Volume 1 Chapter 589 The Only Failure
After the start of the second half, Tottenham Hotspur continued to maintain their offensive advantage against Chelsea amid the shouts of more than 30,000 fans at White Hart Lane, but the players were also following the adjustments arranged by Ye Qiu in the middle of the field, appropriately reducing the pressure on Chelsea, and just firmly grasping the rhythm and initiative of the game.
Ye Qiu has been standing on the sidelines and directing the game, and he has also been making appropriate adjustments in some small local details, such as he will let Fabregas move forward a little, and let him move back a little later, or let Ribery stay a little in the middle, which are all very subtle local adjustments.
This is the on-the-spot command
Ye Qiu compared this to driving, what kind of effect the tactics want to achieve in the overall situation is equivalent to the destination you are going to, and in the process of you driving, your correct direction is a foundation, but driving on the road, you must firmly hold the steering wheel and keep making some subtle adjustments.
If you have driven a car, you must know the road, driving on the road, even if you hold the steering wheel with both hands and try to fix the steering wheel, but the direction of the car will still keep changing slightly, and this small change, if you don't quickly adjust the steering wheel, will eventually evolve into an accident.
It's the same in football, your tactics can't be reflected on the pitch statically, the opponent will adjust your tactics to make your tactics like driving, constantly making some small changes, and if you don't adjust with it, don't change with it, then you will have an accident and eventually lose the game.
And everyone is driving on the road, he will not want to turn the head of the car or make a right-angle turn because of this slight change, but more with both hands or left or right, gently shaking, driving the steering wheel to fine-tune.
Ye Qiu is like this, and so is Ancelotti, both sides are waiting for their opponents to make a move.
"He seems to be a little unable to sit still" Ye Qiu has been paying attention to Ancelotti, and said with a smile to Mauro Tasotti next to him, he saw that Ancelotti was still able to sit in the away team's dugout after the start of the second half, but now he has also come out.
Mauro Tasottti, Carlo Ancelotti's team-mate as a player and later as Ancelotti's assistant at AC Milan, knows Carlo Ancelotti well, or at least he knows Ancelotti's cautious personality.
Many people think that Carlo Ancelotti has always insisted on attacking football, in fact, he only moved to attacking technical football after coming to AC Milan, but that was also due to the players of AC Milan at the time, who have excellent technical players such as Seedorf, Pirlo, Kaka, Rui Costa and Rivaldo, it is really difficult to play conservative football.
Carlo Ancelotti has always been a chef and tailor-made, and when he arrived at Chelsea, he also organised his tactics according to the squad of the team, and before Ancelotti was in charge of Juventus, his football had always been known for being conservative.
So, Carlo Ancelotti looks sleek and adaptable, but in fact he is very cautious, sometimes even to the point of hesitation, and this is a bit like driving.
All old drivers know one thing, when you drive through the fork in the road, and the opposite car intersection, you either just step on the brake to let him pass first, or just show his attitude, I want to pass first, wait for him to let you, but generally the latter will leave leeway, but no matter how you choose, it will not be the kind of hesitation, poke your head out and dare not pass, but dare not pass and think, which is more likely to lead to accidents.
Therefore, many times many people wonder why Ancelotti will make some mistakes in some games?
The actual reason may be so.
It's as if this game has been going on so far, in the sixty-third minute of the second half, Tottenham Hotspur still maintains the advantage, Chelsea is still very passive, but the situation between the two sides is still stalemate, Tottenham Hotspur still failed to break through Chelsea's goal, the two sides attacked and defended, stalemate, as if reaching some kind of balance.
Normally, the manager is the hardest to choose in this situation because you're upsetting that balance, and with that balance being upset, there's a lot of risk, either you turn the tide or the opponent turns the tide.
Ye Qiu has not seen any idea of substitution in this game so far, and even if he plans to make substitutions, because the initiative is in his own hands, the problem he is thinking about is how to play a more threatening attack
If Ancelotti just wants to strengthen the defense, then there is no problem with his adjustment, and there is no need to hesitate, but as Ye Qiu guessed, if he wants to play an attack, he will have to spend some brains, and in the end, when he was in the sixty-eighth minute, he made a substitution that Ye Qiu found incomprehensible, replacing Ballack with Arshavin.
With Arshavin replacing Ballack, Chelsea's tactics became 44 Malouda returned to the left of midfield, Arshavin played on the right, Frank Lampard and Essien occupied the middle of the midfield, and Ancelotti was clearly trying to use Arshavin's ability to take the ball, break through and intersperse laterally to connect Chelsea's midfield attack.
When Ye Qiu saw this substitution on the sidelines, he felt a little incredulous, because he didn't understand, "Really replace Balak?" He felt more like a pie falling from the sky, hitting him in the head, and he was still dizzy.
"It's a replacement for Ballac," Mauro Tasotti also found the substitution a bit strange.
Ballack is very important in Chelsea's right side of the defense, if it weren't for Ballack, Ferreira would have been eaten by Ribery to the bone, but now Ancelotti wants to replace Ballack, not Ferreira, what kind of reasoning is this?
At halftime, Ye Qiu was still telling David Silva to pull Ballack away, but the effect was not very good, but now it's okay, you don't have to bother, someone took the initiative to replace it.
Perhaps Carlo Ancelotti has the idea of attacking instead of defending, hoping to play Arshavin's attacking threat and contain Tottenham's attack on the left, but the question is, who has the advantage and the initiative now?
When Ye Qiu saw Chelsea's substitutions, he immediately walked to the sidelines and waved at the players, especially Ribery, Marcelo, David Silva and Falcao, demanding that Tottenham Hotspur's attack immediately tilt to the left, because Arshavin simply has no way to give Ferreira the kind of defensive protection similar to Ballack, and his interception ability is not good.
In other words, the previous balance of attack and defence, which was changed by the departure of Ballack and the introduction of Arshavin, broke down, and Chelsea failed to find an effective way to contain Tottenham's attack on the left.
Of course, there is also a possibility that Ancelotti deliberately lured Tottenham Hotspur to attack his right side, which is a trap, but this trap is tantamount to harming himself first and then the enemy, how much power can be exerted?
In the same situation, the same choice, Ye Qiu may choose another way, that is, continue to trust Ballack, let him play at the back, Essien to play at right back, take Ferreira, and let Arshavin come up to play on the right side
Of course, no one knows what Ancelotti's choice is for, it may be that Ballack's physical fitness is not good, or he is injured or something, but in short, Ye Qiu can be 100% sure that he will definitely regret taking Ballack.
In a football game, the players are always the ones who have the deepest and most direct feelings about the situation of the game, even more than the head coach.
In Fabregas's eyes, the most painful thing about a football game is the stalemate, because in the stalemate time, you don't have any certainty at all, you can only keep trying, keep running, keep fighting, everything you do is to be able to get more chips for yourself.
In this process of constantly striving and never knowing when the road will end, your physical energy will continue to be consumed, your body will become more and more tired, and you will even have a war-weary mood, which requires you to overcome your own emotions very well.
The dialogue between strong teams and strong teams is always accompanied by this kind of stalemate confrontation, always accompanied by this kind of war of attrition, and as Tottenham Hotspur, in the past few seasons, after countless ups and downs, experienced countless key decisive battles, the players in the team have long been accustomed to the pressure and psychological factors in this strong dialogue.
And with Ballack's departure, the whole stalemate has been broken, and I believe that at this moment, all Tottenham Hotspur players will feel a sense of relief.
Maybe many people who don't know the reason will find it strange, just one person ends, how can everyone feel relaxed?
Just like Cesc Fabregas, because of Ballack's departure, Chelsea's right side defense has become a problem, so Tottenham Hotspur's attack has always played on its left side, using Marcelo and Ribery, as well as midfielder David Silva support, constantly attacking Chelsea's right side.
Under such strong attacking pressure, when Tottenham Hotspur kept creating dangerous attacking opportunities, Chelsea had to choose to strengthen the defense, and Essien had to frequently pull to the right to fill in for Ferreira, because Tottenham Hotspur often created Ribery to challenge Ferreira one-on-one, and Essien had to protect Ferreira.
In other words, what Barak did before, now has to be done by Essien.
The problem is that Essien is on the right, and in order to maintain the distance between him and Essien, while filling the hole in Essien's defence, he will have to move his position to the middle, or even to the right.
It's called, attracting the attention of the defense.
Cesc Fabregas is still standing on the right side of the midfield, that is, Chelsea's midfield is on the left, Lampard is not as close to him as in the first half, so he feels a sense of relaxation, he believes that Messi's pressure must be much lighter, but because Messi is Tottenham Hotspur's most important scorer, so Chelsea dare not be careless about him.
Cesc Fabregas has noticed the situation and he has noticed that it is a crucial moment because there are pros and cons to Chelsea's win over Ballack, with the upside being that if the right flank can withstand Tottenham Hotspur's attack and keep the goal intact, Arshavin's presence can improve the team's attacking power.
But the downside is that once Tottenham Hotspur breaks the goal, then Arshavin's entry becomes a failure
So Cesc Fabregas and his team-mates are trying to attack because they have to take their chances.
Franck Ribery began to be lively on the left, creating chances and creating at least three dangerous chances for Lionel Messi and Falcao in less than five minutes, but none of them could find the back of the net, but the attack on the left drew the attention of Chelsea's defence.
So, when Ribery picked up the ball on the left and noticed that Essien was leaning over, he immediately chose to knock back, Marcelo crossed to David Silva, with his back to the Chelsea goal, and David Silva, who retreated to get the ball, knocked it again and gave it to the feet of Cesc Fabregas, and the Spaniard stopped the ball and faced the goal.
Frank Lampard shook off David Silva as he saw Essien returning to the middle, so he pounced on Cesc Fabregas.
However, Cesc Fabregas did not wait for Frank Lampard to get close, he kept an eye on what was going on, with Essien returning to the middle and Franck Ribery intending to cut into the area between Ferreira and Alex, with the Brazilian centre-back positioned a little far from the ground and clearly stunned by Franck Franchieri's previous attacks.
Falcao's sense of movement was very smart, and he was constantly cruising between Alex and Terry, with his back to goal, and after glancing at Cesc Fabregas, both of them sparked in an instant, and Fabregas got ahead of Lampard and whipped a half-high diagonal cross over the top with his right foot, which landed right behind Alex.
The smartest thing about the Colombian center forward is that he runs behind Alex, with his back to the left, facing the right side of the incoming ball, and he chooses a smart position, he doesn't let the ball stop at his feet, or he wants to grab the header, but uses his chest to stop the ball.
Terry reacted the moment Falcao ran behind Alex, because of the lag of this defense, he had no choice to clear in advance, but could only choose to block, which was very passive, especially when he found that he had just rushed over, stuck between Falcao and Cesar in front of the goal, blocking Falcao's shooting angle, but the Colombian chose to use his chest to stop the ball to the right of Lu, landing a little to the left of the penalty spot.
The whole stop not only opened up the distance between Falcao and Terry, but also allowed him to avoid Alex's interference, and more importantly, after his stop landed, he only needed to take a step forward, step on his left foot, stand firm, and pick up his right foot to shoot directly near the penalty spot.
Although Falcao couldn't hit the left side of the goal because of Terry's position, he chose to hit the upper right corner of the goal, and he chose a clever shot, and the ball seemed to be controlled by him, listening to him very much, kicking out of his feet, climbing and falling along an arc, and drilling into the upper right corner of the goal
“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL”
"Oh my God, in the 78th minute of the second half, Tottenham Hotspur opened the scoring and scored, 0
"Ye Qiu's team maintained the advantage for more than an hour, insisted on attacking for more than an hour, and finally broke through the Chelsea goal, we saw that this was a kick from the Colombian center, Rodamel Falcao's penalty shot, very accurate, almost an absolute dead corner"
Andy Gray has been amazed by Falcao's ability to shoot for the first time this season, because he is so accurate, especially with his use of shooting skills, he rarely sees him make mistakes, and if you create enough chances for him, he will reward you with a steady stream of goals.
"Rodamel Falcao, he's a goal machine, the trident of Tottenham Hotspur's attacking line this season, Falcao, Messi and Ribery, three players who have scored almost ninety league goals, very, very surprising attacking ability"
After the goal, Falcao excitedly rushed out of the Chelsea penalty area, clenching his fists and shouting at the fans in the stands along the way, while the Tottenham Hotspur players also rushed out of the pitch and celebrated with Falcao on the sidelines.
0 While the scoreline may seem unsafe, in reality, it is almost a death sentence for Chelsea
"Long before the game, when I made a prediction, I once said that Ancelotti made mistakes in many key games, playing Manchester United and Arsenal, on the one hand, Manchester United did not do its best, Arsenal was not strong, but when playing Manchester City and Liverpool, Ancelotti made fatal mistakes."
"After the 4-game game against Manchester City, the media criticized Ancelotti's starting tactics one-sidedly, and in this game against Tottenham Hotspur, Ancelotti's starting tactics were no problem, and there was no problem with the on-the-spot command in the first hour, but the real problem, or controversial point, was his substitution adjustment."
"Of course, this time Carlo Ancelotti's substitution was brave, replacing Ballack in defense and replacing Arshavin in attack, but the question is, will such substitutions have an effect? Or is there a better choice? ”
"We saw that after replacing Ballack, Tottenham Hotspur's left attack was completely activated, and Tottenham Hotspur's goal was actually a left-sided attack that attracted the attention of defenders, Fabregas assisted with a diagonal pass on the right side of the midfield, and then passed to the left side of the penalty area to find Falcao."
'Of course, Cesc Fabregas's over-the-top pass was brilliant and the landing was excellent, and Falcao's movement and anticipation were very good, and the combination of the two made the goal, but Chelsea's defence did make mistakes, and they were no small mistakes.
The live TV camera was specially given to the sidelines, different from Ye Qiu's celebration after Falcao's goal, Ancelotti looked very frustrated on the sidelines, with a look of remorse, maybe he is now regretting his substitution.
Regardless of the purpose and starting point of his substitution, or whether there was an active or passive reason for his substitution, in a word, his substitution led to the breaking of Chelsea's defence and the goal conceded by Chelsea.
Maybe Carlo Ancelotti did a good job and did a good job throughout the game, but this substitution was his only failure, his only mistake