Tottenham Hotspur went to three cities in China and played four warm-up games, although Tottenham Hotspur was seriously not in the best condition, especially some international players who participated in the Confederations Cup, and their performance was even more sluggish, but they still relied on their strong strength to defeat their opponents and win four consecutive victories.

In the four warm-up matches, they defeated Guangzhou 1:0, Shanghai 3:1, Beijing 2:0, and 4:1 against the national team, the latter two of which were held in Beijing.

But the reaction of many Chinese fans is not too surprising, after all, in the eyes of many people, this team is like China's own team, and in the past few years, domestic fans have basically supported Tottenham Hotspur.

At the end of the mighty trip to China, Tottenham Hotspur went to Qatar and played a warm-up match with the Qatar national team, which resulted in a 1:1 draw between the two sides, which made Qatar a carnival, after all, this is the top team in world football, and they feel extremely honored to be able to draw such a team.

For Tottenham, the opponents on the pitch were far less threatening than the climate here, especially the staggering heat, which made them all unaccustomed to it, so after a warm-up game, they hurried back to Europe.

On his return to Theorebald, the first thing Tottenham did was to rest and take stock.

It was mainly aimed at Tottenham's performance during the Asian tour and some of the problems that the team found.

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

Another eye-catching performance is Nemanja Matic, the main defender of Southampton last season, after switching to Tottenham Hotspur, Ye Qiu arranged for him to start in the first game against Guangzhou, and played the entire first half, and in fact, it was his outstanding performance that made Tottenham Hotspur's first half look very solid.

Guangzhou coach Lippi was full of praise for this player when he mentioned this player to Ye Qiu after the game, believing that he does have the strength and qualifications to take the lead in Tottenham Hotspur, but Lippi also mentioned that Nemanja Matic is still young and can continue to carve and improve.

As for Stroman, he also played all five warm-up games, two of which were played as a midfielder and three as a central midfielder, and he also performed very well, proving his quality, but also reflecting the ambivalence of the coaching staff about him, that is, where he should be played.

Aleksandar Mitrovic had two chances to come off the bench but failed to find the back of the net, and the Serbian centre-forward, like his compatriot Nastasic, is a future star for Tottenham Hotspur and is not yet in the driver's seat.

But the busiest thing for the coaching staff is not to evaluate the performance of the players, after all, this is pre-season training, and their most important job is to start adjusting the role of some players in the team's tactical system, such as Messi and Lewandowski and Ribery and the way they run and combine with another winger, according to the problems exposed during the training camp and warm-up games.

Ye Qiu had to admire Mauro for this? Tassotti, the quintessential Italian manager, is often able to nuanced tactics to the point where you find them cumbersome, and as long as you go and see Mauro? The tactical notes that Tasotti has written over the past few years are probably too dizzy for most people to read just by seeing the beginning.

Now many media and fans are admiring Tottenham Hotspur's wave attack and defense system, but they simply don't understand what the real core of the wave attack and defense system is, they can only see some surfaces, such as how players stand, how to help defend, how to run, how to run, how to pass, etc.

These are of interest to tactical fans, or journalists and media who write football tactical analysis, but Tottenham's entire tactical system is more than that, and even goes deeper and deeper.

For example, Tottenham Hotspur's wave attack, many people advocate the second and third waves of attack, but they don't notice that Tottenham Hotspur has practiced more than a dozen ways and routines to launch a second attack, but on the playing field, it is very likely that none of them will be used, and the players will adopt a new routine on the spot.

Maybe seeing this, some people will ask, since this is the case, then why practice these routines?

That's the problem, because if you don't practice these routines to the point, how can you play on the spot?

Do you really think that if you throw Messi into a brand new, completely untrained team, he will be able to play well?

Italy's head coach has always done a pretty good job of tactical refinement, so we see that Serie A teams, even the weakest teams, tend to be well organized at both the defensive and tactical levels, but the Italian team has a dead end, and that is the winger!

Sometimes Ye Qiu even wonders if the decline of Italian football has anything to do with the rise of wingers?

Throughout the history of Italian football over the past 100 years, they have not been strong on the wings, even in the era of Herrera's chain defence, Sacchi's Milan dynasty, or Juventus at the turn of the century, or later Inter Milan, their style of play has tended to be in the middle.

So, it's interesting to note that Italy has a lot of central defenders, central midfielders and central strikers, but not wingers.

Compared to the wide attacking players, the defensive players are relatively good, after all, the Italian defense attaches great importance to the wings, but even Donadoni, who is claimed to be the best winger in the history of Italian football, is actually more of a midfielder on the empty side than a pure wide attacking player.

So now there is a saying in European football that it is easiest to play a Serie A team, to beat the wings and crush them!

The influence of Italian football, which has been subtly developed over the years, has made Italian tactics seem to be more and more conservative, losing a sense of dynamism, but at the same time allowing them to gradually tie themselves up.

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

Mauro? When Tasotti first came to Tottenham Hotspur, he was very uncomfortable with Ye Qiu's style of playing as a winger from the Netherlands, which is also the weakness of all Italian managers, and they don't use wingers well.

It's not that it's bad, it's that they can't get the most out of their wingers, the most powerful attacking power of their wingers, because it's not in line with what they've been sticking to for decades.

However, during these seven years at Tottenham Hotspur, Mauro? Tasotti is immersed in this whole set of all-attacking and all-defensive concepts from the Netherlands, as well as winger tactics, and he and Ye Qiu have effectively combined Italy's defensive philosophy, Dutch offensive and defensive concepts, and the traditional characteristics of English football in the past few years.

This is the birth of Tottenham Hotspur's wave-style attacking and defensive system!

There is also a very important tactical concept that must be clear, football tactics are relative.

Remember that Sacchi once said that when a player can play a big 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, but in fact it's really?

Some players who don't seem to have the slightest offensive ability, he really doesn't have an offensive threat?

If there really isn't, then I ask you, the opponent holds the ball and presses the attack, and he successfully breaks the ball, while destroying the opponent's offensive threat, in fact, it is precisely when our attack 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, if you really put it into this set of tactics, as long as you run in and coordinate well, there is really not much difference between the two.

But Nemanja Matic's age and his running are an advantage in themselves, isn't it?

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Tottenham Hotspur returned to London to focus more on solving the problems encountered during the team's warm-up games, and after entering August, the team went to Southampton to play a warm-up game, and the two sides drew 2-2, Tottenham Hotspur still equalized in the second half.

In this game, Ye Qiu is still scheduled to start the main lineup last season, and the three players in the midfield are Pogba, who performed eye-catching in the warm-up game, partnered with Pirlo and Vidal, but although Tottenham Hotspur scored one goal in the first half, Southampton scored two goals, one of which was broken by Pirlo's dribbling.

Adrianse set up Coutinho to keep an eye on Andrea Pirlo, and the Brazilian was brilliant with two assists to give Southampton a 2-1 lead in the first half.

In the second half, Ye Qiu made adjustments, Matic replaced Pirlo, Ramsey replaced Pogba, Tottenham Hotspur's midfield changed, the midfield was stabilized, and the ball was much smoother, but there was still not much progress in attack.

After that, Ye Qiu successively replaced Hazzard, Neymar, Drogba and others to further strengthen the offensive, and finally relied on Neymar's goal to equalize the score, 2:2, the two sides played a draw, but in the last 20 minutes, Tottenham Hotspur took the advantage, but failed to score.

For such a situation, Ye Qiu also shook his head, on the one hand, because the team has just gone through the training period, the performance is average, it is not difficult to understand, and the other point is that Southampton's strength has indeed improved greatly this season.

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

But the most eye-catching thing for Ye Qiu is the Italian center forward Immobile, who scored twice and was elected the best player of the match, the Italian center forward played the attacking football Southampton as a single arrow, behind Coutinho, Lallana and Lucas? Moura and others passed the ball and immediately showed his efficient side, and he was very well-rounded.

"As long as Southampton's squad is well integrated, it is estimated that it can compete for the Champions League this season!" Mauro? Tasotti is still very optimistic about the strength of Southampton, the current squad of this team does not seem to be very large, but in fact, the quality of personnel is very good, coupled with strong integrity, so as long as Adrianse is adjusted, there is still hope for the Champions League.

Ye Qiu understands Mauro? What Tasotti meant, Adrianse is already a bit out of place for Southampton.

This is not crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, but the fact!

Adrianse has laid a solid foundation for Southampton's continental tactical system in the past few years, but now the team has begun to look forward to a reality after a few years of accumulation, that is, out of the Premier League and into European competitions.

Mancini's biggest problem is that he is progressing far behind the team's progress.

"How's it going?" Mauro? Tassotti asked with a smile.

Ye Qiu shrugged, "I don't have a choice, I must continue to reuse Pirlo at the beginning of the season!" ”

In fact, in the case of having Matic, Ye Qiu feels that the Serbs are fully capable of replacing Pirlo, but the problem is not in the technical and tactical level, but in the dressing room and fans.

Coldly take Pirlo without saying a word, which obviously can't be accepted by Pirlo, even if he promises to accept the rotation when the contract is renewed, but the problem is that you have to give him a chance to perform first, and the players in the dressing room, you take him without giving Pirlo any chance for no reason, which will chill the hearts of the players.

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

So, a lot of times when fans look at some European teams, it's clear that a certain player is playing badly, but every game is played, they think there must be a problem, in fact, everyone knows that there is a problem, but the manager may have to put this player on the field for various reasons.

It's like Andrea Pirlo, the core soul of the team at the peak of the past two years, can he say that he will win it?

So Ye Qiu must continue to use him, when will he use it, everyone else in the locker room will start to have a voice, and they will all start to feel that Pirlo is indeed old, and the media and fans will also begin to feel that the team should make adjustments, then at this time, Ye Qiu will stand up again, wave his hand, and take Pirlo, which seems logical.

Sometimes Ye Qiu can't bear it, but professional football is so cruel, you are old, you can't run, you start to decline, then you are destined to be abandoned sooner or later, so Zidane is very proud, before being abandoned, he abandoned others first, which is undoubtedly a very wise choice.

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

"I said I was paving the way for you this season!" Ye Qiu said with a smile.

In fact, this is what the media has been worried about, that is, Pirlo's succession has not been done well, and Tottenham Hotspur has formed internal friction, just like Xavi of Barcelona now, everyone knows that he should be taken down, at least he should be a substitute, but no matter who Barcelona replaces as the head coach, he still has to continue to use Xavi.

Sometimes it's not because Xavi wants to be a ball bully, because his idea is simple, just keep playing, but it's not that the manager and management are too weak, it's because it's a means of management.

Mauro? Tassotti also only smiled, because in his opinion, this season is more of a transitional nature, and according to the agreement between the team and Pirlo, he will not renew his contract when it expires next summer, so this issue will be well resolved, and no matter what, it will not be left until next season.

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

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

As for some remarks from the outside world, Ye Qiu also denied the statement that Ye Qiu would abolish Pirlo's main position in the new season, "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 heart of the team for the past two seasons, and his prestige within the team is not lost to Messi and others, after all, Messi has never been a very authoritative person.

'But I'm sure everybody can understand, including Andrea Pirlo, we have to prepare for the future, Nemanja Matic and Stroman are both preparing for the future, and I think their arrival will be a good way to share the burden of Pirlo's midfield and they will be the backbone of Tottenham's midfield in the future.'

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

'A lot of people are reminding me of my age, but I don't think age is an obstacle for me to keep playing, I feel like I'm getting better and the manager has told me that he still trusts me a lot, so I don't want to do anything now, I just want to adjust and repay the trust of the team and the manager!"