Father Green

Chapter 3 Eighty: Who Can Stop the Crazy Saints? !
"Who else can stop Charlotte and his army of saints??!!"

This is the headline on the front page of the sports media in almost all of Europe today. During this period, the Saints played a wave of climax that made other Premier League opponents almost desperate.

"In the just-concluded Premier League No.19 round, Southampton beat Toffee Everton 55-42 away. The Saints played 41 games, but they got an impressive record of [-] wins and [-] tie Now in the league standings, the Saints lead the league with [-] points, and behind them are Arsenal with [-] points, Manchester City with [-] points, Chelsea, Everton and Liverpool."

"This horrible point difference has made many people say that it seems that there is no suspense in the competition for the Premier League championship this season. You must know that this is the second season of the Premier League game that Charlotte led the team. Last season they had Won the Premier League Championship!"

"All you need to know is last season Southampton won the title unbeaten, then 38 games last season plus 57 games this season, my God the Saints are done. A record 2003 unbeaten league games!! This has surpassed Arsenal's unbeaten Premier League record of 2004 consecutive games from May 49 to October [-]. Guys, this is a new great one A record is born!!"

"It is worth mentioning that since they drew with Norwich in the third round of the league, they have maintained a winning streak until now. That is to say, they have created a 2002-game winning streak in the Premier League, which also surpassed [-]. The record of fourteen consecutive victories created by Arsenal during the season!! I declare that the record of unbeaten and consecutive victories in the Premier League that Arsenal fans are proud of is over, and a new king is born!!"

"At the same time, they are also the best in the Champions League. In the six games in the group stage, they got a crazy five victories and one draw. The only draw was a 1-[-] away at Schalke. The score was tied by the opponent. But at that time, Southampton was in a period of massive injuries. Rodriguez, Griezmann, Schneiderlin, Jose Font and Reina all died due to injuries. The reason is that they were not selected for the big list, but even so they retreated from the famous Devil's Stadium, and they advanced as No.[-] after the group scored [-] points!!"

"At the same time, we can see the names of Saints players everywhere in the scorer and assist list of the league and the Champions League, such as Higuain, Lukaku, Griezmann, Rodriguez. It is worth mentioning that the small smoker Yi Guain, many people think that his transfer to the Saints is self-indulgent, but in the past [-] rounds of the league, he has scored [-] goals in total, and he also scored [-] goals in the Champions League. Dominance leads the scorer list, behind him is his former teammate Cristiano Ronaldo who scored ten goals."

"In the past half season, Saints' achievements can be described as horror. They played 29 games in all competitions, but scored [-] goals like crazy!! Their conceded goals There are only seven balls in total!!!”

In the Christmas game that just passed, the Southampton players used crazy results to make the Saints fans have a happy new year that couldn't be happier.

Next is the first game of the new year. In this game, Southampton will go to an away game to challenge Mourinho's Chelsea.This season, Southampton has played against the Blues twice. The first time was when they faced Chelsea at home in the No.13 round of the league. At that time, Southampton narrowly beat their opponents 80-[-].Higuain scored twice and almost made his former head coach unable to step down. Fortunately, in the second half, the team's old captain Terry beat Jose Fonte and scored a header in the second half. A complete defeat for the Blues.

The second match was in the fourth round of the League Cup when Southampton faced Chelsea at home.Although both sides played in a rotation lineup, Salah and Schurrle did not perform well. Maybe they still need time to get familiar with the Premier League.After Demba Ba's transfer to the Blues, his performance has been poor, so it is difficult for the Blues to break the Saints' defense in the away game again facing the weak front.

The Blues are also obviously lacking on the defensive end. The Saints seized a mistake each of Cahill and substitute goalkeeper Schwarzer and scored two goals.

So in the previous two confrontations with Mourinho, Charlotte had the last laugh, and they also stepped on Chelsea's corpse to reach the semi-finals of the League Cup.

Going back to his home court, Mourinho obviously wanted to win back a victory, so he retained some strength in the previous games just to deal with this game.Before the game, he summarized a lot of information about the Saints, and specially arranged new tactical deployments for this game.

Although Torres didn't score many goals, Mourinho put him as the starting center forward in this game. Even the veteran Eto'o, whom the madman trusted very much, sat on the bench.

But it is clear that Mourinho did not expect Torres to lift the team's offensive play, nor did he naively hope that the once golden boy of Spain could score goals.

In less than 6 minutes of the opening, Charlotte could see Mourinho's plan. The madman used Torres' large-scale running and frontcourt stealing ability to disrupt the situation.After all, in his own tactics, the central defender, midfielder and even the goalkeeper need to participate in the pass control system, so Torres' appearance is to press against the ball possession of his backcourt players.

In addition to being spoofed by the majority of fans as "single-handedly invincible", Torres now has two nicknames, "the defender with the most goals" and "the central defender who is active in the center position".

According to the analysis of the data and the opponent's situation, Charlotte believes that the most threatening player of the opponent is the Belgian attacking midfielder Hazard, so Charlotte made targeted deployments for Hazard in this game.

Fans watching the game will find that no matter whether Hazard is on the left or transposed to the right, it is difficult for him to get a chance.Even if he receives a pass from his teammates, he has no time and space to give full play to his dribbling advantage. At the same time, he is the one who has been violated the most times in the blue team.

It's just that Charlotte has counted thousands of times but forgot one person, and that is their midfielder Lampard.The 35-year-old Lampard is naturally not young anymore. His state and physical condition have declined very quickly. In the first two seasons, he still scored eleven and fifteen goals in the league. Zhong can also be regarded as the team's top scorer.

But the speed of Lampard's decline this season is easy to see. For example, he has only scored one goal in the past [-] games in the league.

But considering his age, everyone can only say that the magic lamp is old.

Charlotte also thinks so, so he didn't intend to waste too many resources on Lampard. After all, besides Hazard, Mata and William are also players who can cause him some trouble.Although it is rumored that Mata is not in Mourinho's plan and is likely to leave when the transfer window opens this winter, Charlotte will not ignore the Spaniard at all.

The Spanish attacking midfielder has made very limited appearances at Chelsea this season, mostly as a substitute despite appearing in ten games, but Juan Mata has provided three assists in those ten limited games !
So Charlotte focused more on Hazard, Mata and William's attacking trident behind Torres, but ignored Lampard behind.

No. 12 minutes into the first half, Lampard stepped in from behind and hit a high-quality long-range shot without any guards. In the end, the football flew into the goal guarded by the poorly prepared Ter Stegen. .

Charlotte shook his head helplessly, as long as he pulled Pog over, he reminded the French midfielder to concentrate.Although the main responsibility for this conceded goal is that Charlotte did not count Lampard, Pogba's defensive loss is also a big problem. If Pogba was in his position before Lampard kicked, I dare not say that this ball can be directly blocked by the French midfielder, at least it will not allow the opponent to hit the goal so easily, and it may create problems for the opponent.

Although Pogba sometimes compares two and is more funny, and even has a bit of a thorny personality.But he has always been convinced of Charlotte, because he can feel the importance Charlotte attaches to him from the first day he came to Southampton.

In the previous two seasons, he completed the personal special training arranged by Charlotte, and also completed the accumulation of experience.So this season he has become the Saints' core midfielder, and his midfield partner with Schneiderlin has become the standard for the Saints' main force.

So Pogba will never ignore Charlotte's words.After the game restarted, Pogba became more active. In addition to pressing up to participate in the offense, he also frequently returned to the front of his penalty area to participate in defense.

At the end of the first half, the Saints finally got a chance.Higuain contained Terry and Cahill in the middle, and Aubameyang hit behind after receiving a through ball from Eriksson.

Aubameyang led the ball and completely disrupted the Blues' defensive system.Azpilicueta tried to catch up, but couldn't catch up.Cech came over to block the opponent's shooting angle, and Mikel was also preparing to block the opponent's shooting route with his body in the middle.

With Petr Cech in the near corner, Mikel was always ready to block the route to the far corner.So Aubameyang did not take a shot, but suddenly came to a sudden brake while dribbling the ball at high speed to stop the ball.

Mikel obviously didn't expect the opponent to stop. Due to the inertia of his body, he was still running towards his small penalty area in the middle.But at this time Aubameyang suddenly passed the ball with a sweep, and the football slid horizontally between Terry and Mikel to the other end of the goal.

Griezmann, who was ready to find it, inserted in an instant, and then directly kicked the goal from the rib position in the penalty area.

The football flew into the gate guarded by Petr Cech. The French striker hit a close corner. Cech had no time to save and could only watch the soccer ball fly into the net.

One to one, with 2 minutes left in the first half, Southampton equalized the score.