this will be a rout that all Real Madrid fans want to commit suicide"

After the worst, the Ace newspaper also said that the game has been lost, and once again stopped in the round of 16 of the Champions League, Real Madrid should not feel painful and sad now, but should reorganize morale, adjust the state of the players, better prepare for La Liga, and strive to reverse Barcelona to win the championship, which is the first important thing at present.

Compared with the more conciliatory statements of the newspaper As, and the cynicism of the Barcelona media, the comments of the German newspaper Bild were more neutral, and they believed that the final score of this game may not be regarded as the real difference in the strength of the two teams, but it definitely reflects the role of the manager in the team.

Bild believes that "compared to Juander Ramos's pre-match arrogance, Ye Qiu also used the tactics of verbal stimulation, but it is obvious that Ye Qiu, who has been fighting war of words with Ferguson, Mourinho, Wenger and others for a long time, is stronger in words, and he knows very well that the war of words cannot defeat the opponent, so he prepared more fully before the game." ”

"If we carefully study and analyze the factors of Real Madrid's poor performance in this game, it is not difficult for us to find that Tottenham Hotspur has studied Real Madrid very thoroughly, Marcelo almost froze Robben, the Brazilian full-back has always given the impression of being unstable defensively, but this game hardly let Robben play in the slightest, the reason is simple, Ye Qiu knows Robben too well."

"When Tottenham Hotspur defended on the right side, they were more about letting Robben go down and using the inside to prevent Robben from seeking to cooperate and cut off the link between the wing and the two strikers, and a Robben who could not play the most dangerous in attack and could only be forced to cross from the right side had little effect."

"Relative to the left, on the right, Alves and Messi teamed up to suppress the combination of Heinze and Vargas, through this suppression, so that the entire midfield and backfield of the horse can feel the pressure from the side anytime and anywhere, coupled with the joint suppression of the three players in the midfield, so that the horse has almost no room for resistance.

"Compared with Ye Qiu's focus on the details of the preparation, Juander Ramos was obviously blinded by the nine consecutive wins before the game, and was also disturbed by the pre-game war of words, he wanted to use the rush to suppress Tottenham Hotspur, but once the rush failed to work, he did not immediately withdraw from the attack."

"Yes, Ferguson said that playing Tottenham Hotspur such an imposing team cannot be allowed to play, but should be suppressed, but it must be seen that Manchester United has also used opening attacks to play Tottenham Hotspur many times, but Ferguson's attack never exceeds ten minutes, and many times even comes back after four or five minutes, because he knows very well that Tottenham Hotspur cannot be allowed to counterattack"

"Juan de Ramos's clumsiness and his blind confidence in the team made him obsessed with attacking in the opening game, and he idealized that Real Madrid's attack would be able to suppress Tottenham Hotspur, but two counter-attacks were the most powerful weapon."

But after conceding two goals, Juander Ramos showed that his other clumsiness is his conservatism, the bullying in his bones is afraid of hard, when he fell behind by two goals, he was completely messed up, maybe he never thought he would lose two goals before the game, so after he lost two goals, he didn't know what he should do, he first considered defense, but he couldn't hold it, what to do? Keep up"

"I think this should be seen in the Luzhniki Stadium in the Champions League final last season, Ye Qiu lost three goals in the first half, but he resolutely chose to continue to attack with all his strength at halftime, and at the same time touched Manchester United's death hole, played desperately, and finally created a miracle."

"Comparing the two, the failure of Juander Ramos is not difficult to predict"

"This battle not only made Juan Ma lose the right to advance, but also made Juan Ramos completely lose the bargaining chip for contract renewal, at least in the eyes of many fans who have watched this game, Juan de Ramos should be more suitable to coach a non-giant team like Sevilla, rather than Real Madrid"

After beating Real Madrid, almost the entire European media sounded the horn of praise for Tottenham Hotspur, especially Messi, who scored a hat-trick in this game, and Gareth Bale, who attacked twice and performed very well on the wing, both of whom made a name for themselves through this game.

But there are also many Spanish media regrets for Raul and Casillas, believing that these two players have put in enough effort and shown enough strength, but in the end they are still unable to save Real Madrid in the rout, which is indeed a regrettable thing.

At the same time, many Spanish media believe that it is actually Real Madrid's stupid transfer policy that has led to the current team's rout, because David Silva should have been a player who belonged to Real Madrid, whether he came to Real Madrid's youth academy and was rejected for a trial, or he was in Valencia, he has repeatedly expressed his desire to join Real Madrid.

And as a Spanish midfield international, David Silva is also the most scarce type of player in Real Madrid's midfield at present, because they lack the ability to advance in the middle, and David Silva's ability to advance the ball has been vividly reflected in this game, so Real Madrid misses him, which is equivalent to weakening itself and strengthening the opponent.

'It's not just David Silva, look at Arbeloa in the Tottenham Hotspur squad, he's been so good at Tottenham Hotspur and he's been our second captain and he's patiently waiting for the first team to call up, but we gave him up and then we have to spend a huge amount of money to bring in Vargas, which is pretty unbelievable.

"And Juan Mata, who is doing really well in Valencia now, the former superstar of Castilla, who was given to Valencia unconditionally by us, and then we have no one on the left and we have to push Vargas into the midfield, isn't it a sad thing?"

As for this big rout, more Spanish media feel that Real Madrid has reached the time when it must seriously think and summarize, and the team must calmly sort out what path to take in the future, rather than continuing the chaos of the past few years.

Tottenham Hotspur returned triumphantly from Spain, and the 40-thrashing of Real Madrid has made the north London side unanimously recognized and appreciated by English fans, but in the Premier League, what awaits Tottenham Hotspur is a very dense devilish schedule.

The first leg of the Champions League round of 16 was played on the evening of 25 February, after which the team rushed back to London overnight.

But on February 27, the team will travel to Sunderland in the 27th round of the Premier League.

On March 1, the team will play the Carabao Cup final at Wembley Stadium against Manchester United.

On the 4th of March, we will host Middlesbrough at home, in the 28th round of the Premier League.

Starting from the first leg of the Champions League round of 16, in just eight days, Tottenham Hotspur has to play a total of four games, and three of them are away, either the Champions League, the Premier League, or the League Cup final, which can be imagined as difficult.

Originally, Tottenham Hotspur hoped to adjust the schedule or reschedule, but as the schedule was nearing the end, it was very troublesome to reschedule, and there was no suitable period after that, and the League Cup final had already been set, so in the end, neither the FA nor the Premier League agreed to Tottenham Hotspur's request for rescheduling.

Rushing back to London from Spain, the team carried out non-stop recovery training and adjustments, and then went to the away game to challenge the black cat Sunderland, this time Ye Qiu had to take a wide range of rotations, and the black cat Sunderland who played at home adopted a stubborn tactic, and finally drew with Tottenham Hotspur at home 00.

Manchester United are in a similar situation to Tottenham Hotspur, with Alex Ferguson's side having to play back-to-back, but they had an extra day of rest in the first leg of the Champions League last-16 knockout tie than Tottenham Hotspur, and they were playing at home again, so they beat Portsmouth with a clean 0.

After the 27th round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur returned to London for a day of rest and the next day the Carabao Cup final against Manchester United.

Both teams were clearly not at their best in this final, although both sides did their best, but the game was quite ugly, neither of them could find an effective way to beat their opponents, and finally the two sides played 00 and recently went to a penalty shootout, Manchester United narrowly beat Tottenham Hotspur 3.

This also has something to do with Ye Qiu's substitution of the three main players after the most reluctance, because in the last 20 minutes of the second half of the game, including Messi, Alves and others were obviously unable to run, at this time Ye Qiu had to make substitution adjustments, and Ferguson was the same, and the difficulties of both sides were similar.

However, Manchester United replaced veterans such as Ryan Giggs, and Tottenham Hotspur replaced youngsters, and finally went to penalties, with youngsters Aaron Ramsey and Eden Hazzard missing penalties to make Tottenham Hotspur miss out on the Carabao Cup title

Speaking to the media after winning the Carabao Cup, Ferguson said that this is not only a League Cup title, but also a rallying cry for Manchester United's counter-attack against Tottenham Hotspur, as Manchester United have won 11 games in a row so far, and he feels that Manchester United have every hope of continuing this winning streak.

'I've said many times that we're a team in the second half and it's not a problem for us to be behind in the first half, we're always used to working in the second half, so we've won 11 games in a row so far, and in the Carabao Cup final, we were under a lot of mental and physical pressure to beat Tottenham Hotspur and win the Carabao Cup, which is a huge encouragement for us.

'I believe Tottenham Hotspur have reached their limit and their 27-game unbeaten run will likely come to an end during this period, while our winning streak will continue and we will replace Tottenham Hotspur as leaders in the Premier League table before the end of the season'

Ferguson did not forget to attack his opponents further, "We knocked out Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup and League Cup this season, and I am confident that we will knock them out in the league and Champions League as well"

Ye Qiu, on the other hand, regretted the loss of the League Cup, but said that no one should be held responsible for the defeat.

'I'm very proud of a couple of young players in the squad and I know it's been a very difficult schedule and we're in a difficult situation both mentally and physically, but I'm sure if we grit our teeth and get through it.'

Ye Qiu gave understanding and consideration to Eden Hazzard and Ramsey for missing penalties, and said that he would continue to reuse the two players, because he firmly believes that after this brutal penalty shoot-out, they will become more mature.

"Everyone grows from their failures, and I'm sure they learn from them"

However, Ye Qiu's remarks did not dispel the concerns of the outside world about Tottenham Hotspur, after all, in the past so many seasons, there have been many precedents of losing the League Cup and losing consecutive points in the league that led to a major demoralization of the team.