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[엑스포츠뉴스 김정현 인턴기자] With two players matching the strategy behind the strong defense, not many shots were necessary.
When he met Pep Guardiola, coach José Mourinho managed to draw up his best strategy with his best players.
Tottenham Hotspur, led by coach Mourinho, won 2-0 with a successive goal from Son Heung-min and Giovanni Law Selso in the ninth round of the 2020/21 Premier League against Manchester City on the 22nd (Korean time) .
On this day, coach Mourinho had a streak of play in which he developed a counterattack after having the best and solid family defense. It was a game strategy totally contrary to the action football that Guardiola was pursuing.
It worked perfectly. The scene of Son Heung-min’s first goal is representative. Near the middle of the line, Tangwi Ndombele spotted Son Heung-min and assisted the first goal with a single errant pass.
Looking at the second scoring scene, Kane dribbled the ball from the defensive side to the attacking side and landed a key pass to Rowe Selso, who was empty on the left side. Rho Selso scored his first shot 35 seconds after being used as a substitute.
This season, coach Mourinho is maximizing the speed of Son Heung-min and the opposite winger by giving Kane the 9.5 spot, giving him a pass from a similar position to the second-line midfielder rather than the front-line forward.
Thanks to this, Son Heung-min leads the league with just nine goals, and Kane also leads with nine assists.
In today’s game, two players were used to score two goals without many attack scenes. He was pushed 3-7 in odds to Man City, but the odds were not important.
While Tottenham made a total of 4 shots in the match, Man City made 22 shots. However, Tottenham defeated Man City’s attack by blocking 11 of their shots.
On the other hand, Tottenham’s four shots, two of them were blocked and two of them were connected by effective shots, all leading to the goal.
As can be seen from Man City’s 11 jammed shots, without Tottenham’s defensive focus, football couldn’t be as efficient.
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