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Chapter 203: Victory

"These guys are really annoying. Don't they feel tired?" Once again, he threw the ball away under the attack of Evra and Kompani. Camoranesi quickly stabilized his body and turned the direction. While returning to the defense, he thought depressedly, "I maintained such a high-intensity defense throughout the game, but I still had no physical problems. What did they eat to grow up?!"

No wonder Camoranesi had such a question. You should know that in Serie A, Juventus' physical fitness and athletic ability are already the most outstanding in Italy. Many teams with similar strength as the Zebras have returned due to this reason. Now, Tottenham can actually beat Juventus in this regard. How can this not surprise Camoranesi and the others?

To be honest, it is not surprising that such a situation occurs. You should know that among the players Juventus played today, only Buffon, Zebina and De Jong were under the age of 26 (the first two were just under the upper limit), while Tottenham had as many as ten people!

Therefore, although Tottenham players suffered a certain loss due to lack of experience and gave Juventus many free kicks with good positions in the game, their age advantage also gave Tottenham more initiative in physical fitness. Especially in this kind of bayonet-like grinding battle, the longer the game is, the deeper the game is, the more obvious the advantages of Tottenham players will be. Because in this attrition battle, Juventus, who is obviously older on the average, cannot keep up with the physical recovery of Tottenham players!

In this way, the lack of experience in Tottenham players in game is compensated to the greatest extent - so what if the opponent has richer experience than us? If you don’t have enough physical strength to perform the corresponding tactics, no matter how powerful the team on the books is, it will be just a paper tiger!

After realizing that his strongest point was completely restrained by his opponent and was unable to start the situation on the offensive end, as time went by, Juventus players couldn't help but act more impatient on the court - although they had defeated Ajax in the group stage, don't forget that this Eredivisie can almost be said to be the weakest team in the entire group. Therefore, if Juventus wants to qualify from this death group, it must ensure that the other two teams in the same group, namely Tottenham and Bayern, will achieve excellent results. Otherwise, what is waiting for Juventus in the end will probably not be a perfect result.

Therefore, it is natural that Juventus players become impatient when they are unable to score goals and have less and less time left.

However, at this time, the disadvantages hidden by Juventus's team building strategy that attaches too much importance to strength and physical fitness began to gradually emerge - Lippi transformed Nedved, who was the left forward, into a front midfielder, and made the Czech Ironman the new core of the Zebras' Legion. It was indeed a genius move. Not only did Juventus, who had lost Zidane, gained a team soul in a blink of an eye, but also won Nedved to the height of the European Golden Ball Award. However, the Silver Fox's transformation of Nedved also seriously weakened the creativity of the Zebras' Legion!

Originally, Juventus could still rely on Pierro's aura to make up for the shortcomings in this regard, but after Capello coached and reduced Pierro's position in the team again and again, and Ibrahimovic failed to join Juventus like he did in his previous life, the Zebras' creativity on the court has fallen to the lowest point in recent years!

The chances of bravery are desirable. If you lack explosive power in the game, you will not be easily defeated by your opponent. However, it will be difficult to win back the score once you fall behind. This is the biggest problem facing Juventus now!

For example, now, after Pierro came out, Juventus' offensive looks quite fierce, but most of the passes are too average. Few can kill Tottenham's defense line with one blow, or transfer the opponent's passing in a large scale. This has led to Juventus having to choose to face the hard bridge and hard horse head-on. After Trezeguet was stared to death, he could only threaten the goal guarded by Cech by Nedved and others!

Although Nedved's powerful shot in the last moment caused Cech to take off his hand and created Juventus' best scoring opportunity in this game, unfortunately, Trezeguet in the penalty area was blocked by Ridley King with his body and failed to follow up and shoot in the first time. He could only watch Vidic, who returned to defense, cleared the ball out of the penalty area with a big foot!

After Trezeguet wasted this excellent opportunity to equalize the score, Merck did not give Juventus another chance to make up for the loss, and directly blew the whistle in his mouth, ending this extremely fierce minting battle!

In this way, when Merck announced the official end of the game with two long and one short whistle, the Alp Stadium instantly became a place for more than 3,000 Tottenham fans to celebrate their victory. After a full ninety minutes of fierce battle, with Drogba's wonderful personal performance in the first half, Tottenham Hotspur was not optimistic before the game and unexpectedly beat Juventus away, winning a vital victory for them!

However, for George, although the victory against Juventus allowed Tottenham to take a considerable initiative in the battle for the group qualifying place, Tottenham also paid a considerable price for it - Drogba, Kompany, Mascherano, Evra, Vidic and Carl. In this game, Tottenham had a total of six players received yellow cards! If Merck had not shown mercy later and deliberately reduced the number of cards he took when he called fouls in the second half of the game, I am afraid that by the end of the game, Tottenham would have to play nine players left on the court!

Of course, Juventus has no reason to accuse Tottenham of being too rough on the court, because they are not much better. Emerson, De Jong, Nedved and Camoranesi each received a yellow card, plus Cannavaro, Zebina and Brasi who came on the bench, in terms of the number of yellow cards, the Zebras even had one more card than Tottenham!

This shows how frequently the physical confrontation between Tottenham and Juventus in the Champions League group stage today, and how intense the game is!

Although these yellow cards will not cause too much trouble to Tottenham's third round group stage with Ajax, if the number of yellow cards is not properly controlled and some players have accumulated yellow cards suspended, it is very likely that it will cause considerable trouble to Tottenham's future games. Not to mention, three days later, Tottenham, who had just fought with Juventus for 90 minutes, will go to Goodison Park Stadium and compete with Everton, who is coached by Moyes!

So, in George's view, although Tottenham completed all the goals set before the game in this group match at Alp Stadium today, he only won a miserable victory!
Chapter completed!
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