Chapter 416 The Forsaken's Counterattack

"Ye Qiu used details to create a great victory, while Mourinho was defeated like a mountain!"

Paul Doyle, a well-known columnist of the Guardian, published his exclusive comments on the final round of the Premier League on the front page of the Guardian the next day, and what he was paying attention to was undoubtedly this game held at Stamford Bridge Stadium in London. a match.

Doyle criticized Mourinho at the beginning of his column, saying, "After the game, he once again habitually wants to find a reasonable excuse for his loss, such as when he criticized Tottenham Tottenham played very conservatively for a lot of the time, while Chelsea had a big advantage.”

"But this statement can only deceive fans who have never even watched the game. Anyone who has watched this game in person will definitely not agree with his statement, because his so-called initiative does not rely on the team. What was obtained through strength seems more like a gift from Tottenham Hotspur’s tactical concessions.”

"The famous sports commentator Cascarino once criticized Mourinho in this way, thinking that he lacks the minimum grace. He gets a little carried away when he wins, and always makes excuses for himself when he loses. He always feels that his opponent’s victory is unfair and doubts his opponent. Over time, this seems to have become a habit for him to shirk responsibility.”

"We all know that no one in this world is perfect. Everyone has shortcomings and shortcomings. Everyone will fail and be depressed. And everyone will inevitably encounter setbacks. This is not terrible, no People will criticize a person for always winning, but the most important question is how you view failure!”

"Another approach that is completely different from Mourinho comes from Ye Qiu. Whenever the team loses, he will take over the responsibility, but this does not mean that he is pampering the players. According to what we learned from Ye Qiu, From what he has learned from the teams he has coached, Ye Qiu adheres to a principle: externally, he takes the initiative to take responsibility, and internally, he must criticize those who deserve criticism and punish those who deserve punishment. "

"Many people say that Ye Qiu gives people a better impression, and Mourinho's image is terrible. Why? Because Ye Qiu will admit it after losing and dare to take responsibility, because in his view, losing will always mean There is only one explanation, and that is that the opponent performed better than you, and Mourinho's first reaction after losing was to find excuses."

"Making excuses after losing, and then putting yourself in a position where you are treated unfairly is not only a slander and humiliation for your opponent, but also arouses dissatisfaction and indignation from your opponent, and it can also easily cause psychological damage to yourself. A kind of misalignment in the world, over time, it will become like oneself becoming the enemy of the whole world.”

"Just like this game, Mourinho said that his team had the advantage for a long time, but if you look at the game process, Chelsea seems to have a lot of shooting opportunities, but most of the shots are long-range shots. , It is obvious that they did not create many scoring opportunities, but more often relied on lucky long shots to complete the shots.”

"I believe everyone who often watches football knows that the success rate of long-range shots is low, and such shooting methods are usually used when positional warfare cannot be effective, but Mourinho obviously will not say this, and He insisted that he had more shots than Tottenham, so he lost unfairly."

"Tottenham Hotspur's offensive quality is obviously higher. This can be seen from the fact that they don't take many shots, but almost every shot creates a threat. They don't even have many long-range shots, which is more impressive. It was Messi’s shot into the empty net, but I believe all Chelsea fans will never forget that shot!”

"What I want to say is that Mourinho did not dare to admit the fact that he lost, but everyone knew that he lost, and he lost miserably. He had already firmly grasped the loss. The league championship trophy is in hand, and if we want to carefully analyze the reasons for Mourinho’s loss, I think it is mainly reflected in the details and on-the-spot command.”

"Everyone who has watched the game will be full of praise for the free kick that Tottenham Hotspur equalized, whether it was Beckham's kick, Ruud van Nistelrooy's sudden shot, or Franck Ribery's interference. And blocking Terry, and even Tottenham Hotspur suppressing the back points, all reflect the wisdom of this team's cooperation this time."

"Another very interesting scene is that in the second half, Mourinho originally asked Duff to warm up, and Ye Qiu immediately asked Arbeloa to warm up, but the final result was that Duff and Arbeloa Yadu didn’t come on as a substitute.”

"At the last and most critical moment, when Chelsea's physical fitness began to decline, Mourinho chose to trust Joe Cole, while Ye Qiu chose to change the team's offensive method and replaced top scorer Ruud van Nistelrooy with Robin van Persie. Regardless of the effect or the courage of substitutions shown in the game, Ye Qiu is obviously better than Mourinho."

"This is a game where success or failure is determined by details. This is really surprising, because in everyone's impression, Tottenham Hotspur did not have the strength to keep pace with Chelsea. But through this game In the game, what we saw was a strong Premier League team that could at least go head-to-head with Chelsea.”

At the end of the column, Paul Doyle congratulated Tottenham Hotspur for qualifying for the Champions League next season, but at the same time he was wary of Tottenham Hotspur, because this team is not perfect, and there are also problems Obvious weaknesses and shortcomings.

"We have all noticed that Tottenham Hotspur is more inclined to attack and use offense to destroy opponents. This has certain advantages in the league, but once it comes to the Champions League that pays more attention to the balance of offense and defense, Tottenham Hotspur There will be greater challenges.”

"There is also a very obvious weakness in the central defender. Thiago Silva's ability to take the ball and play the ball is indeed good, but this central defender has obvious deficiencies in his defense when encountering a strong high center. He has a lot of responsibility for Chelsea’s first goal, and Drogba has been his nightmare in the past few games.”

Unlike the Guardian’s Paul Doyle’s perspective of observation, the Times’ well-known columnist Martin Samuel used a simpler column title, The Outcast’s Counterattack!

"This was a game dominated by a group of abandoned players, because the three decisive goals in this game were all played by a group of abandoned players."

"Chelsea's first goal was Lampard assisting Ballack, but I believe no one will doubt that Drogba leaned on Thiago Silva with his body and then passed the kick to Lampard. The ball was the decisive factor in this goal, and Drogba was dismissed by Mourinho and judged by Abramovich and many fans as a subpar center. Even Ye Qiu was He left Stamford Bridge angry because he defended Drogba."

"We all noticed that when Drogba and Ye Qiu expressed their friendship before and after the game, many fans were booing. I had a question in my mind at the time, why are you booing? Just because you are Chelsea. Fans? Or did you support Drogba?”

"When Drogba suffered a crisis of confidence and the management even expressed time and again that they would bring in Shevchenko to replace Drogba, these fans who booed Drogba were the accomplices of the management. Only Ye Qiu remained firm. He has unswervingly supported Drogba and even resigned for it. Now that Drogba is showing friendship to Ye Qiu, what qualifications do you have to boo him?"

"Tottenham Hotspur's equalizing goal was the result of a joint effort by Beckham, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Franck Ribery and even multiple Tottenham Hotspur players, and Beckham has been eliminated by Real Madrid this season. Abandoned by Madrid, Capello's Real Madrid ultimately failed to win the championship this season, while Beckham was reborn at Tottenham Hotspur."

"Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manchester United's former ace striker, was reduced to Carrick's transfer last summer. He was abandoned by Manchester United, but his shot saved Manchester United's league championship trophy. No matter what, Should Ferguson be proud of this? Or should he feel helpless and embarrassed, especially when he sees so many goals from Van Nistelrooy this season? "

"Tottenham Hotspur's last goal was led by four players. Messi pulled to the right and created a gap for his teammates. He accurately passed Cesc Fabregas behind him and ran to the right. Robin van Persie hit the center after the ball, and Franck Ribery was outflanking the goal. Coincidentally, these four players are all former Chelsea players who were abandoned by Mourinho last season.”

"Mourinho's explanation convinced many people. He said that the reason why he didn't like these four players was because he preferred a power-based style of play, and they were incompatible with his characteristics. But if we analyze it carefully, It is not difficult to see that the midfielder Mourinho relies on is the combination of Deco and Makelele, neither of whom are powerful. When the team cannot open up the situation, Mourinho trusts Joe Cole. , is also not a power player.”

"This is actually a contradiction, and through the facts, we can make a judgment. There is only one reason why Mourinho abandoned these four players. They are players introduced and trusted by Ye Qiu, so Mourinho Austria wants to give up on them. I guess this is why Ribery and the other four players are particularly excited when they play against Chelsea.”

"This is a counterattack by the outcasts. These players used this game to reaffirm the simplest fact on a football field, but at the same time forgotten by countless fans, that is, there is no The best players, only the most suitable players!”

"When we saw Ronaldinho shine at Chelsea and Barcelona, ​​when we saw Kaká excel at AC Milan, when we saw Cristiano Ronaldo emerge at Manchester United, when we saw It was amazing to see Ruud van Nistelrooy and Franck Ribery at Tottenham Hotspur”

"At this time, we must not forget that behind their outstanding performance, there is always a set of overall team tactics that serve them silently, and for a team, the only criterion for selecting players is suitability. , not the best!”

The two well-known columnists of The Guardian and The Times focused their reports on the game between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, but there were also many newspaper commentators who focused on the final round of the Premier League. The situation of the final battle.

As for Manchester United's eventual success in retaining the league championship trophy, everyone believed that the person Ferguson should thank most was Ye Qiu's Tottenham Hotspur, because if Tottenham Hotspur hadn't scored at the last and most critical moment and defeated Chelsea and Manchester United may now miss out on the league championship trophy while crying.

Tottenham Hotspur reversed Chelsea 2:1 away, and the media and fans gave high praise, believing that this game determined the ownership of the Premier League champion this season, and Ribery's goal at the last moment allowed Manchester United to win the championship, and also made this French star completely join the ranks of first-class stars.

Many people, including French superstar Zidane, even asserted that Ribery's future is extremely bright and he is fully capable of going to a better team to show his strength. Even Spanish Marca and AS revealed that Real Madrid and Barcelona are full of interest in Ribery.

Tottenham Hotspur rejected all the temptations from the outside world, especially Real Madrid. Real Madrid, which missed the league championship this season and has been without a championship for many years, wants to regroup. Before the end of the season, it has asked Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United for a price, targeting Ribery, Van Nistelrooy and Cristiano Ronaldo.

And it is no surprise that both Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United rejected it, saying that the players are not for sale.

But it is obvious that with the outstanding performance and play of Tottenham Hotspur in the second half of the season, this group of stars in the team has also attracted more and more attention from the media and wealthy teams. Fortunately, this season Tottenham Hotspur has advanced to the Champions League next season as the third in the Premier League, which is bound to give Tottenham Hotspur more bargaining chips to retain players.

After all, for this group of young players, they are now in a very important stage of self-improvement and transformation. It is too risky to leave Tottenham Hotspur, which has laid the foundation, and go to an unfamiliar team. Maybe they will fall down accidentally.

Similarly, with Tottenham Hotspur's active side attack, Vargas and Alves on the two wings have also received recognition and attention from the outside world, especially Alves. The media even predicted that the player's value is as high as 30 million euros, but Ye Qiu also denied such rumors.

As the Premier League came to an end, Manchester United won the championship, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool all successfully qualified for the Champions League next season. Arsenal lost 0:1 to West Ham United at home and eventually missed the Champions League next season. They were forced to play in the League Cup. West Ham United striker Tevez, who scored the only goal in this game, became famous.

Immediately after the Premier League ended, the media disclosed that Ferguson wanted to introduce Tevez from West Ham United, but West Ham United denied it, saying that Tevez would not leave the Hammers, and the player himself refused to be interviewed.

Although the transfer market was in a turmoil just after the league ended, whether it was Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United or Chelsea, the three teams obviously adopted a relatively low-key strategy, because they all had two key finals to play.

Tottenham Hotspur will play the UEFA Cup final on May 16 at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland. The opponent is Espanyol, which is the home of the Scottish national team. The strength of Espanyol should not be underestimated, especially the team's top striker Raul Tamudo.

However, although Tottenham Hotspur will continue to play the UEFA Cup final after playing the 38th round of the Premier League, the schedule is still relatively favorable, because the UEFA Cup final is Tottenham Hotspur's last game, and there are still five rounds of La Liga to play. However, Espanyol can be said to have no desire, neither will be relegated nor will it continue to qualify for European competitions, so they will also fully prepare for the UEFA Cup final.

And the captain of this Espanyol team, Raul Tamudo, was just a little bit ahead of the opening. He took advantage of a pass error by Hangeland and almost created a goal. Fortunately, Cech left the goal and saved Raul Tamudo's single knife and saved the team.

With the crisis after the opening, Tottenham gradually stabilized the situation, slowly put the game into their own rhythm, and began to play the traditional fast-paced offense and defense of the Premier League. In the first half, they took advantage of the goals of Ruud van Nistelrooy and Hangeland, and took the lead 2:0.

Among them, Hangeland's goal was due to Beckham's corner kick, which accurately created a header for Hangeland, and Ruud van Nistelrooy's goal came from Arshavin's pass from the right.

After taking the lead in the first half, Tottenham played more relaxed in the second half. The overall strength of the Spaniard was not as good as Tottenham. Although Ye Qiu kept reminding the players to be careful of Raul Tamudo, Ye Qiu felt that Tottenham had an advantage in the overall strength of the Spaniard, and even a considerable advantage.

In the second half, the Spaniards began to press forward, and Tottenham Hotspur scored another goal in the 71st minute when Van Persie, who replaced Van Nistelrooy, received an overhead pass from Beckham, stopped the ball in the penalty area, turned around and shot, and scored another goal for Tottenham Hotspur.

However, in the 86th minute, Raul Tamudo finally scored a goal for the Spaniards, but in the end, the La Liga team still lost the UEFA Cup final 1:3.

With this victory, Tottenham Hotspur won the second championship trophy of the season.

Although the UEFA Cup championship is a bit useless now and has little influence, it can even be said to be very small, but no matter what, for Tottenham Hotspur, this is a championship trophy after all. The team can win both the League Cup and the UEFA Cup this season, and Tottenham Hotspur fans are also surprised and satisfied.

Especially on the same day, Mourinho's Chelsea finally defeated Manchester United in the FA Cup final on penalties and successfully won a championship this season, avoiding the embarrassment of the team being empty-handed.

This also makes Tottenham Hotspur incredibly rely on two useless championship trophies to become the only double champion of the Premier League this season. This is really unimaginable, and it can only be said that they are lucky.

When the team returned to London from Scotland, it was immediately greeted by cheers from all Tottenham Hotspur fans. Chelsea, which returned to London on the same day as Tottenham Hotspur, did not even celebrate although it won the FA Cup. It just came back and put it in the Hall of Fame.

To use the sarcastic words of some Tottenham Hotspur fans, maybe they feel shabby!