After a hard-fought victory over the mighty Chelsea, Sunderland are in the top seven of the league after the halfway point and will earn a place in the Europa League if they can maintain that position until the end of the season. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the match between Sunderland and Chelsea, the FA also expressed its stance on Costa's red card, believing that Costa's actions were deliberate and unsportsmanlike, not only upholding the red card decision, but also fining Costa 30,000 pounds and suspending him for 5 games; Chelsea Football Club was unhappy with the FA's decision and they appealed immediately.

On the last night of 2016, Nan Xiao and his group did not go out to have fun after dinner, but just watched Hunan Satellite TV's New Year's Eve party on the Internet in the villa; Originally, Nan Xiao and Shen Chao wanted to watch Zhejiang Satellite TV's New Year's Eve party, but at the insistence of Shi Yao and Lu Ying, they still chose Hunan Satellite TV, after all, good men don't fight with women, so Nan Xiao and they also followed the girl's request.

As soon as you go to Hunan TV to hold a New Year's Eve party, you will see that some singers who have not appeared in front of the media for a year suddenly sprung up like mushrooms after a rain; But at the same time, it also invited many very powerful singers, such as "Bai Jingjing" Mok Wenwei, who Nan Xiao has always liked, and Shen Chao's goddess Sun Yanzi, of course, there are some other very good singers......

Nan Xiao only watched for a while and went upstairs to rest, it is true that Sunderland's schedule is a bit dense during this time, and there will be a second meeting with Stoke City in three days, and then there will be an FA Cup match, so ensuring adequate rest is the most important thing for Nan Xiao in recent times, because he is the kind of person who will not have energy all day long if he doesn't sleep enough, so a good sleep is very important for him.

On the first day of 2017, three of Sunderland's new signings also arrived at the club on time to report.

Under Bracewell's leadership, Sunderland's players stood in two rows on the Stadium of Light, and the team that had been playing together for half a season was missing captain Cattermole, as well as Khazri and central defender O'Shea, as they had all moved to other clubs; While losing some team-mates, they will soon welcome new team-mates of their own, which is something they are bound to experience in every transfer period.

For example, at the door of the team's locker room, couplets with Chinese cultural characteristics were posted, and many red "Fu" characters were also pasted on many glasses, and the players were very curious and interested in these fresh things from China, and they also felt that Chinese characters were really beautiful and artistic. At the moment, under the mild sun, the faces of the Sunderland players on the turf at home are also full of happy smiles, and Croatia's Halilovic and England's Gooch have also specially dyed their beautiful blonde hair to welcome the arrival of the new year.

After waiting in the stadium for less than 10 minutes, Nan Xiao finally walked out of the tunnel wearing a club tracksuit, followed by three new signings from the team's winter transfer window: German Draxler, Spaniard Juan Fran and another youngster from China, Xu Xin.

"Happy New Year, everyone!" Nan Xiao first smiled and said hello when he walked up to the players.

"Hello coach!" The players also replied loudly.

The atmosphere of Sunderland is like this, in the daily training, they and Nan Xiao are like friends, Nan Xiao is younger than most of the players, so the players do not have too much pressure when facing Nan Xiao, but once before and during the game, they will have a lot of respect for Nan Xiao, and this rapport is also an extremely important reason why the Sunderland team performed well in the first half of the league.

"Let me introduce you to your new teammates." Nan Xiao said with a smile, he waved his hand and motioned Draxler to come over, "This is Draxler from Germany, everyone must be familiar with him, he used to play for Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga, he had a very good performance in the first half of the season, his ability to break through on the side is very good, which is why I spent a lot of money to bring him in, I believe he can bring a lot of different things to the team in the future games, Let's have more solutions in the face of the opposition's dense defense, and here, everyone welcomes our new teammate Draxler with a round of applause! ”

After Nan Xiao's introduction, the Sunderland players erupted into fierce applause, this is the culture of this club, always full of strength and passion, which is something that Nan Xiao has been continuously injecting since the first day he took over.

After a few brief remarks, Draxler walked into the players' team and continued to listen to the next words of head coach Nan Xiao with his new teammates.

"Our second signing is also very big." He also waved his hand to Juanfran who had been standing aside, "This is Juanfran from Spain, right-back Juanfran from Spain, also from a very great club, Atletico Madrid in La Liga; Everyone must be familiar with Juanfrán, who reached the final of the Champions League twice with Atletico Madrid in the 1314 and 1516 seasons, and also won the La Liga title in the 1314 season; I hope that the addition of Juanfran will also strengthen the overall strength of our team and help the team to achieve a satisfactory result at the end of the season." ”

Both Draxler and Juanfran are the absolute big players in this Sunderland team today, so in the face of the joining of the two players, Sunderland's players have also greatly improved their self-confidence, but at the same time, several players also feel a lot of pressure, such as Billy Jones, Juanfran will most likely take away his main position, so his mood should be a little low at the moment.

"The last thing I would like to introduce to you is Xu Xin, who is from the same country as me, his best position is midfielder, he used to play in the youth team of Atletico Madrid, Juanfran should know him, right?" Nan Xiao asked Juanfran about it, and after receiving an affirmative answer, he continued, "His arrival may not have an immediate impact on our improvement in a short period of time, but I believe that he will definitely become an important member of the club in the near future." ”

After introducing the club's three new signings, Nan Xiao also made an announcement about the reappointment of the team's new captain.

"Under the discussion of the club's senior management, we decided to let Kirchhoff be the new captain of the team, and at the same time let Mannone serve as the team's vice-captain, I hope you can support the work of the two captains in the coming days, let us use applause to make a short speech to the two captains!"