extraordinary coach

Chapter 555
2:0 victory over Benfica.

Although this is only the first round, it undoubtedly makes Southampton's promotion situation very good.

Because of this, the Southampton team is very happy.

Basically, it can be said that it is very possible for them to advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

And Sun Yi was also very happy.

However, it was not because of the victory over Benfica, but because after a month's absence, Juanjuan, who started his winter vacation, came to the UK again.

When sending Juan Juan away, he still felt a little liberated.

But after staying alone for a month, he felt that he had collected enough public food again.Therefore, Juan Juan is especially welcome.

Even the father-in-law and mother-in-law came along, preventing him from doing whatever he wanted.

Of course, Sun Yi did not disapprove of the arrival of Juan Juan's parents.The more people there are, the more lively the house will be.Let him feel more at home during the Spring Festival.

And when they came together, they could also accompany him to welcome the first honor in 2020.

Then he will soon have another championship to win.

Because, not long after, the League Cup final is coming.

However, Southampton have one more game to warm up before the Carabao Cup final kicks off.

Speaking of warm-up does not mean that we really want to play a warm-up match, but actually play a Premier League game.

It's just that the opponent is Aston Villa.

Aston Villa, who have returned to the Premier League from the British Championship, is definitely one of the weakest in the Premier League this season.

They are currently struggling to avoid relegation, and the prospects are not good.

Such an opponent is not at all challenging for the Southampton team.What's more, Southampton still started the game at home.

Therefore, for Sun Yi, this is an opportunity to warm up the players and restore their state.

For the next English League Cup final, Sun Yi will naturally not send out all the main players.

He used a semi-main lineup against Aston Villa.And the main goal in the game is to warm up the main players who are not in good enough condition.

As for the Aston Villa team, because they are relegating themselves, they said they would fight to the end when they faced Southampton.

Coupled with the fact that Southampton needs to prepare for the next English League Cup, Aston Villa felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so the idea of ​​​​taking points from Southampton arose.

The points on the Southampton team are different from others, and they are very precious.If they can get it, even one point will be of great help to their relegation situation.

For this possible hope, the Aston Villa team did their best in the game.And it's a bus that is desperately placed all the way.

But even so, in the face of the absolute strength gap, the Aston Villa team has not been able to create miracles.

In the end, Aston Villa lost 0:2 to Southampton at St. Mary's Stadium.

Only won two goals and did not meet the minimum spend.It seems less than perfect.

But Sun Yi felt very satisfied.He thinks he can win.The most important thing is to help the players improve their status.

If it weren't for him to preserve the physical strength of the core players, it would be impossible for Aston Villa to lose only two goals.

Anyway, the game was won.The Southampton team can welcome the next Carabao Cup final with a relatively relaxed attitude.

For the next English League Cup final, Sun Yi is also very confident.

Because the opponent in the final is Arsenal.

The opponent turned out to be Arsenal.To be honest, Sun Yi was very surprised at first.

But in the blink of an eye, I was very happy.Facing Arsenal, which can only 'compete for five' now, Southampton has a very high probability of winning the championship.

And it is very likely that it will not be consumed too much.

There is no doubt that it is really a good thing that the opponent is Arsenal.

He has great confidence in winning Arsenal, but Sun Yi did not take Arsenal lightly because of this.

Even [-]% of him may not want to give Arsenal.

Therefore, Sun Yi still made sufficient preparations before the game.It also carried out many battle simulations.

After conducting many battle simulations and seeing that the results were very satisfactory, Sun Yi waited for the game with confidence.

After some waiting, Sun Yi finally led Southampton to the Carabao Cup final against Arsenal.

Before the game, Sun Yi did not make any rhetoric.With the current strength of him and the Southampton team, there is no need to say anything more.

Just take the champion down.

Seeing the Arsenal team again in the arena, Sun Yi observed it carefully, and then he had a bottom line in his heart.

"Well, the strength is still the same. It's just that the state is okay."

"Go. Go up and win the game." Sun Yi sent Southampton to the game with a big wave of his hand.

But after the game started, the Arsenal team surprised Sun Yi.

They turned out to be very good.

Obviously their overall strength is a level behind Southampton, but for a long time after the start of the game, they played back and forth with Southampton.

This can't help but surprise many people who support Arsenal.

"Wow! Arsenal are playing well!"

"Look at this scene, how is Arsenal not as good as Southampton?"

"There is a drama, this time there is definitely a drama."

"As long as Arsenal keep playing like this, beating Southampton and winning the title is definitely possible."

"Come on! Arsenal!"

"It's time for Southampton to hand over the Carabao Cup."

Thinking of this possibility, Arsenal fans are particularly excited.He cheered even harder for the team.

Hearing the support from the fans, the morale of the players on the Arsenal team was also boosted, and they played more actively and motivated.

"The Arsenal team played really well today!" Dior said to Sun Yi in surprise on the sidelines.

"Yes. They surprised me." Sun Yi nodded.

He was really surprised that Arsenal performed much better than they did in the simulation.

"What makes them behave so well?"

"Maybe it's because they didn't go to Gondozi?" Kaka next to him said a little uncertainly.

"Gondozi? Hey, it seems to be the case!" Sun Yi looked around the field, only to realize that Gondozi didn't appear in the Arsenal team's starting lineup.

Well, in fact, Sun Yi has already seen it from the list of players.It's just that he still feels that Guendouzi will definitely start in his substitute consciousness.

No way, who called Gondozi the famous 'Prince of Gong'?

In many previous games, anyone in the Arsenal team may not play, but Guendouzi will definitely play.

Regardless of the record or performance, Guendouzi is the main force of the Arsenal team.

On this point, Sun Yi had always felt very speechless before.

Sometimes he wondered, could Guendouzi be the illegitimate son of the Arsenal boss?

But judging from the situation in this game, it seems not.

The hard-hitting Prince Gong is gone, no wonder Arsenal's performance has improved.

Sun Yi had to start paying more attention to the Arsenal team.

The Arsenal team in front of them is probably their strongest lineup.

Sun Yi observed it carefully and found that it was indeed the case.

Arsenal's overall strength is definitely not as good as Southampton's.

But their striker has a strong background.

With the striker trident composed of Aubameyang, Lacazette and Nicolas Pepe, the strength of all A+ grades is also very competitive in the Premier League.

And Sun Yi soon discovered that the main reason why Arsenal and Southampton can play back and forth is because of a midfielder.

That is the 'big-eyed boy' Ozil.

In previous matches, Ozil's performance was always unsatisfactory.And it always gives people a feeling of not being active enough and not in a good state.

But today's Ozil is very different.

Not only was he very active, he was also in good shape.

It was Ozil's outstanding performance that allowed Arsenal's strikers to play far beyond their previous combat effectiveness.

This is also the reason why the Arsenal team has not fallen behind on the scene so far.

"Paulinho, you go and take care of Ozil. I want to see him invisible."

Seeing the key, Sun Yi immediately went to the sidelines to make adjustments.

Maybe he wouldn't have done it had Southampton already taken the lead.But now this situation will naturally freeze Ozil.

Sun Yi has great confidence in Paulinho.I believe he will be able to limit Ozil.

Before, Sun Yi arranged for Bednarek to defend Ozil.Bednarek, who has only A-level strength, is naturally very difficult to defend Ozil, who is in good condition.

With Paulinho's strength, there should be no problem.He was mainly focused on offense before.

Following Sun Yi's request, Paulinho gave up participating in the offense and began to focus on defending Ozil.

Paulinho is a bit of a mess with his feet, but he is definitely a 'black and tough' defensively.

Back then, he didn't suffer against Barcelona's midfielder, but now he has no problem facing Ozil, who has begun to decline.

After Paulinho went all out on Ozil, Ozil soon began to falter.

Ozil, who was already afraid of confrontation, was really embarrassed when he faced Paulinho.

With Ozil's limited play, Arsenal's offensive threat has naturally plummeted.

Although Arsenal's strikers are still working hard, they lost the midfielder to deliver the shells. When they faced the Southampton defense led by Van Dijk, they couldn't attack at all.

Originally, Arsenal relied on a very good offense to compete with Southampton.

As soon as the attack failed, he immediately fell into a passive attack.

In fact, Arsenal's midfield defense with Xhaka and Torreira as double midfielders is quite good.

At least not in the midfield competition with Southampton.

But Arsenal's defense is relatively poor.

That defensive line, which is only A-level, may still be very strong against mid-lower teams.

But facing the Southampton striker led by Ronaldo, it really can't.

The power gap is too great.

Such an actual situation began to make Arsenal play particularly passively, and the defense was frequently threatened.Gradually, the Arsenal team was almost overwhelmed.

"boom!"

"boom!!"

……

Southampton kept threatening Arsenal's goal with shots.

It's a pity that the Southampton team was a little less lucky today.

There are many good opportunities, but they are only a little bit short.

This has to be said, which is very regrettable.

However, Sun Yi was not too worried about this.

Fully grasp the situation, the goal is only a matter of time.If you shoot several times, there will always be one that can get in.

To Sun Yi's surprise, the Southampton team had been attacking for a long time, but they failed to score a goal until the end of the first half.

"Nimei, the Arsenal team had really good luck in the first half." Sun Yi couldn't help but sigh.

In this way, the Southampton team could only end the first half with the regret of not scoring.

After the intermission, the two sides quickly returned to the field.

Next, Sun Yi discovered a piece of good news.

"Hey, it seems that there is good news. Prince Gong actually appeared on the stage."

"Okay. Okay. This is good." Seeing that Guendouzi replaced Ozil in the second half, Dior also smiled happily.

Sun Yi couldn't help but smile at Kaka.

Guendouzi's playing is good news for the Southampton team.

Before, Sun Yi needed to use Paulinho to deal with Ozil.

Now he just needs to let Bednarek deal with Guendouzi.The strength of the two is about the same, both are A-level.Nothing to worry about.

In this way, Sun Yi can also let Paulinho participate in the offense more.Let the team's offensive firepower to a higher level.

Therefore, Sun Yi immediately made tactical adjustments.

Soon, the second half of the game will begin.

Then Southampton quickly broke the deadlock.

Just 5 minutes into the second half, Southampton was scored by Ronaldo.

"Okay, the champion is stable."

Sun Yi felt that the victory was in his hands.

Then he smiled and said, "Thank you Prince Gong for playing. Haha."

After Guendouzi came on the field, his performance was actually very positive.

It's just a matter of strength, and it won't take advantage of Bednarek.This makes Arsenal's substitution completely meaningless.

Instead, Paulinho's offensive firepower was released.

Southampton's offensive firepower was already very strong, but after this was increased, the Arsenal team couldn't handle it at all.

In the first half, they avoided disaster by luck.Now, their luck can't bear it anymore.

With Southampton taking the lead, the game basically declared no suspense.

As a result, the morale of the Arsenal team plummeted, and even lost confidence.

In the following game, after Felix also scored a goal, the suspense was completely lost.

In the end, Southampton won the game smoothly.

As a result, the Southampton team has another championship to win.

"Yeah, we won the championship again."

"Well~ we can celebrate a little bit."

......

As the game came to an end, many people said lightly after seeing the news:
"Sure enough, Southampton won."

"No surprise, the championship was taken away by Southampton again."

"The Southampton team is really greedy! They have taken away the English League Cup for three consecutive times. When will they leave one out for other teams?"

(End of this chapter)