Football giants

Chapter 977 Master Huan, do me a favor!
While Yang Huan was busy running around in the major European transfer battlegrounds, the new season of the European League also kicked off one after another.

The first two major leagues to start the war were the Premier League and Ligue [-].

The Saints challenged Newcastle away in the first round, which was also Ancelotti's first game back in the Premier League.

Although Yang Huan was busy, he still took the time to go to the away game with the team to cheer for Ancelotti.

As a result, the Saints beat the Magpies [-]-[-] in an away game without any risk, and won a good start to the new season.

The trident composed of Suarez, Hazard, and Sanchez was as powerful as ever. Di Maria immediately contributed two wonderful assists after returning to the starting lineup. Pogba successfully suppressed Fabregas, served as the midfielder, and scored a goal. The performance of the Saints team was impressive.

Immediately afterwards, the Saints beat the visiting Everton [-]-[-] at home and achieved their first home victory of the new season.

In late August, the Saints beat Watford [-]-[-] in the away game, winning three consecutive victories.

They have zero opponents in three games and scored nine league goals. The saints are in good condition.

The front trident continued the outstanding performance of last season, which is very impressive. In the midfield, Pogba replaced Cesc Fabregas in the starting lineup in these three games, which is extremely impressive.

This also surprised many Premier League commentators, thinking that the Saints' lineup is so luxurious that even superstars at the level of Cesc Fabregas and Di Maria can only compete for a starting position.

"We sadly found out that the world's number one superstar, Super Messi, who spent 5000 million euros on Saints, couldn't even get into the big list!"

This has also become a joke for fans all over the world to ridicule the Saints, and even many jokers have written jokes with the Saints as the theme. The reason is simple, who made the Saints so desperate to let Messi play in the game?
Look at Tottenham Hotspur. It is also a three-game winning streak. Cristiano Ronaldo has scored five goals in three league rounds. Well, what about the promise of letting Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo score goals?

Although the outside world is turbulent and there are endless speculations about whether there is something wrong with Messi, the Saints' attitude is very firm.

Ancelotti said in an interview with the media, "Messi is still back to his best!"

That's clearly unsatisfactory, isn't it?

Even many Saints fans feel depressed. The world's number one superstar, who spent 5000 million euros to introduce, wants to sit on the team's bench and watch the drinking fountains?

But in any case, the Saints' three-game winning streak suppressed all doubts.

Ancelotti's team basically continued the consistent playing style of Bielsa's period, but the Italian coach still showed a lot of changes in tactical details and routines.

Especially after Pogba replaced Cesc Fabregas as the starting midfielder, Southampton's midfield control became stronger, but the offensive ability was not weak at all. Even, to some extent, Pogba's offensive ability was a bit brutal.

With three consecutive victories, although the Saints are temporarily behind Tottenham Hotspur, who also won three consecutive victories in the standings, their performance is not inferior at all, while the North London team has shown surprising form from the beginning.

When Van Gaal got the strong support he wanted, his results were quite impressive.

While the Saints were advancing, Koeman's Monaco also performed well in Ligue [-].

They beat Nice [-]-[-] away, Lille [-]-[-] at home, and Toulouse [-]-[-] away. Although Monaco did not play the unrestrained and smooth offense of Martino's period in the three games, they won in a steady manner and scored three points in all three games.

At present, in the Ligue [-] standings, Monaco also relies on the goal difference to overwhelm Paris Saint-Germain, which has also won three consecutive victories, and is firmly in the leader of the Ligue [-] standings.

After the Premier League and Ligue [-] both ignited the war, the Bundesliga followed suit and also kicked off.

But Tuchel's team was obviously unlucky. They encountered Bayern Munich in the first round of the league and were still a guest at the Allianz Arena.

In the end, Tuchel's team lost [-]-[-] to Bayern Munich and left the Allianz Arena with regret.

Although they lost the first north-south derby of the new season, Tuchel's team did not fall behind at the Allianz Arena, especially after Dzeko joined, the Hamburg team showed a more three-dimensional offensive routine than last season.

The team's only goal came precisely after Dzeko received a second pass from Douglas Costa on the left and knocked back to Gotze. The latter calmly pushed and scored the goal to equalize the score.

But after that, the lack of tacit understanding brought about by major defensive surgery finally gave Bayern Munich a chance.

Thomas Muller's critical moment lore won Hamburg for Bayern Munich.

After this game, the German media generally gave Hamburg a high evaluation, thinking that Tuchel's team created more opportunities in the game, but there were problems in both the midfield and the defense.

Tuchel also said after the game that the team will not suffer setbacks because of losing a game. The Hamburg team will perform better and better. He has quite firm confidence in the strength of his team.

As it turned out, a week later, Hamburg returned to the Volksparkstadion to face Stuttgart.

In just 10 minutes of the opening, Douglas Costa dribbled the ball brilliantly on the left, broke through Stuttgart's defense, and made a wonderful pass to the right. Kingsley Coman scored overnight and opened the scoring for Hamburg.

Just 7 minutes later, Gotze made an exquisite through pass from the front of the penalty area. After Dzeko stopped the ball, he passed it to Douglas Costa. The latter pushed in front of the goal and scored again, [-]-[-].

Before the end of the first half, Kingsley Coman broke into the penalty area and made a wonderful pass before Dzeko scored again.

In the second half, Dzeko stole the ball in the frontcourt and used his personal ability to pass behind him. Gotze scored a single-handed goal, four to zero.

With this four-to-zero victory, Hamburg washed away the depression of losing to the Allianz Arena in the first round.

Not only that, in the third round of the league, the Hamburg team challenged Cologne away. With the goals of Kingsley Coman, Gotze, Dzeko and Douglas Costa, the team once again defeated Cologne [-]-[-] and won two consecutive victories.

Although Tuchel's team had to rank fourth in the standings due to the defeat in the first round, the excellent record of scoring eight goals in two games and conceding zero goals was enough to surprise the entire Bundesliga.

More importantly, the newly introduced central defender Dante immediately occupied the starting lineup, filled the vacancy caused by Alderweireld's departure, and assumed the heavy burden of the defense.

Although he made a big mistake when playing Bayern Munich and caused the team to lose to the Allianz Arena, Dante's performance in the next two games was remarkable and satisfactory.

If the performance of the Hamburg team in the Bundesliga is ups and downs, then Inter Milan is invincible in the Serie A.

Although De Bruyne left this season, Pjanic and Jovetic were introduced. The strength of the Nerazzurri has not been weakened, but has been strengthened. The first round of the league was in the Glory Stadium of the Nerazzurri City.

A week later, Klopp's team challenged Carpi in an away game. Finally, with the goals of Juan Jr., Dybala, Aubameyang, Felipe Anderson and Pellet, they defeated Carpi five to one and won two consecutive victories in the new season.

But if it is not surprising that Inter Milan's two-game winning streak is not surprising, then Juventus' two-game losing streak is somewhat surprising.

Known as the number one competitor of Inter Milan in Serie A this season, the team was unexpectedly upset by Udinese in the first round of the league, and then lost to Roma in an away game, suffering a two-game losing streak.

This made countless Bianconeri fans feel sad.

The league has just started, and Juventus is already six points behind Inter Milan. How can this league be played?

The same situation also happened in La Liga.

Simeone's team won both games in the new season, a [-]-[-] victory over Las Palmas, and a [-]-[-] away victory over Sevilla, winning two consecutive victories.

Barcelona also has two consecutive victories, but they are all small victories of one to zero.

After losing Messi, Enrique's team obviously needs to adapt and adapt.

But Real Madrid's situation is worrying.

Although in the transfer market, Ramos was kept, but Casillas was let go. At the critical moment, Manchester United announced that De Gea would stay in the team, and Real Madrid's poaching plan failed.

This directly led to Casilla being the only goalkeeper available in the Real Madrid team.

But the problem is, Casilla is so unreliable.

The first round away game against Sporting Gijon was very dangerous. Although it was a zero-to-zero draw, more blame was directed at the head coach Benitez and the team's offensive end.

But the [-]-[-] draw with Real Betis in the second round away game was depressing.

In the first half, with goals from Gareth Bale and James Rodriguez, they led [-]-[-].

But at the beginning of the second half, Casilla gave the opponent a penalty because of a mistake in an attack, and then made a mistake with his teammates in front of the goal. The opponent seized the opportunity and scored an equalizer goal.

After the game, the media all over Spain aimed their gunfire directly at Casilla, and also at Florentino in the chairman's stand, thinking that it was the poor operation of the management that caused the team to lose the key opportunity to introduce De Gea.

Casilla is undoubtedly not qualified for the position of Real Madrid's main goalkeeper. Therefore, Real Madrid urgently needs to introduce an excellent goalkeeper to fill the vacancy of the main goalkeeper when the transfer market is about to close.

Time is really tight. There are only a handful of outstanding goalkeepers in the entire transfer market, especially big-name goalkeepers. It is almost impossible to introduce them, and there is no time left for Real Madrid to operate.

Therefore, Florentino naturally aimed at his old acquaintance Yang Huan at this time.

Everyone knows that Yang Huan has the largest talent pool in Europe. Florentino sold Yang Huan a favor for Cristiano Ronaldo before. Now, he also hopes that Yang Huan can return the favor to help him tide over the difficulties.

To this end, Florentino personally went to Monaco.

On the surface, he is going to participate in the UEFA Champions League group stage draw ceremony, and watch the UEFA Super Cup by the way.

But in fact, he appeared in the stands of the Louis II Stadium with only one purpose.

"Master Huan, do me a favor and sell me a goalkeeper!"

When Yang Huan heard this sentence, he was stunned.

For someone like Florentino to say such a thing, one can imagine how dangerous his position in Real Madrid is now. Is it because of the bad start of the league?

Yang Huan knew that things were definitely not that simple!
(End of this chapter)