Volume 1 Chapter 577 What Does This Mean?
Ye Qiu's low profile before the game was actually not because he lacked the confidence to beat Porto at home, but because he deliberately did so, in order to use Porto's high profile to stimulate the players in the team.
Porto's strength is undoubted, as a well-known black shop in Europe, the individual ability of Porto players is very good, because they have a lot of players from South America in the team, and their individual ability is outstanding, otherwise, Porto will not fancy these players, but also because they are all half-finished, so in terms of team cooperation, it is not as strict as European teams.
Tottenham Hotspur was not in good shape in the last game, coupled with the away game, was caught off guard by Porto, and then failed to play a good state if he wanted to equalize, and then lost away, but this time Ye Qiu learned a lesson丨
Cesc Fabregas was injured, and Ye Qiu made adjustments to the team's starting lineup for this game.
Goalkeeper is Peter Cech, the back line is Coentrão, Zygrinski, Thiago Silva and Alves, midfielders David Beckham and Yaya Toure are behind, David Silva plays a similar position to the midfield, and the front three are Ribery, Cavani and Messi, with Falcao rotated.
Although Falcao has performed very eye-catching this season, Ye Qiu still frequently gives Cavani opportunities, and the Uruguayan striker's performance is also very good, and the momentum of progress is obvious, although the FA Cup against Fulham is not good, but this game Ye Qiu arranged for him to start again, because he can see from the training that Cavani has a great desire to score.
It's not that Falcao doesn't have a desire to score, it's a balancing act of the manager.
Of course, if Cavani doesn't perform well in this game, then Ye Qiu can't be blamed for not giving him a chance.
Tottenham Hotspur's strategy is still the same as in all previous home games, attacking from the start.
As soon as the game began, referee Frank de Brickel blew the whistle for the kick-off when the Tottenham Hotspur players rushed towards the Porto goal like tigers, but if they just rushed through, it would have been fine, but Tottenham Hotspur quickly created a chance.
Coentrão cut in quickly on the left flank, met Ribery and sent a cross from the left, Cavani in the box got stuck in a good position to fight Bruno Alves for the header, only to get a header but deflected the header and missed an attacking opportunity.
But this time the attack ignited the enthusiasm of all the fans at White Hart Lane, and the more than 30,000 Tottenham Hotspur fans in the stands shouted in unison, calling on the team to try to score goals and win the game.
"Let this group of arrogant guys from the south know how good we are"
"Let them see what a nightmare is"
Spurred on by the provocative remarks of the on-site commentators at White Hart Lane, the fans in the stands were also ignited one by one, especially on the pitch, Tottenham Hotspur firmly grasped the rhythm and initiative of the game, and pressed Porto almost from the opening moment.
Jesualdo Ferreira expected passivity after the opening, and he also expected Tottenham Hotspur to attack, but in his opinion, Tottenham Hotspur's attack will remain for about ten minutes at most, because the attack is too long, and if it can't score, it will inevitably leave Porto with a chance to counterattack.
Therefore, before the game, he specially arranged targeted defensive tactics, requiring all players to stay focused after the opening and must defend Tottenham Hotspur's post-opening attack, and as long as he holds this wave of attack, things will be much easier in the future.
The course of the game seemed to be exactly as Jezualdo Ferreira expected, and in the first ten minutes, Tottenham Hotspur's most threatening attack came in the ninth minute, when David Silva passed the ball to Cavani who retreated from the edge of the box to meet with his back, and the Uruguayan pushed the ball directly to Messi without stopping, and he turned and rushed to the box.
Messi is the target of Porto's defense, but the Argentine took the lead in getting Cavani's knockback, a dexterous take the ball to get rid of the turn, after protecting the ball, the ball was distributed to the right side, Alves quickly cut in from the right side, and after winning the ball, he directly made a 45-degree cross and passed the ball into the penalty area.
But to everyone's surprise, Alves's cross was not looking for Cavani, but Ribery at the back point, which was unexpected by Porto, but Alves's cross was a bit high, although the landing point was good, but the speed was too slow, and Ribery did not have a height advantage, although he reached the landing point, he was cleared by Porto's central defender in advance and got a corner, and Beckham's corner kick caused a riot in the penalty area, but in the end he failed to score.
Although this attack made Porto break out in a cold sweat, Jesualdo Ferreira still applauded the player's defense, and in his opinion, after this wave of offensive failures, Tottenham Hotspur should also slow down the offensive appropriately.
But just when he was thinking so, Ye Qiu walked to the sidelines and made a gesture towards the players on the field, a gesture of three, which was obviously a code within the Tottenham Hotspur team, except for the players and coaches inside Tottenham Hotspur, no one knew the meaning of this gesture.
But the Tottenham Hotspur players on the pitch clearly saw that this was what it meant to execute the number three tactic
Then what happened on the pitch was unexpected by Jesualdo Ferreira, because instead of slowing down the attack, Tottenham Hotspur seemed to be consciously stepping up, especially as they further increased the tempo and frequently threatened Porto's goal.
What does this mean?
Jezualdo Ferreira panicked a little and ran to the sidelines to signal his players to hold on
Ye Qiu's meaning is actually very simple, he is using this way to tell Jesualdo Ferreira, as well as all the Porto players, playing other teams, we may rush to attack for ten minutes and stop, but to beat you, we don't need to think about time at all, we have to keep attacking, attacking until you collapse position
As for the counterattack? We didn't pay any attention to your counterattack, and if you have the ability, you will attack it and give it a try
Just when Jesualdo Ferreira wanted to curse Tottenham Hotspur's desperate tactics, Tottenham Hotspur scored
In the 16th minute, Porto counterattacked, a long pass to the front, Thiago Silva blocked the Porto striker with his body, forcing the ball to be obtained by Cech, and the Czech goalkeeper directly met the incoming ball with a big foot forward, and drove to the front of the 30-meter area of Porto again.
Cavani moved quickly, anticipating where the ball would fall, keeping out Bruno Alves with his body and heading the ball to David Silva, who had moved to the midfield position.
After the Spaniard won the ball, he took a small step forward, waited until Cavani turned around, spotted an opportunity, and directly tucked the ball straight behind Bruno Alves, who had lost his position, while Ribery on the left was rushing forward quickly.
Ribery's instant start was very fast, directly shook off the opponent's right-back, the French winger did not break through the Porto defense, the opponent's other central defender also returned to the defense very quickly, and at this time Porto goalkeeper Helton chose to abandon the goal decisively, directly near the penalty spot fell to the ground and pounced on the feet of Ribery, who had just received a pass from David Silva.
Ribery was still half a second slower in the end, if he was half a second faster, just when he received the ball directly, the goal would have been nine times out of ten, but he was worried about offside, resulting in a slight hesitation when starting, and now when catching up with the ball, the shooting angle has been blocked by Helton, but because Ribery's shot was too close to Helton, the latter could not save the ball, and could only choose to block it with both hands, rather than holding the ball directly.
The ball hit Helton's hands and bounced to the right side, rushing up from behind, deliberately a little behind Ribery Messi, although he was followed by the opponent's right-back, he suddenly sprinted forward with a lunge, directly accelerated, grabbed ahead of everyone, and stabbed the ball directly to Porto's goal, 0
“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL”
The entire White Hart Lane Stadium was completely boiling
All the Tottenham Hotspur fans quickly rushed out of their seats, grabbed the fence in front of them, and watched Messi, who had already rushed to the sidelines to celebrate the goal with excitement below, and shouted Messi's name in unison to cheer for the performance of the Argentine superstar
This goal clearly shows the smooth off-ball running and pulling of Tottenham Hotspur's front, especially in this kind of offensive and defensive transition, Tottenham Hotspur from getting the ball, to launching a fast attack, to scoring at the back, the whole process Porto has no time to react, and by the time they realize the danger, that is, when Hayton abandons the goal, it is a bit too late, if Ribery is a little faster, they can't react at all.
Of course, if Ribery is faster, it is estimated that he may fall into the offside trap.
This goal completely ignited the passion of everyone in Tottenham Hotspur, because the score was equalized, and in the event of a draw, Tottenham Hotspur could win by virtue of away goals.
However, it was clear that Tottenham had no intention of stopping there, and they were clearly angered by the humiliation of the team after the first leg and the high-profile pre-match disparagement and provocation of Tottenham Hotspur's Porto manager, Jeszuardo Ferreira.
Ye Qiu made a request to everyone in the locker room before the game, this game must be won, and the opponent must be kept a clean sheet
Knowing that, the manager rarely makes such demands on his players and teams, and it is clear that he is also irritated.
And the price of angering Tottenham Hotspur is undoubtedly very painful, and this goal is just the beginning
After the goal, Tottenham Hotspur had no idea of stopping, and still launched wave after wave of attacks against Porto, because Ye Qiu noticed that Jesualdo Ferreira failed to effectively plug the team's defensive holes, especially when Tottenham Hotspur pulled the whole line apart and tried to use the advantage of the strength of the wing players to crush the opponent, Porto obviously did not have too effective methods.
So this time, Ye Qiu asked the team to rush forward in one go and defeat the opponent.
Soon, Tottenham Hotspur had another chance, Ribery won the ball on the left and suddenly cut inside, attracted the attention of the defense, knocked back to the back of the Coentrão, the Portuguese got the ball and quickly wanted to cross the bottom, but the cross was not well passed, was blocked by the opposing central defender, and the ball fell at the feet of the right-back
Although the Portuguese has not been able to grab the main position from Marcelo's feet this season, he has still performed very well in some games at Tottenham Hotspur, and he is very diligent and desperate on the pitch, so after conceding the goal this time, he also put in the counter-attack as soon as possible.
Porto's right-back Fersille was pressed by Coentrão from close quarters and turned to pass in a bit of a hurry that he didn't handle it well and the ball fell to Ribery's feet.
As soon as the Frenchman got the ball, the entire Porto defense was taken aback, especially when he saw Ribery making a direct kick to the left of the top of the arc at the edge of the penalty area, Bruno Alveston let go of Cavani as soon as possible, pounced, and prepared to block the gun.
But Ribery's very nimble right foot smashed the ball, and the shot immediately turned into a feint, and Ribery pushed the ball forward with his left foot, taking advantage of the situation and passing one of the opponent's midfielders, relying on two simple and practical movements to break through the bag of two Porto players in a narrow area.
But breaking through two players, Ribery entered the penalty area, Fursiler rushed over as soon as possible, and Ribery made a sudden stop, making Fursiler rush a little too much, and then suddenly turned in a direction, and started quickly from the left side of Fursiler, and the ball never left Ribery's control throughout the process.
After getting past Forsile, Ribery played a low cross in front of the baseline in the middle of the goal, and Cavani didn't waste another chance this time, almost unguarded, and smashed Ribery's cross with his right foot into the Porto goal, 0
After the goal, the excited Cavani quickly rushed to Ribery, directly stopping the Frenchman and hugging him, this pass he originally thought was going to be gone, after all, Ribery was facing the defense and pinching of three players, but what he didn't expect was that the Frenchman was small and agile, and he broke through the defense in a flash.
If Cavani's shot is to be credited, most of the credit should be given to Ribery, because without Ribery's three in a row, it would have been impossible for Cavani to steal points in front of goal
All the Tottenham Hotspur players also rushed to celebrate the second goal with Edinson Cavani and Franck Ribery hugging Cavani on the sidelines, which also dealt a serious blow to Porto's morale.
You must know that according to the current points, Tottenham Hotspur is ahead of Porto, and if they want to reverse, then they can only choose to attack, press out to play, and strive for goals to have a chance of winning, but in this game, Porto is mainly defensive counterattack, press out to play, can you hold it?
After Tottenham Hotspur scored two goals in a row, the morale was very strong, and the players were more and more confident, coupled with the fact that Jesualdo Ferreira has not given an effective defensive strategy, so Tottenham Hotspur's offensive has not been contained.
This is also the reason why Jesualdo Ferreira led Porto, but he has never been able to make a breakthrough in results, because of his lack of ability, at most, he is slipping in the Portuguese Super League, and he wants to be majestic in Europe, he is not qualified enough, at least in front of Tottenham Hotspur, they are not worth mentioning at all.
After scoring two goals in a row, Tottenham Hotspur still did not relax, and soon launched another very threatening attack.
Messi made a fulcrum in the right corner of the penalty area, responded to the right-back Alves, turned around and passed to the bottom line of the penalty area after winning the ball, and Alves was not slow, running all the way from the right side into the penalty area, winning the ball in front of the bottom line and crossing, but unfortunately, Cavani and Ribery in the middle of the penalty area and on the right did not have time to keep up, resulting in another goal missed.
But as if encouraged, Tottenham Hotspur still attacked from the right side, Alves still went to Messi to cooperate, but this time Porto was affected by the attack a few minutes ago, and the defense Messi was a little lax, and after the Argentine took the ball, he saw the opportunity and came directly by himself.
I saw Messi very confidently take the ball in the right corner of the penalty area and turn around, after getting rid of a defender, facing the opponent's back who quickly rushed over to set up defense, a change of direction, from cutting inside to going down, and people also rushed up quickly.
Messi's instant start was very fast, when he started at the edge of the penalty area and the opposing central defender came up to block him, Messi had already rushed into the penalty area, facing the defender, a skillful feint, a deliberate pause, and then suddenly another acceleration.
Just a very simple change of speed, just pull out a position on the opponent's central defender, and then in front of the bottom line, facing the opponent's goalkeeper Helton, a near-zero angle right-footed shot, the ball went over Helton's head, hit the side net slightly inside the left post of the goal, 0
Messi, who scored two goals, rushed directly to the bottom line excitedly, rushed to the stands of White Hart Lane Stadium, and made a kiss to the fans of Tottenham Hotspur.
Ye Qiu was also happy with the team's performance on the sidelines, because of the FA Cup, this group of main players had a week off, and in the past week, the team has been adjusting the physical fitness and state of the players, so he was not surprised at all that this game ushered in an outbreak.
But he obviously didn't want to give up on that, because he was not the kind of generous person, on the contrary, his creed was that if anyone offended me, I would not offend anyone, and if anyone offended me, I would not only offend you, but also completely maim you
So in this game, Ye Qiu not only wants to win, but also to win and make Jesualdo Ferreira completely disgraced, and to win and make Porto completely defeated
Didn't you say I couldn't attack? Then I'll give you a taste of whether my offense works or not