"I really don't understand how Birmingham ended up in this situation." Looking at the starting lineup just announced by Birmingham, George thought in confusion, "To be honest, although Bruce's coaching ability is not very good, However, it is not a problem to serve as the coach of a mid- to lower-tier club in the Premier League. Moreover, in the previous few seasons, his performance in leading the team in Birmingham was quite good. How come this season he has changed his appearance and has a set of strength? With a good main lineup, how could he still deliver such a terrible report card?”
Although before being promoted to the Premier League, Birmingham had been in the English secondary league for many years, and even played in the third tier league for a period of time. The club's history is also mediocre, and it has long lived in the shadow of its local rival Aston Villa. After Steve Bruce took office, the performance of this copycat version of the Blues has improved greatly. Not only was it successfully promoted to the Premier League in the 2001-02 season, but it also relied on the head coach's shrewd operation and extensive contacts to win the Premier League. The new army has established a firm foothold in the Premier League with so many strong players!
Former Fulham goalkeeper Mike Taylor, Upson, Heskey and Nicky Butt who have been selected for the England national team, Finnish international Mikael Forssell, an important member of "Super Depor", Pandiani, known as the Rifle of Uruguay... Although these players are not top-notch, in the eyes of the middle and lower reaches of the club, they are all beings who can be entrusted with important tasks!
Just looking at the paper strength, with these stars at the helm, Birmingham can still get a pretty good ranking in the league even if it doesn't get a ticket for next season's European war. However, Birmingham's reality when the season was about to pass halfway shocked everyone!
The first team did not lose as much blood as Leeds United and Southampton, and even strengthened the existing lineup in the summer transfer market, but the results were very different from expectations. This is why, when seeing Birmingham, which has always been in the middle of the league, suddenly decline this season and go straight to the relegation zone, many people are puzzled by this phenomenon!
Goalkeeper Mike Taylor, four defensive players Cunningham, Martin Taylor, Upson, and Julian Gray lined up in a row, and midfielders Damien Johnson, Nicky Butt, and Stephen The combination of Clemens and Pennant, and in front of them, is the classic British striker combination of Heskey and Pandiani, one high and one fast!
As the mainstay of Manchester United's dominance of the league in the early days of the Premier League and Ferguson's favorite general, Bruce's coaching style has a very strong British football flavor. This can be seen from his formation. However, when Wenger, Benitez, George and others are vigorously promoting mainland reforms, and even Ferguson is trying on this path to make the Premier League more technical, he still insists on long passes and high lifts. The high-playing Bruce is actually greatly out of date.
The reason why Bruce has been able to achieve good results in Birmingham in the past few years is that firstly, the configuration of Birmingham is not bad, and the new players introduced are either veterans with rich experience in top leagues or capable players who can play legitimately. Secondly, because of this Although George and others were vigorously promoting tactical innovation in the Premier League at that time, there were still many teams that adhered to the traditional British style of play. Especially among the clubs in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, this style of play can be said to be quite popular with the head coaches of each team!
Two different football ideas will naturally cause a series of conflicts when they first come into contact and subsequently merge with each other. Therefore, in George's previous life, there were frequent vicious incidents in the Premier League in which players were kicked and seriously injured by their opponents. In the eyes of those players who worked hard from the lower leagues in England, such fouls and confrontations were commonplace. But in the past, you can only blame yourself; but for those players who are new to English football, this behavior is simply the same as murder!
Chelsea's tragedy, players are seriously injured every year due to malicious fouls by opponents, Eduardo and Ramsey even suffered broken legs... Such things happen once or twice in the Premier League almost every season. Even when George traveled through time, when the overall level of the Premier League was already No. 1 in the world, it never stopped!
There is no doubt that how to prevent the occurrence of malicious fouls on the field while retaining the big selling point of intense confrontation will be one of the problems that the Premier League needs to solve as soon as possible! After all, if such bad behavior always occurs in the game, it will have an extremely negative impact on the further promotion of the Premier League!
Although Birmingham is in poor form this season, George has no intention of looking down on his opponents at all - in any case, Pandiani and Heskey are very good players. If Birmingham's performance is not good, then he should take them lightly. If so, Tottenham is likely to capsize and lose the lead they have managed to maintain in the league!
Therefore, in order to ensure three-pointers, George, out of caution, did not choose to retain his strength in this game, and sent out the strongest lineup in hand-the eleven players in the starting list were Cech, Maicon, and Ley. Deli King, Vidic, Evra, Mascherano, Xavi Alonso, Gerrard, Robben, Ronaldo and Klose!
Just looking at the book strength and the previous performances of the two teams, Tottenham is undoubtedly better than Birmingham. In the eyes of most people, it is simply a piece of cake for Tottenham, who have the home advantage, to defeat their opponents and take all three points at White Hart Lane!
However, Tottenham not only failed to show strong dominance on the court as they did against Middlesbrough three days ago and quickly established a lead on the court, but instead fell into a dilemma of being unable to score after the start of the game!
In sharp contrast are the Birmingham players. Playing away from home, they used extremely fierce defense to withstand Tottenham's offensive, and even used long passes, a special skill of English football, to the extreme!
In the 27th minute of the game, Nicky Bart stole Klose in the backcourt and sent a long pass directly, accurately finding Pennant who was running along the right. The local winger who transferred from Arsenal in 2005 seized the space left by Evra and rushed forward. He looked at Heskey's position and made a high ball pass!
In terms of shooting accuracy, ten Heskeys together may not be as good as one Klose, but this British center who was once highly regarded by Houllier and Eriksen did not try to force the shot, but used his own strength. His specialty, he used his height and strength to squeeze Vidic behind him, and then tipped the ball to his partner Pandiani who was ambushing on the other side of the penalty area!
Although there was a serious lack of acclimatization after landing in the Premier League, which caused the state to plummet, but as a figure who once had a place in Super Depor, there is no doubt about the Uruguayan rifle's scoring ability - it did not give Ledley King a chance to completely block the shooting angle. , Pandiani seized the only gap and immediately chose to hit the goal with his kick!
Pandiani's shot was too hidden, and the ball he shot went straight to the far corner of the goal. When Cech, whose vision was blocked, found the ball and was about to save it, it was already too late!
"Zero to one! What a surprise! Birmingham, who are second to last in the league, actually scored the first goal in the away game, temporarily leading the leader Tottenham Hotspur by one goal!" Seeing this unexpected result, Sky TV's commentator The player was stunned for a moment, and then shouted excitedly, "If Tottenham suffers its first defeat in the league this season in this game, and Chelsea defeats Fulham, then they will have to win in this game." The top spot was given to Chelsea after the round!”
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