Football King Bale

Tottenham defeated Manchester City and reached the League Cup final. They also set a moderate record: they have reached the League Cup final for three consecutive years!

Two years ago, they reached the final and defeated Chelsea 2:1 after a fierce battle with Chelsea for 120 minutes, winning the fourth League Cup championship in team history.

Last year, they had a goalless draw with Manchester United within 120 minutes in the final, and ultimately lost 1:4 in a penalty shootout and missed the chance to defend the League Cup title.

This year they are making a comeback again, and their goal is naturally to win the championship.

However, the League Cup final is still a full month away, and Tottenham can turn their attention to the league again.

Just less than three days later, Tottenham ushered in their 24th round opponent Birmingham.

Birmingham, as a newly promoted team, had an extremely bad start to the season and were basically in the relegation zone in the first ten rounds. However, as the game progressed, their record became better and better. Now they have a record of 9 wins, 6 draws and 7 losses in 22 rounds, ranking eighth in the league with 33 points. During this period, they drew with Liverpool, drew with Arsenal, and even drew with Manchester United and Chelsea.

Therefore, for Tottenham, this is a hard nut to crack, and your teeth will be broken if you are not careful.

This is the second meeting between the two sides in the league this season. In the fourth round, Tottenham defeated Birmingham 2:1 at home with Lennon's goal in the 95th minute.

Both sides have games in midweek, with Tottenham in the Carabao Cup semi-finals and Birmingham visiting Stamford Bridge in the Premier League. As a result, Tottenham defeated Manchester City 3:1 and entered the League Cup final, but Birmingham suffered a defeat at Stamford Bridge. They were completely defeated by the Blues 0:3.

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After defeating Manchester City to advance to the League Cup final, Bale, who scored twice and helped the team win, received three draws. This time, he finally got the fourth experience card of Ronaldo as he wished, and the other two were for Van der Sar and Professor Young.

Bell decisively exchanged four of Ronaldo's one-star experience cards into one three-star experience card, but he did not use it in this game. He planned to wait until a key game to use it.

What makes Bell a little helpless is that after such a long time, he got another goalkeeper experience card. As a result, he already had two goalkeeper experience cards in his hand.

What's the use of this thing?

After exchanging Ronaldo's experience cards, Bell only had nine experience cards left in his hand, including two Gerrard experience cards and two goalkeeper experience cards. As for the rest of the midfield and frontcourt experience cards, only Ruud van Nistelrooy, Drogba, Scholes and Ashley Young are left.

In this game against Birmingham, because Bell is still playing as a left midfielder, the most suitable one for him is Ashley Young's experience card. But in fact, after growing up to this point, Ashley Young's experience card has no effect on Bell.

Four months ago, when Bell first traveled through time, none of his attributes exceeded 80, and his comprehensive attributes were only 72.

However, after these four months of growth, Bell's attributes have improved rapidly, and his comprehensive attributes have increased to 83. The remaining single attributes have also been greatly improved.

Strong: 81

Physical strength: 86

Strength: 81

Speed: 89

Bounce: 68

Agility: 79

Balance: 80

Flexibility: 67

Defense: 78

Ball possession: 85

Archery: 76

Passes: 86

And Ashley Young’s experience card,

The speed with the highest attribute is only 91, and it is not even as good as Bell in terms of ball control and passing.

Therefore, after some consideration, Bell simply decided not to use experience cards in this game, and kept Professor Yang's experience cards. After the number of experience cards in his hand exceeded ten, he could exchange them for those outstanding high-star experience cards.

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Although this is the third game in a week, both sides are playing their best and hope to win this game.

For Birmingham, they are only three points away from the European Theater. If they can win Tottenham, they are likely to enter the European Theater. For Tottenham, now is also a critical period for scoring points. After all, this season, they want to gain something in the cup and enter the Champions League. Now that they can win Birmingham, they will have to be much more relaxed in subsequent games.

However, after all, in the past week, the two sides had already played two fierce games, and there was basically no personnel rotation, so the players on both sides seemed very tired and somewhat out of shape.

With his current physical strength of 86, Bell is in good physical condition and is also very active on the left wing. However, the forward teammates were not strong enough. Although Bell sent several wonderful passes throughout the first half, he failed to help the team knock on Birmingham's goal.

After the start of the second half, neither side made any personnel adjustments. The two sides fighting with the original team still continue to be in a stalemate.

However, Birmingham coach McLeish discovered that the condition of Tottenham players was getting worse and worse, and many players had running problems.

McLeish naturally knew that Tottenham had a fierce battle with Manchester City for 90 minutes in midweek. Although they reached the League Cup final, their physical fitness was greatly overdrawn. Then he rushed to Birmingham non-stop for league matches. Physical fitness must be a big issue.

Although Birmingham also played a game in midweek, they were at home, so they had more rest than Tottenham, and they also had a certain advantage in physical fitness.

These thoughts made McLeish eager to take three points from Tottenham. Around sixty minutes into the game, he made two consecutive personnel adjustments to enhance the team's offensive capabilities.

In the 58th minute of the game, he replaced Sebastian Larsson with Fish, and then replaced Bowyer with Mitchell in the 65th minute.

With the addition of two new players on the field and the home court advantage, Birmingham gradually took advantage of the field and the situation was tilting towards the home team.

Bell felt something was wrong, and what made him even more annoyed was that he felt that he could no longer run.

Although his physical strength is good now, participating in three games within a week, and the intensity is not low, is still a bit too much for him.

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Feeling that the situation is not good, Bell is ready to cheat!

Although before the game, he felt that Ashley Young's experience card was of little use to him, by this time, he no longer thought so.

At least, those five minutes of possession time are still very useful. In those five minutes, Bale can transform into Ashley Young at his peak and fight fiercely on the court.

Bell is a man of action. Once he makes a decision, he takes action immediately.

In the 67th minute of the game, Bell asked the Ball Saint system to use Ashley Young's experience card and used the five minutes of possession time immediately.

For a football match, around seventy minutes is a critical point, and many players will have a physical crisis during this time period. And as long as this period is delayed, physical strength will slowly recover.

After using Ashley Young for five minutes, Bell felt relaxed all over and was making waves on the left wing again.

The Birmingham players were a little confused. Why did Bell, who looked like he was about to run out of energy just now, suddenly become so lively?

Amid the confusion of the Birmingham players, Bell broke through. Birmingham's right back, Irish veteran Stephen Carr, was completely unable to keep up with Bell at this moment, and was left behind by Bell's speed.

Bell, who made a successful breakthrough, sent a very accurate cross to the tall man Crouch on the near post of the small penalty area.

Just when Bell thought Crouch was going to head directly towards the goal, he chose to ferry the header and passed it to Defoe, who was in a better position in front of the goal.

Crouch's header transfer was not only beyond Bell's expectations, but also beyond the surprise of Birmingham's defensive players. They were all deceived by Crouch, allowing Defoe to calmly attack the goal without much defensive pressure.

The result was clear as Defoe easily slotted the ball into Birmingham's goal from less than eight yards from goal.

Tottenham players all cheered and rushed to the corner flag to celebrate the hard-won goal that broke the deadlock.

Only Bell was speechless because one of his assists was lost because of Crouch's choice.

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Of course, Bell won't be too disappointed. As long as the team can win, as a starter, he can still get a chance to draw a lottery and get back the experience card used in this game. Maybe his character will explode and he can get a strong man like Henry.

At this time, Bell could only comfort himself in this way.

Shortly after the game restarted, Bell returned to his previous half-dead look, because the five minutes of Ashley Young's possession time had passed and his physical fitness still hadn't recovered much.

The home team that lost the ball was definitely not willing to lose three points like this. Amid the cheers of more than 20,000 fans at home, they launched a fierce attack on Tottenham's goal.

The physical condition of Tottenham players was already poor, and now it was even worse under the fierce attack of the home team. They had no choice but to retreat, hoping to maintain the lead through defense.

Of course, if we can take advantage of Birmingham's fierce attack and take the time to sneak attack Birmingham and expand the lead, that would be the most wonderful result.

However, good things cannot always favor one person. Until the regular 90 minutes of the game were about to pass, Tottenham failed to get a chance to sneak attack on Birmingham.

However, fortunately, with Tottenham's full retreat, their defense was very solid, and Birmingham was unable to equalize the score.

Just when the Tottenham players were looking forward to the referee blowing the whistle to end the game, just when the Birmingham fans thought that the team had to swallow the bitter pill of failure, Birmingham actually scored!

In the 90th minute of the game, Birmingham left midfielder McFadden broke through and sent a precise cross. Their center Jerome headed the ball over. Birmingham center back Liam Ridgewell came in and poked the ball in from close range. Human goal!

This is almost a replica of Tottenham's goal twenty minutes ago!