Some people say that before winning the Champions League, Liverpool was a traditional powerhouse in the Premier League with Newcastle, Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa and other teams. After winning the Champions League, they have automatically upgraded and started to side by side with teams such as Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal, returning to the ranks of giants.

But the fact is a bit strange, because among the four major Premier League clubs, Liverpool's performance in strong dialogue was the worst. It was already very bad last season. In the first half of this season, the other three teams suffered three consecutive losses. One thing that was very embarrassing is that Liverpool lost 03 to Arsenal, 0 to Manchester United, and 0l to Chelsea. He did not score even a goal in three games, but he lost U goals. Such a report card is indeed unsatisfactory and even a bit embarrassing for the Reds, who are determined to compete for the league championship.

Some media commentators joked that when they didn't win the Champions League before, Liverpool was a powerful killer. The stronger they met, but they always lost points on weak teams because they were able to put down their figures when playing strong teams and always counterattacked defensively. However, after winning the Champions League, their identity and status were different, and they disdained to play defensively and counterattacked. When playing strong teams, they always wanted to fight. As a result,

Although this is a joke, it does make sense, because everyone has known in the past few years that Liverpool has a very, very obvious fatal weakness. Even in the year Liverpool won the Champions League, this weakness was also clear, so many people think that Liverpool won the Champions League because Ye Qiu was in trouble.

Forward, this has always been a serious problem that has plagued Liverpool.

This season, Benitez is also making great efforts to adjust the team's offense, introducing Kuyt, Pennant, Bellamy and Robbie Keane, especially Robbie Keane, who were highly expected by Benitez, believing that the Irish could provoke the Liverpool forward line, but the final result was very disappointing.

Just half a year later, Robbie Keane has been included in the list of transfers to leave the team during the winter break.

This season, Liverpool has regained England's traditional 44 midfield position. The goalkeepers are Renner, the defense line Riser, Hypia, Carragher and Finnan, the midfield are Pennant, Mohamed Sissoko, Xavi Alonso and Gerrard, and the frontcourt double strikers are Crouch and Kuyt.

With the strongest lineup, Benitez's intention is naturally needless to say. He just wants to start a good start for the new year at Anfield Stadium, and everyone knows that if Tottenham continues to perform like this, they may really be able to make it into the top four.

Once Tottenham Hotspur enters the top four, the biggest threat is not Chelsea and Manchester United, which are far ahead, but Arsenal and Liverpool. One of the two teams will inevitably be squeezed out of the European Champions League ship.

Therefore, when playing Tottenham Hotspur at home, Benitez gave a killing order in this game

Liverpool are strong and strong, and Tottenham Hotspurs are also not careful.

Ye Qiu also arranged the team's best and most suitable starting lineup in this game, with goalkeeper Peter Cech, and the defense line Aveloa, Hangland, Thiago Silva and Alves. The iron triangle of the midfield is Yaya Toure, Mascherano and Fabregas. Mascherano's position dragged behind, Yaya Toure and Fabregas are relatively ahead, forming a level and midfield depth.

The frontcourt trident has not changed. Ribery and Fanny, one of the team's best performers this season, both appeared in the starting lineup, while Messi was rotated by Ye Qiu because of consecutive games, and Ashawen occupied the team's right.

This is not just a contest between Ye Qiu and Benitez, the Champions League coach, but also the first game after Beckham returned to the Premier League. Anfield Stadium was full, and even Sky TV regarded this game as the most important game for live broadcast and reporting.

Although Liverpool plays a 44 tactic, the players' positions are actually very unfixed. For example, Kuyt, whose range of movement is very large on the right, with Crouch in front of him being responsible for engaging and suppressing the opponent's central defender. Kuyt retreats more to the midfield, and sometimes even plays the right forward position, while Gerald has more freedom to move forward.

Benitez created the opportunity to get in through this repeated running and interlude. There was Crouch in the frontcourt, and Xavi Alonso's long pass could find Crouch anytime and anywhere. The English tall guys took the ball and made the ball in the frontcourt became an important offensive method for Liverpool to get in after the backcourt.

In view of Liverpool's characteristics, Tottenham Hotspur also gave its own response methods.

The start is a typical Ye Qiu start, attack

Less than 45 seconds into the opening game, Tottenham Hotspurs hit a succession of passes and receiving the ball. Fabregas got the ball and passed it directly over the top. Van Nisstrui shook off Hypia and Carragher and intercepted it in the offside. After stopping the ball with his back, he turned around and shot. The ball passed through Renner's hand and drilled straight into the bottom of the goal net, but the referee and Liverpool players both signaled that Van Nie was offside.

In the 45th second, he was the first to win. Even if he was offside and the goal was invalid, Tottenham still played the effect he wanted. Soon in the 4th minute, Ashawen made a diagonal pass with his left foot, Fanny stopped the ball with his chest and passed over Hypia, and passed the diagonal pass again to the left side of the penalty area. Ribery inserted into the back door and pushed the shot, but there was no angle, and the ball hit the side net.

Two consecutive waves of offenses directly hit Liverpool's key position, which also made Liverpool fans at Anfield Stadium frightened. Benitez even waved his hands on the sidelines, shouting that players should not tighten like this, because everyone knows that Van Nicht's biggest threat is in the penalty area, which is the best scorer in the Premier League this season.

As a wave of offensives gradually came into effect, Tottenham Hotspur began to retreat appropriately along with Liverpool's advancement.

But in order to ensure his own penalty area, Tottenham Hotspur's defense line was placed at the front of the penalty area. Mascherano stood firmly in front of the defense line, cutting off all the ground balls passed to Crouch, and blocking the back from Liverpool as much as possible to attack.

Aveloa and Alves are two full-backs, the former is the main defender, targeting Gerald and Kuyt, while the latter is the main attacker, but Ye Qiu also gave him a defensive task in this game. Once Pennant gets the ball, Alves gives up the side, retracts the middle, and forces him to cross.

Pennant was once the assist king in the Premier League, so he naturally had strength, but if he just crossed the wing, he would need to say more about the low efficiency. After all, such tactical style has been abandoned for a long time, and Tottenham Hotspur’s two central defenders joined forces to clamp Crouch, especially Thiago Silva, who frequently go around the front to defend and head the ball to clear the ball.

Although Thiago Silva is much shorter than Crouch, he is more flexible than Crouch and his bounce ability is also very good, which makes his front-circling defense successful rate very high. After all, heading is not only based on height and bounce, but also very important in choosing and predicting positions, and these are exactly Crouch's weaknesses.

At least this season, Liverpool's ability to handle the wing defense in the middle has always been problematic.

In the focus of defense, Ye Qiu deliberately let go of the right side and focused on defending the left side, so Aveloa played on the left side and Alves played on the right side. This was obviously a targeted arrangement. Even if Pennant frequently got the ball and got the chance, Ye Qiu did not have the idea of ​​strengthening the right side defense, but let it go.

The core purpose of defense is to prevent the opponent from scoring goals, and Liverpool's most threatening scoring points are on the side of Gerald, Kuyt and Crouch. No matter how Pennant takes the ball, he will get the ball on the wing and cannot create a threat.

It is not a good thing for defense to open the net and concentrate troops to defend the opponent's deadly weapons, while also allowing the opponent to seize the loophole. And you should know that there is a problem with Pennant and Crouch, that is, the pace of playing football is slow, which is undoubtedly very consistent with Tottenham Hotspur's idea.

In addition to the fast attack at the beginning, Tottenham Hotspur deliberately slowed down the pace and tried more ball control and snagging to slow down the pace. Liverpool used active running and pressing to destroy it, hoping to use physical fitness and speed to defeat the opponent. Therefore, the Reds want to be fast, and Tottenham Hotspur wants to be slow, so it is also beneficial to let Liverpool beat Pennant's side.

However, the midfield and frontcourt composed of Mohamed Sissoko, Xavi Alonso, Gerald and Kuyt is indeed very good. At least it is done well in suppressing the opponent through running and pressing. Tottenham Hotspurs tried to make a threatening attack several times, but they were destroyed by them.

But even so, Ye Qiu still waved his hands on the sidelines to signal the players to maintain patience and not to speed up the pace with Liverpool and continue to slow down, because slowness is beneficial to Tottenham Hotspur.

But who can imagine that this slowdown will be slow to the second half.

Beckham sat on the bench. Although he failed to get the starter in this game, Ye Qiu was placed on the roster. On the bench, his attention was not affected by the outside world at all. Even the camera swept past him, he did not pay attention, and he was all focused on the game.

He had his own feeling about this game, that is, Liverpool was dragged down by Tottenham Hotspur's ball-controlled style, and Tottenham Hotspur was also defeated by Liverpool's running and pressing, which directly led to the performance of both teams being bad.

To put it simply, Liverpool lacks effective weapons to speed up the pace, and Tottenham Hotspur needs a player who can bypass Liverpool's press and send it into the frontcourt. Whoever makes the corresponding adjustments first will continue to take the initiative.

Through the game, Beckham can feel that this Tottenham Hotspur is still very powerful, at least not as many media outlets say, Ye Qiu's Waterloo.

"David"

Just as Beckham was thinking, Roland walked over from the front and waved at him, "Go to warm up quickly."

Beckham stood up towards Roland. He was a veteran and had a lot of experience in the game. He stood up and took off his body and jumped a few times on the sidelines, exerted his muscles and bones, and then walked to the sidelines to warm up. Every move was very skillful, straight and serious.

Only veterans who have experienced many years of career can understand the importance of warm-up. It can allow you to integrate into the game faster. During the warm-up process, you should not just move your body, but should make your body adapt to the pace of the game faster.

So when I was warming up, I saw Beckham running back and forth and sprinting back and forth many times, which made Ye Qiu, who was watching in his spare time, smiled and praised Mauro Tasotti and Roland: "The veteran is the veteran."

"Oh, we saw that Beckham appeared on the sidelines to warm up. Tottenham Hotspur seemed to be making a substitution." The commentator also noticed this phenomenon, and with his shout, a burst of cheers rang out on the scene.

Even though Beckham played for Liverpool's arch rival Manchester United before, in fact, he still has many fans in Liverpool.

In less than two or three minutes, Beckham returned to the front of the visiting coach's seat.

"As soon as you go up, they will definitely force you." Ye Qiu didn't say much, but directly pulled Beckham closer and explained in a low voice.

"If they force you, you back, they follow you and pass the ball to Fabregas and let him plug in. If they don't follow you, you pass the ball, do you understand?"

Ye Qiu's explanation is actually very simple, but it is full of many details. As an experienced veteran, Beckham suddenly understood what Ye Qiu meant, and he quickly figured out a deeper tactical significance.

There are two differences in his playing field. One is that if Liverpool midfielder continues to choose to force him closely after he retreats, then Liverpool's midfielder will definitely miss one person, because Tottenham Hotspur has three, while Liverpool has a 44 tactic, only two. If Alves on the right is included, the advantage will be more obvious

If Liverpool does not force him close to the midfield to maintain balance, then he can choose to take the ball and launch a long pass after taking the ball, which can also create a threat. This is actually creating a problem for Liverpool. Do you need to force him or not?

The traditional 44 tactics have proven to be increasingly unable to adapt to modern football. The main reason is that they are prone to lose power in the midfield. Therefore, now there are about three people in the middle of the 3l, 43I, or even 433 midfielders, which poses a huge threat to 44.

Beckham quickly completed the substitution handover, stood on the sidelines, wearing a belt, waiting for the chance to die. This time he replaced Yaya Toure. The Ivorians performed very hard, ran very actively, and defended well, but the effect was not very good. Ye Qiu always felt that he lacked something and consciousness.

When preparing for a substitution, Ye Qiu passed it to the players in the frontcourt through Roland. Ribery and Ashawen were as close to the opponent's defense as possible. Once Beckham seized the opportunity, he would directly launch a long pass, and they should ensure that they would counter offside as soon as possible.

Beckham replaced Yaya Toure. After the two hugged each other on the sidelines, the Englishman walked into the stadium with the cheers and boos of everyone in the entire Anfield stadium, walked into the familiar Anfield, and walked into the familiar but unfamiliar Premier League stadium.

This was his first time returning to the Premier League, and it was also his first time to return to the Premier League after more than three years of separation. Some familiar but unfamiliar emotions and memories poured into his mind in an instant.

Two days ago, he was still confused about his future and was still worried about not knowing where his next stop would be. But two days later, he was already standing on the Premier League stage, waiting for this opportunity to prove himself again.

He raised his head and felt the dazzling lights above Anfield Stadium, and the cheers swept across the audience were deafening. Even though many people said that the atmosphere at home in the Premier League was very poor and the attendance rate was getting worse and worse, compared with all other leagues, Premier League fans are always the most fanatical and passionate fans.

Taking a deep breath, Beckham quickly ran into the stadium, the referee standing nearby came over, shook hands with him, said a few words of advice, and then he ran all the way to his teammates.

Before this game, he had never had even one training session with Tottenham Hotspur, and his teammates had only heard of the names at most, learned some general technical and tactical characteristics, and others were very unfamiliar.

Fanny came over and hugged Beckham, "Okay, David, you can do it."

Beckham patted Vanny on the shoulder and watched the Dutch run to the front again, while he looked at Fabregas. The Spanish boy was also looking at him, looking a little like the restraint he saw when he saw a big-name superstar, while the English smiled kindly, and the Spanish boy naturally smiled back.

After a few steps back, standing next to Mascherano, Beckham nodded at the Argentinian, "When I retreat, you go up and support Sesque and leave it to me behind."

Mascherano was stunned. He originally thought that big-name stars didn't like to take the initiative to take the defensive job, because such dirty and tiring jobs were not as good as big-name stars, so he prepared. After Beckham came up, he wanted to take the initiative to take the job, but unexpectedly, Beckham took the initiative to take the initiative to take the job.

"Yeah" Mascherano nodded with a smile. He knew that this was Ye Qiu's arrangement.

He has always trusted his head coach very much. He firmly believed that Ye Qiu would make such arrangements, so he must have his intention. He doesn't need to think and guess more now, he just needs to obey, that's enough.

The game started again soon, and Tottenham's midfielder still maintained a triangle position. Beckham and Fabregas were relatively upside down, and Mascherano dragged the position, everything was not much different from what was just now.

But just two minutes after Beckham played, he got a chance to get the ball with his back. Mohamed Sissoko blocked him with his body. At this time, Beckham chose to dribble the ball back. Mohamed Sissoko did not catch up because he saw Mascherano pressing in front and was worried about Xavi Alonso, so he didn't keep up.

While Beckham was hesitating, he saw Aveloa running forward and immediately passed it to Aveloa. Then he turned around. After attracting Kuyt's attention, the Spaniard hit Beckham who turned around.
Chapter completed!