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Crazy Tottenham Hotspur!

This is an illusion shared by fans and media around the world after the North London team beat Manchester United 5-0 at home, because they discovered that Tottenham Hotspur has achieved ten goals in the Premier League so far this season. Three consecutive wins, and the momentum is overwhelming, the goals are coming in waves, and the defense is very impenetrable.

But these are not surprising things. What is really shocking and weak is the diversity of football tactics and the strength of the team that Tottenham Hotspur has shown in the past dozen games. The depth of the bench.

According to the British Sun, no team in England can stop Tottenham Hotspur, because the Manchester duo were originally the last two teams this season that were not defeated by Tottenham Hotspur, and they also have the ability to snipe Tottenham Hotspur. Naham Hotspur's team, but now, both teams have suffered humiliating defeats, which makes all fans marvel and regret.

Perhaps, everyone sympathizes with the weak, so when Tottenham Hotspur is so strong, many fans will inevitably hope that a team can stand up, snipe Tottenham Hotspur, and prevent him from continuing. This swept across the English football world.

But the wish is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

After playing Manchester United, the 13th and 4th rounds of the Premier League were scheduled to be held in mid-week. Tottenham Hotspur once again welcomed the London team Fulham. Ye Qiu once again made a substantial rotation of the team. Still, they defeated Fulham 2:1 in the away game and won another victory.

Three days later, they challenged Black Cat Sunderland away, and Tottenham Hotspur defeated the away game 3:1.

In this battle, Manchester City drew 1:1 away with Southampton, Chelsea lost 2:3 away to Stoke City, Arsenal drew 1:1 at home with Everton, Manchester City lost 0:1 at home to Newcastle, and only Liverpool , defeated West Ham United 4:1 at home.

Judging from this round of competition, Tottenham Hotspur has undoubtedly once again established its position as the leader of the Premier League. The impressive record of fifteen consecutive victories, especially the amazing offensive power and unbreakable defense, have made All competitors are in despair, and everyone is clearly aware that this season's Premier League will be a one-man show for Tottenham Hotspur.

After Mourinho was unexpectedly upset by Stoke City in an away game, he said with regret, "No team can shake Tottenham Hotspur's championship foundation this season because this team is too strong. !”

"Everything has been doomed since before the start of the league. The Premier League championship has never been in suspense. It only belongs to Tottenham Hotspur, while the other nineteen teams compete desperately for the second place. That's all. That’s all!”

At the same time, Mourinho also mentioned one thing, that is, the fighting power of Tottenham Hotspur players this season is amazing, "We all have to admit that this is Ye Qiu's last season. The player and his team naturally hope to give him a decent ending!”

While Mourinho publicly admitted that there was no hope of winning the championship, Liverpool's Benitez said that Tottenham Hotspur are indeed the favorites to win the championship, but they are not yet in a situation where they can win the championship in advance because everything is still there. Accidents can happen.

"Tottenham Hotspur has indeed reached very amazing heights this season. They have super overall combat effectiveness, and also have a strong substitute lineup and bench thickness, so they can perform at their own level on multiple fronts, but Just like in the past few seasons, Tottenham Hotspur's multi-front operation may eventually cause them to be distracted and ultimately frustrated on some fronts, such as the Premier League!”

"Winning the Premier League for five consecutive seasons, I believe that Tottenham Hotspur players will feel a little slack in their hearts. Now that they are far ahead, this slack mentality will be more obvious, and these are our opportunities for reversal and hope!"

When Mauro Tassotti attended the press conference instead of Ye Qiu, he refuted Benitez's remarks. He believed that the team is united and no one will slack off in any game. They all have only one idea, and that is to win every game.

This is Tottenham Hotspur’s belief!

Not only Mauro Tassotti, the team captain Thiago Silva also said in an interview with the media that the team will not be careless, "I want to say that this is a unique season because After this season, the person we respect most will leave us, so we can only say goodbye to him in the best way we can."

Franck Ribery, the team's superstar and the most eye-catching star in 2013, also emotionally expressed in an interview with the media that he hopes to use his hard work to make Ye Qiu's last season a perfect one. period.

"This was a joint decision from all of us in the locker room!"

In an interview with French Football Magazine, Messi also said that he supports Franck Ribery for this year's FIFA Ballon d'Or. At the same time, he also appealed to all his teammates that he hopes to be able to win Tottenham in Ye Qiu's last season. Naham Hotspur pushed to the top.

Tottenham Hotspur's unified stance, as well as the atmosphere within the team, and the coaching staff's conscious efforts to strengthen the protection and vigilance of players in this regard, make the team seem very stable.

In midweek, in the final round of the Champions League group stage, Tottenham Hotspur welcomed Shakhtar Donetsk at home.

Tottenham, who had already qualified from the group as the top team, met Shakhtar Donetsk, who had to fight hard to qualify from the group. The two sides played fiercely at Stratford Stadium.

In this game, Ye Qiu arranged a full substitute lineup, but in the 77th minute of the second half, with Phil Jones's shot, Tottenham beat Shakhtar Donetsk 1:0 at home, winning six consecutive group victories, and sending Lucescu's Shakhtar Donetsk to the Europa League.

The young 18-year-old Januzaj assisted Phil Jones. In addition, Tottenham also arranged two young players to come on as substitutes in this game, the 17-year-old Belgian teenager Andreas Pereira and the 17-year-old French genius striker Neil Maupay, but neither of these two players performed too well.

After all the games in the Champions League group stage, Tottenham Hotspur qualified as the first place, while Leverkusen beat Shakhtar Donetsk and qualified as the second place in the group. Shakhtar Donetsk could only play in the Europa League, while Real Sociedad was eliminated from the European competition.

For a time, the German media went from criticizing Tottenham Hotspur to praising it now, which fully demonstrated that the media people had no integrity at all, because Tottenham Hotspur only did one thing from beginning to end, that is, to play well in every game.

If calculated by strength, Leverkusen is indeed not as good as Shakhtar Donetsk, and Ye Qiu is very sure of this.

Unlike Tottenham Hotspur, Benitez's Liverpool had to fight with Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga in the last round in order to qualify as the first place in the group. Although Liverpool finally defeated Bayern Munich away, according to the ranking rules of the Champions League group stage, Liverpool finally fell to second place in the group.

Benítez was also helpless because his team could have scored more goals. Guardiola's Bayern Munich was not as strong as last season this season, especially after reaching the Champions League final for two consecutive seasons, but failed to win any goals in both seasons, which was a huge blow to morale.

But because of this fight, Liverpool once again lost at Stratford Stadium when they challenged Tottenham Hotspur away after returning to the Premier League. Messi scored the only goal for Tottenham Hotspur.

After this round of the Premier League, the entire Tottenham Hotspur team set off to Morocco, Africa, to participate in the Club World Cup.

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This year's Club World Cup has a major eye-catching feature, that is, in the second round of the qualifying matches, there were two upsets, which led to the promotion of two dark horse teams, one of which was the AFC Champions League champion Guangzhou Evergrande, and the other was the Moroccan local team Casablanca Raja Athletic.

According to the semi-final draw ceremony, Tottenham Hotspur's opponent is the Moroccan local team Casablanca Raja.

Tottenham Hotspur arrived in Morocco two days in advance, dragging their tired bodies, because for the Premier League giants, playing such a game really doesn't have much gold content. Their strongest enemies are not from the court, but from jet lag and fatigue.

In the past, the biggest highlight of the Toyota Cup was the South American champion against the European champion, but the problem is that with the influx of more and more young South American players in Europe in recent years, the level of European teams and football has become higher and higher, while the level of football in South America has gradually declined, and it looks more like a nursing home.

It's not just the gap in player quality. At the tactical level, South American teams still maintain their traditional characteristics, but Europe's current tactical level has been raised to a new height, which makes the football competitiveness of the two regions actually not on the same level.

Therefore, almost everyone felt that Tottenham's trip to the Club World Cup was more like a training trip. After all, no one would believe that Tottenham, who was invincible in the Premier League and the Champions League, would lose to these teams.

The organizing committee was very thoughtful in its arrangements. From arriving in Morocco to the hotel, there was no harassment along the way. The first thing the team did after checking in was to sleep, and they didn't get up until almost noon the next day, because they arrived in the early morning.

Under the 24-hour protection of more than 100 security personnel, Tottenham enjoyed super high-standard treatment in Morocco. According to a senior Moroccan government official, Tottenham hoped that Tottenham would show mercy to Casablanca Raja in the game.

This is a joke, and no one will take it seriously.

And Tottenham defeated Casablanca Raja 2:0 in the semi-finals with a half-main and half-substitute lineup.

Everyone can see that Tottenham did not give their best, but Moroccan fans are still crazy about this Premier League giant. There are crowds outside almost every training session. All the fans just want to see the style of Tottenham. Even in this game, there are more fans cheering for Tottenham than for Casablanca, which is playing at home.

In another game, Guangzhou Evergrande was upset again, defeating Atletico Mineiro, which has Ronaldinho in Brazil, 3:2 and successfully advanced to the final. This immediately caused a huge response in China, and countless fans cheered, because in the eyes of many people, Tottenham is also a Chinese team.

For a while, countless Chinese fans cheered, and even some die-hard fans of Guangzhou Evergrande believed that the team they supported had a chance to upset, after all, they had the world's top coach Lippi.

Ye Qiu gave a very high evaluation of the fact that this partner of Tottenham Hotspur could reach the final.

"After coming to Morocco, I have been studying the game videos of Guangzhou Evergrande. Lippi is very good at defeating the strong with the weak. I am very familiar with him, so I know that I always have to be extra careful against him, because he is very, very dangerous. He is a very cunning and experienced hunter!"

After a pause, Ye Qiu laughed again and said, "But unfortunately, we Tottenham Hotspur are not prey!"

Although Ye Qiu was very dissatisfied with the schedule of the Club World Cup in private, because in order to participate in the Club World Cup, Tottenham Hotspur missed a League Cup and a League, which led to Tottenham Hotspur having to compress the schedule after the winter break, and this cup competition did not make much sense to Ye Qiu.

But when he was interviewed, he still praised the Club World Cup in a very high-sounding manner, almost describing it as an intercontinental event of great significance, and even describing the difficulty of winning this event as almost comparable to the Champions League. In particular, Ye Qiu was very grateful for the special protection and care given to Tottenham by the organizing committee.

Similarly, Lippi said in an interview that Tottenham is the strongest team in today's football world.

"Tomorrow's game will definitely not be easy, because our opponent is Tottenham!"

Lippi said that facing Tottenham, it is unrealistic for any team to talk about attacking, especially for Guangzhou Evergrande, whose more realistic goal is to do a solid job of their own defense, limit Tottenham's attack, and then patiently wait for opportunities.

"The result of every game is that the strong side wins, but it will definitely leave hope and opportunities for the weak side, so we must maintain a winning heart, don't have any pressure, and play at the level of usual training, that's enough!"

And this time Lippi also showed his pre-match motivational side. He encouraged the players in the locker room before the game, saying that the players should take advantage of the opportunity to play against a strong team like Tottenham Hotspur to let the world remember their names.

Sure enough, at the beginning of the game, Guangzhou Evergrande showed their tenacious fighting spirit. They were very organized in defense, almost retreating across the board, and every player seemed to be in high spirits. During the game, they very tenaciously retreated to their own 30-meter area, and everyone showed a bloody spirit of defending the goal to the death.

Tottenham Hotspur played very confidently and calmly from the beginning. Ye Qiu arranged Pirlo to start this game, and the midfield partners Ramsey and Pogba, both of whom are players with excellent ball control ability, so Tottenham Hotspur naturally controlled the midfield, and the defense line even advanced to Guangzhou Evergrande's half.

The game was one-sided, and no one was surprised by this situation. It would be strange if it was not one-sided, so Ye Qiu and Lippi looked very calm and composed, and even smiled at each other once.

But Guangzhou Evergrande was still inferior to them in skills. After half an hour of entanglement, Evergrande's physical fitness declined sharply. Tottenham Hotspur completely controlled the advantage on the field. Lewandowski once pulled to the right to compete for the header, Messi dribbled the ball inside and passed it diagonally to the left, and Ribery inserted a small angle shot and scored, 1:0!

After scoring the goal, Tottenham Hotspur adopted the usual offensive tactics, while Lippi kept kicking the ball on the sidelines, asking the players to be careful. Unfortunately, four minutes later, Messi cut in from the right and passed three defenders of the opponent in a row, and then pushed the ball into the goal in the penalty area, 2:0!

After scoring two goals in a row, Tottenham Hotspur had a great momentum to pursue the victory. Kyle Walker made a cross from the right, and the Evergrande central defender in the penalty area headed the ball. Lewandowski stopped the ball with his chest and shot low, and scored again, 3:0!

In less than ten minutes, three consecutive goals made all the fans feel excited, but at the same time they also felt it was a pity, because the gap between Guangzhou Evergrande and its opponents was still too big, so big that it was difficult to make up with tenacious fighting spirit.

In the second half, Lippi also made substitutions to strengthen the team's defense. Tottenham Hotspur began to save some strength. Ye Qiu also used up three substitutions early, replacing the three key players including Ribery, Messi and Lewandowski.

But in a defensive foul in the frontcourt, Tottenham Hotspur seized the opportunity again. Pirlo scored a direct free kick and locked the score for Tottenham Hotspur at 4:0!

After that, Tottenham Hotspur relaxed its offensive and did not press aggressively. Instead, it slowed down the pace and used up the rest of the game. It was obvious that it wanted to leave some face for Guangzhou Evergrande. After all, this is also the team of Ye Qiu's motherland.

In the end, Tottenham Hotspur defeated Guangzhou Evergrande 4:0 and won the Club World Cup!

After the game, Ye Qiu first walked over and had a good chat with Lippi for a while. Then, when accepting interviews with the media, he spoke highly of Lippi and Guangzhou Evergrande. At the same time, he affirmed Guangzhou Evergrande's strength and progress, but also hoped that this game would make more people clearly aware of the gap between the domestic football level and the top European football level.

"There is no shortcut in football. We must follow the procedures and move forward step by step. I hope that the details and gaps presented in this game can help domestic football players to better understand their own positioning!"

"Because only by knowing yourself clearly can you know how to go in the future!"