"Head, did you watch live TV?"

When the team returned to the hotel from the Grimalty Convention Center, the players and coaching staff were gathered in Ye Qiu's room, and this guy had just finished a phone porridge with Eliza and his wife Huang Chu, and was taking a comfortable bath, when they knocked on the door.

Ronaldinho is a master of tricks, as soon as he enters the door, he grins, revealing his trademark teeth, and asks Ye Qiu this question in a good mood, and it seems that he wants to stump Ye Qiu a little.

"I want to watch the live broadcast, I'll go to the scene with Yu Crisp" Ye Qiu shook his head and walked to the dressing room with a stupid expression.

"Head, guess who, won the best coach?" Ronaldinho really had this ghost in mind, and the players around him were also laughing vigorously, looking as if they were waiting for Ye Qiu to make a fool of himself.

"Rehagel" Ye Qiu quickly walked out in loose clothes and replied casually.

"Yes, head, you're amazing" Ronaldinho laughed not to mention how lewd it was, "then guess what, what happened to the draw?" Who are the other three opponents we draw? ”

"I'm not Johansson, who would have guessed?" Ye Qiu still didn't understand the ghost thoughts of their group of guys, and shook his head.

"Guess what, head," Ronaldinho advised.

"It's just, just guess" Ribery is also a guy who is afraid of chaos in the world.

Lampard even pointed at Ronaldinho, "Head, he just said, there is a prize for guessing correctly"

"Yes, there is a prize for guessing right, head, guess" Terry also coaxed.

"Don't worry, head, if you guess wrong, we promise not to laugh at you," Drogba said silly.

As soon as this Ivorian monster was spoken, everyone in the room burst into laughter.

"It's just a lot, and it looks like I'm going to bet on horse racing, and I'm Ferguson, a guy who doesn't make a profit, when I'm Ferguson?" Ye Qiu took Ferguson by the way, Manchester United coach is famous for betting on horses, the famous Gibraltar incident caused a lot of uproar, and under the drive of Ferguson, many players in Manchester United love to bet on horses.

Ye Qiu said casually, and immediately amused everyone again, and there was a burst of coaxing, and they placed bets one after another.

In fact, in the Premier League, it is not uncommon for the team to play cards internally, and the World Cup also broke out the England national team gambling money, Owen likes to gamble very much, and even gambles very much, but Ye Qiu is not forbidden to gamble on this thing, he thinks that small gambling can be pleasant, but it is forbidden to gamble big, or because of gambling and affecting training and games.

Sometimes, the manager is like a babysitter, you don't just have to lead the players on the pitch, you also have to take care of their life and entertainment, just like tomorrow night's game, tomorrow the whole day is rest, how do the players pass the time? The coaching staff has to give some arrangements and solutions

"Okay, play with you" Ye Qiu smiled and nodded, "But I can swear, I absolutely never watched live TV, and I didn't get results from our coaching staff, staff, hotel staff, and my wife"

Ye Qiu's initiative to confess immediately reassured the players, because they felt that Ye Qiu's news channels seemed to be all that, since he swore an oath, he should not know.

"Okay, guess then" Ronaldinho and his teammates looked at each other and nodded.

"Wait, let's talk about it first, the bet is one thing, I won, each of you promised to do one thing for me, I lost, I did one thing for you, it's fair, right?" Ye Qiu said the bet first, the joy in his heart, girl, fight with me?

'Okay, no problem,' Lampard nodded directly.

After Ye Qiu took the initiative to confess, they all felt that their head coach didn't seem to have any other news channels, and how could they guess just by guessing?

"Then I'll start guessing" Ye Qiu said with a smile, "In the fourth tier of the team, the strongest should be Werder Bremen, but I don't think it can be them, but CSKA Moscow, before the media broke the news, most of the funds of this team come from the huge sponsorship of Abramovich's Siberian Oil Company." ”

"That's the biggest gimmick, so if I'm not mistaken, the opponent in fourth gear is CSKA Moscow"

The players were analyzed by Ye Qiu like this, and they were all a little stupid, and he guessed one correctly.

"Okay, head, you're amazing, besides" Ronaldinho was a little dumbfounded.

"The team in the third pot is more difficult to guess, if you look at the relationship, I think the most likely is PSV Eindhoven, because my relationship with this team can be said to be a grudge, or Bayer Leverkusen, but I always think it is unlikely, and according to UEFA's other set of unspoken rules for the draw, the old club, I think the biggest possibility is Paris Saint-Germain."

"We have three players from Paris Saint-Germain, Ronaldinho, Michael Essien and Heinze"

When analyzing this, Ye Qiu smiled, "So, I think, the third gear should be Paris Saint-Germain"

'Oh my God' Lampard was a little dumbfounded, but he reacted quickly, "Head, you must have known the result, you must have watched the live stream, otherwise you wouldn't have guessed so accurately"

"That's it, how can you guess right without watching the live broadcast?" The players also heckled.

Ye Qiu was very calm, "Everyone, let's talk about it first, I swear, I didn't watch the live broadcast, did I turn on the TV when you came in?" Ask the waiter at the hotel, when will I be back? She came in one of them once, and you ask her if I was talking to my wife on the phone, and I swear, I didn't hear anything from my wife."

"This man has to gamble, doesn't he?" Ye Qiu simply took them for a trick.

In fact, there is a loophole in Ye Qiu's oath, that is, Eliza Moon is not included in the objects he listed when he swears, but he took the initiative to swear to confess, but the players did not study this point carefully, and they coaxed one after another.

"Okay, guess again, who is the first gear?" Ronaldinho was also ruthless this time, he didn't believe that Ye Qiu could guess correctly.

Ye Qiu smiled, "This first-tier team is actually the best guess, for what?" Leaving Arsenal and Manchester United alone, there are only Porto, Real Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Deportivo La Coruna, and it is almost impossible for Valencia to play the Super Cup against us. ”

"I really met Real Madrid and Barcelona, tortured them, after last season's dark horses, UEFA will properly protect the influential and appealing giants, and do not want them to be eliminated prematurely, and usually, UEFA has a very nasty group draw model, that is, the two teams in the Champions League final last season will be placed in the same group next season, so, I guess, Porto

After finishing speaking, Ye Qiu couldn't hide his little pride, this is the advantage of being unintentional and calculating, and he blames this group of guys for wanting to see him make a fool, otherwise how could he be fooled?

As soon as they heard that Ye Qiu had guessed it, the players all stopped eating one by one, and they began to question Ye Qiu's tricks, they must have known the result in advance, but they couldn't figure out where Ye Qiu knew the result.

Ye Qiu made a helpless shrug at them, "We are willing to gamble and lose, I will start to make demands on you now"

"Actually, what I want you to do is very simple, such as making you run naked in Monaco with your bare butts"

When Ye Qiu spoke, the players all opened their eyes as big as eggs, if this is the case, they all have the heart to die, fortunately, Ye Qiu quickly continued: "That's impossible, you guys are making a fool of yourself, and I have no face with it, right?" ”

A group of guys breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ronaldinho" Ye Qiu pointed to the Brazilian, "I'm very dissatisfied with your recent form, I want you to do one thing, goals and assists in the Premier League this season, double 15, above"

'Frank Lampard, you scored a good number of goals last season and the goal this season is to keep it up, above the Premier League'

Ye Qiu pointed to Drogba, who was roaring the loudest just now, "You are a big black man, you roared the loudest just now, the goal is to score a league goal, don't give me a discount so that the guys who voted that you can't score will take a look, you can't score."

"And you, Wayne Rooney"

"Head, I didn't bet you" Rooney, this kid just arrived, and he didn't dare to come out just now.

"Everything that appears here is counted" Ye Qiu is now unforgiving, "Count you cheaper, double-digit league goals"

"Frank Ribery, you too, double-digit league goals"

"As for you, as the captain of the team, take the lead, John Terry, you must not concede more than one goal in the league"

Then Van Persie, Gudjohnsen, Deco, Joe Cole and other players who appeared in Ye Qiu's room were assigned tasks one by one, and what Ye Qiu asked them to do was all related to the performance on the court, and many of them were aimed at their weaknesses.

For example, Drogba, everyone said that he would not score, but Ye Qiu gave him the task of the ball, you must know that in Ligue 1 that year, Drogba scored the most goals in Guingamp, scoring 17 league goals, so now Ye Qiu's requirements for him are indeed a bit high, but if he is willing to work hard to improve his strength and Chelsea's ability to create opportunities, it is not a big problem.

"At the end of the day, I want all of you to defeat Valencia tomorrow," Ye Qiu announced later.

But as soon as he finished speaking, Ronaldinho, the toothy brother, raised his hand and said something that made everyone burst into laughter.

"Head, that seems to be the second thing, right?"

When Ye Qiu was about to learn from Ferguson's flying legs and kicking people, Ronaldinho grabbed the goal faster and ran away.

For Ranieri, Ye Qiu has always felt that this is a very powerful football coach.

Why do you want to add the word football in front of the coach?

This is because Ranieri's role is limited to the football level, and outside of football, the role is very small.

Or it could be said that Ranieri, as a manager, is absolutely first-class in football, perhaps not as high as a master tactician like Benitez, but definitely not bad.

Many people say that Ranieri has a poor command on the spot and is better at mending pots, so he is nicknamed the tinker, because he is very good at tinkering, and his biggest advantage is that he can make up for the problems left by his predecessors to the greatest extent on the premise of inheriting the advantages of his predecessors, minimize the loopholes of the team, and become more balanced.

It is not difficult to see from the nickname tinker that Ranieri's personality is the kind of cautious and step-by-step type, but he is very good at thinking and has excellent tactical understanding and analytical skills, so he can find the problems of his predecessor every time and give just the right solution, which is not something that ordinary people can do.

But sometimes, too little caution, coupled with a lack of ability outside of football, and too much accommodation for players, all of which have caused Ranieri to be a bottleneck in coaching, and his easy-going personality seems to be difficult to change his personality and coaching characteristics.

Ranieri also has a lesser-known nickname, The Gardener, which I'm sure not old fans will remember.

Tragically, Ranieri's two nicknames were both well-intentioned, but later they became words used by the media and fans to ridicule him and ridicule him, including the gardener.

The reason why Ranieri is a gardener is because of his excellent ability to promote and cultivate players, so he jokes that he is like a gardener, helping these seedlings to thrive and grow into towering trees, but later the meaning became that he is the best at planting trees for his predecessors and enjoying the cool air for future generations, so he is nicknamed Gardener.

The most famous thing is that he laid a solid foundation in Valencia, which directly created the peak of the later Cooper and Benitez periods, and many people, including Ye Qiu himself, admit that Chelsea during the Ranieri era did lay a solid foundation for the later glory of Chelsea, including Frank Lampard and Terry, the two core players.

As the saying goes, what kind of character you have, what kind of life you have

Of course, these are the views of outsiders on Ranieri, which is more objective, but as a head coach, in Ye Qiu's view, in addition to Ranieri's personality and flaws in coaching the team, he also has an obvious deficiency at the tactical level, that is, the wing

Ranieri is a more typical Italian manager, good at defending and counter-attacking, but unlike Capello and Lippi, Ranieri is not capable as a designer of the tactical system.

Many people wonder why Ranieri can only be a tinkerer and not a top manager?

Looking at the past few years, all the top coaches actually have one thing in common, that is, the integration of offense and defense, and correspondingly, all the top teams at the top of the peak must be balanced in attack and defense, which is what Sacchi will say that a real strong team can not only create the most solid defense, but also be able to play the most hearty offense

In other words, it's not enough for you to just defend, you also have to know how to attack, and vice versa, if you only attack but don't know how to defend, that's not good.

But as a manager, Ranieri has a very obvious shortcoming in the design of the wide attack, looking at all the teams he has coached, attacking is a long-standing problem, but attack and defense are complementary and inseparable elements in modern tactics

Lack of wing attack design, bad use of wing players, the offense can only go too far in the middle, and it is much easier for the opponent to defend.

Don't underestimate professional managers, they rely on this to make a difference, as long as there is a little hole in your tactical lineup, they can catch it, and even make you overturn in the gutter, almost all the big upsets are created in this way, and this is the most challenging and unpredictable part of professional football.

With obvious shortcomings, coupled with his own personality and mentality, Ranieri's final route was to defend and counterattack.

Sometimes people are like that, when you get used to something, when you get used to a certain routine, you will inevitably have some habitual thinking, so back in Valencia, the first thing Ranieri does is change.

From the 3L during the Benitez period to the current 44, from the original high post defense, to the current shrinking counterattack, which also directly led to the talented star Aimar who was heavily used during the Benitez period was completely beaten into the cold palace, and the striker Mista made way for the double strikers Di Vaio and Corradi.

Ye Qiu's Chelsea and Ranieri's Chelsea have completely different changes in tactical style, and Ye Qiu also used the team's tactics in the game to show the biggest difference between himself and Ranieri, that is, he dares to take risks, even if the risk and opportunity are half, as long as he sees it, he will fight

This time he saw that Valencia's side was not good, from the original 3L high defensive tactics to the current 44 retraction tactics, not only the wingers are not adaptable, the fullbacks are also very uncomfortable, this is not only a matter of player standing and running, but also involves the cooperation between players and changes in the ball route.

Chelsea launched the strongest attack on the wing from the beginning, Ye Qiutie was determined to play his own style from the beginning of the attack, directly create a threat, and in fact, in the L minute, Chelsea directly knocked on the Valencia goal, Ribery, who started in place of Rooney, forced a breakthrough on the right and crossed, and Gudjohnsen in the middle grabbed the point in front of the goal and scored with a header

Chelsea slowed down a bit after that, but in the 3l minute, Joe Cole and Gudjohnsen played a wall-to-wall combination, Evra quickly cut into the bottom line, received a pass and suddenly made a sharp stop, knocked back to the edge of the box, Davies cut in and fired a direct volley.

Goalkeeper Canizares made a save and hit the ball with both palms, but he couldn't prevent the ball from being held up by him and crashed into the top right corner, 0

In the first half, Chelsea played two brilliant attacks through the wings, twice through Valencia's goal, and Ranieri was helpless about it, and in the second half, Valencia began to press ferociously, the referee had to give frequent yellow card warnings, and Chelsea made appropriate substitutions, including Essien, Messi and Son Jihai were given the opportunity to come off the bench.

Although Valencia finally relied on a play of Vicente in the 77th minute to break through Van der Sar's goal, they were unable to prevent the defeat of his team, and Ranieri suffered a tragic defeat in a game where everyone had high hopes for him to make a name for himself.

But the tinkerer with a good personality was also full of praise for Ye Qiu's Chelsea after the game, believing that if it were not for Chelsea's slackening in the latter stages, Valencia would have been difficult to get a chance, and he also felt that Chelsea would be the strongest contender for the Champions League title this season.

Ye Qiu also reacted to Ranieri's kindness, and he thought that Ranieri should be given more and more time.

'It's very difficult to coach a team that's just going through its prime, but I'm sure Ranieri can lead this team well'