It was exactly what everyone expected before the game.

Southampton's away game against Liverpool was a battle of the dragons.

Is it intense?

No, it should be described as tragic

As soon as the two sides showed up, they were fierce with bayonets, not the slightest fancy, no opportunism, just hard fighting, grinding little by little, to see who could not support it first.

Liverpool, playing at home, are the main force.

The goalkeeper is Reina, and the backline is Jose Enrique, Ager, Skrtel and Glenn Johnson.

In midfield, Jordan Henderson, Spearing and Steven Gerrard played out, while the front trident was Downing, Luis Suarez and Kuyt.

Downing and Kuyt said they were wingers, but in fact they retreated to the midfield and formed a five-midfield tactic to ensure the control of the midfield.

Southampton still adopt the four-three-three tactics, but the specific position and tactics have changed.

The goalkeeper is Thibaut Courtois, and Manuel Neuer is rested for this game.

The backline is David Hrabba, Nastasic, Gary Cahill and Clini.

Since the beginning of this season, Southampton's main central defenders have three, Xavi Martinez, Gary Cahill and Varane three players in rotation, but this time Varane is injured, Xavi Martinez rotated, and Nastasic was on the rotation.

The Serbian youngster has made a number of appearances this season and is solid and powerful.

Clini has replaced the injured Carvajal in recent games, and his performance is also good.

The midfield trio consists of Isco, Toni O Kroos and Vidal.

The front three are Neymar, Ibrahimovic and Lavelle Morrison.

Since the kidnapping incident in England last season, England's bad boy has completely changed his mind, his attitude has been correct, and his appearance has also improved, and his strength has improved rapidly.

At first glance, the two sides look like 433 versus 433, but in fact it is not the case at all.

Liverpool played at home but went on the defensive, with five players in midfield to contain Southampton's attack.

But the attack of the saints is not vegetarian.

After an opening attack, but seeing that it didn't work, Bielsa made adjustments.

Isco's position was on top and directly suppressed Liverpool's defender Spearing.

The player's lack of positional sense is a weakness in Liverpool's midfield.

Once Spiling was pulled away, Neymar decisively went to hit Spiling's point.

Ibrahimovic was up front, firmly pressing the two central defenders of Ag and Skrtel.

Jokes aside, if it's one-on-one, Ibrahimovic can suppress any central defender in the world, and he has to have two people to defend to be more reassuring.

This is also where Bielsa is smart, grasping one of Liverpool's weaknesses and playing hard.

If Spyring follows Isco, he will definitely leave his position and expose the weakness in front of the big penalty area.

Neymar is very strong, almost vacating the entire left wing, which is equivalent to a number ten forward midfielder, once the edge of the penalty area is exposed, he decisively inserts in, and as soon as he receives the ball, he is a threat.

But if Spearing doesn't follow, Isco will be the number 10 after he gets the ball.

Whether it's passing or dribbling, Isco is at ease

Yang Huan was in the stands, and when he saw Southampton making threats again and again, he couldn't help but applaud again and again.

"Too smart"

Charlene Lahri on the side also couldn't stop admiring.

"Ibrahimovic, Neymar and Isco directly surrounded Spearin, and Ravel Morrison was alone on the wing, getting more space to move, and also contained Liverpool's wing defense and created space for the middle."

When she said this, Charlene Lahri also shook her head and smiled bitterly.

"Liverpool can be sad enough this time"

Who's to say it isn't?

On his home turf, he was pressed by a Championship team, and he had no power to fight back, and he was sad to change anyone.

Yang Huan was smiling and waiting for the goal.

In his opinion, after the overwhelming advantage of the game, it should be a matter of time before he scores a goal.

But anything can happen on the football field.

Southampton shot again and again, but Reina seemed to be possessed by Qin Qiong today, saving Southampton's shots outside the goal line again and again.

It was true in the first half and it was the same in the second half

In the second half, a very interesting thing about Southampton is that Toni Kroos began to command the team more actively, often seeing him raising his hand to ask for the ball, and constantly gesturing to his teammates when he got the ball, controlling the rhythm.

Liverpool's retraction tactics also give Tony O Kroos more room to swing in the midfield position.

In the 60th minute, he had a shot back and suddenly shot from distance.

It's a pity that it was slightly out of the goal.

"Your Mr. Sixty Million is indeed quite good"

Charlene Lahri also feels that after coming to the English league for a few months, Tony Croos has become more and more mature, more and more general, and his defense has improved a lot.

It's just that the style of the ball is still a little bit classical, not concise enough to practice.

But this thing that changes the style of the ball is not something that can be done in a while, you have to give him more time and take his time.

Yang Huan listened, and was a little proud, "How is it?" Is there anyone who still says that we have suffered a big loss? ”

"From the perspective of role, Tony O Kroos is indeed very important to Southampton, but 60 million pounds is still outrageous, unless it is ......" said, Charlene Lahri stared at Yang Huan with a smile in her wonderful eyes.

“…… Unless, what they say is true, Abramovich helped you with the money"

"How is that possible?" Yang Huan can't admit that he was killed, right?

"You say, is Abramovich so good? I'm not his son, and he's not my son, how can he help me pay for it? If you really want to buy it, then you will buy it for their Chelsea, how can they buy it for me? ”

Charlene Lahri looked at him and laughed when he reacted so violently.

"Okay, okay, don't pretend, pretend to be so aggrieved in front of me, don't you waste your performance?"

Yang Huan is happy now.

In fact, there are many things that cannot be hidden.

But no one has evidence for this kind of thing, and occasionally someone breaks the inside story or something, how many people will believe it?

Most of them are just like gossip news, just laughing.

While the two were talking in the stands, there was a sudden change under the pitch.

Southampton cut in after a run and Isco drew away Spearing and Gerrard before passing the ball through the gap to Neymar, who cut inside to the edge of the box, shook off Glenn Johnson and struck the ball with his feet.

Reina was as steady as ever, flying to save the ball from the bottom line, a corner

"This is the fifth corner of the game for Southampton, and it is still Toni Kroos who takes the penalty"

Toni Kroos, wearing the number eight shirt, ran quickly to the corner kick area, set the ball, and slowly retreated.

In the penalty area, several of Southampton's highs have already rushed in.

Actually, there aren't many highs.

Ibrahimovic, Gary Cahill and Nastasic, that's it

"Liverpool's set-piece defence this season has been a big problem, but in this game four corners and a few free kicks were well defended, and it seems that there has been targeted training"

Charlene Lahri said as she took advantage of the break from the corner.

Yang Huan saw that under the stands, Bielsa and Martin Hunter were pointing to the tablet and talking about something, and then Martin Hunter quickly ran to the sidelines, making some kind of gesture towards Tony O Kroos and the players in the big penalty area.

"What does Martin's gesture mean?" Charlene Lahri couldn't figure it out either.

Yang Huan pursed his lips, "How do I know?" ”

This is also a team secret, right?

I'm afraid no one else knows about it except the coaching staff and the players.

Soon, both sides were ready.

I saw Toni Kroos rush to the ball quickly, picked up his right foot, and made a curling ball with a strong spin.

In the big forbidden area, everyone is already in chaos.

Liverpool's defenders had to guess where the ball would fall and the Southampton players had to defend against it, and the scene was chaotic.

Southampton's attacking players are also covering their days.

If you're not careful, people will leak

By the time Liverpool's players reacted and realized that they had missed someone, Ibrahimovic had already jumped high and grabbed ahead of everyone, just like a lion shaking his head.

The ball seemed to hit his head, turned an angle and crashed into the Liverpool goal.

Reyna reacted quickly and made a flying save, but in the end he couldn't stop the ball from going into the net

One to zero

With referee Jones' whistle that scored a valid goal, the entire Anfield stadium was boiling

All the Saints fans who had followed the team to the road rose from their seats to celebrate the deadlock-breaking goal

On the pitch, Ibrahimovic rushed off the pitch excitedly and rushed to the corner area of Toni Kroos.

It was just a slippery kneeling in front of Toni Kroos, lifting the German youngster's foot and wiping his boots.

This season, Toni Kroos has scored goals again and again with his excellent set-pieces.

And in addition to set-pieces, he also kept passing the ball and using scalpel-like assists to help the team tear apart the opponent's defence.

It's only been half a season, but Toni Kroos has already won the recognition and admiration of the stars in the Southampton team.

Even Ibrahimovic, who has the most arrogant personality, said in previous interviews that Tony Kroos' role in the team is crucial

There are really not many players who can win the affirmation of the Swedish centre-forward

"The two centre-forwards take turns to score, your Championship team, it's really extravagant"

Charlene Lahri was amazed

In the last FA Cup game, Didier Drogba scored

But in this League Cup, the goal became Ibrahimovic

Plus a Sturridge who has been hailed as England's future centre-forward

Southampton's forward configuration, who says it's not extravagant?

Yang Huan smiled proudly.

"What is this, you wait, after we are promoted to the UK, we will definitely bring in more reinforcements, at least make sure that there are two high-level stars in each position, that is enjoyable"

Charlene Lahri smiled bitterly, how extravagant is this?

However, she knows very well that talking to Yang Huan about thrift and thrift is playing the piano to the cow.

This guy is so extravagant in everything he does.

But isn't the reason why many fans like the Saints and pursue the Saints precisely because of Southampton's grandeur?

Don't look at the fact that Southampton is still in the Championship, but in fact, there are many, many fans who are looking forward to Southampton's return to the Championship.

Everyone believed that as long as the Saints returned to England, they would be able to turn Ying's lifeless standings upside down.

At the very least, if Professor Wenger wants to keep his top four safely, I am afraid it will not be so easy

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