When Southampton appeared at Bristol City's home court, they didn't care much - Bristol City's home capacity was less than 20,000 people, which was far inferior to St. Mary's Stadium...

When shaking hands with the other head coach, Kiya specifically observed the other party.

The current head coach of Bristol City is Steve Kopel, who is famous in his player age. He is one of Manchester United's legendary No. 7. Although he is not as brilliant as Dennis Law, George Best, Bobby Charlton, Mark Hughes, Cantona, Beckham and Ronaldo, he has never insulted the Manchester United jersey he has.

However, after retiring, his coaching performance was average. He coached at Crystal Palace, Brighton and Brundford. However, his most brilliant achievement was to lead Reading to the Premier League in 2006. Then his Reading caused a family massacre for Chelsea, hurting two main goalkeepers in succession, resulting in his reputation being greatly damaged. He could only coach the Championship-level teams.

After shaking hands, Kiya returned to his position. He did not mock Reading for that time. After all, he believed that even if Reading played roughly, it was unlikely that he was going to go for someone on purpose. It could only be said to be a coincidence...

Bristol City still has some outstanding players, such as they introduced former national goalkeeper David James this season. Although the goalkeeper is almost forty, he is still active in the low-level league. The two main center backs Nicky Hunter and Cice are both joining this season. They used to play in Premier League teams like Bolton and Reading. Cice is still Kopel's old subordinate. In terms of midfield, Jamaican midfielder Marvin Elliot is their midfield core. The 26-year-old midfielder is also a famous player in the Championship. With two centers on the front line who are in their year of playing, Bristol City is not a team without resistance.

However, Kiya is more confident in his team.

Goalkeeper Davis, defender Klein and Dixon on both wings, center backs Wonter and Lovren, midfielders Dembele, Schneiderlin, Larana, Mkhitaryan, forward Giroud and Lambert.

If you didn't have much confidence last season, then this season, Kiya has firmly believed that this lineup is competitive even in the Premier League.

Not to mention relegation, there are great opportunities to reach the top ten!

The only thing they lack is experience.

And they are not lacking in experience from the League One!

Kopel actually felt a little upset.

If he meets an ordinary promoted team, he won’t worry about anything. Bristol City is still a famous team in the Championship, but Southampton won the “triple crown” last season…

That's right, League Cup champion, England Championship champion, English League One playoff champion.

This was what Kiya said after the end of the season. Basically everyone who heard it laughed, but when I looked back, Southampton's result was really surprising.

With so many league games, they can still win the championships in these two cups. Southampton has performed so well throughout the season. So how strong can they be after spending tens of millions of pounds in the first team this season?

Koper can only hope that the new players will cooperate with the original players now. Southampton has two full-backs and three new players in the starting lineup. Although the offensive line is still the original team, there should still be some chaos in defense.

However, from the beginning of the game, two full-backs in Southampton began to keep forward, keep getting the ball, and keep launching attacks...

Whether it is Klein and Dixon, they are used to forward attacks. Kiya also gave them enough freedom in tactical arrangements to take turns to attack. When everyone goes up, there will be someone to fill up behind them - Dembelle and Schneiderlin can do a good job in this regard.

Klein received a pass from Larana in the third minute of the game, and then forcibly broke through the defense of the opponent's defender and cut into the penalty area with a diagonal line. Then he took the ball and passed it out. Mkhitaryan, who followed up, kicked it and James fell to the ground in time to block the ball out of the baseline.

"You haven't even declined at the age of forty. If you had performed more stably back then, why would you become a laughing stock in the England national team..." Kiya muttered in his heart.

Two central defenders rushed forward at the same time, which put huge pressure on Bristol City's defense line. In addition, the two centers were four big tall men, and the pressure was very high.

Lambert and the opponent's defender are taking the position. After playing last season, Lambert is now confident - after all, he scored goals when facing the Premier League team, and he also scored Manchester United's goal, which has made Lambert gain enough confidence - this is his weakness.

Because he has been in the third and fourth-level league for a long time, Lambert has never been sure whether he can perform well in front of stronger opponents.

But after performing last season, he completely believed in his strength.

I have the ability to gain a foothold in the Premier League and I also have the ability to perform well in the Premier League!

Sometimes the opportunity for a player to break through lies in this small change.

Lambert is extremely confident now, and he has accumulated enough before. He has played in the low-level league for almost ten years. Now, once it breaks out, it is simply unstoppable!

Under Cise's entanglement, Lambert stopped urgently, then ran to the middle of the penalty area, attracting Cise too, and then stopped again and suddenly rushed forward!

Cice was thrown away by him, and at this time, Larana's corner kick was also taken!

Lambert jumped high at the front point, facing the falling ball, and suddenly shook his head to attack the goal!

The ball flew into the front point of the goal, and James could no longer make any save!

Just six minutes into the game, Southampton scored the first goal!

After scoring the goal, Lambert ran to the visiting team fans' stands, opened his arms to welcome the huge cheers of the fans.

Kiya waved his fist, and now he was relieved. Bristol City is indeed not very good, and he is a little worse than Southampton in any position - but such a team is in the middle of the Championship. With Southampton's current strength, no matter how conservative it is, he is also one of the top teams to win the championship!

"The only problem now is to see if Davis can hold on... he wants to win the mission, but he can't lose the ball." Kiya thought to himself.

Davis is a steady goalkeeper, but he rarely makes magical saves. He stands in front of the goal and will not throw away the ball that should not be thrown away. However, it is rare to try to save the opponent's must-have goal magically.

This is actually the difference between a top goalkeeper and an ordinary excellent goalkeeper.

An ordinary excellent goalkeeper can make no mistakes, but a top goalkeeper can always make magical saves!
Chapter completed!