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After the game started, the Birmingham players, who had won the right to kick off, took advantage of the opportunity of being at home to launch an attack into Tottenham's half. From the perspective of Birmingham players, even though Tottenham made a lot of moves in the summer and introduced many stronger players, the overall strength of the team has been improved to a certain extent. However, under the limited running-in time, these people can be here. He definitely couldn't perform as well as he should in this game. Not to mention, many people are also doubting whether these players are really as good as Tottenham's official publicity?
Therefore, with the mentality of giving Tottenham a showdown, the Birmingham players took the initiative at the beginning of the game, intending to see if they could take advantage of their opponent's unsteady footing. In addition, when they do this, they also include some psychology of testing their opponents' details.
If Tottenham players cannot calmly deal with this kind of attack that can only be regarded as a trial level, then Birmingham will stage a good show of beating the drowned dog.
Although they have only been training together for a short month, the tacit understanding between Tottenham players is still insufficient and there are many loopholes in their cooperation. However, under the careful training of Allegri and Old Charlie, Tottenham's defensive system has been basically established at this time. Therefore, facing Birmingham's offensive, Tottenham players successfully resisted it without spending much effort.
You know, Birmingham only scored a total of 41 goals in the Premier League last season. This statistic ranks only fifth from the bottom among all twenty Premier League teams, and one can easily imagine how weak their offensive power is. Even though Steve Bruce rented Finnish forward Mikael Forssell from Chelsea this summer with the intention of improving the team's offense, he wants to let him solve Ledley King and Victoria on his own. The central defense line formed by Dickey is really unrealistic.
After resisting Birmingham's opening three blows, Tottenham also began to organize an attack. However, Tottenham's offense is mainly based on quick counterattacks organized by Carrick after successful defense or interception. The team as a whole does not attack very often.
Seeing Tottenham players frequently passing the ball to Carrick and asking him to organize the offense, Steve Bruce, who was standing on the sidelines, couldn't help but smile proudly, then waved his hand and ordered the Birmingham players to follow the original plan. Carrick implements double-teaming and pressing man-marking tactics!
"Humph, George, you're still too young." In order for the team to get a good start in this opening game, Steve Bruce spent a lot of time studying George's games when he was the acting coach of Manchester United. Video, naturally he has some understanding of this junior brother’s tactical play, “Indeed, the play with the playmaker behind the core can solve many problems, but if you want to make good use of this tactic, you must have a top playmaker in the midfield. That's right. Although Carrick is good, his overall view and control of the rhythm of the game are the best among all English players born in the 1980s, but I want him to play like Pirlo and Veron and integrate the entire team. Under his control, it was obviously too early.”
As if he heard Bruce's thoughts, George glanced at the opponent first, then formed his hands into a trumpet shape, and gave the latest instructions to the Tottenham players on the field: "Gary! Nemanja! Ledley! Keep up with Michael!" The appropriate distance must ensure that there are more than three ball release points around him at any time! Also, Michael, why are you running so forward when you have nothing to do? Do you think you are Ronaldo and plan to challenge an entire back line by yourself? Defense line?”
George's reminder was very timely. When the Birmingham players were planning to press and double-team Carrick according to Bruce's pre-game arrangements to disrupt Tottenham's game rhythm and force the opponent to make mistakes, these people were shocked to find that Carrick was The guy had no intention of keeping the ball for long. He has been lingering near the center circle of the court, using passes with Speed and other teammates to control the rhythm of Tottenham's game and point out the direction of attack for his teammates!
Birmingham players seemed a little overwhelmed by this unexpected situation. After all, Carrick's position was too far back, which made it difficult for them to send out enough troops to surround him. If only one person is sent to press, Carrick can easily get rid of this level of defense by cooperating with his teammates; but if there are more people passing by, then the defensive power in his own half will inevitably be weakened a lot, thus Allow other Tottenham players to get more offensive opportunities in the frontcourt.
Although the offense is not strong, Birmingham can still appear in the Premier League every year. Birmingham mainly relies on its tenacious and iron-blooded defense. Therefore, once they discovered that doing so would actively weaken their own defensive strength, Birmingham players naturally had doubts when implementing it.
What's more, unlike Veron, who would break away from George's command from time to time and run into the frontcourt without authorization, Carrick, who was born in West Ham United, did not have much capital to challenge George. Moreover, even when he was playing for the Hammers, Carrick was the most inconspicuous member of that youth team, and he had no personal or collective honors to show off. Therefore, Carrick, who lacks capital, will naturally not have any objection or possibility of violating George's arrangements.
At the same time, although Speed and Vidic do not have Carrick's ability to be the metronome of the team, and their grasp of the overall situation on the field is also lacking, the work of running and supporting such as this is still Competent. Therefore, with their support and the concerns of Birmingham players, Bruce's pressing tactics against Carrick ultimately failed. Tottenham also took this opportunity to continuously launch sharp and quick counterattacks, frequently threatening Birmingham's goal!
Although the Birmingham players gave up their targeted tactics against Carrick after some attempts, the timing of their decision was not good. Because at this time, Birmingham had already paid a heavy price for this arrangement of the Blues in conceding a goal. In the fifteenth minute of the game, Carrick seized the space left behind when the Birmingham players stepped forward to defend him, and used a ball to A precise through ball directly cut through Birmingham's slightly empty central defense, assisting Tony to score, one to zero!
Falling behind by one goal shortly after the start, the Birmingham players couldn't help but find themselves in a dilemma. After all, when the initiative of the game has fallen into the hands of Tottenham, whether they choose to continue the offense or defend and counterattack, it is difficult to guarantee that they can reverse it.
Although under the command of Bruce, the Birmingham players quickly unified their thinking and regrouped to prepare for another 300-round battle with Tottenham. However, at this moment, Birmingham's goal was once again successfully penetrated by Tottenham!
It turned out that, seeing that Birmingham players were busy re-stabilizing and shrinking the defense, and relaxing their marking, Bierovka, who had been given a high degree of freedom by George before the game, made an immediate decision and made a move thirty meters away from the goal. He volleyed directly and used a world wave to change the score to 2-0!
Bierovka's goal instantly disrupted Birmingham's rhythm and dealt a heavy blow to their morale - they were scored by their opponents just after they set up their formation. No matter which team it was, their morale was probably down. Everyone will be greatly affected, not to mention Birmingham, which has been hit repeatedly.
If Birmingham itself is a team with strong offense and weak defense, then they are still confident of recovering from a two-goal deficit. But Birmingham under Bruce is a thoroughly defensive team. With a serious lack of offensive power, it will undoubtedly be extremely difficult for them to chase two goals in a row in the next time.
Although they did not have much confidence in their own offensive power, being two goals behind forced Birmingham players to choose to take the initiative after the game restarted. And this naturally gave Tottenham the advantage of having two wing wings in Bierovka and Darren Anderton, as well as the standard one-high-one-fast forward combination of Toni and Robbie Keane. Stab for more scoring opportunities!
One minute before the end of the first half, Speed stole the ball and passed it diagonally to Darren Anderton in front of him on the right. The latter dribbled the ball along the right sideline and made a textbook 45-degree pass. He accurately found Tony's head and assisted the Italian center to score twice, 3-0!
The reality of falling behind by three goals in the first half made Birmingham players completely give up the idea of scoring points against Tottenham. Bruce's mobilization and roar at halftime failed to rekindle their desire for victory. Especially after Robbie Keane scored Tottenham's fourth goal of the game just five minutes into the second half, the Birmingham players looked like they were about to give up the game.
Facing Birmingham, who had obviously lost the confidence to continue playing, George did not choose to stop there. Instead, he waved the flag and replaced Tony, who scored twice in this game, with Drogba, while using C Luo replaced Darren Anderton, allowing the Ivorian monster, which is not yet fully mature, to experience the atmosphere of the Premier League game.
However, even if they are not fully mature, Drogba and Ronaldo still brought quite a surprise to George and Tottenham fans. In the 86th minute, Cristiano Ronaldo knocked down the opposing Birmingham player with a series of dazzling fake moves on the right wing and then passed the ball high. Drogba, who was ambushing in the penalty area, jumped up high and hit the ball with all his strength. He pressed the Birmingham defender who was guarding him and headed the ball into the Birmingham gate, five to zero!
In this way, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Tottenham Hotspur as a guest at St. Andrews Stadium achieved a hearty victory, and after all ten games in the first round of the Premier League, , temporarily ranked first in the standings with a five-goal difference advantage!
