Times are happy to White Hart Lane. In 49 counter stopped that added years that the Spurs were far from top European club competition. After winning with solvency in the day yesterday by 3-0 at Werder Bremen, the London club has qualified for second round in his second participation in the competition, which seeks to repeat the feat achieved almost half a century.
Times were different: the only European Cup champions and came to Tottenham was the recent winner of the Premiership, by then known as Football League. That great team managed to reach the semifinals would lose against Benfica of Eusebio, ultimately champion. After winning the FA Cup took ticket for the defunct Cup Winners Cup, crowned champion in the final after beating Atletico Madrid and becoming the first English club to become a great European tournament.
Tottenham today remains in a second row start in the Premiership after the giants of racing, the quartet of Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool, a realm in which the Manchester City is serious about meddling. However, last year there was a loophole in the form of a competition Liverpool problems. It seemed the perfect opportunity for Citizens, but at White Hart Lane had other plans and the team led by Modric, Bale Defoe and worked achieved a fourth place which would entitle them to have the option to replay the Champions League. After beating Young Boys in the preview, the dream became reality.
Harry Redknapp, a veteran of the bench, was responsible for directing the film that would lead the Spurs to fourth place. Having achieved his greatest merit as coach, the FA Cup as accomplished with a modest Portsmouth two years ago replaced Juande Ramos on the bench. The veteran coach has been in charge and claim the figure of the Englishman to the supremacy of the coaches Foreigners in the big clubs like Mourinho, Ancelotti, Scolari, Ferguson, Wenger or Rafa Benitez.
With a bold gamble on the pitch, Redknapp lines up a regular eleven with a defensive midfielder, a task which shared Huddlestone and Wilson Palacios, the Honduran National Team stronghold that faced Spain in the World "and has in recent games International Jenas went to the more technical and more irregular, with two players open a banda on which rests much of the offensive game: rapid and intermittent Lennon on the right and Bale on the left.
The latter, speed, change of pace and power made player, is one of the greatest feelings of Premier and Bruno told us recently , and is now fully installed as a means to Assou-Ekotto Cameroon wrapped around his shoulders on the side. Otherwise it would miss its great offensive qualities, in kickback lose some of its effectiveness by having to start from too far back and could undermine his scoring.
Ahead of the midfield is the most talented team and one of the best players in the Premiership: the Croatian Luka Modric, extraordinary player with a privileged reading and vision. Ahead of it used to be two strikers, Defoe, who scored 18 goals last year, and asparagus Crouch or chaperone Pavlyuchenko, with Robbie Keane on loan at Celtic last year and currently playing little.
The defensive line is arguably the weakest team: the best central, the squad Ledley King has suffered a plague of injuries all over his career that he can hardly play a game a week. Dawson, currently injured, has left its French site Kaboul, arrived on the market last winter and starred in the last week by scoring against Arsenal and Werder. On the right, Hutton has won the game for Corluka after returning from his loan spell at Sunderland. Behind them, the Brazilian Gomes checkl lock on the goal after a difficult start to his arrival in the Premiership two years ago.
Once achieved the fourth place, the Champions peered at the horizon and strengthen the team became a necessity. In fact, it was not until the victory over Young Boys when crystallized the two most talked about additions: the former Real Madrid Van der Vaart, become a hero at White Hart Lane, and the French central Gallas, who was without a club after leaving Arsenal. Gallas has also become the reference in the rear axle, the team captain the past commitments.
Is the arrival of the Dutch midfielder's big news in the computer. Not only is the current top scorer for Spurs in the Premiership with six goals, but its arrival has changed the scheme to be close to Modric in midfield and closer to the area, bringing the Spurs usually play with a pure lone striker, a situation favored by Defoe's injury in September that has kept him on the sidelines until its recent resurgence. Have missed their goals, as the English team with good strikers but none of the first level and can be Drogba, Torres, Tevez, Rooney or Berbatov, former Tottenham. Defoe, without, the one who comes closest to that status.
This past weekend, defeating Arsenal 2-3 in a derby that seemed to have won Wenger's team to reach the break with a favorable 2-0, another wall collapsed, which stayed away to Tottenham for 68 games without win away from home to any of the greats. The illusion has come to White Hart Lane with the qualifying round of the Champions League. The semifinals and won the British 49 years ago seem a hard task for the London club, as it seemed hard to win last weekend at the Emirates Stadium.
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