Chapter 811 - Too Undisciplined!
After beating Manuel Pellegrini's Manchester City 4-0 away, Tottenham Hotspur travel to Germany three days later to take on Bayer Leverkusen in the fifth round of the Champions League group stage.
Because he has already qualified from the top of the group in advance, this time Ye Qiu once again arranged a large number of rotations, Matic was left in London by Ye Qiu, Pirlo who returned from injury was qualified to start, and he was partnered in the midfielder by Stroman and Pogba, and the Dutchman was still arranged as a central midfielder.
As a result, Tottenham Hotspur took a 2:0 lead in the first half with goals from Neymar and Varane, and in the second half, goals from Marcelo, Pogba and Stroman helped Tottenham Hotspur defeat Bayer Leverkusen with a score of 5:0, and retreated from the away game to win five consecutive wins in the group stage.
This victory also made German fans very unhappy, because they thought that Tottenham Hotspur was secretly helping Shakhtar Donetsk, because before the fifth round, Bayer Leverkusen was still two points ahead of Shakhtar Donetsk, but after this round, Shakhtar Donetsk beat Real Sociedad 4-0 at home, allowing the Ukrainian to come from behind and rise to second place in the group.
In the final round, Bayer Leverkusen will take on Real Sociedad away, while Tottenham Hotspur will host Shakhtar Donetsk.
One can imagine how unfavorable the situation and situation are for Leverkusen.
There is no need for Ye Qiu to take the German's reaction to heart, all his thoughts are on Saturday night, the home game against Manchester United, which is also the first time that Tottenham Hotspur have encountered Manchester United since Ferguson's retirement.
To say that Manchester United this season, in the current Premier League standings has fallen to the fifth place, the league opening 12 games, six wins, three draws and three losses, judging from the report card, in fact, it is not too bad, especially considering that Manchester United has always been good at playing against the wind, so the second half is the key moment for Manchester United.
Manchester United has encountered five strong teams this season: Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Southampton and Arsenal, of which Chelsea and Southampton are drawn at home, Liverpool and Manchester City are away defeats, only Arsenal is a 1-0 win, and the record against strong teams can be described as extremely bad.
This is also the most criticized point of Moyes this season, that is, he always has problems in some strong conversations, which is compared to the past Manchester United is very good at playing key battles, Moyes always drops the chain at the door, many people feel that this is related to the fact that he has not coached a big team in the past, after all, he is coaching a weak team.
But things changed completely after the win over Arsenal, with David Moyes saying he had adapted to the Manchester United manager's position, and his Reds had five wins and two draws in their next seven games after losing to Manchester City in the fifth round, with two draws at home to Southampton who have been stunning this season and one away at Cardiff.
Judging from this report card, Moyes's team is not bad and in great form.
So before the team left for London, David Moyes smiled and said he would not celebrate if he had won if he had led Manchester United to Tottenham Hotspur Hotspur, where he had suffered for many years, when asked by reporters about how special he would feel when he first took on Manchester United.
'If it was before, I would have thought it was an honour, the glory of beating the strong with the weak, but now, I think it's normal because Manchester United are a strong team at the same level as Tottenham Hotspur, and I think it's normal to beat them away from home, so there's no need to celebrate.
After all, this is the first red-white battle after Ferguson's retirement, and it is also the penultimate red-white battle before Ye Qiu's retirement, so the official game was scheduled to be played on Saturday night in prime time, and the most authoritative referee in England was also arranged.
Official from Manchester United including David? Gil, including Alex Ferguson, including a group of senior members of the team, rushed to Stratford Stadium, and it can be clearly seen that Manchester United management attaches great importance to this game, and some people even think that this is an inspection of Moyes, depending on what he shows in this game.
You must know that this game is an important event that has attracted nearly 500 million fans around the world, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the century derby of the Premier League, so the attention of both sides is extraordinary.
Goalkeeper Petr Cech, defender Marcelo, Thiago? Silva, Kompany and Kyle? Walker, the midfield double midfielder is Nemanja Matic and Vidal, the front field is Neymar, Messi and Ribery from left to right, and the single striker is Lewandowski.
This is Tottenham's strongest squad so far this season, with Lionel Messi, Franck Franck Franchio, Francois Vidal and Marcelo all missing back-to-back games against Manchester City and the Champions League group stage in midweek for this game against Manchester United.
David Moyes, for his side, also played as much as he could, with De Gea in goal, Patrice Evra, Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand and Rafael at the back, Marouane Fellaini and Michael Carrick in midfield, and Ashley up front. Young, Wayne Rooney and Valencia, with Robin van Persie as the single striker, is currently United's strongest squad.
Interestingly, both sides have discharged the tactical formation of 4231, that is to say, from the perspective of pure formation positioning, the two sides are needle-to-needle, and the difference is to see who can do better in the details and in the player's on-field performance.
From the start, United continued the tactics of the Ferguson era as always, taking the opening attack and launching an attack on Tottenham Hotspur, Van Persie had a chance to win the ball in the box after a minute, but in Thiago? Silva's interference failed to create effective chances on goal.
But it was only this chance, because the subsequent development of the game made everyone realize that Moyes made an unforgivable fatal mistake in this game.
"Midfield can't do it!" Mauro? It took less than two minutes for Tasotti to judge this, as Marouane Fellaini was often involved in the attack up front, and although United were a two-man midfielder, Carrick was often the only one in front of the defence.
United's backline is actually suffering from a similar problem as Chelsea's, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic are both old and neither of them is suitable for pressing up, and unlike Chelsea, they also have a Carrick who can stand in position, but the player's coverage and movement are not very good.
'There's a bit of an interesting idea about Moyes, he's supposed to make Fellaini Guò run aggressively and extensively to fill Carrick's shortcomings, complementing each other and threatening in attack, but he's taking it for granted! Ye Qiu shook his head and laughed.
Perhaps, Moyes should have talked to Fellaini about this before the game, both of them are not in an ideal situation at Manchester United now, they can be described as bad brothers, so both want to redeem themselves, so Moyes's idea is to let Fellaini play the form he was in at Everton, and at the same time help him integrate into Manchester United, and also to get rid of Tottenham Hotspur.
It is important to understand Fellaini's tactical role at Everton, he is more of a central midfielder or a midfielder, and although he also tries to cover and press aggressively, his most important tactical value is to compete for long balls from the back or to run into the box to score.
Fellaini, who is 1.94 meters tall and weighs 85 kilograms, is very deterrent whether he is standing in the front field to fight for the first landing point, or rushing into the penalty area to receive crosses from both sides.
So, imagine if, as Moyes designed, Fellaini provided a wide range of running coverage for his team, and once the team attacked, he sprinted all the way into the box from midfield and received crosses from the wing, then he would be able to maximise his advantage from behind, as well as his headers and ability to tackle points.
In theory, that's pretty perfect design, isn't it?
But what went wrong? Why does it work at Everton but not at Manchester United?
The reason is that Everton's style of play is somewhat similar to England's long pass rush, Fellaini is used to this style of play, but now at Manchester United, in all the top teams, it is not this kind of long pass rushing out, because his success rate is too low, and all the strong teams are possession and pressing.
So now acting as a tactical fulcrum in the top giant teams, Messi, Lewandowski, Suarez and others are not the traditional tactical fulcrum, their bodies do not have to be strong, because the most important thing as a fulcrum in modern football tactics is to take the ball and make the ball, and it must be fast.
Fellaini is in the current Manchester United team, the position is very awkward, Moyes can't give him a forward position, because there is Rooney in that place, even Benzema has to be left on the bench, even if he wants to replace Rooney, it will not be his turn to be Fellaini.
So Moyes wanted to pull him to the back and be Carrick's partner, using his height, aerial duels, frontal defense and interceptions, while also letting him plug in and create this sudden killing.
But why is it said that it is good in theory, but not in practice?
The reason is that the distance is long, and it is difficult to grasp the timing of plugging!
In the past, when Marouane Fellaini was at Everton, the team played around him and he was able to know when to get into the box very easily, because he was close to the box and once the ball was on the wing, when he had the chance, he would cut in.
But now the question arises, when will he plug it in?
Playing the back double back, the distance between him and the penalty area is long, and he still plays plugging in, how to grasp the timing of insertion?
He waited until the ball reached the side to plug in, should his teammates finish a few back-and-forth passes on the side before crossing?
If he doesn't wait for the ball to go wide, what if the opposition defense doesn't let the United ball go wide?
What if the opponent successfully breaks the ball at this time and plays a counterattack?
This is the embarrassment of Fellaini, he is not easy to control, sometimes he plugs it in late, sometimes it is early, and he has no way to control the timing of the plug in at all.
Especially considering that Fellaini is tall and big, it is destined to lack explosiveness, and the start speed cannot be fast, and if you can go up, you can't go down!
Ye Qiu just saw through this, so he said that Moyes was a little taken for granted.
Tottenham Hotspur also has such a person in the team, Nemanja Matic, but Ye Qiu never asked him to participate in the attack, he was more dragged behind the team, and even many times the fullbacks went up, and Matic formed a defensive iron triangle with the double central defenders.
In the final analysis, Moyes is used to being a rich man, and suddenly he has become a rich handsome, he really doesn't know how to live a rich handsome, and he thought that his set of **silk tactics in Everton, when he arrived at a giant team like Manchester United, he could still play?
You know, in the past, when I played a strong team at Everton, people didn't care too much, and occasionally there was an upset, and everyone was happy for a long time, but now, strong dialogue, who doesn't stare at your weaknesses and weaknesses to the death?
"Tell them full-backs to pay attention to the defense of the two wings, Matic should pay attention to Fellaini's back insertion, break the ball and counterattack to hit Messi's point and blow up Carrick!"
After Ye Qiu made adjustments, Tottenham Hotspur also reacted quickly, and began to consciously create articles against the isolated thinness beside Carrick after Fellaini's grab.
Vidal intercepted a pass to the wing in advance, took two steps forward after breaking the ball, and then sent a through ball to the United half to find Messi.
The Argentine had his back to the ball and Carrick was behind him, but Messi made a sharp turn, got rid of Carrick and dribbled diagonally to the left, and pushed with his left foot to the front for Neymar.
The Brazilian faced Rafael, and after a few consecutive dribbles, he suddenly accelerated to break through to the bottom line, but Rafael was also very fast and stuck his position, forcing Neymar to make a sharp stop and take two steps back, and the Brazilian suddenly picked up a pass into the penalty area.
Lewandowski battled with Vidic in the box, but it is conceivable that the Polish centre-forward had no advantage over Vidic in this regard, but he forced Vidic to fail to push the ball away and still fell into the box.
In Tottenham Hotspur's tactics, there is not much chance of winning the first landing point, unless it is Drogba, or Mitrovic, so Ribery has long been ambushed around waiting for the second landing point, as soon as he saw that Vidic's header was not far away, he immediately rushed up to meet the falling ball, and directly volleyed with his right foot.
The ball went into the back of the net at breakneck speed, 1:0!
“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!”
"Eleven minutes, eleventh minute, Tottenham Hotspur scored!!"
"Volley from French winger Franck Ribery, 1:0!"
The entire Stratford stadium was fried, and 80,000 fans rushed out of their seats in a frenzy, and the Manchester United players were stunned, and let out an amazing cheer, no one expected that the goal would come so quickly!
Ye Qiu clenched his fists and made a confident gesture, and then followed Mauro beside him? Tasotti and Roland? Shepas high-fived in celebration, and he was able to spot the problem earlier than Moyes precisely because he knew United better than Moyes.
Over the years, on the surface, Ferguson's side have not pursued possession, but in reality, Ferguson has always tried to strike a balance between possession and space, that is, pressing.
The Red Devils' off-the-ball running system is excellent, not worse than Tottenham Hotspur at all, so since the Red Devils' treble era, Manchester United's midfield has not changed, that is, running off the ball and skilful one-shot, which is Manchester United's consistent label.
Ferguson once considered bringing in a ball-holding midfielder like Pep Guardiola and Veron, switching to a continental style of play, but for various reasons it was unsuccessful, and after Keane left, Carrick became United's first choice in the midfield position, but he is not a possession team, but basically continues the traditional style of play of Manchester United.
So, whether it's Cristiano? How Ronaldo, Rooney, Benzema, Tevez and others are combined, Manchester United is more of a quick guò midfield route, handing over the ball to the front, but once the ball is in the front, Manchester United will seek cooperation and change, which has become more obvious after the introduction of Benzema and Van Persie, because they can take the ball and play the ball.
From this point of view, unless Fellaini changes his style of play, he is completely out of place with Manchester United, as there is no place for the United in his best role.
But on the flip side, if Fellaini gives up his strengths and strengths, is he still worth the price?
This may be the most tangled place for Moyes now, so he will arrange Fellaini to play as a midfielder in this game, but at the same time he won Benzema and insisted on playing two wings to give full play to Fellaini's advantages and strengths.
"It's not fun!" Ye Qiu shook his head and sighed after seeing the goal, a little disappointed.
At his level, he still hopes that his opponents can give him some stimulation, such as Alex Ferguson, or the likes of Benitez and Mourinho, but Moyes does not have a keen sense of tactics.
From Ye Qiu's adjustment to the team's goal, although it was less than ten minutes, if it was Ferguson, I am afraid that he would have smelled some clues.
Of course, it can be seen the other way around, with Ferguson's cunning, it is impossible for him to arrange such a starting lineup.
Mauro? After listening to Ye Qiu's words, Tasotti was a little funny, but he also had to admit that Moyes was really not a qualified opponent in Ye Qiu's eyes, it was too easy, and he was beaten down after just one strain, which obviously made Ye Qiu unable to lift his energy.
"The rest is up to you!" Ye Qiu patted Mauro? Tassotti shouldered and turned and walked to the dugout.
Mauro? Tasotti and Roland? After Schepas looked at each other, they all laughed, and they must have thought to themselves, if Moyes knew, I wonder if he would go crazy.
But what is even more unexpected is that Tottenham Hotspur scored again in the 28th minute, still counterattacking after the midfield broke the ball, Matic passed diagonally to Ribery who switched to the left side, the latter played with Marcelo who was inserted, Marcelo went down to the bottom line and crossed, Lewandowski in the penalty area grabbed the point and hit, 2:0!
At this time, the whole Stratford stadium is fried!
Sitting in the coach's seat of the home team, Ye Qiu, who was cross-legged by Erlang, heard this sound, stood up from his seat, poked his head out and took a look, he thought he had lost the ball.
But at this moment, there was a sharp-eyed photographer next to him, who photographed Ye Qiu's mobile phone screen was turned on, and immediately picked up the lens to capture it.
Damn, this guy is not only looking at his phone during the game, but also playing Flying Car every day, it's so undisciplined! to play to Fellaini's strengths and strengths.
"It's not fun!" Ye Qiu shook his head and sighed after seeing the goal, a little disappointed.
At his level, he still hopes that his opponents can give him some stimulation, such as Alex Ferguson, or the likes of Benitez and Mourinho, but Moyes does not have a keen sense of tactics.
From Ye Qiu's adjustment to the team's goal, although it was less than ten minutes, if it was Ferguson, I am afraid that he would have smelled some clues.
Of course, it can be seen the other way around, with Ferguson's cunning, it is impossible for him to arrange such a starting lineup.
Mauro? After listening to Ye Qiu's words, Tasotti was a little funny, but he also had to admit that Moyes was really not a qualified opponent in Ye Qiu's eyes, it was too easy, and he was beaten down after just one strain, which obviously made Ye Qiu unable to lift his energy.
"The rest is up to you!" Ye Qiu patted Mauro? Tassotti shouldered and turned and walked to the dugout.
Mauro? Tasotti and Roland? After Schepas looked at each other, they all laughed, and they must have thought to themselves, if Moyes knew, I wonder if he would go crazy.
But what is even more unexpected is that Tottenham Hotspur scored again in the 28th minute, still counterattacking after the midfield broke the ball, Matic passed diagonally to Ribery who switched to the left side, the latter played with Marcelo who was inserted, Marcelo went down to the bottom line and crossed, Lewandowski in the penalty area grabbed the point and hit, 2:0!
At this time, the whole Stratford stadium is fried!
Sitting in the coach's seat of the home team, Ye Qiu, who was cross-legged by Erlang, heard this sound, stood up from his seat, poked his head out and took a look, he thought he had lost the ball.
But at this moment, there was a sharp-eyed photographer next to him, who photographed Ye Qiu's mobile phone screen was turned on, and immediately picked up the lens to capture it.
Damn, this guy is not only looking at his phone during the game, but also playing Flying Car every day, it's so undisciplined!