'Captain' Tottenham crossed a big mountain with Son Heung-min absent.
Tottenham advanced to the quarterfinals by beating Manchester City 2-1 with consecutive goals from Timo Werner and Pape Sarr in the round of 16 of the Carabao Cup (League Cup) in 2024-2025 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England on the 31st (Korea time).
Tottenham is aiming for its first trophy in 17 years since the 2007-2008 season. Coincidentally, the last tournament Tottenham won was the League Cup. In the 2020-2021 season, they reached the final of the League Cup, but lost to Manchester City 0-1.
Son Heung-min missed three consecutive games as expected. He appeared on the ground in plain clothes. Tottenham manager Enze Postecoglou has started some rotations. Timo Werner started on the left wing, Son Heung-min's seat. 17-year-old Mikey Moore started for the second consecutive game, but showed his limit against Crystal Palace on the 27th. Dominic Solanke in the center and Brennan Johnson in the right.
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Dejan Kulusevski, Rodrigo Bentancur and Papesar were located in the midfield. For the four-back, Mickey van der Penn stood at left full-back, while Christian Romero and Radu Dragusin breathed at center-back. Archie Gray stood at full-back on the right, and Guglielmo Vicario defended the goal.
Coach Postecoglou has already predicted Son Heung-min's absence at a press conference against Manchester City. `Son Heung-min has almost recovered, but from our perspective, the goal is to play in the weekend games. I'm sure I'll be able to play then" he said. The weekend's game is the 10th round of the English Premier League (EPL) against Aston Villa at 11 p.m. on November 3,
Pep Guardiola, the manager of Manchester City, also used young players to care about Elling Holan and others. Ortega wore goalkeeper gloves. Nathan Ake, Hoobeng Dias, John Stones and Rico Lewis made up the four backs. Gündogan was a defensive midfielder, while Matheus Nunes, Nico O'Reilly, James McCarty and Savinho were in the second line, and Phil Foden was at the forefront.
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Tottenham took the lead in the fifth minute of the first half with Werner's Masugul goal this season. Werner finished off Kulusevski's ground ball cross with a right nonstop shot. In the 25th minute of the first half, Pape Sarr responded to Kulusevski's pass with a lightning medium-range shot in a corner kick situation and scored the winning goal. Kulusevski recorded multi-help.
Mateus Núñez scored a comeback just before the end of the first half for Manchester City. However, in the second half, neither team opened the goal. Hishalisson, who was replaced, blew a one-on-one chance with the goalkeeper in the 38th minute of the second half by mistake, which was caught by the opponent's throw. Ives Bissouma, who was put in at the start of the second half, blocked the opponent's decisive shot in the 43rd minute before passing through the goal.
After all the round of 16 ended, the quarterfinals draw was held. Tottenham's quarterfinal opponent was decided by Manchester United. Manchester United, where Erik ten Hach was replaced, was led by coach Ruud van Nistelrooy as interim coach. Manchester United defeated Leicester City 5-2 at home on the same day. Casemiro and Bruno Fernandes scored two goals each, and Alejandro Garnacho scored one.
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The quarterfinals will be held on December 17. Tottenham faced Manchester United in the English Premier League (EPL) on the 30th of last month and won 3-0. Manchester United will soon appoint a replacement head coach for Ten Hag. Currently, only the announcement is left.
Coach Ruben Amorim, who is leading Portugal Sporting CP, is expected to take the helm of Manchester United. Fabrizio Romano, an expert in the European transfer market, said on his SNS on the 30th that Manchester United will pay a buyout of 10 million euros (about 15 billion won) to recruit Amorim as the new coach.
He went on to say that Sporting had been formally contacted by Manchester United to appoint Amorim. Amorim has reportedly already agreed to Manchester United's proposals and projects'
Amorim, who was born in 1985, is recognized as the best young blood coach in Europe. Recently, he was mentioned as the next Manchester City head coach to replace Pep Guardiola after this season.
The EPL teams all survived. Arsenal face Crystal Palace in the quarterfinals, Newcastle United face Brentford and Southampton face Liverpool.
