The game was just fifteen minutes into the beginning of the game, and this situation was undoubtedly a big blow to Newcastle players. You should know that not long ago, they were confident that they had the opportunity to defeat Tottenham Hotspur with the help of home games and win the league victory in the new season!

Now, judging from the start of the game to the concealment of the ball, Newcastle players' performance on the court, their idea is undoubtedly a delusion!

If Newcastle is still the team coached by Robson, who focuses on technology and cross-cutting between players, then they may still have a glimmer of life who was completely at a disadvantage in the scene before. However, Sones is a staunch supporter of the traditional British 4-4-2 parallel position and long passes. His simple and crude tactical style cannot allow Newcastle to defeat those opponents whose overall strength is better than theirs!

This is another reason why George looked down on Sones. This old-fashioned guy not only ruined the hard work of old Robson in the shortest time, but also did not recognize the trend of modern football at all. He naively thought that his outdated tactics could succeed in Newcastle!

You should know that as football tactics are becoming more and more refined, even defensive counterattacks have become completely different from before. The ball's transmission and counterattack progress are more than before. Under this general trend, Sones still insists on using the long pass and rushing style twenty years ago and refuses to make any improvements to this tactic with the times. Newcastle's decline is naturally inevitable.

"George, I think you can consider it and let Davis be the main player and Alonso play the midfielder?" Just as Newcastle players were in a daze because of this loss of the ball, on the other hand, Old Charlie, who was watching the players celebrate the goal on the bench, made a suggestion to George, "I feel that if they were allowed to form the iron triangle of the midfield with Mascherano, the team's strength should be stronger than Bastulk on the court and the results would be better!"

"Charlie, your idea is indeed good, but don't forget that Edgar (Davis) is already a 31-year-old veteran. A midfielder like him, it's hard to say how long he can be at his peak at this age. Letting him replace Bastulk as the main midfielder may effectively improve the team's strength and performance for a period of time, but once Edgar suddenly falls in a critical moment of the season, the blow to Tottenham will be devastating."

Although George was a little moved about Old Charlie's suggestion, after careful consideration, he chose to give up this plan. Compared with the benefits that can bring to Davis as the main force, the possible harm of this change is really unbearable for George.

What's more, Bastulk is not a mediocre person. The Turks can complement Alonso on the court. Moreover, Mendeta also needs a defensive tough guy like Davis to relieve his defensive pressure - unlike Xavi Alonso who can play high standards at both offense and defense, Mendeta must give him the greatest freedom if he wants to play all his talents. In this way, the defensive tasks on others will become quite difficult, and Bastulk is obviously impossible to undertake such heavy defensive work.

Therefore, after some measurement, George also rejected the proposal of Charlie Old and insisted on implementing the original plan. That is, to arrange the positions of Bastulk and Davis based on actual needs and their respective competitive states. Doing so will not only strengthen the sense of crisis in Davis and Bastulk's hearts, prevent them from slacking off in training, but also make other players familiar with the feeling of playing football with the two, so as not to decline in the lineup adjustment relationship after Davis's state.

Now let's get back to the topic, let's turn our attention back to the court. After the game started again, Newcastle players who were behind in the scores were in a dilemma - some players wanted to counterattack and equalize the score as soon as possible; the other people believed that the defense line should be stabilized first and the opponent could not be allowed to get the opportunity to shoot at the front of the penalty area so easily. The inconsistency between the two groups of people's ideas was directly reflected in their performance on the court!

Logically speaking, Sones, as the team's head coach, should stand up and give instructions to unify the players' thoughts and prevent the team from deteriorating further on the court. However, the Scots did not take any action, but frowned on the sidelines, as if thinking about some world-class problems.

Taking advantage of your illness, the Tottenham players may not have heard this saying, but this does not prevent them from seizing the opportunity of Newcastle players' inconsistent thinking and serious disconnection between the three lines!

In the 21st minute of the game, Jenas forced a ball to break through, trying to tear a hole from the middle to hit Huanglong. His risky move naturally ended in failure. Facing Tottenham's midfield trio, even a breakthrough expert at Kaka and Ronaldo's level would not dare to say that he could successfully fight alone, let alone Jenas, a second-rate rookie?

After breaking the ball under Jenas's feet, Davis immediately passed the ball to Alonso in the left front, sounding the horn of counterattack. The latter once again showed his outstanding overall view and excellent passing vision - a slight pass that made a huge pass not only allowed the ball to cross over the heads of Nicky Bart, Bramble and others, but directly penetrated Newcastle's entire middle defense line, but also pointed out the Magpie's life goal!

Faced with Alonso's sudden pass, Bramble and Boomsson, who were staring at Klose in front of him, had no time to turn around and return to defense. The middle defense line formed by the two was easily torn to pieces!

A textbook-like direct pass and oblique interception cooperation allowed Ronaldo, who had successfully offside, to receive Alonso's pass from this dangerous position. The Portuguese, who formed a single-strike force, dribbled the ball over Jiwen who abandoned the goal, and then pushed the ball into the empty goal with his right foot, scored 2-0!

Just six minutes after Ronaldo opened his goal account, Tottenham players made a comeback again. Ribery and Alonso played two consecutive games on the left and one-on-one match, and after breaking through the defense of Nicky Bart and O'Brien, the former dribbled the ball into the penalty area. After breaking into the penalty area, Ribery decisively shot the goal with his left foot!

Although Shay Given is not among the top goalkeepers in terms of strength, he once entered the quarterfinals of the South Korean and Japanese World Cup with the Irish national team, and he was also at the top of the first-line level among the British goalkeepers. Although Ribery's cold shot was sudden enough, and his degree and angle were quite tricky, he still successfully blocked the ball out of the goal with a beautiful fall save!

However, before the Newcastle fans in the stands breathed a sigh of relief, Klose slapped the ball to get the chance, and then kicked the ball that Jiwen had just saved into the goal, three to zero!

Within half an hour, the Newcastle players were completely disorganized. The Tottenham players took the opportunity to take advantage of a corner kick attack in the 33rd minute to head the ball and rewrite the score to four-to-zero!

In this way, before the first half was over, Tottenham Hotspur established a four-goal lead, and a bloody massacre was in its infancy!
Chapter completed!