The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 596 Outpost Battle

"Cesar throws the ball to Terry, Terry passes to Mikel, Mikel to Arshavin, Arshavin to Mikel, to Essien on the right, Chelsea's ball is still there. Or back and forth in the midfield diamond."

Wembley Stadium is staging the outpost of the new season of the Premier League, the Community Shield game.

Tottenham Hotspur vs. Chelsea, this is the contest between the two most attacking teams in the Premier League last season, so all fans are looking forward to this will be a wonderful game for the new season. The Premier League provides a weathervane.

Therefore, all parties attach great importance to this game. In order to better show the strength of the two teams, Wembley Stadium re-laid new turf No. 12 times before the game. The mixed field of natural turf combined with artificial grass fibers used at the White Hart Lane Stadium in Tenham Hotspur.

This kind of mixed turf was also used in the home stadiums of many Premier League teams in the past. In the words of media ridicule, this time Wembley Stadium has finally made up its mind to ensure that players will not slip and get injured easily. A wise choice for the fluidity of the game.

In this game, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea showed their smooth passing and receiving cooperation from the very beginning, but unlike Chelsea, who almost always played with the main lineup, Tottenham Hotspur However, they still play with a semi-main lineup. Ye Qiu takes a cautious attitude towards those players who participate in the World Cup, especially the second half of the World Cup.

Chelsea's starting lineup, the goalkeeper is Cesar, the defense is Ashley Cole, Terry, Alex and Ferreira, the diamond midfielder is Mikel behind, Lampard and Eddie Xin, the forward is Arshavin, the double forwards are Anelka and Malouda, and Chelsea's midfield still adopts a diamond-shaped midfield position of four.

Except for Drogba who was injured before the World Cup, Chelsea can almost be said to have played with their main players to show how much Ancelotti attaches importance to this game, and also ensured that Chelsea has taken the initiative since the start .

Tottenham Hotspur's starting lineup has changed a lot, the goalkeeper is Petr Cech, the defense is Marcelo, Nastasic, Kompany and Alves, the midfielder is completely changed, Lahm Cyprus, Yaya Toure and Eriksson appeared in the starting lineup, while the front trident was Neymar, Raul and Ribery.

Long before the Community Shield Cup, Ye Qiu had already revealed that the team will adopt a cautious attitude towards the use of World Cup players at the beginning and early stages of the season, because Tottenham Hotspur has as many as [-] international players participating in the World Cup, including Fabregas, David Silva, Cavani and other players have all reached the final stage of the World Cup.

After the World Cup, Ye Qiu arranged for the players to take another two weeks of vacation, which caused them to return to the team before the team went to Amsterdam. Their bodies and states were still in the adjustment stage, and their physical reserves had just started. No matter which situation you look at, it is still far from meeting the requirements of the game.

According to past World Cup experience, all players who have participated in the World Cup will inevitably have problems in the new season, because their bodies are in a very tired state. If they are reused from the beginning of the new season, It is likely that they will be injured.

Ye Qiu took Peter Brandt's suggestion. In the pre-season warm-up match, all substitutes and young players were used, including Messi, Cesc Fabregas, Cavani and David Silva. The players are recuperating, take a good rest and adjust.

Neymar performed well in the warm-up match, and the Belgian teenager Hazzard, who performed well in the team last season, suffered a slight injury, so Ye Qiu continued to arrange Neymar, Raul and Ribery to start this game. Because the team must retain the main force, play well in the first round of the league, and host the game against Manchester City.

This is the opening game of the new Premier League season, a highly anticipated game, and Tottenham Hotspur cannot lose!
There have been a lot of changes in the Premier League this season, including Newcastle, West Ham United, Manchester City and Liverpool. The strength has been greatly improved, especially Manchester City. Benitez introduced three Spanish internationals in one breath, making Liverpool's The overall strength has taken a huge leap forward, and it is still unknown how strong the strength can be displayed.

On the contrary, it is the veteran team Chelsea. Except for the introduction of Brazilian international Ramirez from Ajax, Chelsea did not sign in. Instead, they let go of many players including Joe Cole and Belletti, causing the ball The thickness of the team's bench has been weakened.

Ancelotti still used the diamond-shaped midfield tactics in this game, using Malouda and Anelka in front to play guerrillas, and the diamond-shaped midfielders organized and passed the ball behind. Overall, it was not too eye-catching. A bright change.

It's no wonder that if there is to be a change, there must first be players who can bring about change. As a midfielder, Ramires can bring limited changes to Chelsea. In the frontcourt, Drogba is injured and absent. The overall attack power lacked threat, which was why Ye Qiu dared to attack a group of young people so boldly.

I saw Essien holding the ball on the right, took two steps forward, and saw Anelcara coming to the side to catch the ball. The Ghanaian Buffalo quickly passed the ball forward, but just as Anelka was preparing to When receiving the ball, Marcelo went around and poked the ball.

Arshavin rushed to catch the ball, but Yaya Toure stuck to him, forcing him to take the ball wide.

With a pass, Arshavin's pass just entered the penalty area, but Nastasic headed it out of the penalty area steadily. The Serbian central defender performed very steadily in this game, and this header directly went to With Ramsey retreating, the Welshman turned and passed a diagonal pass to Eriksson, who made a direct forward pass with a big foot.

I saw Ribery standing in the area between Terry and Ashley Cole. As soon as he saw Eriksson's long pass, he obviously had a movement to interfere with Terry before he started, making him unable to Start it at the first time, and then sprint forward quickly.

Franck Ribery's starting speed was very fast, he threw away Terry directly, rushed to the outside of the right side of the penalty area to catch the ball, and Terry also clung to Franck Ribery, although he was at a disadvantage in speed, But he is very smart, specifically blocking Ribery's inside cut, and he is not fast enough to avoid being fooled by Ribery's emergency stop.

It has to be said that Terry is very smart and has a lot of experience. After receiving the ball, Ribery had no choice but to suddenly accelerate again, and after opening an open space, he passed with his right foot.

At this time, there were three players in the penalty area, two blue and one white, Ashley Cole was behind Terry to help defend, Alex was defending Raul, and Ribery's cross was a low ball, the speed Soon, Ashley Cole wanted to destroy it, but failed in time, and Raul behind him followed quickly.

The smartest thing about Raul is that he blocked Alex on his left, and when the ball came from the right, he blocked Alex on the left. What is the result?It is to prevent him from interfering with his kick unless he fouls!

Therefore, Alex did not dare to use force on Raul, because once you use force at this time, Raul will fall to the ground without saying a word. At this time, the person who does not fall to the ground is a fool, and he has nothing to do if he does not use force. He could reach the ball, because there was a Raul between him and the incoming ball, so he could only expect that Raul was going to hit the goal with his left foot.

But in fact, Raul's right foot is not bad. He pushed the ball directly, and the ball went over Cesar's head and fell into the goal line. 1:0, Raul scored for Tottenham. Thorn's first appearance brought a goal!
After scoring the goal, Raul quickly ran out of the penalty area, stretched out his right hand, and kept kissing the ring on his right hand.

Lord of the Rings, this is Raul's nickname!

Tottenham Hotspur rushed to the sidelines, chasing Raul one by one, cheering the team's goal non-stop.

In the stands, the fans of Tottenham Hotspur were also chanting Raul's name, the world's top superstar, although in the eyes of many people, he is already an outdated superstar, but in Tottenham Hotspur In the eyes of Thorn fans, Raul now belongs to Tottenham Hotspur, and he is still a top superstar!

Entering the intermission with a 1:0 lead, Ye Qiu replaced three substitutions in one go, because this Community Shield has six substitutions, which is somewhat similar to a warm-up match.

Ye Qiu directly replaced Eriksson with Coutinho. The Danish teenager also played in the World Cup, but the time was not very long. Then he replaced Yaya Toure with Phil Jones, and then Kyle Walker. Alves replaced.

At the beginning of the second half, Tottenham Hotspur's midfield was actively looking for opportunities, especially Coutinho.

Ye Qiu noticed a very interesting phenomenon, no matter where Coutinho went, he still wanted Neymar to cooperate.

What surprised Ye Qiu most about Coutinho was his through ball, which was very sharp and threatening. Among the players born in the [-]s, he was definitely the best, and his footwork and awareness were also excellent. Quite outstanding, the ability to perceive space and detect loopholes in the defense is also outstanding, otherwise, how could it be possible to pass so many through balls?
But he also has obvious weaknesses. On the one hand, his physical fitness is relatively poor. This is also true of Neymar, especially his upper body strength. He, Neymar and Lucas Moura are typical characters who will fall when they hit each other. Many people wonder why it is so easy to fall because they lack strength in their upper body.

If the upper body strength is not enough, they are easily disturbed by the opponent, the body is easy to lose balance, the completion of technical movements is not standardized, and it is easy to make mistakes. Unlike Neymar, Coutinho's speed and one-on-one assault ability are not as good Neymar makes it difficult for him to adapt to the current wing tactics on the wing.

Tottenham Hotspur's wide players, especially the wingers, basically tend to be the type with speed, breakthrough, and ability to pass the ball inside, so Ye Qiu put Coutinho in the middle, Let him play in the middle position.

Coutinho's through ball is indeed very characteristic, but the interesting thing about this Brazilian kid is that he likes to pass the through ball very much, and even often takes risks when he is not sure. .

That's a bad thing, but it's also a good thing.

Ye Qiu didn't feel that Coutinho's attempt should be punished at all, because all sharp passers rely on trying to accumulate experience and finally complete their transformation, so he asked Coutinho to try, but it wasn't Blindly laissez-faire, he asked Coutinho to give full play to his advantages and characteristics on the one hand, but on the other hand he also asked him to strengthen his physical fitness.

Without a certain physical condition to lay the foundation, in the middle of the midfield known as the meat grinder, it is definitely over!

Danish teenager Eriksson’s position and characteristics are somewhat similar to Coutinho’s, but the Danish’s habitual activity area will be a little behind Coutinho. If the Brazilian’s favorite activity area is the front of the penalty area and the two In terms of the front midfielder position of the ribs, Eriksson is equivalent to the parallel midfield position.

Compared with Coutinho who likes to try and take risks, Eriksson is relatively stable, typical South American and European style.

Ye Qiu now believes more and more that the general trend of football tactics in the future is fusion. Different types of styles are fused together to learn from each other. Therefore, he has always insisted on fusing various types of players together to form a team. teams.

He is even preparing to set up a tactical laboratory through Tottenham Hotspur, which is dedicated to conducting tactical research, and strives to enable Tottenham Hotspur to always grasp the development trend of tactics and stay at the forefront of the times.

While Ye Qiu was thinking, Coutinho made another good pass on the court.

As Ye Qiu said before, in addition to the obvious weakness and shortcomings of the wing, Chelsea's diamond-shaped midfielder is also a knot in the single midfielder. I don't know if it was not enough attention or other reasons, Mikel dragged himself to the end and missed Coutinho.

Coutinho once took the ball in front of the 30-meter area, and passed the ball diagonally with his right foot to the left side of the penalty area to find Neymar.

The Brazilian rushed forward quickly, turned around and jumped up. After stopping the ball in his chest, he suddenly accelerated along the left penalty area line. After La made a block, he made a low pass into the penalty area to find Raul.

This time Raul still blocked Alex with his body, facing left, facing Neymar's pass, stopped directly to his right, which is the direction of the goal, turned around, and volleyed directly with his left foot .

The ball almost stuck to the turf, and in a straight line, rolled towards the right post again and hit the inner side netting, 2:0!

All the Tottenham Hotspur fans in the audience cheered loudly, and countless fans rushed out of their seats, cheering and applauding Raul and the Tottenham Hotspur players who were running wildly in the stadium.

Scored twice, the 33-year-old veteran, Raul Gonzalez, before joining Tottenham Hotspur, who would have thought that he could score twice in his first official game appearance?Although this is only a semi-official warm-up match, the opponent is Chelsea!

Compared with the excellence of the first goal, most of the credit for the second goal is still on Neymar.

The use of movements by the Brazilian teenager at high speeds is quite amazing, and it is easy to think of a person, Ronaldo. The most amazing thing about the Brazilian superstar is precisely his use of movements and frequency at high speeds.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that Neymar is very similar to Ronaldo. The Brazilian boy’s left and right feet are very balanced, his ability to read the game, and his insight into space are all outstanding. There are two biggest problems for him now. One is adapting to the European league. environment, especially the Premier League, there is another one is physical fitness.

Ye Qiu can even say that what kind of height Neymar can achieve in the future depends on the maturity and perfection of his body. In terms of body, Tottenham Hotspur do not plan to focus on sculpting and strengthening him for the time being. The reason is simple, too young.

Undoubtedly, it was a critical moment when he was still growing his body. At this time, it was too early to play in the professional league. If he strengthened his body and matured his body prematurely, the final result might be to backfire and backfire.

Therefore, the Tottenham Hotspur coaching staff and Ye Qiu do not advocate premature physical training for young teenagers. Even players such as Eden Hazard and Ramsey do not have physical training programs. It's just doing some regular training without focusing on strengthening.

According to Ye Qiu's plan, after the age of 20, the player will not decide whether to strengthen physical training until the player's body has fully matured. At that time, the player will not be easily injured. After all, the most worrying thing for young players is injury.

Raul scored twice, obviously did not let Tottenham Hotspur temporarily stop and continue to attack, Tottenham Hotspur continued to make substitutions, and after 10 minutes, Tottenham Hotspur Soon got another chance to kick, and Pogba, who came off the bench, took a long shot directly from 20 meters outside the penalty area.

Cesar reacted very quickly and saved the ball, while Ribery, who was like a loach, picked up a leak in the penalty area and seized a chance to score the third goal of the game for Tottenham Hotspur Ball, 3:0!

With Tottenham Hotspur scoring three goals in a row, Chelsea also started a round of counterattacks. After all, the Blues also hoped to score at least one goal that could save the class before the end of the game. Minutes, Anelka scored a goal for Chelsea.

In this way, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Chelsea 3:1 at Wembley Stadium and won the Community Shield of the new season.

The significance of this battle for Tottenham Hotspur is not reflected in the Community Shield. To be honest, Ye Qiu doesn't pay much attention to this championship at all, even if it is called the Premier League skirmish, what he really wants to see It is Chelsea's combat effectiveness.

Judging from the performance in this game, Chelsea's combat effectiveness has not improved at all, but has declined.

Why do you say that?
You just have to think about it, what was Chelsea's biggest problem in the past?
The aging of the player structure, and a season has passed, this aging trend is obviously more serious, but Chelsea has not made any omissions, nor has it made any adjustments in the lineup to promote metabolism, which makes Chelsea appear to be , the personnel, especially the main lineup, have not changed much, but in fact the strength is declining, because including Drogba and others, they are all one year older than last season.

"There will be no Chelsea in this year's championship battle!" Ye Qiu made a very firm judgment at the moment the whistle sounded at the end of the game, and if he guessed correctly, the new season's Premier League champions will be Manchester United and The battle for Tottenham Hotspur.

However, what Ye Qiu didn't expect was that the start of the league was far beyond his expectation.

(End of this chapter)