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Tottenham Hotspur defeated Crystal Palace with a full substitute lineup and successfully advanced to the fourth round of the FA Cup without attracting much attention from the media and fans. After all, in their view, it is understandable for Tottenham to hide their main players in this game - a mere FA Cup third round game is not worthy of being tied for third in the standings with Chelsea. Tottenham dispatched their main force.
What's more, although Tottenham has won more attention with its outstanding performance in the Premier League this season, Crystal Palace is just a League One club. Therefore, a game like this, which seems to have a huge disparity in strength, is naturally difficult to attract the attention of the media and fans, and no one will find fault with it, saying that Tottenham sent a full substitute lineup in this game, which is against the opponent. Such disrespect
No team in the world can survive an entire season with just one lineup. Not to mention the various impacts of injuries and red and yellow card suspensions on the team's lineup, allowing a player to play all the games for more than half a year and ensure that he can perform well every time he plays is a task in itself. Unrealistic things. The role of the head coach is to rationally use existing resources and adopt appropriate rotations of the starting lineup, rather than using one lineup to last for a season and being forced to respond until something becomes impossible.
At this point, George can be said to be the best among all Premier League coaches. Of course, this also has a lot to do with him being the owner of Tottenham Hotspur Club. After all, when other head coaches make rotations, they also need to consider whether the team's performance will fluctuate as a result, whether it will affect their coaching positions, but George does not need to worry about this at all - he I am the owner of Tottenham Club. Who dares to say something to ask him to step down?
After Tottenham defeated Crystal Palace 3-0 at home, the first half of the 2003-04 Premier League season also came to an end. Although there are still at least five months until the end of the season, and there are still half of the games to be played, but even so, the situation of the Premier League championship this season has gradually become clear!
Due to the butterfly effect brought about by George's crossing, the team at the top of the standings this season is not Arsenal, which is still unbeaten, but Manchester United, which has achieved 14 wins, two draws, three losses and a total of 44 points. , this situation makes Arsenal feel extremely depressed - Arsenal is obviously the only team in England that still maintains an unbeaten record (twelve wins and seven draws), but the result is still one point behind. Second place in the standings is somewhat depressing.
It is precisely because of this that Arsenal fans' hatred of Tottenham has risen to another level. After all, if Arsenal can defeat Tottenham in the north London derby, it will not only allow its own players to continue their psychological advantage over the latter, but also surpass Manchester United in the standings, instead of being in this championship battle like now. Play the role of a chaser.
Although the psychological pressure of being the leader of the league is extremely huge, in comparison, the pressure on those teams playing the role of chaser is much greater than that of Manchester United at the top of the list. Because as long as these teams make a mistake while chasing Manchester United, they will easily be further opened up by the Red Devils in the standings, causing an even heavier blow to morale.
Manchester United and Arsenal are followed by Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. So far, Chelsea (12 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses) and Tottenham (11 wins, 6 draws and 2 losses) have scored 39 points in the first 19 rounds of the league and are tied for third place in the standings. position. However, Chelsea and Tottenham showed completely different attitudes towards such a result!
Although Chelsea's current ranking and results have made great progress compared with last season, and there is hope of winning the league championship, Abramovich is still not satisfied with the results achieved by the Blues - you know, Although Abramovich's motives for joining Chelsea were impure, the Russian tycoon's investment in the Blues was substantial. In terms of investment scale alone, even the big boss of Inter Milan cannot compare with it!
After spending hundreds of millions of pounds, the team's league ranking only improved one place, and it was still unable to surpass the two mountains of Arsenal and Manchester United. In the eyes of an outsider like Abramovich, such results are naturally unacceptable to him!
Therefore, changing the head coach of the team was once again put on the agenda by Abramovich. But so far, Abramovich has not considered the choice of coach. After all, in the current European football world, those coaches who have good performance in leading teams are basically a carrot and a pit. It is impossible to give up their current jobs as coaches of wealthy clubs and go to Chelsea, a nouveau riche, to play for them; and those famous coaches who are idle at home They all had various bad deeds, which made Abu full of doubts when choosing them and he did not dare to make a hasty decision. Otherwise, Ranieri would have been laid off long ago, and would he still be able to stay as Chelsea coach until now?
Take Van Gaal for example. Abramovich excluded the Dutchman from the selection at first glance. After all, for a famous coach who has been in internal strife everywhere and almost demoted a top club like Barcelona, Abramovich does not have the guts to let Van Gaal come to Chelsea to replicate his "feat" when coaching Barcelona.
If under the command of Van Gaal, Chelsea also goes straight to the relegation zone, then Abramovich will have to suffer the consequences. Therefore, finding a head coach who has the courage and ability of a wealthy coach to lead Chelsea has become the first thing Abramovich must consider now.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that it is not easy for Ranieri to lead Chelsea to this level. After all, it was quite a fluke that Chelsea finished fourth in the league last season. It is really difficult for Abramovich to ask the team to win the championship and challenge Manchester United and Arsenal for the position.
You know, the Blues had only 64 points in the Premier League at that time, the same points as fifth-placed Liverpool, only one point higher than sixth-placed Blackburn, and one point higher than Manchester United, which won the Premier League championship. The gap of nearly 20 points is also 11 points behind Arsenal!
Now, at the end of the Premier League half-way period, although Chelsea is only ranked third, the point difference between it and the leader is only five points. However, the report card handed over by Ranieri was not enough to satisfy Abramovich, who had high expectations for the team.
Unlike Abramovich, who is dissatisfied with the team's performance and is planning to change coach Abramovich, George is quite satisfied with Tottenham's current situation. You know, Tottenham is not Chelsea, which is already among the top teams in the Premier League, but a mid-range team that has been struggling for a long time, not to mention that George also performed a major surgery on the team last summer. Therefore, with Tottenham firmly in the top four in the league, both the media and Tottenham fans feel that there is no need to make higher demands on this team.
A team that was originally considered to be in the rebuilding period actually defeated a number of opponents ranked ahead of it in the league and sat in the fourth position in the league. If the British media can even criticize this, then they will not be far away from being regarded as stupid.
However, although the media and fans have greatly praised Tottenham's performance this season, this does not mean that George also hopes that his players will be satisfied with the current results. According to what he said, this season is only half over, and the team has not yet ensured that it will qualify for the Champions League. What do you guys have to be proud of?
"Don't look at the nine-point difference between Aston Villa, who is currently ranked fifth, and us, but there are still nineteen rounds of the league!" After training one day, George openly criticized the recent performance in the team meeting. The disorganization that continues to spread within the team, "If nothing else, as long as we lose ten more points than the opponent in the second half, then we will have to watch Aston Villa play in the Champions League. Besides, you guys don't Is the goal of a promising guy just a fourth position in the league?"
"Boss, you mean the championship?" Hearing George's words, Ledley King and other players couldn't help but widen their eyes in surprise. They never thought that their coach would be so ambitious and actually planned to challenge the authority of Manchester United and Arsenal in the Premier League in his first season!
"Tsk, do you mean you don't even have this bit of courage?" Seeing the expressions on the faces of Ledley King and others, George put on a look of contempt, "If that's the case, then I can only say that I was still I really admire you."
In this sentence, George didn't lie at all. In his opinion, if there is no idea of competing, then it means that this group of Tottenham players can reach the upper limit. At that time, George will need to eliminate those players who have lost their aggressiveness and let the team regain its hunger for the championship.
"Boss, how is this possible? As professional players, who among us doesn't want to win the championship?!" Ledley King, who unfortunately fell into George's attack, made a statement on the spot, "Don't worry, starting from today, we will do our best. If we keep going, we will never be lazy in training like today again!"
So, five days after defeating Crystal Palace, faced with another challenge from Birmingham, their defeated opponent, Tottenham players who were eager to move further up the standings were like a group of tigers descending from the mountain. It only took 45 minutes to solve the problem of Steve. Team led by husband Bruce. In the end, Tottenham won a 4-1 victory at home and continued to chase Manchester United and Arsenal in the standings!
