The Godfather of Football

When Tottenham Hotspur defeated Guardiola's Bayern Munich with a total score of 5:1 in Munich and successfully advanced to the semi-finals, they were immediately received by the entire London fans like heroes after returning to London.

At this time, the media also reported on this game, and newspapers such as the Times, the Guardian and the Daily Mail successively published the details before and after the game. One of them attracted the attention of fans, that is, the pre-match tactical preparations for this battle were completed by Mauro Tassotti.

This news made Tottenham Hotspur fans feel relieved, not only because the team won, but also because Mauro Tassotti's test made all Tottenham Hotspur fans feel relieved. At least he proved his strength and helped Tottenham Hotspur beat Bayern Munich.

The release of this news was an intentional move by Tottenham Hotspur officials and was specially arranged by Ye Qiu. The purpose was to build momentum for Mauro Tassotti, provide him with legitimacy to coach the team, and win the recognition and affirmation of the fans, so that he can get the support of the fans and players after taking over the team.

It should be said that in the past year or so, Mauro Tassotti has done a good job in all aspects. The players are very supportive of him, and the fans' impression and attitude towards him are getting better and better. But on the other hand, the more fans support him, the higher the expectations of him are. Therefore, it may not be all good for Mauro Tassotti.

After returning to London from Munich, Tottenham Hotspur immediately went north to challenge Wigan Athletic away.

This time, Ye Qiu arranged rotation again, almost changing the team's lineup against Bayern Munich, but in the end, they still defeated Wigan Athletic 2:0 away in the FA Cup semi-finals and successfully advanced to the final.

Tottenham Hotspur's opponent in the FA Cup final is Hull City, which is currently ranked 16th in the Premier League, just one step away from the relegation zone.

In the middle of the week, in the 34th round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur defeated West Bromwich 6:0 away.

After losing the league's unbeaten record and winning streak, Tottenham Hotspur has played crazy offensive data in the last two rounds, scoring eleven goals in two games. This is undoubtedly a very powerful slap in the face for those teams that previously suspected Tottenham Hotspur's decline.

But this is just the beginning. Three days later, at Stratford Stadium, Tottenham Hotspur defeated London team Fulham 4:0 again. In this battle, Tottenham Hotspur still played with a full substitute lineup. Mitrovic started as the main center forward and scored two goals. He is a very eye-catching young player.

After finishing the game with Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur went to Madrid, the capital of Spain, to challenge Atletico Madrid away.

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Diego Simeone, the head coach of Atletico Madrid, wore a black suit, a white shirt and a black tie. His whole body was clearly black and white, as if they were integrated into one, which was in line with the feeling Simeone gave people.

Half of the people liked and loved him, while the other half hated and hated him.

In fact, Simeone has always been a very contradictory person since his career, especially after the 1998 World Cup in France, when the national idol Beckham was sent off with a red card. Simeone gave people a very negative impression, especially for Beckham's fans, Simeone was even more sinful.

Atletico Madrid's style of play is exactly the same as Simeone's characteristics when he played football back then, cunning and rough but delicate.

In the first round of the Champions League quarter-finals, Atletico Madrid challenged Barcelona away. In the seventh minute, there was a picture that clearly explained the characteristics of Simeone and Atletico Madrid.

At that time, a long pass came from the backcourt of Atletico Madrid. Diego Costa and Pique were competing for the header. Diego Costa got the first point first. Pique rushed up from behind and wanted to jump from behind Diego Costa to compete, but at this time Diego Costa suddenly bent over, causing Pique, who was supporting part of his weight on him after jumping, to lose his balance and fall to the ground all of a sudden.

This fall directly knocked the Barcelona central defender out of the game, fractured his hip, and rested for a month.

If you look at the whole process, I believe different people will have different opinions. First of all, Pique did have a movement to interfere with Diego Costa's jump after jumping, and even supported part of his weight on him. As an opponent, Diego Costa did not let Pique support him to jump, so he broke free, no problem.

But you know, in most cases, many players will not make a choice like Diego Costa, because they all know that in this case, the risk is uncontrollable, so they will keep a little room for consideration for the opponent, but Diego Costa obviously did not.

After breaking away from Pique, causing the latter to fall to the ground and fracture his bones, he still looked at ease. It must be said that he may not really know that Pique fell so hard at the time, but this did not prevent the live broadcast of the game from being aimed at him.

Why is this picture interesting and can well interpret the characteristics of Simeone and Atletico Madrid?

It is because Diego Costa's action is very cunning, but also very rough, even despicable.

But you just can't do anything with him. He will do everything he can to torment you in the game, making it impossible for you to play your own strength and level well, but he will also take the initiative to show you goodwill in the game, or find you to reconcile after the game. He is the type that you want to beat him to death, but you can't touch him.

Diego Costa can be said to be Simeone's favorite type, the reason is very simple, he and his Atletico Madrid are like this.

In terms of lineup, no one thinks that Atletico Madrid can make a difference in La Liga with this deck of cards, but they are now the leader of La Liga. With the rotation tactics, Atletico Madrid's positional warfare ability is not as good as the Spanish Super League duo or Tottenham Hotspur, even compared with Dortmund, it is also much worse.

This can be seen from Atletico Madrid's average possession rate in La Liga is only 47.5%, even worse than some relegation teams, and the average number of passes per game is 413 times, ranking ninth in La Liga, only 63% of Barcelona's average number of passes per game, and the pass success rate is only 75.1%, which ranks eleventh in La Liga.

From this series of data, it can be easily seen that Atletico Madrid's positional warfare offense is indeed quite bad, but what is interesting is that their average running distance per game is excellent, and their steals are also quite amazing, far ahead of La Liga, and second only to Dortmund in the Champions League.

But there is one thing that Atletico Madrid deserves to be the first, that is, they have a total of more than 150 fouls and 23 yellow cards, these two points are the best in Europe, but interestingly, they have no red cards.

This is the cunning Atletico Madrid brought out by the cunning Simeone!

For such a team, you can say that they are rude and accuse them of being mean, but you have no way to deal with them, and even if you are affected and disturbed by them, you are likely to lose the game against them.

Simeone and his Atletico Madrid are the type that fans love to death and non-fans hate to death.

In this game against Tottenham Hotspur, Simeone is very clear that they have no advantages in offense, defense, ball possession, and running distance. The only advantage is fighting and grabbing.

Therefore, at the beginning of the game, Atletico Madrid fought very hard. Although Tottenham Hotspur had the ball in hand and pressed forward, they could not form an effective scoring opportunity. Atletico Madrid was defending its own half, especially the 30-meter area. As long as the ball went in, it would either be whistled or intercepted.

Although this game was played away, Tottenham Hotspur still adopted the 4231 style of play, but judging from the progress of the game, it was not ideal, so after ten minutes of the game, Ye Qiu made the first adjustment since the start of the game.

"Let Ribery and Neymar move to the wing, move along the wing, let the middle open, and retreat more!"

"Let Matic stay in the midfield and move Ramsey forward!"

"Lewandowski goes to the front, Messi plays freely in the frontcourt!"

"The full-backs move forward more, create as many one-on-one opportunities as possible, help Ribery and Neymar eat up the opponent in one-on-one situations, cross from the bottom or cut inside to find Messi, they can decide!"

As Ye Qiu made a series of adjustments, the situation on the court changed immediately. The original 4231 formation of Tottenham Hotspur looked more like 41311. The three in the middle were Neymar, Ramsey and Ribery. The three stood in a shallow saucer shape, surrounding Messi and Lewandowski in front.

Ramsey was the starting midfielder in this game. The Welshman was as diligent and hardworking as ever. In addition to playing a role in the offense, he was also very active in defense and covered a wide area. With the addition of Matic, the two midfielders of Tottenham Hotspur covered a large area.

Ramsey ran in front to cover and intercept and press, while Matic was responsible for checking and filling in the gaps behind him, especially when the team intercepted the ball in the frontcourt and switched offense and defense, Matic was always able to get in position in time and cut off Atletico Madrid's counterattack route.

Ye Qiu's series of adjustments actually had only one purpose, which was to open up space, create more space, and create more one-on-one opportunities to play the strength advantage of Tottenham Hotspur players. In this game, Marcelo returned to the starting lineup and formed two wings with Kyle Walker. His assist ability was also very good.

As soon as the adjustment was made, Tottenham Hotspur immediately got a chance to counterattack.

The two sides fought fiercely in the midfield, and the ball was exchanged several times. Marcelo returned to defense once and faced the opponent's Raul Garcia. The latter wanted to pass the ball, but Marcelo raised his foot to intercept the ball. Then the Brazilian defender kicked before Raul Garcia and rushed forward quickly, shaking off Raul Garcia.

Neymar pulled over to receive Marcelo's pass, but he did not dribble the ball to get rid of Juanfran himself. Instead, he passed the ball directly behind Juanfran. Then Marcelo cut inside and forced overtaking, and went straight behind Juanfran. After receiving the ball, he wanted to directly attack the opponent's penalty area.

Midfielder Gabi quickly came over. Marcelo saw Messi, Lewandowski, and Ribery on the right. He had many choices, but the Brazilian chose the worst one at this time, that is, he dribbled the ball to break through Gabi, but the ball was intercepted by Gabi, and Atletico Madrid launched a counterattack.

Ye Qiu was very dissatisfied with Marcelo's handling of the ball this time. After seeing Matic destroy the ball, he walked to the sidelines and shouted at Marcelo who was running back slowly, " Hey, what are you thinking about? Just throw it away and get back on defense. Why are you dawdling?"

Marcelo, who was originally worried about being severely scolded by Ye Qiu, immediately nodded towards the head coach, raised his left hand, grinned, ran back quickly, and tackled Raul Garcia from the side. He took the ball and knocked Raul Garcia to the ground with the ball.

"Hey, Marcelo, be gentle!" Ye Qiu was still dissatisfied. This move was too aggressive and it was easy to get cards.

Mauro Tassotti looked at Ye Qiu's conductor from the side and smiled, "Now that the situation is gradually becoming clearer, Atlético Madrid may have to take a breather, don't be so nervous!"

Ye Qiu chuckled and shook his head with a smile, "This kid is like a naughty monkey. If you don't put some pressure on him, it won't work, so it's best to put a golden hoop on him to restrict him! "

Marcelo was hidden by Ye Qiuxue for several games, especially the away game against Bayern Munich. Ye Qiu would rather play Azpilicueta than him, which made Marcelo feel the pressure, and Azpilicueta He also played very steadily at the left back position. Although his offensive ability was poor, his defense was quite good.

So after Marcelo returned to the starting lineup in this game, he was very active.

Matic sits in the backcourt, and behind him are Thiago Silva and Kompany, the world's leading central defenders, allowing Marcelo and Kyle Walker to press forward and participate in the attack with confidence.

In this game, Atletico Madrid did a good job of containing and pressing the midfield, so Ye Qiu focused on attacking the wings, using Marcelo and Kyle Walker to actively intervene in the attack and complete the advancement of the ball. However, there were several times In the frontcourt, Atletico Madrid's defense did a very good job, and Tottenham Hotspur had difficulty holding the ball in the frontcourt and creating opportunities.

In particular, Messi, Gabi and Thiago almost all focus on taking care of him, so Messi has to expand his scope of activities and actively drop back to participate in the midfield and backcourt.

Marcelo took the ball on the left and took two steps forward along the left sideline. When he saw Messi running back from the front in the middle, he passed the ball diagonally to find Messi, but Messi saw that Bi also ran back with him, so he pushed the ball directly to the left to Neymar without stopping the ball.

Neymar was close to the left sideline, saw the ball coming, stopped the ball in front of him, and quickly chased after him, while Juanfran was also following Neymar back, and the Brazilian winger was retreating to defend. Raul Garcia, running in tandem with Juanfran with Neymar in between.

Seeing that he was getting closer to the bottom line and had already entered the left side of the penalty area, Neymar realized that he could not go any further. Suddenly his right shoulder sank, and his whole body shifted from the bottom to the inside. His right foot was still good. to control the ball.

Juanfran realized something was wrong and immediately changed his focus and followed Neymar. Midfielder Gabi also returned to defend at this time. He and Juanfran flanked Neymar back and forth on the left side of the penalty area. .

I saw that although there were people on the left and right of the Brazilian, he was not panicked at all. Instead, he suddenly braked, scaring both Gabi and Juanfran to make a sudden stop, but he suddenly kicked the ball into the penalty area. , he quickly sprinted from the middle of the two players and directly broke away from the double team of the two defensive players.

After passing three opposing players in a row, Neymar received the ball again on the left side of the penalty area. At this time, he saw Lewandowski pointing behind Atletico Madrid defender Godin. Neymar understood it and attracted After attracting the attention of Miranda and the Atletico Madrid goalkeeper, he passed the ball with his left foot.

The ball passed over the opponent's goalkeeper, over Godin's head, and fell towards the back post. Lewandowski quickly crossed behind Godin, jumped high, and hit the ball. Lewandowski's forehead hit Atletico Madrid's goal, 1:0!

“The ball went in!!!!”

"Tottenham Hotspur! Tottenham Hotspur finally scored!!!!"

"In the 28th minute, the game lasted a full 28 minutes. Tottenham Hotspur finally knocked on Atletico Madrid's goal. Neymar's cross came, and Lewandowski scored with a header. , 1:0!”

The entire Calderon Stadium exploded. Every Atletico Madrid fan was in an uproar. They looked at the scoreboard of the stadium in disbelief. It changed from 0:0 to 0:1. In the stadium below, Tottenham Hotspur players wearing white jerseys had already rushed out of the stadium to celebrate.

Lewandowski rushed to the sidelines and knelt down in celebration, while his Tottenham Hotspur teammates rushed forward one by one, surrounding them in the middle.

The live TV camera kept replaying Neymar's series of dribbling moves on the wing. He passed three players of the opponent in one breath, and then calmly cooperated with Lewandowski to pass the ball to the back post. His awareness and calmness are indeed very commendable, and his personal abilities are also quite outstanding!

Ye Qiu celebrated by high-fiving Mauro Tassotti and Roland Schepas on the sidelines. This has become his signature celebration. In his heart, he was also satisfied with Neymar's performance this time. Not only It was him. From Mauro Tassotti's eyes, Ye Qiu also understood and appreciated it.

Even if the team really sold Messi this summer, even if Ribery is already 31 years old and his form has really declined, the team still has Hazard, Neymar, Lucas Moura, Januzaj and other talented young players from the youth training camp.

Perhaps, Peter de Visser is right, we Tottenham Hotspur have never lacked talents, because we are a talent processing factory!