Liverpool, sitting at home and recuperating, taught Southampton a good lesson.
Although Southampton's players continued to rotate in the first two games, their physical fitness was not very good after all. Facing Liverpool, who were in their best form, they also performed very well amidst the opponent's crazy running and pressing.
Difficult to show.
Southampton's striker is still as powerful as ever. In this game, Lukaku and Vardy scored goals one after another. However, their defense had problems in Liverpool's crazy attack. Sterling took the lead to open the scoring for Liverpool.
Lukaku scored an equalizer with a volley from the front of the penalty area. Sturridge took the lead again shortly after the start of the second half. Vardy's astute grab in the penalty area equalized again. However, Balotelli, who came on as a substitute, showed his genius.
He passed Casemiro and Otamendi from the front of the penalty area and then shot the goal. Romero couldn't make the save.
Southampton lost to Liverpool 2 to 3 in an away game and suffered a defeat in the first round of the league.
However, although Southampton fans are sorry about this, they don’t think it is anything special. In the past three Premier League seasons, Southampton’s performance in the first round was not very good. They were promoted to the Premier League for the first time.
They lost to Manchester City 3-4. They met Manchester City again in the second season and ended up drawing 3-3. They won last season and they swept West Bromwich Albion in the first round.
So a poor result in the first round really doesn't mean anything to Southampton.
In this round, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, and Tottenham all also won. Only Manchester United was Southampton's close friend. They lost to Swansea surprisingly 0-1 at home. Van Gaal's Red Devils career began.
Got a bad head.
So the media only did one thing in the next week, and that was to criticize Van Gaal fiercely. The position of Manchester United head coach itself attracts attention, and Van Gaal was appointed at a critical moment, so he lost in the first game.
, the media immediately began to criticize her.
Southampton's defeat was covered up in this way.
While Noriya mourned for Van Gaal in his heart, he began to train the players more rigorously.
There are many new people, so of course there are still some problems with coordination, but these are all problems that can be solved through training.
Southampton's players also know that if they want to perform better this season than last season, they must train hard.
Especially the new players, they all know what their goals are.
While the Southampton players were sweating like rain, outside the Southampton youth training base, a tall black man stood outside the iron gate of the Southampton training base with his simple luggage.
Twenty-two-year-old Edouard Mendy knows that he is not a genius. His family conditions are pretty good. Although he is from Senegal, his family came to France to settle down early. He has wanted to be a professional player since he was a child, and he began to accept professional training at the age of seven.
train.
However, unlike the talented Dembele, although he is tall and has long arms, his talent is not particularly outstanding.
So it wasn't until he was nineteen years old that he got a contract with the third-tier team Cherbourg. However, even in this third-tier team, he couldn't play as the main player.
This summer, his contract with Cherbourg expired. Mendy wanted to try his luck in other leagues. His agent vowed that he would be able to do this, so Mendy refused Cherbourg's contract extension.
contract, and just waiting to go abroad to play football.
However, until August, the agent did not take him abroad. Instead, he sent a text message wishing him all the best in the future. Mendy was dumbfounded. This meant that he was unemployed and would have no job in the next year.
The ball can be kicked.
Under such circumstances, Mendy made a bold decision. He decided to leave France and go to England to try his luck with last season's Champions League champion Southampton. I heard that Southampton's head coach Noriya has a keen eye.
He wanted Ji Ya to see if he had the ability to gain a foothold in the top league!
If not, then you might as well find a job in an electronics factory.
Ever since, at the beginning of the Southampton League, Mendy came to Southampton.
He is a free agent, so it is very convenient for him to join any team.
He knocked on the door of Southampton's training ground.
In fact, many players like him come to Southampton every day to recommend themselves. Southampton will stay for trial training to see their true abilities, but they are usually young players. In fact, there are not many players at his age.
So Prost, the director of the youth training camp, received him.
"Generally speaking, we only accept young players for trial training...but since you are here, we can't let you go back empty-handed." Prost said to Mendy.
Mendy nodded gratefully. This visit to the UK was actually just an attempt for him. He was not a person with no way out. After all, his family conditions were not bad and he could still afford the trip to the UK.
However, if he cannot stay in Southampton, he will have no choice but to return to France, work and try out here or go to some small clubs to train, and then wait to find a new home.
There are actually many players like him, and there are many in the UK. They received professional training when they were young, but did not play football. As adults, they work and play amateur games. Anyway, the social welfare in the UK is good, so it is not impossible to make a living.
Own.
Lambert used to work as a worker in a sugar beet factory, and Vardy was similar. After being released from the Sheffield Wednesday youth academy at the age of 16, he also worked, trained and played football, and then became the top scorer at three levels along the way.
, he also came on as a substitute in the Champions League final last season, passing and shooting, which can be called a miracle of grassroots counterattack.
It was precisely because of these two people as role models that Mendy felt that he had to come to Southampton to give it a try.
Prost helped him arrange accommodation, allowing him to have a good day's rest and conduct trial training in the best condition.
Mendy certainly knows that this is the best choice for him. After all, if he is given a trial in a hurry, he may not perform very well.
After arranging Mendy's accommodation, Prost called Jiya and told him about it.
"Oh, then go ahead and arrange a trial training. Just let me know the results."
Now that Noriya is busy with everything, he certainly won't pay too much attention to things like an amateur player coming to try out.
But when Prost called, he was a little bored. After asking for Mendy's name and age, Ji Ya started to check it out in the Achievement Point store...
Then he was startled.
His personal training plan requires ninety-two achievement points.
