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Tottenham Hotspur beat Crystal Palace with an all-bench line-up to qualify for the fourth round of the FA Cup without much attention from the media and fans. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 After all, in their opinion, Tottenham's main force in this game is really understandable - a mere FA Cup third round game is not worth the start of Tottenham, who are currently tied with Chelsea for third in the table.

What's more, while Tottenham have garnered more attention with their excellent performances in the Premier League this season, Crystal Palace are just one League One club. Therefore, it is naturally difficult to attract the attention of the media and fans in a game like this, which seems to be extremely disparity in strength, and no one will find a bone in the egg, saying that Tottenham Hotspur sent a full bench lineup in this game, which is disrespectful to the opponent......

There is no team in this world that can survive an entire season with just one roster. Leaving aside the impact of injuries and suspensions on the squad, it would be impractical for a player to play all the games for most of the year and be guaranteed to perform well every time he plays. The role of the head coach is to use the resources available to them and rotate the starting lineup appropriately, rather than holding on to a roster for a season until something is no longer possible.

In this regard, George is arguably the best of all Premier League managers. Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that he is the owner of Tottenham Hotspur. After all, while other managers rotate their roles and consider whether a fluctuation in the team's results will affect their position, George doesn't need to worry about that at all - he is the owner of Tottenham Hotspur himself, who would dare to say that he should step down?

The first half of the 2003/04 Premier League season came to an end after Tottenham's 3-0 home win over Crystal Palace. Although there are still at least five months to go until the end of the season, and there is still half of the game to be played, even so, the title race for the Premier League this season is gradually becoming clear!

Due to the butterfly effect brought about by George's crossing, the team at the top of the table this season is not Arsenal, which is still unbeaten, but Manchester United, who have 14 wins, two draws and three defeats and 44 points, which makes Arsenal feel extremely frustrating - Arsenal are the only team in England to remain unbeaten until now (12 wins, 7 draws), but still sit second in the table by one point, which is somewhat frustrating.

It is precisely because of this that the hatred of Arsenal fans towards Tottenham has also risen to a new level. After all, if Arsenal can beat Tottenham in the north London derby, they will not only be able to maintain their psychological advantage over the latter, but also overtake Manchester United in the table, rather than playing the role of a catch-up in this title race, as they are now.

While the psychological pressure of being a league leader is enormous, the pressure on those who play the role of chasers is much greater than that of Manchester United at the top of the table. Because if these teams make a mistake in the process of catching up with Manchester United, they can easily be further separated by the Red Devils in the table, which will deal a further blow to morale.

Manchester United and Arsenal are followed by Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. So far, Chelsea (12 wins, 3 draws, 4 defeats) and Tottenham Hotspur (11 wins, 6 draws, 2 defeats) have picked up 39 points from the first 19 league games that have been completed, and they are tied for third place in the table. However, Chelsea and Tottenham have shown very different attitudes towards such a result!

Despite Chelsea's progress in the table and results compared to last season, and with a league title hope, Abramovich is still unhappy with the Blues' success – the Russian tycoon's investment in the Blues is not at all, despite his impure motives for joining Chelsea. In terms of the scale of investment alone, even the big boss of Inter Milan cannot compare with it!

After spending hundreds of millions of pounds, the team only moved up one place in the league table, and failed to surpass the two mountains of Arsenal and Manchester United. In the eyes of a layman, Abramovich, such a result is naturally unacceptable to him!

As a result, the matter of changing the head coach of the team was once again put on the agenda by Abou. But so far, Abu has not considered a good choice for the manager. After all, in the current European football, those managers who lead the team with good results are basically a turnip and a pit, and it is impossible to give up the existing job as a giant coach and run to play under the nouveau riche Chelsea; Otherwise, Ranieri would have been laid off long ago, and would he have been able to stay in the position of Chelsea manager until now?

Louis van Gaal, for example, was ruled out of the Dutchman's selection at first glance. After all, for a coach who has been infighting everywhere and almost relegated a top club like Barcelona, Abouke doesn't have the guts to let Van Gaal come to Chelsea to replicate his "feat" when he was in charge of Barcelona.

In the event that Chelsea, under Louis van Gaal's command, go all the way to the relegation zone, then Abouko will have to suffer the consequences. Therefore, finding a manager who has both the courage and ability of a big manager to lead this Chelsea team has become the first thing Abou has to think about now.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows in their hearts that it is not easy for Ranieri to lead Chelsea to this point. After all, it was a fluke that Chelsea finished fourth in the league last season, and it is a bit of a stretch for Abou to demand the title and challenge Manchester United and Arsenal for a place now.

You must know that the Blues only had 64 Premier League points at that time, the same points as Liverpool in fifth place, only one point higher than Blackburn Rovers in sixth place, and Manchester United, which won the Premier League title, had a gap of nearly 20 points, and Arsenal was also as much as 11 points apart!

Now, at the halfway point of the Premier League, Chelsea are only third, but they are only five points clear of the leaders. However, Ranieri's report card is not enough to satisfy Abramovich, who has high expectations for the team.

Unlike Roman Abramovich, who was dissatisfied with the team's results and was planning to change coaches, George was quite satisfied with Tottenham's current situation. You know, Tottenham is not Chelsea, who are already among the top teams in the Premier League, but a mid-table team that has been playing soy sauce for many years, not to mention that George also underwent a major operation on the team last summer. Therefore, for Tottenham's stable top-four in the league, both the media and Tottenham fans feel that there is no need to make higher demands on this team.

A team that was supposed to be in a period of rebuilding ended up beating a league opponent ahead of them to sit in fourth place. If the British media can even criticize this, then they are not far from the day when they will be regarded as brain-dead.

However, while the media and fans have praised Tottenham's performance this season, that doesn't mean George wants his players to be content with what they have achieved so far. According to him, the season is only halfway through the season, and the team is not sure to qualify for the Champions Cup, so what do you guys have to be proud of?

"Don't look at the current fifth-ranked Aston Villa and we have a nine-point difference, there are still a full nineteen rounds of the league!" George openly criticized the recent spread of looseness within the team at a team meeting after training one day, "If nothing else, as long as we concede ten points more than the other side in the second half, then we will have to watch Aston Villa play in the Champions League...... Besides, is the goal of you unpromising guys just to be fourth in the league?"

"Chief, what do you mean...... Champion?" Ridley King and other players couldn't help but widen their eyes in surprise at George's words. They didn't expect that their own manager would have such a high spirit, and he actually planned to challenge the authority of Manchester United and Arsenal in the Premier League in his first season!

"Tsk, do you not even have the courage to do that?" Seeing the expressions on the faces of Ridley King and the others, George put on a look of disdain, "If that's the case, then I can only say that I really thought highly of you in the first place." ”

George wasn't lying at all about this. In his opinion, if there is no idea of fighting, then it means that the ceiling that this group of Tottenham players can achieve is probably just that. When the time comes, George will need to get rid of the players who have lost their motivation and get the team back to their hunger for championships.

"Boss, how is this possible? As a professional player, who of us doesn't want to win the championship?!" Ridley King, who unfortunately fell into George's aggressive method, made a statement on the spot, "Don't worry, from today onwards, we will do our best, and there will never be a situation like today's lazy training!"

So, five days after the win over Crystal Palace, the Spurs players who were eager to move up the table were like a bunch of descending tigers to tackle Steve Bruce's side in just 45 minutes. In the end, Tottenham won a big 4-1 win at home and continued to chase Manchester United and Arsenal in the standings!