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Defeating Hannover 96 and entering the top [-] of the Europa League has boosted the morale of Southampton a lot. After all, a timely victory can bring a lot of benefits in a continuous downturn.

However, in the next league game, Southampton continued to encounter trouble in offense. They drew [-]-[-] with Stoke City. Fortunately, Tottenham were beaten [-]-[-] by the vigorous Arsenal. Second, Southampton returned to the third position with a goal difference advantage.

However, only one point was scored in the last two rounds, which made Southampton's hope of winning the championship once again hopeless. Manchester City's current points have reached 63 points, and Manchester United also has 61 points. The gap between Southampton and them has widened .

At the same time, No. 5 Arsenal and No. 6 Chelsea have both reached 46 points, and the gap between them has begun to narrow.

So in terms of the situation, Southampton is still relatively severe.

"We were a bit unlucky, but luck will always come back. If there is no problem with our tactics, then there is no problem." Ji Ya said at the press conference after the game.

This is true. In this game, Southampton still has the advantage, but they can't score.

But it's not a big problem. There are still [-] rounds left in the league. Southampton's seven-point advantage is not small. Anyway, no one expects them to win the Premier League championship. The first season back to the Premier League will complete the miracle of Nottingham Forest... …

The Kaiserslautern miracle is said by the Germans, and the English only say Nottingham Forest.

Even if Southampton can rank in the top four after the end of this season, it is already a great thing!

For a long time, the top four in the Premier League have been monopolized by Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool. However, the rise of Manchester City and Tottenham in the past two years has damaged the interests of Liverpool and Arsenal...

But in any case, the last time a team other than the big6 entered the top four and grabbed a place in the Champions League, it had to be traced back to Everton in the 04-05 season.

The reason why Moyes has such a great reputation now is that he is considered a top coach. He led Everton to the Champions League place, and later led Everton to No.5 consecutively, which is a very important factor. score.

If Southampton can get this result right away, Ji Ya will be famous enough!

After all, everyone knows that the competition in the Premier League is now the fiercest.

It's just that teams like Southampton have been there before, but they often start to fall behind in the second half.

This is often a matter of experience, and the reason for the previous results is that the opponents are not familiar with their playing style. Therefore, the dark horses are more prone to fatigue as they go to the later sprint stage, while those traditional strong teams know how to exert their strength in the later stage. .

Now Southampton's performance fluctuates, just like those dark horses in the past.

But then they have a good chance. The opponent in the next round is Wigan Athletic-although this team drew with Southampton in the first round, they performed poorly in the following time. With eight wins and fourteen losses, they only got 26 points, and they were at the bottom of the points.

Of course, the battle for relegation in the Premier League this season is also quite fierce. Starting from the 22th place, one scored 21 points, two scored [-] points, and two scored [-] points. Most of the three relegated teams this season were born from these five teams .

Although the relegation team is not easy to play, but Wigan Athletic is indeed limited in strength, otherwise it would not have scored 23 goals all the way, the least number of goals scored in the Premier League, and [-] goals conceded, which is also the third most in the Premier League .

Statistics will not lie, compared with Southampton, Wigan Athletic's offense and defense is simply a grade.

Especially with their weak offense, Southampton doesn't have to worry about the opponent's sharp counterattack.

Sure enough, in the next round of the game, Southampton successfully defeated their opponents by two goals in the away game. They controlled the situation throughout the game, and then finally scored two of their [-] shots-the efficiency is indeed relatively high. low……

It was full-back Klein and striker Giroud who scored the goals.

"We want to see the positive side... Our defense has gone three consecutive games without conceding a goal," Kiya said at a post-match press conference.

Southampton reporters couldn't help booing him - is that a positive?

But everyone understands that Ji Ya wants to cheer up the team, and after all, he won the game and stabilized the two rounds of invincibility, which is also a good result.

In the next game, Southampton drew a [-]-[-] draw with Standard Liege in the away game. Although this does not seem to be a happy thing, it was tied at the away game anyway. It will be much bigger.

It's just that no one is optimistic that Southampton will keep a clean sheet in the next round-their opponent in the next round is the current leader Manchester City. Manchester City has no reason to let Southampton go. Although they are the leader now, the points are as high as 66 points, but only two points ahead of No.2 Manchester United. It is a terrible thing for Manchester United to catch up with this kind of thing. Just think about Newcastle back then...

Keegan was nearly crushed by Ferguson's constant pursuit.

Mancini's mentality is much tougher, but his team is obviously very strong, but he is still pursued by Manchester United. The pressure of this kind of thing is indeed too great.

Manchester City has now won four consecutive victories. After losing to Everton before and being narrowed by Manchester United, they are in good condition and have won consecutive victories. Now they are coming to challenge Southampton in an away game, of course they must show all their strength.

And what about Southampton's recent status?It's a bit worse.

Although Manchester City's two main central defenders Kompany and Lescott are unable to play, this does not affect them very much. Their overall lineup is too strong, and the forward line can even be luxurious enough to rotate continuously.

And Southampton's loss is not small. Some of the three main players, Klose, Vidal and Blind, were injured, some were suspended, and they were unable to play. In comparison, Southampton's loss was even greater.

Manchester City played a four-three-three formation away, Dzeko has fallen out of favor recently, and Aguero has a little injury, so he sent Balotelli as a center forward, flanked by Nasri and David Scheer Watts, midfielder Barry, De Jong, Yaya Toure, the two full backs are Richards and Clichy, the center back is Savage and Kolo? Joe Hart.

Ji Ya used Luke Shaw as the left back, Mkhitaryan was used in the midfield, and Giroud was of course the striker on the front line, but he also hid Ronaldo and let the two wingers Nolito and William play. .

Isn't it just to accumulate bullets to give the opponent the final blow?Mancini will, and so will he.