"Actually, our advantages are not as great as outsiders think."
Noriya told his players that he is used to holding a small meeting before the game starts to explain his views on the next game. Most of the time, his views are accurate.
After all, after constantly taking drugs, Ji Ya has reached the top level in terms of tactics and other aspects, including eloquence. His speeches can always make the players hear and understand more clearly.
to his intentions.
"Let us put aside all the so-called factors such as away goals, home advantage, tactics, and whether players can play. Our real advantage is actually one, that is, we won a goal in the first round. It was just a goal.
This is the real advantage we have, not some other random thing." Noriya said.
The players nodded one after another. Indeed, only this goal's lead is real, so their advantage is not as big as public opinion says...
"With Barcelona's strength, is it difficult for them to score a goal? It's just that we are at home and can only lose the game by conceding two goals... So we can't play against each other at home, so it's too uncertain. Barcelona's forward
There are so many good offensive players on the field, and if we open up the game, our defense may not be able to withstand it." Noriya continued.
The players were a little unconvinced, but they agreed that they were not absolutely sure of winning the match.
"So we still need to defend and counterattack, so that Barcelona will be beaten to death in the face of our intensive defense! So in the next game, we need to use defensive counterattacks to deal with them, stabilize our penalty area, sweep at the front of the penalty area, and be ready at any time
Prepare to counterattack and delay as long as possible. Barcelona will never dare to attack from the beginning, so what we need is to slowly wear down their fighting spirit, and then seize the opportunity to give them a good look."
Listening to Noriya's analysis, the players slowly began to understand what should be done in the next game.
This is important because if you don't know what to do, it will be difficult to perform well in the game.
It's like you should know what you do in order to do it best.
Now Southampton has concentrated its attention from top to bottom, knowing that in the next game, it will focus exclusively on defensive counterattacks.
Kill time, interfere constantly, and score goals.
And using this tactic, Noriya doesn't use it casually. He knows that the World Cup is coming soon. At least top players like Messi don't dare to work too hard in the game and affect their performance in the World Cup.
After all, for Messi, he has already won three Champions Leagues, two as the absolute main player and one as a substitute. On the contrary, the World Cup is what he desires most now.
In such a situation, he will definitely have concerns.
As for the tactic of sticking to the counterattack, what is actually most feared is that Messi, a breakthrough maniac, will forcefully tear apart the defense. If he has concerns, Southampton's defense will be much easier.
Of course Ji Ya won't say this little thought out loud, but it does exist.
April 10, St. Mary's Stadium.
Noriya could only be thankful that St. Mary's Stadium was built according to the highest standards, otherwise a stadium with only 30,000 people would indeed be a bit embarrassing.
Especially look at the Camp Nou, which has nearly three times the capacity. It’s so impressive!
I don’t know why, maybe because he knows the reasons for the changes in Southampton, Noriya is now more and more eager to start building a new stadium.
However, Southampton fans don't have any unnecessary thoughts. In their opinion, although St. Mary's Stadium is a bit small, it is already very impressive. Southampton is a small city after all, and having St. Mary's Stadium is enough.
When the players from both sides took off, Southampton fans gave a huge cheer.
"The starting lineups of both sides have come out...Barcelona is a bit unlucky. Pique has not recovered from his injury in the last round, so they can only use Batral to continue to partner with Mascherano as central defender, goalkeeper Pinto, and two full-backs.
Alves and Alba, the midfielders are still Busquets, Xavi and Fabregas, and the forwards are Neymar, Messi and Iniesta. Except for Batral who replaced Pique, the starting and last game against Nan'an
Purton’s game is exactly the same!”
"The home team Southampton has made certain adjustments. The goalkeeper was suddenly replaced by Gulacchi, the German Rudiger at right back, Luke Shaw at left back, and Otamendi and Otamendi at center back.
Font, midfielders Casemiro, Schneiderlin and De Bruyne, forwards James, Lukaku, Suarez!"
"It can be seen from the starting lineups of both sides that Martino has little courage to change the formation. He still uses the tactics that Barcelona has been accustomed to in recent years. He does not dare to abandon Cesc Fabregas, nor does he dare to use more energetic players.
Sanchez only dared to make substitutions step by step. But Southampton was different. Although they had gained enough advantage in the away game, Ji Ya still made changes. The starting lineup of Gulacchi, Rudiger and Schneiderlin seemed
It exposed their strategy of defensive counterattack, but does Martino dare to launch a fierce attack from the beginning?"
Martino didn't dare.
After all, they were only one goal behind, which seemed far from the point where they could sink the ship.
So after the game started, they still started attacking step by step.
It is a pity that Barcelona's defense is at its weakest now.
When Barcelona was the best in the past, it was not only because they had Messi in the frontcourt and Habaib in the midfield, but the other key was the defense.
Valdes may not be the best goalkeeper, but he is the most suitable goalkeeper for Barcelona.
Coupled with the addition of Pique and Mascherano, this defense began to become stronger. Mascherano was originally introduced as a midfielder, but because the midfielder could not play the main role, he was forced to
Playing as a central defender, a short central defender like him can perfectly cooperate with Pique to fill the vacancy left by the old captain Puyol. This has allowed Barcelona's defense to be quite stable for a long time.
But after all, he is a midfielder and is not tall enough.
With Pique by his side, there was no problem, but now Valdes is gone, and so is Pique, replaced by Pinto and Batral...
This is very tragic.
Messi took the lead to open up the offensive rhythm for Barcelona with a shot, and soon Neymar also came with a kick. The two top attackers looked in good shape in this game.
This also allowed Barcelona's offense to gradually pick up. After all, after Xavi got a little older, the performance of Messi and Neymar had become Barcelona's barometer. They performed well, so Barcelona's offense would not
There is a problem.
Looking at their performance now, this game is still promising.
But what they don't know is that the problem with their defense is much bigger than they know.
