Father Green

Chapter 2 Ninety: Restricting Bell means restricting Tottenham

The game against Chelsea was played on Friday afternoon, so the saints who have been busy finally had a little time to rest in order to prepare for the next game with peace of mind.

At present, all 31 rounds of the league are over, and Manchester United has a 20-[-] victory over the Black Cats Sunderland, who are on the verge of relegation.The current points difference between the two teams is still seven points. Originally, Manchester United was very hopeful to overtake the Saints, but they lost to the opponent in the No.[-] four rounds of direct competition. Fulham, who had no desires, was then tied by Allardyce's West Ham United, and Charlotte's Southampton had been tied by Newcastle United in the last few league games except for the make-up match. All other scores were scored three points.

Therefore, the previous direct dialogue between the two teams can be described as a watershed in the Premier League championship situation this season.

There are still seven rounds left in the league, and the Saints are seven points ahead of Manchester United. At first glance, it seems that there are not many leads, but look at the state of the Saints this season. They have not even lost so far, so they want each other Losing points is undoubtedly difficult.

Even Ferguson said that Manchester United has entered the last moment. If they don't seize the opportunity now, they will miss the league title this season.

Southampton, who had recuperated and rested, ushered in the first round of the Europa League quarter-finals in the middle of the week. As expected by Charlotte, the two unlucky Premier League teams met together in this round. , and one of the unlucky guys... is him and his Southampton.

In this knockout match, they encountered Londoners Tottenham Hotspur, who are also a Premier League team.

Chelsea's luck does not know whether it is good or bad, they drew the Kazan Ruby.This is not a strong team, at least compared to the remaining opponents like Lazio and Benfica, Ruby Kazan is really weak.

But the bad luck is that the opponent is a Russian team, and the away factor is the problem that the Blues need to face at present.

The remaining Premier League team, Newcastle United, was not so lucky. They drew the Portuguese giants Benfica.The three giants of Portugal are also well-known throughout Europe. Among them, Porto and Benfica are the old enemies with the strongest competitive strength.

Charlotte doesn't have time to worry about the other party's heart. The problem he urgently needs to face now is how to pass Tottenham.

So far this season, Tottenham are ranked fifth in the Europa League area. If there is no Southampton who broke out halfway, they should be able to sprint for the Champions League semi-finals this season.

But with the Saints, the race for the top four is much tighter.Because Southampton and Manchester United, who are currently stalemate to compete for the championship, have locked two places, and the remaining Manchester City does not seem to be easily left behind.So Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal, the three London teams, are going to compete for the last fourth place. The competition is very fierce.
For Charlotte, the advantage of facing Tottenham is that they know each other well, and he doesn't have to work hard to find information about opponents, because the analysis report on Tottenham is definitely better than that of teams like Lazio and Fenerbahce. Come conveniently.

So when the results of the draw came out a few days ago, Tottenham's analysis report had already been placed on Charlotte's desk by the strategic analysis team formed by Gary Monk, Ayestaran and John Best.

There is no doubt that Tottenham's biggest threat is the left back Gareth Bale, who was also born in Southampton, oh. It should be regarded as a left winger now.

This season, Bell played 28 games in the league and scored [-] goals. He is currently the top scorer in the Tottenham team, which is more than the combined goals of Defoe and Adebayor.

So how to restrain the opponent's Bell has become a key consideration for Charlotte.

In the previous match with Tottenham in the league, because Charlotte paid too much attention to Bell and ignored other Tottenham players, the situation was relatively passive.

But Charlotte believes that limiting Bell this time will definitely limit Tottenham's offensive line. At the beginning of the season, Tottenham did not rely on Bell's personal ability so much.But now, as the season draws to a close, Spurs have become overly reliant on the Welsh wings.

Therefore, Charlotte told Carvajal during the targeted deployment before the game that he should not come forward in this game, and watch Bell dead by man-to-man.

Then Schneiderlin is responsible for covering the defense and intercepting the ball in front of Bell.Bell's characteristic is to break through with the ball at high speed, so once someone sticks to him with small moves and foul tactics, he can effectively contain the opponent's breakthrough.

At the same time, due to Bell's speed, Tottenham's players will not pass the ball to his feet, but in front of him, so that Bell has a space to speed up and get the ball.

Because the Southampton team has too many speed players, Charlotte has a lot of experience in controlling the opponent in this way.

This tactic was successful. The game went on until No. 30 minutes. Tottenham did not have a decent attack. Instead, the offensive launched by Southampton made the Tottenham fans at home a little frightened.

If it weren't for the excellent performance of the inverted triangle defense line of Vertonghen, Kaboul and Lloris, Tottenham might have conceded more than two goals.

Boas made some adjustments on the spot, but it was useless. Parker moved his position forward and wanted to come to support Bale, but such a move created space in Tottenham's midfield. The distance between the veteran Parker is a bit large.

After Carvajal snatched Bell, he handed it to Schneiderlin next to him immediately, and the French midfielder gave it to Lallana without delay.

Lallana dribbled the ball in the middle without any restraint, because no one defended him! !

Sandro could only intercept from behind, but Lallana gave the ball to the Colombian attacking midfielder Rodriguez who pulled the ball from the wing to the center.

James Rodriguez and Lallana made a two-for-one wall kick with a tacit understanding, and then Lallana took the ball and was already close to the top of the penalty area.

Kabul came up to grab, the French defender thought very simply, he just needs to slow down Lallana's pace, then teammate Sandro will have time to push up, and then he can calmly return to his position.

But his thinking was too simple. Just when the opponent came up to make a move, Lallana swung his short legs and made a fake move to open the gap from the opponent's left, and then suddenly flipped the football to the right. Go over, then pull half a body away from the opponent, and immediately poke the football out.

And when the football just went out, Lallana was pulled by Kabul, which shows that Lallana is very clear about the opponent's foul actions.

The referee was about to blow his whistle to signal a foul by Tottenham, but saw the football sent by Lallana fly in a straight line against the lawn and in front of the penalty spot. French goalkeeper Lloris had already rushed over.

But someone had faster speed and reaction than Loris, a yellow figure appeared in front of the ball, and then shot straight away.

The football flew up from the lawn and hit the finger that Lloris threw out, but in the end it didn't change direction much. It flew diagonally past Lloris and then went straight into Tottenham's goal.

The referee immediately blew the whistle, but it did not refer to the top of the Tottenham penalty area, but the middle circle of the stadium.

One to zero!Southampton temporarily leads away.

Icardi, who scored the goal, jumped up and cheered vigorously, and then hugged Lallana who came up behind him.With this goal, he once again distanced himself from Torres, Kozak and Cavani on the UEFA Cup scorer list.

Cavani's Naples has been eliminated, so currently only Torres, Kozak and Benfica's Cardoso can compete with Icardi.

But when it comes to Torres, it is also strange. He didn't score a few goals in the league, but he felt a bit like killing in the Europa League.You must know that Chelsea was "decentralized" to the Europa League after being eliminated from the Champions League group stage. The Spanish golden boy who has not passed the group stage is Bicardi.Kozak and others missed four group games.

Charlotte, who was on the sidelines, saw Icardi scoring the ball, and excitedly gave his assistant Wilkins a high-five: "Take the lead!"

Boas, who is also a young coach, did not jump angrily on the sidelines, that was not his style.The Portuguese marshal has been standing on the sidelines and did not return to his seat. He almost witnessed the goal.

Villas-Boas whistled, then pointed to Belgian striker Ousmane Dembele, and finally waved again.

Charlotte didn't need to think about it to know that Boas asked Dembele to retreat a little, and then went to meet Bale.

This season's Dembele has not been transformed into a defensive midfielder. He still appears more in the position of forward, midfielder or second forward, and occasionally plays as a winger. After all, his dribbling skills are indeed very good.

Belgian striker Dembele came back, so Parker breathed a sigh of relief. He retreated in front of Sandro, keeping the best distance from the Brazilian midfielder.

Charlotte looked at the watch on her wrist, and said to Wilkins: "The first half may be like this, ask Gary and John to grasp the data of the entire first half, as well as the data of the last few games against Tottenham. Comparison summary, I will receive it when I go back to the locker room after the game."

Wilkins nodded and went back to the back row of the bench to find Gary Monk and John Best.At this time, the two of them were holding a computer in their hands, typing on the keyboard.

Charlotte has always been the focus on the sidelines. As long as the situation on the court is not particularly tight, the broadcaster will always show Charlotte in the shots of every game.

So the conversation between him and Wilkins just now was naturally captured by the TV screen, and then Wilkins trotted to the coach's bench, which also attracted the attention of the director.