UEFA's technical department once released a technical and tactical report on European football last season. Technical Director Rox Borg personally wrote this report, and in the report summarized the technical and tactical situation of European football in the past two or three years and predicted future development trends.

Although Ye Qiu has a bad impression of UEFA and bureaucracy like FIFA, he has to admit that as a technical department, UEFA has gathered the best scientific research talents in Europe and has indeed had a full grasp of technology and tactics.

In this report, Rox Borg pointed out that the future trend of football will inevitably tend to be integrated, not only the integration of the four major European leagues, but also the integration and recreation of football technical and tactical styles around the world.

In this report, Rox Borg also interprets another point of view, which is ball control.

You should know that for a long time, the mainstream tactics in mainland Europe have been the front midfielder tactics, namely the offense and organizational tactics of players like Zidane, Rui Costa, and Riquelme. A very important feature of this type of tactics is ball control, and it is skillful ball control at a slow pace.

But in fact, this situation is being constantly broken. Rox Borg explained a point in his report that winning does not depend on how much ball is controlled, but how to control the ball efficiently. He even feels that if a team with a high ball possession ratio does not have enough ways to convert the ball into a goal, then too much ball possession will not only be beneficial, but will make the defense of the side with too many ball possessions very fragile.

"In the year when Ajax won the Champions League, the Dutch team's possession rate ranked 9th in the ball possession rankings of all Champions League teams. Chelsea won the championship last season, but their possession rankings were only 8th. Porto reached the finals, and their possession rankings were ranked 1st. Greece only had a little more possession in the European Cup than Latvia."

"What does this mean? It shows that the amount of ball possession does not determine the outcome of the game. The key is how to effectively control the ball. This is the goal that all teams that like and pursue the ball possession genre should respect and be a goal."

If you put the words of Rox Borg in reverse, it is that when you face a team in the ball-handling genre, what you want to do is not to stop them from taking the ball. On the contrary, you should let them take the ball, but do your best to destroy their ball-handling effectiveness, that is, let their ball-handling lose their goal and lose their goal

This is different because it is difficult to prevent the opponent from controlling the ball, especially for a team that has long been known for controlling the ball. If you compete for controlling the ball with such a team, it is more like seeking death; but to destroy the opponent's effectiveness of controlling the ball, it only requires you to do your own tactics, which is much easier than the former.

What Chelsea did in the first half was actually destroying Arsenal's effective ball control. Knowing that you like to control the ball, I will just take the ball as you want. I won't compete with you, but I won't let you control the ball effectively in my control area. So, the ball is under your feet, but Arsenal players can't figure out the direction and purpose of the attack.

Why a tactical center?

Suppose that Arsenal now has a Drogba-like tactical center. Even if they encounter opponents, no matter how strong and firm the defense is, even if they encounter walls everywhere, they still have another choice, that is, to find a tactical center.

To put it bluntly, in the offensive routine, the biggest advantage of tactical centers is not to score goals or anything else, but to the fact that when the team cannot open up the situation, they can compete for a stable ball-taking point for the team in front. As long as they get the ball in the frontcourt and then arrange this point, even if the opponent's defense is firm, it will be in vain.

But Arsenal does not have tactical centers, because Henry, Pire, Borgkamp, ​​Lungberg and others are either good at retracement or are good at pulling the edge and cutting inside. Therefore, Ye Qiu focused on the middle in this game, forcing Arsenal to go too much on the wing, but crossing from the wing, lacking contact points in the middle and unable to hit a threat at all.

Even in the second half of this, Wenger still failed to find an effective solution. After Canu left the team, it can even be said that even when Canu was there, Arsenal's forward team had the disadvantage of lacking high points, and they were better at going to the ground to cooperate with infiltration.

On the contrary, in the second half, Ye Qiu adjusted the team's offensive routine and began to encourage the team to pass long passes and look for Drogba. So in the second half, it was clear that as long as Chelsea wanted to fight back, they would pass long passes to find Drogba.

"Campbell's condition was very bad in this game." When Andy Gray saw Drogba almost every direct contest, he had to shake his head and sigh. This 30-year-old tall central defender seemed in a sluggish state when he met Drogba.

Sol Campbell's situation at Arsenal has not been ideal recently. He is only 30 years old, but he has many injuries. This is obviously related to his excessive playing style and emphasizes physical confrontation. With the increase in injuries, Sol Campbell's condition has been seriously affected. There is a problem with Arsenal's defense this season, which has something to do with him.

Just as Wenger said, in the past, Thor Campbell stood on the back line, which could provide the team with a steady stream of confidence to his teammates. He could sit in front of the goal alone, so that everyone could believe him, but now, there are problems with his movement, jumping, tackle, etc., which leads to his poor condition.

But some media pointed out that the reason why Campbell is in poor condition is because of two other things, one is the renewal of the contract with the club.

Juventus and Inter Milan both want to get Sol Campbell. Newcastle's Sonnes is even more willing to provide Campbell with his current weekly salary, but Arsenal is subject to the French gang. In addition, Campbell's age requires a salary cut in addition to signing once a year, from the original Premier League maximum salary to the same level as Henry, Pire and others, which is lower than Viagra.

At the age of 30, he is actually not too old for a defender. Even though Campbell is in poor condition at present, he is still the first-class central defender in the Premier League and even Europe. The salary cut is indeed difficult for big names like him.

Another point is about relationships. I heard that he is busy dating a female star who is older than him. Many media even joked that Campbell spent all his energy when dating this star, causing him to perform poorly on the court, so that Arsenal's defense will be full of loopholes. Who knows?

But it is undeniable that when Campbell, who was in poor form, met Drogba, the giant elephant of Côte d'Ivoire, and Chelsea frequently used counterattacks to quickly pass Drogba to find this point, and then deployed the offensive routine, Campbell's bad condition was even more embarrassed by Drogba.

It was as if this time, Chelsea made a long pass as usual to find Drogba. The Ivorian accurately judged the landing point of the ball and blocked Campbell with his body. The latter was even blocked by Drogba and was unable to resist.

Of course, Campbell's failure to resist does not mean that he will let Drogba turn around, so the Ivorians could not turn around and could only head the ball to Lampard. Once Lampard got the ball, he was immediately attacked by Gilberto Silva and the retreating Vieira, but the English midfielder did not stick to the ball, but shook his head against the coming ball.

The ball went in a reverse L-shaped shape, from Drogba to Lampard, and then to Lampard shook his head and went to the left. The whole process happened in the blink of an eye. Ronaldinho quickly cut from the left to the middle, and stopped the ball with his chest in front of the top of the penalty area.

At this moment, Vieira, who was supposed to be blocked near Ronaldinho, lost his position and could only watch the Brazilian stop the ball in his chest and hit a volley with a strong rotation on his right foot. The ball drew an arc, passing over Campbell, Drogba, and Crottore's head, and hung directly on the upper right corner of the goal.

When Lehmann, who had already squatted down slightly and was ready to go, the ball had already entered, but he could not react immediately. The German goalkeeper was unspeakable disappointment and helpless, after snatching the ball from the goal, he kicked the ball into the midfield with anger.

The Arsenal fans at Highbury Stadium all became silent because they didn't know what expressions and reactions they should give at this moment. They felt that in such a game, they didn't know why the team played so badly.

"Some people say that art is always so fragile and requires careful care. Perhaps, the same is true for Arsenal's football. At the beginning of the season, the unstoppable performance of gun gestures made everyone feel as if this team full of artistic atmosphere had the opportunity to change their destiny, but in the end, Arsenal was as fragile as ever."

"But we should also see that Arsenal in this game is not only fragile, they can even be said to be clumsy, because even though they have not shot a shot so far, if they still don't get the chance to kick in the remaining half hour, it will definitely become a shame."

He is second in the Premier League, but is forced by the Premier League first team to not even have a chance to kick. This cannot be said to be bad. This can even be said to be a great shame and will become a stain and shadow for Wenger and the players' lives.

"We should see that in this game, Chelsea changed its past style of play and adopted a more targeted and more emphasis on defense tactic. Ye Qiu pinched Arsenal's weakness. It was like a snake, being pinned for seven inches, unable to move or resist, and could only be slaughtered by the opponent."

"Not only that, Chelsea's defensive layout will surely attract many Premier League teams to follow suit, but at the same time, their counterattack style is full of British flavor, that is, long passes, and the role of Drogba, the tactical fulcrum, is fully reflected in this game. In contrast, Arsenal, in fact, the Gunners are just one Drogba."

"Winger seems to have discovered this problem, so not long ago, Arsenal introduced Nicholas Bentner from Denmark, who is known as Denmark Ibrahimovic. This high center forward with a height of 1.93 meters and excellent foot skills is actually what Arsenal lacks at the moment, but he is only 17 years old and does not have the conditions to play such a major game for the team."

After the team scored the second goal, Ye Qiu replaced Ronaldinho with Davis.

After Davis's appearance, the team's tactics did not change much. He still played 3I. Davis was arranged by Ye Qiu to play the left winger. He gave the Dutch the greatest freedom on the left, allowing him to be like a wild boar rushing around Arsenal's right.

As soon as Davis got on, he immediately caused great trouble to Arsenal's right defense. Whether it was a starter or a substitute, the Dutchman immediately showed surprisingly tenacious fighting spirit as soon as he came on the court, and his spirit of the game was also something that Ye Qiu admired very much.

Wenger made a substitution and replaced Pire with Reyes, obviously to strengthen the defense and left-wing impact.

Pire's performance in this game was not ideal under Chelsea's restrictions, especially when his incisive and permeable passes were imprisoned by Chelsea's defense, his role was inevitably greatly reduced. In this case, replacing Pire and replacing Reyes, who has stronger attack ability on the wing, is also an option.

Here we have to mention a very sinister place in Ye Qiu. As soon as Reyes came on the court, Marklele was in a one-on-one defense, and the tackle of Dereyes was a man and fell on the ground and couldn't get up.

It’s not that Marclayle’s foot is very heavy, and the French midfielder’s movements are well controlled. He did not tackle Reyes. Ye Qiu disdains this foul action that hurts the opponent’s players’ bodies because he has always believed in the principle of feng shui taking turns.

In his previous life, Arsenal was always injured by other teams and savage fouls in the next few years, saying that it has something to do with their playing style, but isn't it because they were too savage in the early 2000s?

Why has Arsenal been called a red card team in recent years? Because they have the most red cards among all the Premier League teams

You are very good at others now and they can't do anything to you, but when you are in trouble in the future, everyone will want to retaliate. Even if this person has already transferred, even if the head coach of this team has been replaced, they will still want to take revenge on your actions back then.

Marklele's shovel only tripped Reyes, which was not serious. The referee did not give a penalty or warning, but it obviously shocked the Spanish boy. At least Reyes' performance in recent times has been no longer as eye-catching and amazing as it used to be, because many people have seen his weakness and his body is too thin.
Chapter completed!