Football giants

Chapter 385 The Best Newly Promoted Horse
"It's raining well!"

Through the car window of the Lagonda Conqueror, Yang Huan looked at the drizzled world outside, not only did not feel depressed at all, but felt that this was pretty good.

The heavens in England, just like women's moods, can change as they say.

Yesterday's weather was not bad, but today near noon, it rained.

Southampton defeated Liverpool [-]-[-] in last night's FA Cup final and successfully defended their FA Cup title.

After the game, Yang Huan invited everyone on the team, including all members of the Saints Fan Club, as well as the FA, Premier League and some political and business celebrities in the UK, to the Wangjiang Pavilion in the West End of London to have a big celebration.

The turmoil reached midnight, the team went back and forth to Southampton, Gavin Patterson and others ran to Hamad's yacht to hold their party, and Prince William returned to Buckingham Palace.

Yang Huan accompanied Zhuang Ziqing in the cozy No. [-] Hyde Park mansion for a whole night, and he still couldn't get enough of it. He woke up in the morning and enjoyed a delicious breakfast that was not enough for outsiders, and he didn't go south until the afternoon.

As soon as he thought of Zhuang Ziqing's lazily lying on the bed when he left the house, not wanting to move, with a tired and contented face, Yang Huan's heart couldn't help but boil again.

What an awesome little fairy!

"Master, where are you going?" Long Wu turned around and asked after the car got off the highway.

Yang Huan has several places in Southampton, home, WeChat company headquarters, St. Mary's Stadium and Stapletwood training base.

"Go to the training base!" Yang Huan said after thinking about it.

The WeChat company and the game company are now on the right track. Yang Huan is just a remote control, and it is just a decoration.

As for Miracle Entertainment, its core business has already moved to China, and a branch office has been established in Hollywood, USA.

After all, the main markets of Uncle Psy, Yoona Lin and Maki Horikita are still in Asia and North America.

Although there is an office here in Southampton, it is more like an empty shell, and it is meaningless to go there.

At home, I kind of miss Xiaobu's service, but there were just a few battles last night and morning, so how can I fight again now?
It's the training base, so I have to take good care of the team.

Yang Huan gave an order, and the car soon arrived at the Stapletwood training base.

"Get off at the door." Yang Huan called out.

Long Wu soon stopped at the gate, near the security room.

"Master Huan!" Peter ran over and opened the car door, holding an umbrella.

Yang Huan got out of the car quickly, and Long Wu immediately drove the car away and went to the parking lot.

"How's it going, Peter?"

Saint Peter was taken aback for a moment, then he understood what Master Huan meant, and laughed.

"Master Huan, it didn't rain this morning. We held a public training session. Many reporters and fans came. From my point of view, there should be scouts mixed in."

Yang Huan frowned, "A lot?"

Logically speaking, Southampton now has only one opponent left, and that is Atletico Madrid.

How come so many scouts?

"I don't know, but as far as I can see, there are at least six or seven of them. Some of them seem to know each other, but they are not in the same group."

Yang Huan immediately understood that these bastards were here to stare at his players.

It's no wonder that Southampton will be in the Premier League next season. With the purpose of improving their own strength and weakening their competitors, poaching Southampton is undoubtedly the wishful thinking of many Premier League teams.

Besides, Southampton is definitely the most eye-catching dark horse in European football this season.

It is undoubtedly more fulfilling to poach players from such a team!
"I don't care about them, if you like to watch, just follow them!" Yang Huan didn't care at all.

With the team strategy finalized by him and Peter Kenyon, Ron Gourley and others, the current Southampton players are divided into different types by the management.

For example, Ibrahimovic is currently the mainstay of Southampton, and the team's marketing strategy revolves around him, so, no matter what, Ibrahimovic will not sell.

At least, in the next two or three years, it will definitely not be sold.

And Neymar.

Both Bielsa and the team management believe that Neymar has the potential to succeed Ibrahimovic in terms of strength, potential, and image, so the Brazilian will not sell.

The same goes for Toni Kroos, Varane, Harvey Martinez and Neuer.

Among them, Neuer is the captain of the team and plays an important tactical role in Bielsa's tactics.

Southampton advocates high defense, and Neuer's activity area is not a small penalty area, but a large penalty area.

He is not only the goalkeeper of the team, but also the last link in the team's passing system.

According to what Yang Huan heard during the World Cup in Brazil in his previous life, this is called the Scavenger Goalkeeper.

This central axis, Southampton will not move easily!
Of course, if you pay a sky-high price, it is not impossible to consider.

"Are they at the indoor training ground?"

Peter nodded, "Yes, this afternoon is a closed training session, and it happened to be raining, so we're all in the indoor training ground!"

After finishing speaking, Peter couldn't help laughing, "I heard that Tony Cross has fully recovered!"

As soon as this was mentioned, Yang Huan couldn't help laughing.

That's why I said it was raining well!
"I gonna go see!"

Yang Huan patted Peter on the shoulder, took the umbrella from his hand, and went straight to the indoor training ground.

Stapletwood has a total of two indoor training grounds, one for the first team and one for the youth team.

There is also a Nike training center under construction.

An indoor training facility and a Nike training center are different.

The former is an ordinary training ground, just turned into an indoor one.

But the latter is Yang Huan's breakthrough experiment, which will gather the world's top high-tech equipment to assist players in various training, and basically use digital management and control to collect various data of players.

For example, the virtual training system that is currently being intensively debugged.

The player wears a virtual reality headset and walks into a room.

The virtual reality helmet will play some converted No.1 game screens, giving the players an immersive feeling, while the ball machine in the room will automatically send out various types, different strengths, and different speeds of the ball based on the video to test the players, and finally give an analysis data.

The entire virtual training system has many targeted sub-categories, such as shooting, passing, stopping, heading... and so on.

At present, this set of system has been assembled and is in the debugging and running-in stage.

When Yang Huan passed the door, he went in to inspect it.

Experts and researchers from some prestigious universities in the UK, the US and Europe are all busy.

Seeing this situation, Yang Huan naturally wanted to say a few good words to encourage them.

Yang Huan had seen Dortmund's practice room in his previous life, but it was too rough and rudimentary, not grand at all.

Southampton is currently building four sets of virtual training systems, which are specially designed for different types of training programs. One of them is specially used for goalkeeper training. After all, the position of goalkeeper is also very important.

The rooms of these training systems look much more refined and high-tech than the one in Dortmund.

After Yang Huan made his rounds, he turned around and walked towards the first team's indoor training ground.

Just won an FA Cup last night, and Southampton is full of fighting spirit.

When Yang Huan came in, he happened to see Bielsa was stopping training to explain one of the targeted tactics to Toni Kroos.

"If I were Simeone, Toni Kroos couldn't play. The midfield combination of Matic, Strowman and Vidal, my first thought was how to hold the ball in the midfield and pass it to Falcao in front!"

Falcao is one of the hottest scorers in La Liga this season, second only to Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Colombian center has superb left and right foot shots, very comprehensive, and it is a headache.

"So, when defending, you have to mark Diego!" Bielsa held a tactical board in his hand and explained to Toni Cross, "Both Strowman and Vidal also need assistance from the side!"

Several people in the midfield immediately nodded in unison.

"But when attacking, pay attention..." Bielsa quickly moved the pieces with player numbers on the tactical board.

"Tony, once we get the ball, you have to go around behind Diego as soon as possible, boldly move forward, and receive the pass from your teammates."

Toni Cross kept nodding.

"Diego's offensive ability is indeed very good, but he is not very active in defense. Once you go around the front, he may not follow the defense. Even if he does follow the defense, then we still have two central defenders. After pulling away, he can also respond."

It can be seen that Toni Cross has a heavy task in this game.

According to Bielsa, when defending, he must stare at Diego. When his own side holds the ball, he has to connect the midfield and the front and back courts. This is indeed a big test for the players.

However, Toni? Kroos joined the team this season, has been doing quite well.

Atletico Madrid is four-two-three-one, Southampton is accustomed to four-three-three, and the middle of the midfield is a contest between three players.

If Toni Kroos can suppress Diego, then Southampton's midfielder will be able to suppress Atletico Madrid, and the whole situation will be completely alive.

As for the wing, Southampton has almost an overwhelming advantage.

Neymar and James Rodriguez will serve as two wingers, and they will suppress Atletico Madrid's left and right full-backs in front. If they are one-on-one, Southampton has a clear advantage.

Moreover, Southampton's usual tactic is that the winger takes the ball and cuts in to create a threat in the unguarded area in the middle. To match this, the two full-backs boldly advance forward to create tactical width.

In the case of no advantage in personal ability, Atletico Madrid must ensure that the defense is safe, and they have to pull the wide players in the frontcourt back to actively participate in the defense.

But in this way, Atletico Madrid can only retreat across the board!

As for the front center, Zlatan Ibrahimovic suppressed the opponent's two central defenders alone, there is no problem at all!
Bielsa's calculations are very shrewd, but the key to the outcome of the game depends on the players and the opponent's targeted tactics.

After Yang Huan heard it from the sidelines, he couldn't help feeling more confident.

As long as Simeone falls into the trap and thinks that the starting player is Matic, then Southampton will win at least [-]% of this game!
And if Bielsa's targeted tactics work again, he can basically win [-]% or [-]%!
Thinking of this, Yang Huan couldn't help feeling refreshed.

If Southampton really won the Grand Slam this season, with the title of Quadruple Champions and Europa League champions, rushing to the Premier League, how many Premier League teams would not be in awe of one or two?

No, the season is not over yet, but some English media have already begun to hype it.

Say what?

Southampton will be the greatest newly promoted team ever in the Premier League!
But Yang Huan didn't just want to be a dark horse!
If you want to be one, you have to strive to be the blackest one!
(End of this chapter)