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Chapter 251 Waiting for Good News

Lazio is indeed a relatively easy opponent.

After all, in recent games, Southampton played against strong teams. In comparison, Lazio, who played [-] rounds but only ranked seventh in Serie A, is already a persimmon...

Moreover, the Serie A teams have become more and more weak in recent years. Except for Inter Milan who won the Triple Crown, other Serie A teams have stronger fighting spirit in the Champions League, especially the top three in the north, but other teams are in the Europa League. The performance of the cup seems to be a bit stretched.

However, this also has a lot to do with the fact that there are not many bonuses in the Europa League. Serie A teams are more willing to retain their strength to play in the league. They will still fight well in the Champions League.

For example, Naples has been very impressive in the Champions League in the past two years.

Southampton is at home again in the first round, but this is not a particularly disadvantageous place. Southampton played at home first in the first two rounds of the Europa League knockout stage this season. ball advantage.

This game is no exception.

Lazio's performance in Serie A this season is not bad, but because of their financial problems, their head coach Inzaghi can organize a lineup with combat effectiveness, but facing two-line battles, it seems quite difficult .

In the last round of the league, they just had a fierce battle with Catania, who is ranked eighth in the league. After all, they still have a chance to hit the top four and qualify for the Champions Cup. Of course, such a match cannot be let go. In the end, they At home, they defeated their opponents 4-[-]. Although they are still ranked seventh, they are only one point away from No. [-] Fiorentina. Now the fifth Inter Milan and the sixth Roma have the same points as theirs, with [-] points. .

So what came to Southampton was a tired Lazio team.

It is precisely because of this that even though Ji Ya still adopts a rotation tactic, he still has an absolute advantage on the court.

They continued to put pressure from the midfield, and Mkhitaryan and Ronaldo continued to break through, creating opportunities for Austin and Klose.

Under Lazio's tenacious defense in the first half, Klose still found an opportunity in the penalty area and opened the scoring for Southampton. Now in the Europa League, Klose is a standard thigh. Although he didn't score many goals, But all of them are important.

Lazio still wanted to counterattack, but shortly after the start of the second half, midfielder Onazi accumulated two yellow cards and was sent off. Southampton's advantage began to become more obvious-the next step is to see how many goals can be scored .

Lazio persisted for more than 70 minutes. As a Serie A team, they still have an advantage in defending. Unfortunately, Radu sent a penalty kick with a handball in the penalty area. William took the penalty and it was done overnight.

When the game was about to go into stoppage time, Southampton's offense scored again. Nolito created a free kick. Vidal blasted the free kick and was barely saved by the opponent's goalkeeper. Shoot into the net!

Another three to zero!Starting from the Europa League knockout round, Southampton always won three goals at home in the first round, which is enough to prove their advantage in the Europa League!

"Southampton should indeed enter the Champions League knockout round. What they lack is experience. I am now looking forward to what kind of outstanding performance they will have in the Champions League next season!"

Some commentators sighed and said, but this is also the consensus of many people. Looking at Southampton's predicament in the Premier League in the second half of the season, what kind of performance they will have in the Champions League is really exciting.

And this season...they still have a chance to win a small quadruple crown—after all, they have already won the League Cup, reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup, and are just around the corner to enter the semi-finals of the Europa League. They are four points behind Manchester United in the league. It's not impossible to catch up...

It is a new record to win so many championships in one season.

They have now maintained seven consecutive victories in the league, and these seven consecutive victories have a high gold content. They have defeated Manchester City, Newcastle, Liverpool and Chelsea successively. opponents are relatively weak.

Manchester United wanted to throw Southampton away in one breath in these seven games, but they could only do better on their own. Other places can only expect Southampton to lose the chain, but Southampton did not lose the chain—— Now Manchester United is very embarrassed!

In the remaining seven games, they will have to face their rivals in the same city, Manchester City, their rivals Arsenal for more than ten years, and their new rivals Chelsea!

These teams may not fight Southampton desperately, but they will definitely fight desperately!

Unknowingly, Ferguson found that he was about to lose control of the entire league.

Although his team still leads by four points, the advantage is gone!

After returning to the league, Southampton did not stop the pace of continuing the winning streak.

It was their top two goalscorers this season at Reading, with Benteke and Mkhitaryan netting in each half as Southampton secured their eighth straight win.

Benteke was very happy after scoring the goal, because in this round, Liverpool was tied [-]-[-] by West Ham United, and Suarez failed to score!

In this way, he tied Suarez with 22 goals and tied for the first place in the scorer list!

Of course, the goals scored by both sides are sports goals, so there is no way to tell the difference.

In this way, Southampton began to wait quietly for the last game of this round, which is the start of the Manchester derby.

Manchester United also won seven consecutive victories, and it was very difficult for them to win the previous few games. Facing the fierce Manchester City, can they still win consecutively?

You must know that compared with the lack of major generals when they played against Southampton before, the current Manchester City has come from the most difficult time.

Kompany's return is the biggest good news.

In this game, Mancini sent the strongest lineup at hand, Milner entered the starting lineup as the left midfielder, Silva came to the center to organize the attack, Tevez came forward, Aguero and Dzeko were both on the bench at the table.

In the first half of the game, both sides fought hard and failed to score. Not long after the start of the second half, it was Milner who received a pass from Nasri and took a strong shot. The ball flew into the ground. Dead corner of the goal!

Mancini's surprise soldier played a role!

Not only surprise soldiers, but also substitutions.

After Manchester United passed an attack, Jones headed the ball to Kompany and broke the line to equalize the score. Mancini replaced Aguero. It was a sharp breakthrough from the Argentine. A kick shot from the top of the arc scored this lore goal for Manchester City!