Chapter 39: New Year's First Cannon

Griezmann watched the football carefully as he pressed his hands against Vertonghen behind him, preventing Vertonghen from taking a step forward. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoAs the ball was about to fall, Griezmann jumped high with Vertonghen and prepared to fight for the top.

However, because Griezmann took the position of Vertonghen, Vertonghen had no way to touch the football at all, but Griezmann suddenly lowered his head slightly forward when the football was about to fall on his head, and the football suddenly smashed on the back of Griezmann's head and continued to roll towards Tottenham.

When Griezmann and Vertonghen fell together, Griezmann immediately turned and chased after the football, and at the same time, Vertonghen also knew Griezmann's intentions, and grabbed Griezmann's shirt with his left hand to prevent Griezmann from running away.

"Get out of here!"

Feeling the small movement in Vertonghen's hand, Griezmann yelled, hit Vertonghen's arm with his right hand and grabbed his jersey, and at the same time reluctantly rushed out from under Vertonghen's defense and chased towards the football.

Shaking off Vertonghen, Griezmann had already formed a one-on-one ball, facing Lloris who attacked, Griezmann made a light pick, and then began to celebrate wildly without looking.

“goooooooooooooooooooal!”

With the frantic shouts of the commentators and the cheers of the fans, Griezmann's goal was as smooth as he expected.

The referee blew the whistle for the goal before blowing the whistle for the end of the first half, and Blackburn Rovers went into the break with a two-goal lead, which could not have been better.

After all, Tottenham are definitely a strong team this season.

Anyone knew Tottenham wouldn't give up so easily, and sure enough, as soon as the second half started, there were some signs of a sudden change.

In the 57th minute, Casemiro made a mistake in the midfield, and the pass was directly intercepted by Tottenham midfielder Eriksen, at this time Blackburn was ready to attack at this time, there were only two defenders in the backfield, Eriksen was unguarded on the right side of the penalty area, facing the attacking Cech, and easily scored with a hanging shot.

As the saying goes, blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular.

In the 74th minute, Tottenham attacked, Chadli broke through Azpilicueta and crossed from the right, and Soldado, who had repeatedly staged a "hit-plane" show before, swept the goal from the edge of the small penalty area this time and did not waste another opportunity.

Tottenham finally equalised, which made the whole Blackburn team look very ugly, and Klopp on the sidelines also looked stiff.

Jurgen Klopp immediately replaced Coutinho with Anthony Martial, Sterling also pushed up front to form Martial's Griezmann Sterling's front trident, and replaced veteran Alonso with a more defensive Rakitic to maintain balance and impact in midfield, and the team's formation also changed to 4-3-3.

Clearly, Klopp didn't want to play penalty shoot-outs and extra-time.

In the 83rd minute, Blackburn Rovers unleashed a lethal attack to show Tottenham how ferocious their attacking firepower was.

I saw that Sterling took Eriksen in the midfield and didn't pay attention, and directly stole the football at Eriksen's feet and passed it to Rakitic, facing Sterling's pass, Rakitic did not stop the ball, but directly plugged it and sent the football to De Bruyne's feet.

After receiving a pass from Rakitic, De Bruyne sprinted towards Tottenham's penalty area while carefully observing the situation on the pitch.

Seeing De Bruyne get the ball, Tottenham's Bentaleb did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly chased after De Bruyne. Seeing Bentaleb rushing towards him, De Bruyne did not hesitate at all and passed the ball directly with his feet.

Because De Bruyne took the ball on the right side, Tottenham's defensive strength gradually shifted to the right side, and De Bruyne's pass this time was sent to Anthony Martial on the left.

The football jumped across most of the field, from the right side to the feet of Martial on the left side, because Tottenham's defensive strength was all biased to the right, after Martial received the ball, there was no one around to force it, so Martial stopped the ball very calmly and began to run wildly with the ball.

Although Ryan Mason and Eriksen have struggled to catch up with Martial, but Martial relied on the speed of the wind, frantically rushing towards Tottenham's penalty area, Eriksen is okay, although he can't catch up with Martial, but he has not been left too far by Martial, as for Ryan Mason, he has long been thrown farther and farther away by Martial.

Facing the menacing Martial, Volker carefully pasted it, not daring to be careless at all, because Walker knew very well that as long as Martial was given the slightest chance, Martial would be able to use his speed to speed himself up.

The two were fast approaching, and with two metres left between them, Anthony began to move. I saw that Martial didn't make any dazzling passes, just casually flicked the football, and the football bypassed Walker and continued to roll towards the bottom line, and at the same time, Martial once again burst out of his speed, bypassing Walker to catch up with the football, and began to continue to run wildly.

Anthony Martial ran wildly with the ball to the bottom line, glanced up at the penalty area and immediately got up to pass the ball.

The football flew to Tottenham's penalty area, and Griezmann, who had been prepared for a long time, hurriedly met it, faced the flying football, jumped high, and was ready to head the goal.

"Hah!" When Griezmann jumped up and prepared to head the goal, Lloris on the side yelled, relying on his advantage as a goalkeeper who can hit the ball with his hands, and grabbed Griezmann before he slammed the ball out.

Although the football was shot out by Lloris, it did not fly too far, on the contrary, let Sterling, who arrived, stop the football outside the big penalty area, looked up at Tottenham's penalty area, and without the slightest hesitation, directly kicked the goal.

"Boom!" There was a muffled sound, but the football hit Dale and was stopped. It turned out that at the moment when Sterling shot, Tottenham's centre-back Dier flew to block the shot with his body.

However, the blocked football is still in the penalty area, and it is still in the danger zone, Dale did not dare to be careless, and immediately got up and chased after the football, ready to kick the football out of the penalty area.

When Dale was just about to kick the ball out, but a foot appeared in front of him, the football disappeared instantly, and the conditioned reflex made Dale quickly turn his head to look at his goal, but sadly, the football had gone into the net.

Dale looked back again at the player who had scored the goal and could only see the Arabic numeral 22.

“gooooooooooooooa1! Anthony Martial's goal, in the 83rd minute of the game, Martial relied on his excellent awareness in the penalty area and stabbed the football into the goal in front of Dier! ”

Anthony Martial celebrated wildly after the goal, running wildly towards the corner and "gliding".

"Kill, boy! You've stepped on shit luck!! Teammates swarmed up and surrounded Anthony Martial near the corner flag.

"Haha!" Anthony Martial, who was praised by his teammates, smiled even more proudly.

And in the Tottenham dugout

"Damn Blackburn, damn Frenchman!" Seeing that Blackburn was led by Anthony Martial again, and there was not much time left, Tottenham Hotspur manager Pochettino, who was still very calm on the sidelines, couldn't help but curse angrily.

Pochettino is considered to be the best of the young coaches in the Premier League, but at the moment the young coach has that hatred in his heart, after the equaliser, he repeatedly asked the players to play steadily, and must pay attention to Blackburn's counterattack, but unfortunately at the last moment, it was obvious that there was a loophole.

What makes Pochettino even more helpless is that he really can't blame his own players, after all, in this goal, in that situation, Dier is also the wisest choice. In short, if you want to blame, you can only blame Blackburn's strength for being too strong, plus Blackburn has a trace of luck.

"What are you all doing, cheer me up and have a good game!" Pochettino couldn't sit still at all, pulling his expensive Armani suit and standing on the sidelines shouting loudly at the players in the stadium without grace.

Although Blackburn Rovers is not a weak team, it is difficult to turn the tables like against Blackburn Rovers in the same way that they played against a weak team. However, if Tottenham do not pick up any points in this game, the team will remain deep in the league relegation zone.

However, Tottenham have less than 10 minutes left at most, and since Arthur moved in to Blackburn, the team has not really suffered any "black five minutes" or "black three minutes" or anything like that.

Due to time constraints, Tottenham's midfield players have become more and more impatient, and the number of direct long passes in the midfield and even in the back has increased, but this kind of lucky passing has given Blackburn less and less of a threat.

Instead, Anthony Martial and Stella relied on their pace and took advantage of the few counter-attacking opportunities to cause a lot of problems for Tottenham's backline.

In the end, until the end of the game, Tottenham did not form an attack that really threatened Blackburn's goal, and had to swallow the bitter fruit of defeat.

3:2, this is the final result of the League Cup final between Blackburn Rovers and Tottenham, who celebrated their first trophy of the season in March.

It is worth mentioning that the best player of the final presented a problem for the jury, because whether it was Kevin De Bruyne who scored the first goal, Griezmann who scored the second goal, or Anthony Martial, who came off the bench to win the game, all qualified for this honor, and in the end, after the debate, the MVP of the final was awarded to the coquettish Griezmann.

Although the League Cup is the most inconspicuous of Blackburn's four fronts this season, and it is also the title with the least prize money from Arthur, mosquitoes are small and meat!

At least for this moment, let the soldiers of the Rose Legion celebrate! (To be continued.) )