Chapter 873 League Cup Defend the Title Again

After the game restarted, Mahrez became more active. He has good skills at passing, running, shooting, and for a while he seemed to be everywhere on the offensive end.

Mason also adjusted his defense and arranged someone to specifically mark Mahrez.

Now Mason no longer finds this thing weird. This Uruguayan is indeed extremely threatening.

Mahrez encountered relatively tight marking.

At this time, the pressure on Greenwood was relieved and he became active again.

Williams stole the ball from Aurier's feet, then ran all the way with the ball. Hojbjerg tried to catch up with him, but he couldn't catch up with him.

Near the edge of the penalty area, Williams made a shovel pass into the penalty area.

Mahrez went to receive the ball, but Alderweireld kicked the ball out first.

Bellingham intercepted the ball and passed it to Greenwood.

Greenwood followed up with a long shot, but the ball was blocked by Alderweireld and went out of bounds.

Greenwood and Mahrez immediately raised their hands to indicate that Alderweireld had committed handball.

"Handball!" Mourinho was also shouting from the sidelines.

"Handball! Alderweireld seemed to have blocked it with his hand." Lineker also said so.

The referee seemed to hesitate for a moment, then signaled that it was a corner kick.

Mourinho was naturally dissatisfied. He protested endlessly on the sidelines and received a verbal warning from the referee.

Slow motion showed that the football did hit Alderweireld's right hand. It was a handball and Tottenham escaped.

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Manchester United's corner kick, Bruno kicked the ball into the penalty area. McTominay failed to hit the right spot under Alderweireld's defense, and the ball hit the back of his head and bounced up.

This caused chaos in the Tottenham penalty area. In the chaos, Fred passed the ball to Bruno. Under the defense of Aurier, the Manchester United captain did not choose to force a shot, but swept the ball to the top of the penalty area.

Then, people saw a figure rushing up and hitting the football with a blast!

"Dalot! Shoot!"

The shot was powerful and Lori saved it.

"Get rid of it!"

The football bounced up after being hit by Lori.

Mahrez reacted the fastest. He squeezed out Alderweireld's sliding shot, and the football bounced over the goal line and flew into the empty goal.

"GOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLL!!!!!!"

"Mahrez! The Algerian helps Manchester United extend their lead!"

"In the 39th minute, Manchester United led Tottenham by two goals, and the goal was scored by Mahrez!"

Mourinho pumped his fists and shouted excitedly on the sidelines.

"Mahrez helped United go two goals up in the final and that took the pressure off Mourinho."

On the field, Mahrez was surrounded by his teammates celebrating, and the Algerians were extremely happy.

In Manchester United, he is not a main player because his competitor is very strong, the French genius winger Mahrez, which means that he does not get too many opportunities to play. In an important game like today's League Cup final, it is very rare for him to start.

And being able to score goals in the game will undoubtedly go a long way in improving his situation in the team.

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Trailing 0:2, Tottenham could only make a desperate move and launched a crazy attack. Then before the end of the first half, Manchester United launched a quick counterattack after stealing the ball in the backcourt.

Bellingham passed the ball to Fred, who launched the attack with a long pass from the backcourt.

"Counterattack! Counterattack! Manchester United's counterattack!"

"Greenwood is running, he's chasing the ball, Alderweireld is chasing Greenwood!"

After Greenwood received the ball beautifully in the frontcourt, he dribbled all the way. Alderweireld tried desperately to catch up, but he couldn't catch up with the Manchester United kid.

Facing the only defender in the penalty area, Dale, Greenwood passed the opponent with several consecutive bicycle kicks.

"Going past the goalkeeper!" the commentator shouted.

Sure enough, Greenwood pretended to shoot, tricked Lori into falling to the ground to save the ball, then he pulled the ball sideways and swept it into the empty goal.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLL!!!!!!!!"

"Greenwood! The third one! Manchester United 3:0 Tottenham!"

"Familiar game, familiar rhythm, familiar formula." The MUTV commentator was even more complacent, unscrupulous and arrogant, shouting, "Tottenham was once again beaten to pieces by Manchester United."

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When Greenwood scored and extended the score to 3:0, Mason stood on the sidelines with a blank expression.

The camera was fixed on Mason. Objectively speaking, the director was very unfriendly.

There were commentators discussing what Mason was thinking at the moment. In fact, he was not thinking about anything, but a deep sense of frustration.

At this point in the game, Mason knew that Manchester United was bound to win.

We were three goals behind at halftime, and most importantly, the team’s morale was extremely low. How could we continue to play this game?

Although the game is not over yet, we can't give up, and there is still half a game, so there is enough time. But it depends on the situation. At least, Mason is frustrated and helpless at this time.

He was thinking not just about the final, but also about the future of Tottenham.

Mourinho's Manchester United is like a giant beast pressing down on all British teams. Judging from Manchester United's current strength, especially Mourinho's coaching ability, this team will dominate the Premier League for quite a long time. Not to mention Tottenham, even Guardiola's Manchester City and Klopp's Liverpool will find it very difficult to shake Manchester United's plunder of the championship.

At least that's what it looks like for now.

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In fact, in Mason's opinion, neither Manchester United, Manchester City nor Liverpool are the real competitors of the current Tottenham team. The current strength of the Northwest Big Three is obviously much better than that of Tottenham. Especially Manchester United, they even easily defeated Tottenham with a lineup that was mostly composed of substitutes.

Liverpool and Manchester City have also defeated Tottenham by large margins many times in recent seasons.

Tottenham's real opponents at present are Chelsea and Arsenal, two London teams. These three BIG6 teams have been competing for the fourth Champions League spot in the Premier League in recent seasons.

In the previous seasons, Tottenham was able to beat Arsenal and Chelsea to get a place in the Champions League. But in the past two seasons, Tottenham has fallen out of the Champions League zone.

The same is true this season. Judging from the current situation, it will be difficult for Tottenham to even qualify for the Europa League.

Mason knows the crux of all this, which is that the team cannot retain the real top stars.

In the past few years, those top stars who made a name for themselves at Tottenham were quickly poached by the big clubs. Carrick and Berbatov were a little further away, followed by Modric and Bale, and most recently Harry Kane, and even Eriksen, all chose to leave Tottenham.

The Premier League is a highly competitive league. Without top stars and a strong lineup, it is difficult for any team to achieve good results.

Without good results, it will be even more difficult to retain star players, which seems to be a vicious cycle with no solution.

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At the end of the first half, Manchester United led Tottenham 3:0 thanks to goals from Bruno, Mahrez and Riyad Mahrez, and was almost invincible in this League Cup final.

Before the start of the second half, Mason made a series of substitutions.

Sissoko came on as a substitute, replacing Lo Celso.

Bale, the former Real Madrid loanee, came on as a substitute, replacing Lucas Moura, who was almost invisible in the first half.

In the 3th minute of the game, the score was still 0:, with Manchester United leading.

In the stands of the new Wembley Stadium, some Tottenham fans had already left early. They were in no mood to watch Tottenham receive the silver medal.

This situation is very rare in the final, which shows how upset and disappointed Tottenham fans are.

Manchester United fans couldn't hold it any longer. They stood up in the stands, sang and danced to celebrate winning the championship in advance.

The staff held up an electronic sign indicating two minutes of injury time for the entire game, but the referee ignored the extra time and blew the whistle to end the game as soon as the 90-minute game time was up.

The camera captured that when the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Tottenham players, including Son Heung-min, breathed a sigh of relief: the nightmare was finally over.

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"Game over, game over, 3:0! Manchester United beat Tottenham 3:0 in the League Cup final."

"Congratulations to Manchester United and Mourinho. They successfully defended their League Cup title! In a final with almost no suspense, Manchester United slaughtered Tottenham with a huge advantage."

"2020-2021 English League Champions - Manchester United!"

When the final whistle of the game was blown, the players and staff on the Manchester United bench rushed into the stadium and started cheering and celebrating.

Soon, the runner-up Tottenham finished receiving the awards, and it was the turn of the champion Manchester United to receive the awards.

Manchester United players went up on stage one by one to receive their awards.

After receiving the gold medal, everyone will take a look at the championship trophy next to it.

Although Manchester United has won several championship trophies in recent seasons, no one would complain about having too many championships.

The team captain Bruno was the last to go on stage to receive the award. Prince William put the gold medal on Bruno, and then Prince William handed the League Cup trophy to Bruno.

His teammates counted down beside him, shouting three, two, one, and Bruno held the championship trophy high.

Red confetti sprayed out from behind the podium, and Queen's "We Are the Champions" played over the stadium.

Manchester United fans shouted loudly in the stands: "Yes! We are the champions!!"

The new Wembley Stadium has become a sea of ​​joy for Manchester United fans. The noise created by more than 4,000 Manchester United fans is like that of tens of thousands of people.

After more than a year of the epidemic, Manchester United fans can finally celebrate the championship with the team again!