Once the game began, Chelsea, who had been given tee off in the pre-match coin guessing session, were the first to launch a tentative attack. Frank Lampard, who received a return pass from Ibrahimovic, quickly distributed the ball to Ribery on the left, and the French Scarface immediately launched an attack on McConn's defensive zone with the ball!

That's another reason why George started McCone in this game. After all, Ribery, who has worked with Karl for two years, is all too familiar with the Tottenham vice-captain. Because the two often face each other because of their position when the team is training, Ribery naturally knows Carl's weaknesses well. This was evident in the previous Community Shield final – while Ibrahimovic's burst of inspiration and Mascherano's absence were the main reasons why Chelsea were able to close the score even after falling behind by two goals twice, forcing Tottenham to decide the winner until the end of the game, without Franck Francisco's sharp breakthrough from the left and precise crosses, it would have been difficult for Chelsea to push Tottenham to this point!

At his peak, Karl could indeed be called the top three right-back in the Premier League, but with the age and injury troubles, the Irishman's bouncing, chasing, explosiveness and other physical qualities are declining year by year. While Karl can make up for this disadvantage with experience, it is only natural that when defending Ribery, a winger who is first-class and knows his own weaknesses, it is only natural that the Tottenham vice-in-command will become ineffective on the pitch.

In the face of Ribery's assault, the newcomer McCone did not show any stage fright or timidity. With his strong body and precise positioning, the Brazilian seized the opportunity of Ribery's over-the-top ball and directly blocked the French winger with a lunge in front of him, while controlling the ball at his own feet!

"Beautiful steal!" Andy Gray's eyes lit up when he saw McCone cleanly cut off the ball at Ribery's feet, and his tone was full of appreciation and praise, "No wonder Coach Nelson trusted him so much to start in place of vice-captain Stephen Carr in this crucial battle." Judging by Ribery's performance this time, McCone does deserve to start!"

In his previous life, McCone was able to become Mancini's first choice at right-back at the beginning of his tenure at Inter Milan, squeezing the old captain Zanetti into other positions, relying on his excellent performance in defence, rather than how much help Inter could give Inter in attack. Otherwise, McConn's prospects at Inter Milan would never be much better than that of his predecessor, Robert Carlos!

Despite a brilliant defence, McCone didn't rush to pass the ball to Alonso to launch a quick counter-attack, but followed George's pre-match instructions, cleverly leaned on Ribery with his body, blocked Scarface, who was trying to counter-attack on the spot, and then passed the ball firmly to Ridley King in the middle!

Under George's careful training in the past two seasons, Ledley King and Vidic's technical level has improved a lot compared to their previous lives. While still not quite as high as Baresi and Bonucci can be the starting point for counter-attacks, they are still very competent when it comes to protecting the ball and getting away from opposition. Therefore, Ibrahimovic and Duff, who are very clear about this, did not rush to the first time, and began to retreat to defend after making a show!

Although Mourinho has always given people a sense of arrogance in his words and deeds, this does not mean that he is a fool with no one in his eyes. He knows that playing at home at Tottenham can be an extremely difficult challenge for any team. Therefore, when arranging tactics before the game, Mourinho, who set the goal of maintaining a draw and winning, did not hesitate to choose to play to his strengths and avoid weaknesses, and use his best defensive counterattack to deal with Tottenham!

Against Chelsea, who have made it clear that they are going to focus on defensive counter-attacking tactics today, the Tottenham players on the pitch also have a bit of a tricky feeling. Because they all know how terrible Chelsea's quick counter-attack is!

Therefore, George also set the tone for the team to play with stability as the main focus. After all, this is just one of the long Premier League games, not a winner-or-lose knockout game. In the case that the opponent does not show obvious flaws, there is no need to risk losing and let the team attack rashly!

The most crucial thing is that Ferreira and Del Horno, who have learned the lessons of the previous game, become more decisive when they foul them. As long as Robben shows the slightest sign of cutting inside with the ball, the two will choose to foul at the first time to stop Peter Pan's next move. Although they paid the price of each receiving a yellow card less than 20 minutes into the game, Tottenham's big weapon to break down the dense defense was successfully sealed by Chelsea!

The bigger problem is that it was Sdales who was the referee for the game. There have been numerous reports in the British media about the referee's controversial decisions and various low-level mistakes. In George's previous life, even the refereeing committee, which has always liked to protect his shortcomings, was reluctant to continue to defend him, and when he created another controversial game in the duel between Liverpool and Chelsea, he was directly given a whistle-stop punishment!

Take this game, for example. Ferreira and Del Horno's vicious fouls earned them both an early yellow card, but then, no matter how they fouled Robben, Sdales refused to pull out the red card that seemed to be more precious than his life!

In stark contrast, when defending against Chelsea, Tottenham players are often fouled by Steens for some minor defensive moves. The inconsistency of the penalty scale caused the Tottenham players to be a little cautious when defending, and did not dare to make easy moves!

"Stales, idiot...... Could it be that he forgot to take his medicine when he went out today?" Seeing this scene, George felt speechless. He didn't expect that after playing a trick of killing chickens and monkeys in the matter of Clattenburg, someone would dare to come to Tottenham!

You know, the last Clattenburg who dared to blow the Tottenham whistle in the game has now been disqualified from the Premier League. Sdales, how dare you be so biased towards Chelsea in this game, and you are not afraid of being settled after the game?

Another fool who doesn't know whether to live or die. After seeing Sdales blow a no-brainer for a tackle by Mascherano and award Chelsea a free-kick in front, George couldn't help but sneer in his heart and sentence Sdales to death while making waves on the field!

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