Volume 1 Chapter 624 The Responsibility of the Midfielder
"Beep"
When Shakhtar Donetsk was preparing to play a quick counterattack, the core of the team's midfield, Brazilian player Willian suddenly kicked the ball out of bounds, and referee Massimo Boussaka also blew the whistle as soon as possible and quickly ran towards Shakhtar Donetsk's goal.
On the right side of the top area of the Donetsk team's big penalty area, Tottenham Hotspur's starting striker was seen to perform well in this game, and Raul, the Spanish striker who scored a goal, was lying on the ground, and the surrounding Tottenham Hotspur players rushed forward quickly, but did not have any conflict with the players of Shakhtar Donetsk.
Soon, Massimo Bussaka was seen walking over to understand the situation, and Shakhtar Donetsk's main defender Rakitsky was explaining to the manager that he kept saying that he and Raul only bumped into each other during a tussle, and he didn't make any unnecessary moves.
At this time, the score on the field was international practice, with the home team in front and the visitors behind, and Tottenham Hotspur temporarily took the lead thanks to goals from Raul and Eriksen.
"Hurry up and take a look" Ye Qiu immediately asked the team's team doctor to rush up to understand the situation after seeing the gesture of referee Massimo Bussaka, but at the same time he turned his head sideways and glanced at the bench, "Let Coutinho hurry up and warm up"
The last sentence is obviously explaining to Luo Fatzi, this is a precautionary measure, after all, he doesn't know what Raul's current situation is, the only thing that is certain is that he has a not very good premonition
Sure enough, soon, the team doctor gestured to the sidelines, signaling to lift Raul off the field, and the referee allowed it.
With Raul's arrival, the game quickly resumed, with Tottenham Hotspur temporarily in a situation where one man was left behind.
"How?" Ye Qiu walked to the sidelines and asked with a concerned expression.
Raul, who was already sitting on the grass, shook his head and smiled bitterly at Ye Qiu who came over, "When I landed, I turned my leg and injured it."
These words made Ye Qiu feel a little relieved, and then looked at the team doctor who was checking the injury on the side, and the latter nodded towards Ye Qiu: "It's not a big problem, but you need to rest and rest, hurry up and go to the bench."
Ye Qiu nodded and patted Raul on the shoulder, "It's okay, have a good rest" After speaking, Ye Qiu turned around and walked back to the coach's command area, but at this moment, a thunderous cheer suddenly came from the entire Donbass Arena, and he saw Eduardo da Silva, who had just switched from Arsenal this season, rushed out of the Tottenham Hotspur penalty area, waving his arms and celebrating his goal.
On the red scoreboard, the number representing the home team's goals also quickly changed from the number I to Shakhtar Donekts equaliser, which made many Tottenham Hotspur players angry, but helpless.
"What now?" Roland O Shepas was a little depressed, a little unwilling, even a little angry, too unkind, injured other people's players, and after carrying them to the sidelines to rest, he took this opportunity to sneak attack and score, which is also too shameless
"Mauro, what do you think?" Ye Qiu looked at Mauro Tasoti, and it didn't seem that he was too nervous or anxious.
For Tottenham Hotspur in this game, the question of winning or not is really not very big, because there is a home game next, as long as Tottenham Hotspur wins this home game and qualifies as the first in the group, it really doesn't matter whether this game is won or not.
Of course, Mauro Tasotti could see that Ye Qiu was deliberately testing him, and after smiling: "Then it goes without saying that although the morale of the Donetsk miners is booming now, we just want to completely defeat them when their morale is at its highest, so that we can convince them, isn't it?" ”
"Well said" Ye Qiu praised, "Let Coutinho come over quickly"
Soon, the Brazilian midfielder came to Ye Qiu's side, and was almost pulled over by Ye Qiu, "After you go up, don't play in the midfield, play on the left side, let Neymar go up and play as a striker, I want to score another goal and kill Shakhtar Donetsk, understand?" ”
"Understood, head," Coutinho nodded in agreement.
"Let's go" Ye Qiu patted Coutinho on the shoulder and asked him to hurry to the fourth official to go through the formalities of playing.
While Shakhtar Donetsk equalised, Coutinho also completed the handover and the game soon resumed.
Shakhtar Donetsk can become the number one team in the Ukrainian Premier League since the new century, which has a lot to do with the fact that this team has a large number of high-level foreign players from Brazil and other countries, but in the final analysis, it is because of the Romanian coach of Shakhtar Donetsk, Mircea Lucescu.
Frankly speaking, if you want to find out about him from the newspapers, you will find that there is a very little of it, but in Ye Qiu's view, Lucescu belongs to the kind of coach-level figure that is ignored by the media, and the performance of the Shakhtar Donetsk team he led in the past few years in the European arena is enough to prove this.
Lucescu is a professional footballer, after retiring from football, he coached in Romania, won the league title, landed in Serie A, but his performance was very poor, almost always ending in short-term coaching, he has coached Brescia twice, and has also coached teams such as Pisa, Reggina and Inter Milan, he is best known for promoting Pirlo.
As early as the Brescia period, Pirlo was valued by Lucescu, and then Lucescu went to Inter Milan and brought Pirlo to Inter Milan, but Lucescu did not stay at Inter Milan for too long, resulting in Pirlo and Inter Milan missing, and later Lucescu successively coached teams such as Galatasaray and Besiktas in Turkey, and achieved quite good coaching results.
In 04, he began to coach Shakhtar Donetsk, and then in the 045 season, 05U season, 078 and 0910 seasons, in just six years, won four Ukrainian Premier League trophies, and in the UR9 season, Shakhtar Donetsk also won the Europa League, which is a remarkable achievement.
In 09, there was also such a news that the Romanian Football Association at that time originally wanted to hire Mircea Lucescu as the head coach of the national team, but Lucescu refused the invitation, and as a result, the Football Association invited his son to be the head coach of the national team to replace his own son, which was also a big joke at the time.
Perhaps because he has been in Serie A for almost a decade, Lucescu's style of coaching focuses on the rigor of the tactical system, as well as the importance of defence, which is also seen as a big reason why Shakhtar Donetsk have been able to achieve excellent results in the past few seasons.
And this team is also very wealthy, and there are many well-known stars in the team, such as right-back captain Srna, which is not only an old monster in PN football managers, but also famous in European football, Manchester United once wanted to bring him in to fill the gap on the right side, but Srna in Shakhtar Donetsk is too high, and is unwilling to take a pay cut, and the tax here is low, so he rejected Manchester United's transfer offer.
In addition, the famous little monster Douglas O Costa in Brazil, as well as Brazilian midfielder Willian, and Croatian striker Eduardo Oda Silva, who previously played for Arsenal and switched to Shakhtar Donetsk after breaking his leg.
From this list of players, it is easy to see that Shakhtar Donetsk is not a team without strength, especially in their home stadium, Donbass Arena, this team has a very good home record in the Champions League, which makes this team very confident and resilient to play on their home turf.
The temperature in Donetsk in November this year is not low, even similar to London, England, even at night, the temperature outside is about four or five degrees, and the temperature inside the stadium will be slightly higher, so the weather cannot be an obstacle for Tottenham Hotspur.
In addition, the Donetsk miners' Donbass Arena also uses mixed turf, which is to implant a network of fibers into the soil two centimeters, and then plant turf on top, and when the grass grows, the roots are mixed with the fibers, and the polyethylene leaves on the left and right are mixed and implanted on the grass cotton, so this kind of turf is softer, tougher, and more permeable.
In terms of the characteristics of the players' play, the ball has less friction on this type of mixed turf, which is faster and has better bottoming out, and has now been rolled out throughout the Premier League, and even Wembley Stadium has been replaced with mixed turf not long ago.
Therefore, the weather and venue that are the most troublesome in Ukraine in this game are not a problem.
If they really lose, Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur have no excuses, they can only say that their skills are inferior
Many people say that Tottenham Hotspur seem to be advocating individual play and have a lot of tactical freedom.
Ramsey has always been amused by this, because he has already moved from Cardiff to north London when Ye Qiu arrived in this team, from the Ziegwell training base to the current Theobald training base, he has witnessed the growth and progress of Tottenham Hotspur along the way.
Contrary to what everyone thinks, Ye Qiu has always emphasized responsibility.
I still remember that when I came to Tottenham Hotspur from Cardiff, Ye Qiu once said such a sentence when he talked about tactical thinking in the team, "No one can play as much as I want in my tactics"
This may sound very domineering and awe-inspiring, and it gives people a very domineering and strong desire to control, which is completely a dictatorship, but it is this kind of thinking that has made Tottenham Hotspur the present.
Yes, no one can play as much as they want, everyone has to put a premise in front of their performance, that is, how to better help the team.
'When you're playing behind the strikers, of course your most important role is to help the strikers up front, but you also have to help the team win the game, so you have to control the distance between the midfielders and the forward line because they lose contact.
'But you are behind the striker and in front of the defender, you help the striker and you have to protect the defender, so you have to press the opposition when the team doesn't have the ball, you have to learn how to protect the defence behind you, that's the responsibility of a midfielder.
This is what Ye Qiu said to Ramsey at the beginning, he has always emphasized that the team is a whole from front to back, an inseparable whole, once it is divided, it is to be slaughtered and slaughtered, so this needs to help each other, the players in front provide protection for the players in the back, and the players in the back provide support for the players in front.
Unknowingly, Ramsey is about to be 20 years old, and it has been four years since he came to Tottenham Hotspur, in the past four years, he has been cultivated by the Tottenham Hotspur coaching staff, and has long been familiar with the entire offensive and defensive system of Tottenham Hotspur, and he is working hard to learn how to help the players in front of him to attack, while protecting his teammates behind him.
It's his responsibility
Every time he came on the pitch, he had a lot of range, he was always desperate, but his performance was always up and down, sometimes when he thought he could be good and good, his performance was a mess, but sometimes when he didn't realise that he could do well, he surprised himself.
He was very depressed about this, and when he asked Messi and Ribery why they could maintain a very good form for a long time, the two teammates did not hide it from him, and told him a lot of experience and lessons, but he still did not improve much.
Until not long ago, when Ramsey was in a training session, he heard the team's adviser Bobby Harms, a youth expert who has cultivated superstars such as Cruyff and Van Basten, and he told Ramsey not to think too much, and not to think about how to perform himself, do his job well, and slowly learn how to better help the team.
Ramsey began to follow Bobby Harms' word and his performances began to improve, with two games against Arsenal and Newcastle in the Carabao Cup, and although the opponents did not play their main force, Ramsey performed quite well.
In this fourth round of the Champions League group, although many people think that it is okay for Tottenham Hotspur not to win, Ramsey knows that all Tottenham Hotspur players and fans want to be able to win
How do you take it down?
Ramsey doesn't have much in mind because he's never been a player who can dominate the situation on the pitch, and he's not a control player who can be the heart of the team, so he can only do what he does best, don't think about everything else, and try to play his best to fulfill his responsibilities.
When Neymar held the ball in front of the field and was forced a little embarrassed by the opposing defenders, Ramsey appeared in front of him, and the Brazilian immediately knocked back to Ramsey, and the midfielder of Shakhtar Donetsk quickly wrapped around Ramsey, and the Welshman quickly knocked back to the back line and handed it to Alba.
The Spaniard knocked back Cech, the Czechs took the ball, Eduardo da Silva tried to disturb the goalkeeper, Cech passed to Alba again, and Alba passed to Ramsey, who had already run back to his own half to receive the ball.
Tottenham Hotspur are accustomed to Ramsey's wide-ranging back-and-forth running, and the Welshman's running ability is well known within the Tottenham Hotspur squad and he is also very hardworking.
Ramsey picked up the ball with his back to the attack, was pressed, knocked back again, and passed straight back to Cech
The Czech didn't wait for the ball to stop at his feet, because Eduardo da Silva was watching from the sidelines, so he passed the ball directly to Thiago Silva, and the Tottenham Hotspur captain obviously felt that some changes should be made at this time, so Yu Crisp himself carried the ball forward.
With Thiago Silva's dribbling forward, Tottenham Hotspur's midfield has an extra player, Shakhtar Donetsk's defense is a bit chaotic and doesn't know how to defend, while Tottenham Hotspur feels a lot more relaxed.
Soon, Alba also came up, and Tottenham Hotspur began to have his own stable possession of the ball in the front of the opponent's 30-meter area, passing back and forth several times, Ramsey was also involved in one of them, but there was no substantive effect, more of a transition, but it ensured the stability of Tottenham Hotspur's 30-meter front control.
Gradually, Ramsey had a feeling that the left side of the team was very lively, Coutinho and Neymar began to consciously lean to this side, and the distance between Shakhtar Donetsk's right-back Srna and central defender Rakitsky was sometimes stretched wide, and Neymar also saw this and began to consciously cruise on this side
Will this be an opportunity?
Ramsey thinks it is possible, but he thinks that if not an opportunity, he should at least be able to upset the opponent's penalty area.
So Ramsey also consciously went to this side.
Alba made a pass to Coutinho on the left, and the Brazilian took the ball on the left, dribbling skillfully and feeling the ball very well, which made Ramsey very envious, and he quickly used his foot skills to find a gap in Srna's body and go straight to Neymar in the ribs.
Sure enough, at this moment, Ramsey saw very clearly that Coutinho and Neymar were going to hit each other's ribs, and at this time he could no longer be involved, but he could pick up his teammates, that is, when Neymar didn't have a chance, he would choose to pass.
Neymar received a through ball from Coutinho and faced Rakitzky in the box, a feint to go down, but he couldn't shake off Rakitsky, the young Ukrainian centre-back is also very good, known as the best Ukrainian centre-back since Tsygrinski, and is not tall but flexible.
Seeing that he couldn't get rid of Rakitsky, Neymar switched the ball from his left foot to his right foot after a quick stop, and his right foot grabbed before the defender was clamped, and crossed to the position where the line of the big penalty area came in a little bit.
I saw Ramsey, who originally wanted to run to answer Neymar's pass, just right to appear in this hole, there were no defenders around, and in the face of Neymar's gentle and steady push, he almost didn't hesitate at all, picked up his right foot and directly volleyed.
At this moment, he remembered Bobby Harms's words, do his job well, and slowly learn how to better help the team
It turns out that when you do that, goals and great performances will follow