"Tsk, these guys are a lot tougher than last season. "After turning with a pull ball to avoid Smerking's tackle, only to be blocked by Claude Makelele, Xavi Alonso's assessment of the quality of the Blues' defence could not help but turn up a notch.www.biquge.info

After all, the team that can defend Tottenham to such an extent, in Alonso's impression, is the only team other than Juventus that Chelsea can do. You know, Tottenham has a number of stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Arjen Robben, Basturk and Drogba in the midfield, and their attacking power is no worse than Arsenal, which is famous for its attacking football, but they are now struggling under Chelsea's defense, which is enough to show the strength of the Blues in defence!

To be honest, the reason why Chelsea's defensive quality has been qualitatively improved after Mourinho's arrival is mainly because the Portuguese madman has injected a championship temperament into Chelsea, improved the players' enthusiasm and concentration on defense, and made Chelsea, which is not bad defensively, go to the next level this season!

Of course, it must be noted here that if it weren't for the previous Italian football-influenced managers such as Ruud Gullit, Vialli and Ranieri who laid a good foundation for Chelsea, then even if Mourinho injected more temperament into Chelsea, it would not have been possible to receive such an immediate effect.

This can be seen from Jose Mourinho's performances in his previous life when he was in charge of Real Madrid and when he entered the palace for Chelsea. Although under the training of the madman, the defensive quality of Real Madrid and Chelsea in the second phase has also been greatly improved, but compared with the first phase of Chelsea and Inter Milan, it always gives people a feeling of defensive hardness and more participants, but the sense of hierarchy is insufficient.

With George and Jose Mourinho both opting to lay down heavy midfield and demand a solid defensive focus on the game, it was 20 minutes before the opening whistle that neither team created many scoring chances, not even shots on goal - and the players on both sides spent too much energy on the pitch physically, and naturally invested much less in attack.

For the current situation where the two teams are deadlocked on the field and no one can help the other, Mourinho's heart is obviously more anxious than George. Because even if Tottenham Hotspur draws this game, they can still occupy the top spot of the standings with a one-point advantage!

Jose Mourinho knows very well that with the quality that Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea have shown this season, it will be difficult for the other 18 Premier League teams to cause much trouble for Tottenham and himself. This means that if Chelsea can't overtake the points in this direct encounter, then the initiative in the title race will completely fall into the hands of Tottenham!

Although Tottenham will not be able to focus on the league in the second half of the season due to the Champions Cup, Chelsea still have a chance to complete the counterattack in the standings, but don't forget, Chelsea's situation in the Champions League is even more dangerous than Tottenham!

You know, Tottenham's opponent in the quarterfinals of the Champions League is Real Madrid, which is already on the wane. As long as they can tighten the fence in the game and take advantage of the weaknesses of the Galaxy Battleship's weak defense and poor physical strength of the main players, the hope of progressing to the quarterfinals of the Champions League is still quite good. And what about Chelsea? The Blues' opponents are Barcelona, who have risen strongly under the leadership of Ronaldo and Deco!

Even if they do get over Barcelona, Chelsea will certainly have to spend a lot more energy than Tottenham. Therefore, in Mourinho's view, it is really unreliable to pin his hopes on Tottenham to lose points when he is distracted by the Champions League game.

However, in the 31st minute of the game, there was a crack in Chelsea's defence under the onslaught of Tottenham players. Robben, who switched to the right side, cut inside with the ball after receiving Basturk's ball, and under Galla's tight defense, he relied on the change of rhythm and speed to shake out an opening, and then directly pulled out a curling ball with his left foot!

In George's previous life, Robben's in-cut shot was one of football's most inexplicable tricks. At that time, everyone knew that Robben would definitely choose to cut inside after winning the ball on the right side of the frontcourt, but no one had ever been able to prevent this move of the Dutchman in a real sense, and could only use early fouls and multi-person traps to nip the danger in advance. Otherwise, they can only hope for their goalkeeper or pray that Robben doesn't have a crosshair today.

Now, although Robben's position on the field is still a left winger, and he is far from perfecting the goal in the field of cutting in, but as the most talented football star in Dutch football after the golden generation of Ajax, the Dutch Peter Pan's comprehension ability is not ordinarily high. Under George's deliberate requirements and careful carving, Robben's progress can be said to be a rapid progress, not only reducing the number of forced breakthroughs in the game, but also reducing the probability of injury in disguise, and his inward shooting, especially after switching to the right side, the power of the inward shot is increasing day by day!

It can be said that there may be some controversy about Robben being called the Premier League's number one winger (Pire and Ryan Giggs are not yet fully out of their prime), but there is absolutely no problem in saying that he is the first winger in the Tottenham team!

Robben's progress has brought great psychological pressure to Ronaldo and Ribery. However, the two did not shy away from this pressure, but after consulting George's advice, they began targeted training one after another, preparing to use their strength to snatch back the title of the team's first winger from Robben!

For this kind of conscience competition between Robben, Ribery and Ronaldo, George naturally likes to see it. Because in this atmosphere, the players will improve significantly faster, which is also very beneficial for Tottenham.

Now for the main business. Arjen Robben's curling shot really caught the Chelsea players off guard. With Gala blocked, they didn't even see how the ball had gotten past the Frenchman and towards their own goal!

By the way, these people, of course, also include Chelsea's starting goalkeeper, the Russian international Akinfeev, who is known as the genius goalkeeper. Although Akinfeev reacted quickly and made a save immediately after a moment's stunned, it was the time difference of less than a second that made him miss the ball shot by Robben!

Not to mention, Robben's shot was not only extremely fast, but also extremely tricky - the Dutchman's shot not only went straight to the corner of the goal, but also had a noticeable drop after bypassing Galla, Terry, Carvalho and many other Chelsea players!

In this regard, Akinfeev's heart can be said to be broken - Robben, can you not shoot so tricky? Kicking a curling ball is not enough, but also a fall, can you still have a good time?!

With Robben's unexpected curling shot, Tottenham Hotspur, who were playing at home, took the lead in scoring a goal and grabbed a slight opportunity in this battle for the top spot!

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