Chapter 369 Fire in the backyard
The reason why fans are so enthusiastic about the confrontation between Tottenham and Chelsea is, on the one hand, because this is a strong conversation about the ownership of the league leaders, and its influence and appeal are naturally extraordinary. On the other hand, it is because the showdown between Mourinho and George is full of gimmicks.
Not to mention, Tottenham and Chelsea divided up all the championship trophys they could win last season, and they were all the limelight in European football. As the head coaches of these two teams and the young coach with the highest achievements in football today, the confrontation between Mourinho and George naturally attracted countless attention!
It took only ten years to become an internationally renowned champion coach from a small translator that can be seen everywhere. Mourinho's experience is enough to make him a legend in the coaching industry. Although George's starting point and background are much better than Mourinho, his achievements are no worse than those of the madman. In just two and a half seasons of head coaching career, he won a Champions League championship, a Premier League championship, two FA Cup championships and a League Cup championship. Such results are worse than many veteran coaches who have coached much longer than George!
"Good afternoon, everyone, I am my old friend Andy Gray. Welcome to watch this fourth round of the Premier League game broadcast by Sky TV." Andy Gray sat in front of the microphone, with a demeanor. "The two sides of this game are Tottenham and Chelsea. Among them, Tottenham Hotspur temporarily ranked first in the standings with an amazing result of winning all three games and scoring nine goals and one goal without losing. Although Chelsea only ranked third in the standings, this is because the Blues are slightly inferior in offensive firepower, and the two teams are exactly the same in points. Considering that Manchester United currently scores nine points like them, I think that after this game, the situation where the three teams can only score the same points through goal difference will be completely broken!"
The savvy Sky TV naturally cannot miss such a highly anticipated focus battle. This can be seen from the commentary combination they sent. Andy Gray and Martin Taylor, the ace commentary combination of Sky TV, and an old acquaintance of Premier League fans, appeared in the live broadcast room without any surprise, responsible for commenting on the head-on confrontation between Tottenham and Chelsea!
"I will introduce the starting lineups of the two teams in this game to you in advance." The commentary of Andy Gray, who is responsible for hyping up the atmosphere, has come to an end. Martin Taylor immediately took over the topic. "Chelsea, it seems that it was affected by the previous Community Shield Finals. Coach Mourinho has made certain adjustments to the starting lineup. The goalkeepers are Russian national goalkeeper Akinfeyev, Terry and Carvalho partner with the central defender, and Del Orno and Ferreira serve as left and right full-backs. The three midfielders are Marklele, Lampard and Essin, Ribery, Duff and Ibrasimovic form the frontcourt trident!"
"Martin, I don't know if you noticed it. Gala doesn't seem to be on the roster for today's game." Andy Gray said, looking at his partner beside him, with doubts in his words, "This is really a strange thing. Even if Terry and Carvalho are in charge, Gala can't get the chance to start, and he is more trustworthy than Hut."
"This is not surprising. Or, this is what is expected." Martin Taylor was not surprised to explain the question raised by his partner, and immediately gave an explanation, "With coach Mourinho's character, he will definitely not let a player who dares to destroy the atmosphere in the locker room be on the roster."
After realizing Gala's scam in the central defender position earlier than his previous life, Mourinho did not hesitate at all and decisively placed the Frenchman's appearance pick even further than Hut. The Portuguese has made a decision. As long as there are other choices, he would rather be useless and let Gala play a guest fullback, and he will never let Gala be active on the court as a central defender!
Gala was naturally extremely dissatisfied with Mourinho's arrangement. He believed that he was the world's top-notch Frenchman in the central defender position. After learning from Mourinho that he could only play as a fullback this season, his mentality completely exploded, further strengthening his determination to transfer and leave Stamford Bridge!
However, after this, Gala once again showed people his poor public relations skills. The French did not solve the problem between him and Mourinho through internal channels, or submitted a transfer application to the club, but instead first exposed the contradiction to the media!
Gala's revelations can be said to have a splash of waves. After learning the news, the British media, who had to try their best to create news, suddenly flocked to them like mosquitoes that smelled blood. They first made Gala's idea of living in Chelsea with a very unsatisfactory life, intending to change to a new environment, and then added fuel to the fire and arranged a miserable experience of Gala playing football under Mourinho!
There is no way, who made Mourinho's mouth so bad and offended too many media and journalists? Now that people have found an opportunity to take advantage of the situation, even if they are out of revenge, they will work extremely hard to smear and even demonize Mourinho!
It is precisely because of this that Mourinho cannot put Gala on the roster for his own authority in the team. Otherwise, his control over the team will inevitably be greatly weakened!
In addition, although Goodjohansen did make Chelsea more threatening on the offensive end after appearing in the last match between the two sides, Mourinho finally chose Essin, who had better defense after repeated considerations. Because after Mascherano returned, Tottenham's defense was upgraded to a higher level than before, and Alonso, Gerrard and others no longer had to deliberately suppress their offensive desire to stabilize the defense. In this way, Ghana's Buffalo is obviously more in line with Mourinho's tactical needs than "Ice Sword"!
After talking about the fire in Chelsea's backyard, Martin Taylor also read Tottenham's starting lineup. Compared with the Community Shield Finals, George only made two adjustments: one was to let Mascherano return to the starting lineup, and the other was to replace Stephen Carl with Macon and serve as the starting right back!
In less than a month, Carl, the team's vice captain, squeezed him to the bench, and did not cause any dissatisfaction within the team. It can be seen that Macon's strength has been recognized by Carl and other Tottenham players!
In this way, when the players on both sides took their place on the court, with the whistle of Job Sdales on duty, the highly anticipated game finally kicked off under the expectation of fans!
Chapter completed!