Volume 1 Chapter 456 It's Time to Give Back to Us!
'A lot of people say Tottenham are strong but I don't think that way at all, of course, I'm not saying they're weak, but I don't think they're as strong as Manchester United and Arsenal, they lack the quality and the confidence and that needs to be accumulated.
'The reason why Tottenham have a strong feel is because they are a very typical team.
"If we analyze carefully, it is not difficult to find that Tottenham Hotspur is very good at using rhythm and momentum to play their own attack, so against such a team, you have to hold them down, you can't hold back in the slightest, because as soon as you retreat, they will play out, or even go crazy, then you can't hold at all"
Speaking to reporters and the media at the press conference ahead of his visit to White Hart Lane, Afran Grant spoke eloquently about his understanding and analysis of Tottenham Hotspur, and his words were echoed by almost everyone.
It's no secret that Tottenham Hotspur play momentum, but the momentum here is not to say that Tottenham Hotspur is not strong in control, on the contrary, Tottenham Hotspur have strong control, so their ability to grasp the momentum is excellent.
So not long ago, Ferguson said he was lucky to win, but he also said that if he played again, he would be more confident than ever to beat Tottenham Hotspur, because he had found Tottenham's dead end, and he also reminded all Premier League opponents not to back down against Tottenham Hotspur, to hold them down hard.
"They're like a hungry beast, you have to be more ferocious than them to be able to stop him, or he'll rush up and tear you to shreds," Ferguson said.
Grant clearly took a warning from Ferguson's words, and his flurry of analysis gave confidence to himself and to all who listened, so many felt that Chelsea had a good chance of winning this game.
'We're going to beat our rivals to show the world that Chelsea are back in Premier League winning ranks,' Grant confidently promised.
Not only is Aflan Grant confident, but at the same time, as the club's new chief executive, Pini Zahavi also expressed his confidence in Grant in an interview with reporters, saying that the team has a high chance of beating Tottenham Hotspur.
"The time has come when we have to defend our dignity with a win in a strong and strong conversation," said Zahavi even in his pre-match mobilisation.
But what no one expected was that the process of the game was completely beyond their expectations.
Tottenham Hotspur after a two-week rest, the main lineup is not too surprising, except for Beckham who is absent due to injury, Ye Qiu arranged all the main lineup to play, goalkeeper Cech, Vargas, Hangrande, Thiago Silva and Alves in the back, Modric, Mascherano and Cesc Fabregas in the midfield, and Ribery, Van Persie and Messi in the front trident.
Similarly, Chelsea did not make much of a difference, with Cudicini in goal, Ashley Cole, Carvalho, John Terry and Pacos Ferreira at the back, Frank Lampard, Essien and Claude Makelele in midfield, and Joe Cole, Kalou and Drogba up front.
There were no surprises in either starting line-up, but it was what was really surprising as Chelsea didn't play what Grant had said, going toe-to-toe with Tottenham Hotspur and then suppressing the momentum and tactics of the north London rivals.
Less than three minutes into the game, Tottenham Hotspur took advantage of home advantage to overpower Chelsea in one fell swoop, Ribery tried to break through Ferreira on the left, but failed to knock back Modric, Croatian midfielder made a diagonal pass, Vargas quickly cut into the bottom line, and after winning the ball, he passed a flat ball.
Van Persie cut in the penalty area, flexibly blocked Carvalho with his body, and easily cushioned the goal in front of the goal.
It was a goal that completely disrupted Chelsea's start and gave Tottenham Hotspur the momentum of suppressing Chelsea from the start and pulling down the rivals who had just lost the Carabao Cup final.
If it is a little experienced manager, Grant should signal the team to stabilize at this time, rather than letting Tottenham Hotspur speed up the pace of the game, because Chelsea's position is obviously out of order, and the team has just lost the League Cup final, and Tottenham Hotspur has conceded a goal after the opening.
In less than ten minutes, Tottenham Hotspur's right Messi and Alves and Cesc Fabregas continued to cooperate, Essien knocked down Messi when defending, and got a free kick opportunity, Van Persie personally took the penalty, Hangrande pressed Terry in the penalty area, and the header hit, 0
It was also the second consecutive crucial set-piece for Chelsea to concede, having previously played in the Carabao Cup final when Gallas headed home from a set-piece in extra-time, this time by Hangrande's header shortly after the break.
After taking a two-goal lead, Tottenham Hotspur consciously stabilized their position, Grant and Chelsea's players came to their senses, and the two sides began a round of stalemate, Tottenham Hotspur firmly controlled the situation, patiently organised and looked for opportunities from back to front, and Chelsea used their own running and defense to contain Tottenham's attack.
The first half passed in such a dissipation.
But in the second half, Tottenham Hotspur seemed to have withdrawn from the recuperation in the second half of the first half, and once again played a round of rapid attack, constantly pressing Chelsea, and in the first minute, Messi cut inside with the ball on the right side and crossed to Ribery who ran inside on the left side.
This season, the French big scarface, who is far ahead of the league scorer list, is more and more confident, and after getting Messi's cross, he suddenly made a sudden stop and changed direction to get rid of Ferreira, who got rid of the defense, and pulled out a position to the left, and suddenly hit the goal directly with his left foot, and the ball went into the net, 0
After the goal, Tottenham Hotspur launched a round of indiscriminate bombardment against Chelsea, not polite to Chelsea at all, directly pressed, using their own advantages of ball control and passing and receiving, mobilizing Chelsea, constantly pulling their defense, launching attacks again and again.
Cudicini played a brilliant game, saving a must-score chance in the first half, and this time, Van Persie pulled to the left, received Alves's wide diagonal pass and diverted it, stopped the ball, picked up the pass, and Ribery volleyed less than eight meters in front of goal in the box, but he saved it as if he were a god.
Tottenham Hotspur then played another attack, Cesc Fabregas midfielder fired a precise scalpel-like through ball to Van Persie's very comfortable position, the Dutch centre-forward got rid of Terry after the ball, formed a beautiful stop pass, and then volleyed near the penalty spot in the penalty area, and it was Cudicini who bravely knocked the ball out with one hand.
Carvalho then quickly followed up with a powerful clearance to defuse Chelsea's crisis.
Tottenham Hotspur's successive attacks made the fans at White Hart Lane Stadium look with relish, and also made Abramovich and Pini Zahavi, who followed the team to the away stadium, look depressed, made Chelsea fans tremble, and also made Grant on the sidelines begin to lose his breath.
The first substitution was the replacement of Joe Cole with Alex, which was clearly another change to strengthen the team's defense, and this substitution immediately caused the Israelis to be booed by all the fans in the stadium.
Tottenham Hotspur fans booed him because he was too conservative, and even many Tottenham Hotspur fans put up slogans and banners, sarcastically and sarcastically mocked Grant, and asked him, "Aren't you trying to suppress us?" Isn't it going to be tough? ”
"Can you be a little more eggless?"
The Blues fans booed him because he didn't show the wisdom of a manager and the ability to help the team out of trouble, if he was passive, he made substitutions, he strengthened the defence, who wouldn't, why would you be the manager?
It can be said that from many strong conversations this season, Grant has been boastful, but the clumsy characteristics of on-the-spot command and line-up have been exposed, and he does not even have the ability to be a qualified Premier League manager.
What's even funnier is that when the game reached the 70th minute, perhaps seeing that Tottenham Hotspur's offensive had slackened, Grant wanted to strengthen the team's attack, so he asked Wright Phillips to warm up, and then pulled Wright Phillips to chat on the sidelines for a few minutes, obviously asking him to come on the court and strengthen the attack.
But at this moment, Van Persie took the ball in the front of the penalty area and turned straight into the box, Ribery followed up and scored a brace from 13 meters in front of the goal, helping Tottenham Hotspur to extend the score
Tottenham Hotspur's attack clearly frightened Grant, who immediately put Wright Phillips back in and replaced Ballack with Kalou in an attempt to strengthen the team's midfield defence.
By now, Chelsea's formation immediately changed to 54I, with only one Drogba left in front, and even two wings abandoned.
Seeing this situation, Andy Gray couldn't help but sneer sarcastically, "We can all see that Afran Grant has been completely frightened by Tottenham Hotspur's attack, and he may now just think about how to keep the score of 40, instead of trying to score and save face." ”
"Don't forget, it's only 71 minutes"
Roman Abramovich and Pini Zahavi couldn't stand it anymore and left the pitch early, while many Chelsea fans were also very unhappy, dissatisfied with the management, dissatisfied with the manager, and even dissatisfied with the players.
And the game ended with a score of 40, Grant did strengthen the team's attack in the end, he replaced Ferreira with Shevchenko in the 9l minute, intending to strengthen the team's attack, but the Ukrainian did not even have a chance to touch the ball after coming on the field, and the game was over.
This incident also caused Grant to be blamed and ridiculed again, and at the same time planted a landmine for Shevchenko's post-match anger.
Tottenham Hotspur's 40-thrashing of city rivals Chelsea at home immediately put the north London side in the spotlight of fans around the world, and there was another game in the same round, Manchester United's win at Newcastle, and both teams have been in very good form of late.
Relatively speaking, Arsenal's back-to-back campaign has been significantly affected, drawing away at Birmingham.
But there are gains and losses, Tottenham Hotspur beat Chelsea, not only opened the gap between the two teams, but also played their own momentum, but then also let themselves in the Champions League round of 16 knockout round of the first leg away game, suffered a small upset, that is, 00 draw away Olympiacos.
As the Champions League group winners, Tottenham Hotspur can get the advantage of away and home in the knockout round of 16, and the team has been excellent against Chelsea, Ye Qiu rotated appropriately when playing Olympiacos away, but was unable to beat the opponent in the end.
For this draw, Ye Qiu did not show much dissatisfaction, in his opinion, Olympiacos's Champions League experience is even richer than Tottenham Hotspur, an away draw is already ideal, the only regret is that there is no away goal, but this is not a problem for Ye Qiu.
From the start of the draw to Olympiacos, he has focused on Chelsea when drawing up the fixture schedule, while the knockout stages of the Champions League are focused on the second leg of the home game, and he is confident in his side at White Hart Lane.
Back in the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur welcomed Birmingham, and Tottenham Hotspur, who have been in a bit of a frightening form lately, managed to beat Steve Bruce's side 4L away, further pushing the Hong Kongers' team into the relegation zone, which has also become some of the talk of the town.
Back to the second leg of the Champions League knockout round, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Olympiacos 0 at home and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League with an aggregate score of 0.
This is not only Tottenham Hotspur's Champions League results this season, but also Tottenham Hotspur's best Champions League results since the Champions League was restructured, which also makes Tottenham Hotspur fans ecstatic, because they see that the team's results in the last two years are getting better and better year by year, last year's League Cup and League Cup, this year's Premier League to maintain their fighting power, and the Champions League to reach the quarterfinals, such progress makes them very satisfied.
Ye Qiu also said that the team will do its best to play well in the Champions League while ensuring that the league performance continues to improve steadily.
This has also been interpreted by the media and fans as a strategy for Tottenham Hotspur to protect the league first and then take into account the Champions League.
The day after the Champions League last-16 knockout round, UEFA held a draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals at its headquarters in Nyon, with Tottenham Hotspur drawing reigning Champions League champions AC Milan from Serie A.
Chelsea met Liverpool, Roma met Manchester United, Barcelona met Schalke 04, four Premier League teams entered the quarterfinals, and in the end did not make Premier League fans want to see, the four teams faced different opponents, but in the quarterfinals there was a catch-and-match, and if it entered the semi-finals, it was still a Premier League matchup.
Tottenham Hotspur, AC Milan and Chelsea, Liverpool are in the top half, while Manchester United, Roma and Barcelona, Schalke 04 are in the bottom half.
Tottenham Hotspur's first game in the Champions League quarterfinals is at the San Siro Stadium, and the schedule is still a good one.
In the FA Cup quarterfinals, Tottenham Hotspur defeated West Bromwich Albion from the Championship at home.
Although the Bloomers are fourth in the Championship this season and have a good chance of making a push for promotion, they still lack the fighting power against Tottenham Hotspur, a substitute and youth team, because even a young player like Aaron Ramsey would be a regular in the team if he is still in Cardiff.
The advantage of the Premier League is reflected here, the overall quality and strength of the stars are obviously overwhelmed by the Championship and even League One, coupled with the team's overall tactics to condense the combat effectiveness, which is even more Championship and League One teams can not compete and match.
After playing the FA Cup, the 29th round of the league ushered in midweek, Tottenham Hotspur beat West Ham United again 40 at home, and the Hammers were depressed this time, because they shouted before the game to avenge Tottenham Hotspur for snatching their new home, but they didn't expect that they were stupidly sticking out their necks to cut people.
Three days later, in the thirtieth round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Manchester City with a difficult defeat.
Manchester City opened the scoring in the first half, but in the second half, Tottenham Hotspur reversed Manchester City with goals from Cesc Fabregas and Vargas and struggled to get the three points.
At the same time, Manchester United also beat Derby County away, Chelsea also won 0 against Sunderland, Liverpool beat Reading, and the traditional powerhouses of the Premier League have all won, except for Arsenal.
The hapless Gunners have once again exposed their worst problems, drawing four in a row in the 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th rounds of the league, which has left Arsenal dropping eight points in the last four rounds, which is nothing short of unbelievable.
Tottenham Hotspur climbed steadily, and in the thirtieth round, the team won 70 points with an excellent record of 22 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses, and successfully reversed Arsenal, which only scored 67 points, and ranked second in the league.
Not only that, but Tottenham Hotspur are now just two points away from Manchester United, who are top of the league.
In other words, if United drop two more points, Tottenham Hotspur will succeed in overturning Manchester United to take the top spot in the Premier League for the first time, as they have the most goal difference of any Premier League team.
The situation has been completely unbelievable so far, no one expected that Arsenal would win four consecutive draws after entering March, and no one expected that the Red Devils' number one rival for the title would be Tottenham Hotspur in the thirtieth round, the closest to Manchester United.
After getting the change in the standings, Ferguson said with a smile that he was confident of winning the championship.
'We've beaten Tottenham Hotspur twice this season, so we all have a lot of confidence in this team'
But Ye Qiu said, "It is precisely because we lost to Manchester United twice this season that we are all very unconvinced, and we desperately want to be able to reverse Manchester United, so we hope to be able to complete the reversal of Manchester United's championship, because we want everyone at Manchester United to taste the taste of losing and losing the championship." ”
At the same time, Ye Qiu also jokingly asked Ferguson for his previous gift.
'We gave Manchester United a title last season and now it's time for you to repay us