"Southampton, surrounded by three La Liga teams, is about to play... Last season they finally won when surrounded by three Portuguese teams, but what about this season? Three Spanish teams surrounded them, but the strength of the Spanish team can be
Much better than the Portuguese team, can they still restore the miracle of last season? I am a little bit not optimistic! Valencia can be said to be the strongest of these three teams, and they are currently ranked third in La Liga
.The confrontation between the third place in La Liga and the third place in the Premier League is about to begin!"
I have to say that this game carries too many different things.
Not to mention that Southampton is surrounded by three La Liga teams, the fact that they and Valencia are both ranked third in the league is a gimmick.
Everyone knows that as Serie A begins to decline, the competition for the top league in Europe is now nothing more than La Liga and the Premier League. Originally, the Premier League relied on its overall advantage and once seemed very arrogant. Four teams entered the Champions League quarter-finals, and three teams
The team entered the semi-finals of the Champions League, but it couldn't hold up against the performance of the top teams in La Liga. Not to mention Real Madrid, there was also Barcelona. In the past three seasons, they almost swept the entire Europe. Teams like Manchester United met them twice in the finals.
They all lost and had no temper at all.
In this general environment of competition in La Liga and the Premier League, Southampton, as the last Premier League team in the Europa League, will certainly receive more attention.
As for the Champions League... although Chelsea also made it to the semi-finals, their opponent in the semi-finals was Barcelona - everyone sighed and just went to sleep.
After all, with Chelsea's performance in the league this season, even Premier League fans don't have much confidence in it.
But what surprised many people was that Chelsea actually won the first round - in the past game, Chelsea relied on Drogba's golden goal to beat Barcelona 1-0 at home!
Although this doesn't seem to mean anything, after returning to the home court, with Barcelona's offensive ability, it is not difficult to win two goals, but after all, it inspired everyone!
This seems to be a great encouragement to Southampton!
"Damn, do we still need others to encourage us? Go ahead and kill them!" Ji Ya waved his palm.
The players rushed out of the locker room one after another. They were already very motivated, and now they seemed even more motivated.
Chelsea has one win and one draw with us in the league this year. Their ranking and points are so much lower than ours. Why should they compare with us?
If they win, we must win too!
If they win against Barcelona, we will win against Valencia...
Well, this seems to be nothing to be proud of, but I have to win anyway!
With even greater fighting spirit, Southampton's players took to the field.
Today's Valencia is not the Valencia with a steel defense trained by Ranieri, Cooper and Benitez. However, their relatively stable playing style has been maintained. La Liga is now thirty-four.
After the round, they scored fifty-four goals, which is not a bad number, and conceded forty-two goals. Among La Liga teams, they scored the most goals and conceded the fewest goals...
Of course, it is incomparable to the two abnormal teams in the Western Premier League that scored more than 100 goals and conceded less than 30 goals.
So Valencia actually relies on the overall game now. Compared with other teams in La Liga, their offense and defense are better, so they can win steadily.
In fact, La Liga as a whole is not outstanding now. Although three teams have reached the semi-finals of the Europa League, in fact, the performance in the Champions League mainly depends on Real Madrid and Barcelona, and the competitiveness of other teams is average.
Facing such a team, Noriya doesn't intend to have a slow back and forth with the opponent. What he wants is to constantly involve the offense and bring the game into a fast pace!
A simple common sense, the Premier League game has a faster pace and the La Liga team has better foot skills.
Although Southampton's overall foot skills can be said to be very good, it would be too stupid for them to use their weaker areas to deal with their opponents' stronger areas.
Of course Noriya would not be so stupid. Even if Southampton is an atypical Premier League team, they are still a Premier League team.
So as soon as the game started, amid the cheers of the home fans, Southampton immediately launched a quick attack!
Klein started dribbling the ball forward from the wing. After encountering Alba to block it, he made an emergency stop and passed the ball to Matuidi who received the ball in the middle. Matuidi quickly passed it to Vidal in front.
Dahl passed a diagonal pass to J. Luo on the other side. J. Luo took advantage of the situation and took a sideways kick. He got out of the way for a long shot and decisively took a long shot.
The ball roared towards the near corner of the goal, but was slightly higher than the crossbar.
J Luo looked very sorry for this shot, but Ji Ya nodded slightly.
It seems that Ronaldo is in good condition for this game.
Southampton attacked once. Valencia was still preparing to slowly control the ball and launch an attack. As a result, Southampton pressed hard in the frontcourt - after all, they are not Barcelona. Even Barcelona is in the Super Cup final.
I was forced to death by them.
So after a press, Valencia could only launch an attack with a long pass, but Lovren controlled the landing point, and then pushed the ball down. Dembele took the ball and launched another attack.
This time the ball came to William's feet. The Brazilian winger forcibly broke through Mathieu's defense on the wing, and then passed the ball to the center. Vidal followed up and shot directly without stopping the ball. Valencia goalkeeper Alves struggled
Saved the ball from the bottom line.
Willian took a corner kick and Lovren headed the ball high under Rami's defense.
"After the opening, Southampton had an absolute advantage! Valencia was suppressed by them until they were breathless! However, Valencia has always been very stable, and they will not really be at a disadvantage if they are suppressed..."
Amidst the shouts of the commentator, Emery shouted angrily to the field twice. Valencia is not afraid of suppression, but it also depends on the situation of the opponent's suppression. Southampton is like this now.
Under oppression, who can withstand it?
Three shots in four minutes are quite threatening. If we continue like this, no matter how strong the door is, it will be beaten into a sieve!
Fight back! You must fight back!
Under Emery's shouts, Valencia started to counterattack. They don't have any top players in the frontcourt, but they are all capable and can do a good job of organizing offense and suppressing offense.
However, the movement of Southampton's midfield made it difficult for their offense to flourish.
After all, a midfield combination like Costa, Figuly and Topal can be considered second-rate, let alone first-rate.
Under the active suppression of Southampton's movement, it is indeed a bit difficult for them to create opportunities.
So only Alba on the left can create some opportunities - he can hardly defend, but his offense is still very sharp.
However, his breakthrough on the wing was blocked by Klein.
