The league started the new season with six consecutive wins and eight wins in all competitions. In the seven games excluding the Community Shield, they scored a total of 19 goals and conceded only one. Such eye-catching results will send Tottenham to the Premier League and championship. While being at the top of the Cup Group F double standings, it also left those who were pessimistic about Tottenham's prospects in the summer completely speechless!
You know, Tottenham's opponents in these eight games are not all weak and underdogs. Among them are top teams like Chelsea, as well as strong teams from various countries such as Liverpool and Udinese. If we look for reasons in the schedule, saying that the reason Tottenham can win consecutively is because they are playing against some middle and lower-tier clubs with a huge gap in strength, it would be too strong and unreasonable, and it will not attract the attention of fans.
Therefore, after Tottenham handed over such a report card, the doubts about Tottenham immediately became much smaller - although these experts and trolls all have bad mouths, they are not fools. Of course they can see that Tottenham are in good shape now, and there is no negative news to report within the team. If they continue to target Tottenham at this time, they will easily be slapped in the face by the facts!
In this case, then they might as well change another team to continue their great trolling career. Anyway, Tottenham is not the only top club in the Premier League. Moreover, the better Tottenham's performance, the more it will naturally highlight the poorness of other Premier League teams. In this way, they will have enough capital to comment on these teams!
However, before they could turn their guns, Tottenham overturned in the next league game - in the game against Fulham a week later, Tottenham was unfortunately stopped because a large number of main players were hidden by George. In order to gain the winning streak, they had a goalless draw with the "Farmers" who were visiting White Hart Lane within 90 minutes, and only got a draw and one point at home!
George was also quite helpless about this draw. Although the players have always had the initiative on the field and created many scoring opportunities in the game, for some reason, they just cannot convert their advantage on the field into the goals they need. Whether it was Klose or Larsson, they always missed the goal and were unable to give Fulham a fatal blow, causing this game that was originally a sure win to end in a draw!
Although the rotation strategy set by George can minimize the physical burden on the players and allow them to better display their true level in the game, having said that, everything has pros and cons. While this rotation strategy ensures that the players' physical fitness will not collapse due to multi-line combat, it will also have a negative impact on the players' competitive state and tacit understanding. For example, in this game, Tottenham failed to win Fulham. Luck certainly accounted for a large part of it, but the impact of rotation cannot be ignored either - newly joined Arshay and teenagers Lennon and Crowe. Ze's lack of tacit understanding was one of the main reasons why Tottenham was tied with Fulham at home!
Fortunately, those who had previously looked down on Tottenham did not restart the mode of mocking Tottenham because of this draw. Instead, they maintained a very cautious attitude in evaluating this game, allowing Tottenham players to play in a relatively stable environment. Prepare for the next game under the public opinion environment.
It's not surprising that this happens. After all, similar things have happened many times before, and each time Tottenham responded to these doubts with undisputed performance. So this time, these guys whose faces had been swollen countless times naturally didn't dare to speak out loud at this time.
Although they stopped their winning streak at the beginning, Tottenham's position in the league standings was not affected in any way by this draw - in the other two games played at the same time, Manchester United lost to veteran Mark Hughes. The coach Blackburn suffered a physical defeat and lost 1-2 at Old Trafford. This not only caused the biggest upset in this round of the Premier League, but also caused the Red Devils to suffer their first defeat at home this season!
After receiving a large capital injection from the Qatar Investment Authority, Manchester United, with a stronger lineup than in its previous life, actually overturned against the underdog Blackburn Rovers, and it was still at their home stadium. It was really a shocking thing. You know, Manchester United introduced many strong players in the summer, including Hargreaves, Park Ji-sung and Edwin van der Sar, and their strength has been greatly strengthened. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are strong. But the result was that Blackburn used sharp defensive counterattacks to smash Manchester United's defense into a sieve, which naturally made Manchester United's supporters find it unacceptable!
Of course, this defeat cannot be entirely attributed to Manchester United players or Ferguson taking it lightly. After all, the reason why Manchester United was defeated by Blackburn, who only scored three goals in the first six rounds of the league, was mainly because the Red Devils' defense suffered a large-scale injury wave - Heinze and Gary Neville were both absent due to injuries. O'Shea, who was Neville's starting right back, was also injured and left the field during the game, causing a huge vacuum in Manchester United's wing defense, and only then was Blackburn's defense broken. Otherwise, with Blackburn's configuration, it will be difficult to bring enough threat to Manchester United's goal!
Make bricks without straw. Although Ferguson introduced many players in the summer transfer window, which improved Manchester United's overall strength and bench depth to a higher level, facing this situation of needing to prepare a substitute for the bench, Sir Alex Ferguson could not prepare for a rainy day. Might be able to handle the situation.
In addition, Scholes has not adapted to the new role and Rooney was pressed on the bench. This is also one of the reasons why Manchester United lost at home. From a frontcourt attacker to a midfielder whose main task is organization and dispatching, "Ginger Head" is obviously not used to this role change; and Rooney is on the bench because of the little fat man's lack of composure in the Champions League. The performance was met with an internal ban from Ferguson. The result of Sir Alex Ferguson's actions was that Manchester United, which was extremely struggling on the defensive end, also fell into an embarrassing situation of being unable to score goals on the offensive end!
As for another rival, Chelsea. Although Mourinho's team allowed Aston Villa to extend their losing streak in the league this season to three games in this round, the Blues still lost to Tottenham in a direct confrontation. One point behind Tottenham in the standings, staying in second place in the league with great frustration!
In this way, relying on the advantages accumulated from the previous winning streak and the "help" of competitors, Tottenham was able to continue to sit at the top of the standings after drawing with Fulham, and was not overtaken by Chelsea, who was eyeing the opportunity.
Although the result of the boring home draw with Fulham made Tottenham feel depressed, the players obviously do not have extra time to think too much about this matter now. Because four days after this game, they will usher in the second round of the Champions League group stage. Their opponent this time is the top seed in Group F, La Liga giant Real Madrid!
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