Football’s First Defender

After easily defeating Manchester City at home, Chelsea will be a guest at White Hart Lane to challenge their city rival Tottenham in this round!

At this time, Tottenham is not yet a core member of the big6 of the Premier League in the next few years. No matter how strong your other teams are, Tottenham, who can play in the Champions League while making money, will be an absolute giant in the Premier League in the future!

Today's Tottenham team should be similar to the position of the traditional Premier League team Everton in the Premier League all the year round, more than enough than below!

Let's say that the team is going directly to compete for the Champions League. The strength is still not so good. It feels like a toad wants to eat swan meat! But if it is said that Tottenham are in danger of relegation, Tottenham spends casually in the late stages every season, so don't worry too much about not having enough points!

As for Tottenham's unexpected fall into the relegation zone at the beginning of the season, it was because Tottenham sold too much during the summer transfer period, patronizing themselves to make a lot of money!

The two forwards and many main players were all sold out, but the newly introduced players were a little uncomfortable in the Premier League at the beginning!

But in the winter transfer window, Tottenham bought back Keane, who was not acclimatized in Liverpool, and strengthened his striker strength. It is equivalent to borrowing his striker from Liverpool for half a year, but collecting nearly 10 million in pure profit rent. Now take it back for my own use!

And the most important signing in the summer, the Croatian Modric, with the increase in the number of games, finally gradually adapted to the rhythm of the Premier League and began to show his strength in the midfield!

For Modric, who will break the ten-year monopoly of Messi and Ronaldo on the Ballon d'Or in the future, and lead Real Madrid and Croatia to create historical records, the meritorious midfielder is called "Mom" by countless Mei Linger Yang Feng is very familiar with the players, and he is no longer familiar with them!

For this absolute idol player in his previous life, Yang Feng is also excited about being able to compete with him in this game, and is looking forward to the game! I look forward to having the opportunity to have a direct dialogue with "Mo Ma" on the court!

Perhaps it was the last game, Manchester City's 532 formation inspired Hiddink. In this London derby game, even if it was an away game at White Hart Lane, Hiddink still continued to let go of his tactical choices!

Anyway, Yang Feng didn't expect that his coach Guus Hiddink would try it on the spur of the moment, the feeling of playing 5 defenders!

The name is to train the team's defensive ability after assuming a lead, and prepare for the final stage of the knockout round of the cup! And Tottenham, which is playing at home, is a team that tends to play offense, so it can just be a touchstone!

The width and length of White Hart Lane are slightly smaller than normal courts, so it is suitable for defense and an excellent venue for counterattacks!

However, unexpectedly, in this game, Chelsea's regular double striker Drogba and Anelka remain unchanged, and the midfield position is the regular three generals Essien, Lampard, Ballack, and five defenders. Among them, one more is the Brazilian Belletti!

Originally, following Scolari's dismissal, Belletti hadn't appeared in the squad for a long time, but he wanted the defensive strength of the five defenders and wanted to add more wing attack elements to the starting lineup. Hiddink, still put the Brazilian fringe international in the starting lineup!

After doing a good job of defending the five backs, Hiddink hopes that Belletti can transform into a winger breakthrough player at any time when attacking, helping the full backs open the side corridors!

However, the final effect of this attempt is indeed debatable!

Throughout the game, from the very beginning, Tottenham, who were playing at home, firmly held the initiative of the game under the connection of the midfielder Modric!

Hiddink didn't pay much attention to Modric, a small player who had just landed in the Premier League before the game, but this time he did suffer a big loss because of his carelessness!

Under the influence of Modric's passing series, as well as his own breakthrough from time to time, creating opportunities after getting rid of in situ, Chelsea's three midfielders are still a bit stretched in defense even though they have excellent defensive capabilities!

This made Tottenham's offense unfold in an orderly and comprehensive manner, and in the opening stage, it even formed a comprehensive suppression of Chelsea!

But Hiddink happened to have the purpose of testing Chelsea's defensive level, and this purpose was indeed achieved in this way!

Under the continuous attack of the home team, Tottenham, although Chelsea's midfielder was a bit weak on the defensive end due to the lack of numbers, the five-back system did indeed contain Tottenham's two forwards. Yes, even whether it is Yang Feng or Terry, at most critical moments, they can complete the grabbing excellently to destroy Tottenham's offense!

Throughout the first half, Tottenham had a rare opportunity to suppress the giants. Of course, they were happy to help Chelsea hone their five-back defensive lineup. Chelsea did a good job defensively, but they still had their own counterattacks. Many flaws. The main reason is that the five defenders must focus on defense. When the first counterattack opportunity arises, Chelsea's two wings will always be empty in front of the midfielder holding the ball!

There are no wide players to attract the opponent's defensive attention in the counterattack, and open the opponent's defensive formation, but blindly go directly to Drogba or Anelka. After being familiar with the routine by the opponent's central defender, it is difficult to create A very good opportunity!

At the end of the half, the two teams scored a goalless draw!

Just when Hiddink was going to stick around for a little while in the second half to see the quality of this lineup and prepare to make substitutions in the last 30 minutes, Modric kicked off the second half with a wonderful world wave. The last score was rewritten to 1 to 0!

With this wonderful long-range goal, the White Hart Lane Stadium instantly became a sea of ​​joy! The fans were cheering and shouting, expressing their support for the home team and their desire for the title of "King of London"!

As for the goal itself, it was actually created by Modric's own iconic offensive style!

Although the Magic Flute does not have such a strong physical fitness, its grasp of rhythm and handling of some details are indeed world-class! Whether it is now or in the future in Real Madrid, Magic Flute's sudden breakthrough after taking the ball will always put great pressure on the defender!

Especially after approaching the defender, the ability to turn around on the spot, change direction and accelerate to get rid of has always been the special skill of the magic flute!

This offensive method, in the later Real Madrid period, even the world-class midfielders of many teams, were mostly helpless when defending the Magic Flute!

It's just that this kind of attack requires Magic Flute to devote itself to the game, adjust its game state to the best, and be willing to consume its own energy to complete these technical moves!

Therefore, the Magic Flute during Real Madrid's three consecutive Champions League championships was the best Magic Flute! Even most of the time, the Magic Flute focused its mental attention on the Champions League, and its performance in the league was mediocre! It is because in every strong confrontation, when the team needs the midfielder to break through the opponent's defense, Magic Flute can always stand up suddenly and use his own breakthrough to forcibly create opportunities!

For the Real Madrid team that shocked the whole of Europe, in the positional battle, the strongest offensive means, one is Marcelo's own personal ability on the left, and the second may be the magic flute Get rid of it in place!

Every successful escape is a huge disaster for the opponent's tight defense!

And after getting rid of the midfielder, Magic Flute alone can turn the opponent's entire defense upside down!

You don't send someone to help defend Modric, the magic flute is a long-range shot without interference, and the defender is throwing mines at the goalkeeper!

Go forward and defend, the world-class short passing ability of Magic Flute is also a huge deterrent to defensive players!

After that, I don't know how many teams, after assisting in the defense of the Magic Flute, were given a ecstasy through ball by him, creating better opportunities for their teammates in the penalty area!

This time, facing Lampard's defense in the game, Modric used slightly immature technical moves, and he was able to pass Lampard cleanly in one step!

After that, even though Yang Feng had anticipated that Modric was going to shoot and wanted to come out to block it, it was too late. The range of the Magic Flute is too far!

He did not choose to dribble the ball to the empty space in front to shorten the distance from the goal. He didn't give Yang Feng a chance to make up the defense, he just adjusted it and hit the goal with a long shot!

The ball was directly pulled out in an arc, spinning and flying into the goal from the outside of the goal!

In fact, Cech had already reacted quickly when Modric hit the goal, but facing the arc of rotation from the outside to the inside of the ball, there was nothing he could do, and he couldn't touch it at all!

Tottenham took the lead at home!

In the following game, although Hiddink immediately adjusted his players after conceding the ball and replaced Belletti with Malouda, intending to strengthen his team's offense, but faced with the iron barrel defense that Tottenham took the lead and retreated, Chelsea's Offensive, with ball possession rate and number of shots, but not too many threatening balls!

Chelsea's midfield players seem to have lost their offensive sense after the first half of the game! Of course, this may also be due to the upcoming match day of the national team. Many international players also need to retain some physical strength to play for the country!

In the end, with Modric's goal in the 50th minute of the second half, Tottenham beat Chelsea 1-0 at home, giving Hiddink their first defeat since coaching the Blues!

While most of the players flew to the national team to report, and even the head coach flew back to Russia to guide the Russian national team's games, Yang Feng continued to maintain his own personal training at Chelsea. It has a more sense of presence, because Carvalho's injury has almost recovered, and the pressure of competition for the central defender's position is coming again!