Father Green

Chapter 378: If you are suffering, ask the Red Army Liverpool

After killing Allardyce, who Charlotte hates very much, the team will usher in a big event next.They will usher in the first round of the Champions League group stage, which is naturally a very big thing for Southampton. After all, this is the first time they have participated in the club's 100-year history of team building. Champions League race.

So before the game started, the St. Mary's Stadium was already packed.Fans have decorated the stands with banners and posters everywhere - they see the game as one huge holiday party
This is the Saints' first Champions League season. UEFA treats them very well, like a "novice protection" setting. They are assigned to a group with Schalke [-], Basel and Steaua Bucharest.

In this group, as long as the Saints play well, the problem of qualifying is not a big one.Even with a little bit of luck, they can compete with Basel for the second place in the group.So as soon as this grouping came out, the media said that UEFA was directly escorting Southampton to the top [-] rhythm.

The first game according to the schedule is that Southampton sits at home against the Swiss tycoon Basel. Basel is one of the most successful clubs in the Swiss Super League. They have won [-] Swiss Super League championships and can participate in the Champions League or the Champions League almost every year. Europa League match.

Although Basel is not a very strong team for the Premier League team, because it is the team's first Champions League game and it is played at home, Charlotte arranges all the main players to play. They had plenty of rest time at West Ham, so now it's time to sharpen the knife.

It's just that Higuain did not appear in the squad due to injury, so Charlotte arranged for the starting center to be Lukaku, Harry Kane as a substitute, and now the Argentine center is already undergoing recovery training. A league game may be able to play.

In the goalkeeper position, Charlotte did not choose Ter Stegen, but let Reina, who had played in the UEFA Super Cup, start.In the choice of this position, perhaps many people have already seen Charlotte's plan.The league is basically Ter Stegen's world, while the Champions League and the Cup are handed over to Reina, perhaps wanting Reina's rich experience in major competitions to help the team.

Many teams can dominate domestically, but they are not satisfactory in the European arena. This is related to the reason why UEFA vigorously supported low-level national leagues before.

For many teams, the competitiveness of teams such as Basel, Steaua Bucharest, Victory Pilsen, and Vienna Austrians may not be able to keep up with the mid-range teams in their league.

So the Saints won their first European game very easily, beating their opponents [-]-[-].But after the victory of the game has been locked, Charlotte also began to send young people to play, let them experience the stage of the Champions League.For them, only a few games in the group stage are enough to play. In the knockout stage, if there are no special circumstances, Charlotte would not dare to let these young players play the main force.

After sending away Basel, Charlotte and his team ushered in the fifth round of the league this season on the weekend.In this game, they will be a guest at Anfield to challenge the Red Army Liverpool.

Speaking of Liverpool, their relationship with the Saints is more "friendly", because many players in their team have transferred from Southampton to the Red Army, and at the pre-match press conference, Rodgers announced In the list of 18 people, Lallana, Sturridge, Lovren and Lambert are impressively listed.

Many media joked that this was a game between Southampton and Southampton, because among the 22 players on the field, it is very likely that fifteen of them are Southampton players.

Charlotte thinks this is nonsense, because Lambert should not get the chance to start.After all, when Suarez and Sturridge are both healthy, veteran Lambert may just assume the role of a backup tactic.

In this game, Charlotte still did not let Higuain be selected for the squad, although his recovery is very good.However, the suggestion given by the team doctor is that the game should not exceed 10 minutes, so Charlotte still let the smoker take an extra game for safety reasons.

The starter is still Lukaku, the little Belgian monster, and the backup center is still Harry Kane. This is a very young shooter combination.But Liverpool did not take this lightly, because they and Southampton are old opponents who know the bottom line, and the previous Southampton lineup is also very young. What happened?They won the league championship with undefeated results in the league.

In order to make the team more familiar with Southampton's tactics and player style, Rodgers arranged for all former Southampton players except Lambert to start. The striker partners are Suarez and Sturridge, and Lallana does not. He went to the center but was put on the side by Rodgers. In fact, he can play both the center and the side. There is no problem with this.

It’s just that the position he replaced was Stuart Downing’s position. After Lallana came, the England attacking midfielder switched to the Hammers to help West Ham United. He also had a substitute in the previous contest between the Saints and the Hammers. Appearance, general performance.

It's just that Rogers was clever but was mistaken by cleverness. Lallana and Sturridge really know Southampton very well, but Southampton also knows them very well.At least Charlotte knows them well, so Lallana and Sturridge didn't have many opportunities to perform throughout the game, but in the first half, the Saints caught Lovren's mistake and scored a goal. ball.

The performance of the entire first half, the Red Army fans were very dissatisfied, they shouted Rodgers must do something.During the intermission, Rogers was also teased by the commentators of the major platforms, poor Rogers.
After the start of the second half, Rodgers didn't do anything, he just adjusted the mentality of the players.For example, in the two offenses in the second half, the Saints still wanted to continue to find Lovren's point, but the midfielder Lucas actively came to help the Croatian central defender defend and resolve the danger.

At the same time, in the offensive, the Red Army is still aggressive.After Sturridge was blocked, Gerrard got a lot of opportunities instead, and he frequently inserted into the frontcourt to help the team attack.

In the 58th minute of the second half, the Liverpool captain also made a long shot from Suarez to help the Red Army equalize the score. This is a very exciting goal for KOP fans.

While the opponent was still celebrating the goal, Charlotte took Pogbara to the sidelines. The French midfielder was still a bit young after all, although he performed very well most of the time.But there are occasional mistakes and mistakes, but today he was very unlucky, the only mistake in the audience was caught by Gerrard.

This ball is mainly due to Pogba's failure to complete his task in time-to sweep and protect the front of the penalty area, this is also his responsibility in defense. The French midfielder is responsible for advancing, attacking, retreating and defending in the whole team. Onerous task.

This is the price you need to pay for being young, but Pogba's talent is indeed outstanding, so Charlotte doesn't mind beating and training him.

Liverpool fans were not happy for too long, Griezmann opened up space on the wing and handed it over to the center.But Lukaku was not greedy for credit. When Lovren and Skrtel were pinching him, the Belgian center knocked the heel of the ball to Eriksson behind him, and Eriksson made a shot after receiving the ball. Action, and then the ball was handed to Aubameyang on the other side.

The Gabon striker received the ball almost unguarded inside the penalty area, and eventually he kicked into the far corner and succeeded. New goalkeeper Mignolet was scored twice by the Saints.

Liverpool fans are very unhappy about Mignolet's goalkeeper position. In their view, sending away the excellent veteran Reina in exchange for an unstable Mignolet is obviously a very bad transaction.

But they don't know that the situation in the transfer market is very complicated, and sometimes the situation is multifaceted.Maybe it wasn't that the Reds wanted to sell Reina, maybe they had to?
After the goal, Rodgers immediately replaced two people. The new Ivorian central defender Kolo Touré came on the field and replaced the underperforming Lovren, and then he replaced Lallana with center Lambert. Changed Sturridge to the wing.

Lambert and Sturridge are two centers with completely different styles, so after this substitution, Charlotte knew what the opponent was playing.

Charlotte told his players to pay more attention to the situation of Sturridge and Suarez, and not to be attracted by Lambert.Now Lambert is no longer a threat to Southampton as he grows older. The real danger is Suarez.

Because with Lambert's containment in the middle, Suarez's range of activities can become larger, and Liverpool may also use the point above Lambert's head to play the second point of attack, which is commonly known as a header Ferry or a fort.

At the same time, Charlotte also made substitutions. He has always been good at arranging tactics based on the opponent's weaknesses.So he replaced center forward Lukaku with Rodriguez, Rodriguez went wide, and then French striker Griezmann returned to the center.

At the same time, he also told Rodriguez to ask Griezmann to find the new Kolo Toure. For a central defender who is a little older and does not turn around quickly, his biggest natural enemy is Griezmann. A striker who has a certain speed and is also versatile.

And there is Aubameyang here, so in Charlotte's view, Rogers' substitution was unintentionally asking for trouble.He might as well leave Lovren on the field, or replace the former Paris Saint-Germain vice-captain Sakho, even the team's vice-captain Agger is not a good choice.