The Godfather of Football

In the past many, many years, whenever it comes to the north London derby, Tottenham Hotspur fans always use those sour remarks to irritate Arsenal, because they have the best stars and the best. The stadium, the best training ground, but also because they are still chasing the league title.

But since Ye Qiu came to the team, the situation has been quietly reversing in the past two seasons.

What's interesting is that these two seasons also happened to be the two seasons when Arsenal's financial situation was at its lowest. The team almost adopted a transfer strategy of only going out but not making in, causing Arsenal to always be defeated by the leading team early every season. Throw it away.

Just like this season, they fell to the fifth position in the league early, and this also takes into account Arsenal's habit over the past many years, that is, the record before the winter break is usually better than after the winter break. many.

So many times in the past, Arsenal's results before the winter break were either far ahead or at the forefront, but now they have fallen to fifth. This is definitely a report card that makes all Arsenal fans panic.

Looking at Arsenal's current entire lineup, it can almost be described as horrific.

After sending away Henry, Vieira, Gilberto Silva, Hleb and other stars, Arsenal's current lineup is either veterans or young players, with almost no core layer.

Just like the starting lineup for this game, goalkeeper Almunia, defense line Clichy, Gallas, Silvestre and Sagna, midfielder Nasri and Denilson , Arteta and Walcott, the forwards are Adebayor and Bendtner. Apart from Adebayor, there are almost no popular stars.

Gallas and Sylvester are both famous players in the Premier League, but unfortunately, they have entered the twilight years of their careers.

On the contrary, Tottenham Hotspur appear to be strong.

The goalkeeper is Czech goalkeeper Peter Cech, who is known as the number one in the Premier League. The defense is Arbeloa, Kompany, Thiago Silva and Alves, and the midfielder is still David Schier. The combination of Watt, Yaya Toure and Cesc Fabregas, the front trident is Gareth Bale, Robin van Persie and Messi.

Franck Ribery has returned and started to participate in the team's joint training, but Ye Qiu has not yet arranged for him to be included in the game squad. Otherwise, Tottenham Hotspur's lineup will be even more star-studded.

Before the start of this game, almost all professionals were not optimistic about Arsenal. In addition to Tottenham Hotspur's advantage, there is also a very important reason that Arsenal's current situation is not ideal.

It has become a consensus that the team's midfield lacks a midfielder like Flamini. Recently, Wenger has placed more trust in young players such as Denilson and Diaby. Alexander Song is not yet qualified to play the main role, but No matter who it is, it is obvious that it cannot fill Flamini's vacancy.

The midfield is unbalanced and the defense problems are exposed, especially the left back Clichy, who has almost become the target of dissatisfaction among many players on the team, because he is always the target of opponents' attacks in this position.

In fact, Arsenal had indeed thought about introducing Yaya Toure before, especially before Tottenham Hotspur played the first game of the Champions League. At that time, Wenger wanted to pay 10 million to 150 million. The Ivorian was acquired at a price of around one million, but the offer was directly rejected by Ye Qiu.

Arsenal's pursuit became heated again after the news broke that Ye Qiu threatened to sell Yaya Toure after Ye Qiu and Yaya Toure's away game against Marseille. Arsenal is also secretly adding fuel to the fire, hoping to get the Ivorian at a more affordable price.

But Ye Qiu once again refused to release Yaya Toure, and the player himself did not consider a transfer. Therefore, Arsenal had almost nothing to gain from this rumor, especially when Yaya Toure's recent period After time showed more and more stability, everyone knew that the possibility of Tottenham Hotspur letting him go was extremely slim.

This is why Wenger said before that if the price was 15 million euros, he would consider introducing it, but this is obviously impossible. He also gave up trying to get Yaya Toure. Ideas, turn to other players.

But the dissatisfaction within the Arsenal team has reached a critical point. Many players in the team, including Adebayor, including captain Gallas, are obviously dissatisfied with Arsenal's lack of ambition. After the team drew away to Sunderland in the seventh round, they criticized the team and believed that this was definitely not a team that could win the championship.

This bombardment incident caused a lot of media hype at the time, but it gradually subsided with Arsenal's two consecutive victories, but everyone knows that the Arsenal dressing room is no longer monolithic.

In terms of weather conditions, Tottenham Hotspur's current momentum is almost invincible. Although Arsenal have won two consecutive games, both games have been very difficult; in terms of location, Arsenal is at home and has indeed taken advantage of the location. However, due to the weather and conditions, When people and parties are at an absolute disadvantage, can the situation be really reversed by just relying on the right location?

Obviously, no one has any hope. Even before the game, Jonathan Wilson, a very famous tactical columnist in England, analyzed in his column that Tottenham Hotspur only needs to seize two points to beat Arsenal. Come to fight, the Gunners have almost no ability to resist, that is, the front edge of the penalty area.

The reason is very simple. Arteta is good at organization and passing. Denilson has made a lot of contribution in offense, but he is not good at doing dirty work. Alexander Song, judging from the current situation, does not have the strength to play as a main player for the time being, and his technique is also a problem. He is a bit rough and slow to turn.

In the words of Jonathan Wilson, Tottenham Hotspur does not need to consider other things. They just press forward at the beginning of the game, beat Arsenal, and make a fuss around the front of the penalty area.

Imagine, even Jonathan Wilson knows something, how could Ye Qiu not know it?

As soon as the game started, Tottenham Hotspur took the initiative to launch a rush attack. In terms of offense, this Arsenal team can't catch up with Tottenham Hotspur, so Tottenham Hotspur's rush attack quickly suppressed Arsenal.

In the 13th minute of the game, Tottenham midfielder Yaya Toure passed the ball, and Gareth Bale suddenly volleyed the ball more than 30 meters away from the goal. This powerful volley directly knocked Almunia's goal. The Spanish goalkeeper was standing too far forward, and Arsenal's midfield was a bit arrogant.

In fact, with the current professional players' footwork and the constantly improving ball speed, the effective shooting distance has been expanded to the 30-meter area, or even beyond 30 meters. As long as the goalkeeper's position is not good enough, there are countless players who can shoot long shots from 30 meters, not to mention explosive players like Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo.

This wonderful world wave completely shattered the fantasy of 60,000 Arsenal fans in the stands. It used a bloody goal to tell and remind Arsenal fans that, at least in the eyes of Tottenham, Arsenal is no longer in their hearts, because Tottenham's goal is the Premier League championship and the Champions League, not the top four in the league!

If it was just this one goal, perhaps no one would notice the problem, but soon, in the 27th minute, Fabregas passed the ball to the right, Messi dribbled the ball horizontally from the right, and hit a curved ball from the right side of the penalty area, which went straight to the upper left corner of the goal, 2:0!

Another penalty area, another defensive midfielder position!

All Arsenal players realized the problem. They all knew that they couldn't continue to play like this, otherwise they would suffer a big loss, especially in recent times. Tottenham Hotspur, who has such a hard foot, really continued like this, and might become the second Bayern Munich.

Wenger made adjustments immediately, but still couldn't turn the situation around. In the 43rd minute of the first half, Gareth Bale wanted to force a breakthrough against Sagna but failed, and passed the ball back to David Silva. The Spaniard dribbled past Arteta who was defending him and passed the ball directly into the penalty area. Van Persie easily received the ball and shot it, 3:0!

There was almost no tricks, no mercy, no sympathy, only one goal after another, which made all the Gunners fans realize that they were so far away from the top teams in the Premier League!

In the second half, Wenger made adjustments, replacing Bendtner with Alexander Song to strengthen the midfield defense, especially the defensive midfielder position, but Tottenham Hotspur continued to attack.

In the 69th minute, Klich made a mistake in clearing the ball and passed the ball directly to Messi. The Argentine did not hesitate at all, dribbled into the penalty area, dribbled past Almunia and pushed the ball into the goal, 4:0!

In the 79th minute, Yaya Toure suddenly inserted a long shot from behind, the ball hit the crossbar and bounced back into the penalty area. Van Persie headed the ball, and Messi cleverly shot in front of the goal, breaking through Arsenal's goal again and performing a hat trick, 5:0!

Continuous scoring, continuous goals, especially Messi's hat trick, made all the Gunners fans stunned, and made the original few more than 2,000 Tottenham fans become the absolute protagonists in the stands!

Messi, who performed a hat trick, excitedly rushed out of the stadium and rushed to the stands where the Tottenham fans were. Along the way, Tottenham players kept rushing up and hugging Messi to celebrate, and everyone was satisfied, excited and excited that the team could slaughter Arsenal by a large score at the Emirates Stadium.

Although in the end, Arsenal relied on Arteta's pass and Adebayor broke through Cech's goal and scored a goal to save face, but in the end it could not prevent Tottenham from winning a big victory at the Emirates Stadium.

5:1, this score made almost all the Gunners fans present angry and dissatisfied, and even many fans booed the home team players. They felt that it was absolutely a humiliation to score such a score at the Emirates Stadium.

The fans' protests and boos were overwhelming, while Tottenham Hotspur's players and fans left the Emirates Stadium with a satisfactory result. There were also countless Tottenham Hotspur fans who came from the Tottenham area in the north to the Emirates Stadium to welcome the team's triumphant return, which caused great dissatisfaction among Arsenal fans.

Outside the Emirates Stadium, fans of both sides even had a conflict. Fortunately, the police were well prepared and quickly separated the fans of both sides, but two fans were still injured in the conflict.

After the game, Wenger said at the press conference that this was a disaster, a disaster for everyone at Arsenal.

But Ye Qiu said that he had a premonition of winning this game. He firmly believed before the game that the team would definitely win at the Emirates Stadium, but he also felt that such a big win was a bit unexpected.

However, Tottenham's big win did not change the current ranking of the Premier League standings. Liverpool also defeated Portsmouth 1:0 in this round and continued to lead the Premier League standings, while Tottenham ranked second because of one less game.

But being able to beat the mortal enemy 5:1, Tottenham's recent crazy scoring momentum still surprised everyone, especially in the 4:0 victory over Bayern Munich and the 5:1 victory over Arsenal. The opponents were not bad. Tottenham played such a crazy attack, which made all fans feel that this team still has great potential this season.

It seems that it is not just the fans who think Tottenham Hotspur has great potential, even the selection of major awards in European football supports this view. Among them, Tottenham Hotspur became the big winner in the selection of the annual European Golden Boy Award of Turin Sports Daily in Italy.

This is a selection that started in 2003. The players elected as the European Golden Boy Award include Rafael van der Vaart, Rooney, Ribery, Messi, Fabregas and Aguero, and this year's Golden Boy Award has attracted attention again.

The Premier League has the largest number of players. Tottenham Hotspur has contributed four players including Ramsey, Gareth Bale, Marcelo and Andy Carroll, while Arsenal has three players, Walcott, Bendtner and Bella. Together with young players from Premier League teams such as Manchester United and Chelsea, the total number of Premier League players has reached eleven.

Among all the candidates, Gareth Bale, who replaced Ribery as a starter for Tottenham Hotspur this season, has the highest voice, even surpassing Pato of AC Milan and Balotelli of Inter Milan, as well as Di Maria, the Ajax winger who helped Argentina win the Olympic championship.

Especially with the outstanding performance of Tottenham Hotspur in recent times, Gareth Bale has been scoring goals continuously, and his performance is also quite good. Although many professionals still think that his style of play is too tough, lacks changes, and he pursues strength and explosiveness too much, he is still quite young and has great potential.

Ramsey is called the new Fabregas. The Welshman has delicate skills and solid passing and organizational skills. He and Andy Carroll were shortlisted because of their outstanding performance in the cup competition, especially Andy Carroll. The outside world has begun to put pressure on Ye Qiu about when this English center will play as a starter.

In the eyes of many media and English fans, the combination of Andy Carroll and Rooney will be the hope of England's forward line in the next ten years. Andy Carroll's performance in the cup games is also amazing, especially the double goal against Newcastle, but he can only serve as a substitute in the league and his performance is relatively average.

Marcelo plays as a left back. After being sculpted by Ajax, he has adapted to the technical and tactical style of European football. In addition, after coming to Tottenham Hotspur, he has always been positioned as a left back and has made great progress. He has integrated into Tottenham Hotspur's tactical system. After Vargas left this season, he competed with Arbeloa for the position of the main left back and performed well.

In addition to the European Golden Boy Award, French Football also announced a list of 30 candidates for the European Golden Ball Award. As the champion of the last Champions League, Tottenham Hotspur, especially after creating the unprecedented Luzhniki miracle, many players of the team were shortlisted for this list.

Among them, Ribery, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and Messi are the players who are most likely to win this award in the club. If Ribery had not been injured in the Champions League final and missed most of the games in the second half of the year, he would have deserved the award. However, the Frenchman who has not returned to the court yet may find it difficult to win this award.

Cristiano Ronaldo's performance last season was indeed very eye-catching. He lost some points in the final, but he also scored a goal. However, his performance in the second half of the year was much worse than that in the first half of the year. On the contrary, Messi of Tottenham Hotspur filled the gap left by Ribery in the second half of the year and held up the banner of Tottenham Hotspur's offensive football.

Kaka's performance in the past year really couldn't compete with these three players, and he didn't have any outstanding results, but he was the winner of the last European Golden Ball Award, so many people think that Kaka should also be one of the hot candidates.

There are also several other popular candidates, including Xavi and Casillas from Spain. These two players who helped Spain win the European Cup this summer are considered the most likely candidates to upset the opponent. Especially as the captain of Spain, Casillas, many people think that he has the opportunity to win the award as the captain of the championship team like Cannavaro.

The announcement date of the European Ballon d'Or has not yet arrived, but the French Football magazine has already started to promote it, and the list of candidates for the World Footballer of the Year has also been announced, which is basically the same as the list of candidates announced by the French Football magazine.

In the past two years, Tottenham Hotspur has played offensive football and attracted the attention of countless fans. In addition, the club focuses on promotion and publicity, and the media attention is also quite high. These have laid a solid foundation for the players to be shortlisted for this list. Tottenham Hotspur fans are also full of expectations and excitement for the club to cultivate the first World Footballer of the Year or European Footballer of the Year in history.

It was in this expectation and excitement that Tottenham Hotspur welcomed the league leader, Liverpool!