Volume 1 Chapter 498 Battle Giants!
After completing the comeback in the first half, Marseille began to shrink in the second half.
Although Marseille is a strong team in Ligue 1 and performs well in Ligue 1, Tottenham Hotspur is the team that has won the Premier League, even if it has sent away many players this season, it is still quite competitive in the Champions League, and Tottenham Hotspur's offensive strength is excellent, so Gretz finally had to choose to shrink the defense.
It also made it difficult for Tottenham to score again in the second half, and eventually walked away from home with a comeback.
At the post-match press conference, Ye Qiu was very dissatisfied with the team's performance, he felt that the team did not need to concede goals at all, but at the same time, he was also sure that the team's performance had indeed improved a lot after conceding the goal.
'Marseille's goal was a big wake-up call for us to realise that if we don't play well we can beat any opponent, so we shouldn't think about anything else and forget about our Champions League last season and we have to start all over again'
On the one hand, he was pleased to see that after the team won the Champions League, he did not relax his requirements for himself at all, nor did he give up the pursuit and desire to win the game, but on the other hand, he also said that the reversal means that Tottenham Hotspur is not good enough, or even very poor.
"I've always felt that a comeback is a sign of mental strength, but if you come back again and again, it's either your team is not strong or your team has a serious problem."
As for the performance of individual players in this game, Ye Qiu singled out Yaya Toure, he first criticized Yaya Toure for most of the responsibility for conceding the goal in the first half, thinking that his previous performance was not ideal, and even so far this season, after playing in the team's starting position, his performance has not been satisfactory.
But Ye Qiu also said that Yaya Toure's performance in the second half of the first half and the second half was satisfying.
'I was disappointed with Yaya Toure in the first half of the first half, but Yaya Toure in the second half of the first half and in the second half gave me hope, and I hope he can continue to be good because I believe he can be a strong barrier in front of the midfield defence.
Returning to London from Marseille, Tottenham Hotspur had little time to go straight to Wigan in the fifth round of the Premier League, this time Tottenham Hotspur defeated Wigan 0 at their home stadium, and Messi scored a brace again.
With two braces in a row, Messi's recent performances have been really surprising, especially after the Olympics, he has shown a lot of attacking momentum and desire to score, and with Van Persie's tandem and Gareth Bale's impact on the left, Messi will get more chances on the right and in the middle
In midweek, the Premier League welcomed the Carabao Cup, with Tottenham Hotspur travelling to Newcastle.
This time, Ye Qiu still arranged all the young substitute players to play, and Newcastle also arranged a lot of substitutes, but the main players including Duff, Martins, and Owen all appeared in the starting lineup.
Newcastle took advantage of home advantage to launch a fierce attack on Tottenham Hotspur's young squad, but this time Yaya Toure in midfield did well, forming a defensive trident at the back with Thiago Silva and Kompany, plus Arbeloa next to him and Kyle Walker on the right.
It is precisely because the midfield withstood the offensive pressure of Newcastle that Tottenham Hotspur's forward attack can be very lively, especially the counterattack on the two wings is very sharp, that is, relying on the side cross after two sharp counterattacks by Eden Hazzard on the left and Ashley Young on the right, helping Andy Carroll score twice in front of the goal and knocking on the goal of Given.
0 Tottenham Hotspur relied on the performance of this group of outstanding young players to defeat Newcastle and successfully advance to the next round, which also made several young players in the Tottenham Hotspur team famous.
This is the first game of the Tottenham Hotspur Cup, but the performance of Tottenham Hotspur's group of young players is eye-catching, the seventeen-year-old Ramsey is very good at holding the ball and organizing the attack, this game he and the sixteen-year-old Danish teenager Eriksen form a midfield duo, the Tottenham Hotspur midfield is well organized, and the passing when counterattacking is also very threatening and accurate.
Although the best player in the game was given to high school striker Andy Carroll, in Ye Qiu's eyes, there were two players with the best performance in this game, one was Yaya Toure at the back, and the other was Thiago Silva, the captain of the team.
After Thiago Silva experienced a low point in the first season, he grew very quickly in the second season, improved very quickly, and improved very much in the second season, and after becoming the captain of the team this season, his performance was very stable, very general, and he went to Hangrande, but he played very steadily whether he was with Ziglinski or Kompany.
Yaya Toure continued his excellent performance after the Marseille game, and Ye Qiu did not intend to interrupt his form, because he knew very well that this was a very critical period for Yaya Toure.
Every player's growth is accompanied by a lot of unpredictability, so a period of consistent performance for a long time is very, very valuable for young players, because they will grope and find their own way of playing and find their own rhythm during this period of time.
The outstanding performance of a game is often just because they have grasped a flash of inspiration at a certain time and groped for the threshold, but in fact, they may have a very vague concept of this, but you continue to give them the game, continue to let them get exercise, from the game to get familiar with the threshold, and even into the threshold to explore, that represents a leap forward.
So sometimes, when you look at a lot of young European players, it only takes one season for them to be able to improve by leaps and bounds, and that's why.
And if at this time, you don't give them a game, it is equivalent to interrupting their momentum of progress, and they will miss the opportunity to explore this threshold, and it may be difficult to encounter such an opportunity again in the future, and eventually disappear from everyone.
Therefore, Ye Qiu not only continued to give Yaya Toure the opportunity to play and practice, but also let him continue to play in the midweek League Cup, because he knew very well that Yaya Toure now needed a very, very many games to enrich himself, and he needed to rely on the training of the game to master and establish his own way of playing.
As the head coach, all Ye Qiu needs to do is to guide and give guidance.
Another player who could be metamorphosing this season is Gareth Bale, but Gareth Bale's situation is a bit different, as the 25-year-old Yaya Toure is basically stereotyped and now has to find which of the two paths suits him, while Gareth Bale has to choose between many paths.
At present, Tottenham Hotspur's trident is Gareth Bale, Van Persie and Messi, Van Persie is in the center of the forward, the role is naturally needless to say, Messi's position can be right and can be in the middle, he is small, but very flexible, and his skills are very delicate, even when encountering the opponent's dense defense, he can come and go like the wind, interspersed freely.
What satisfies Ye Qiu the most is that Messi not only has a keen sense of smell, but can seize the opponent's gap in the shortest possible time in the opponent's dense defense, and give use and blows, and his ability to hold the ball can ensure that he can take the ball almost anywhere at any time and without being cut off by the opponent, such a player is a strong and powerful improvement for any team's offense.
Relatively speaking, Gareth Bale is relatively simple, Ye Qiu often pulls him back and plays a position close to left midfielder, which is related to the fact that he is a left back, on the one hand, to give him space to play his sprint and break through on the wing, on the other hand, it is also to strengthen the team's midfield defense and support the right side to increase the attack
Gareth Bale's attacking style is relatively simple, breaking down the left and then crossing, or having the opportunity to cut into the box himself, and the standard left winger's style of play does not have the slightest change of position with Van Persie, Messi and Cesc Fabregas.
Therefore, many people feel that Tottenham Hotspur's attack seems to have changed, and the front trident does not have so many changes, in fact, this is because Gareth Bale is quite immature and immature.
In Ye Qiu and the coaching staff's plan for him, for the time being, he will replace Ribery to play the main team, and wait until Ribery returns to see the recovery of the Frenchman, but the coaching staff still has to ensure Gareth Bale's playing time to ensure that he can get the opportunity to exercise, which is the same as another striker in the team, Cavani, who is Ye Qiu's key cultivation object.
With the accumulation and improvement of this season, next season Ye Qiu will try to let Gareth Bale play the right side, or play the middle, or even play the striker, and then also arrange for Cavani to change positions as much as possible, which is of great benefit to their future growth, once they really step into maturity, the attributes of multiple positions and the comprehensiveness of the technical characteristics will help them reach the peak of their careers.
As Ye Qiu said before, the current and next few years of football trends will be fully ambiguous, comprehensive technical characteristics are necessary, and after multi-position training, groping and finding the most suitable path for themselves is undoubtedly the greatest guidance and help that Ye Qiu can give to these young players.
Just like the hot sale of Zeus mobile phone, in the eyes of many people, this mobile phone seems to be an instant hit, but in fact, behind it, countless engineers, countless software developers, countless marketers, and countless professionals are silently paying for it for two or three years, and then it became popular overnight.
The same is true for professional footballers, especially cultivating and sculpting a top professional star, which is a systematic project.
Not to mention anything else, just look at Messi, the strength of the Argentine now is definitely not as good as the same period in his previous life, the reason is very simple, he has been delayed at Chelsea for a full year, and even if Ye Qiu has been helping him make up lessons in the past two years, he is still making rapid progress, and Ye Qiu and the coaching staff have to keep an eye on him carefully to avoid injury.
It's like Ribery, who has already seen the way to the peak, but because of a serious injury, he is still recovering, how much he can recover after his comeback, who can know the way? Who knows if we will be able to return to the same level as last season?
Back to the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur soon ushered in the sixth round of the league, the team drew 0:Butmouth away, although Tottenham Hotspur did not do their best in this game, including Messi, Fabregas, Van Persie, Thiago Silva and many other players did not start, but Tottenham Hotspur still relied on the excellent performance of Ashley Young, Cavani and others, and firmly held the advantage, but could not break through the goal of the Pompeii Army.
And all this for the first decisive match against Bayern Munich in four days
It was also the first match between the two strongest teams in the Group of Death
This is the first time that Tottenham Hotspur have faced a big team in the Champions League since winning the Champions League.
Before this game, Bayern Munich head coach Jurgen Klinsmann said that Tottenham Hotspur's strength is not as good as the outside world imagined, he believes that Tottenham Hotspur's attack is not unstoppable and resolved, and he firmly believes that the team can get a satisfactory result at White Hart Lane.
In the speech, Klinsmann also expressed his affirmation of the achievements of Ye Qiu's team, saying that Tottenham Hotspur is not the upstart that many media and fans question, this is a very strong team.
If Klinsmann's remarks are a little softer, then Ye Qiu's remarks are very hard, he said that the team must beat the opponent at White Hart Lane, because this is the most important game of Tottenham Hotspur so far in the new season, which is directly related to the qualification of this group, so the team must win.
"We are fighting a giant," Ye Qiu almost loudly delivered a pre-game article.
Fight the giants
Tottenham Hotspur have also expressed a strong sense of fighting spirit, as everyone wants to repeat last season's excellent performance in the Champions League this season, but there are also many players who are cautious about the game.
Tottenham Hotspur captain Thiago Silva predicted the game in an interview with the media before the game, and he hoped that the team would not concede a goal, but many familiar media interpreted that with the current offensive strength of Tottenham Hotspur, not conceding a goal means a victory for the team, because it may be difficult to be conceded at Tottenham Hotspur's home stadium.
Compared with Tottenham Hotspur's toughness, Bayern Munich, who are away from home, is a little cautious, which is also related to the injuries they are currently experiencing, the main central defender Lucio and the main striker Crozier will miss this game, but considering that Tottenham Hotspur's Ribery is also absent, the difference in strength between the two sides is not particularly large.
Speaking to the media before the game, Lucio reminded the manager and team-mates to be careful after the game.
"I played under Mr. Ye Qiu, he is the manager I respect the most, I know him very well, play with him, you have to be careful at the beginning, he is the kind of person who likes to grasp the situation of the game firmly from the beginning, he is also the kind of manager who is very good at creating your weakness from unexpected places and hitting it."
"If you don't get off to a good start, it's going to be very, very hard to play"
At the same time, Bayern legend Beckenbauer reminded Klinsmann to be careful of Tottenham Hotspur's midfield and tempo.
'As Alex Ferguson said, when you play against a team like Tottenham Hotspur you have to make a choice, you can't let them control their tempo, you can't let them play their own style, we have to disrupt their rhythm and the way they play, we can't let them play as they want, otherwise it would be a disaster.
In Beckenbauer's column, he analyzed that Tottenham Hotspur's overall offensive and defensive system actually has a strong atmosphere of all-attack and defense, but it is very different, more in line with current football tactics, and more penetrating.
"Playing Tottenham Hotspur away, defending might be a good option," Beckenbauer said later.
But it's clear that Klinsmann doesn't think so, and he thinks Bayern Munich don't necessarily have the quality to compete with Tottenham Hotspur away from home, at least with a striker like Luca Toney, who is not lost to Drogba.
But as Ye Qiu said at the pre-match press conference, if you don't want to concede the ball, the best way is not to let the opponent have a chance to get up easily
At the beginning of the game, Tottenham Hotspur launched a fierce attack on Bayern Munich with home advantage, taking advantage of the problems between Demichelis and the teenager Breno, as well as the immaturity of the young Brazilian central defender, to make a fuss and create frequent threats.
In the first minute, Tottenham Hotspur took the lead in opening the situation, Alves on the right side inserted Messi who cut inside the heel to form a cooperation, Messi received the ball at the front of the penalty area with his back, and brought it back, but suddenly his heel knocked back into the big penalty area, and Van Persie was in an offside position diagonally into the big penalty area.
Goalkeeper Bout dropped the goal, but Van Persie was obviously prepared, directly past the attacking goalkeeper Bout and gently pushed, but this sudden shot was cleared by the rushing Van Bommel at the last moment of the goal.
Like the rest of their lives, all the players of Bayern Munich did not expect that Tottenham Hotspur's offensive would come so fiercely and so quickly, especially Messi, who was able to pass such a heel pass under the bag of two players, and Van Persie actually had such a good tacit understanding with him, and after Messi took the ball and retreated, he also inserted diagonally into the penalty area.
It can be said that this attack is a reflection of the strength and tacit understanding of Tottenham Hotspur's players, and it also made everyone at Bayern Munich almost lose their souls.
But soon, Tottenham Hotspur organized another attack, still on the right side, still Messi