There is a saying that is very true, the wish is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

The so-called blessing and misfortune depend on each other, Tottenham Hotspur has just pressed Arsenal and successfully climbed to the top four of the league, but in a blink of an eye, it immediately ushered in a crisis, two days after playing Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur hosted Mark Hughes's Blackburn.

Maybe it's because of the continuous battle in a short period of time, or maybe it's because Ye Qiu was more cautious this time and didn't adjust the team's lineup, and as a result, Tottenham Hotspur played badly in the game against Blackburn.

In the first half, Tottenham Hotspur were firmly in control of the tempo and possession of the game, but they lost the scoreline.

Bentley's pass down the right flank led to a counter-attack from Benny McCarthy and penetrated the Tottenham Hotspur goal to temporarily take a 0-0 lead away from home, but even after that, Tottenham Hotspur launched the most violent attack on Blackburn Rovers and failed to find the back of the net.

At halftime, Ye Qiu adjusted the team's lineup, he even took Mascherano directly, put Yaya Tourela to play in the back, and replaced Ashavin, who has performed well in recent times, to play the front midfield, and Beckham is still in the middle of the midfield to partner Yaya Toure.

But even so, Tottenham Hotspur still failed to break through Blackburn's goal, which made all the Tottenham Hotspur fans and coaching staff in the stadium, and even the players on the field feel anxious, because everyone knew that if they couldn't break Blackburn's goal, Tottenham Hotspur would probably not be able to keep the top four in the league

"Hold it steady for me and don't worry, when you get to the front, hold the ball more, don't worry"

Ye Qiu walked to the sidelines and shouted loudly at the players on the field, he felt that with the passage of time, the players on the field were obviously a little anxious, and this anxious mood was not good for the current Tottenham Hotspur.

"Perhaps, I'm really too anxious" Ye Qiu turned his head sideways and complained to Mauro Tassotti.

Before reversing Arsenal to reach the top four in the league, Ye Qiu was really stunned by this ecstasy, and was also overshadowed by Tottenham Hotspur's recent winning streak, which led to his carelessness in this game, and Blackburn's performance this season is not bad at all.

It is important to know that Mark Hughes entered the Manchester City team by virtue of his excellent coaching in the past two years.

"Want to know the score from Newcastle?" Rowland walked over and asked.

Ye Qiu shook his head, waved his hand and said, "Don't tell me this now, I'm not in the mood, I'm just thinking about how to get rid of this damn Blackburn, I don't think about anything else."

Roland and Mauro Tassoti glanced at each other, and they could both feel Ye Qiu's pressure at this moment

Finally, after a season of hard work, he reached the top four in the league, and if he was squeezed out again in the end, it would be a very big blow to the psychology and morale of Ye Qiu and the players.

Of course, this can't all be blamed on Ye Qiu, the Premier League's schedule is sometimes really perverted, such as the Christmas holidays, such as the last two rounds, there are two days in between, resulting in the team having to fight tiredly, and coupled with the previous national team events, the impact on Tottenham Hotspur is really big.

At the very least, the results of the top teams in the last two rounds of the Premier League are generally not very satisfactory, whether it is Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea or Liverpool, the results are obviously not satisfactory, and even if they win, it is very difficult to win.

Tottenham Hotspur has been busy for a long time recently, either busy with multi-line battles, or busy with the national team game, don't look at Tottenham Hotspur seems to be not ranked very well, but the number of international players is quite a lot, not as good as other giants, but it has also seriously affected the team's training camp and! Prepare for battle.

This is indeed a headache, feeling a dilemma, your team's performance is bad, there are fewer internationals, but the results are not ideal, but once your results go up, your performance is excellent, and it attracts attention, the national team will come to you one after another, and you can't let it go, so what can you do?

In this game, the performance of everyone at Tottenham Hotspur was indeed average, very average, even Ruud van Nistelrooy, who was the team's main center forward, performed badly, missing at least two or three good scoring opportunities, if it was when he was in good shape, he should have scored at least two goals now.

If the team can't create chances, it can be explained that there is a problem with the team, but the problem now is that the team can create chances but fail to take them, which can only mean that the players are in a problem and not excited enough.

For this, even Ye Qiu, there is no way.

If there is a way to avoid it, where will those big teams lose, right?

Just when Ye Qiu felt embarrassed and had a headache, he heard the referee suddenly blow the whistle and raise a topaz card towards Blackburn's right-back Volnock, giving Tottenham Hotspur a direct free kick opportunity to the right of the arc of the Tottenham Hotspur penalty area.

All the Tottenham Hotspur fans chanted Messi, and from slow motion, it was a foul on Volnock caused by Messi using his skillful ball control skills from the right side to cut inside with the ball.

"Good" Ye Qiu applauded hard, this is definitely a very good free kick opportunity, just as a right foot, Beckham's free throw in this place is not smooth, Gareth Bale is left foot, if he comes on the field at this time, he may come to the penalty ball more smoothly.

The Tottenham Hotspur fans were chanting Beckham's name and he immediately walked in front of the penalty spot, but he was surrounded by other team-mates, including Franck Ribery and Lionel Messi.

Beckham made a gesture towards Ye Qiu, signaling that he was not good at playing in this position, and that someone needed to help him and cover it, while Ye Qiu let him make his own decisions and let his teammates cooperate with him as much as possible.

"Listen, man, this shot is the same as usual, remember?" Beckham pulled over Ribery and Messi.

Both of them have practiced with Beckham, and when they are training for set-pieces on weekdays, Ye Qiu will also properly practice free kick cooperation, because to be honest, the free kicks in the team currently rely on Beckham, Gareth Bale can't play the main force for the time being, and Tottenham Hotspur can only rely on playing when Beckham is not there.

Ribery and Messi both nodded their heads to indicate that they understood, and then Beckham made the details.

The referee ran up and signaled that the penalty was about to start, and then he asked Blackburn's wall to shrink into the penalty area, signaling that their wall was too far out, which had seriously affected the penalty of the free kick, and after the wall was retracted, Beckham, Ribery and Messi formed a triangle.

This is a free kick not far away, just at the front of the big penalty area, anyone can directly kick the goal, as long as they have the ability to play a curve ball, over or around the human wall, can form a threat, and the three people are also very interesting, Beckham is the most important free kick penalty taker, the right foot is on the left, Messi is the left foot on the right, Ribery is the left and right foot, standing in the middle and back.

Therefore, at this moment, even Ye Qiu couldn't guess what kind of play they would choose, because these all depended on their on-the-spot play, and it was impossible for Ye Qiu to arrange all this in such detail, because it was easy to do bad things.

With the referee's whistle, I saw that after Ribery ran forward two steps, he made a gesture to get up vigorously, and the wall of people reacted with a gust of reaction, but he actually kicked the ball to Messi, Messi faced the incoming ball and stepped on it directly, while Beckham ran quickly from the left side, as soon as Messi stepped on it, the ball was set, and Beckham arrived.

The whole process took place in a second or two, and everyone usually cooperated, so the pace and step points were in place, and the place where Messi stepped on the ball was exactly where Beckham could get up directly after rushing up

And Beckham's direct free kick is also very clever, but the right foot is a curved ball, take the upper left corner, directly over the head of the wall, and crash into the left side net of the goal line, very clean and neat, without the slightest drag.

Even after the ball was scored, Friedel didn't react, and by the time he came to his senses, the ball was already in the net, and all he could do was to get the ball out of the goal line and watch everyone up and down Tottenham Hotspur rush to the sidelines to celebrate the goal, and angrily kick the ball back into the center circle.

Although Tottenham Hotspur finally relied on Beckham's indirect free kick in the 71st minute to break through Blackburn's goal, although Tottenham Hotspur followed closely and kept attacking Blackburn's goal, but in the end they could not prevent Blackburn from getting a point from their own body.

The score was finally locked at L

To Tottenham Hotspur's relief, Arsenal's game and Newcastle ended up in a draw, 00 neither side could help the other, Arsenal's recent performance is indeed very bad, especially after Gilberto Silva was injured, the Gunners' performance has really plummeted.

Although Tottenham Hotspur retained the top four in the league, Liverpool defeated Middlesbrough 0 at home, successfully widening the gap between themselves and Tottenham Hotspur to five points, and Gerrard scored twice in this game to stage the return of the king.

Ye Qiu can feel that Benitez has almost adjusted Liverpool's existing squad to the best state so far this season, and judging from the current situation, he lost too many points in the first half of the season, fell too far behind, and it is impossible to catch it back, so the next fat man should be playing the Champions League with all his might.

Midweek ushered in the second leg of the League Cup quarterfinals, Ye Qiu learned a lesson this time丨 coupled with a big win away from home, the home team took the way of substitute lineup, but even so, Arshavin's goal still helped Tottenham Hotspur Uj Osasuna at home

In the end, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Osasuna with an aggregate score of 40 over two legs to advance to the semi-finals.

This time, Osasuna's opponent is also Sevilla from Spain.

Two days later, the team travelled to Wigan.

Everyone knows that there are two teams that are the most difficult to play in the league, one is the team that competes for Champions League qualification, and the other is the team that is fighting for relegation, and this round of Wigan just belongs to the latter.

Wigan manager Paul Jewell is also the number one man in English football, because after he took charge of Wigan, he led the team to two consecutive promotions to the Premier League in three years, and in his first season in the Premier League, that is, last season, Wigan won the league tenth, becoming a dark horse that season, and Jewell also became famous for winning the Premier League Manager of the Month for two consecutive months.

But all the dark horses can't escape fate, Jewell has adjusted Wigan this season, abandoning the previous 54 defensive counter-attacking tactics, and instead began to adopt a more up-to-date 433 tactic, in Jewell's words, to make Wigan play more pursued.

This is actually some of the thoughts of many British local coaches, but it turns out that almost all the local English coaches who have changed to the 333 tactics have not been able to get ahead, but those who continue to adhere to the traditional tactics of 44 will lead the team to a more stable and solid result.

The reason is not difficult to understand, because the 333 tactics have higher requirements for the players, the technical and tactical level of the team, and the ability to handle the head coach are obviously much higher than 44.

Ye Qiu didn't understand, I don't know what gave Wigan so much courage, when facing Tottenham Hotspur, they still put on a 433 tactic, especially their center forward turned out to be the famous Husky, so Ye Qiu made the same choice as Benitez, Mourinho and Ferguson.

Among the top five teams in the Premier League, Arsenal is the hardest to play Wigan, while several other teams are easier to play Wigan, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, all big wins and complete wins, because they obviously see through Wigan's shortcomings.

At Robin Park in Wigan, Tottenham Hotspur kicked overhead, beat Wigan by six goals, Ribery scored twice, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Messi, Fabregas and Hangrande all scored successively, of which Tottenham Hotspur relied on Ribery and Ruud van Nistelrooy's goals in the first three minutes to take a 0 lead, and the score in the first half was already 40.

This victory made Tottenham Hotspur out of the previous draw by Blackburn, and also made Tottenham Hotspur score more goals than Manchester United, the Red Devils failed to complete the killing of Chelsea away from home, and the two sides played to a 00 draw, destined to continue the suspense of winning the championship.

Liverpool's 00-00 draw at Manchester City saw Tottenham Hotspur's point gap between Tottenham and the Reds quickly close to three points, while Arsenal beat Bolton Wanderers to keep up with Tottenham.

After playing Wigan, Tottenham Hotspur ushered in a week's rest, but all the media had no idea of resting at all, because they found that so far this season, the whole competition situation in the Premier League has been surprisingly fierce, even tragic, because whether it is the championship, or Champions League qualification, or UEFA Cup qualification, or even the relegation battle, it is unprecedentedly miserable.

Although the current Premier League title is only contested by Manchester United and Chelsea, the two teams have only two points on points, and they can be replaced at any time, and the two teams have been competing for a while in the past, and no one wants to be left behind.

In the Champions League qualification zone, Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal and Liverpool are competing for third and fourth place, of which, Liverpool is in a more favorable situation, currently leading Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal by three points, with four rounds of the league remaining, Liverpool's only hidden danger is distraction from the Champions League.

Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have the same points, and the situation of the two teams is also the most dangerous, because in the 35th round of the league, Tottenham Hotspur faced Arsenal at White Hart Lane.

This is not just the difference between the fourth and fifth in the league, but the income of tens of millions of euros in the next season, which no team dares to underestimate easily, so whether it is Liverpool, Arsenal, or Tottenham Hotspur, they have clearly shouted that they will go all out to qualify for the Champions League.

If the race for the top four is unprecedentedly hot, then the race for the top seven in the league is also very fierce, because it is related to the qualification for next year's UEFA Cup, because the teams in the league cup final and the FA Cup final are the teams in front of the Premier League, and it is logical that the teams that will participate in the UEFA Cup next season will be the teams in the league fifth, sixth and seventh.

Although for the big teams, the League Cup is dispensable, but for Everton, Bolton, Portsmouth, Blackburn, Reading, Aston Villa and other teams, the League Cup is already the limit of what they can consider.

What is even more surprising is that in the current Premier League relegation zone, in addition to Watford, which has been quasi-relegated, Charlton, Sheffield United, Wigan, Fulham, West Ham United and Manchester City, there are six teams still fighting for relegation, and the situation can be described as very miserable.

After a full game, the entire 20 teams in the Premier League, with four rounds left in the league, except for Middlesbrough and Newcastle, which have been relegated early and have not competed for European qualification, and Watford, who have been relegated early, the other 17 teams are fighting for their goals, which is really unprecedented in the history of the Premier League.

The whole Premier League is so miserable, and the media every round seems to be like a holiday, which naturally makes the media and fans all over the world pay strong attention, and everyone is speculating about what the final result of this season will be, and who will win the championship? Can Tottenham Hotspur keep a top-four finish?

In the 34th round of the league, Chelsea drew 00 at home to Manchester United, so that the suspense of the Premier League to win the championship continued, and there should have been hope to use the advantage of home to defeat the rival Chelsea in one fell swoop, and now have to continue to compete with Manchester United to start the championship.

And all the journalists, media and fans have their eyes on a week later, in the 35th round of the league, Tottenham Hotspur hosts Arsenal, which is undoubtedly a highlight.