As soon as the news came out that Tottenham defeated Juventus 2-1 at White Hart Lane and took the lead in advancing to the Champions League final, eyeballs dropped. Even the most die-hard Tottenham fans can't believe the fact before them - Tottenham Hotspur, who have only appeared on the Champions League stage again after 42 years, will actually be in their first Champions League. During the second trip to the Champions League, he defeated many powerful opponents in a row and directly entered the finals as a dark horse!
Although Tottenham also achieved good results in the semi-finals when they first participated in the Champions League, only to lose to the eventual champion Benfica in the semi-finals, this happened more than 40 years ago and was in its infancy at the time. The Champions League is far less competitive than it is now. In addition, after entering the Bosman era, the gap in strength between clubs has become increasingly obvious. Therefore, it is really surprising that Tottenham can achieve such dazzling results in this season's Champions League.
It is for this reason that after this game, many fans became Tottenham fans, and Tottenham's popularity also increased a lot. Of course, the fast-paced football and positive game attitude that Tottenham showed in the semi-finals were in sharp contrast to Juventus, who played a conservative and dull style. This is another important reason why fans like Tottenham, the dark horse of the Champions League. reason!
Although Tottenham also often use defensive counterattack tactics in games, but unlike most teams of the same type, Tottenham's defensive counterattack is more proactive and pays more attention to the pressure on the opponent's backcourt. This makes Tottenham's Counterattacks are more frequent and closer to the opponent's goal, and the game is more beautiful to watch, rather than dull and lethargic like other anti-reflux teams. If Tottenham's playing style is the same as Chelsea and Juventus, and they only focus on tightening the fence in their own half and passively waiting for the opponent to make mistakes in the game, then Tottenham's results will not be as good as they are now. After reaching the Champions League final, it attracted so much attention!
The day after Tottenham eliminated Juventus, another Champions League semi-final contest also had a winner - facing the powerful AC Milan, Monaco finally fought for a full 180 minutes. With the total score tied three to three, they lost with a slight disadvantage of fewer away goals. It was extremely regrettable that they missed the qualification for the finals!
However, although Monaco failed in the Champions League semi-finals this time, the French Ligue 1 club and Deschamps as the head coach have won the respect of all Europe - after a change of main players, his subordinates Reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League again with only a group of young players who lack competition experience is not something that can be achieved casually!
While winning respect, more and more people are beginning to pay attention to this former loser of Mourinho's hands because of Monaco's astonishing results and ability to develop young players. You know, last season, Deschamps single-handedly created the top offensive line of Morientes-Pursho-Roten-Giuly, and promoted Morientes, who was not favored by Lafayette, as the top offensive line that season. UEFA Champions League Golden Boot winner; and this season, with the loss of major players, the French coach formed an attacking combination of Falcao-Modric-Romedal-Mene, and also led this new Monaco Passed several levels with sharp offensive football and entered the Champions League semi-finals again!
Seeing Deschamps' outstanding performance, many clubs in the rebuilding period, such as Roma and Dortmund, have set their sights on the French coach and sent him invitations. In their view, as long as Deschamps can develop the ability to cultivate young people that he showed in Monaco, then this is definitely a sure-fire deal!
Moreover, it is foreseeable that Mo Laohuo's idea of bringing Falcao to the Alpi Stadium at a lower price has become unrealistic with the excellent performance of the Colombian Tigers in the Champions League this season. After all, there are too many teams eyeing this Colombian center with a strong body and superb shooting skills. Even if Moggi and George had reached a private agreement on the introduction of Falcao, it would be impossible to force Monaco to sell their center forward at a low price!
Moggi must be regretting it at this time. During the winter transfer period, Falcao's transfer could not be completed smoothly because he argued with Monaco over some additional terms. Otherwise, the Bianconeri would not have to pay much more to execute Falcao's deal now than they did originally.
Now back to business. After defeating Juventus and reaching the Champions League final for the first time in history, Tottenham fought hard in the 37th round of the Premier League at the weekend, but they were exhausted in the Champions League in midweek. The menacing Middlesbrough, who still suffered a small loss by one goal, suffered their second defeat in the league this season!
In another league game that ended earlier, Chelsea, sitting at Stamford Bridge, easily defeated the visiting Charlton 2-0 at home and won easily. In this way, with only one round left in the Premier League, Chelsea, which is five points ahead of the second place, has won the 2004-05 Premier League championship one round ahead of schedule!
Chelsea won the league title for the first time in half a century! The completion of this achievement made Abramovich and Mourinho become well-deserved heroes in the hearts of Chelsea fans, and their reputations reached a peak at this moment!
Although this result had been expected for a long time, George and the Tottenham players were still quite depressed when they saw Chelsea winning the championship ahead of schedule. After all, if Clattenberg hadn't interfered and George had previously set the Champions League as the main attack direction, how could they have handed over the top spot to Chelsea, which they had held for most of the season?
The day after losing to Middlesbrough and watching Chelsea ascend to the league championship one round ahead of schedule, George, who was handling business at Tottenham headquarters, received an unexpected visitor: "Manager Galliani, If you are not in Milan, how come you have time to come to my place?"
George was naturally extremely wary of Galliani's visit. Not to mention anything else, just the bald man's sharp mouth that can talk the dead and his classic transfer operations in his previous life are enough for George to regard Galliani as someone who needs to be careful!
What's more, it won't be long before Galliani's AC Milan and George's Tottenham will face off in the Champions League final. Therefore, Jia Baozi suddenly came to visit Tottenham headquarters in person at this time. No matter how you look at it, it looks like he has an agenda!
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