Chapter 538, Tottenham
In this game, Pochettino sent all the main players to deal with Manchester United.
Although it is an away game, although the opponent is a powerful defending champion, Pochettino's goal is still to get all three points.
In the League Cup semi-finals, Tottenham were eliminated by Manchester United, and Pochettino regretted losing his first chance to coach Tottenham. And in this game, he also has a revenge mentality and wants to compete with Manchester United.
In this game, Pochettino has a great psychological advantage-because of Kintag's suspension.
Pochettino knew that Kintag's suspension would definitely have a great impact on Manchester United players, so he took advantage of this and wanted to win Manchester United at home and take all three points.
As soon as the game started, Tottenham launched a fierce attack towards Manchester United's penalty area. Their top star Kane is in a hot state today. In the first ten minutes, he created three shooting opportunities. If it wasn't for De Gea's outstanding performance, Manchester United would have already conceded the ball.
Although Kane is Tottenham's arrow figure, Eriksson is Tottenham's real offensive core. In this game, Eriksson performed very well in the midfield. Every pass he made seemed to pose a great threat to Manchester United. Even Kante, who focused on marking him, felt that it was a bit difficult to defend the Dane. .
Compared with Tottenham's offense, Manchester United's offense is not weak. Although Kintag was suspended, with the loud cheers from Old Trafford, the Manchester United players also had high morale and fought their opponents at home.
In this game, Jin Taige arranged an absolute main lineup, just to make this game more secure. After all, today is his first suspended game, and a good start is very important.
In the 21st minute of the game, Manchester United's mad attack paid off.
In a corner attack, De Bruyne's pass was passed into the penalty area, Lewandowski headed the goal and knocked on the goal guarded by Lloris.
1 to 0! Manchester United took the lead at home!
Scholes and Phelan on the sidelines jumped up excitedly, they seemed to see the hope of victory!
The fans in the audience also made a huge noise, cheers and applause constantly inspired the Manchester United players on the field.
And at this time in the VIP room, Jin Taige also waved his fists excitedly: "Well done!"
"Coach Tiger, congratulations." Two officials from the FA said politely.
"Thank you." While excited, Jin Taige did not forget to shake his head. He wanted to see if there was sound from the earphones. But he was disappointed, there was no other sound at all except for the sound of electric current coming out of the earphone from time to time.
Jin Taige glanced at the instrument similar to a laptop next to him with great resentment, and smashed him thousands of times in his heart...
Although Manchester United took the lead, Pochettino was not in a hurry. Because it was within his expectations. It is unlikely that Tottenham will keep a clean sheet at Old Trafford. And what Manchester United depend on for survival this season is their super strong attack line. However, compared with the attack line, Manchester United's defense is not so good. Vidic is old and slow to turn around; Smalling is frizzy and not a great player; while Alonso and Raphael are strong offensively and weak defensively, their advantages and disadvantages are equally obvious.
In the next game, Tottenham continued to maintain a strong offensive power.
However, Tottenham seemed to be unlucky today. They fired anti-aircraft guns for several consecutive shots. Tottenham had seven shots in the first half, but only one hit within the range of the goal frame.
In the end, the first half ended 1-0.
During the intermission, Pochettino made tactical adjustments. He made the midfielder Eriksson closer to the striker to maintain a close contact distance. And several other midfielders also boldly attacked, trying to equalize the score earlier.
In the locker room of the home team, Scholes was also explaining tactics to the players, but he didn't make any special changes. He just emphasized the precautions arranged by Kintag before the game to the players again.
While taking advantage of the intermission, Kintag also made a request to two FA officials,
He wants to see his team doctor.
"Coach Tiger, what's wrong with you?" the FA official asked alertly.
Jin Taige pointed to his ear: "I'm not feeling well, I want to ask the team doctor to show me."
"This……"
Two FA officials whispered a few words and finally agreed to Kintag's request.
After all, Jin Taige was only suspended from the competition, not in confinement, and the basic medical treatment requirements must still be guaranteed.
However, two FA officials asked to go with Kinteg to the infirmary to prevent him from communicating tactical issues with the team's staff.
When he came to the infirmary, Jin Taige said to a nurse, "Please find Adolf, um, let him bring those two new assistants with him."
Jin Taige reported the names of two people. These two people were not Adolf's assistants, but technical experts of the two clubs. Jin Taige wanted two people to come over and check if there was something wrong with the earphones.
A few minutes later, Adolf came to the infirmary with two technical experts. Under the supervision of the FA officials, the three of them conducted a detailed examination of Kintag. Seeing two FA officials, the radio specialist from Manchester United temporarily left the house on the pretext of going out to get tools.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from Jin Taige's ear, which startled him. After Jin Taige collected himself, he realized that the earphones were able to produce sound again.
"Coach Tiger, because there are people from the FA in the room, I came out to talk to you. Are there any jammers, jammers or something like that in the VIP room where you watched the game?"
"Hmm." Kim Taige whispered through the microphone.
"Then everything became clear. It was that thing that interfered with our mobile phone signal and radio signal. We tried everything, but there was nothing we could do. So we have no way to communicate in this way."
"Is there really nothing you can do?" Jin Taige pretended to be talking about his condition, and he added, "I still feel dizzy."
"There is really no other way. I will take off the earphones in your ears in a while. You can only watch the game in the private room, and you can't do anything else."
"Ugh……"
When Jin Taige left the infirmary, he was a little depressed. Unexpectedly, the high-tech means that came up with did not come in handy.
At this time, two FA officials kindly asked: "Coach Tiger, if you are not feeling well, you can rest in the infirmary for a while, and we will accompany you."
"No need, I still want to be with the team." Saying that, Jin Taige entered the VIP room, sat on a chair, and kept a close eye on the situation on the field.
The second half of the game is about to begin.