Chapter 451 Is there hope?

When Mourinho appears in London again, what will happen to this city?

That is, almost all the media are paying attention to whether the Portuguese madman will return to the Premier League?

If he really returns to the Premier League, who will be the unlucky guy replaced by him?

The unlucky Grant became the biggest suspect, although many media felt that Abramovich's invitation to Mourinho was absolutely ridiculous and a joke of the century, because the Portuguese had just been dismissed at the beginning of the season.

Ye Qiu really didn't know why the madman chose to return to London on the eve of the Champions League semi-finals. Maybe it was because he felt that Portugal in the south was too hot and wanted to come to London in the north to cool off, or maybe he felt the football atmosphere in London and wanted to take a look. In a word, he didn't know!

This was Ye Qiu's answer to the group of reporters who blocked the entrance of the first-team training area of ​​the Theobald Training Base early in the morning. He was surprised. Mourinho was not his person. Why did the reporter come to ask him when that guy returned to London? Wasn't Mr. Avran Grant the one who should be asked the most? Or, ask Abramovich?

The security guards at the Theobald training base were hired by a regular security company, and since the team defeated AC Milan, Ye Qiu has issued an order to close the Theobald training base, especially the first-team training area, where no outsiders are allowed to enter. Even reporters and media who come to attend press conferences can only go to the news building.

This is also related to the excessive hype from the outside world. After all, Tottenham Hotspur has become the biggest dark horse in this European Champions League. Coupled with Ye Qiu's relationship, this team has always been the most eye-catching team.

High exposure and high attention are good things for professional clubs. At the very least, it provides great convenience for commercial development, because everyone wants to sponsor those teams whose every move attracts worldwide attention. Therefore, such exposure and attention are also related to Tottenham Hotspur's behind-the-scenes promotion.

Of course, the team itself does have resources that attract attention. Otherwise, a lot of teams want to get media attention and exposure, but even if they give money, the media is not very willing to pay attention to them, because they have nothing worth paying attention to.

If you don't have a foundation, no matter how much attention and exposure you get, it will be useless.

But as the head coach of the team, Ye Qiu also deeply felt some of the impacts that the media brought to the team. At least a very typical example appeared in some players. After the media's extensive exposure and hype, they began to feel restless and felt that they should be treated at a higher level, such as the main position.

For the internal conflicts of the team, Ye Qiu always adopted an internal solution strategy, that is, the things in the locker room should be solved in the locker room, and no one can say too much to the outside world, because he wants to build a united team, at least not to give the outside world some opportunities to exaggerate the report.

At some critical moments, Ye Qiu would even take some more dictatorial measures, such as closed training, which would definitely cause dissatisfaction from the media, but over time, they would get used to it, especially some newspapers and reporters who had good relations with Tottenham Hotspur. Even if it was a closed training, they could still get some information from the club.

This is also determined by the current environment of European professional football. Whether it is a team or a star, they are inseparable from the media.

Because there is no pressure in this aspect, at least with Robert Milson, Ye Qiu does not need to worry about the news, so he ignored the complaints of those reporters, answered a few questions casually, and then blocked them outside the first-team training area, prohibiting anyone from entering the first-team training area.

Back in the training area, Ye Qiu noticed that there were already quite a few players on the training ground, one of whom had obviously been training for a while, which could be seen from the training jersey on his body and the sweat on his forehead.

"Save some energy, David, don't get hurt again!" Ye Qiu walked over and said to Beckham with a smile.

The injury he suffered in December was almost healed by the end of February, but just after returning to the training ground, Beckham's right ankle began to ache again. After testing, it was found that his old ankle injury had relapsed. After that, he underwent a series of physical therapy. It was not until these two days that he was able to regain his license to compete.

"I feel very healthy now, nothing is wrong!" Beckham jumped a few times in front of Ye Qiu, and he jumped with all his strength to show that his current physical condition is quite good.

The facilities of the Theobald training base are very complete, especially in the medical field. Whether it is the anti-gravity treadmill or the swimming pool, they are important means for Beckham to undergo physical therapy, and the effect is quite good.

If it were in other teams, Beckham would have returned long ago in his current condition, but Ye Qiu insisted on keeping him for nearly two more weeks, insisting that he recover from the injury before returning.

"What you need to do now is to adjust your condition, right?" Ye Qiu said with a smile.

It was originally a joke, but after hearing it, Beckham nodded seriously, "I feel that my current condition is extremely good. I want to play in the game as soon as possible, more games, the more the better!" After saying this, he started a short-distance sprint shuttle run training.

Ye Qiu listened to his words, and then saw him like this, he laughed and muttered to himself: "Sure enough, he is the same character as Ferguson!"

Beckham's professional ethics are beyond doubt. He is always the most diligent one on the training ground, especially after joining Tottenham Hotspur. He insists on coming to the training base early every day, sometimes even earlier than the coaching staff, and he is usually the last to leave. If he is not prevented from doing free kick training during the recovery period, he will definitely be later.

Although Beckham is not the captain of the team now, his prestige in the team is quite high. This is not because the team is in the Premier League, nor because he is a superstar, but because he relies on the accumulation of bits and pieces on the training ground and establishes his own prestige, so many young players are infected by him.

Just imagine, a superstar of such a big name is so diligent, what reason do other players have to be lazy?

Of course, Ye Qiu could also feel the urgency and sense of crisis in Beckham's heart, because his position in the team was no longer as stable as before he was injured, and he even had to use his performance to regain the main position from Modric.

Beckham has his advantages, and Modric has his advantages. Moreover, the media recently disclosed that Tottenham Hotspur wanted to introduce a midfielder in the summer, which undoubtedly further strengthened the competition in the team's midfield. Not only Beckham was under pressure, but all other players were also under pressure.

As a friend of Beckham, Ye Qiu felt that perhaps he was a little sorry for his friend by doing this. After all, Beckham worked so hard and was so diligent, but his efforts could not be rewarded accordingly. However, as the head coach of the team, he knew very well that this was the cruelty of professional football.

It was as if he had also paid a lot for some of the players in his team, and invested a lot of effort and energy, but when they were seduced and poached by those giants, they were also moved, and he had no way to deal with it.

The only thing that could be done was what Beckham was doing now.

Whether it is a football club or a person, the most important thing is to strive for self-improvement, rather than complaining about the world.

For Tottenham Hotspur now, striving for self-improvement means trying to compete for more championships, especially heavyweight championships such as the Premier League and the Champions League.

After reaching the semi-finals, the opponent is Chelsea, and in Ye Qiu's opinion, Chelsea is much easier to play than Liverpool, because he doesn't think Grant can complete any transformation of Chelsea. Israelis have a kind of conservativeness in their bones, and after losing to Tottenham Hotspur several games in a row, he has completely lost his confidence.

Facing such an opponent is obviously much more interesting than facing Liverpool, isn't it?

As long as they cross Chelsea, the Champions League final will be waving at Tottenham Hotspur in front!

Even, as long as they go one step further, they will be the king of Europe!

Ye Qiu has never been proud of offensive football, because in his opinion, this is just a way to win, just like defensive counterattacks. The purpose of the two is the same, and there is nothing to be proud of.

But at the same time, he also said that he didn't like the conservative football, he liked to be proactive.

So the Italian media once accused him of attacking the Italian football style intentionally or unintentionally, but Ye Qiu finally clarified that he absolutely did not look down on the Italian football style. On the contrary, there are quite a lot of Italian traces in his football philosophy, especially from Sacchi.

"I personally think that whether it is active attack or defensive counterattack, it is an art of football. I never think there is anything wrong with defensive counterattack, because the ultimate goal of defensive counterattack is to counterattack, not to defend, so even if it is a defensive counterattack, his attitude can be very positive. Is there a problem with this?"

"I said I don't like conservative football. What is conservative? It depends on your attitude!"

"In my opinion, as long as you have a positive attitude, even if it is a defensive counterattack or even a dead defense, I will not think there is any problem. On the contrary, I will often watch some videos in this regard, especially their defensive organization, which is the essence of a tactic."

If Avran Grant had heard what Ye Qiu said, he would definitely feel that the tactics he arranged today were not appreciated by Ye Qiu at all, because he had only one attitude, that is, to defend a draw at White Hart Lane.

Perhaps he was not smart enough, because his deployment and tactics after the opening completely exposed his purpose, which was to block Tottenham Hotspur's attack with a solid defense.

Chelsea played away and deployed a tactic that was a bit like 442, with Cudicini as the goalkeeper, Ashley Cole, Carvalho, Terry and Ferreira as the back line, Ballack, Makelele and Mikel as the midfielders, Lampard in front, and Rooney and Drogba as the forwards.

It was a bit like the 442 tactic, but Rooney's position was closer to the wing and he often retreated, while Lampard's position was relatively backward, which was obviously a conscious effort to strengthen the defensive strength of the midfield and support the two wings to suppress Tottenham's attack.

Ye Qiu still adopted the 433 tactic in this game. The goalkeeper is Cech, the defense is Vargas, Hangland, Thiago Silva and Alves, and the midfielder is Modric and Mas. Celano and Fabregas, the three frontcourt players are Ribery, Robin van Persie and Messi.

The start of the game was actually very dull. Chelsea almost built its midfield and backfield into an iron wall that was unbreakable.

Tottenham got a lot of possession time, and tried to pass the ball in again and again, but it was ineffective, then passed back, reorganized, tried to pass forward again, and then passed back ineffectively, and so on again and again. Once, and the tempo never picked up, because Chelsea seemed to have no desire to attack.

The Tottenham Hotspur fans in the White Hart Lane stadium were quite dissatisfied with the visiting team's tactics and tried every possible means to stimulate and humiliate the opponent with words, because such stubbornness was not worthy of Chelsea's identity and so much. Many stars.

But Avram Grant was unmoved and sat in the visiting team's coaching bench, motionless because he knew very well that for him now, he could only ask for results, not the process. The Champions League was his only one. Opportunity, so even if he just defends, he will defend to the finals.

Mourinho was sitting in the stands at White Hart Lane watching this game with his own eyes. During the game, Tottenham Hotspur's active lateral transfers and pulling passes gave him the feeling that, This team is obviously much more mature than before.

"This team has improved so fast!" Mourinho said to agent Jorge Mendes sitting next to him.

"Whether it's Franck Ribery, Messi, Cesc Fabregas or Van Persie, or Vargas, Thiago Silva, Mascherano and others, they are all progressing very quickly."

If it was at the beginning of the season, maybe he could still feel Tottenham Hotspur's youthfulness and immaturity to a certain extent, that is, in terms of grasping the rhythm and process of the game, but now, Tottenham Hotspur's patience and calmness, But it gave him a feeling of confidence.

"If we talk about offense, ball control and technology, Tottenham Hotspur will have no problem defeating Chelsea, and they even have a good chance of winning the Champions League!" Mendes also felt the same, with a look of amazement on his face, "If we win again The Champions League, that is already Ye Qiu’s third Champions League, this guy is really not easy!”

After hearing this, Mourinho glanced sideways at Ye Qiu in the command area of ​​the home team's coaching bench and smiled coldly, "It's not that simple. All finals are completely different from other games. Don't forget the one we played in Porto back then. A painful lesson!”

Porto also reached the final with great difficulty, but completely collapsed in the Champions League final and were bloodbathed by Chelsea led by Ye Qiu. That battle also became Mourinho's shame.

If you look at it from a certain perspective, Ye Qiu's tactics and team strength definitely don't have that big advantage, but the key to the problem lies in the psychology of the players. This is something that no head coach can accurately predict and can only rely on the players. Adjust it yourself.

Don't look at Tottenham Hotspur's previous game against AC Milan, but now they seem to be making rapid progress against Chelsea. They seem to be very mature, but they may be immature. They have to wait until they really reach the final before they can be sure, no matter what they encounter next. Whether it's Barcelona or Manchester United, both are very experienced teams. Maybe Tottenham Hotspur will be completely exposed by then.

Why do people always say that rich families and aristocrats have a rich heritage? Usually this kind of heritage cannot be seen in ordinary times. Only at critical moments, life and death, can you see the difference between them.

The life and death of a football match is undoubtedly the final, the World Cup final and the Champions League final. That is the real standard and lever to measure the strength of a team. Other games are not convincing, no matter how good they perform, it will not help.

"Then do you think there is hope for Grant?" Mendes looked at Mourinho with a smile. He did not realize what Mourinho meant because he was not the head coach, so he felt that Mourinho This was more to belittle Ye Qiu, and he was already accustomed to this.

"That fool lost the game from the beginning!" Mourinho shook his head and sneered. He had always felt that dismissing himself was not a big problem. The real big problem was that he hired Avlan Grant. This guy What else is there but a mouth?

"As Ferguson said, when playing against Tottenham Hotspur, you have to suppress their momentum. This is a team that is very good at controlling momentum, or rhythm. As long as you let them increase their momentum and play their own Rhythm, then you are not far from death!"

After a pause, Mourinho sneered: "That stupid Israeli thought he was very smart and gathered a lot of troops in the midfield to defend, but he may not have thought at all about what the meaning of doing so was? Passive A passive retreat will only fuel Tottenham's momentum and confidence."

Only those who have been a head coach can understand the importance of momentum and rhythm, because when the momentum and rhythm are on your side, you can easily kill your opponent no matter how you fight, and conversely, when the momentum and rhythm are on your side, you can easily kill your opponent. When the rhythm is far away from you, no matter how hard you try, the distance between you and the ball still seems to be extremely far.

Of course, momentum and rhythm are not static. As big as a game, as small as one or two minutes, or even a defense, an assist, or a pass, it may change the momentum and rhythm of your team, and thus change the game.

Tottenham Hotspur was well aware of this, so when Chelsea chose to retreat, Ye Qiu's team showed unprecedented confidence and composure, passing the ball slowly, back-passing slowly, pulling slowly, waiting for the opportunity to appear.