Football King Bale

The game between Tottenham and Manchester City is the end of the 17th round of the Premier League. With the end of this game, the ten games of the 17th round of the Premier League, except Stoke City's home game against Fulham, which was postponed due to weather, It's all over.

In this round, apart from Arsenal being tied by Burnley in the away game, the strong teams have won one after another. Manchester United won Wolves 3-0, Chelsea defeated Portsmouth, the deputy squad leader, at Stamford Bridge 2-1, Villa away Won Sunderland 2:0, Liverpool won Wigan 2:1 at home.

The ranking of the top five in the standings has not changed much, but the changes after the fifth place have been great. Losing Manchester City fell to eighth, and winning Liverpool rose to sixth.

After the game, the game that the media was hyping up was undoubtedly the game between Tottenham and Manchester City. For example, Tottenham continued to lead the Premier League standings, Bell led the Premier League scorer list alone, and Mark Hughes was about to be dismissed. is the focus of media attention.

Amid all the commotion, Tottenham ushered in the 18th round of the Premier League, which is also the last game before Christmas.

Although less than 72 hours had elapsed since the last game, Lao Lei still brought his full lineup north to Lancashire to challenge Blackburn, known as the violent game.

Bell still made his debut in this game, but because of the recent too frequent games, Bell's condition was a bit bad. After the 90 minutes of the game, he assisted Crouch once and failed to score.

The most dazzling performance on Tottenham today was Crouch, who scored twice to help Tottenham beat the home team Blackburn 2-0.

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Bell never expected that his failure to score a goal in this round has also become the focus of attention of the major media. He didn't know until he saw the news after the game that he almost broke the Premier League single-season scoring record.

In the 2002-2003 season, Ruud van Nistelrooy scored consecutive goals from the 31st round of the Premier League until the end of the season, achieving 8 consecutive Premier League rounds with goals. Then in the first and second rounds of the 2003-2004 season, Van Nistelrooy continued his scoring pace and achieved 10 consecutive goals across seasons.

This season, Bell has scored in eight consecutive rounds from the 10th to the 17th round of the league, with a total of 13 goals.

But in fact, Bell has already tied Van Nistelrooy's consecutive scoring record, because he also scored goals in the 7th and 8th rounds of the Premier League this season, and then did not play in the 9th round. In other words, excluding the 9th round in which he did not play, Bell has actually scored in ten consecutive Premier League games, and this is still a single season.

The news exposed by the media caused a huge sensation. Only then did people realize how stable this twenty-year-old young man has been in these three months!

Another focus of attention in this round of the Premier League is Mark Hughes, who lost at White Hart Lane in the last round. He was not fired after the last round of the game as The Sun speculated.

In this round, he continued to lead Manchester City against the black cats Sunderland at home.

Ninety minutes later the score was 4:3 with the home team ahead.

After an exciting goal battle, Manchester City finally managed to win their second victory in nearly 11 league games. Some people joked that it was Mark Hughes' brother who saw that Hughes was in such a miserable state and gave him warmth at a critical moment.

Hughes and Sunderland's head coach, Steve Bruce, played together at Manchester United for 8 years from 1988 to 1995, and were important participants and witnesses of Manchester United's rise.

However, Bruce's warmth was in vain, because after the game, Manchester City officially announced that Mark Hughes was dismissed as head coach. The new head coach is the former Inter Milan coach Mancini. Led Manchester City on Boxing Day.

It turned out that Mark Hughes was able to coach one more round, but the management of Manchester City considered that there would be a new game less than 72 hours after the loss to Tottenham, and the time was too tight, so Mark Hughes didn't let Mark Hughes go out immediately.

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In the last round before Christmas, there were not only a lot of attention, but even more unexpected surprises.

The biggest upset among them is undoubtedly that the Red Devils Manchester United lost 0:3 to the mid-range team Fulham in the away game!

At Craven Cottage, the performance of the Red Devils was a disaster. The attacking players forgot to wear their shooting boots, while the defensive players were sleepwalking.

Perhaps, the Red Devils soldiers are already looking forward to how to play the upcoming Christmas dinner.

Fortunately, Manchester United is not the only giant team that has been exposed to upsets this round. Before their game started, the rival Red Army Liverpool had already lost 0:2 in the away game. Moreover, their opponent was Portsmouth, the deputy squad leader of the Premier League!

For the relegation of the Pompey Legion, Liverpool generously gave three points. Perhaps, the tradition of the Red Army robbing the rich and giving to the poor has begun to take shape now.

Of course, Manchester United and Liverpool fans need not be too sad, because Chelsea also stopped and waited for them. In the London derby with West Ham United, Chelsea drew 1:1 with the Hammers in the relegation zone.

The two main competitors lost points in a row, and the happiest thing is Tottenham. After 18 rounds, they topped the Premier League standings with 45 points, followed by Chelsea with 41 points and Manchester United with 37 points.

They have already locked the half-time championship in advance!

However, the major media are still not optimistic about Tottenham's ability to maintain this point advantage until the end of the season, because compared with the other three major leagues in the four major leagues, the Premier League's half-time championship is the least convincing. In the 17-year history of the Premier League, only 8 half-time champions have led to the final (5 times for Manchester United, 2 times for Chelsea, and 1 time for Blackburn). The success rate is only 47%.

Counting the major reversals of the four major leagues, the Premier League is undoubtedly the most. In the 1997/98 season, the first year of the Wenger era, the Gunners finally reversed the Red Devils by 1 point and won the championship after falling behind Manchester United by 10 points at half-time. However, in the 2002/03 season, after the Gunners led Chelsea by 2 points and became the half-time champion, they were reversed by Manchester United, falling behind by 5 points and losing the championship.

And the most classic reversal to win the championship, of course, belongs to the Red Devils Manchester United. In the middle of the 1995-96 season of the Premier League, Newcastle ranked first in the Premier League standings, and they once led Manchester United by as much as 12 points. Magpies fans believed that their team would usher in another championship after the long wait for the championship in 1927. However, in the last few weeks of this season, Manchester United made a rapid progress all the way. By the end of the league, the Red Devils won the championship by 4 points. In other words, in 19 games in half a season, Manchester United pulled Newcastle by 16 points!

Premier League teams such as Liverpool and Arsenal have not even tasted the taste of "starting and ending well". In the Premier League, the gold content of the half-time championship is the lowest. It seems that "the revolution has not yet succeeded", and Tottenham still need to work hard to win the first Premier League championship!

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Of course, the Tottenham players at this moment don't know that they have already secured the Premier League half-time championship this season, because Chelsea's game will not start until 4 pm tomorrow.

After the game against Blackburn, the Tottenham team returned to London.

Because of the team's record this season, the coach Lao Lei was very happy and decided to give the players a few days of Christmas leave after holding a Christmas dinner in London tomorrow.

Of course, because Tottenham will play at noon on Boxing Day, this holiday is not long, and it is less than three days, from the morning of the 21st to the afternoon of the 23rd, and then the team will combine on the night of the 23rd, and on the 24th. There will be training on the 25th and 25th to prepare for the Boxing Day game.

However, on Christmas Day, the team only trains for half a day, and everyone can spend Christmas with their families at home in the afternoon.

In the Tottenham team, most of the family members of the players live in London. Those who live alone like Bell are really rare.

The team did not practice on the morning of the 20th. Everyone slept late at home, and then slowly got up. In the evening, they went to Libertine Bar, the most expensive Mayfair district in London, where Lao Lei had booked for the Christmas party.