Father Green

Chapter 274: A lion in distress is not as good as a chicken

After the game, when reporters reported the game, those fans who did not watch the game shouted: "Southampton finally lost!"

But think about it carefully. Damn it! !So far this season, Southampton has only lost one game on all fronts, and it is this FA Cup game.

When did the Saints become so powerful that they never lost in the league or UEFA Cup? ? !Everyone is terrified.

And after this report was sent out, even the reporters realized that they had not seen Southampton lose so far this season. grades.

Sixteen wins, five draws and zero losses! !

Then I looked at the UEFA Cup record:

Four wins, two draws and zero losses! !
As for the League Cup, they don't need to watch it anymore, because the next game is the League Cup. If Southampton had lost in the League Cup before, then they would definitely not make it to today!
So on the second day, the media once again had a new hype point, that is: "Who can beat the Saints!!"

However, when doing the news of this issue, many reporters were scolded bloody by the editor-in-chief, because they missed this news point last time, this is unprofessional
And when Charlotte attended the press conference before the League Cup against Leeds United, the reporter's question was answered like this: "No loss? This is of course a good thing, which shows that our players are very good. Of course, A season is very long, and no one can tell what will happen next. Didn’t we just lose to Chelsea two days ago? So even if we lose in the future, we have to face it calmly. There's never been a team that doesn't lose!"

Charlotte didn't take this undefeated discipline as a matter of course. After all, the road ahead was still long, and if she struggled with this, she might fall.

But for this League Cup game against Leeds United, Charlotte did not wrestle, although the starting lineup he used did not change much from the previous game against Chelsea, except that Ter Stegen was replaced by veteran David s.

The game ended with Southampton securing the victory 10-[-] in the first [-] minutes. In the remaining time, Charlotte changed three players in a row. John Stones of the youth team replaced the captain Ho Cy Font, Ward Prowse from the youth team replaced Pogba, and it was the Spanish striker Paco Alcacer from the youth team who replaced De Bruyne.

Obviously this is to train the young people. The remaining 10 minutes are meaningless to both sides, but it is still of great significance to Leeds United, because they gradually played after the Southampton substitution. Offensive, and finally scored a goal in the No.805 minute of the game, and used it to save his respect at home.

After eliminating Leeds United in the middle of the week, the second round of the league No.20 immediately ushered in the weekend.The opponent in this game is Aston Villa, which is an old Premier League team. Their glory period is undoubtedly the two seasons before the establishment of the Premier League and the first year of the Premier League. Champions of the league (before the establishment of the Premier League), ten top league runner-ups, seven FA Cups and five English League Cups.

This kind of history is undoubtedly brilliant and dazzling. In terms of historical background, the Lions of Aston Villa can beat the Saints by several streets.Because he also won the Champions League and the European Super Cup once.

These are the proud histories of Aston Villa people. With these histories, they are enough to crush their city rival Birmingham and never recover.At the same time, one thing that Aston Villa is proud of is that since the establishment of the Premier League, they have never been relegated so far and have remained in the Premier League for ten years.

It's just that their situation this year is not ideal. Aston Villa, who scored [-] points, is currently ranked fourth from the bottom, only one point away from Wigan Athletic behind them. If they don't work harder this season, The record of not being relegated from the Premier League that may be worthy of their pride can only be passed away.

Charlotte's relegation team is not easy to play, and at the same time it is an away game, so he has played the main force. During this period, the main players have rested long enough.

Perhaps it is also because of the long enough rest that the team's offense is frequently unable to open, and the opponent's attitude of defending is very firm.Aston Villa is very aware of their current situation, so they face the teams at the top of the league standings and now adopt a defensive counterattack strategy. There are about nine to ten players in the midfield and goalkeepers, leaving only one player in the frontcourt. Both players fight back.

The more difficult the offense in the frontcourt was, the Southampton players gradually became a little impatient. At the No.60 minute of the game, the team pressed hard and was finally caught by the cunning lion. I stole one when I got the chance.

Now Aston Villa is even more terrible. Paul Lambert is now in a difficult situation. He must lead the team out of the abyss of relegation, otherwise he will definitely be regarded as a victim of Aston Villa's poor record .

So Paul Lambert only needs to set a conservative tactic of "Long live one point". After taking the lead, he immediately replaces a defender, replaces the only center forward, and defends directly.

Charlotte is so angry that she has a toothache, Nima, there is still half an hour left in the game, are you so confident that you can defend?

With a wave of his hand, Pogba in the midfield was replaced and forward Harry Kane was replaced. All fools know that this is the rhythm of his effort.

Since Schneiderlin was absent due to injury, Pogba served as the starter for this game.He and Wanyama sit in the middle, but the division of labor between the two is different. Wanyama is more inclined to defend and intercept in the middle, while Pogba is an all-around midfielder from the penalty area to the penalty area.

When Pogba was off the field, Charlotte and the young French came to a hug: "We need to attack now, so sorry, Paul!"

Pogba nodded. He naturally understood the purpose of Charlotte's substitution. This was not dissatisfaction with him, but a tactical adjustment.Although he understood the meaning of his boss, he felt more at ease when the boss explained it to him in person.

The pulling ability of the double center made Aston Villa, the little lion, suffer enough, and when Rodriguez could no longer run on the wing, Charlotte immediately replaced Sterling, a new force, to rush up. rush.

Finally, at the No.807 minute of the game, Sterling's wing breakthrough finally opened up Aston Villa's defensive gap and crossed to the center.Harry Kane's exquisite movement contained the lion's central defender's strength.

Lallana sent a super high-quality through ball under the interference of the opponent's midfielder. Icardi did not waste the efforts of his teammates and scored the goal against two defensive players.

In the end, the two sides drew one to one. After all, there is not much time left. Although it is a pity that Southampton scored a goal at the last minute, Astonville, who has already completed the task of the game with one point in hand, La stubbornly defended the Saints' indiscriminate bombing for 5 minutes.

Charlotte was not satisfied with this game. He said bluntly in the visiting team's locker room: "You guys are not playing as well as those boys! The opponent's defense is firm? This is not an excuse for not taking all three points. The opponent is ranking Aston Villa in the relegation circle, we can't even win this sick lion, how can we face other Premier League teams?!"

The players don't dare to make a move. After research and experiments, it has been shown that when you are old, you must not touch bad luck, otherwise the end will be very. Miserable!

Although the game did not lose, the outside world still seemed very surprised that the Saints did not win the game.They even said that Southampton is simply a contemporary hero who steals from the rich and helps the poor. They grab points from top-ranked teams in the league and give them back to teams that need to relegation.
Charlotte wanted to complain about this, but didn't know where to start
However, the focus of this round is not Southampton. There are two focus battles in this round.The first is the famous Premier League double red meeting, the match between Manchester United and Liverpool.In this game, the two sides played inseparable at Old Trafford in the Theater of Dreams. In the end, Jiang was still old and spicy. Ferguson defeated Rodgers' Liverpool with a score of [-]-[-].

Although Rodgers' Red Army did not perform well this season, he still won the trust of the KOP in this game against Manchester United. At least they did not hesitate to play at Old Trafford. After all, they once led the rival Manchester United , Unfortunately, Ferguson time is destined to be unsolvable.

In the last 10 minutes, the Red Devils seized the weakness of the Red Army's physical decline and scored two goals to overtake the score. Poor Rogers, he almost won the first double-red game of his career.

Another focus battle is the contest between Arsenal and Manchester City. Wenger has been struggling so far this season.It doesn't matter if they can't win the Manchester City duo, even Chelsea, the city's arch-rival who is caught in the quagmire of coaching changes, can make the professor powerless.It was even close to another deadly rival, Tottenham, who pulled Arsenal down. Over the years, Tottenham has grown older and stronger, and has the strength to challenge the Premier League and Champions League qualification areas.

In the end, Mancini's team defeated Wenger's Arsenal [-]-[-] at the Emirates Stadium, which directly caused Wenger's Gunners to drift away from the Champions League team.

After the game, Manchester United once again surpassed Southampton led by Charlotte to take the league leader position by one point.However, the Saints' second place in the league is relatively safe at present, because Manchester City, which is third in the league, is still five points away from them. For the time being, Southampton is not worried about being overtaken by the opponent in one game.

Hmm. Because it takes two games.