Chapter 414 The only suspense
In the 37th round of the Premier League, all the fans around the world were aiming at the Premier League and London.
Compared with the derby held in Manchester in the north, all fans and media were obviously more concerned about the three games held in London in the south, namely Charlton's home match against Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal's home match against Chelsea, and at this moment, Benitez's Craven Farm field, where Liverpool challenged Fulham away.
Because he fought with Chelsea in the middle of the week and played in the Champions League semi-finals, Liverpool had no way to play all his strength in this game, and Benitez had to re-utilize his rotation brand, hoping to adjust some combat effectiveness for the team.
From this game, it is actually not difficult to see some of Benitez's views on the current Liverpool lineup, for example, no matter at the beginning of the season or until now, no matter how the team's lineup rotates, there are two people who are unstoppable main players, one is goalkeeper Renner, and the other is the team's main midfielder Xavi Alonso.
In this game, both of these players still started the team. Not only that, players such as Hypia, Pennant, and Sissoko also started continuously, and Benitez sent a pair of Robbie Fowler and Bellamy on the front line.
If Robbie Fowler plays as a single striker, the effect will definitely not be ideal, so Benitez arranges Bellamy to partner with him.
Although many people say that Liverpool is now Gerrard's team alone, only Benitez himself understands that the most important and indispensable player of Liverpool is not Gerrard, but Xavi Alonso.
Espanyol is the team's organizational midfielder and the team's midfield core. It can almost be said that Liverpool's entire offensive and defensive system revolves around him. Once he fails to operate, Liverpool's offense and defensive problems will follow. Fortunately, Xavi Alonso's performance is really good.
Even in this game, even if Fulham significantly strengthened his care, Xavi Alonso still showed enough strength, and Liverpool also planned a lot of offensive and scoring opportunities, but Liverpool's forward line really missed too many opportunities.
In the first half, in the fifth minute, Pennant had a very good straight pass. Bellamy's powerful shot was saved by the goalkeeper, and then Fowler made a straight pass. Bellamy's shot was too straight, and then Xavi Alonso passed the ball. Fowler got a good opportunity, but missed it.
The best scoring opportunity of the whole game happened when the first half was approaching the end of the first half. Xavi Alonso transferred a long pass to find Pennant, who made a cross and hurried into the penalty area. Robbie Fowler grabbed the spot about 5 meters in front of the goal, but it was incredibly missed the shot, which was more difficult than the difficulty of not being able to score.
I missed such an excellent opportunity that I couldn't find once even if I missed such a game. Even Benitez, who has always been known for his robot expression, was so angry that he stomped his feet on the sidelines. How bad is this to be like this?
After the second half of the game, Liverpool still launched round after round of attacks against Fulham, but the team seemed a little discouraged and their performance was not as good as the first half, while Fulham began to improve, after all, they were playing at home.
Fulham took the lead in making adjustments. American midfielder Dempsey, who joined during the winter break this season, replaced veteran Montera, intending to make full use of the American's comprehensiveness and his technical characteristics of being able to hold the ball in the frontcourt to attack Liverpool's offense, especially Argentine left-back young player Insua's side.
Benitez also immediately realized that Insua was the weak point, so he immediately asked Rise to warm up and wanted to replace Insuaa with him. But there is a saying that is good. Many times when you realize that danger, danger is only one step away from you.
When Riser had just gone out to warm up and maybe he hadn't even been warmed up, a surprising scene appeared on the court.
Fulham's forward Dempsey, who had just played, cooperated with the full-back Rosenho who was inserted behind the right and chose to cut into the middle of the penalty area. Rosenho broke through Insua and tied the ball and passed the front point. Dempsey inserted in front of the goal, and before Hypia, he grabbed the point and pierced the goal.
This is the first Premier League goal since the US midfielder joined Liverpool, and it is also likely to be the most critical one.
"Liverpool is taking the price for their unbridled squandering opportunities," said the commentator at the scene, and this immediately received a response from all the Fulham fans.
This is how weak teams play against strong teams. No matter how you attack, I will defend to the death. I don’t want the process, I don’t want quality, I can even not even attack, but I only have one thing, that’s the result, it’s the result that will disgust you so much
Fulham is now posing like this. Aren’t you very powerful? Are you ranked very high? It doesn’t matter, come and attack, you can’t score anyway
Benitez shook his head in anger on the sidelines. He really had the feeling of rushing to the court to knock the two forwards who had entrusted his heavy responsibilities one by one, because he didn't understand why so many scoring opportunities were unable to score even a single goal in the end?
He has to admit that the commentator on the scene is not unreasonable. Liverpool is bearing the price because you have wasted too many opportunities before and have wasted so much that even your own morale has been hit hard, so the players are a little discouraged. In addition, they are originally a substitute lineup, and they will definitely not be able to compete with the main players in cooperation with the offense. Now they have paid a price to conceal the ball.
But Benitez is a person who doesn't believe in evil. He sent him to the court one after another, but Fulham is now a typical little rich man. After having a ball, he began to shrink his defense in an orderly manner, and as a result, Liverpool's offensive returned in vain again and again.
Benitez looked at Robbie Fowler. This former Liverpool meritorious player no longer had the killer aura he used to be. Now he looks like an old veteran, and he has long lost the aura he had when he was full of energy.
This also reminds Benitez that the team's forward line must be reorganized.
Compared to Benitez's depression, Ye Qiu, who was just separated by the Thames River, seemed a little relaxed on the South Bank Valley Stadium.
Sitting in the coach's seat, crossing his legs and holding his chin, watching the game, he looked leisurely. Those who don't know thought he was a fan, but he just didn't hold a bun of melon seeds and peanuts in his hand, and there was no bottle of beer next to him.
Tottenham Hotspur's home and away results are generally ideal. Charlton has been relegated early, and the team's morale has been blew up. It is difficult to pose a favorable threat to Tottenham Hotspur now. So at the beginning of the game, the Valley Stadium was captured by Tottenham Hotspur in less than ten minutes, and Van Nicht scored his 31st Premier League goal this season.
This made the Dutch scorer not only break Henry's single-season goal record, but also allowed him to catch up with Premier League celebrities like Alan Shearer, and it also made Fanny basically sure that he won the European Golden Boot Award this season.
However, Tottenham Hotspur did not play well in this game. After Van Nicht scored, Tottenham Hotspur was unable to organize an effective offensive for a long time, which has something to do with Tottenham Hotspur insisting on fighting on two fronts for a period of time.
But Tottenham Hotspur has an advantage, that is, even when the team performs poorly, they have both initiative and ball control. In addition, Charlton's strength is indeed not strong, and the team is relegated early, and the team is demoted, making it difficult to pose an effective threat to Tottenham Hotspur.
In the second half, Ye Qiuyuqian made adjustments and replaced Van Nystruey with Dutch striker Van Persie. The team's tactical style changed, especially the frontcourt offensive trident, which brought different changes.
Van Persie's appearance made Tottenham's offense more casual, because Van Persie is not like Van NY. He must be close to the penalty area and goal to exert threats. Van Persie can play in the middle and on the wing, and on both sides, which is the same as Ribery and Messi.
So after Van Persie came on the court, Tottenham's frontcourt offense changed a lot, and it was even more common for them to frequently cross positions. This made Charlton, who was playing at home, and also dazzled the fans in the stands and the fans in front of the TV.
The commentator even joked, "After Tottenham Hotspur got into Van Persie, the offense in the frontcourt was completely messed up, the game was completely out of order, and there was no way to see the routine, making people wonder what they wanted to do
"The most important thing Charlton should do now is to seize an opportunity to play a threatening counterattack. Tottenham Hotspur makes many mistakes in passing and receiving in the frontcourt. As long as you seize one opportunity, you can equalize the score. Tottenham Hotspur will definitely go crazy at that time."
But Ye Qiu took a completely different view of this kind of scene. He felt that after Van Persie came on the court, the team's structure was indeed a bit messy, but it was in an adaptation process. Many passes and receiving cooperation were actually good, but they were either not well passed or teammates failed to catch up.
It was as if this time, Ribery received a pass from Vargas from the left, dribbled the ball and cut inside, and then passed a defensive player, and passed the left post directly. Van Persie suddenly inserted into the left post in the middle of the penalty area. After receiving the ball, the Dutch forward suddenly stopped, dunked the ball with his left foot, and directly passed the right foot to the middle.
If Ribery could follow the trend after passing the ball just now, without changing the direction and continue to rush forward, Van Persie's emergency stop pass was just passed to Ribery's feet, and his sudden insertion just opened the defensive player for Ribery, so that Ribery would not be disturbed at all after stopping the ball, and could directly shoot, and almost a must-scoring goal.
But what's so bad is that after Ribery passed the ball, he was habitually waiting for Fanny to kick the ball, because once Fanny got such an opportunity in the penalty area, although he was a little bit forced, he would kick the ball directly. Everyone called this the scorer's selfishness.
It can even be said that an unselfish scorer is not a good scorer.
Van Persie had his back to the passing direction. He looked at the goal waiting for the goal, but after waiting for a full second or two, he found that the ball had not arrived. He turned around and saw Ribery's stunned expression and regretful face. How bad is this to miss such a goal. Just take two or three steps forward and you can score a goal. What a pity.
Van Persie spread his hands helplessly and pointed at Ribery with a wry smile. It seemed to be saying, "You can hit the wall yourself, don't even give you a goal for free."
Ribery shook his head and walked back. He couldn't understand what he was doing. Why didn't he play this ball by himself?
"So, this guy can't get on the table." Ye Qiu laughed at his favorite player on the sidelines. "On weekdays, they always make football for others, but now they make football for you, you're good. They're addicted to playing football, and they can't even start two steps."
Mauro Tassoti laughed at it. Van Persie's pass was indeed beautiful enough. He stopped the ball, stopped in a hurry, and faced the goal, but his work was not falling at all. He just passed it to Ribery just like his eyes on the back of his head. He was directly assigned to Ribery. The ball was not scored, and the responsibility was really on Ribery, just two or three steps ahead.
"You're right, this kid is born to kill people." Roland and Ribery were also familiar with each other and started cursing.
"Van Persie's feet are really fine enough. There is really no need to say about stopping the ball. Moreover, the movement ability, wing movement ability, and speed are all very good. In addition, Ribery and Messi are both players who can left and right, up and down, and if they really want to revitalize, our attack power will be more terrifying than now."
"The only suspense" Mauro Tasotti looked at Beckham on the court, "How long do you think David's form can remain?"
Ye Qiu is not without this concern. To be honest, Van Nystruei's performance in the second half of the season has declined. Although he scored a lot and maintained a balanced number of goals, his score has not improved as the team creates more and more opportunities, which means that his condition is declining.
He is already 3l years old, while Beckham is already.
If Fanny is the forward who is at the forefront and his running range is not very large, then Beckham is undoubtedly known for his large-scale active running. If he loses his large-scale active running, his long pass and passing ability will inevitably be greatly reduced, because the opponent will definitely guard you. If you don’t run out of the opponent’s defense zone, you will definitely be affected, and the passing success rate will definitely decline.
Many times, some head coaches often focus on their thinking, because they are under pressure to achieve results, and they will worry that if they cannot defeat their opponents in the next game, if they have poor performance this season, they will be fired and will be dismissed. So for them, the long-term plan is just a big pie, and they will be drawn for you, but in fact there is nothing inside.
Such a result can easily cause a problem, that is, the front line is adjusted, the midfield is problematic, the midfield is adjusted, and the defense is problematic, and when you toss both the midfield and the defense line, sorry, your forward player is getting older and has deteriorated, and starts to tossing again.
Ye Qiu naturally knew that with Beckham's current state and strength, coupled with his age, it would be no big problem to maintain it for about two years, but if there were any injuries during this process, it would be hard to say.
Ye Qiu has been exploring for a season. Brazilian midfielder Lucas is quite favored by Ye Qiu. This player is a bit like Mascherano, while another midfielder Heddlestone who was left by Tottenham Hotspur, was completely sentenced to death by Ye Qiu and was preparing to take action in the summer.
So far, among the players left by Tottenham Hotspur in the past, there will be only one central defender substitute Mike Dawson, and this player cannot be regarded as a Tottenham Hotspur youth training player, but from Nottingham Forest.
Ye Qiu himself also felt helpless because, with the group of players before Tottenham Hotspur and the current youth training situation in England, the gap between the football he wants to play is really too big. At least you have to stop the ball well, right? Any random stop can stop three or four meters away. How can you play this handicap?
Therefore, Ye Qiu's plan is also very clear, that is, like Wenger's Arsenal, he will fill the team's strength gap in the shortest time in the form of an international column, first play his own football style and system, and then supplement it with the team's youth training system.
Because after all, the purpose of youth training is to strengthen the strength of the first team, not necessarily to use it.
However, Ye Qiu also had a premonition, because the current registration standard for the Champions League is that there must be six players trained by themselves or locally, that is, between the ages of 15 and 1, and three years of players who have played in England or registered with the FA. The Premier League will inevitably further introduce youth training! Regulations, and even the registration rules for the Champions League will further strengthen youth training丨
Therefore, when selling Heddlestone, Tottenham Hotspur must also keep pace with the times to introduce young players to fill this weakness and loophole, so as not to compete with other clubs for some local or youth training players, which would be a bit of a temporary cram.
Of course, such a rule is not completely impossible to avoid. However, in Ye Qiu's opinion, the troubles in this aspect should be minimized and less entangled in this aspect, so that everyone in the team can concentrate more on the game.
While Ye Qiu was thinking, Tottenham finally got another chance. With Van Persie and Ribery, Ribery stepped into the penalty area from the left, and took advantage of the gap when the defenders were pulled by Van Persie and passed the ball to the right. Messi inserted it back and easily faced the nearly empty goal, pushing the shot, 0
In this way, Tottenham defeated Charlton, who played at home at the Valley Stadium 0, but Charlton has no choice but to lose because they have been relegated from the Premier League in advance, so the fans of the Valley Stadium were a little numb about the loss of this game, and the scene seemed a little calm.
But Tottenham Hotspur couldn't calm down at all, because all of them, including the fans who came to supervise away from home in the stands, were concerned about the results of the other two games in London.
Chapter completed!