I brush achievements in football

Chapter 310 We Can Be Better By One Point

After the start of the second half, Manchester City's wing attack did become more active.

It is normal for them to have the upper hand. After all, they have full-backs and full-backs. Southampton actually only has two full-backs.

However, they have the advantage but they can't make a good breakthrough. As for the cross, with Otamendi on the ground and Wundt in the air, it is still difficult to score a goal by crossing.

When their offense was in trouble, Southampton's offense became more and more violent.

Relying on their physical advantages, they kept running, driving the pace of the game to become extremely fast. The two sides began to rush and fight more, making Manchester City's performance gradually messy.

You must know that after Pellegrini came to Manchester City, he paid attention to technical transmission and cooperation, and he had to play more ball possession.

In this game, he also wanted to compete with Southampton in possession of the ball. As a result, Southampton did not follow the routine and did not play the ball possession they are used to. Instead, they accelerated the rhythm and continued to launch fast attacks. .

The choice of this style of play is of course because the Southampton players have better physical fitness.

So in this kind of see-saw, Manchester City's formation gradually began to lose touch. Originally, they shifted their focus to the sideways, but now that the tempo is faster, they lose touch faster.

After the gaps began to increase, Southampton's frontcourt players began to perform better.

Seven minutes after the start of the second half, a Southampton attack scored again!

Ronaldo received the ball from the wing, and then he broke into the penalty area beautifully, facing the goalkeeper directly. This time, Pandilimon attacked in a timely manner. Unexpectedly, the opponent attacked so quickly. Ronaldo shot the goal in a hurry, and the ball hit Pandilimon He bounced into the middle of the penalty area, and Suarez quickly appeared on the flight path of the ball. Facing half of the empty goal, he only used a volley kick to shoot...

The ball goes into the net for the second time!

"Goal in! Twice! Suarez! It's his tenth goal of the season! Fifteen games, ten goals, and don't forget, he's got a six-match ban...actually Ten goals in nine games, and only played eight of them! In addition, he scored four goals in five games in the Champions League, which is really an astonishing scoring efficiency! How many goals can the Uruguayan score this season? People look forward to..."

Suarez started his own celebration again, and the Southampton fans responded to him with warm applause. They liked the Uruguayan striker more and more. Not to mention scoring goals, he didn’t occupy the ball very much, but when he got the ball , he was always able to create a threat.

In terms of efficiency and cost performance, such a striker is too useful.

Seeing that the opponent had taken the lead, Pellegrini couldn't sit still. If he continued like this, he would only play more and more chaotically, so he could only choose to substitute.

Keylor Navas (the one from Spain) comes on and replaces Milner, Javi Garcia comes on and replaces Negredo.

Pellegrini is still very accurate. Now Manchester City's problem is not the striker, but the midfielder has been suppressed by the opponent, and if Southampton wants to play fast, then there is no need for a center like Negredo. Quiro would be useful.

Replacing Navas is to strengthen the ability to break through from the wing, and replacing Xavi Garcia is to liberate Yaya Toure and move him forward to create more opportunities for threats.

It has to be said that the two substitutions made by the Chilean engineer are still in place and quite targeted. However, shortly after his substitution, Southampton's tactics changed...

They started to stop playing fast breaks, but started to hold the ball in the midfield, and they started to grind with Manchester City.

In this way, the space on their defense line becomes smaller. No matter how Aguero can grab points, it will be difficult to score goals under such circumstances.

Pellegrini looked at the coaching bench of the home team very depressed. He really didn't expect that Ji Ya's tactical arrangement would eat him to death, as if David Silva, who bullied him, couldn't play.

In the entanglement between the two sides, although Manchester City began to gradually stabilize the defense line, but the backward situation forced them to attack. So in the No.706 minute, Southampton scored the third with a counterattack. ball……

Otamendi made a clearance in the middle, Casemiro immediately passed to De Bruyne in front, De Bruyne made a direct pass, Suarez turned around with the ball and sent a direct pass, Lukaku started from the side Slash dash.

Kolarov wanted to defend Lukaku, but although he was only a little short in height, he was far behind in strength and speed. He barely followed a few steps and lost his balance in the collision. Lukaku threw away He, after catching the ball, broke into the penalty area, first made a false shot to make Pandilimon fall to the ground, and then scored the ball into the empty goal.

Three to one, Southampton secured the victory!

Although Pellegrini replaced Yaya Toure with Dzeko to strengthen the impact in the penalty area, it was too late. In the end, Southampton defeated Manchester City [-]-[-] at home. After two consecutive draws, Achieved two consecutive victories in one breath!

"Southampton continues to advance! The only regret is that Arsenal won again. They are now one point ahead of Southampton with 35 points! However, there is good news for both Southampton and Arsenal in other games, except that Manchester City was defeated by Southampton. In addition to the defeat, Manchester United lost [-]-[-] at home to Newcastle, lost the fifth league game of the season, and has slipped to ninth. Chelsea unexpectedly lost to Stoke City, and now ranks third with Liverpool with [-] points , Manchester City slipped to fifth place! Now the top two have temporarily widened the gap with other teams!"

The advantage of four points is indeed not low. After all, the league has only passed a little over a third of the way. It is really not easy to accumulate a point advantage over the opponent by one game at this time.

The Southampton fans are very happy. In their view, the league now has an advantage, and the Champions League has basically qualified for the group stage. It seems that they can consider better results this season.

Last season was the domestic minor triple crown plus three consecutive Europa League titles. This season, can we dream of the Champions League?

Or even a true Triple Crown?

I have to say that although this kind of thinking seems a bit inflated, as long as you are a fan who loves the club, why don't you think like this?

After all, in the past few years, they have lived a dreamlike life. Watching the team's continuous victories and occasional setbacks did not stop them from moving forward!

Their confidence in the club has now reached a peak.

Our current performance is stronger than last season, so of course we need to achieve an even better performance than last season!

This kind of thinking cannot be said to be wrong, and it is even quite correct.