Chapter 292 It’s Time to Beat Spurs Again

Li Ang played for a full 90 minutes against Sunderland, and Mourinho gave him enough time to perform a hat trick.

But Li Ang didn't score his third goal in the game.

There was no way, in the remaining 30 minutes of the game.

Sunderland's defensive players would rather expose obvious defensive loopholes and let Ibrahimovic score easily than become the background board of Li Ang's hat trick.

But Li Ang was not upset. Being able to score two goals in this game had already exceeded his pre-match expectations.

If a hat trick was really that easy to achieve, there wouldn't be many strong forwards who might not be able to do it once in a single season.

After the 3-0 victory over Sunderland, no one at Chelsea had enough rest time.

Because on December 4, they will be at home to meet the challenge from their city rival Tottenham Hotspur.

In the past 13th round of the Premier League, Tottenham Hotspur just defeated Everton 2-1 and won two consecutive league victories.

In the 12th round of the league, they also defeated their opponent Hull City in the 90th minute.

Tottenham's recent performance is definitely not very good, at least it cannot achieve stable winning.

Although they are in a hot state of lore, Chelsea's players and coaches are also absolutely confident that they will not drag the game to the last minute to decide the outcome.

With the key lore in the last two games, Tottenham currently has 6 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses, with 22 points, surpassing Arsenal and West Ham United, and has come to the fourth place in the Premier League.

It can be said that after Pochettino took over Tottenham, at least in the first half of the new season, he handed in a very good league performance report.

In addition, Tottenham has now achieved the first place in the Europa League group stage, and Tottenham fans are 100% satisfied with Pochettino.

Mourinho already knows Pochettino very well. After all, before returning to the Premier League, he played against Pochettino in the La Liga.

And Mourinho has always given a high evaluation of Pochettino's coaching level.

Mourinho still gave full respect to this outstanding rising star in the coaching world.

After returning to the Cobham training base, the entire Chelsea team spent three days of intense preparation.

On the evening of December 3, amid the cheers of more than 40,000 Blues fans at home, Chelsea's players stepped onto the Stamford Bridge to start warming up.

Li Ang and Eriksson nodded to each other on the court, and they are also old friends.

However, in today's game, the Tottenham player that Li Ang paid the most attention to was not Eriksson, but Harry Kane, who was warming up in the other half of the area at the moment, and looked not strong and a little tall and thin.

After playing well at Tottenham last season, Kane did not have a short-lived performance.

In the new season, under the coaching of the new head coach Pochettino, he has given 7 goals and 2 assists in 13 league rounds.

As a 22-year-old young center who was still a substitute at Tottenham last season, Kane's progress this season has attracted the attention of countless fans and media.

Li Ang clearly understands that Kane's sudden outbreak and continuous improvement this season are largely due to his accumulation in the early stage of his career.

The previous training of being loaned out in the Championship League gave him rich game experience.

The gradual playing time in Tottenham in the previous two seasons also allowed him to avoid a lot of physical battles with Premier League defenders too early.

If young players want to gain a foothold in the Premier League, they still play the center position, excluding the black and hard players with extraordinary physical fitness.

Growing forwards are really not suitable to become the main force of the team too early and be forced to play a lot of games.

Today, Kane has passed the physical development period relatively "safely", with complete skills and solid shooting skills.

He can continue to gain weight to further enhance his physical confrontation ability.

For Kane, it is perfect to become the main center of Tottenham at the age of 22 and get a lot of top league appearances.

Serving as a substitute in the Tottenham first team for two consecutive seasons has given him a good adaptation period to the rhythm of the Premier League.

In the second half of last season, he performed well and proved that he was capable of taking the position of Tottenham's main center forward, which gave him a good public opinion environment.

If he plays as a main player too early, he will only be constantly lost in the strong stranglehold of the Premier League defenders.

If he comes out one or two seasons later, his talent will be wasted.

So this season is just right, his age is not too old, and his outbreak is just right.

At least in Pochettino's heart, he is already the cornerstone of the new Tottenham team.

"Harry, the kid with the same name as you on the opposite side is not easy to deal with. Are you sure you can take him down today?"

After the warm-up, Li Ang patted Maguire's broad shoulders and signaled him to look at Harry Kane in Tottenham with his eyes.

Maguire smiled shyly, but his tone in response to Li Ang was very confident.

"Don't worry, boss! He won't get the chance to break into our penalty area head-on. I will definitely knock him down in the most suitable position!"

Maguire patted his chest and made a look like you can teach me with confidence.

But when Leon heard his answer, the scene of him directly pulling Kane to the ground inexplicably emerged in his mind.

There was no way, other defenders told Li Ang that he would knock down his opponent. Li Ang must have thought that he would use his feet to stop the opponent's attack.

But Maguire has too many additional actions on his hands during defense.

The referee who officiated today's match against Tottenham happened to be "Blind Monk" Clattenburg again.

It would be okay if this heavyweight referee gave Chelsea the home whistle.

I'm afraid that he will suddenly get sick and make a big move to confront Maguire. Maybe he will directly give Maguire a yellow card in the first half!

Thinking of this, Li Ang also quickly signaled Maguire to look at his face and act accordingly.

After returning to the locker room, all Chelsea players listened to Mourinho's final tactical suggestions and completed their final mobilization.

Terry once again expressed his excitement that he must kill Tottenham.

The language is a bit vulgar, but other Chelsea players, including Li Ang, are also used to it.

Generally speaking, the Premier League teams in the London area basically have their own mortal enemies.

But it's really rare for Tottenham to be beaten to death by basically every London team they meet.

Apart from being a little unsure about the referee's penalty today, Li Ang was not too worried about winning against Tottenham.

Firstly, it's because Chelsea's current winning rate against Tottenham is simply ridiculously high, and the team has an absolute psychological advantage.

Secondly, of course it is because the current wave of Tottenham has not yet formed a complete body.

Ali was still accumulating game experience at his home team in League One and was not poached by Tottenham.

After Kyle Walker was reimbursed last season, he underwent abdominal surgery in September this year and is still recovering from his injury.

Son Heung-min has nothing to do with the current Tottenham Hotspur.

Li Ang actually doesn't know whether Son Heung-min will choose to transfer to Tottenham in next summer window after having his own butterfly effect.

Overall, there are actually only two and a half threatening players in this Tottenham team.

One is Harry Kane, one is Eriksen, and the remaining half is Lamela.

As for Lennon, the remnant of Tottenham in the same era as Bell, his breakthrough ability has declined too seriously.

After the game officially started that night, Li Ang also started pressing defense directly to limit Eriksen's performance.

Of course, in addition to giving his old friend a "surprise" right from the start, Li Ang also wanted to test the blind monk Clattenburg's whistle today.

After forcing back Eriksen's ball in the rib area twice, Li Ang saw that Clattenburg didn't seem to want to blow the whistle, so he made a relieved gesture to Maguire.

Next, Chelsea's overall confrontation intensity also increased a notch, and they disrupted Tottenham's offensive rhythm directly in the midfield.

After Moussa Dembélé was injured at the beginning of the season, Tottenham's midfield obviously lacked an outlet that could hold the ball and stabilize the organization.

The double defensive midfield combination of Bentaleb and Ryan Mason is just barely enough for Spurs who are fighting for the top four.

When Dembele returns from injury, the double midfielder combination formed by him and Dier will give Tottenham the strength to compete head-on with top teams.

Now, Tottenham, whose midfield strength has declined significantly, is not qualified to challenge Chelsea in the midfield.

At least Li Ang got the ball and jumped in. He didn't feel the defensive intensity he should have in Tottenham's defensive third zone.

Li Ang didn't have much of an impression. The young and tall midfielder named Bentaleb was almost knocked to the ground by Li Ang's advancement during an interception!

This made Li Ang doubt whether he really committed a foul.

Fortunately, the referee Clattenberg used his firm eyes to convince Li Ang that he did not commit a foul.

Tens of thousands of Chelsea fans at the scene also began to applaud Clattenberg's "correct" penalty.

Of course, in the eyes of Tottenham fans, whether Clattenburg is a wise warrior or a blind monk has to be discussed separately.

Pochettino brought more technical changes to Tottenham after taking office.

If Villas-Boas's previous coaching was laying the foundation for further tactical reforms at Tottenham, it would be better to say that.

Now Pochettino is the most correct person to deepen this change of course and completely shape Tottenham's technical style of play.

His approach is correct and in line with the future technical and tactical development trends of European football.

But before the lineup was completely transformed, Tottenham's technical players had not yet become "all-round" on their own ahead of his tactics.

In the future, the technical players in the strong teams in the Premier League will either have both confrontational ability and technology.

Either the endurance talent is full and you can't fight head-on, but at least there won't be too much risk of injury.

The current midfield four in Chelsea almost perfectly meet this condition.

Li Ang and Matic can both attack and fight.

Cross and De Bruyne are weaker than the two in terms of confrontation ability, but they are also above the average level of football midfielders, and they are both durable.

So don't say that Lao Mu always adopts a hard-on-horse strategy against Tottenham.

The characteristics of the players are obvious. Chelsea has a competitive advantage. If they don't take advantage of it, will they use their own shortcomings to attack each other's strengths?

This is the same as when Mourinho led Inter Milan and Real Madrid to fight against the flourishing Barcelona.

Everyone knows that to deal with Barcelona, ​​they need to accumulate heavy troops in the midfield, limit Messi's performance, and counterattack high balls.

What you are fighting is the pain points of the opponent's lineup and player abilities. The so-called tactical game is the same as the basic principle.

At the Stamford Bridge at this moment, Eriksen and Lamela are faced with the dilemma of being unable to compete with Chelsea's midfielder on both technical and confrontational levels.

Manchester United can pull back and pull back, but in the confrontation, Fellaini can pull out to compete with Chelsea, and there are Herrera and Rooney who retreat to act as midfielders to show their skills.

Eriksen's ability is not bad. If you pair him with bodyguards, he can also play a role in Tottenham's offensive organization on the wing and in the middle.

But now Pochettino just doesn't have such a suitable bodyguard role.

Bentaleb was almost bullied into tears by Li Ang's unscrupulous breakthrough.

Eriksen also had to retreat many times to help Bentaleb, who was supposed to wipe his ass.

Lamela performed even worse, and the most suitable position for him is actually on the wing.

But now that Dembele is injured and Dier needs to rest to adjust his condition, Pochettino can only put him in the middle.

As a result, good guy, he met a referee who encouraged both sides to increase the intensity of confrontation. His opponent was still Matic, and this was a kick in the balls!

Lamela really couldn't defeat Ma Ma, and couldn't save his face, so he used the fierceness of a South American player to try some small tricks.

As a result, he had just attacked Matic, and within two minutes, he was elbowed by Li Ang during a fight for the ball!

Lamela, who was almost out of breath, suddenly regained consciousness the moment she lay down.

Chelsea still can't do it!

There were many scenes of Li Ang clashing with leading players from other teams in the Premier League last season.

This guy is really good at what he does, and he is quite favored by the Football Association now, so he won't get banned for this kind of thing...

Lamela is a smart player. After lying on the ground for a long time to catch his breath, and looking at Li Ang who smiled and extended his hand to him, he finally had no choice but to reconcile.

After getting up and seeing the eager eyes of Matic, Terry and the surrounding Ibrahimovic, the remaining resentment in Lamela's heart quickly dissipated.

The midfield lost control, and Harry Kane in front could not receive much passing support, and even had to retreat from time to time to receive the ball.

However, Tottenham's current staffing cannot effectively shrink the half-time and switch to counterattack.

Because I simply can’t stand it.

The midfielder formed an offensive combination of Eriksen + Lamela + Lennon, and the pressing level could not put too much pressure on the Chelsea midfielder.

One of the two defensive midfielders was exploded by Li Ang, and the other was short in stature and could not shoulder the heavy task of blocking Chelsea's offensive.

If you can't defend, you can't defend, but if you insist on attacking, it won't be effective.

After a lot of tossing, Tottenham finally failed to survive even half an hour in the first half before Chelsea scored.

After receiving the ball from Li Ang, De Bruyne, who scored with a low shot from the right side of Tottenham's penalty area, celebrated with a fist pump.

Li Ang couldn't help but cover his face and laugh.

Ding Ding's low shot was from a very tricky angle and was played very beautifully, but the level of celebration was just too high.

But the flaws were not concealed. More than 40,000 Chelsea fans and the players on the field cheered and celebrated this wonderful goal!

And among the various cheers and slogans, one voice became more unified and louder!

"Fuck Tottenham to death! We **** are going to kill Tottenham!"