A trainee from the coach training class once asked Ye Qiu a very interesting question. He said that in modern football tactics, what elements are the most important to ensure that the team wins.

Ye Qiu thought this was a very complex and huge problem, so he promised that if he had the opportunity to teach in the coach training class next time, he would consider this as a topic, and later he himself thought about this issue carefully in order to prepare for this class.

What is the most important thing? Or is it the qualities that a team must possess?

The ability of players is undoubtedly very important. Just as Ye Qiu had commented on Chile in Bielsa before, both Chile in South Africa during the World Cup and Chile in the Copa America have exposed a problem. The tactical level has reached a height, but personal strength limits their performance.

In the game against Spain, Chile obviously had no way to break through Spain's goal due to the limited personal ability of the players. If their players' strength stands at the same point as Spain, and even the gap is not so big, Chile will take the lead in breaking through Spain's goal and rewrite the game, rather than let Villa pick up an empty goal.

One thing we can see from that game is that the ability of a player is crucial to a team. When the strength gap reaches a certain level, the tactics cannot be changed much, or as Beckenbauer said, excellent tactics can only help you increase the probability of winning.

Assuming that, in terms of strength, the odds of winning and losing between Chile and Spain are 30 to 70, then Bielsa will use excellent tactics to help Chile increase the probability to 45. At least for a while before this game, you will find that Chile is more threatening and creates more scoring opportunities, but you are not sure about it.

And when you look at the Chilean team playing football, it is not difficult to find that they are often a little bit short of it, and if they pass a little better or run a little more, the situation may be completely different, and this little bit is precisely the embodiment of the player's strength.

Does that mean that the personal strength of a player is an essential element for a team to succeed?

Ye Qiu can answer with very affirmatively, yes, but not the most important

So what is the most important thing?

Ye Qiu couldn't answer because he felt that tactics were also crucial.

This requires mentioning another game, that is, the two games in Ye Qiu's previous life, Mourinho's Inter Milan against Barcelona. Ye Qiu thinks that they are the two most representative games in Mourinho's life.

It can be said that the role of tactics plays a crucial role in both games. Without excellent and reasonable tactics, it is impossible to create a victory for Mourinho's Inter Milan.

So is it important for the player's personal ability or the overall tactics of the team?

Ye Qiu felt that the ancestors were right. The doctrine of the mean, a set of holistic tactics that can exert the individual abilities of the players, is the most important way to win for a team.

Whether it is offense or defense, creating an efficient and orderly tactical system based on the technical characteristics of existing players is undoubtedly the most important responsibility of a head coach and the football creed that Ye Qiu has always admired the most. He has almost always adjusted and explored his football tactics, even if the exploration is not successful in many cases.

For example, Tottenham Hotspur's progress has not been so obvious in the past two seasons.

Why would Mauro Tasotti say that it is easy to write a wave-like defense system by himself, but when he decides to write a wave-like offense and explains the team's offense and defense transformation, he gets into a dilemma?

This is actually not surprising. If he could easily write off offense and offensive and defensive transformation, it would undoubtedly be the wave attack that Ye Qiu wanted, and it would be more of a routine.

How to maintain the most stable and orderly tactical order when defending, and how to fully utilize the ability of offensive players when attacking, instead of limiting players to the system and allowing them to move and run without any scruples. This is the offense that Ye Qiu wants and is also an important feature of Tottenham Hotspur's offense.

Therefore, it is easy to say that defense is easy, but it is difficult to make the attack clear.

Of course, this does not mean that defense is easier than offense, or it may be a derogatory defense. You should know that in the modern football tactical system, offense and defense are actually inseparable. You can't tell what offense is and what defense is. They are integrated.

Ye Qiu recently studied some tactical ideas of Hungarian international Kushner, who rewrites the history of South American football and lays a solid foundation for Brazil's later football kingdom. He can be said to have further promoted it based on Jimmy Hogan's ball-handling concept and added the concept of diagonal offense, which created the glory of Brazil's football later.

In Kushner's tactical theory, he believes that Jimmy Hogan's philosophy is perfect, but it is also serious. Everything is full of planning, and even the players' running routes are the same, but this is a big limitation for the offense.

So, in Kushner's idea, what is the most important thing about the offense?

He believes that he should be facing the defense line to lead the offense.

How to explain it?

That is, when your players are facing away from the defense line and goal, you have no way to see everything behind you. You can neither see your teammates nor your opponent's defensive changes. This is the worst offensive vision and the most ingenuity you lack.

It is not difficult to understand that the first element of many people's defense now is to prevent the opponent's ball holder from turning around.

This principle applies not only to defensive centers, but even midfielders and defenders who defend the opponent.

Kushner believes that the most important thing in an offense is to create enough opportunities to face the defense line to get the ball. When you have enough opportunities, you can play the best and most threatening offense.

At that time, the middle lane seemed very crowded, so Kushner proposed the diagonal offensive tactic, which was actually a diagonal pass to divide the edges.

One advantage of diagonal passes is that the person who catches the ball is very comfortable, and the passer is also comfortable, because he only needs to pass in front of the receiver, and the latter can catch the ball by rushing forward directly. Although the straight pass is more penetrating, it is more likely to be intercepted by the defensive player because the defensive player sees your passing route very clearly.

This is why direct transmission is more difficult and lacks success rates than horizontal transmission and oblique transmission.

With the development of football now, the entire tactical system is much more meticulous and rigorous than Kushner back then.

Diagonal offense is now not just about passing the ball in a diagonal line, but even includes slash running, slash propulsion, etc. It has long been a very effective and practical tactical routine, and many head coaches are using it.

One very important factor for Ye Qiu to be obsessed with the forward insertion of two full-backs is that from the overall perspective, the forward insertion of the full-back is an important part of the diagonal offense. This can be seen from the fact that Kushner proposed a revolutionary diagonal offense, which has led to the prosperity of Brazil's wing players in the past century.

Another important factor is that the full-back always faces the attack direction head-on. The passing of the teammates to him is a diagonal pass, and the passing of the teammates to him is also a diagonal pass. In other words, this diagonal offense can maximize the attack opportunity facing the defense line, and it is very threatening.

Many people say triangular tactics. Triangular tactics are the fundamental and foundation of modern football tactics. They are composed of two slashes and one horizontal line. But you should know that today's tactics, especially the tactics of top teams, basically do not adopt triangular tactics, but evolve on the basis of triangular tactics, such as joining the fourth player, turning into a diamond, joining the fifth player or even the sixth player, forming a polygon.

The four players form two triangles, and the role of the middle horizontal line is weakened, but the four diagonal lines are very important.

The same is true for those polygon tactics, they are all for more penetration and opportunities to face offense with the ball, and the diagonal line is undoubtedly becoming more and more important.

Why did Ye Qiu introduce Pirlo?

The reason is very simple. Pirlo is the most good at passing diagonal midfielder in football today. Even Harvey, Harvey Helongso and others are not as good as him. Beckham used to be the number one expert in diagonal attack on the right. After moving to the middle, he passed the ball from the middle to the diagonal pass through the ball from the middle to the middle, but now he is old and cannot cope with the requirements of the main lineup.

So, is it appropriate to use Pirlo to play single midfielder? Especially in the Premier League where competition is so fierce and the pace is so fast?

Ye Qiu believes that this must take into account another current situation, that is, another trend in modern football tactics, frontcourt oppression.

Speaking of frontcourt compression tactics, Ye Qiu is an expert. When he was in Ajax, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, he highly praised frontcourt compression. But the problem is that in the past few years, this tactic has no longer been high-end, atmospheric and high-end, and has become the standard configuration for almost all strong teams.

It is because the strong teams are playing in front-court oppression, how can you still reflect your advantages and value?

Mancini wanted to get Yaya or Toure, not to let him play the midfielder, but to be a role similar to a midfield libero.

Ye Qiu felt that Mancini's idea was not ahead of the curve, or he should take a step forward and defend the front of the back midfielder

This requires a concept. Many people think that the so-called front-middle and rear-level position means pulling a front-middle player to the back-level position to play, which means the front-middle rear-level position. If this is true, then it will be too underestimated Pirlo's value.

The definition of front and rear midfielder is a midfielder with delicate skills and organizational skills in front midfielder. First of all, he must be a midfielder. In other words, his sense of position and interception and steal must meet the needs of the midfielder position, and at the same time, he also has the delicate skills and organizational skills of a No. 10 front midfielder.

Or someone will say, you brag, Pirlo has the defensive skills of a midfielder?

Yes, Pirlo is not a traditional midfielder such as Gattuso, Essin, Marklele, and even a back-end midfielder who is both offensive and defensive, but what is most valuable is that he has been immersed in Serie A and Italian national teams with the best defensive system for more than ten years, and his defense is more accomplished by position and prediction.

For example, in the past, Gattuso was used as a messing stick in front, and Pirlo took the ball down through the position and position in the back. What is reflected in the live broadcast screen is that Pirlo happened to appear there, just as many people said that Da Inzagi happened to appear at the position where he could score goals.

It turns out that you will be a coincidence once and half times, but if you always show up there, that is conscious behavior.

Of course, you must also pay attention to it. Pirlo is no longer the Pirlo who can run 11 kilometers in one game back then, so he is the one-half midfielder who needs strong support from his teammates in front. Tottenham's wave defense ensures that there is always a central defender near Pirlo.

At least Pirlo's weaknesses are still very obvious when facing the opponent's wide-scale pulling and using his personal abilities and speed to conduct one-on-one attacks, but this can be compensated by the team's defensive system.

Therefore, whether it is Ye Qiu or Mauro Tassoti, they all think that there is no problem with Pirlo playing as a single midfielder.

So, what about the front of the back waist?

The same as the front midfielder. The front midfielder is the first to be a front midfielder, with the ability to insert the back, and the skills to hold the ball at the front of the penalty area where the most dense defense in the game. At the same time, he must be able to complete the task of defending the midfielder, such as when he loses possession, he will invest in counter-attack and oppression as soon as possible.

What are the benefits of doing this?

That is, when the strong teams around the world play organizational midfielder, my front midfielder will just restrain your organizational midfielder, and it is not enough if you don’t pay attention to it, because my front midfielder can be inserted into your penalty area anytime and anywhere to complete scoring and threatening attacks, and has the ability to get and pass the ball.

But if you want to set up defense in this area, the troops you invest on the offensive end will be weakened.

This is a typical strategy of attack instead of defense

Therefore, Ye Qiu's midfield trio this season is Ramsey, Vidal broke out and Pirlo dragged back, but the distance between the three players should be about ten meters, and Tottenham Hotspur's overall formation will continue to remain in a compact flat shape of about 40 to 50 meters in front and back.

Ye Qiu has always believed that players from high-ball players will become another mainstream change in the future football trend, because they are better at relying on position, running and cooperation with teammates to complete offense and defense. Perhaps they are not good at physical confrontation, but they play smarter.

One of the important reasons why I think there will be many high-ball players in the future is that Ye Qiu has always believed that with the improvement of training level and the advent of the information age, people will become smarter and smarter.

Of course, this kind of intelligence is not one-on-one, because it is difficult for anyone to be smarter than Einstein. The intelligence that Ye Qiu said is the average level of wisdom of all mankind. With this trend, more and more players will be available for golf clubs, and even directly can be fully-sold and mass production.

Therefore, if you look at Tottenham Hotspur's team lineup carefully, it is not difficult to find that the players introduced by Ye Qiu are generally not stupid, they are all players with strong plasticity.

Tottenham Hotspur pre-season training | Prepare for a week in Theoborde, then went to Qatar to play a warm-up match with the Qatar national team. This is also a game that will be held every summer at the request of several Middle Eastern sponsors of the team. But unfortunately, Messi, Cavani, Thiago Silva, and the team's new player Vidal are still playing in the Copa America, so the quality of this warm-up match is not very high.

But Tottenham still showed his strength very well. He defeated the Qatar national team 0. Pirlo played the half-time game and performed in a relatively average performance. On the contrary, the team's midfielder Ramsey performed well, showing his strength with one pass and one shot. Pogba, who played in the second half, was also impressive.

Phil O-Jones, who started playing in the midfield, was as brave as ever and performed well on the defensive end, but the pass was slightly worse, which had something to do with Phil O-Jones' personality. After all, he is still very young now.

I spent four days in Qatar, but fortunately, Qatar is not too hot this year, and Tottenham Hotspur intends to arrange training in the morning and evening, so there will be no problems.

Flying from Qatar to Singapore, Tottenham Hotspur played a warm-up match with a professional team in Singapore. At this time, Chile, who was eliminated from the Copa America, and the internationals of Argentina and Brazil also returned to the team one after another. They did not rest for another two weeks after the game, but returned directly to the team and devoted themselves to the team's new season preparation, which was highly praised by Ye Qiu and the fans.

However, all the players participating in the Americas Cup have not participated in the warm-up match. At least Ye Qiu does not plan to arrange for them to play for the time being, because they still need to make adjustments, especially in terms of physical fitness. After all, a competition has just been completed.

Although there were no big-name stars participating, Tottenham Hotspur's overall performance was still as stable as ever, beating his warm-up opponent and winning two consecutive wins in the warm-up match. Ramsey scored two consecutive goals in the game, and Raul also scored a goal.

It's not that Ramsey's performance is now very good, but because the team's current offensive players do have some problems. Ribery is a little injured and didn't even play in the second warm-up game. Hazard's condition is still being adjusted. Coutinho, who has changed to the wing, also focuses on passing the ball.

This has led to Ramsey's continuous goals, and Wales's current large-scale running coverage has more opportunities.

But Ye Qiu saw a gratifying change. When the team organization relies on midfielder Pirlo, Ramsey also showed a certain organizational ability and vision in the frontcourt. Ye Qiu also consciously cultivated his abilities in this aspect. After all, if a midfielder who runs a large range has excellent ball-taking ability, it is almost a big killer.

After the game, the team went to Hong Kong. After two days of rest, they played a warm-up match with Hong Kong Zhijie. This time the team performed well. 0 slaughtered their opponents. Ribery, who returned from injury, scored a hat trick. Hazard, Ramsey, and Raul scored consecutive goals, and Tottenham Hotspur's offense was also as fierce as ever.

Alba and Kyle Walker, who replaced Brazil's two-wing starters, both showed strong assisting abilities.

Alba mainly wins with skills and speed, while Kyle O Walker has a steady defense, very fast speed, strong sprinting ability, and excellent back and forth running ability, but more importantly, his crosses are becoming more and more visible to Beckham.

The three consecutive wins in the warm-up match did not satisfy Tottenham Hotspur. They scored their opponents in three games, regardless of whether Kompany's partner Nastasic or Varane, showed convincing stability and defensive strength. Tottenham Hotspur's defensive lineup in the new season is not a big problem.

The fans also gave up their hearts more or less.
Chapter completed!