Avran Grant stood in the command area of ​​the home team coach's seat at Stamford Bridge Stadium, looked up and saw the scene of the two sides arriving at Stamford Bridge Stadium on the big screen.

That was what happened half an hour ago, and he led the Chelsea players into the team bus and into the Stamford Bridge.

He was Chelsea's head coach, and at that moment, he was very much in the eye.

Being a technical director and being a head coach are two completely different options. The pressure you face is completely different. When the head coach faces far exceeds the former, especially when you are before some key important games arrive, the pressure is even enough to drive you crazy.

Tonight is against Chelsea's city rival Tottenham Hotspur and Ye Qiu's team

Since Tottenham Hotspur last season, at Stamford Bridge, under the noses of tens of thousands of Chelsea fans, his team reversed Chelsea and gave Manchester United the championship throne that the Blues had already won to Manchester United. This is definitely a great shame for all Chelsea fans.

Maybe some people didn't notice it, but Avran Grant saw it clearly. One of the important reasons for Mourinho's dismissal is that he failed to win four consecutive championships, especially in the most critical game, he lost to Tottenham Hotspur at home, especially Ye Qiu's team.

It can be said that from that moment on, Abramovich no longer trusted Mourinho's coaching ability. At the beginning of this season, Mourinho's leadership performance was not good, and it became natural for the Russians to directly announce Mourinho's dismissal.

For Abramovich today, Ye Qiu is a taboo. He even compares all Chelsea coaches with Ye Qiu involuntarily. Since then, every season's game against Tottenham Hotspur will be the most important game for all Chelsea coaches, and it is also a game that must not be lost.

Avran Grant sees it clearly that playing Tottenham Hotspur may affect whether he can change from a firefighting head coach to a formal head coach. If he can beat Tottenham Hotspur in this game, after the end of the season, what awaits him should be a thick formal contract.

But it is not easy to defeat Ye Qiu. The team's offensive ability is a big test for all opponents. Sometimes Avran Grant even has to admire Ye Qiu. After selling Van Nistrue this season, Tottenham's offense not only did not decline, but instead improved a lot.

Tottenham fans are most proud of now. Even many journalists and media like Tottenham Hotspurs is that even though this North London team has not won the league championship for nearly half a century, they just like the team's changes in the style of playing in the past year.

In the eyes of many traditional Tottenham fans, this is the recovery of the club's traditional style of play, because before Arsenal and the Liverpool team in the late 1990s, the best-looking Premier League style was Tottenham Hotspur.

After entering the UR year, Tottenham Hotspur had a good result, defeating Aston Villa in the 21st round, and then played as a substitute and youth team lineup in the third round of the FA Cup knockout. L defeated Reading at home, but in the 8th League Cup semi-finals, L was tied by Arsenal at home.

Chelsea's performance was also good. They defeated their city rival Fulham away in the 21st round, and the FA Cup was Uj Sex Queen Park Rangers. Later, they defeated Moyes' Everton at home in the League Cup semi-finals, and the possibility of entering the finals is very high.

But Avran Grant still dared not be careless. One very important reason is that Ye Qiu has kept his strength in the FA Cup and League Cup games, and the main lineup is rotating, which is obviously adjusting his physical fitness, because they will usher in the fifth round of the match against Fulham in the middle of the week, and face Sunderland led by Roy Keane in the 23rd round again.

All three games were tough battles, so Ye Qiu had a large rotation in the FA Cup and the League Cup, and even arranged youth teams to play. Moreover, Tottenham Hotspurs only had one player to participate in the African Cup, Yaya Toure, but there were four players absent from Chelsea, namely Drogba, Essin, Kalu and Mikel.

Whether it is the strength of players participating in the African Cup or the importance to the team, Chelsea's losses are obviously greater, because in the midfield where Yaya Toure is located, Tottenham Hotspur, Mascherano, Lucas, Modric, and even young player Aaron Ramsey can play, but the impact is not very big.

Because of this, when Afran Grant formulated his tactics in this game, he decided to adopt a defensive counterattack strategy, even if it was Stamford Bridge Stadium, because he had enough confidence in Chelsea's defense.

But even if he had confidence, he still seemed very nervous and uneasy, because this game was too important to him. It was so important that he made sufficient preparations from the selection of players in every position in the starting lineup to the targeted tactics during the game, striving to completely defeat Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge Stadium, increase his influence in Abramovich's mind, and at least make him confident in his coaching ability.

Power, fame and fortune and women are the three hurdles that no man can escape. Their most fatal thing is not to constantly tempt you, but to the fact that when you taste their sweetness, you will find that you are no longer willing to give up.

Avran Grant now has only one idea, that is, stay at Stamford Bridge

Even if it is a away game, Tottenham Hotspur's main lineup is still mainly offensive.

The goalkeeper is Peter Cech, the defense is Marcelo, Hangland, Thiago Silva and Alves, and the midfield is Mascherano dragged behind, Modric and Fabregas are ahead, and the trident in the frontcourt has not changed, and it is still Ribery, Van Persie and Messi. Except for Beckham and Vargas who are absent due to injury, all the other main players are on the table.

Chelsea has been affected by the African Cup, with the goalkeeper Cudicini. Since Mourinho was dismissed, Hilario has been thrown into the cold palace. The defense is Ashley Cole, Carvalho, Terry and Beletti, the midfield double midfielder Barack and Marklele, the frontcourt are Maluda, Joe Cole, Anelka, and the single striker is Peruvian forward Pizarro.

Anelka is the winter break this year. Chelsea's forward introduced by Bolton, hoping to strengthen the team's frontcourt attack power, while Avran Grant tried to pull him sideways.

Ye Qiu clearly knew the advantages and disadvantages between Tottenham and Chelsea. Tottenham Hotspur is good at attacking but not defending, while Chelsea is very strong in defense, but the offense has encountered some trouble. But the problem is that with Drogba and Kalu absent, Chelsea's offensive threat has declined a lot, and in terms of defense, Essin and Mikel are also affected.

No one knows the role of Essim better than Ye Qiu. Without Essim, the two veterans Barack and Marklele could not fill the hole in the midfield at all. Joe Kerr and Anelka made very little contribution in defense, which led Tottenham Hotspur to formulate a away strong attack tactic from the beginning.

So after the start, Tottenham Hotspur actively attacked, and amid the booing of fans at Stamford Bridge Stadium, the home team kept playing. Even Andy Grey, the commentator of Sky TV station, who was responsible for the game commentary, joked that after thirteen minutes of the game, Cech had not been seen yet.

It was not until the 17th minute that Cech appeared in the live TV camera, but when Chelsea's attack entered Tottenham's penalty area, it was firmly held by Cech who attacked in advance, and then launched a fast attack. Ribery got the ball on the left and dribbled the ball and cut in, and handed it to Van Persie, who passed the diagonally to the right side of the penalty area.

Messi quickly inserted, attracting Ashley Cole to the near-bottom line, knocking back Alves, the Brazilian dribbled the ball and cut inside, and shot hard with his right foot, directly breaking through Cudicini's goal, 0

After scoring the goal, Tottenham Hotspur obviously played smarter, took the initiative to retract and gave up more control, which was a bit like waving to Chelsea, signaling that they should attack more and please Chelsea fans at home.

Chelsea did have this idea at first, but Tottenham's two attacks easily ripped open their defense.

Once, Fabregas made a precise pass through the ball in the midfield. Van Persie stopped the ball and turned around to sprint, but the ball stopped a bit too much. In addition, Terry's disturbance made him slow to chase the ball closely behind for about half a second, and closed in front of Cudicini who was attacking, and finally missed an offensive opportunity.

Then Messi dribbled the ball from the right and saw Cudicini standing in front, and directly shot a left-footed arc ball, hitting the left post, almost scoring again.

The two attacks made Chelsea tremble. Grant quickly asked the players to stabilize the situation and strive to ensure the quality of the defense first, and then plot against and attack. However, Tottenham Hotspur's midfielder was less than Essin, a messenger. Fabregas and Modric both got a very relaxed space to play. The two cooperated together, Tottenham Hotspur's midfield operation was very smooth, launching wave after wave of attacks, while Chelsea retreated step by step.

Even when the midfield substitution was substituted, Grant failed to come up with an effective way to reverse the situation. Instead, in the 71st minute, Chelsea's players' physical fitness dropped significantly. After Messi cooperated with Alves on the right, the Argentine passed the ball diagonally on the right side of the penalty area on the left side, Ribery quickly inserted and pushed the ball into the penalty area to score, 0

It was also after this that Grant's substitution was late, and he replaced Wright Phillips with Sidwell and Maluda with Bridge. They were all substitutions that strengthened their defense, which also made the Israelis booed the whole game with dissatisfaction from Chelsea fans because such substitutions lacked in ambition.

But the problem is that Tottenham Hotspur's offensive has not weakened at all in the final stage. If the substitutions continue to strengthen the defense, as the players' physical fitness declines, they will be scored sooner or later.

In the end, Tottenham Hotspur beat Chelsea 0 away with goals from Alves and Ribery.

Ye Qiu said in an interview with reporters after the game that he was able to beat Chelsea away, but he also politely said that the reason why Chelsea lost was mainly affected by the African Cup, especially Drogba and Essin.

Don't underestimate the role of these two players in the team's tactics. Without Drogba, Chelsea's offense will be a little inaccessible and lose a very important means of propulsion. Without Essim, the coverage and pressing intensity of the midfield have dropped a lot. It is difficult for two veterans, Marklele and Barack, to put enough pressure on Tottenham Hotspur's midfield.

Ye Qiu certainly would not say that this is Afran Grant's problem, such as why not go to Deco? Also, he has not seemed to have considered whether the midfield pressing and oppression of Chelsea will have an impact on this issue.

It can be said that his arrangement of troops was also a very important reason for losing this game.

But if Ye Qiu doesn't say it, it doesn't mean that the reporters and media and fans don't understand it. Nowadays, journalists and media seem to understand the ball better than many head coaches. They are the real masters of understanding the ball. Many fans directly exclaimed their anger at the head coach after losing. After all, it has become the norm to find trouble for the head coach after losing.

After retiring from Stamford Bridge Stadium, Tottenham Hotspur's ranking officially reversed Chelsea and ranked third in the Premier League. In the fifth round of the mid-week make-up match, the West London team suffered a three-game losing streak in the Premier League in recent times.

In this way, Tottenham Hotspur scored 49 points with an outstanding record of 15 wins, four draws and three losses in 22 rounds, surpassing Chelsea for 44 points, and sat firmly in the third place in the league. Manchester United and Arsenal, who had the same points as the top two leagues, were only two points away. They were both fifty-one points. Among them, Manchester United defeated Arsenal with the advantage of goal difference and successfully ranked as the league leader.

The situation is turning around. Although Tottenham Hotspur has performed poorly before the Christmas schedule, it has once again caught up with the league leader by relying on two rounds of supplementary matches, the Christmas schedule and subsequent winter break.

As many media have analyzed, the two-point gap is not impossible for Tottenham Hotspur. On the contrary, with its outstanding performance after the winter break, Tottenham Hotspur is completely possible to reverse.

But there are also many worries. For example, Tottenham Hotspur has also entered the knockout stage in the Champions League, and has not been eliminated in the FA Cup and League Cup. The four-line battle really makes many people worry about their multi-line combat capabilities.

By the weekend, Tottenham Hotspur still played with its main lineup, defeating Sunderland 0 at home, avenging the unpopularity in the first round of the season, and after the game, Keane praised it hard.

The former Manchester United captain said in an interview with the media, "The favorites to win the championship this season are Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur. As for Arsenal, I am not optimistic about this team because they always perform poorly in the second half. For example, Manchester United has now taken away the lead position, and soon, they will be the second place in the league.

"Ye Qiu's transformation of Tottenham Hotspur was very successful. From the second half of last season, they were the most competitive teams in the Premier League. By this season, they can even be said to be one of the strongest teams in the Premier League. If by the end of the season, they will eventually win the first Premier League championship in the team's history, I would not be surprised."

But it was Keane's praise that made Tottenham Hotspur eliminated by Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.

In this game, Ye Qiu still played with a lineup mainly based on substitutes and youth team players, but Arsenal clearly aimed to win the championship, changing the embarrassing situation of being empty last season, so Wenger issued a kill order in this game.

Tottenham Hotspur performed well in the away game, but was defeated by Arsenal and missed the final

But despite this, this group of young players in Tottenham Hotspur team still won praise and recognition, especially Aaron Ramsey, Eden Hazard and Kyle Walker, who were highly valued by Ye Qiu this season. These three young players have already played as the main players in the League Cup and the FA Cup and performed well.

Losing to Arsenal and being eliminated from the League Cup, this obviously did not affect Tottenham's outstanding performance in the Premier League for this period. In the FA Cup game on the weekend, Tottenham Hotspur continued to arrange the main lineup to rest with the purpose of training substitutes and youth team players, but still defeated Coventry 4l away and successfully entered the next round.

Back in the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspurs played away with Everton and continued to keep his third place in the league.

Arsenal and Manchester United have performed well recently, basically maintaining the advantage of two points against Tottenham Hotspur. Although Chelsea has come out of the shadow of losing, they are still five points behind Tottenham Hotspur and ranked fourth. On the contrary, Liverpool has lost several points recently and is currently two points behind Chelsea.

With his winning streak in January, Ye Qiu won the second best coach of the month this season, and Ribery also won the honor of Player of the Month, but it seems that the curse of the best coach of the month has come again, and Tottenham lost to Manchester United 0l again in his first game in February.

This made Tottenham feel humiliated. The team performed very hard and had an advantage. Even Manchester United played very passively throughout the game. Whether from the scene or from the data, Tottenham has enough advantages, but with Tevez's goal in the 94th minute of stoppage time in the critical moment, he created a final kill.

After the game, even Ferguson felt lucky. This old guy was able to take away three-pointers with a thrilling away game, smiling from ear to ear, just like picking up a treasure when he went out.
Chapter completed!