Father Green

Chapter 114: Sturridge Struggles
After being beaten [-]-[-] by the opponent in the first half, it was doomed that the game was doomed for Crystal Palace.

The final score was fixed at [-] to [-]. In the second half, Lallana also scored a goal to expand the score to [-] to [-]. At the end of the game, the Southampton players also slackened and were finally passed by the opponent once. A chance from a corner kick scored a goal.Crystal Palace captain McCarthy brought back a little face for the team at home, at least he didn't have his head shaved by the opponent.

The Saints did not slip into the abyss after losing at home to West Ham in the last round of the league. They quickly used a victory to tell everyone that the last round of the league was just a small accident. A bit of an unexpected ingredient indeed.

After killing Crystal Palace in the away game, Charlotte took his team back to Southampton, and at the same time gave the team a day off naturally.

Southampton is the team with the highest training intensity in the Championship, and also one of the teams with the most holidays in the league.This may be a bit contradictory, but Charlotte's training arrangements are very reasonable. Although the daily training intensity is high, the changes brought to the players are also obvious. After the game, as long as time permits, the team will be given a day off.

This is called work and rest.

After returning to Southampton, Gary Monk also called and said that he was recovering well. The doctor told him that he would be able to leave the hospital after staying for half a month, and he had fixed braces on his feet, as long as he did not do strenuous exercise. It will not affect his normal life for the time being, and then he will go to the hospital for a review once a month.

This may be the best news Charlotte has heard during this time.

On February [-]th, Southampton played against the incoming Coventry team at home.The current Coventry is no longer the Premier League team that year. In recent years, Coventry's performance in the English Championship has been unsatisfactory, so Charlotte did not regard the opponent as a strong team. Some rotation players were put on for the game.

For example, Lallana, Al Ganassi, Wanyama and Jose Fonte, who have had a high appearance rate recently, got a chance to rest, and then Luke Shaw, Pogba, Jack Several small players like Cork and Florenzi got the chance to start.

Although Sturridge has returned from injury, how dare Charlotte, who has always been careful, dare to send the opponent to play, so even the name of Black Swan is not written on the substitute list.

Since the "chat" between Charlotte and Sturridge broke up last time, there seems to be a gap between the two. The relationship between teachers and friends who talked about everything before has become what it is now. A situation where no one cares about anyone except work.

There is nothing Charlotte can do about this, who told the other party to misunderstand him.Even after Charlotte explained, Sturridge still had some disbelief and resistance.In the end, Charlotte also got hairy, and it's fine if you bite Lu Dongbin like a dog and don't know a good heart.Anyway, I have nothing to lose, just don't regret it when I am unlucky in the future.

Leaving aside Sturridge, Charlotte's rotation finally defeated the opponent cleanly at home [-]-[-], and Lambert scored another goal.

Since Lambert recovered from injury, he has scored goals in every game and is in a hot state. It can be said that the true return of the king.At present, the 28 rounds of the league are over, and Lambert has scored 25 goals, leading the league scorer list. The second place is the young striker Jay Rodriguez from Burnley.

Lambert's condition is good, don't want it, the direct victim is the Argentine striker Icardi who just came to the team.The two are rivals on the front line, but Lambert is the undoubted core, and he is just a rotation player.And recently Lambert's excellent state has also made him completely sit on the bench. After all, during the period when Lambert was recovering from injury, Icardi was a bit unsatisfactory in terms of starting performance.

So when Lambert is fully fired and can't stop at all, Charlotte will naturally not take the center forward from the starting lineup, and the 30-year-old Lambert is in his golden age!

But fortunately, the Argentine kid is still young, he can take over the England center class.The competitors he has to consider are England teenager Harry Kane, who also served as Lambert's substitute in the first half of the season, and Italy, who did not come to England for a day of training after being bought by the team and then was loaned to the original team. Forward Berardi and Paco Alcacer, who the team put in the youth team.

In the away game against Reading on February [-]th, Charlotte put Icardi on the bench again, still using Lambert as the starting center forward, and Charlotte played all the main players in this game, even Sturridge was placed in the starting lineup by Charlotte.

Sturridge officially recovered from his injury on January 29, but he was not allowed to play until the league game on February [-] just to be on the safe side. This is also why Charlotte was careful.

But Sturridge once again has no solution for Charlotte, and in his opinion his injury has healed.He was able to play in the last round against Coventry. If he can't, he can come off the bench for 45 minutes in the second half, and he can get acquainted with the rhythm of the game.

But Charlotte didn't even bring him on the bench, which made Sturridge very dissatisfied.But he didn't argue with Charlotte, and he was still training as usual.Firstly, he felt that Charlotte had a problem with him, and it was meaningless for him to talk too much. Although he was young and energetic, he was not in the habit of arguing with others.Secondly, it is also because he knows that Charlotte will never be soft on players who dare to challenge the authority of his head coach. After getting along for a long time, he naturally understands that his boss has real skills.

So even if this team does not have his trump card of Sturridge, Charlotte can still play well. This can be understood from the nearly one month of his absence due to injury. Although the team's offense is somewhat Weak, but the points that should be taken have not decreased. You must know that the team's ace striker Lambert is also absent during this period of time!Although Lambert returned earlier than Sturridge, Lambert was injured half a month earlier than him, and the two of them missed a total of three games at the same time.

Except for the game against West Ham United, which was defeated by the opponent in the end, the team won all the games, and scored no less than two goals in each game.The West Ham game is not of much reference value. If the referee does not make a misjudgment, Southampton must win that game.

So in this game against Reading, Sturridge almost tried his best to show Charlotte that his decision and idea were wrong.

Turning food intake into strength can turn grief and anger into strength.Sturridge is like a game character with a full rage bar, and then uses his big move.

Although the Reading team has a tenacious style and a tough style of play.But in front of Sturridge, who was jumping up and down, he still couldn't hold on to the city gate. In the first half, he was dribbled by the opponent with a breakthrough and took a side, and then shot from the rib of the penalty area.

Although the football was eventually saved by Australian goalkeeper Federic, Lambert, who had a keen sense of smell, appeared in a key position and scored a goal.

Although he got an assist, it was definitely not what Sturridge wanted, so after the start of the second half, not only did he not slow down, but he became even crazier.

But fate is so strange, when you don’t want something, the old man God will try his best to stuff it for you, but once you want it, God will hide it so that you can’t find it no matter what .

This is the case of Sturridge. He desperately wanted to score a goal, but he just failed to score the opponent's goal. At the same time, he wasted several good opportunities to score goals. There are almost no teammates, there are a few times he can pass the ball to Al Ganassi or Lambert, Lallana, the three have the best position and opportunity at the time, and the probability of scoring is the highest. But Sturridge just didn't pass the ball.

And when Lallana assisted Al Ganassi to score on the right, Sturridge was even more crazy.After all, Southampton's front trident has not scored a goal so far. Those who have not experienced the feeling of wanting to score but not scoring will not understand.

It's a bit like you desperately want to do something that proves to the people you value after you succeed, but you fail repeatedly, and the kid from the old Wang family next door succeeds quietly. Sturridge is currently This kind of "day. dog" mood.

When the game came to No. 60 minutes of the game, physical coach Nick Harvey found Charlotte, saying that judging from the current intensity of the team's game, some of the players may not be able to last for less than 10 minutes. Even after nine and 10 minutes of playing, the physical condition of the players is not optimistic.

Southampton has always played overall football. Although some of their players have outstanding personal abilities, in general Charlotte's team is more important than teamwork.

There are currently no teammates in Sturridge's eyes, but it doesn't mean that the teammates pretend not to see Sturridge.So as long as Sturridge increases his speed, Lallana and Lambert in the frontcourt will try their best to keep up. If Sturridge needs their support when he fights for an opportunity, they will be able to do so in time. appear in the appropriate position.

In other words, if the Southampton team is a car, Lallana and Lambert are the engines of the team, and Sturridge is the left front tire of the car. Behind him is Danny Rose. left rear tire.Then Al Ganassi and Carvajal are right front and right rear tires.

The left front tire wants to drive 120 yards of horsepower. For the balance and safety of the whole car, the remaining three tires must also be driven at full 120 yards of horsepower. At the same time, the accelerator must be stepped on and the engine speed must be high.
So Sturridge alone brought the entire Southampton team onto the highway, and it was impossible for other Southampton players to maintain this intensity for nine or ten minutes, which would easily lead to an imbalance in the entire team.

The lighter consequences are that the car breaks down and stops temporarily, and the heavier consequences are the car crash and death.

So Nick Harvey sounded the alarm on Charlotte!