Father Green

Chapter 69: A Visit to Elland Road

Leaving aside the story between the uncle and the little loli, Charlotte and his team will encounter a powerful enemy in this round of competition.

Elland Road Stadium used to be an all-powerful stadium even in the Premier League. Any team that came to this stadium would have to face the test of blood and fire. Even Ferguson and his Red Devils dared not Have any contempt for this course.

Both Elland Road Stadium and Southampton's St. Mary's Stadium are standard Premier League-level stadiums with complete supporting facilities and natural turf, but in terms of seats, it has [-] more seats than St. Mary's Stadium.

Leeds fans are as crazy as their team and are notoriously a hangout for football hooligans.So their home fans are very crazy, which is not comparable to the more moderate Southampton fans in the south.

Of course, it is estimated that Southampton fans don't think that is a good thing.

Although the era of fluttering white clothes is long gone, in the low-level leagues, this stadium and its owner Leeds United are still hard bones for major teams.

And Charlotte is going to lead his team to this great stadium today to challenge Leeds United, the Blancos.

There is no special explanation for the targeted deployment of Charlotte before the game. After all, the players have begun to understand Charlotte's tactics for so long.

The only point to explain is that Charlotte requires the players to be more active in the confrontation. At the same time, Leeds United is good at provoking opponents in the game. This is what Charlotte requires his players to pay attention to.

According to the intelligence of the coaching staff before the game, Leeds United often use the traditional four-four-two formation. For this reason, Charlotte specially explained her central defender combination, paying special attention to the two center forwards.

Today's partner starting central defender combination is the vice-captain Jose Fonte and veteran Gary Monk.

It's just that Charlotte never expected that the head coach of Leeds United, Simon Gleeson, gave him a surprise.

Simon Gleason is very young in the head coaching industry, but compared to Charlotte, he is already a middle-aged uncle who is 19 years older than Charlotte.Although young, Gleason's experience is not available to many low-level team coaches.

As a player, Gleason played in all levels of English leagues, from the Premier League to the British Championship to League One and League Two. It can be said that he is familiar with all professional leagues in England.In the position of head coach, he already has six years of rich experience in the British Championship and League One.

The most famous of these is that in the 08-09 season, he led the Blancos to No. 2 in the League One in the second season when he came to Leeds United, and was directly promoted to the English Championship.

Last season, he finished sixth in the league in his debut in the English Championship, but it was a pity that he fell in the promotion play-offs and failed to complete the double jump, but even so, it was Leeds United. The team has the second-best result since being relegated from the Premier League in the 03-04 season.

So this season, Gleason began to "clean up the old mountains and rivers" and planned to hit the qualifications for the Premier League in one go-this is the ultimate dream of all low-level clubs below the Premier League.

Anyone who sees Gleason's resume will think that this is an experienced head coach, so it is impossible for such an experienced head coach to ignore Southampton, who is currently ranked in the promotion zone in the league standings.

So in this game, Simon Gleeson began to make changes. He gave up the traditional four-four-two parallel formation that he often used both offensive and defensive, and replaced it with the alternate four-five-one tactic.

A defensive midfielder with two central midfielders, two left and right full-backs on both sides, and a speedy forward You Ge in front.

Any fool can see that this is a typical defensive counterattack tactic.

"Simon Gleeson is playing this game at home, isn't he afraid of being kicked off the stage by crazy Leeds United fans?" Seeing that the Blancos opened their formation on the field and prepared to kick off, Charlotte began to complain.

Assistant coach Wilkins smiled: "You must know that he is the hero who led Leeds United to upgrade, and he was almost promoted to the Premier League last season. At this time, even the fans of Leeds United are crazy. , Gleason even dared to form a defensive formation of six defenders."

Now Charlotte is powerless to complain, and the fans are all realistic.They must give priority to grades and good skills and tactics. After all, this is 2011, and "looking good" is not enough for food.

If, like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Manchester United, they no longer have to worry about their grades, they will naturally start to pay attention to "beautiful football", otherwise it will not match the temperament of their giants.

So if you see any fans or teams asking for a change of head coach in the name of conservative play, it must be that the results of this head coach are not good enough.

In fact, Charlotte himself is also a realist. If the offense can bring a victory and three points, he will choose to attack. If the defensive counterattack can bring points, he will definitely choose the defensive counterattack.

"Doing what you know you can't do" is not bravery in Charlotte's view, it's stupidity!
Otherwise, let the current Southampton team play against the La Liga duo. If they don’t lose by double digits, they must be embarrassed to start.
Simon Gleeson has a good plan, and Charlotte has a wall ladder.

Less than 5 minutes after the game started, the coaching staff had already collected the data and information of the opponent's starting 11 players.

Leeds United's goals mainly rely on their Argentine striker Rucheano. Last season, the Argentine striker scored 41 goals in [-] games and was the number one scorer of the Blancos.And this season, the Argentine's state is also hot, scoring three goals in four appearances.

In terms of midfield, the most threatening is the central midfielder Jonny Howson produced by their youth academy. This 23-year-old England midfielder is currently the player who creates the most opportunities in the Blancos.

On the defensive end, Charlotte's eyes lit up, and he saw the 32-year-old Irish veteran O'Brien.

"Breakthrough!" This word is often used by Charlotte in training. It refers to finding the weakest link in the opponent's formation, and then gathering the strength of the whole team to pierce the weakest point.

Charlotte often asks her team to seriously look for the weakest point of the opposing team or a certain player, and then open a breakthrough from here.In the previous few games, Charlotte also directed the team to do this.

In this game, there is no doubt that O'Brien will be Southampton's breakthrough.

When the ball was dead, Charlotte pulled Sturridge who was very close to him: "Did you see the opponent's No. [-] right center back?"

Without waiting for Sturridge to answer, Charlotte went on to say: "That old guy is already 32 years old, his speed and slow turning are a mess."

"So you put Ricky (Lambert) up on him, get a little more physical with him, and then you get Danny behind you to come in and break through and cross. And you're going to hide behind Ricky from O'Neill. Bryan goes around behind, and whether it's Danny's pass or Ricky making the ball for you, it depends on your creativity in the frontcourt."

Sturridge nodded with a smile. In fact, he didn't need Charlotte to explain in such detail. He already understood what his boss said when he heard the first sentence.

After "Black Swan" ran to the field, Charlotte put her hand to her mouth and blew a whistle, then made a gesture to Adam Lallana in the middle.

Adam Lallana naturally understood what that meant. The boss meant to let him be more active in the middle to attract the opponent's attention, but not to shoot easily, but to send the ball to the side.

The head coach of Leeds United, Simon Gleason, naturally didn't understand what Charlotte was thinking, but in his opinion, any "conspiracy" was a joke in the face of absolute strength.

Therefore, in Gleason's eyes, the strength of his White Corps is much stronger than this group of "fishermen" from the south coast. Coupled with his targeted deployment of an extra midfielder, the opponent in this game is simply coming to send three. Divided.

The game came to the No. 18 minute of the game, and neither side scored.It's just that the players of the two teams are moving more and more on the court, and there are more and more conflicts.

Enrage opponents is a tactic often used by Leeds United. In fact, many teams use this tactic, such as West Ham United, Crystal Palace, Reading, Millwall and other teams often use this small tactic.

But under the guidance of Charlotte, this Southampton team is no longer the "soft persimmon" with a cowardly temper and can be manipulated by others, and the style of play has become much tougher.

So after O'Brien pulled Ricky Lambert's jersey twice in a row within 2 minutes to affect his take-off and header, Ricky Lambert leaned against O'Brien in the third header , and then when he felt the opponent's hand stretched out and wanted to pull him when he jumped, Ricky Lambert fell down and pressed on the opponent.

Even though O'Brien is a few centimeters taller than Lambert, it's still hard enough to be directly pressed by such a big center.

The referee is almost clear about these small actions off the court. Although he whistled for Southampton's foul, he didn't even give Lambert a verbal warning.

At the beginning of the game, the midfield of both sides was the hardest hit area. After all, Leeds United "staffed heavily" in the midfield.But as the game progressed, Southampton slowly avoided the midfield and arranged the main offensive force on the wing.

The head coach of Leeds United, Simon Gleason, naturally saw that Southampton was playing the main wing at this time. In addition, the pre-match preparation materials showed that Southampton's offensive main scoring points and starting points this season are two. A winger, so the young marshal did not dare to be careless.

Gleason stood up and was ready to hold the central midfielder Daniel Pugh when the ball was dead, asking him to support the two wings more.

At this time, Gleason was quite fortunate. Before the game, he arranged a lot of defensive tasks for the two full-backs. It was this deployment that prevented his two sides from being completely penetrated by the opponent's two wings. .

While Gleason was still complacent, the situation on the court changed suddenly.

The Belgian winger Al Ganassi on the right took advantage of his speed that dominated the entire British Championship to force the combined attack of Leeds United's left midfielder and left back, and killed a bloody path on the right.