Chapter 583 A Desperate Goal
Ye Qiu has always believed in one sentence that everything in this world is not perfect.
Therefore, in the field of football, he also firmly believes in one principle, that is, there is no unbeaten team, no unbeaten tactics, and no one can guarantee that he will definitely win a game.
Maybe someone will say that you bet with Porto's head coach Jesuardo Ferreira to play ten games?
In fact, it was a psychological warfare, or to put it more vulgar. Ye Qiu was timiding him. As for what if he really agreed? That was what happened after the incident. If it didn't happen, Ye Qiu didn't need to think about it.
When looking at a game, Ye Qiu always felt that he should focus on the big and let the small.
The so-called "grasping big and letting go of small" does not mean that you only focus on the overall situation and not the details. That is wrong, because the overall situation is important, but details also determine the success or failure of a game. Ye Qiu's "grasping big and letting go of small" means that you cannot completely control a game, just like you will never be able to get the ball possession rate in RU, and it is often difficult to even reach 75 yuan.
As long as the opponent has time to control the ball, he has the ability and may create something that catches you off guard.
The meaning of catching the big and letting go of the small is that you should never think about complete control, but just think about the key points, that is, what are the goals you want to achieve in this game?
It's like playing Barcelona. In Ye Qiu's view, Tottenham Hotspur's core purpose is to get the right to advance.
An important weapon to get the right to advance is to score away goals.
As long as there is one away goal, Tottenham Hotspur will score three goals. According to the away goal principle, Barcelona must score four goals. The reason is very simple. There is no need to pay attention to whether Barcelona can score goals, nor do you need to think about whether Barcelona can score two or three goals, as long as there is no more than three.
Tottenham Hotspur only needs to score one goal to make Barcelona's goal completely joke
After grasping this key point, it is not difficult to understand why Tottenham Hotspur did not seem to have changed much after Barcelona scored. Ye Qiu just walked to the sidelines to make a slight adjustment to further strengthen the team's defense, that's all.
Conservative? Maybe it's a bit conservative, but Ye Qiu was very clear in his heart that playing against Barcelona at Camp Nou, especially in the current environment, Barcelona has obviously been forced into a desperate situation. When you go up and fight him hard at this time, this is not equivalent to giving up your own advantages and using your weakness to hit the opponent's gun?
So for Ye Qiu, this is definitely not a smart solution. Moreover, Tottenham Hotspur's condition has been bad recently. With such a intensive schedule, strong opponents are one after another. It would be strange if they are in good condition.
If Tottenham can play one game a week like Chelsea, he can guarantee that Tottenham has strong enough to defeat any opponent, but in this intensive and cruel schedule, he can only choose practical tactics.
After adjustment, Tottenham Hotspur stabilized its position. Although they were still behind in the score, the players seemed not arrogant or impatient on the court, because Ye Qiu had told them before the game that it would be difficult to play at the beginning of this game, and they might even concede the ball first, but everything was controlled by Ye Qiu.
After scoring the goal, Barcelona continued to launch a fierce attack, especially the pressing investment in the midfield and frontcourt, which spared no effort. After all, Barcelona also tasted the sweetness in this tactical style after the opening.
But you must know that everything in this world has two sides, or even multi-faceted, and it is never possible to have only one good side and no bad side.
So, what are the disadvantages of Barcelona's adoption of this tactical style? Physical energy consumption
Why is Ye Qiu so old and waiting so hard that the team even lets give up the pressing with Barcelona directly, but avoids his edge, because he knows very well that physical energy consumption is not good for Tottenham Hotspur, but should avoid the real and the weak, preserve his strength, and wait for the opportunity.
That is, when Barcelona's physical energy consumed to a certain extent and was a little overwhelmed, they caught him off guard.
Because in such a fast-paced and high-investment competition, no team can hold on for a long time, which is like no one can perform such a fast back and forth reversing speed run for a long time. Even professional athletes can't do anything, because people have their limits.
After Barcelona scored a goal, Tottenham Hotspur organized its defense in an orderly manner, and did not seem to have a strong desire to counterattack. It occasionally made several counterattacks, but none of them achieved good results. Even the commentators of the game began to feel that Tottenham Hotspur's fighting spirit in this game was a bit strange.
You should know that Barcelona's ball possession rate reached the level in the first half, which is very rare for Tottenham Hotspur, which has always been good at ball possession rate and likes to take the initiative, but everyone has also noticed that with Tottenham's defense stable, Barcelona's offense has been curbed to a certain extent.
Time passed by minute by minute, and gradually, the scoreboard of Camp Nou Stadium jumped into thirty-five minutes.
Ye Qiu has been standing on the sidelines since the beginning of the game. He has been communicating and communicating with players in his own way, and is also observing the situation, combining player feedback, his own observations, and Roland behind him to evaluate the situation from various perspectives such as data.
After entering thirty-five minutes, Barcelona obviously slowed down the pace and pressed a little weaker. Some players began to be a little lazy, and these are characteristics after physical energy was consumed to a certain extent.
Ye Qiu began to signal the team to try to push up, drag Barcelona down, and prevent the home team from relaxing or breathing.
Therefore, Tottenham Hotspur began to actively participate in the competition rhythm and ball rights, which forced Barcelona to continue to compete for fast pace and high consumption, which is also part of Ye Qiu's tactics.
Then he stood on the sidelines and waited.
Starting from 35 points, Tottenham began to consciously launch an offensive and counterattack. In the 36th minute, David Silva made a straight pass, Ribery moved between Puyol and Pique, and quickly started after getting the ball, rushing into Barcelona's penalty area. However, when passing the ball, the ball was picked by Valdes' hand who flew out. Cavani, who followed in the back row, could not get the ball, and Messi on the right was blocked by Abidal, and finally missed a very good scoring opportunity.
Perhaps because of the improvement of Tottenham's offensive, Barcelona began to want to fight back again.
Both sides continued this fast-paced and high-frequency ball rights exchange, the game was very fierce and the pace was very fast
Until the 42nd minute, Barcelona's Xavi passed the ball over the top and wanted to find Van Persie in the penalty area, but Ziglinski steadily grabbed Van Persie before Van Persie, headed the ball down Xavi's pass, stopped in front of him, and then quickly chased after him, passing it diagonally to the left.
Marcelo turned his back to the left line, stopped Ziglinsky's pass in front with his left foot, and then quickly started, quickly crossing the center line and entering Barcelona's half, then passed the ball to Ribery, and he rushed forward quickly and chased him to echo Ribery.
This is also the usual method of Tottenham Hotspur's attack on the wing. As soon as Marcelo stepped up, Alves would basically not go up. In addition, Yaya Toure was in charge of the midfield, so Marcelo went up very resolutely and decisively without any hesitation.
Ribery took the ball on the left and faced Puyol. He controlled the ball with his right foot and faced Puyol with his left shoulder, dribbled the ball horizontally. At first, it was a bit slow because he was waiting for Marcelo, while all Tottenham Hotspur players were rushing towards Barcelona's penalty area quickly, especially Cavani and Messi, and Fabregas, who had strong scoring ability afterwards.
Everyone realized that Ribery was waiting for his teammates to be in place.
Barcelona's defense is also preparing for the enemy, especially the experienced Puyol, who is cautiously following Ribery, who has to guard against the Frenchman suddenly taking off anytime and anywhere. You must know that the front of the penalty area is almost not a long-range scorer for the current scorers, but directly their effective range, so it is not possible to prevent it.
Although the whole process seems very long, it actually happened during the sprint time of Marcelo from about 30 meters to about 16 meters ahead of the penalty area and fourteen meters.
Ribery was also observing his teammates. After he slowly took two steps to the top of the arc, he suddenly knocked back his heel, and Marcelo, who was sprinting behind Ribery, faced the ball and went forward with a big foot. Not only did he rush behind Puyor in one go, but he also walked into Barcelona's penalty area.
Faced with this sudden change, Puyol gave up Ribery at the first time and quickly chased Marcelo. He had already noticed the Brazilian boy who was quickly inserted, but Marcelo was hitting the front and was very fast. Puyol turned around and caught up again, which could stop Marcelo from cutting inward, but could not stop him from crossing.
Marcelo made a low cross, which was very fast and had a strong rotation. Barcelona also responded quickly. Mascherano blocked Cavani with his body and used his foot to push Marcelo's cross to the outside of the penalty area, blocking the cross directly. However, because the ball had a strong rotation and was difficult to control, the ball was not cleared far.
The first thing I saw was Ribery who was facing the goal just now. The Frenchman rushed up quickly and directly shot towards the ball rolling out. This place was only about 12 or 3 meters away from the goal. Pique and Mascherano were so scared that they both flew to block Ribery's shot.
But Ribery suddenly gave up shooting and instead divided the ball to the right.
Messi was seen appearing in an unguarded place, facing Ribery's pass, rubbing the instep inside his left foot again.
As soon as the ball was rubbed out, Messi raised his arms. He used his most confident shot, inside the instep. He didn't know how many times he had practiced such a shot, and he also grasped the angle very well and grasped the strength just right. The feeling of feedback from the entire shot was perfect.
The ball went around a slightly arc, almost rubbing the angle between the column and the beam on the left, drilled into the goal and hit the net.
“GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL”
Ye Qiu on the sidelines was so excited that he jumped up on the spot, raising his arms and shouting, and then he was hugged by the assistants behind him.
Messi even clenched his fists in the stadium to celebrate, rushed to the corner flagpole in one breath, and sat on the grass with a crisp smile, letting his teammates catch up with him and hugged him on the grass.
I, but the total score has expanded to 3
According to the away goal principle, Barcelona must expand the total score to 4, that is, 4:1 in a single game to eliminate Tottenham Hotspur, and one goal is not enough to be missing.
Look at Guardiola's expression. The Spanish man was so angry that he waved his arms hard on the sidelines. He was obviously cursing something. He had no ordinary elegant temperament and was completely a feeling of being teased, because he found that not to mention that he had scored one goal just now, even if he scored two goals just now, he was useless.
A away goal is worth two goals, which almost made Guardiola feel desperate, and all Barcelona players and fans feel desperate because they do not have enough confidence to score three more goals.
And you have to know that even if you attack wildly, even if you really may score three more goals, can you guarantee that Tottenham Hotspur will not score? Can you guarantee that Tottenham Hotspur will be willing to adopt a defensive strategy when you score?
The answer is no, because from Ye Qiu's game, he chose David Silva to partner with Fabregas and Yaya Toure, all the signs actually showed Ye Qiu's attitude long ago. He wanted to attack, but his offense was not similar to Barcelona's lifeless attack. He didn't need to play like this, all he needed was a goal.
This is undoubtedly a desperate goal
Messi, all Barcelona fans will not be unfamiliar with this name because he comes from La Macia, who is proud of Barcelona fans. However, in 2003, Barcelona gave him to Ye Qiu's Chelsea. In the year after Ye Qiu left Chelsea, there were rumors that Messi and Fabregas wanted to return to Barcelona, but it was finally proved that Barcelona's management rejected their request.
After Ye Qiu returned to the Premier League and acquired Tottenham Hotspur, the two players transferred to Chelsea and played surprisingly strong and level. In the past few years, Barcelona has been constantly rumored to buy back these two players, but year after year, their value is getting higher and higher, their level is getting better and better, and the difficulty of buying back is getting greater and greater.
Just imagine, can Barcelona pay 150 million euros in transfer fees like Manchester City and give Messi three times his salary now? The answer is impossible
After Ye Qiu celebrated with the coaching staff on the sidelines, he saw him clenching his right fist with his right hand, which was a gesture of winning.
Everyone knew very clearly that all this was in his plan, and perhaps he could not calculate whether he would score or lose the ball, but he clearly calculated the weakest link in Barcelona, which was when physical fitness was not continued due to the attack.
In fact, if someone carefully analyzes Barcelona's goals conceded in the past two years, it is not difficult to find that many of their goals conceded occurred in the last ten minutes of the first half, or sixty-five minutes after the second half, and these periods are often when the physical energy is consumed almost the same.
This is what Ye Qiu has always said. The benefits of high-intensity mid-front court pressing are very good, but the disadvantages are also obvious, that is, the physical energy consumption is too serious and the continuous performance of the entire game cannot be maintained at a high level.
Therefore, Tottenham Hotspur has gradually retracted the midfield and frontcourt this season, and the three lines have been kept more compact and the connection is closer. Whether it is offense or defense, they support each other, support each other, and assist each other more closely.
At the call of Hungarian referee Victor Koshoi, the Tottenham Hotspur players celebrated and returned to the field one after another. From their faces, you can clearly see the strong confidence they are filled with, because they clearly know that all this is still controlled by Tottenham Hotspur, in the hands of the head coach standing on the sidelines.
This is how to plan
With the whistle of Victor Cousseau, Barcelona's offense lost their vigor after re-telection. The goal of Tottenham Hotspur just now caused a very painful blow to them, which greatly affected their morale because they knew very well that they would have to score three more goals before they could break through Tottenham Hotspur's goal.
How to fight next?
Attack? Or give up?
This question is not only the players are confused, but even head coach Guardiola is also confused, because he found that whether it is offense or not, it is wrong and will not be the correct answer.
In other words, this will be a choice question that is wrong no matter how you choose
But Tottenham's choice was obviously much simpler. After Ye Qiu scored, he began to play more patiently, but his attitude was obviously much more positive than at the beginning. He began to consciously compete with Barcelona for possession and the rhythm of the game.
But in the end, the first half ended, and neither side could create another shot in the last few minutes.
The Barcelona fans in the stands of the Camp Nou Stadium are obviously completely disappointed with the game, because they can't imagine that with the current morale of the team and with the current state of the team, they can score three goals in the second half. Is there really hope to perform the final miracle? Reversal Tottenham Hotspur advance to the semi-finals?
Hope is undoubtedly a very beautiful thing, but rationality and soberness can make people feel painful because it will make you realize clearly that this may be a desperate situation in the end.
Chapter completed!