Chapter 624 Responsibilities of the midfielder
"Beep"
When the Donetsk Miners were preparing to make a quick counterattack, Brazilian player William, the core midfielder in the team, suddenly kicked the ball out of bounds, and the referee Massimo Busaka also blew the whistle immediately and ran towards the Donetsk Miners goal.
On the right side of the arc top area of the Donetsk Miners' penalty area, Tottenham Hotspur's starting striker was seen. The game was excellent, and the Spanish forward Raul, who scored a goal, was lying on the ground. The Tottenham Hotspur players around rushed up quickly, but there was no conflict with the Donetsk Miners' players.
Soon, Massimo Busaka was seen walking over to find out the situation. The main defender of the Donetsk Miners Rakitsky was explaining to the head coach. He kept saying that he and Raul just collided with each other during a battle for the top, and he had no extra moves.
At this time, the score on the field was international practice, with the home team in front and the away team in back, and Tottenham Hotspur temporarily gaining the lead with the goals of Raul and Eriksen.
"Go up and take a look." After seeing the gesture of referee Massimo Busaka, Ye Qiu immediately asked the team doctor to rush forward to understand the situation, but at the same time he turned his head and glanced at the bench, "Let Coutinho go to warm up quickly."
The last sentence is obviously explaining to Fatty Luo. This is a measure just in case. After all, he doesn't know what Raul's current situation is. The only thing that is certain is that he has a premonition that is not very wonderful.
Sure enough, the team doctor soon made a gesture to the sidelines, signaling to carry Raul out of the field, and the referee allowed it.
With Raul's appearance, the game quickly started again, and Tottenham Hotspur is temporarily in a game state with one less person.
"How is it?" Ye Qiu walked to the sidelines and asked with concern.
Raul, who was already sitting on the grass, shook his head and smiled bitterly at Ye Qiu who was walking over, "I turned my leg when I landed, and I was injured."
This made Ye Qiu feel a little relieved. He looked at the team doctor who was checking his injuries. The latter nodded to Ye Qiu: "There is no big problem, but it needs a rest. Come on the substitute as soon as possible."
Ye Qiu nodded and patted Raul on the shoulder, "It's okay, have a good rest." After saying that, Ye Qiu turned around and walked back to the coach's command area, but at this moment, a burst of thunderous cheers suddenly came from the entire Donbas arena, and he saw Eduardo da Silva, who had just transferred from Arsenal this season, rushed out of Tottenham Hotspur's penalty area, waving his arms constantly to celebrate his goal.
On the big red scoreboard, the number representing the home team's goals also quickly changed from number I to Donetsks Miners equalized the score, which made many Tottenham Hotspur players feel angry, but helpless.
"What should I do now?" Roland Shepars was a little depressed, a little unwilling, and even a little angry. He was too unkind. He injured his player and carried him to the sidelines to rest and took this opportunity to sneak a goal. This was too shameless.
"Mauro, what do you think?" Ye Qiu looked at Mauro Tasotti, not looking much nervous or anxious.
For Tottenham Hotspur, the question of whether to win or not is really not very big, because there is another home court next, as long as Tottenham Hotspur wins this home court, they will steadily advance as the first in the group, so it really doesn't matter whether to win or not in this game.
Of course, Mauro Tassoti could see that Ye Qiu was deliberately testing him. After a smile, he said: "It goes without saying that although the morale of the Donetsk miners is strong now, we must completely defeat them when their morale is strong, so that they can convince them, right?"
"Well said," Ye Qiu praised, "Let Coutinho come over quickly."
Soon, the Brazilian midfielder came to Ye Qiu's side and was almost pulled over by Ye Qiu. "After you go up, don't play the midfielder, play on the left, let Neymar go up and play the striker. I want to score another goal and kill Donetsk miners, do you understand?"
"I understand, head" Coutinho nodded heavily to agree.
"Go" Ye Qiu patted Coutinho's shoulders and asked him to go to the fourth official to go through the procedures for the field.
While the Donetsk miners equalized the score, Coutinho also completed the handover and the game started again soon.
The Donetsk Miners can become the number one team in the Ukrainian Super League since the new century, which has a lot to do with the team having many high-level foreign players from Brazil and other countries, but in the final analysis it is because of the Romanian head coach of the Donetsk Miners, Mirciolassesku.
To be honest, if you want to find his news from the newspaper, you will find that it is very scarce and very few. But in Ye Qiu's opinion, Lucescu is the kind of famous coach-level figure who has been ignored by the media. This is enough to prove this by the performance of the Donetsk Miners team he led in the European arena over the past few years.
Lucescu is a professional player. After retiring, he coached in Romania. After winning the league championship, he entered the Serie A. However, his performance was very bad. He almost ended with short-term coaching. He coached Brescia twice and also coached in teams such as Pisa, Regina and Inter Milan. He was the most famous to promote Pirlo.
As early as the Brescia era, Pirlo was valued by Lucescu, and then Lucescu went to Inter Milan and brought Pirlo to Inter Milan. However, Lucescu was unable to stay in Inter Milan for too long, which led to Pirlo and Inter Milan missing out. Later, Lucescu coached Turkey's Galatasaray and Besiktas and other teams, and achieved quite good coaching results.
In 2004, he began to coach the Donetsk Miners, and then in just six years, he won four Ukrainian Super League championship trophys. In the UR9 season, the Donetsk Miners also won the Europa League championship, with remarkable results.
In 2009, there was a news that the Romanian Football Association at that time originally wanted to hire Mircio Lucescu as the head coach of the national team, but Lucescu refused the invitation. As a result, the Football Association invited his son to serve as the head coach of the national team and replace his own son. This was also a big joke at the time.
Perhaps because he had nearly ten years of Serie A experience, Lucescu's coaching style pays great attention to the rigor of the tactical system and attaches great importance to defense. This is also seen as an important reason why the Donetsk miners have achieved outstanding results in the past few seasons.
This team is also very rich and has many well-known stars in the team, such as right-back captain Serner. This is no longer just an old monster among PN football managers, but is also well-known in European football. Manchester United once wanted to introduce him to fill the gap on the right, but Serner's salary in Donetsk miners is too high and he is unwilling to cut wages. Moreover, the taxes here are low, so he rejected Manchester United's transfer invitation.
In addition, the famous little monster Douglas Costa in Brazil, Brazilian midfielder William, and Croatian striker Eduardo da Silva who played for Arsenal before and turned to Donetsk Miners after breaking his legs.
From this series of players, it can be easily seen that the Donetsk Miners are not a team without strength, especially in their home court, Donbas Arena. This team has a very outstanding record in the Champions League home game, which makes the team very confident and tenacious in their home games.
The temperature in Donetsk in November this year is not low, even similar to London, England. Even at night, the temperature outside is about four or five degrees, and the temperature inside the stadium will be slightly higher, so the weather cannot be an obstacle to Tottenham Hotspur.
In addition, the Donbas Arena of Donetsk miners also uses mixed turf. This mixed turf is implanted with a fiber network into two centimeters of the soil, and then plant the turf on it. After the grass grows, the roots are mixed with the fibers, and the left and right polyethylene leaves are implanted on the grass cotton, so this type of turf is softer and tougher, and has stronger permeability.
According to the characteristics of players playing football, the ball has less friction, faster speed and better bottoming out. It has been promoted throughout the Premier League, and even Wembley Stadium has been replaced with mixed turf not long ago.
So, the weather and venue that Ukraine, which is the most troublesome in this game, is not a problem.
If you really lose the ball, Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur have no excuses, so you can only say that your skills are not as good as others
Many people say that Tottenham Hotspur seems to advocate personal performance and has great tactical freedom.
Ramsey has always been amused by this because when Ye Qiu came to this team, he had already come from Cardiff to North London. From the Ziegwell training base back then to the current Theobord training base, he witnessed the growth and progress of Tottenham Hotspur along the way.
In contrast to what everyone thinks, Ye Qiu has always emphasized responsibility.
I still remember that when I came to Tottenham Hotspur from Cardiff, Ye Qiu once said this when he was talking about tactical ideas in the team, "No one can play football as he pleases in my tactics."
This sentence may sound domineering and awesome, and gives people a very domineering and strong desire to control. It is completely a kind of dictatorship, but it is this kind of thought that has created the current Tottenham Hotspur.
Yes, no one can play football as he pleases. Everyone must place a prerequisite before showing themselves, that is, how to better help the team.
"When you play behind the striker, your most important responsibility is to help the forwards, but you also have to help the team win the game, so you have to control the distance between the midfield and the striker, otherwise they will lose contact."
"But as a player behind the striker, you are also in front of the defender. You provide help to the striker and you must also provide protection for the defender. Therefore, you must oppress the opponent when the team does not have the right to the ball. You must learn how to protect the defense line behind you. This is the responsibility of a midfielder."
This is what Ye Qiu said to Ramsey at the beginning. He has always emphasized that the team is a whole from the front to the back, an indivisible whole. Once divided, it is slaughtered and slaughtered. Therefore, this requires mutual help. The players in the front provide protection for the players in the back and the players in the back provide support for the players in the front.
Before he knew it, Ramsey was about to be twenty years old. It has been four years since he came to Tottenham Hotspur. In the past four years, he has been trained by Tottenham Hotspur coaching staff and has long been familiar with Tottenham Hotspur's entire offensive and defensive system. He is working very hard to learn how to help the players in front of him attack and protect his teammates behind him.
This is his responsibility
Every time he plays, he has a large range of running. He always works hard, but his performance always goes ups and downs. Sometimes when he feels that he can perform well and outstandingly, his performance is a mess, but sometimes when he is completely unaware that he can perform well, he surprises himself.
He was very depressed about this. He once asked Messi and asked Ribery why they could maintain a very good shape for a long time. His two teammates did not hide him and told him a lot of experience and lessons, but he still did not improve much.
Until not long ago, during a training session, Ramsey heard the team's consultant Bobby Hams, a youth training expert who once trained superstars such as Cruyff and Van Basten. He told Ramsey not to think too much, and not to always think about how to show yourself, do your job well, and slowly learn how to better help the team.
Ramsey began to do what Bobby Hams said, and his performance began to improve. He played against Arsenal and Newcastle in the two league Cup games. Although his opponents did not send all the main players, Ramsey's performance was quite good.
In this fourth round of the Champions League group, although many people think it doesn't matter if Tottenham Hotspur can't win, Ramsey knows that all Tottenham Hotspur players and fans hope to win.
How to get it off?
Ramsey didn't have much thought in his mind, because he was never a player who could dominate the situation on the field, and he was not a control player who could become the core of the team. So he could only do what he was best at, not think about everything else, and strive to exert his strength to fulfill his responsibilities.
When Neymar took the ball in the frontcourt and was forced into a bit embarrassing by the opponent's defender, Ramsey appeared in front of him. The Brazilian immediately knocked back to Ramsey, and the Donetsk Miners' midfielder quickly captured Ramsey. The Welsh quickly knocked back to the defense and handed it to Alba.
Espanyol knocked back at Cech, and the Czech took the ball. Eduardo da Silva wanted to go to the goalkeeper. Cech passed it to Alba again. Alba passed it to Ramsey, who had already run back to his half to catch the ball.
Tottenham Hotspurs are already accustomed to Ramsey's wide range of running back and forth. The Welshman's running ability is well-known in Tottenham Hotspur, and he is also very diligent.
Ramsey took the ball with his back to the attack direction, was pressed, knocked back again, and passed it back directly to Chech
The Czechs didn't wait for the ball to stop at their feet, because Eduardo da Silva was snooping, so he passed the ball directly to Thiago Silva. The captain Tottenham Hotspur clearly felt that some changes should be made at this time, so Yu Qian dribbled the ball forward and advanced.
With Thiago Silva's dribbling, Tottenham Hotspur's midfielder added one more player. The Donetsk miners' defense was a bit messy and I don't know how to defend, while Tottenham Hotspur felt that the pressure was much looser.
Soon, Alba also came up. Tottenham Hotspur began to have its own stable ball control around the opponent's 30-meter front. After several passes back and forth, Ramsey also participated in one of them, but there was no substantial effect. It was more of a transition, but it ensured the stability of Tottenham Hotspur's 30-meter front front.
Gradually, Ramsey felt that the team's left was very lively, and Coutinho and Neymar began to consciously lean on this side. The distance between Donetsk miners' right-back Serner and central defender Rakitsky was sometimes very large. Neymar also saw this and began to consciously swim on this side.
Will this be an opportunity?
Ramsey thought it was possible, but he felt that even if it was not an opportunity, he should at least be able to disrupt the opponent's penalty area.
So Ramsey also consciously responded to this side.
Alba passed the ball to Coutinho on the left. The Brazilian took the ball on the left, with a skillful dribbling and a very good ball sense. This made Ramsey envious. He quickly used his foot skills to find a gap in Serner's body and went straight to find Neymar on the ribs.
Sure enough, at this moment, Ramsey saw very clearly that Coutinho and Neymar were going to play against each other's ribs, and at this time he was no longer able to participate, but he could pick up his teammates, that is, when Neymar had no chance, he would choose to pass the ball.
Neymar received a straight pass from Coutinho and faced Rakitsky in the penalty area. He had a fake move to get down, but he failed to beat Rakitsky. The young Ukrainian central defender is also very capable. He is called Ukraine's best central defender after Ziglinsky. He is not tall, but very flexible.
Seeing that he could not get rid of Rakitsky, Neymar stopped and switched the ball from his left foot to his right foot. He grabbed the defender's double-team and passed it across to the penalty area line with a little bit.
I saw that Ramsey, who originally wanted to run to receive Neymar's pass, appeared in this loophole just right, and there were no defensive players around. Faced with Neymar's light and steady push, he almost had no hesitation, and swung his right foot and shot it directly.
At this moment, he remembered what Bobby Hams said, do his job well and slowly learn how to better help the team
Chapter completed!