Football King Bale

After participating in the match against Rawchtenstein, Bell bit the bullet and expressed to the national team coach John Toshack the idea of ​​not participating in the national team's warm-up match for the next few international match days.

Toshack is quite open-minded. He knows that Bell's situation in the club has not been very good in the past two years. He has only started to show signs of improvement in the last two games. Now he must go all out to fight for the main position in the club. So he promised Bell that he would not be called up for the warm-up match of the national team before next year's European Cup qualifiers.

Bell is very grateful for Toshack's promise, because Tottenham's next game will be very intensive. Within half a month from October 17th, Tottenham will usher in four games, three of which will be In the league, one is the League Cup one-eighth match with Everton.

November's schedule is relatively easy, with only three league games. Of course, this is excluding the national team competition. If Bell joins the national team at that time and plays some insignificant warm-up matches, it will bring him tremendous pressure.

After all, the Premier League team will usher in a real devil's schedule in December.

Take Tottenham for example, they have a full six league games to play in December. And if they beat Everton in the League Cup to advance to the quarter-finals, they will have to add a quarter-final of the League Cup.

And these games are the key battles for Bell's upper position. Only by performing well in these games can he become the core of the team.

Similarly, only by performing well in these games and helping the team win more games can Tottenham not fall behind in the competition and finally retain the team's hope of winning the league.

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However, life is unsatisfactory in all likelihood. Bell did not get even a minute of playing time in this game. He sat on the bench for 90 minutes.

This is not because Tottenham players performed too well on the field and there is no need to make changes to the lineup, but because Tottenham performed very poorly in this field and there are not enough substitutions.

In fact, there is no way to do this. As a powerful Premier League player, Tottenham have too many international players. Routinely contracted the FIFA virus after national team match days.

That is to say, Tottenham's opponents in this field are too weak, otherwise they are likely to suffer a defeat.

Tottenham's opponent in this game is Portsmouth, the deputy squad leader of the Premier League. How weak is the Pompey Legion as the deputy squad leader of the Premier League? Luncai had a difficult away game with a small 1-0 victory over the Wolves, who were also in poor condition, and got the first point of the season.

The reason why the Pompey Legion has such a poor performance is not only from the field, but even the main reason is from outside the field, or directly because they have encountered a financial crisis and it is difficult to pay salaries to employees and players.

As the saying goes, there is food in the warehouse and there is no panic in the heart. Players can't even get their wages on time. How can they have the heart to play football? Coupled with the bad news that the team has changed owners twice within six weeks, the heart of Portsmouth has been scattered.

However, facing such an unintentional opponent, Tottenham almost capsized in the gutter, and almost failed to retreat from the small harbor in the southwest.

In fact, Tottenham got off to a good start in this game, they took a 2:0 lead in the first half. In the 29th minute, Kranjca took a corner kick and Ledley King scored with a header. In the 45th minute, Janus made a cross from the right, and Defoe scored the 10th goal of the season from close range.

Maybe it was because the team played well in the first half, the soldiers were a little bit flustered, and they played a little carelessly after the second half started.

What's worse is that it's not just the players who are a little drifting, even the old head coach Redknapp is a little drifting. He replaced the striker Crouch in the 56th minute of the game. The mediocre captain Robbie Keane.

In fact, this substitution is unnecessary.

Although Robbie Keane didn't perform well in this game, he didn't make any mistakes, but Lao Lei didn't know why he was going crazy, so he replaced him inexplicably.

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Captain Robbie Keane had just been replaced shortly after Portsmouth quickly pulled back a city. In the 59th minute of the game, Portsmouth launched an attack, Finnan crossed from the right, and former Tottenham midfielder Boateng shot into the near corner from far.

As the saying goes, misfortune never comes singly. Just after Portsmouth tied the score at 1:2, Tottenham players went crazy again. Shortly after Tottenham kicked off again, their striker Defoe maliciously trampled on Portsmouth defender Mokona, and the referee directly sent him off with a red card.

As a result, Tottenham had to play one less player in the next half an hour.

After gaining the numerical advantage, the Portsmouth players saw the hope of scoring points at home. Although they can't even guarantee to get their salary on time, everyone is a professional player after all, and they still hope that the team can get more points. The spirits of the Portsmouth players quickly rose, and they gradually suppressed Tottenham by taking advantage of their numbers.

Lao Lei couldn't sit still anymore and decided to adjust the team lineup. Soon, in the 66th minute of the game, Lao Lei replaced the strong offensive and defensive Kranica with the stronger defensive Palacios to strengthen the defense.

However, although Lao Lei has strengthened the team's defense, it is not enough to make up for the team's numerical disadvantage. In the next twenty minutes, Tottenham were still severely suppressed, and the scene was very ugly.

Amidst the cheers of more than 15,000 home fans, Portsmouth, which had been in a quagmire before, played very proactively, as if it might equalize the score at any time.

Lao Lei knew that the team's defense had to be further strengthened, otherwise it would be difficult for Tottenham to escape from Fratton Park.

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In the 87th minute of the game, the old Redknapp played the last card in his hand. He replaced the midfielder Huddlestone with the central defender Dawson. leading edge.

In fact, at this time Tottenham has changed 900, because even the high center Crouch has retreated into the small penalty area, using his height advantage to help defend Portsmouth's crosses again and again.

Seeing Lao Lei's substitution, Bell was very disappointed. When the team is at a disadvantage, shouldn't it maintain a certain amount of offensive power? This kind of dismissal that completely gives up attacking is just like in a Sanda match, one party squats on the ground with his head in his arms, and the other party punches and kicks you.

Bell believes that in this game, if Lao Lei replaced Defoe after he was sent off with a red card, the team would definitely not be so passive.

Bell's confidence comes from the fact that he got a chance to draw a lottery after beating Bolton with a free kick in the last round. He got an Evra experience card in this lottery.

At his peak, Evra was the strongest left-back in the world. At the full-back position, he had the long-distance attack like a winger, and also had rock-solid defensive hardness. Evra not only possessed excellent defensive skills, but because he once Having played as a striker, he also made a contribution that cannot be ignored in terms of offense.

Tottenham played quite passively in the last 30 minutes, but their strength is still there after all. Bell believes that if he comes on the field, he may be able to expand his lead by taking advantage of the counterattack opportunity.

It can only be said that when the team fell into a numerical disadvantage, Lao Lei was still too conservative and too timid.

Fortunately, Tottenham and Lao Lei have good personalities, or Portsmouth's offensive ability is too poor, they failed to score the second goal in the end, which allowed Tottenham to be lucky from Fratton Park. Take away three points.

It is not a modest statement to say that Tottenham was lucky to take away three points. It is fair to say that Tottenham really "curled up three points" in this game.

Of course, Tottenham cannot be regarded as the luckiest team in this round, Manchester United is the lucky one favored by God.

In this round of the game, Manchester United also suffered from the FIFA virus, and the players' condition is not good. However, luck can't stand on the side of the Red Devils.

At the beginning of the first half, Manchester United made a fantastic start. In the 4th minute, Manchester United organized an attack from the left. Evra received a wonderful pass from Giggs and made a pass. Owen shook his head from 6 yards and attacked the goal. Knight, who wanted to block the ball, had a wrong center of gravity. Goal, although Samuel struggled to block in front of the goal line, he was still half a mile away and watched the ball go into the net.

In the end, Manchester United, sitting at Old Trafford at home, relied on Knight's own goal to defeat Bolton, because the final score was 2:1.

After the lucky victory, Manchester United remained unbeaten in the last 7 rounds of the league with 6 wins and 1 draw. They were undefeated in 15 games in the Theater of Dreams. With this victory, the Red Devils scored 22 points, leading Chelsea by one point and returning to the top position in the standings.

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If Manchester United and Tottenham were lucky to score three points, then the blues Chelsea and the reds Liverpool are unlucky representatives in this round.

Chelsea went to Villa Park to challenge Aston Villa in this round. At the end of the game, Aston Villa reversed and defeated Chelsea 2-1 at home. The Blues suffered their second defeat this season.

If you want to choose the most depressed person in the match between Chelsea and Villa, Lampard will undoubtedly bear the brunt because he sent an own goal assist in the game. It was Lampard's "own goal" assist that tilted the balance of victory and defeat. In the view of "Sky Sports", his performance in this game was like sleepwalking, and he completely lost the fighting style of the past.

It's not fair to single Lampard as a target. In fact, Malouda, who had an eye-catching performance in the first half, also lost his momentum in the second half; the central defenders partner Terry and Carvalho were not as stable as before, and they were responsible for the team's two conceded goals. Responsibility.

In fact, why don't the Blue Army fighters want to play 12 points, but some of their international players really have more than enough energy, because they also suffered from the FIFA virus.

And Liverpool's loss was even more weird, because the "culprit" that caused them to lose the game 0:1 turned out to be a red balloon thrown into the field by Liverpool fans!