Volume 1 Chapter 613 Who is the Leader?
In the first round of Tottenham Hotspur's Champions League group match, while the home seven-goal slaughter of Braga, the European performances of the Premier League teams were also freshly released, with Barcelona beating Panathinax at home and Chelsea beating Slovakia's Žilina 4L away, who are the weakest team in the last 32 of the Champions League this season.
There was also a big upset in the group stage, that is, Manchester United was forced to draw by Rangers at home 00.
But in this game, Ferguson obviously did not do his best, not only did the starting trident not play, but even the players such as Vidic and Evra in the back line did not play, and Sneijder, Carrick and Lasso Diarra in the midfield did not play one, resulting in Manchester United's weak attack not to mention, and there were many problems in defense.
Ye Qiu is very clear about this kind of rotation of Manchester United, because they will face a key big game at the weekend, Liverpool.
Rafael Benitez's Liverpool have no Champions League pressure this season, or even European pressure, so they don't need to worry about playing on two fronts at all, and that's why Ferguson is so nervous and focused, because the Spanish fat man's ability has always been a concern.
As Ye Qiu said when he mentioned Benitez and Liverpool to Ferguson at the beginning of the season, Liverpool has always been a team that pays a lot of attention to mental strength, and it has always been like this since the boot room culture of the year, and if it wasn't for the collapse of the Souness period, Premier League history would not have become what it is now.
Benitez is also a strange one, he is also a manager with a strong emphasis on overall cooperation, and mental strength is indispensable if you want to twist everyone into a team, and what Benitez is most impressed about is his ability to turn some seemingly weak technical players into hard-fought Predators.
Just like Juan Mata, David Dia and Javi Martinez, who have joined Liverpool this season, these three players have quickly integrated into Liverpool's tactical system, forming Liverpool's Spanish gang with Torres, and showing strong strength and a strong desire to win in this game against Manchester United.
Benitez's on-the-spot command ability was once again demonstrated in this game against Manchester United, Rooney's two goals in the first half completely put Liverpool in a desperate situation, but in the second half Benitez through effective adjustments, Liverpool relied on Gerrard's two goals, two goals in a row, to tie Manchester United.
But at the crucial moment, it was Ferguson's trusty trident combination that won a chance for United up front, and Wayne Rooney did not miss a great opportunity to score the winning goal for Manchester United, while also scoring a hat-trick for himself.
For Rafael Benitez and his Liverpool, this defeat is still a glorious one, but at least being able to play Manchester United at Old Trafford is quite good for Benitez's side, after all, they have not yet run in their best form.
Compared to Manchester United, Chelsea were in danger, with a pass and a shot from Drogba, a four-goal home win over promoted horse Blackpool, and this game gave Carlo Ancelotti's Chelsea a five-game winning streak and a stunning result.
Scoring 21 goals in five games and conceding only one goal, such a record is undoubtedly shocking for Chelsea, because it is not only the strongest attack and the most solid defense in the Premier League, but also in the four major European leagues, which are second to none, so almost the entire European media is singing Chelsea's praise.
Many commentators believe that Ancelotti will usher in Chelsea's golden age, and even have the opportunity to lead Chelsea to create a more brilliant offensive football storm than Ye Qiu's back then, and Ye Qiu's remarks about Chelsea's impossibility of winning the championship before the season have also been criticized and ridiculed by many malicious media, thinking that he is more jealous.
But to be jealous, it is really unnecessary, because Tottenham Hotspur also beat Wolves by four goals this round, and continued to maintain the pressure on leaders Chelsea.
After playing the fifth round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur ushered in the third knockout round of the League Cup at White Hart Lane, against the bitter rivals from north London, Arsenal, and this was also the first strong match of the League Cup.
However, in the eyes of England fans, it is more like a direct confrontation between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal's youth team.
In the headline of The Times, Tottenham Hotspur II, Arsenal II
"This is a game that will be broadcast live to the whole world, and you will be playing against one of the best teams in the Premier League and in Europe, so you have to be 120,000 points in spirit, and at the same time, show your opponents and everyone, what you are capable of, so that all the fans who come to White Hart Lane and sit in front of the TV will remember the name behind your shirt."
It was in the dressing room before the game that manager Ye Qiu appealed to the young players of Tottenham Hotspur that he stressed to all fans on more than one occasion that this game was crucial, but on the other hand, he fielded a full bench line-up for this game.
But it can be said that as Ye Qiu has always emphasized, "I know your strength better than those reporters outside who think we gave up the game, they think that I arranged for you to play because we gave up this game, but I know very well because I believe that you can win."
Arsenal also did not play the main lineup in this game, including Wilshere, including Denilson, Bella, Rosicky and others appeared in the starting lineup, which made Arsenal look almost a pure substitute lineup for White Hart Lane.
Ye Qiu's starting lineup for this game is goalkeeper Courtois, the backline is Alba, Nastasic, Varane and Kyle Walker, the midfield is Ramsey, Phil Jones and Pogba, and the front is the attacking combination of Coutinho, Neymar and Eden Hazard.
Perhaps it was influenced by the pre-match media publicity and hype, or the managers of both sides hoped to win such a derby match that was related to the future successor of the team, so after the game started, both sides played fiercely, but Tottenham Hotspur took advantage of the opening and home advantage to press Arsenal as soon as they came up.
When Coutinho picked up the ball on the left and cut diagonally inside to penetrate Arsenal's defence, Neymar ran down the middle, and when the two staggered, Coutinho's heel knocked the ball to Neymar, who received the ball and turned quickly, facing to the left, blocking Arsenal's centre-back Koscielny with his body.
Alba rushed in front of Neymar at the fastest speed at this time, and I believe that at this moment, Eboue and Koscielny just felt the flickering in front of them, the ball at Neymar's feet had reached Alba's face, and the Spaniard rushed forward quickly, and directly crossed a low flat ball in front of the bottom line.
The cross was so fast that it crossed most of the pitch and landed near the right post, where Hazzard shook off Gibbs and stabbed the shot through the Arsenal goal, 0
After scoring the goal, Hazzard rushed past all his teammates who were in the middle of the road, and rushed all the way to the bottom of the stands of Tottenham Hotspur fans, and celebrated his first goal of the new season, although it was only a League Cup goal, but it was also worth celebrating.
Tottenham Hotspur fans in the stands were also chanting Hazzard's name
Although most of the fans who came to White Hart Lane tonight usually look down on the league and the Champions League, because of the low ticket prices for the League Cup and FA Cup, they came to White Hart Lane, but their enthusiasm for Tottenham Hotspur, their familiarity and understanding of this team, and the atmosphere they created are not lost to the league at all.
Hazard was a rising star at Tottenham Hotspur last season, and while he can't be compared to the likes of Franck Ribery and Lionel Messi for the time being, the Belgian wingman is also a promising player whose progress at Tottenham Hotspur has seen him attract the attention of some of the biggest clubs, such as Real Madrid.
But Hazzard has repeatedly said he only wants to play for Tottenham because he feels he can succeed in this team and he wants to help the team win more honours.
As Ye Qiu said before, England fans value loyalty and hard work very much, so Hazzard is very popular with fans.
After opening the scoring, Arsenal made adjustments and gradually gained a foothold, after all, Arsenal's bench and young players are also very good, such as Eboue, the previous main players, as well as Koscielny, as well as Carlos Oberla, and Wilshere, and on the right is Lansbury, who performed well after a loan spell at Watford last season.
It is precisely because of such an outstanding youth team that Wenger dared to proudly respond to some of UEFA President Platini's remarks about Arsenal, and Wenger also vowed before that Arsenal would beat Chelsea at White Hart Lane.
Arsene Wenger's biggest reliance is Arsenal's youth team that dominates the Premier League.
But this time Tottenham Hotspur is obviously going to challenge the king status of Arsenal's youth guards, in Ye Qiu's words, if the previous young rookies can still be counted as Arsenal's fig leaf without a championship for many years, then this time, he will use this game to uncover the last fig leaf of Arsenal
Ye Qiu's pre-match remarks obviously stimulated the players, and with the goal just a few minutes into the game, Tottenham Hotspur's group of young players suddenly began to launch round after round of onslaught against Arsenal like wolves.
In the 34th minute, the attacking Tottenham Hotspur finally scored again, Ramsey took the ball in the middle and sent a sharp through ball, Arsenal originally wanted to create an offside position, but the cooperation between the left youngster Gibbs and the two central defenders was not tacit enough, and it was dragged to the end, resulting in Neymar easily receiving Ramsey's through plug, forming a single knife, facing the attacking goalkeeper Fabianski, calmly pushing the goal,
However, Tottenham Hotspur's group of crazy youngsters still did not have the idea of reining in, before the end of the first half, Arsenal's defense made another mistake, Gibbs on the right side of the defense Hazard was easily broken by the Belgian youngster, who from the right side of the penalty area into the box, after attracting Djuroud, the ball to the back of the Pogba.
The seventeen-year-old from France picked up his right foot and hit a powerful heavy artillery volley, which once again blasted Fabianski's goal, 0
The outstanding performance of Tottenham Hotspur's young players made the Tottenham Hotspur fans who came to the White Hart Lane stadium addicted, and they all got carried away singing the Tottenham Hotspur team song in the stands, chanting the names of the players on the pitch, and they obviously knew every player well.
The back-to-back goals have boosted Tottenham's morale, but at the same time, they have also completely damaged Arsenal's morale.
In the second half, Tottenham Hotspur's offensive was still unabated, and they still launched a fierce attack on Arsenal, and successively relied on the corner kicks of Neymar and substitute Eriksen to assist Nastasic to score, and finally Tottenham Hotspur defeated Arsenal 0 at home and successfully advanced to the next round
This direct battle between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal ended in a complete victory for Tottenham Hotspur, and the most impressive performance of the game was undoubtedly the Brazilian genius Neymar.
Neymar has joined Tottenham Hotspur many years ago, but due to the regulations of the Brazilian Football Federation, he is not allowed to leave the country before the age of eighteen, so Neymar has been on loan in Brazil, and his performance in the Brazilian league, Tottenham Hotspur fans have also been concerned.
This summer, when Tottenham Hotspur announced the recall of two Brazilian players, including Neymar and Coutinho, all Tottenham Hotspur fans were looking forward to the performance of these two players, and if Coutinho performed better in the preseason, then Neymar, who scored twice in this game, became the brightest star of the game, and even completely overtook the rookie Wilshere promoted by Arsenal.
Not only Neymar, but also Ramsey, Pogba, Coutinho, and later substitute Eriksen and others, the performance of this game is also very eye-catching, among which Ramsey is already an old face of the first team, Pogba was one of the team's best rookies last season, and Eriksen also performed well at Ajax last season.
This group of outstanding young players gathered in the first team of Tottenham Hotspur, which made the rejuvenation of Tottenham Hotspur go smoothly, and everyone was a little worried about Ye Qiu's rejuvenation strategy before, but through this game, I believe that everyone will not doubt the strength of Tottenham Hotspur's youth army
The five-goal win over Arsenal at home made Tottenham Hotspur's young rookies resounding all over the world overnight, and almost all fans who follow Tottenham Hotspur know their names, and in the next round, Tottenham Hotspur will travel north to challenge Newcastle United, this time it will also be the dance of Tottenham Hotspur's youth army
It was also in this round that Chelsea lost four times to Newcastle United and Liverpool lost to Northampton from England's third tier on penalties, while all three Premier League teams were also played by substitutes and youth teams, and this game was also Chelsea's first defeat in a competitive competition of the new season outside the Community Shield.
But just when many media outlets defended Carlo Ancelotti's Chelsea, believing that the Blues had just accidentally suffered an accident, Chelsea returned to the Premier League, but in the sixth round, an unexpected 0-l away defeat to Manchester City, Argentine star Sergio Aguero scored the winning goal for Manchester City, defeating the unbeatable Chelsea.
Also a crucial game, Tottenham Hotspur met city rivals West Ham United in east London.
The two sides have a grudge over Stratford Stadium in the past, and then there is regional competition between Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United after Tottenham Hotspur goes south in the future, and Reponorev has always emphasized that he hopes to build West Ham United into a strong team with the strength to challenge Tottenham Hotspur, coupled with Falcao's relationship, which makes the two sides have a deep grudge against each other.
Tottenham Hotspur also played the main force in this game, including Ribery, Cavani and Messi's new trident also appeared in this game, challenging the luxury squad of the Hammers, and finally with Messi's key goal, defeated West Ham United 0 away and won the crucial game.
Arsenal also suffered two consecutive defeats in three days with Chelsea, the Gunners sat at the Emirates Stadium after just being eliminated from the League Cup, and lost to West Bromwich Albion by an unexpected 3, and what is even more surprising is that Arsenal was almost pressed by West Bromwich Albion in the first 80 minutes, without the demeanor of a strong team, and 03 behind.
At the critical moment, the performances of Nasri and Arteta helped Arsenal score two goals in a row and slightly regain face.
Interestingly, it was West Bromwich Albion's first win in their last 18 Premier League away games, and Arsenal's excellent form in the previous five games was completely shattered in this one, as they not only lost their original characteristics in attack, but also made mistakes in defence.
With Arsenal and Chelsea losing one after another, another Premier League powerhouse, Liverpool, is in a better situation, Benitez's team met the black cat Sunderland at Anfield, and the result is also very messy, Liverpool's attack and defense are also in chaos, seriously out of shape, drawing at home to Sunderland.
Manchester United also drew away to Bolton, plus Everton's 00-draw with Fulham, Newcastle lost at home to Stoke City, and this round of the Premier League can be described as a poor man's turnaround.
Only Tottenham Hotspur, a local tyrant team, after this round of strong teams overturned in the gutter, Tottenham Hotspur relied on the solid performance in the past six rounds, five wins and one draw remained unbeaten, scored 16 points, and jumped to the top of the Premier League standings in one fell swoop, which is also the first time that Tottenham Hotspur has taken the lead in the new season.
After Ye Qiu finished this round of competition, he also made his voice heard through The Times and The Guardian, telling the reporters of the Independent who had criticized him before, "Look, who is sitting in the position of the leader?" ”