Football: I can see player entries.

Chapter 341 Pressure

Mourinho's judgment was accurate, and his attitude was quite firm.

At his instruction, Tottenham's players changed their previous style of play and began to attack Burton's formation.

"In the 33rd minute of the match, Tottenham finally took the initiative!"

"Son Heung-min is starting to try an inside cut!"

"Good heavens, we've waited too long! The previous content was so boring it almost put me to sleep..."

When the on-site commentator saw this scene, he finally perked up.

Even the audience members finally showed some change in expression.

It's easy to imagine how boring the previous matches must have been.

"This is bad, we might not be able to make it to the second half."

"We are not the only ones making progress."

"After José led Tottenham for half a season, the team gradually adapted to him..."

Lehmann knew his team's current situation; simply put, they were quite weak on the offensive end.

Most of the players were too tired.

This is the drawback of Li Yanqing's reliance on veteran generals, but it just happened to come out in full force at this moment.

"What should we do now?"

"We can't just do nothing and pray that the other team doesn't score, can we?"

Lyman glanced at Li Yanqing beside him and found that he was still unmoved, so he urged the other to do something quickly.

But the latter clearly had no such intention.

"It's okay, let's wait a little longer."

"Only now do we start to feel some pressure."

Li Yanqing stared at the field and said that his own players hadn't done much, and had been playing a defensive game the whole time.

But there's a reason for that.

It's still for Deulofeu.

If you want to get him back to his form within a month, training alone is definitely not enough.

According to Neville, even with that kind of pressure every night, he only got a little bit better.

And the condition hasn't changed much; it's still [poor].

What Li Yanqing wanted to do was to push him a little harder.

Of course, it wasn't just him, but also Araujo and Kaputum.

The real highlight is the teamwork between the three of them.

In less than two weeks, it was impossible to get them fully familiar with the short passing combination attacking pattern through training.

Kaputum and Deulofeu have been away from Barcelona for too long; they need to rediscover their form.

As for Araujo, he likes to make multiple short passes, otherwise he wouldn't have this skill.

But he had never tried playing like that before.

Previously, he could only cooperate one-on-one with Cazorla, but now it's different; the three of them need to form local cooperation.

This is not something that can be taught in tactics class.

The first half hour of the match was actually used specifically to help them get into a rhythm.

The scene was indeed ugly, but their teamwork was constantly improving.

Li Yanqing didn't expect to hone them into the level of MSN or MVP in just one game, but they should at least reach a passing grade.

Don't let your opponent break the chain easily.

It has already been proven that they can perform quite well when under less pressure.

They pass the ball very quickly and with a very high success rate. Apart from easily losing possession after passing the ball to Deulofeu, they have no other weaknesses.

Now that the pressure is on, can they find an opportunity to break through it?

And then there's Deulofeu, can he finally make a decision to prove himself...?

These things are uncertain, but Li Yanqing chose to believe them.

A person without hope would not accept such rigorous training.

Before the match began, the three players who were combining short passes were already in position. Although Deulofeu was not in good form, at least he was no longer afraid of falling on the grass.

If we can help them get their teamwork going, losing a few games as a price is well worth it.

Therefore, they are the main characters in this match.

However, this caused hardship for Burton's other players.

They really wanted to launch a smooth attack like before, but spreading out their lines only exposed more weaknesses.

Perhaps we could win by fighting back, but that would probably be a losing proposition.

Dybala and his teammates are not made of iron; too much offensive pressure can easily cause them to get injured.

The head coach has shifted his focus back to the Europa League...

This will only make the league more difficult.

Especially in this match, Bale and Deulofeuzi were on the field, and Bradford and Mangala behind them both expressed considerable discomfort.

"Mangala!"

"Move back a little!"

"Don't stray too far from your spot!"

Joe Hart caught a shot from the opponent and then shouted in dissatisfaction.

This kid was wandering around and lost sight of Son Heung-min, which gave the opponent a chance to shoot.

"Sorry, I thought someone would fill in..."

Mangala apologized somewhat embarrassedly. He was already used to Matias being in front of him and was always able to cover his defensive gaps in time.

But right now, Deulofeu seems to have only one thing on his mind: to charge forward.

Bradford's situation is slightly better, after all, Kvaradona isn't exactly a player who likes to defend much.

"cheer up!"

"You can only rely on yourself to get that position now."

"Lars Bender and the others need to hold the middle lane; no one's coming to cover!"

Joe Hart offered a few words of advice, then tossed the ball to Araujo with a disgruntled expression.

In normal circumstances, he would either pass the ball to Manolas or simply kick it long, but before this match, Li Yanqing had instructed him to make sure the ball was passed to Araujo.

He didn't understand why.

Are you going to let them practice passing the ball around in their own half?

"Pass it forward!"

"You two, move forward together!"

At this moment, Li Yanqing's voice finally came from the sidelines.

The head coach's meaning was simple: from now on, we can consider increasing the frequency of our attacks.

Araujo finally breathed a sigh of relief, which at least meant that their defensive performance was not yet unbearable.

If the performance is really too poor, it would be bad if the head coach completely abandoned short passing.

Having been with Burton for so long, he's been waiting for the team to conduct this kind of experiment...

Captum, playing as a defensive midfielder, also didn't perform well.

He did lose his position a few times while defending, but fortunately his form was pretty good and his passing accuracy was relatively stable.

If we teach him a skill like "through ball," he'll still be usable...