Chapter 390 The Falling Red Army
Tottenham lost two goals in the unfavorable situation of falling behind in less than 20 minutes of the game, and defeated Real Madrid in four consecutive games. This result not only refreshed people's understanding of Real Madrid, but also made everyone realize that Tottenham did not relax because of his successful victory last season, and is still one of the most powerful teams in the entire European football world!
Especially Tottenham's performance in the first half of the game in the second half made all the head coaches who were closely watching Tottenham's movements very shocked. With Real Madrid's lineup configuration, Tottenham, which was played by all the main players, could not move in the halftime for a period of time. So what kind of performance will their team show when they meet with Tottenham?
Although Real Madrid is no longer the Galaxy battleship in the Bosque era that everyone fears. The aging and successive departure of superstars have caused the strength of this La Liga giant to decline seriously, even so, the lean camel is bigger than the horse, and Real Madrid is not the target of bullying by their opponents. Not to mention, the famous coach Heathfield is the coach who coaches Real Madrid now. Under his training, the Galaxy battleship's combat effectiveness has improved a lot compared to last season! Otherwise, Real Madrid would not have beaten their rival Barcelona and temporarily ranked first in the La Liga standings!
However, it is such a team of Real Madrid that was hit by Tottenham after a brief highlight in the opening stage. How can this not make other teams panic?
At the same time, Real Madrid's backyard, which had finally calmed down, also caused trouble again due to this failure. Calderon, who thought he had waited for the opportunity, once again criticized Lafayette's team-building idea, and wanted to use this to drive Florentino off the position of Real Madrid chairman so that he could ascend to this throne!
However, Calderon may still have only one result that disappoints him this time. After all, Real Madrid's record after the start of the new season is still quite good, and just one loss cannot shake Florentino's rule!
At the same time, Real Madrid fans are also questioning the correctness of Heathfield's move to hold Raul on the bench. In their minds, the Lord of the Rings should always appear on the starting list, rather than sitting on the bench as a spectator!
Heathfield didn't even think about the doubts raised by the fans. On the one hand, he had exchanged with Raul before the game and obtained the consent of his own captain, so he was not worried about Raul's dissatisfaction. On the other hand, it was because Florentino, who had always been interested in weakening the voice of the local gang in the locker room, also supported the German move, hoping to further attack the local gang's power in the team!
In George's previous life, Florentino spared no effort to crack down on the local gang forces within Real Madrid during his two times. Because Lafayette could not tolerate too much voice within the team, he could even influence the head coach's decision-making to a certain extent, believing that this is an obstacle that Real Madrid must remove to the globalization!
In order to achieve this goal, he forced away many players such as Jero, Raul and Guti, who had strong influence in Real Madrid. Even so, Florentino was not considered a complete task until he sent Casillas away. Before that, the battle between the local gang and foreign forces had never subsided at the Bernabeu Stadium. Even when the team performed well, the situation did not change.
Let’s talk about Real Madrid for now, and now the topic is back to Tottenham. Just two days after the game with Real Madrid, the Tottenham players ushered in the eighth round of the Premier League. Their opponent in this round of the league is Charlton, who is in London!
Although Charlton's level is only considered to be in the middle and lower reaches among the twenty Premier League teams, his overall strength has further declined after Dicanho and Scott Parker left, and the biggest signing in the summer was just to rent Russian international Smerkin from Chelsea, Charlton has a headache, that is, they can play very well in the first half of each season, causing a lot of trouble for many strong teams!
Not to mention, Charlton and Tottenham are already in London, and the showdown between the two teams can be named a derby. This undoubtedly further increases Charlton's motivation to score points in this round!
Although Tottenham players no longer care about this so-called derby game now, this does not mean that Charlton players have the same view. It would be better to say that they hope to perform well enough in this game to win more attention!
With Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and other clubs, Charlton is destined to be able to play the role of a follower without the support of a wealthy boss. He lives in the shadow of these clubs for a long time and the team's record has always been lukewarm, which has led to Charlton's lack of enough attention. Therefore, if the players here want to get further opportunities, the best way is to seize the opportunity to directly fight with the strong team and play a sufficiently eye-catching performance!
For example, in this game with Tottenham. Facing Tottenham, who had just fought with Real Madrid for 90 minutes and had not fully adjusted, the Charlton player who visited the White Hart Lane Stadium seemed extremely excited. This team that still adhered to the traditional British football concept caused a lot of trouble for Tottenham with simple and rough long passes and two-wing flying tactics. Especially the midfield core Danny Murphy and forward ace Darren Bent, these two players performed very well in this game. Not only did they put strong pressure on Tottenham's defense on the offensive end, but they also threatened the goal guarded by Cech several times in the game!
If Cech hadn't performed bravely in this game, he had high contact and resisted to ensure the goal was not lost, and even blocked Darren Bent's low shot with his right foot, and at the same time, Klose received a corner kick from Al Shavin in the 30th minute of the game and scored six meters in front of the goal, helping the team stabilize its position in time. I'm afraid Tottenham would have lost the first game of the season in this round of league!
In the end, with a header from Klose, Tottenham, who was in poor form in a week's double-game relationship, struggled to defeat Charlton at home and continued to lead the league standings with a narrow advantage of one point!
The result of Tottenham's home victory over Charlton greatly diluted the joy of Chelsea players in the Anfield Stadium's 4-1 victory over Liverpool, and also made the Blues feel helpless - no matter how good they performed, when they looked up after the game, they could always see a familiar name pressing on Chelsea's head, which is indeed quite frustrating.
As for Liverpool, which was defeated by Chelsea, the Reds further consolidated their position in the relegation zone after this round of the league. So far, Liverpool, who had two rounds of games, failed to win in one game, and had only three points with three points with their city rival Everton!
With the departure of two flag figures, Irving and Gerald, this Red Army, which once made European football tremble, finally lost its halo of top giants this season and began to decline!
Chapter completed!