Volume 1 Chapter 335 Reaching the Finals
For Wenger, Ye Qiu believes that many people have only one impression of him, an old pedant.
I believe that if it wasn't for the time when he sent Wenger to meet with the team, the two talked about a lot of things on the road, he wouldn't have changed his opinion of Wenger, but after that time, their relationship has changed a lot.
The reason why ⊥ Ye Qiu changed his opinion is mainly that Wenger talked about his first year in the Premier League, leading the team to lose to Manchester United, which led to the suicide of a fan.
And knowing this matter from Wenger's mouth also touched Ye Qiu a lot.
In the past few years, he has been in contact with many, many fans, some may just follow the trend, or go into the stadium to join in the fun, and some because they love football, but there is definitely no shortage of those very fanatical fans, even some extreme fans.
These avid fans will come to the scene every game, and many of them will only support one team in their lives, such as a Chelsea die-hard fan Ye Qiu knows, Ron Hawkins, who has only supported Chelsea all his life, and he has only missed a Chelsea game because he is married for decades, such fans are actually not many in England, and even appear in some low-level teams.
You can't explain what motivated them to do it, what motivated them to do it, because they couldn't get anything out of football, so the only thing you can explain is that they were able to get some kind of mental power from Chelsea, maybe it's faith, football belief.
Ron Hawkins says he missed a Chelsea game because he was married, but he brought his son to Stamford Bridge when he was born, and twenty or thirty years later, his son has grown up and he now brings his son and grandson to Stamford Bridge every game.
Perhaps, for them, football has become more than just a sport, a piece of entertainment, but an emotional bond.
The more he learned, the more Ye Qiu felt that the burden on his shoulders was getting heavier and heavier, but he also became more and more proud that he could get such a job, because his responsibility was to protect these people's devout belief in the team.
He believes that not only himself, but also Wenger and Alex Ferguson.
Only when you understand football and fans more deeply, you will respect your job more, and you will feel that it is not just a job that can bring you salary, honor and pride.
Only when you understand this can you understand what it is, even now, Arsenal has not given up
In the 33rd round of the Premier League, Chelsea beat Manchester United 0 away, and Arsenal beat Everton 0 at home.
For Chelsea, who have already achieved such a huge lead, Arsenal's victory will not affect their title plans at all, after beating Manchester United, Chelsea's title is already a sure thing, and Arsenal is so desperate, it is only delaying Chelsea's early title time.
But what Arsenal showed was a fighting spirit, a spirit of never giving up until the last moment.
On the morning of the second day after the game, before it was time to go to work, Ye Qiu was walking in the garden, and as he walked out of the gate, he saw Wenger standing across the road, and the two saw each other and smiled.
Recently, the two have been at war in the media, but in fact, at home, they have a good relationship with each other, although not to the extent of good friends, but at least there are good neighbors, and as Huang Chu's due date approaches, Wenger's wife and daughter have visited the door many times.
"How does it feel?" When Wenger saw Ye Qiu, he said with a smile.
It's morning, and it's a quiet little village, and although the traffic is convenient, there are few cars, and it's quiet, so you don't need to be loud, you can hear the conversation on the other side.
"I don't feel anything" Ye Qiu also smiled in return, "In our Chinese idiom, the mantis arm blocks the car, and the corner resists stubbornly, of course, I know that you don't understand what it means." ”
Wenger didn't need to understand to guess that Ye Qiu must be sarcastic about him, but he didn't feel angry at all.
If you want to say that this person is really weird, when he looked at Ye Qiu before, he felt unpleasant no matter how he looked at it, even if Ye Qiu talked to him in a good voice, he would feel harsh, uncomfortable, and wanted to get angry, but now that it's good, their relationship has improved a bit, and let Ye Qiu taunt him and hit him, he feels nothing, and laughs at it.
"You really have the ability, the next game is at Stamford Bridge, you will also beat us like Everton, if you really play another 0, I will count you as capable" Ye Qiu smiled and said provocatively.
Wenger spread his hands and made a helpless expression, but he didn't speak, everyone knew that he had this mind and didn't have the ability.
If you want to play against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, such a team may not have been born yet, right?
Not to mention at Stamford Bridge, even at their home turf, who is the team that dares to play against Chelsea?
"You'd better care less about me, think more about Ferguson," Arsene Wenger replied.
Chelsea are heading into the FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United, and they will certainly be giving their best in this game, as Alex Ferguson has always emphasised winning at least one title every season, and he famously said, "I'm used to sleeping with trophies in my hands."
"Miss him?" Ye Qiu smiled, "That's right, I really want to see how he looks like he doesn't have a champion, can't sleep, and has insomnia."
Wenger was stunned for a moment, and then immediately remembered Ferguson's famous quote, and couldn't help but laugh.
Speaking of Ferguson, it is indeed miserable enough, when the team was renewed, he encountered such a thorn to rebel, and beat him, the godfather of the Premier League, so embarrassed, to say that the Premier League team can repeatedly beat Manchester United this season and embarrass the Red Devils, the promotion behind Ye Qiu is also one of the important factors.
The tactics against Manchester United last season, and the transfer of Wayne Rooney and Heinze in the summer this season, have caused huge problems for Manchester United and directly contributed to the current embarrassing situation of Manchester United.
Therefore, Ferguson said that in the Premier League, Wenger is no longer the person he hates the most, but one of the most hated people, and the other is the one in front of Wenger, so I'm afraid he will have to prepare two pistols in the future.
The two don't have much in common, after all, the gap between young people is so big, to say that the two have similar interests, it must be false, at best, it can only be said that the two get along relatively well, so after saying a few words, they both fell into an awkward silence.
This is also Wenger's personality, not good at words, and even sometimes feels a little wooden, the kind of person who belongs to the inner show.
After making a joke about Alex Ferguson, they went back to their respective homes and headed straight to the training base.
Ye Qiu said that he was not afraid of Manchester United, not because he was bluffing, but because he was really not afraid of the Red Devils, even if he was still playing away, even if he still arranged a rotation system, including Lampard, Deco, Ribery and other players to start, he still insisted on his opening attacking tactics at Old Trafford.
Ferguson obviously knew that Chelsea would play like this, so this time he made the determination to break the cauldron, take advantage of the home advantage, and actively attack after the opening, and the team was also pressed on all fronts, striving to suppress Chelsea and seize the initiative.
Not to mention, Manchester United's attacking ability is definitely not weak, just 9 minutes into the opening game, Gary Neville crossed from the right, Cannavaro made a mistake in defense, lost his balance in the battle with Vanney, failed to grab the first point, and as a result, the Dutch striker won the ball in front of the goal, and a precise shot penetrated Van der Sar's goal.
It was Ruud van Nistelrooy's first goal in the last four months, and this season's injury-plagued season, coupled with United's attacking tactical changes, has made the Dutchman's performance not as bright as it was back then, but who would have thought he would open the scoring in such an important game?
Standing on the sidelines, Ye Qiu saw Ferguson's old face smiling as bright as a sunflower, and he shook his head helplessly, "Isn't it only 9 minutes?" Laughing so early? People who don't know the way still think that he has won, it's really useless, as for it? ”
Tengkart and Roland glanced at each other, and they both knew that Ye Qiu was sarcastic and teasing Ferguson, but they both thought it was funny.
They all believe that Ferguson must have often been sarcastic and sarcastic about Ye Qiu like this, who made them sworn enemies now?
"Roland, let that vote of bastards concentrate, don't mess around, it's a shame to play Manchester United like this" Ye Qiu couldn't help but shake his head, as if it was a shame to be scored by Manchester United.
Ten Carter is very clear about Ye Qiu's thoughts, "Manchester United is now losing momentum in the midfield, and the attack will not last long, as soon as they loosen, it will be our chance, now keep some strength, wait a while to teach them a good lesson."
Ye Qiu patted Tengkart on the shoulder, it was the dark-skinned Dutch assistant who knew him best.
Once the midfield loses momentum, it will inevitably lead to the team's organization being affected, and without a good midfield organization, the operation of a team will definitely have problems, even if you play well at the beginning, how long can you hold on?
The midfielder wins the world, this is a very simple word, a few words, but the meaning and tactical ideas contained in it are enough to write a frightening paper, and even enough for all managers to study for a lifetime.
Roland quickly transferred Ye Qiu's meaning to the field, unlike Fabregas, this game Deco partnered with Davies, and Deco raised his hand and took the ball, showing the demeanor of a general everywhere, Chelsea's overall rhythm was immediately controlled by him, the midfield began to organize and sort out in an orderly manner, and the backfield also stabilized the situation.
Ferguson looked to have a targeted style of play, and once Chelsea stabilized the situation, United began to press desperately, clearly hoping to maintain their lead, even if it cost more.
For Manchester United, the FA Cup is the only title they can compete for and cannot afford to lose.
Ye Qiu also immediately made adjustments, not to fight hard with Manchester United, to control the rhythm, to use the passing and receiving cooperation to mobilize Manchester United players, and then slowly wait for the opportunity, anyway, he was only behind the L ball, and there was still a lot of time, so he was not in a hurry.
This grinding immediately made the game almost grind to the end of the first half.
In the 44th minute of the first half, Manchester United finally had an oversight, the pass was broken by Davies and split the ball on the right, Ribery broke through on the right and crossed, Lampard nodded the ball in front of it, L
At halftime, Ye Qiu replaced Ronaldinho with Van Persie with an ankle injury, the Brazilian was not injured in this game, but he has not had enough time to recuperate, and his performance in the first half was not good.
The team will have to play tough battles one after another, and Ronaldinho is the source of the team's attack, and there is no room for mistakes.
Ye Qiu dared to win Ronaldinho because he had enough confidence in the team.
After the second half of the rematch, Chelsea still adopted a steady and steady strategy, Manchester United also continued to strengthen the pressing after the opening, but after the first half of the step-by-step pressing, coupled with the recent period of non-stop games, Manchester United players' physical fitness has been close to overload, and now to adopt this high-intensity pressing tactics, they will not last long.
In the 58th minute, Frank Lampard stepped forward to the edge of the box and was knocked on by Ribery to get his feet on goal, but Keane was in a timely position to successfully cut the ball before Lampard could get up.
The ball was poked by Keane and rolled to the feet of Gudjohnsen, the Icelandic striker leaned on Ferdinand with his body after getting the ball, and knocked back to Van Persie, who was inserted on the left side, Van Persie did not stop the ball, and with a gentle push with his left foot to meet the incoming ball, the ball slid past Carroll's side, almost grazing the left post into the goal, L
After the team scored, Ye Qiu turned around, looked at Ferguson of the home team, and made an OK gesture, so angry that Ferguson almost threw the water bottle in his hand directly, it was best to smash this bastard to death.
With the decline of Manchester United's physical fitness, Ferguson also clearly felt the team's loss of momentum, in the lack of sufficient physical support, Manchester United wants to beat Chelsea again, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream, if it is a young class, Ferguson has the courage to give it a go, but now the 9 ⊥ are basically no longer the courage of the year.
When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Ferguson sighed deeply, he has already been mentally prepared for many things, even not only him, I believe that all Manchester United players are mentally prepared.
When a team has a clear underbelly, it's impossible to make a difference in this kind of crucial power-down conversation, and unless the opponent is stupid enough to give up on attacking United's weakness, it's hard for United to resist.
In the past two seasons, Manchester United has hardly dominated the strong conversations with Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool, so many people also know that Manchester United is still useless when they meet Chelsea in the semi-finals, but can Arsenal stop Chelsea?
If Arsenal can't stop Chelsea, wouldn't it really be for Ye Qiu to achieve the quadruple?
When he thought of this, Ferguson looked at Ye Qiu with a little more envy, because Ye Qiu has a transfer budget of more than 100 million euros every season, although he doesn't spend much, but in fact, such a loose transfer budget can ⊥ him easily build a team according to his own wishes.
But Ferguson is different, Manchester United is a listed company, and listed companies have to consider earnings, and any investment has to be calculated, which has led to Manchester United has missed too many revivals, and it has also led to Manchester United now falling into a passive situation.
But the next situation may be different, the Glazer family has announced the successful acquisition of Manchester United, and according to their previous commitment to Ferguson, they will fully support Ferguson's transformation of the team and give a generous transfer fee for reinforcements, which is the main reason why Ferguson supports the Glazer family to buy Manchester United.
In his post-match press conference after the FA Cup semi-final, Alex Ferguson confirmed this and said he was confident that United would soon return to the top of Europe, even if the team has achieved nothing this season.
'The team played with our spirit today and I'm proud of them and if we had a way to play today I think we should have drawn with Chelsea but unfortunately we didn't have enough to take our chances, but no matter what, I'm confident we're still one of the best teams in the Premier League.'
'Ruud van Nistelrooy finally broke the goal drought, which is a good thing, but the likes of Paul Scholes, Alan Smith, Saha have a problem with goals, it's not a problem for one person, it's a problem for the whole team and it's something we've had to tackle on a limited basis this summer.
"The season is over, we're going to reflect on what we did in the last season, we need to figure out what caused our defeat this season, and I'm sure we're going to come out stronger after a season and after the summer adjustments."
This is Alex Ferguson
In fact, Ferguson himself knows very well that Vanney does not score, Alan Smith, Scholes, Saha and others do not score, all because of the transformation of the team's offensive routine, but he will never say it to the public, this is the secret of the team's tactics.
If you have the ability, you can dig and discover it yourself, and then use it and fight it, but I won't tell you about my weakness
I believe that no one in this world would be so stupid about such a stupid thing
Ye Qiu affirmed Manchester United's performance, "Manchester United played well after the start, they were very aggressive, and they also took the lead, which made it very difficult for us to play the next game, so no matter what the result of the game, Manchester United should be appreciated, they played really well." ”
'Of course, I'm proud of my players because we reached the FA Cup final'
'I don't think we should be too happy with the sense of accomplishment that comes with the three fronts going hand in hand because we haven't had the best laugh yet, the FA Cup final is against Arsenal, the next Premier League opponent is also Arsenal, and our Champions League semi-final opponent is Mourinho's Porto, we don't have any qualifications to relax'
"But here, I would like to say that I and my players are confident about the future, we have only one goal, the champion, all the titles, and we will give everything for this and no one will be able to stop us"