Although the Saints pressed hard at the beginning of the game and firmly controlled the game, Manchester City was not a fuel-efficient lamp.

As the saying goes, there are still three pounds of nails in the rotten ship, but it is Manchester City who are the first to pose a threat on the pitch.

That happened in the 16th minute, after the attack was conceded in front, the first counter-attack on the left side was not in time, only for Manchester City's right-back Zabaleta to suddenly cut in, Yaya Toure and David Silva played a link-up with David Silva, and David Silva passed to the right in seconds.

Zabaleta got ahead of everyone else, breaking through the Southampton defence, winning the ball and sprinting towards the bottom line before picking up a cross into the middle.

But this time, a very threatening pass was punched out of the penalty area by Neuer, who suddenly abandoned the goal.

Although it failed to form a scoring chance, this time the counterattack was quite sharp.

Neuer immediately shouted at Luke Shaw who was returning to defence after defusing the crisis, and it was obvious that the left wing-back had pressed too high, which directly led to the team conceding the goal and counterattacking, and he was unable to settle in time.

With the first counter-attack, Manchester City tasted the sweetness and Southampton began to slow down their attack.

Carlo Ancelotti made a few minor tweaks on the sidelines, but the overall picture did not move.

This is also normal, the same problem, the manager and the fans see two completely different directions.

It's like that counterattack just now, many people will think that it is Luke Shaw's problem.

But in Ancelotti's view, it is not, but it will feel that Manchester City has seized the weak spot between the left-back and the central defender in his tactics, and played a threatening counterattack.

Therefore, after fine-tuning, Manchester City is still repeatedly playing David Silva and De Bruyne.

Both players are interesting, they are both technical midfielders, but they appear on the flanks and play a role somewhat similar to that of a pseudo-winger, that is, a playmaker.

Manuel Pellegrini is clearly looking to exploit David Silva and Kevin De Bruyne to tear apart Southampton's weakness between full-backs and centre-backs, especially when full-backs are plugged in.

But Ancelotti is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and immediately made adjustments to try to plug this loophole.

However, with that raid just now, the game started to get a little stalemate.

Yang Huan now finds that if he watches more football, he will appreciate football from a different angle, and he will see it more deeply.

In the past, Southampton during the Bielsa period was straight and straight, with more emphasis on attack.

But now Carlo Ancelotti is different, he seems to be more focused on balance and control.

In order to be able to control the game better, the Saints can press high but also drop deep.

However, the players on the field are very tacit and uniform.

Bielsa, after watching some of Southampton's games this season, exclaimed that Ancelotti was writing the art of Southampton's football, and even Pep Guardiola said that Ancelotti had indeed made the Saints' football philosophy more rational.

At first, Yang Huan didn't know how to read it, but later, Bielsa taught him.

"You imagine that every player in the team has a virtual line between them, and every move of the players on the pitch is not detached from the whole, and then you look at the trend of the team in the game."

Yang Huan has seen those videos, and he found that when the players are connected with a line, every move of the team on the court seems to have a rhythm and a sense of rhythm.

The three lines of the whole team are kept very tight and tight, and they are pressed together when they retreat and pressed together.

At this point, the team is like a sticky mess.

When you punch on the left, I sink in on the left, and the middle and right sides wrap up on the left.

What the?

Do you feel like you can't beat up and want to retract?

Okay, but I'll follow your retract gesture too, press out, bounce out.

In this case, the Saints do not have a fixed position at all, and even many players do not have a fixed position, they will perform their duties according to the situation on the field and their own position, and jointly maintain the whole.

Of course, this so-called airtight whole can only exist in theory.

But on the ever-changing football field, there are often different changes, as if Luke Shaw was too high just now, which directly led to the team being beaten back.

The same pitfalls exist in every aspect of the team.

But as a whole, the saints are undoubtedly quite subtle.

This subtlety is reflected on the pitch, even in the stalemate between the two sides, but the Saints are still able to control the situation in an orderly manner, control the ball, so that Manchester City wants to play but it is difficult to grab the ball, want to attack, but do not know where to start.

Yang Huan sat in the stands and deeply felt that the Saints were already a very mature team.

This made him a little sad, a little reluctant, and even a little reluctant to admit it.

However, when a team, even if it is replaced by all the substitutes, it can play a set of tactics that are not inferior to the main lineup, and there is no doubt that this set of tactical systems has been fully matured.

It can even be said that it has been integrated into the bones of every player in the team.

Watching the players on the pitch play, there is no passion like the Bielsa period, but it seems very calm, unhurried and unhurried, no matter what unexpected situation is encountered, it can be resolved calmly, and the game is played very smoothly, very comfortable, and very pleasing to the eye.

Yang Huan now feels like a father who has brought up a child, he looks at his child, from the original little baby who is waiting to be fed, everything needs to be taken care of by himself, he needs to care about himself, he grows up slowly, and slowly matures and becomes independent.

Until now, there is no need for him to worry about it, and he doesn't need to help.

But he felt a sense of loss.

Yang Huan believes that no one else in the world can understand his feelings at this moment, because the effort and energy he has put into this Southampton team is completely unknown to others.

The saints are like his children!

Although he knows that he has been looking forward to it countless times in his heart, when will he be able to easily become an idle rich second generation? Can you worry less about something?

But when the day really came, he felt lost.

"Humph!" Yang Huan exhaled, shook his head and smiled.

"What's wrong?" Prince William, who was sitting next to him, asked strangely.

He had already noticed the strangeness of Young Master Huan, and for more than ten minutes, he didn't say a word, just stared at the game, which was not like Young Master Huan's style at all.

If in the past, when Young Master Huan saw Manchester City retreating in embarrassment, shouldn't he have teased Mubarak?

Yang Huan smiled faintly, sighed again, and laughed at himself: "Suddenly I feel like I was dumped by a woman!" ”

"What?" Prince William was stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter.

Young Master Huan was dumped by a woman?

This is said, but it's good not to laugh to death!

Not only him, but even the people sitting around them thought it was funny.

Everyone knows that Young Master Huan is suave, only he has the share of dumping people, who has ever heard of someone dumping Young Master Huan?

"I said, Master Huan, I heard that you have been with the Hollywood ...... recently That ......"

"Nina Dubov!" Someone next to him reminded.

"Yes, it's her, Nina Dubov, I just heard that you two hooked up, did she really dump you?"

Yang Huan was depressed, needless to say, it must be the news revealed by the guy who unbuttoned the three buttons at British Telecom, and only this figure who has eyes and hands in Hollywood knows about himself and Nina Dubov.

Isn't it just two people going out to sea on a yacht together for a few days?

But soon, Prince William realizes something is wrong.

"That's not right, my young master Huan, I heard before that she was chasing you all along, and it was not easy to catch up, how could she dump you?"

Then, the future king of England, who was very gossipy, opened his eyes wide, "Could it be that you have a new one?" ”

"I'll do it!" Yang Huan laughed angrily directly.

"You guys are really ...... Summer insects can't speak of ice! ”

Don't look at Prince William enough gossip, right?

But this guy is a master who is afraid of his wife to death, Princess Kate said a word, he didn't dare to fart.

"What do you mean, didn't you really get dumped by a woman?"

"Nonsense!" Yang Huan couldn't dissect his heart and lungs to show them, "I'm talking about feelings, feelings, you guys who haven't been in love a few times, or even haven't been in love, don't understand." ”

Prince William and the others were depressed, and he wanted to say that he had at least talked about it again, okay?

But when he said this, he would definitely be laughed to death, so he simply didn't say it.

However, it must be said that Young Master Huan at this time is the Young Master Huan they know!

The contemplative look just now is a bit unaccustomed.

Just when there was a lot of fun in the stands, I saw a sudden change of situation on the field.

Tielemans played the ball to Mateo Kovacic, who stopped the ball and spun around, shook off the City defenders, and then drove the ball fast into the 30-metre area of Manchester City.

Young Master Huan hadn't sat down at this time, and when he saw it, he suddenly became excited, and shouted loudly: "Good ball, hurry up!" ”

Mubarak on the side was in a hurry, "Stop him for me, shovel, shovel!" ”

Yang Huan is happy, tackle in this position, once a foul, it is a very good set-piece opportunity.

Although David Beckham II Prowse did not start, the Saints have no shortage of free-kick players.

But when rushing to the front of Manchester City's penalty area, Kovacic suddenly split to the right side, Oscar caught up, a feint, the whole person leaned to the left, but the right foot suddenly stabbed.

All the defenders were deceived by Oscar's body, thinking that he was going to pass to the left, but suddenly it went to the right, which was really beautiful.

Then Sturridge was seen like a bolt of lightning, diagonally into the penalty area from the right side, and before the defender could turn around, he did not shoot himself, but sent a cross to the left post.

Harry Kane only then burst out of the crowd and got ahead of everyone before he fired a furious shot that went straight to the back of the net.

1 to 0!

"Wow!" After Yang Huan saw Harry Kane score, the whole person jumped up with excitement.

The homegrown player, who has been hailed by Alan Shearer as England's No. 1 centre-forward for the next decade, has been fantastic in the past two seasons, especially this season, with great efficiency.

But more importantly, he is not only efficient in scoring and excellent in his technique at his feet, he is best known for his aggressive running on the court, which shows great tactical value.

"Great, the goal is scored, the game is easy to play!" Yang Huan laughed.

On the other hand, Mubarak next to him sat back in his seat happily, and the whole person couldn't lift his energy.

He was well aware that being scored first by Southampton would make it difficult for Manchester City to turn the tide.

It's really depressing to say, who would have thought that the Saints would suddenly attack and score a goal?