Football giants

Chapter 1038 Explosion?
The League Cup final ended with the Saints defeating Manchester City [-]-[-].

In the No. 709 minute of the game, the Saints teenagers finally exposed a flaw and were seized by Manchester City. The center Abu Bakar who came off the bench scored a face-saving goal for Blue Moon.

Although Manuel Pellegrini then signaled the team to push forward aggressively, trying to equalize the score, the Saints quickly stabilized the situation and bombed indiscriminately. In just 2 minutes, they shot four consecutive threatening shots in front of Manchester City's goal. How could Manchester City dare to come out again?

In the end, the score was locked at two to one.

Having won the League Cup once again, this group of Saints teenagers are very excited.

The Saints fans who came to Wembley Stadium to watch the game were also very excited.

Although, in the past few years, the Saints have won the championship and got soft hands, but as a fan, who would dislike the team's many championships?

Besides, this time is different from the previous ones. This time in the League Cup, the Saints played with pure substitutes and youth team lineups, but in the end they repeatedly defeated such strong opponents as Liverpool, Everton and Manchester City. The team's performance can be imagined.

The fans are also ecstatic that the team can have such a powerful substitute lineup and young players.

These are the futures of the saints!
The British media also praised the Saints' championship, but they were not surprised.

Because in the past two or three years, the Saints' performance has been steadily improving, and they are also the most powerful team in the Premier League.

Even as early as the past two seasons, the thickness of the Saints' bench and the performance of young teenagers were shocking.

Needless to say, the substitutes and young players of the first team have always performed quite well in domestic cups such as the League Cup and the FA Cup. They even reached the finals before, but it is a pity that they failed to win the championship.

The second Saints team is even more incredible.

Since the official establishment of the League C League, the second Saints team has been promoted every year, from the League C to the League Two in one breath, and then promoted to the League One.

In this season's League One, the Saints II currently beat traditional teams such as Gillingham, Wigan Athletic, Sheffield United and Coventry, ranking second in the standings, only one point away from the leader Burton Albion.

According to the performance of the second Saints team, the possibility of promotion is very high.

Once the second team is promoted to the British Championship, it will bring huge benefits to the Saints' entire youth training system.

Among other things, the training of youth team players is far superior to that of other teams.

Tielemans, who has shined in the Saints first team this season, performed well in the second team before and was promoted to the first team.

Today, the Saints second team also has young players such as Patrick Roberts, Halilovic, Ruben Neves, Max Lopez and Gelson, all of whom are talented but young players.

But what fans all over the world admire the most is the Saints' youth training system with super star-making ability.

When everyone focused on the Norwegian genius Odegaard who switched to Real Madrid, Southampton low-key introduced from Norway the same [-] teenager Christopher Ayer and the Chinese teenager Hou Yongyong.

In terms of fame, Odegaard was undoubtedly far ahead of the other two players in the previous massive transfer battle.

But now, when Odegaard is still in Real Madrid's second team and can't even get the main position, Ayer and Hou Yongyong have already played for the Saints in the League One for a season and accumulated a wealth of game experience.

Especially Ayer, in this season of League One, his performance has won the recognition and affirmation of countless experts.

From this point of view, Southampton's youth training attitude is undoubtedly more pragmatic.

The first team is strong and the youth team is full of talents. All media reporters and fans have compared the Saints with Barcelona in [-]. Many people even believe that the Saints have surpassed Barcelona at its peak.

Because the Saints completed the defense of the Champions League, this is a feat that even the dream three teams at their peak could not accomplish.

Not only that, the Saints are still moving towards three consecutive championships this season.

If the Saints really win the three consecutive championships, it will undoubtedly surpass Barcelona in an all-round way.

After seeing that the average age of the first team is so reasonable, and the talent blowout situation of the youth team is full of talents, who dares to say that the Saints will not become the strongest ruler in the Premier League and even European football in the next few years?

When the Saints returned to Southampton from London holding a League Cup trophy, they were immediately welcomed by all the fans in the city.

All of them are proud and proud of what the team has achieved.

The glory of the Saints is built up by these trophies. As the most fanatical fans of the Saints, they are also doing their best to support the team they love.

But now is far from the time to celebrate, because now is the time when the competition is most intensive.

The Saints travel to Bournemouth three days after their triumphant return from London.

In the last round of rest, the Saints played with their main force in this round, defeating Bournemouth [-]-[-] in the away game.

Suarez, the top scorer of the Premier League this season, once again staged a hat-trick, continuing to lead the way in the Premier League scorer list.

But Messi's performance in this game is also not too bad, scoring twice, allowing Messi to officially catch up with Cristiano Ronaldo's league goals, and Hazard also scored a goal.

Interestingly, in the league scorer list, Suarez ranked first, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi tied for second, but Hazard ranked third.

Even Chilean winger Sanchez has entered the top ten scorers, which shows the powerful attack power of the Saints.

Three days later, the Saints played at home against Bournemouth.

But this is not a league game, but a knockout match in the sixth round of the FA Cup.

This time the Saints still sent their substitutes and young players to play. As a result, this group of Saints players who had just killed Manchester City at Wembley Stadium won Bournemouth again [-]-[-] at the Glory Stadium and successfully advanced to the semi-finals.

For a while, the entire English football world was exclaiming, what are the Saints doing?
In the BBC's Match of the Day program, Gary Lineker cheered loudly for the Saints.

"I have never seen a team that has such an amazing dominance like the Saints. They even dispatched a substitute and a second team to win the Premier League team. This is unbelievable!"

As a guest of the daily game, Manchester United star Gary Neville also spoke highly of Ancelotti's team.

"If I had to choose, the best team in Europe this season would undoubtedly be the Saints, and the best coach, needless to say, would definitely be Carlo Ancelotti."

"This team played unbelievable football. It's hard for me to imagine a team with such a strong game control like Saints. It reminds me of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona."

But soon, the Manchester United star vetoed his judgment.

"Oh no, I think the Saints are more dominant than Barcelona at their peak!"

Alan Shearer also said on the side, "Guardiola said that even he was surprised by the football played by this Saints!"

"Yes, but this also makes me look forward to it. Next season, after Guardiola coaches the Saints, what kind of changes will he bring to Southampton?"

"Hehe, Gary, it's not just you, fans all over the world are probably looking forward to it."

Yes, everyone couldn't believe it, and they were all looking forward to it.

It should be said that when Guardiola took over Bayern Munich, the team was at its peak, and although Guardiola took over, Bayern Munich has never been able to continue to gain in the European arena, and even encountered humiliation from competitors, but in any case, Guardiola's coaching and transformation at Bayern Munich was quite successful.

At least, this German team made everyone feel a kind of delicate and stable, which is obviously different from Heynckes, and it is even a football style that Bayern Munich has never had before.

The style is progressive and flattering.

As for the team's inability to produce results, it can't be entirely blamed on Guardiola, can it?
But the saints are obviously different.

Today's Southampton can be said to be full of talents. The team is in the golden age and the age structure is very reasonable. Coupled with the talent of the youth team, and the head coach Ancelotti on the basis of Bielsa, the team's tactical concept has been further improved.

It is especially worth considering that once Ancelotti has excellent coaching performance this season, Guardiola will inevitably face an unprecedented challenge after taking over the team.

That is how to lead a team that has achieved overall success and break through itself again.

Looking at today's football, the most breakthrough head coach, apart from Bielsa, is Guardiola.

That's why fans and football professionals all over the world are looking forward to Guardiola's Saints.

As the boss of the Saints, Yang Huan also looks forward to it.

But he is different from the fans outside, he is very clear-headed.

He clearly knows that Ancelotti's success is difficult to sustain.

The team remains unbeaten so far, all fronts go hand in hand, and there may even be a breakthrough in performance, especially now that the Premier League championship has basically been won, and the team's next focus will definitely be on the cup.

In this case, it is very possible for Ancelotti's team to make another breakthrough in performance.

But what about the next season?

Even if Ancelotti continues to coach, I am afraid it will be difficult for him to maintain his outstanding performance this season.

After the peak of the team, there will definitely be ups and downs.

Therefore, Yang Huan is very clear that at this time, what the team needs to do is to seek change.

But it takes time, trials, and mistakes. Therefore, it is unreasonable to ask Guardiola to produce results as soon as he comes, or even to produce results.

Therefore, on the issue of Guardiola, Yang Huan's attitude is very clear, not to put too much pressure on performance, but to give him enough room for coaching.

This is why the Saints kept a low profile on the coaching change.

First, this is a respect for Ancelotti, and second, it is also a decompression for Guardiola.

As for the attention of the media and fans, with the status of the saints today and the influence of Guardiola, no matter how low-key it is, it will definitely attract the attention and discussion of the media and fans all over the world.

In addition, Yang Huan told Mubarak very frankly that the Saints and Ancelotti only have a one-year contract, which has long been confirmed.

It was only then that Mubarak knew that the Saints had dealt with Guardiola more than a year in advance, thanks to them and Abramovich still desperately chasing him.

At this time, the chairman of Manchester City was so embarrassed that he couldn't commit suicide.

However, Yang Huan also made a request to Mubarak, that is, no matter what the discussion between Manchester City and Ancelotti is, it must be kept secret, because he does not want to affect the team's performance.

Mubarak also agreed to Master Huan's request, expressing that he must keep a low profile.

After dealing with these matters, Yang Huan left the UK without stopping and flew back to China.

But it didn't go to the capital, nor to Longhai, but to Jincheng near the capital.

Because he is going to supervise the first round of the new season of the Chinese Super League on the spot, Jingcheng Guoen will challenge Jincheng Delta away.

This is also the most anticipated battle in the first round of the Super League this season.

Especially domestic fans are paying attention to the debut of the Beijing Guoen team.

In the embarrassing record of five unbeaten warm-up matches, can Pochettino usher in a big explosion?
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