The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 681 The Tragedy of Boas
66!
On the desk of the head coach's office at the Cobham training base in southwest London, in front of Boas is the front page headline of the Sun newspaper, which has the highest sales volume in the UK and is also the most influential among the British readership.

The cover has two big bright red Arabic numerals 66. This is the unbeaten record achieved by Tottenham Hotspur after the No.16 round of the Premier League. They have played a total of 66 rounds of the Premier League. .

Below the headline on the front page is a subtitle, "Will the next game be the end of the legend?"

The matching photo is Ye Qiu's team's 1:1 draw with Stoke City in the away game. The head coach Ye Qiu looked disappointed. Anyone who sees this photo will be the first to see it. The reaction was that Ye Qiu was very disappointed, even desperate, helpless despair, and then had an association that the next game might be the end of the legend.

The entire front page is occupied by Tottenham Hotspur. The Sun really put a lot of thought into designing the page, and the Sun, which is able to operate commercially, attaches so much importance to it that it even spares no effort to do this. Things, it can be seen that almost the whole of the UK, the whole of Europe, and even all the people in the world who pay attention to football, or even those who don't care about football, will pay attention to Tottenham Hotspur.

Unbeaten in 66 games, Tottenham Hotspur ranks fifth in the unbeaten record list in football history, second only to the Ivorian team Abidjan Mimosa, which ranks first in 85 games. The Romanian team Steaua Bucharest played second with 471 games, the Tunisian team Esperance played third with [-] games, and the Egyptian team Al Ali with No.[-] games.

This is indeed a very surprising record, because no matter whether it is the top or the bottom, the league competition of all these teams is not comparable to the current Premier League.

You know, the current Premier League is a chaotic mess, with established giants such as Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool, as well as newly promoted giants such as Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea, as well as Manchester City and Newcastle. With local tyrants like West Ham United, coupled with strong Everton, Aston Villa and other teams, the competitiveness of the entire Premier League is very good, and many fans even regard the current Premier League as It is a reappearance of the period of the Seven Sisters of Serie A.

But in the eyes of professionals, the competition in the Premier League is more brutal and fierce than that of the Seven Sisters of Serie A, because the schedule of the Premier League is more compact, there are more cups, and there is no winter break, and the climate is not as good as Italy. This has created the unique appeal of the Premier League, but it has also created the fierce competition in the Premier League.

In this case, Tottenham Hotspur can stand out from so many teams. The strength of this team is absolutely unquestionable, but the crux of the problem is, who can stop Tottenham Hotspur?

Boas is a head coach. He is only in his 20s and he is on his own. He is very similar to Ye Qiu, but he is not as lucky as Ye Qiu. At least in his opinion, Ye Qiu is the lucky one of the times.

Why do you say that?
Take a look at Ye Qiu's resume. When he was in Ajax, it happened to be at the lowest point in Ajax's history. The youth training personnel were poached by Barcelona. He stood out and led the youth team. With excellent results, he was promoted to the second team as the head coach.

At that time, Ajax's first team was in chaos and changed coaches frequently, but Ye Qiu's second team managed a miracle and won the Dutch Cup. It is a myth, so he took over the coaching position of Ajax, a giant team, at a young age.

This is his opportunity, and it is also because he does have such strength!
The timing of Ajax led by Ye Qiu is also very coincidental. If he is only in the Netherlands, there is no problem, because the Eredivisie League does not have much attention, but he won the UEFA Cup first, and then won the UEFA Cup. Taking advantage of the fact that almost all the rich teams have encountered Waterloo, defeating Porto to win the Champions League is another opportunity.

That year's Champions League final was called the least influential final since the restructuring!

Both opportunities were seized by Ye Qiu, and both of them did very well, so he left Ajax logically, left the Netherlands, which could no longer satisfy him, and was looted by Barcelona, ​​Inter Milan and other giants , came to the Premier League and took over the then ambitious Chelsea.

This was Ye Qiu's third opportunity in his coaching career, because at that time Abramovich almost wrote him a blank check. He waved the check in his hand and went everywhere in the transfer market to buy the players he needed. It took a year to create the strongest Chelsea in history that is still talked about by countless Blues fans even now.

A Champions League, two Champions League finals, and a Premier League title. This is a generous gift from Ye Qiu to Chelsea fans. Best deal ever done here.

Boas has been Mourinho's right-hand man since he was in Porto, and he is still the same after he came to Chelsea. He can be said to have witnessed Ye Qiu's rise with his own eyes, and he even mentioned Ye Qiu to Mourinho once. Although the Portuguese maniac said that Ye Qiu was lucky on the surface, he also said that the most unlucky thing about him was that he came to Chelsea two years later than Ye Qiu.

From this sentence, we can feel Mourinho's complex mood of being helpless and unconvinced, but at the same time admiring.

No matter how outstanding the Chelsea team he leads, in the eyes of all Chelsea fans, he is the one who took over from Ye Qiu's team. Ye Qiu will be given more than half of all his achievements, even in the eyes of Abramovich. , no matter how well he does, no matter how outstanding he is, there is still no way to compare him with Ye Qiu.

Perhaps, what Mendes said was right, Ye Qiu was Abramovich's first love, and it was also the first love that left him with indelible scars!

Sometimes, Boas has to admit that the successful rise of a head coach requires opportunities. The strength of the head coach can ensure that when the opportunity comes, they can seize it, but there are also many head coaches who have Strength, but missed opportunities time and time again.

He has always been very clear about what he wants to do, so he serves as Robson and Mourinho's assistant coach, just to improve his strength and gain more experience. When the opportunity comes, he will stand up and coach alone, and then He became an instant hit in Porto and made a name for himself.

But after coming to Chelsea, he had to sigh with emotion that he still fell on the opportunity.

Today's Chelsea is an old team. Before Boas took office, he had a contact with Abramovich. The latter told him that he would fully support Boas' reform at Chelsea and promote Chelsea's reorganization. This time Abramovich showed his determination to completely wipe out Ye Qiu's traces in Chelsea.

Even Lampard, including Terry and others who got into disputes because of his wife's relationship, have been included in the transfer list.

But during the transfer period, Boas felt a strong and difficult dilemma. On the one hand, he knew very well that the team's problem was in the midfield, and it was necessary to introduce a strong and powerful midfielder. There were problems, but the biggest problem was that Abramovich and Pini Zahavi did not introduce strong midfielders and defenders to him.

Meireles, Lukaku, Romeu, two midfielders and one striker, spent a lot of money, but it did not have much effect on improving the team's strength, and also sold Zhirkov and Matic and other players.

The really terrible thing is that after the start of the league, Villas-Boas was forced to slowly implement his own reforms with this aging Chelsea team, but Abramovich and the management repeatedly expressed their dissatisfaction with the team. Dissatisfaction with grades.

When Boas wanted to carry out drastic reforms, implement youth and technology, and even put Lampard on the bench, but soon, the team's performance fluctuated, and the management began to put pressure on the coaching staff again. They do not want to repeat the tragedy of being unable to participate in the Champions League last season, because they believe that without the Champions League, Chelsea will soon lose the aura of a wealthy team.

He wanted both results and reform. He had to face the veterans in the locker room made up of Terry, Lampard, Drogba and even Anelka, and he also wanted to promote the young players in the team. How can there be such a cheap thing in this world for players to take on important responsibilities?Who can do this?

Blowing Ye Qiu all day, blowing Tottenham Hotspur, I didn’t see that Tottenham Hotspur also sold Yaya Toure, after missing the Champions League results, they promoted Phil Jones and Ramsey, And after selling Cesc Fabregas and David Silva, did Tottenham Hotspur introduce Vidal and promote Pogba, Eriksson and others?
Reform must go through labor pains and bloodshed must be sacrificed!
Taking over Chelsea, Villas-Boas has indeed experienced a lot. He found that he had imagined being the head coach of a wealthy club too simply. He thought that as long as he could formulate better, more reasonable and winning tactics for the team, Players can feel that the strength of the team is improving, and they will support themselves.

But after coming to Chelsea, he found out that he was wrong, because the management will interfere with your decision-making, and many players in the team will look at you with all kinds of colored glasses, and even oppose you, and you must be here In a complex environment of interference and resistance, he brought the team out very well and achieved results.

Among other things, just recently, the media broke the news that Hiddink, who broke up with the Turkish Football Association, said that he would not reject Chelsea's invitation. This is definitely a big threat to Boas, but the bigger threat lies in Mu. Rinho returned to London and bought the luxury house he rented in London. Almost all the media claimed that Mourinho will return to the Premier League next summer. Which team will he coach?
Furthermore, Boas found that many people in the coaching staff had a somewhat eccentric attitude towards him, and he even wondered if someone wanted to hurt him and replace him?
Are some players whose interests have been damaged because of his arrival, inciting resistance against him in the locker room?

All of these made Boas feel unprecedented pressure. It is too difficult for him to solve these problems, really too difficult!

But he still decided to stick to it, because he knew very well that coaching Chelsea was a bottleneck for him. If he broke through, he would be able to join the ranks of Europe's top coaches, but if he failed, he would return to Europe's second-rate coaches. In the ranks of coaches, it is unknown whether there will be opportunities to coach giants in the future.

If he wants to continue coaching Chelsea, Villas-Boas must show his own strength and level, and must use a victory, a convincing victory to conquer all Chelsea fans, as well as the club's management, and tell them , as long as you trust me, as long as you give me time, I will be able to repay you!
There is no doubt that the away game against Tottenham Hotspur is the last stand for Villas-Boas to decide his coaching position!
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Before this much-watched focus battle, Ye Qiu got a report from the analysis team.

Although Chelsea's head coach Villas-Boas has repeatedly stressed that Chelsea's problem does not lie in defense, in fact, in this report, it is very clear that Boas's remarks are more of a stubborn duck.

Perhaps, to a certain extent, what he said is correct, because if the defense is used to replace the defenders, Chelsea's defenders are indeed not a problem, but the key problem lies in the midfield.

Of course, many media have analyzed it before. For example, the two full-backs of Chelsea, Bosingwa and Ashley Cole, are both stronger in offense than defense. Among them, Ashley Cole is not young, and there is no way to balance offense and defense. , so the two wings where the full-backs are located have always been a major weakness of Chelsea's defense.

The other is the combination of central defenders. David Luiz has not achieved satisfactory results after joining the team, and Ivanovic is hard to believe that he is Terry's best partner, so Boas also I have been adjusting the central defender combination.

But none of this gets to the point. The key core factor is Mikel.

Boas's main tactical formation is also 433, and the tactics he adopts are also high-intensity oppressive high-position defensive tactics, and he has always advocated that Chelsea should be further technicalized on the basis of Ancelotti.

It should be said that Boas has grasped the key point, because all 433-30-[-] tactics of high-post defense, especially those teams that want to play the advantage of possession, the possession and combing of the ball at the front of the opponent's [-]-meter area are very important, even if you just Cross.

Looking at Chelsea's entire lineup, Mikel has been ridiculed by many fans as the cross passer. In fact, he is a key member of Chelsea's current style of play, but the crux of the problem is that Mikel himself is not a player similar to Defensive players like Yaya Toure, Mascherano or Makelele.

Mikel's mobility is very poor, so in the game, he looks like a stable point of possession and distribution in the backcourt similar to Busquets, but the problem is here, Busquets In front of them is a group of Barcelona players who are active in running and have excellent pressing ability. They can share the defensive pressure of Busquets.

Just like the current Tottenham Hotspur, Pirlo's mobility is relatively poor, but Ramsey and Vidal, as well as Cavani and others in the frontcourt, can reasonably share the pressure of Pirlo, so This is not a problem.

The problem for Chelsea is that it is difficult for Ramirez and Lampard to balance offense and defense at the same time. That is to say, they can provide support and support for the team during offense, but on the defensive level, they cannot effectively Support Mikel.

The same is true for Tottenham Hotspur. If Ramsey and Vidal do not support Pirlo, then Tottenham Hotspur's defense will become a mess, but as long as they rush to help, there will always be someone around Pirlo, Then Tottenham's midfield became stable.

This is no longer a problem of individual players, but a problem of how the entire defensive system is arranged. This is the responsibility of Boas. He obviously made a serious mistake in handling this problem.

Some people may say, doesn't Boas understand the question you mentioned?

No, he understands, but he can't do anything about it!
In the first eight rounds of the league, Chelsea scored six wins, one draw and one loss, scoring [-] goals and conceding seven goals. Judging from the wins and losses, the performance of Villas-Boas' team was not bad. They were ranked third in the league at the time. position, but if you look closely, you will find that they conceded goals in almost every game.

Conceding the ball, everyone naturally thinks that it is the problem of the defender, but the problem is not only the defender, but also that after Chelsea's overall aging, it is no longer appropriate for you to adopt this kind of high-intensity oppression and full-court pressing tactics, because Players can't run like that at all!

Tottenham Hotspur run so much every game, it's because they are young!
Ramsey, Vidal, Eriksson, Coutinho, Pogba, Phil Jones, Sandro, which one is not a young player?
But looking at Chelsea in turn, Drogba, Malouda, Anelka, Lampard, Essien, Meireles, Ramirez, Mikel, veterans over the age of 30 occupy so many Under the circumstances, you still insist on running so many tactics, which is a problem in itself.

So, why do you say that Boas is powerless?
The reason is simple, he only knows this set of tactics!
In fact, the head coach is just like the players. With the accumulation of experience and experience, their coaching ability and coaching methods will become more and more, just like Ancelotti, before Juventus, he only knew how to defend. After coming to AC Milan, he learned to arrange tactics according to the players, and with the accumulation of experience, he played control-flow football and transformed Pirlo.

The same is true for many players, such as Gareth Bale, who was born as a left back. When he mentioned the left winger, he began to rely on speed and explosive power to rampage. He played his own style and gradually transformed. From the left to the right, he began to cut inside , Continue to enrich your offensive methods and improve your strength.

The tragedy of Boas cannot be completely blamed on him. Chelsea invited him to coach, but they never thought about whether this head coach is suitable for them. The strength of the aging Chelsea?
In Ye Qiu's view, Boas' trip to Chelsea was a tragedy from beginning to end, a tragedy of a mismatched marriage!

(End of this chapter)