Football King Bale

Tottenham topped the Premier League standings and Bale topped the Premier League scorer list. Both things exceeded everyone's expectations. For a time, public opinion in the UK was in an uproar.

In view of the influence of the Premier League around the world, these two events not only caused huge repercussions in the UK, but many people around the world have noticed Tottenham and Bell.

Although the Premier League is known for its fierce competition, in the past ten years, apart from the traditional three giants Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal, as well as the rapid rise of local tycoon Chelsea in recent years, very few other teams have been able to reach the top The Premier League table, especially as the season approaches its halfway point.

Tottenham this season can be regarded as subverting the order of the Premier League in the past ten years. They have been at the forefront of the standings since the beginning of the season. Although they fell out of the Champions League briefly due to consecutive losses to Manchester United and Chelsea in the middle, they immediately returned to the winning track until the 16th round of the Premier League. They finally completely stepped on Chelsea and Manchester United and dominated the Premier League points Top of the list.

In fact, not only the world was stunned by Tottenham's ascent to the top, but even the Tottenham team themselves were a little underprepared for this. When they fought against Chelsea and Manchester United before, they were always on tenterhooks, worried that when the team would fall behind because of consecutive losses.

However, in the end they found that it was not themselves who were left behind, but Manchester United and Chelsea. This was too unexpected.

Just when most of Tottenham's players felt unreal, the team ushered in the challenge of Manchester City in the seventeenth round.

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Manchester City originally had little presence in the Premier League, almost always in the bottom half of the standings, and even had a record of relegation.

However, in the summer two years ago, after Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra acquired Manchester City, Manchester City ushered in a turning point. Especially last summer, when the Middle East oil tycoon took over Manchester City, it set off a frenzy of acquisitions.

However, although the team has invested nearly 200 million pounds in signings in the past year or so, Manchester City has not produced any convincing results. After 16 rounds of the league, they achieved 6 wins, 8 draws and 2 losses, ranking sixth in the Premier League standings with 26 points.

Therefore, Manchester City's current coach Mark Hughes is already in a crisis of confidence. Recently, major media have continuously reported that he is about to leave get out of class.

Just the day before the game, the Sun reported that the owner of Manchester City, Sheikh Mansour, had decided that if they failed to win at White Hart Lane, the team would immediately fire Mark Hughes.

This time as a guest at White Hart Lane, Manchester City is the best, goalkeeper Given, four defenders Sylvinho, Kolo Toure, Richards, Onuoha, three midfielders Ireland, Barry, De Jong, three strikers A De Bayo, Tevez, Robinho.

It can be said that this lineup is very strong, and none of them are unknown.

Not only that, but also sitting on the Manchester City bench are well-known generals such as Johnson, Bridge, Kompany, Zabaleta, Martin Petrov, and Santa Cruz.

In terms of lineup alone, even Tottenham coach Lao Lei is a little jealous.

Lao Lei is still in the lineup of 442. Goalkeeper Gomez, four defenders Hector, Bassoon, Dawson and Joel Luka, among the four midfielders, Huddlestone and Palacios dragged behind, Bell and Lennon is separated on the left and right, and the double striker is still a combination of Crouch and Defoe, one high and one fast.

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Because of the unstable coaching position, Mark Hughes gave the Manchester City players a death order, that is, they must win this game, so after the game started, Manchester City launched a fierce attack on Tottenham's goal.

These Manchester City players are indeed very capable. They quickly scored in Tottenham's half and had two threatening shots. Their cooperation pierced Tottenham's ribs,

Carlos Tevez received a pass from his teammates in the penalty area, but Dawson blocked the shot with a strong shot.

Tevez's reaction was very quick, and he immediately grabbed the spot again, but his second shot was missed because he was too hasty.

Being suppressed by Manchester City for five minutes at home, this made the Tottenham players very unhappy. After overcoming Manchester City's onslaught, they immediately launched a counterattack.

In this game, Bell used Scholes' experience card, so although he was in the left forward position, after the game started, he was more active in the middle, acting as the midfield commander. On the contrary, the defensive midfielder Palacios often advances and plays the role of left midfielder.

In the fifth minute of the game, Bell received a pass from Huddlestone in the backcourt and dribbled the ball across the half. He saw Palacios overlap, and the Manchester City players who defended him did not follow closely. A long pass hits the front left.

Palacios and Bell still have a good understanding. When Bell dribbles forward, he has already started to move forward. After Bell's ball went out, he had already rushed up.

However, Manchester City's right back Mika Richards is very capable, not only physically strong, but also not slow. He quickly caught up with Palacios and kept Palacios aside. The chance kicks in a cross. When he was close to the bottom line, Palacios had no choice but to kick the ball on Richards and asked for a corner kick.

The corner kick from Joel Luka accurately found Crouch, the highest point in the penalty area. Gao Lao beat Richards to shake his head and attack the goal, and the ball was slightly higher than the crossbar.

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Both sides come and go, playing offensive football. However, the competitive state of Manchester City's players is really not very good. Coupled with the cheers of the home fans, Tottenham still have a great advantage on the scene.

In the 9th minute of the game, Tottenham scored another shot. This time, it was Bell who distributed the ball to the right in the midfield, and Lennon used his speed to overtake Sylvinho, but after hitting the bottom, he passed the ball in an inverted triangle to the corner of the penalty area.

Bell was also running forward after passing the ball. When Lennon made a pass, he saw that Lennon was going to pass the ball back in an inverted triangle, and immediately accelerated forward.

However, Manchester City's midfielder De Jong has been following Bell. When he saw Bell running forward, he immediately leaned over and kept harassing Bell with small movements, preventing him from running completely.

Although Bell managed to grab the spot, under the interference of De Jong, his shot was not fully exerted, and he brushed the goal post and went out of the baseline.

However, this also shocked De Jong. He didn't expect Bell's shot under his push to be so threatening.

He glared at Bell viciously, and said, "Boy, I remember you!"

For De Jong, Bell is naturally no stranger. This is one of the two very famous villains in today's football. Together with Real Madrid's central defender Pepe, he is called "Nan Pepe North De Jong". However, Bell wasn't afraid of him, he just glanced at him and ran back.

Seeing that his threat had no effect, De Jong was a little annoyed.

In the subsequent games, De Jong made more small moves when defending Bell, especially when the game progressed to the 16th minute, he tripped Bell after Bell broke through him.

Bell had just picked up speed at the time, so the fall was a bit hard, and he had a big mouthful of turf in his mouth.

Before Bell got up to settle the score with De Jong, Palacios, who was closest to him, ran over first, looked at De Jong fiercely and said, "Boy, what do you want to do!"

De Jong was not a good stubbler, so he stood up immediately and stared back at Palacios with his eyes, and the two almost stood up.

On the sidelines, Tottenham's assistant coach Joe Jordan also quarreled with Manchester City's head coach Mark Hughes. Bell is Tottenham's baby bump. Manchester City fouled him like this, and they must find their way back.

The referee Willy ran over when Bell was kicked down. He blocked Palacios and De Jong, who were about to push back, and was about to show De Jong a yellow card when he was reminded by the assistant referee. He ran to the sidelines to warn the Tottenham assistant coach and the Manchester City coach who spoke harshly.

However, after such a disturbance, he forgot to give De Jong a yellow card.

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After some confusion, the game restarted, and Tottenham took a free kick in the center circle on the side of the Manchester City goal.

Bell signaled the frontcourt players to move forward, and he planned to hang the ball directly into the penalty area.

After Willy blew the whistle, Bell kicked the ball forward to find Crouch in the penalty area.

Crouch grabbed the ball, but under the defense of two strong Manchester City centre-backs, he could not attack the goal directly, so he chose to head the ball back to the top and find his partner Jermain Defoe.

Defoe received the ball from Crouch and was raising his foot to shoot, but Kolo Touré, who rushed over, scooped the ball away and brought Defoe down.

Tottenham players immediately surrounded Willy and demanded a penalty kick. But Willie shook his hands again and again, saying that Toure was the first to tackle the ball and it was not a foul.

Although the Tottenham players were upset, they had no choice but to disperse.

The next game, the pace is still very fast. They also got some shooting opportunities, but they failed to rewrite the score.

In this fast-paced offensive and defensive transition, time passed quickly, and half an hour had passed before we knew it.