I brush achievements in football

Chapter 393 The group stage is not difficult

After winning the game, the Southampton team immediately flew to Belgium to prepare for the third round.

For Anderlecht and Galatasaray, the next two rounds will be very important games. If they still lose to Southampton and Dortmund, then basically there will be no play. Fight for No.3 by yourself, and if you have a chance to score points or even win, there is still a possibility of promotion.

Since Anderlecht is at their home court, of course they cannot easily let Southampton go.

Of course, they were also at home in the last round, and then they were beaten [-]-[-] by Dortmund. You can't think too much about such things. If you think too much, you will lose your fighting spirit.

But Southampton's current morale is much higher than that of their opponents.

Compared with them, Southampton's players are fighting high because of the last big victory.

The players who participated in that game had high morale, and those who did not participate, wanted to perform equally well to prove that it was not impossible for them to not play, but because they had to prepare for the next game!

Ever since, with this mentality, Southampton didn't give the home team any face in the away game...

In just 3 minutes of the opening, Lukaku made a forced breakthrough on the right, and then passed the ball into the penalty area. Vardy missed, and Mane, who followed up, pushed the ball and the ball flew directly into the goal. horn!

Anderlecht, who was determined to fight to the end, was opened to victory by Southampton just 3 minutes later.

Mane hugged Lukaku excitedly. After joining Southampton this season, although Mane has not yet stabilized his position as the main force, Perisic's assist in the last four also brought him a lot of pressure. , However, Mane still relies on his own performance, and still has some advantages in the competition for the main position.

And Perisic is actually satisfied with the current situation. Although he left Dortmund for the main position at the time, after playing the main team for one and a half seasons in Wolfsburg, he is now eager for honor.

The Premier League, the Champions League, these are all things he wants to pursue, and Southampton can provide these things.

After Mane scored, Southampton's offense began to play with ease. Lukaku was quite active on the field. He kept taking the ball, breaking through or passing the ball to launch the attack. The opponents did not dare to relax. Defense-Facing Anderlecht, who made his debut, Lukaku also seemed quite excited.

But he was not very lucky today. In the following time, he first passed the ball to Vardy, but Vardy missed the opportunity in front of the goal, and then his shot after a forced breakthrough was bravely saved by the opponent's goalkeeper...

The final score in the first half was one to zero, and Mane's surprise attack after the opening gave Southampton the lead.

During the intermission, Ji Ya slightly adjusted the lineup, Vardy was replaced by him, Dembele came off the bench as the right winger, and Lukaku came to the center position.

This substitution had an immediate effect. 10 minutes after the start of the second half, Dembele broke through from the wing and made a pass into the penalty area. Lukaku attracted almost all attention, but Coutinho, who was inserted in the back row, was in the penalty area. Stopping the ball and shooting in the penalty area expanded Southampton's lead!

After leading by two goals, Southampton began to feel more comfortable. In the following time, the two sides continued to fight on the field. Anderlecht, who was aggressively pressing, conceded two goals in a row in the last 10 minutes of the second half. The Alonso kicked in the box after receiving a pass from Mane, and then in stoppage time veteran Miroslav Klose, who also came off the bench, headed home in the melee in the box blind spot.

Four to zero, another brilliant victory!

After scoring the goal, Klose was very happy. In fact, he will definitely play very few games this season, that is, there will be some opportunities at the beginning of the season. The so-called one less game...

And since last season, he has already noticed that his state has indeed declined sharply, and he can persist until now only for scoring goals in the World Cup. After scoring two goals in the World Cup, he has no regrets. Now He has already started to study coaching courses, and he can still have such a goal in the Champions League, which is really enough to make him feel very happy.

In another game, Dortmund also swept Galatasaray [-]-[-] in the away game. Obviously, the strength of this group has been quite clear.

Dortmund has nine points in three rounds, Southampton has six points in three rounds, Galatasaray and Anderlecht have only scored one point. In the next round, if Dortmund and Southampton can still win, Then they will join hands to qualify two rounds ahead of schedule.

Compared with the death group in the previous two seasons, this season's group stage is not only relaxed and happy, but at least it is much simpler.

"It's only one game away, are you excited?" Ji Ya asked Suarez on the way back.

"Of course I'm excited." Suarez replied immediately.

The Southampton players laughed. Indeed, after four months of suspension, after the next round of the league, Suarez's suspension period has arrived.

Of course, Vardy is in such a hot state recently, even if he comes back, it is impossible for him to return to the main lineup immediately, and it is impossible for Ji Ya to let a shooter who scored [-] goals in eight rounds of the league as soon as he can play Back on the bench - no such thing.

Suarez himself knows that even if he can play now, he can only gradually play in the cup, and then get more opportunities to play in the rotation. Through his own performance, he will regain the main position bit by bit.

This was something he hadn't thought of before, but it was a matter of course.

After returning to the league, Southampton's opponent in the next game is Stoke City. In this round, Chelsea will challenge Manchester United away. This is also a good opportunity for Southampton to catch up with points.

After all, although Manchester United did not perform well this season, when facing Chelsea, they must explode a little bit.

Stoke City's performance this season is relatively stable, which means that there are no surprises in their performance. Now they are ranked in the middle, and there is a little threat of relegation but not much. They are a standard mid-range team.

Facing such an opponent, Southampton has always been relatively easy to play, after all, they do not lack opportunities to score.

Lukaku broke the deadlock for Southampton in the 303rd minute. Although he didn't seem to score many goals this season, the main reason was that Vardy scored most of the goals, but his role on the field The ability to enter the critical period has begun to become stronger and stronger.

Before the end of the first half, Vardy was pushed down by the opposing defender after receiving the ball in the penalty area. The referee awarded a penalty kick. Lukaku took the penalty and scored twice.

In the second half, Vardy scored his No. 12 league goal this season with a shot in the penalty area, and Southampton won again!