Chairman Mao once wrote such a poem, it is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to become a famous overlord.

This is a mild way of saying it, and if it is a crude way of putting it, it is to beat the water dogs.

There are a lot of people who are summing up the experience of playing against Tottenham Hotspur, and there are even a lot of managers who will talk to each other and summarize with each other, and they think that the two toughest periods of playing Tottenham Hotspur are one before the goal and the other after the goal.

Tottenham Hotspur are very good at blitzkrieg, and they are also very good at attacking, and the attacking means are varied, so it is a bit difficult to defend well before scoring a goal, because you can't guess when they will score, but after a goal, organize the team's defense, which becomes a must for all managers who face Tottenham Hotspur.

The north London team is really good at playing with rhythm and momentum, and when they score, they tend to have the best rhythm and momentum, so they tend to play the sharpest and most threatening attacking at this time.

Of course, you can choose to go head-to-head and use the re-kick-off opportunity to attack your opponents in turn and contain their frenzied attack, but if you want to take out Tottenham Hotspur in a hard-nosed attack, any team will have to weigh whether they have the quality and weight to do so.

Rafael Benitez was a guest at White Hart Lane and was prepared for everything that could happen during the game, even telling his players before the game what they should do if they were scored by Tottenham Hotspur, so the Liverpool players were patient after conceding the first goal.

After the restart, they began to consciously stabilize the tempo and deliberately slow it down.

Everyone knows that Tottenham Hotspur want to speed up the tempo and play their own attacking momentum, so I'll slow down the tempo, wear off the sharpness that comes with your goal, and then slowly play with you.

Rafael Benitez was on the sidelines and was asking his players to be patient, as they were only one goal down.

Liverpool is a very tenacious team with a tough temperament, but Benitez's ability to control is unquestionable, so Liverpool began to want to maintain patient control at the back, slowly and logically back and forth.

Tottenham Hotspur's frontcourt players were clearly aware of this, so they began to consciously press forward.

If you carefully analyze the attack and defense of Tottenham Hotspur in the past, especially the rhythm in attack and pressing, it is not difficult to find that this team is very good at playing rhythm, not only in attack, but also in defense.

For example, it is also a front-court pressing, they don't just run as soon as they come up, and they don't rush with their lives.

No, they're starting to look more like they're bouncing a shot, especially the front three, and they don't press hard, but that doesn't mean they don't work hard, because if you feel like they're not putting effort into defending or you're being too careless, you're done.

When they realize that they can entangle you and create opportunities, they will suddenly increase their speed and pace.

It was as if at this time, Skrtel was a little hesitant to get the ball, Cavani originally just wanted to block his way forward, but seeing that Skrtel did not pass the ball out in time, he immediately accelerated his speed and went close.

Skrtel is a central defender, just now I always thought that Cavani's defense was more like a perfunctory defense, and now suddenly pounced, he quickly distributed the ball to the left, but at this time Messi also quickly pressed Jose? Enrique, who also didn't dare to stick to the ball, passed it back to Skrtel.

But the problem is that at this time, Cavani is ambushing near here, Skrtel does not dare to stick to the ball anymore, and once again touches the ball to Lucas in front, and Tottenham Hotspur's entire midfield has increased the speed of pressing.

Through this change of pace, fast and slow, you are at a loss whether you are defending or attacking, this is one of the methods that Tottenham Hotspur is best at, and it is also the so-called rhythm that the opponent feels the most headache.

Just like Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, who was forced to rush by the sudden acceleration, chased the ball to the midfield and passed it in a row, and there was another mistake, Ramsey followed Gerrard from the right side to the middle, and forcibly stabbed the ball at the feet of the Liverpool captain, although Gerrard fell to the ground, the referee thought it was not a foul.

Ramsey quickly dribbled the ball forward, a straight ball, Ribery pulled to the right side of the Liverpool defense to get the ball, stopped, and then passed the ball forward again, at this time Messi in the middle rushed over at a very fast speed, forming a typical middle cut, after taking the ball, he stepped into the big penalty area, and Liverpool Carragher and Glenn? Johnson's two defenders were drawn in.

Edinson Cavani is far behind, Javier who is back in the defense? Martinez is an inextricable Uruguayan who sticks to him.

Messi rushed to the left side of the penalty area, and seeing that he couldn't get rid of the defender, he went down to the bottom line and suddenly knocked back, Ribery received the ball from the edge of the penalty area, and hit a curling shot with his right foot.

In this position, Ribery, who cut inside on the left side, didn't know how many shots he scored, how to hit the goal in this area is the most threatening, Ribery is definitely the most experienced player, so when this kick was played, Ribery rushed out of the penalty area, and the ball did not disappoint him, drilling into the upper right corner of the goal, the absolute sense of the dead corner, 2:0!

"There's no way, there's really no way, Liverpool have made too many passing errors!"

Andy? Gray's only feeling about the game so far is, how exactly did Liverpool pass the ball?

Two attacks in a row, in less than three minutes, were scored twice by Tottenham Hotspur, and the results were almost the same, all from the midfield pass error was broken after the counterattack, and the organization and planning of the two times were different, but the target was two ribs.

Messi's goal just now was in the left rib, and now Ribery's goal is in the right rib, just a little closer to the middle, which shows that all the attacks of Tottenham Hotspur are the same, still playing interspersed and pulling, or making a fuss on the side and in the middle.

"In fact, if you want to score goals in a football game, the key is to consider how to get close to the goal, so almost all the goals come from the two ribs or the middle, Liverpool's defense is really not enough to protect the two ribs and the middle, of course, you can also say that Tottenham Hotspur is too good interspersed!"

Slow motion is replaying the goal process just now, everyone can clearly see that Ribery and Messi have a tacit understanding, Messi cut diagonally from the middle to the left, Ribery immediately distributed the ball in front of Messi, and the Argentine stopped the ball and entered the big penalty area, which attracted the attention of Liverpool's defenders.

But Messi's point at this time is to attract the role and effect of defensive firepower. Johnson and Carragher drew in and immediately knocked back to Ribery, who was unguarded and hit a right-footed shot.

Interestingly, judging from the slow-motion replay, if Ribery had slowed down a little more, even if it was just a pause, Gerrard would have returned, but at this point, it may have only been half a second, and Ribery hit the goal with his feet.

Sometimes, that's where football comes in.

"The more top-level players you have, the less you can give them free removal!" Andy? Gray has his own understanding of this, "If Gerrard wants to stop it, he must at least get stuck in front of Ribery in advance, otherwise even if he catches up, Ribery stops the ball and a simple smash will still let Gerrard save a lot, and he will hit the goal again, or score!" ”

"So, sometimes, the most important thing in defense is not to give the opponent a chance to face the goal!"

Benitez on the sidelines saw Ribery's goal, he kicked the mineral water bottle in front of him out of the air, shook his head, turned around and walked back to the visitors' dugout, obviously disappointed with the situation so far the game had played.

In less than ten minutes, Tottenham Hotspur scored two goals in a row to take a 2-0 lead, which was indeed a painful blow to Liverpool playing away, and for the time being, Benitez did not have any effective way to deal with such a situation.

It's not just him, it's any manager, what can you do in a situation like this?

What else can you do besides strengthening the team's defense and stabilizing the situation first?

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Liverpool's biggest problem so far has clearly not been the attacking mix up front.

It is important to know that in the Houllier period at the beginning of the century, and later in the Benitez period, even if they won the Champions League, in fact, Liverpool still has an obvious problem in the attacking combination, that is, they lack effective tandem means.

Owen had Owen up front during Houllier's time and Torres up front during Benitez's time, but after these two top strikers, who will be responsible for feeding them cannonballs has become a question, or rather, the biggest sticking point for Liverpool.

They're both big coaches and they both see that, and both Houllier and Benitez have come up with a lot of tricks and brought in a lot of players in the hope of improving the problem, but both have not worked out for a variety of reasons.

Benitez tried a lot of players, such as Babel, Luiz? Garcia and so on, but these players are either not adapting or are limited by their own strength, which makes them unable to meet Benitez's requirements and help Liverpool complete a transformation.

After the Indian tycoon took over the Reds, Benitez was given a huge transfer fee, so he solved the problem.

Juan? Mata, David? Villa and Torres in the early stage, and Suarez later, no matter how the trident is adjusted, have solved the problems and crux of Liverpool's problems in the past ten years, but at this time they are facing a new problem, midfield organization.

Lucas is an offensive and defensive player who was once seen as Xavi? Alonso's type of midfielder, but it's clearly not anymore, Xavier? Martinez is certainly technically capable, but his playmaking ability and midfield possession are also clearly not good enough.

Can it be said that from the sale of Harvey? Since Alonso's time, Liverpool's problems are more reflected in the midfield, but the worst thing is that the current good midfielders are very sought-after, looking at the entire world of football, it is really not easy to find a few excellent midfielders, and it can basically be said that they have been hoarded by strong teams.

It's like Manchester City, with De Rossi and Yaya in the starting lineup? Toure, Modric, Van der Vaart and other good players in the middle of the midfield, and there is still a Premier League-level Gareth sitting on the bench? Barry, this is a terrible thing.

West Ham United invested heavily in Portuguese midfielder Moutinho, Newcastle invested heavily in Motta and Pastore, in fact, almost all strong teams have now realized the importance of midfield organization, which was brought in by Ferguson at a high price, and now looking back, it is undoubtedly a very smart decision.

Sometimes the war in the transfer market is more tragic and the injuries are more severe than the war on the football field.

Liverpool's defeat in this game was not so much a defensive defeat as a defeat in midfield control.

Except for the first four minutes or so of the first four minutes of attack, Liverpool were unable to find their rhythm until the end of the game, and they were more pulled by Tottenham Hotspur's nose, and their entire midfield fell into a mess.

It was Lucas who made the most passes in the game, and even if Benitez later replaced Henderson to further strengthen the team's midfield control and organization, but from any point of view, Henderson failed to play 20 million pounds, and he almost sank with Liverpool.

On the contrary, Tottenham Hotspur introduced Vidal for 12 million euros, about 10 million pounds, but this game continued to maintain his high level of performance and performance, he and Ramsey in the midfield almost built a moving wall for Tottenham Hotspur, all the passes through their area need to be combed by them.

To lose the midfield is to lose the whole game.

In the end, Liverpool suffered a 4-0 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur, conceded another goal before the end of the first half, the scorer was Cavani, and in the second half, Ramsey scored another goal for Tottenham Hotspur, and the home team won 4-0.

In Philip? When Dodd blew the whistle for the end of the game, Benitez exhaled deeply, he had taken a very light view of the victory, but he felt that he had learned a lot from this game.

Many times, watching the video and listening to others, you can't feel it at all, only when you really face this opponent, you can find out what his strength is.

There is no doubt that Tottenham Hotspur are the strongest team in the Premier League right now, and one of the strongest teams on the continent right now, not only because of their attacking prowess and solid defence, but also because they are very difficult and resilient.

It's like a piece of beef tendon that can't be boiled, it is placed in front of you, you want to eat it, but you can't chew it, if you try to swallow it forcibly, maybe it will get stuck in your throat and choke you!

"Fatty, you guys are so impatient in this game!"

Ye Qiu is talking to Philip? After Dodd and the rest of the referee team met, they walked towards Benitez, and there was a big suspicion that he would fall into the ground.

After Liverpool conceded two goals in a row, the action and emotions were indeed a bit big, although they did not have a player sent off with a red card in this game, but this does not mean that they are very Sven, can only say Philip? Dodd gave them enough face, otherwise, at the very least, Gerrard should have been sent off with a red card.

If you look at it purely from the score, you will feel that this is a game that is not at the same level, but only those who have watched the whole process of the game can understand, in fact, this game is not easy, although there are many goals, Tottenham Hotspur also controls the rhythm, but unlike Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool is very tenacious in this game.

Or should I say, they have a weak heart!

Benitez glanced at Ye Qiu, who was proud of his win, he was never convinced by anyone, even if this 4:0 was the worst defeat among the many battles between him and Ye Qiu.

"Don't hum, do you know what is the biggest problem with you?" Ye Qiu smiled, "Your biggest problem is that you are not only fat, but also breathless, a stubborn, stubborn, and stubborn fat man who still wants to go back to the past!" ”

After finishing speaking, Ye Qiu smiled and walked away.

The reason why he said this to Benitez was actually a kind of wake-up call.

To be honest, at their level, there is no need to prove themselves anymore, especially Ye Qiu, Ferguson, Lippi, Capello, Heathfield and other famous coaches, no one will doubt their strength, and what they want to do now, or what they want to prove, is actually to confirm their understanding of football.

In many cases, the duel and contest between them is no longer a contest at the tactical level, but a contest of ideas.

For them, the opponent is too weak, it is not enjoyable, they want the opponent to be stronger, because this can stimulate them, every team has a lot of things to learn from the opponent, even if it is Ye Qiu and his Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool also has something worth learning from them.

So the more strong teams you have, the more things you can learn, the more things you can come into contact with, which is good for your promotion and progress, otherwise, why do all the managers, all the top players like to play in the Champions League?

Clubs play Champions League for money, but players play Champions League, and managers play Champions League just for money? For fame?

Wrong, it's to prove yourself and improve yourself through this high-level competition!

Maybe it's because before Valencia, he was too poor, and after Valencia, he has never been able to show his strengths, so he has always lived in the shadow of Valencia, even when he came to Liverpool.

"Who is fat? You're fat, your whole family is fat! Benitez muttered indignantly to Ye Qiu's back, but his voice was not loud, but his tone was a little ...... Playful.

After saying that, Benitez himself felt that he had lost his temper, and immediately reverted to his iconic mechanical face! , Lippi, Capello, Heathfield and other famous coaches, no one will doubt their strength, and what they want to do now, or what they want to prove, is actually to confirm their understanding of football.

In many cases, the duel and contest between them is no longer a contest at the tactical level, but a contest of ideas.

For them, the opponent is too weak, it is not enjoyable, they want the opponent to be stronger, because this can stimulate them, every team has a lot of things to learn from the opponent, even if it is Ye Qiu and his Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool also has something worth learning from them.

So the more strong teams you have, the more things you can learn, the more things you can come into contact with, which is good for your promotion and progress, otherwise, why do all the managers, all the top players like to play in the Champions League?

Clubs play Champions League for money, but players play Champions League, and managers play Champions League just for money? For fame?

Wrong, it's to prove yourself and improve yourself through this high-level competition!

Maybe it's because before Valencia, he was too poor, and after Valencia, he has never been able to show his strengths, so he has always lived in the shadow of Valencia, even when he came to Liverpool.

"Who is fat? You're fat, your whole family is fat! Benitez muttered indignantly to Ye Qiu's back, but his voice was not loud, but his tone was a little ...... Playful.

After saying that, Benitez himself felt that he had lost his temper, and immediately reverted to his iconic mechanical face!