On 3 January 2016, Sunderland arrived at Britannia Stadium in Stoke-on-Trent, England, with the aftermath of a fresh win over Chelsea, where they will take on Stoke City, the second oldest football league club in the world after Notts County, founded in 1863. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the first leg against Stoke City, Sunderland relied on a header from central defender Kirchhoff in a corner kick attack and Carlos's goal to draw a difficult opponent at home, and it was their center forward who scored for Stoke City, a 201cm tall local player Crouch, who established a 2-0 lead for the team in less than 10 minutes after the first 10 minutes of the game, and caught the home team Sunderland off guard. They avoided further expansion of the score, and finally scored one goal in each half and scored one point each with the visiting opponent to draw hands.

Away to Stoke City is a big challenge for South Shaw, who are currently only three points behind and sit ninth in the table, and they also have a number of good players in their squad, such as Swiss winger Shaqiri, who used to play for Bayern Munich, Ivory Coast striker Bony on loan from Manchester City, and former Barcelona demon Afele and Welsh midfielder Joe Allen, who played for Liverpool last seasonBut if you look at the resumes of each of their players, they have played for the big clubs in some way, so it's not surprising that such a team, no matter what kind of results they have achieved, because they have that kind of quality.

Stoke City's starting line-up for this game is still 4231, the goalkeeper is the 34-year-old veteran Grant, the centre-back combination is Shawcross and Muniersa, who used to play for Barcelona, and the Dutch defender Peters and Glenn from Liverpool on the left and right. Johnson; The double midfielder is Scotsman Charlie. Adam paired with Irish midfielder Glenn. Whelan, with Bony as the single arrow, and behind him from left to right are Arnautovic, Joe Allen and Shaqiri. ”

Although Sunderland brought in Draxler and Juanfran for their side, Nan Xiao surprisingly did not start the game and continued to use the same starting line-up from the previous game against Chelsea.

Stoke City took a more active approach at the start of the game, taking advantage of the momentum created by the home fans to occupy some psychological advantages, while the away team Sunderland was mainly defensive; Not just against Stoke City, Nan Xiao will play defensive at the beginning of every away game, which is his tactical habit, and he wants his opponents to press out and play, so as to give himself more opportunities to counter-attack.

Stoke City's Shaqiri is a player that Nan Xiao likes very much, whether he is playing competitive games such as Pro Evolution Soccer or playing strategic games such as football managers, Shaqiri is an indispensable player in his hands, strong explosiveness and delicate foot skills are Nan Xiao's most valued abilities.

Switzerland international Shaqiri has been very active in the early days since the start of the game, and it can be seen from his repeated willingness to ask his team-mates for the ball. Hughes gave him a lot of freedom in this game, so Shaqiri could have more options in terms of positioning and handling the ball, so although his position was on the right side of the team, he would often approach the middle and sort out the team's attack from time to time; However, although Shaqiri's performance after the opening was very active, he did not take too much advantage when he faced Sunderland's left-back Van Aanholt, Van Aanholt did a very detailed study of his attacker Shaqiri before the game, so today he looked very confident when defending the Swiss international, and did not give the opponent a chance to break through with the ball easily, so although Shaqiri took the ball a lot in the opening stage, he could not create a more threatening attack, not only that, In the process of approaching the middle, he will also squeeze the position of Joallen in the forward midfield, which makes his teammates feel a little uncomfortable.

Mark Hughes also quickly saw the team's problems, so he used the opportunity of his own set-piece to call Shaqiri to the sidelines, and made a simple arrangement for him, presumably to let him reduce the number of activities in the middle and seek more opportunities to break through the wings.

In the 20th minute or so of the game, Stoke City's attack seemed to slow down a little, on the one hand, their own offensive routines were somewhat understood by the opponent, and on the other hand, the opponent Sunderland team gradually entered the rhythm of the game under the fine-tuning of coach Nan Xiao; The two teams have each other's offense and defense in the Britannia Stadium, although it is beautiful to go back and forth on the field, but no one has created obvious scoring opportunities, but the discerning person can see that although the two teams are still evenly divided on the surface, the Sunderland team has actually begun to gradually occupy the advantage on the field, and at the same time slowly bring the rhythm of the game to the track that they are good at; The half-time ended in a 0-0 scoreline, with players from both sides returning to their dressing rooms to continue with what could have been a more intense second half after a short break.

'Sunderland made the same changes at the start of the second half again, as expected, and this time they made a bigger move, using up two substitutions at once, with the two players coming on in the winter transfer window, Draxler and Juanfran who were brought in for £26 million and £8 million respectively, and both of them will make their debuts for their new clubs and in the Premier League.

Draxler and Juanfran replaced the team's midfielder Elveti and right-back Billy Jones respectively, and Dokar, who originally played left midfield, only played a cameo in the position of the back again, but fortunately, Nan Xiao arranged for Dokar to train accordingly early on, so he was not very unfamiliar with the position of the midfielder.

Sunderland's current squad should be the strongest squad they can put out, although there are still some deficiencies in individual positions, but at least at present, this squad has begun to have some prototypes of a team that Nan Xiao has always wanted to build.

At the age of 16, the German talent Draxler who became famous in the Bundesliga Schalke 04 instantly became the focus of attention on the pitch after coming off the bench, and Nan Xiao also arranged targeted tactics around the 23-year-old player at halftime, making it clear that he would give more of the ball to Draxler to handle, and at the same time, Draxler did not live up to the expectations of coach Nan Xiao, he used a light crotch ball after the first touch of the ball to get rid of Glen Whelan's defense, Then he dribbled the ball horizontally to the middle and then passed a very wonderful no.look.pass, penetrating the defense of Munieresa and Mas to find Carlos who cut in diagonally from the right flank, Carlos received a through ball from Draxler in the penalty area, and did not hesitate to choose a powerful shot in the face of Grant's attack, and the ball flew into the goal behind him from the near corner of the hand raised by Grant.

1 to 0!

"Carlos' close-range shot!! Sunderland broke the deadlock on the pitch and it was Carlos' new signing, Germany's talented Draxler, who provided the assist for Carlos!! ”

'It was a fantastic goal, it was Draxler's first touch of the game and his first touch in the Premier League, as he got on the end of a pass from Dokar and got past Glen Whelan who had gone up and then provided his first assist since joining the club! It's really a fantastic show! ”

Draxler's performance was far from over, less than five minutes after setting up Carlos' goal, his own goal was soon in the air, and this time it was Croatian teenager Halilovic who provided the assist!

Halilovic sent a cross over the top after a tacit one-two with Dokar, the ball landed in the same symmetry as Carlos had just received the ball, Draxler also faced Grant's attack after getting the ball, but he didn't volley into the near corner like Carlos, but made a big arc with the arch of his foot, the ball went around Grant's fingertips and hit the far post and bounced into the goal, Sunderland scored two goals in five minutes!