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Although the format of the League Cup has been modified, and the previous rounds have adopted a single round of knockouts, but in the semi-finals, the two-legged home-and-away knockout round is still used, which makes the Red Rebels have a chance to return to the Red Rebels Stadium and achieve revenge after losing the 4:2 at White Hart Lane. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Tottenham, who have been a bit of a disappointing player in the league lately, will be keen to win the Carabao Cup and continue to compete in next season's UEFA Cup, after all, they will face the Bundesliga side Hamburg in the UEFA Cup this season, and even if they cross Hamburg, they may not be able to reach the final.

In this case, it is undoubtedly the best choice to fight for a League Cup first to ensure qualification for next season's European competitions!

Therefore, in the second round, Redknapp once again played with the main force, and even the dashing Gobertbatov started the game, naturally in the hope of further restraining the Red Rebels.

Mourinho's starting lineup is still the same as in the first leg, but Drogba has become Ismael, Thornton has become Fabio, and the other players have not changed, even Rodwell, who performed badly, was still trusted and continued to start.

It was clear that Tottenham had come with a promotion mentality, so they were on the defensive counter-attack, but the Red Rebels were determined to get revenge.

At the beginning of the game, the Red Rebels played very actively at home, but Tottenham Hotspur felt a little uncomfortable with the atmosphere here, coupled with the fact that it had just rained and the field was a little slippery, Tottenham's players were somewhat affected, and they fell into passivity after the game started.

Although passive on the field, Redknapp is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and the defense is very orderly, and in the face of the Red Rebels' powerful attack, Tottenham's defense seems to be orderly and impregnable.

This stalemate lasted until the 35th minute.

After that, the Red Rebels were ferocious, Tottenham were passive, the players were under a lot of pressure on the pitch, and the technical movements were a little deformed, Woodgate was on a defensive move out of the box to tackle the Red Rebels' forward Ozil, for which he received a yellow card from the referee, and the Red Rebels got a direct free-kick opportunity.

Many of the team's free-kick masters were absent, and Ismael, who has always been in the habit of practicing free-kicks, stood near the penalty spot, and Ozil, who can also take free-kicks, was next to him.

Seeing that Ismael didn't have much to run, he suddenly jumped up, pulled his foot and shot angrily, the ball was like a cannonball, found a space in the gap between the jumping human wall, penetrated the human wall, and hung straight to the goal, and the goalkeeper Gomez from Brazil completely disarmed.

1：0！ The Red Rebels rewrote the aggregate score to 4:3!

All the Red Rebels fans in the audience cheered, and it was clear that they were very happy with the team's performance in this game.

Rodwell, the culprit of the previous game, washed away the slump of the previous game and still faced the dashing Gobertitar, but his defense made the Bulgarian striker look confused, and he did not touch the ball a few times throughout the first half.

Of course, this also has something to do with Berbatov's lack of movement, he is almost not involved in defense in the front court, and he does not retreat much, while Tottenham is suppressed by the whole field, so he naturally has few opportunities to get the ball.

After conceding the goal, Tottenham defended more thoroughly, and they tightened up their camp in their own half, not giving the Red Rebels any chance, and kept the score 1-0 until the second half.

At half-time, Jose Mourinho did not make any changes to his team, but encouraged his players to continue to play well in the first half and continue to press Tottenham, believing that sooner or later the goals would come.

In the 73rd minute, after Essien broke the ball in midfield, it was handed to Ramsey, who immediately passed to Ozil to fight back.

The Germans preferred to pick up the ball on the left and after a combination with Theo Walcott on the left, he handed it to the England winger.

Walcourt took the ball directly into the left side of Tottenham's penalty area, facing two Tottenham defenders, he calmly continued to feint, shook off the opponent, and crossed low to the front point, and Ozil, who was inserted in the back row, calmly pushed and scored, 2:0!

At this moment, the fans in the stadium suddenly boiled, and the Red Rebels equalized!

However, Mourinho still looked very dissatisfied, constantly signaling his players on the sidelines that there was still time in the game and he must try to end the battle within 90 minutes.

After the equaliser on aggregate, the Red Rebels' offensive became more and more ferocious, Mourinho even did not hesitate to replace Essien with Rafael, leaving Ramsey as a midfielder, obviously confident in the team's ability to suppress.

And this time, his risky gamble finally paid off.

In the 88th minute, it was Rafael, who played as a winger, who forced a breakthrough on the right side, to send the ball into the penalty area, Ismael used his body to suppress Woodgate, and the header hit the goal, the ball flew to the left post, but it was slightly wide, and Tottenham's goalkeeper Gomez also failed to touch the ball, made a fatal mistake, and leaked the ball.

Walquette raced up from the left to get in front of everyone and slammed the ball into the Tottenham goal with his first touch, and he couldn't have missed such an opportunity!

5：4！ The Red Rebels made a comeback and reached the League Cup final!

All the Red Rebels fans at the scene were immediately boiling, especially for the performance of a group of young players, and Walcott also won the title of the best player of the game.

The next day, another Carabao Cup match was also decided, Chelsea lost 1-0 away to Liverpool in the first leg, returned to Stamford Bridge, and won the Reds 4-2, and the most amazing thing about this game was that Liverpool fell behind twice in the first half and stubbornly pulled back the score twice, but in the second half, Rijkaard replaced Ronaldinho, and the Brazilian sent Liverpool out of the League Cup with a pass and a shot.

As a result, the Red Rebels' League Cup final opponent is also freshly announced, which is the bitter rival Chelsea, and the match will be held at Wembley Stadium on March 1!

…………………… After completing the second leg of the Carabao Cup semi-finals, the Red Rebels travelled to take on Nottingham Forest two days later.

This veteran powerhouse of the Premier League is now much worse than before, the Red Rebels are still the same group of young players as the starter, and the away 1:1 draw with Nottingham Forest, but in stoppage time, substitute Drogba came on Nimar for the Red Rebels to score two consecutive cities, rewriting the score to 1:3, eliminating Nottingham Forest.

With two late goals and a great performance after coming off the bench, Nimar was named Man of the Match, but he didn't get the bottle of champagne that represented the best player because he had just turned 17 years old, and according to British rules, minors under the age of 18 are not allowed to drink.

Despite this disappointment, Nimar's performance was still very impressive, he played as a left winger in the game, but he can also play as a striker, which allowed him to switch positions with Walcoat on the left and up front in the final moments, stirring up the Nottingham Forest defence like gruel.

Nimar's performances have attracted a lot of attention, but Mourinho doesn't want the media to pay too much attention to the Brazilian rookie, which is not good for the development of young players.

"Yes, he's going to be the next world-class star for our Red Rebels, but that's many years from now, he's just a fledgling kid, he wants to be a big player in the first team, there's still a long way to go, there's a lot to do, and until then, any hype and praise can get in the way of his progress!"

In the face of media attention, Nimar also seems very sensible, he said that his current most concerned thing is studying, because he must use good results in exchange for the opportunity to play in the game, he and Wilshere, Rodwell and others are like this, as for the attention of the outside world, he said that he does not have much time to pay attention.

'The biggest concern now is whether I can play in the next FA Cup game and the next reserve league game!

In the 23rd round of the league, the Red Rebels challenged the Black Cats Sunderland away.

After the winter break, the Red Rebels had a very good schedule, the opponents were not very strong, first at home to Blackburn Rovers, and then away to West Ham United, the Red Rebels won the opponents one after another, this time against Sunderland, the Red Rebels also did not make mistakes, because in Mourinho's view, the weak team is sometimes even more difficult to deal with than the strong team.

Black Cat Sunderland is obviously such a hard stubble, the Red Rebels dominated the whole game, but in the end they only managed to achieve a 0:1, Chris? Taylor was the Man of the Match when the Red Rebels rookie moved to Sunderland for £1.5 million in the summer, a game that nearly cost them points.

Chris? Taylor must thank Sergio Aguero, if it weren't for his tacit backrun in the middle of the 55th minute, after a tacit run back to Kaka, he broke into the box, dribbled himself, and pushed the empty goal to help the Red Rebels get three points, he would have been regarded as a traitor by the Red Rebels fans.

Now, the Red Rebels have three points, Chris? Taylor put in a brave performance to win the Man of the Match, and the Red Rebels fans were lenient with him, recognising his progress and not remembering that he almost killed the Red Rebels in the game.

Two days later, the Red Rebels returned to their home turf and welcomed Portsmouth.

Ronaldo and Messi, who were rotated in the last round of the game, got the chance to start again in this game, and the two scored two goals each to help the Red Rebels beat Portsmouth 4-0 at home, and won four consecutive wins after the winter break.

Three days later, the Red Rebels challenged Droisden away.

Manuel Pellegrini's team has steadily improved over the years, and after buying out a number of Red Rebels players this season, several more Red Rebels players have joined, and the strength can be said to have improved tremendously.

In the Premier League, De Roysden is currently the same as Arsenal on points, ranking third, second only to the in-form Red Rebels and Manchester United, but behind them, Liverpool and Chelsea are also winning consecutive games, chasing all the way, which makes Pellegrini dare not be careless, especially as long as you think about it, the Champions League is about to start.

The Red Rebels can care about Champions League earnings, but Droysden can't, David? Pace is not the kind of super-rich, his biggest achievement is Umbro, and the majority shareholder of this company is Xiao Yu, he is just a small shareholder, if it weren't for Umbro's business situation has been rising over the years, he may not be able to play in the Premier League.

However, this Premier League match, which fans called the Newton Heath derby, has attracted the attention of fans all over the world, because everyone wants to see how Pellegrini, the manager who claims to know the Red Rebels best, will restrain the Red Rebels.

The result was obvious, 0:0, the Red Rebels failed to score, and Droysden kept 1 point at home!

In this game, Pellegrini arranged a number of veteran combinations of the Red Rebels, and the midfield arranged the three-back combination of Gago, Mascherano and Annan, the nephew of the United Nations Secretary-General, to limit the midfield of the Red Rebels again, even if Mourinho made a crazy counterattack again at the last moment, but Pellegrini seemed to have been prepared and restrained against the surname.

No one won the game, only one point was obtained, but the Red Rebels were overtaken by Manchester United, with a one-point disadvantage behind Manchester United and relinquished the top spot in the league.

This made Mourinho very angry, and in the press conference after the game, he was very unhappy with Pellegrini's conservatism, and he thought that De Roysden should be more of a strong team and press out to play.

"And then let you score?" Pellegrini asked rhetorically with a look on his face that I was not a fool.

Mourinho pouted, "But don't you think that this style of play is very different from De Roysden's status in European football today?" ”

Pellegrini shrugged, "I don't think we got a relatively happy result and I believe that our fans don't think it's a conservative either, because we've scored a lot of goals in other games and played good attacking football. ”

Speaking of which, Pellegrini pointed out Mourinho a little, "Instead of blaming others, think about yourself, why did you perform in this game? Is it really just because of our tactics? Or is it because your players are too tired? ”

"Just play conservative guys, grass!" Mourinho's heart brightened, but he was a little unhappy with Pellegrini's nemesis.

Manuel Pellegrini gloated, he was very happy to see Mourinho's thunderous appearance, of course, he didn't mean to help Manchester United in this game, after all, Droysden also wants to steal points, and it is good for them to draw the Red Rebels!

At this time, the continuous multi-front battles after the winter break finally exposed some of the problems of the Red Rebels, especially in terms of fitness, but the team did not get the slightest opportunity to adjust, and immediately returned to the home stadium and welcomed the promoted Masi Bromwich Albion.

With Nemanja Vidic's header, the Red Rebels beat West Bromwich Albion 1-0 at home, and Mourinho once again arranged for a large number of changes in this game, with players such as Ronaldo, Messi and Kaka not playing, just for the first leg of the Champions League in midweek.

That's the real battle!

(To be continued)