In the early morning of January 6, the first leg of the English League Cup semi-final kicked off, with Chelsea sitting at home to meet the visiting Tottenham Hotspur, with Havertz's opening record and Ben Davis's self-swinging oolong, the Blues finally beat their opponents 2-0 to take advantage.
In this campaign, Chelsea made as many as 6-man rotations, with Lukaku, who had previously apologized, being forgiven to return to the starting line-up, while Tottenham only Hadti and Tangenga rotated to start. In the opening five minutes, Alonso successfully stealed Tangenga in front of the field and sent a diagonal pass, and Havertz burst into the box to shoot from a small angle to break the net for Chelsea. In the 34th minute, Ziyech's free-kick cross from the right, Tangenga's header bounced off Ben Davis, the Blues extended the score, 2 major mistakes and 2 goals conceded, Tangenga's performance made Conte on the sidelines also look confused.
Of course, Chelsea were also very sad, and Havertz, who opened the record for the Blues, accidentally broke his finger in the celebration with his teammates, insisting on being replaced by Werner after playing the first half, but Tottenham still attacked without improvement, and finally could only accept the result of 0-2 defeat. In this campaign, Chelsea, who played at home, had 63% of the ball, scoring 2 goals on 6 of 19 shots on goal, while Tottenham had only 5 shots on goal in the whole game, 2 of which were on target.
In the history of the League Cup, the only one who lost 2 goals in the first leg and finally overturned was Aston Villa in 1994, who lost 1-3 in the first leg and defeated Tranmill 3-1 in the second leg and defeated Tranmill through a penalty shootout. Chelsea are not the belly of the original fish, so the hopes of Tottenham's comeback seem slim. After the Europa League is out and the Premier League title is hopeless, the White Lily are about to be out of the third event, and the FA Cup is their last hope.
The most disappointed with this result is probably the British emperor Harry Kane. In this game, he played all over the game, 4 times to create opponent fouls, the performance can not be described as not active, but in the shooting data, he only had 1 time, but 4 times lost the ball is more eye-catching. After the game, Kane updated social media to say that the game was not over, but it is estimated that he also knew very well that the third championship of the season had gradually drifted away from him.
The Premier League has scored goals, the national team is the first captain, and kane's personal ability as a british star is beyond doubt, he is the super first-class center forward among the active players in world football, but in so many years of career, despite Kane's great efforts, he has not even had 1 official game champion so far, and this serious mismatch between team honor and personal ability is also a big surprise. It is precisely because of this that Kane was bent on joining Manchester City last summer, but in the end he failed to achieve his wish.
The arrival of champion coach Conte has given Spurs hope. However, the iron coach now admits that even if the team is reinforced in the winter window, it will be difficult to compete with Premier League top three goals DimanChester City, Chelsea and Liverpool. And this time out of the League Cup, it is a heavy blow for Kane, who is eager for the championship. If he doesn't leave Tottenham, the big four every season is really his basic operation.