In the past, Tottenham Hotspur's recruitment was more completed before the team's training camp, but this summer's situation is a bit special, affected by the World Cup in South Africa, Tottenham Hotspur's recruitment was a bit delayed, resulting in the last player Raul to enter the team at the end of July.

Because of this, the Amsterdam Invitational Tournament held in the Netherlands became the first collective appearance of the Tottenham Hotspur first team, and considering that the other two teams participating in the Amsterdam Invitational Tournament are Roma from Serie A and Villarreal from La Liga, the warm-up is still very high, and it is a good test for Tottenham Hotspur.

In July, Tottenham Hotspur played a total of three warm-up matches, two of which were against Celtic from the lower divisions of England and one against Celtic from the Soviet Super League.

And just when everyone was looking forward to Tottenham Hotspur's first main squad debut, Ye Qiu did not use the full main squad in the first game against Villarreal in Amsterdam.

Goalkeeper Petr Cech, Alba, Kompany, Nastasic and Kyle Walker at the back, Philippe Coutinho, Yaya Toure and Aaron Ramsey in midfield, and Neymar, Raul and Ribery up front.

This disappointed some Dutch fans who wanted to see Messi, because Ye Qiu did not even put Messi, Cesc Fabregas, David Silva and other players into the squad for the game, which means that they will not play in this game.

Despite playing with a number of substitutes, Tottenham Hotspur did not perform badly in the game at all.

At the beginning of the game, Tottenham Hotspur showed a strong desire to attack, especially the two midfielders of Tottenham Hotspur, eighteen-year-old Coutinho and nineteen-year-old Ramsey, with the support of Yaya Toure, showed excellent organization and ball delivery ability, delivering shells to teammates in the front court again and again.

Coutinho, in particular, started for Tottenham Hotspur for the first time, and although it was a warm-up game, the 18-year-old Brazilian midfielder was ambitious to play more games in the Tottenham Hotspur team in the new season, so he showed his excellent individual ability and strong desire to play.

After adapting to the opening game in the first half, the Brazilian teenager quickly showed his threat with the ball in the midfield, and once a left-footed pass of more than 20 meters to the ground was sharply torn apart by Villarreal's defense, and fell accurately to the feet of Raul at the edge of the penalty area.

This was Raul's first game since he officially joined Tottenham Hotspur, and he only participated in two Tottenham Hotspur team training sessions in total, but Raul looked like he didn't need to go through the run-in at all, plug-and-play.

I saw the soul of Spain in the past, at the top of the arc of the penalty area, pulled out the opponent's central defender, leaned on the opponent with his body, when everyone thought he would stop Coutinho's beautiful through ball, he chose not to stop, and picked the ball directly to his left side with his left foot.

The cross went past the defender, and Ribery on the right quickly cut into the box, headed in front of him, and then fired a low shot with his right foot, but it was just wide of the goal.

Although he failed to score, Ribery ran to Raul's side when he walked back, stretched out his hand to high-five Raul, and his mouth was obviously praising Raul's beautiful kick, very comfortable, and more importantly, very sudden.

As early as the team's training, everyone was surprised to find that Raul was very much in line with Tottenham Hotspur's tactical style both in terms of awareness and technique, his one-touch ability was quite good, and his off-ball running and coordination awareness, as well as his ability to understand the game were very outstanding.

Of course, as you get older and more experienced, your consciousness will naturally improve.

Didn't you see Manchester United's veteran Paul Scholes, who had the same passing and playmaking awareness he has when he was younger?

Ye Qiu has mentioned many times in the team that the most important thing for a professional player is to keep learning and improving, and he admires Raul's agility when he plays, which is not simply an innate talent, but continuous learning, continuous accumulation, the kind of interspersed running that makes defenders extremely passive, and the effect of excellent passing.

Many players are accustomed to being passive in running without the ball, that is, according to the position of the defending side, find out the weaknesses and weak links, I run out of your control, or go to the weak area of your defense to meet teammates, the purpose is to ensure the team's cohesion, the most direct and effective way is to run away from the defender's area.

This is the most common way to run without the ball because it's simple and easy to learn.

There is also an active run, he doesn't worry about what kind of layout your defense is, because he has only one purpose, to find out your loopholes, and to impact your loopholes, in the art of war, is to hit the area that the enemy has to defend, and in doing so, it forces your defenders to dismantle and fill in the gaps no matter how well organized and solid the previous defense line is.

It's hard to run off the ball because he demands a lot of quality from his players, but if you have the ability to run off the ball, no matter how bad your skills are, you can still rely on this ability to become one of the top stars, such as AC Milan's Inzaghi.

Inzaghi's technical abilities can even be described as terrible, but why has he been able to achieve what he is today?

Many people say that Inzaghi is a fox in the penalty area, and some people evaluate him as a hunter who survives on the offside line, but in fact, in the final analysis, he is evaluating his awareness of running without the ball.

Ye Qiu's player Huntelaar in the Ajax period is a very traditional finisher, Ye Qiu has always believed that Huntelaar is a bit out of time, he also has a very good ability to run off the ball, and his stopping and basic skills are quite solid, and his shooting skills are also typical Dutch goalscorers, but the problem is that modern football is difficult to accommodate such classical goalscorers.

Raul is also quite a star who can run actively off the ball, not even losing to Inzaghi at all, but what is even more commendable is that he has top-level skills and awareness, as a traditional nine-and-a-half player, Raul has adapted well to the transformation of modern tactics, he can cover the attacking area in the most difficult way for opponents to defend, because he has the kind of insight that a top midfielder has into the space of the field, so he can make very subtle passes with the ball up front.

It's like Raul just dropped back to pick up Coutinho's pass, frankly, Coutinho's pass was beautiful, but Raul received it even more beautifully, because he not only received, but also passed a wonderful pass that the defender didn't expect at all, and even Ribery himself couldn't think of it, so that Ribery himself was a little unexpected.

But if you look closely, you can see that Raul doesn't look at Ribery's running at all.

You're going to think it's ridiculous, right? How do you discover the route that Ribery runs without looking? And his speed? How do you give such a precise pass? And it's also the most difficult to control pick?

This must be mentioned as a misunderstanding that many fans have, and that is the eyes

I still remember that when Ye Qiu heard Van Basten training Ibrahimovic and Huntelaar, Van Basten once said that if you want to become a top goalscorer, you must have a basic condition, that is, to master the position of defenders and goalkeepers at the moment of shooting, as well as to predict them during the period when you complete the shooting action.

But you know, this is just a foundation, and only with this ability can you qualify as a top shooter.

But Van Basten added that on top of that, all top goalscorers must possess some other qualities, such as shooting skills and footwork, which Tottenham Hotspur's main centre-forward Falcao was one of the best active players last season.

But in Van Basten's view, the most lethal goalscorer is to have the basics and then have excellent footwork, but at the same time have to know how to deceive goalkeepers and defenders.

In the simplest terms, you have to use your body, eyes, posture, movements as much as possible at the moment of finishing the shot, and even you tell the goalkeeper that I want to shoot your left, and then deceive the goalkeeper and defenders, but in fact you shoot to the right, then you have succeeded

It's actually no secret that a lot of teams are now training scorers and telling them that when shooting, don't look in the direction you want to shoot, look in the opposite direction, it's become a routine.

But whether you can do well, or whether you can succeed, is the measure of a player's quality.

It's like Raul just now, he didn't look at Ribery at all, but the problem is that every move of Villarreal's defenders, Ribery's every move, is like a video, playing in Raul's mind, he doesn't need to watch it, he can clearly grasp everything around him, and then pass the ball.

This is the true embodiment of Raul's strength and value

Messi sat in the stands of the Arena Stadium, and he watched Raul's every move on the pitch very clearly, which was a task that Ye Qiu had assigned to him before, not only him, but also other players, even the players on the bench.

Ye Qiu once talked to Messi, he felt that with Messi's technical skills, it was a pity to put on the side, and he should come to the middle.

As a professional player, Raul's weakness and shortcomings are speed and physical confrontation, Messi's skills are also top-notch, his physical confrontation ability is also quite good, and his starting speed and explosiveness are also outstanding, but what he lacks is Raul's kind of ability, which is comfortable between the defense line and the midfield line, and the ability to control the overall situation.

In his previous life in Barcelona, Messi played in the middle of the frontcourt, but in fact, his weakness in perceiving space and finding holes in the defense line is also obvious, but he relies on the effect and role of Barcelona's huge system, using his teammates around him to intersperse and run around Messi, covering up this problem to the greatest extent, so it will be said later that strangling Messi is equivalent to curbing Barcelona's attack.

The reason why this is the case is because the combination of Messi and other Barcelona players is a combination of 10FL, rather than a collaborative fusion of eleven players, and now Ye Qiu hopes that Messi can have more contact, learn more from Raul, and learn more valuable experience from Raul, so as to strengthen his own strength.

Not only Messi, but also Ribery, Neymar, Cavani, Cesc Fabregas, David Silva and others, Ye Qiu feels that if everyone in the team has Raul's awareness and ability, then Tottenham Hotspur will be invincible.

Of course, this is pure YY, and it is impossible to achieve it at all, but Ye Qiu feels that he should work hard and forge ahead in this direction.

If Messi still didn't believe Ye Qiu's words before, after all, Raul has not had any too convincing performances in recent years, but through the previous internal training and today's game, Messi believed it

Only those who play football, especially professional football, can understand how precious it is for Raul to make some moves like that

In Ye Qiu's view, the biggest role of veterans and veterans is that they are old and experienced, and Ye Qiu has introduced veterans who are very good in professionalism and self-discipline like Beckham and Raul, who can set the best example for the young players in the team and bring valuable experience to the young players

For example, players including Alves, Marcelo, Kyle Walker and others are working crosses, including Ribery, Messi, David Silva and others are all practicing free kicks, which is actually influenced by Beckham, and the Englishman has been practicing alone after every training session, and this trend of extra training has even affected the youth team.

Because in Theobold, Ye Qiu transferred several young players from the youth team to the first team to train together every once in a while丨As a result, they brought the trend of the first team to the youth team, which formed a very unique training atmosphere for Theobold.

Tottenham Hotspur played Villarreal and Raul couldn't get on the scoresheet in the end, but he was a good link up front for Tottenham Hotspur's attack, he appeared up front, created space for his teammates, and was also able to pass good balls.

In the end, Tottenham Hotspur beat Villarreal thanks to goals from Neymar and Ramsey.

Among them, Neymar's goal came from Ribery's diagonal cross, and Ramsey's goal came from Coutinho's through ball.

In this game, Tottenham Hotspur's two new Brazilian youngsters performed eye-catching, Neymar was very active in the front, and Coutinho's passing in the midfield was also very threatening, but these two Brazilian youngsters also have shortcomings, such as physical fitness needs to be improved, especially the strength of the upper limbs, which is enough to play in Brazil, but in the European professional league, especially in the fast-paced Premier League, it seems very thin.

After Tottenham Hotspur beat Villarreal, Ajax also used home advantage to beat Roma, while Tottenham Hotspur's Brazilian youngster Lucas Mora, who was on loan at Ajax, assisted Suarez for the game's winning goal, which also made the Brazilian teenager famous.

In the second round of matches on the second day, Tottenham Hotspur faced Ajax.

Tottenham Hotspur's starting line-up for this game was only a minor tweak to the first game.

All the international players who came back from the World Cup in South Africa are still in the process of tight physical reserves and adjustments, so Ye Qiu does not plan to arrange them to play now, so including Messi and others, they still failed to enter the squad.

Ajax's attacking combination, Hulk, Suarez and Lucas Mora kept attacking Tottenham Hotspur's defence at the beginning of the game, and soon took advantage of Hulk's header to break through the Tottenham Hotspur goal, which was another assist from Lucas Mora.

Seeing Alba being shaken to the ground by Lucas O Mora, the coaching staff such as Ye Qiu and Mauro O Tasotti felt a little funny, not that Alba was not capable, but that Lucas O Mora's style of play was very strange.

"I always feel that the style of playing football of Brazilians and their rhythm is very strange" Ye Qiu felt that it was difficult to understand, perhaps this strangeness was not only reflected in casualness, because he always felt that Brazilians were either suddenly faster than you or suddenly slower than you, which always made you a little unable to keep up, a very awkward feeling.

Not only Lucas Mora, but also Coutinho, Neymar, Marcelo and Alves, as well as others like Robinho, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, etc., are also the same, and even Rivaldo and Kaka, who are known as the most European style of play, also have such a unique weirdness.

They may have a bit of a problem with European players, but with European players or players from South America, they are very skilful and fluent, just like Lucas Mora's cross just now, it was obviously a slow beat, Suarez rushed over, he hadn't passed it yet, but Hulk seemed to be waiting to take his pass.

Perhaps, this is the result of players born in the same culture

In the end, Tottenham Hotspur lost 0l to Ajax and received their first defeat of the summer

For the team's regrettable loss to Ajax, Ye Qiu feels that there is nothing to say, Ajax's strength is not bad, especially the attacking combination in the front, in the second half, if it were not for Ye Qiu replacing Alba with Nastasic and limiting the active Lucas Mora, Tottenham Hotspur would have conceded more goals.

There is no way around it, Lucas Mora is now holding back his strength to prove himself against Tottenham Hotspur in the hope of being able to break into Tottenham's first team next summer, so the Amsterdam Invitational has become his best stage.

Tottenham Hotspur's return to London soon ushered in the Community Shield against Chelsea.