song of the saints

Chapter 129 The New Season Is Here
Southampton faced two League One teams in a week, and they all won without any suspense. They also exercised the ability and tactical proficiency of young players, giving Southampton the opening match of the new season. Laid a solid foundation.

Southampton's first opponent, Manchester City, has an away challenge.Manchester City's transfer market is also blooming this season. The iron waist Roschenback came from Barcelona without a visa, and the young striker Yakubu was bought from Portsmouth to solve the defense and forward lines. The problem.It can be said that the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong.But their opponent Southampton is even stronger. Now David Winston has to think hard about the starting list, because there are too many players to choose from. Totally incomparable.

On this day, there are still two days before the first game of the new season. David Winston's team will leave for Manchester today to prepare for the first game.David Winston watched the familiar scenery fly by in the car, but his mind was on another aspect, yes, the lineup.Now every player in the team is in a very good competitive state, and it seems logical who will start, but there are only eleven players in the starting lineup, so David Winston has a headache about how to choose.

Seeing David Winston like this, Hierro, who was sitting next to him, asked, "David, what's the matter? Is it for the starting lineup?"

David Winston, who was originally pensive, heard Hierro's inquiry, turned his head, and said, "Indeed, my mind is too confused now, let me tell you what you think!"

"From the previous warm-up match, the team's current tactic of passing and controlling, off-ball running and player cooperation did not show much power on the court, and it is obvious that the players are very concerned about this set of tactics on the court. The tactics have not yet reached the level of full proficiency, so in the really high-intensity Premier League, it is not good news. On the contrary. When we use your defensive counterattack tactics from last season on the field, we can achieve good success. Although It's not pretty on the field, but it's winning. Now that's what matters. Finding beautiful football on top of winning is practical."

At this time, a ray of sunlight outside the window shone on David Winston's heart, and Hierro's words also entered his heart through this ray of light, making David Winston suddenly enlightened.

During this preparation period, he seemed to be ignorant and obsessed with Barcelona's tactics, but he completely forgot what tactics led him to a small glory last season.

"Thank you so much. My friend. I'm really a fan of the authorities now. Haha" David Winston finally unraveled the fog in his heart, thinking it was a matter of player selection.In fact, it has already deviated from the direction of thinking.

Hierro smiled.Said, "This is my duty."

After the team safely resisted Manchester City, they went directly to the stadium for pre-match training without rest. After all, it was the first game, and the competitive state of each team was not adjusted to the best state, so who can enter the game faster now? To the state of the game, whoever can better control the game and win.

In the first game, the members of the team's board of directors did not arrive with the team, which gave the Southampton players a lot of relief, especially the new players.

David Winston watched the players on the field enthusiastically carrying out the team competition.Watching the new captain Alan Shearer still spare no effort in running and fighting.He knew that Alan Shearer was setting an example, sending a signal to the young players in the team, no matter who they were, they needed to work hard on the court, not once and for all.The reason why David Winston bought them in the first place was because of this. They need the experience of old players to help them grow quickly. Obviously, both Alan Shearer and Roberto Ayala have played a very good role in this aspect. demonstration role.David Winston felt very relieved.

At the press conference before the game, a reporter asked David Winston such a question.

"How do you look at Jinyuan football."

Obviously, the current Southampton team is also listed in the same team as Chelsea by the English media.

David Winston replied.

"For Jinyuan football, he neither rejects nor agrees. He doesn't have too many ideas about this club's business model, because he is just a coach, not the owner and decision-maker of the club."

David Winston was content with such ambiguous answers.Although he hated Jinyuan Football in his previous life, he used to be a keyboard man and scolded Jinyuan Football's ghostwriters, but he became one of them. Life is really ridiculous, so don't take it lightly.

There are obviously a lot more reporters at the press conference in the new season than before, perhaps they are all successfully accumulated in the last season.The familiar Taylor brother, David Winston, didn't see him. He didn't know where he was now. He suddenly missed him because he was the only reporter who didn't hate him.

This is the last game of this round of the Premier League game. In the first round of the game, all the tycoons in the Premier League have made a good start for themselves. Now they are all sitting on the small bench, ready to see how the Southampton team performs.

David Winston listened to Hierro's ideas, and finally said that the lineup was set to 4231 last season, and the tactics were also last season's defensive counterattack.

Goalkeeper Sebastian Frey, back four are Nicky Shorey, Roberto Ayala, Luis Pereira and Luke Young.The double defensive midfielder is the advanced configuration of Miguel Arteta and Yaya Toure in the second half of last season, and the front midfielder uses the newly arrived David Silva.Adam Lallana is on the left, Dirk Dirk on the right and David Villa is the lone striker.

Every player in this lineup has the ability to defend and has a strong sense of counter-attack.This is what David Winston is most satisfied with.

David Winston watched the shouts in the stadium rise and fall, but all the shouts were in support of Manchester City, and the shouts of Saints fans were completely submerged here.However, he is confident that he will block the sound and use a victorious method.Today he deliberately waited beside the player tunnel, high-fived the starting players one by one, and cheered loudly.He hopes to use such a simple and clear way to arouse the players' desire to win that has been silent for a long time.

The new season is coming, so let's start with victory!

David Winston looks at the court with a look of anticipation and triumph.

(End of this chapter)