The commentators praised Southampton's performance one after another. Ji Ya also felt that the game was probably a draw. Even the Southampton players on the field thought so...
They paid the price for their immaturity.
The game reached the second minute of stoppage time, which was when the game was about to end.
Yaya Toure got the ball in the midfield. He seemed to have no way to release the ball, so he chose to split the ball.
The ball came to the feet of Aguero who was on the sideline. He was still 25 meters away from the goal. Plus he was close to the wing, this was not a threatening place. In the eyes of the Southampton players, leaving
Aguero in the penalty area does not pose much of a threat...
However, the next moment, before the Southampton players had time to react, Aguero took a slight step forward with the ball, and then suddenly took a long shot!
The ball drew a beautiful arc in the air, and then plunged into the dead center of the goal!
Navas, who had made several wonderful saves in this game, could not react at all this time. He could only turn his head and stare blankly at the ball bouncing in the net...
The Etihad Stadium was quiet for a moment, then burst into loud cheers!
Aguero took off his jersey and roared into the stands. There was no more exciting debut than this. He came on as a substitute when the team was two goals behind, scored two goals and assisted one goal.
, instigate a goal!
Aguero's perfect debut!
The one who became the backdrop was newly promoted Southampton...
All this made the Southampton players feel very unhappy, but they could not say anything.
Ji Ya was also very angry, and he couldn't say anything either.
This is how a football match is, no matter how much grievance you feel, if you lose in the end, you lose.
When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Ji Ya took a deep breath and then walked towards Mancini.
"You taught me a lesson today." Ji Ya said.
"Southampton also taught me a lot today." Mancini sighed.
Ji Ya shrugged, then let go and left.
He didn't care too much about this defeat, even if he lost the game in such an unbearable way, he didn't care too much.
What concerns him is that this game proved that Southampton's high-pressing tactics, even if they are not good enough against strong teams, are enough to deal with ordinary teams.
At the same time, Southampton does not lack players who can bring breakthrough points.
This is still very important.
In this game, the three newly joined forwards all scored goals, which is also a good thing. It can at least prove that Southampton will not worry about no one scoring goals in the future.
"It's a pity that we lost the game at the last minute, but looking at the overall performance, Manchester City did play a little better than us, and the result is fair. For us, this game has passed, and what we have to do is to look forward.
." Noriya said at the press conference.
Mancini praised Southampton's performance, and then praised the performance of his own players. Finally, he said that Southampton's ranking after the end of this season should be in a pretty good position, and maybe it can compete in the Champions League...
Of course, this kind of statement will not be taken seriously by many people.
It's just that Southampton's performance was indeed good, and the final loss was a bit inexplicable. The media felt that it was just a matter of luck and nothing else. A team with such a performance will always be looked down upon.
As long as they perform better next time...
However, in the next two rounds of games, Southampton's performance was somewhat confusing.
Two consecutive home games against Wigan Athletic and Sunderland should have been a good opportunity for Southampton to grab points.
However, in these two games, Southampton did a very good job controlling the ball. In each game, the ball possession was as high as over 70%. However, the number of shots in each game was only a few pitiful times. Although due to the control,
The ball was good and they didn't concede a goal, but they didn't score a goal either...
Two games in a row, zero to zero.
After three games, I scored two points. Except for three goals in the first game, I didn't score a single goal in the next two games, resulting in two boring zero-to-zero games. Such a performance is completely unsatisfactory.
So the media that had previously praised Southampton turned around and scolded them for not wanting to make progress. If Arsenal hadn't had an extremely poor start to the season, only taking one point in three games and attracting the most firepower, Ji Ya might have been dismissed.
Squirt harder.
But what reporters don't know is that Southampton's internal affairs were not greatly affected during this period.
They know clearly what they are doing and are full of hope for their future.
After playing the third round, Southampton will face the European Super Cup final - their opponent is last season's Champions League champion Barcelona. Just like when they won the Triple Crown before, last season's Barcelona was also
They won the final championship relatively easily and even suppressed Manchester United like a weak team in the final.
If Mourinho, who was the head coach of Real Madrid, had not defeated them with a header from Cristiano Ronaldo in the Copa del Rey final, they would have won another Triple Crown...
Barcelona is indeed at its strongest now.
Ji Ya led the whole team to Monaco.
Although he was attending the Europa League draw ceremony, the attention he received was not bad at all.
The outstanding performance last season and the not so good start to this season have made Southampton and Noriya full of controversy.
Most of the media who were still praising Ji Ya before felt that Ji Ya was lucky before, but now that his luck is gone, he has finally begun to show his true colors...
This attitude has even affected Barcelona, making them feel that they can easily win the Super Cup championship.
This will be their fourth Super Cup championship in history, leaving them only one step away from Milan's record of five Super Cup championships.
Attracted by such honors, even Guardiola unconsciously ignored the threat that Southampton might bring.
There was nothing to say about the Europa League draw ceremony. Noriya attracted a lot of attention when he appeared at the scene. As the defending champion, Southampton became the first-tier team, so in the draw, they were not as good as the previous one.
The season was so bad.
They are in a group with the Portuguese Super League team Braga, the Belgian team Brugge, and the Slovenian team Maribor, which were eliminated by them last season. Obviously, this group is not strong. Braga is a
The season performance is very good, this season will probably decline. Bruges is not an outstanding team. As for Maribor... Slovenia has some outstanding players, but they basically play abroad. Maribor even in Europe
