Tottenham are still the league leaders together with Chelsea. After fifteen rounds, one of the two teams has only drawn two games, and the other has only drawn three games. They are both teams with the best results.
Behind them is still Arsenal, but because Manchester United has played in the Club World Cup, they now have two games less, and there is a big gap between them and the teams in front. Now in fourth place is Manchester City.
If we only look at the current results, Tottenham and Chelsea may even have more than 100 points when they complete the entire season. However, if you look at the next schedule, you will know that it is unlikely. In the next games
In the middle, Tottenham and Chelsea have to go through the Christmas schedule. Tottenham's Christmas schedule is Fulham, Manchester City, Blackburn, Liverpool, and Chelsea's Christmas schedule has to face Manchester City and Arsenal in succession.
Team
, it is difficult for any team to guarantee that they will win all their games, and what is even more frightening is that after this game, in January, when the FA Cup begins, everyone needs to fight on two fronts, and that is when Africa
When the cup starts. Starting from January 10th, Tottenham will lose Yaya Toure and Kevin Boateng, who is now in good form, while Chelsea will lose their main striker Didier Drogba.
At that point, it will be difficult for the two teams not to lose points.
Not to mention, when February arrives and the Champions League games begin, both Tottenham and Chelsea will be competing to see if their financial resources are strong enough.
The league is starting to heat up, but it's hard to say who will have the upper hand in the next games.
However, in the next Champions League match, Chelsea played better than Tottenham. Because they were assigned to the same group as Real Madrid, they fought very fiercely in the group. Therefore, until the sixth round, they still had to go
Competing with Real Madrid for first place in the group. Such pressure allowed Chelsea to win an outstanding victory in the group, and in the end, they surpassed Real Madrid and qualified as first in the group.
In contrast, Tottenham's sixth round of the Champions League group stage was quite careless. Because they had already qualified early, Tottenham's sixth round of the Champions League group stage was simply perfunctory. They did not play at all.
The excellent level of the previous game was even better. Even with the use of Walker, their wing was completely beaten by Quaresma. They didn't look like a low-level team at all.
However, even so, they still qualified as the first in the group. In another game, Milan also won and successfully qualified. The two teams advanced to the knockout rounds of the Champions League, while Porto was relegated to the Champions League.
Fed Cup.
"In this game, no one is the winner except Quaresma."
The media's evaluation was very straightforward. It was the last round of the group stage, and the rankings were almost decided. The team's chances of winning were not very high. This game not only allowed Quaresma to show
Once the ball skills are touched, there is no other effect.
But this may be more in line with Porto's original intention - Li Bin knows very well that if he can win the Europa League, he will gain more points than the top four of the Champions League, whether it is the Portuguese Super League or the Bundesliga, in recent years
Gaining points in the Champions League depends entirely on the Europa League. In my memory, the Portuguese Super League relied on the top three to reach the Europa League semi-finals in a certain year, and managed to achieve a result that was 5 points higher than Serie A. This kind of points, maybe
That's what they want more.
Teams at different levels have different methods of survival. Some strong teams such as Real Madrid will naturally be considered a failure if they fail to qualify for the Champions League group stage, but for Porto, if they score points in the Europa League, it will be very difficult for them.
Not bad.
European football has accumulated a clear hierarchy over a long period of time, making any breakthrough very difficult. Therefore, Tottenham are really lucky to be where they are now: in the group stage, Tottenham faced Porto and Milan.
It is a team that is not worthy of its name. Although they are all teams that have won the Champions League in recent years, their real strength is not really strong. Tottenham met them during their Champions League journey.
I'm so lucky.
Tottenham qualified as first in the group, which made the English media highly praise Tottenham. Although in recent years, the Premier League teams have often qualified with four teams, and this year, the Premier League also has three teams.
They both qualified as first in the group, but Liverpool were eliminated in the group stage and reached the knockout rounds of the Champions League with Tottenham. Such different situations also made the media praise Tottenham.
For a team to play the Champions League for the first time in so many years, it is very good to be able to qualify as first in the group. Compared with the decline of the old strong team Liverpool, Tottenham can achieve such results, but it is very
It's amazing. Although the English media have always thought highly of themselves and set their sights higher than the top, they at least understand that such results are rare. Therefore, after Tottenham won the victory, the media all expressed a lot of praise for them.
Appreciate.
"Tottenham have fully proven to the whole of England that they have enough strength to replace Liverpool and become one of the top four in the Premier League. They can also win points for the Premier League in the Champions League, and they can produce more stars than Liverpool.
, they played in the Champions League for the first time and showed great strength. Perhaps, compared to Liverpool, who were eliminated from the group, Tottenham are more qualified to become one of the top four in the Premier League."
At this time, the media had already begun to build momentum and speak ill of Liverpool. Li Bin knew that Levi was indispensable behind this.
The current results of Tottenham make the club's chairman Levi very happy. His requirements are not high in the first year. As a team playing in the Champions League in its first year, his original intention is to enable the team to qualify for the Champions League knockout rounds.
However, now that Tottenham has done better than he imagined, how can he not be overjoyed? In excitement, he even promised the players to build a new sunbath in the training base - anyway
Now that the minimum goal has been achieved, he is beginning to feel satisfied.
In private, he is naturally asking for more status from the Football Association. Because now that Tottenham have achieved results, he has enough confidence to speak and build momentum in the media. He can also do it.
Sometimes, this kind of momentum building is necessary. The football association of any country is not a particularly clean thing. In Li Bin’s memory, the Italian Football Association did something unethical, forcibly supporting Milan to become the top three for the sake of Serie A points.
, and the English Football Association, compared with Italy
The Football Association is not much better. If Tottenham can achieve good results, but in the end, it is blacklisted by the Football Association, it must be very unacceptable. What Levy is doing now is also imposing on the Football Association.
Pressure on the Football Association to accept this changed fact.
For a team to rise to become a giant, efforts in all aspects are indispensable. The results on the court, the efforts of the players, and of course the management's management work.
Li Bin is very happy with Tottenham's progress, but looking at this year's Europa League lineup, Li Bin feels that his Tottenham team has really made a lot of changes - Arsenal, Manchester City, and now the top three in the Portuguese Super League.
Everything has passed, and Liverpool also entered the final round. Tottenham accounted for a large part of the reason why they were able to enter the Champions League. These aspects make Li Bin feel a little emotional when he thinks about it.
Any small variable may make a big difference to the team. You have to pay attention to all these details.
However, things are often so unexpected. Just when Li Bin was still sighing that his team needed to pay more attention and be careful not to capsize in the gutter, but when the game did not go well, in the sixteenth round,
Tottenham lost.
When they met the traditional top four in the league, they won two and drew two, without losing a game. However, in the sixteenth round of the league, when they played against the newly promoted Wolves, they actually lost.
"Tottenham's breakout in the Champions League made the players so happy that when they returned to the league, they didn't know how to play football. They could lose even if they played against a team like Wolves, Tottenham said.
It's a contender for the league title, who would believe that?"
Li Bin is somewhat responsible for Tottenham's defeat. Because the Wolves' strength is relatively poor, Li Bin once again used Neuer as the starter, hoping to let him recover better. Unfortunately, Li Bin
Bin ignored Wolves' set-piece offensive capabilities. During the game, Wolves relied on their set-piece offense to break through Tottenham twice. Although Suarez worked hard to get a goal back, they still lost in the end.
game.
The media was in an uproar after losing this game. None of them expected that Tottenham would make such a big mistake at this critical moment. When the Christmas schedule was approaching, the points gap with Chelsea actually widened.
The score has reached 5 points, which undoubtedly increases the pressure on Tottenham. 2 points is just a difference in one game. As long as you play well, you can wait for Chelsea.
If they make a mistake, Tottenham may be able to easily catch up with their opponent. However, the point difference is now as much as 5 points. This is not a score that can be caught up just by waiting for the opponent to make a mistake. Manchester United's Ferguson once said that after half a season,
, if the difference between the league points and the top spot is more than 3 points, it is not qualified to compete for the championship. If what he said is correct, then Tottenham is now considered a team that is not qualified to compete for the championship.
Due to the unexpected loss in the league, the points gap between Tottenham and Chelsea reached 5 points. After the game, Neuer was greeted with accusations that he was in poor condition and not as strong as Handa.
The argument that Norwich is unreliable and not worthy of being Tottenham's starting goalkeeper has been rampant for a while.
"This is not Neuer's mistake alone, it is a mistake made by the whole team. Such a mistake should not be borne by him alone."
In response to this, Li Bin did not pressurize Neuer when speaking to the outside world, but placed the responsibility on all the players.
The Wolves are not very strong, in fact they can even be said to be very weak. They were unable to break through their gate for a long time during the game, and they were able to break through the gate twice. This is not because Tottenham is not strong, but because after qualifying for the Champions League group stage,
The players' mentality also became arrogant. They no longer paid attention to their opponents in the league and believed that their opponents in the league were vulnerable. This was the most important reason why they carelessly lost in the game.
"I know you think it's great that you have reached the Champions League group stage. I know that you have played so far and have created good results that Tottenham has never had before. But does this make you satisfied? You are still far away!
"In the locker room, Li Bin looked at his players in a very stern voice, "It's just a knockout match, not a trophy.
It's just second place in the league. You have never seen what a league championship is! If you can be satisfied with this, then there is no need to stay. What I want is a player who can never be satisfied. What I want is a player who can continue
Forge ahead players, cheer me up from now on, the Christmas schedule is coming, we can’t lose a game!”
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ps: What I wrote yesterday was supposed to be about Yaya Toure taking a rest, but I forgot about it later and wrote that he scored a goal. I apologize here.