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Chapter 812 A More Balanced Southampton

"Are you okay?"

While Manchester United's players surrounded the referee to appeal, De Bruyne ran over to ask Du Yue.

Du Yue straightened his socks, then stood up.

"No problem." He laughed.

De Bruyne felt relieved: "Then you take the penalty kick."

There are actually quite a few penalty shooters in the Southampton team. De Bruyne is one, Prouse is one, and Du Yue is also one. At the same time, all three of them have good free kicks.

So the penalty kicks are usually taken in turn. Du Yue seldom takes penalty kicks, but the team trained him to hit [-]% of them. So at this time, De Bruyne wants to ask him if he wants to take penalty kicks. This penalty.

"Okay, then I will punish you." Du Yue readily agreed.

He didn't have a penalty in the league and Champions League goals, but it is also a very important thing to be able to open the scoring in the FA Cup. De Bruyne came to ask himself, obviously not too sure, After all, De Bruyne also missed a penalty kick.

This season, Southampton did not get a single penalty in the Champions League. There were six penalties in the league, of which De Bruyne scored two, Prowse scored two, and the remaining two were all. De Bruyne didn't score...

The 50.00% penalty kick rate is indeed a bit horrible.

Du Yue stood on the penalty spot.

The Southampton fans fell silent, while De Gea opened his arms and clapped his hands, threatening Du Yue.

This is also a form of goalkeeper pressure.

Du Yue was not affected.

After the referee blew the whistle to take the penalty, he started his run-up, and after running close to the ball, he didn't pause or feint, but directly raised his right foot, and the arch of his foot pushed the ball into the lower right corner!

The action of his shot looked like he was going to kick the lower left corner with force, so De Gea threw himself in the opposite direction...

At the same time as the ball hit the net, there was a huge cheer from the Southampton fans in the new Wembley Stadium!

One to zero, after half an hour of stalemate, Southampton finally scored first!

Du Yue ran under the stands, jumped up, waved his fist, turned around and hugged the teammates who ran over.

His current self-confidence is unprecedented. Facing any opponent, he has the confidence to score the ball into the opponent's goal!

Whether it is Manchester United or Liverpool, the next opponent in the Champions League final!

Ji Ya started clapping his hands, with such a goal, it would be easy to handle!

Manchester United's defense is indeed very tenacious, and they persisted for half an hour under their pressure. If Du Yue hadn't created this penalty and continued to fail to score, even Southampton might not be able to suppress them. !

This is not because of Ji Ya's unfounded worries, but during the suppression process, Southampton's players have actually reached a limit. If they still can't score, once Manchester United rebounds, Southampton may be in big trouble up.

The scene looked calm on the surface, but actually inside, it was already turbulent.

Fortunately, two of Southampton's top players teamed up to create this goal, and the lack of Manchester United's defense still exposed his flaws!

Mourinho's biggest problem in the past two seasons is that he has too many holes to fill...

Although he spent a lot of money, in fact, on the defensive line, there has never been a particularly good supplement.

This point can actually be seen by looking at Guardiola. Guardiola has spent nearly [-] million on the defense line alone this summer, but what about Manchester United?The line of defense he can use now is still the line of defense in the era of Moyes and Van Gaal...

Of course, this is also related to his bad luck. Luke Shaw's continuous injuries are a problem, and Damian's unbearable use is also a problem. Otherwise, if these two people can show their best form as full-backs , can also fill the vacancy.

In the position of central defender, Mourinho was a bit misjudged. Lindelof's performance, which he was optimistic about, was not good.

In terms of judging people, Mourinho also has some metaphysics. Sometimes he is very accurate in judging people, and sometimes he is not good at judging people. In this regard, he is not as good as Guardiola. The players that Guardiola reuses are basically Nothing unreliable.

Now, Southampton is leading [-]-[-], so in the next time, it will be difficult for Manchester United to achieve better results.

"Continue to control the midfield, wait for them to be forced out, and then deal with them!" Ji Ya called Chilwell and said something to him. Chilwell nodded and quickly conveyed his opinion to players on the field.

Mourinho began to think about what to do next-the balance of power just now, the outcome was just a hair's breadth away, but Southampton seized the opportunity first, so now, he can't just catch it without a fight.

It is of course unrealistic to continue to defend. Southampton is not a team that only cares about offense and ignores defense. They and Manchester City are currently the best team in ball possession tactics. Even Barcelona can’t match them in midfield possession. compared to.

Under such circumstances, if they continue to stick to it, Southampton can rely on their excellent ball-handling ability to kill time and wait for Manchester United to collapse on their own.

The reason why they were able to stick to it before was because they didn't concede a goal. Manchester United would have a chance no matter what.

Now, it can only attack.

Manchester United's offensive ability is not bad.

After the game restarted, Manchester United quickly launched wave after wave of attacks.

And Southampton also began to show their defensive skills.

Sanchez intends to break through, but was brought down decisively by Valverde. Manchester United got a free kick. Sanchez took the free kick and crossed it. Herrera followed up with a shot. The ball hit high under the interference of Phillips.

Lingard received a pass from Pogba and planned to break into the penalty area to shoot, but he was entangled by Chilwell. After a forced breakthrough, Lingard took a shot, but failed to hit it under the interference of Chilwell strength.

Pogba shot high from outside the penalty area.

Sanchez also shot high from outside the penalty area.

Ashley? Young made a cross from the wing, and Jones, who advanced and assisted, headed high.

United created a number of shots throughout the remainder of the first half, but none of them were on target.

This is of course not that their shots are all kicked casually, but because every offensive player was strongly interfered by the Southampton players when they were about to shoot!

This makes their shots look so outrageous.

Southampton has shown their excellent defense. Although they conceded a lot of goals this season, they have begun to show defensive improvement in many games.

Compared with before, Southampton as a whole is more balanced and more diverse.

On the basis of ball possession tactics, they can attack quickly, and they can also defend and counterattack, a real comprehensive team!