"For this game, I think the team's performance is excellent. Although the opponents have created more opportunities and threats than us, we have more time to control the ball. And when the stalemate is in the end and the physical fitness is scarce, the players can grit their teeth and persevere and break the deadlock. I think they are very outstanding.

At the press conference at the Highbury Stadium after the game, Wenger faced an interview with reporters and media and expressed that he had failed to win Chelsea at home in this game. Although he was a little regretful, he was basically satisfied.

"In the first half, we were indeed a little unlucky. We made several mistakes that we shouldn't have and were seized by our opponents. But we performed significantly better in the second half. We showed our desire for victory. Although it was just a draw in the end, I couldn't ask them for more."

All the reporters who were able to come to the scene knew what Wenger meant, because in the past four rounds of the league, before the national team competition, Arsenal had encountered three top Premier League teams, Manchester United, Newcastle and Liverpool, and after the national team competition, Chelsea was welcomed. This schedule is a devilish schedule.

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

Speaking of Arsenal and Chelsea, although the Blues have taken the lead with 8 wins and l draws after the battle, in fact, many people think that the Blues' report card does not have much value, because they have met two strong teams, Liverpool and Arsenal.

Although Arsenal is 4 points behind Chelsea, the problem is that the Gunners have encountered Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester United and Chelsea in the first round of the round-robin match, the four most powerful competitors in the Premier League. From this point of view, Arsenal is not much inferior because they are a difficult first and then easy schedule.

However, compared with the good performance in the Premier League, Arsenal's performance in the Champions League was very bad. In the first round of the group stage, he lost to Inter Milan at the Highbury Stadium 03, and then tied the Locomotive Moscow away 00. The record of one loss and one draw makes Arsenal's performance in the European arena difficult to satisfy.

On the other hand, Chelsea is not only unbeaten in the Premier League, but also has two consecutive victories in the Champions League group, which is in full swing.

After asking Wenger, the reporters immediately turned the topic to Ye Qiu.

"We all noticed that during the game, one of your assistants seemed to walk behind the goalkeeper frequently. Are you talking to Van der Sar? "A reporter first asked a question that attracted attention.

This phenomenon actually did not appear in this game. In so many games in the past, almost every game has been there. But those games are not as eye-catching as Chelsea’s playing against Arsenal, so they did not cause too much speculation from the media before, but now they have noticed it clearly.

This is a characteristic of Frans Hawke. He often walks behind Van der Sar during the game. On the one hand, he corrects and guides some of his problems, and at the same time comforts Van der Sar's emotions during the game.

You should know that a goalkeeper is doing useless work for most of the time of the game, but once they need to perform their effects, the situation must be very critical and can be said to be a critical moment. This requires the goalkeeper to remain nervous and focused for a long time. But the question is, who can guarantee that he can do this for a long time?

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

Frans Hawke knows Van der Sar very well, and he also knows very clearly how to help Van der Sar adjust his psychology so that the Dutch goalkeeper can perform better, so he often goes behind the goalkeeper to communicate with Van der Sar during the game.

Ye Qiu would definitely not say this, it is the secret of his coaching team.

"I told 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 in the end, I think both the goalkeeper and the player performed well."

"I always say that players are human beings, and if they are human beings, they will definitely make mistakes. So I think that losing the ball and being tied by the opponent should not affect the team, because the opponent we are facing this time is a strong team like Arsenal, and all the results may happen. We have been mentally prepared for this."

The reporters didn't know whether Ye Qiu was saying true or not, but it seemed that there was a little reason, so they did not continue to explore this issue, but turned to another aspect and asked about the fact that Chelsea's winning streak was terminated by Arsenal.

"I believe everyone has seen it today. Compared with any opponent, we are not inferior to our strength, but we are not a mature team like Manchester United and Arsenal. Because when Pire, Borgkamp, ​​Ashley Cole, 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 lack the tacit understanding that mature teams like them should have. I think this is what we need to continue to improve in the next period of time."

Many reporters nodded unstoppably after hearing this, "Mr. Ye Qiu, how long do you think it will take?"

"It's hard to say, maybe one or two months, maybe one or two years or two, I think our players are all a group of experienced professional players. They should be able to quickly find a tacit understanding of cooperating with teammates and partnering, so this day should come soon."

"Mr. Ye Qiu" another reporter stood up, "We have all noticed that almost all teams who encounter Chelsea will have a feeling that their offense is difficult to work under Chelsea's interception and oppression. Not long ago, Hollier once said that Liverpool loses when losing, loses in the midfield. I remember, you said before, whoever gets the midfield controls everything. May I ask, is this still your creed?

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

"I have always attached great importance to the midfield because I have always believed that a midfield that can attack forward and defend in the future is the key to any team's combat effectiveness. Modern football development has higher requirements for the midfield, one of which is obviously faster."

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

Ye Qiu is fully qualified to say this to anyone, because his tactics in Ajax have been praised by many professionals, even famous coaches like Ferguson and Wenger.

If Ajax's speed was uncontrollable in the year when he entered the Champions League semi-finals, then with Arteta's subsequent joining, Ajax's controlled and fast-paced impact style illuminated everyone's eyes.

Ye Qiu is now increasingly feeling that the so-called full attack and all defense means that the combination of offense and defense is difficult to distinguish between each other.

Journalists have always liked Ye Qiu, on the one hand, because he is young, has a good image and is very popular among fans, and on the other hand, because he rarely refuses to answer questions. Even if this question makes him embarrassed, he will at least give appropriate responses, which is very difficult for the head coach.

At the end of this press conference at the Hebrey Stadium, a reporter from Spain asked Ye Qiu an embarrassing question, which was related to Barcelona.

"Mr. Ye Qiu, I am a reporter from the Spanish National. I would like to ask, what do you think of Rijcalde's Barcelona team? Although the schedule has just begun, many Barcelona fans have begun to believe Cruyff's words and think that Barcelona's failure to invite you to the Camp Nou is a fatal mistake. What do you think?"

Ye Qiu was a little embarrassed about this issue because it was related to the entanglement between himself and Barcelona in summer.

"I respect Barcelona very much and Rijkaard very much. We have had very good contact and communication in Ajax. I think he is a very outstanding head coach, but he has encountered some problems now. As a century-old club giant, Barcelona must have a solution to the crisis."

"I don't think Barcelona has made a mistake in my question, because for a giant team like Barcelona, ​​the most important thing is the team itself, not anyone."

Ye Qiu's answer gave Barcelona and Rijcard enough respect. It would be difficult for anyone to pick out the fault of his words, even those reporters who wanted to pick on it.

But I have to admit that Rijkaard's record in Barcelona is indeed quite bad. He has not won consecutive home games, and has not scored 1 goals in four consecutive games, and has scored 3 goals in the league. Such a result can be said to be extremely bad, even worse than anyone who coached in the past.

The Spanish media generally attributed to Barcelona's problems to two points: one is the lack of a view of the overall situation and the game has no direction and strategy, which has led to a chaos in the team and directly created the second point, that is, the team's entire offense and defense have lost order and seem very chaotic.

It should be said that before Barcelona, ​​Rijkaard had never won respect in coaching, especially in tactical literacy.

Rijcard had Tengkat in his previous life, but he still performed extremely badly. Now without Tengkat, his performance is even worse. But what's even more terrible is that he could bring in Edgar Davis after the winter break in his previous life, who could make the team's entire operation smoother. What's more, now?

Ye Qiu even had a relatively embarrassing discovery that Xavi was not favored by Rijcard at the beginning of the season and became a substitute for Hrad and Mota. However, Barcelona needed Xavi's midfielder with excellent overall view and long and short passes.

Of course, Ye Qiu could not say about his own discoveries, he could only choose to remain silent and rot in his stomach.

After all, no one likes others to point fingers at their team, right?

The reason why Ye Qiu did not let Ronaldinho play in the game against Arsenal was because he welcomed Mancini's Lazio three days later, which was crucial for Chelsea's Champions League group stage.

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

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

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

Goalkeeper Van der Sar, defense line Galas, Cannavaro, Terry and Sun Jihai, midfielder Scott Parker, Marklele and Deco, Ronaldinho and Lampard form a trident behind Drogba.

With all the plans and plans, Ye Qiu changed three players, and the overall framework of the team remained unchanged.

Whether to change or not is a difficult thing to say, because at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea had the advantage in the whole first half, but they were unable to break through Lazio's goal. The players' overall performance was very sluggish, even if they played Lazio very embarrassedly, the offense lost its threat.

The most threatening one is Ronaldinho, but after several amazing personal performances at the start, the Brazilian was also under the key control of the opponent. Favali, Mihailovic, Stam and Odo's defense line is still very strong. In addition to the combination of Fiore, Stankovic, Albertini and Concesan in the front, Lazio's strength is not bad.

One of the important factors that Ye Qiu has made small revisions is that the team has just been reorganized. Now is the time for players to develop tacit understanding. The lineup changes too much, which can easily lead to the players being at a loss. Therefore, he insists that there will be some changes in every game, but there are not much changes to ensure the stability of the team's combat effectiveness.

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

In the second half, seeing that the situation still showed no sign of improvement, Ye Qiu finally took action and replaced Scott Parker with Joe Cole. The midfielder made a large-scale adjustment, especially Joe Cole, who pushed his position forward.

As soon as the latter came on the court, he immediately liberated Chelsea's midfield creativity.

The player Joe Cole has no choice but to do with Deco and Ronaldinho formed Chelsea's midfield ball control triangle. The support and cooperation between the Englishman and Deco in the midfield completely liberated Ronaldinho's attack power in the frontcourt.

In the minute, Joccole had just played a big game in the midfield as soon as he came on the court. After throwing away Albertini, he passed it to Ronaldinho who was pulled between Odo and Stam. After getting the ball, the Brazilian quickly formed a breakthrough and entered Lazio's penalty area. Under the double-team of the two, he still used his personal skills to pass the ball to Lampard's feet.

Lampard inserted and shot directly. Peruzi reacted very quickly and saved the ball, but Ronaldinho shook Stam away after getting the ball, and shot low.

This goal completely sounded the clarion call of Chelsea's offense, especially after Joe Kerr came on the court, Chelsea's entire offense became more creative and penetrating.

In the 8th minute, it was Joe Cole, Ronaldinho, Deco, Drogba and others who worked together to penetrate again. Finally, Lampard shot with his right foot on the edge of the penalty area, further expanding the score for Chelsea. 0

Two goals completely extinguished Lazio's confidence in counterattack and also made Mancini feel extremely disappointed, but the Italian team was unable to make a difference at Stamford Bridge and left with 0 losses.

At the post-match press conference, Ye Qiu gave high praise to the players' performance, especially the team's spirit of fighting to the end, and he even gave high affirmation, believing that this victory was the result of everyone's concerted efforts.

"I have always felt that the best team should be: Italian tactics, Spanish skills, German overall execution and English fighting will. This is the perfect team in my mind, and I have always hoped that Chelsea can become such a team."

"There is no doubt that in this game, Joe Cole, Lampard, Terry and other Englishmen performed very well. Their fighting spirit infected everyone. This is the key factor in our final victory. I hope that the players can continue to perform and perform like this, and we will become stronger and stronger."

Not only Ye Qiu highly praised the team, but in the special report of the British Times, the two key factors for Chelsea to win Lazio were highlighted. One was that Ye Qiu replaced Joe Kerr at a critical moment, which completely liberated the team's creativity, and the other was the Bulldog spirit of Chelsea players.

The Bulldog is an English national dog, representing tenacity and courage.

In this game, it was precisely the fighting spirit shown by the English that infected others. The Times also emphasized Ye Qiu's use of Lampard and Terry, believing that after Lampard was moved forward, he scored more and more goals, but his contribution was not only goals, but also back defense and active frontcourt pressure coverage, which made him perform better this season.

As the captain of the team, Terry took over Deselli's armband and partnered with Cannavaro, but his performance was not inferior to Cannavaro at all. According to OpTAR data, Terry's success rate in the competition this season and one-on-one defense success rate both ranked first in the Premier League, and even ranked in the top three in Europe. It can be seen that the performance of this team captain is worthy of recognition.

With these two Englishmen as the front and back court skeletons, Drogba, Ronaldinho, Marklele and Van der Sar form the team's central axis. In addition, players such as Davis, Parker, Goodjohansen and other players with strong fighting spirit and strong tactical execution are praised by the Times as the most Bulldog-spirited ball in the Premier League.
Chapter completed!