"The goal is in!1-0! It was Didier Drogba who scored the goal!" Andy Gray, who appeared in the live broadcast room, first glanced at the time, and the surprise in his words was overflowing, "Less than five minutes have passed since the start of the game, Tottenham knocked on the door of Udinese and scored first!"

It has to be said that George's tactical arrangement just caught the goal of Udinese. With the departure of Martin Jorgensen and David Pizarro from the Friuli Stadium, the midfield was left with only stumbling players such as Muntari and Pinzi, and Udinese's control of the game has dropped significantly. In the face of the fierce attack and aggressive front-court pressing of the Tottenham players after the opening, the Udinese players, who are not used to losing their midfield commander, looked very helpless - Obodo made a mistake under the pressure of Davies, mistakenly passed the ball to Drogba, and "assisted" the Ivory Coast Monster to score!

Falling behind by a goal less than five minutes into the opening period was a result that dealt a rather heavy blow to Udinese's morale. Therefore, after the game restarted, the Udinese players quickly lost the ball again and were beaten by Tottenham in their own half!

In the 22nd minute, Robben's deflection at the edge of the box forced Betoto to foul him, and the referee awarded Tottenham a free-kick. The Dutch Peter Pan personally took the free kick 24 meters away from the goal and sent it directly into the goal behind De Sanctis, 2-0!

Arjen Robben's goal made the morale of the entire Udinese squad even lower in the period that followed. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Tottenham players continued to attack the door of Udinese with a bang. Obviously, they believe in and follow the philosophy of "take advantage of your illness, kill you", and intend to seal the victory of this match before their opponent recovers!

The Udinese players can't be blamed for their lack of fighting spirit in the face of adversity. For any player, after seeing that the club's top management did not make any heavy additions in the transfer market for a whole summer, but instead took the opportunity of the team to reach the Champions League and sold several absolute main players at a high price, there will be some negative emotions in his heart. Not to mention, even coach Luciano Spalletti, who led them to a fourth-place finish in Serie A, has made another move this summer, which has undoubtedly further deepened the discouragement and disappointment of the Udinese players. In such a situation, it is naturally impossible for them to show much fighting spirit!

You see, even our top management doesn't have the idea of letting the team go further in the Champions Cup, and only intends to make a fortune and concentrate on fighting for the league, why do we have to work so hard? This is the real idea of most of the Udinese players at this moment!

Despite the lack of momentum, Cosmi switched on Di Natale at half-time to try to get his players back to the feeling they had when they played under Spalletti and to bounce back from the current deficit of falling behind by their side. However, Cosmi's substitution did not have the desired effect, but further lost control of the game due to the lack of one man in the midfield!

Let's not forget, Udinese were able to establish themselves in Serie A, where there is an extreme emphasis on defence, with an aggressive 3-4-3 formation, mainly because they had the brains of the team like Martin Jorgensen and David Pizarro in midfield to command the overall situation, and they could feed a steady stream of shells up front, allowing the team to maintain a strong attacking force and relieve the defensive pressure at the rear. And now, Udinese does not have such a midfield commander on the field, and the side breakthrough is no longer sharp because of the departure of Jankulovski and others, and the stingy management is unwilling to pay to strengthen the lineup, which makes Udinese's original perfect tactical system have extremely huge loopholes, which in turn leads to the black chicken being fully suppressed by Tottenham in this game!

In the 51st minute, Tottenham extended their lead again. Robben used his speed on the left to break through Betoto's defense and then inverted a triangle pass near the bottom line on the left side of the penalty area, and Drogba, who followed up in the middle, blocked Sancini and pushed the far corner of the goal from 12 yards to make it 3-0!

In the face of Drogba, whose physical fitness is comparable to that of Vieri at the peak, Saint Sini, who has reached the age of 39 in a month, will be fully revealed. Although the former Argentina international is still in consciousness, his strength and speed have been severely reduced, and he simply cannot withstand the impact of Drogba's heavy tank. And Montari and Pingqi, who are responsible for protecting the defensive line, are busy dealing with the attacks of Robben and Ronaldo and others, and have no time to help Sancini defend Drogba, resulting in Udinese's three-center-back system almost everywhere full of holes!

It was difficult to put enough pressure on the opposition's backline in attack as it did last season, and the control of the game was not as good as before, so Udinese, who switched to a 3-4-3 attacking formation, naturally became porous defensively. In the following period, Cristiano Ronaldo scored with a header from a corner kick from Marcos Alonso in the 58th minute to extend Tottenham's lead to four goals, and then Didier Drogba scored Tottenham's fifth goal of the game ten minutes later to score a hat-trick!

It wasn't the first hat-trick of Drogba's career, but it was still exciting for the Ivory Coast Monsters to have such a strong performance in the opening game of the Champions League. Especially with Larsson's back-to-back goals in the early stages of the season and Klose being the top scorer in the Confederations Cup in the summer, Drogba will need to put in a convincing enough performance to solidify his position as a first-choice centre-forward!

In the end, when the German referee Wolfgang Stark, who officiated the game, blew the whistle for the end of the game, the Udinese players glanced at the bloody 5-0 score on the big screen, and immediately rushed into the players' tunnel without looking back - such a big defeat in the first game of the Champions Cup group stage, even in the away game, against Tottenham Hotspur, the defending champions, is too embarrassing!

Also hit hard was Kosmi. The Udinese boss had intended to make a name for himself in this game and prove his managerial qualities, thus opening the door to a higher level of coaching like Carlo Ancelotti and Lippi. Now, Kosmi's profile has been there, but the effect has been completely negative – mistakes in tactics and personnel have led to Udinese's five-goal defeat to Tottenham Hotspur in the opening group stage of this season's Champions League. No matter how you look at it, Kosmi, as the coach of the team, is to blame!

At the same time, after a five-goal win over Udinese in the first game of the Champions League, Tottenham relied on Klose's late first-half goal in the sixth round of the Premier League four days later to beat Aston Villa Villa 1-0 at Villa Park to lead the standings with six consecutive league wins!

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