Chapter 192: Cunning George
Tottenham Hotspur beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in the opening game of the group stage and temporarily topped the group by virtue of goal difference, which really made many people stumble. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ It is important to know that in the pre-match predictions, the number of fans who fancy Bayern to win away from home is far more than those who think Tottenham can win at White Hart Lane. After all, Bayern Munich is the undisputed superpower of German football, with some of the best players in Germany, while Tottenham is just a new Champions League team that only emerged last season, and several main and important rotation players were poached by other teams in the summer, and the game experience and tacit understanding are far inferior to Bayern Munich. For these reasons, people are more optimistic about Bayern Munich's final victory before the game.
But the result: throughout the game, Bayern did not show the demeanor of a top team, but was suppressed by Tottenham from beginning to end, and finally was beaten by the home team 0-2 without any temper, losing this crucial battle that is likely to determine the situation of the entire third group!
Although Bayern behaved so passively in this game, a large part of the reason was that the main players such as Sagnol and Pizarro were absent due to injury, but even so, it is difficult for fans to accept such a reason emotionally - as one of the top giants, Bayern Munich, after several main players are unable to play, even a team of Tottenham's level cannot win?
You must know that except for Sagnol and Claudio Pizarro, who can be regarded as the absolute main force, the other players who cannot play are all just part of Bayern's rotating lineup, and the two attacking cores Ballack and Roy Mackay also all start. In such a situation, it is really unreasonable that Bayern will be defeated by Tottenham without a temper.
What's more, everyone who watched this game knew in their hearts that if it weren't for Tottenham's offensive slowing down after taking a two-goal lead and reserving physical strength for the weekend's league game, Bayern would probably have suffered a rather miserable defeat at White Hart Lane!
It is precisely for this reason that after this game, Magath's situation at Bayern suddenly became extremely difficult. Many Bayern fans and players are beginning to miss Heathfield, who has just left, and think that he is more suitable than Magath to lead the Bundesliga giants forward!
That's all for Bayern, and now let's get down to business. The reason why Tottenham Hotspur was able to top the group standings on goal difference after winning the first win of the Champions League was that in another Group C group game at the same time, Ajax played a 3-4 score against the visiting Juventus at the Amsterdam Athletic Stadium, resulting in the Bianconeri, who only got one goal difference in this round, had to accept the reality of being second in the group!
And the head coach who led Ajax to such a heart-wrenching game was Zdenek Zeman, who created the Foggia miracle in the early nineties of the last century and later coached the Roma duo.
Replacing Ronald Koeman as head coach of Ajax with Zeman, who has struggled in Italian football in recent years, was a request made by George after the successful acquisition of Ajax. The reason for this decision is that, on the one hand, George admired this Czech coach who regarded attack as his life very much in his previous life, and wanted to give the other party a chance to prove his coaching ability, and did not have to struggle in the shadow of Juventus like in his previous life;
In terms of sculpting and cultivating young players, Zeman can be said to be the top in the entire European football coaching circle, and there are not many coaches who can compete with the Czechs in this regard. For example, now, although it has only been more than two months since Zeman took over the reins of Ajax, the Czech coach's transformation of the team has already begun to bear fruit - if it were not for the excellent performance of several young players who have improved rapidly under Zeman's tutelage, such as Uruguayan teenager Luis Suarez and homegrown midfielder Wesley Sneijder, then how could Ajax, who have suffered a lot of blood loss this summer, be Juventus' opponents?
It is foreseeable that under the coaching of Zeman, young players such as Suarez and Sneijder are bound to get more opportunities to perform and more room for improvement!
Tottenham and Ajax's performances in the opening round of the group stage catapulted George and Zeman into the spotlight of European football overnight. Especially George Nelson, who led Tottenham to successfully overthrow Bayern, is the object of many media reports!
However, George himself has no intention of arguing with the media at this time, or becoming fluttering in this wave of hype - Tottenham's devil's schedule in September has just started well, and if you get carried away because of a victory, then the next thing to die will only be George himself and his Tottenham Hotspur!
So, on the third day after leading Tottenham to a winning start in the Champions League and winning seven in a row in all competitions this season, George arrived at Stamford Bridge on time with his Spurs players in full spirit, ready for a game against Chelsea!
Prior to the start of this game, Jose Mourinho's Chelsea had won four and drawn one of the five Premier League games that had ended and accumulated 13 points, leaving them in third place in the table by two points, while Tottenham, who had won five consecutive league games, were level with Arsenal at the top of the table. Therefore, the result of this game will largely determine the league leader!
In Mourinho's view, the young and energetic George will definitely try his best to win this game in order to ensure that Tottenham is not overwhelmed by his sworn rivals in the standings. Therefore, the Portuguese have carefully prepared a set of anti-anti-counter meals, intending to open the eyes of their little junior brother!
However, what Mourinho didn't expect was that George seemed to have seen through his intentions a long time ago. Because after the start of the game, the Tottenham players ignored the Chelsea players' move to shrink the formation and move back to the defensive line, and concentrated their forces to tighten the fence to defend their own half, and there was no idea of attacking at all!
When did George become so pragmatic? Looking at Tottenham, who also put on a defensive counter-attacking posture, Mourinho couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded. He never imagined that George was not only not confused by the aura of seven consecutive wins and victory over Bayern, but also made a very sober judgment to win this game!
"Jose is underestimating me, he really thinks I'm going to be proud of the winning streak at the beginning of the season and let the players take the initiative in this game? Haha, now dumbfounded, right?" Looking at Mourinho not far away, George said to the elder Charlie with some schadenfreude. Obviously, being able to make his "madman" brother deflated in a head-to-head confrontation, George was quite proud in his heart.
"George, what a trick you've made...... Cunning enough. β
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