Standing in the command area of the visiting team coaches at Stamford Bridge, Wenger's mind suddenly came up with a sentence that Ye Qiu had told him, which came from Chinese, called feng shui rotation.

Arsenal, who had beaten Chelsea in the Carabao Cup final not long ago, were beaten at Stamford Bridge in a very embarrassing comeback, and in the words of the on-the-field commentators, Arsenal's performance in this game has raised concerns about their ability to qualify for next season's Champions League.

Leading in the first half and beating Didier Drogba twice in the second half, Arsene Wenger's side were almost devastated in front of the Ivory Coast Elephant Kings, and if you count this game, Wenger's side are winless in five games.

Wenger felt irritated by the cheers of the Chelsea fans who were celebrating the comeback after the game, and he felt the urge to yell and vent his anger, but he knew he couldn't.

Sometimes even he wonders, what the hell is the team all about?

Why is there such a huge difference in performance between the first half and the second half of each season?

Arsenal, who have led the Premier League all the way since the beginning of the season, and even led Arsenal for a while, after the winter break, turned out to be winless in five rounds in March, and this round was directly lost to Chelsea, which is an absolute disaster for a team that aims to win the title, and even everyone can already pronounce Arsenal's death sentence

A month ago, Arsenal were league leaders, but now a month later, they are fourth in the league, could there be a greater disaster? Is there anything worse than that?

With the defeat to Chelsea in this round, Arsenal still maintained 67 points, while Chelsea successfully reversed and got 68 points, Tottenham Hotspur beat Portsmouth 0 at home in this round and got 73 points, and Manchester United also beat their opponents smoothly and got 75 points.

After Arsenal, Liverpool are 59 points, Everton is 57 points, both teams are still a little far from Arsenal, and the Premier League has seven rounds left, if Arsenal does not get out of the current predicament as soon as possible, with the team's poor record in the past month, there will be no suspense about losing Champions League qualification.

With a team that can drop eleven points in five games, who's to say they won't be worse off next?

In fact, Wenger is not without seeing the team's problems, Arsenal has been in a critical moment in recent years, especially since Vieira's departure, the team's midfield has always had problems, but more importantly, Arsenal has failed to find their soul core on the field.

From a tactical point of view, the heart of Arsenal should be Arteta, the Spaniard has performed very well, both in the Arsenal midfield in terms of organization and passing, and has been active in running, very hard in defence, has already won places, but he is a newcomer, and he is low-key by nature, not a big name.

Captain Gallas is the biggest star in the team, but the centre-back has a lot of problems in his own right, and in this game against Drogba, twice Gallas had problems, once on the roof and once in the box chaos, Drogba seized the opportunity.

How can such a player, such a performance, convince the public?

In fact, from the perspective of a team, the soul core player is not necessary, for example, Manchester United does not have a soul core now, Ferguson is the soul of Manchester United, the core of Manchester United, and Tottenham Hotspur, this team can rise so quickly, in addition to the strength of the players themselves, but also because Ye Qiu in the shortest possible time, the team has become what he wants, he is the soul core of Tottenham Hotspur.

But as the core of Arsenal's soul, Wenger's personality and temper are relatively soft, and his character is naturally transmitted to Arsenal, so many people say that Arsenal's football skills are more than enough, but the strength is insufficient.

Since Campbell, the central defender has been Arsenal's heart disease, Gallas and Kolo Toure are both the kind of central defenders who help to defend and fill the position, high ball and frontal defense are their weaknesses, so Gallas used to partner Terry, Kolo Toure partnered Campbell, they can all perform well, but now the two are combined together, and the performance is terrible.

Senderos had high hopes for Arsene Wenger, but the player has completely lost his confidence under the ravages of Drogba.

There is also the midfield, after Vieira, when Gilberto Silva was playing, Arsenal's midfield problems were not very big, but as Gilberto Silva gradually withdrew from the main position, the performance of several young players who replaced him was difficult to reassure, even Flamini, who was more known for his running and mobility, and his defensive skills were relatively weak.

In the same way, Tottenham Hotspur's teaming up is much more reasonable.

Ye Qiu's front court actively pays attention to the on-the-spot counter-robbery, and the midfield runs without the ball to form an effective cutting of the opponent's ball as the main defensive means, but in the midfield drag back position, there is a Mascherano, the Argentine's defensive ability is very good, after the midfield cutting and interception, if there is a fish that slips through the net, he can give a good interception.

Once the opponent can still pass through the midfield and reach the defensive line, both wings have been put in place, Hangrande is good at frontal defense, excellent high-altitude ball ability, excellent confrontation ability, even in the face of Drogba, not far behind, and Thiago Silva was criticized for his ability to defend high, but his performance has also improved a lot in recent times, and he is obviously adapting quickly to the Premier League.

One tall and one short, Tottenham Hotspur's two central defenders are very reasonably matched whether it is from physical confrontation, frontal defense, or from the help defense to fill the position, turn and chase back, and there is also a large defensive area behind the defensive line, the Czech goalkeeper Peter Cech, who has performed almost perfectly in the past two years.

In such a reasonable layout from front to back, Tottenham Hotspur's strength is definitely underestimated.

On the other hand, Arsenal, in the past two or three years, Wenger has had to take the younger route due to the team's finances, reduce the team's salary expenses, tap some potential young players, and Wenger's preference for technical players, which makes the main squad not very strong in playing tough battles, and the depth of the bench is seriously insufficient, which has caused the current predicament of Arsenal.

Thinking of this, Wenger exhaled helplessly, turned his head sideways, looked at his assistant Pete Rice, and both of them showed a wry smile, because Arsenal really didn't have money, but no money to transfer.

There was once a media break that Arsenal has enough cash, but as Ye Qiu said, which club has no cash support? With Arsenal's current serious debt, and with the arrival of the subprime mortgage crisis, the heavy pressure brought by the loan of the Highbury real estate development project, there is not enough money to reserve, and if you are not careful, you may have to go bankrupt.

Peter Rice reluctantly patted Arsene Wenger on the shoulder and comforted the old partner, because everyone could see that there was nothing left for Arsenal to win the Premier League title this season, and the rest was the battle between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur.

Who would have thought that at the beginning of the season, this would be the case?

Wenger raised his head, looked at the night sky and muttered, "Ye Qiu, hum, what a TND bastard"

Ye Qiu didn't know that someone was scolding him, because after playing Portsmouth, he was busy summarizing and evaluating the strength of Portsmouth with the coaching staff, and the strength of Redknapp's team was still quite strong.

Pompeii are also Tottenham Hotspur's opponents in the FA Cup semi-finals.

It's really surprising to say that Portsmouth's FA Cup quarterfinals eliminated Alex Ferguson's Manchester United, and this year's FA Cup is really a veritable hotbed of underdogs, the other two teams are also from the Championship, namely Barnsley and Cardiff, of which Barnsley is really the underdog, they have eliminated Liverpool and Chelsea, but the problem is that this team is currently in the relegation zone in the Championship.

So, sometimes football is really weird enough that you can't figure out what's going to happen to him.

A week later, in the 32nd round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Newcastle 4L at home, and the Magpies have long since lost the true colors of the Premier League powerhouse, and now the Magpies are still the most popular team among local fans in England, but the competitiveness is much less than before.

However, when it comes to the decline of the Magpies, many people may still mention the famous Premier League god of decline, Souness

It was also in this round that Arsenal finally played a hard-fought game, after falling behind Bolton Wanderers twice in the first half, they scored three goals in the second half to complete a beautiful comeback and claim their first three points in the last six games.

Nothing was happier than Arsene Wenger, who was so full of praise for the victory that he even snapped up the slogan of an epic comeback.

But the outside world is not at all satisfied with Arsenal's current state and situation, you know, this team was the leader of the Premier League more than a month ago, but now it has been reduced to the extent that even a team like Bolton Wanderers entangled in the relegation zone needs to be reversed, how can Arsenal fans be happy? How can it be satisfied?

After the 32nd round of the Premier League, the Champions League once again ushered in the first leg of the quarterfinals, the most eye-catching of which was the matchup between Tottenham Hotspur and AC Milan, which was also the game that countless fans had high hopes before the game, thinking that it would be a wonderful matchup.

But like all high-profile and high-anticipated matches, the more such games often become, the worse they look, and in the end the two sides ended in a 00-00 draw, and the best player of the game was AC Milan's main central defender Maldini.

From Maldini being elected the best of the match, it is not difficult to see the advantages and disadvantages of both sides in this game, Tottenham Hotspur is still actively playing its own advantages even when it is away, rather than taking defensive counterattacks, because Ye Qiu knows very well that attack is Tottenham's strength, and he also wants to try the level of AC Milan's aging backline.

As early as before the game, many media broke the news that Tottenham Hotspur's preparation focus revolves around the Premier League, and the Champions League has been placed on the back burner, and in fact, Ye Qiu did not do his best at the San Siro Stadium, but made appropriate rotations, such as Ashavin replaced Fabregas, and Yaya Toure replaced Mascherano to start.

AC Milan's squad is ageing and currently only fifth in Serie A, and it is questionable whether they will qualify for next season's Champions League, but they have excelled in the Champions League with their wealth of experience.

Once again, their experience played a key role in this game, successfully adopting the strategy of slow to fast and static braking, making it difficult for Tottenham Hotspur's attack to create a direct threat, thanks to AC Milan's very solid chain defence, especially the cooperation between the players and their sense of position, which are very accurate.

It wasn't until the latter stages of the second half that some confusion came to light, but Tottenham Hotspur were exhausted by AC Milan and were no longer capable of playing effective and fast attacks.

In fact, last season, AC Milan eliminated Manchester United by adopting a strategy of playing slow and fast, which made Manchester United lose its sharpness, but a year has passed, and AC Milan a year ago still has the ability to fight back, but a year later, AC Milan is no longer capable of organizing an effective counterattack.

Even in order to save this draw, AC Milan's main central defender Nesta fought until he went down due to injury, and it is still unknown whether he can participate in the second leg.

For Tottenham Hotspur to get a draw away, the outside world is generally disappointed, but also full of expectations, hoping that Tottenham Hotspur can return to White Hart Lane and defeat AC Milan in one fell swoop, and Ye Qiu also immediately held a coaching staff meeting early the next morning after the team returned to Theobald training base.

"I want to give it a try"

In the coaching room, Ye Qiu faced his group of core coaching staff members, and he said this, it should be said that everyone present could almost guess it, so after he finished speaking, everyone was laughing, and no one was surprised.

"When we were having breakfast in the restaurant just now, Roland was still saying that there was probably going to be a meeting" René Muhrensteen looked at Roland Shepas with a smile, this Dutch fat man was called the roundworm in Ye Qiu's stomach.

Disgusting is a little disgusting, but he guessed that Ye Qiu's mind was indeed very accurate.

"Now the situation is very favorable to us, and it has even exceeded our expectations, hasn't it?" Ye Qiu smiled and explained the reason why he suddenly decided to change the original game plan, because the situation has been changing, and it would be a pity if he remained the same and insisted on the plan he had drawn up before.

Roland also stood up at this time, "There is only one week between the first leg and the second leg, we have to play the FA Cup semi-finals, the opponent is Portsmouth, this game we can arrange the substitute to play, and concentrate all the main players to prepare for the second leg next week. ”

"But AC Milan obviously can't, they have to play Juventus at the weekend, the Bianconeri are currently third in Serie A, and AC Milan are fifth, both teams need to fight for Champions League qualification next season, so no one will be easy to stay, and this situation is obviously beneficial for us in the second leg next week, which is AC Milan's opponents."

After Peter Brandt listened, he also nodded: "AC Milan players are seriously aging, such teams often reach the second half, physical fitness is a problem, especially when the schedule is intensive, we can all see that last night's game, the last moment AC Milan players obviously do not have much physical fitness, if they play Juventus on the weekend and do their best, next week to the White Hart Lane stadium, how much combat effectiveness can they play?" ”

The San Siro Stadium is an away stadium, and Tottenham Hotspur's away performance in the Champions League is relatively average, which has a certain relationship with the team's lack of experience, but the team's combat effectiveness at the White Hart Lane Stadium is something that no team dares to underestimate, because Tottenham Hotspur is the most offensive team in Europe this season.

The two right-hand men both came up with evidence to support themselves, and Ye Qiu also smiled confidently, "If we give it a go, I am confident that I will defeat AC Milan at the White Hart Lane Stadium."

Although this is Tottenham's first Champions League participation in recent decades, Tottenham Hotspur's performance has always improved rapidly from last season's UEFA Cup to this season's Champions League group stage, and this team's fighting power is not bad, far from the kind of team that is an expert in the internal war and an outsider.

This is also due to the fact that the team's coaching staff has a lot of experience in Champions League matches, which makes them very good at guiding the players.

Of course, the game still has to be played by the players, but there is an experienced coaching staff on the side, which makes Tottenham Hotspur's progress very fast, plus the team itself has enough strength, so it is not surprising that Ye Qiu said that he wants to play at home against AC Milan, on the contrary, if this happens, Ye Qiu is not confident, it is a big problem.

'Beat AC Milan to reach the semi-finals is the best Champions League result in Tottenham Hotspur's history,' Peter Brandt said with a smile.

Tottenham Hotspur had played in the UEFA Champions League as the champions of England's top flight in the U-season, which at the time was only available to league champions, with very few teams participating, and Tottenham Hotspur also reached the semi-finals but were eliminated by Portuguese Premier League side Benfica.

'It's hard to see the semi-final opponents at the moment, Chelsea drew at Liverpool in the first leg, it's hard to say who will win and who will lose, but if you meet Benitez again, are you sure?' Roland was purely joking with Ye Qiu.

Ye Qiu shook his head helplessly and funny, losing to Liverpool in the Champions League final was indeed the worst defeat in his coaching career, and Tottenham Hotspur's results against Liverpool this season were not ideal.

If Tottenham Hotspur's number one opponent this season is Manchester United, because Tottenham Hotspur has two consecutive defeats against Manchester United, followed by Liverpool, both teams are difficult opponents.

"Let's talk about reaching the semi-finals" Ye Qiu smiled, "Liverpool's attacking problems this season are very serious, and after the introduction of Torres, the team's problems have not been fundamentally solved, so they will have so many draws in the Premier League, and whether they meet Liverpool or Chelsea, I firmly believe that we can reach the final"

At least Ye Qiu has this kind of confidence, as long as it is a Premier League team, Tottenham Hotspur is not afraid of anyone, even Manchester United

Hearing Ye Qiu say this, the group of assistants present didn't say anything more.

Tottenham Hotspur is under pressure in the Premier League, and they have to chase Manchester United, if they really do their best to play in the Champions League, it may really affect the performance of the league, but now this situation is a huge temptation for any team, for any manager, because frankly, the possibility of reaching the Champions League final is really greater than the possibility of winning the Premier League.

Of course, the premise is to lose AC Milan