Wembley Stadium, London.

In the League Cup final, Leeds United plays Tottenham Hotspur.

This is a game without too many surprises and full of surprises.

Long before the game, everyone basically concluded that Tottenham Hotspurs had to adopt a defensive counterattack tactic against Leeds United, which had been in a state of red in recent times.

And facts have also proved that Mourinho did use defensive counterattack tactics.

The Portuguese madman still lined up a 4231 formation, trying to stabilize his defense and wait for the opportunity to fight back.

But what is surprising is that judging from the actual situation of the game, Tottenham Hotspur did stabilize the defense, but failed to make a threatening counterattack.

The whole world knows that Leeds United is very good at pressing and oppressing at high positions and blocking and strangling in the midfield. This is Leeds United's specialty.

Pochettino's team continued to adopt this style of play at Wembley Stadium, but it was very different from before.

Valverde was injured and absent, causing problems in Leeds United's midfield deployment.

Many people are worried whether Pochettino can find Valverde's replacement?

After all, there are not many players as comprehensive as Valverde in Leeds United.

But unexpectedly, Pochettino did not, as the outside world said, one carrot and one pit, but decisively adjusted his tactics. It seemed that he still adopted a 433 formation. The midfielder arranged a combination of Enzo Fernandez, Joan Ammeni and Pedri, but in fact, Enzo Fernandez was closer to Joan Ammeni.

Joan Améni's position was even further back, standing in front of two central defenders.

The two full-backs boldly pressed forward, participated in the front attack, and cooperated with Rashford and Sancho.

So, in the game, Leeds United is actually more like playing a 2413 formation.

Pedri was in a more forward position and gained a lot of freedom. It can even be said that he was ambushing behind the Trident, specifically responsible for passing balls and transporting shells.

This forms another combination of midfielders. Enzo Fernandez drags the back, Pedri is responsible for passing the ball and attacking the back, and Joan Améni is responsible for interception, defense and protection of the defense line, and retreating to the central defender line if necessary.

More importantly, Leeds United's entire formation is maintaining a high position, and the frontcourt pressing force is very strong.

This made Tottenham feel uncomfortable.

When it comes to skills and ball-holding ability, they are not as good as Leeds United.

So a very interesting situation appeared. Leeds United completely controlled the ball and rhythm. Tottenham could only defend passively and could not even make a threatening counterattack.

Sun Xingmin and Lucas Mora in front could only actively return to defense and rush to assist his full-back, and Abraham even retreated to respond, which made Tottenham's frontcourt unable to make a threatening attack.

But Mourinho is a defensive master after all. Although he failed to play threats on the offensive end, Tottenham Hotspur organized it very closely on the defensive end and did not give Leeds any chance at all.

In this way, a very interesting scene occurred in this world-renowned League Cup final.

Tottenham only has defense, no offense; Leeds United pressed and pressed at high positions, gaining all the advantages on the field, and shot far exceeding the opponent, but there are very few attacks that are truly threatening.

Both sides only succeeded half of the tactics.

...

"Murinho is still good at defending."

In the stands, Senior Senior could not help but smile knowingly when he saw the situation on the scene.

This is already the second half, and Tottenham Hotspurs had only one shot. It is conceivable how embarrassed the North London team was forced to be?

But the problem is that Tottenham did not lose a single goal.

Leeds United scored a lot of shots, but it has to be admitted that the double center back composed of Thiago Silva and Aldwellerde was really good.

There are also the double midfielders of Hoyber and Winks, who also performed extremely bravely. Even Bruno Fernandez is actively returning to the defense to assist the team in defense.

Mourinho has done a very good job in this regard.

"Are you really sure he can use Messi well?" Wenger asked suddenly with a nasty question.

Everyone around laughed.

This is what comes from the Qatar consortium. They want to introduce Messi to build momentum for the World Cup.

Unexpectedly, Mourinho actually believed that Messi's joining Tottenham Hotspur could greatly improve Tottenham's frontcourt attack power.

"To be honest, I really can't figure out the scene where Messi played football under Mourinho." Gao Shen also laughed.

Just Mourinho is really possible to train Messi to become a beastly waist.

What a grudge this is!

Mourinho's use of such a talented player has always been a problem.

Or, he is not good at using this type of player.

In fact, there is no way to blame this, because the head coach is also a human being, and there are always some who they are good at and some are not good at.

But if this guy wants to sign Messi, he definitely wants to win over Argentine superstars.

"I told him, don't think too beautifully!" Gao Shen laughed and scolded.

If Messi is really willing to join the Qatar Consortium, he can only go to Paris Saint-Germain and cooperate with Neymar.

To be honest, the competitive pressure in the Ligue 1 is also small. If Messi in Paris Grande is in charge, I believe that the possibility of winning the Champions League will be greater, and then a breakthrough will be made in the results.

Messi is not bad for coming to the Premier League, but considering his age, and he also has to prepare for the 2022 Qatar World Cup. If he really wants to compete in such a fierce Premier League, has he really considered it?

Even Manchester City under Guardiola's leadership is under a lot of pressure.

The pressure on the league is too high. For a 34-year-old player like Messi, it is even more difficult to perform well in the World Cup.

"You guys played pretty well, reminding me of David Silva, are they from the same place?" Ferguson said, pointing to Pedri.

Pedri's performance this season is eye-catching.

"It's all from the Canary Islands, and Hesse from Real Madrid, too." Gao Shen said.

How to say it?

Pedri is the type who plays very smartly at first glance, has very good skills, a strong sense of ball, and has a very stable pass, but after careful observation, he is a bit special.

It’s just that his football style is a bit too precocious.

This kind of precocious puberty does not mean that he can no longer make progress, but that he plays steadily.

Whether it is passing, running, or defending, he is very stable, and he looks like a stable and reasonable way of playing.

A bit like the Spanish Little Kuaishen version of Tony Cross.

Even though he is very young, he is very mature, which makes it easy to attract other people's attention.

"I have been paying attention to him for a long time." Wenger also became interested, and he always favored such young players.

"This kid doesn't seem to have any surprises in playing football, but often he can bring surprises as long as he creates opportunities. He is not the kind of playing core midfielder. I think it's even more interesting that Pochettino arranges Enzo Fernandez tonight to partner with him. This is a very magical kid."

Wenger did not hide his preference for these two Leeds United midfielders.

Tonight, Leeds United played very well, but there was a lack of offensive threat ahead.

But this is not because Leeds United is too weak, but because Tottenham Hotspur is too tightly guarding.

This is Mourinho's team.

"Tonight, is Haaland going to be frozen by Thiago Silva again?" Ferguson laughed.

The biggest evil thing about this old man now is to see others make mistakes.

After Thiago Silva joined Tottenham, she is really getting stronger and stronger, and the older she gets more and more demons.

"I think there is still a chance." Gao Shen was very confident in Haaland.

With Haaland's spirit, he would never let himself hang himself twice on the same tree.

Moreover, since the beginning of this game, it can be seen that Haaland has performed very positively.

Even now, he is still looking for opportunities.

...

Tottenham Hotspur's second shot in the game appeared in the 75th minute.

This time, the quick counterattack was blocked by Saliba, who returned to defense in time, and gave Tottenham a corner kick from the left side of the frontcourt.

That is to the right of Leeds United.

Sun Xingmin ran over to take the corner kick and sent it directly to Leeds United's penalty area.

Ruben Dias grabbed the landing point, but failed to hold up too far with the interference of Tottenham center back Aldwellerde.

Joan Aménie got stuck in the position first and promptly pushed the ball out of the penalty area, and he accelerated to catch up.

At this moment, there were no people outside the Leeds United's penalty area.

The reason is very simple. After Tottenham saw the corner kick attack being frustrated, the players who were originally lying on the outside returned to defense as soon as possible.

The whole world knows how fast Leeds United's counterattack is, which makes Tottenham not afraid to be careless.

After Joan Armeni caught up with the ball, he strided forward with great strides.

Haaland and others also spread their legs and rushed forward with big strides.

Joan Améni took a glimpse of the opportunity, divided the ball to the right and handed it to Sancho.
To be continued...