"The St. Mary's Stadium is full again! During the home game against Dortmund in the Champions League, the St. Mary's Stadium had 100% attendance, and the same is true for this league!"
In the seventh round of the home game against Fulham, Southampton fans once again filled the stadium. Not only did they come in, they also brought a large number of banners to express their support for Noriya and Southampton.
Dayton’s support…
"This is really a rare thing."
Benali murmured to himself that he had been an assistant coach at Southampton for ten years. He clearly knew the temper of Southampton fans. Probably because of the good income, Southampton's
Fans are actually very difficult to serve. If the team performs well, more people will come to watch the game. If the team performs poorly, the attendance will be significantly lower.
However, they have lost three of the last five games, and the only one they won was the League Cup. Under such circumstances, Southampton fans still support the team so much, it is like the sun has come out from the west...
"So I said, use offensive tactics to at least capture the hearts of the fans." Ji Ya proudly said to Benelli.
The fans are supportive and the team's morale is also recovering, but Southampton's problem still exists, that is, it overdraws too much in the Champions League and the main players are often not in good condition.
So in this game, Ji Ya simply made a big change of position.
The goalkeeper is still Navas, right back Jenkinson, center back Chambers and Font, left back Luke Shaw, midfielder Schneiderlin, Drinkwater and Prowse start, forward Nolito, Austin
,William!
Except for William, who really can't be rotated, Kiya has rotated all the others who can be rotated.
The reason is simple. He believes in the strength of these substitutes, and that they have sufficient physical fitness and will perform well.
Although there is still a lot of shortcomings in experience and cooperation of the entire team, it is enough to beat a mid-range team like Fulham!
The midfield of this lineup can be considered both offensive and defensive, and the wings are also good at attacking. It depends on how many scoring opportunities can be seized.
Only four minutes into the game, William forced a breakthrough from the wing and got a corner kick. Nolito drove the ball into the penalty area. Fonte, who advanced to assist, scored with a header and opened the scoring for Southampton!
The Southampton fans gave a huge cheer. They are now liking the Portuguese captain more and more. After all, Wundt's performance has always been outstanding!
Before the end of the first half, the three young midfielders completed a beautiful cooperation. After receiving the ball, Prowse started to dribble forward. After encountering an obstacle, he passed the ball to Schneiderlin, who was in charge.
After making a fake move to take a long shot, attracting the opponent's attention, he suddenly turned around and passed the ball out...
Drinkwater, who ran forward, caught the ball, took a step forward, and then decisively took a long shot!
Southampton extends its lead!
They led by two goals in the first half, which made Southampton fans extremely excited. However, the substitute lineup was still a substitute lineup, and they began to expose a lot of gaps in the second half.
In the 69th minute, Fulham launched a counterattack. The ball was passed into the penalty area. Chambers flew to make a clearance, but accidentally scored an own goal...
Ji Ya sighed, that's how it is with young central defenders, you have to bear the mistakes he may make.
Chambers' performance is actually very good. He has played better and better in the past few games, and opponents will not focus on attacking the places he guards. The reason is very simple. The places he guards are no longer weaknesses.
Such own goals are always inevitable for defenders.
However, Noriya didn't care about this Oolong, but ten minutes later, Fulham made a beautiful counterattack, and winger Richardson scored a single shot to equalize the score!
Southampton fans were silent. The two-goal lead was equalized. Will there be a reversal next?
However, Ji Ya withstood the pressure at this time.
He didn't make any substitutions.
"Keep playing! I know you won't have any problem winning this game!"
Ji Ya shouted towards the field.
The somewhat panicked young players finally stabilized their position. The head coach did not change players at this time, no doubt because he believed in their strength!
Under such circumstances, what else can they do? Of course there is only one thing, and that is to continue attacking and prove that they are capable of defeating their opponents!
Their strength is indeed quite good, what they lack is the tacit understanding as a whole, but this is not their problem, but the substitute lineup is originally a supplement to the main lineup, rather than the substitute lineup playing as a team.
Such a situation is very rare.
Prowse is running on the field. In fact, he is an all-around midfielder who can do everything, but he is not very good. At this time, he is more of an engineer.
However, engineers also have opportunities to play.
Because Schneiderlin and Drinkwater were active, most of the opponent's defensive attention was on those two people, and he was somewhat ignored.
In the 83rd minute, Prowse switched positions to the wing and took the ball. With no one guarding him for the time being, he made a beautiful cross with his right foot!
The ball landed in the penalty area and flew right in front of Austin who was advancing forward. Austin didn't have time to think, he faced the falling ball and shot directly!
The ball roared into Fulham's goal, and the cheers of Southampton fans filled the entire stadium!
"Keep attacking! Let everyone know that Southampton's attack is indestructible!"
Noriya shouted towards the field, and the Southampton players also waved their fists.
This feeling is still very refreshing.
Anyway, they are all substitutes and have no physical problems at all. They can just run!
This kind of running immediately suppressed Fulham who wanted to counterattack - they wanted to counterattack, but were suppressed by Southampton's running.
Nolito took the ball from the wing and broke through laterally, but was knocked to the ground by the opponent. Southampton won a well-positioned free kick.
Ji Ya scratched his head. Southampton's two free kickers are Ronaldo and Mkhitaryan. Now both of them are not on the court. William's penalty hit rate is extremely high, but his set kicks are average...
…
"Let Ward play!" he shouted towards the field.
Prowse practices free kicks every day after training, and he sees it.
Last season, he played the fewest games, only slightly more than veteran Walton, who was on the verge of retirement. However, he practiced an additional 100 free kicks after training every day and was unbeatable.
For this reason, Ji Ya felt that she should give him some opportunities.
Prowse took a deep breath and started to run.
Take a run-up, get close to the ball, kick the ball out!
Beautiful arc.
The ball went over the wall, then dropped rapidly, and plunged into the blind spot of the goal!
