There is a saying that is right: wishes are beautiful, but reality is cruel.

As the saying goes, good fortune and misfortune depend on each other, Tottenham Hotspur just suppressed Arsenal and successfully ranked in the top four in the league. But in a blink of an eye, it immediately ushered in a crisis. Two days after playing Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur welcomed Mark Hughes's Blackburn at home.

Perhaps it was because of the continuous battles in a short period of time, or perhaps it was because Ye Qiu was cautious this time and did not adjust the team's lineup. As a result, Tottenham Hotspur performed poorly in this game against Blackburn.

In the first half, Tottenham Hotspur firmly controlled the rhythm and possession of the game, but lost the score.

Bentley's pass from the right led to a counterattack from Benny McCarthy and pierced through Tottenham Hotspur's goal, temporarily taking the lead on the away game. Even after that, Tottenham Hotspur launched the most violent attack on Blackburn, but failed to break Blackburn's goal.

During the halftime break, Ye Qiu adjusted the team's lineup. He even took Mascherano directly and took Yaya Tourela to play the midfielder, and replaced Ashavin who had performed well in recent times to play the front midfielder. Beckham still played Yaya Toure in the middle of the midfield.

But even so, Tottenham Hotspur still failed to break Blackburn's goal, which made all Tottenham Hotspur fans and coaching staff on the field anxious because everyone knew that if they could break Blackburn's goal, Tottenham Hotspur would probably not be able to keep the top four in the league.

"Stay steady and keep me calm. Don't worry. When you arrive at the frontcourt, hold the ball more, don't worry."

Ye Qiu walked to the sidelines and shouted loudly at the players on the court. He felt that as time passed, the players on the court were obviously a little anxious, and this anxious mood was not beneficial to the current Tottenham Hotspur.

"Maybe, I'm really too anxious." Ye Qiu turned his head and complained to Mauro Tasotti.

Before reversing Arsenal and entering the top four of the league, Ye Qiu was really stunned by this ecstasy and was also blocked by Tottenham's winning streak in recent times, which led to his carelessness in this game, and Blackburn's performance this season is not bad at all.

You know, Mark Hughes joined Manchester City with his outstanding coaching over the past two years.

"Want to know the score over Newcastle?" Roland asked after coming over.

Ye Qiu shook his head and waved his hand, "Don't tell me this now. I'm not in the mood. I just thought about how to lose this damn Blackburn. I don't think about anything else."

Roland and Mauro Tasotti looked at each other and could understand Ye Qiu's pressure at this moment

After working hard for a season, I entered the top four of the league. If I end up being squeezed down again, it will be a huge blow to Ye Qiu and the players' psychology and morale.

Of course, this cannot be blamed entirely on Ye Qiu. The schedule of the Premier League is sometimes really perverted, such as the Christmas holiday, such as the last two rounds, which has two days apart, which has caused the team to have to fight hard. In addition, the previous national team competitions have really had a great impact on Tottenham Hotspur.

At least, the performance of teams ranked high in the Premier League in recent two rounds has generally not been very ideal. Whether it is Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea or Liverpool, the results are obviously not satisfactory. Even if you win, it will be difficult to win.

Tottenham Hotspur has been busy with multi-line combat or national team games for a long time recently. Although Tottenham Hotspur seems to have a poor ranking now, the number of international players is quite large, which is not as good as other giants, but it has also seriously affected the team's training and preparation.

This is indeed a headache and a dilemma. Your team performs poorly, there are fewer national players, but their performance is not ideal. But once your grades improve, your performance is excellent, and you attract attention, the national team will come to you to ask for someone. It is not enough if you don’t let it go, so what can you do?

In this game, everyone's performance was indeed very average, very average. Even Van Nie, the main center of the team, performed poorly and missed at least two or three good scoring opportunities. If he was in good shape, he should score at least two goals now.

If the team cannot create opportunities, it can be explained that there is a problem with the team. But the problem now is that the team can create opportunities but fail to seize them. This can only say that there are problems with the players' condition and they are not excited enough.

Even Ye Qiu had no choice but to do this.

If there is a way to avoid it, where will those giant teams still lose, right?

Just when Ye Qiu felt embarrassed and had a headache, he heard the referee suddenly blew a whistle and raised a yellow gem card to Blackburn's right-back Wolnook, giving Tottenham a direct free kick opportunity to the right of the arc top of the penalty area.

All Tottenham Hotspur fans shouted Messi. From slow motion, this was Volnoke's foul caused by Messi using his skillful ball-control skills from the right and dribbling the ball into the ball.

"Okay" Ye Qiu clapped hard. This was definitely a very good free kick opportunity. It was just as the right foot. Beckham's free throws were not smooth in this place, and Gareth Bale had his left foot. If he came on the court at this time, he might be smoother in the penalty kick.

Tottenham fans shouted Beckham's name, and he immediately walked to the front of the free throw point, but other teammates gathered around him, including Ribery and Messi.

Beckham made a gesture to Ye Qiu, indicating that it was difficult to fight at this position and needed someone to help him with some cover. Ye Qiu asked him to make decisions and let his teammates cooperate with him as much as possible.

"Listen, man, this shot is the same as usual, remember?" Beckham pulled over to Ribery and Messi.

Both of them have practiced together with Beckham, and when training for set-pieces on weekdays, Ye Qiu will also practice free kicks appropriately, because to be honest, the team's free kicks are currently relying on Beckham, and Gareth Bale cannot play the main player for the time being. Tottenham Hotspurs can only rely on cooperation when Beckham is not here.

Ribery and Messi nodded, saying that they understood, and then Beckham made detailed arrangements.

The referee ran up and signaled that the free throw was about to start. Then he let Blackburn's man wall shrink into the penalty area, indicating that their man wall was too far away, which had seriously affected the free kick penalty. After the man wall was retracted, Beckham, Ribery and Messi stood in a triangle.

This is a free kick that is not far away. Just at the front of the penalty area, anyone can directly hit the goal. As long as you have the ability to make a curve ball, cross or bypass the wall, it can form a threat. Moreover, the three people are also very interesting. Beckham is the most important free kick hand, standing on the left, Messi is standing on the right foot with his left foot, Ribery is standing on the left foot, and standing behind in the middle.

So, at this moment, even Ye Qiu couldn't guess what kind of playing style they would choose, because they all rely on their on-the-spot performance. Ye Qiu could not have arranged all this so carefully, because it would be easy to make things worse.

With the referee's whistle, he saw Ribery running two steps forward and making a strong move, which made the wall react. But he actually kicked the ball to Messi. Messi stepped on the ball and stepped on it directly, while Beckham ran over quickly from the left. As soon as Messi stepped on it, the ball was settled and Beckham arrived.

The whole process happened in one or two seconds. Everyone has cooperated normally, so the pace and step point are well grasped. The place where Messi stepped on the ball was exactly where Beckham could directly kick up after rushing up.

Beckham's direct free kick was also very clever, but his right foot was a curved ball, taking the upper left corner, directly crossing the top of the wall, and hitting the left side net on the inside of the goal line, which was very neat and without any drag.

Even after the ball was in, Friedel had no reaction. By the time he woke up, the ball had already entered the net. All he could do was to pull the ball out of the goal line, watch all the people from Tottenham and Hotspur rush to the sideline to celebrate the goal, and kicked the ball back to the middle circle angrily.

Although Tottenham finally broke through Blackburn's goal with Beckham's indirect free kick in the 71st minute, although Tottenham Hotspur followed closely and kept launching a fierce attack on Blackburn's goal, it was still impossible to stop Blackburn from getting a point from himself.

The score was finally locked in l

What made Tottenham feel relieved was that Arsenal finally tied with Newcastle in this game, and neither side could do anything to the other side. Arsenal's recent performance was indeed very bad, especially after Gilberto Silva was injured, the Gunners' performance was really plummeted.

Although Tottenham Hotspur kept the top four in the league, Liverpool defeated Middlesbrough 0 at home, successfully widening the gap between itself and Tottenham Hotspur to five points. Gerrard scored twice in this game, staged a return to the king.

Ye Qiu could feel that Benitez has almost adjusted Liverpool's current lineup to its best so far this season. Judging from the current situation, it is unlikely that it will lose too many points in the first half and fall too much. It is impossible to catch it back, so Fatty Belarus should play with the Champions League with all his strength next.

The second leg of the League Cup quarterfinals kicked off in the middle of the week. Ye Qiu learned lessons this time 丨 In addition to winning the away game with a big score, the substitute lineup was used at home. But even so, Ashawen's goal still helped Tottenham Hotspur's home game Uj Osasuna

In the end, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Osasuna with a total score of 40 in two rounds and advanced to the semi-finals.

This time Osasuna's opponent is also from Sevilla, Spain.

Two days later, the team challenged Wigan away.

Everyone knows that there are two most difficult teams to play in the league. One is the team that competes for the Champions League qualification, and the other is the team that strives to relegate. This round, Wigan happens to belong to the latter.

Wigan's head coach Paul Jewell is also the number one figure in English football, because after he took over Wigan, he led the team to two levels in three years to enter the Premier League. He also performed very well in his first season in the Premier League, that is, last season. Wigan won the 10th league and became a dark horse of the season. Jewell also became famous for winning the Premier League's best coach of the month for two consecutive months.

But all the dark horses cannot escape their fate. Jewell adjusted Wigan this season, gave up the previous 54 defensive counterattack tactics, and instead began to adopt a more progressive 433 tactic. In Jewell's words, Wigan will make Wigan more pursuing.

This is actually some of the ideas of many local British coaches, but it turns out that almost all local English coaches who change to play the 333 tactics have failed to make a comeback. Instead, those coaches who continue to stick to the traditional 44 tactics will have more stable results and firmer leadership.

The reason is not difficult to understand, because the 333 tactics have higher requirements for players, and their technical and tactical skills and ability to grasp the head coach are obviously much higher than that of 44.

Ye Qiu didn't understand, and didn't know what gave Wigan so much courage. When facing Tottenham Hotspur, they still carefully put forward the 433 tactics, especially their center-center-in-the-center-center-in-famous Husky, so Ye Qiu made the same choice as Benitez, Mourinho and Ferguson.

Among the top five teams in the Premier League, Arsenal is the hardest to play against Wigan, while the other teams are relatively easy to play against Wigan. Liverpool, Chelsea, and Manchester United all win big and complete wins because they obviously see through Wigan's flaws.

At the Robin Park Stadium in Wigan, Tottenham Hotspur kicked over the head and beat Wigan with six goals. Ribery scored twice. Fanny, Messi, Fabregas and Hangland all scored one after another. Tottenham Hotspur took the lead of 0 with Ribery and Fanny's goals in the first three minutes, and the score in the first half was already 40.

This victory made Tottenham Hotspur go out of the anger that was tied by Blackburn before, and also made Tottenham Hotspur's goals exceed Manchester United. The Red Devils failed to complete the away kill against Chelsea in this game, and the two sides tied a 00 draw, which was destined to continue the suspense of winning the championship.

Liverpool tied Manchester City 00 away, which led to the rapid shortening of the gap between Tottenham and the Reds to three-pointers, while Arsenal defeated Bolton and continued to pursue Tottenham.

After playing Wigan, Tottenham Hotspur welcomed a week of rest, but all the media had no idea of ​​rest at all, because they found that so far this season, the overall competitive situation in the Premier League has been surprisingly fierce, and it can be said to be tragic, because whether it is the championship, the Champions League, the UEFA Cup, or even the relegation battle, it is unprecedentedly tragic.

Although the current Premier League champions are only competing for Manchester United and Chelsea, the two teams have only two points, and they may be replaced anytime and anywhere. The two teams have been competing back and forth for a period of time, and no one is willing to fall behind.

In the Champions League qualification zone, Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal and Liverpool are competing for third and fourth places. Among them, Liverpool's situation is relatively favorable and currently leads Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal with three-pointers. With four rounds left in the league, Liverpool's only hidden danger is distracted by the Champions League.

Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have the same points, and the situation of the two teams is also the most dangerous, because in the 35th round of the league, Tottenham Hotspur faces Arsenal at the White Hart Lane Stadium. No matter how the two teams play, one team will be widened by Liverpool. This is a focus battle for life and death.

This is not just the difference between fourth and fifth in the league, but is related to the income of tens of millions of euros next season. This is something that no team dares to underestimate easily, so whether it is Liverpool, Arsenal, or Tottenham Hotspur, they have clearly called for full efforts to compete for the Champions League qualification.

If the competition for the top four is unprecedentedly fierce, then the competition for the top seven of the league is also very fierce, because this is related to the qualification of the UEFA Cup next year. Because those who reach the League Cup final and the FA Cup final are the teams in the Premier League, it is natural that the teams who participate in the UEFA Cup next season will be the teams ranked fifth, sixth and seventh in the league.

Although the League Cup is an unnecessary waste for the giants, for Everton, Bolton, Portsmouth, Blackburn, Reading, Aston Villa and other teams, the League Cup is already the limit they can consider. Who doesn’t want to compete for a chance?

What is even more surprising is that in the current Premier League relegation zone, in addition to Watford, which has been relegated, there are six teams in Charlton, Sheffield United, Wigan, Fulham, West Ham United and Manchester City who are still fighting for relegation, and the battle situation is very tragic.

After a lot of money, the entire 20 Premier League teams, with four rounds left in the league, except for Middlesbrough and Newcastle, who have already relegated in advance and have not competed for European competitions, and Watford, which have been relegated in advance, the other seventeen teams are fighting for their goals. Such a battle situation has never happened in the history of the Premier League.

The entire Premier League battle is so fierce that the media seems to be celebrating the festival every round. This naturally makes media and fans all over the world give strong attention. Everyone is speculating about what the final result of this season will be, and who can win the championship? Can Tottenham Hotspur keep the top four in the league?

In the 34th round of the league, Chelsea tied 00 at home, allowing the suspense of the Premier League to win the championship. Chelsea, who should have hoped to defeat their competitors in one fell swoop, now has to continue to win the championship with Manchester United.

All journalists and fans have set their sights on a week later, in the 35th round of the league, Tottenham Hotspur will face Arsenal at home, which is undoubtedly a highlight.
Chapter completed!