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“Erasmus” is a column on Mondays where we tell you about the bright game of the international football weekend. You can view previous releases here.
The genius of Arthur Conan Doyle made the suspect’s scent enough to solve the problem. his genius, Sherlock Holmes, even in the most complicated cases. However, for all of us mere mortals, How many clues does it take to notice a clue? How many coincidences and coincidences must occur in order to draw the most obvious conclusions retrospectively? To come to that feeling of fullness and completeness that you experience when you manage to decipher the most confusing circumstances?
Adam Smith and Hugo Lloris will not play Bournemouth-Tottenham. The first, Cherry defender and captain, has already missed the early days of the Premier League with injury; the second is now a single person in the house, stripped of his bandage and perceived as a dry branch that needs to be pruned to allow new shoots to grow. Smith and Lloris were the only players to have been present in every Bournemouth-Tottenham match in history and they will no longer be able to continue their winning streak. Vitality Stadium, so named because of the sponsorship of the health insurance company. All this in the first confrontation between two rookie coaches in the Premier League. Andoni Iraola and Ange Postekoglu they are the figureheads of the turbulent and inevitable renewal that characterizes the British Championship, and cannot remain the same for too long just to keep the fire going. Support him aliveexactly.
Only a couple of miles separate the former Dean Court from the waterfront at Boscombe, making Bournemouth one of the few places in England where you really want to spend a late summer day. William Foley and Michael B. Jordan must have guessed this, who in different capacities decided to revive the Dorset football project, acquiring it in December 2022. new leadership, management, coincidentally, chose complete renovation. A new technical guide whose staff coordinates the Basque Iraola. Expansion project of what prior to Luton Town’s promotion was the smallest capacity Premier Stadium. Extreme liquidity for the club middle class British football, with €219m invested between last winter’s transfer market and this summer.
“The management decided to carry out a major overhaul.” is also a true statement for the Spurs: nothing could be more symbolic than Harry Kane’s farewell, but also the transition from banal technical projects (Mourinho, Espirito Santo, Antonio Conte) to overtly creative ones signals the flame still burning in the soul of Daniel Levy. Spark life forceexactly.
Under a torrential downpour that must have upset the plans of Bournemouth supporters who were considering betting on the beach after the final whistle, the approach of both teams to the match is exactly as expressed in the first official outings. The maneuvers of Boonemouth and Tottenham have to withstand the heat-like suffocating pressure.
Had it not been for Robinson’s original interpretation of the rule, Postecoglou’s team would have already won from penalties, but whoever shoots Spurs is the height of the gegenpressing with the ball just lost:
The pace of Londoners does not slow down for a moment, and inevitably leads to the starting point. Bissum and Sarr – a pair of centre-backs who were stateless in last year’s Spurs but who today, in a more aggressive team trying to get the ball back in the opponent’s half of the field, are able to cover most of the field with their long strides – they have a cake over which Maddison, having overtaken Zabarny, he is simply obliged to finish. The difference in energy between Tottenham’s centre-backs and Bournemouth’s first line of pressure is huge: Christy can only caress the ex-Brighton lead, Billing is not supported in side-slip to protect the ex-Mets’ left pocket. Maddison’s right leg has the same sensitivity as a volleyball player’s kick.
Immediately after the advantage of the hosts, the hosts are shaking, and therefore the appearance criticality of Tottenham’s playing system, as ambitious as it is radically different from what it was in the previous four years. Zabarnyy’s advance in the center is enough to cut through the first line of pressure and undermine Spurs’ density off the ball: the desire to narrow the field in defense escapes the banal diagonal throw towards Kerkez, who finds himself ahead on an empty track. It is a pity that Kerkez decides not to take advantage of this.
With a new captain like Son, not taking advantage of the depth of Bournemouth’s top line would be a crime. AND How Tottenham took the opportunity to surprise and also WHO. The fate of Udoga he immediately became a key element in Postecoglou’s first construction: with United, he formed a trio of players. 2+3 being built together with Pedro Porro, finding fertile ground in intermediate corridors; against CherryOn the other hand, it is his linesmen’s passes that spoil the Rossoneri’s pressure and immediately turn the front line upside down. Udogi, the one who, according to Pierpaolo Marino, had to change his name because Fate was “too small for him”, only to then move from Verona to Udinese two years ago: not quite a preordained transfer. Udogi, who was exploited less than possible in Udine and less than necessary in the national team.https://imgur.com/Bs2qrJc
Squads are lengthening and opportunities are starting to open up on both sides: with no European commitments, the former Australian and Celtic manager will have to work in moment of control of two areas. Otherwise, a more adequate line-up will be needed, especially now that Kane is gone and Richarlison does not appear to have sent his finalizer twin back to London; while at the same time defending their 16 meters Spurs they still need to find some distance so as not to collapse on the Vicar.
The beginning of the second half was more balanced: Justin Kluivert played on the left flank of the hosts. It is entirely legitimate to doubt that the Dutch son of art as the most dangerous man in the last third of the field can be sustainable in the long run, but the first half of the faction sees an almost fragile and insecure Tottenham Hotspur. But it is still Udoga’s initiative to consolidate the final result: the defender first points out the passing line of Hojbjerg (first photo below), then passes between Zabarny and Semenyo (second photo) and finally returns Kulusevski, who only has to make his way to the goal (third photo).
With the arrival of Perisic as a left winger, Udogi narrowed his position in midfield. An example of this is the image below, about ten minutes before doubling. Udoga’s ease of receiving and handling the ball in the midfield speaks to the work done by Pestekoglou to make the positional structure of the players smoother. Spurs in developing.
Substitutes do not change the fate of the match. Jadon Anthony continues to carry the baton of the creator of Iraola, having inherited it from Kluivert, but the only real difference from the former Roma is the height, and not the effectiveness of the attack of Pedro Porro, identified from the beginning of the match as the weak point of the team. Defense of London.
Udogi is forced to leave the field due to an injury whose essence Luciano Spalletti, not only keeping faith in the mantra that he will have to plant in Azzurri’s head, hopes to be weak like weak people and not as strong as Udogi’s Destiny. The final whistle is accompanied by a storm that makes one wonder how In fact Bournemouth is beautiful at the end of an August day. That’s right, if you support Tottenham, This Tottenham is one of the few places in England where you really want to spend a late summer day.