Tottenham Hotspur traveled three cities in China and played four warm-up matches. Although Tottenham Hotspur was seriously out of its best form, especially some international players who participated in the Federation Cup, their performance was even more sluggish, but they still defeated their opponents and won four consecutive victories based on their strong strength. Copy this address to browse 62%78%73%2e%63%63

In the four warm-up matches, they defeated Guangzhou team 1:0, Shanghai team 3:1, Beijing team 2:0, and national team 4:1. The next two games were held in Beijing. On the day of the match with the national team, the team was also received by the Prime Minister. This is the first time that all European giant teams have enjoyed such an honor in China.

But many Chinese fans were not surprised by the reaction to this. After all, in the eyes of many people, this team is like China's own team. Over the past years, domestic fans have basically supported Tottenham Hotspur.

After the huge trip to China, Tottenham Hotspur went to Qatar and played a warm-up match with the Qatar national team. As a result, the two sides tied 1:1, which gave Qatar a carnival in China. After all, this is the top giant team in the world football world. They feel extremely honored to be able to tie such a team.

For Tottenham Hotspur, the opponents on the court are far less threatening than the climate here, especially the amazing high temperatures, which made them all uncomfortable, so after a warm-up match, they hurried back to Europe.

After returning to Theoborde, the first thing Tottenham did was rest and summarize.

It is mainly aimed at Tottenham's performance and some problems found by the team during the Asian tour.

The two players who were most satisfied with this trip to Asia were the two players. Lewandowski on the forward line, who took on the team's arrow role well. Although in many details, it still shows that his cooperation with his teammates was not tacit enough, he undoubtedly performed quite well.

Another outstanding performance is Matic. After the main midfielder of Southampton last season, Ye Qiu arranged for him to start in the first game of Guangzhou and played the entire first half. In fact, it was his outstanding performance that made Tottenham Hotspur's first half very stable.

Guangzhou team's head coach Lippi praised the player after the game, thinking that he really has the strength and qualification to take the lead at Tottenham Hotspur, but Lippi also mentioned that Matic is still young and can continue to craft and improve.

As for Stroman, he also played all five warm-up matches, two of which were midfielders and three of them were central defenders. He performed very well, proving his strength, but it also reflected the contradiction between the coaching staff and him, that is, where should he appear.

Mitrovic has had two chances to play on the bench, but he failed to score. The Serbian center, like his compatriot Nastasic, is the future star of Tottenham Hotspur and does not yet have the main force.

But the busiest thing about the coaching staff is not to evaluate the performance of players. After all, this is pre-season training. Their most important job is to start adjusting the role of some players in the team's tactical system based on the problems exposed in training and warm-up games, such as the running route and coordination between Messi and Lewandowski, Ribery and another winger.

Ye Qiu has to admire Mauro Tassoti, a typical Italian-style head coach, who often makes the tactics so meticulous that you feel cumbersome. As long as you look at the tactical notes written by Mauro Tassoti over the past few years, most people will be so dizzy that they can't read them when they see the beginning.

Now many media and fans are advocating Tottenham Hotspur’s wave-style offensive and defensive system, but they don’t understand what the real core of the wave-style offensive and defensive system is. They can only see some surfaces, such as how players stand, how to assist in defense, how to run, how to run, how to run, how to pass, etc.

These are still something that only those fans who love tactics, or journalists and media who write football tactics analysis, will be interested. However, Tottenham Hotspur’s entire tactical system is not just these, but even further refinement.

For example, Tottenham Hotspur's wave attack, many people admire the second and third wave attacks, but they did not notice that Tottenham Hotspur practiced to launch a second attack, but on the court, it is very likely that no one can be used. Players adapt to the situation and adopt a brand new routine.

Perhaps when someone sees this, someone will ask, since this is the case, why do you need to practice these routines?

This is the problem, because if these routines are not practiced to the point where they are easy to master, how can players play on the spot?

Do you really think that he can perform well if he throws Messi into a brand new team that has never been trained together?

The Italian head coach has always done a pretty good job in tactical refinement, so we see that even the weakest teams in Serie A are often well organized at the defensive and tactical levels, but the Italian team has a fatal point, that is, the winger!

Sometimes Ye Qiu even wonders whether the decline of Italian football has something to do with the rise of the winger?

Looking at the past 100 years of Italian football, their wings have never been strong. Even in Herrera's chain defense era, Saki's Milan dynasty, Juventus at the turn of the century, or to the later Inter Milan era, their playing styles tend to be in the middle.

So, it is very interesting that Italy produces central defenders, central advancements and center forwards, but not wingers.

Compared with wing offensive players, defensive players are relatively good. After all, Italian defense attaches great importance to wings, but even in Italian football history, he is actually more like a midfielder on the virtual side rather than a pure wing offensive player.

So there is a saying in European football now that playing against Serie A team is the easiest to play against the wings, and to crush them to death!

The influence of Italian football has caused by the subtle influence over the past few years to make Italy's tactics seem to be increasingly conservative and lose their vitality, but at the same time they have gradually tied themselves up.

It has to be said that the performance of the Italian national team in the European Cup is indeed amazing, especially the routine of using Pirlo to play diagonal offense, which has made up for the shortage of Italian wing attackers.

When Mauro Tasotti first came to Tottenham Hotspur, he was not adapted to Ye Qiu's style of wingers from the Netherlands. This is also the weakness of all Italian head coaches, and they cannot use wingers well.

What we say here is not that it is used badly, but that they cannot exert the greatest threat of winger tactics and the strongest offensive power of wingers in their hands, because this is inconsistent with what they have insisted on over the past few decades.

However, during the seven years at Tottenham Hotspur, Mauro Tassoti has immersed in this whole set of all-off and all-defense concepts from the Netherlands, as well as winger tactics. In the past few years, he and Ye Qiu have effectively combined Italy's defensive concepts, Dutch offense and defense concepts, and the traditional characteristics of English football.

This is the birth of Tottenham Hotspur’s wave-style offensive and defensive system!

There is another very important tactical concept that must be clear, football tactics are relative.

I still remember Saki once said that when a player can play a role in the defensive system, he can play the same role in the offensive system, and in turn it is also true.

Many people don’t understand and think that this is nonsense, but in fact it is really nonsense?

Some players who seem to have no offensive ability really have no offensive threat?mreadtype='page-split'num='5'/>

If there is really no, then I would like to ask, the opponent holds the ball and presses the attack, and he successfully cuts the ball off. While destroying the opponent's offensive threat, it is actually just when our attack threat is the greatest.

This is because football tactics, offense and defense have been integrated.

Therefore, for Tottenham Hotspur, it is not a problem to exchange Pirlo for Matic. On the surface, Pirlo's offensive and organizational ability is much stronger than Matic, but in fact, if it is really put into this set of tactics, as long as the coordination is well done, the difference between the two is really not big.

But Matic's age and running are an advantage in itself, isn't it?

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After returning to London, Tottenham Hotspurs focused more on solving the problems encountered by the team during the warm-up match. After August, the team went to Southampton away to play a warm-up match. The two sides tied the game 2:2, and Tottenham Hotspur still tied the score in the second half.

In this game, Ye Qiu still arranged for the start of the main lineup last season. The three midfielders were Pogba's partners Pirlo and Vidal who performed well in the warm-up match. However, although Tottenham Hotspur scored one goal in the first half, Southampton scored two goals, one of which was caused by Pirlo's dribbling.

In this game, Adriance specially arranged for Coutinho to watch Pirlo. The Brazilian performed well and helped Southampton get a 2:1 lead in the first half with two assists.

In the second half, Ye Qiu made adjustments, Matic replaced Pirlo, Ramsey replaced Pogba, Tottenham Hotspur's midfield changed, the midfield and backcourt were stabilized, and the ball was much smoother, but the offense still did not make much progress.

Afterwards, Ye Qiu replaced Hazard, Neymar, Drogba and others one after another, further strengthened the offensive, and finally tied the score with Neymar's goal, 2:2, and the two sides tied a draw, but in the last twenty minutes, Tottenham Hotspur had the advantage but failed to score.

Ye Qiu also shook his head for this situation. On the one hand, the team has just passed the training period and performed in moderation, which is not difficult to understand. Another thing is that Southampton's strength has indeed improved a lot this season.

Nkuru and Lovren's joining immediately became the main central defender of the team. Although Matic left in the midfield, Sandro joined Southampton. With the existence of the original Nick Powell, Will Hughes, Larana, Lucas Mora and Coutinho, Southampton's strength has improved significantly.

But what made Ye Qiu look most was Italian center Immobile, who scored twice and was elected the best player in the game. The Italian center was single-arrow in Southampton, where offensive football was played. Behind him were Coutinho, Larana and Lucas Mora, and he immediately showed his efficient side, and he was very comprehensive.

"As long as Southampton's lineup is well integrated, I guess we can compete for the Champions League this season!" Mauro Tassoti is still optimistic about Southampton's strength. The current lineup of this team does not seem to be very large, but in fact, the personnel quality is very outstanding, and the overall nature is very strong, so as long as Adrians trains, there is still hope for the Champions League.

Ye Qiu understood what Mauro Tasotti meant, and Adrians was no longer suitable for Southampton.

This is not a bridge burning across the river, but a fact!

Adriansey has laid a solid foundation for Southampton's tactical system in the past few years, but after several years of accumulation, the team has begun to look forward to a reality, that is, to go out of the Premier League and enter European competitions. At this time, if Adriansey can follow the team's progress well, he can continue to stay, otherwise, he will be like Mancini, eventually be left behind by Southampton.

Mancini’s biggest problem is that his progress rate is far behind the team’s progress rate.

"How are you thinking?" Mauro Tasotti asked with a smile.

Ye Qiu shrugged, "I have no choice. I must continue to reuse Pirlo in the early stages of the season!"

In fact, with Matic, Ye Qiu felt that the Serbians had the strength to replace Pirlo, but the problem was not in the technical and tactical aspects, but in the locker room and fans.

If you are not careful, you will directly take Pirlo without saying a word. This is obviously not something that Pirlo can accept. Even if he promises to accept the rotation when renewing the contract, the problem is that you have to give him a chance to perform first. There are also players in the locker room. If you don’t give Pirlo any chance for no reason, you will win him down. This will make the players’ hearts cold.

As a manager, the biggest taboo is to cool down the hearts of subordinates.

Therefore, many times, fans look at some European teams. A certain player performs badly, but they will think there must be problems in it when they play every game. In fact, everyone knows there is a problem, but the head coach may have to arrange this player to play for various reasons.

Just like Pirlo, the team's peak core soul figure in the past two years, can you say you can win it if you win it?

So Ye Qiu had to continue using him. Whenever he was used, everyone else in the locker room began to have a voice, and they all began to feel that Pirlo is indeed old, and the media and fans also began to feel that the team should make adjustments. Then, Ye Qiu stood up again, waved his hand and took Pirlo, which seemed natural.

Sometimes Ye Qiu couldn't bear it, but professional football is so cruel. When you get old, you can't run anymore, and you start to go downhill, and then you are destined to be abandoned sooner or later. So Zidane is very proud. Before being abandoned, he abandoned others, which is undoubtedly a very wise choice.

Ye Qiu believes that Pirlo is a smart person. He understands all this, but he still has something to pursue in his heart, that is, the World Cup. Otherwise, he probably would have dumped Tottenham Hotspur this summer.

"I said that I will pave the way for you this season!" Ye Qiu said with a smile.

In fact, this is what the media has been worried about, that is, Pirlo's problem has not been done well, Tottenham Hotspur has caused internal friction, just like Barcelona's Xavi now, everyone knows that he should be taken down, and at least he should be a substitute. However, no matter who Barcelona is replaced as the head coach, they still have to continue to use Xavi.

Sometimes it is not because Xavi wants to be a football boss, because his idea is very simple and he continues to play football, but it is not because the head coach and management are too weak, but because this is a management method.

Mauro Tasotti just smiled because in his opinion, this season is more like a transitional nature. According to the agreement between the team and Pirlo, he will not renew his contract after the contract expires next summer, so this problem will be well solved. No matter what, it will not be left until the next season.

At this point, Tottenham Hotspur’s management attitude is still very clear, that is, not to disclose internal contradictions to the outside world, because this will lead to the rupture of internal unity of the team.

Regarding the team's failure to defeat Southampton away, Ye Qiu defended Pirlo in an interview with the media after the game, believing that Pirlo mainly participated in the Federation Cup, which caused him to be physically exhausted. "I believe that before the new season comes, he will be able to adjust his best form, because he is still a crucial member of the team."

Ye Qiu also denied some comments from outside the world and the saying that Ye Qiu would abolish Pirlo's main position in the new season, "I want to say that Pirlo is crucial to Tottenham Hotspur. Not just on the football field, he looks like the team's silent leader!"

There is no doubt about this. Pirlo has been the core of the team's organization in the past two seasons. His prestige in the team is not inferior to Messi and others. After all, Messi has never been a very authoritative person.

"But I believe everyone can understand, including Pirlo, we must prepare for the future. Matic and Stroman are all preparations for the future. I think their arrival can share the burden of Pirlo's midfield, and they will support the banner of Tottenham Hotspur's midfield in the future."

In an interview, Pirlo also said that he could also contribute to Tottenham Hotspur.
Chapter completed!