Shakhtar Donetsk, Braga and Partizan Belgrade, these are the three opponents drawn by Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League group stage, and according to the interpretation of many experts, Ye Qiu and UEFA seem to have passed the honeymoon period.

The reason why I say this is because although these three teams are not very well-known powerhouses, in fact, these three teams have good strength, and they are all powerful teams in their respective leagues.

Shakhtar Donetsk is a veteran team in the Ukrainian league, a regular in the Champions League group stage and even the knockout round, everyone will be familiar with this team, and although this team does not have the strength to challenge Tottenham Hotspur, it still has the ability to cause trouble, especially considering that the disgusting UEFA arranged for Tottenham Hotspur to visit the icy Ukraine in the fourth round of the group stage in November, which is simply to make people freeze into popsicles.

Braga were runners-up in the Portuguese Super League last season, and from their ability to beat Porto and enter the Champions League, it can be seen that the quality of this team is not bad, and judging from the performance of the past season and this season's Champions League and Portuguese Super League, Braga is also a very difficult team, because they have 17 Brazilian players in their team, which can be said to be a Brazilian team.

Partizan Belgrade is the weakest team in this group, but this Serbian team has excellent attacking power and a big weakness in defense, but it is very strong at home, which will also be a big test for Tottenham Hotspur.

All in all, there are no weak teams in the Champions League group stage, and looking at the group where Tottenham Hotspur is located, the north London team deserves to be the first, but Braga and Shakhtar Donetsk in the group have the strength to disrupt the game, so this group is also a very troublesome group.

Relatively speaking, Barcelona's luck is much better, with the other three teams being underdogs.

At the same time as the draw, UEFA also began to present awards for last season's Champions League awards, with last season's Champions League winners Manchester United emerging as the top winners, including goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, midfielder Sneijder and striker Wayne Rooney, all of whom were the best players in position, while Tottenham Hotspur's Thiago Silva was the best defender.

For Tottenham Hotspur, it was more or less a consolation prize.

The most suspenseful thing is the award of the best player, and in the end, UEFA President Michel Platini personally presented the award to Rooney, who helped Manchester United win the Champions League.

This made Messi, who was sitting at the Grimalti Convention Center in Monte Carlo, unable to hide his disappointment, and he was also selected for this shortlist, but unfortunately, he still failed to win the award in the end, and Rooney deserved it.

Last season, Manchester United was able to win the Champions League, relying on the concerted efforts of everyone in the team, so Rooney won the best player, which actually means that everyone in Manchester United won this award together, because Manchester United played a very holistic football last season.

In fact, judging from the situation of last season's Champions League, overall football obviously occupies an overwhelming advantage, whether it is Mourinho's Inter Milan, Ye Qiu's Tottenham Hotspur, or Ferguson's Manchester United, they are all known for their integrity, and their teams have a very obvious characteristic, that is, they do not rely too much on a certain player.

Although Tottenham Hotspur last season had Falcao, the European Golden Boot, and superstars such as Messi, Ribery and Fabregas, Tottenham Hotspur's overall performance has been relatively stable, although it was eliminated by Manchester United in the semi-finals, everyone can see that Tottenham Hotspur lost a little unjustly

On the other hand, there are other types of teams, such as Real Madrid or Chelsea, the former is very dependent on Cristiano Ronaldo, and the latter is very dependent on Didier Drogba to a very excessive degree, so neither team has done well in the Champions League, because everyone knows how to contain them.

To paraphrase Beckenbauer's original words, the strongest link is the weakest link.

In football, your best link is also your weakest link.

So, at Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo is very good, but behind this is the fact that Real Madrid is very weak, and the same applies to Chelsea and Drogba.

According to this theory, Ye Qiu feels that balance is king, that is, it looks balanced, there is no so-called strongest, there is no so-called weakest, there is no obvious strength gap between his strongest position and the weakest position, the whole team has no obvious advantages, and there are no obvious shortcomings, this is a strong team with real combat effectiveness.

It's like Manchester United last season

Ye Qiu sat next to Messi, he obviously felt Messi's unwillingness, and what he could understand was that this unwillingness was not to lose, but to admit defeat, so Ye Qiu admired Messi's refusal to admit defeat, because this can spur Messi to continue to improve, and almost none of the outstanding players will be willing to admit defeat to others.

In Ye Qiu's view, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are like the genius, optimistic and positive Mozart in the field of music, as well as the passionate and cynical Beethoven, it is difficult to have an accurate standard to measure who is better, it can only be said that both players are equally good, but they belong to two different environments.

Some people say that Mozart's music has a healing nature, he can turn something as hard as iron into a finger softness, and Beethoven's music is full of destructive power, which can make the weak very strong, the former gives people confidence and hope, and the latter gives people courage to conquer.

The Times once described Cristiano Ronaldo as a personal hero, and although he was very hardworking, very hardworking, very hardworking, he was completely self-centered in his style of play, so that his teammates around him had to choose to rely on him.

Messi is an individual teamist, although he also pursues individualism, but his pursuit is not magnified like Cristiano Ronaldo, but compresses his pursuit of individualism, integrates into the team, and realizes his pursuit of individualism on the basis of helping the team.

Ye Qiu patted Messi's shoulder and smiled confidently, "You must still have a chance to walk on that stage again."

After hearing Ye Qiu's words, Messi also smiled slightly and didn't say anything, but his expression had already revealed the thoughts in his heart, that is, he was full of expectations and desires for this.

After a two-week hiatus, the Premier League was back in action on 11 September, with United being held to a three-way draw at Goodison Park at Everton at noon on the 11th, but that was clearly not the point.

The point is that United conceded two goals in stoppage time in the final minute, which was absolutely unimaginable in the past, and this is not the first time United have conceded in stoppage time this season, and the previous draw with Fulham was also a stoppage-time draw, and now the same is true against Everton.

After the game, Ferguson said that this has something to do with Rio Ferdinand's injury and teenager Evans' start, but this is obviously not convincing, after all, Evans' performance in this game is still very good

In the final analysis, it is Gary O Neville who is old on the right side, in fact, whether it is playing Fulham or Everton, the team's successive goals are inseparable from Gary O Neville's right side, the veteran's defense is indeed unable to keep up with the increasingly tense rhythm of the Premier League, and it is difficult for him to adapt to the current competitive pressure of the Premier League at the age of thirty-five.

But on the right side, the Fabio and Rafael brothers have performed up and down a lot, O'Shea and Brown are difficult to take on the heavy responsibility, Ferguson originally wanted to bring in McConn, but was cut off by Manchester City halfway, and now Manchester United is seriously lacking on the right side, which has become Manchester United's biggest weakness.

Compared with Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur challenged West Bromwich Albion away in this round, Ye Qiu was not affected by the pre-match media, but still adopted the rhythm that the team had planned, arranging young players including Ramsey, Phil Jones, Varane and Alba to make their debut.

With the end of the World Cup, the national teams of various countries have also launched a new round of reorganization, including Kyle Walker, Phil Jones, Coutinho, Neymar and Nastasic and other players have been selected for the national team, which makes Tottenham Hotspur choose the starting lineup in this round, Ye Qiu is to arrange those who have no national team tasks, or have less playing time, and return to the team early players to start, because West Bromwich Albion is not Tottenham Hotspur's opponent.

In fact, in the end, Tottenham Hotspur defeated West Bromwich Albion away 0 with goals from Ramsey and Fabregas, Fabregas helped Tottenham Hotspur get three points with one pass and one shot in the absence of Messi and Ribery, and the team's league points quickly improved to fourth place.

It is worth mentioning that Manchester City drew with Blackburn Rovers at home in this game, and Joe Hart, who was very eye-catching in the first round of the league, was scored by Blackburn in less than 15 minutes because of a burst of self-confidence and too sloppy attack, which led to a mismatch between himself and Kolo Toure and was scored by Blackburn.

And this is not the first mistake of Joe Hart, who had a moment of silence at the foot of the ball in England's match against Switzerland a few days ago, which was clearly a side effect of Joe Hart's near-overwhelming praise since the start of the season.

Falcao, who scored in the first three consecutive games, also fell into a goal drought in this round, and West Ham United also lost three home games to Chelsea, and Carlo Ancelotti's side have been in good form of late, leading the Premier League table with four consecutive wins.

Arsenal won Bolton Wanderers 4l, while Liverpool also beat Birmingham City, with the two teams finishing second and third in the league respectively.

As a result, the top four in the league are Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur.

In an interview with Guardian reporter Sheen Ingle, Ye Qiu felt that this was not a problem with the start of the Premier League so far this season, because the league had just begun.

'It's been a long journey in the league, we've only played four of the 38 rounds of the league and the results we've achieved are not convincing at all, so if you look at a team's performance, from November, if Chelsea and Arsenal can maintain their current position from November to March next year, I would admit they are favourites'

Regarding Ye Qiu's remarks, many people think that it is a dead duck with a hard mouth, but some people think it is very reasonable.

Chelsea has faced opponents so far, except for West Ham United, there is no strong team, and although West Ham United has a lot of stars, it is a set of lineups for the time being, and it is obviously affected by the national team, so it lost to Chelsea.

"As the league progresses, the back and forth between the Champions League and the national team are the real test for the teams aiming to win the title, and for Arsenal, their performance in the first half is never convincing, the key is to see how well they perform in the second half"

Arsene Wenger may not admit such an assessment, but that doesn't stop everyone from looking at Arsenal this way, who has allowed them to lose their advantage in the second half of the season again and again?

After the fourth round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur sat at the White Hart Lane Stadium and welcomed the Portuguese Premier League runners-up Braga.

Speaking of this Portuguese Super League team, there is also a lot of connection with Tottenham Hotspur, because the latter currently has a record that has a lot to do with Tottenham Hotspur, that is, they once lost to Tottenham Hotspur in the round of 64 of the UEFA Cup in 19841985 season, first at home 0 and then away to 0 and 09 on aggregate.

Because of this, coupled with the fact that Ye Qiu retained some of the team's main international players in the weekend league and did not do his best, many people speculated that Ye Qiu was going to lose his opponent in the Champions League.

In fact, in this game, Ye Qiu really did his best to play the main lineup.

Tottenham Hotspur made changes to their starting line-up and tactics for this game, with Petr Cech in goal, Marcelo, Vincent Kompany, Thiago Silva and Alves at the back, David Silva, Yaya Toure and Cesc Fabregas in midfield, and a trident of Ribery, Raul and Messi up front.

At the beginning of the game, Tottenham Hotspur launched a fierce attack on Braga, especially the veteran Raul, who started again in the Champions League, and even more desperately wanted to score in the game, because he only needed two more goals to catch the European goal record of German legend Muller.

Because of this, Tottenham Hotspur has tried their best to create conditions for Raul to score goals from the beginning of the game, and many people even feel that Ye Qiu deliberately stayed in the Champions League in midweek in order to ensure that Raul can score.

Cesc Fabregas, who has been in excellent form of late, was lively from the start of the game as he tore through the opposition defence with a pinpoint through ball in the sixth minute, allowing Messi to cut into the box from the right to receive the ball, only to be brought down by the opposing goalkeeper.

It was an indisputable penalty, and after Messi got up from the ground, he shook his head with a wry smile, grabbed the ball from the ground, and stuffed it directly into the arms of Raul, who came over to help him, "Get him on."

Raul was stunned at first, but soon understood what Messi meant, he is also a well-informed person, he has experienced so many things, but he will not write his touch and gratitude on his face because of such a thing, but he still walked over and hugged Messi's shoulder, which is already the most grateful gesture he can do.

"Come on"

Tottenham Hotspur's teammates came over one after another, constantly cheering for Raul.

Thirty-three-year-old Raul gently put the ball on the penalty spot, slowly retreated, faced the opponent's goalkeeper, gently moved his steps, rushed to the ball, pushed with his left foot vigorously, directly pushed a lower left corner, and the ball went into the net, 0

The entire White Hart Lane stadium cheered Raul's goal, which put Raul on top of Inzaghi's 68 European goals, just one step away from Muller's 69 European goals

As if spurred on by the goal shortly after the opening, Tottenham Hotspur began to play a series of attacking storms, especially the main stars who reunited in the starting line-up for the first time this season, and played hearty attacking football on their home turf, playing Braga again and again.

In the 25th minute, after David Silva's retreat to get the ball, he turned around and got rid of the defender, but soon used the skillful technique at his feet to shake the opponent's back and plug the left rib of the penalty area

But just nine minutes later, Tottenham Hotspur scored the most beautiful goal of the game.

After Ribery attracted the attention of two defenders near the left corner of the penalty area, he relied on his excellent dribbling ability to pick up a cross to the middle, Raul's header in the front of the penalty area was given to Cesc Fabregas, and the Spaniard kept the ball and stuffed it directly to Messi on the right rib, and Messi knocked Raul into the box from the middle.

The most beautiful scene appeared, Raul was sprinting forward at high speed, facing Messi's pass, he was a little unexpected, and quickly knocked back to Messi, and at this time Messi obviously thought that Raul would kick his own feet, because his kick was obviously to give Raul a chance to get his feet, so Raul's knock back was also unexpected.

In the face of the sudden return pass, Messi stopped the ball a little chaotically, but quickly used his outstanding ball sense, after controlling the ball at his feet, like a spinning top, after turning around the player behind him, with his back to the goal, the right heel knocked the ball in front of Raul, and when the Spaniard rushed forward, he just faced the goal directly, forming a single knife

With Raul's strength, of course, he would not miss such an opportunity, pushed directly and sent the ball to the bottom of the net, 0

All the fans in the entire White Hart Lane stadium rushed out of their seats, but they were not only equaling Muller's legendary European goal record for Raul, but also Messi's exquisite heel assist this time, and even Ye Qiu on the sidelines was applauding hard, not only for Raul, who staged the return of the king, but also for the incomparable Messi