Chapter 107: Undefeated and Winning the Championship?
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After a three-goal win at home to Chelsea and a tie with Manchester United in the table, Tottenham's players face the final game of this packed schedule two days later, the 34th round of the Premier League against Bolton!
While Bolton are clearly not a tough opponent compared to Chelsea, Bolton are clearly not a tough opponent in the table, but for Tottenham, who have played four games in eight days, the game against Bolton Wanderers was clearly a bit of a straw that broke the camel's back. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Sure enough, on April 17, facing Bolton, who is dominated by power flow play, although the Tottenham players wanted to win at Reebok Stadium, and although George continued to rotate the starting lineup significantly, they were already powerless at this time when their physical strength was squeezed to the limit in the past few days.
In this game, after Roy Keane aged, there were faint signs of taking over the Premier League's number one villain, and Kevin Davies showed his talents. Taking advantage of the home advantage, Kevin Davies beat Vermaelen and Vidic's starting centre-backs with a steady stream of small moves and fouls, creating numerous scoring opportunities for Bolton in the game. Although Mascherano and Carrick wanted to help the backline relieve the huge pressure brought by Davies, Djokaeff and Okocha who were eyeing them from the sidelines did not dare to act rashly, for fear that as soon as they left, they would give their opponents an easy chance to get up and hit the goal.
Defensively, they couldn't withstand Bolton's attack, and in attack, Tottenham's players, who were plagued by back-to-back battles and lack of energy, also didn't do much. Especially when the Bolton players used extremely fierce and rough defensive actions to disrupt Tottenham's attack again and again, the Tottenham players who had no spare energy to defuse the home team's extremely destructive defensive method had to look at the "door" and sigh, and at the same time helplessly watched the referee who was suspected of super myopia repeatedly let go of these defensive actions of Bolton players that were almost indistinguishable from fouls.
If it weren't for Cech's high and low block in front of goal to keep the goal open, and even Djokaeff's close-range follow-up shot failed to penetrate the Czechs' ten fingers, I am afraid that Tottenham would not have had to wait for the end of the first half to face the unfavorable situation of falling behind the score.
In the end, relying on Cech's heroic play in this game, Tottenham Hotspur, who were visiting Reebok Stadium, drew a blank with Bolton at Reebok Stadium and ended this devilish schedule with a draw!
With four games in eight days, such a schedule could be a mess for the Gunners even if Arsenal, who are currently at the top of the league table. Tottenham, on the other hand, have won two and drawn two during this time, climbing from fourth in the league all the way to the second place in the standings, which has to be said to be a rare thing.
Although Tottenham drew away from Bolton in this round of the league, Tottenham and the whole of Tottenham were not discouraged. In the other games that ended at the same time, Manchester United were beaten by Portsmouth at Fratton Park, goalkeeper Howard made a low-level mistake in the game and the Red Devils lost on the road, and Chelsea, distracted by the Champions League, also failed to win a single game, and Ranieri's side drew a goalless draw at Stamford Bridge against Everton, who are battling relegation, and the league is winless for four consecutive games!
As a result, Tottenham, who suffered a draw in this round of the Premier League, unexpectedly overtook Manchester United in the standings, beating the Red Devils by a narrow advantage of one point, and occupying the second place in the standings behind arch-rival Arsenal. Manchester United, who lost this round, are tied with Chelsea on points and tied for third in the league table.
Naturally, Ferguson was very dissatisfied with this situation. After all, United have struggled in the goalkeeper position since Schmeichel's successful retirement. That's why the Lord chose to sell Barthez last summer in favor of Howard.
To be honest, the American had a pretty good first half of the season, with solid play and good saves being a big part of United's fight for the top spot with Arsenal in the first half. However, when the time entered 2004, especially after Rio Ferdinand was banned by the FA for eight months due to a drug test scandal, Howard's performance began to become unstable, and he frequently made low-level mistakes in the game, which directly led to Manchester United falling behind in the title race with Arsenal, and the Red Devils were eliminated by Porto in the Champions League quarterfinals!
It was because of the endless low-level mistakes in the second half of the season that Howard, who had been with Manchester United for less than a season, was also sentenced to death by Ferguson. If nothing else, Manchester United's main goalkeeper may be replaced again next season.
It has to be said that Ferguson, who has always been very patient with young people, has a completely different attitude towards goalkeepers. If it is a player in another position, the Lord will allow them to play inconsistently or make low-level mistakes, but for goalkeepers, once they make similar mistakes, what awaits them is often the end of being beaten into the cold or sold by the Lord.
The most interesting thing is that after being defeated by Pompeii, Ferguson, who was already hungry for good goalkeepers, also asked George about the price of Peter Cech, intending to bring the Czech goalkeeper to Old Trafford. However, for the lord's offer this time, George naturally resolutely refused - what are you kidding, in today's international football, which excellent goalkeeper is not treated as a treasure by the club they play for, how can they be sold to other teams, and they are also direct competitors in the league battlefield?
Moreover, unlike Carrick and Heinze, who already had alternates, in George's previous life, Cech before the skull fracture was a fierce man who had the ability to compete with Buffon for the world's No. 1 goalkeeper throne. Even after a serious injury, the Czech goalkeeper is still a first-class goalkeeper in international football.
Of course, Ferguson could see that George's refusal this time was much more resolute than when he talked about the transfer of Carrick and Heinze before, so after receiving the latter's reply, he decisively abandoned the plan to bring in Cech - although it is possible to poach the Czechs to Old Trafford by secretly hooking up, but in this way, Tottenham will inevitably turn against Manchester United, and George and Ferguson will also break off their friendship. And that's clearly not what Ferguson wants to see.
After all, forcible poaching and private contact are generally only found between clubs with very different statuses. And a club like Tottenham, which has the Nelson family behind it, is obviously not something that Manchester United can casually resort to. After all, once this kind of trick is used, it means that the two clubs will definitely have to tear their skins apart.
Even if the Nelson family has never expressed their support for Tottenham, as long as you look at George, the future head and first heir of the Nelson family, is the owner of Tottenham Hotspur FC, who dares to really think that after Manchester United has crossed that default bottom line, the Nelson family will not launch a counterattack against Manchester United?
Therefore, it is out of consideration that Ferguson has decided to abandon the introduction of Cech and instead search for other goalkeepers who meet Manchester United's requirements.
Now, after the draw with Bolton, the Tottenham players, who won't be playing their next game until a week later, have been given a rare day of rest to relieve the fatigue that has accumulated during this time. The most interesting thing is that Tottenham's next opponent is none other than their city rivals, Arsenal, who are at the top of the standings!
In this regard, Arsenal fans naturally sighed a little and lamented the bad luck of their team. If Arsenal are the last opponent of Tottenham's devilish schedule, then the possibility of Arsenal beating Tottenham is undoubtedly much better than breaking the cycle of consecutive wins against Tottenham this season. Fortunately, Tottenham have been given a full week to prepare before taking on Arsenal. The fatigue caused by the previous devilish schedule for Tottenham players will certainly be greatly reduced, and the chances of Arsenal winning this game are bound to be greatly reduced.
Of course, there are also many Gunners fans who don't take this matchup with Tottenham Hotspur seriously. In their view, unlike cup competitions, where the winner must be decided, Arsenal do not need to go toe-to-toe in this game when the league situation is decided, just play steady and win a draw.
There were even some Arsenal fans who shouted the slogan "unbeaten in the league" before the game, trying to motivate the team and give the players enough motivation to deal with this game against Tottenham!
This slogan played by Arsenal fans naturally caused strong dissatisfaction from Tottenham Hotspur - obviously Arsenal have not won against us this season, and the last two meetings have all ended in defeat, why are you so confident that you can get out of White Hart Lane this time?
"Hehe, I really don't know where they got this courage. Seeing that Arsenal actually shouted the slogan of winning the championship undefeated, George's competitive spirit couldn't help but be hooked, "Now it seems that if we don't teach Arsenal a profound lesson and break their unrealistic illusions, it will be a big disappointment for our fans." ”
'It's a definite lesson to teach Arsenal a lesson. But George, why do I think there is a bit of a conspiracy in this?" Charlie, who is more experienced, is obviously more thoughtful than George, who is very competitive, "You know, in the first few encounters with Arsenal, we won the final victory by defending and counterattacking and resolutely blocking the middle. I'm worried that Arsenal is doing this now, just to motivate us to take the initiative in the game and give up the previous defensive counter-attacking play, so that they can get more attacking space!"
After being reminded by old Charlie, George couldn't help but wake up. Obviously, he is also aware of Charlie Sr.'s fear, which is that after Arsenal's statement, it is likely that their players will not be as calm as they were before waiting for the opportunity to counter-attack. In this way, Arsenal have a good chance to score!
All in all, stopping and breaking Arsenal's dream of winning the league unbeaten has been listed by George as the most important task for Tottenham at the moment!