I brush achievements in football

Chapter 1137 The last game is meaningless

"The path you chose is correct, but it will take time. I hope the Arsenal management can give you more time."

When shaking hands with Arteta after the game, Ji Ya sighed and said something. This is his psychological words. To be honest, there are many strong teams in the Premier League, but there are actually only three teams that are capable of attacking on the ground. , Southampton, Manchester City, and Arsenal.

If only Manchester City was Southampton's offensive opponent, it would be too boring. One more Arsenal would make the whole league look much better.

Arteta nodded. He was insisting on doing so. What Kiya said just made him strengthen his belief.

After losing this game, Arsenal has fallen into seven rounds without victory, but as long as they persevere, they will see hope and sunshine.

In this regard, Arsenal did much better than their old rival Manchester United. It also ended a long period of dominance. Arsenal's management did not rush to change coaches, but gave the coach enough time. Manchester United has not done enough in this regard.

Of course, the pressures faced by the two sides are actually different.

"Arsenal are doing well, but we are doing better. I appreciate Arteta's work at Arsenal, Arsenal are a great team, they are just having some difficulties... next round? Yeah. , The next round of the league is a game that we value very much."

Ji Ya smiled at the press conference after the game and said that the next round of the league is indeed very important, because the opponent is Manchester City, but now judging from the standings, Southampton's advantage is still much greater.

After all, Southampton's points have now reached 37 points, while Liverpool, which ranks second, has only 28 points, and Manchester City has only 26 points. Now Southampton's advantage is already quite large.

Of course, for Southampton, even if they have a great advantage, they must work hard to defeat their opponents in such a game.

After all, Manchester City's current state is not particularly good. They only won seven games in the first thirteen rounds, drew five games, and lost one game. Such a winning rate is already very low for Manchester City. If this is the case, in this round Defeat opponents in the game, more can bring greater advantage!

In the middle of the week before this game, Southampton was away to Midtjylland. This game had no impact on the group stage, so Ji Ya didn't want to send any main players in this game—except Du Yue.

This can be regarded as Du Yue's request. He doesn't want to miss any games this season, and Ji Ya will definitely meet his request.

Ji Ya left most of the main players in Southampton directly, allowing them to train and rest well under the leadership of Benelli, while he flew to Denmark with the substitutes and some young players.

In the game against China Jutland, Kiya sent an almost full substitute lineup, goalkeeper Caballero, defender Peters, Rudiger, Chambers, Jenkinson, midfielder Phillips, Prouse , Bellingham, forwards Du Yue, Musiala, Vardy.

This lineup as a whole is of course worse than the main lineup, but it is not something Zhongtjylland can resist.

Shortly after the start of the game, Southampton opened the scoring for the first time - it was Du Yue who scored the goal. After receiving a pass from Mushala, Du Yue dunked a defender, and then shot decisively from a small angle. The ball flew into the near corner of the goal.

Southampton, who scored early, began to play more easily on the court. In the No. 301 minute, two young players teamed up to complete a beautiful attack. Bellingham, who inserted the ball, kicked a stick to the ground, and the ball went straight to the dead corner of the goal, and Southampton expanded their lead.

Seeing that Du Yue scored a goal, Ji Ya replaced him during the intermission. Southampton's substitutes continued to entangle each other.

Midtjylland struggled to recover a point in the second half, but they eventually lost the game. Southampton won the game without bloodshed and qualified from the group with a six-game winning streak!

In another game, Atlanta completed the final redemption. They entangled with Ajax for 85 minutes in the away game, and then relied on Muriel's lore to beat the opponent [-]-[-] in the away game. Advantage, beat Ajax and entered the Champions League round of sixteen!

For two consecutive seasons, they had grasped the life-saving straw in the final round, and then advanced to the knockout stage—this kind of performance is indeed quite surprising!

"It's a great help to qualify for the Champions League group ... especially when we qualify first in the group. Our next test will not appear until next year." Ji Ya said at the press conference after the game.

When a reporter asked about Atlanta's miraculous qualifying again this season, Ji Ya said it was nothing special. They won in the end, so qualifying is as simple as that.

"In the Champions League, the best team can always qualify. Atlanta has strength and is tenacious enough. It is normal to qualify for the group stage in a row. It is just a coincidence that we meet them in succession. Atlanta will become the next team. Southampton? No, every team is unique and Atalanta just become themselves, as if Southampton just became themselves."

After returning from Denmark, Southampton finally completed this season's Champions League group stage, and their next goals can indeed be all placed in the league and the next Club World Cup.

Manchester City's signings this summer are still relatively targeted. Their money is spent on defenders. The Spanish winger Ferran Torres was introduced to strengthen the offense, Sane was sold to Bayern by them, and David Silva was transferred back to Real Sociedad for retirement. Their lineup maintained a certain stability, but in David? After Erva left, their lineup really needs to be re-run.

After Aguero is getting older, they don't have a stable scorer, which is their biggest flaw now, Jesús is not as developed as expected, Sterling is not the kind of shooter who can bring a lot of goals, So sometimes they appear to be a little weak in offense, and it seems very difficult to kick.

"Their defense has improved a lot, but in front of our offense, there is no line of defense that can not concede the ball!" Ji Ya said to the Southampton players, and the players nodded.