For defensive players in modern football tactical systems, the two types of players are usually the most difficult to defend.

One is that the player who has very flexible ability to change the center of gravity and has very skilled and delicate skills under his feet, usually small players or superstars like Ronaldinho; the other is that the beast-level players who have strong bodies and have solid basic skills, such as Drogba and Ibrahimovic.

As the football defense system gradually becomes stricter and more and more attention is paid to assisting and supporting, the collaboration between defensive players is increasingly valued. For offensive players, creating opportunities in a small range has become a necessary offensive means, so these two types of players always make defensive players very troubled.

Thiago Silva has been teammates with Ibramovich for a while. He is very aware of the difficulty of such a tall player. He is tall and has very fine feet. He has a large control area for the incoming ball. Whether it is a high ball or a ground ball, he can handle it very skillfully.

If it's just like this, then there's nothing, but the problem is that they can maintain suppression of your body while receiving the ball. Everyone can imagine that you can't do anything about being held back by a meat shield that is half a head taller than you and is nearly fifty kilograms heavier than you.

Many people say that Thiago Silva is not good at playing against high centers, but it depends on whom. When facing other Premier League teams, the advantages and disadvantages are obvious, Thiago Silva has performed very well, such as Husky.

Sometimes fans are easily guided by the media. For example, Thiago Silva just performs poorly against Drogba, or makes mistakes when playing against high centers several times. However, under the excessive hype and interpretation of the media, fans understand that Thiago Silva has no tricks when encountering high centers.

Drogba is a very perverted center forward with excellent explosive power, flexible body, solid basic skills under his feet, strong ability to take and do balls, and more importantly, he has an incredibly strong physical confrontation.

Some people may think that the reason why you complain about Drogba's strength is that you are not strong enough, but you should know that strength and flexibility are always inversely proportional. If Thiago Silva pursues strength too much, he must sacrifice his flexibility, explosiveness, and even some technical actions.

It seems that some people recently commented on Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo, thinking that he is strong, but his skills are getting worse.

Some people say it is concise, but professionals can see that his skills are indeed poor. This is because his body is stronger, and his muscles become stronger, especially his legs, which makes many technical movements he could do in the past, but now they can't do it. This is the price.

There is no player in this world who is strong and perverted, has outstanding foot skills, and is very fast. It can only exist in the game modifier, and it cannot appear in reality

At least, Peter Brandt, director of Tottenham's research center, advised Thiago Silva, saying that his current physical condition is very reasonable and should no longer emphasize strength and exercise his muscles, because this will lead to a decrease in his speed and flexibility.

Just imagine, when Thiago Silva becomes a smaller version of Hangland, then Tottenham Hotspur still has his place?

Ye Qiu also told him that physical strength confrontation is not the only decisive factor on the court. Football, especially modern football, relies more on the brain to play football, creativity and imagination, so he suggested that Thiago Silva should think more and explore more.

But in the process of thinking and groping, Thiago Silva will inevitably make mistakes because the other party will stare at you and beat you.

When Drogba saw Deco get the ball, he immediately chose to run towards Thiago Silva. This move made Thiago Silva realize that the crisis was coming and he could not choose to go around quickly, because once the opponent did not move, he would go around first. What if the opponent hits behind him?

So he wanted to compete with Drogba, but Drogba wisely ran back, staggered Thiago Silva, stood at the position, blocked Thiago Silva behind him, and at this time, Deco's ball was passed to his feet. Thiago Silva was powerless at this time, so he could only choose to get close to Drogba and prevent him from turning around.

The more detailed and meticulous the targeted tactics of football are arranged, the less room for you to make choices. In many cases, you have no choice at all. Even if you know what the consequences will be, you still have to gamble this.

Drogba suppressed Thiago Silva, his body was as strong as a mountain. Thiago Silva had to put all his strength into resisting him, which made him unable to do anything else, but he also made it impossible for Drogba to turn around and could only give up on himself.

Drogba passed back to Lampard, who passed by directly behind him with a diagonal pass. The cooperation between the two happened in the blink of an eye. At this time, Barack rushed up quickly from Thiago Silva. Even if the Brazilian saw it clearly, when he got rid of Drogba and quickly turned around to chase him back, he saw Barack had stopped the ball in the penalty area and shot directly. The ball entered.

At this moment, Thiago Silva, sweating profusely opened his arms almost desperately and hugged his head. He didn't know why, no matter how hard he tried, the final result was still the same.

Is Drogba, this elephant from Côte d'Ivoire, really a nightmare in his career?

All the Chelsea fans in the Stamford Bridge were in full bloom. They were applause and cheering for Barack's calm shot. Mourinho, in front of the home coach's seat on the sidelines, rushed out of the coaching area almost crazy, waving his arms all the way, sliding the tracks to the bottom of the fans' stands on the sidelines.

This surprising celebration showed Mourinho's excitement at this moment. He knocked on Tottenham Hotspur's goal in the 17th minute of the home court. Is there any better and more peace of mind than this?

The entire Stamford Bridge Stadium has completely become a sea of ​​celebration, and the sounds created by all the Chelsea fans swept and swallowed everyone present like huge waves.

Everyone in Tottenham Hotspur was disappointed because judging from this goal, Tottenham Hotspur's defense was indeed driven away by the opponent, but everyone knew very well that this could not be said of who was the problem. Even Thiago Silva had already put all his strength into it.

Before the game started, he told his teammates that he would try to break the shadow Drogba gave him in this game, but the two were obviously not at the same weight level, and Drogba's cunning opponent obviously looked for Thiago Silva's side again and again as a breakthrough.

"We just received the news that Liverpool is now ahead of Reading 0 away games, while Manchester United's current game against Portsmouth is still 00. Arsenal and West Ham United are still 00. That is to say, we are the leaders of the league."

The broadcast at Stamford Bridge Stadium clearly encourages the morale of home team players and hits Tottenham Hotspur's fighting spirit. It announced the score results of the other teams at present. If ranked according to the real-time standings, then the league leader should be Chelsea, while Liverpool's ranking rose to third, and Tottenham Hotspur fell to fourth.

However, there is only one point gap between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal. If Arsenal beats West Ham United, then Tottenham Hotspur will be completely eliminated from the UEFA Champions League qualification zone. So now, the pressure is very big, very large, and infinite, because after conceding this goal, the situation has been completely reversed.

Ye Qiu had no way to think about whether this was a conspiracy from the home team. After hearing the broadcast of the live commentator, he immediately walked to the sidelines, shouting loudly and reminding his players that he must remain calm.

"Tiago" Ye Qiu clapped his palms a few times, "Don't be stressed, concentrate, continue the competition

"David Seske" Ye Qiu looked at Beckham and Fabregas, "Don't be anxious to attack, keep calm, do you understand? Stay stable, don't follow them to fight fast. Our pace just now was too fast. Slow down and control the ball."

Ye Qiu also asked Fries Hawke to tell Peter Cech not to throw forward in a hurry, nor to blindly help the team to control the ball, and at the same time, to receive more balls from the midfield and backcourt.

Whether in Ajax, Chelsea, or now to Tottenham Hotspur, in Ye Qiu's entire tactical system, goalkeepers have always been an important part of the team's tactical system. Even when Ye Qiu arranges the team to play a wall-to-wall game, he arranges the goalkeeper to be a wall in the future, further crafting the goalkeeper's skills and integrating him into the team's tactical system.

One of Tottenham's biggest problems now is that the midfielder's goal is suppressed, and blindly pushes the rhythm and plays with Chelsea's rhythm. This is undoubtedly Chelsea's favorite rhythm, because fast is beneficial to them, because fast will increase Tottenham's pass-receiving and missed errors, while Chelsea does not have this problem.

This is also an important factor in Mourinho's attack after the opening game.

"He wants to use his physical strength to drag us to death," said Mauro Tasotti with concern.

From the perspective of physical fitness alone, Tottenham Hotspur is not as good as Chelsea, and the gap between the two sides is quite large.

Fanny and Beckham are both veterans, and Fabregas, Ribery and Messi are not physical players, so once the opponent is brought closer to the physical attrition battle, Tottenham has no chance of winning at all.

"He dreamed" Ye Qiu could certainly see Mourinho's idea and went directly to the meat grinder midfield. What is it not to play a physical attrition war? This is also the reason why Ye Qiu called on the players to stabilize the situation. He just got angry and followed the opponent's rhythm, but the opponent scored a goal. Now he has to stabilize his situation and find his rhythm.

The football match is like two boxers in the boxing ring. The hot-headed side is doomed to fail, and the side that cannot jump out is also doomed to fail. If you can stay calm and stand stalemate with the other party, it is a stalemate, and no one can eat the other party in a short time.

After the re-telection, Tottenham Hotspur began to consciously slow down the pace under Ye Qiu's sideline command and adjustment, and began to take more control of the ball and down the feet in the middle and backcourts. Through skillful passes and receiving cooperation between each other, Chelsea pushed out and grabbed it.

Chelsea just had a goal in hand and was in high spirits. They were trying to crush Tottenham Hotspur in one go, so when they saw that Tottenham Hotspur could not find an offensive opportunity, they immediately passed back to the midfield and backcourt. They were angry and had no place to vent, so they gradually pressed up and began to enter more midfield and frontcourt press.

Ye Qiu kept calling on the players on the sidelines to try to use the pass and receive cooperation to pull the opponent and let the Chelsea players run.

We must mention Mascherano here. Many fans have an impression of Mascherano as defense, a god-like defense, and they don’t have much impression of his ball, pass, and skills. They may even think that he is very average in these aspects.

But in fact, as a main midfielder and as a young man from Argentina's excellent youth training camp, his technical skills are absolutely solid, his ability to stop balls is excellent, and his ball protection is also excellent in the midfielder. Moreover, his success rate of shooting ability is about fifteen meters.

More importantly, Mascherano has a very good advantage as a midfielder, that is, he basically does not step forward.

If anyone who watches the ball often knows that when the opponent launches an active front court press, whether there is a stable contact point in the back midfield position is the key to whether a team can ensure the ball control in the middle and backcourts. Because when the center back encounters a press, the full-back is threatened by the opponent. In order to avoid being intercepted by the opponent and then counterattack, they usually have to pass the ball to the front, and sometimes they have to take the initiative to kick the ball out of the field and give it to the opponent's ball rights and an outbound ball.

Because relatively speaking, whether it is given the ball or the ball outside the boundary, it is less threatening than being intercepted by the opponent and hitting a counterattack, so the two evils are the least.

All teams with excellent ball control must have a stable receiving point in the back midfield position, because if there is such a point, if the opponent wants to invest in active front court pressing, four players must be arranged in the backline and back midfield positions, and then there will be flaws in his midfield and backcourt.

Of course, if you don't want to get to so many people, you can only watch the opponent control the ball.

Therefore, in Tottenham Hotspur's entire tactical system, Mascherano is not only a defensive barrier, but also an important ball control fulcrum and ball output point for the team. Of course, unlike Fabregas and Beckham who have more direct passes, Mascherano is more likely to go to both sides and divide them into two sides.

One of the very good characteristics of Mascherano as a midfielder is that he will never touch things he is not good at, so he rarely goes directly to Ribery and Messi, because his accuracy is very low because of the passing of the ball exceeding about 15 meters.

This is also the reason why Ye Qiu trusts and relies on him so much. A player who knows how to play to his strengths and avoids his weaknesses, and is willing to undertake dirty and tiring work is even more important and valuable than an excellent striker.

When Tottenham Hotspur was determined to stabilize the situation, slow down the pace and try to control the ball, Chelsea's front-court press was mainly Drogba and Lampard. Drogba mainly opposed two central defenders, and Lampard was against Mascherano. However, when Tottenham Hotspur was in possession, these three players kept their distance, allowing Drogba and Lampard to run back and forth, but could not grab the ball. There was also Essin who followed with Beckham's retreat.

"We can see that Tottenham Hotspur was still very patient after conceding the ball. During this period, it began to consciously slow down the pace and stabilize its own ball control. This is also Tottenham Hotspur's usual tactical characteristics. If it is a weak team, it will strive to pass more forwards, but now it is facing Chelsea, so you have to patiently look for opportunities."

Richard Kees also saw it, "Did you notice that Tottenham Hotspur even Beckham and Fabregas have consciously retracted, and Chelsea's midfielder has followed, Ribery and Messi have gradually retreated, pulling out the defensive players. I wonder if Mourinho has already seen this.

Andy Gray nodded, "The situation on the scene now looks a bit flat, but both sides are brewing the next wave of offensives. Although Tottenham Hotspur has retracted, the ball possession rate is very high. The entire formation seems to be retracted, but it is clenched tightly. It may give the opponent the strongest and powerful uppercut anytime and anywhere."

"Yes, from the perspective of speed and personal ability, Tottenham Hotspur's Ribery and Messi have a very advantage, especially Ribery on the left, which is almost a crush against Ferrera. Now that Chelsea's defense is pressing up, it may not be a good thing."

Andy Gray was a little worried about Mourinho, "We can see it clearly now, but Mourinho may not be able to see it on the sidelines, or Mourinho may have some of his own ideas."

At this moment, the live commentator once again revealed a good news that made all Chelsea fans happy. Manchester United, who challenged Portsmouth away, had just been pierced by Portsmouth, and is now behind the home team 0l.

"This is definitely very good news for Chelsea." Andy Gray was also amazed after hearing this, because if Manchester United loses, then for Chelsea, even if they draw, they can win the championship.

"Murinho and his team should be relieved now and should play more patiently. After all, the current situation is very beneficial to Chelsea, and there is no need to take more risks."

Andy Gray saw Mourinho in command on the sidelines and seemed to have the intention to keep the team pressing on, "Hey, Mourinho seems to be still emphasizing the offense. He seems to be planning to take advantage of this momentum and directly drop Tottenham Hotspur."

Richard Kees laughed after hearing this, "Because Mourinho said that as long as eleven people beat eleven people, Chelsea beat Tottenham Hotspur, it would be like playing, and the victory was applauding."

Andy Grey laughed at him. Tottenham Hotspur is indeed becoming increasingly unfavorable for the current situation, especially considering the players' mentality, if the players' mentality becomes distorted, the consequences will be unimaginable.

This is also the reason why Ye Qiu has been standing on the sidelines, shouting constantly, and his throat is a little hoarse.

He also knew very well that the more critical the moment, the more he could not be confused.
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