'For this game I think the team was outstanding, even though the opposition created more chances and threats than us, we got more time on the ball and the players were able to grit their teeth and break the deadlock when they were in a stalemate at the very end, when they were out of fitness, I thought they were very good

At the press conference at Highbury Stadium after the game, Wenger faced an interview with reporters and the media, expressing his regret that he could not win Chelsea at home in this game, although he was a little regretful, but he was basically satisfied.

'In the first half we were a bit unlucky, we made a couple of mistakes that we shouldn't have made and we were given chances, but in the second half we were obviously better, we showed our hunger to win, and although it was only a draw in the end, I couldn't ask for more'

All the journalists who were able to come to the scene knew what Wenger meant, because in the past four league games, before the national team game, Arsenal have faced Manchester United, Newcastle and Liverpool, three of the top teams in the Premier League, and after the national team game, Chelsea has been welcomed, this schedule can be called the devil's schedule.

But it was in such a strong dialogue that Arsenal drew Manchester United and Chelsea, beating Newcastle and Liverpool respectively, which allowed Arsenal to successfully get out of the devil's schedule, and Wenger was obviously satisfied with this.

To talk about Arsenal and Chelsea, although the Blues are currently leading with 8 wins and draws after this game, in fact, many people feel that this report card of the Blues does not have much gold content, because they have met Liverpool and Arsenal two strong teams.

Although Arsenal are four points behind Chelsea, the problem is that the Gunners have already faced Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester United and Chelsea, the four strongest rivals in the Premier League, in the first round of round-robin, and in this regard, Arsenal are not much inferior, as they have a difficult schedule first.

However, compared to the good performance in the Premier League, Arsenal's performance in the Champions League is very bad, losing to Inter Milan in the first round of the group stage at Highbury Stadium 03, and then drawing 00 away with Lokomotiv Moscow, a record of one loss and one draw makes Arsenal's performance in Europe difficult to be satisfactory.

On the other hand, Chelsea is not only unbeaten in the Premier League, but also has won two consecutive Champions League groups, which can be described as the limelight.

After questioning Wenger, the reporters immediately shifted the topic to Ye Qiu.

"We've all noticed that one of your assistants seems to be walking behind the goalkeeper a lot during the game, are you talking to Van der Sar?" A reporter was the first to ask a question of concern.

This phenomenon is not actually new to this game, there have been so many games in the past, almost every single one, but those games were not as interesting as Chelsea against Arsenal, so there was not much speculation in the media before, but now they are clearly noticing.

This is one of the characteristics of Frans Hawke, who often walks behind Van der Sar during the game, on the one hand to correct and point out some of his problems, and at the same time to calm Van der Sar's emotions during the game.

You know, a goalkeeper is doing useless work for most of the game, but once they need to play an effect, it must be a very critical situation, which can be described as a critical moment, which requires the goalkeeper to stay nervous and focused for a long time, but the question is, who can guarantee that they can do this for a long time?

Therefore, how to adjust the psychological quality of a goalkeeper is undoubtedly a very important key factor.

Frans Hawke knows Van der Sar very well, and he also knows very well how to help Van der Sar adjust his mentality so that the Dutch goalkeeper can play better, so he often walks behind the goalkeeper to communicate with Van der Sar during games.

For this, Ye Qiu will definitely not say it, this is a secret belonging to his coaching staff.

"I said to Edwin, don't worry, because his teammates can help him block the opponent's attack" Ye Qiu answered the question with a smile, "Although we conceded the ball at the end of the day, I think both the goalkeeper and the players performed very well. ”

'I've always said that players are human beings and human beings make mistakes, so I think conceding goals and being held to a draw shouldn't affect the team because we're playing against a team like Arsenal this time and anything can happen and we're prepared for that.

The reporters didn't know whether what Ye Qiu said was true or not, but it sounded like there was some truth, so they didn't continue to delve into the issue, but turned to another aspect, asking about Chelsea's discipline of being terminated by Arsenal.

"I'm sure you all saw today that we're not bad compared to any opponent, but we're not a mature team like Manchester United and Arsenal yet, because when Andreas Pire, Bergkamp, Ashley Cole, Patrick Vieira and others get the ball, Henry and others know where to run and where to cooperate

'But our players are obviously not enough at this point, we don't have the chemistry that a mature team like them should have, and I think that's something we need to improve on for the next period of time.'

Many reporters nodded incessantly, "Mr. Ye Qiu, how long do you think it will take?" ”

"It's hard to say, maybe a month or two, maybe a year and a half, I think our players are a group of experienced professionals, and they should be able to find a tacit understanding with their teammates very quickly, so that day should come soon."

"Mr. Ye Qiu" Another reporter stood up, "We have all noticed that almost all teams that encounter Chelsea will have a feeling that their attack is difficult to work under Chelsea's interception and pressure, and Houllier once said not long ago that Liverpool loses in the midfield, and I remember, you have said before, whoever gets the midfield controls everything, excuse me, is this sentence still your creed?" ”

Ye Qiu looked at the reporter, laughed, and nodded: "Yes, that's right, I said that, and I'm doing it too." ”

"I've always attached great importance to the midfield, because I've always believed that the midfield can attack and defend in the back, and a midfield that is both offensive and defensive is the key to any team's combat effectiveness, and the development of modern football requires a higher midfield, one of which is that the tempo is significantly faster."

When he said this, Ye Qiu smiled and shook his head, "But this kind of speed is not the blind speed advocated by many Premier League teams, but purposeful, targeted, and controlled fast, I believe that this will become the trend of football in the future."

Ye Qiu is fully qualified to say this to anyone, because his tactics at Ajax have been praised by many professionals, even famous coaches such as Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger.

If Ajax's speed was uncontrollable when they reached the Champions League semi-finals, then with Arteta's subsequent arrival, Ajax's controlled fast-paced impact style of play has caught everyone's eye.

Ye Qiu now feels more and more that the so-called all-offense and all-defense is the integration of offense and defense, and it is difficult to distinguish each other.

Reporters have always liked Ye Qiu, on the one hand, because he is young, has a good image, and is liked by fans, and on the other hand, because he rarely refuses to answer questions, even if the question makes him feel embarrassed, he will at least give an appropriate response, which is very difficult for the head coach.

And after the most embarrassing press conference at Highbury Stadium, a reporter from Spain asked Ye Qiu a more embarrassing question, which was related to Barcelona.

"Mr. Ye Qiu, I am a reporter from the Spanish newspaper El País, I would like to ask, what do you think of Rijkaard's Barcelona? Although the game has only just begun, many Barcelona fans have begun to believe Cruyff's words, thinking that Barcelona's failure to invite you to Camp Nou was a fatal mistake, what do you think? ”

Ye Qiu was a little embarrassed by this question, because it was about the entanglement between himself and Barcelona in the summer.

'I have a lot of respect for Barcelona and a lot of respect for Rijkaard, we had a good contact and communication with Ajax, I think he is a very good manager, but he has some problems now, and Barcelona as a century-old club, they must have a solution to the crisis.

"I don't feel at all that Barcelona made a mistake in the matter about me, because for a big team like Barcelona the most important thing is the team itself, not anyone"

Ye Qiu's answer can be regarded as giving Barcelona and Rijkaard enough respect, and it is difficult for anyone to find fault with his words, even those reporters who want to find fault.

But I have to admit that Rijkaard's record at Barcelona is really bad, with 4 consecutive home games without a win, 4 consecutive games without a goal, and 3 goals in the league, which can be said to be extremely bad, even worse than when anyone was in charge in the past.

The Spanish media's problems with Barcelona generally boil down to two points, one is the lack of overall vision, the game has no direction and strategy, which leads to the team in chaos, and directly creates the second point, that is, the team's entire attack and defense are out of order and look chaotic.

It should be said that before Barcelona, Rijkaard had never earned respect in coaching, especially in terms of tactical quality.

In the previous life, Rijkaard had Ten Carter, but he still performed extremely badly, and now without Ten Carter, his performance is even worse, but what is worse is that in his previous life, he could bring in an Edgar Davis who can make the whole team run more smoothly after the winter break, and now?

Ye Qiu even had a more embarrassing discovery that Xavi was not liked by Rijkaard at the beginning of the season and became a substitute for Gerard and Motta, but Barcelona needs a midfielder like Xavi who has an excellent overall view and long and short passes.

Of course, Ye Qiu couldn't say anything about these discoveries of his own, so he could only choose to be silent and rot in his stomach.

After all, no one likes to be judged by their team, does they?

The reason why Ye Qiu didn't bring Ronaldinho on the game against Arsenal was because he welcomed Roberto Mancini's Lazio three days later, a game that was crucial for Chelsea in the Champions League group stage.

The difference between the first and second place in the group is obvious, especially since the knockout round of 16 is in the month, and for the Premier League without a winter break, it is indeed not a good thing to meet too strong opponents in the month.

Therefore, Ye Qiu's goal in the Champions League group stage is to be the first in the group, and Lazio must be pressed.

Mancini insisted on the rotation system in Lazio, and he changed 7 players in one go in this game, but relatively speaking, Ye Qiu seemed more stable, and it could even be said to be conservative.

Goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, Gallas, Cannavaro, John Terry and Son Je-hai at the back, Scott Parker, Claude Makelele and Deco in midfield, Ronaldinho and Frank Lampard form a trident behind Drogba.

After a full game, Ye Qiu changed three players, and the overall framework of the team remained unchanged.

It's hard to say whether to change or not, because at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea dominated the entire first half, but they couldn't break down Lazio's goal, and the players were generally sluggish, even if they beat Lazio very badly, but the attack lost its threat.

The most threatening is Ronaldinho, but after the Brazilian has been marked by the opponent after a few amazing individual performances in the opening game, the back line composed of Favali, Mihajlovic, Stam and Odor is still very good, plus the combination of Fiore, Stankovic, Albertini and Conceição, Lazio's strength is not bad.

A very important factor in Ye Qiu's small tinkering is that the team has just been reorganized, and now is the time for the players to cultivate tacit understanding, and the lineup changes are too big, which is easy to cause the players to be at a loss, so he insists that there are some changes in every game, but the changes are not big, to ensure the stability of the team's combat effectiveness.

But in this game at Stamford Bridge, the result of 00 in the first half made him feel that he had to make a big change.

In the first minute of the second half, seeing that the situation was still showing no signs of improvement, Ye Qiu finally made a move and replaced Scott Parker with Joe Cole, and the midfield made a wide range of adjustments, especially Joe Cole, Ye Qiu pressed his position forward.

As soon as the latter came on the pitch, it immediately unleashed Chelsea's midfield creativity.

Joe Cole has nothing to say about the player's skills, and Deco and Ronaldinho have formed Chelsea's iron triangle of midfield possession, and the Englishman and Deco have completely liberated Ronaldinho's attacking power in the front.

In the first minute, Joe Cole played a big game in the midfield, shook off Albertini, and passed to the feet of Ronaldinho, who was pulled between Odor and Stam, and the Brazilian quickly broke through after winning the ball, broke into the Lazio penalty area, and still used his personal skills to pass the ball to the feet of Lampard under the bag of the two.

Frank Lampard stepped in and fired a direct volley, Peruzzi reacted very quickly to save the ball, but Ronaldinho shook off Stam and fired a low shot.

It was a goal that sounded the clarion call for Chelsea's attack, especially after Joe Cole came on and Chelsea's entire attack became more creative and penetrating.

In the 8l minute, it was Joe Cole, Ronaldinho, Deco, Drogba and others who penetrated continuously, and the most common was Lampard's right-footed volley from the edge of the penalty area, which further expanded the score for Chelsea, 0

The two goals completely extinguished Lazio's confidence in the comeback and made Mancini feel extremely disappointed, but the Italian team was unable to make a difference at Stamford Bridge and left with a zero defeat.

At the press conference after the game, Ye Qiu spoke highly of the performance of the players, especially the team's fighting spirit that persevered to the bottom, and he gave a very high affirmation, believing that this victory was the result of everyone's concerted efforts.

'I've always felt that the best team to play would be: the Italians' tactics, the Spaniards' skills, the Germans' overall execution and the English's fighting spirit, and that's the perfect team for me and I've always wanted Chelsea to be that.

'There is no doubt that in this game, Joe Cole, Frank Lampard, John Terry and a few other Englishmen were very good, their fighting spirit was contagious to everyone and it was a key factor in our final win and I hope the players can continue to play and perform like this and then we will get stronger and stronger'

It's not just Ye Qiu who spoke highly of the team, in the special page report of the British Times, it focused on two key factors for Chelsea to win Lazio, one is that Ye Qiu replaced Joe Cole at a critical moment, which completely liberated the team's creativity, and the other is the bulldog spirit of Chelsea players.

The Pit Bull is the national dog of the United Kingdom and represents tenacity and bravery.

In this game, it was the fighting spirit shown by the Englishman that infected others, and the Times also praised Ye Qiu's use of Frank Lampard and John Terry, believing that after Lampard was moved forward, he scored more and more goals, but his contribution was not only goals, but also included defense and active forward press coverage, which made him play better and better this season.

Terry, as the captain of the team, took over Desailly's armband and partnered with Cannavaro, but the performance was not lost to Cannavaro at all, according to OpTAR data, Terry's success rate in the overhead and one-on-one defense success rate this season are ranked first in the Premier League, and even in the top three in Europe, which shows that the team's captain's performance is worthy of recognition.

With these two Englishmen as the backbone of the front and back, plus Didier Drogba, Ronaldinho, Claude Makelele and Edwin van der Sar forming the central axis of the team, plus Davies, Parker, Gudjohnsen and other players with a fighting spirit and strong tactical execution, Chelsea have been hailed by The Times as the most bulldog in the Premier League

In Martin Samuel's words, Chelsea are intimidatingly ugly