Chapter 218 The Awakening of the Draw
Looking at Tottenham, the players who just won the North London derby are bound to win this game. However, since Tottenham still has a Champions League game three days later, George had to adopt rotation tactics this weekend, putting substitutes such as Bynes, Mendieta and Darren Anderton on the roster. However, even so, after the game began, Tottenham still took the initiative on the court with his superior technical and tactical qualities, and defeated Aston Villa, who played at home, to retreat!
In the eleventh minute, Davis made a straight pass near the middle circle of the court. Ribery, who cut in from the left, made a textbook-like diagonal pass with Klose after receiving the ball. The latter, who successfully counterattacked, kept the ball and shot directly. The ball hit the net, one to zero!
Although Aston Villa, who had a bad start, had a fierce counterattack in the following time, Tottenham's carefully crafted defense line by Allegri could easily break through - if they knew to seek cooperation, there might be a big chance, but unfortunately, all the forwards on the court were the ones who only knew to fight alone in the frontcourt, which made it difficult for Aston Villa's attack to break into Tottenham's penalty area and could not pose too much threat to the goal guarded by Cech.
Seeing that his attack failed to achieve the expected results, Tottenham almost seized the opportunity to further expand the score. O'Reilly (Aston Villa coach) who was afraid of the game had to change his style of play, so that the players could increase the frequency of breakthroughs, and try to use the frontcourt set pieces to threaten Tottenham's club. However, the facts proved that O'Reilly's adjustment also had little effect - Davis and Speed, who had rich game experience, would not foul in dangerous positions at all. Under their words and deeds, Dawson and Vermullen were also careful to play 12 points and would never give Aston Villa a chance to have a free kick in the frontcourt.
However, just as the game was about to end and people thought Tottenham would win another victory, German midfielder Hitzelsperg stepped forward. He suddenly kicked his feet 30 meters away from the goal and blasted Cech's ten fingers with a heavy cannon, tied the score one-to-one!
Although Cech was focused enough and he also judged the direction of the ball flying correctly, the ball was too fast (it was estimated that Hizelsperger's long shot was as high as 12o kilometers). The Czech goalkeeper was still unable to turn the sky back and could only watch Aston Villa relying on the German world wave to escape at the last moment!
In this way, Tottenham took away a point from Villa Park Stadium with great regret and got the second draw on the league this season!
The result of being tied by Aston Villa at the last moment reminded George, making him realize that as Cech's continuous goal-lossing record was ended by Arsenal, Tottenham players certainly removed a lot of psychological burdens, but it also made other teams realize that Tottenham's defense was not as indestructible as they imagined, giving them the confidence to take risks and attack. Otherwise, Hittspelg would not dare to directly attack from that distance!
The most important thing is that as time goes by and the season goes deeper and has a nearly perfect start, the players have also begun to show signs of falling back from the beginning of the season to the present. This also means that in the coming time, Tottenham will face even more difficult challenges!
However, what made Tottenham feel quite grateful that in another game played at the same time, Chelsea, who was at Stamford Bridge Stadium, lost a good game while leading two goals. Bolton seized two opportunities to set the ball in the frontcourt to tie the score. In the end, he shook hands with Bolton two to make peace, missing a great opportunity to narrow the gap with Tottenham!
Chapter completed!