After defeating Charlton with a small goal at home, Tottenham's record in the British League this season also turned into an astonishing eleven wins and one draw, leading Chelsea, who ranked second in the standings with a score of 34 points. As for defending champion Arsenal, the Gunners, who have not won one victory in the last three rounds of the league, are now seven points behind the leader!

The reason why Tottenham has led Arsenal, which had been on par with them after just three rounds, is mainly because after losing to Manchester United, the mentality of Arsenal players was seriously affected. In addition, both the FA and the British League were both angry that Wenger was speaking at the post-match conference, and the previous news that Arsenal players evaded tax by signing real and fake contracts, all indirectly affected the referee's penalty standard for Arsenal games, resulting in the Gunners' draws on two consecutive games on the league battlefield, which not only further widened the points gap with Tottenham, but also gave Chelsea the second place in the standings!

(Note: Arsenal veteran Ray Parrol was careless in the divorce dispute with his ex-wife and accidentally submitted information with his real personal income to the court. It turned out that his salary income at Arsenal was much higher than the published figures. Then the British media and judicial departments followed the clues and pulled out the radish and brought out the mud. It turned out that Parrol was not an isolated case. From the Arsenal coaching staff to the players, there was a phenomenon of signing real and fake contracts to evade taxes. This collective tax evasion incident caused a serious blow to Arsenal's image, making the Gunners very passive in public opinion, and also made Arsenal a thorn in the eyes of the British judicial department.)

For Arsenal, which advocates technical flow, the impact of the referees' changes in the judgment scale on them is self-evident. Even if the referees have no bias when making a judgment, just relaxing the whistle a little is enough to let Arsenal drink a little.

However, George is not in the mood to watch jokes about his mortal enemy in the city now. Because at this time, the negative impact of the two matches for a week on Tottenham has finally begun to appear!

Although Tottenham has become one of the best teams with the bench depth of the UK under George's careful operation, even so, the players will still seem a little overwhelmed in the face of multi-line combat.

For example, now, in this fourth round of the League Cup with Middlesbrough, George deeply realized this. Although he performed a large-scale rotation of the lineup to ensure that the players' physical strength will not be problematic, even if the players' physical fatigue can be relieved through rotation, psychological fatigue is inevitable.

No matter how many fans criticized McLaren for missing the 2018 European Cup in the previous life, they wanted to eat his meat. However, during Middlesbrough coaching, McLaren's performance and achievements were indeed the best in England's local coaches.

Although the results of a League Cup champion and a League Cup runner-up are not very impressive for most famous head coaches, for the English coaching industry who was not young in the past, McLaren, now 43, can be regarded as the most capable of the younger generation of England coaches at that time. Of course, in this life, after Robson retired, George, who had a better performance, naturally took on the banner of English local coaches, and McLaren played a role in playing soybeans.

Although his popularity is much worse than his previous life, looking at the list of Middlesbrough sent in this League Cup match, no one dares to underestimate the team led by McLaren - the goalkeeper is the Australian goalkeeper, and Rezig, Eschiogu, Southgate and Colin Cooper are lined up in one line on the defense line. Downing, Doriva, Rey Palor and Zenden form the midfield, and Dutch center Haselbaink and Slovak international Nemech partner on the front line. Such a lineup with both experience and ability is enough to make any team feel a headache!

Not to mention, there are also powerful players such as Viduka, George Boateng (not the familiar pair of brothers) and Kdrew, sitting on the bench in Middlesbrough. This means that McLaren has enough capital to play a battle of attrition with Tottenham, who is struggling and lacking in power today!

It is naturally impossible for George to realize the little calculation McLaren was playing. Therefore, before the game started, George repeatedly emphasized to the players the importance of seizing opportunities and set pieces in order to avoid the game entering the situation he least wants to see!

Casey Keller, Phil Neville, Dawson, Virmuellen, Bynes, Kompany, Davis, Mendieta, Darren Anderton, Ribery and Klose, these are the eleven players of Tottenham in this game!

With the opponents sending their main players, the team mainly consisting of substitutes and rotation players. George did this, on the one hand, to allow these players to maintain their state better so as not to cause trouble at critical moments due to long-term disarray; on the other hand, it is also due to the situation - who made Tottenham have a more important North London derby three days later?

Since Mendeta did not stay at Middlesbrough in this life, he chose to join Tottenham and played as a substitute for Xavi Alonso, his playing time naturally decreased a lot. However, it is not unreasonable that Seyon lost his game. After coming to the White Hart Lane Stadium, Mendeta, who served as the absolute core in the rotation lineup, once again found the feeling of being a dominant player at Mestalia Stadium. With the escort of Davis, Kompany and other teammates, the Basques were able to display his offensive talent on the court without wasting their limited energy on the defensive end.

Although Mendeta's current strength is only 70% or 80% of his peak, it is quite enough for Tottenham. At least, Middlesbrough, who only arranged Palor to play the defensive midfielder, finds it difficult to limit the Basques' swing.

In the 25th minute, Darren Anderton took a tactical corner kick, and Mendeta passed the ball in the middle of the penalty area on the right side of the court. Kloze, who flew into the air, beat the elderly Eschiogu and Southgate, and pushed the ball into the goal guarded by Schwarzer, one to zero!

Although the Middlesbrough player, who was unwilling to lose, won a goal shortly after the opening of the second half, only five minutes later, Vermallen took advantage of a free kick in the frontcourt to help Tottenham get the score again with a powerful header!

After that, although the two teams each created some opportunities, neither player could turn it into a goal. Nemech's shot from five meters in front of the goal was blocked by Casey Keller, and Davis' heavy gun shot over Schwarzer's ten fingers, but unfortunately he was turned away by the post!

In this way, when the game ended, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Middlesbrough, who was almost the main players away with goals from Kloze and Vermullen, and stubbornly won the fourth round of the League Cup, and obtained a place in the quarterfinals of the League Cup with great difficulty!
Chapter completed!