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Tottenham Hotspur played a total of four warm-up games in the middle and late of July, and in these four games, the team achieved an unbeaten record of three wins and one draw, including a 0-game win over Southampton, but overall, the outside media is still not satisfied with Tottenham's performance.

In the 0 win over Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur adopted a different set of tactical plays.

The goalkeeper and the backline have remained largely the same, but changes have been made in central midfield, with the duo of Cesc Fabregas and Lucas arranged, Ribery and Cavani on the wings in front, Arshavin alone in the midfield position, and Carroll at the front of the team.

This set of tactics is different from the 433 tactics used by Tottenham Hotspur before, because Arshavin is used to play as a midfielder, or shadow striker, or even looks more like a free man in the front, while Cesc Fabregas is in the same position as Lucas, relatively deeper, responsible for organizing and passing.

Arshavin is obviously more suitable for this kind of tactical play, he plays very well in the middle of the front, two assists, and at the same time he has a goal, and he is in almost every offensive plan of the team, which also makes Ye Qiu realize how to activate this Russian tsar.

Not only that, in this game against Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur's possession and efficiency were very high, the entire midfield was very fluid, and the control was also very good, and Southampton even the whole game had a chance to create a threat.

Needless to say, Cesc Fabregas and Arshavin are the Brazilian midfielder, who is known for his attacking and defensive skills when he was in Brazil, and his skills, passing and ball handling ability are not weak at all. It's just that the pace has always been slow.

Unexpectedly, he was so slow, and Arshavin and Fabregas formed a control triangle in the Tottenham Hotspur midfield, the three of them went back and forth with each other, and they were very skilled in passing and receiving the ball with each other, Ye Qiu even replaced Modric with Yu Crisp later, and directly tried to play diamond-shaped midfield tactics, so that Lucas dragged behind, Modric and Fabregas were in the middle, and Ashavin was in the front.

But this set of diamond-shaped midfield play, Tottenham Hotspur has not practiced in training, the game against Southampton played for nearly half an hour, the effect is good, ball control and passing are very good, but the efficiency is not high, the rhythm is slow, and the midfield lacks width, Ye Qiu feels that the effect is not very good.

Ye Qiu has always felt that the slow ball control style is difficult to get out in the Premier League, because the Premier League is a league that advocates impact play, and many people say that La Liga does not pay attention to defense, but they don't see the cutting of the passing route of La Liga teams, which is part of their tactics and a way of defending them.

Therefore, if La Liga does not pay attention to defense, it is not to watch the ball, or only to watch the games of the Spanish Super League.

When you meet a La Liga team in the Western Super League, you can play with that kind of crushing advantage, and no matter how good your defense is, you are a scum

Compared with La Liga, the style of play in the Premier League is obviously more rough, and it cannot be said to be open, but rough.

It's a strange league, it's full of passion, it's full of the most primitive charm of football, but it's always at a tactical level, but at least it's a bit backward, especially for the middle and lower teams.

Therefore, the Premier League team is the real one, and it cannot be said that it does not pay attention to it, or it should be said that it does not know how to organize defense, which also has a certain relationship with the fact that many Premier League teams insist on trusting local managers, and looking at European and even world football, how many British local managers have succeeded abroad?

Even if it is now known as the prosperity of the Premier League, among all the famous British coaches, the one who can get his hands is Ferguson from Scotland, and the other Moyes, frankly speaking, Ye Qiu feels that he is in the Premier League, and he may not be able to play in other leagues.

Football is a very mutually reinforcing thing, rigorous possession tactics must be more advanced than extensive British tactics, otherwise, Ferguson and Wenger and others do not need to pursue continentalization all the time, but you have to feel very strange that if you pursue the possession tactics to a certain extent, in the Premier League, you will even be defeated by extensive British tactics.

So, there are many, many things in the history of football, many, many tactics, and he is in a cycle, and the cycle is repeated.

Advanced does not necessarily mean an advantage, nor is it necessarily good.

Therefore, in the last half hour of Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur had an absolute possession advantage, but there was no way to score, but the team scored five goals in the first hour, which is definitely worth studying.

Therefore, after playing Southampton, before the team was ready to go to Amsterdam, Ye Qiu held an internal tactical discussion and analysis meeting in Theobold, and he kept explaining and analyzing the problems and situations that had arisen in the past few games to his players for more than two hours.

Many people said that after Ye Qiu reorganized a set of tactical play, the entire familiarization and implementation process of his team was relatively slow, and there was often a period of time when the game was very awkward and uncomfortable.

When the reporter conveyed this question to Ye Qiu, Ye Qiu smiled and said that this was his style.

"Some managers like to put a lot of restrictions on their players, and they will come up with a lot of very detailed tactics and tell you when to do it, when to do it, but if you just pause a player and ask him, why do you do that? He'll probably tell you that's how we play in training. ”

"But there is also a manager who doesn't like to have so many restrictions, he doesn't even ask the players how to move, how to move, but he will tell the players, how I want to play next, what is your task, and then you think about what you should do, how to form a cooperation with your teammates, use your imagination and creativity, think more, think more"

"I can't say which kind of thinking is better, but the former can easily encounter some obstacles, because when he finds out that what he is used to, which has brought them a lot of successful goals and scores, and the routine of constantly practicing every training session every day, is destroyed by the opponent, he doesn't know how to play the game."

"Don't tell me there are no teams like this, I tell you, go over the teams that are doing very badly, they are almost all like that, and what I want to do now is not to tell them what to do, but to let them think for themselves, what is my purpose when I leave my position and go into the opponent's position? How do I target my attacks? ”

'When I see my team-mates in trouble, how do I help, pick them up, what is my purpose when I'm moving forward with the ball? Pass? Shot? When I step back with the ball, what is my purpose? ”

"Why are we going to slow down all of a sudden? Suddenly picking up the pace of the game? Why do I want to pass this ball? Why don't my teammates pass the ball to me? ”

"A lot of people say that the biggest reason for a player's sluggish performance on the pitch is physical, such as injuries, fatigue and so on, but I don't think so, I think the biggest reason why a player is bad is because he is ignorant, ignorant of the opponent's tactics, ignorance of his own tactics, ignorance of what he can do and what he can help the team, and he is also ignorant of what he can do to help the team."

"So, as the head coach of the team, I have to instill in my players a way of thinking, a way of thinking, so that they try to figure out what they are doing to achieve what they are doing, and as long as the eleven players in the team know what they want to do and what they should do, then the team will be invincible."

For this reason, when the team just trained last season丨 When he faced these players for the first time, he joked that when he first came to London, he was afraid of getting lost, so he walked the same road back and forth, so there were several times when he encountered traffic jams, the taxis next to him had already circled those streets and alleys, but he was stupid and honked on the road.

This self-deprecating case made the players laugh, but it told all the players a very straightforward truth, Ye Qiu didn't dare to take a detour because he was not as familiar with the streets of London as those taxis, and now, he is familiar with the streets of London, and he can also run around like those taxis.

Therefore, if you pay attention to Ye Qiu's pre-season training camp, there are two things that he attaches the most importance to, one is the pre-season physical reserve.

Ye Qiu has always felt that a lot of work in the middle of the season is easy to bring injuries, so unless it is really necessary, he generally does not do a lot in the middle of the season, at best he does some training to adjust his physical fitness.

The other is the tactical analysis meeting, and this kind of meeting he usually combines the game video in a targeted manner, and this requires Tottenham Hotspur's coaching staff to have a strong analysis team behind it, Peter Brandt is the head of this analysis team, and the entire analysis team has as many as ten people.

Of course, these ten people are not only responsible for video recording and game analysis, but also training, including analysis of all aspects of other parties, they have to submit an analysis report to the coaching staff almost every day, as an important basis for the coaching staff to arrange training and games, and this is also a habit that Ye Qiu has been using since the time of Ajax

Farewell to July, into August.

The team crossed the English Channel to Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Cup was ushered in the next day, with Tottenham Hotspur taking on Lazio in the opening game.

Ye Qiu attaches great importance to the Amsterdam Cup, not only because the opponents are very strong, in addition to the host Ajax, Lazio in Serie A and Atletico Madrid in La Liga are all top league teams, which also makes the warm-up match of this event very golden.

The internationals who participated in the Copa America have also returned to the team, but Ye Qiu also treated them separately, for Thiago Silva, Marcelo, Cavani and others, who played less games, because they adjusted their physical fitness and condition well, so they all entered the squad in this game against Lazio.

Lionel Messi, Mascherano and Vargas are all adjusting their bodies and stockpiling for the new season, so they didn't even make the squad for this game.

Tottenham Hotspur fielded a 433-man lineup in the first half against Lazio, with Petr Cech in goal, Marcelo, Hangrande, Thiago Silva and Arbeloa at the back, David Beckham, Yaya Toure and Cesc Fabregas in midfield, and Gareth Bale, Robin van Persie and Ribery up front.

When the game reached the 18th minute, Marcelo suddenly stepped forward to form a cooperation with Gareth Bale on the left side, but was blocked by Lazio's defense, Marcelo knocked back after protecting the ball, Fabregas plugged in and responded, a straight ball, penetrating Lazio's defense, Van Persie stopped the ball on the left rib of the penalty area, shook off the defender and hit the goal at a small angle, 0

After taking the lead in breaking through the opponent's goal, Tottenham Hotspur's attack appeared more ambitious, and launched round after round of offensives against Lazio, but Lazio is not a fuel-efficient lamp, the defense is very stable, and it has never given Tottenham Hotspur more opportunities, but in the 4l minute, he took advantage of a mistake by Tottenham Hotspur to form a counterattack to create a corner kick, and the opponent took advantage of the corner kick opportunity to score a goal,

Although the first half was a draw, Ye Qiu still made four substitutions in the midfield, and after replacing Arshavin, the team became 3I again Carroll replaced Van Persie as the team's arrowhead.

The warm-up game against Southampton made the British high school striker famous, and Carroll, who scored a hat-trick, was even called by the British media as the hope of Tottenham Hotspur to score after Ruud van Nistelrooy's departure, especially after the hat-trick in the warm-up game, many people exclaimed that he got the true pass of Ruud van Nistelrooy.

As everyone knows, Carroll didn't bother to learn to shoot from Vanney at all.

Regarding the media hype, Ye Qiu has always held a cold sideline attitude, because he feels that Carol has always been just one of the changes in his team, because Carol is indeed a player with too obvious shortcomings and shortcomings.

The first is his physical flexibility, he is tall and strong, he looks like the benchmark of a standard English centre-forward, but his explosiveness and agility are his weaknesses and shortcomings, which also limits his role

Secondly, technical skills, Carroll has a certain technical foundation, especially in the face of a team similar to Southampton, which is not as strong as Tottenham Hotspur, his aspect will be magnified, but once he encounters a strong team, his weakness is obvious, so he cannot become a tactical fulcrum similar to Drogba's kind of retreat to get the ball, and he also lacks the ability to turn around with the ball after taking the ball, coupled with his lack of flexibility and explosiveness, so that his most threatening area is not in the low post, but in the high post, Especially in the opposition penalty area.

So Carol has to cater to this characteristic of the forward, and interestingly, Tottenham Hotspur also has an Arshavin in the team, this player is good at playing shadow strikers, playing the front court free man, if Carroll is in front, Arshavin is cruising behind him, and then through the wings to complete the transition from the back to the front.

In this way, Carroll can play his biggest threat, and Arshavin can also play to his strengths

Ye Qiu held this mentality, and once again practiced the team's 4L tactics in this game against Lazio, the difference is that this time Beckham was arranged by Ye Qiu to return to the right side that he is most familiar with.

As a result, Arshavin took the ball and distributed it to the right, Beckham stopped the ball and crossed the ball, Carroll headed home in the box, and Tottenham Hotspur broke the Lazio goal again in the first minute.

This goal also became the last goal of the game, Tottenham Hotspur successfully defeated Lazio in the opening game of the Amsterdam Cup, and England homegrown center forward Andy Carroll, who scored the winning goal, made a name for himself again, scoring four goals in two consecutive games, Carroll really has the intention of competing with his predecessor Ruud van Nistelrooy.

Two days later, the team welcomed Ajax, and this time Ye Qiu continued to use the attacking combination of Van Persie, Ribery and Ashley Young, and further tried to examine the team's attacking routine, after all, he had to prepare for injuries in the middle of the season.

As a result, Tottenham Hotspur played a mess throughout the game, and there was not much discipline in the attack, and finally took advantage of a set-piece in front, Beckham assisted Hangrande to score, and the team also defeated the home team Ajax 0 with this goal.

With two consecutive wins and three goals, Tottenham Hotspur finally finished first in the Amsterdam Cup with an overall score of nine points and won the championship, while Atletico Madrid defeated Lazio and won the second place in the group, Ajax third, and Lazio lost two in a row and could only fall to the bottom of the group.

With the end of the Amsterdam Cup, Tottenham Hotspur won this warm-up game, but they have never been able to play the kind of devastating attack in the second half of last season, which has also made many people clearly aware that Tottenham Hotspur has not yet been able to get out of the changes brought about by the team's tactical adjustment after Ruud van Nistelrooy's departure.

Returning to London from Amsterdam, the draw for the third round of UEFA Champions League qualification was held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, with Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool both competing in the qualifiers as third and fourth Premier League teams.

This is Tottenham's first Champions League match in decades, and almost everyone is full of apprehension and anticipation about the team's Champions League journey.

According to Tottenham Hotspur fans in interviews with the media, Ye Qiu's coaching staff has incomparably rich experience in the Champions League, and I believe that this experienced team can bring stable Champions League results to the young Tottenham Hotspur.

As for the team's Champions League performance expectations, Tottenham Hotspur fans are also very cautious, saying that they will strive to participate in the group stage

Relatively speaking, Ye Qiu's ambition will be greater.

"I hope to help the team get out of the group stage," he says with a confident and calm smile.