Dele Alli does not know for sure what is going to happen. But because he has played with Harry Kane for years because he has seen him under a thousand long feeds, because he has seen him knocking his head in the empty space instead of going forward to the door, he has a pretty good idea of what can happen. The ball is bowed and Ali is there and is waiting for her.
Christian Eriksen does not know for sure what will happen. But because he has been playing with Ali for years because he has seen him hunt a thousand balls in dead-end streets because he knows how he likes to knock the ball with a heel blind in the absence of other options, he has a pretty good idea where the pass can go. Ali`s foot cuts the ball like a knife and Eriksen is already there waiting for her.
David de Gea knows exactly what is going to happen. Eriksen finishes exactly with his left foot and Tottenham leads 1-0. The clock barely took off the 11th second.
Alexis Sanchez lat er embarked on one of his typical tangled raids on the left wing before entering the field. If he had looked up, he would see his teammates in red teams looking at him with that amazement usually reserved for a driving forklift baby: 'yes, very impressive, but what`s next, and more importantly, where do I get into this whole thing?!'
Tottenham`s 2-0 victory over Manchester United on Wembley was a lecture from-to which came not just for two moments in the match, although they are a good starting point. They mostly give us a view of the fundamental difference between these two clubs:one of them is placed in a deep revelation of matches from football goals video of this kind, requiring a high degree not only of technical skill but also of collective work and rapid interactions.
Simply put:Tottenham play as a team, United play as a team by name.
Collective work is one of the kind things that work hard with hard work over the course of months. The first whistle of the next exhausting training session starts:No, Harry, you`re standing there. Dele, come on! Sonny, run away! So, try it again, then again and again until your limbs burn out of pain and until you start to hear my voice and sleep.
This can not always work. When it does, however, it may be impossible to deter. Certainly, this fragmented United had little response to Wembley`s frosty night, when Jose Mourinho`s expensive offensive five-star looked like playing not just a different game than the defensive hex, but sometimes even practicing a different sport. Tottenham seemed to score a goal at each time he went ahead.
Of course, it`s not like Tottenham does not have superstars alone. The club is certainly not opposed to the exit of the transfer market and Lucas Moura`s purchase of 25 million pounds from Paris Saint-Germain on the last day of the winter wind ow proves it. But when Tottenham comes out of the market, one has the feeling of a strategy, a method in how a certain weakness in the lineup is taken in laser focus.
It is striking how many people in the team - Ali, Ben Davis, Kieran Trippier, Moussa Sissoko, Eric Dier -were they?
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