extraordinary coach

Chapter 537
My fault.

Sun Yi directly took the responsibility for falling behind in the first half onto himself.

The players were very surprised when they heard the words.

In their thinking, Sun Yi must be blamed for playing like this in the first half.Unexpectedly, Sun Yi blamed himself.

This relieved the players who were waiting to be scolded, especially Bertrand and Pavard.

Willing to take responsibility on himself, this approach can win the respect of the players.It can also relieve the psychological pressure of players.

After Sun Yi took over the responsibility, the Southampton players' facial expressions were obviously relieved.

Seeing this, Sun Yi knew that his words had worked, so he continued: "It turned out that a mistake has already been made, and we have to correct it in the second half."

"And I believe that everyone will be able to play well in the second half. Because Tottenham have played all their cards."

"We had more and better cards. After they had a bomb, it was our world. The game at the end of the first half proved this."

"In the second half, what we had to do was keep that attacking intensity going."

"It is conceivable that they will defend desperately in the second half. But they will definitely not be able to defend. I have enough confidence in your offensive ability. You are the strongest offensive combination in the entire Premier League. There is no one."

These words are still motivational, and Sun Yi will then tell the team about the tactical adjustments in the second half.

However, there is not much that Southampton needs to adjust.The adjustments that really needed to be made were made when we trailed in the first half.What Sun Yi can do is to grasp the details of the players' handling of the ball on the court.

Although he will start the second half with a disadvantage, Sun Yi still has great confidence in the Southampton team.

He still said: "As long as you play normally, you can win the game."

It is only a matter of time to equalize or even overtake.

Soon, the intermission ended and the two sides returned to the court, and the second half of the game soon began.

Southampton went on the offensive after the restart.

The Tottenham team shrank their formation in the backcourt from the beginning.This is obviously the way to continue the first half of the game.

However, Tottenham did not exactly copy the first half arrangement.

As the game progressed, Sun Yi quickly discovered that the Tottenham team had strengthened a lot in defensive details.

"They defended more carefully than they did in the first half. And they targeted Felix more."

"Yes. It seems that they have caught it very accurately. As long as Felix, who is the core of the organization, is restricted, our entire offensive organization can be restricted." Dio nodded.

"Boss, do you think Felix can overcome it?" Kaka asked.

Sun Yi shook his head. "It's hard to say. After all, he's still too young. If it's you, it's not a problem at all."

"Then should I get ready?"

Sun Yi pressed down with his right hand and said calmly: "Wait a minute, the time has not yet come."

"Oh. Understood." Kaka nodded.There is no dissatisfaction with the rejection of the suggestion to play.

"It seems, Sun, you have a countermeasure?" Dio laughed.

"Yes." Sun Yi nodded.Since falling behind in the first half, he has been silently thinking about countermeasures.

It was going on all the time while Sun Yi was talking on the field.Southampton still has the upper hand on the court by virtue of their home court and their stronger strength.

But under the targeted defense of the Tottenham team, it seems that there are not many ways to attack.

Felix was really targeted as Sun Yi said.Tottenham's defensive pressure on him is no less than that of Ronaldo.

Felix's strength is already very good, but after all, he still can't reach the level of Ronaldo.

Perhaps in one-on-one, he is not easy to be restrained, but under the focus of the opponent's two or even more people, he really can't perform well.

And under the opponent's strong defense, Felix kicked more and more chaotically.After all, he is still too young to receive the kind of treatment that only superstars can get in the professional arena.He was really at a loss.

And as his performance was limited, Felix also began to have doubts about his ability.So, the more I played, the more I didn't believe it.

This situation also made Southampton's offense more and more chaotic.

Not to mention scoring goals as soon as possible, it is becoming more and more difficult to hit the ball into the Tottenham penalty area to pose a threat.

Everyone realized that there was something wrong with Southampton's attack and that something had to change.

As a result, Ronaldo, who is the team's thigh, stood up consciously.He started to carry the banner of Southampton's offense.

There is no doubt about Ronaldo's strength, but his characteristics have evolved into a 'scoring machine'.In terms of offensive organization and initiation, it is still slightly insufficient.

And Ronaldo is also the key defensive object of Tottenham.

This made the Southampton team fail to improve the offensive situation on the field after the offensive focus turned to Ronaldo.

"Good defense!"

"Well done guys!"

"That's it. If we continue to play like this, we can definitely take away the victory!"

Pochettino's eyes lit up at the thought of victory.

You know, since last season, no one can take away the victory from St. Mary's Stadium.

It is very rare to be able to take away a point.

If you really win this game, it will be awesome.

This is a stunning move that broke the Southampton team's unbreakable golden stature at home.Huge kudos to Pochettino and Tottenham.

Thinking about this, Pochettino felt a little hot all over.

"Win it. I must win it!"

As far as the situation in this game is concerned, Pochettino feels that his chances of winning the game are not small.

"Sun, don't you adjust yet?"

Pochettino has lost to Sun Yi so many times, and he is still very vigilant.Although the situation on the field is beneficial to Tottenham, especially in the current situation.But he still thinks that Sun Yi must be able to see the problem of playing.

Pochettino is ready.As soon as Sun Yi makes personnel adjustments, he will immediately make targeted changes.

However, Sun Yi did not adjust.

1 minute, 2 minutes... 10 minutes passed, and Sun Yi still had no intention of making adjustments.

It seemed he couldn't see that the situation on the pitch would be bad for Southampton if it dragged on.

"Why not adjust?" Pochettino was a little puzzled.If it was him, he would have made the change ten minutes ago.

As for the Southampton team, both Dior and Kaka were a little anxious.

Especially Kaka, he looked at Sun Yi several times, wanting to ask for a fight.But every time Sun Yi patted his shoulder and held it down.

The game on the field is constantly going on, but in the current situation, the Southampton team really can't see the hope of scoring.

If it continues, it will only become more and more unfavorable to the Southampton team.

At this time, Southampton fans are also anxious.

"What's going on? Why hasn't Sun made adjustments yet?"

"Didn't he see that Felix is ​​almost invisible?"

"What the hell is this doing?"

"Replace Felix, he is no longer effective. He is not the Prince of Tribute of the Gunners, there is no need to keep him on the field."

Southampton fans are very confused.Sun Yi has yet to make adjustments, especially to keep Felix on the court.They really don't understand.

But Pochettino suddenly felt that he figured it out, figured it out.

"I see, Sun is just unwilling to admit his mistakes and failures."

"He bought Felix for the same transfer fee as Ronaldo. But Felix failed to play the same role as Ronaldo. This is simply smashing his signature of being good at digging players. How could he May accept?"

"Sun just insisted on letting Felix stay on the field for his own selfishness. I want him to cheer up."

"Haha, I really want to win this game. Sun has been blinded by selfishness!"

The more I think about Pochettino, the more I feel that I am right.He felt like he had caught Sun Yi's real psychological weakness.

The confidence to win began to fill Pochettino's heart. He shouted excitedly to the field: "Good job. Just play like this. In this game, victory must belong to us!"

"For victory, come on!!"

Inspired by Pochettino, the Tottenham team became more and more excited, and there was a tendency to turn the situation around.

They don't want to have to passively defend and counterattack, they want to push Southampton back.

With the emergence of this mentality, Tottenham have unknowingly stopped being so tight.The formation has also been improved a lot.

After all, Tottenham is also a strong team in the Premier League.The tactic of shrinking the backcourt to defend and counterattack has never been their first choice.It's not their normal way of playing.

Seeing that the Tottenham team began to change, Sun Yi brightened up.Then he patted Kaka on the back lightly.

"Kaka, it's fine."

Hearing this, Kaka, who had been impatient for a long time, stood up immediately.Then ran to warm up without saying a word.

"Kaka is warming up. It seems that Sun is finally ready to replace Felix with him."

Seeing Kaka leaving, the Southampton fans immediately became alive.But they still feel a little dissatisfied.

"Hey, Sun should have gone to Kaka earlier."

"It's a waste of time to prepare for Kaka to play until now."

"Sun's on-the-spot command today really fell short. If I didn't know his character, I almost thought he bought the ball."

Although the fans of the Southampton team were complaining, they knew that Kaka was going to play, and they also rekindled their hopes for the game.

Seeing Kaka warming up, Pochettino, his opponent, smiled.

"It's coming. Finally you can't hold on anymore. It's time to adjust."

"Haha! But, so what if you start making adjustments? All of this has long been in my expectation."

"Replacing Felix with Kaka will have no effect!"

Pochettino feels that he is more and more sure of winning this game.Because so far, everything on the court is under his control.

Using Kaka to replace Felix is ​​an adjustment routine that the Southampton team often used before.Pochettino has already prepared a plan for this.

After warming up for a few minutes, Kaka came to the sidelines to accept Sun Yi's face-to-face instruction, and then took advantage of the dead ball to appear on the field.

It's just that Kaka's appearance surprised the audience for a while.

Because he replaced not everyone expected Felix, but the right forward Pulisic who performed well this time.

"Kaka replaced Pulisic. Shouldn't Felix be replaced? What does Sun think?"

Not to mention that Southampton fans can't figure it out, even Pochettino feels a little baffled.

"Using Kaka to play as a winger? This is dizzy!"

However, after the game was resumed, Pochettino found that this was not the case.

Kaka did not go to the wing, he played Felix's position.And Felix was sent to the wing.

"Oh, so that's what it is."

Pochettino is still a little unimpressed.In his opinion, replacing Felix is ​​the best choice.

Could Felix be better than Pulisic on the wing?

Anyway, Pochettino doesn't believe it.

However, the next game surprised Pochettino.After Felix arrived on the sidewalk, he changed his previous depression and became active.And its effect does not seem to be worse than Pulisic.

"Wait, I remember. Felix seemed to be a wide striker at Benfica."

"Oh! SHIT! Why didn't anyone remind me of this situation?" Pochettino felt that something was beyond human control, and he had a faint feeling in his heart.

He couldn't help but feel annoyed that neither he nor the coaching staff had thought of this.

However, it's not really their fault.Because it was Sun Yi who used Felix, who was originally a striker, to replace Kaka.

After Kaka came up to take on the important task of organizing, Southampton's offense was obviously better.

Although Kaka is not better than Felix purely technically, he has incomparably rich experience and has the best understanding of Southampton's tactical system.

Tottenham's original defensive arrangement against Felix could not play the previous role when facing Kaka.

Under Kaka's calm and unhurried dispatch, Southampton's offense was thoroughly stimulated.

"No, you can't get Southampton up."

Seeing this, Pochettino responded immediately.He let go of the arrangement he had prepared to deal with Kaka earlier in the morning.

"Fortunately, I have been prepared! There should be no problems in the future." Pochettino is very glad that he has a special plan for Kaka.

However, Pochettino soon found himself thanking himself too early.

Those arrangements of his did not have the effect he wanted.

Because Kaka is not always fixed in the position of the midfielder.He would switch places with Felix from time to time.

Use the transposition to put Pochettino's targeted defense on Felix, and then Kaka, who went to the wing, is still the real offensive launch point of the Southampton team.

If Tottenham choose to move their defensive focus to the wing with Kaka, then Southampton's offensive organization will return to Felix.Felix, who is not focused on, can start to play a role.

Under such circumstances, Tottenham can no longer limit Southampton's offense.

The Southampton team played more and more courageously under the Kaka organization, and began to create more and more threats.

"It turns out that the reason for not replacing Felix is ​​for this. Dual playmakers!"

Pochettino finally fully understood Sun Yi's intention of making such an adjustment.

It's just that it's useless for him to just understand, he has to come up with effective countermeasures.

It's a pity that before Pochettino could come up with a countermeasure, Tottenham couldn't handle it in front of the fully fired Southampton team.

The Southampton team relied on Kaka to make a 45-degree cross from the wing, and then Balotelli and Ronaldo formed a double ghost to hit the goal, and Ronaldo finally scored.

One to one.

Tottenham took the lead for most of the half, but they were equalized by Southampton after 10 minutes of the game.

"Oh, no!"

Southampton's goal instantly dashed Pochettino's hopes of taking victory from St Mary's.

The cooked duck flew away when it reached its mouth.

Not to mention how uncomfortable Pochettino felt.

However, more uncomfortable things are still waiting for him.

Southampton were thoroughly inspired by the goal.Morale and momentum are all soaring to the peak.

Hot as a rainbow, they forgot their fatigue and launched an extremely terrifying offensive against Tottenham.

Under the wave after wave of offensives, the morale of the Tottenham team only resisted for 5 minutes before being scored again.

Similar to the last goal, it was also covered by Felix in the middle, Kaka passed the ball from the wing into the penalty area, and then Ronaldo and Balotelli made the final finish.

And this time it was not Ronaldo who scored the goal, but Balotelli.

It doesn't matter who enters, what matters is that the Southampton team has achieved a go-ahead.

"yeah!!"

"Overtake!!!"

Everyone in the Southampton team cheered completely.

In the cheers of the tide, Pochettino slumped on the bench seat.

"Failed to succeed!"

(End of this chapter)