Football giants

Chapter 485
Yang Huan sat in the back row of a Lagonda Subversive crossover, looked out at the lightly rainy sky through the rain-smeared window, and felt the scenery on the side of the southbound expressway retreating rapidly.

His thoughts flew far, far away.

Time has entered November, and the situation in the European League has gradually become clearer.

In La Liga, Atlético de Madrid, a strong team of sheets, led by the strong coach Diego Simeone, has made a splash in the new season of La Liga.

So far, La Liga has played eleven rounds, and Atletico Madrid has achieved an impressive record of ten wins and one draw. The only draw was a draw with Levante in the first round of the league, and then won ten consecutive victories.

You know, in these games, Atletico Madrid has many cases of winning by a big score of [-]-[-] and [-]-[-].

In particular, the [-]-[-] home defeat of Athletic Bilbao and the [-]-[-] away game against Real Betis were all talked about and praised, and fans all over the world were amazed!
The front trident composed of Tevez, Mandzukic and Diego Costa made Atletico Madrid the most lethal and offensive team in La Liga, almost invincible.

Although it has ten wins and one tie to remain unbeaten and created the best start in Atletico Madrid's history, Diego Simeone's team is currently only ranked second in the La Liga standings, behind Barcelona with the same points but more goals.

This also made many fans of the Sheets Legion feel embarrassed.

But the team's explosive combat effectiveness this season has made Atletico Madrid fans full of expectations.

Can even score with Barcelona?
Doesn't that mean that the Sheets have the hope of winning the La Liga championship?
Judging from the performance of Atletico Madrid in the new season, summer signings played a vital role.

After Carlos Tevez switched to Atletico Madrid, he showed the strength of a top attacker, especially with Diego Costa. The two formed the most difficult combination of Atletico Madrid's frontcourt. With the addition of a tall and strong Mandzukic, Atletico Madrid's frontcourt attack lineup made almost all La Liga teams hate it.

Even Griezmann, who switched to this season, had to take a position in the rotation or even as a substitute.

No way, Diego Costa and Mandzukic performed so well!

In the midfield, Moutinho occupies the main attacking midfielder position. Gabi and Mario Suarez are an unshakable double midfielder combination. With the addition of Illararamendi, Raul Garcia, and Oliver Torres, who was promoted to the first team this season, Atletico Madrid's midfielder is also quite powerful.

The defense still uses the combination of Felipe, Miranda, Godin and Juanfran from last season.

But the presence of Otamendi, Peruzzi and Jose Gaya added thickness to the lineup.

Coupled with the goalkeeper position, the appearance of Courtois stabilized Atletico Madrid's goal.

Diego Simeone has completely activated Atletico Madrid's lineup after a summer of running-in, playing the iron-blooded momentum of the sheet army, and has become a unique alternative landscape in La Liga, apart from Barcelona and Real Madrid.

There is no way, with Atletico Madrid's lineup, they are only suitable for playing tough guys, and there is no way to become handsome boys!
If Atletico Madrid's ten wins and one tie are amazing, then Monaco is almost invincible in Ligue [-].

In the first round of the Ligue [-] match this season, Martino's team faced a strong team Tours that was almost promoted to the Ligue [-] last season. Monaco staged a one-sided massacre.

Just 8 minutes into the game, Mitrovic, who was on loan from Southampton, opened the scoring for the home team.

In less than 3 minutes, Mangala took advantage of a corner kick and scored again.

Afterwards, the trident combination of Mitrovic, Aubameyang and Depay staged a crazy scoring show at the Louis II Stadium, breaking through the goals of the Tour team again and again, and finally locked the score at [-]-[-].

This is not a contest within the same level at all!
Tours coach Sikora expressed even more despair after the game that Monaco will be the best candidate for the Ligue [-] title this season.

Mitrovic scored three goals, Aubameyang scored two goals, Depay and Mangala scored one goal each.

This is the report card submitted for the first game of the new season in Monaco!

But if it's just that, then there's nothing to be surprised about.

The point is, after the first brutal slaughter of Tours, Monaco followed closely and defeated Laval, Istres, Guingamp, Allers, Le Havre, Dijon, Lens...

The Ligue 37 played a total of [-] rounds. Monaco led the Ligue [-] with [-] league goals and [-] consecutive wins.

It can be said that the outstanding performances of Atletico Madrid and Monaco were beyond Yang Huan's expectation.

Before the start of the league, Yang Huan really did not expect that these two teams would perform so well.

But he was not surprised, because he knew very well that with the lineup configuration of these two teams, they deserved this achievement.

Needless to say, Atletico Madrid, the lineup is definitely equipped to hit the La Liga championship.

At first glance, Monaco's lineup is all young rookies, but after careful analysis, they are all well-known titans in the future.

The goalkeeper is Keylor Navas, one of the most amazing goalkeepers in the World Cup in Brazil, and even Subasci, who is a Croatian international, is the substitute.

On the defensive line, Marquinhos, Zouma and Mangala are all famous talented central defenders in Europe two years later, and Digne, Kurzawa, Dennis Appiah and Aurier are also famous in Ligue [-].

Midfielders Verratti, Rabiot and Kondogbia are the hottest midfield rookies in Europe two years later, especially Verratti, the core midfielder of the Italian national team, is known as Pirlo's successor.

And Rabiot and Kondogbia are regarded as French genius midfielders whose talents are not lost to Pogba.

Even Germain and Mendy are both first-tier players in Ligue [-].

The main configuration in the frontcourt is Depay, Mitrovic and Aubameyang, all of whom are well-known attackers in Europe. Benzia, Tovan, Esserik and Fekir are even super rookies in France.

With such a set of lineup configuration released, Yang Huan felt that this result was not good enough!

It should be said that before the season, Yang Huan set relatively safe goals for both Atletico Madrid and Monaco. For example, the former is to qualify for the Champions League, which is the top four in the league, while the latter is to be promoted to Ligue [-].

None of this is much of a suspense.

However, Southampton, where Yang Huan placed the most high hopes, now seems to be the most frustrating for him.

In the first four rounds of the league, Southampton lost three games, namely an away loss to Manchester City, a home loss to Manchester United and an away loss to Arsenal.

This leaves Southampton almost at the bottom of the league table.

In the fifth round of the league, Southampton defeated Aston Villa [-]-[-] at home, helping the Saints get rid of the relegation zone in the standings.

But in the sixth round, Everton lost [-]-[-] to Moyes in the away game, and they were once again in the relegation zone.

After that, they tied Fulham [-]-[-] at home, beat West Ham United [-]-[-] away, tied Tottenham Hotspur [-]-[-] at home, and lost [-]-[-] away to West Bromwich Albion.

After that, they won the Queen's Park Rangers [-]-[-] away and drew Swansea [-]-[-] at home.

After the 11th round, Southampton ranked No. [-] in the Premier League standings with [-] wins, [-] draws and [-] losses, accumulating [-] points. There is a full eight point gap from Newcastle, the top four in the league.

This also disappointed the fans who were full of confidence in Southampton at the beginning of the season. They believed that Bielsa's team performance was too unstable, and they always suffered a painful blow immediately after a good game.

The only consolation is that the current ranking of the veteran powerhouse Liverpool is even lower than that of Southampton.

The Red Army currently has three wins, six draws and three losses, and also has 12 points, but Southampton ranks high with a goal difference advantage, abruptly pushing the Red Army to No. [-] in the league.

And although Southampton is ranked No. 11, in fact, there is only an eight-point gap from Newcastle, the top four in the league. For the Premier League, which has just started twelve rounds, everything still has a chance.

At least like Arsenal, which strives to secure the top four every year, is currently only ranked sixth with [-] points, while Tottenham Hotspur is ranked eighth with [-] points, with West Ham United sandwiched between the two teams.

Interestingly, after Tottenham, it's Fulham.

From sixth to ninth, all are occupied by London teams.

The top three in the league are Manchester City with eight wins and four draws, Manchester United with nine wins and three losses, and Chelsea in third.

For Southampton, such a set of lineup configuration turned out to be like this in the Premier League. It is indeed sad to see it, and many media have even taken the initiative to prescribe it.

That is a coaching change!
Bielsa is even the No. 1 choice among the three major gaming companies who will become the first head coach to dismiss get out of class in the new season of the Premier League, which shows how disappointed the fans and the media are with his coaching this season.

This is also the question many people have about Bielsa.

Looking at the coaching experience of the Argentine lunatic over the past few years, there have always been great ups and downs.

For example, when coaching the Argentine national team, the limelight was in a mess during the qualifiers, but in the Korea-Japan World Cup, Argentina, which was regarded as the number one favorite to win the championship, was humiliatingly stopped in the group stage. Bielsa also encountered unprecedented doubts for this, especially his three-three-one-three tactics.

But Bielsa endured the pressure. Two years after the World Cup, he led the Argentine Olympic team to the Athens Olympics, won the championship gold medal, and cultivated young rookies including Savio Ratvez, Mascherano, Coloccini and so on.

Yang Huan believes that Bielsa is still quite capable, and he is also the head coach who best meets Southampton's requirements.

Therefore, upon receiving a call from Peter Kenyon, Yang Huan immediately flew from China to London non-stop.

This time, he came here specifically to support Bielsa!

When the eye-catching Lagonda subversive appeared at the gate of the Stapletwood training base in Southampton, he had already received the news, and dozens of reporters who were waiting outside the base for the first news immediately surrounded him.

"Mr. Yang Huan, I heard that you have lost patience with the poor performance of the team. Is it true?"

"Countless Southampton fans are dissatisfied with the team's performance. Will you respond to public opinion and fire Bielsa?"

"Some media say that Southampton is looking for a new coach to replace Bielsa. Is it true?"

"Can you please tell me, will Bielsa dismiss get out of class?"

……

The microphone kept banging on the car window. Sitting in the back row, Yang Huan with a livid face sighed, and said to Long Wu in the front row, "Let me get out of the car!"

"Master, there are many people here, I'm afraid..."

But before he finished speaking, Yang Huan had already opened the car door and got out.

All the reporters at the scene immediately surrounded him and blocked Yang Huan by the car door.

A series of questions came crackling, and it was unclear who asked and what they asked.

In the end, Yang Huan had to raise his hand to signal the audience to be quiet.

"I'll just say one word, just once!"

Everyone at the scene fell silent in an instant, and looked at Young Master Huan intently, listening to what he had to say.

"We have decided to renew the contract with Bielsa!"

"today!"

"Now!"

"it's here!"

(End of this chapter)