Chapter 382: Meet the Galaxy Battleship Again
The new season started with six consecutive league wins, eight wins in all competitions, and a total of 19 goals and only one goal conceded in seven games except for the Community Shield.
You must know that Tottenham's opponents in these eight games are not all weak teams. Among them are top teams like Chelsea, as well as national powerhouses like Liverpool and Udinese. If you look for the reason in the schedule and say that Tottenham can win in a row because they are playing against some middle and lower clubs with a huge difference in strength, it will inevitably be too strong and will not attract the attention of fans.
Therefore, after Tottenham handed over such a report card, the doubts against Tottenham immediately became much quieter - although these experts and trolls stinked to death, they are not stupid. Of course, they can see that Tottenham is in good shape now, and there is no negative news to report within the team.
In that case, it is better to change teams to continue their great trolling career, and Tottenham Hotspur is not the only top giant in the Premier League anyway. Moreover, the better Tottenham's performance, the more it will naturally set off the poor performance of other Premier League teams. That way, they have enough capital to judge these teams!
However, before they could turn their guns, Tottenham overturned in the gutter for the rest of the league - a week later against Fulham, Tottenham unfortunately stopped their winning streak due to a large number of key players being hidden by George, and in 90 minutes they exchanged blanks with the "Farmer" who visited White Hart Lane, only a draw and a point at home!
For this draw, George was also quite helpless. Although the players have always been in control of the field and have created many good scoring opportunities in the game, for some reason, they just can't convert the advantage on the field into the goals they need. Whether it was Klose or Larsson, they always missed the goal and could not give Fulham a fatal blow, resulting in a game that was supposed to be nine out of ten ended in a draw!
While George's rotation strategy minimizes the physical load on the players and allows them to perform at their true level in the game, then again, there are pros and cons to everything. This rotation strategy not only ensures that the physical fitness of the players will not collapse due to the relationship of multi-front operations, but also has a negative impact on the players' competitive state and tacit understanding. For example, in this game, Tottenham failed to win Fulham, although luck accounted for a large part of it, but the impact of rotation should not be ignored - the new signing Arshavin and youngsters Lennon and Klose lacked tacit understanding, which is also one of the main reasons why Tottenham was forced to draw by Fulham at home!
Fortunately, those who had previously watched Tottenham did not revert to the taunting of Tottenham because of the draw, but maintained a very cautious attitude towards the game, so that the Tottenham players could prepare for the next game in a relatively calm public opinion environment.
It is not surprising that this will happen. After all, something like this has happened many times before that, and each time Tottenham have responded to those doubts with an uncontroversial performance. So this time, these guys whose faces have been swollen countless times naturally don't dare to make a big deal at this time.
Despite halting their winning streak, Tottenham's position in the league table was unaffected by the draw – in the other two games played at the same time, United suffered a 2-1 defeat at Old Trafford in the other two games at the same time, with the Reds suffering their first defeat of the season at home to Mark Hughes' Mark Hughes.
After receiving a large injection of money from the Qatar Investment Authority, it is really a big surprise that Manchester United, who have a stronger squad than in their previous life, will overturn on Blackburn, an underdog, and still on their home turf. You must know that Manchester United introduced a number of strong reinforcements including Hargreaves, Park Ji-sung and Van der Sar in one go in the summer, and its strength has been greatly strengthened, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is strong. But as a result, Blackburn used sharp defensive counterattacks to break through Manchester United's defense into a sieve, which naturally made Manchester United supporters feel unacceptable!
Of course, this defeat cannot be taken lightly by Manchester United players or Alex Ferguson. After all, the reason why Manchester United were beaten by Blackburn, who scored only three goals in the first six league games, was mainly because the Red Devils' backline suffered a massive injury wave - Heinze and Gary Neville were both sidelined due to injury, and O'Shea, who replaced Neville as the starting right-back, also went off injured in the game, resulting in a huge vacuum in Manchester United's wide defence, which was only after Blackburn Rovers burst their own defence. Otherwise, with Blackburn's configuration, it will be difficult to bring enough threat to Manchester United's goal!
It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. Although Alex Ferguson brought in a number of players in the summer transfer window, raising United's overall strength and bench depth to a notch, in the face of this situation where one more substitute needs to be prepared, no matter how much he prepares for a rainy day, he will not be able to cope with this situation.
On top of that, Paul Scholes's lack of adaptation to his new role and Rooney's being pressed to the bench was one of the reasons for United's home defeat. From a frontcourt attacker to a midfielder whose main task is to organize and schedule, "Ginger Head" is obviously not used to such a role change, and Rooney sat on the bench because of Ferguson's internal ban for the little fat man's previous uncool performance in the Champions Cup. And the result of this is that Manchester United, which is extremely struggling on the defensive end, has also fallen into an embarrassing situation of lack of scoring skills on the offensive end!
As for the other rival, Chelsea. Although Jose Mourinho's side extended their league losing streak to three games this season for Aston Villa in this round, the Blues are still one point behind Tottenham in the table due to their previous direct defeat to Tottenham, and they are extremely embarrassed to stay in second place in the league!
In this way, with the advantage of the previous winning streak and the "help" of rivals, Tottenham was able to continue to sit at the top of the table after the draw with Fulham, and did not take the opportunity to overtake Chelsea.
The sultry draw at home to Fulham has left Tottenham frustrated, but the players clearly don't have much time to think too much about that at the moment. Because four days after this match, they will face the second round of the Champions League group stage. And their opponent this time is the top seed in Group F, La Liga giants Real Madrid!
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