midfield god

Chapter 122 The final word, the expected ending!

When Redknapp saw that Fuller scored a penalty kick, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The team's ability to equalize the score in the first half must be excellent news for him. He doesn't have to go back to the locker room with a lagging score. This will definitely have a positive impact on the team's performance in the second half of the game.

On the other side, Coach Worthington must not be so happy at this time. The team was sentenced to a penalty kick and three players received yellow cards. This is really a big loss.

The two coaches returned to their locker rooms with completely different emotions. There are still 45 crucial minutes left in this game.

"I'm very dissatisfied with your performance! I need you to focus more on the defensive end and stop making such low-level mistakes again! Do you know?"

Although Redknapp, who returned to the locker room, was not so angry because the team equalized the score, he still had to say what should be said, especially the problem of the defense line, which must be resolved.

"In the second half, Kenton goes off and Lundekvam goes on. Our defense can no longer have such problems, understand?"

Hearing the head coach's words, Kenton nodded in frustration. Although he had already thought of the ending in his heart, it was still hard to hear the head coach say it.

This season, Southampton's defense is obviously older. Several main central defenders are over 34 years old. This is also the reason why Kenton has been able to get the starting chance in recent games.If he continues to perform like this this season, if the team can return to the Premier League next year, then he is destined to be purged.

"In the second half, we have to base ourselves on defense. I believe in your abilities. Offense is not a problem for you, but if the defensive situation does not improve, then winning this game is just a dream, understand?"

Redknapp set the tone for Southampton's second half.

On Norwich's side, Coach Worthington didn't care about it at this time. He chose to take risks. He gave the players 25 minutes.

The game restarted in the second half, and Norwich still maintained the same offensive pressure as in the first half, but this time the head coach pointed out that the Southampton players were based on defense and did not give their opponents any good opportunities. The ability of the central defender, at this critical moment, they understand how to handle the ball is the safest, and how to kick is the most uncomfortable for the opponent.

Soon, Norwich's storm was fruitless, and began to choose to recover.In the second half of the game, Southampton's defense was not to mention solid, but it was also quite solid.

Seeing that the team was still unable to do anything to Southampton, Worthington could only choose to replace his forward players with defensive players, adjust the formation back to 4-5-1, and start playing four backs again.

Worthington is well aware of the speed of Southampton's counterattack. If it continues like this, as the players' physical strength gradually fades, Southampton's counterattack will become more and more sharp. Therefore, at this time, the defensive players with sufficient physical strength are replaced just in case. At the same time, it conveys a signal that Norwich is starting to shrink its defense!
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In this game, there were not many chances for Yunfei to find the sideways directly. Norwich stuck the sideways to death. They would rather let Suleman play tricks in the middle than see the team's sideways being broken.

But as time passed and the physical fitness of defensive players declined, it became more and more difficult for Norwich to cope with the two fast horses around Southampton.Perhaps having expected all of this, Worthington also specially changed a full-back full-back to defend Bell.

So Yunfei began to make long passes frequently to Jones' side. Jones' opponent had already started to have some physical problems at this time, and it seemed very difficult to catch up with Jones in terms of speed.

Facing such an opponent, Jones would naturally not be merciless, and tried again and again to directly break through the opponent's defense, and finally found a chance!
At this time, Drury, whose feet had begun to soften, reluctantly followed Jones' speed, but he was still working hard to block Jones' possible breakthrough line. It can allow Jones to cross, but he cannot let the opponent break through himself!

Jones naturally knew this too, but after fighting his opponent for the entire game, he also gained some experience. He found that as long as he didn't make a breakthrough move, Drury would not come up to grab him, but just backed up and blocked his advance route. Over time, Jones gradually found a way to deal with the opponent, which is to slowly rub in!

Sure enough, with the passing of physical strength, Drury's concentration also began to decline, and was squeezed into the penalty area by Jones before he knew it. At this time, he realized this belatedly, and suddenly became a little anxious.

At this time, Hughes also noticed the seriousness of the problem on this side, and hurried back to try two people to grab the ball from Jones' feet. This time, Jones cleverly passed the ball back, directly to the feet of Yunfei who was emptied at this time!
The moment Yunfei received the ball, one of Norwich's central defenders immediately left his defensive area and pushed forward, blocking Yunfei's passing and shooting routes.

Suleman received the pass from Yunfei on the other side of the penalty area line. Instead of stopping the ball, he kicked up directly and threw a diagonal ball into the penalty area!

This time, Fuller and Doherty got entangled again. The two sides refused to give in to each other, and there were movements in their hands, so they were both disturbed when they took off, and they didn't hit the ball in the end.Behind them, Bell and Norwich's newly replaced full-back Charlton appeared in this position at the same time!
When Charlton saw the ball flying over the heads of Dougherty and Fuller, he subconsciously stretched out his feet and chose to shovel the ball directly, hoping to shovel the ball out of the baseline. However, due to the rotation of Suleman's pass this time, the ball accelerated forward after landing. As a result, Charlton's tackle did not reach the ball and missed the ball!
Bell behind him didn't expect the surprise to come so suddenly. Knowing that it was too late to stop the ball at this time, he directly volleyed with his left foot!
It was a shot at an almost zero-degree angle. The ball whizzed by. Norwich goalkeeper Green subconsciously turned his body and stretched out his hand to block it, but the speed of the ball was too fast.
2: 3!

At the end of the game, Southampton overtook the score!
The goal was the same young 16-year-old, Gareth Bell!

(End of this chapter)