Father Green

Chapter 3 and Six: Little Sparrow, Big Heart
Southampton, who played away, had already led their opponents [-]-[-] in the first half, which gave them an advantage.After the start of the second half, Jesus made a decisive substitution adjustment, replacing Perez, who was underperforming, with the young Salvio.

Salvio is currently the No. [-] breakup in the Benfica team. Although he is young but has outstanding talent, Jesus' purpose of replacing him is undoubtedly to strengthen the offense.

But in Charlotte's view, Jesus lost every step by mistake, because the Portuguese wanted to achieve a good result by attacking at home before the start of the game, giving more room for the away game in the second round.

That's why he only arranged two midfielders, and then arranged heavy troops in the frontcourt.Use the breakthrough ability of the left and right sides to open the gap, and then pass the cross to the center Cardoso. The 1.9-meter-three Paraguayan is definitely a tower.

It's just that if you want to fight like this, the premise is that your strength is stronger than the opponent, or between equals.But what is the truth?The fact is that he still underestimated Southampton's strength.

Charlotte started to make substitutions in the 5 minutes of the game, and he needs to prepare for the next league game.Stephens replaced Jose Fonte, then Florenzi replaced Schneiderlin.

In this case, Pogba and Wanyama will partner with double midfielders, and Florenzi will go to the front midfielder position.Roman Sao Nian is an all-rounder in the midfield. He was born as a midfielder and can play as a midfielder and midfielder. At the same time, he also played as a winger and a winger when he was in Rome. Such a player is very popular with the coach, because he is a One can fill several positions.

Not long after Southampton made a substitution, Benfica finally pulled back a victory. Center forward Cardoso caught Stephens's mistake and overwhelmed England teenager Stephens to top Gaitan's cross. After coming down, Lima, who followed up, did not waste his reputation as the top scorer in the team, and directly swept the goal.

Ter Stegen caught the ball, but couldn't stop it from hitting the net. The ball went slightly wide but then bounced against the inside of the goal post and bounced into the goal.

Two to one, with three and 10 minutes left in the game, this has a different meaning for Benfica, because they will have more opportunities and time to equalize or even overtake the score.

At least they saw that the new Stephens seemed to be the best breakthrough, and there were some small freckles on his immature face, which was typical of a child.

Zhan Jun sighed: "Perhaps Charlotte should think about it. Is it too early to change? Even if you want to train young players or preserve your strength, it depends on the time. At least 65 minutes later is more appropriate."

In Zhan Jun's view, Charlotte is being careless and underestimating the enemy. If he made a substitution 10 minutes later, the goal might not have been scored, and even if it had been scored, Benfica would not have had enough time To plan a comeback.

Where is Charlotte?He didn't care about the goal. After all, Benfica's strength lies there. After all, they are also a giant in the Portuguese Super League.Even the top giants like Manchester United or Real Madrid dare not say that they are [-]% sure that they can do it.

But in a football game, it is not terrible to be scored by the opponent, but the terrible thing is that you can't score yourself.

Charlotte stood on the sidelines and shouted, signaling the team to continue playing like this.

After the game restarted, Wanyama looked at Stephens behind him, and after thinking about it, he continued to withdraw his position, so that he could take care of the young man a little bit.

After Wanyama's position is retreated, Pogba's position must also be moved towards the back, because Southampton's tactics have a reasonable requirement for the position between players, which cannot be too far or too close.

This goal itself gave Benfica infinite hope and motivation. They saw that the new kid was easier to bully, and at the same time the opponent took the initiative to retreat.They think they have grasped the vital points of each other, so Benfica played more actively.

At the 705th minute of the game, Charlotte turned her head and smiled and said to her assistants, "Benfica will admit it."

That's right, after tasting the sweetness on Stephens' side, Benfica's offensive firepower was concentrated on Stephens' side for the next nearly 10 minutes, trying to continue to open the gap.

But at first Stephens had the help of Wanyama who retreated, and did not give the opponent a second chance, and then slowly the teenager found his own rhythm and began to adapt to the game more, even later Wanyama did not Go up to help, because the Kenyan beast waist found that Stephens was slowly able to cope with himself.

If Charlotte were to speak for himself, who was his biggest discovery at Southampton?It's not Sturridge, Pogba or Rodriguez and others, but this England kid who came out of Staplewood Youth Academy.

Sturridge and others, Charlotte already have a very clear understanding of them, including young players such as Luke Shaw and Harry Kane. Charlotte knows their potential and ability, and also knows the general direction of development.But Charlotte knew nothing about Stephens.

When he didn't come to Southampton, he didn't hear the name until 2017.Obviously, according to the historical trajectory, he may not have won Southampton's professional contract and was terminated, or he may have been loaned or transferred to a low-level league to play.

So according to the normal trajectory, Stephens is unlikely to gain a foothold and become famous in the Premier League.But the current Stephens is already an indispensable rotation player for Southampton, and even Charlotte feels a huge potential from him to be discovered.

So Stephens was listed by Charlotte in the team as the same focus as young people like Pogba and Harry Kane.

After two seasons of contact, Charlotte found that the opponent was improving a little bit almost every day.In the beginning, he could only rely on his own physical fitness to hold on. Until now, his skills have gradually matured, and he understands positioning, anticipation, and co-defense, etc. At the same time, Charlotte also discovered that he has a big heart .

No matter how difficult the situation is, it is difficult for him to make waves in his heart.In other words, even if you beat him into a sieve, he will remain motivated and aggressive as always, and will never give up on himself because of frustration.

This is why Charlotte is very relieved of him, because he knows that Benfica wants to break the opponent from Stephens, which is undoubtedly a wrong decision.

Sure enough, Cardoso took the ball and continued to look for Stephens, looking at the pair of long legs. Well, Cardoso is not the kind of person who is interested in men's legs, he has his own ideas.

He poked the ball, wanted to pass through the crotch, and then turned halfway to catch the ball behind Stephens.But after Cardoso turned around, he realized that the football had not reached the position he expected.

Turning his head to look, he found that the boy whom he regarded as a "rookie" was running towards the midfield with the ball.

The ball is broken?

"Stephens!! Beautiful interception!" Zhan Jun gave Stephens a thumbs up.

Lima was taken aback for a moment, he was going forward to meet Cardoso, but he saw Cardoso rushing towards the opponent's penalty area, but the football was brought towards him by the opponent's "little freckle".

The Brazilian striker immediately stretched out his feet to intercept Stephens. In his opinion, the central defender dribbling the ball forward was tantamount to playing with fire!

Just waiting for Lima to stretch his feet, Stephens flicked the ball on the outside of his instep and then directly avoided the opponent's grabbing the ball. The speed did not decrease, and he continued to dribble the ball forward.

Pogba was stunned, and immediately moved forward with Florenzi. Wanyama did not go up. He stayed beside Stephens, waiting for a response or if his teammate was accidentally intercepted by the opponent, he could counterattack on the spot. Grab and destroy the opponent's counterattack.

Benfica's midfielder did not have a heavy army, so Stephens dribbled the ball directly past the center circle and attacked the opponent's hinterland. What's interesting is that behind him is Lima chasing back, but no matter how Lima chases, it is Can't catch up with Stephens with the ball.

"Stephens!!!"

Matic knew it couldn't be like this, so he stepped forward decisively to intercept.Stephens looked up at the Serbian midfielder, then gave the ball to Wanyama on the left, and then accelerated himself and passed the Serbian midfielder.

After seeing Stephens pass the ball, Matic instinctively thought that "little freckle" was going to retreat to his central defender position and hand over the offense to his teammates in the midfield, so he directly rushed to Wan who had just taken the ball Yama, but when he saw that Stephens was still going forward without the ball, he had a bad feeling in his heart.

Sure enough, Wanyama did not take the ball by himself, but immediately handed the ball to Stephens. At this time, Stephens had already gone behind Matic.

"Beautiful two over one!!"

Charlotte smiled and turned her head to Gary Monk, Ajestaran and Le Tissier who wanted to coach alone in the future and said: "The other party must not have expected such a fast speed as a central defender!"

Martins gritted his teeth, and followed up to intercept the opponent. He was already prepared for a foul. Anyway, he didn't have any cards yet, so even if he got a yellow card for a tactical foul, it was worth it.

But as soon as Martins stepped forward, Stephens passed the ball.This time it was directly handed over to Pogba in front of him, and then he continued to advance diagonally.

Martins also thought it was another two over one, so he immediately continued to follow Stephens diagonally.

"Martins was taken away by Stephens!!"

Pogba, who took the ball, didn't mean to pass it back to Stephens, but took the ball directly to break into the penalty area, because both Matic and Martins were taken away by a forward Stephens position, so there was an empty space in front of him.