Chapter 93 UEFA Champions League Qualifier

In the end, due to the lack of attention, the incident of Tottenham's Four Gentlemen's Hotel was over. Speaking of which, without Degan, an explosive figure, the influence of Ector and others was obviously not enough to hype about this matter repeatedly. The conservative Football Federation only sent a letter of inquiry, requesting Tottenham Club restrains the behavior of its players.

Without the interference of those farths, Tottenham continued to concentrate on the training before the start of the season. In two days, Tottenham Hotspur's season is about to begin. The first thing they need to face is the UEFA Champions League qualifiers and the competition between La Liga team Royal Society.

The deepest memory of the Royal Society was in the 2002/2003 season. At that time, the team with Russian Tsar Mostovoye, Calpine and super striker Kovacevich emerged under the leadership of coach Denox. It was like a broken bamboo in the league and once stayed in the league for a long time. First.

But unfortunately, Real Sociedad suffered a series of misjudgment and conceded goals at the last minute, so it was reversed by Real Madrid and had to regretfully miss the league champion.

However, that season's Real Sociedad was definitely the most impressive team in La Liga. The team, which had set 32 consecutive unbeaten games in La Liga, once again became the dark horse in Spain and even Europe.

However, no one expected that Real Society, which had been undefeated for half a season, lost 0-3 to Athletic Bilbao in the first game of the second half of the season.

The fact of "defeat" not only broke the team's undefeat, but also destroyed the mentality of the players. In that game, the players of Real Society showed a "black society" style. The team's best scorer Kovacevich became the leader of the underworld. He kept punching Bilbao's players in the game. The boss is playing and kicking, not to mention other players. They "make black hands" or "play black feet" to the opposing players whenever they have a chance, and a good game has evolved into a "full martial arts".

That game also left a deep impression on Degan. Although these actions of the Royal Society players were staged behind the referee's back, and most of them escaped the punishment of the Football Association, the camera captured everything, and even a TV station broadcast a special video, which happened to be in the film. It was the picture of Kovacevich secretly hitting his defender's head with his fist during the corner kick.

The film uses a very ironic title: "The Royal Society is fighting!"

Although there are some stains, the excellent performance of the Royal Society in the first half of that season still made them the pride of the Basque region.

However, pride did not last long. After losing the championship, the Royal Society became the most disappointing team in the following season.

In the following 2006/2007 season, the team further deepened the process of rejuvenation after releasing several veterans such as De Pedro, Shurel, Aransavar, but the core midfielder Harvey. Alonso's far away from Liverpool still brought the team's overall strength to a freezing point.

was in that season, the Royal Society was finally relegated for the first time in 40 years with 19th place in the season.

After three years of dormant in the Segunda División, Real Sociedad was promoted back to La Liga in 2010. Last season, Real Sociedad defeated the unbeatable Barcelona 2:1 at home.

Digan spent that game in the stands, watching Barcelona being defeated and torn apart by the crazy royal society.

Degan did not expect that the first game after coming to White Hart Lane was to face the Royal Society. If he wanted to complete his revenge against Barcelona, he would first pass the difficulties of the Royal Society and enter the Champions League.

The team's head coach Antiennis began to collect information about the Royal Society very early. One day before the start of the game, Antienes called Degan over and asked him for his opinion, just like he was in the Belgian national team.

Although Digan has been playing in La Liga for two seasons, he is basically sitting on the bench, but he has had a fight with the Royal Society in the King's Cup.

It was at the Spanish King's Cup last season. At that time, Degan scored three goals to directly OK the Royal Society, so Digan had no psychological burden to play against this opponent.

For this opponent, Tottenham fans are not worried. They even publicly left a message on Tottenham's official website: against the Royal Society! It's just a warm-up match!

I don't know that this opportunity for the warm-up match is earned for Tottenham Hotspur!

If Degan hadn't killed Chelsea in last season's Champions League final, everything would have been repeated according to his previous life. Even if Tottenham won the fourth place in the league, he would have had no choice but to be excluded from the Champions League.

In the previous life, Tottenham also won the fourth in last season, but because Chelsea won the championship on the night of the Champions League final and won the first championship in the club's history, although Tottenham Hotspur won the fourth place in the league, they can only participate in the UEFA Europa League, and can only lament that it is not the right time.

As the highest level of competition in Europe, Champions League winners can generally get a place in the Champions League, but there have been three special cases.

In 2000, Real Madrid won the Champions League, but only ranked fifth in La Liga. That year, the Spanish Football Association decided to let the fourth-ranked Zaragoza participate in the UEFA Cup, while Real Madrid played in the Champions League.

The situation in 2005 was even more special. Liverpool magically reversed AC Milan to win the Champions League, but the FA did not want to imitate the Western Football Association and insisted on letting the fourth-ranked Everton participate in the Champions League.

In desperation, UEFA, which admitted its losses, had to compromise and made Liverpool participate in the qualification with a foreign card. Five English teams appeared in the Champions League that year.

And AC Milan, who avenged for the night of Istanbul in Greece, but were kicked out of the top four by Fiorentina led by Digan at that time, and Fiorentina was also determined to give up the Champions League seat. In the end, AC Milan became the second defending champion with a foreign card.

Later, in order to prevent this from happening again, UEFA revised the rules in time, stipulating that if the defending champion fails to get a place in the Champions League, the fourth place in the league will automatically give up his seat, so that the defending champion can participate in the competition.

In the final table of the Premier League last season, Chelsea ranked sixth, but it was precisely because of the above rules that Chelsea in the previous life still won a Champions League seat, and Tottenham could only suffer a dumb loss.

Fortunately, this time, Degan helped the new club and scored goals to shatter Chelsea' dream of the Champions League, and he can only go to the UEFA Europa League this season.

Degan has no psychological burden, and Tottenham fans did not regard the Royal Society as a root, but Antiennis did not dare to be careless.

Although Antienis can be called a famous coach, his resume in vocational clubs is not brilliant. He has previously coached teams in France and Belgium, which is really successful. He only led the team to win a league championship when he was a coach in Standard Lige, and then was selected by the Belgian Football Association. He became the head coach of the national team.

After leaving the position of head coach of the Belgian national team, Antiennis experienced another two-year gap period. Now that he leads a new club to play in the Champions League, he will inevitably feel a little nervous.

Moreover, the first game is related to the trend of the club throughout the season, and he has to take the big test of the fans at home. Antienis can't be nervous.

Only after breaking through the difficulties of the Royal Society can Tottenham Hotspur truly enter the Champions League in the new season. Otherwise, it will not only lose an opportunity to sprint to the highest honor of the European football club, but also the most important thing is that the club will suffer great economic losses.

Andiernis can't help but care about it. The first problem he faces is the main lineup of Tottenham in the new season. Of course, Degan has to occupy a starting place on the front line. With his partner, Antienis is more interested in VP. VP. VP's speed is his advantage. At that time, he can use speed to help. Helping Degan open the defense line can also play an important role in counterattack.

In terms of midfield, after weighing left and right, Antienis finally gave up the three-back configuration that he was better at in the Belgian national team and chose a parallel position. Lennon and Bell will occupy the main positions on the left and right sides, and the middle will be partnered by Hedellstone and Modric.

On the defensive line, the position of left defender, Antiennis prefers Pocoline. Although the main position of left defender has always been occupied by Lombarts when he was in the Belgian national team, even if he left the position of head coach of the Belgian national team, Antiennis has always been paying attention to the country. Pocolino's performance in recent years is also obvious to all.

In the position of right-back, Hutton obviously has an advantage in the competition with Walker. His ability to attack and defend is more balanced. On the right side of Tottenham Hotspur, Lennon can hardly help in defense. Hutton, who is better in defense, can naturally touch Antienes' heart.

There is no suspense about the central-back combination. Dawson is still recovering from his injury. Garas is old and in an unstable state. Calke is too young to take up a major position. The combination of Kabul and Wiltongen is the best choice.

In the position of goalkeeper, although Tottenham has introduced Norris this season, Antiennis did not dare to let him replace Friedel's main position. As a hero of Tottenham's top four in the league last season, Friedell also has a reason to make his career debut in the Champions League.