Chapter 682: Kill Them All

What conditions are needed for young players to become successful?

Perhaps the first thing that most people would react to is injuries.

Because only by staying away from injuries can young players maintain their momentum of progress for a long time, and often young players are defeated by injuries. A serious injury is enough to ruin their originally very bright future.

But besides injuries, what else is there?

Meeting the right head coach is also a very important thing.

Don't disbelieve it, Oriol Romeu will tell you with a real case that it is indeed the case.

This 20-year-old Spanish midfielder came to Stamford Bridge with the halo of a star of hope. The Blues coach called Romeu the hope of Chelsea's midfielder position. He believes that this midfielder from La Masia is fully capable of becoming a top midfielder. His arrival can balance Chelsea's midfield and let everyone play freely.

Tall and strong, with excellent positional sense, strong tactical understanding, good passing and speed, and he also has very good organizational skills. This is Boas's evaluation of Romeu. When evaluating Romeu's ball stopping, Boas used a very exaggerated adjective, cosmic level.

Perhaps, he really has seen too many Ultraman!

In Boas's view, Romeu is a player who can reflect his tactical thinking very well. High pressure, full-court pressing, Romeu's style from La Masia, and his technical ability make him an important metronome in Chelsea's offensive and defensive transitions.

The away challenge to Tottenham Hotspur was regarded by Boas as a battle of self-salvation. Some media reported that when he faced Abramovich and Pini Zahavi, he also vowed to at least get out of the away game unscathed in this battle. When facing the media microphone, he also repeatedly emphasized his confidence.

African players have not yet reached the time to participate in the African Cup. Lampard, Terry and other players are waiting for this city derby with all their strength. Villas-Boas has become the fifth Blues coach to challenge Ye Qiu in the past five years, but he has never been able to help Abramovich heal the eternal pain in his memory.

Before the game, when the media was discussing the starting lineups of both sides, everyone thought that Mikel would be qualified to start in the defensive midfielder position, because in such a crucial battle, Mikel, who is more experienced, should take the lead.

But Villas-Boas obviously wanted to make a surprise attack, and the starting lineup he arranged in this game surprised everyone.

The goalkeeper is Julio Cesar, there is no doubt about that, but the left back Ashley Cole on the defensive line, and the central defender Terry partnered with Ivanovic, there is no suspense, but the veteran Ferreira was chosen as the right back instead of Bosingwa, which is a surprise attack.

In the midfield, Lampard and Ramirez's starting lineup is no problem, but Mikel was abandoned in the defensive midfielder position, and the Spanish teenager Romeu was adopted, which is another big controversy. Although from the perspective of theory and characteristics, Romeu is more suitable for the defensive midfielder position of Boas's tactical system, but can he be independent?

Speaking of young, he is already 20 years old. The 20-year-old Ramsey is already a main force in Tottenham Hotspur, and the 20-year-old Messi, Fabregas and others have also emerged, so Romeu is not young when he says he is young.

The front court gave up the combination of Drogba and Torres, who have never been able to get along this season, and arranged the combination of Malouda, Drogba and Sturridge.

Tottenham Hotspur is at home, and Ye Qiu also arranged the main lineup for this game.

The goalkeeper is Cech, the back line is Marcelo, Kompany, Thiago Silva and Alves, the midfield is the iron triangle combination of Ramsey, Pirlo and Vidal, and the front court is Hazard, Cavani and Messi.

Although Ribery has recovered from his injury and returned to the training ground, Ye Qiu did not arrange him in the game list for this game. Instead, Hazard started and Neymar sat on the bench.

Before the start of this game, Ye Qiu made two requirements when arranging the game tactics in the locker room. First, running. The current Chelsea is not suitable for playing high-pressure defense tactics, because this set of tactics must be based on the team's excellent running ability, but the current Chelsea does not have it.

Second, focus on attacking Chelsea's back midfielder, that is, Mikel's position.

It should be said that Ye Qiu's pre-match arrangement was based on the report given by the team's tactical analysis team, and was also based on his past experience with Chelsea and some Chelsea game videos he watched this season. After the game started, he found that he was half right and half wrong.

Boas's surprise attack tactics were indeed very surprising. At least Ye Qiu never expected that Romeu would start.

So considering the home game and Boas's sudden change of formation, Ye Qiu temporarily adjusted the team's tactics before the game started, and played for stability at the beginning. The players also resolutely implemented Ye Qiu's tactics and adjustments. After the opening, they did not actively attack, but still used their running and pulling to drive the rhythm of the game.

Although Tottenham Hotspur dominated the game, the goal in the first ten minutes was still ineffective. Chelsea's defense seemed to have improved to a certain extent, especially after Romeu replaced Mikel, his range of activities was larger and the area covered was wider. Tottenham Hotspur's attack seemed to be curbed by him.

Villas-Boas, who was dressed in a suit and tie, seemed to be very satisfied with the team's start on the sidelines, especially after the time entered fifteen minutes. He seemed to have survived Tottenham Hotspur's opening attack time, and the game started. It has entered a stalemate stage.

But Ye Qiu, who was in the home team's coaching bench, shook his head, "Tender, still too tender!"

Although Ye Qiu is younger than Boas, in terms of coaching experience, Boas can't even catch up with Ye Qiu.

Mauro Tassotti also laughed after hearing this, "Although Romeu has a wider range of activities, he often leaves his position and distances himself from the defense line behind him, forcing the defense line to either follow the forward pressure or lead to The distance is widened.”

The result of forward pressing is that when you are unable to suppress Tottenham Hotspur's offense in the midfield, you can easily be directly beaten by Bai Baili, and the result of the distance being extended is equally dangerous, which means that once someone appears, In this area, especially when players with strong personal abilities like Messi, Cavani and Hazard appear here to hold the ball, it is a fatal crisis.

"Mikel's shortcomings are indeed fatal, but his advantages are also outstanding. First, he does not leave his position easily. Second, he almost never loses the ball during the transition between offense and defense. Third, he rarely loses the ball. Stick to the ball and try to pass the ball with the highest success rate."

When Ye Qiu said this, he shook his head, "This is the result of the great turmoil in tactics!"

It should be said that Mikel is very suitable for Mourinho's tactical thinking. He was trained according to Mourinho's tactics, so he looks like a Makelele-type positional midfielder, but if you want If you press the defense forward, you can either learn from Barcelona in controlling the ball, or you can learn from Tottenham Hotspur and use a covering midfielder like Yaya Toure.

Of course, we can also follow Ye Qiu's approach this season and use Pirlo who doesn't move much, plus two midfielders Ramsey and Vidal who have a wide range of running and can ensure the accuracy of offense and defense. That can also be achieved. The purpose of balancing the midfield.

But in the current Chelsea tactics, if Mikel is used, sorry, the other two midfielders will have to surround him, and Ramirez is better. Lampard's words cannot guarantee that the offense and defense are in place.

That's why Villas-Boas wants to use Romeu, but the problem is that he likes to organize with the ball and advance with the ball. To put it bluntly, he is a bit sticky with the ball, and he easily loses his position.

This is the tragedy of Chelsea now. The head coach changes all day long without a fixed idea or a mature tactical system. The current set of players may be suitable for Mourinho, Hiddink and Scolari. Others, even in the hands of Ancelotti, it can work, but there was Essien at that time, but the Ghanaian Buffaloes are not healed now.

And during Ancelotti's time, the Italian had mentioned Chelsea's aging lineup more than once.

When your tactics change all day long, when your players find it difficult to adapt to the head coach, when your team lineup is aging, and all these problems come at the same time, if you are an experienced head coach, you should They chose to build the team's tactics according to the current situation, but Chelsea hired a fledgling Villas-Boas who only knew one set of tactics.

Ye Qiu glanced at Boas. He noticed that when Boas looked at him, there was a little smugness on his face. He shook his head and smiled, walked out of the home team's coaching bench, came to the sidelines, and looked at Ramsey. After shouting, the latter quickly took advantage of a dead ball and ran to the sideline.

"Tell Vidal and Pirlo to hold the ball, pull Romeu out and hit behind!"

Ramsey, who spoke concisely but with sweat on his face, nodded to Ye Qiu, ran back to the court, and then found an opportunity to convey the coach's message to Vidal, Pirlo, and other teammates.

Time passed minute by minute and twenty minutes entered. The situation did not seem to have changed much. It seemed that Tottenham Hotspur had taken the initiative, but failed to break through Chelsea's defense. Even Andy Gray was commentating. praised, "Chelsea's defensive organization today was quite good!"

Martin Taylor shook his head, "I think the main reason is that Tottenham Hotspur's offense is not threatening!"

But as soon as the two famous Premier League mouthpieces finished speaking, they saw Chelsea rushing into the 30-meter area of ​​Tottenham Hotspur in an attack, but they intercepted the ball at the edge of the penalty area for Kompany who suddenly attacked. , the Belgian central defender intercepted the ball and passed it to Pirlo.

The Italian took the ball with his back, turned around and got rid of Lampard's harassment, and passed it to Ramsey.

For a moment, Chelsea's entire defense retreated quickly, while Ramsey took the ball and rushed forward, facing Romeu, with Ramirez chasing after him.

Under normal circumstances, Romeu should step back at this time and let Ramirez entangle Ramsey. He should stay in position, but the Spaniard rushed forward immediately. What he wanted was to follow Ramsey. Mires formed a circle and cut off Ramsey's ball.

But Ramsey was obviously prepared for this. Before Romeu arrived, he pulled the ball to the right and sent a diagonal pass with his right foot, while Messi ran from the right. Go to the area near the center to grab the ball, then turn around.

All defensive players are afraid of offensive players facing the direction of the goal. The reason is very simple. They have too many choices, especially for top attackers like Messi. Once they face the offensive direction, they will take the ball forward. Suddenly, the defensive player basically has no other choice but to foul.

Terry knew he couldn't retreat, so he chose to stop Messi, but the Argentinian's speed picked up, and he made a fake spike, which directly shook the tall Terry off balance and slipped to the ground. A diagonal pass with his left foot to the left side of the penalty area, Cavani pulled Ivanovic, Hazard and Ferreira competed for speed, completely beating the Portuguese veteran.

On the left side of the penalty spot, Hazard rushed to grab the goalkeeper Cesar and poked the ball with his foot. He avoided Cesar and then chased after him. He pushed the shot into the empty goal and succeeded, 1:0. !

Being the first to score the opponent's goal boosted the morale of Tottenham Hotspur and once again sounded the clarion call to attack Chelsea.

Soon, there was another attack against Romeu. Messi pulled to the center and moved between Romeu and the defense to get the ball. Pirlo's overhead diagonal pass came to him accurately and quickly. This time Romeu reacted quickly and turned around and rushed forward, but by this time Messi was already facing Terry.

When it came time to commit a foul, Romeu hesitated and watched helplessly as Messi stopped and smashed the ball past Terry before he got close to Messi. But at this time, he no longer dared to foul because A foul is a red card.

The final result was that the two were competing for speed. Messi, who was shorter but very flexible, easily shook off Romeu, rushed into Chelsea's penalty area, and scored with a shot, 2:0!

The entire White Hart Lane stadium was completely blown away. All Lilywhites fans were cheering for Messi's outstanding performance. The Argentine superstar always has an explosion at the end of the year because he must defend himself in various fields. To get more votes in the selection, Tottenham Hotspur also used his explosion to actively build momentum for him.

After a crushing defeat, Boas clearly realized that his battle for redemption had been completely defeated, but he still wanted to try harder, or at least develop his own tactical ideas.

But after scoring two goals in ten minutes, Tottenham Hotspur quickly launched an attack in the 34th minute. Pirlo made a diagonal pass from the left, and Hazard forced a breakthrough through Ferre. After pulling back, he passed the ball into the penalty area. Cavani headed the ball to the back point. Vidal, who was inserted behind the goal, did not jump at close range. He headed the ball on the spot and broke Chelsea's goal again, 3:0!

The unstoppable Tottenham Hotspur were almost out of control. Even after taking a three-goal lead, they still bombarded Chelsea indiscriminately, adopting crazy midfield and frontcourt forcing and high-pressure tactics, forcing Chelsea from top to bottom. Under tremendous pressure.

When Andy Gray and Martin Taylor were commentating, they said helplessly that Tottenham Hotspur's first half looked more like teaching Chelsea a lesson.

"Twenty minutes into the game, Tottenham Hotspur made a very obvious adjustment. They no longer insisted on playing in the middle, but instead used the midfielder to push the ball forward to attack Chelsea's backcourt. Obviously, Take advantage of Romeu."

"Boas has always said that his team will continue to defend high and press, and now I think he should look at Tottenham Hotspur, who defend high and press, but their Players can run more than 11 kilometers per game, can Chelsea players? "

"Forcing inappropriate tactics with inappropriate player configuration, Villas-Boas created Chelsea's current predicament!"

But just as Andy Gray and Martin Taylor finished talking, Tottenham Hotspur pressed forward. Ashley Cole pulled to the left to get the ball, and Messi made a symbolic press on him. , and Ashley Cole quickly moved the ball to the center.

Cavani was already retreating. As soon as he saw the opportunity, he rushed towards Terry like a wolf. In the latter's hurry, he made a mistake in passing the ball and passed the ball to Terry. Hazard, the left winger of Tenham Hotspur, took the ball and passed it directly behind Terry and Ivanovic.

Of course, Cavani, who was rushing forward, would not give up such an opportunity. He passed by Terry without slowing down, got ahead of Terry, and volleyed directly from the penalty area line, piercing Cesar again. The goal, 4:0!

"Wow!!!!!!!!!"

"Twenty-five minutes, before the end of the first half, Tottenham Hotspur scored another victory, scoring four goals in a row in 25 minutes. My God, Tottenham Hotspur is going to Chelsea. Fight to the death!" Andy Gray looked very excited.

They, the bystanders, all fear that the world will not be in chaos.

Martin Taylor also laughed at the side, "There is no way, the strength gap is too big, Drogba is just a decoration in the front, if you don't solve the problem of the midfield and the backcourt, and the entire midfielder's waist can't stand up, it will be difficult for you to deal with it." Tottenham poses a threat!”

"I even have a hunch that unless Villas-Boas makes adjustments in the midfield, if this situation continues, Chelsea will still leave White Hart Lane with a humiliating score!"

Andy Gray was excited after hearing this, "If this is true, then Tottenham Hotspur this season will be really amazing. They have won big victories against Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea. Traditional giants." The team was almost wiped out by them!"

Martin Taylor also said with admiration: "In fact, judging from the starting lineups of both sides, Tottenham Hotspur did not have much targeting in this game. Boas's surprise attack still had a certain effect, but the key is that halfway through the first half, Ye Qiu saw the problem and made adjustments immediately, but Boas did not adjust with Tottenham Hotspur's adjustments, which directly led to the defeat!"

"Yes, if we look at the course of the game, Boas and Romeu should bear the responsibility!" Andy Gray also felt the same way, "Oh, by the way, there is also the unlucky Portuguese veteran Ferreira!"

If you lose the game, you must find someone to blame. Whoever is unlucky is the one!