I brush achievements in football

Chapter 885 Just Keep Persevering

In any case, the draw between Southampton and Manchester United is indeed a loss for both sides. After all, the gap between them and the top few points has widened again.

However, Manchester United is more anxious, while Ji Ya is calmer.

He knows that there is no rush for the team to run in. The Southampton players need more time, and the performance of the top two this season is indeed a bit ridiculous. Liverpool has won [-] rounds so far. They played eleven games and tied three games. Manchester City lost one more game than Liverpool, that is, the one they lost to Southampton. There is a big hip-pull in the grabbing points collectively, otherwise, this season's league competition will be these two teams.

Although this once again proved the correctness of Ji Ya's judgment, these two teams are indeed Southampton's biggest opponents, but Ji Ya would rather make a mistake in his own judgment.

But it’s too late to say this now. The last draw at least proved one thing, that is, Southampton’s midfield is almost ready to take shape. At least in this game, Southampton’s midfield is working well as a whole. , although conceded three goals, but it is not a problem in the midfield.

After waiting for so long, finally saw the dawn!

This also made the Southampton players more serious in training in the next few days.

Until they ushered in the No.15 league round in the middle of the week and went to challenge Tottenham away.

Consecutive matches against Manchester United and Tottenham in just four days put a lot of pressure on any strong team, but Southampton went to the new Wembley Stadium this time, but they were all full of confidence.

The completion date of Tottenham's new White Hart Lane Stadium has been repeatedly postponed. It was originally said that it could be completed this summer, but it was postponed again. It is estimated that it will not be officially put into use until next year. This also made Ji Ya mock them in the newspaper ——Why don't you go to China to find a construction company, but use a local construction company, you deserve to delay the completion...

If a British head coach said this, he would probably be criticized, but considering that Ji Ya is a Chinese and has been promoting how excellent China's infrastructure is, it is not surprising that he said such a thing.

It's just that in this way, the beams of Southampton and Tottenham are even bigger.

"We have to work hard in this game. We must win...you know." Before the game started, Ji Ya patted Du Yue on the shoulder and said to him.

Du Yue nodded immediately.

Now he has scored twelve goals in the league and is also the top scorer, while Kane has scored nine goals and tied for second. In such a face-to-face contest, of course, Kane must be suppressed to prove I am better than Kane.

The characteristics of the two are not compatible, and the age difference is not very big. In the competition for the position of the main center forward in the England national team, of course, either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind.

At this time, the tip of the needle is facing the wheat awn, and there is no room for any flinching!

But for this game, Ji Ya still has enough confidence.

"Dembele is injured, Ali is not in good shape, Tottenham's midfield is much weaker than before! Under such circumstances, it is time to play our offensive ability!" Ji Ya waved in the locker room Fist said.

In this game, Ji Ya basically used the main lineup of the previous game against Manchester United, but slightly adjusted the front line. Vardy started with Du Yue, and the midfielder was still the old four. After all, they need to continue to adapt.

Tottenham let Dale and Winks partner in the midfielder, Eriksson as the midfielder, Sun Xingmin and Lucas Jr., who has been in good form recently, and Kane stepped forward.

Compared with their usual starting lineup, such a lineup has a little less excessive ability, but the speed of attacking in the frontcourt seems to be much faster.

This obviously still requires one's own speed to create opportunities. Tottenham's lineup is still very good for fast breaks.

"Don't worry about their tactics, we just have to do our own possession."

With Kiya's words before the game echoing in his head, the Southampton players stepped onto the pitch.

Southampton's tactics are very simple, that is, I am the main player, slowing down the rhythm by controlling the ball, reducing the number of opponents' attacks, and then defeating the opponent under the rhythm I am familiar with!

In the last season, there is no problem with this approach, and it can basically beat Tottenham. However, in this season, can they still do this?

It's not because everyone has no confidence in Southampton, but since the beginning of this season, the difficulties they have encountered, as well as the frequency of losses and draws, are too high.

It's like in the league, so far in the [-] rounds, Southampton has lost two games. It doesn't seem like too much, but considering that they still have six draws, it seems a lot!

Under such circumstances, it is of course normal that the outside world has insufficient confidence in them.

So after the start of the game, when the two sides began to confront each other on the field, many people began to worry about Southampton after seeing that Southampton was still controlling the rhythm in the midfield and dealing with Tottenham's press and impact.

However, Southampton's performance has indeed changed significantly from before.

This change was evident in the last game against Manchester United, but the final draw concealed this progress.

Of course, the Tottenham players will not ignore this point. However, under such circumstances, Southampton's possession of the ball still makes them seem helpless.

Under their frantic pressing, Southampton's ball and passing began to speed up, and after they had an extra point like Rodri, who could take the ball and control it, it became more difficult to press their midfielder. up.

In the past, it was all pressing while focusing on De Bruyne to force Southampton to possibly foul. Now, in addition to these two points, it is also necessary to focus on Rodri...

This is something that is almost impossible to do no matter how hard you pay!

After controlling the midfield, Southampton's offense began to become smoother.

Tottenham's defense was not good at first, but now that the midfield is controlled, the problems exposed by their defense appear to be a little more.

Du Yue retreated, and De Bruyne immediately passed the ball to him, which made the nerves of Tottenham's defense line tense, but Du Yue smiled, and instead of breaking forward by himself, he turned around again and passed the ball went back.

Rodri didn't stop the ball, but passed it straight and stuffed the ball into Tottenham's penalty area!

Grealish, who quietly inserted from the left, received a pass from Rodri. Before Tottenham's defense completed the defense, he had already cut into the penalty area, and then took a decisive shot. The ball flew into the back of the goal. !