Father Green

Chapter 287: You can still rescue it

At the beginning of the second half of the game, Southampton, who was two goals behind, did not make substitutions. Instead, the leading Basel took the lead in making substitution adjustments.

They replaced the attacking midfielder with a defensive midfielder, which is a typical intention to strengthen the defense.

After the substitution, Basel did change their style of play, and they began to play more cautiously and conservatively.If you are not sure, do not move forward.

But this did not bother Southampton. After only playing 5 minutes of ball control, the Swiss could no longer bear the pressure. The pressure of Icardi and Lallana made them a little at a loss.

In the end, they chose to move forward. After all, conceding a goal in their own half and conceding a goal in the opponent's half are not a concept at all.

But before their ball crossed the center line, Wanyama, who rushed up suddenly, broke the ball at the opponent's feet, and then passed it straight to Lallana.

Before the opponent's defense could react, Lallana immediately sent a long pass to find the opponent's central defender.

Icardi originally walked slowly in front of the two central defenders, but as soon as he saw Lallana passing the ball, he immediately passed between the two central defenders and leaned back before the opponent's goalkeeper made a strike. , Kicked the ball out with one kick.

As soon as the Argentine kicked the ball out, the opponent's central defender arrived and pulled Icardi's jersey.Icardi, who leaned back a bit like a shovel shot, had a hard time controlling his body balance, and fell to the ground directly after being interfered by the opponent.

The referee didn't blow the whistle immediately, he put the whistle in his mouth, waiting for the final result in front of the goal.

The goalkeeper failed to save the ball and the football went under him and into the goal.

The referee blew his whistle at this time, and he pointed to the center circle-the goal is valid!
Charlotte could see the referee's actions very clearly. If he guessed correctly, the referee planned to call Basel's central defender for a foul if the goal was not scored. Then Southampton would be a penalty. If the goal is scored, the foul is meaningless, and it is still Southampton's goal.

Charlotte gave a thumbs up to the referee on the field-this was not sarcasm, but a sincere compliment to the other party.Then applaud, indicating that his players have done a good job.

Although Icardi has been dragged to the ground by the opponent, his eyes have been looking at the goal. After confirming that the ball has scored, he jumped up from the ground and waved his fist excitedly.

During the intermission, he was scolded by Charlotte for being a shrinking turtle, so this goal vented his depression to some extent.

However, Icardi did not celebrate vigorously. After waving his fist, he immediately fished the football out of the opponent's goal, and signaled to his teammates all the way whether he wanted to celebrate the goal.

Yes, Southampton is still one goal behind, and there is still time for the Saints to celebrate.

Looking at this scene, Charlotte murmured, "It seems that this kid can be rescued."

Basel's head coach shook his head helplessly, immediately removed a winger, and then replaced him with a defensive midfielder again. This is the rhythm of going to the end.

For this substitution in Basel, the narrators and commentators were divided into two factions.One of the factions thinks that Basel was a little too conservative in the second half. If they maintained the rhythm and firepower in the first half, then Southampton might not be able to get back to the city so quickly, and it would be a big mistake to continue to strengthen the defense now. Very wrong.

The other group of people said that Basel is a typical example of giving up as soon as it is good. Basel also had some luck in the first half, so a change of tactics in the second half is necessary.Because it is obvious that the state of the saints has begun to come out, pressing at this time is tantamount to courting death.

Charlotte was very helpless, and said to the assistant beside her: "The iron bucket must be able to hold it? Now the game will end in 10 minutes."

Wilkins spread his hands, thinking who said during the halftime break that this game might still encounter Waterloo?
Charlotte said to Wilkins: "Let Pogba prepare to play, and we will take out the nuclear weapons that break the dense defense!"

The game came to No. 605 minutes, and Southampton finally made the first substitution adjustment.Pogba came on the field, and Icardi was relieved when he saw Pogba standing on the sidelines. At least he was definitely not himself.
It was Aubameyang who was replaced, and Charlotte was about to change her tactics.Lallana went to the wing and formed a cross with Rodriguez on the left and right.

The newly played Pogba went to the front midfielder to form a tower, or form a powerful long-range shot with Wanyama who inserted in the back.

At No. 705 minutes into the game, Charlotte's adjustments paid off.Lallana's cross was pushed down by Pogba with his back to the attacking direction, and then Icardi, who followed up, swung his legs directly to the football that had not yet landed.

The football flew towards Basel's goal. This time the Swiss goalkeeper made a contribution. He sideways threw the Argentine's shot and saved it.

However, the crisis in Basel did not end there, and the football fell to the right of the top of the arc at the front of the penalty area.Wanyama followed up with a supplementary shot, and the ball quickly flew to Basel's goal again.

This time the goalkeeper failed to make another contribution. He fell to the ground and could only watch the football fly into the goal behind him.Wanyama's shot is very powerful, and the ball is so fast that he has no reaction time at all.

Not to mention him, even the Swiss midfielder in front of Wanyama did not respond to the pressure on the Kenyan beast waist.

Two to two, Southampton scored two goals in the second half to drag the game back to the same starting line.

This was at home, and Charlotte was not reconciled to ending the game with this score, so he immediately made a second substitution.Sturridge was standing on the sidelines waiting to play, and assistant coach Wilkins was explaining tactics to him with a tactical board.

Looking at Sturridge next to the fourth official, Icardi walked off the field.In his opinion, since Sturridge, a local striker, came up, he should be replaced.

But he was very unhappy. After all, in the second half, he thought that his performance was already very good. He had a goal and an indirect assist. The boss shouldn't have replaced him at this time, especially because he felt that he was in a good state.

Icardi, who had just walked a few steps with his head buried, was stopped by Rodriguez. The Colombian grumbled to the sidelines and motioned for Icardi to look more clearly.

Only at this time did Icardi look up at the replacement sign in the hands of the fourth official. The number [-] was replaced, and the number [-] was replaced? ? !

Shouldn't it be your own NO.19? !

Icardi didn't react, but he had already seen Schneiderlin clap his hands to thank the home fans for the applause, and then trot towards the sidelines.

Although he doesn't understand what happened, the only thing Icardi knows is that he can continue to stay on the court.

Sturridge made gestures to Icardi, Pogba and others on the field, and explained the tactical adjustments arranged by the head coach.

Everyone can see that Sturridge and Icardi are both in front, forming a double center position.And Pogba's position is slightly retreated, between the front midfielder behind the two, but in front of the midfielder Wanyama.

The head coach of Basel's eyes lit up. He understood that the opponent's young and shameless head coach was going to work hard.He came to the sidelines and signaled to his team to stabilize first, resist the opponent's early attack, and then launch a counterattack.

After removing a defensive midfielder, there must be a lot of space in the position of the opponent's midfielder.

But the Basel people obviously thought too much. After Schneiderlin was replaced, Wanyama reduced the number of forward moves, and stayed in the backcourt to defend when the opportunity was not very good.

Then Nkuru moved forward, behind Wanyama and in front of Lovren.Even goalkeeper ter Stegen moved forward, standing outside the penalty area.

Southampton pressed forward almost the whole game, putting pressure on the opponent.

Basel can only be passive defense for a while, there is no chance to form a counterattack.Because the Saints failed to take down a wave of attacks, they immediately threw themselves into an on-the-spot counter-robbery.

Even Icardi and Lallana were carrying a yellow card, which shows how active Southampton's frontcourt pressing is.

The king paid off. In the final stage of stoppage time in the second half, Rodriguez cut in from the side and caught a chance for a follow-up shot. Sturridge's shot was rejected by the goal frame. The Colombian attacking midfielder used his chest slightly. Unload the ball and shoot directly.

The football went straight into the dead corner at the far end of the goal, three to two!Southampton overtook the score.

In the locker room of the home team at the end of the game, Charlotte said to the team: "Although you played like a bunch of flying in the first half! But your performance in the second half perfectly explained what is called the return of the king. Very good, tomorrow morning It seems that I have no chance to cancel the half-day vacation for you."

"Oye!!" the players cheered.

"However... the opponent scored two away goals in this game, so we can't be careless. We must kill the game when we go to the opponent's home court in the next game!" Charlotte said seriously.

The players nodded. They naturally understand that the knockout round is a home and away game. If they are still so careless in the away game, then they are likely to say goodbye to this season's Europa League in advance.

In the press conference after the game, Charlotte highly praised the opponent: "Basel is a veteran team, there is no doubt about it. They will appear on the European battlefield every season, whether it is the Champions League or the Europa League. They were there. You could see that in the game they gave us trouble, so even though we won the game, there are bigger challenges ahead, St Jakob is a great stadium , the next game will be very hard for our away game!"

And the head coach of Basel almost couldn't hold back his scolding, my buddy can be domineering in Switzerland, but in the European arena, when did you say it was so awesome?