Because Southampton's position was very poor at the time, there was no support in the midfield and frontcourt. In particular, the core player Gu Ran was still in the small penalty area, surrounded by Tottenham players.

Davis immediately steadied his rhythm.

Tottenham then quickly returned to defense.

Southampton was able to catch their breath a little, relying on passing the ball back and forth in the backcourt to kill time and look for opportunities.

It is impossible to play a head-on game against a strong team like Tottenham. Tottenham has a pair of the strongest wingers in the Premier League, Van der Vaart, Modric and two extremely fast forwards. If Southampton plays a head-on game against Tottenham, they will be beaten to pieces in minutes.

After receiving treatment, Bale raised his hand to signal the referee, then quickly ran back to the field.

The pain in Gu Ran's calf has also subsided - if it were other players, their condition would definitely be affected by the pain in their calf, but for Gu Ran, it is no problem at all.

The two sides are back on the same starting line.

Although Southampton defended very hard, Tottenham's ability to cut through the defense was soon revealed.

Tottenham's attacking rhythm was very fast. Basically, it only took two or three kicks and two or three sprints to get the ball into Southampton's penalty area.

Southampton was in a very passive situation at one point.

As the fire-fighting captain, Gu Ran sprinted back and forth between the attacking midfielder and defensive midfielder positions to assist in defense.

This game put a huge test on Southampton's defense, but most of the test was borne by Gu Ran.

Another part of the test is borne by Mikel.

Fortunately, Southampton urgently loaned Mikel, otherwise, with Gu Ran alone sprinting back and forth to defend, it would have been impossible for them to withstand the game.

As a Chelsea player, Mikel is naturally excited when he sees Tottenham.

Chelsea missed the chance to compete head-on with Tottenham in the League Cup, but Mikel had the opportunity to vent his anger for Chelsea!

Mikel's defensive moves were big and his tackles were rough and decisive.

As soon as the game started, Mikel was warned by the referee for his frequent rough actions.

But Mikel didn't care at all and continued to do his own thing.

In the 9th minute of the game, Tottenham made a series of short passes on the left side of the backcourt, and Van der Vaart gave the ball to Bale. Bale ran all the way with the ball and overtook like a scimitar. Southampton's right side defense was immediately turned into a sieve by Bale, and they were unable to stop Bale at all!

Gu Ran had to quickly retreat from the midfield position to the penalty area to prevent Bale from cutting inside!

Bale did not confront Gu Ran head-on, but went straight to the bottom and passed the ball back! Crouch, who was in the middle of the penalty area, jumped high and headed the ball! Van der Vaart, who came in from the back, made a beautiful sideways hook volley!

Davis was busy defending Bale and Crouch! Facing Van der Vaart's shot, Davis was powerless!

The football shot into the net!

More than 40,000 Tottenham fans at Wembley Stadium cheered wildly! After no less than 10 attacks, Tottenham finally changed the score! The score on the two big screens was immediately changed to Tottenham 1:0 Southampton.

The Southampton defenders all looked depressed.

I have to say that Van der Vaart's goal was really brilliant.

Van der Vaart was also very happy after scoring the goal. He ran to the sidelines and pointed his hand to the sky to celebrate!

Old Ray Redknapp on the home team's bench just smiled indifferently, as if this goal should have been scored a long time ago.

On the other side, in the visiting team's technical area, coach Adkins clapped his hands vigorously and encouraged the Southampton players loudly: "It's okay! It's okay! Keep going! The game has just begun!"

After the game resumed, Southampton's defense became more cautious.

However, Tottenham's competitive state was ignited by Van der Vaart's wonderful goal just now.

In the 13th minute of the game, Modric dribbled the ball along the middle.

Gu Ran and Lambert stepped forward to intercept.

Modric didn't dare to confront Gu Ran head-on, so he immediately slowed down, looked at the entire court, and prepared to pass the ball.

Bale took the opportunity to speed up on his own left side——

Modric immediately passed the ball to the left.

Gu Ran predicted Modric's pass in advance and immediately chased after Bale.

Mikel was closest to Bale, so he accelerated first to chase Bale.

After receiving the ball, Bale took a big step forward and then performed a classic scene of overtaking on a curve!

Mikel couldn't limit Bale's speed at all!

However, just when Bale was about to get the ball and cut inside, Gu Ran rushed up at a speed as if he was overtaking, got in front of Bale, and kicked the ball out of the sideline! Bale's face was full of horror! He overtook twice and accelerated on the outside lane, but was defeated by Gu Ran both times! The Southampton fans at the scene cheered crazily for Gu Ran! Other Chelsea and Arsenal fans also shouted with excitement!

This League Cup final is really full of gold! The direct confrontation between the two overtaking masters is really exciting! At this time, Tottenham quickly sent a throw-in, and Van der Vaart cleverly inserted the ball into the Southampton penalty area.

Mikel and Jaidi failed to form a close gap, allowing Van der Vaart to break in!

Mikel made a flying tackle on Van der Vaart from behind, but missed!

Fortunately I didn’t scoop it up, otherwise I would have to order the red dot set meal!

Southampton's defense was in chaos! Van der Vaart rushed in and shot directly! Fonte, who was defending in front of the goal, stretched out his foot to intercept, but the ball was too powerful and bounced directly off Fonte's toes and into the goal!

The ball went in! Own goal! Less than 15 minutes into the game, Southampton, having already conceded a goal, gave Tottenham an own goal!

The Tottenham fans at the scene danced with joy and waved the White Lily team flag wildly!

The Southampton fans looked grim and couldn't bear to watch.

Conceding two goals within 15 minutes, one of which was an own goal, this... is really hard to accept.

Fante was also dejected and extremely depressed.

His awareness was good, but in such a final competition, this kind of mistake is almost unforgivable.

Captain Davis took the initiative to hug Fonte and patted him on the shoulder in a friendly manner.

Gu Ran also ran to Fangte and said, "Hey, Fangte, don't worry about it. Van der Vaart is really strong. If it was me, I would definitely have scored an own goal. You have tried your best. We can just kick it back next time."

Fang Te looked at Gu Ran gratefully, "Thank you, Gu."

The game continues.

...(End of this chapter)