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Tottenham Hotspur played a total of four warm-up matches in mid- and late July. In these four games, the team achieved an unbeaten record of three wins and one draw, including 0 exciting games like Southampton. However, overall, the outside media are still not satisfied with Tottenham Hotspur's performance.

Tottenham Hotspur adopted another tactical style of play in 0 big wins against Southampton.

The goalkeeper and the defense line basically remained unchanged, but there were changes in the midfield and frontcourt. Ye Qiu arranged a combination of Fabregas and Lucas. Ribery and Cavani were separated from the wings in the frontcourt, Ashavin occupied the front midfielder position alone, and Carol stood at the front of the team.

This set of tactics is different from the 433 tactic used by Tottenham Hotspur before, because it adopts Ashavin to play the front midfielder or the shadow striker, and even looks more like a frontcourt libero. Fabregas' position is relatively backward with Lucas, responsible for organizing and passing the ball.

Ashawen is obviously more suitable for this tactical style. He performed very well in the middle of the frontcourt, with two assists and a goal himself. He also scored in almost every offensive planning of the team, which also made Ye Qiu realize how he should activate the Russian Tsar.

Not only that, in this game against Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur had high ball control and efficiency, the entire midfield was running very smoothly, and the control was well grasped. It was difficult for Southampton to have a chance to create a threat even throughout the game.

Needless to say, Fabregas and Ashavin, Lucas, a Brazilian midfielder, was known for his offense and defense when he was in Brazil. His skills, passing and receiving skills are not weak at all. However, he has always had the problem of slow pace.

But unexpectedly, he was slow to form a control triangle for Tottenham Hotspur midfield with Ashavin and Fabregas. The three of them went back and forth to each other and cooperated with each other's passing and receiving balls very skillfully. Ye Qiu even later replaced Modric and directly tried the diamond midfield tactics to let Lucas drag back, Modric and Fabregas were in the center, and Ashavin broke in the front.

However, Tottenham Hotspur has never practiced this diamond midfielder style in training. He played for nearly half an hour in this game against Southampton, and the effect was good. Both ball control and passes and catches were good, but the efficiency was not high, the pace was slow, and the midfield lacked width, so Ye Qiu felt that the effect was not very good.

Ye Qiu has always felt that the slow ball control style is difficult to get out in the Premier League, because the Premier League is a league that advocates impactful play. Many people say that La Liga does not pay attention to defense, but they have not seen the La Liga team's cutting of the passing route. It is part of their tactics and a way of defense.

Therefore, if La Liga does not pay attention to defense, it is not a game, or only to watch the Spanish Super League.

When encountering a La Liga team in the Spanish Super League, they play with that crushing advantage. No matter how good the defense is, they will be a scumbag.

Compared with La Liga, the Premier League’s style is obviously more extensive, not open, but extensive.

This is a very strange league. It is full of passion and a manifestation of the most primitive charm of football, but it is still in a tactical way, but at least it is a relatively backward level, especially for mid- and lower-level teams.

Therefore, Premier League teams are the real ones. We cannot say that they do not pay attention to it, or they should not know how to organize good defense. This has a certain relationship with the fact that many Premier League teams insist on trusting local head coaches. Looking at European and even world football, how many British local head coaches have succeeded outside?

Even though it is now known as the Premier League, among all the famous British coaches, Ferguson from Scotland, and Moyes, the other one, is frankly speaking, Ye Qiu thinks that he may not be able to play in other leagues.

Football is a very mutually rebellious thing. Rigorous ball control tactics must be more advanced than extensive British tactics. Otherwise, Ferguson, Wenger and others do not need to pursue mainlandization all the time. But you have to feel strange that if you pursue ball control tactics to a certain extent, in the Premier League, you will even be defeated by extensive British tactics.

Therefore, there are many things and many tactics in the history of football. He is a cycle, repeating cycle.

Advanced does not necessarily mean advantages, nor does it mean.

So, in the last half hour of playing Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur had an absolute advantage in possession, but he had no way to score. Instead, the team scored five goals in the first hour, which is definitely worth studying.

So, after playing Southampton, before the team was preparing to go to Amsterdam, Ye Qiu held an internal tactical discussion and analysis meeting in Theoborde. For more than two hours, he kept explaining and analyzing the problems and situations that had occurred in the past few games.

Many people say that after Ye Qiu reorganized a set of tactical play, his team's entire familiarity and implementation process was relatively slow, and there was always a period of time when they played very awkward and uncomfortable. New players once told their reporters that Ye Qiu rarely went to specific drills to cooperate and what route to play, which made them very confused.

When the reporter conveyed this question to Ye Qiu, Ye Qiu smiled and said that this was his style.

"Some head coaches like to give players a lot of restrictions. They will formulate a lot of very detailed tactics to tell you when to do it and when. But if you pause a player's move and ask him why he does this? He may tell you that this is how we play in training."

"But there is also a kind of head coach who doesn't like to have so many restrictions. He won't even ask the players how to move and move, but he will tell the players how I want to play next, what your task is, and then you think about what you should do, how to cooperate with your teammates, give full play to your imagination and creativity, think more, think more."

"I can't say which thinking is better, but the former will easily encounter some obstacles, because when he finds that what he is used to, has brought them many successful goals and scores, and the routine that has to be practiced continuously every training game is destroyed by the opponent, he doesn't know how to play the game."

"Don't tell me that there is no such team. I tell you, go and flip through the teams that perform very badly. They are almost all like this. What I want to do now is not to tell them how to do it, but to let them think about it yourself. I leave my position and enter the opponent's position. What is my purpose? How do I attack targetedly?"

"When I see my teammates in trouble, how should I help and pick them up? When I drive the ball forward, what is my purpose? Pass? Shoot? When I drive the ball backward, what is my purpose?"

"Why do we suddenly slow down the pace of the game? And suddenly speed up the pace of the game? Why do I pass this ball? Why don't my teammates pass the ball to me?"

"Many people say that the biggest reason for a player's sluggish performance on the court is his physical condition, such as injury, fatigue, etc., but I don't think so. I think the biggest reason why a player performs poorly is his ignorance, his ignorance of his opponent's tactics, his own tactics, what he can do to himself, what he can help the team, is equally ignorant."

"So, as the head coach of the team, I must instill in my players a way of thinking and a way of seeking knowledge, so that they can try to figure out what they do, and as long as the eleven players in the team clearly know what they want to do and what they should do, then this team will be invincible."

For this reason, Ye Qiu just had a training camp last season, when the team was facing these players for the first time, he joked that when he first came to London, he was afraid of getting lost, so he walked the same road back and forth. So there were several times when he encountered traffic jams, the taxi next to him had already circled around the streets, but he was still honking the horn on the road stupidly.

This self-deprecating case made the players laugh, but it told all the players a very straightforward truth. Ye Qiu didn't dare to take a detour because he was not as familiar with the streets of London as those taxi cars. But now, he was familiar with the streets of London, and he could run around like those taxi cars.

Therefore, if you pay attention to Ye Qiu's pre-season training camp, there are two things that he pays most attention to, one is the physical fitness reserves before the season.

Ye Qiu has always felt that it is easy to cause injuries when it is too large in the middle of the season, so unless it is really necessary, he generally does not have a large in the middle of the season. At best, he is doing some training to adjust his physical fitness.

Another one is the tactical analysis meeting, and this kind of meeting will generally combine targeted game videos, which requires a strong analysis team behind Tottenham Hotspur’s coaching staff. Peter Brandt is the head of this analysis team, and the entire analysis team has as many as ten people.

Of course, these ten people are not only responsible for video recording and game analysis, but also training, including analysis from all aspects. They have to submit an analysis report to the coaching team almost every day as an important basis for the coaching team to arrange training and competitions. This is also the habit that Ye Qiu has been since the Ajax period.

Say goodbye to July and enter August.

The team crossed the English Channel and came to Amsterdam. The next day, the Amsterdam Cup was ushered in. The opening game was Tottenham Hotspur facing Lazio.

Ye Qiu attaches great importance to the Amsterdam Cup, not only because the opponents are very strong. In addition to the host Ajax, Lazio in Serie A and Atletico Madrid in La Liga are both top league teams, which also makes the warm-up match of this event very valuable.

The internationals who participated in the Copa America have also returned to the team one after another, but Ye Qiu also treated them separately. Thiago Silva, Marcelo, Cavani and others who played less in the game, were all on the roster because their physical fitness and condition were adjusted well.

Messi, Mascherano and Vargas are all adjusting their bodies and making reserves for the new season, so they didn't even make the roster in this game.

In this match against Lazio, Tottenham Hotspur lined up 433 in the first half. The goalkeeper was Cech, the defense was Marcelo, Hangland, Thiago Silva and Aveloa, the midfield was Beckham, Yaya Toure and Fabregas, and the frontcourt were Gareth Bale, Van Persie and Ribery.

When the game reached the 18th minute, Marcelo suddenly stepped forward and cooperated with Gareth Bale on the left, but was blocked by Lazio's defense. Marcelo protected the ball and knocked back. Fabregas inserted and rushed into the ball, passing through Lazio's defense line. Van Persie stopped the ball on the left side of the penalty area, shook the defender and shot at a small angle. 0

After taking the lead in breaking the opponent's goal, Tottenham's offense seemed more ambitious, and launched round after round of offensives against Lazio, but Lazio was not a fuel-efficient lamp. The defense was organized very steadily and never gave Tottenham Hotspur more opportunities. Instead, in the 41st minute, Tottenham Hotspur made a mistake and formed a counterattack to create a corner kick. The opponent used the corner kick opportunity to score.

Although it was tied in the first half, Ye Qiu still made four substitutions in the midfield. After replacing Ashavin, the team became the arrowhead of 3I Carroll who replaced Van Persie as the team.

The warm-up match against Southampton made the British high center famous. Carol, who scored a hat-trick, was even called by the British media as Tottenham Hotspur's hope for scoring after Fanny left the team. Especially after the hat-trick in the warm-up match, many people exclaimed that he had obtained Fanny's true pass.

Little did he know that Carol didn't bother to learn shooting from Fanny at all.

Ye Qiu always held a cold-eyed attitude towards media hype, because he felt that Carol was just one of the changes in his team from beginning to end, because Carol did have too obvious shortcomings and deficiencies.

First of all, his physical flexibility. He is tall and strong, and he looks like a standard British center benchmark, but explosiveness and flexibility are his weaknesses and shortcomings, which limits his role.

Secondly, in terms of technology, Carol has a certain technical foundation, especially when facing a team like Southampton, which is not as strong as Tottenham Hotspur, his aspect will be magnified, but once he encounters a strong team, his weakness will be obvious, so he cannot become a tactical fulcrum similar to Drogba's tactical fulcrum for retracement and getting the ball. He also lacks the ability to dribble and turn around after getting the ball. In addition, his flexibility and explosive power make his most threatening area not in the low post, but in the high post, especially in the opponent's penalty area.

So when you hit Carroll's current striker, you have to cater to this characteristic. Interestingly, there is also an Ashavin in Tottenham Hotspur team. This player is good at playing shadow striker and playing free agents in the frontcourt. If Carroll is put in front, Ashavin will cruise behind him and then complete the transition from the backcourt to the frontcourt through both wings.

In this way, Carol can play the biggest threat, and Ashavin can also play his own advantage

Ye Qiu practiced the team's 4L tactics again in this game against Lazio. The difference is that this time Beckham was arranged by Ye Qiu to return to the right that he was most familiar with.

As a result, Ashawen got the ball and was assigned to the right. Beckham stopped the ball and made a cross. Carol headed the ball in the penalty area. Tottenham Hotspur once again broke Lazio's goal in the first minute.

This goal also became the last goal of the game. Tottenham Hotspur successfully defeated Lazio in the opening game of the Amsterdam Cup, and the English local center Andy Carroll, who scored the winning goal, became famous again. He scored four goals in two consecutive games. Carroll really wanted to compete with his senior Van Nie.

But the British media shouted happily, but Ye Qiu had no intention of accommodating their ideas at all. Two days later, the team welcomed Ajax. As a result, Ye Qiu continued to use the offensive combination of Van Persie, Ribery and Ashley Young this time to further try to examine the team's offensive routines. After all, he has to prepare for the injury of players in the middle of the season.

As a result, Tottenham played in a mess throughout the game, and there was no way to attack. In the end, he took advantage of the opportunity of a set piece in the frontcourt. Beckham assisted Hangland to score a goal, and the team also defeated the home team Ajax by 0 with this goal.

With two consecutive wins and three goals, Tottenham Hotspur finally ranked first in the Amsterdam Cup with a total score of nine points and won the championship. Atletico Madrid won the second in the group because of L.A., Ajax third in the group. Lazio lost two consecutive games and could only fall to the bottom of the group.

With the end of the Amsterdam Cup, Tottenham Hotspur won this warm-up championship, but it never failed to play the shattering attack in the second half of last season. This also made many people clearly realize that Tottenham Hotspur has not yet been able to leave Van Nicht and leave the team's tactical adjustments.

Returning to London from Amsterdam, the draw for the third round of the UEFA qualifiers was held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool both have to participate in the qualifiers as third and fourth place in the Premier League teams.

This is Tottenham Hotspur's first time in decades to compete in the Champions League. Almost everyone is full of anxiety and anxiety and expectation for the team's Champions League journey.

According to Tottenham Hotspur fans in an interview with the media, Ye Qiu's coaching team has extremely rich experience in the Champions League. I believe that this experienced team can bring stable Champions League results to the young Tottenham Hotspur.

Tottenham Hotspur fans are also very cautious about the team's Champions League results and expressed their efforts to participate in the group stage

Relatively speaking, Ye Qiu's ambitions will be greater.
Chapter completed!