Chapter 481: Hit the snake at its weakest point

When Tottenham Hotspur chose to travel to Asia and many top teams chose to travel to North America, Manchester United chose to travel to Africa.

But there is an obvious problem. Manchester United's trip to Africa is not perfect. Of course, if imperfection is also a kind of beauty, that is another matter, but at least Ferguson will definitely not be satisfied.

Not to mention the poor results of the warm-up matches, the trip was bumpy and tiring, and the team's top star Cristiano Ronaldo injured his ankle in a warm-up match in Africa and was sent to the operating table, but his condition is much lighter than Ribery, and it is estimated that he will be able to return to the court in mid-September.

Cristiano Ronaldo's absence made Ferguson feel a little embarrassed about this Community Shield match, especially on the front line. After the Champions League final, he has clearly realized the tactical play that Tottenham Hotspur may adopt, especially after David Silva joined, Ye Qiu's tactics will be more mature.

There are not many problems on the defensive line. Van der Sar is still the starting goalkeeper. Evra, Vidic, Ferdinand and Gary Neville have no big problems in the defensive line, but there are many problems in the frontcourt, because Hargreaves and Carrick, the two main midfielders last season, are currently injured.

In the end, Ferguson arranged a midfield combination of Fletcher, O'Shea and Scholes, but he dared not use Berbatov in the frontcourt. The Bulgarian cool brother on the court allowed Tottenham Hotspur to have a possession rate of up to 65%, which made Ferguson very angry and still has lingering fears.

So, after thinking hard, Ferguson arranged a combination of Giggs, Tevez and Park Ji-sung.

Compared with Manchester United's lineup, Tottenham Hotspur's lineup also has problems. After all, in addition to Ribery's absence due to injury, there are four players in the team who are going to participate in the Olympic Games, so Tottenham Hotspur's starting lineup in this game is also very embarrassing.

The goalkeeper is Cech, the back line is Arbeloa, Ziglinski, Thiago Silva and Alves, the midfield is a combination of David Silva, Yaya Toure and Fabregas, and the front court is Gareth Bale, Van Persie and Cavani.

From Tottenham Hotspur's lineup, everyone can see that Ye Qiu still wants to take an active and offensive style of play without reservation. After all, Hangeland left and Kompany went to participate in the Olympics. The selection of midfielders and backcourts in Tottenham Hotspur is indeed a bit tight, but Ye Qiu quietly introduced Ziglinski from Ukraine.

In the home team coaching booth at Wembley Stadium, holding the starting list of Tottenham Hotspur in his hand, Ferguson frowned a little, "Mike, who is this Ziglinsky?"

Mike Phelan, once a Manchester United player, joined the coaching team after retiring. He was promoted to the first team after McLaren left Manchester United in 2001. He has good working ability. After Queiroz left Manchester United again to join the Portuguese national team this summer, Ferguson really couldn't find an assistant, so he promoted him.

Being Ferguson's assistant is not an easy job. This Scottish old man has a bad temper and likes to use the hair dryer randomly. He almost doesn't intervene in training. Therefore, his assistant has to do a lot of things, such as being responsible for the team training, so that the players can meet Ferguson's game requirements, and helping him clean up and deal with some of the aftermath of using the hair dryer randomly.

"He is from Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine. I have collected a lot of his information and game videos from the player database. He is good at holding and passing the ball. His defense is good at prediction and one-on-one. He should be good. It is said that he is called Beckenbauer of Ukraine by Ukrainians."

"Beckenbauer?" Ferguson laughed after hearing this, but his smile was a bit playful. It was hard to tell whether it was because he thought Ukraine was a small country with few people and had never seen the world, so he casually put a huge hat on his favorite player? Or did he think the characteristics of this central defender were interesting?

"Then what do you think after watching the video in the player database?" Ferguson asked again.

"It's okay. His passing ability is indeed excellent. His defense is relatively stable, but he also has a common problem among this type of players. He is afraid of being entangled by agile forwards." Mike Phelan said with a smile.

Ferguson nodded. He did not doubt the information in the player database at all.

Although the player database belongs to Ye Qiu's industry, it is a completely different company from Tottenham Hotspur. For the player database, the foundation of their survival in the football field is fairness and rigor. If they are biased towards Tottenham Hotspur, they can't expect to survive in this industry at all.

This is just like the OPTA data company that was acquired by Ye Qiu's agency not long ago. It used to belong to Sky TV, but their data was sold all over the world, even including many potential competitors of Sky TV. They sold it because they are an independent company.

This summer, Ye Qiu's agency also acquired the production team of the game FM Football Manager, announcing that it would absorb the advantages of this game in player data, improve the use of the database and user experience, and the game will also use the rigor of the database to further strengthen its core data and enhance the selling point.

After all, the player data of the game was collected by amateur fans before, but now it is collected and analyzed by professional scouts, so the selling point is naturally different. However, for the player database, the most important thing is to improve the user experience, and the game is just a balance.

But numbers are still numbers. The player data in the database cannot represent the player standing in front of you, because data is dead, but people are alive, and living people are always full of unknowns.

There is one thing that Ferguson is very worried about. That is, it is said that this central defender named Ziglinski has only participated in three training sessions of Tottenham Hotspur and was arranged by Ye Qiu into the starting lineup. When Yaya Toure plays as a central defender and performs well, does this Ziglinski really have the strength to play as a main player?

Ferguson dare not be careless about this. At least, no one dares to underestimate Ye Qiu's ability to discover newcomers.

Tottenham Hotspur's start was not conservative at all. Ye Qiu's team took the lead in attacking Manchester United amid the cheers of 90,000 fans at the packed Wembley Stadium.

After the kick-off, the ball was passed directly to the backcourt, but Thiago Silva quickly passed it diagonally to Cavani on the right side of the frontcourt. The Uruguayan blocked Evra with his body, stopped the ball, and passed it back to Alves who came in from behind.

After the Brazilian right back got the ball, he quickly cut from the right to the middle, but when he wanted to form a match with Fabregas, O'Shea broke through and passed it directly to the front after intercepting the ball.

Tevez got the ball in the frontcourt, but he just stopped and saw Ziglinski blocking Tevez with his body, interfering with his turn. After Tevez was disturbed, the ball was a little big when he turned around. Yaya Toure quickly jumped out from behind, intercepted the ball and passed it back to Thiago Silva, and the ball was still at the feet of Tottenham Hotspur.

After losing the ball, Tevez rushed towards Thiago Silva fiercely, but the Brazilian was a little closer to the right. When Tevez got closer, he passed the ball directly to the left. Ziglinski stopped the ball steadily and dribbled forward. When Park Ji-sung also rushed over, he passed it to Yaya Toure, who quickly passed it to the left. Arbeloa got the ball and continued to dribble forward.

"Tottenham Hotspur's continuous back-pass in the midfield is very smooth and skillful, and the speed is also very fast. This team has a strong desire to attack. As long as they are given a chance, they will want to launch an attack." The on-site commentator analyzed.

This time, after Arbeloa passed the midfield, he did not look for Gareth Bale, but passed it to David Silva in the middle. After the latter got the ball, he quickly dribbled forward and directly into the 30-meter area of ​​Manchester United, and Van Persie also retreated from the front, seemingly to meet David Silva.

After Tottenham Hotspur entered the key area, Manchester United's defense immediately moved. After being pulled, the center of gravity was naturally focused on the ball. But when everyone thought that David Silva would seek cooperation with Van Persie and Fabregas, the Spaniard suddenly sent a straight pass to the left bottom line of the penalty area.

Gareth Bale was very fast and used his speed to crush Gary Neville. He got a chance on the left and made a left-footed cross, but this cross was a little high and a little floating. The landing point was at the back point. Cavani, who followed up, shook his head directly, but Van der Sar blocked the angle of the shot steadily, and Cavani's header was also high.

"Tottenham Hotspur took the lead in the first shot of the game. Gareth Bale broke through quickly on the left, and Gary Neville was a little struggling. After all, one was only in his teens, while Gary Neville was already 33 years old. In comparison, Gareth Bale's sprint was more advantageous."

After the first shot, Tottenham Hotspur steadily controlled the ball and the game, but Manchester United was not willing to lose the initiative at all. The Red Devils did not adopt a conservative strategy, but chose to press out to grab.

Ferguson knew very well that once the combination of Vidic and Ferdinand retreated, their weaknesses would be exposed in the penalty area when facing smart offensive players. In the absence of Hargreaves and Carrick in the midfield, he was not sure that the team's midfield could prevent Tottenham Hotspur from passing the ball into the penalty area.

In the case of being unable to stop Tottenham from passing the ball into the penalty area, adopting a shrinking defense would simply be a dead end, so he adopted the approach of pressing forward, taking advantage of the physical fitness and running of Manchester United players to tangle with Tottenham.

And Tottenham did not seem to be conservative either. The three players in the frontcourt pressed very high. Once Tottenham got the ball, they were almost close to Manchester United's defense line, and Ye Qiu obviously consciously wanted to use Cavani's attack on the right to suppress Evra's insertion, so after the opening, Tottenham's right side played very fiercely.

But if you just think that Tottenham is going to focus on attacking the right side, you are wrong. They often suddenly make a big move, just like Alves now. After just passing the center line, he saw that the right side was too dense and there was no chance, so he directly made a big move and moved the ball to the left side.

After Arbeloa stopped the ball with his chest, he quickly moved forward and passed the ball to Gareth Bale. Gary Neville kept sticking to Gareth Bale, preventing him from stopping the ball and turning around. Gareth Bale was obviously unable to hold the ball successfully under Gary Neville's close proximity, so he stopped the ball directly to David Silva.

Just now, because Tottenham Hotspur focused on attacking the right wing, Cesc Fabregas leaned to the right wing, so David Silva approached the center. At this time, he ran to the left wing. Fletcher got close at the first time, and Gary ?Neville also immediately let go of Gareth Bale and rushed towards David Silva, trying to form a double-team.

Gareth Bale's pass was not very good. If his stopping skills were better, he should have directly given a ground ball, or simply given a high ball to David Silva. The ball was transferred with a header, which was also good, but he stopped a half-high ball, which was an embarrassing half-high ball.

Because it was a half-high ball, Fletcher and Gary Neville both felt that David Silva was going to lose the ball, so the two immediately formed a double-team, but David Silva faced the ball and directly hit it. He raised his left foot and picked it lightly, reaching a place where Fletcher and Gary Neville could not reach it. He took another step to catch up and picked it again.

This pick directly picked the ball between Fletcher and Gary Neville, and directly in front of Gareth Bale. The Welshman just got rid of Gary Neville. As soon as he saw the ball coming, He immediately chased after him quickly, and when he was on the left side of the penalty area, he passed the ball to the front of the penalty area and passed it to Cesc Fabregas who came in behind.

The latter passed the ball directly, and Van Persie shot with his left foot in the penalty area. The ball crossed an arc and gently penetrated into the goal!

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!"

All the Tottenham Hotspur fans rushed out of their seats and cheered loudly!

"Within less than eight minutes of the opening, Tottenham Hotspur took the lead in knocking on Manchester United's goal, 1:0, with Robin van Persie's goal. Cesc Fabregas's direct pass was very calm and sharp. , almost like a scalpel, passing through the gap between Manchester United's two central defenders, it was almost the only gap, and he was caught!"

Van Persie was the first to run to find Fabregas, and then all the Tottenham Hotspur fans rushed up to congratulate Van Persie on his goal, and all the Tottenham Hotspur fans were also there. Chanting Van Persie's name.

"From the slow-motion replay, we can see that during the entire scoring process, I think David Silva's two consecutive kicks are also very crucial. Gareth Bale's speed is very fast, sprinting Just like lightning, but his stopping and some basic skills are indeed not as good as Ribery, so the stopping of the ball is a bit big, making it difficult for the person receiving the ball to catch the ball, and David Silva simply got smart and directly picked the ball continuously. The ball was picked up by Fletcher and Gary Neville, and then he kicked the ball towards the baseline. It was indeed a very smart pass, very creative!”

"Tottenham Hotspur played amazingly in the opening game, almost overwhelming Manchester United. The Red Devils did not have a very effective way to do this. They were a bit passive, especially in the midfield and frontcourt, and failed to block Tottenham very well. Tottenham’s organization and possession!”

"It's useless if you can run. Not only must you be able to run, but you must also be able to cut off the opponent's passes and organization. But Manchester United's current situation seems to be that they can run, but they cannot effectively cut Tottenham Hotspur. Organization and passing.”

"Conceding the goal in just eight minutes is really not something to be happy about for Manchester United. It depends on how Ferguson adjusts. If we continue to adopt the same tactics, Manchester United will probably suffer a big loss in this game. !”

As the game restarted, Tottenham Hotspur quickly launched a wave of offense as the game progressed.

This time, after Zyglinski got the ball in the backcourt, he passed a long diagonal pass directly to the ground and transferred it to Gareth Bale in front of the left sideline. The pass was very accurate and comfortable. Gareth Bale passed the ball very accurately and comfortably. Bell had his back to the sideline. After getting the ball, he used his speed to directly break away from Gary Neville's defense. But then he made a pass and Van Persie volleyed in front of the goal, but it was a bit too wide.

"Tottenham Hotspur's tactics in this game are already very clear. Use Cavani and Alves on the right to suppress the attacks of Evra and Giggs on the left, and then use the team as a whole. Pull, create a one-on-one opportunity for Gareth Bale and Gary Neville on the left, and finally use Gareth Bale's sprint and speed to kill Gary Neville."

"Ye Qiu's tactics are very targeted. I don't care how strong your Manchester United is, I will hit you at one point, blow up one of your points, and collapse your entire defense line. If you want to use your troops to block this point, then I will adjust the direction of attack and hit you in other positions."

"Manchester United's problem is still in the midfield. Not only can they not hold the ball, but they can't defend it either. It allows Tottenham Hotspur to pass through the midfield too easily and cannot provide strong protection for the defense. This is also the same as Hager. The absence of Reeves and Carrick has something to do with it.”

But Ferguson is not a fuel-saving lamp. As Tottenham Hotspur's overall tactics gradually became clearer, he also responded immediately and made adjustments to strengthen the team's defense. Although the offense was sacrificed as a result, this was not the case. Ways to do things.

If Gareth Bale continues to be allowed to attack the team's right wing desperately, what awaits Manchester United will be threats in front of the goal again and again. Maybe they can hold it once or twice, but if they happen too many times, sooner or later they will still have to fight. The goal was broken again.

After Ferguson made the adjustment, Ye Qiu did not adjust the team's tactics, but asked the players to stay stable, maintain patience, and continue to use the tactics after the opening, because he knew very well that as long as Manchester United's two wings were contained and Manchester United was suppressed as a whole, without Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United's offensive threat would not be great.

The key is that Manchester United adopted such a tactic. As the game progresses, the physical fitness of several veterans in the team will be even worse. At that time, Tottenham Hotspur's advantage will be more obvious, especially Gareth Bale and Gary Neville, which is enough to kill Ferguson!

At certain times, tactics do not need to be varied. You can hit the snake at its seven inches. You can directly blow him up as long as you hit his vital parts.