Father Green

Chapter 24: Adjusting tactics
However, at this time, under the arrangement of Charlotte, Southampton has consolidated its defense, which makes it impossible for Derby County to start even if they get the ball.

After Lallana and Al Ganassi returned to defense, Derby County had no chance of threatening Southampton's goal. Even in the opponent's half, Derby County would encounter Southampton's crazy press, not to mention It was in Southampton's own backcourt.

So after encountering Southampton's press, Derby County made more mistakes.

Jack Ward tried to find center forward Chris Maguire after he got the ball, but he was disturbed by Adam Lallana's return defense, so the force of the pass was less in a hurry.Schneiderlin saw the opportunity and robbed the football before Magway and Ward.

The French midfielder did not take the ball by himself. He knew that there were Derby County players in front of him.

So Schneiderlin made a long pass to find Sturridge who was in front and did not participate in the defense. At this time, due to Derby County's heavy pressure, their backcourt was empty. Sturridge saw Schneiderlin's long pass and used it. The speed he is best at is passed between the two central defenders who are lagging behind.

This is what Sturridge has noticed a long time ago. The distance between the opponent's two central defenders is a little bit large. This may not be a problem for a center like Ricky Lambert, but for a speed forward For Sturridge, this is his chance.

It was too late when the two central defenders of the opponent wanted to close the goal. Sturridge rushed between them abruptly, and then received a pass from his teammate behind them.

"Sturridge! One-handed!! Schneiderlin's pass once again penetrated the entire defense of Derby County!"

Derby County goalkeeper Fielding abandoned the goal, and Sturridge, who had already reached the top of the arc, pushed directly.Fielding judged the right direction, but the distance was a bit far, and his fingertips could only poke the football slightly.

But it was such a light touch that caused the football to change its course slightly, and finally hit the goal post and rolled out of the baseline.

"Hey" the Southampton fans at home sighed.

"Oh" and the Derby County fans of the visiting team were taken aback. They had just walked back from the gate of hell.

"Felding!! After conceding three goals in a row, he finally woke up. A very beautiful save made Sturridge's single goal powerless!!"

When Fielding took off Adam Lallana's corner kick into the middle of the penalty area, England's famous whistle Webber blew the whistle to end the first half.

Charlotte stood in front of the tunnel and shook hands with the off-court players one by one, patted their shoulders as a sign of encouragement: "Good job, guys!"

"I have to say that although Southampton's head coach is only unbelievably 23 years old, very young. But his vision is quite vicious. Just the best players in the first half, Sturridge, Al Ganassi , Danny Rose, these are the newcomers that the 23-year-old head coach introduced this season. At the same time, the veteran Gary Monk introduced by the head coach of Charlotte perfectly commanded the entire defense line, making the opponent's offense completely invincible. Start the game." After only 45 minutes in the first half, Charlotte made the commentators change their tone. At the beginning, they also said that Charlotte might be the first head coach of the British Championship to dismiss get out of class.

In the locker room of the home team, Charlotte praised the team's performance in the first half, and at the same time pointed out some shortcomings and hoped that the players would pay more attention in the second half.And Charlotte's arrangement for the team in the second half is to pay more attention to the running position and passing and cutting cooperation between teammates, and at the same time stabilize their defense line and wait for the opportunity to counterattack.

At the beginning of the second half, Derby County, which was behind, made changes immediately, and made two substitution adjustments as soon as it came up.Attacking midfielder Chivka came on to replace Jack Ward, who struggled in the first half, while Manchester City academy product winger Lee Croft came on to replace central midfielder James Bailly.

"It seems that Derby County is going to step up their attack. They are two goals behind and they want to catch up. The 15-minute intermission at Southampton's young coach Charlotte did not make any changes to the lineup. It seems that he was very satisfied with the performance of the players in the first half."

Derby County launched a large-scale bombing against Southampton at the beginning of the second half. Chris Magway and Stephen Davis posed a great threat to Southampton. Sai Fonte is also in his prime, maybe Southampton conceded the ball at the beginning of the second half.

Nigel Clough was a little more satisfied with the team's performance on the spot, but he thought that if the team started playing like this, the order of the scores might be reversed.

"Derby County's offense has created a very big threat. They are not reconciled to losing the first league game of the new season. Southampton's defense is crumbling."

Although Southampton's defense is crumbling, what makes Derby County coach Nigel very bad is that the opponent's defense has not collapsed.

Seeing the opponent bombing his own backcourt in turn, Charlotte smiled, because what he saw was not the crumbling defense line of his side as the commentator said, but the wide space in the opponent's backcourt.

"It seems that Daniel Sturridge's counterattack in the first half did not attract the attention of the opponent." Charlotte smiled secretly.

Then he called Pogba who was warming up in the warm-up area at the beginning of the second half. In fact, Charlotte let all four substitutes warm up at the beginning of the second half. The only one who did not warm up was the substitute goalkeeper Ter Ste. root.

The German goalkeeper is not familiar with the English league, so Charlotte asked him to sit on the bench and observe carefully in this game, and at the same time arranged the first team coach Martin Hunt as the teacher.

"Paul, you can replace Dean after you go up, but I don't want you to be the second Dean. Although you have to help the team defend after you go up, I hope you can get in and attack according to the situation. Just take a long shot, cooperate with your teammates if you have no chance, and disrupt the current situation on the field. At the same time, tell Morgan (Schneiderlin) that the long pass is handed over to him, but I hope you can keep up with the short pass and let Danny not It's too deep, now we play in the middle for the rest of the time!" Charlotte personally arranged tactics for Pogba, not assistant coach Wilkins.

He patted Pogba on the back: "GO! GO! GOGO!!!", when the referee signaled that it was time to make a substitution, the fourth official also showed the LED sign for the substitution, and Charlotte pushed Pogba play.

"Southampton started the first substitution adjustment. The midfielder Dean Hammond was replaced by Paul Pogba. This is a counter-substitution. At the same time, the 17-year-old French central Paul Pogba has been on loan from Manchester United's academy this season as coach Charlotte."

"Could it be that the head coach of Charlotte thinks that this game has no suspense, but has started to train young people?" The commentator of Sky Sports was a little puzzled.

Because Derby County's offense is in full swing now, if you don't pay attention, you may be scored by the opponent. Although the advantage of two goals is not small, but for the time when the game is still 10 minutes away, Southampton is now Can't be too careless.

Derby County head coach Nigel Clough, who was standing on the side, glanced at Charlotte not far away, thinking that young people are young people, a little arrogant, and the game is over?Let me teach you a good lesson, this is England, the English league where anything can happen on the pitch!

Of course, in fact, Nigel Clough, who is only 44 years old this year, is still a young man in the career of head coach, but compared to Charlotte, who is only 23 years old and has no coaching experience, he can indeed be regarded as a coach. An old-timer.

Nigel waved his hand and continued to increase the intensity of the attack, and the breakthrough was Paul Pogba who had just played and the left back Danny Rose who often added assists!