After learning about Chelsea's unexpected defeat to Blackburn Rovers, George and the players simply celebrated in the hotel and had no intention of going out for a team-building event. The reason why George suppressed this celebration to a minimum is, on the one hand, because Chelsea still has the last glimmer of theoretical hope of reversing the championship, and celebrating now is a bit like popping champagne at halftime; on the other hand, it is because the heat Tomorrow, Spurs will go to Anfield to compete with Liverpool for a ticket to the FA Cup final. To hold a celebration the night before the game is purely self-destructive.
As for Chelsea's upset defeat to Blackburn, Tottenham, as the beneficiary, did not comment much, but Mourinho, as the sufferer, behaved in a disgraceful manner this time. The Portuguese madman made a shocking statement in an interview with the media after the game, saying that there are many "Manchester United" teams in English football and they have formed a circle of interests. In order for Tottenham, who are also "Manchester United", to successfully defend the Premier League, they act as Tottenham's point-delivery boys while desperately sniping at Chelsea, which seriously affects the justice and fairness of the Premier League!
Naturally, the Premier League Disciplinary Committee would not tolerate Mourinho, who spoke wildly, and immediately issued a fine of 5,000 pounds to the madman and gave him a warning!
"Even if you are desperate, you can't say such things in public." Looking at the various media reports on Mourinho's remarks, George was more or less disappointed with this unscrupulous senior brother. There was some resentment, "It's as if Tottenham defeated Chelsea and won the league championship through off-the-table tricks like relationship goals."
After coaching Manchester United for twenty years, there are naturally not a few people who have been mentored and supported by Sir Alex Ferguson. Now many of them have worked in other clubs as head coaches or in other capacities, thus forming what Mourinho calls the "Manchester United connection" and "network of interests", and many people have indeed mentioned it. Manchester United often gets "special treatment" in domestic competitions, such as the famous "Ferguson Time". But this does not mean that Tottenham, which has a close relationship with Manchester United, has benefited from it, or that Chelsea has lost points that should not have been lost!
Apart from anything else, if Ferguson could really dominate English football, the Premier League would have been like Serie A during this period and the Champions League under Platini in his previous life. There would be no other teams competing for the title. possible?
It is precisely for this reason that Mourinho's remarks about the "Premier League championship conspiracy theory" have little market and supporters, and those who oppose this view have the upper hand.
Think about it, Tottenham not only performed well in the civil war, but their performance in the European competition is also the biggest draw in the Premier League at this time. And what about Chelsea coached by Mourinho? With the heavy support of Abramovich, the Portuguese madman has not even been able to lead the team past the quarterfinals in the past two seasons!
Although this is partly because UEFA deliberately created obstacles for Chelsea when arranging the schedule, it is obviously inappropriate to attribute all the reasons to this - historically, teams have been placed in the death group or faced devilish schedules. There were many who finally stood out. Even Tottenham Hotspur had to defeat strong opponents one after another this season to get to this point. How come you have stretched your hips when you come to Chelsea?
On April 23, the FA Cup semi-final between Tottenham and Liverpool was held as scheduled at Anfield. Facing Liverpool, who were going all out to advance to the final, Tottenham, who had rotated most of their main lineup, were so suppressed in the first half that it was almost difficult to break into the home team's penalty area, let alone threaten the opponent's goal.
However, although Liverpool had the advantage on the field, they were always in an embarrassing state of not scoring. Cech, who had almost nothing to do in front of the goal three days ago, finally found an opportunity to show off his skills: Czech Republic The goalkeeper resisted in the first half and blocked many shots from Liverpool players!
George's move to poach Gerrard last summer made Liverpool's already lackluster offensive system even worse this season. Crouch, Cisse, Morientes and other forwards are becoming more famous than each other, but their combined number of goals this season is not as good as Klose alone. I have to say, this is indeed quite ironic.
"It's such a waste of money. I really don't know what this guy Benitez is doing." Seeing Crouch barely taking a kick under Phil Neville's close pressure and still ending up missing the goal, George finally couldn't bear it. Someone who lived on the sidelines complained about this colleague, "Obviously Kewell and Luis Garcia both have strong scoring abilities, but he always wants the center to complete all the scoring tasks."
In George's view, although Liverpool's lineup is not as top-notch as Tottenham, it definitely should not perform so poorly on the offensive end.
They both have a 4-2-3-1 formation, but this Liverpool team is very different from the Valencia team under Benitez in the composition of the midfield and frontcourt: Hamann and Mohamed Sissoko. The double defensive midfielder formed by them cannot match the offensive and defensive capabilities of Baraja and Albelda. Kewell and Luis Garcia are on the same level as Vicente and Angulo, but Basturk and Aimar, as well as Morientes/Crouch and Mista, they are not players of the same style at all!
With players like Luis Garcia and Kewell on the wings who can make sudden passes and solve scoring problems on their own, and Crouch on the front who is extremely suitable as the hub of the frontcourt attack, Bayley Niites actually didn't think about how to tailor tactics for Liverpool according to local conditions, and thought about applying his "successful experience" in Valencia all day long. It is really a stupid thing to do.
As time went by, the Liverpool players, who had been unable to attack for a long time, became more and more impatient emotionally. Tottenham's posture of shrinking defense across the board also made them become lax on the defensive end. When these two points come together, the balance of victory will naturally tilt to the other side.
In the 89th minute of the game, Mohamed Sissoko gave Tottenham a corner kick with a careless clearance. Later, Larsson, who came on as a substitute, headed Mendieta's corner kick into the Liverpool gate before Carragher! One to zero!
Although Liverpool players tried to equalize the score after the restart, their weak offense was unable to break Cech's fingers in the extremely limited time!
In this way, with Swedish veteran Larsson's golden goal at the last moment, Tottenham struggled to overcome Liverpool's difficulties and successfully advanced to the FA Cup final!
After defeating Liverpool with difficulty and advancing to the FA Cup final, George ignored his physical and mental exhaustion and led the team back to London non-stop to prepare for the second round against Arsenal!
