Father Green

Chapter 281: Reformist Martinez and his Wigan Athletic
The final score was locked at 805 to [-], and Manchester United did show their housekeeping skills at the last moment. Van Persie broke through the gate of Southampton in No. [-] minutes.

It was not Lu Xiaopang or Professor Yang or Valencia who provided the assist for the Dutch general, but the veteran Carrick, who completely broke through the Saints' defense with a through ball.

You must know that at the last moment of the game, Southampton has already started to defend with determination. Carrick can find an empty sheet with such a dense number of people in the backcourt, which shows the experience of the veteran.

After the opponent scored a goal, Charlotte also replaced Schneiderlin, first to strengthen the team's defense, and to let him find his status.

After the game, Charlotte and Ferguson shook hands and said, "Let's go, old man, have a drink!"

Ferguson looked very unhappy: "You beat me on my territory and asked me to buy you a drink?!"

Charlotte was not frightened: "Hey, do you know what hospitality is? I bought you a drink when you came to St. Mary's Stadium, and you treat me like this when I'm a guest? Didn't win, blame me?!"

Ferguson felt that what Charlotte said made sense, but he was speechless for a while
"You can't be too Wenger!" Charlotte said weakly seeing that the other party hadn't said anything yet.

Ferguson was overjoyed and shook his head: "You can't be too Charlotte!"

Charlotte: "."

The wine was finally drunk. The last time Ferguson agreed that if Charlotte came to Old Trafford, he would also buy him a drink. Although at that time he said that he would drink the Chilean Red Devil, the club's wine sponsor, but it was just out of anger. In other words, when Charlotte was sitting in the reception room, Ferguson still took out his treasures without hesitation.

Charlotte doesn't know much about wine.But as a Chinese, the wine table culture can be said to be very familiar. Anyway, what you drink is not wine, but friendship!

This game is naturally the focus of this round. After the game, many media exclaimed that Southampton was invincible.

"Last night in a focus match at Old Trafford, the visiting team Southampton defeated the home team giants Manchester United [-]-[-]. Since then, they have opened up the standings by [-] points and have taken the lead. Our young and outstanding hosts The coach representative, Charlotte, is superior in on-the-spot command, and the famous coach Ferguson is willing to bow down!" - Naturally, everyone understands where this article comes from, and the big picture is the picture of Charlotte and Ferguson shaking hands and embracing after the game. The two were talking in a low voice, Charlotte was smiling, but Ferguson was a little unhappy.

"The Saints have become the only Premier League team to beat Manchester United in two home and away games this season!! With a four-point lead, they are now officially launching their charge towards the league title!" - "The Guardian"

"From the beginning of the season when Manchester United took a three-goal lead, it ended up being a [-]-[-] comeback, and now it's leading [-]-[-], ending the game [-]-[-]! I have to say that Charlotte's Southampton has become more mature, and the Premier League's Watch out, tycoons!" - "Mirror"

"Southampton this season is a phenomenon! Just after being promoted to the Championship last season, they won the double crown of the English Championship and the FA Cup. It's hard to give up. Although they were eliminated in the FA Cup, they have reached the semi-finals of the League Cup and are only one step away from entering the final. At the same time, they also entered the knockout round with an undefeated record in the Europa League. !Perhaps we are witnessing a miracle by the 'rookie' manager leading his boys!" - This is The Times.

The term rookie is no longer used on Charlotte, and the word used by The Times here does not mean irony or humiliation, they just remind everyone how difficult it is for this young man, and at the same time he created How great is the miracle.

After the match against the Red Devils Manchester United, Charlotte immediately ushered in the second Premier League team in the Greater Manchester area. Not Manchester City!

The fifth round of No.20 is just three days after the 24th round, and the time has entered two months, and the schedule is getting busier, because there will be matches in the European battlefield later, but fortunately, we were eliminated in the FA Cup, otherwise it would be like this Southampton's four-line battle is really too much.

The opponent in this round is Wigan Athletic in the Greater Manchester area. Wigan Athletic has been impressive in the past few seasons. They not only managed to stay in the Premier League, but also played with many Premier League players. Downstream teams are not the same football as lower level teams.

Martinez completely reformed Wigan Athletic. This team, known for its rough and physical confrontation in the past, began to play technical flow and pass control flow under the technical innovation of the Spanish coach.

However, this season's Wigan Athletic life is a bit difficult. They are currently third from the bottom, with the same points as the No. 17 Reading team, but the goal difference is less than the opponent.If Wigan Athletic wants to play in the Premier League next season, then they will have to step up their efforts.

"The relegation team is not easy to play!" In the locker room of the visiting team at the DW stadium, Charlotte said to her players: "Especially the relegation team in the Premier League! Sometimes the fighting power they can explode is not even for teams in the European theater. Dare to face the edge, everyone is a professional player, and many of them are local players in England or have played in the English league, you should be very clear about this."

The players nodded, all serious.

"The Premier League champions fight for honor, while the relegation team fights for life and death!" Charlotte continued: "We managed to win Manchester United in the last game, but we can't lose our credit in this game. They said We are grand thieves who 'rob the rich and give to the poor'? Everyone uses this game to tell them that the task of saving the world should be done by other people, what we have to do is to save ourselves!"

Charlotte waved his hand: "Let's go! Let the Wigans go grab points from other people!"

"Push 'em down the abyss!" the players yelled, before filing out of the visiting locker room.

In this game, Charlotte made some adjustments to the lineup. Schneiderlin, who returned from injury, returned to the starting lineup, Pogba still started, and Wanyama got a chance to rest.Among the frontcourt players, Florenzi, De Bruyne and Rodriguez all started, and Icardi is also in the starting camp.

It's not that Charlotte underestimated Wigan Athletic. In fact, they fought against Manchester United a bit hard in the last round, so Aubameyang and Adam Lallana need to rest, and even the full-backs are teenager Chamber S replaced Carvajal.

And this game is indeed difficult to play. Martinez's team urgently needs three points to avoid relegation. Points, give me some!"

The one-to-zero score was stalemate until the No. 60 minute of the game. Finally, Charlotte began to adjust and replaced Pogba with Harry Kane to strengthen the offense.

Martinez is naturally not stupid. When he saw this substitution, he knew that the young man next door was going to die.So to avoid his edge for the time being, he changed two people in succession.First, a frontcourt player was removed and a defensive midfielder was replaced to increase the hardness of the midfield and the defense of the backcourt. Wigan Athletic did not play conservatively in this game, so this substitution directly shows that they have changed tactics.

Then he replaced Argentina's powerful center Di Santo with a speedy striker. These two consecutive substitutions are tantamount to telling everyone that he is going to prepare for a defensive counterattack.

But obviously they still underestimated Southampton's double center tactic, which is not simply a tactic that simply puts one more forward in the frontcourt.

No. 70 minutes, De Bruyne swept across the middle, Florenzi jumped over the ball with a tacit understanding, and did not catch the ball.

Rodriguez, who was unguarded on the other side, cut in two steps after receiving the ball, and continued to sweep the center after attracting the attention of the opponent's defensive players.

Icardi immediately moved, and a central defender and a defensive midfielder watched him. Obviously Martinez understood the strength of the Argentine center forward.

But Icardi didn't mean to come by himself. He knocked the ball with his heel, and the football went to the penalty spot in the middle. At this time, Wigan Athletic's defense was on Icardi. Harry Kane Flexibly bypassed the Spanish defender Ivan Ramis next to him. Ramis wanted to hold the opponent but was not the opponent's opponent in terms of speed. Harry Kane shot the goal immediately, and the football pierced through the Oman goalkeeper Habsi guarded gate.

Martinez looked at his watch. It was about 10 minutes before the end of the game including injury time.This time is a bit embarrassing. If it is another Premier League team, Martinez is sure to stick to it for 10 minutes, but facing Southampton, thinking about Manchester United before, he is really not very sure.

While the Spanish coach was still hesitating, the time had quietly reached No. 706 minutes.

At this time, he made up his mind—to stick to it!
Martinez gave instructions to the field, and in an instant, Wigan Athletic's players began to retreat sharply, and then only the speedy striker who had just entered the field was left in the front field.

One-to-one is also acceptable for Wigan Athletic, no matter how small the mosquito meat is, it is still meat, and for Wigan Athletic, every point is extremely precious.

But Charlotte obviously won't just let it go. He replaced Rodriguez with the teenager Sterling at the last moment. First, it was because the Colombian was the starter when he played against Manchester United and needed to rest. Second, he also replaced Rodriguez. The new force comes to charge.

Charlotte has only one instruction for Sterling, and that is to use speed to attack the opponent's defense line with unreasonable speed on the wing after taking the ball, forcing the opponent to make mistakes.

Sterling was a little dazed: "But...they are defending intensively, I don't have that much space?"

Charlotte pointed to the opponent's sideline: "Most of their defense is concentrated in the middle, you go up and get it and rush in if you have a chance, I will let Alejandro cover you behind you, so you don't have to worry about it! "

Sterling nodded, and went to the field to explain the new instructions from his teammates.