Chapter 204: Create a Record
Although Tottenham had beaten Bayern Munich in the group stage, everyone knows that although both Bayern and Juventus are holding the golden signs of top giants, the strength of the two teams is actually not at the same level. Bayern Munich is no longer the Bundesliga three years ago, and the King's Team, who entered the Champions League finals twice within three years, fell to the end of the top giants' sequence; while Juventus rose strongly under the leadership of Capello and stood at the forefront of this rank again!
Therefore, once the news that Tottenham defeated Juventus with one goal at the Alp Stadium and achieved two consecutive victories in the Champions League group stage came out, it naturally caused quite a stir in European football.
For Tottenham, their performance during this period can be said to be extremely outstanding - they achieved three wins and one draw in four strong dialogues. Bayern, Manchester United and Juventus all became Tottenham's souls under the knife, ranking first in the league and group standings. So, if anyone dares to say that Tottenham is not a strong team at this time, it is really lying.
As Tottenham defeated Bayern Munich and Juventus in the Champions League field, and ranked in the C Group C list with a record of winning both games without losing one goal, more and more people have begun to pay attention to this team that has risen strongly under the leadership of George Nelson, and regard it as a strong team that can compete with top giants such as Juventus!
At this point, George’s goal of establishing a strong Tottenham team in the hearts of the fans with his outstanding performance in the Champions League has been initially achieved. Next, George’s task is to allow Tottenham to maintain such performance in the Champions League, so that this image can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and lay a solid foundation for Tottenham’s top giants!
After defeating Juventus away, Tottenham Hotspur's first devilish schedule this season also ended. Next, they will shift their focus to the domestic arena and continue to compete with Arsenal as the leader of the league!
However, although Tottenham's opponents in this round of the league are not as famous as Juventus and Bayern, they are also difficult to deal with. With Moyes' hard work, Everton finally got rid of the hat of a weak team this season. He is currently ranked fourth in the standings with five wins, one draw and one loss, and only three points behind Tottenham and Arsenal, who are on the list!
So, if Tottenham players relax their guard against Everton because of their outstanding performance in the Devil's schedule, then their chances of capsizing in this game will undoubtedly become quite high!
Perhaps because the mid-week Champions League game was too expensive, in the eighth round of England played on January 2, Tottenham players who were visiting Goodison Park Stadium always gave people a feeling of being out of shape. Even if George adopted a rotation strategy in this game, it would be useless to make a significant adjustment to the lineup.
Mendeta, who serves as the core of the organization, is mediocre under the joint strangle of Gravison and Tim Cahill. Although Davis and Speed are active enough, they are also powerless when facing the lively Everton players. You should know that Davis and Speed not only need to undertake the task of escorting Mendeta in this game, but also have to protect the middle defense line composed of two young players, Michael Dawson and Vermullen. In the case of extremely difficult defensive tasks, the support they can give to Tottenham on the offensive end will naturally become very small.
George has no good idea about this, so he can only hope that Virmulen and Dawson can grow up as soon as possible. Even if they do not reach the height of a first-class central defender in the short term, they must at least be able to withstand the impact of a striker like Duncan Ferguson, rather than always asking Davis and the others to help defend.
In this way, facing Everton, who was in full swing, and morale, Tottenham finally shook hands with the Toffees (Everton's nickname) after a hard battle, ending the game with a score of zero to zero!
After having a second draw with Everton in the new season, the competition for the leader between Tottenham and Arsenal, which started at the beginning of the season, has come to an end. In another game that ended at the same time, Arsenal, who was at the Highbury Stadium, swept the visiting Charlton with four goals, and Tottenham led the standings with a two-point advantage!
Even so, Tottenham fans did not feel too frustrated or blamed the team for their performance. After all, unlike Tottenham who was drawn into the death group, Arsenal can be said to be a small view of all the mountains in the e group. Rosenberg and Panasinacos in the same group have no ability to stop this peak Gunners. Although Eindhoven, coached by Hiddink, has this ability, his strength in the e group is second only to Arsenal. The goal is to get a qualification for qualifying and they do not have to fight with the Gunners. This leads to Wenger being able to devote more energy to the league battlefield, rather than to establish a club image, who has to fight with Juventus and Bayern in the Champions League in order to establish a club image.
Not to mention, Arsenal is also quite advantageous in the league schedule. Compared with Tottenham, which has played against many strong opponents such as Manchester United and Liverpool since the beginning of the season, Arsenal only has Everton as a strong team among the first eight rounds of the league, and the rest are mid- and lower-level clubs such as Norwich, Blackburn, and Middlesbrough. Therefore, for Arsenal to beat Tottenham and take the lead in the standings, many Tottenham fans believe that the Gunners are actually benefiting from the schedule, which simply does not mean that the team's strength is not as good as the Gunners.
Of course, Tottenham fans were able to forget the memory of the team losing their position so quickly that they were extremely depressed. In addition to the above two reasons, the more important reason is that at this moment, they were all attracted by another news, that is, after not losing a goal in the first eight games of the league this season, Tottenham goalkeeper Peter Cech has set a new record!
Including Tottenham's last two league rounds (3-0 wins Blackburn and 2-0 wins Wolves), and the 80-minute time to concede goals against Aston Villa in the third round to the end, Cech has set a horrifying record in the British League that has not conceded goals in ten consecutive games, and has not concedes the goal for a consecutive game of 1,000 minutes (including injury stoppage time)!
Although it is still a short distance from the 11o3-minute English football record set by Reading legendary goalkeeper Stephen Dess in 1979, this does not prevent Cech from becoming the holder of the British League record for continuous goals!
With this record and outstanding performances in Tottenham and the Czech national team, Peter Cech, who was only 22 years old, officially entered the ranks of top goal gods and was qualified to attack the throne of the world's number one goal god!
Chapter completed!