Father Green

Chapter 119: The gap between the Premier League and the British Championship
"Damn it, that old man Hodgson is really merciless." Charlotte, who was crossing her arms at the scene, complained secretly.

His team has been under siege for 10 minutes. Although no goals have been conceded, the defense line is already crumbling.Anyone with a discerning eye can already see that conceding the ball is only a matter of time.

Fortunately, Charlotte arranged a triangular combination of Pogba, Jack Kirk and Florenzi in the midfield. Otherwise, Jose Fonte and Mustafi alone are obviously not enough to resist the attack of the opponent's striker.

Jack Kirk completed the task assigned to him by Charlotte very well, and he focused on the opponent's most threatening forward, Sean Lang.The advantage of the man-to-man tactic is that it can restrain the opponent's "nuclear weapons" and greatly reduce the opponent's offensive power. It also has the disadvantage that it is easy to be deliberately pulled away by the opponent, forming an area of ​​vacancy.

Therefore, when Charlotte assigned Cork a man-to-man task, he also asked Florenzi to retreat a little, and asked him to help the team complete the zone defense in the middle and in front of the two central midfielders.

The Roman boy himself was born as a defensive midfielder and a central midfielder. He feels that he has no sense of disobedience in playing this position, and he has a lot of confidence.
Since De Rossi is the main force in the midfield position of the Roma team, and at the same time there are Argentine midfielder Gago who is on loan from Real Madrid, and powerful veterans David Pizarro and Perotta, Flo Renzi has no place in the team at all.

So in order to adapt to the tactics of the new head coach Enrique, he had to find a foothold in other positions, including the midfielder and right winger.But unfortunately, Enrique did not trust the young player produced by the Red Wolves youth training, and instead went to Ligue [-] to buy Bosnia and Herzegovina midfielder Pjanic, which made Florenzi finally choose to transfer , And at this time, Charlotte's Southampton threw an olive branch to him.

Florenzi retreated, and Southampton's formation on the field changed a bit, from four-two-three-one to four-three-three. Cork followed the opponent's Sean Lang in the midfielder position, and the Roman teenager Then he came to the central midfielder position and partnered with Pogba.

Blurring the position on the court has always been Charlotte's requirement for the team's players.The position of the players in his tactics is flexible and changeable. Why does the full-back jump in to form a winger, and the winger can cut inside to become a center forward. Even goalkeeper Ter Stegen sometimes uses it in order to maintain the best distance from his teammates. To leave the penalty area and go to the position where the central defender should have been.

Southampton is good at attacking in the British Championship, but only those who really understand the ball can see that Charlotte's Saints' defensive ability is no worse than offensive ability.

But just like this, Southampton, who tops the English Championship on both offensive and defensive ends, was beaten helplessly when facing West Bromwich Albion. The last time the opponent gave Charlotte such a strong sense of oppression was in the warm-up match of the season. In the friendly against Manchester City.

It's not that West Bromwich Albion is already close to Manchester City in strength, it's just that the current Southampton is much worse than the Premier League team in strength, and at the same time it is not mature enough.

This is the essential gap between the English Championship and the Premier League teams.

After three or 10 minutes of "fat beating" around a Championship team, he still failed to score a goal. Such a result made the old coach Hodgson a little embarrassed. Hodgson, who has not become the head coach of the England national team, is still relatively thin-skinned.

So the old coach stood up from his seat, yelled a few times to express his dissatisfaction with the team's current results, and made two actions at the same time.

Charlotte frowned, wondering what medicine the old fox was selling.

But after 2 minutes, he understood that Sean Lang, who should have appeared in the center position on the field, moved to the right, and right winger Odem Wenji reached the center position.

Although she knew the opponent's actions, Charlotte didn't know the opponent's specific plan.Do you keep Sean Long out of the middle to gain more room to sprint, or do you let the Irishman catch your eye and surprise Nigerian striker Odemwingi?

Charlotte decided to observe two points before making a decision. At the same time, she made an unchanging movement towards Kirk's puzzled eyes.

Sean Long's right is facing Southampton's left, and the player in this position is Luke Shaw.Charlotte was worried that Hodgson, an old fox, was aiming at Luke Shaw, an inexperienced young player, so he simply asked Jack Cork to follow up, as if it was to help Luke Shaw defend.

Charlotte's on-the-spot command rarely hesitated, and most of the time he knew the opponent's plan as long as the opponent moved.As a result, he himself makes corresponding changes, and the result is that he can always suppress the changes made by the other party.

"Old fox, what are you thinking?" Charlotte looked at Hodgson next door, but still didn't know what the other party's plan was.

Then he looked at the coach's bench. Tony Cotton had worked with Charlotte for half a season, so he naturally knew the meaning in Charlotte's eyes. He could only shrug his shoulders and responded with a helpless look.

In Charlotte's coaching staff, Tony Cotton not only assists Wilkins in leading the training, but also analyzes the opponent's intelligence and predicts common tactics.

But at present, Southampton's main goal is to be in the league. He has done a lot of homework for his opponent Tony Cotton in the Championship, but he really can't help the Premier League team.

Just when Charlotte hadn't figured out the opponent's intentions, Southampton's crumbling defense finally fell.

West Bromwich Albion pressed heavily, and the experienced Austrian midfielder Sanel did not hand the football to Sean Lang, who raised his hand to ask for the ball from the wing, but gave it to the midfielder Morrison in front of him.

After Morrison took the ball, he used a fake move to shake Florenzi away, and then dribbled the ball in the middle.

There was an ominous premonition in Charlotte's heart, and he immediately shouted loudly: "Jack! Jack!!" And with the movement of waving his hands, he wanted to tell Jack Kirk to return to his position.

But his voice was drowned out by cheers from the home fans at the Hawthorns, and it was running out of time.

Morrison got the ball in front of the top of the penalty area. He made another fake move into the penalty area, shook Pogba and then stuffed the ball to Odemwingi who was in the middle of the penalty area.

The Nigerian striker caught the football before Mustafi stretched out his feet, but instead of dribbling the ball to force the joint defense of the two central defenders, he pushed the football out.

The left winger Brunt, who had been quiet on the left, suddenly entered the penalty area from Southampton's right at this time, and then swung his foot and shot.

Ter Stegen had already made a saving action, but the football failed to save in the end. He poked the football with the tip of his hand, and the football changed its line and flew into the net by rubbing against the inside of the goal post.

After nearly four and 10 minutes of bombardment, West Bromwich Albion opened the door to Southampton.

The home fans at the Hawthorn Stadium immediately cheered. A few fans just raised their arms and shouted excitedly, but then remembered that their team scored a goal against the English Championship team and they were so excited. It seemed a bit useless.

The fans of West Bromwich Albion, who are now ranked eleventh, seem to have forgotten that they have been the Premier League's lifts all these years, back and forth, and last season they were still the English Championship team.
After scoring the goal, Hodgson's face became brighter, and he didn't feel any pressure, so he just went back to his seat and sat peacefully.

Charlotte could only shake his head with a wry smile, what else could he say?This position of conceding the ball is Richardson's fault. It seems that helping Carvajal to the main position has had a lot of impact on this powerful player in his prime.

Although he had already given up on this match, the strength gap between the two sides was not even a star, not to mention that he was still in the second team.But being passively beaten has never been Charlotte's style. He thought that the opponent had been besieged for nearly 10 minutes. At this time, the physical distribution of the audience must be considered, so after scoring a goal, the opponent will definitely relax and slow down. .

So he pulled Al Ganassi, who was closest to him, over, and then gave the opportunity face-to-face.

There was no mystery, Charlotte told the Belgian that it was time for us to attack.

Sure enough, as Charlotte thought, it was like a retreat. After the re-kick-off, West Bromwich Albion began to retreat, and the two full-backs and midfielders also returned to their positions. They began to slow down and recover their strength.

Florenzi passed the ball to Al Ganassi on the wing, and the Belgian Flying Wing was almost aggrieved for almost half the game, and he didn't have a chance to play in the entire first half.

Al Ganassi, who seized the opportunity, dribbled the ball to the maximum speed, then swayed Bryant who had scored before, and then continued to dribble along the side.

Hodgson, who was sitting on the sidelines, was amazed by the speed and dribbling ability of this "Ferrari small sports car". He did not expect that there would be such an outstanding winger in the Championship.

Soon Al Ganassi faced the opponent's left back Xiaoli. Facing such a powerful player, Al Ganassi did not dare to make fake moves easily, nor did he go head-to-head with the opponent, but chose to pass the ball To the middle.

Icardi still received the ball under the interference of the opponent's central defender, and then he protected the ball and shook the opponent away.

In the end, West Bromwich Albion captain Olsen was in front of him. Icardi was entangled by the opponent and had no room to shoot. When the Argentine wanted to pass the ball to his teammate, Olsen saw the opportunity and made a move. Destroyed the ball.

Fortunately, Sterling was fast enough to grab the ball before the opposing player.But soon he was blocked by West Bromwich Albion players, and in desperation he had to pass the ball to Luke Shaw behind him.

Charlotte shook his head on the sidelines. Al Ganassi had a very good chance to counterattack quickly, but Icardi wasted it in the end, causing the speed to slow down and become a positional battle.

Luke Shaw then diverted the ball to El Ganassi on the right. The Belgian couldn't shake Shaw away with the ball, so he chose to cross again.

This time Icardi learned a little bit smarter. Instead of stopping the ball, he swung his foot and shot the football one meter above the ground towards the goal.

The chances of scoring such a difficult shot are very small, and if it is scored, it will be a pleasing goal.

Former Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster, who was on loan from Birmingham, had already judged the height of the ball, so he just took a symbolic jump and stretched out his hand, and the football flew over the crossbar of the goal.

Icardi's shot hastily ended Southampton's rare attacking chance in the first half.