Chinese players in Europe

Chapter 614 Two consecutive victories and two consecutive draws

"The Red Devils Manchester United's revenge battle at White Hart Lane is just a pure joke!"

"The defending champion continued the crazy state of last season, and the former Premier League owner White Hart Lane surrendered!"

"The fighting spirit is strong, the new aid is strong, and the new overlord of the Premier League is firmly and steadily embarking on the road to defending the title!"

"The barrel of the gun is fierce and hot, Manchester United is smashed to pieces, who will be the next team to fall?"

Immediately after the opening match, news of the confrontation between the old and new overlords filled the front pages of all British newspapers the next day.Before the game, many experts and media believed that this was a close match, and the scene would be extremely hot and fierce. However, the process and results of the game made everyone shattered. Kill Manchester United.

"The Sun" used this headline on their front page, "Tottenham has become so strong in the Premier League today." The article said: "With Mo unable to play, everyone thinks that Tottenham The strength of the team will be greatly affected, and Manchester United is likely to "revenge successfully" at White Hart Lane. But in fact, the disparity of 4:1 made everyone dumbfounded. I think, at this time, the most uncomfortable thing is Count Manchester United’s legendary godfather, Sir Alex Ferguson, he devoted all his energy to building a team, and it was a heavy blow to him to be ruthlessly tortured by his opponents.”

"The Times" used the headline "White terror is about to envelope Europe": "Tottenham have let the whole of Europe experience their madness last season, and now they are making a comeback, the whole of Europe will continue to be shrouded in the madness of Tottenham. In the atmosphere of panic created. Today's Tottenham can indeed scare any team!"

The "Guardian" analyzed the result of the game objectively: "From the perspective of strength, the two teams are evenly matched. Tottenham lacks their captain and core, while Manchester United's main players such as Rooney and Ferdinand are absent. It also greatly affected their performance. However, considering that Manchester United is playing away, Tottenham, which occupies the advantage of the home court, still has a slight upper hand. But what is unexpected is that the premature conceding of the ball put Manchester United into a comprehensive passive , coupled with the excellent performance of the new players who joined Tottenham this summer, the goals of Raul and Rafinha completely extinguished the momentum of Manchester United's counterattack. Under such circumstances, it is logical for Tottenham to win the game smoothly thing."

Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson also accepted an interview with reporters after the game. After losing the game, he was in a bad mood and his face was gloomy. He said: "I wrongly estimated the strength of Tottenham before the game. Strong We have learned something from last season, but at White Hart Lane today, Tottenham players have a strong desire to win, and their performance is worthy of this victory, especially Gonzalez and Rafi Niah, I think that with the addition of these strong players, the strength of Tottenham this season will become terrifying."

Ferguson also vaguely mentioned the major impact of the absence of several of the team's main players: "Our striker did not put enough pressure on the opponent's defense, but our own defense was full of loopholes. This is why we lost this game. The main reason. Yes, if Wayne and Leo can play, I think none of this will be a problem. But unfortunately, there are no ifs in football, so we can only taste the bitter fruit of failure.”

What Ferguson implicitly means is that if Manchester United has a neat lineup, it is still unclear who will win the game.

Then Redknapp stood up to refute the Scottish coach's remarks. He was obviously in a good mood after winning the game, but he still didn't want to suffer from his mouth: "Sir Alex is right, football No ifs on the field. If my players had played better, if Mo had played, if Emmanuel had taken those few chances... Who knows what the final score would have been? So, if It's just a hypothesis, it doesn't exist at all!"

He won a victory in the new season in the first round of the league, and he still slammed his competitors at the gate, which made all Tottenham players very excited.However, Redknapp did not give the team a holiday on the second day of the game as usual, and the players continued to train to concentrate on preparing for the second round of the league three days later.

Because this week is a week of double matches, after accepting Manchester United's door-to-door challenge at home, they will soon go to an away game to challenge the Blues Chelsea.

Needless to say, Chelsea's strength is completely at the same level as Manchester United's giants.They fired the Italian Carlo Ancelotti last season and replaced them with the Portuguese Vias Boas. This young marshal led Porto 1-0 in the Europa League final last season. Lectra beat the dark horse Braga and won the UEFA Cup.He has a flamboyant personality, tough coaching methods, and became famous in Porto, so he is hailed as "Mourinho II" by European football.

Boas' methods are indeed extraordinary. He has just taken over the team for more than two months, and he has tidied up all the "big guys" in the locker room. Compared with the loose management of Ancelotti, now This Chelsea team is more united and tougher, and it has the demeanor of the "Iron Army" under Mourinho back then.

Facing such an opponent, Tottenham naturally dare not underestimate them.In this London city derby, Tottenham sent their main players to play.And Chelsea also has the shame of being double-killed by Tottenham last season at home and away. Villas-Boas' ace came in and out, and launched a "encounter" with Tottenham at Stamford Bridge.

The game was full of strong gunpowder from the first minute. Both teams are known for their toughness. They competed for an inch in the midfield, and their offensive methods were extremely simple and direct, but full of the beauty of speed and strength. , both teams have given up the technical style of short-pass penetration, and instead used the most traditional long-pass in the Premier League-because there are too many players on both sides in the midfield, it is no doubt that they want to advance slowly and steadily. It was very difficult, so the two teams directly played retro battles.

In fact, Tottenham are now better at the tactical play of short pass penetration, crossing from the wing, outflanking the center, and long pass to Chelsea. The "muscular men" in the Blues' starting lineup catch one There are a lot, so in this case, Tottenham will inevitably be a little bit disadvantaged in the scene.

No. 11 minutes into the game, the Blues opened the scoring with their top scorer Drogba - the Ivorian striker received a long pass from his teammate in the frontcourt, resisted Dawson with his body, then turned around and volleyed. Although Er had judged the direction correctly, the shot was too fast, and he could only watch his goal being pierced by the opponent. 1:0!

Six minutes later, it was Drogba who hit his teammate's long pass in the frontcourt again. He shook his head and ferried the football to a position near the top of the penalty area. Lampard, who followed him, shot a volley and shot directly. Blast off Neuer's fingers. 6:2!

Everyone thinks that Tottenham, which is two goals behind, will find it difficult to retreat at Stamford Bridge. Even Tottenham fans are pessimistic that the team will usher in the team's first defeat of the new season so soon.

But in the No. 403 minute of the first half, the situation on the court changed suddenly.

Bell broke into the penalty area after consecutive breakthroughs in the frontcourt. Facing Ivanovic and Terry who rushed to fill in, the Welsh King Yigao boldly did not pass the ball or shoot, but used an almost Yu juggling "flicking the cow's tail", shaking the two people away.Under all kinds of rogues, Terry could only reach out and pull Bell down.

The referee who followed immediately blew the whistle in his hand, awarded a penalty kick, and showed the captain of the blue team the first red card of the game.

When Chelsea players surrounded the referee to persuade him to no avail, Terry could only leave the field sadly.

Modric then easily kicked Bale's penalty into Chelsea's goal to pull the score back. 2:1!

This goal became the turning point of the whole game. Seeing the hope of reversal, Tottenham's morale was greatly boosted. At the beginning of the second half, they launched a tidal offensive towards Chelsea.Chelsea, who played one less player, had to choose a comprehensive retreat strategy, which further fueled the arrogance of Tottenham's crazy offense. They surrounded Chelsea's half with continuous bombardment.

Chelsea was trapped in the half court, unable to fight back at all, and finally had to struggle to stay within 30 meters of their own penalty area.

There must be omissions under the long-term defense. In the face of Tottenham's crazy and life-threatening attack, Chelsea's highly tense nerves finally collapsed in the No. 207 minute of the second half. Ibisevic, who came off the bench, received Modric in the penalty area. An upside-down golden hook swept the football into Chelsea's gate. 2:2.
The subsequent game was still a stalemate between Tottenham's offense and Chelsea's defense.Just when the whole game entered stoppage time, the new aid Naldo who started the game came up from the backcourt. He dribbled the ball straight from the midfield and suddenly kicked 30 meters away from the goal. The long-range shot, Chelsea goalkeeper Chell's line of sight was blocked, and this shot was so powerful, by the time he reacted and made a save, it was too late, and the football rushed into the goal by rubbing his ten fingertips !

3:2!Tottenham in the away game reversed the score!

When the referee blew the three-long and two-short whistle at the end of the game, the Stamford Bridge Stadium became a sea of ​​joy for Tottenham people to celebrate their victory, while the Blue Army soldiers could only watch their opponents wanton laughter in sadness and pain.

After the game, the major media in the UK started a new round of undisguised pursuit of Tottenham——

"The Assassins captured Stamford Bridge! Who is Mourinho II? Tottenham don't know it! They only know that they need to win!"

"Reversal! It can be called a great reversal! The iron-blooded Blue Army still can't stop the fierce muzzle of Tottenham!"

"The two giants of Manchester United and Chelsea have fallen. Who will be the next loser? Liverpool? Arsenal? Sorry, I don't like them..."

"Such a crazy Tottenham, who can stop it!"

Just when these media and commentators were still full of praise for Tottenham's performance, Tottenham ushered in their third opponent of the new season-Aston Villa at their home court.

The results were eye-popping, with the vaunted omnipotent and unstoppable Spurs conceding just one draw at White Hart Lane - an embarrassing draw.In fact, after Tottenham accidentally conceded a goal in the 7th minute of the first half, they fell into the opponent's stalking and intensive defense. If it weren't for Bell's free kick at the last moment, Tottenham might have swallowed the goal at home. Bear the bitter fruit of failure.

This game did not attract the attention of most fans and media, who thought the draw was just an accident.As long as it is an accident, Tottenham are still the invincible team of kings in their hearts.

However, in the fourth round of the Premier League, Tottenham were once again tied by the home team Charlton at the Valley Stadium in Greenwich. The score was 0:0. Neither team scored a goal. Reluctantly shake hands and make peace.

The entire British football world was in an uproar. If the last round of draw was an accident, what about this time?No one thought that the two consecutive draws were the product of accidents.

Tottenham coach Redknapp also faintly realized that something was wrong.He is very clear about how these two draws came about. The strength of these two teams is not strong. They belong to the "soy sauce party" of the Premier League. From the first minute of the game, the team put on an iron barrel posture.For them, they don't seek merit, but seek innocence. As long as they can score one point, they are victorious. They don't care whether the scene is good or not.

Not to mention, this kind of dense defense and stalking tactics really restrain the current Tottenham. Although Ibisevic and Raul's ability to grab points is good, but in the vast sea of ​​​​the opponent's defense, I want to It is not easy to find opportunities.More importantly, the opponent also used foul tactics unscrupulously. They were very smart. Not only were their small movements very subtle, but also the place of the foul was kept a buffer distance from the goal, basically 30 meters away.This made Redknapp very helpless. Except for Murphy's free kick which has such a long range, the others are really not good. Bell and Modric's free kick skills are good, but they shot any free kick from this distance. The ball either hit the plane or was weak...

Redknapp now misses Murphy's free kick very much. Facing this kind of team that implements strict defensive tactics, Murphy's free kick is definitely the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads, which is extremely deterrent.

But unfortunately, although Mo Fei has already started training with the team, just to be on the safe side, Redknapp decided to observe for a while before talking...

(End of this chapter)