Tottenham Hotspur, who beat top manchester City a few days ago, lost 0-1 to relegation team Burnley in the early morning of this morning, and Conte's team used just two rounds to fully activate the suspense of the three fronts of premier league title, fourth and relegation.
In the 2018-19 season, the Final Stage of the Premier League made Big6 laugh at the four major battles, which was once a scene in the final battle, but this season's equally intertwined Champions League seat battle was opened ahead of Time due to Tottenham's chain drop. Last weekend's forced victory over Manchester City once made the previous three consecutive losing north London teams seem to start, but in the face of Burnley, who had lost only one of their previous 12 meetings, and Tottenham Hotspur, who lost Tovemore, instead of failing to tie the same city opponents West Ham and Arsenal in the standings, they continued to fall back to the familiar 8th. After the game, Conte's frustrated and almost gaffe speech showed the loss of the team.
Compared with the 4th place in the league with 5 grabs and 1, the battle royale in the Premier League relegation zone is even more tragic, and Burnley, who was tied with Norwich in the same points before this battle, has a stronger desire to win than the away team. In the first half, the Tottenham hottest players seemed to be immersed in the sense of accomplishment of the previous round of counterattacks, Kulusevsky completely missed the heroic nature of manchester City, and except for Sun Kai's occasional connections, the team's attack was almost nothing. Instead, it was the home team that caused a suspected handball in the Bentancour penalty area, jay Rodriguez's extremely threatening header was offside, and Conte, who had a somber face, had obviously smelled that the atmosphere of the game was not good.
However, what should come will still come. In the second half, the Red Wine Army, which had always organized the set-piece after the goal around the captain Ben Mi, gradually showed its fangs, and after Lloris confiscated captain Burnley's first header, Tottenham, who still had no targeted deployment, finally made a bitter fruit: this time, in the face of Romero, who came and looked and retreated, completely unaware of the danger behind him, Ben Milli, who was 5 centimeters shorter than the Argentine, pressed the opponent and pushed the ball into the net. Coincidentally, Ben Mi was transferred from Manchester City to Burnley that year, and the unbeaten golden body of the old club in the last round was just terminated by Tottenham Hotspur, which was a revenge in an alternative way. This season, the "Rice Team" has scored 3 goals in the Premier League, setting a new personal production record.
However, after conceding the goal, Spurs did not wake up like a dream, but continued to play piecemeal, the sluggish Sun Kai continued to stealth the line, Foy put Belwyn's personal attempts to silence, but the crazy Ben Mi repeatedly entered the front, almost assisting Jay Rodriguez to expand the score again. At the final whistle, Burnley won two consecutive games of the season without conceding a goal, while goalkeeper Pope, who had conceded 14 goals in five games, also maintained his innocence for the first time. Although there is only one jump in the ranking, for Burnley, who was first poached and pressed in the winter window, they have seen the dawn of jumping out of the bitter sea.
The ecstasy of one group of people is obviously the loneliness of another group. After the game, Conte's speech was infuriating: "I have ambitions, I am an ambitious person, I hate to lose, and I repeat: we have lost four of our last five games, and for me, this is not acceptable!" So far in his career as to the tottenham hotspur manager, he has only suffered five rounds and 4 losses in charge of Atalanta in 2009 and Chelsea in 2018, and just before the game, the ambitious Italian has not forgotten to inspire his subordinates: "A strong team must become annoying, smell the blood of opponents in the game, and what I say must enter their minds, not the left ear and the right ear." ”
Disappointed, Conte even let out the same angry words as he did when he was coaching Chelsea before: "The club, me, the players and the fans are not worthy of this situation, but this is the reality." I came to coach Tottenham to improve the situation, but maybe at this point, I don't know yet, I'm not very good at improving the situation, it's frustrating. We try, we try, we try, we give a lot, we try to get these players to be the best they can be, and that's the way it is. I don't want to close my eyes and ignore it, and if I have any responsibility I want to take on it. I'm open to any decision because I want to help Spurs. Maybe I'm not a good fit, maybe I'm not that good. In this case, the Italian is regretting that he did not have the patience to wait for Manchester United at that time, or shouting for the new owner next season in advance
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