In fact, many things in football tactics are very simple after all.

It’s like an offense, all offenses actually revolve around one purpose, that is, the time difference.

The reason why a player can score goals is because he can shoot before the defender arrives, allowing the ball to cross the goal line before the goalkeeper reaches it, and passes and runs are also to create a time difference, allowing a player in a certain area to be in an undefensive state at a certain time.

Then, sometimes things seem very, very simple, just like Tottenham Hotspur's attack.

Ribery and Cavani were both gathered at the top of the arc in the middle, and Fabregas rushed forward to further strengthen the pressure on Barcelona's defense. Marcelo on the left took the ball and led the ball forward. He just crossed the center line and was defended by Barcelona. The Brazilian left-back passed the ball back to his half and handed it to Beckham.

Beckham has been in good shape recently. He is trying to show his strength and win Capello's recognition, so he can enter the South African World Cup roster of the England national team. In everyone's opinion, Beckham is also a player that is currently indispensable to the English national team, because his long passes and free kicks are England's most sharp attack weapons.

Facing Marcelo's return pass, Beckham stopped the ball in front of him with his right foot. Because there were no defensive players around him, he deliberately stopped a little further, caught up with a step, quickly swung his right foot, and rubbed a curved ball.

The pass was not high, but the arc was very large and the speed was very fast. From the arc area in the center line, it crossed the large field and landed on the right side of the Barcelona penalty area.

At this time, Messi, who had been swimming on the right, rushed forward quickly. After the ball landed and rebounded, Messi had already chased to the right side of the ball, turned to the left, stopped the ball to the left with his chest, and stopped directly into Barcelona's penalty area.

At this moment, Abidal and Busquets also chased back to the penalty area. The former approached Messi at the first time, while the latter deliberately lag behind a certain position to ensure that they can assist in defense as soon as possible.

After Messi broke into the penalty area, facing Abidal, he stared at the French left-back. His figure suddenly changed, and his entire short body leaned towards his right side, looking like he was going to make a cross from the bottom.

As Ye Qiu has always said, sometimes the simplest things on the football field are the most effective.

Just like Messi's fake move, it is very simple, and it is something that everyone can do, but different people can achieve completely different effects when used at different times and in different places. The key is one word, the time difference

After Messi rushed into the penalty area, Abidal quickly fitted in. At this time, he didn't have enough time to make rational judgments. Therefore, when he saw Messi having a fake move to go down, he didn't have enough time to tell whether it was true or false. As a defender, the only thing he could do was to respond with Messi's movements.

This is also a very, very important concept in the defensive concept, which is to prevent offensive players from launching head-on attacks to the greatest extent, because once they attack the defense head-on, offensive players have many choices, while defensive players are in absolute passiveness.

Abidal moved with Messi, but the Argentinian's right tilt did not control the ball. Instead, the center of gravity changed from the original right tilt to the left tilt. He gently pushed the ball forward with his left foot and walked through the deceived Abidal.

At this time, whether it was Abidal who reacted, Busquets who was chasing him back, or Mascherano in the small penalty area, they rushed over immediately and wanted to double-team Messi.

Three to one, Messi swung his left foot quickly after passing Abidal, and shot a curved ball in the instep. The whole shot was very fast and the connection was very good. After he scored a shot, Busquets' blocking came to Messi, and the ball passed Mascherano and rotated strongly. Even though Valdes responded immediately and flew to save, the ball still penetrated into the upper left corner of the goal.

It's very simple, there's not even too much cooperation routine, just Beckham's long pass transfer, Messi relied on his personal ability to get rid of defense, and then took a kick to the goal. The whole process happened in the blink of an eye and the ball entered.

Everyone in the entire White Hart Lane stadium was shocked by Messi's goal in an instant. After two or three seconds of silence, a deafening cheer came out. All the fans in the audience shouted Messi in unison. All Tottenham Hotspur players rushed towards Messi who had already rushed to the sidelines to celebrate, and surrounded him.

0 Tottenham Hotspur temporarily takes the lead

Everyone was obviously shocked by this sudden goal because it came too suddenly and was too surprising. Even before Messi scored, no one was prepared for the goal, because in the past half hour, Barcelona had an absolute advantage in possession, and their passing success rate was also very high. Although Tottenham Hotspur shot a lot, it did not create a real threat.

But who would have thought that the first threatening shot would directly result in a goal

While everyone in Tottenham Hotspur was celebrating, Barcelona was hit by the sudden goal, and the players became obviously a little depressed on the court because they found that their hard-working and hard-working ball possession rate in the past half hour did not help them at all.

As Ye Qiu said before, the ball possession rate is actually a double-edged sword, with both good and bad tactical levels, and the same is true for the players' psychology. The upside is that when your ball possession rate is high, and you can create threats at all times, or even score goals, the player's psychology will be more confident, but if it is reversed, a high ball possession rate will be a kind of pressure.

To give the simplest example, it is like a person who usually earns more than 10,000 yuan in salary every month, but suddenly one month, the salary he gets is less than half of his usual ones. What kind of psychological changes do you think he will have?

Ye Qiu knew how to take advantage of the situation on the court. After seeing Messi score, he immediately waved his hand and signaled the players to push forward and launch a counterattack against Barcelona.

There are two goals for doing this. The first is to maintain the current leading advantage. It is best to use the morale of leading and strive to win another game. However, if you cannot win another game, you can also achieve the second game, which is to bring this advantage and morale to the beginning of the second half.

In fact, although Tottenham Hotspur scored three more threatening shots in the last ten minutes, he still failed to break through Barcelona's goal, but successfully completely suppressed Barcelona in the last ten minutes.

So much so that when Saki finished commenting in the first half, he believed that Guardiola lost to Ye Qiu in the competition at the head coach level.

"Ye Qiu has always been the kind of head coach who is very good at raising momentum. Ferguson and Benitez are both. They are the kind of head coach who is very good at using the situation on the court to create advantages for themselves. Mourinho is different. They are the kind of fine preparation type. Through careful preparation before the game, they practice and instill all possible situations in the game into the players to achieve the effect of adapting to the game."

"Guardiola and Wenger are a bit academy. Of course, strictly speaking, Ye Qiu is also a bit academy, but not as strong as Guardiola and Wenger. This kind of academic school is often good at designing at the tactical framework level, but it is relatively weak in terms of game response."

When talking about this, Saki also sighed, "Actually, in the first half hour, Tottenham Hotspur played a diagonal attack, that is, through a long pass from the backcourt, he directly found both sides of Barcelona's penalty area. He looked for Ribery and Messi's offensive routines, but Guardiola obviously did not pay enough attention."

"Of course, you can say that Tottenham Hotspur's previous attempts did not pose a threat, but the problem is, as the head coach, you should have the ability to predict the danger and respond in advance. I think Ye Qiu has always done a good job at this point, while Guardiola is relatively weak in this regard."

"There is another stark contrast. In the last ten minutes, Tottenham Hotspur scored a goal, and Ye Qiu launched a fierce attack. At this time, Guardiola obviously had no intention of adjusting the team and let the team be beaten passively. His idea should be to leave it to the halftime break before responding, but he ignored one point, that is, to concede the ball, and coupled with the passiveness in the last ten minutes, it would have a big blow to the players' psychology and morale.

"Ye Qiu is very targeted, and I personally think that he is already planning the tactics of the second half in advance. If I guess correctly, Tottenham Hotspur will start the attack in the second half."

Speaking of this, Saki laughed and shook his head and said, "A very smart change. When you think I will attack after the start, I will not attack. I counterattacked with defense, scored goals, got an advantage, hit your morale and forced you to make changes. When I suddenly counterattack, even if I can't score, I will disrupt your plan."

"We can see that strategy and tactics, on Ye Qiu, whatever he wants, Tottenham Hotspur is like his arm, he can fight whatever he wants, and he can fight wherever he wants."

When Saki was talking about this, the commentator laughed. Anyway, the first half was over, he asked: "Mr. Saki, do you think there is hope for Tottenham Hotspur this year? You know, they have defended their title once."

Saki heard the voice-over and smiled, "Putting other possible factors aside, I think Tottenham Hotspur's hopes for defending the title are still very high, but I have studied Tottenham Hotspur's season very seriously, and I think they need some luck."

"Luck?" The on-site commentator obviously didn't understand.

"If Tottenham eliminates Barcelona, ​​the opponents in the semi-finals are Bayern Munich and Manchester United. I think from the current performance, if you meet Bayern Munich, Tottenham has a great hope of entering the final, but if you meet Manchester United, I think it is very difficult, because Ferguson's control and adjustment of Manchester United have also shown effects in recent times. AC Milan had been beaten by Manchester United twice at home and away. I think Ferguson's team may not actually lose to Tottenham Hotspur and Barcelona, ​​especially their defense."

The central defender combination of Vidic and Ferdinand is the best central defender combination in European football today, no one, and in the past few years, they have developed a good tacit understanding. In addition, the midfield adjustment this season has been very good, and the frontcourt Trident has performed quite well. Manchester United's overall strength is very balanced, which is indeed underestimated.

Everyone can actually clearly appreciate it from Sachie's comments, that is, Sachie has basically judged that Tottenham Hotspur will eliminate Barcelona. Is it because of Messi's goal in the first half?

The start of the second half was very consistent with Sachi's judgment. Tottenham Hotspur had been like a tiger going down the mountain from the beginning, launching a fierce impact on Barcelona.

If it were normal times, Barcelona's defense would never be so easily broken by Tottenham Hotspur, but perhaps it was Sachi's. The advantage of the first half was maintained until the beginning of the second half. Tottenham Hotspur's first threatening attack in the second half pierced through Barcelona's goal, and the goal scored was Ribery.

This is the corner kick caused by Messi and Alves on the right. Beckham took the corner kick and accurately found Ziglinsky at the front point. The Ukrainian beat Pique and headed the ball to the back point. Ribery was about eight meters away from the goal. He directly swung his left foot, volleyed and pierced Valdes' goal.

After scoring the goal, the entire White Hart Lane Stadium was completely in full swing, and all the players and fans were celebrating wildly.

Strictly speaking, Tottenham Hotspur's performance in this game was not active, the team was not in good shape, and both goals looked more like the reflection and performance of the player's personal strength, but Tottenham Hotspur's defense was very impressive, especially the restrictions on Van Persie.

Ye Qiu is very familiar with Van Persie's technical characteristics. This is a player he promoted and cultivated. Therefore, in this game, Tottenham Hotspur's coaching staff specially set up a large net for Van Persie, directly covering the Dutch in the center of the net, so that he could neither receive the ball nor pass the ball.

After scoring the first goal in the second half, Tottenham Hotspur did not slow down the offensive, but continued to launch a fierce attack on Barcelona, ​​and threatened Barcelona's goal again and again, forcing the La Liga giants to adopt a defensive strategy.

In the 62nd minute, Guardiola took the lead in making the first substitution adjustment in this game, replacing midfielder Sedo Keita with poor performance in the frontcourt Alexis Sanchez, allowing Keita to return to the midfield to play on the left, strengthening the midfield defense, especially the left defense.

You should know that Tottenham has always claimed to fly both wings together. Ribery and Marcelo on the left, Messi and Alves on the right are all very sharp offensive combinations, and Keita's appearance can further strengthen the defense on the left and freeze the active Tottenham Hotspur's right offense.

After this substitution, Saki shook his head and made a judgment, "Guardiola has given up on this game. Although the score of 0 is difficult to satisfy, at least there is still a glimmer of hope. When returning to the Camp Nou, Barcelona still has a chance."

"However, now Tottenham has obviously disrupted Barcelona's plan and rhythm. Barcelona is in a desperate situation and it is difficult to have a chance to counterattack. And it is far from time to give it a try, so Guardiola's idea is to keep the existing score and leave the final at the Camp Nou Stadium."

Although such a strategy is a bit conservative and may even cause dissatisfaction among fans, it is not completely unreasonable. After all, if you want to counterattack now, you have to push it out and continue to attack. According to Tottenham Hotspur’s current advantage, you really push it out and play. Although it is possible to score a goal, the possibility of another goal by Tottenham Hotspur is also very high.

Sometimes, what the head coach needs to do is weigh the pros and cons, but each head coach has his own personality and characteristics, so their standards for weighing the pros and cons are completely different.

With Keita playing, everyone in Barcelona clearly felt the intention of the head coach. After Tottenham attacked for another time, they gradually slowed down their offense. In the 75th minute, Ye Qiu quickly replaced Cavani with Falcao. The latter had already worked very hard in this game. Now it is time to get down and rest.

Then Ye Qiu replaced Messi one after another, replaced Hazard, Beckham, and Phil Jones. They were all very obvious counter-substitutions, and they were also further adjusting the players' physical fitness, especially several core players, including Messi, who are currently in the physical fitness adjustment stage.

Perhaps seeing Tottenham Hotspur substitution, Guardiola quickly replaced Van Persie with Boyan, but this was a substitution that happened in the 84th minute, and after that, Barcelona has always been difficult to organize an effective offense.

In the end, with the whistle of Swiss referee Massimo Busaka, the focus battle that attracted much attention from the outside world finally came to an end. Tottenham Hotspur finally defeated the visiting Barcelona 0 at home with two goals from Messi and Ribery.

This victory also allowed Tottenham Hotspur to occupy a favorable position in the quarterfinals knockout stage, but no matter who it is, he still dare not be careless, because a week later, Tottenham Hotspur must visit the Camp Nou Stadium.
Chapter completed!