Chapter 323 Winning streak
Ye Qiu always felt that there were two types of head coaches.
One is to consider the team's issues from the perspective of the club's interests, just like Arsenal's Wenger; the other is to consider the issues from the perspective of the team's interests, just like Ferguson.
I believe many Manchester United fans will be dissatisfied with Ferguson's support for the Glazer family's acquisition of Manchester United, but Ye Qiu is not surprised at all by his actions, because Ferguson first considers the team itself, not the club.
If a team is compared to a piece of sandwich cake, the head coach is the cream in two pieces of cake, and the players and management are the two pieces of cake, both sides want to squeeze towards each other, and the head coach is sandwiched in the center, so he can only withstand the pressure from both sides and put each other in a balanced state.
He can't say which Ye Qiu belongs to, but it's obvious that he clearly distinguishes the team and the management, so the conflict between him and Abramovich will not affect his coaching of the team. This is his professional ethics.
As long as he is still Chelsea's head coach for a day, he will try his best to lead the team and strive for victory in every game, without the hope of using the team as a weapon to threaten the management and coercing the management to submit, which is not only a betrayal of his professional ethics, but also a betrayal of all players who trust themselves.
Ye Qiu has always remembered very clearly that Bobby Hams once told him that if you want to manage a team well, you have to take your players sincerely, understand them seriously, figure out what they want, and then guide them based on this point and try to meet their needs.
In fact, this sentence can also be extended, that is, as long as Ye Qiu understands what the club management wants and he can bring what Abramovich wants, his coaching position will be very stable.
Of course, if one day he feels that he can't do it, he will choose to leave without hesitation.
This is why he always requires the clauses of free termination of the contract in his own contract
The storm in the Premier League black gold case has some impact on Chelsea, but Ye Qiu has controlled the locker room well and has not been affected too much. After all, in the past year, Pini Zahavi has never been able to reach into Chelsea's locker room, so what happened to him has to do with the locker room with a tiny impact on the locker room.
On 8th of 11, Chelsea welcomed the FA Cup round of 64 knockout match, with opponent Scanthorp from the English League Two. As a result, he lost the team in the third-level England league and successfully advanced to the next round.
In this game, Ye Qiu still used new players and substitutes on a large scale, but Robert Hutt performed very badly in the game. The German central defender, who has been frequently involved in Bayern Munich, has been in a very bad state recently. The conceding of the goal has something to do with him, but Ye Qiu did not blame him.
To be honest, Ye Qiu has always been very tolerant of young players' mistakes.
Compared to Chelsea's easy defeat of their opponents, Manchester United was tied by an amateur league team at home 00, which made the Red Devils fans at Old Trafford Stadium very angry. They directly used booing to vent their dissatisfaction with the team, believing that this was definitely not what Red Devils Manchester United should have.
Many fans are very clear in their hearts that when Chelsea is ahead in the Premier League, if Manchester United wants to bid farewell to the embarrassment of not having a championship, they can only make a difference in the cup. The Champions League is hard to come by, and the FA Cup and the League Cup have undoubtedly become the most important places for the team to make efforts.
The same is obviously true for Ferguson's idea. He obviously did not do his best when playing in the FA Cup, but four days later, he played all his best in the first leg of the League Cup semi-finals, striving to take advantage of his home court advantage in the League Cup and directly drop Chelsea.
Perhaps it was because of the feeling that the team has been under tremendous pressure recently, or perhaps it was the team's tactical targeted arrangement that Manchester United played very hard in this game, and it could even be said to be barbaric and useless measures.
Beep~~~
With the referee's crisp whistle, the ball was determined to be out of the boundary line, close to Manchester United's out-of-bounds ball
Drogba didn't earn this point just now, and he looked a little depressed. Before his teammates could catch up, he rushed out of the boundary line and came to the billboard, wanting to send out the outbound ball as soon as possible and resume the game as soon as possible.
Recently, the outside media have begun to hype the news that Shevchenko joined Chelsea again. Rumors about him not scoring many goals and not worthy of Chelsea have been constantly appearing on the media, which has become the most eye-catching focus except for the black gold case.
Although Ye Qiu personally called him to the office a few days ago and promised him that he was still Chelsea's center. As long as he was still at Chelsea, no one could shake Drogba's position. This promise made Drogba feel relieved.
But he himself knew very well that when the head coach made a promise to him, Ye Qiu was under great pressure, so Drogba kept telling himself that he must score more goals and try his best to resolve suspicions and doubts from the outside world.
I have to say that the Ivorians are a little naive at this point because he doesn't know that even if he scores more goals than Shevchenko, the Ukrainian is still a superstar, and Drogba will still be questioned.
Cristiano Ronaldo rushed out of bounds to compete for the ball and failed to grab the ball. He gave Chelsea a chance to get close to the penalty area. He was also very depressed and kicked the ball out with one kick, hit the billboard, and bounced back. At this time, Drogba happened to run over quickly and bent down to pick up the ball.
When Cristiano Ronaldo saw Drogba wanting to pick up the ball, Chelsea's players were already pressing up quickly. He immediately pulled the ball behind him, allowing Drogba to save in vain.
This obvious provocative action made the Ivorians a little annoyed. After standing up from the ground, he pushed Cristiano Ronaldo hard to the ground with both hands. The Portuguese caught him off guard and pushed the ball overturned by him, and the ball was picked up by Drogba and grabbed it in his hand.
"The guy who looks good but not good" Drogba cursed angrily, turned around and left.
But just as he turned around, Ronaldo also got up from the ground, rushed over, and pushed Drogba behind him.
The Ivorians were not mentally prepared for this sneak attack and were pushed and staggered, almost falling down. They immediately turned around, staring at Little Ronaldo like an angry tiger, and were about to rush forward.
At this moment, Forqiong rushed into the middle of the two. In this game, the South African player was abused by Drogba a lot. At this moment, he blocked the little Ronaldo and reached out to push Drogba again, "Hey, don't be arrogant, this is Old Trafford, not your Stamford Bridge."
Drogba was on the head of the fire and was pushed again. He immediately became furious. He rushed to Fuqiong, slapped his hands away with force, then leaned forward and grabbed his throat, "Go to your fuck Old Trafford."
When Faujon was pinched by Drogba, he almost cut off his neck and couldn't breathe. Fortunately, at this moment, Lampard, Ronaldinho and many other Chelsea players rushed up as soon as possible, pulled Drogba away with force, and Keane also opened Drogba's fingers as soon as possible.
Fuqiong, who was reborn, obviously realized at this time that not everyone can stand up for their teammates.
The referee ran over quickly and immediately separated the players of the two teams who gathered together, calling the two captains Keane and Terry, respectively. "You both go back and look at your teammates, especially Manchester United." Perhaps seeing Keane want to defend himself, the referee shook his head and said, "I see clearly, there is no need to defend him, OK?"
Keane and Terry both nodded and agreed, and then the referee walked over and showed a yellow card to Drogba, Ronaldo and Fauqin respectively, and left Fauqin, "No red card is given to you, it doesn't mean anything. I hope you can restrain your temper. Next time, I will get a red card."
Drogba and Ronaldo were obviously excited. At this time, anyone should stop him, rather than add fuel to the fire. If Fuqiong rushed forward, he would not get the cards at all, or to separate them, but he obviously went up to push Drogba, which caused him to foul.
However, it is obvious that Manchester United fans are not satisfied with the referee's penalty at all. They think the referee intends to favor the visiting team, so when the ball is dead, the fans confiscated the game and refused to return it. Even when the Chelsea player went up to ask for the ball, the home team fans in the stands responded with insults and booed, which was really a bit funny.
Ye Qiu kept signaling the players to be calm and not to be provoked by their opponents. At the same time, he asked the team to add two more attacks on the wing, which quickly opened up the situation for Chelsea.
After getting the ball, Ronaldinho quickly dribbled the ball from the left side and cut inside, but Manchester United seemed to be prepared for this. Keane specifically blocked him here, but it was not so easy to break the Brazilian's ball. As soon as Ronaldinho saw Keane, he immediately chose to stop and pass the ball to the left of the penalty area.
Drogba quickly pulled the ball to the side and suddenly started to the bottom, breaking through Gary Neville and Ferdinand and crossed, Lampard quickly inserted and headed the ball from a close range. Neither Sylvester nor goalkeeper Howard could react.
After scoring the goal, Lampard and Chelsea players rushed out of Manchester United's penalty area and ran around the bottom of the stands at Old Trafford Stadium to cheer. They wanted to use this method to respond to the booing and insulting that Manchester United fans gave them just now.
"We scored the goal and saw clearly, we scored the goal."
Drogba and other players rushed to the front of the camera on the sidelines, poked the Chelsea team logo on their chests, shouting loudly, and this scene was captured by the big screen on the scene and presented to Manchester United fans, which immediately caused booing and insulting from Red Devils fans.
But Chelsea was obviously unmoved. After temporarily leading by 0 in the first half, they counterattacked again at the beginning of the second half. Among them, in the second half, Fuqiong had a malicious move to kick Drogba, but he escaped the referee's punishment by chance. Ye Qiu was so angry that he kept waving on the sidelines to protest the referee's care for the Manchester United player who already had a yellow card.
If you follow Fuqiong's action, at least you have a yellow card, that is, you will be a red card and sent off.
However, Ye Qiu also felt that Ferguson was really fighting with him in this game, because Manchester United had no hope in the league, and the opponent he met in the Champions League was AC Milan, and there was little chance of winning the championship, so they wanted to compete for the League Cup and the FA Cup now, especially the League Cup that had reached the semi-finals.
But what Ferguson didn't expect was that Ye Qiu was determined to win the League Cup
Last season, because the team's bench was insufficient, and the new arrival, Ye Qiu had to shrink the front line and strategically retained his strength in the League Cup and the FA Cup. But now Chelsea is strong and the bench is abundant, so Ye Qiu naturally wants to fight on multiple lines.
In the battle between the two sides, Manchester United is indeed inferior to Chelsea in terms of strength, but the Red Devils played very tenaciously at home and had a relatively large move. However, Chelsea was not bad either. They were aroused by Manchester United and fought to the death.
Both sides lost their minds and became full of gunpowder, and the game was out of control of the head coach.
Finally, in the first minute, Drogba beat Sylvester and Forjon in the penalty area, pushing Macon's cross into Manchester United's goal, winning another goal for Chelsea, 0
But not long after that, Manchester United also won a goal, and Giggs' goal changed the score to
Ye Qiu and Ferguson clearly saw that it would not work to continue like this, especially Ye Qiu, who immediately replaced Drogba with Goodjohansen, then replaced Ronaldinho with Joe Cole, and replaced Rooney with Messi, completing the replacement of the frontcourt offensive combination.
Ferguson also made substitution adjustments, replacing Forjon, Cristiano Ronaldo and Fanny one after another.
After a series of substitutions, neither side finally scored another goal. Chelsea defeated Manchester United away and won the first leg of the semi-finals, laying a foundation for advancing to the finals.
But it is surprising that at the press conference after the game, both Ferguson and Ye Qiu chose to deal with the conflicts that occurred in the game. They all attributed the conflicts in the game to conflicts caused by too much pressure from the players, and there was no problem with the referee's penalty and was respected.
This also made the media, who were looking forward to seeing the two head coaches fight, feel extremely disappointed.
But Ye Qiu and Ferguson both have their own considerations. Even though Chelsea is in good shape now, the players have just experienced the Christmas devil schedule. The entire winter break is so intensive that the players are under great pressure. It would be useless to provoke such unnecessary disputes at this time.
Ferguson's team has not been in good shape recently, and he doesn't want to cause more trouble now, so it's better to deal with it coldly.
As it turns out, Ferguson and Ye Qiu's choices were correct.
After playing the first leg of the League Cup, the Premier League ushered in the first round.
Ferguson took his Red Devils to challenge Benitez at Anfield Stadium, but Manchester United, who has been in poor form recently, beat Benitez to Liverpool 0 away. You should know that Liverpool has maintained a complete victory in all other games except for the game he lost to Chelsea throughout the Christmas schedule, and the rankings are also chasing up.
Ye Qiu observed this game but became more determined to see Liverpool, that is, Benitez's team is afraid of being defensive.
Or it should be said that no team is not afraid of defense, but the problem is that Liverpool's offense is not outstanding, and the problem with the ball path has led to great restrictions on the Reds' offense.
When playing against strong teams, they can use the long passes of Xavi Alonso and Gerrard to counterattack, plus the counterattacks of forwards such as Pangler, Cice and Barroche to cover up the problems and flaws in the ball path advancement to the maximum extent.
However, when playing against a weak team, the problem of breaking the ball path and poor offense will be exposed by the team with excellent defense.
In this game, Manchester United shrank its defense, but Liverpool failed to do anything to Manchester United in the whole game, and was eventually captured by Manchester United's counterattack. This has to be said to give Ye Qiu a great warning.
There is a saying that is right: Crock pots are hard to break away from the well, and generals are bound to be killed in the formation.
The swimmers are drowning in the water. Liverpool's defeat is not only a warning to the Reds, but also a warning to Chelsea.
Although Chelsea is now in a burgeoning manner, all fronts are moving forward in unison, but in fact, the scenery has covered up many problems of the team. Often, the more you are in such a glorious situation, the more you need to remain calm and rational. Otherwise, once the problem is exposed, it may be a fatal injury.
Not long after Manchester United beat Liverpool, Chelsea beat Tottenham Hotspur 0 away. The goals of Lampard and Ronaldinho helped the Blues capture the White Hart Lane Stadium, and the team finally tied the best record of 14 consecutive Premier League wins maintained by Arsenal.
In contrast, Arsenal lost to Bolton 0l away. Although the Gunners still ranked second in the league, the points gap with Chelsea quickly widened to 14 points. Everyone knows that this is an unlikely gap to catch up.
Of course, the premise is that Chelsea will not capsize in the gutter due to carelessness.
After Ye Qiu finished playing Tottenham Hotspur, he said in a high-profile manner that the team will continue to work hard.
"I have no disguised my desire to set a record of winning streak in the Premier League. I believe that the same is true for players. We hope to create history, and we also hope that the team can continue this record of winning streak and unbeaten."
"Many people have said before that our unbeaten season is a coincidence, and I will not refute it, but now we have won 14 consecutive games. We will not only strive for the historical winning streak, but also the 57 unbeaten record set by Arsenal."
"This is one of my goals and one of the pursuits of all our Chelsea players."
Chapter completed!