Chapter 541 Leading the Scoreboard

Benitez's life is not easy. His life in Liverpool is like Wang Xiaoer's Chinese New Year, each year is worse than the last.

From his majestic appearance when he first landed in the Premier League, to when he defeated Ye Qiu's Chelsea and won the UEFA Champions League, that year he reached the pinnacle of his life and also reached the pinnacle of Liverpool in recent years.

But after that, he began to decline. This was due to his own reasons, as well as various factors such as the team.

All along, even now, he still feels that he is not really that familiar and understanding of the Premier League, because many things that happen here and many contradictions that arise here are incomprehensible to him. , and the game here is always full of competition between capital and football.

Professional football is not simple, he understands this, but the Premier League is even more so.

In the past few years, he has been improving Liverpool almost every season. He clearly knows what he wants. He has a very, very clear set of contexts in his mind, but the problem is, this set of The context sometimes seemed to be very close to him, and many times he only needed to bring in a player to achieve it. But after he got the player, he discovered that it was so far away from him, so out of reach.

The first half of last season was the closest he felt to the championship. His team had led the Premier League for a long time. He felt that the performance of everyone on the team was getting better and better, and all the players seemed to have improved overnight. He understood his intention, but later, when he entered the Christmas and winter break schedule, Liverpool faced the embarrassment of consecutive draws, and he discovered that he was wrong.

Ye Qiu once commented on him during a private exchange, thinking that he was a tactical genius that even Ye Qiu was ashamed of, but in terms of instilling his own tactical concepts into the players and communicating with them, he was a complete and utter failure. The otaku.

Sometimes I think about it, Benitez really envies Ye Qiu, at least everything seems to be going smoothly for him, but Benitez himself also knows clearly that Ye Qiu's smoothness is not because of his good luck, but because of his good luck. He is always preparing for a rainy day.

There are many ways to solve problems in this world. Waiting until the problem arises and then slowly figuring out how to solve it is the worst kind; being prepared to solve the problem before it arises is the more moderate one. ; Another way is to kill him under the blanket in advance without waiting for the problem to arise. This is the most ideal way.

When Ye Qiu mentioned in an interview before the game that the most important thing for Tottenham Hotspur this season is to build a good defensive system for the team, Benitez knew clearly that this season's Tottenham Hotspur will be stronger than before. The reason is simple, because Ye Qiu finally decided to adjust the old problem of focusing on offense and neglecting defense.

A balance between offense and defense is what makes a truly strong team!

Some people may think, wow, it's simple, just adjust the defense. The worst thing is to introduce excellent defenders and adjust the tacit understanding, isn't it done? With the current strength and financial resources of Tottenham Hotspur, it will not be a problem to introduce anyone!

This is a mediocre saying. A truly top coach would not do such a thing. Just like Ferguson, he would not bring in defenders at will. The reason is very simple. On the surface, the midfielders and frontcourts are the superstars. The stage, but the midfield and backfield are where the most money is spent.

Adjustments are divided into soft and hard adjustments. The former is relatively mild, the latter is more aggressive, the former is relatively calm, and the latter is more likely to cause waves. So any fan knows that soft adjustments must be made, that is, within the existing player framework. On the basis of this, the team’s defense can be adjusted without making large-scale changes to the team’s overall technical and tactical framework.

Hard adjustments are very simple and crude. Spend money, recruit people, and then build a strong defensive system. But in this way, once the defense and midfield and frontcourt are incompatible, the team will immediately fall into collapse and polarization. At that time, we can only completely overthrow and rebuild, just like Ferguson this season.

According to the current situation of Tottenham Hotspur, if they want to reorganize a defensive system, it is impossible to complete it without spending 100 million in transfer funds. So from Ye Qiu's perspective, this 100 million is what he wants. Save money and spend nothing.

Soft adjustments are a test of the level of Ye Qiu and his coaching staff, because soft adjustments require more aspects to be considered.

To give the simplest example, Tottenham Hotspur has been lacking a strong center since Ruud van Nistelrooy left the team two years ago, so they rely heavily on pulling and interpenetrating in positional battles. This is true in itself, but it is a kind of flower. Qiao, if you keep playing with this kind of trick, your opponent will be pulled and beaten by you at first, but later, everyone is familiar with it and is used to it, so how can you continue?

The emergence of Gareth Bale last season must have given Ye Qiu a lot of stimulation, because the Welsh winger is completely different from Franck Ribery and Messi. He has almost no tricks and relies entirely on hard power. To attack the opponent's defense, the result was seen by everyone, Tottenham Hotspur's attack power skyrocketed.

With the strong rise of Tottenham Hotspur, more and more teams will adopt cautious defensive tactics when fighting against North London teams, especially targeting their weaknesses and shortcomings to form their formations, and even A capable team will do everything possible to defeat Tottenham Hotspur, because you have to play positional warfare, you have to intersect and pull, then you have to press my 30-meter area.

This is the so-called high-intensity pressure and pressing in the midfield and frontcourt.

But don't think that as long as the overall movement is handled well, the physical energy consumption will be small. It's wrong. Once the opponent is determined to consume you, Tottenham Hotspur's physical energy will be difficult to maintain throughout the game. Even if you are good at the beginning, you will still fall into a physical crisis in the middle of the season. At that time, you will still be crippled by the opponent's counterattacks.

Maybe someone else said, can I relax the pressure?

Yes, if you relax the pressure, Messi, Ribery and others will be forced to retreat and stay away from the threat area, which will cause Ribery and Messi's lethality to decrease sharply, and it will not be good for Tottenham Hotspur's frontcourt interlaced running and passing and receiving cooperation, and retreating means that your midfield players have a larger running range.

This seems to be a very unsolvable chain trap, right?

But in Benítez's view, at least in this game against Liverpool, Benítez can see that Ye Qiu has found a solution, that is, to use a strong center forward to attack the opponent's defense line head-on and serve as a weapon for the team to capture the city.

Just like in this game, with Falcao attacking Liverpool's defense in front, Messi, Ribery, David Silva and Fabregas had no need to press too high, because even if they did not press as high as in the past, Liverpool's defense would still not dare to press high, because there was a strong center forward.

As long as Ribery and Messi can retreat appropriately, Tottenham's entire midfield can also retreat appropriately, and the backcourt can naturally move back. In this way, it is possible to organize an effective overall chain defense and produce a new round of overall defense effect.

So, what are the benefits of the new defense system?

It's very simple, because Tottenham's defense line is not so close, the previous routine of placing a high-efficiency fulcrum center forward in the frontcourt and waiting for the backcourt to intercept the ball and then quickly pass the ball to counterattack will hardly work again. In this regard, Benítez thinks that Ye Qiu was influenced by Ferguson.

Ferguson introduced Benzema, Tevez and Rooney this season to form a new trident. To put it bluntly, he wants to take this path, and he will continue to take the previous passing and cutting route of Manchester United, rather than the passing and controlling route of Barcelona, ​​let alone the passing, cutting and controlling route advocated by Ye Qiu.

Because this path is most suitable for Manchester United, Ferguson has laid an extremely solid foundation in the past few years. Now all he needs is appropriate changes in personnel and helping players integrate into the team. So overall, the cost is the smallest, but the possible gains are the richest.

If we talk about the team that has gained the most in the transfer market this year, it must be Manchester United!

As for Liverpool, Benitez can only respond to the moves now, because after selling Xabi Alonso, looking at the entire European football world, who dares to say that he can definitely find a midfielder who can directly fill the gap left by Xabi Alonso?

Didn't you see Ye Qiu sell forwards and defenders, but never sell Fabregas and David Silva?

The reason is simple, the midfield is the key!

And in this game, Liverpool's defeat was in the midfield!

Benítez was powerless to do anything about this. The midfield was in disarray, especially before the end of the first half. Tottenham Hotspur scored four goals right away, completely confusing Liverpool. Benítez was powerless to do anything about this.

In the second half, although he made further adjustments and strengthened the team's midfield defense and protection, it was still useless. Tottenham Hotspur played very confidently and confidently, but in the end Ribery scored two more goals.

6:1, no one expected that in the first round of the new season, the Red Army Liverpool would be humiliated by Tottenham Hotspur with such a big score at White Hart Lane. Benítez lowered his head throughout the game, sitting in the coaching seat, thinking about some problems expressionlessly, because he could foresee what would greet him after the game.

Perhaps, he should thank Torres, because the Spaniard scored a goal for Liverpool when the score was 0:5, which saved Liverpool's face to some extent, but overall, it was a big defeat and a big disaster.

It was also at this moment that Benítez really realized that Ye Qiu was right. Liverpool was no longer the victim of Tottenham Hotspur. Relying on this Liverpool without a midfielder, don't expect to adjust Tottenham Hotspur at all!

Tottenham Hotspur beat Liverpool 6:1 at home.

Manchester United beat Birmingham 1:0 at home.

Arsenal made a difficult 2:1 reversal against Everton away.

Chelsea made an embarrassing 2:1 reversal against Hull City at home.

With the start of the first round of the Premier League, the eyes of fans all over the world were focused on England.

The team with the most eye-catching performance in the first round was Tottenham Hotspur, which beat Liverpool 6:1 in a strong match. Almost all the media in the world called this game an epic victory, especially playing such a wonderful and eye-catching offensive football in the first round of the league, which made everyone praise it.

In all the reports analyzing Tottenham Hotspur's victory over Liverpool, a large amount of space was devoted to reporting on Romedal Falcao. This young Colombian center forward became an instant hit, but he was not the best player of the game.

After the first round of the Premier League, the best player in the first round of the Premier League was awarded to Messi, because the Argentine star not only contributed three assists and performed a hat trick of assists, but also scored a goal himself. He dominated the game by himself. He scored four goals and his performance was very eye-catching.

Although this Argentine superstar, who almost switched to Manchester City this summer, only scored one goal in the first round of the new season, his tactical value on the field was obviously better than last season. What's more, he is not only on the offensive end, but also performs very well in connecting the midfield.

In the words of Martin Samuel in his column, "He is doing at Tottenham what only Maradona could do at Naples!"

There are fewer goals, but Messi has attracted greater attention and repercussions. Ye Qiu also repeatedly stated in interviews with the media after the game that the team will help Messi determine his own development path again because of the goals. It doesn’t represent everything about a player.

"The reason why all great players are remembered and impressed is because of his outstanding performance on the football field, not just his goals. This is what I said to Messi!"

As for Falcao, who has made a sudden appearance after joining the team, several players in the Tottenham Hotspur team also gave high praise and praise, especially because he was regarded by many as someone who should be rejected. Regarding Falcao's Messi, he even said, "Falcao is a player with outstanding strength. He joined Tottenham Hotspur and brought us an improvement in strength. I think this is very good. It has With him here, we can score goals more easily!”

In addition, there are two quite eye-catching teams in the first round of the league: Manchester City and West Ham United.

They are both teams that spend a lot of money on signings. Manchester City and West Ham United both defeated their opponents 2:0, but the performance of both teams was not too eye-catching, especially Manchester City. Mark Hughes has obviously already It has become Manchester City's biggest obstacle.

Ranieri is very familiar with the Premier League, so his West Ham team is not flashy, but the game process is very stable. He scored three points with a stable performance, which is worthy of recognition and has made a good start for the new season. .

Due to the impact of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Premier League schedule for the new season needs to be appropriately compressed. Therefore, after the first round of the league, the second round begins directly in midweek, with Tottenham Hotspur challenging Hull City on the field.

This team, which had just embarrassed Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, returned to its home court to face Tottenham Hotspur. Phil Brown vowed before the game that he would strive to defeat the enemy at home.

But no one expected the result. Tottenham Hotspur once again defeated Hull City 5:1 cleanly.

But that’s not the most terrifying thing. What really shocked everyone was that Romedal Falcao once again scored a hat trick. He scored a hat trick in two consecutive rounds of the league, leading the Premier League with six goals. Scorer list.

All fans, reporters and professionals around the world were shocked. If they were given a scalpel, what they would want to do most now would be to cut open Romedal Falcao’s head and explore it carefully. What's going on in this center's head?

To score hat tricks in two consecutive rounds is definitely an astonishing feat, especially in a league like the Premier League. It is simply unbelievable, but he just scored, and it's not that kind of thing. It's the kind that's hard to get in, but it's very easy to get in.

In the last game against Liverpool, he scored a hat trick in the first half. This time it took a little longer. In the 55th minute of the second half, he scored his third goal of the game.

With six goals in two rounds, Falcao has almost risen rapidly in the new season in a surprising way. Especially after beating Hull City, he was elected the best player of the game and became the player of the game. The best player in the Premier League, he became the object of praise and praise from fans all over the world almost overnight.

Messi and Cesc Fabregas scored the other two goals for Tottenham Hotspur.

However, many media believe that Falcao's scoring momentum is only temporary. The reason is very simple. Messi, Ribery, Cesc Fabregas and David Silva all have goals and assists. What comes and goes has been part of Tottenham Hotspur's teamwork in the past, but Falcao scored six goals but had no assists in the first two rounds of this season.

Of course, during the game, he also tried many times to play ball for Messi, Ribery or other teammates, but the effect was obviously mediocre, let alone compared with the previous Robin van Persie, even with Cavani. No, he is inferior in this regard.

Therefore, many experts believe that even though Falcao’s scoring momentum is so strong, no one can do anything about him now, but once he fails to score, all criticism and accusations will be overwhelming. A real test for him, and for Tottenham Hotspur.

Ye Qiu, who has topped the Premier League standings with two consecutive wins, doesn't pay attention to such remarks at all. He feels that everyone does not need to dwell on such unknown things that will definitely happen, and everyone should focus on enjoying themselves. Football right now.

As for Manchester United, which lost 0:1 to newly promoted Burnley in this round of away games, Ye Qiu did not forget to add insult to injury to Ferguson, "I hope that every time I look back, I will not see Manchester United's name on the standings!"

"Because they have fallen too far!"

Who made Ferguson gloat over Tottenham's poor performance?

But as competitors, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool have won successively, Ranieri's West Ham United also won, and Mark Hughes' Manchester City lost 0:2 to Everton at home, which is not surprising at all.

In the third round of the league, Tottenham Hotspur ushered in West Ham United!