Chapter Ninety-Seven: Dreams Come True
St Mary's has welcomed their owners, Southampton, and it's a brand new team. Chen Zhun, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun", was also excited and apprehensive about this.
Sitting in the coach's seat, Chen Zhun still remembers the sneer at him with the glaring headline when he saw the news in the morning.
"The King of Rags! Southampton has become a paradise for out-of-fashion stars and nobodies! ”
"Spend a lot of money to buy the wrong person! Southampton team is not guaranteed for the late season! ”
"With all due respect, I don't know anyone Southampton bought!"
"We're quietly watching Southampton relegation!"
Chen Zhun didn't expect the media to be so one-sided and absolutely skeptical of his transfer, thinking about it, there is a reason, he relied on his past life memories to buy players, and some players didn't play at all, so this gave the media the illusion that they were blind. Chen Zhun also understands that although some players have been bought, England's training is not suitable for some players, and they still have to go out on loan and let other teams help them train.
For example, Stefan Kiessling. In the morning, Klopp made another call to Chen Zhun for Kiessling. Chen Zhun immediately agreed, because Ozil could be said to have played a stunning role under his hands. He also believed that Kiessling, under Klopp, agreed to shine.
In today's game against Fulham, Chen Zhun boldly used five new players to go directly into the starting lineup. This move also caused the commentator to not understand, and the commentator thought that this would disrupt the balance of the team itself, but the four players selected by Chen Zhun are all recent long-term appearances and ensure a good competitive state, which is understandable.
The goalkeeper was Sebastian Frei, the two centre-backs were Klaus Lundkewan and Michael Svensson, and the two full-backs were recruited, with left-back Nikki Shorey and right-back Luke Young, with two England full-backs defending the two wings. The midfield partnership also changed to Miguel Arteta and John Delap. The two wing-backs are David Pluton and Adam Lallana. The striker is Kevin Phillips and Peter Crouch.
Chen Zhun can now be more firm in his tactical thinking in training, pressing high and fast passing and cutting cooperation. Now he has Xiao Lei and Luke Young in the team, Arteta who can pass accurately, and sharp wide players, and these players have a certain ability to counter-grab in the front court and good tactical literacy, which makes it very convenient for Chen Zhun to implement his tactical ideas.
Fans sat in the stands eagerly awaiting the start of the game as they tested the quality of their new players to their satisfaction. But at least they are happy inside, they didn't expect their manager to be so decisive and resolute in the transfer market. They have reason to believe in the quality of the manager and ignore what the media says about them.
Just when everyone in the stadium had their own thoughts, the game officially began.
After the start of the game, several of the new signings were very positive, and there was no element of incompatibility with the rest of the team, and if you didn't know that they had just come back, you would think that they had been playing together for a long time.
Chen Zhun was also a little surprised by this, maybe this is the perfect chemistry, but Chen Zhun also knows that he can't be too optimistic, because Fulham is not Chelsea, not Manchester United. If this team meets those giants, it's a different story.
After the start of the game, Southampton firmly dominated the field, while Fulham was very passive in defense without Van der Sar, the needle of Zhenhai. Holding on to the ground could not lead to anything, and Fulham resisted for ten minutes before surrendering.
Fulham's midfield pass didn't penetrate and was easily tackled by Delap before passing to Arteta in front of him, who faced two defenders, cleverly flicked left and right, got rid of the defence, looked up to the right and saw Lallana running forward. Arteta immediately played a long ball to Lallana's position, and behind him Delap had already helped Arteta block the attention of the defender so that he could concentrate on the attack. Rather than continuing to push forward after winning the ball, Lallana cut inside and approached the middle to compress Fulham's defence, where he waited for Luke Young's pat to arrive.
After Lallana brought three steps to the middle, Luke Young came with the wind and dust, quickly inserted to the side, Lallana took the opportunity to the penalty area, Luke Young comfortably got the ball and immediately went to the right near the bottom line, and when he reached the bottom line, he rubbed the ball directly at the Fulham defender and passed to the small penalty area. Kevin Phillips had been waiting for a long time in the six-yard box and leapt over to head the ball into the back of the net.
1 to 0! Southampton take the lead!
Chen Zhun jumped up with his fists clenched excitedly when he saw the goal, and then saw the players rushing to him, all rushing towards Chen Zhun and holding him inside. Chen Zhun and the players enjoyed the joy of scoring goals and the joy of the team.
The rest of the game went much smoother, and Fulham, who had conceded a goal, was as vulnerable as if they had lost their souls. In the first half, Southampton scored two more goals in a row, with Kevin Phillips and Adam Lallana scoring in succession.
After the break, Chen Junn replaced David Pluton with Yepes Glenschal, and Frederick Canute replaced Peter Crouch. Kevin Phillips moved to left midfield, Glen Charles moved to midfield and Kanute was a lone arrow.
This is the frontcourt formation that Chen Zhun has been practicing for the past two days, with the forward having a fulcrum, the forward waist having speed and ball control, and the two wings having crosses. Fast, easy and efficient.
In the second half, this formation also gave Chen Zhun a lot of hints and improvements. Although Glen Schal had decent ball control and speed, his through ball was not satisfactory, and Kanoute also exposed the shortcomings of his thin body. Therefore, Chen Zhun still needs to carry out more positional running and diversified tactical cooperation in future training. In this way, the abilities of several people can be brought into full play.
The second half was slowly spent in such a run-in, and the final score was fixed at 3-0. Southampton secured sixth place in the league with another win and continued their contention for the UEFA Cup.
After the game, Chen Zhun and others high-fived the players one by one in the playground, which is a habit that Chen Zhun is ready to continue after the start of this game. Because this brand-new team gave him unprecedented confidence, and also swept away the haze in his heart and saw the light of day again.
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At the press conference, reporters were waiting for Chen Zhun's arrival.
Chen Zhun raised his head and looked haughtily at the disgusting reporters in the audience, and then sat down in his seat.
"Hello, manager, we won the game today and it was with the new players coming in. Are you competing with the media? ”
Chen Zhun pursed his lips and said: "I'm not so naïve, the media are already naïve, I have no obligation to play with them, I do this for the team's victory!" ”
The reporter was dumbfounded on the spot and did not say any more.
Michael Taylor raised his hand at this time, and Chen Zhun had already looked at him, because he was the only reporter that Chen Zhun didn't hate.
After Michael Taylor smiled and congratulated Chen Zhun on his victory, he only asked Chen Zhun a simple question about how it felt to win the game.
Chen Zhun thought for a while and said slowly: "The feeling of dreams shining into reality!" ”