The Godfather of Football

"Messi pulled to the middle, Fabregas passed the ball, Messi got the ball, Maldini quickly approached, Messi got the ball and turned around, breaking through, oops, Messi was tripped by Maldini in the penalty area!"

"Will this be a penalty?"

"Maldini's defense was indeed a bit too much, and the position where Messi was tripped is worth discussing. It should be said that it is within the scope of the referee's consideration. Will this be a penalty?"

"Plauz gave Maldini a yellow card, but indicated that it was a foul outside the penalty area and gave Toth AC Milan should be relieved at this time. If AC Milan is given a penalty kick now, it will be a death sentence for AC Milan. "

"In the past period of time, Tottenham's offense has improved greatly, and AC Milan's defense can't keep up with Tottenham's rhythm. Maldini is facing the short but very flexible Messi, and he seems a little powerless! "

"Tottenham's players are obviously not very satisfied with the referee's decision, because they think this should be a foul in the penalty area and a penalty should be given, but the referee obviously does not intend to change his decision, and smiles and shakes his head to refuse. Who will Tottenham let take the free kick now? "

"The live TV camera was also specially given to the stands. This is Tottenham's core player, superstar Beckham. If he is there, this free kick position is really good. If he takes the penalty, the success rate is very high, but now Tottenham has no players who can replace Beckham. . "

"It's Van Persie, Van Persie is going to take the free kick."

When Van Persie walked to the penalty spot, Pirlo was right next to Maldini and asked with concern: "Paul, are you okay? Are you okay?"

Paolo Maldini shook his head and waved his hand at Pirlo, "It's okay, that kid is like a loach, very slippery!" But while speaking, he was obviously panting. The game had just passed for about half an hour, but he was already showing signs of fatigue. After all, he was about to turn 39.

Generally speaking, professional players have begun to decline in physical function when they reach the age of 30. If their physical function and condition are maintained a little better, it is already quite rare to persist until the age of 35. But Maldini has maintained a very high level even now, which is indeed very rare.

38-year-old Maldini, 36-year-old Favalli, 35-year-old Australian goalkeeper Karachi, 33-year-old Inzaghi, and 30-year-old Oddo, Gattuso and Ambrosini, seven players in AC Milan's entire starting eleven have entered the aging stage, which is absolutely unreasonable.

In fact, everyone knows that Tottenham Hotspur has deliberately fought a war of attrition with AC Milan since the first round, because their player lineup is young and can afford it, because they have exhausted their physical energy today, and they will soon be full of energy again after a good sleep and a day of rest, but these old players can't.

"We must control the ball again, Andrea!" Maldini looked at Pirlo.

In the past, this group of veterans were able to hold on. An important aspect was that AC Milan's tactics were to play fast and slow, which was a bit similar to the Chinese culture of Tai Chi. Defense still emphasizes integrity, and the physical energy and consumption of the players are not a big problem, so this group of veterans can stand their position.

But now Tottenham Hotspur has the advantage of ball control, and the rhythm is directly accelerated by them. At the same time, they keep pulling the overall formation of AC Milan through the active running and pulling of the players, and they have to keep running with Tottenham Hotspur.

Why do people say that football is the sport with the most physical consumption?

The reason is very simple. This is not only because a football game lasts for 90 minutes, or even 120 minutes, nor is it just because a football game in the mainstream European league has players running more than 10 kilometers per game. More importantly, football games are full of variable speed sprints and return sprints.

As the most famous sport in the world, basketball does consume a lot of energy. If the consumption is compared in a short period of time, such as an attack, or about 30 seconds as a unit, basketball will be greater than football, but if it is calculated based on the whole game, basketball is definitely not as good as football.

Therefore, the tactics adopted by Tottenham Hotspur are also very simple. They mainly play fast, speed up the rhythm, and do not insist on controlling the ball in the offense. The most important thing is to strangle Pirlo, forcing you to be unable to effectively control the ball, resulting in a rapid change of possession. Through this fast-paced ball possession change, your players are forced to perform more variable speed sprints and return sprints from front to back.

Because you see your team has the ball, you always have to rush forward to attack, right?

If your team loses the ball again at this time, you always have to run back and participate in defense as soon as possible, right?

Therefore, in every football game, as long as it is fast-paced, the physical energy consumption must be very large. This is why Ye Qiu always says that the most favorable game rhythm for Tottenham Hotspur is fast and slow, because slowness is a kind of recovery, accumulation and brewing, while fastness is the result of slowness, and it is also an explosion after accumulation and brewing.

The advantage of controlling the rhythm is that you can go fast if you want, and go slow if you want. You can recover because of being slow, but your opponents do not have this power, because they can only be led by your nose and cannot help themselves. Follow you.

After hearing what Maldini said, Pirlo shook his head helplessly, but said nothing. Instead, he looked at Fabregas.

This Spanish player who looks very good is targeting him everywhere in this game. As soon as he gets the ball, Fabregas will immediately block him and force him to play the ball quickly. Pirlo used to Coming from a midfielder background, his playing style is somewhat classical. If he plays the ball quickly, he cannot guarantee the success rate, and naturally there will be more mistakes.

In addition, there used to be Seedorf and Kaka in front of him, but now Seedorf has been taken down, and Ambrosini is coming up, so Pirlo has not many points to respond to.

When Pirlo was helpless, Ye Qiu on the sidelines turned around and looked at Peter Brandt, who immediately laughed and nodded: "Maldini, Favalli, Kaladze, even It’s Pirlo, he’s almost there, but he can’t keep up with his movements.”

Ye Qiu nodded. When Maldini defended Messi just now, it was obvious that his movement was too slow, which resulted in a gap in the defense. Then after he immediately attached himself, he couldn't handle the movement that was too big, so he was in the penalty area. Frontier foul.

Looking at Roland again, the latter also nodded, "Pirlo's passing success rate in the past ten minutes is only 68.3%. His physical fitness is not good anymore. The next step will be up to us!"

After Ye Qiu heard this, he walked to the sidelines. At this time, Van Persie's direct free kick turned into an anti-aircraft cannon. He slapped his forehead hard and felt that it was a disaster. After Beckham was absent due to injury, the team's The free kick takers seem to be unable to keep up. Robin van Persie, Messi and even Franck Ribery can take the penalty, but they are not very good.

On the contrary, Welsh youngster Gareth Bale performed very well, but whether at the left back or left wing position, Gareth Bale obviously has no way to compete with Vargas and Ribery, so there is no way for the time being. Way to get him on top.

When Tottenham Hotspur walked back, Ye Qiu applauded the players on the field and gave a thumbs up. Then he calmly sat on the sidelines with his hands folded in front of his chest, patiently waiting for the opportunity.

As he said, scoring goals is all about water coming. Now that Ye Qiu has dug all the ditches, it just depends on when the water will come.

Fabregas was very excited and worked very hard in this game because he received a message from his parents before the game that Barcelona was paying close attention to him.

"I heard that they have already started discussing whether to recall you to Camp Nou!" the father said with a smile.

In the eyes of their family, playing for Barcelona is a supreme honor, and they will all be proud to play for Barcelona.

And Fabregas himself knows that the better he performs on the field, especially in the Champions League, the greater his hope of returning to Barcelona, ​​because Barcelona has always only wanted the best and most outstanding players.

But he respected Ye Qiu very much, so he also meticulously completed the task given to him by Ye Qiu, which was to strangle Pirlo. In fact, this task seemed difficult at the beginning of the game.

On the one hand, because the support behind him was not in place, Modric was unable to help the team stably compete for the initiative in the game, so Fabregas had to frequently retreat to support. It was impossible to restrict Pirlo by running back and forth, so Pirlo started The performance was very good at this stage, and AC Milan even almost scored Tottenham Hotspur's goal.

But then Ye Qiu took Messi's retreat route and let Fabregas focus on Pirlo. This was equivalent to liberating Fabregas. He began to complete his task well, and gradually, as As time went by, he found the task easy.

It's not that he is too big, but because, as the number of successful defenses increases, Pirlo now passes the ball as soon as he sees him approaching, and as time goes by, he can also feel Pirlo's breathing, his My physical fitness is obviously not up to par.

The main players of Tottenham Hotspur have rested for a week to recharge their batteries and wait for work. However, after AC Milan had a bloody game with Tottenham Hotspur before, they played another game with Juventus. , and then came to London non-stop, which gave them no time to rest at all.

Judging from the schedule, Tottenham Hotspur has taken advantage.

As Pirlo's physical fitness declined, Fabregas began to be able to take time out and consciously complete the task of defending and restricting Pirlo while also focusing more on offense. This is a natural choice.

Tottenham Hotspur launched an attack, but as soon as the ball was obtained, Modric's passing intention was too obvious. Before it reached the thirty-meter area, it was directly intercepted by AC Milan's right back Odo. , his through ball was indeed not a smart pass. At the very least, you should take a few steps forward and set a screen.

After Odo intercepted the ball, he was pressed by Franck Ribery. Even though this pressing was just a symbolic delay, he passed it to Maldini immediately. Van Persie also leaned over immediately. Maldini immediately Passed to Pirlo near the center circle.

Pirlo dropped back to catch the ball, but when he caught the ball, his movement to stop the ball was a bit stiff. This was caused by the deformation of his movements after his physical energy was exhausted to a certain extent, which made the ball stop a bit large, and he was always ambushing behind Pirlo. , Fabregas, who was originally just to prevent Pirlo from turning around, spotted this opportunity and rushed forward quickly.

Fabregas was very smart. When he saw that Pirlo stopped the ball, he cut in immediately and used his body to block the middle of Pirlo and the ball. While stealing the ball, he also formed a ball protection, so that Pirlo would not foul unless he committed a foul. , otherwise it will be impossible to grab the ball again.

This interception of the ball came too suddenly. Gattuso rushed over immediately, but Fabregas did not hesitate at all, because he knew very well that as long as Gattuso approached, he and Pirlo behind him would make the first move. If a front and back attack formed for a while, he would be finished, so when he saw a white figure appearing at the receiving point, he immediately passed the ball.

"Okay, Fabregas passed the ball to Messi, and he rushed forward. Messi faced Favalli, and passed the ball again, a beautiful one-two. Fabregas ran out of the gap, and he Take the ball forward, take a long shot!”

I saw Fabregas spreading his arms to block Karadze who was trying to rush from him, but I also saw that goalkeeper Karadze's position was a bit outside. Because AC Milan was counterattacking from defense just now, Karadze was a little bit closer. Outside, he obviously wanted to receive Maldini's pass, but who would have thought that suddenly Tottenham counterattacked after stealing the ball.

Cesc Fabregas's volley was about thirty meters away from the goal, and he very smartly hit a rebound ball. Karachi reacted immediately and flew to save, but the ball landed in front of him. The rebound hit the goal behind him from under his open hand, kissing the net closely!

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

All the Tottenham Hotspur fans rushed out of their seats as fast as they could, grabbing the guardrail in front of the stands with excitement and shouting at the top of their lungs.

"The kick came from Spanish star Cesc Fabregas, a full 27 meters away from the goal. It was a very beautiful counterattack goal. In the 37th minute, Tottenham Hotspur finally took the lead in breaking through AC Milan. The goal!”

After Fabregas scored, he quickly rushed out of the stadium, spreading his arms along the way, jumping over the billboards on the sidelines, and rushed directly to the bottom stands. At the same time, there were many Tottenham fans. Tottenham fans reached out and hugged the Spanish star tightly. His performance in the two seasons at Tottenham Hotspur was really outstanding!

"From the slow-motion replay, we can clearly see that Tottenham Hotspur's ground penetration cooperation is indeed very clever and has a good understanding. After Cesc Fabregas passed the ball to Messi, he quickly moved forward. Messi also hit back immediately, and the two formed a tacit understanding of one-on-one coordination with each other. When Fabregas got the ball after getting forward, there was a gap between Kaladze, Maldini and Favalli. Very obvious gaps! ”

"It should be said that this shot is very sudden, but Fabregas can hit the goal himself, but he can also pass a through ball to Robin van Persie or Ribery. No matter what choice is made, this goal will support the goal." Tottenham Hotspur almost always wins, we can only say that AC Milan’s defense gave Tottenham Hotspur’s offense too much space!”

The game happened in an instant, and everyone could only understand what happened in the whole process from the slow-motion replay. And at a glance, everyone realized that Fabregas's choice at that time turned out to be so. many.

"Fabregas' long-range shot was very sudden, and Karachi obviously did not expect that he would suddenly hit the goal, so it was a bit unexpected, but Fabregas was very confident and obviously felt this after hitting the goal. The ball is there, so he is ready to celebrate. This is also his 13th goal of the season.”

“As the core of Tottenham Hotspur’s midfield, Cesc Fabregas has completely transformed this season. Not only has he performed well in organization and assists, he has contributed 21 goals to the team in all competitions this season. He also scored 13 goals and performed very well, both offensively and defensively.”

"Now Tottenham Hotspur finally opened the scoring, which is obviously not good news for AC Milan, because they must take the initiative to press out and play, and judging from the game process, AC Milan's physical fitness is at a disadvantage. If we press it out again, the risk may be even greater.”

While the on-site commentator was analyzing, he saw Ye Qiu walking to the edge of the command area, hugging Cesc Fabregas, Messi, Ribery and other players who had returned from celebrating on the sidelines, while also doing something to the players. The gesture of pressing forward was obviously a signal for them to continue to strengthen their attack.

"It can be seen that Ye Qiu is not satisfied with the 1:0 score. After all, this is Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart Lane stadium. They should want to continue to expand their results and ensure that they can steadily defeat AC Milan. "

After the players from both sides returned to the court, Plauts blew the whistle to continue the game.

AC Milan restarted the game, but Tottenham Hotspur immediately rushed forward like a tide and launched a round of scrambles against AC Milan. Fabregas continued to press Pirlo, forcing him to pass the ball quickly, and soon, less than two minutes later, AC Milan made another mistake.

Ambrosini's pass was a bit slow, Mascherano quickly left the position, intercepted it halfway, and kicked the ball directly to the right behind AC Milan's defense line.

Messi passed Favalli and sprinted quickly, and Kaladze followed him immediately, and the two were competing in speed.

Seeing that he was about to be at a disadvantage in speed, Kaladze made a decision immediately and fell to the ground to make a tackle. Even if it was a foul, he had to stop Messi, but Messi got the ball one step ahead of him and suddenly stopped.

Kaladze slid out with a tackle, and after Messi stopped suddenly, he quickly turned from the bottom to cut inside and entered the penalty area.

Maldini also returned to his position at this time, quickly following up to block Messi, and the young Argentine player made a skillful feint, fooling Maldini for a moment, and then he suddenly accelerated down the bottom, pulled out a body position, and made a low pass, and the ball passed through the goal.

Oddo was guarding Van Persie, who was the most threatening, behind Maldini, but behind Oddo, Ribery was unguarded, and quickly rushed to the front of the left post, gently pushing the ball.

Sometimes, scoring a goal is so simple, as long as you are in the right place at the right time, he will come!