Chapter 485: Change of Commander
80_80813Yang Huan sat in the back seat of a Lagonda subversive crossover, looking out of the rain-soaked window, looking out at the dripping and drizzling day, feeling the scenery on the edge of the southbound highway regressing rapidly.
His thoughts flew far, far away.
The time has entered November, and the shape of the Europa League has gradually become clear.
In La Liga, the strong sheet army Atletico Madrid, in the strongman coach Diego? Under Simeone's leadership, the new season of La Liga has been thriving.
So far, Atletico Madrid has played eleven rounds of La Liga, and Atletico Madrid has played an impressive record of ten wins and one draw, and the only draw was a draw by Levante in the first round of the league, and then won ten consecutive wins.
You know, in these games, Atletico Madrid has won 3-0 and 4-0 by a big score.
In particular, the 4-0 defeat of Athletic Bilbao at home and the 4-2 reversal of Real Betis away are all talked about and praised, and fans all over the world are amazed!
With Tevez, Mandzukic and Diego? Costa's front trident has made Atletico Madrid the most lethal and attacking team in La Liga, almost invincible.
Although it was unbeaten with ten wins and one draw, and also set the best start in the history of Atletico Madrid, Diego? Simeone's side are currently second in the La Liga table, behind Barcelona with the same number of points but more goals.
This also made many fans of the Sheet Army feel embarrassed.
But the team's performance this season has made Atletico Madrid fans full of expectations.
Can you even score with Barcelona?
Doesn't that mean that the Sheets have a chance of winning the La Liga title?
Judging from the table of Atletico Madrid in the new season, summer signings have played a crucial role.
After Tevez moved to Atletico Madrid, he showed the strength of a top attacker, especially with Diego? Costa, the two form the most difficult mess in the front court of Atletico Madrid, plus a tall and strong Mandzukic, Atletico Madrid's frontcourt attack lineup has almost made all La Liga teams hate toothache.
Even Antoine Griezmann, who switched in this season, had to be relegated to a rotation or even a substitute position.
No way, Diego? Costa and Mandzukic's table xiàn is so good!
In midfield, Moutinho occupies the main midfield position, Gabi and Mario? Suarez is a thunderous two-back combination, plus Ilya Ramendi, Raul? Garcia, and youngster Oliver, who has been promoted to the first team this season? Fernando Torres, Atletico Madrid's midfielder is also quite impressive.
The backline is still the same combination of Felipe, Miranda, Godin and Juanfran as it was last season.
But Otamendi, Peruzzi and José? Gaya's save zài, adding thickness to the lineup.
Coupled with the goalkeeper position, the appearance of Courtois stabilized the goal of Atletico Madrid.
Diego? After a summer of running-in, Simeone completely activated the lineup of Atletico Madrid, played the iron-blooded momentum of the Sheets Army, and became a unique alternative landscape in La Liga, in addition to Barcelona and Real Madrid.
There's no way, with this lineup of Atletico Madrid, it's only suitable for playing a tough guy, and there's no way to become a beautiful man!
If Atletico Madrid's 10 wins and one draw are impressive, then Monaco are almost invincible in Ligue 2.
Martino's side staged a one-sided slaughter against Tours, who came close to promotion to Ligue 1 last season, in the opening round of Ligue 2 this season.
Just eight minutes into the game, Southampton loanee Aleksandar Mitrovic opened the scoring for the home side.
Less than three minutes later, Mangala took advantage of a corner kick and scored again.
After that, the trident combination of Mitrovic, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Depay put on a crazy scoring show at the Stade Louis II, scoring time and time again against the Tours team to finally lock the score at 7-0.
It's not a level contest at all!
Tours coach Sikora was even more desperate after the game that Monaco would be the best choice to win Ligue 2 this season.
Aleksandar Mitrovic scored three, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had two, and Depay and Mangala had one each.
This is the palmares of the first race of the new season in Monaco!
But if that's all there is to it, then there's nothing to make a fuss about.
The point is that after the first massacre of Tours, Monaco followed suit, beating Laval, Eastres, Guingamp, Alles, Le Havre, Dijon, and Lens......
A total of 14 rounds of Ligue 2 have been played, and Monaco has a proud record of 37 league goals and 14 consecutive wins to lead Ligue 2, which has shocked the entire French football world, thinking that Monaco will become the French version of Southampton!
It can be said that the excellent performances of Atletico Madrid and Monaco were beyond Yang Huan's expectations.
Before the league started, Yang Huan really didn't expect that these two teams would perform so well.
But he was not surprised, because he knew very well that with the lineup configuration of these two teams, they deserved this result.
Needless to say, Atletico Madrid has the squad to challenge for the La Liga title.
At first glance, Monaco's squad is full of young rookies, but a closer look shows that they are all famous players in the future.
The goalkeeper is Keylor Navas, one of the most stunning goalkeepers at the World Cup in Brazil, and even the substitute is Croatian international-level Subasic.
At the back, Marquinhos, Kurzuma and Mangala are all some of Europe's most famous talented centre-backs two years later. Appiah and Aurier are also Ligue 1 players.
Midfielders Verratti, Rabiot and Kondogbia are all Europe's hottest midfield rookies two years later, especially Verratti, the heart of the Italian national team's midfield, who is hailed as Pirlo's successor.
Rabiot and Kondogbia are seen as talented French midfielders who are not lost to Pogba.
Even Germain and Mendy are both first-line stars in Ligue 1.
The main configuration in the front field is Depay, Mitrovic and Aubameyang, who are also famous attackers in Europe, and Benzia, Towan, Esselik, and Fekir are super rookies in France.
With such a set of lineup configurations released, Yang Huan feels that this result is not good enough!
It should be said that before the season, whether it was against Atletico Madrid or Monaco, the goals set by Yang Huan were relatively safe, for example, the former is the Champions League qualification, that is, the top four in the league, and the latter is promoted to Ligue 1.
None of this is much of a suspense.
But Southampton, where Yang Huan had the most high hopes, now seems to be the most frustrating for him.
Southampton have lost three of their first four league games, away to Manchester City, home to Manchester United and away to Arsenal.
This leaves Southampton almost bottom of the league table.
In the fifth round of the league, Southampton beat Aston Villa 4-1 at home to help the Saints get out of the relegation zone in the standings.
But in the sixth round, they lost 1-2 away to David Moyes' Everton and were once again relegated to the relegation zone.
After that, they drew 2-2 at home to Fulham, beat West Ham United 4-1 away, drew 1-1 at home to Tottenham Hotspur and lost 0-1 away to West Bromwich Albion.
They then won 3-1 away at Queens Park Rangers and drew 1-1 at home to Swansea.
At the end of 12 rounds, Southampton ranked 11th in the Premier League standings with four wins, three draws and five losses, accumulating 15 points, and was eight points away from Newcastle, the top four in the league.
It was also a disappointment for fans who had a lot of confidence in Southampton at the start of the season, who felt that Bielsa's team had been too shaky, always playing a good game before suffering a crushing blow immediately.
The only consolation is that the old powerhouse Liverpool are currently lower than Southampton.
The Reds currently have three wins, six draws and three defeats, and also have 15 points, but Southampton are at the top of the table on goal difference, forcing the Reds to 12th place in the league.
And although Southampton is in 11th place, in fact, Newcastle are only eight points away from the top four in the league, which is still a chance for the Premier League, which has only started 12 rounds of fixtures.
At the very least, Arsenal, who have been trying to maintain the top four every year, are currently in sixth place with only 19 points, while Tottenham Hotspur is in eighth place with 17 points, sandwiched between the two teams by West Ham United.
Interestingly, after Tottenham Hotspur, it's Fulham.
From sixth to ninth, all of them were occupied by London teams.
The top three in the league are Manchester City, who are unbeaten with eight wins and four draws, Manchester United with nine wins and three losses, and Chelsea in third place.
For Southampton, such a set of squad configurations, but the result is like this in the Premier League, it is indeed sad to watch, and even many media have taken the initiative to prescribe medicine.
That's a change of coach!
Bielsa even said who would be the first manager to be sacked in the new Premier League season by the three major bookmakers, which shows how disappointed fans and media are with his managerial performance this season.
This is also what many people question about Bielsa.
Looking at the Argentine maniac's coaching resume over the past few years, there have been plenty of ups and downs.
For example, when he was coaching the Argentine national team, the qualifiers were in full swing, but in the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, Argentina, which was regarded as the number one favorite to win the championship, humiliatingly stopped in the group stage, and Bielsa was also questioned like never before, especially his three-three-one-three tactics.
But Bielsa withstood the pressure, and two years after the World Cup, he led the Argentine Olympic team to the Athens Olympics, won the gold medal, and cultivated young rookies including Savio Latvez, Mascherano, and Coloccini.
Yang Huan believes that Bielsa is still quite powerful, and he is also the head coach who best meets Southampton's requirements at the moment.
So, a received from Peter? Kenyon's call, Yang Huan flew directly from China to London as soon as possible.
This time, he's here specifically to support Bielsa!
When the conspicuous Lagonda subversive appeared at the gate of the Southampton Stepwood training base, the news had already been received, and dozens of reporters waiting outside the base immediately surrounded them.
"Mr. Yang Huan, I heard that you have lost patience with the team's bad performance, is it true?"
"Countless Southampton fans are unhappy with the team's results, will you respond to public opinion and sack Bielsa?"
'Is it true that Southampton are looking for a new manager to replace Bielsa?
"Can you please tell me if Bielsa will be out of class?"
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The microphone kept banging on the car window, sitting in the back row, Yang Huan, who had a blue face, sighed, and said to Long Wu in the front row, "Let me get out of the car!" ”
"Young master, there are a lot of people here, I'm afraid of ......"
But before he finished speaking, Yang Huan had already opened the car door and went down.
All the reporters at the scene immediately surrounded Yang Huan and blocked Yang Huan by the car door.
One question after another crackled over, and it was impossible to tell who asked and what it was.
In the end, Yang Huan had to raise his hand and signal the audience to be quiet.
"I'll just say one word, just once!"
Everyone at the scene suddenly fell silent, looking at Young Master Huan intently and listening to what he said.
"We've decided to renew Bielsa's contract!"
"Today!"
"Now!"
"Here!".