Chapter 92: A Change of Mind

'It's because since I've been in charge of Tottenham there hasn't been a lot of change.

There are advantages and disadvantages to playing a set of formations all the time, and the biggest disadvantage is that every opponent can find a way to target us in advance.

So I've been wondering if I can make some changes, and even though I won the game today, I don't think it was a success.

I will continue to work on this in the future, and try to bring more tactical play to Tottenham. ”

This Benjamin is pure nonsense, he wants to change the formation today completely because the League Cup is not important, the opponent is not strong, and he has a whim to play.

Fortunately, the result of the game was good, and I didn't get out of it.

After the game, Benjamin asked Townsend to stay and communicate with him one more time after training.

Truth be told, Benjamin also has a headache, he was thinking of making Lamela less injured and Townsend more professional, so that the two of them can basically play this position on the right side of Tottenham.

It has also been said before that it is not because there are no other options, but because Benjamin has feelings for this group of Tottenham players.

It's still a bit emotional now, and if you want to achieve results, especially in the Champions League, it's really a little bit less interesting to rely on them alone.

Townsend won't talk about it now, Lamela is Tottenham who moved from Roma under the name of Argentine talent.

In the season before his arrival at Tottenham, the Argentine made 33 appearances for Roma in a season in Serie A, scoring 15 goals and providing five assists.

A young man in his early twenties has scored 20 goals in a single season in Serie A, which is impressive enough.

If Lamela can still play like this after coming to the Premier League, it will be what will satisfy Benjamin.

But now in his second season with the Lily Army, he is still far from meeting expectations.

It's still a similar situation, Lamela, who has basically adapted to the Premier League, is qualified to play as a main player in the middle of the Premier League.

In the championship team, the most can only play rotation, after all, let alone the top, there is still a bit of a gap between the first-class wing attacking players.

Even if attitude and positivity can make up for it, football still depends on strength.

This time Townsend's incident also made Benjamin completely understand the fact that he is thinking about the players and their future, but they may not appreciate it.

They may even feel that he, as a manager, is hindering their development.

Regardless of the final outcome of this season, Benjamin's transfer thinking will definitely change dramatically next season.

"How's it going, have you figured it out?"

Facing the manager who asked him with a smile, Townsend couldn't smile at all.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with me, it's not fair for you to treat me like this.

I still want to go to a team that allows me to play the main team. ”

Benjamin was not surprised, he knew that the English might have been secretly contacting the next family themselves.

Although he didn't feel that Townsend had made the right choice at all, the tired Tottenham boss didn't think about persuading him anymore.

Benjamin still agrees with Townsend daring to take the initiative to express his opinion, so he will not target the English for this.

"That's good, but before you leave, I want you to maintain the professional attitude of a professional footballer."

In fact, it's not incomprehensible, people don't have much friendship with you, why should you be wronged to stay here and work for you?

Especially when he was still a little pretentious and thought he deserved a higher status.

Benjamin was wise to choose not to waste any more words.

In addition to the two of them, Sun Xingmin, who has just transferred back this season, cannot be worry-free.

Originally, Benjamin felt that with the character of a Korean, he should work silently in the team and wait quietly for the opportunity.

But as time went by, Son Heung-min didn't get too many opportunities to play.

In addition to scoring goals and good performances at the beginning, the performance on the field later was also very average.

Benjamin also sensed that Son Heung-min was not happy at Tottenham.

It stands to reason that Benjamin, who personally invited the South Koreans to Tottenham, should go to appease the other party.

But it happened that there was such a thing as Townsend, and it was in the critical stage of the event, and Benjamin couldn't care so much.

He figured it out, what those people liked, the big deal was to let them all go, and it wasn't that they couldn't buy better players.

Bye-bye, bye-bye, the next one is better.

On November 2, Tottenham rushed to the away stadium for the tenth round of the Premier League against Aston Villa.

Villa have been a bit lonely in recent years, and even in previous seasons they were in a thrilling relegation.

So far this season, they have lost five consecutive league games.

With the Champions League in mind in midweek, Benjamin had expected to continue with a significant rotation for this game.

But on second thought, the last Carabao Cup rotation was forgotten, and if the main players were still substituted in the league or could not even enter the squad, they were probably reluctant.

Anyway, it's already a game off, so let's just let them play.

So Tottenham Hotspur played at Villa Park and played as much as possible.

Benjamin looked at the home team's starting eleven.

Villa boss Paul Lambert lined up a four-three-three formation.

Weimann, Benteke and N'Zogbia were the trident, Cleverley, Carlos Sanchez and Westwood formed a midfield three, with Vlaar and Becker Town defending.

It looks like this lineup is pretty good, at least most of them are players that Benjamin knew well before he became the manager.

Why are you hovering around the relegation zone?

After watching the game for a while, Benjamin finally understood that Villa's record was not very reasonable.

These players are indeed a little bit off, and it is estimated that players who have not played a few games on the bench at Tottenham have been able to start in the past.

Less than 10 minutes into the game, Lamela moved wide on the right and Mane took the ball and cut inside to shoot into the net from the bottom right corner.

Tottenham take the lead away.

A free-kick opportunity in the second half was lowered into the box by Eriksen and headed out by a Villa defender.

Dembele spotted a gap in the defence and played the ball out again, Kane hit a right-footed shot from inside the box, but the home goalkeeper Guzan couldn't save.

Two to zero!

Then, at Benjamin's orders, Tottenham's players began to collect their kicks to save energy for the Champions League game three days later.

In the 85th minute, Enzobia broke through the cross, and Weimann in the middle followed up with a shovel shot, and the ball flew into the goal!

In the jubilation of Villa Park, the home side pulled a goal back.

At full-time, Aston Villa lost 2-1 at home to Tottenham Hotspur and suffered six consecutive league defeats.

Tottenham Hotspur, who have won all three points away from home and have not tasted defeat so far this season, continue to lead the standings.

Of course, Jose Mourinho's Blues came out victorious this round, finishing just two points behind Tottenham to keep the pressure on them.

CSKA Moscow, who had just been beaten at home by Benjamin's side, had arrived in London to take on the Lililies again.

The defending Russian Premier League champions, who lost all three of their first three Champions League groups, have little hope of qualifying, but they will still fight for glory.