Football King Bale

Chapter 41: Changes are worse than Plans

On the first weekend of December, the fifteenth round of the Premier League continued.

This round of Tottenham's game is the last one, scheduled for December 6 at 16:00 GMT, and they will go to Merseyside to challenge Toffee Everton.

The game against Everton was the third game Tottenham participated in in the week from November 28 to December 6, and it was still three away games, and the first two games were still hard battles, although Tottenham won two games Victory, but Tottenham's main players looked very tired.

However, Lao Lei did not arrange for the main players to rotate this weekend, but continued to play with all the main players.

The reason why Lao Lei made such a decision is that Tottenham's lineup is limited in thickness and the substitute lineup is not enough to cope with the Premier League game; secondly, he sees the hope of the team rushing to the top of the standings.

In the game on the afternoon of December 5th, Manchester United swept the Hammers 4:0 as an away, and stepped on Tottenham to third place again. But the final result of another game is good news for Tottenham.

Chelsea was a guest at Manchester City Stadium and lost 1:2 in an upset!

The losing Chelsea's points stayed at 36 points, and the goal difference also dropped to 27 points. As long as Tottenham can beat the Toffees by three goals or more in this round, they will overwhelm Chelsea with the advantage of goal difference or number of goals, ranking first.

Even if they can't win by three goals or more, as long as they win, Tottenham will tie Chelsea in the standings.

The temptation to rush to the top of the standings made Lao Lei decide to give it a go and continue to go to Goodison Park with all his main players.

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Of course, compared with the midweek game, Lao Lei still made some adjustments to the starting lineup. For example, the team's second captain, Robbie Keane, was directly dropped from the 18-man squad. For example, Bell, who has been in hot form recently, sat on the bench.

Robbie Keane's performance in the last game was really bad, and his behavior when he was replaced offended Lao Lei, who had decided to abandon him.

As for Bell, he has played all 90 minutes in the past three games, and his physical strength is a bit high. Lao Lei intends to let Bell take a rest. Tottenham.

Of course, Lao Lei dared to let Bell sit on the bench because the Toffees have been in a very bad situation recently.

A month ago, after Everton's 0:2 loss to Tottenham in the League Cup, Everton seemed to be in a slump. In the past four rounds of the Premier League, they only achieved 1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses. Now, they played one less game, with a record of 4 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses, and ranked 16th in the league with 15 points, which is very close to the relegation zone.

In Lao Lei's view, with Tottenham's current strength and almost all the main players playing, wouldn't it be easy to deal with a relegation team like Everton?

But the reality hit Lao Lei hard in the face, and Tottenham did not easily take the lead as Lao Lei expected.

Because of the continuous campaign, Tottenham's starting players performed very sluggishly and did not score any goals. Fortunately, Everton's state is not good, and they also failed to break through Tottenham's goal.

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At the beginning of the second half, Lao Lei, who was eager to score points, made adjustments to the lineup, replacing the midfielder Huddlestone with Bell to strengthen the offense.

After Bell came on the field, he quickly helped the team open up the situation.

He used Giggs' experience card in this game, and he used Giggs' possession as soon as he appeared on the stage.

After defeating Manchester United in the last game, he scored one shot and two passes, and helped the team win. Bell got four more chances to draw.

In these four draws, Bell got another Giggs experience card, another three experience cards,

They are the experience cards of Van Nistelrooy, Gerrard and Gary Neville respectively.

In this way,

The number of experience cards in Bell's hands has reached 12, which can be exchanged for two-star experience cards.

In the end, Bell exchanged the experience cards of Vieira, Ashley Young and Giggs for a two-star Giggs experience card.

According to Bell's observation, among the experience cards he used before, Ziggs' experience card is the most consistent with his attributes, and the ability improvement after using it is the most obvious. For the rest, even the experience cards of Robben and Ronaldo have slightly less effect on Bell.

Bell, who used Giggs' possession, made a pass from the bottom after breaking through from the left and passed the ball to the penalty area. Bell was originally looking for the tall man Crouch in the small penalty area, but this time Crouch fell off the top and failed to reach the ball.

However, Crouch's fall also shook Everton's defensive players, and they all missed the ball one by one, but Lennon, who was inserted on the right, received the ball at the line of the small penalty area.

Lennon took a shot, but his shot was a bit outrageous, completely off target, but Defoe in the penalty area caught this opportunity and scored from five yards from the goal.

But Lennon himself is very clear that this happened because he was a little tired today, and he didn't use all his strength when he hit the goal just now, and he kicked it.

Lennon can be regarded as deliberately planting flowers and not sending out, but unintentionally planting willows and willows to make shades. A shot turned into a pass assist.

It was Defoe's 13th league goal of the season and he continues to lead the Premier League's top scorer list.

Tottenham finally changed the stalemate and took the lead in the score. And this goal also stimulated the spirits of the Tottenham players. They continued to attack Everton's goal and rewritten the score again after 12 minutes.

Bell forced Tottenham right-back Hibbert on the left, but failed to get rid of him completely, and Hibbert touched the bottom line in the final pass.

Kranjčar came to take the corner kick. He kicked the ball near the penalty spot, causing chaos in the Everton penalty area. Dawson's diving dive pushed the ball into Everton's goal.

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Conceding two goals in a row made Moyes very angry with the team. He changed two people in a row in the 62nd minute of the game, played all the cards in his hand, and made it clear that he had to fight to the death.

In this game, Everton's luck was not very good. Their central defender Yabo left the field due to injury in the 15th minute. Moyes had to use up a substitution early, and Coleman came off the bench. .

Now, he replaced the poor striker Joe with the former Manchester United striker Saha, and replaced the midfielder Rodwell with forward Yakubu.

Tottenham took a two-goal lead. Seeing that Moyes was desperate, Lao Lei decided to take a step back and adopt defensive counterattack tactics.

Originally, there was no problem for Lao Lei to use this tactic. After all, Tottenham's physical fitness is not very good. The defensive counterattack tactic is conducive to saving the players' physical strength. And now the players on the Tottenham field are also very suitable for defensive counterattacks. The two full-backs, Bell and Lennon, are extremely fast wingers, and Defoe in the middle is also an extremely fast forward. , Defensive counterattack is undoubtedly very beneficial.

However, Lao Lei soon discovered that today's defensive counterattack tactics were a little bit unmovable. The Everton players completely suppressed Tottenham amidst the cheers of the home fans, making it difficult for Tottenham to have a chance to counterattack.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the poor physical condition of these Tottenham players.

Originally, they managed to show momentum before and led Everton by two goals. At this time, if you continue to suppress Everton in one go, you may directly collapse Everton.

However, Lao Lei chose to take a step back at that time. The ancients said that he will be exhausted in one go, and then decline in the third. Too difficult.

Everton, who became more and more courageous, scored two consecutive goals in the 80th minute of the game, rewriting the score on the field to 2:2!

In the 78th minute, Coleman got rid of Hector on the right and made a cross, and Saha scored from close range.

In the 86th minute, Cahill scored with a header from the edge of the small penalty area before Baines passed the shot from the left side of the penalty area.

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Conceding two goals in a row in just eight minutes, seeing the three points in his hand turned into one point, this made the old thunder furious.

Lao Lei also found that his tactical choice just now was a little too conservative, but it was too late to change it now. Everton, whose morale was soared because of the equalizer, continued to suppress Tottenham in the backcourt and stormed. The defense line is jittery, and it seems that there is a possibility of falling at any time.

What Lao Lei needs to consider now is not to get three points, but to stop being scored by Everton and keep the one point in his hand.

After all, as long as they keep this point, although Tottenham can't tie Chelsea in the standings, they can at least suppress Manchester United and return to second place in the standings.

In order to achieve the purpose of wasting time, Lao Lei can be said to be doing everything possible. He not only signaled the Tottenham players on the field to delay the time as much as possible, but also used small tricks on substitutions.

In the 88th minute of the game, Lao Lei replaced forward Crouch with Modric to strengthen midfield control and defense.

As a direct descendant of Lao Lei, and even a royal striker, Crouch is too aware of Lao Lei's thoughts. When he was off the field, he was dawdling, which made the Everton players who were eager to equalize the score very dissatisfied. accept complaints.

After being warned by Marina, Crouch reluctantly accelerated his pace and came to the sidelines to complete the substitution with Modric.

Then, when the 90-minute regular time of the game ended, after the fourth official played five minutes of stoppage time, Lao Lei used the delaying tactics again. He replaced the defensive midfielder Palacios with defender Hutton , Changed to 541, while further strengthening the defense, it also consumed time again.

Lao Lei's delaying tactics made Moyes next to him feel ashamed, and he really wanted to say to Lao Lei: Brother, can you show some face? You are a strong team, a team that competes for a place in the Champions League or even the championship. Doesn’t your conscience ache for being so shameless?

Lao Lei naturally wouldn't feel any pain in his conscience. He could keep the point in his hand, and he wished he could find a way to use up all the five minutes of stoppage time.

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