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Chapter 700: The Last Minute

Tottenham Hotspur returned from the FIFA annual awards party, which immediately caused a huge response among fans around the world. Especially Ye Qiu and Messi's speech on winning was even more recommended by countless people.

Many media and reporters have said that the reason why Tottenham Hotspur's performance is so stable is related to Ye Qiu's control over the locker room and the reliance on this group of stars they have cultivated.

In the past so many years, although Tottenham Hotspur has sold its superstars every year, many players have not changed, such as Messi, Ribery, Cavani, Ramsey, Thiago Silva, Kompani, Alves and Cech, etc. They have been in the team since Ye Qiu UU took over Tottenham Hotspur in the year and are considered old ministers of the team.

The existence of a group of core players has made the entire locker room of Tottenham more harmonious, because no one can challenge the status of these old ministers, and they are all very loyal to Ye Qiu, especially after selling Fabregas and David Silva, this loyalty has been further consolidated.

With the media's attention, more and more insider information has been gradually disclosed. Many people are surprised by some internal measures of Tottenham Hotspur. For example, Ye Qiu has specially opened up a player space that only allows players to exist. No one, including Ye Qiu, can enter this area, nor can they eavesdrop on the players' discussions.

Some people were surprised that, including Fabregas, Van Persie, Gareth and Bale, almost all former Tottenham Hotspur stars who left the transfer have maintained contact with the team so far. The only one who has had a falling out with Tottenham Hotspur is England's local center Andy Carroll, who once criticized Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur after leaving the team.

But this incident was used as a basis for many people to accuse Andy Carroll. Because so many people left the team, they still maintained a good relationship with Ye Qiu and Tottenham Hotspur, and even often talked on the phone. Only you were bombarded, and the problem must be with you.

As more and more details are disclosed, more and more talents are surprised to find that Tottenham's success seems to be accidental, but in fact there is necessity.

After returning to London from Zurich, Tottenham Hotspur also ushered in a new devilish schedule in the second half.

In the 21st round of the league, Tottenham Hotspur faces West Ham United at home. Ranieli's team is strong. The attack combination of Etoo, Falcao, Di Maria and Jovitic is also fearful in the Premier League, and the strength of the central defender Lucio and Carvalho is also very outstanding.

After the game started, West Ham United had a good defense and then attacked Tottenham Hotspur through counterattacks, and scored in the 22nd minute, but Tottenham Hotspur still relied on Vidal's goal to equalize the score in the second half.

But in the end, Tottenham Hotspur drew with West Ham United at home, winning its fourth draw of the season.

In this round, the main competitors Manchester City and Liverpool both won one after another, so Tottenham Hotspur is only five points ahead of Manchester City, who is second in the Premier League standings. The latter has lost two games this season but has only three draws.

Liverpool ranked third, who was three-pointer behind Manchester City, and Manchester United ranked fourth, and Ferguson's team was two points behind Liverpool. So from the current situation, if there is no big surprise, the most likely impact on the league championship is Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City. Liverpool and Manchester United also have hope, but not very much.

In the 22nd round of the league, Tottenham Hotspur challenged Manchester City away

Manchester City's city stadium was built for use as a track and field stadium. Later, after it was rented out by Manchester City, although it had been renovated, Manchester City did not have much money to invest in the renovation at that time, so many places still retain their original characteristics, such as the track and field track, which Manchester City just laid a layer of turf on it to cover it.

The command area of ​​the head coaches of both sides was arranged on the track and field track.

The coach's seat and bench are arranged at the bottom of the bottom stand, and the stands where the fans are located are only separated by a barrier less than one meter high. Moreover, the entire one is an angle exactly the same as the stands. The head coach's seat has only five seats, and next to it is an inclined ladder, which can go up to the seats where the substitute players are located, as well as a row of five-person seats.

It is obvious that Manchester City must have been very concerned about space when renovating the coaching seat.

The ceiling of the stadium cannot cover the entire stadium, and can only cover the stands where the fans are located. However, the coach's seat on the lowest level of the stands is a disaster. Because it happens to be at the edge of the ceiling, the coach's seat will suffer when it rains, and it has become a severely affected area for rain. It is even worse than the stadium without a ceiling.

Ye Qiu sat in the visiting team coach's seat, which is on the left side of the city stadium player passage. In front of him was raining down from the ceiling, just like the line, dripping from such a high ceiling, splashing on the track and field track, making people feel uncomfortable.

"The thing Mansour should do is not to buy a superstar, but to completely renovate this damn stadium."

Ye Qiu was in a very bad mood because the score on the court is not ideal now.

This is the number on the scoreboard display at the second floor of the City Stadium, and the time has entered eighty minutes. It is obvious that this is not a draw that can be accepted by Tottenham Hotspur, because there are too many cowards in this game.

The biggest controversy in the game occurred in the first half. After Balotelli was blocked by Vidal and successfully cut the ball off, he angrily counterattacked and tripped Vidal. There was a move of trampling Vidal's neck with a shoe nail. This was a very malicious intentional foul, but the referee Howard Webber did not see this foul.

Tottenham Hotspur failed to protest, and was angry. In addition, it started to rain heavily after the game, which made Tottenham Hotspur make a lot of mistakes in receiving the ball. Manchester City seized two opportunities in the first half and scored two goals in a row. Not long after the first goal, Thiago Silva was injured in a steal, and Ye Qiu was forced to replace Varane.

After the halftime break, Ye Qiu turned the situation around and adjusted the team well. Less than fifteen minutes after the start of the second half, he used Messi and Pirlo's direct free kicks to tie Manchester City, while Mancini was determined to defend the draw to the end.

"Johat, Yaya and Toure two players are in good shape when they meet us." Mauro Tassoti said with a wry smile. Although the two goals have nothing to do with Yaya and Toure, the Ivorians are doing quite well in defense, while Joohat tried many times in the second half to ensure the goal was not lost.

Ye Qiu replaced Vidal in the 67th minute of the second half with Eriksen. The latter had obvious scars on his neck when he left the court. This is also a solid evidence that Tottenham Hotspur is preparing to accuse Balotelli after the game. The fourth official also collected evidence. Tottenham Hotspur will appeal after the game.

But whether this game can be won has nothing to do with the appeal after the game

Ye Qiu clasped his hands in front of him, but his eyes were looking at everything that happened on the court through his hands. He had no time left, and he had only one last time to substitution.

Beside him, Mauro Tasotti, Roland Shepars, Murenstin, Monitz and others, and Frans Hawk, who often walks behind the goalkeeper from a distance, reminds the goalkeeper that they are all waiting for Ye Qiu's next decision. Behind him, five technicians are analyzing data and tactics, and the last row is a substitute player and a substitute player.

Everyone is waiting for Ye Qiu. The last time the substitution must be able to break the deadlock

This is a kind of pressure, because no one knows whether this substitution can work, because as long as it is a substitution, there will be risks and will definitely break the existing situation, especially in this game, Tottenham Hotspur’s championship battle against Manchester City

At eighty-one minutes, Ye Qiu had not made a decision yet, he was still thinking and hesitating.

For eighty-two minutes, Ye Qiu was still thinking and hesitating because he found that he needed to consider more and more things.

The more you think about it, the more complicated it seems, and the more difficult it is to understand a clue.

For eighty-three minutes, Ye Qiu slapped his head hard, looking a little helpless.

After taking a few shots, Ye Qiu stood up from the coach's seat, turned around, glanced at the bench, pointed at Ribery, "Frank, come down" and turned around and looked at the game.

Soon, Ribery ran to Ye Qiu's side. He started to come back after Christmas, but basically played as a substitute and his condition had not been adjusted yet. Therefore, in this game, Ye Qiu still used the South American double-wing combination of Neymar and Messi and placed Ribery on the bench.

"Do you know what's wrong now?" Ye Qiu asked.

Ribery nodded, "I can't open the situation" and he added, "We need width"

Neymar's performance in this game was very unsatisfactory, and it could even be said to be very bad, but there is also the midfielder. Manchester City's entire midfield put huge pressure on Tottenham Hotspur. In this case, the team's offense is difficult to smooth, and Tottenham Hotspur cannot play its own special offense.

Of course, Manchester City also paid a heavy price for this, that is, their offense did not have any threat, and they were more like counterattacking, but this counterattack didn't invest much force, making it difficult to threaten Tottenham Hotspur's goal.

Although Varane lost his second goal after coming on as a substitute in the first half due to nervousness, his performance was still very good afterwards. His cooperation with Kompany was also very tacit. He did not give Manchester City a good chance, which was considered a mistake.

"After going up, tell Messi that he will come back to play in the middle and connect the midfield, so that Cavani can reach the front, Neymar goes to the right, Alvesdo moves forward, we have to play the width, do you understand what I mean?" Ye Qiu asked solemnly.

In just less than ten seconds, Ye Qiu and Ribery, the master and apprentice, were completely wet, which shows how heavy the rain was. It was still on the sidelines, and the court was about to turn into a swamp.

"I understand." Ribery nodded solemnly.

"Be careful" Ye Qiu patted Ribery's shoulder, "Go, replace Marcelo"

Ribery never doubted Ye Qiu's decision. After hearing this, he nodded solemnly and turned around and ran to the fourth official to handle the handover. Soon, in the 85th minute, Ribery finally got the chance to play when he was dead.

"Oh my God, Ye Qiu decided to fight this time, and replaced Marcelo with Ribery. This is to further strengthen the attack." Andy Grey was a little surprised by Ye Qiu's substitution. It was too risky, so he made such a substitution at the last moment.

At least, the draw was a very good result for Tottenham Hotspur.

Martin O Taylor sighed, "This is Ye Qiu, very adventurous, but very backbone, he just doesn't want to draw."

"Yes, I was wronged before, and the shoe nail marks on Vidal's neck, and Thiago Silva was injured and Manchester City took advantage of the chaos to create a mistake and got the second goal. This made Ye Qiu unhappy. Tottenham and Tottenham were full of anger. He wanted to vent now."

When Andy Grey said this, he had to smile bitterly: "Many people say that the head coach should be calm and rational, but sometimes they still have to be a little bit of intent, just like what Ferguson said, if I am too calm, I am not Ferguson and I will not be able to achieve the results of today."

"Yes," Martin Taylor nodded in agreement, "Sometimes there must be a little unreasonable on the football field."

After Ribery and Marcelo embraced him, he quickly gestured to his teammates, and saw him waving his hands constantly, as if he was encouraging morale for his teammates. Every time he passed by a teammate, he would brim with his teammates. Kompani also shouted loudly at his teammates at this time, and even clearly heard what he was shouting at the scene.

"The boss said, we don't want a draw"

"Okay" scene was filled with many Tottenham Hotspur players shouting.

When Andy Grey heard this, he said with emotion, "It's very imposing. Tottenham Hotspur may have a chance to turn the situation around. The key is to see how much role Ribery can play after the substitute comes on the bench.

But it is obvious that Ye Qiu made adjustments. Although Mancini had used up three substitutions, he was also making adjustments, especially when Messi moved to the middle, he turned around and broke through with the ball and passed directly to Neymar on the right. The latter inserted and crossed back to the penalty area for Cavani. If Hangland had not blocked it with his body in time, Cavani's shot would have scored.

Mancini also realized the changes in Tottenham Hotspur. After Messi retreated to the middle, he formed a midfield with Ramsey, Eriksen and Pirlo, who was exhausted, and strongly connected the forward line and the back line, and was able to create opportunities for the front to deliver shells.

Manchester City quickly made adjustments, and the purpose was to suppress Tottenham Hotspur's midfielder again.

Time passed by minute by minute, and the numbers on the scoreboard were constantly changing and rising, eighty-six...eighty-seven...eighty-eight...eighty-nine...ninety-nine...ninety-nine...

Entering stoppage time, but it doesn't seem to improve much on the scene. Tottenham still doesn't have many offensive opportunities, and Ye Qiu's substitute Ribery did not do much.

In the few minutes after playing, he had four chances to touch the ball. Every time he faced right back Mika Richards in this game, Ribery chose to knock back, looking a little afraid of launching a head-on attack.

"We can see that after Ribery returned from injury, she seemed to be in a bad state. He is only twenty-eight years old now, at the golden age of a player, but injuries have become the biggest obstacle in his career and also hindered him from going further." Andy Grey was a little sad about Ribery's situation.

If there were no injuries, Ribery might be the World Footballer. If he got the World Footballer, maybe Messi is still trying to help him, rather than him in turn trying to help Messi.

Sometimes, this is the situation of professional players.

"Ye Qiu walked to the sidelines again and shouted at the players, as if he was seeing that the situation on the left could not be opened, Ribery did not dare to take the ball and attack head-on, so the team went to the right more, but did he trust Neymar too much?

Just after Ye Qiu adjusted, Neymar dribbled the ball and broke through Krish on the right. This time he completed the breakthrough very cleverly and passed it to the middle. Cavani wanted to shoot the ball as soon as possible, but the shot hit Hangland's leg and rebounded. Messi, who followed, directly shot hard, and the result was high.

"It's a pity, too anxious," Andy Grey shouted.

Martin or Taylor shook his head and sighed: "Now even Messi is starting to be anxious. If this ball is not volleyed, but has a little less force, and uses a more confident pushing or prodding shot, it is almost certain to win."

The situation does not seem to have reversed because of Ribery's appearance. Neymar's performance on the right has improved. Messi and Cavani are more inclined to attack on the right after Ye Qiu reminded him. The three-minute stoppage time given by Howard Webber is getting closer and closer.

Manchester City gradually realized Tottenham's intentions. Krish faced Neymar alone on the left. If there were Cavani and Messi, as well as Alves and Erikson who were inserted behind, Manchester City's left pressure was too great, so Mancini had to make adjustments and let the team's defense center lean left.

Tottenham's fierce attack made him have no extra time to think about other issues. He and all the players on Manchester City have only one idea now, that is, to hold on to the last minute.
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