Manchester City are the reigning champions and currently the top team in the league and are unbeaten in 53 league games, so they can attract a lot of media attention.

As a result, the media also paid great attention to Tottenham Hotspur's home game against Manchester City.

A lot of media are optimistic about Manchester City, there are also many media who hope that Tottenham Hotspur can win, and some media are waiting and seeing, on the one hand, they hope that Tottenham Hotspur can beat Manchester City and end Manchester City's unbeaten league run, on the other hand, they are not optimistic about Tottenham Hotspur's victory.

Therefore, the analysis and commentary in the media are varied.

However, just before the start of the game, the attention of the British media was diverted by another matter, and that was the issue of the position of the England national team.

Half a month ago, something big happened to the England national team - they were eliminated in the European Championship qualifiers.

McLaren's side did well against the weaker teams in the European Championship qualifiers, winning six and drawing two home and away against four weaker teams in the same group: Andorra, Macedonia, Israel and Estonia.

At the time, some media praised McClaren's coaching ability, but in retrospect, if the 0-0 draw away to Israel was understandable, then England's 0-0 draw at home to Macedonia still laid the groundwork for the final exit.

What really stood in the way of England's qualification was the Russell led by Guus Hiddink and Croatia coached by retired star Bilic, who won four games against Russia and Croatia, won 1 and lost 3, and lost in a contest with their direct rivals.

In fact, before the final 2 rounds of qualifying, England still had a chance to advance or even win the top spot in the group, but at the Luzhniki Stadium in Russia, Wayne Rooney scored first, England conceded 2 goals in a row and was reversed by Russia. After that round of matches, Croatia is in first place in the group with 26 points, England is second with 23 points, and Russia only has 21 points, which means that as long as they draw with Croatia in the final round, even if Russia scores all three points in the last round, England will be able to beat Russia with the same points.

But what no one expected was that in the game at Wembley Stadium, England fell behind 0:2 in the 15th minute of the first half. Kranica and Olic scored for Croatia before McClaren brought on David Beckham in the second half to make it 2-2 thanks to Frank Lampard's penalty and Crouch's goalmouth sweep.

Just when everyone thought England had come back from the devil's door, substitute Pedric put England's hopes of qualifying in the 76th minute with a long-range shot.

Because on the other side, Russia beat Andorra 1-0 and have overtaken England to move up to second place in the group.

Neither the England players on the pitch nor the fans off the pitch could accept this cruel fact, many of them wept bitterly, and McClaren, whose eyes were equally glazed, held a large umbrella at Wembley in the rain.

This has also become a topic of ridicule for McLaren in the British media.

Less than 24 hours after that game ended. The FA held an emergency meeting to decide to sack McLaren, who became the shortest-serving manager in England's history after only one year and three months in charge.

After McClaren was 'sacked', the FA began to look for a replacement for the manager's position.

England were eliminated in the European Championship qualifiers, but World Cup qualifiers are just around the corner. The FA needs to quickly find a capable manager to re-integrate the squad for World Cup qualifying.

For football coaches, the head coach of the England team is a very attractive position. More than just reputationally, England have never been stingy with the salary of their national team manager.

Swede Eriksen has been awarded the world's biggest football coaching contract, and McClaren's contract is well above the average for a Premier League team. So he resigned from Middlesbrough for England – there is always a great temptation to pay well.

But now that the position has been tarnished by McLaren, who has been described as England's number one player in 135 years, the rumoured candidates for the post have dissociated themselves from it.

Harry Redknapp lamented that any England coach who turned down the position would be considered a traitor.

At the post-match press conference of Portsmouth's 2-0 win over Birmingham, Redknapp's focus was not on the game but on the national team manager, "If you're an Englishman and a Premier League coach, and then the FA comes to you and asks you to take over as England manager, I don't think anyone will say no." People exclude themselves just because they don't think they're going to get the job. If the FA comes to anyone's door, how do you refuse? It's a dream to get into football, to coach a Premier League team, it's a super dream to coach your country. ”

Redknapp believes that while the choice of a man in this position is controversial, there is no job that is not controversial: "We all want to be loyal to our club, but if you turn down the job, it's almost treason. What reason do you have for refusing to coach your own national team? ”

But Redknapp still implicitly expressed that he had no intention of doing so, "I don't have a chance, I'm not a person who likes to pray for miracles." It's the truth. ”

Aston Villa manager O'Neill, a Northern Irishman, had joined the competition for the position last year but made it clear on 23 November that he had turned down the position, "I wouldn't have been willing or liked to be interviewed on hypothetical issues, but I understand why this topic has arisen. Last time I was on the shortlist, I didn't get the job, but I guess I'll be on the list this time, and obviously no one has contacted me. Now I have a responsibility for Aston Villa, unlike last time I didn't have a club coaching assignment. I'm still in the beginning of my work here, and everything is just getting back on track. ”

Following Aston Villa's 3-0 win at Middlesbrough on 24 November, O'Neill once again made his stance clear: "This topic is over for me, completely over. I clarified that yesterday. ”

Since then, Sam Allardyce, Arsene Wenger and Kirbishley have all turned down the position of England manager, either explicitly or implicitly.

Even Wan Sheng was rumoured to be a possible England manager, and even he became one of the hottest candidates for the Premier League manager in the media, the day before the Tottenham Hotspur game. Some media asked about this topic.

Wan Sheng pursed the corners of his mouth and said clearly, "I don't know why I am the favorite, even if I leave Manchester City, I will not choose to take over the England team." ”

"I am a Chinese, and my 'super big dream' should also be to coach the Chinese team."

Wansheng's public statement made the British media very disappointed.

Many people have previously analysed Wan Sheng's prospects in charge of the England team, Wan Sheng has been in charge of the Premier League for four seasons, knows English football very well, and his coaching ability has been unanimously recognized. Many people thought that Wan Sheng would be the best result to take over the England team, but Wan Sheng refused, and they had to consider other candidates.

The two favourites besides Wan Sheng are Jose Mourinho and Fabio Capello.

After Mourinho left Chelsea, he did not immediately look for a home, but has been at home all the time, but he has not commented on the issue for half a month, and the British media see it as a symbol of coldness.

Fabio Capello is a famous European coach who has expressed an active interest in managing England. "I'm ready. It's going to be very interesting and I'm always keen to take on tough challenges. But I'm sure Mourinho will get the job. If he refuses – assuming he is indeed the target of the FA – I am ready. ”

Among the interviews and reports on England's managerial position, the happiest are the Chinese media. The sentence echoed by Wansheng was quickly put on the front page of various major domestic media as the focus of the report.

Although Wan Sheng only expressed his attitude towards the English coach, the phrase "I am Chinese." My 'super big dream' should be to coach the Chinese team", which was analyzed by domestic media, "Wansheng is very likely to take over the position of coach of the Chinese national team in the future!" ”

How long is the future. I won't talk about it anymore, but the expectations of domestic public opinion are obviously very high.

When Wan Sheng learned about the media report, he just smiled and shook his head, "I will take over the position of national team coach in the future", how far is this 'future'? He is only 30 and a half years old, and there are still decades to come, and it is very possible to take over the position of coach of the Chinese national team halfway.

The time horizon covered by this 'future' is so vast that he can't argue with it.

Wansheng can only sigh that the media is the media, even the domestic media, in the 'flickering' language, also has an extraordinary ability.

At this time, the whole Manchester City team has arrived at the White Hart Lane stadium, ready to play Tottenham Hotspur.

Wansheng still attaches great importance to this league.

The team's draw with Wigan Athletic in the last round has led to a lot of media believing that the team's results are declining, and with Morris' injury, the team's morale has also suffered.

Therefore, Wansheng hopes to use a victory to regain confidence inside and outside the team.

Before the game, Wansheng focused on analyzing the opponent, made targeted arrangements and training, as for the verbal battle with Tottenham Hotspur, it was meaningless to win, and it might be self-defeating, so he didn't talk about the game before the game, just focused on preparing for the game.

This attitude has also emboldened the media who want Tottenham to win!

When they reported that Manchester City was 'affected by injuries' and the team's results declined, they were actually just making excuses, after all, Manchester City's 'decline' was only a draw, the winning streak was ended, and they didn't lose the game, in addition, no matter how important Morris is to Manchester City, he is just a player, not completely irreplaceable.

Now it's different.

Before the game, Wan Sheng, as the coach of Manchester City, didn't even talk about the game, it must not have much confidence!

Could it be that something is going on inside Manchester City?

Or is this young Chinese really thinking about leaving Manchester City as England manager?

Many people began to be suspicious, and various reasons were analyzed one by one, as if something had really happened.

Wan Sheng didn't have the heart to pay attention to these 'brain-dead people'.

The game started soon, so let's go straight to the game and talk about the winners and losers!

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Juan de Ramos is not the kind of manager who is stubborn and doesn't want to change his style.

Tottenham Hotspur has a fixed style of play, but when Juan de Ramos took over the team, he still made some personal targeted changes, he brought Tottenham Hotspur a Spanish style of football, from the perspective of play, simply put, it is to increase passing, increase coordination, increase the fluency of attack, and appropriately reduce direct front and back passes.

This is a change in Tottenham Hotspur's style of football, but it makes Tottenham's attack look better, so Tottenham fans are still quite satisfied with Ramos' coaching, because they see that Tottenham's football is more beautiful.

In essence, Tottenham's tactical usefulness has not been enhanced.

Their tactics have increased control but have been less tough and less practical, so in terms of overall stats, such as goals, Tottenham Hotspur are not much better than last season.

Juan de Ramos didn't have any actual knowledge of Manchester City, but did some targeted preparation work before the game, and in summary, he asked his players to play tougher and more consistent in the game.

But in this regard, it doesn't make much sense just to talk about it, Tottenham players don't know how to really play in the game, how to play tough, how to play against Manchester City.

When Manchester City showed much more control than Tottenham in the game, Juan de Ramos panicked.

He thinks everything too well and doesn't know the absolute gap between Tottenham and Manchester City.

Tottenham Hotspur players did not have much confidence in playing against Manchester City, even at home, and their best result against Manchester City in more than two seasons was only a draw at home, with most of the other games ending in big defeats.

When the Tottenham players find out in the game that there is no direct way to be what manager Juan de Ramos calls 'tough' and to be solid on the ball, they don't know how to play.

This confusion had a direct impact on the performance of the entire Tottenham team.

Not long after the game began, it was clear that Tottenham's defense was completely unable to withstand Manchester City's attack.

After several waves of offensive and defensive transitions, the football has been firmly controlled by Manchester City, and they have achieved the suppression of the midfield, while Tottenham, who are sitting at home, is difficult to attack even in the middle line.

"This opening was terrible for Tottenham!" The announcers at White Hart Lane Stadium all said so. (To be continued.) )