"Goooooooal! Robben! Beautiful curve ball volley!" Seeing Michel indicating that the goal was valid, Andy Gray, who had been depressed for a whole game, finally found an outlet and released all the passion that had been suppressed in his heart for a long time. Come out, "The score on the field is now zero to one! Tottenham Hotspur, who are playing away from home, are temporarily leading PSV Eindhoven by one goal and have the upper hand in this Champions League quarter-finals!"
"Andy (Gray), I don't know if you have noticed that compared with last year's European Cup, Robben seems to have made a lot of progress after moving to Tottenham Hotspur." In Andy Gray While singing praises for Robben's wonderful performance, Martin Taylor began to analyze the changes that have occurred in Robben. "In the European Cup in Portugal, although Robben had a very eye-catching performance, his playing style at the time gave I feel more like another Overmars-style traditional winger. Most of the time, he mainly breaks through from the wing, and the frequency of inward shooting and offensive changes is not high. But now, he is doing these two things. There has been a considerable improvement in all aspects. Especially the inward shot after switching to the right, which gives people a feeling of being unsolvable."
"It's not surprising. Martin, don't forget, Robben is one of the most talented players of the new generation in the Netherlands. So it's not surprising that he has made this level of progress." Regarding Martin Taylor's views, Andy ·Gray doesn’t really care. In his view, if a young player like Robben, who is on the rise in his career and has excellent talent, does not make progress in more than half a year, there will be a real problem.
If Robben remains unchanged for most of the season after joining Tottenham, it can only explain two problems. First, Tottenham did not pay attention to training Robben and only used him as a powerful wing attacker; second, after Robben became famous, he got carried away and relaxed his requirements for himself, which led to his performance during this period. The progress is not obvious enough.
"Now, the situation in Eindhoven has become very dangerous." Looking at the frowning Eindhoven players on the field, and Hiddink who was leaning into Cocu's ear and saying something unknown, Martin Taylor made this conclusion, "Robben's goal is really crucial. If PSV don't want to be too passive in the second round, then they must score in less than ten minutes left." They will attack Tottenham's goal with all their strength during the whole time. In this way, their defense will inevitably expose a lot of gaps, and Tottenham's quick counterattack, which has been carefully blocked by Hiddink, will have a place to come into play."
It must be said that Martin Taylor's judgment was very accurate. Robben's last-minute goal not only completely disrupted Hiddink's pre-match plans, but also put PSV into a dilemma. You know, Hiddink's plan before the game was to maintain a tie at home and win the game, and he must not allow Tottenham to get a key away goal in this game. Now, after Robben scored, Hiddink's plan has completely failed. He can only hope that the team can equalize the score before the end of the game and minimize their disadvantage.
However, although the PSV players were unwilling to lose and launched a ferocious counterattack after the game restarted, Tottenham, who concentrated on defensive counterattacks, were never able to break through the door guarded by Cech!
Just like that, when the whole game came to an end with two short and one long whistles from the referee Michel, Tottenham Hotspur, who were visiting the Philips Stadium, relied on Robben's goal to defeat EA Ain 1-0 in the away game. Huo Wen won an extremely valuable victory!
Although the fans were extremely satisfied with the team's victory over Eindhoven and the initiative to advance to the semi-finals of the Champions League, George clearly realized that after a high-intensity confrontation with Eindhoven, these Players who have played will definitely experience a decline in form or unsustainable physical strength in the next league. Therefore, in order to ensure that the team's combat effectiveness does not fluctuate too much, he must make major adjustments to the starting lineup for the next game!
It's not impossible if George is cruel enough to let these players play consecutively, but in this case, Tottenham is likely to pay a very heavy price in the second round with Eindhoven - AC Milan and Real Madrid The lessons learned from the past have served as a wake-up call to those head coaches who like to mess with a lineup, giving them some scruples before doing so.
Therefore, in the 32nd round of the Premier League four days later, facing the challenge of Newcastle United, George, who had decided to focus on the Champions League, decisively made a large-scale rotation of the starting lineup, and even Cech was let go. On the bench, American veteran Casey Keller sat in front of the goal instead.
Although George sent a large number of substitute players in this game, the Magpies, whose performance has not improved since the coaching change, did not seize this opportunity to avenge their elimination from Tottenham in the FA Cup. Not only was he beaten down by the central trio of Dawson, Vermaelen and Kompany on the offensive end, but his own defense was also turned upside down by Villa, Ribery and others!
"From the third place in the Premier League in the 2002-03 season to the point where we can't even qualify for the European competition... I wonder if that old bastard Sheppard now regrets his decision to burn bridges and encourage the players to launch a mutiny to drive away the old man." Looking at the listless performance of the Newcastle players and Souness who was jumping anxiously on the sidelines but unable to come up with any useful countermeasures, George thought with relief, "However, there is no regret selling medicine in this world. Unless he If you have the ability, you can trick a top coach into jumping into this pit of fire. Don't let the coach have more prestige than you, otherwise no one can save Newcastle."
Although George is not sure whether Newcastle in this life will be relegated due to Shepard's misbehavior like in the previous life, he is very sure that if Shepard does not change his behavioral pattern and suspicious character, then Shepard will Germany's rhetoric of wanting to recreate Newcastle's glory in the mid-1990s is sheer nonsense!
What was even more exciting for Tottenham players was that when Ribery scored from Villa's cross and scored the goal to seal the victory for Tottenham, the big screen at White Hart Lane came from another source. News from a piece of ground - After a tough battle with Juventus in the Champions League quarter-finals in midweek, Chelsea, who also adopted rotation tactics in this league, capsized in the ditch at the end of the game earlier and was beaten by Steve ·Bruce led Birmingham to an unexpected draw!
Having led the team to draws with Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea, the two top two teams in the league, Steve Bruce and the Birmingham players definitely have something to boast about for a whole year!
In the end, when all ninety minutes of game time passed, Tottenham defeated Newcastle 2-0 at White Hart Lane and successfully expanded their lead to four points again!
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