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St Mary's Stadium was packed again.

This is something that is hardly in doubt. Although Southampton's performance has been ups and downs recently, they have won two consecutive games in the league and the FA Cup before, which has brought their state back. Portsmouth, how could Southampton fans not be enthusiastic?

Even though the game was in the middle of the week instead of the weekend, the Southampton fans still filled the entire stadium!

They chanted the names of the Southampton players, and also chanted the name of Ji Ya. In the past few months, the constant tossing has already made them extremely satisfied with everything now.

Although the league is still not clear, but with Southampton's outstanding performance in the cup, we can expect them to perform better in the league!

If Southampton is just an ordinary team, they may still worry about whether their outstanding performance in the cup will affect the league results, but Southampton is a veteran Premier League team after all, and the fans still have this ambition.

They will only cheer for the team's outstanding performance in the cup, and will not inexplicably start worrying about the impact on the league after the team wins the cup.

This kind of big picture view is sometimes inexplicable.

There was a huge cheer from the Southampton fans in the stands when players from both sides came out.

Ji Ya's main lineup today didn't pay attention to the balance of offense and defense. The four major attackers in the frontcourt all played, behind them were Schneiderlin and Walton to protect, and James appeared at the right back position.

Recently, Ji Ya has become more and more fond of using this formation. Although when Southampton was in the British Championship, the midfield protection was not enough due to playing four-three-three, and the results were not good. Until the use of Simon Lett to strengthen the midfield After defending, the tactics of the whole team reached a balance, but from time to time, the midfielders Lallana and Schneiderlin hadn't grown up yet. They both had good offensive talents but poor defense , This makes Southampton's midfield defense look very weak, but now Schneiderlin has made rapid progress, not only maintaining the level of offense, but also improving rapidly in defense-after all, although the offensive level of League One Not very strong, but because of Southampton's tactical problems, they are always under constant attack from their opponents, and as a defensive midfielder, he is the first to bear the brunt.

In such a situation, he can get better exercise.

Ji Ya is just a pity now that Southampton does not have an excellent wing attacker. Now the attack on the wing is basically done by the two attacking midfielders Lallana and Mkhitaryan. The ability of the full back It is relatively poor, and Southampton's tactics are always not smooth enough.

But this is also something that cannot be solved. If Walker was obtained before, this problem would be much easier to solve.

But it's impossible not to get it.

Prost said that it is nice to have a kid in the youth team, but that guy is two years younger than Chamberlain, and he is only 14 years old now. No matter how frantic Ji Ya is, he would not use such a young player.

No matter how talented a player is, he must abide by the Basic Law...

So for the time being, only existing players can be used.

After this season, let's see if we can buy two reliable full-backs.

Thinking in this way, Ji Ya shook hands with the opponent's coach Cotterill, and then returned to his seat. Portsmouth's starting lineup did not exceed his expectations. As the second striker, Boateng sits in the midfield, Utaka walks on the wing...

"Isn't it too simple to use this simple tactic to deal with us?" Ji Ya thought in his heart.

However, the process of the game gave Ji Ya and Southampton a blow at the very beginning.

Portsmouth's tactics are indeed very simple, that is, let Boateng rush around the field looking for opportunities, and other people's offenses have only one pursuit, and that is to hand the ball to Boateng, and then through his personal Ability to create opportunities!

This German-Ghanaian dual-nationality attacking midfielder is indeed physically strong and full of impact. Under his impact, Southampton's defense line is difficult to adapt to. After all, they have never encountered an attacker with such outstanding personal ability.

Only 5 minutes into the game, Utaka made a forced breakthrough from the side and lobbed the ball into the penalty area. Boateng, who advanced forward, took off and competed for the top. He collided with Schneiderlin and landed at the same time. However, Schneiderlin still When he failed to stabilize his pace, Boateng stood firm, facing the falling ball, and directly volleyed vigorously!

The ball whizzed and flew towards the upper right corner of the goal. Davis stretched his arms with all his strength, but he was still a little short. The ball hit the net behind him hard, making the whole net tremble.

Boateng opened his hands and started a crazy celebration on the field. Ji Ya shook his head helplessly. What can be done about such an unreasonable goal?

But I'm very upset...

"It's okay, just chase it back!"

Ji Ya yelled at the field.

His reaction at this time is undoubtedly normal. The Southampton players also quickly launched an attack. Several people in the frontcourt continued to cooperate with each other to find opportunities. Puton's attack.

Seeing that the team launched a counterattack quickly, the Southampton fans were also relieved and began to shout and cheer for the team.

Southampton's offense is now very smooth, so in the next ten minutes, they created a lot of opportunities. First, Lallana and Mkhitaryan made two consecutive shots from outside the penalty area to create threats, and then Lambert Te's shot after a forced breakthrough from the wing was pushed out of the bottom line by the opponent's goalkeeper. Lallana took a corner kick and Lovren, who stepped forward to assist, headed over.

Although there has been no goal, but judging by their fast offensive rhythm, it seems that scoring is only a matter of time.

For this, Southampton fans still have enough confidence-although Southampton's performance in the previous game was a bit up and down, they have always played top-notch offensively!

As long as the offense continues like this, it is only a matter of time before the score is equalized.

At this time, a slightly controversial penalty changed Southampton's offensive trend.

Utaka was brought down by James after a breakthrough from the wing. Portsmouth got a free kick and the free kick was passed into the penalty area. The referee hesitated and awarded a penalty...

"How could this be a penalty kick! They are the ones who made the move!"

Ji Ya shouted excitedly on the sidelines. Unfortunately, the referee's penalty cannot be changed. Boateng took the penalty and scored it into the dead corner of the goal!