Tottenham Hotspur are still the league leaders with Chelsea, and after fifteen rounds, the two teams have drawn two games and the other three times, both of which are the best teams. They are still followed by Arsenal, while Manchester United is now playing two games less because of the Club World Cup, and the gap between them and the previous teams is large, and now Manchester City is in fourth place.

If you only look at the results so far, Tottenham and Chelsea could even go beyond 100 points by the time they finish the season. However, a little look at the upcoming fixtures shows that it is unlikely. In the next game, Tottenham and Chelsea are going to experience the Christmas schedule, Tottenham's Christmas schedule is Fulham, Manchester City, Blackburn, Liverpool, Chelsea's Christmas schedule, it is to meet Manchester City and Arsenal in a row, both teams, which team is difficult to guarantee that they will win all their games, and what is even more terrifying is that after playing this game, in January, when the FA Cup begins, everyone needs to fight on both fronts, it is also the time when the Africa Cup of Nations starts. From 10 January, Tottenham will lose Yaya Toure and the in-form Kevin Boateng, while Chelsea will lose their top scorer Didier Drogba, and it will be difficult for both teams not to drop points at that point.

Not to mention, when February arrives and the Champions League starts to play, whether it is Tottenham or Chelsea, they are all fighting for whether they are thick enough.

The league is starting to heat up, but it's hard to say who will have the upper hand in the upcoming games.

However, in the upcoming Champions League games, it is Chelsea who play better than Tottenham. Because they were in the same group as Real Madrid, they fought very hard in the group, so until the sixth round, they had to compete with Real Madrid for the top spot in the group. That pressure led to an excellent win for Chelsea in the group, and in the end they overtook Real Madrid to finish top of the group.

In contrast, Tottenham's sixth round of the Champions League group stage was rather unserious. Because they have already qualified ahead of schedule, the sixth round of Tottenham's Champions League group stage is simply perfunctory. They simply didn't play at the same level as they did in the last game, and even because they played with Walker, they were beaten up by Quaresma on the flank, and they didn't look like a low-level team at all.

However, even so, they still qualified as group winners. In the other game, Milan also won and qualified for the Champions League, while Porto were relegated to the Europa League.

"In this race, no one is the winner except Quaresma."

The media's evaluation is very straightforward. It was originally the last round of the group stage, the rankings were almost decided, and the team's desire to win was not very great.

However, this may be more in line with Porto's original intention - Li Bin knows very well that if the Europa League can win the championship, the points will be even more than the Champions League semi-finals, whether it is the Portuguese Super League or the Bundesliga, all the Champions League points over the years have relied on the Europa League. In my memory, the Portuguese Super League relied on the top three to enter the semifinals of the Europa League in a certain year, and they managed to brush up on a score 5 points higher than Serie A, which may be what they want more.

Different levels of teams have different ways to survive. Some strong teams, such as Real Madrid, are naturally considered failures if they do not qualify for the Champions League group stage, but for example, Porto, it is very good for them to brush up on points in the Europa League.

The hierarchy accumulated over a long period of time in European football makes it very difficult to break through any step. Therefore, Tottenham can have the present, it is really lucky: in the group stage, Tottenham met Porto, Milan, are all teams that do not deserve the name, although they are all teams that have won the Champions League in recent years, but the real strength is really not strong. Tottenham were lucky to have met them on their Champions League journey.

Tottenham qualified as the top of the group, which made the English media praise Tottenham. Although the Premier League teams have often qualified together with four teams in recent years, and this year, the Premier League has also qualified as the first team in the group with three teams, but Liverpool was eliminated in the group stage and entered the Champions League knockout round with Tottenham, such a different situation also made the media praise Tottenham.

It's great for a team to play their first Champions League game in many years and qualify as group winners. Compared with the fall of the old powerhouse Liverpool, Tottenham can have such a result, but it is remarkable. Although the English media have always regarded themselves as high as the top, they at least understand that such a result is rare, so after Tottenham's victory, the media also expressed a lot of praise for them.

'Tottenham have shown England that they have what it takes to replace Liverpool in the last four of the Premier League. They can also fight for points in the Champions League for the Premier League, they can produce more stars than Liverpool, they have shown great quality in their first Champions League appearance, and perhaps Tottenham are more qualified to be part of the Premier League's last four than Liverpool, who are out of the group. ”

At this time, the media has begun to build up bad words about Liverpool. Li Bin knew that behind this, Levi's impetus was indispensable.

Now Tottenham's results make the club's president, Levy, quite happy. As a team playing in the Champions League in his first year, his original intention was to let the team qualify for the knockout stage of the Champions League, and now Tottenham has done better than he imagined, how can he not be happy? In his excitement, he even promised the players that he would build a new sunbathing area in the training base - and now that the minimum goal has been achieved, he is starting to be satisfied.

And privately, he naturally asked for more status with the FA. Because now that Tottenham has the results, he has enough confidence to speak, and he can do it in the media.

Sometimes, this kind of momentum is necessary. In Li Bin's memory, the Italian Football Association has done a lack of morality to forcibly support Milan to become the top three for the sake of Serie A points, and the English FA, compared to the Italian Football Association, is not much better. If Tottenham can play a good result, but after the worst, they are hacked by the FA, it must be very acceptable, and what Levy is doing now is also putting pressure on the FA to accept this fact that has changed.

For a team to rise to become a giant, all aspects of hard work are indispensable. The results on the pitch, the effort of the players and, of course, the unblocking work on the part of the management.

Li Bin is very happy about Tottenham's progress, but looking at the squad of this year's Europa League, Li Bin feels that his Tottenham has really made a lot of changes - Arsenal, Manchester City, and now the top three in the Portuguese Super League have passed, and Liverpool has also entered the last round, they can enter the Champions League, Tottenham accounts for a large part of the reason, these aspects, let Li Bin think about it, but also a little emotional.

Any small variable may make a big difference in the team, and you have to pay attention to all these details.

However, things are often so unexpected, just when Li Bin was still lamenting that his team needed to pay more attention and be careful not to overturn in the gutter, but the game was not played well, in the sixteenth round of the game, Tottenham lost.

They have won two and drawn two and are unbeaten in the traditional semi-finals in the league, but in the 16th round of the league, they lost against promoted Wolves.

'Tottenham broke through in the Champions League and the players were a little too happy to be back in the league and they didn't even play. You can lose against a team like Wolverhampton Wanderers, and who would believe Tottenham if they say they are contenders for the league title? ”

Tottenham's defeat is somewhat of Li Bin's responsibility. Because of the poor strength of the Wolves team, Li Bin once again used Neuer as a starter, wanting to let him recover better, but unfortunately, Li Bin ignored the Wolves' set-piece offensive ability, in the game, the Wolves relied on their set-piece attack, twice broke through the door of Tottenham, although Suarez worked hard to pull back a goal, but in the end he still lost the game.

Losing this game caused an uproar in the media, and none of them expected that Tottenham would make such a big mistake at this critical time. With the Christmas schedule approaching, the gap between Chelsea and Chelsea has widened to five points, which undoubtedly increases the pressure on Tottenham. 2 points is just a game difference, as long as you play well and wait for Chelsea to make mistakes, Tottenham may be able to catch up with the opponent easily, but now the difference is as much as 5 points, this is not a point that can be caught up by waiting for the opponent to make a mistake. Manchester United's Alex Ferguson once said that after half a season, the difference between the league points and the top of the table is more than 3 points is not eligible to talk about the title, if he is right, then Tottenham is now not qualified to talk about the team.

And because of the upset loss in the league, the points gap between Tottenham and Chelsea has reached 5 points. And after the game, Neuer was greeted by accusations, poor state, poor strength, not as reliable as Handanovic, and unworthy of being the starting goalkeeper of Tottenham for a while.

"It's not Neuer's mistake alone, it's a mistake made by the whole team, and he shouldn't be the one to bear."

In this regard, Li Bin did not add pressure to Neuer when he spoke to the outside world, but put the responsibility on all the players.

The strength of the Wolves team is not strong, it can even be said to be very weak, and they have been unable to break their door in the game, and they have broken the door twice, not because Tottenham is not strong, but because after the Champions League group stage qualifying, the mentality of the players has also become proud, they no longer attach importance to the opponents in the league, and think that the opponents in the league are vulnerable, which is the most important reason why they carelessly lost in the game.

"I know you think it's great that you've reached the group stage of the Champions League, and I know you have played so far, and you've created a good result that Tottenham has never had, but that's satisfying you? You're still far from it! In the locker room, Li Bin looked at his players, and his voice was fierce, "It's just a knockout round, it's not a cup, it's just the second in the league, you haven't seen what a league championship is!" If you can be satisfied in this way, then there is no need to stay, I want players who can never be satisfied, I want players who can continue to forge ahead, from now on, cheer me up, the Christmas schedule is coming, we can't lose a game! ”——

ps: What I wrote yesterday was supposed to be Yaya Toure's rotation, but I forgot it later, and I wrote that he scored a goal, and I apologize here.