Noriya waved the newspaper in the club's meeting room and shouted angrily: "This is a conspiracy, they want to shake the foundation of Southampton... Do you understand? We have always played offense.
Under such circumstances, Southampton is what it is today. Even our youth training and our signings are all aimed at this goal. If I change my strategy now, it means that in the past three years or so, no
, which means that the tradition established by Southampton through youth training in the past ten years will be shaken again. This is something we absolutely cannot tolerate."
The players in the conference room looked at Ji Ya, and some didn't quite understand why the leader was so angry...
"I have always had a dream, which is to make Southampton become the best giants in the world, at least one of them. However, it is difficult to achieve this. Why?" Noriya continued to ask.
The players looked at each other. This question is actually quite difficult to understand...
In the end, it was Prowse, the most inconspicuous member of the team, who raised his hand.
To say that he is the most inconspicuous is really normal. Although he, Chambers and Luke Shaw all entered the first team in the same batch, he is one year older than Chambers and Luke Shaw.
However, Chambers and Luke Shaw are now able to play regularly, but he can only get playing opportunities in competitions such as the League Cup.
There is no other reason than that Southampton's midfielder is too strong. Even if Dembele leaves this year, there will still be Mkhitaryan, Schneider, Lindlink Water waiting to take over, and he will have even fewer opportunities.
Some.
However, he is a native of Southampton and is more familiar with the situation in Southampton.
"Ward, tell me." Ji Ya nodded.
"Because Southampton is a small city, with only 220,000 people," Prowse replied.
Ji Ya laughed and then nodded.
"Yes, that's the reason. Southampton is a small city. No wealthy club is in such a small city. Dortmund also has 600,000 people, and our Southampton population is only one-third of theirs. The population is small.
, which means that no matter how much support we get locally, it is limited."
The players nodded one after another. It was easy to understand this reason. They had never thought of it before, but now that Prowse said it, of course they could think of it.
"So on this basis, it is impossible for us to move Southampton to London, or Liverpool and Manchester... What can we do? Of course, we can only use our own performance to attract more fans around the world. When we compete all over the world
When the world has countless fans, then we can achieve a higher status. This is the only way for Southampton to become a top club."
Having said this, Ji Ya looked at everyone with bright eyes.
"We not only win, we also want to win and look good!"
"Not only win, but also win and look good!" The players waved their fists at the same time.
"Yes, it is difficult to achieve this, but I will still work hard in this direction... No coach can have such convenient conditions like me, because I am not afraid of getting out of class! Then you have nothing to do.
I'm so worried! Let's have a good game and let everyone know how good we are with offensive football!" Ji Ya finally waved his arms vigorously and completed his speech.
He responded with warm applause from the players.
To put it bluntly, who wouldn’t want to play well and win the game?
It doesn't matter if the players play this way of playing tenaciously in defense and striving for victory from one year to the next. If this happens every year, the players will not be able to stand it.
To put it bluntly, offensive football has a higher fault tolerance rate. If I concede one goal, I just have to score two more.
As for the defensive tactics, the fault tolerance rate is too low and the pressure on the players is also great.
Next up for Southampton is the second round of the Champions League, a home game against Dortmund.
Dortmund beat Ajax 1-0 at home in the first round. Lewandowski scored a winner in the 87th minute, helping Dortmund win the game with great difficulty - from this perspective,
The teams in this group are really outstanding...
When shaking hands with Klopp, Jiya's expression was very solemn.
This Dortmund team is indeed very good, Piszczek, Hummels, Subotic, Gundogan, Gotze, Reus, Lewandowski...
These are very top players. Even if Shaheen and Shinji Kagawa were poached one after another, they still have extremely outstanding players in the midfield.
Shaheen left, Gundogan came out, Shinji Kagawa left, and Gotze came out.
If a team can do this, it is considered a success.
Southampton is actually like this now. Lambert is gone, James Rodriguez is gone, Lallana is gone, Vidal is coming, Giroud is gone, Benteke is coming...
However, Benteke has not yet returned from injury in this game, so Southampton also played very hard.
Dortmund continued to struggle with Southampton in the midfield. Both sides created many opportunities, but failed to score.
Fifteen minutes into the second half, Reus completed a beautiful personal breakthrough. He got rid of Klein's defense, then broke into the penalty area and pushed into the far corner to give Dortmund the lead.
Southampton launched a fierce attack in the following time. In stoppage time, William forced a breakthrough and got a corner kick. Chambers advanced to assist Chambers and nodded before receiving Mkhitaryan's corner kick.
Attacking the goal, the ball flew into Dortmund's gate, and Southampton equalized the score!
"Although we didn't win the game at home, we also got our first Champions League point. This is a very important start. The next two games against Ajax will be very important." Noriya said during the game.
Said at the press conference afterwards.
Klopp expressed regret for conceding the final goal, and then praised Southampton's tenacious fighting spirit.
In another game, Real Madrid swept Ajax 4-1 away from home. Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick and Benzema added the icing on the cake. Real Madrid showed strong strength and topped the group stage with six points.
Having such a strong team in the group is not a good thing for other teams.
With one point in two rounds, will Southampton have a chance to qualify from this group?
There was still no victory in this game, which made the media criticize Kiya even more. After all, Southampton has been attacking in this game, so there is a loophole in the defense. If they strengthen their defense, maybe they can
The game was won with a set piece.
However, what disappointed the media was that Southampton fans were not dissatisfied with Southampton's performance.
In this most difficult time, they used their actions to prove their support for Ji Ya and their support for Southampton!
