Father Green

Chapter 66:: First league loss

Charlotte knows that the opponent is not a soft persimmon. After all, he was still playing in the Premier League last season, so he has done a lot of preparations for this game, telling the players to pay attention to the core of the opponent.

When choosing the starting lineup, Charlotte originally intended to let Gary Monk and Jose Fonte partner as the main central defender, but the pre-match medical team told Charlotte that Gary Monk's current physical condition is not suitable for playing full-time. Nine 10-minute games.

Considering that the Dutch central defender Bruma has matured a lot during this time, Charlotte let Bruma and Wundt partner.

But I didn't expect that Bruma, who has always been relatively stable, made two mistakes that shouldn't be made in this game. However, these two mistakes were caught by the opponent's experienced midfielder Barry Ferguson. shoot.

Barry Ferguson and Kevin Phillips, two veterans who are old and strong, directly brought Charlotte and his team an unexpected loss. Barry is 33 years old, and the most glorious time of his career is Spent in Glasgow Rangers in his native Scotland.

At the end of the 90s and the beginning of the new century, he was the winner of five Scottish footballers. At that time, the Scots often said that they had two Fergusons, one was Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson and the other was Barry Ferguson who played football. Ferguson, although the two have the same surname, they have nothing to do with each other.

As for Kevin Phillips, he is very familiar. It is worth mentioning that he is 38 years old this year.
Southampton's defensive end is terrible, and the offensive end is not much better.Sturridge, who had just returned from injury, did not show his previous strength in this game. It can even be said that it was Sturridge's absence that dragged down the team's offensive rhythm.

In the locker room at the end of the game, Charlotte did not blame the players, but said that the biggest factor in the loss of the game was her own.

He explained to the players that because he ignored the two veterans, Barry Ferguson and Kevin Phillips, he did not make targeted deployments on the court. It was too hasty, and just after recovering from injury, let the opponent play the first game against such an important opponent and take on an important task.

Then Charlotte comforted his players: "It's normal to lose. It's not normal if a team doesn't lose for a long time. There are many factors for losing, but I don't think there is any reason for us to lose in this game." No head."

"Blackpool was a Premier League team in the previous season, and what about us? It's just League One. Now we can compete with them in itself, which shows our strength, so there is nothing to be ashamed of. , If we lose this game, we will win the next game and come back.”

"A season's hard work is not determined by winning or losing a game. What we need to do now is to work hard to improve our own strength, and then face every opponent seriously. When we face each other again in the second half of the season Against Blackpool we have to win it back!"

It has to be said that Charlotte's consolation has great reuse.The locker room, which had been lifeless before, suddenly became different, and the players seemed to find that they took the result of this game too seriously.

It's no big deal to lose this game, it's just a matter of winning the next game.A season is quite long, and winning or losing a game has little effect on the entire season, but if you are too obsessed with winning or losing a certain game, it will have an impact on the next game.

At the post-match press conference, facing some aggressive reporters, Charlotte smiled humorously: "I don't know why Southampton's loss has become big news. It's unscientific. It stands to reason that Nan'an A team like Puton should lose often in your minds, and I, the head coach, might be fired before Christmas."

"Of course, I am very happy with your reaction. This shows that Southampton has become a strong team in the Championship in your hearts, not the newly promoted polo team that planned to come to the Championship for a day."

The reporters smiled friendly. In fact, the relationship between the media reporters and Charlotte was pretty good.Although they have ridiculed Charlotte a lot, Charlotte doesn't hold grudges for it at all.

If Charlotte knows that a young man in the same situation as him has served as the head coach of a team like Middlesbrough and Leeds United, Charlotte himself will ridicule him in various ways.

He is not your real father or godfather, why should you be polite to you, a college student who just graduated?Want to gain the recognition and respect of this circle?That has to rely on strength to speak.

"I was just talking to my lads. My brothers." When the word "lad" was said, the reporters in the audience burst into laughter, and Charlotte herself laughed too.

"I said to my brothers, losing is not the end of the world. Instead, we should thank the teams that beat us. They let us see our own shortcomings and recognize our own shortcomings. And we are now What has to be done is to make up for these deficiencies and shortcomings, which is a process of self-improvement."

"When we lose less and less games, it means that we are strong enough. When we are strong enough, only we can beat us!"

The media reporters applauded for a while, no matter whether Charlotte was talking big or not, at least what he said was level.

In the end, Charlotte ended the press conference with a humorous sentence: "And today is our first failure, so there are still many times when we fail, and you all have to be mentally prepared."

A loss that was supposed to be a crisis ended up disappearing in Charlotte's two speeches.

After losing the first league game of the new season, the whole Southampton team is not convinced. Under the intensive training of the coaching staff headed by Charlotte, the whole team can be said to be sharpening their swords.

At this time, Doncaster unfortunately hit the knife edge.

October [-]st is a special day in China.It's just a normal day in England, but it's not a normal day for Southampton.It's the tenth round of their Championship game, just three days after their last away loss to Blackpool.

Southampton is still an away game in this game. At the same time, because the last game has just passed three days, many players have not recovered their physical fitness, so Charlotte arranged some rotations.

Young players such as Schneiderlin, Adam Lallana, Danny Rose and Al Ganassi, who have a high appearance rate and rarely have rotation and rest, got a chance to rest in this game, while Luke Shaw Young players such as , Pogba and Sterling got the opportunity to start training, and even Jose Fonte was replaced by German central defender Mustafi.

In this game, Charlotte did not replace Sturridge, but let him continue to serve as the starter. At the same time, the center forward Lambert did not let him rest because it happened to be his playing year.

Poor Doncaster, all the grievances Southampton received at Bloomfield Road in the last game were vented at the Keepmoat Stadium.

Zero to four, the Saints beat their opponents away.Among them, Sturridge scored twice, completely announcing his return.

After Lambert scored a goal in the No. 60 minute of the game, Charlotte replaced Harry Kane. As a result, the England teenager added the icing on the cake in second-half injury time, locking the score at zero to four.

After the game, Charlotte was naturally not stingy with praise, and at the same time confirmed what she said in the last round of the league.

After this round of competition, the tense days have come to an end for the time being, because the national team competition day will last for nearly ten days, and the next competition will not start until NO.15 in the middle of this month, and there will be half a month in between. offseason.

Of course, this offseason is only for a small team like Southampton that has almost no international players. For the main players of the Premier League team, the hard days have just begun.
Charlotte gave the team a three-day vacation in one breath. This period of time is indeed a bit Alexander. Anyway, there is a lot of time, so naturally I don’t care about taking another day, because even if they stay for training, the players will be absent-minded. It's better to simply take a vacation.