Chapter 368 Fight the Blue Army again!
First, he defeated the defending league champion Chelsea and won the Community Shield Cup, and then won three consecutive victories in the British battlefield. Tottenham's strong performance since the start of the new season shocked the entire English football world!
Originally, people thought that even if Gerald was poached from Liverpool this summer, Spurs, whose bench depth was greatly weakened, had a certain decline in overall strength compared to last season even though he lost many major rotation players such as Basturk, Ribery, Villa, and Kompany. In this way, Tottenham's o5-o6 season will definitely not be as eye-catching as last season. What's more, many people openly declared that Tottenham will repeat the mistakes of Blackburn and return to mediocrity after a short period of glory!
Of course, anyone with a little brain will not agree with this argument. You should know that Blackburn's decline is because he is not enterprising after winning the championship, and he has been selling the team's main players for many years but is unwilling to continue to invest heavily in introducing strong aids. Tottenham does not have this problem. Because if George and Jack Walker (former Blackburn boss, who was also a key figure in Blackburn's competition with Manchester United in the early days of the founding of the UK), then Tottenham would not be able to spend huge sums of money to sign Gerald this summer!
However, reality has shocked those who look down on Tottenham's prospects this season. Faced with numerous doubts, Tottenham players made everyone speechless with a perfect answer!
Although Chelsea and Manchester United, which recruited players in the transfer market, also achieved a perfect start with three consecutive victories and did not lose a goal in the first three rounds of the league, their attack power was still slightly inferior to Tottenham (the league goals were six and seven respectively), so they could only rank third and second in the standings in a frustrated manner.
If someone is still stubborn at this time and insists that the reason why Tottenham can beat Manchester United and Chelsea in the standings is due to the highlight of the schedule, and the three consecutive wins between Manchester United and Chelsea are even more valuable, then the highlight of the next British fourth round will prove whether Tottenham deserves the position of the league leader!
That's right, on August 27, two days after Tottenham and Blackburn's third-round league, Tottenham will usher in its second confrontation with defending champion Chelsea!
George and Tottenham players were quite relaxed about this game against Chelsea. After all, in the Community Shield Final not long ago, they were missing the midfielder Mascherano!
Not to mention, Mascherano has returned now, and Gerrard has begun to gradually adapt to his current role, so Tottenham's defensive intensity has undoubtedly improved several levels compared to the last time he played. Although Chelsea rested most of the main players in the third round two days ago, this is mainly because the Blues just fought hard against Arsenal six days ago, so they are not as good as Tottenham in their competitive state!
If this is the case, it would be fine, Mourinho could find ways to solve these problems one by one. What made the Portuguese madman most distressed is that this season's Tottenham not only was extremely sharp on the offensive end, but also had extremely scattered firepower points - in the previous three rounds of the league, Tottenham broke through the opponent's city gate nine times. These nine goals were scored by nine Tottenham players respectively!
Such dispersed offensive firepower has brought a huge problem to Mourinho, that is, it is difficult for him to make more targeted defensive arrangements against Tottenham's offense!
Every player in Tottenham Hotspur can participate in the offense and score points, which means that Chelsea must not miss any defense. Otherwise, the Blues' goal may be broken by Tottenham due to this negligence!
As for how to crack Tottenham’s defense, Mourinho didn’t have much worry. In his opinion, the offensive trident with Ibrahimovic as the core and the heavy artillery army with Lampard as the main artillery is enough to penetrate Tottenham’s defense!
Since we have broken through Tottenham's goal three times in the Community Shield, we can do this now! Although Mourinho's confidence seems a bit unreasonable, with the talented striker Ibrahimovic, the madman is so confident that he dares to take a gamble!
As long as the goal is possible, you dare to put your bargaining chips. The reason why Mourinho was able to become the "most special one" among fans and the media during this period is because of his unique madman temperament and unparalleled personal charm in the head coaching circle!
Therefore, how to better defend Tottenham's offensive has naturally become the main issue Mourinho has been thinking about these days!
Of course, George would not know what Mourinho was worried about at this moment. After leading the team to defeat Blackburn, George gave the players a day off, so that they could hurry up and restore their physical strength and adjust their state to welcome the battle between the top two days later and Chelsea!
Although they are very relaxed in their mentality and have the advantage in the confrontation record, neither George nor Tottenham players took Chelsea as a strong opponent lightly because of these reasons. If Chelsea is really so easy to deal with, then the team that won the English Championship trophy last season would not be Chelsea, but Tottenham Hotspur!
Sometimes, belittling your opponent is also a disguised person. If your opponent is so powerful, he can't win the championship. Doesn't that mean that you are weaker than your opponent?
What's more, George can be said to know the idea that Mourinho has always wanted to defeat himself and prove that he is the best head coach. In order to avoid being regarded as a stepping stone by Mourinho, George must do his best in this game!
Losing to Mourinho is not a good experience. Everyone in the Portuguese football world knows that George doesn't want to enjoy the treatment of being ridiculed after losing.
At the same time, fans also turned their attention to Tottenham and Chelsea - a strong dialogue like this, and the two sides are the two most popular clubs in European football right now. If they accidentally miss something, they will regret it!
In this way, two days passed quickly. When the calendar finally turned to the page on August 27, fans on both sides could no longer suppress their passion and surrounded the White Hart Lane Stadium early, waiting for the arrival of the two teams outside the court!
Chapter completed!