Chapter 232: The Battle for the Top of the List (1)
After a three-goal home win over Brighton and Hove Albion comfortably progressing to the fourth round of the FA Cup, Tottenham were given a week's rest. www.biquge.info Moreover, the most exciting thing for Tottenham players is that before the arrival of February, that is, for most of the remaining half a month, their schedule is all one game a week!
Such a schedule is undoubtedly a great psychological comfort for Tottenham players who play all over the UK throughout the Christmas and New Year holidays. You must know that from December last year to now, Tottenham has played a total of 10 games in these 39 days, including Liverpool, Juventus, Manchester United and other top giants, and the players have long been exhausted by such a dense schedule.
It is for this reason that despite next weekend's clash with Chelsea at the top of the table, and the outcome of this game will directly determine the league leaders, George did not start training immediately after the win over Brighton, but gave his players a short day off to take advantage of the opportunity to relax!
The way of civil and martial arts, one by one. If George had kept the strings tight and not given them a chance to relax, the string could have snapped at some point, with a devastating negative impact on Tottenham. In order to avoid this worst-case scenario, George naturally arranged a small holiday for his players from time to time so that they could play for Tottenham Hotspur with work and rest.
As Tottenham's number one rival in the league, the Chelsea players obviously do not have the good fortune of the Tottenham players at this time. Because unlike Tottenham, who have already said goodbye to the Carabao Cup, they also have to play the first leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final in midweek!
Although the League Cup is nothing more than a chicken rib compared to the Premier League champions, with the League Cup semi-finals and only two games away from the championship trophy, the Chelsea players who are full of hunger for glory under the inspiration of Mourinho will naturally not give up this game no matter what!
However, it may not be easy for Chelsea to win the Carabao Cup. Because their opponent in the Carabao Cup semi-finals is none other than Alex Ferguson's Red Devils Manchester United!
Although Manchester United has seriously declined in the past two years due to the aging of key players and the unreliable strength of goalkeepers, and this season's league ranking has always hovered outside the Champions League zone, Mourinho does not dare to underestimate the former Premier League hegemon. Because of the fierce momentum of grabbing points at the beginning of the season, even Tottenham Arsenal, who was left behind by it, was defeated at the feet of Manchester United, and was overtaken by Tottenham and Chelsea, which he coached. Therefore, Mourinho can't guarantee that Chelsea will be able to win Manchester United, a strong opponent, without exerting all their strength!
The worst thing is that I don't know what the English football team always has in mind, but the date of this League Cup semi-final was actually scheduled for January 13! and two days after this game, it will be the battle between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur for the top spot!
Naturally, Chelsea are extremely unhappy with this schedule. Mourinho even spoke bluntly in an interview, claiming that this is the FA deliberately targeting Chelsea!
Seeing that Mourinho pointed the finger at himself, the FA was not ambiguous, and directly issued a 20,000 pound fine to the Portuguese for "making inappropriate remarks" to maintain their majesty. And those British media and reporters who are usually offended by Mourinho also took the opportunity to fall into the trap and wrote articles to denounce Mourinho, and even some tabloids attracted people's attention, openly satirizing that the Portuguese suffered from paranoia of victimization!
"Being able to attract so many unanimous condemnations from the media, Jose's temper is really no one. Placing a stack of newspapers back on the table, George said to himself with a wry smile. While George admired Mourinho's straightforward style, he did not approve of the Portuguese's actions. In his opinion, even if you know something, it's better not to say it, let alone make it public with the help of the media!
The reason why George said this is partly because the media are likely to deliberately misinterpret the original meaning of certain words for the sake of sales and attention, thus causing great trouble for Mourinho, and partly because once these words are published by the media, it is equivalent to putting the contradiction directly on the surface. As a result, the good-looking and vengeful FA will undoubtedly see Mourinho's actions as a provocation to their authority and see it as a thorn in their side!
The main reason why Mourinho in his previous life repeatedly suffered in some penalties was that he dared to say anything with his mouth, which made him offend too many people. The worst thing is that many of the people he offended are the real power figures of the FA and the Premier League company, as well as the referees responsible for enforcing Premier League matches!
It's that people will have a temper, and they are sprayed so badly by Mourinho in public, even if these people are not good at public revenge on the surface, they will secretly make trouble for the madman, and some things that could have been accommodating have become difficult to deal with.
However, the Chelsea players did not complain about Mourinho's actions, and instead revolved closer around the Portuguese, and the cohesion was virtually raised to another level. Abramovich even praised the madman's actions to protect the interests of the team, and personally paid the fine for Mourinho!
Abu is still very confident in his own judgment. Although the Russian tycoon is indeed a complete layman in football, as a successful businessman who has also escaped several purge after Putin came to power, Abu's eyes are naturally extremely vicious - he can see that Mourinho's outstanding temperament is exactly what Chelsea desperately need now!
While Chelsea have won a number of trophies over the past decade, neither Ruud Gullit, Gianluca Vialli nor Ranieri have given the Blues the quality of a champion-winning team. Mourinho is different, the Portuguese has successfully built Chelsea into a famous European iron army with his iron-blooded coaching skills and team management strategy after taking office!
So, although Jose Mourinho's Chelsea have not yet topped the table once, the Portuguese is clearly higher than his predecessor Claudio Ranieri in the eyes of Roman Abramovich!
In this way, the time came on January 15th, and under the leadership of Jose Mourinho, the Chelsea players who had just played Manchester United two days ago arrived at the White Hart Lane stadium on time for this crucial battle to determine the top spot in the league!
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