green showman

Chapter 834 The crime of non-war
In the past 15 years, Tottenham has always occupied a seat among the top teams in the Premier League, while White Hart Lane Stadium is the most backward, smallest and least seated among these top teams.

This north London team has always maintained the characteristics of stronger offense than defense, even in the two years when Guardiola, Sun Wu, Hazard, and Sanchez were there.

This is one of the reasons why Van Gaal came to Tottenham. In the past summer, the Dutch team led by Van Gaal played a fascinating offensive football in the World Cup in Brazil.

However, in the past month, Van Gaal's life has not been easy. In the five games from December to now, Tottenham have only won one game, and the points have dropped to No.12.

When Sun Wu, wearing the captain's armband, came out of the player tunnel, there were applause and boos from the stands.

Among the clubs he has played for, Sun Wu has the weakest feeling for Tottenham. There are a large number of racial discrimination organizations among the fans of this North London team. Sun Wu has felt in advance what Sun Xingmin met later.

This is also one of the reasons why Sun Wu rejected the invitation of Chelsea, who is also a London team, before he moved to Manchester United.

"In this game, Manchester United played the main force. Both Rojo and Phil Jones played. Rojo took the rest mainly to play against Tottenham. He already has four yellow cards on him." Zhan Jun single-mouthed in the middle of the night. The highlight of the game, "However, Sun Wu's partner today is a bit surprising. Pochettino chose Lingard."

"Tottenham have not been having a good time recently. Van Gaal and Balotelli have completely fallen out. The team's atmosphere and record have declined rapidly. Today they formed a 4141 formation. Negredo came forward, behind Eriksson, Mata lined up with Lame** Bailey, with former Manchester United player Marouane Fellaini in the back."

"Okay, the game has officially started... Oh, oh, Manchester United grabbed the first time, and Lingard stole the ball!"

"Sun Wu broke through Fellaini...foul!"

"Only 8 seconds into the game, Manchester United intercepted the ball in the frontcourt, and Sun Wu made a free kick... Ah, Fellaini also received a yellow card!"

Van Gaal on the sidelines shook his hand to express his dissatisfaction, and he was issued a yellow card within seconds of the opening!
However, the Dutch coach also reflexively noticed the role of Lingard. This is a blue-collar player with strong running ability and no hesitation in physical strength. Although he is not as good as Fletcher in defense, he has a wide coverage and can give more support to his teammates.

In the next free kick, Griezmann tried his foot style, but the shot was a bit outrageous, at least five meters off the target.

The high-post press at the beginning seemed to be effective, but in the next 10 minutes, no goals were scored, not even a single shot on target. Sun Wu turned his head and glanced at Van Gaal. This guy paid a lot of attention to this game. ah.

After a few more minutes of attacking, there was still no progress on the United side. Instead, Eriksson sent a very penetrating through ball. Lamela broke through Phil Jones at high speed and finally blocked Rojo. The next barely managed shot hit the side netting.

Sun Wu frowned and carefully looked at Tottenham's midfield position. He said it was 5 midfielders, but in fact Lamela would rush forward to close the distance with Negredo, Mata was in charge of threading the needle behind them, Eriksson Both Dembele and Dembele dropped deep to assist Fellaini in defense.

The most important thing is that Manchester United's high press did not get much possession of the ball. Lukaku kept running inside and outside the penalty area, but he never had the opportunity to bully Blind.

"Recovered?" Jesús looked back at Pochettino, "Best wants to take a break."

"Well." Pochettino nodded, "The effect is not very good, there are physical factors."

A large number of games in a short period of time have affected the physical fitness of the Manchester United players. Except for Lingard, the other frontcourt players are a bit heavy, and the high position press has become "press but not grab".

Sun Woo decides to switch to Plan B.

After the 25th minute, Sun Wu commanded Manchester United to retreat and gave up the high position press, and started an oppressive defense instead, and let Griezmann's position inward, trying to fight Tottenham's counterattack.

However, Van Gaal was also calm, and Tottenham's offense had the charm of an old woman, advancing slowly.

Tottenham's passing and receiving are all safety first, and they will pass back whenever there is a sign of trouble. Basically, there is no such luck-based routine as crossing from the wing, but trying to find breakthrough opportunities in the ribs. Lamela and Mata became the most active person.

On the one hand, Tottenham's tactics are limited by the strength of the players, and on the other hand, it is also Van Gaal's tactical choice.

Van Gaal wanted to keep the ball under his feet, which is why he played Blind at the center back. The ability of the defender to play the ball is very important in this tactic.

Van Gaal, who has been in charge of Barcelona twice, is no stranger to Barcelona's pass and control system. After passing and controlling calmly, he suddenly changed his rhythm and accelerated the speed of passing and receiving the ball to find opportunities.

But he was limited by the player's ability. He tried to make Lamela a weakened version of Messi or Iniesta, but it was obvious that Lamela was a bit far from Messi.

This directly leads to the advantage of Tottenham's pass and control tactics now reflected in the defense... The rhythm is slow, the safety of the pass is the first, and the number of cross passes and return passes is very frequent.

Controlling but not attacking has become the most prominent feature of Tottenham's tactics today.

Hearing the boos from the stands, Sun Wu felt a little sympathetic to Van Gaal, this poor...

However, the Tottenham players worked hard... Sun Wu's eyes fell on the Belgian midfielder Dembele.

This is an exploitable role.

After Manchester United recovered, Eriksson's position was premised, but Dembele did not. He always stayed with Fellaini, because the speed of the explosive head was a weakness.

But Dembele was born as an attacking midfielder, and he is characterized by his strong dribbling ability...

In the 38th minute, Sun Wu deliberately widened the angle to get out of the way. Dembele took the ball from the middle and started to speed up, but Schneiderlin and Lingard, who were prompted by Sun Wu, closed the goal and intercepted the ball.

"Manchester United's counterattack!" Zhan Jun said loudly: "This is an opportunity!"

Sun Wu, who was holding the ball, knew that he couldn't get rid of the 194cm, 88kg explosive head behind him, so he volleyed the ball back with his heels immediately!

Behind Fellaini, Lukaku, pressed by Vertonghen, directly chested the ball to Griezmann, who tiptoed it into the right.

Valencia, who advanced at a high speed, snatched the ball away before Rose, and the two competed for speed on the wing, which caused a commotion in the stands.

Sitting in the commentary booth, Mortensen could see clearly that after Sun Wu volleyed the ball back, besides Lukaku and Griezmann in the middle, Valencia and Thomas Muller on the right accelerated at the same time, The difference is that the Ecuadorian accelerated on the sideline to attract Rose's attention, while the German smartly ran inside.

Sure enough, after entering the 30-meter zone, Valencia slowed down but suddenly poked his toes, and the unguarded Thomas Muller accelerated to catch up with the ball and made a pass from the bottom.

When Manchester United launched a counterattack, Sun Wu was always the one who attracted the most attention from the opponent. He could not only send exquisite passes, but also penetrate into the penalty area to grab points, shoot long shots from the outside, and immediately organize the second team abruptly. Waves of offensive, and even show the breakthrough and escape skills that he seldom uses in positional warfare.

Therefore, when Sun Wu bypassed Fellaini and ran all the way, Vertonghen, the commander of Tottenham's defense line, focused on Sun Wu.

When Sun Wu was about to catch Thomas Müller's cross in the early point, Vertonghen blocked Sun Wu cautiously but extremely oppressively.

But he finally found this opportunity to counterattack, and he attracted Vertonghen's attention. How could Sun Wu be reconciled... He clearly saw in the "God's perspective" that Trippier moved in and stared at Gerry Ziman.

And Lukaku is near the penalty spot, with only Blind beside him.

Sun Wu wanted to pass the ball back to Erwa, so that the latter could pass again... But it was too late, Eriksen, Mata, and Fellaini were all returning to defense, and Eriksen even ran to the penalty area line on.

The next moment, Mortensen's roar echoed at White Hart Lane.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKOOOOOOAL!"

"Romelu Lukaku, the fifth goal in three league rounds, he opened the scoring for the team in three consecutive rounds!"

"Pochettino made the right choice. The Belgian center can do what a center should do most, score goals and score goals!"

Behind Lukaku who ran to the sidelines, Thomas Muller and Sun Wu were running and clapping their hands in celebration.

And Vertonghen lowered his head and touched his nose. He felt that he hadn't made any mistakes.

(End of this chapter)