It's the end of March, but it's getting dark in London faster than anywhere else.

Ye Qiu didn't have a deep knowledge of geography, and he didn't know why, in short, he was used to this concept of time.

Dressed from top to bottom, standard Adidas casual sportswear, even the shoes on his feet are Adidas, Ye Qiu slowly walked around Theobold, from the first team to the gate, to the academy, and finally back to Central Lake.

By this time, it was almost dark, but he was still sitting in the gazebo in the middle of the central lake.

It's a little cool, but the surroundings are very quiet at this time, although there are neon street lights in the training base, many of the scenery that looks beautiful during the day are now blurred, and they all blend into the darkness, but the feeling that gives Ye Qiu is completely different.

I don't know when it started, Ye Qiu has become more and more aware of appreciating this kind of tranquility of a person.

But many times, Ye Qiu is not the only one who leaves late.

"When I saw your car, I knew you were here!" Mauro? Tassotti appeared on the shore of the lake with a smile on his face, and walked up to the pavilion in the middle of the lake along the only passage, "It's so late, you don't plan to leave yet?" ”

"Aren't you too?" Ye Qiu replied with a smile.

Mauro? Tasotti smiled, "I'm in trouble, but you're wandering around." ”

Ye Qiu was silent, it was difficult for him to tell others, why did he like to walk around in Theoboldri more and more, it was a very special feeling, just like a father, looking at his children every day, no matter how he looked at it, he would not produce a kind of boredom, and even every time he looked closely, you would have a very different feeling, and you would even continue to find some details that you usually ignored.

Ye Qiu asked himself that he was not a person who liked to be sad and sad, and he was not the kind of person who was particularly emotional, but sometimes he felt that he seemed to be paying more and more attention to some things that were difficult to attract his attention when he was young before.

It's like if it had been a few years earlier, he would not have been like this, and he wouldn't have gone home to eat after training, but just wandered around the training base, and he would have felt that it was a pain in idleness.

"I remember that in my first year at Ajax, I discovered something very interesting!" Ye Qiu still sat in the gazebo and didn't move, but in a tone that seemed to be funny, but in fact he was taking a lot of effort to savor it, "I found that Mr. Van Praag, the chairman of Ajax at that time, would walk around and look everywhere in the Detokmost training base after the training session every day. ”

"At that time, I thought it was very strange, because it was dark and there was no one inside, what was he going to do? What to see? ”

Ye Qiu's words, let Mauro? Tasotti was also a little interested, "You mean that you, like an old man in his sixties, are starting to easily reminisce about the past?" Beginning to immerse yourself in the splendor of your own memories? ”

Ye Qiu smiled and shook his head, "No, I rarely think about these things when I am scattering, and I rarely even think about football, I just feel that I just walk quietly like this, and look at it slowly, the whole person, the whole heart feels very stable." ”

Mauro? After hearing this, Tasotti seemed to understand a little, "You say that, but it reminds me of a very interesting thing, that is, not long after the start of my career, I owned my own house, and that was the first time I used my own money to choose a house I liked and live with the people I loved. ”

"During that time, I would often walk around the house to look around, because that feeling is like a kind of familiarity and understanding of the process of creating and owning a qiē, which is difficult to describe in words, but I really feel that it feels great!"

Ye Qiu nodded this time, "It's a bit like that feeling, it's like when I'm leaving, I always think about whether there is something that is not good enough, or something that is not satisfactory or something like that, because all the qiē here, every grass and tree here, and even every inch of land here, belong to us Tottenham Hotspur, and I worked hard with everyone to create it." ”

"Then congratulations, you really own Tottenham Hotspur!" Mauro? Tasotti said with a smile.

Ye Qiu was stunned for a moment, and didn't react to what it meant.

"Not only do you have it legally, but emotionally, you also have it!" Mauro? Tasotti explained.

Ye Qiu shook his head and smiled after hearing this, "It's a strange feeling, isn't it?" I've never been a very possessive person, but over the years, especially in the last year or two, I've felt more and more about the team. ”

"Perhaps, that's because in the past, you were more from the perspective of a manager to think and look at the team, which would make you feel isolated, as if you didn't fully own Tottenham Hotspur, you would have the illusion that you only owned the competitive field, and the business field was all handed over to someone else."

'But as you get closer to retirement, you're looking at the ball more and more with the eyes and heights of a club owner, so naturally that feeling is getting stronger and stronger, and I think that's a good thing.'

After a pause, Mauro? Tasotti laughed: "You mentioned Van Praag, to be honest, in my eyes, he is one of the greatest presidents in the history of Ajax, and he is not even lost to his father at all, because you know that it is not the most difficult to lay down a country, the most difficult thing is that in this period of turmoil, not only to stabilize the country, but also to bring revival." ”

"At this point, I think Van Praag did a really good job, but his life was not good, and when he encountered the Bosman Act, a piece of paper completely destroyed his life's work, as well as the honor and affirmation that should have belonged to him."

After Ye Qiu heard this, he was right to Mauro? Tasotti was a little impressed.

"Don't look at me like that, as you said, the ability of a manager depends not only on football, but also on the bypass, so in the past few years, I have also read and thought!"

After all that, Mauro? Tasotti and Ye Qiu both laughed.

"What about Berlusconi?" Ye Qiu asked with a smile.

Mauro? Tasotti smiled a little reluctantly, "He's also a very good chairman, but you know, he's never been like you, like Van Praag, who loves a team, and sometimes I even think, does he really love AC Milan? Or is what he loves is the benefits and fame that he can give him after he loves AC Milan? ”

After Ye Qiu heard this, he also smiled a little helplessly, "Feelings are always the most complicated!" ”

Mauro? Tassotti shrugged his shoulders and said he couldn't figure it out.

"By the way, what are you doing so late?" Ye Qiu asked in turn.

Actually, you don't have to guess Ye Qiu to be clear, Mauro? Tasotti is the last to leave almost every day, and the first to arrive at Theorebold is now more and more like a manager, the only difference is that he has not yet turned regular.

"I'm watching some footage of Bayern Munich's games this season, and I'm watching some footage from Pep Guardiola's time at Barcelona!" Mauro? Tassotti said it quite naturally.

Yesterday, the draw results of the Champions League quarterfinals came out, Tottenham Hotspur, who maintained a full victory in the Premier League, met the Bundesliga team and Bayern Munich, which is currently maintaining a winning streak.

Especially the world's chief coach Ye Qiu, when he met the genius young marshal Pep Guardiola, this is simply a drama of Mars hitting the earth.

And the head coach studies the opponent's game video, which is really nothing to write about, and managers all over the world are like this, even the so-called crazy Bielsa can watch the game video every day and do nothing else, Benitez is also a famous video maniac.

Just Mauro? Although Tasotti is not yet a manager, he has actually taken on the role of head coach.

"What's the catch?" Ye Qiu asked with a smile.

Mauro? Tasotti smiled, "Is this a test for me?" ”

Ye Qiu was not polite, and nodded directly, "At least, you have to show me a hand!" ”

Mauro? Tasotti laughed, but quickly stopped, and after thinking about it, he said: "I think we can think about this in two directions, first of all, Pep Guardiola is a person, I don't think he is good at using the kind of players who don't match his tactical philosophy, and it can even be said that he can't use it at all!" ”

After Ye Qiu heard this, he nodded with a smile, "Let's hear it!" ”

"When I was at Barcelona, there were some players like this in the Barcelona team at that time, such as Seydoux? Keita, but he can't use this player well, in the Barcelona team, Guardiola is the best at using it, in fact, Xavi, Iniesta and others, and then Fabregas went, he didn't use it well. ”

"I think it has a lot to do with his personality!" Mauro? Tasotti analyzed.

Ye Qiu is better than Mauro about this? Tasotti knows better because he is more familiar with Pep Guardiola and knows the Spaniard better.

Or should I say that Pep Guardiola is actually a person who likes to be sad and sad, he is very sensitive to feelings, and he is also very delicate, which may have something to do with him as a Spaniard, especially in Catalonia.

Therefore, presented on the football field, the style he played with, or the style he coached, has a similar atmosphere to that of an artist, but many people have never thought that artists are often not ordinary people, and many artists are perverts, so Guardiola is also more extreme in terms of feelings.

On a tactical level, he is very conservative and he is eager to stifle all possible crises.

Some people say that Benitez and Mourinho treat players as players, but what about Pep Guardiola?

In Ye Qiu's previous life, did Guardiola use Yaya badly? Toure prefers Sergio Busquets, who is more sedate than the former, and Pep Guardiola doesn't use Ibrahimovic well, because the appearance of the Swedish centre-forward makes Barcelona more likely to make mistakes.

"Now Bayern Munich's midfield is very interesting, Guardiola gave up Gustavo, and during the injury of Piggy Schweinsteiger, Lahm was arranged to play in the back, but after Schweinsteiger returned, after a few games, many people began to dispute, that is, in Guardiola's system, Schweinsteiger or Lahm is more suitable to be a midfielder."

Schweinsteiger is a player who was born on the wing, has good skills at his feet, can dribble, control, lead and pass, but his playing style and characteristics have never been the type that is very stable and minimizes mistakes, on the contrary, he belongs to the kind of player who is more bold, more flexible, and more improvised, and such players often represent mistakes.

"Based on the number I've gotten, Schweinsteiger has averaged 1 per game so far. 1 conceded possession and Lahm only 0. 4 times! "Mauro? Tasotti appeared confident.

The so-called loss of the ball does not refer to a passing error, but to the successful interception of the ball by the opponent when controlling the ball.

Ye Qiu has always felt that football games are always a combination of contradictions, taking risks is equivalent to mistakes, and not taking risks is often dull and mechanical, so Tottenham Hotspur players often take risks, but Ye Qiu advocates minimizing mistakes in key positions, which is why the back position is so important, and even replaces Pirlo with Nemanja Matic.

Nemanja Matic will also guide Tottenham Hotspur to lose possession, but he will hardly let opponents break the ball at his feet, and he often passes forward, and often makes mistakes, but because he has a strong defensive and covering ability of his own, coupled with the overall operation of the team, this is not a problem.

That's not the case with Schweinsteiger, who is more lethal in his turnovers per game than the likes of Nemanja Matic and Lahm, because he prefers to carry the ball forward on many occasions, which is tied to the style of play he has played over the years, as he used to be a wing-back.

You can imagine that a key midfielder, in the process of advancing with the ball, has a high chance of being cut off, because all evidence shows that the longer the ball is at the feet, the greater the possibility of being cut off, so the current back is basically fast ball, but Schweinsteiger likes to advance with the ball.

In Heynckes, this was not a problem because there were defenders like Gustavo behind him, but under Pep Guardiola, the problem was very serious, because Guardiola emphasized extreme possession tactics, so it was basically impossible for him to allow such a hidden danger in his team.

It's like in Ye Qiu's previous life, Guardiola coached Barcelona, and he won Yaya? Toure, enabled Sergio Busquets.

Schweinsteiger is actually a bit like Yaya during the Barcelona period? Toure.

In the past year, Ye Qiu has become more and more aware of the tactical trend in the next few years, that is, when the possession genre is becoming more and more popular, many teams that can't play possession tactics will quickly get through the midfield and create a threat in the front court as much as possible.

It's actually a tradition in tactical history that the safest way to defend is to keep the ball as far away from our goal as possible.

Therefore, Tottenham Hotspur's current situation is very clear, when encountering a team with strong possession ability, I will adopt high-intensity pressing tactics, quickly pass the midfield, pass the ball to the front, and then use the cooperation of the players in the front court to create a threat, on the contrary, if the opponent does not possess the ball, then I will boldly take the initiative and crush you.

This is a very flexible and effective mechanism.

"What else?" Ye Qiu vs. Mauro? Tassotti was very satisfied with this analysis, very satisfied.

The reason why many Champions League rookie managers make mistakes is actually because they don't understand the real core essence of the Champions League knockout game, which is the confrontation of people, not the confrontation of football!

The reason why the Champions League is developing more and more rapidly is that it started from the reform of the knockout round, and this reform itself is a kind of pandering to the hearts of the people and amplifying the effect of confrontation between people.

As the saying goes, fighting with others is endlessly fun, that's the truth!

"I think that after Pep Guardiola took over Bayern Munich, he encountered a very critical and critical problem, that is, Bayern Munich is a Bundesliga team, not a La Liga team, to continue to adopt possession tactics, Bayern Munich does not have the foundation of Barcelona, and the players are not enough at the technical level, so it will take a while to transform."

"More importantly, in the pressing and pressing of the midfield, Barcelona has its own system, which is not bad for Bayern Munich, since Heathfield, Bayern Munich is good in defense and pressing, but there is no way to achieve the organic combination of attack and defense in Barcelona's peak."

In this regard, Barcelona is actually the best to do, a little better than Tottenham Hotspur, because the latter has to adapt to the Premier League, and at the same time consider other factors such as height and body, at least Ye Qiu does not plan to go as extreme as Barcelona, so in this aspect, Barcelona does the best.

But that was tailor-made for Barcelona's possession tactics, which Bayern Munich couldn't have.

"When Pep Guardiola first arrived, with Barcelona's aura of success, the safest and safest way was to copy Barcelona's set, and I think Guardiola's training is also quite level, so Bayern Munich now looks to be transforming quite well, but between possession and pressing, they don't combine well."

Actually, it's nothing if they don't combine well, it's like Borussia Dortmund and Atletico Madrid, who give up possession and press tactics, and they don't organise very well, but they have to sacrifice players and make up for it with more movement and physical exertion.

This is Pep Guardiola's first season, and it is simply impossible to ask him to toss Bayern Munich into a second Barcelona team as soon as he arrives, and it is quite successful to be able to make such progress and success in his first season, to build the team into an active style of possession, and to be so eye-catching.

In the Bundesliga, or against some weak teams, Bayern Munich can crush their opponents, because their strength is also quite good and their tactical system is also very strong.

But if it is against a strong opponent, it is difficult to say, for example, Bayern Munich met Liverpool in the round of 16 knockout round, and the result was a wolf bèi, although it narrowly won, but Guardiola's team did not play the tactics they are good at all.

Ye Qiu listened to Mauro? After Tassotti's analysis, he smiled, "The current situation of Bayern Munich is Tottenham Hotspur next season, which is worth learning from and learning lessons from!" ”

Ye Qiu is going to retire next season, judging from the current team's results, Tottenham Hotspur this season has at least a double in hand, which is quite successful, so when the time comes? Tasotti will be like taking over Bayern Munich's Pep Guardiola from Heynckes, and now Guardiola is encountering, Mauro? Tasotti will also come across next season.

There is a saying that people who have no long-term concerns must have near-term worries, and Ye Qiu must remind Mauro of this? Tasotti.

However, there are also differences, for example, many of Ye Qiu's reinforcements this season are Mauro? What Tasotti hand-picked, this is a special treatment that Guardiola does not have.

"Mauro, in these two games against Bayern Munich, you are solely responsible for the targeted tactical arrangements and drills!"

Mauro? When Tasotti heard this, he was stunned.