Football: Starting from the abandonment of the rich and powerful

Chapter 170

After the match, the managers of both sides brought one player to the press release area.

Tottenham's home stadium is different, with two or three dozen journalists gathered in the press area, a scene that Leicester City have never seen in any previous game.

Tottenham manager Villas-Boas brought captain Michael Dawson and Leicester City manager Pierson with the game's MVP Jiang Ge.

The local media in London was the first to ask, and a reporter from BCB asked:

"Mr. Boas, you have been a football coach since you were 17 years old, you are one of the few football coaches who have not played football, as a professional, what do you think of this game?"

The BCB reporter added a string of qualifiers to Boas's identity, there must be his intentions, Boas stopped feeling strange

, although victory and defeat are commonplace, this game is indeed lost too badly.

Boas organized the language in his mind and slowly replied, "Uh... I am responsible for today's fiasco, the players did very well and the responsibility for the loss is all on me! "

Tottenham Hotspur have been dunk with six goals from a Championship team, aren't you ashamed as a professional football coach?"

Villas-Boas looked at the reporter and understood what he was saying, who was likely to be an avid Tottenham fan.

"So what do you want me to do?" Boas asked rhetorically.

"You should resign, Tottenham are a mess under you, it's terrible!"

The reporter seemed to have forgotten his identity and vented a fan's anger on the spot.

Boas smiled wryly and nodded, such a fiasco, he can understand the anger of the fans, and can tolerate the fans venting their emotions in front of him.

Another reporter stood up and asked: "Mr. Boas, not only is your tactics a mess, the players have also had a spat on the field, have you lost control of the dressing room?"

Before Boas could respond, Tottenham captain Michael Dawson said:

"I can tell you responsibly that the team is very united and the spat on the pitch happens to be a sign of the players rushing to score goals for the team, which shows that our attitude is positive!"

Michael Dawson then said:

"Mr Boas is a very good coach, he has brought victory and glory to Tottenham, there was no problem with the formation of this game, as you can see from the first 20 minutes, we scored two goals in the first 20 minutes!"

Boas glanced at Michael Dawson beside him and nodded affirmatively.

"Mr. Boas, the number 18 in Leicester City has burst Michael Dawson and Yune Cabole into a sieve, why didn't you make a personnel adjustment in time?"

These journalists know the ball, and Tottenham's problems in this game are like lice on the monk's head – obviously.

"Uh... I made adjustments, and Loris's red card disrupted my plans..."

"Mr. Boas, that problem came to the fore long before Loris was sent off with a red card, don't you see it as a professional coach?"

Boas pursed his lips, as if he hadn't figured out how to answer the question.

Immediately afterwards, another reporter asked:

"Mr. Boas, before the game, I asked if you made a special arrangement for the Leicester City No. 18 in this game, and you ignored it, which means you ignored the opponent's No. 18, right? And the opponent's No.18 happened to produce all 6 goals!

"May I ask why you didn't make the corresponding arrangement, is it because of your arrogance?"

"Mr. Boas, how do you evaluate Leicester City's No. 18 player Jiang Ge?"

The

reporters also rose up in groups, and Boas got up and left the press conference site.

Tottenham captain Michael Dawson politely said hello to Pearson and Jiang Ge and left.

Looking at Pearson's silent back, Pearson's heart is also mixed, sympathy? Carefree? Can't bear it? All kinds of emotions were mixed together, and he couldn't tell what he was thinking at this time.

Pearson also doesn't know when his team became killers, going further and further in the dimension of killing managers.

Jiang Ge looked at the backs of Boas and Michael Dawson, and from 2022, he knew that the former would soon be sacked by Tottenham Hotspur and start the gold rush journey in China.

The reporters looked at the back of the two Boas masters and apprentices leaving, and it seemed that they were not finished, but the security guards on the scene would not give them the opportunity to declare their personal vendetta, and they almost got it.

When it came to the visiting Leicester City, Pearson put it simply:

"Tottenham are a Premier League powerhouse and they caused us a lot of trouble in this game and we were lucky to win an important game and go one step further in the League Cup.

"Mr Pearson, Leicester City were passive in the first 20 minutes and played very conservatively, at one point they were led 2-0 by Tottenham Hotspur, and the rest of the time the team gradually abandoned the conservative style of play, is this arranged by you in advance?"

Pearson's strategy for the team was to draw and win, and he couldn't find a good solution when he was trailing by the opening two goals, and it was Kante, Mahrez, Jiang Ge and Sliemani who saved the team with their extraordinary performance, which had little to do with their own tactical arrangements.

"Yes, Tottenham are a very strong attacking team, at White Hart Lane, no team dares to take it lightly, and defending well is the foundation..."

"But your team was two goals behind when defending at full strength, and when you gave up that conservative style of play, you quickly equalised, and some people think that Leicester won not because of how clever your tactics were, but because of the extraordinary performance of some players, what do you think about that?"

These reporters' questions are really ruthless, and Pearson also knows that his tactics are problematic, and if it were not for the extraordinary performance of Jiang Ge and Kante, the team would not have been able to retreat.

"Yes, Jiang Ge and Kante's extraordinary play dominated this game, but football is a team sport, and any result is achieved by the cooperation of all players on the field..." Su

Jin, a reporter from the Chinese National Football Weekly, stood up and asked: "Mr. Pearson, will Jiang Ge get a starting position in the next round of the league?" "

Jiang Ge's starting position is concerned by Chinese fans, and many fans can't understand that Jiang Ge's state is obviously so brave, but he can't sit in the starting position.

After thinking about it, Pearson replied: "It's a high-intensity game, it's a lot of consumption for the players, and there may be rotations in the league this weekend, after all, the players are not robots, they also need to rest." Jiang

Ge is also very speechless about this, although the head coach did not say it explicitly, isn't the implication that he may become a substitute?

Playing Charlton such a rookie team is still personnel rotation, Jiang Ge does not know what Pearson thinks, since he has arranged his own rotation, then rest for a few days, he believes that someone will miss him.