Beckham's injury has had a big impact on Tottenham's midfield.

Although the team did not give their best in the Carabao Cup in midweek, Manchester City also played on a semi-substitute line-up, and Tottenham Hotspur, who were also a mix of substitutes and youth teams, beat Manchester City 0 away.

This season, Ye Qiu has transferred several young players in the team to the first team and trained with the first team, such as Ramsey, Eden Hazzard, Kyle Walker, these three players basically train with the first team, but they either play in the youth team and the reserve team, or play in the League Cup, or occasionally come off the bench.

For the cultivation of young players, Ye Qiu feels that he can't be in a hurry, but he can't be too slow.

Wenger and Ferguson can be said to be two completely different ways of training, Wenger in Arsenal because of the financial impact, as well as Wenger's own personality problems, so Arsenal's young players often take charge early, but the problem is that such an early promotion of young players to play the main team, a bit of a suspicion of pulling seedlings, and also affecting Arsenal's results.

Don't look at the top of the current Arsenal rankings, but everyone knows that Arsene Wenger's main squad is that set, those young players are simply overwhelmed, once the schedule is intensive, the team's results will be affected, so now the top favorite to win the league is Manchester United, Arsenal is close behind, Liverpool is in third, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea are tied for fourth.

It's not that I underestimated Tottenham Hotspur, a very important reason is that Tottenham Hotspur lacks the experience to win the championship, and with Beckham injured and missing the entire intensive winter schedule, the impact on Tottenham Hotspur is very significant, but this year's Ye Qiu obviously does not plan to make up for it during the winter break, because there is not enough time

Instead of introducing players again, for Ye Qiu, it is better to carve Modric well.

Ferguson's way of developing young players is the opposite of Wenger, he has always been worried about pulling out seedlings, so he generally entrusts young players with important responsibilities around the age of the year, so he brought in Nani and Anderson this season, but these two players have not been reused and cultivated in the Manchester United team this season.

As for Evans, another 19-year-old central defender, although Ferguson and the coaching staff are very optimistic about this player, even now, Ferguson still does not plan to focus on cultivating him, but intends to loan him out of Lu.

Of course, on the one hand, this is also because the central defender combination of Vidic and Ferdinand is getting stronger and stronger, but it is undeniable that in Ye Qiu's previous life, Gerrard Pique finally chose to return to Barcelona, and even Paul Pogba went to Juventus, which has a certain relationship with Ferguson's cultivation of young players.

Many people say that Arsenal is good at developing young players, but don't just stare at those few finished products, but should see how many young talents are lost in the Arsenal team, and Wenger's cultivation method is one of the important reasons.

But Ferguson's cultivation method of wanting to wait until the players are mature and then reuse and sculpt them is gradually not in line with the current rules of players, after all, with the development and progress of science and technology, players will become more and more precocious, and they need enough games and exercises to accumulate experience, especially for some precocious players with more independent personalities.

So many times, in some games that Ye Qiu is more sure of, he directly takes the youth team to play as a substitute, and then gives twenty or thirty minutes a game, or even just lets them go up and play for ten minutes, which is a kind of exercise for them, a kind of exercise that is familiar with the intensity of the Premier League and Champions League games.

According to Ye Qiu, you can't pull out the seedlings to help them grow, but you can't heat them too slowly, adopt China's golden mean, and go to the middle.

How to grasp the scale in this depends on the trade-off between Ye Qiu and the coaching staff.

After playing Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur ushered in another north London derby, but this time they lost to Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, because in this game, Ye Qiu arranged the center-back combination of Kompany and Thiago Silva, and as a result, Adebayor and Bendtner scored two goals, both knocking on the Tottenham Hotspur goal.

Although Van Persie helped the team score in the middle, he still lost the game in the end.

After the game, the media gave a strong rebuke to Tottenham Hotspur's two central defenders, Thiago Silva's performance of high school strikers like Drogba and Adebayo is average, which is already a consensus, but Kompany, who started in place of Hangrande in this game, can also not suppress Arsenal's two high school forwards, which is indeed unsatisfactory.

There are even many fans and media who have called for the team to consider recalling Ledley King, who could not play at Chelsea, or let Ye Qiu reuse Mike Dawson, at least the frontal defensive ability of the England central defender is still very good.

Tottenham Hotspur have not responded to the outside world, but there have also been a number of internal divisions.

How terrifying the devil's schedule is around Christmas, the players were already familiar with it last season, and Ye Qiu has always said that the schedule around Christmas will seriously affect a team's entire season, which is a Premier League feature.

Therefore, in the last game before Christmas, especially in a major game such as the north London derby, the loss to Arsenal, a sworn enemy, has affected the atmosphere within the team to some extent, and many media and reporters in the outside world have given doubts about the performance of individual players, which has invisibly increased some pressure.

As the head coach of the team, Ye Qiu himself is also under pressure, because after losing to Arsenal, the team fell out of the top four and fell to fifth, which is like a holiday for the English media, especially after Tottenham Hotspur has just won the future ownership of the London Olympic stadium.

Whether to bring in reinforcements during the winter break is not only in the outside world, the opinions of fans and journalists are divided into two factions, and even the coaching staff in the Tottenham Hotspur team also has different opinions, some people feel that they should be introduced, especially the introduction of a high-level central defender, after all, there is only one solid central defender in Hangrande, and Thiago Silva's performance is mixed.

Ye Qiu was in the coach's room just now, and he was rarely domineering, and directly said that during the winter break, whether it is a central defender or a midfielder, he does not plan to bring in reinforcements, especially a central defender, "I don't think there is a central defender in the transfer market who is suitable for us now, and at the same time has the conditions for introduction." ”

With this sentence, he somewhat dictatorically suppressed all other opinions and resolutely continued to trust Thiago Silva.

A very important reason for the scarcity of central defenders today is that the tactical system of European football has developed by leaps and bounds in recent years, and everyone knows very well that integration is the trend of the future, and all managers with a little foresight are transforming the team as a whole.

Perhaps in the eyes of many fans, integration is a good thing for mid-to-lower teams, and that is because fans are not clear about the situation.

The so-called integration is the pursuit of stability of one plus one is greater than or equal to two, and one is the strength of the players, so for the team, the overall strength of the team has a benefit, that is, the overall strength of the team will no longer be the same as in the past, the core players are injured, the team's performance fluctuates too much, but this is a nightmare for the middle and lower teams, because they will find that it is more and more difficult to upset, because the strength of their players cannot be compared with the strong team, and the result of integration is that the gap between the two sides is greater.

And for some players in the overall strong team, especially the scorer, it is becoming easier and easier to score goals, because the integration makes it easy for the strong team to crush the weak team, and it is naturally easier to score.

So this season, Tottenham Hotspur has scored 4l goals so far, Ribery alone has scored 14 goals, three more than the second-ranked Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo, and Van Persie has also scored 71 goals, Messi has scored U goals, and the trident has scored a total of 4l goals for Tottenham Hotspur.

But it's on the offensive level, but what about the defense? It's getting harder and harder

To a certain extent, the overall transformation of the current football offense is relatively fast, but the overall defense is a bit unable to keep up, a very important reason is that it is easier to cultivate and sculpt an offensive player than to cultivate a defensive player, and for defensive players, it is not a simple matter to change the style.

Even Ye Qiu can say that, even in 13 years, the transformation of central defenders is still in a very embarrassing stage, so if you look at the top central defenders in 2013, you will find that you can't pick out a few top central defenders, even in the giant team, there will also be many central defenders who seem to be very bad in your impression and have a very unstable performance, but they are already the main force of the giants, and they are counted among the best in the world of football.

Ye Qiu dared to say that looking at today's football, no one is more tactical far-sighted than him, because he has personally experienced all this, and he knows very well what will change in the future, so he can always be ahead of others, this time, he still has to be ahead of the training of central defenders.

But against the coaching staff, he can dictate because it's not the first time he's dictatorial, but he feels that he should talk to the players.

Coming down from the second floor of the training building, Ye Qiu plans to go to the pitching machine training room, which has become the favorite place for Tottenham Hotspur players, and the other place is the indoor football competition venue, where there will be group matches every day, and the players will also draw up some interesting rewards and punishments by themselves, such as cleaning the toilet.

But when Ye Qiu was about to walk out of the training building, he found that the people he was looking for were all in the gym, which made him feel like laughing, because he felt that the last thing the team's central defenders needed to practice was strength and confrontation.

"Where's a meeting?" Ye Qiu walked in directly.

Thiago Silva and Vincent Kompany are there, while the Belgian is still sitting on a seated chest clamp.

The two central defenders of the "head" were obviously discussing something, and as soon as they saw Ye Qiu walk in, Thiago Silva stood up for the first time, and Kompany immediately got off the chest clamp.

"Don't we have a rule that you can't use gym equipment for training without permission?" Ye Qiu's tone was a little hard.

Every piece of equipment in the gym has its own fixed role, and as a professional player, it's not that the more you practice here, the better you are, the most important thing is to be reasonable, and Tottenham Hotspur have very high requirements and management measures for that.

"We have consulted Professor Peter Brandt." Thiago Silva hastened to explain.

Ye Qiu didn't say anything more when he heard this, looked at Thiago Silva, and then at Kompany, this Belgian kid has a bald head that is really distinctive, his head shell is very big and round, and it really looks a bit like the nest melon in Plants vs. Zombies.

"If you have time, I think you should watch more game footage and practice passing and catching the ball more, especially the fast diagonal long pass on the wings." Ye Qiu gave his opinion on the two central defenders.

Thiago Silva and Kompany looked at each other and both nodded, then Kompany thought for a moment and asked, "What about our strength confrontation?" Do you think it should be strengthened? ”

After Ye Qiu heard this, he smiled, shook his head and said: "I can't say whether to strengthen or not, because for the central defender, the strength of the confrontation is definitely needed, but I think it's good to be enough, on the contrary, you have all played in many other different positions, Thiago you have played as a striker and a midfielder, and your ability to hold the ball and pass the ball is very good, and Vincent you also play in the midfield, and your ability to hold the ball is good." ”

"Do you know the way? The reason I brought you in is because I like you. ”

Both Thiago Silva and Vincent Kompany were a little surprised, Ye Qiu never told them that they would consider bringing them in, but they have always strengthened their ability to carry and play the ball.

Ye Qiu thought about it for a while, there was enough time today, so he decided to take a central defender class, so he brought paper and a pen in the gym and introduced them to the two central defenders who he was very optimistic about.

"What do you think is the most important thing for all teams to stick to the whole now? Also, if you think about it, what do you find when you look at the video footage of the game around the beginning of the century? ”

Both of them were a little unprepared by Ye Qiu's question, which was either too deep or too cold.

"I'm telling you, as more and more teams become more and more adept at controlling the whole thing, running off the ball becomes more and more important, because the attack in football is always about using its own strengths to attack the opponent's weaknesses, whereas in the past? The tactics are not strong enough, not rigorous enough, and not highly cooperable, so they rely on the individual strength of the stars and use one-on-one to create local advantages, so there are Pele, Maradona, Ronaldo and other magical performances. ”

"Because of concentrating one's most superior forces on one point, breaking through a certain point of the opponent's defensive line, and then disintegrating the entire defensive surface, creating gaps, and scoring opportunities naturally came, so the individual ability of the star in that era was very demanding, the personal ability of the offensive player, the personal ability of the defensive player, were very important, because all the offensive tactics at that time were doing everything possible to create one-on-one opportunities.

"But with the advent of the overall trend, the attacking players gradually found a problem, that is, the opponent will no longer give you one-on-one opportunities easily, the opponent will maintain the overall coordination at the tactical level, so it is difficult for you to create one-on-one easily, so Greece won the European Cup."

Thiago Silva and Kompany are just young players, and their understanding of football, especially the understanding and thinking at the core level of tactics, is not to mention compared with Ye Qiu and the coaching staff, even compared with a group of veterans such as Beckham, it is much inferior, so when they heard Ye Qiu analyze Greece's success in this way, they were full of surprise.

"After I won the championship in Greece, I said that this European Championship is going to bring a huge change to European football, and to the whole world of football, because everyone has found the advantages of football as a whole, but to play to this advantage, it will bring a new problem, which is running without the ball."

Ye Qiu is very patient, he was originally going to knock these two pieces of jade, so he must let them understand that at least he has to have a concept in his heart, that is, what kind of responsibilities Tottenham Hotspur's central defenders need to take on in the future, and what kind of system the team's defense is.

"For the attacking side, the tighter you defend, if I don't move, I will be limited by you, so I have to move, not only I have to move, but my teammates also have to move, constantly running and pulling the defensive line, so with the overall advancement, whether the player has the ball at his feet or not, he plays a pivotal role on the field."

In the past, when the tactical integrity was not strict enough, individual players were allowed to be invisible, and even Ronaldo was invisible in a game, and the most flashing goal was scored, it didn't matter, because the impact was not big, but now it is different, and now the integration is implemented, and a person's running accumulation is not active, which greatly affects the entire control of the team.

Suppose the team is compared to a whole of LL, the goalkeeper is 10 people, and the standard run is 10 kilometers, that is, the total distance traveled by a team in a game is 100 kilometers, then the question arises, what if one of the players only runs 5 kilometers?

If the team is going to maintain this control, then the five kilometers he runs will have to be shared by nine other players, or several people, or one of them, and if there are no players to share the five kilometers, the team's control will decline.

"Of course, what I'm talking about is a hypothetical concept to give a more vivid picture of how holistic football works, but I'm sure you've also experienced it yourself that football is no longer the one-on-one era of the past."

"Similar to Pele, Maradona, Ronaldo, the era of one person leading a team to completely defeat the opponent is long gone, and even I can say at the extreme, in the current football tactical system, it is impossible to have Pele and Maradona again, unless it undergoes a new round of changes in the future."

"So, think about it, all the attacking players that you've encountered, what is the most important thing about their tactics? What's the hardest thing for a defender to defend? ”

Even now, Ye Qiu didn't forget to take the test for these two young central defenders, of course, it wasn't that he couldn't answer, or that he would be deducted points if he didn't answer well, he wanted them to think about this problem for themselves.