Fengba Greenery

Chapter 669 Competition for Position

Chapter 23 Competition for position
Under the gaze of the TV broadcast camera, the Frenchman Claude Pierre folded his arms and looked at the pitch with deep eyes. From his face, he could not see any reaction to Manchester United's attack.

In fact, Pierre was a little worried at this time.

This season he took over from Ronald Koeman to coach a club in the warmest part of England.Although the former Ligue 8 coach of Lyon and Nice club seemed confident when interviewed by the media, but if you look at the achievements of his predecessor Ronald Koeman-in the previous three seasons , Southampton's results are No.7, No.6, and No.[-] in the Premier League!

For the Southampton club, they will definitely not be the first group in the Premier League, Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, these teams are the first group in the Premier League team, and it shouldn't be Southampton - Everton's conditions are much better than Southampton's.It is not easy to achieve such an achievement in the Premier League.

When you climb to the top, it is absolutely difficult for you to appreciate the scenery halfway up the mountain.

The same is true for the fans. Claude Pierre took over Southampton, which has created the best record in recent years. For the Frenchman, the record pressure this season is still very high, especially after selling multiple Based on the main players, Claude-Pierre's work this season is bound to become very difficult.

Pierre knows that it is too difficult to beat Manchester United at Old Trafford, but Southampton must also strive to score points-no game can be given up.

Before the start of the game, Claude-Pierre thought that Manchester United would attack Southampton on the high-altitude ball. After all, this season, the Saints lacked Fonte, Pellet, Wanyama, and Southampton was defending the high-altitude ball. In the last round of the game, the Saints faced Watford, which was not very good in the aerial confrontation, and they fell behind in this statistic. You must know that the Saints scored the most headers last season. one of the teams.

But I didn't expect Manchester United to come up with a wave of ground cooperation and attack the middle. Li Qingshan and Pogba, two billionaires, cooperated to tear apart Southampton's defense line. The Saints almost lost the ball when they came up!
Pierre's deep eyes kept staring at Pogba and Li Qingshan who were walking back and were still talking about something.The continuous cooperation of the two talented players just now made Pierre's eyelids twitch.

Compared with last season, Manchester United has more weapons on the offensive end!

Before Manchester United's ace tactic of high-altitude balls was played, they first showed off a short pass in the center to penetrate the attack in the positional battle, and only two players completed this attack.No one will doubt Li Qingshan's ability. Now it seems that Manchester United once again spent nearly 1.2 million euros to buy Pogba. This ability is also quite daunting-Pogba still looks very uncomfortable in the Community Shield game. But in the past two weeks, Pogba seems to have fully adapted to the Premier League, from Serie A to the Premier League, seamlessly connected! !

Such a Manchester United is terrible! !
Pierre crossed his arms and tried to calm himself down.

If Manchester United has improved a lot on the offensive end this season, then on the defensive end, they should be no different from last season, no, no! !They should be weaker than last season's defense! !

Last season, Manchester United had three defensive midfielders standing in front of the defense line, but this season Pogba seems to be more involved in the offense. In this way, in terms of defensive numbers, Manchester United will naturally have dropped.

The new season has just started. In the last round, Southampton drew with Watford at home. This round of away games came to Old Trafford. , the teams have not been under too much pressure on points.

Southampton in the away game adopted an extremely unrestrained style of play. They took the initiative to speed up the rhythm and played the speed of the two forwards, the speed of the fast-paced away game against Manchester United.

Two minutes later, Southampton launched an offensive on the right. Forward Raymond dribbled the ball very fast. Manchester United left back Sandro and the defensive midfielder Cramer who defended here were caught by Raymond. The raid went clean!

Raymond received the ball near the bottom line on the wing, Rojo forced it out, and Sandro chased him from behind. Raymond's sudden acceleration did make it difficult for Sandro to guard against for a while, but Sandro's The speed is not slow, as soon as Raymond got the ball, he caught up.

Another Southampton striker, Sean Long, was driving inside the penalty area. Rojo blocked Raymond's passing path, but Raymond dunked the ball with his right foot and his left foot was ready to cross.

Several Southampton players rushed into the penalty area. When there is an offensive opportunity, Southampton is not conservative at all.

Rojo's face was ruthless. This season the team has introduced a new central defender. He knows that the opponent is likely to replace his main position.But in the arena, nothing is absolute. As long as he performs well enough, it is still a question of whether the 23-year-old black kid can take his place.

The Argentines will fight for their place!
The moment Raymond made a cross, Rojo slammed to the end, and blocked Raymond's cross with his head bravely! !
There was applause from the stands.

Rojo completed a beautiful and brave defense! !

The camera immediately focused on Bailly on the bench, and the Ivorian, like other Manchester United substitutes, stood up and applauded Rojo's performance, at least from the expression on his face.

"This season, Manchester United spent 3000 million pounds to introduce the Ivorian defender. Many people think that he will replace Rojo and become Manchester United's starting central defender, but look at Rojo's performance this time. Who will start and who will substitute? Really not sure!!"

Ancelotti is also applauding Rojo's performance this time. He introduced Bailey, but if Rojo can maintain this state stably for a long time, Bailey may not be able to top Rojo's starting lineup.

Let the team maintain healthy competition, which is what Ancelotti wants to do most.

No one's starting position is necessarily set in stone.

The message Ancelotti wants to convey is that in the starting position, he will only choose the best players, even if it is Li Qingshan, as long as someone can surpass Li Qingshan in the center position, he can also start.

Competitive sports has its cruelty, and all professional players must adapt to this.

(End of this chapter)