The strength of the Tottenham players themselves is not a big problem, so they can still win against ordinary teams. However, when facing a mature and complete team, or a team in excellent form, they can easily be beaten back.
Original form.
This is true for Manchester City, it is true for Liverpool, and it is true for Southampton in this game.
Southampton started pressing in the midfield, especially when it came to Eriksen in the midfield. Tottenham's offense was somewhat disrupted.
Eriksen is an excellent midfielder, but his shortcomings are also obvious. He does not have much defensive ability, and his ability to hold the ball on the spot and get rid of it is not enough. He needs his teammates to help him open up gaps and let him get away.
He gets the ball slightly closer to the frontcourt, and then he can use his excellent through balls or long shots to resolve the battle.
To deal with such a player, Noriya's method is to force him to retreat to get the ball, and then attack him immediately when he gets the ball.
Faced with this kind of defense that was just the right medicine for the situation, Eriksen soon became miserable. He was not very old yet and was not a very mature player, so it was difficult for him to organize attacks for a while.
In this way, only Lamela on the wing can launch the attack. After receiving the ball, his breakthrough pass and Walker's intervention on the wing cooperated, and he still created some opportunities for the two players in the penalty area.
The center created many opportunities.
But when such an attack had not yet fully achieved its effect, Southampton's attack was the first to achieve results!
De Bruyne once again passed the ball to Mkhitaryan. This time no one dared to relax his defense. Dawson rushed out of the penalty area to interfere with him, but Mkhitaryan passed the ball to Ronaldo.
When Tottenham's defense began to retreat, Ronaldo turned around and passed the ball to Luke Shaw who stepped forward to assist.
Luke Shaw, who was sprinting at high speed, dribbled the ball diagonally into the penalty area, and then made a decisive pass!
The ball flew to the back of the penalty area. When Chirich was about to make a clearance, Suarez quietly emerged from behind him and stabbed him before he could make a clearance!
The action of this shot was very ugly, and it could even be said to be very awkward. However, the ball flew into the door, leaving Lloris completely unable to react!
Two to zero! Southampton took a two-goal lead in the first 30 minutes!
The Southampton fans in the stands shouted even louder. In their view, there was no doubt that this game would be a crushing victory!
This is indeed the case. After the disastrous defeat in the last round, if Villas-Boas was dismissed immediately, the Tottenham players would fight hard for the new coach.
But now... fighting for a head coach who is destined to be dismissed and Southampton, who has basically recovered his form? Is this necessary? It is better to wait for the new head coach to take office and perform well in front of the new head coach.
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This mentality is actually human nature.
So in the next game, although Adebayor received a cross from Soldado before the end of the first half and grabbed a point at the back point, the second half was still dominated by Southampton, sixth.
In ten minutes, they played a beautiful counterattack. After De Bruyne passed the defense, the forward Lukaku broke into the penalty area, attracted Lloris and then passed the ball to the center. Suarez followed up and scored twice with ease.
Degree, scoring his twelfth league goal of the season.
If Noriya hadn't rotated several attackers in the following time and the pace of the game began to slow down, Tottenham might not have lost only one to three.
This approach of holding back gave Tottenham some face. At the post-match press conference, Villas-Boas announced his resignation, and then reporters began to excitedly ask him how he felt about resigning after being defeated by Ji Ya three times in a row...
"A coincidence, just a coincidence." After Boas left the press conference without saying a word, Ji Ya came out to smooth things over and then also left the press conference.
He will definitely not be the hot topic next, and there is no need for him to jump out and draw hatred at this time.
Sure enough, Tottenham quickly announced that youth team coach Sherwood would take over as Tottenham head coach. This lightning speed can only make people sigh. It seems that they have found a good candidate long ago, otherwise how could they move so quickly?
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But this has nothing to do with Southampton. Southampton fans are just celebrating like crazy that they have consolidated their first place position. In this round, Liverpool won the game, but Arsenal and Chelsea tied. So
As a result, Southampton with 38 points alone occupied the first position in the standings, followed by Arsenal and Liverpool with the same 36 points, Manchester City jumped to fourth with 35 points, Chelsea and Everton
Both are thirty-four points...
The competition is indeed fierce.
After the end of this round of league games, Ji Ya gave the players a day off to celebrate Christmas in advance. In the next period of time, Southampton will enter an extremely intensive schedule around the New Year.
Ji Ya is still very satisfied with his performance in the first few months of this season. After all, Southampton has made more than 100 million in the transfer market, and it can maintain such an excellent performance or even perform better. This is in the eyes of many people.
It's already a miracle, especially after picking up two players from Chelsea, De Bruyne and Lukaku actually performed so well, which made Chelsea lose face, and even Mourinho's reputation was affected to a certain extent.
Influence.
And now Southampton's overall strength is also surprising, especially when Ji Ya played all the substitutes in those few times, everyone was shocked to find that their substitutes are actually very good, and they are just not as good as the main force.
It's just because the main force is too strong.
What kind of honor will such a strong team win this season?
In other words, after this season is over, can we dig them up?
After all, everyone can see that compared with the performance of Southampton players, although Southampton's salary has increased a lot this season, it is still not much in comparison, and many people's salaries are even very low.
Yes, if everyone's salary is raised to match their performance, Southampton's expenses may be astronomical. How can Southampton be able to support it by then?
So it is not difficult to poach a few outstanding players from Southampton after the season ends.
This summer they were able to sell off six main players in one go, what else can they not do?
This is actually something that many Southampton fans worry about, but they also know that Southampton’s income level is like this. It is impossible for them to be like those wealthy teams that can offer generous salaries to everyone and then retain them.
them……
Ji Ya naturally has his own considerations about this.
