December 17, December 19, December 26, December 28, 11 days, four teams, Fulham, Manchester City, Blackburn Rovers, Liverpool.

The Christmas schedule, after Tottenham's surprise defeat to Wolves, has finally arrived as promised. This year's Christmas schedule, Tottenham Hotspur is not facing the schedule is not so easy, the two weaker teams, are more conservative teams, and playing with them, the physical strength consumed cannot be too little, especially the two games are still away, and the two strong teams are alternately interspersed, this task is not easy at all.

And the two stronger teams, Manchester City and Liverpool, are not teams that Tottenham can easily score points for. Although Li Bin has always been a mancini, and Liverpool's league has a bit of self-abandonment, such a continuous schedule is still very difficult to play. Especially now Chelsea is still ahead of Tottenham Hotspur by as many as 5 points, and Tottenham wants to continue to compete for the title in the league, so in the next game, we must win every tough battle, so there is some possibility.

However, if there is anything satisfying, it is that Manchester City and Chelsea, Arsenal and Chelsea are also playing during this time, compared to Tottenham, Chelsea's game is more intense. Although it is said that Chelsea has achieved a double kill against many strong teams this season, but now, who knows if the situation will be different, and their own team may be able to win.

Tottenham's first game, after some preparations, began. Against Fulham, Tottenham once again insisted on Manuel Neuer. In the game, people quickly found that Neuer's performance has improved well compared to before.

This is not to say how much his skills improved when he played football - just after a serious injury, his skills can only decline, not improve - Neuer's improvement is reflected in his consciousness, which has changed a lot compared to before.

In the past, Neuer, as a goalkeeper, was always a little unstable, and he could even say that he was dead. Running outside the penalty area at every turn, dribbling in the penalty area, and even when the opponent's striker is close at hand, he wants to show off his skills and play a dribble pass, which is what has happened to him. From the good side, these behaviors are naturally his comprehensive skills and abilities, but from the bad side, a goalkeeper doing this is completely the behavior of the second goods.

The goalkeeper can't make substitutions at will, so in the past, Tottenham fans could only endure his second-hand behavior. As long as he can make excellent saves, the fans will have to put up with him. However, when the fans saw his progress, when it came to goal, it was no longer a random insertion, but a rhythmic, controlled forward and backward insertion, the fans were still happy.

And for Neuer, it's not really a difficult thing to do. As a goalkeeper, the scavenger goalkeeper has to move much more distance than the goal-line goalkeeper, and Neuer refuses to stay honestly at the back, never because he is too lazy, but because he is extremely bored. Moreover, on the field, football players always want to show off their skills whenever they have some skills at their feet, and Neuer is also a player, although he is a goalkeeper, but he always tries to show off his skills at his feet - such a problem, goalkeepers with skills at his feet like to play, and another goalkeeper of Arsenal in the future, Schessny, also loves to show off his skills at his feet. It is always rare to be able to have enough foot skills, and at the same time not to like Hu Lai's coach very much.

As far as the current football world is concerned, several outstanding scavenger goalkeepers Van der Sar and Valdés were known as colanders when they were young, but when they got older and began to composure, they were all irreplaceable outstanding goalkeepers. A person who can really have excellent foot skills as soon as he debuts, and at the same time has a calm personality, there has been a Buffon for so many years - he has the foot skills to steal Torres in the penalty area, but rarely shows it, and that is the terrible thing about Buffon.

And Neuer has also begun to become a little calmer after experiencing being on the bench. He began to realize the shortcomings of his excessive meaningless possession, fire-playing, and dead-based attacks, which made him start to change his way of playing, and he started to change early.

This change came so early, which made Li Bin happy: in his memory, Van der Sar was only considered an excellent goalkeeper after the age of 33, Valdés was only considered the team's thigh at the end of Dream Three, and they matured very late, almost all of them were 30 years old to achieve success, and if Neuer can mature early, it is a good thing.

But now, he is definitely still not good, because he still can't grasp the switch between the two positions of scavenger and goalkeeper, and sometimes there are still problems in the selection of positions, which makes his performance on the court can only be described as average. However, Li Bin believes that as long as he is given time, he will improve.

For a long time, there has been a saying that it is a goalkeeper of a weak team, and some people even believe that all good goalkeepers can only be trained by defensive players when they are in the state of a men's team. In fact, this in itself is a misconception. As a young player, people will not criticize them for their clean sheets, but will only pay attention to their number of saves. In fact, this logic is not tenable at all, even if it is really a weak team goalkeeper has more opportunities to shoot, more opportunities to save, and more opportunities to exercise, but in the goalkeeper's skills, reaction speed and one-on-one are only part of it, position sense, prediction, command of the defensive line, attack, ball, big foot, hand throw the ball - these things, how to practice the weak team defense? Buffon debuted with Thuram and Cannavaro in front of him, Cassie at Real Madrid, and the backline is not the worst in La Liga, but he is the best goalkeeper. Not to mention that Schalke 04 and Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga are not weak teams, and they still have good goalkeepers, and in the top four of the Premier League, the worst defender is Arsenal, but their goalkeeper is a disaster, and I have not seen Almunia and Fabianski rely on a poor defense line in front of them to train into world-class goalkeepers, but Chelsea, which has the best defense, and the level of goalkeeper Cech is also recognized as excellent.

Tottenham's current back line is not weak, and such a defender is more conducive to the goalkeeper's positional sense, anticipation and command ability, for Neuer, this is the type of backline he is most suited for.

This makes Neuer's growth very much to look forward to. If he stops taking risks and has a better set-piece defensive skills and fixes his shortcomings, then he will become a better goalkeeper, and given his ability to control the ball and long balls, as well as his ability to save penalties, he may even become the world's No. 1 goalkeeper.

In this game, Neuer played well, relying on his excellent performance, Tottenham did not concede a goal, and was able to press, and won a victory although the score gap was not large, but it was also very good.

As a promoted horse, Fulham's strength is not strong, but it is precisely because they are not strong enough that they are more determined to set up an iron bucket formation in the penalty area, wanting to rely on luck to win a game. However, Tottenham, after using Neuer, also made a bolder attempt at ground penetration.

Manuel Neuer controlled the penalty area, allowing Palmeri and Thiago Silva to keep moving forward, and the two of them could not stop supporting the midfield in front of them, and also gave Yaya Toure more freedom in midfield. Compared to English football, the best point of continental football is here. When the defender can move forward to play in the midfield, the midfielder will naturally have more opportunities to work in the front. The increase in the number of people in the front field allowed Tottenham to win easily.

In this game, Li Bin's long-awaited ground penetration style of play finally began to improve a little. Of course, if compared to Barcelona's ground cooperation, Tottenham Hotspur naturally can't compare, but Tottenham has stronger players, and although there is no blasting ability comparable to Messi's in the frontcourt, it is better than the blasting point, although the organization is not particularly good now, and it has not formed a very systematic cooperation, but in the face of Fulham, they are still very good. A goal alike from Angel Di Maria and Edinson Cavani, combined with an own goal from Fulham defending, gave Tottenham a 3-0 victory.

The win came at the same time as Tottenham had another piece of good news: Chelsea finally suffered their first league defeat, losing to Manchester City, dropping three points and closing the gap on Tottenham.

'Did Carlos Tevez score against Chelsea? is worthy of the title of a car repair maniac. ”

For this result, Li Bin is also amazed, no matter how you look at it, Chelsea's strength should be better than Manchester City, but who would have thought that Manchester City could win Chelsea at this time? Moreover, Tevez's performance after going to Manchester City can only be said to be average, but who would have thought that Tevez would be able to resurrect in such a brave state when he played Chelsea? The madness of the Premier League really has its own magic. And Ancelotti's luck is really enough, when he took Milan, he collided with Mancini, encountered the phone gate, and was ruthlessly repaired by Mancini, and when he arrived in the Premier League, with Chelsea, which was stronger than Manchester City, he was repaired by Mancini with Tevez, a Chelsea killing tool.

Chelsea's defeat has brought the gap between them and Tottenham back to two points, and what makes Li Bin even happier is that in the next game, Tottenham are likely to regain the top spot in one fell swoop. Because Chelsea's next round opponent is Arsenal, Li Bin is also looking forward to Arsenal, which is now strong, to beat Chelsea.

And if they can beat Chelsea, Tottenham could be back at the top of the table, after all, Tottenham's next opponent is Manchester City, who can pose a threat to Tottenham......

'After a fierce confrontation with Chelsea, Manchester City are also losing a lot now. With their midfielder Motta out injured, Richards at the back suspended for the next round due to yellow card accumulation, and Robinho on the front line who has been shelved due to a feud with Robinho, it will be difficult for Manchester City to give it their full time against Tottenham......"

"It's as if Manchester City didn't lose a lot, and I was afraid of them." Looking at the comments of the media, Li Bin also smiled, "However, it is better to suffer heavy losses, what is wrong with us being able to save some effort?" ”