Father Green

Chapter 3: Another Good Friend——Sporting Lisbon
Pogba is supporting his boss through such a celebration, and obviously he can't understand the practices of these two companies.

After the score was equalized, Swansea did not make adjustments, and still adopted the old defensive counterattack tactics in an attempt to seize the opponent's loopholes again.

But Southampton bombarded the opponent's goal like a drug, and they had almost no power to fight back.Even if they were defended by them, they got the ball.Southampton immediately countered on the spot, and if they couldn't grab it, they directly fouled and gave the opponent a set kick in the backcourt, and then they could retreat and deploy their defense calmly.

Laudrup felt that this was not the way, but he didn't dare to let the team out immediately, otherwise relying on Southampton's offense would definitely sieve him.So he gestured to the team to stabilize and slow down the opponent's rhythm.

But obviously Southampton has found a way to deal with them. After Sturridge and others made a fuss in the penalty area, they chose to make the ball out. De Bruyne knocked the ball with his heel covertly. Behind him, Florenzi, who followed up in Rome, took a shot, and the football flew into Swansea's goal again.

Two to one, and both goals were scored by midfielders from long range.

"It doesn't work anymore," Sky Sports' Gary Neville said.Now is the competition between Manchester United and Southampton for the league title. He certainly hopes to see the remaining teams can help Manchester United snipe the Saints.

Laudrup naturally knew that this trick was not working, so he pulled Michu to his side: "Don't close too far, we haven't swept the front of the penalty area, tell them we need to slow down the opponent's rhythm !"

But Southampton is already playing excitedly. Even the pressing of Aubameyang and Lallana in the frontcourt almost caused Swansea to score a direct goal after being intercepted by the opponent.

But Swansea escaped the first day of junior high school, but not the fifteenth day.After Lallana attracted his teammate Jack Cork to come up, he sent a through ball to find center Sturridge.

The England black swan was flanked by two opposing central defenders and there was no space, so he split the ball to Aubameyang.Aubameyang directly broke through the bottom and then made a cross. An inverted triangle found Lallana.Lallana swung his leg and faked a shot, but passed the ball to Sturridge in front of him.Sturridge pushed lightly, and the ball crashed into the net.

Three to one, the game went on to No. 607 minutes and Southampton had already expanded the score, chasing three goals in a row.

Charlotte didn't think that the opponent had a chance to come back, so he replaced Sterling, Stephens and Chambers for training, allowing Aubameyang, Lovren and Carvajal to get a chance to rest.

After seeing Charlotte change, Laudrup also started to change.The difference is that he didn't put on young players to exercise like Charlotte, but planned to play a game. He removed a midfielder and replaced it with a striker to strengthen his offense.

Not to mention, through the new Chambers, he really found a loophole here. In the No.708 minute of the game, Swansea scored a goal from left winger Dale, reducing the score to [-]-[-].

It seems that everything is still undecided?

But soon Southampton told the opponent with absolute strength that they were thinking too much.Sterling's strong drive on the left opened the gap, and the Swansea defense was messed up by him, and then crossed.

Sturridge tapped his head lightly, and instead of hitting the goal directly, he threw the ball to the other side of the goal. De Bruyne, who had just arrived, had time to adjust after taking the ball, and then hit the player's far corner successfully.

Four to two, the dust settled!

Don't look at the fierce fighting between the two sides in this game, it is almost impossible to live.But after the game, both the coaching staff and the players joked with each other, talking and laughing.

After all, the relationship between the two teams is really good. Charlotte found Jack Cork, who is currently playing for Swansea on loan, and patted him on the shoulder: "You did a good job this season!"

Jack Cork smiled, obviously he was very happy with Charlotte's affirmation of him, he knew that the current competition in Southampton's midfield was too fierce, so he chose to rent out for training before the season.

At the post-match press conference, Charlotte said: "I have said before, if you really respect your opponent, then please try your best to defeat the opponent. Because only if you go all out, is the opponent and yourself With the greatest respect, this has nothing to do with the prize money of those two companies, to be honest I think they have violated the principle of fair play, and I call on UEFA and even the European Union to open a case to investigate this matter."

And Laudrup obviously doesn't want to make trouble, he is not like Charlotte who has no clue: "If I easily let the Saints win a victory, you will say that we are playing match-fixing. We are now You worked so hard, you almost didn't have any friends, but you said we did it for the bonus"

After the game against Swansea, Charlotte and his team will soon prepare for the next Carabao Cup semi-final. In the middle of the week, they will face the Portuguese Super League powerhouse Benfica.

Teams like Porto and Benfica in the Portuguese Super League are not weak, because they are star processing factories, so many South American and Portuguese players who are famous in the five major European leagues are from the three brothers of the Portuguese Super League.

And now in the Benfica camp there are Paraguayan center forwards, Cardoso who once played for Newcastle United, and powerful Argentine attacking midfielder Nicolas Gaitan, the leading shooter is from Lima, Brazil, and the core of the midfielder is Serbia, who once came from Chelsea. International Matic.

According to the schedule, Southampton played away in the first round, so Charlotte did not give the team time to rest after the game against Swansea, but directly led the team to Lisbon, Portugal .

When the results of the draw came out, the club had already contacted Benfica's rival Sporting Lisbon in the same city. The Portuguese Super League team expressed its willingness to lend a place of its training ground to Southampton.

Sporting Lisbon has collapsed in the third line this season. They have already fallen out of the competition to win the championship in the league, and they were also eliminated early in the Portuguese Cup and Europa League. Therefore, they have nothing to desire this season. As long as you keep your third position in the league, it will be fine.Speaking of which, Sporting Lisbon is the worst among the three giants of the Portuguese Super League. They have only won 11 league championships in total, and the last time they won the championship was [-] years ago.

Porto has won 26 times, and it is very likely to complete No.20 seven times this season. Benfica is even better and they have won 32 league championships.

So when Southampton came to Lisbon's Puma Training Academy in Alquecete, Sporting Lisbon also played an intra-team match with this team from the Premier League, which was purely of a friendly nature.

Southampton can take this opportunity to learn about the characteristics and style of play of the Portuguese team, and then share with Sporting Lisbon the experience of training and training young players.

When it comes to training young players, Southampton in England is one of the outstanding players in youth training, but Sporting Lisbon has no one in Portugal. When it comes to training young players, Sporting Lisbon is second and no one dares to say first .Eusebio, Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Quaresma, Simao, Viana, Moutinho, Canela, Valente and Nani have come out of here. Therefore, the youth training system of Sporting Lisbon is also very famous in Europe.

The models of Porto and Benfica are not traditional youth training models. They are more like a star processing factory, introducing local or foreign players from the age of 22 or [-] to [-] or [-], and then training them to become famous and then selling them at a high price. Compared with clubs like Sporting Lisbon, which have been cultivated since childhood, Porto and Benfica are naturally much easier.

This time even Les Reid has come to Portugal, and he wants to talk to Sporting Lisbon about some club cooperation.With the team's outstanding performance, some other ideas were born at the top of the club.

The person who received Les Reid was the director of Sporting Lisbon's youth training and scouting department, the old man Aurelio Pereira, whose name is known to everyone in Portuguese football.

The contact between clubs naturally has nothing to do with Charlotte. Now Southampton already has the confidence and strength of a strong Premier League team. I think Charlotte was the head coach when they reached a cooperation intention with Getafe in La Liga. It's up to you.

The reason was that the club, as a newly promoted horse from the British Championship, didn't have the confidence and foresight to cooperate with them. In Curtis's words, Charlotte was thinking too much.
After the team friendly match with Sporting Lisbon, Charlotte also had a clear understanding of the Portuguese team.That is, although the Portuguese Super League is not considered one of the five major leagues, they like to dominate the offense, especially the side attack has always been the sharp point of the Portuguese team. This has also been confirmed in their national team. After all, they have the world's No. The winger Ronaldo, and Nani, who was previously hailed as Ronaldo's successor, plus Quaresma and others, are all good wingers.

The one who knows Benfica best in Portugal must be Sporting Lisbon and then Porto, so Charlotte also got an affirmative answer from Sporting Lisbon, that is, Benfica also plays wing attack, and Charlotte watched Benfica's video and Best, etc. From the human analysis report on the opponent, this is consistent.

Then the question arises. When it comes to wing attacks, who is Southampton not targeting? When were they afraid?