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Chapter 760 The Sorrow of the Weak Team

Having a Tao is better than seeing at first sight than hearing.

I often read some reports about Tottenham Hotspur Hotspur from European media, many of which are about the White Hart Lane Stadium. This stadium with a capacity of only more than 30,000 people has been regarded as the sacred temple of football by countless fans around the world because of Tottenham's magical performance in the past few years.

This is called the devil's home stadium that Britain is not inferior to Liverpool's Anfield Stadium

When the players of both sides walked along the narrow player passage and into the stadium under the leadership of Turkish referee Kakir, they suddenly felt a sudden enlightenment. When they walked out of the player passage, the movements of the fans in the stands suddenly swept towards them like a tsunami, making them feel as if they were in the vast ocean.

Dortmund players couldn't help looking around the stands. They were surprised to find that the entire stands were all white, which was the color of Tottenham Hotspur. In the middle of the stands on the east and west sides, there was a pattern of fans holding paper cards to form two cocks and stepping on the football. It was Tottenham Hotspur's team logo.

Many female fans, this is their first impression of the fans in the stands, and these female fans are very enthusiastic. Even above the player channel, many female fans have painted oil paint on their faces, and their momentum is no less than that of male fans.

In the past, newspapers said that Tottenham Hotspur was a friend of women, but now it seems that they are a friend of tomboys.

Klopp followed the player out of the passage. He was still wearing his signature black-framed glasses and his iconic beard, looking very sloppy and decadent, which made a row of female fans in the stands hold up pieces of paper cards, which happened to form a slogan.

"Jurgen Klopp, have you not evolved yet?"

"Oh, my god, this is a naked personal attack." When the camera swept through the slogans of the group of female fans, there was a burst of cheers in the audience, obviously cheering for the slogans of the group of female fans. The commentator in charge of the live TV broadcast also read the slogans for fear that the world would not be confused and laughed loudly.

"I wonder what Klopp is feeling right now? Will he regret that he didn't shave the beard on his face when he went out this morning?"

The live TV camera was aimed at Klopp, but the German pretended not to see the slogans in the stands, nor did he see the live broadcast on the big screen opposite. After holding his glasses, he walked towards the visiting team coach's seat, and his right-hand assistant Zorco Bwaco was waiting for him there.

"Hello, welcome to White Hart Lane Stadium, Mr. Klopp." Ye Qiu, as the host, came over politely to say hello.

If it were normal, Klopp had a very good impression of Ye Qiu, but for some reason, now when he saw Ye Qiu, his face was very clean, he couldn't see his beard, and he had a smile, and he felt very friendly, which made him feel very unhappy, so he just shook hands with Ye Qiu politely and said a few perfunctory words.

Perhaps, he was hit too hard by the group of female fans in the stands

Labor and capital are called roughness. Do you know what roughness is? You just have to keep such craps, which will make you feel good.

"Looking at Tottenham's starting lineup, it's a bit weird." Bouvaco, who was standing beside him, did not notice Klopp's expression and reminded.

Klopp looked over with the assistant's gesture and saw that among the eleven players lined up by the home team Tottenham Hotspur, he was surprised.

At this time, the guy who became famous because of Tottenham Hotspur and was called the most personalized live commentator in the Premier League was reading the name of the player from Tottenham Hotspur's starting lineup on the stadium radio.

"Goalist Cech, Marcelo, Kompani, Thiago Silva and Azpilicueta, midfielder Pogba, Pirlo and Vidal, Neymar, Messi and Ribery in the frontcourt."

The on-site commentator clearly had a tacit understanding with the fans in the stands. He would deliberately pause every time he pronounced a player's name, while the fans in the stands would respond with cheers. Once a player was pronounced, the players who were pronounced would raise their hands high and applaud over their heads to greet the fans.

When it was Dortmund's turn, the on-site commentator read it very quickly and his tone was perfunctory.

The live commentator is only targeting more than 30,000 fans at White Hart Lane Stadium, all of whom are Tottenham Hotspur fans. The commentator is paying Tottenham Hotspur’s salary to explain the game to the fans. Therefore, he is different from the live commentator on TV. He is very inclined and represents the position of the home team fans.

Dortmund's starting lineup has not changed much from two weeks ago. The goalkeeper is Weidenfeller, the defense is Schmelze, Hummels, Subotic and Piszczek, the double midfielder is Sven Bend and Gundogan, the frontcourt is Reus, Goze and Kuba, and the single forward is Lewandowski.

Both sides can be said to have played their main roles, and it is not difficult to see the importance of the matchup between the two sides and a game. Tottenham Hotspur has won three consecutive games in the group. As long as we win this game, we will qualify as the first place in the group in advance. Dortmund will continue to fight for the right to qualify in the group. As for the so-called top-ranked group, it is more like a big pie drawn by Klopp.

"He wants to eat us in one bite from the beginning." Klopp glanced at Ye Qiu in the coaching area of ​​the home team, reached out to support his glasses, as if he wanted to use this action to hide something.

"In the last game at West Stadium, Messi performed well in the middle of the retreat. This time, he didn't even cover up and directly arranged Messi in this position. It was obviously to target our weaknesses." Bouvaco was also worried, because he himself knew Dortmund's weaknesses.

Many teams and head coaches know that Dortmund's physical energy consumption and the distance between the double-middle position and the defense line are too large, these two weaknesses, but the problem is that not many teams can take advantage of these two weaknesses in the game, either there is no time or there is not enough strength.

You should know that Dortmund's offense and defense conversion speed is very fast. Players move to the position between the midfielder and the defense line to get the ball. This requires the players to have very solid technical skills. Otherwise, it will be difficult to handle such a fast ball operation, and it is often easy to make mistakes. Moreover, Dortmund's two central defenders, especially Hummels, have already become world-class central defenders.

This also causes many teams to be unable to make good use of this. Instead, their intention to make use of this may lead to their distraction in the game and being defeated by Dortmund.

But it is undeniable that Tottenham has enough strength to take advantage of this, especially when Messi and Ribery appear in this area, Dortmund is often easily trapped in a passive position.

So Ye Qiu did a thorough game. Cavani and Drogba did not play either, but directly played three offensive players with delicate skills, showing their attitude. I just want to hit you with this weakness, so what can you do?

Can Dortmund change?

Of course, it is very simple. As long as Klopp requires the midfielder and the defense line to maintain a close formation, but in this way, the frontcourt offensive combination must retreat. The price of doing so is that Dortmund will lose high-intensity pressure and pressing in the frontcourt, and Tottenham Hotspur will have ample opportunity to control the ball in the backcourt.

But you should know that high-intensity pressure and pressing are the basis of Dortmund's tactics. If you lose this foundation, the capital that Dortmund relies on to compete with the strong team will also be lost. Therefore, Klopp will never allow his team to give up pressing and pressing in the frontcourt, because it is equivalent to chronic suicide.

Zorco Bwako has followed Klopp since he was in Mainz in 2004. He witnessed Klopp's rise in Dortmund with his own eyes, and he is also very clear about the problems that Dortmund is facing now. This can be said to be a problem that almost all weak teams will encounter when the rise of the rise, including Tottenham Hotspur.

That's a single tactic

The reasons for this problem are very complicated. For example, the team's salary affordability forces the team to hoard stars with different characteristics like giant teams, or the team does not have strong enough attractiveness to attract powerful stars with different characteristics to rotate, etc. There are many very complicated factors.

However, the tactics are single, the main lineup is excellent, and the substitute lineup is not strong enough, which makes the rise of weak teams easy to be just a flash in the pan, because once they perform well, the core players in the team will be immediately poached by the giant teams, and once the core players are poached, the team's tactics will not be played immediately, and the overall combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

Just like Dortmund now, Klopp knew very well that this may be the season when Dortmund had the most hope to win European results and Bundesliga championship. The reason is very simple. Lewandowski is leaving, and players including Gotze and Reus have also been poached by giant teams, and the team is facing a fall apart.

Tottenham Hotspurs also went through this way back then. They were poached every year, but Ye Qiu could retain some stars in the team with the attractiveness and appeal of his famous coach. Moreover, every time he sold a player, he could always find a suitable substitute or adjust the team's tactics.

This is what Ye Qiu admires most about Klopp.

It can be said that without Ye Qiu, Tottenham Hotspur would have reached the level of being the best team in Europe today. Even if it completes its promotion from the Premier League to the strong European team, it will take at least ten years of accumulation and precipitation to have hope of getting familiar with the Champions League. If there are any mistakes in the management process, it will take longer.

But Ye Qiu took just six years to bring Tottenham Hotspur to its current achievements, and formed a lineup for the team that is the most top-notch and most complete in football today, and is also the most diverse and tactical lineup. This is not something that ordinary people can do.

So he played Cavani two weeks ago, but the result was not very good. In the second half, Messi and others played in the middle, and the effect was achieved. He immediately changed the lineup. He gave up the center's style of play in this game because he had such a lineup thickness and such confidence.

But on the other hand, look at Dortmund. He knows his weaknesses and his opponents will take advantage of this weakness, but Klopp has no choice but to make detailed adjustments in targeted tactics, such as making Sven Bend pay more attention to behind him, allowing the team's midfielders to appropriately expand their range of activities, etc.

Klopp has no doubt about the players' execution, because he is very clear that with his order, no player on the court dares to resist his orders and requests, just as if the game had just begun, Klopp was shouting on the sidelines that the players should be careful of Tottenham's opening attack.

So, Tottenham Hotspur's first attack reached the front of the Dortmund penalty area. At this time, eight players retreated to the penalty area, and Reus and Lewandowski also defended within the 30-meter area.

But even so, after Neymar received a pass from Marcelo on the left, he dribbled the ball to the bottom line. Under the double-team of two players, Kuba and Piszczek, one of them was in front of the bottom line, relying on his extremely skillful foot skills to make the ball almost stick to his feet. He played magic and used the two players to block the double-team, and brought the ball to the bottom line into the penalty area.

After entering the penalty area, Subotic stuck the position, but Neymar returned from the baseline net, attracted the attention of three Dortmund defensive players, and passed the ball back to the front of the penalty area. Pogba rushed up from behind and directly shot with a powerful shot.

The ball almost rubbed the crossbar above Weidenfeller's head and left the bottom line, causing everyone to exclaim.

Less than two minutes after the game started, Tottenham Hotspur used this attack after the opening, which shocked everyone from Dortmund and completely suppressed the opponent.

I believe that at this moment, all Dortmund players have clearly realized that this is the White Hart Lane Stadium

On this stadium, Tottenham Hotspur is more terrifying and threatening than ever before

Klopp has no choice but to be so embarrassed after the opening. Tottenham Hotspur players have excellent personal abilities, and when these players with excellent personal abilities form a strong whole, the overall combat effectiveness is very amazing. This is the difficulty that all teams are now facing Tottenham Hotspur.

Tottenham Hotspur, who plays at home, looks very confident and calm because they have strong enough confidence to defeat any opponent in this stadium, so they are not in a hurry.

After the opening, Dortmund defended very closely, but Tottenham Hotspur attacked for two minutes and saw no results, so Pirlo began to form a downward foot with the two central defenders in the backcourt, slowing down the pace, and also pulled Dortmund out to play, and then patiently looked for opportunities.

When the game reached the ninth minute, Dortmund began to put pressure forward, hoping to pull the game back to the rhythm and situation they were familiar with, but just as they pressed forward, a fatal flaw was finally revealed behind them.

Marcelo dribbled forward, and replaced Neymar with Ribery on the left and quickly went to the middle and gave it out from the left. Marcelo passed the ball to Ribery who cut in. The latter came with a two-pass and one-slamming wall-like cooperation with Messi at the front of the penalty area, and then Ribery passed the ball directly to the penalty area.

Messi successfully counterattacked, and then inserted the ball and shot directly with his left foot. The ball came into the net. Weidenfeller didn't even have a chance to react. 0

This goal made the entire White Hart Lane stadium boil. More than 30,000 fans rushed forward frantically to cheer for the players on the stadium. Dortmund's players seemed a little frustrated because they just wanted to press on, but the goal behind was pierced by Tottenham Hotspur.

This is definitely a painful blow to the defending Bundesliga champion.

Klopp raised his right hand helplessly on the sidelines. He knew that the players had tried their best, but he felt very depressed.

From Marcelo's forward to Ribery's cut inward, Messila reached the left side of the penalty area to respond, Tottenham Hotspur's players were prepared and planned to use this continuous touch to quickly tear Dortmund's defense.

On the surface, Piszczek, Subotic, Svenbend and Gundogan all had problems and made mistakes, but Klopp knew in his heart that in the midst of the flash, they could only instinctively decide who to stare at and who to defend against, and they had no way to deal with Tottenham's continuous quick switching and interspersed running positions.

As Ye Qiu said, the Tottenham Hotspur team in the first half of West Stadium is not the real Tottenham Hotspur, the Tottenham Hotspur team in the White Hart Lane Stadium is the real European king.

Scoring a goal seems to be a very simple, easy and inconspicuous thing for them.

But for their opponents, they scored goals, it was an unbearable pain.

There was also the damn live commentator. After scoring the goal, the voice was so excited that it was like something, which directly mobilized the emotions of the fans in the field to a higher level. The entire White Hart Lane Stadium completely became in a turbulent mood.

In this atmosphere, the home team Tottenham Hotspur continued to perform at a high level. The players seemed to gradually play in form as the game started, and they performed better and better on the court, becoming more and more relaxed. Neymar, Ribery, or Messi were all very active.

In this passively beaten situation, Dortmund's team lost steadily and finally had to retreat within the 30-meter area. He could not find his own rhythm and could not play his own form. The entire team was suppressed by his opponent.

The best performance was Hummels. The central defender faced Tottenham Hotspur. He performed well in both games, was very good at level, and also won a lot of praise. But the question is, what does a team's central defender stand out?
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