Father Green

Chapter 135: Opponent Red Army - Liverpool!

Before the FA Cup match with Liverpool, Southampton still has a league game to face.This is the 42nd round of the league, and Southampton challenged the Fox City Leicester City away game.

This season's Leicester City team originally wanted to show their ambitions after being acquired by the Thai boss, so they signed a lot of players during the summer transfer, although they were all low-value players, but even so They are also, apart from Southampton, one of the most troublesome teams in the English Championship team in the transfer market.

As a result, they never imagined that the effort was not directly proportional to the gain. The first few rounds of the league fell into darkness. In the end, before the winter transfer came, the famous Swedish coach Eriksson announced his dismissal.

Faced with such a team that has no desires and no desires, it is naturally impossible for Charlotte to play the main force, and the next game is their decisive battle with Liverpool.

Therefore, Icardi, Sterling, Jack Sinclair, Chambers and other teenagers all appeared on the field. Generals like Lambert, Sturridge and Al Ganassi were not even selected for the substitute list. Luo stayed on the South Coast to recharge his batteries.

Even Jack Stephens was very fortunate to be selected as a substitute, because Charlotte's starting central defender was a combination of Bruma and Mustafi, and Jose Fonte was also left in Southampton. Therefore, Jack Stephens of the youth team got the opportunity to replace the central defender. As for whether he can play or not, it depends on luck.

The final result is that Southampton once again won a draw. Although Southampton, which is almost an all-youth team lineup, is facing the Leicester City team, which has no desires and desires, the gap in strength between the two sides is still not enough to make up.

At the same time, the No. 35 goalkeeper Calvin Davis, who hadn't played for a long time in this game, also got the chance to start. The [-]-year-old veteran who has not played for a long time is obviously a bit rusty. The goal he guarded allowed the opponent to score two goals. goal.

Fortunately, Icardi and Harry Kane continued to live up to expectations, and they evened the score with one goal.

The only thing that made Charlotte unhappy was that in a press with the opponent's forward, the German central defender Mustafi was injured and ended up off the field.And it was the No. 805 minute of the game, at which point the whole game was over immediately.The teenager Jack Stephens made his first-team debut for this, even though it was only 7 minutes including injury time.

According to the preliminary conclusion of the team doctor, the German central defender will be absent for at least one month.

Charlotte is like scolding a mother, the time has come to the middle of April, there is no difference between being absent for a month and being reimbursed for the season, the key is still in such an insignificant game, or in the last few minutes.

It's hard for Charlotte to say anything. He can't say that Mustafi shouldn't fight the opponent for the ball, isn't it worth it? !That's not Charlotte's style, and that's not Charlotte's philosophy.For this reason, he can only comfort the German central defender, because Mustafi knows that he will not be able to attend the semi-finals of the FA Cup due to injury, so he looks very depressed.

It's not that the 19-year-old Mustafi is indispensable for Charlotte, mainly because Southampton has insufficient reserves in the central defender position this season.After Gary Monk was injured and retired, there were only Jose Fonte, Bruma and Mustafi. Among them, Bruma could only start in the first team before he was 20 years old, and Mustafi was 19 years old. He has too many shortcomings, and Charlotte is still correcting them.

So in this way, Mustafi was injured and Southampton didn't even have a suitable substitute.If one of Jose Fonte and Bruma is injured again
Is it possible to count on Jack Stephens and Chambers, two 16-year-old guys? !
Charlotte swears that next season, she will replenish energy in the position of central defender!
In the two rounds of the league, Southampton scored two consecutive draws, and even the score was the same, which can be said to be incredible for Southampton in the past.

But now no one will say anything. After reading Southampton's 16-man roster, everyone expressed that they can accept this result.

Charlotte herself didn't have the mind to think about this game, after the team returned to Southampton for a day of rest.Charlotte announced that the whole team has entered the "level one combat readiness" state. The usual training is not open to the public. Neither fans nor media reporters can enter the Staplewood training base.

Everyone understands that this is Charlotte going to fight Liverpool in the FA Cup!
Three days before the start of the semifinals, Charlotte announced that the whole team had entered closed training.During the two-day training, the players were not allowed to use the Internet and mobile phones, nor could they enter and exit the training base. During the two-day training period, they will directly live in the player dormitory in the Southampton training base.

Of course, at the end of training in the evening, players are still allowed to use their mobile phones for half an hour to call their families, provided they are only family members.

Charlotte's control over Southampton has reached a foolproof point, so even such closed training did not cause dissatisfaction among the players.

Of course, this may also have something to do with Charlotte saying that after two days of training, he will give the team a day off, and at the end of the season, he will also give everyone a mobile phone as a reward.

The stick and candy policy has always been Charlotte's method of managing players, and it is undoubtedly the best.

On the day before the game, Charlotte also fulfilled his promise, and he gave the team a day off.But this has aroused the concern of the coaching staff represented by Wilkins, Martin Hunter and Tony Cotton. After all, the game is about to start, and it seems inappropriate to give the team a holiday now.

Charlotte is not worried about this at all: "You still underestimate the attraction of the FA Cup to them. We don't need to say a word, they can all rush up and tear their opponents in two. And these two days The closed training has almost exhausted their energy, so I can guarantee that they will have no other ideas except to rest after they go back, otherwise your coaching staff will be lazy these two days!"

Wilkins and the others could only shake their heads and smile wryly, they were well aware of the amount of training in the past two days.A lot of targeted training, a lot of route and tactical analysis, not to mention the players, even their coaches just want to take a shower and go to bed after the daily training-too fucking tired.

Charlotte has grasped the hearts of the players very well. Although the youngest of these players is only 21 or [-] years old, and the average age of the main players of the first team is only [-] or [-], for them, the FA Cup semi-final The game is likely to be the only time in their generation that they are closest to the FA Cup final, especially those like Schneiderlin and Adam Lallana who have accompanied the team in the lower leagues for several years. Players, I cherish this game very much.

There are also players like Pogba, Danny Rose and Sturridge who, despite their youth, may have more big games ahead of them.But in their hearts, the most important game in their youth is this game. They need to prove themselves to the old club that abandoned them.

Especially Sturridge, it can be said that he is already ready for battle, because he already knows that in another semi-final Chelsea beat the North London team Tottenham Hotspur [-]-[-], so if he can beat Liverpool If this is the case, he will be able to meet his former club in the finals, and then let the other party take a good look. Not giving himself a chance is the biggest mistake they made.

The FA Cup match was scheduled for April 45th, at [-]:[-]pm on Saturday.For such a time, Charlotte wanted to complain. Although Southampton was very close to Wembley Stadium in London, where the game was held, considering the traffic jam on the road and familiarity with the stadium, they had to go early in the morning. Assemble to London, which naturally affects the team's rest.

If the game is played at [-] or [-] in the afternoon, they can get up slowly in the morning and rush to London in a leisurely manner.

Their opponents in this game, Liverpool from Merseyside, a little further away, arrived in London yesterday afternoon. In order to better ensure the state of the players, the former Anfield King Dalglish led He led his disciples to live in the five-star hotel Hilton Hotel in London, and also rented the training base of the London team Fulham.

Originally, Dalglish wanted to borrow the training base of Arsenal, Tottenham or Chelsea, but unfortunately, these three London powerhouses are playing at home in this round of the Premier League, so it is naturally inconvenient to lend to Liverpool.In this round of the Premier League, Liverpool’s opponent is the farmer Fulham. However, due to factors in the FA Cup semi-finals, the game was postponed to May [-]st, so there is no game in this round of Fulham. Dafang Farm The Lord said that he could lend the training base to his opponent Liverpool.

So it can be seen from these preparations that Dalglish's Liverpool is also salivating for the FA Cup.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Southampton's team bus had already arrived at Wembley Stadium. The new Wembley Stadium was put into use in 2007. Naturally, the old Wembley Stadium is not the same in this day and age. It meets the requirements of the England team. As an international professional football stadium, it is inferior to stadiums like Old Trafford and Anfield, not to mention the newly built Emirates Stadium of Arsenal. The idea of ​​building a new stadium was made a living in the early [-]s.

After seven years, the new Wembley, which cost up to 7.8 million pounds, was finally completed and started to use in 2007. The new Wembley Stadium can accommodate 2618 fans who often watch games, and there is also a floating and closed roof, as well as a comfortable Seats and private luxury rooms, while [-] bathrooms also set a Guinness World Record.

From this we can see the luxury and humanity of the new Wembley Stadium.

So when the team bus circled the stadium, the players in the bus were all attracted by this five-star football stadium.

"Wow wow!!!"

"Woooooo!!!!"

Such exclamations are endless.