Father Green

Chapter 86: Vacation and rest, I like it the most!
At the beginning of the season, Adkins focused his work on the Europa League. After all, in his opinion, although Birmingham was relegated, the background is still there, and it is still very easy to play in the English Championship.So he didn't worry about upgrading at all, but wanted to make a breakthrough in the Europa League.

A club in the second tier finally won the top four in the Europa League. Thinking about it, I feel that the picture is too beautiful.

As for the champion?Come on kidding, that's not how daydreaming works.

But the reality gave Adkins and his Bai Fumei girlfriend Birmingham a resounding slap in the face. They worked hard to enter the main match, but they got one point in the first three rounds of the group.
Although Adkins made adjustments later, he played a wave of three consecutive victories and was eliminated.

The sad Birmingham has not yet recovered from the grief and indignation of the Europa League. When I got home, I saw that my position was No.11 in the standings.
So the morale in Birmingham is low now, and people's hearts are a little unpredictable.

Of course Adkins understands this, and he really wants to change, but the locker room has gradually begun to get out of control.After half a season of failure, the players began to lose faith in the new head coach.

Who is he Adkins?How can they restrain the "Premier League" players who have been relegated from the Premier League in Birmingham?Although many players left the quagmire of Birmingham after the relegation, there are still many former Premier League teams who stayed.

It is impossible for Adkins to learn from Charlotte, otherwise he must be the one who died.

Of course, it may also be that Birmingham was dragged down because of multi-line combat.In the last season, they successfully defeated Arsenal, who had not won a championship for many years, in the final and won the second English League Cup in team history.

Like the English League Cup and the FA Cup, the champion has half a place to participate in the Europa League next season, but only has to play a round of play-offs.At the beginning of the season, Birmingham successfully killed the Funchal national from Portugal in the qualifying round and got a place in the main match.

But Birmingham's UEFA Cup journey is not easy. In the group, there are European minor league champion teams such as Braga, Bruges and Maribor, so they only scored one point in the first three games.

Even after miraculously playing a wave of three consecutive victories, they were eliminated with only ten points.

So it is also possible that the focus on the Europa League Cup was too concentrated, which caused the team to perform abnormally in the league.

Of course, in Charlotte's view, it was a mistake for Birmingham to appoint Adkins.Because although Adkins has a wealth of promotion experience, he has no experience in upgrading from the British Championship to the Premier League, and he has no experience in playing in the UEFA Cup.

So Birmingham's current failure this season lies with Adkins, but Charlotte will never say it
Adkins understands his problem, and at the same time knows that Southampton, the opponent of this game, is currently the leader in the league, so he naturally dare not be careless.He formed a defensive counterattack four-three-three formation, a resolute defensive midfielder, two central midfielders or all-round midfielders, and then opened the two sides, with a center forward in the middle.

If this lineup plays against Southampton early in the season, it may cause some trouble for the Saints.But half of the season is over, and Southampton also has some experience and experience in playing this tactic.

Birmingham's defense only persisted for 8 minutes before being broken by Southampton. Ricky Lambert attacked from the front and then volleyed with his instep after receiving a pass from Adam Lallana.

Charlotte applauded from the sidelines, and then glanced at Adkins next to him.I don't know what it's like to watch my former lover break my goal, but under the current situation, Charlotte is sure that Adkins must not feel very good.

Adkins really didn't feel very good, he kept yelling and gesturing on the sidelines.Signaling his players to stabilize, in his opinion, as long as he stabilizes the defense and then counterattacks according to his script, he will be able to reap results.

But he thought of Southampton too simply, and now this Southampton team is no longer the Southampton team he used to be.

From the start, Charlotte had already found the weakest link in the opposition's starting lineup, which was the side of right back Stephen Carr and Spanish right centre-back Pablo.

Carl is already a 35-year-old veteran, and not many are still playing full-backs at this age.Although he does have a lot of experience and can even use his excellent anticipation and technical ability to defend, his speed, physical fitness and explosive power obviously cannot keep up.

Although Pablo was once the main force of Atletico Madrid, he is also 30 years old.The state of the Spanish central defender is currently in a downward trend, otherwise West Bromwich Albion would not sell Pablo, who has only played for a year, to the Birmingham team this season.

La Liga and the Premier League are not the same type of league at all. It is difficult for the 30-year-old Pablo to adapt to the Premier League, although he came to the British Championship team Birmingham.

But Southampton in this game left a deep impact on his heart, making him understand that the British Championship team is not easy to bully.

Sturridge and Lallana kept attacking Birmingham's right, Sterling was responsible for the speed assault and Lallana was responsible for helping Sterling with the ball and containment.Even sometimes Al Ganassi on the right side will switch positions with Sterling, and the small Ferrari sports car will also come to attack the opponent's two veterans.

If Adkins hadn't arranged a Senegalese "black and hard" midfielder in his prime to help fill in the defense, Birmingham would have been sieved long ago.

Just when the first half was about to end, this position was finally broken by Southampton.Sterling beat Carl hard with speed, then made a two-for-one cooperation with Lallana to pass Pablo, and then shot directly.

The football bounced off the crossbar and into the goal, and Welsh keeper Mihir couldn't do anything about it.

Seeing the ball, Charlotte turned around and said to his assistant Wilkins: "After going back, Raheem (Sterling)'s targeted training needs to be further strengthened. Look at this ball, it almost flew. I don't think so. I hope this little guy will know nothing but speed in the future."

Wilkins nodded, he knew better than anyone else how much Charlotte valued these young lads.

Because the previous game against Millwall was too hard, this game used a lot of rotations, and Sterling replaced Sturridge, who was a little tired.

During the intermission, Charlotte didn't make any changes. He only said, "Tomorrow the team will have a holiday. Brothers, kill Birmingham and go home to rest!"

"Get rid of Birmingham!"

"Go home and rest!!"

The power of this slogan is great. Although Adkins replaced the veteran Karl who was about to have cramps after being gang-raped and bombed by Sterling and Al Ganassi at the beginning of the second half, he still has not yet Can stop the decline, No. 408 minutes, Southampton with high momentum made another attack.

Three to zero, there is absolutely no suspense in this game.

So when the game came to 5 minutes, Charlotte used up three substitutions in one go.The three young men Mustafi, Harry Kane and Pogba appeared on the stage, and they are obviously already training newcomers.

The final score was one to four, and Dutch central defender Bruma scored a header after receiving a corner kick from Lallana.And towards the end of the game, ex-Birmingham Adam Rooney scored a solid goal.

Charlotte was so pleased with the game that it was announced in the dressing room that the team would disband as soon as the bus arrived at Southampton.Because the game started at noon, the players would have nearly a day and a half of vacation.

The most difficult thing is Adkins. Southampton has now scored 44 points and is firmly seated at the top of the league. The teams behind Reading and Nottingham Forest have been left behind by some distance.And his Birmingham has dropped to No. 15 after losing this game, and his own coaching position can be said to be in jeopardy.

Asking how sad you can be, it's like meeting your ex-girlfriend in a room!But Adkins is more worried than this. It's like Adkins took his girlfriend to the hotel to open a room, only to find that his ex-girlfriend was pulled off an Aston Martin one-77 by a rich and handsome man, and then He stayed in the presidential suite at the Bulgari Hotel, but the "Bai Fumei" current girlfriend in his eyes drove a MINI, and he was brought to an ordinary room in an ordinary four-star hotel
Zi once said: "Without comparison, there is no harm!" Now Adkins feels deeply hurt.
After returning to Southampton, the team had a holiday, but the coaching staff did not. Taking advantage of the afternoon, the members of the coaching staff held a small meeting in the conference room of the training base.

It is mainly to summarize the team's training situation and tactical situation in the past half season, as well as the signing situation of the upcoming winter transfer period in a few days.

Martin Hunter, a member of the coaching staff, was the main person in charge of the training. He took a tablet and commented on every member of the first team: "Sterling's shooting ability needs to be improved, Al Ganassi's Physical confrontation has improved significantly, Lallana's speed and explosiveness are flawed, and he is the one who suffers the most in this tactical system."

Then, physical coach Nick Harvey and youth team head coach Jason Dodd spoke, and made a brief report on the team's physical fitness status and reserves, physical condition, and the recent training and competition of the youth team players.

Then assistant coaches Wilkins and Tony Cotton summarized the team's current situation and tactics.

In the end, Wilkins concluded: "Although the team's performance in the first half of the season had some minor problems, the final result was unexpected. At the same time, the team's lineup is still a bit weak. Although we gave up the League Cup tactically, But next season's FA Cup will come again soon. And our bench depth is not enough in the league. However, it is impossible for young substitute players to completely replace their position and help the team win. Therefore, the coaching staff agreed that the team must sign in during this winter transfer period. And they are still mature players. The fighting kind."

Wilkins obviously knew that Charlotte liked the kind of young players who were eighteen or nineteen years old, so he emphasized his tone in the last sentence.That means, in January, you should stop looking for little demons, and get some real rotation players.