The Godfather of Football

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Everyone in the locker room could hear Thiago Silva's heavy breathing. He held his head with both hands, and beads of sweat fell to the floor. He kept making a sound similar to the sound of pinching a duck's neck, which made people feel uncomfortable. It can be seen that at this moment, Thiago Silva's body was almost exhausted.

A 1.83-meter-tall man against a 1.89-meter-tall man, at first glance, does not seem to be completely powerless, but a 79-kilogram man against a 91-kilogram man, a huge gap of more than 20 kilograms, this is not fat, but solid muscle.

Twenty kilograms of muscle piled in front of you is enough to shock you, not to mention that all this muscle is piled on the tall and strong Drogba, the shock is enough to make some people with less courage feel weak in the legs.

Among the central defenders in today's football world, it is rare to see one who does not flinch when facing Drogba, and there are not many central defenders who can keep pace with Drogba. Lucio and Vidic are the two best among them, but they have physical fitness to support them, while Thiago Silva has no such conditions at all.

The direct confrontation between two players who are not in the same weight class, you can imagine how difficult Thiago Silva's situation is, especially after Tottenham Hotspur scored the first goal, Chelsea almost launched a counterattack desperately.

Maybe someone will say, stupid, use softness to overcome hardness, use consciousness to make up for the lack of strength confrontation.

But the problem is, brother, you are smart and he is not stupid. His advantage is strength confrontation. Will he still watch you use consciousness to make up for it? Will he still be so happy that he doesn't play direct confrontation with you every time?

In the face of absolute power, you don't have enough self-protection ability, you can't defend it at all!

Ye Qiu gently pushed open the door of the locker room. He first found Thiago Silva. He saw the painful expression of the Brazilian central defender and his legs in the hands of the masseur. He was sweating all over and looked a little exhausted.

A strong dialogue is always a game that hurts the enemy by 1,000 and hurts oneself by 800. But as long as it is won, the harvest will be very, very rich, whether it is for the players or the team.

"How is it?" Ye Qiu walked in front of Thiago Silva and asked with concern.

"Not bad!" Thiago Silva replied, but he was still panting and a little out of breath.

Ye Qiu patted Thiago Silva on the shoulder, "Have a good rest, and hold on for a while in the second half, can you do it?"

I believe at this moment, Thiago Silva hoped to hear the voice of Ye Qiu's substitution, and he hoped that he could sit on the bench in the second half and watch the team win and beat Chelsea comfortably, but what he waited for was a cruel order, telling him to hold on.

Can he refuse?

The answer is no!

"Guys!" Ye Qiu applauded vigorously, he had to make everyone play in the best state at the beginning of the second half, "I know everyone is very hard now, I know that all of you are eager to have a good rest now, your body has basically reached a limit!"

This is the difficulty of Chelsea, because they are comprehensive enough and have excellent tactical execution, so they can use this almost life-threatening way to wear you down. Only if you can endure and hold on better than them, you have a chance to defeat this opponent, otherwise, you will be worn down by your opponent.

From Ye Qiu's period, to Mourinho's period, to Hiddink last season, and to Ancelotti this season, Chelsea's style can be said to be inherited from one generation to another, becoming stronger and stronger, and gradually becoming a conspicuous symbol and feature of Chelsea.

"But please believe me, as long as we play our offense in the second half and can break Chelsea's goal again, the final victory will belong to us, not just the final victory, we will step on Chelsea's corpse, climb to the top of the league, and sit firmly on it until the end of the season!"

"This is my promise to you!"

In Ye Qiu's view, Tottenham Hotspur this season is actually a transitional period, from the past strong offense and weak defense to a more balanced one, from the past focus on high defense, and gradually shrinking. In this process, Tottenham Hotspur needs to change a lot of things, and he needs to explore a lot of elements.

There are no secrets in professional football now. If you play such a tactic today, someone will learn the essence from it tomorrow, and improve it with their own characteristics, and turn it into their own set of things, so there are no secrets in football tactics.

This is why Ye Qiu repeatedly emphasized spiritual strength and the overall situation when he reorganized Tottenham Hotspur.

It can be said that since last season, Tottenham Hotspur's tactical system has reached a new height. If it wants to continue to develop, it has encountered a bottleneck and must make more attempts and improvements, absorb more things, and take a longer period of time.

Just like in the field of electronics, everyone knows Moore's Law, which is a law proposed by the founder of Intel that performance doubles every eighteen months, but the problem is that this law is simply a false proposition.

Everyone can understand as long as they think about one question seriously, that is, in modern technology, it is difficult to make rapid changes in a short period of time. When it is difficult to increase the degree of electronic integration quickly and accurately by many times, you can make semiconductors How many nanometers? Without the impact of new materials and new technologies, would you still be able to maintain the development momentum of the past?

Therefore, Ye Qiu knew very well from the beginning that no matter how smart phones were made, they would basically remain the same, and it would be difficult to make drastic changes in at least ten or twenty years. Therefore, when formulating the company's strategy, he proposed The concept of smart ecosystem, rather than just moving forward in the smartphone business.

Isn’t that what football is like?

Isn’t it possible that the rise of the so-called overall football in the new century is caused by the influx of high-tech into football training grounds, youth training bases, and all aspects of players and teams in the past few years? Shock?

Those who don’t believe it should ask Pele and Maradona. Did they have as many complicated electronic instruments and equipment to assist them in playing football at that time as they do now? Do they need to think so much about eating a meal? How complex are nutritional supplements? Ask Menotti and Santana again, did they have such complicated and cumbersome targeted tactics at that time?

Why is this happening?

The reason is simple. Just like electronic equipment, the higher the level of integration and precision, the more complex and cumbersome it becomes!

But it is also subject to restrictions. It has its limits. It is like it is difficult for you to make semiconductors up to ten nanometers now because you do not yet have such technology. Therefore, any semiconductor company can only continue to accumulate, continue to try and explore. .

Ye Qiu and his coaching staff have also been studying. If there is a system that can break the existing tactical framework again in the future, what will it be?

Ye Qiu didn't dare to say anything else, and couldn't say anything, but there was one thing he could guarantee he wouldn't be short of, speed!

So he realized that Tottenham Hotspur must adjust quickly and must adjust in front of everyone again.

But the speed he understands is not the absolute speed of Cristiano Ronaldo or Gareth Bale, but a speed that combines more delicate passing, control and cutting abilities.

Sometimes, he once thought about a problem like this. He worked hard to improve a tactical system, but after playing for one season, he was immediately restrained by his opponents in the second season, and he had to do everything possible to improve it. what?

In the end, he came to the conclusion that the pursuit is the pursuit of realizing self-worth!

The players in the locker room stood up one after another and surrounded Ye Qiu. They didn't speak, but everyone looked at him.

Once upon a time, in his previous life, Ye Qiu was a loser. He didn't understand. He always felt that the most important thing about a company or a team was a corporate culture. He thought he would scorn it. I would be a fool to believe you. Plus idiot because he thinks everyone works hard just for a paycheck.

But now he really understands, because he feels that he didn't understand because he was not at the right level, and now he understands.

The so-called corporate culture does not mean that you deliberately create it, but it is a kind of culture that you slowly develop through your words and deeds in the process of starting a business, working hard, and realizing the operation of the company. It is an atmosphere that infects all the people around you who have the same thoughts, concepts, dreams and pursuits as you, and eventually gather together to form an atmosphere.

Just like Ye Qiu, what is the purpose of building Tottenham Hotspur?

Realize the pursuit of self-worth!

Therefore, Messi refused to leave the team because he still had pursuits; Ribery never thought about leaving because he also had pursuits; Falcao came to Tottenham Hotspur because he had pursuits, Coentrao, and Ma Cerro, Alves...

They all have pursuits, and they all hope to use Tottenham Hotspur to realize their pursuit of self-worth!

This is the culture, the culture of Tottenham Hotspur!

It is also the core spiritual strength of this team. It has already unconsciously infected the spiritual strength of every player!

"..Chelsea launched a counterattack and quickly passed the ball to the front of Tottenham Hotspur's penalty area"

"Drogba crossed the ball, missed someone, Anelka!!!"

When Tottenham Hotspur missed a man at the front of the penalty area and French forward Anelka got the ball in front of the top of the penalty area without any defense, all the Blues fans in the audience felt their hearts break. It all jumped to my throat.

I saw that Anelka was about to kick after getting the ball, but at the critical moment, a dark figure came out from behind and directly blocked Anelka's shot with his body. .

And after the dark figure took a hard shot from Anelka, the ball rebounded. He didn't seem to be in any pain at all. He turned around, went towards the ball and made a big-footed clearance. Everyone came here as well. After a moment, I noticed that it was Yaya Toure. This strong black midfielder blocked Anelka's shot at the critical moment!

But soon, Chelsea's offensive once again broke into Tottenham Hotspur's penalty area. Drogba directly knocked Zygrinski away with his body and faced the goal. Thiago Silva made a decisive move at this critical moment. At this moment, a flexible kick from the side poked the ball away. Although he fell to the ground, it knocked the ball away from Drogba's feet.

However, his calf was hit by Drogba's volley. The Ivorian didn't do it on purpose, but because he couldn't hold back the momentum.

Fortunately, the kick was not real, so Thiago Silva was not injured, otherwise he would have to leave the field.

"After the start of the second half, both sides fought hard, especially Chelsea, who continued the crazy counterattack at the last moment of the first half, obviously hoping to equalize the score, but Tottenham's defense was also very tenacious, and Thiago Silva's performance in this game was very impressive."

"Not only him, in fact, the entire defense of Tottenham in this game, whether it was Yaya Toure, Thiago Silva, or Zielinski, left a very deep impression on people. Drogba and Anelka didn't get any good scoring opportunities in front of them."

But there is a saying that goes, it is impolite to give without giving.

Tottenham Hotspur has always been known for its offense. Although Ye Qiu said that he would emphasize defense this season, in fact, they are still the team with the strongest offensive ability in the Premier League and even in Europe. When Chelsea launched a desperate attack on their own defense, Tottenham Hotspur's offense also threatened Chelsea's goal again and again.

However, the Blues' defense was also very tenacious and stable. They just held on to their last breath and refused to let go.

The two sides competed in this almost suffocating torture, and the game time was consumed by every second. It all depended on who could not bear it first.

When the game entered the 60th minute, Chelsea began to have some problems.

First of all, there was only one defensive midfielder, Michael Essien. Although the Ghanaian buffalo covered a large area and its strength has improved a lot in recent years, no matter how hard the single defensive midfielder worked and how large the coverage area was, the physical requirements for the players were very high. Considering the intensity and intensity of this game, it was normal for Essien to be unable to bear it.

Another player who came off early was Ballack. Ancelotti replaced Ballack with Mikel in the 55th minute, obviously wanting to use Mikel to sort out Chelsea's midfield, but unfortunately, Mikel is not Ballack.

On the contrary, it was Mikel's passing error that led to Beckham's interception of the ball, Falcao's powerful volley, Cesar's save, Messi's supplementary shot in front of the goal, and scored the second goal for Tottenham in the 64th minute.

Then Marcelo made a diagonal pass to the penalty area from the left at a 45-degree angle. Falcao rushed to the penalty area in front of the goal, before Terry, and kicked the ball into Cesar's goal again, scoring the third goal for Tottenham, 3:0!

When Tottenham scored consecutively, Ancelotti was somewhat helpless, because Chelsea's main lineup was indeed very strong, but the substitute lineup was still a big gap compared to Tottenham.

But when the game entered the 80th minute, he finally couldn't help but get nervous on the sidelines because Drogba was injured.

In fact, Ye Qiu has always believed in a saying that being too strong will easily break, that is, if you just play hard, you will hurt others while hurting yourself. So throughout Drogba's career, he has almost always been accompanied by constant injuries, which has something to do with his way of playing football.

This time he was injured because he wanted to half-turn to shoot after receiving the ball in front of Thiago Silva, but he obviously pulled his calf when turning around, and ended up falling directly on the grass. Fortunately, Chelsea fans in the stands kept shouting fouls, red cards, penalties, etc. In fact, Thiago Silva was wronged, he didn't touch Drogba at all.

Fortunately, Weber understood the situation and quickly had Drogba carried off the field on a stretcher. It seems that the injury should not be serious, and he will be fine after a day or two of rest, especially with Drogba's beast-level physical fitness. At least Ancelotti doesn't seem to be sad at all.

Drogba is extremely important to Chelsea. In the absence of accuracy and efficiency in Chelsea's midfield, a large part of the Blues' offense depends on the opportunities created by Drogba's harassment in the front. It is not an exaggeration to say that he supports Chelsea's offense by forceful attacks.

So, if Drogba is really injured, and the injury is not light, Ancelotti must be the most sad.

However, this game also proved another thing again, that is, when a team relies too much on a certain player, it is often not a good thing, just like Tottenham Hotspur, which froze Drogba in this game and successfully curbed Chelsea's offense.

With Drogba's departure, everyone in the entire back line of Tottenham Hotspur breathed a sigh of relief, especially Thiago Silva. Ye Qiu immediately replaced Thiago Silva with Phil Jones to give the captain time to rest and then fully train Phil Jones, the newcomer.

After Drogba left the field, Chelsea also lost the idea of ​​continuing to advance. Ancelotti's diamond midfielder ultimately failed to lead Chelsea to defeat Tottenham Hotspur. Instead, they were beaten 3:0 by Tottenham Hotspur at home, which made Chelsea fans in the stands lose face.

The TV live camera also captured Abramovich and Pini Zahavi. The two Chelsea bosses also looked depressed. After all, their team fell to Tottenham Hotspur again, which was equivalent to sending Tottenham Hotspur to the position of the league leader with their own hands.

With Webber's whistle, this highly anticipated focus battle finally came to an end!