In the past, Tottenham Hotspur's signings were completed before the team's training, but the situation this summer was a bit special. Due to the impact of the South African World Cup, Tottenham Hotspur's signings were a bit delayed, resulting in the last player Raul who was the last introduced player to join the team at the end of July.

Because of this, the Amsterdam Invitational held in the Netherlands became the first collective appearance of Tottenham Hotspur first-team. Considering that the other two teams participating in the Amsterdam Invitational are Roma from Serie A and Villarrel from La Liga, the warm-up content is still very high, which is a good test for Tottenham Hotspur.

In July, Tottenham Hotspur played a total of three warm-up matches, two of which were from the low-level England league, and the other was the Celtics from the Scottish Premier League. Tottenham Hotspur won three consecutive victories, but the performance was not very ideal. However, considering that the internationals participating in the World Cup failed to return to the team on time, this was not much convincing.

Just when everyone was looking forward to Tottenham's first main lineup debut, Ye Qiu did not use the entire main lineup in Amsterdam's first game against Villarrell.

Goalkeeper Cech, Alba, Kompani, Nastasic and Kyle Walker in the back, Coutinho, Yaya, Toure and Ramsey in the midfield, and Neymar, Raul and Ribery in the frontcourt tridents.

This disappointed some Dutch fans who wanted to see Messi on a special trip, because Ye Qiu didn't even arrange players such as Messi, Fabregas, David Silva into the roster of the game, which means that they will not play in this game.

Although he played as a substitute player, Tottenham Hotspur's performance in the game was not bad at all.

At the beginning of the game, Tottenham Hotspur showed a strong desire to attack, especially the two midfielders of Tottenham Hotspur, the 18-year-old Coutinho and the 19-year-old Ramsey, under the support of Yaya or Toure, showed excellent organization and ball delivery ability, and delivered shells to teammates in the frontcourt again and again.

Especially Coutinho, who started for Tottenham Hotspur for the first time, although it was a warm-up match, the 18-year-old Brazilian midfielder was ambitious to play more games in the new season, so he showed his outstanding personal ability and strong desire to play.

After adapting to the first half, the Brazilian boy quickly showed his threat of getting the ball in the midfield. He passed the ball directly with his left foot with a full 20-meter-long pass, sharply tore Villarreal's defense and landed accurately at Raul's feet at the front of the penalty area.

This is Raul's first game since officially joining Tottenham Hotspur, and he only participated in two team training classes in Tottenham Hotspur, but Raul didn't seem to need to go through the game at all, plug and play.

I saw Spain's former soul figure pulling out the opponent's central defender at the top of the penalty area, and leaning on the opponent with his body. When everyone thought he would stop Coutinho's beautiful straight pass, he chose not to stop the ball, and directly picked the ball to his left side.

This kick passed the defensive player. Ribery quickly penetrated the penalty area on the right and headed the ball to the front of him. He followed up with a low shot from his right foot, but it was slightly off the goal.

Although he failed to score, Ribery ran to Raul while walking back, reached out to high up and slapped Raul. He was obviously praising Raul's kick for the beautiful and comfortable kick, and more importantly, it was very sudden.

As early as when training in the team, everyone was surprised to find that Raul was very consistent with Tottenham Hotspur’s tactical style in terms of consciousness and technology. His ability to touch the ball is excellent, while his sense of running without the ball, cooperation, and understanding of the game are outstanding.

Of course, as you get older and more experienced, your awareness will naturally improve.

Didn't see Manchester United veteran Scholes, who had the current passing and organizational awareness when he was young?

Ye Qiu has mentioned many times in the team that when you live and learn, the most important thing for professional players is to keep learning and progress. He highly appreciates the agility of Raul when playing football. This is not simply a kind of innate talent, but a constant learning and accumulation, the effect of allowing defensive players to passively intersperse and run, and the excellent pass.

Many players are used to passive when running without the ball, that is, based on the defensive side's formation, find out the weaknesses and weak links, and I run out of your control range, or take your teammates to the weak area of ​​your defense. The purpose is to ensure the team's connection and support. The most direct and effective way is to run to the area away from the defensive players.

This is the most common way to run without a ball, because it is simple and easy to learn.

Another type is active running. He is not worried about the arrangement of your defense, because he only has one purpose to find out your loopholes and impact your loopholes. In terms of military strategy, it is to hit areas where the enemy has to defend. Doing so forces your defensive players to dismantle no matter how well or strongly the previous defense line is organized, they must be removed and filled in to fill in the leaks.

Active off-ball running is difficult because he has very high requirements for players' game ability. However, if you have such off-ball running ability, no matter how bad your skills are, you can still become the top star with this ability, such as AC Milan's Da Inzagi.

Dainzaji's technical ability can even be described as bad, but why was he able to achieve what he is today?

Many people say that Da Inzaji is a fox in the penalty area, and some people also comment that he is a hunter who lives on the offside line. In fact, after all, it is evaluating his awareness of running without a ball.

Ye Qiu's player in Ajax was a very traditional finisher. Ye Qiu always believed that Hunter Lar was a bit out of time. He also had excellent active and unball running ability. His stopping and basic skills were quite solid, and his shooting skills were also a typical Dutch shooter. But the problem is that modern football is difficult to tolerate such classical shooters.

Raul is also a very outstanding star in active off-ball running, not even losing to Da Inzaghi at all. But what is even more commendable is that he has top-notch skills and awareness. As a traditional No. 9 player, Raul has adapted well to the transformation of modern tactics. He can cover the offensive area in the most difficult way for his opponent to defend. Because he has the insight of a top midfielder in the field space, he can make exquisite passes when taking the ball in the frontcourt.

In his previous life, Messi played in the middle of the frontcourt, but in fact, his weaknesses in finding space and finding loopholes in defense are also obvious. It was just that he relied on Barcelona's huge system effect and role, and used his surrounding teammates to intersect and run around Messi, covering up this problem to the greatest extent. Therefore, there was a saying that strangling Messi would be equivalent to curbing Barcelona's attack.

The reason for this is that the combination of Messi and other Barcelona players is a 10fl combination, rather than a collaboration and fusion of eleven players. Now Ye Qiu hopes that Messi can have more contact, learn more from Raul, learn more from Raul, and learn more from Raul, and then strengthen his own strength.

Not only Messi, Ribery, Neymar, Cavani, Fabregas, David Silva and others, this is the case. Ye Qiu feels that if everyone in the team has the awareness and ability of Raul, then Tottenham Hotspur will be invincible.

Of course, this is purely YY and cannot be achieved at all, but Ye Qiu feels that he should work hard to make progress in this aspect.

If Messi was a little unbelievable about Ye Qiu before, after all, Raul has not performed too convincingly in recent years, but through previous internal training and today's game, Messi believed it

Only those who play football, especially those who play professional football, can understand how valuable Raul is to make such moves.

In Ye Qiu's view, the biggest role of veterans is that they are old and experienced. Moreover, Ye Qiu has introduced veterans who are very good at professional spirit and self-discipline such as Beckham and Raul. They can set the best example for young players in the team and bring valuable experience to young players.

For example, players including Alves, Marcelo, Kyle Walker are practicing crosses, and Ribery, Messi, David Silva are practicing free kicks. This is actually influenced by Beckham. The Englishmen practice extra training themselves after training classes every day, and this trend of extra training has even affected the youth team.

Because at Theoborde, Ye Qiu draws a few young players from the youth team to the first team for training every once in a while | As a result, they bring the trend of the first team to the youth team, which creates a very unique training atmosphere for Theoborde.

Tottenham Hotspur played Villarrel, and Raul failed to score in the end, but he connected Tottenham Hotspur's attack well in the frontcourt. He appeared in the frontcourt and was able to create space for his teammates and also pass a good goal.

In the end, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Villarre with goals from Neymar and Ramsey.

Among them, Neymar's goal came from Ribery's diagonal pass, while Ramsey's goal came from Coutinho's straight pass.

In this game, the performance of the two newly joined Brazilian teenagers of Tottenham Hotspur were both eye-catching. Neymar was very active in the frontcourt, and Coutinho's pass in the midfield was also very threatening. However, both Brazilian teenagers also have shortcomings. For example, physical fitness needs to be improved, especially the upper limb strength, which is a bit thin. This is enough to play in Brazil, but in the European professional league, especially the fast-paced Premier League, it seems very thin.

After Tottenham defeated Villarreal, Ajax also used his home advantage to Uj to defeat Roma, while Tottenham Hotspur's Brazilian teenager Lucas Mora, who was loaned to Ajax, assisted Suarez to score a winning goal in this game, which also made the Brazilian teenager famous.

And in the second round of the second day, Tottenham Hotspur faced Ajax.

In this game, Tottenham Hotspur's starting lineup was only appropriately adjusted based on the first game.

All international players who have returned from participating in the South African World Cup are still under intense physical reserves and adjustments, so Ye Qiu does not plan to arrange them to play now, so Messi and others still failed to make the roster.

Ajax's frontcourt attack combination, Hulk, Suarez and Lucas O'Mora kept hitting Tottenham's defense at the beginning of the game, and soon used Hulk's header to break through Tottenham's goal, which was another assist from Lucas O'Mora.

Seeing Alba falling to the ground by Lucas O'Mora, Ye Qiu, Mauro Tassoti and other coaches felt a little funny. It was not that Alba was not capable enough, but that Lucas O'Mora's style of play was very strange.

"I always feel that the style of Brazilians playing football and their rhythm are very strange." Ye Qiu found it difficult to understand. Perhaps this kind of weirdness is not just reflected in casualness, because he always feels that Brazilians playing football either suddenly beats faster or suddenly beats slower, which always makes you a little unable to keep up, which is a very awkward feeling.

Not only Lucas or Mora, but also Coutinho, Neymar, Marcelo and Alves, and Robinho, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo and others are the same. Even Rivaldo and Kaka, who are known as the most European-style, have such a unique weirdness.

They may have some problems in cooperating with European players, but they are very skilled and smooth when they cooperate with European or European players from South America. It seems that Lucas or Mora's cross just now was obviously a beat slower. Suarez rushed over. He had not passed, but Hulk seemed to be waiting to take his pass.

Perhaps, this is the result of players born from the same culture

In the end, Tottenham lost to Ajax 0l and received his first defeat this summer

Regarding the team's regretful loss to Ajax, Ye Qiu felt that there was nothing to say. Ajax's strength was not bad either, especially the attacking combination in the frontcourt. In the second half, if Ye Qiu had not replaced Alba with Nastasic and restricted the active Lucas O Mora, Tottenham Hotspur would have conceded more goals.

There is no way to do this. Lucas Mora is now holding on to Tottenham Hotspur’s strength, hoping to join Tottenham’s first team next summer, so the Amsterdam Invitational has become his best stage.
Chapter completed!