I brush achievements in football

No matter what it is for, Kiya will not relax in this game.

Even if the opponent is an Asian team, they are also the Asian team that eliminated the South American champion.

And to be honest, Kashima Antlers unexpectedly eliminated the national competition, but made most of Southampton's previous preparations fail.

Most of their previous tactical ideas and opponent investigations were used on the National Athletic, because the National Athletic is already a mysterious division for Southampton, and now the mysterious division is gone. A more mysterious team...

Most of this Kashima Antlers team is still dominated by local Japanese players, and there are very few foreign aids. However, everyone can see the progress of Japanese football over the years. Their biggest achievement is not to have a player like Shinji Kagawa who can play for the giants. , The actual big achievement is that they have persisted in the high school football training mode for decades, and have sent a steady stream of players to their leagues and overseas. Among these players, there may not be any outstanding players, and none of them make Ji Ya think they can play in the league. The players played for Southampton, but their strength is basically at the level of standard European ordinary professional players.

This is amazing.

This can be seen from the number of their players in Europe. Basically, there are Japanese players in the five major leagues, especially in those second-tier leagues or second-tier teams, there are countless Japanese players.

Even the players who stay in China, there are many outstanding players.

They may not be very talented, but they have good strength. When they are successfully combined, they often perform quite well.

Otherwise, they would not have eliminated their opponents with a big score of three goals when they did not have an advantage on the scene.

"This Japanese team is playing well. It has solid defense, tenacious will, and resolute counterattack. Although there are no outstanding players, as a whole, it is very difficult to deal with."

When rewatching the video of the game together, Benelli couldn't help but say.

The other assistant coaches nodded one after another. Benelli's words were correct, and it really accurately explained the strength of this team.

"So let the players know that we can't underestimate them...Although we have won two Club World Cups before, this last championship is the most difficult one for us to win. Don't think 'we have already beaten We have lost so many strong teams, what is the small Kashima Antlers’, but we have to think that they can stand in front of us and participate in this final, which in itself proves their extraordinaryness.” Ji Ya said.

The coaches nodded one after another. Southampton's current lineup can't be said to be very complete. Some of the main players are not in good condition and physical fitness in the continuous battles some time ago. Although there are no serious injuries, there are still one or two. The main force is unable to play.

Under such circumstances, if you still underestimate the enemy, it is really easy to cause accidents.

Football games are like this, and it is easy to cause accidents on opponents that everyone does not expect.

What's more, Southampton has a lot of young players this season. They can hold on tenaciously when they are against the wind, but if they are against the wind, there will inevitably be some waves.

Southampton's players didn't think much of their opponents in the Club World Cup. Now that the opponent in the final is not a South American player, but a Japanese team, it is easier for them to look down on their opponents.

This is not an outrageous mentality, but it seems normal.

So in the next two days, the coaching staff has been doing ideological work for the players to make them serious. The effect of doing this may not be particularly good, but at least it will make the players whisper in their hearts that the opponents really performed well. In good cases, it can make them more stable.

In fact, this achievement created by Kashima Antlers is indeed very remarkable.

They are the first Asian team in history to break into the final of the Club World Cup. Since the establishment of the Club World Cup, the best result of an Asian team is No.3, while European teams can enter the final every time, and South American teams occasionally Missteps, African teams or Central and North American teams entered the finals. For example, in the year when Inter Milan won the Club World Cup, the African champions, Mazembe from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, were eliminated in the finals. International final of South American champion Brazil.

Kashima Antlers is the first Asian team in history to enter the final of the Club World Cup. If they can win the championship, they will be able to break the monopoly of European and South American teams on the Club World Cup championship for the first time.

Of course, this is not what the Southampton players want to see.

When the game started on the day, the Yokohama International Stadium was full of seats, and countless enthusiastic Japanese fans occupied almost all the stands. After all, in the past, even if they came to the finals, they came with the mentality of supporting European or South American teams. This time, they But you can support your team!

This is a very pleasant thing.

But Southampton is not without supporters.

In addition to hundreds of Southampton fans who came from afar, there are thousands of Chinese businessmen or overseas students in Yokohama, holding Chinese flags, wearing Chinese national team or Southampton jerseys, occupying Nanan The stands next to the Puton fans kept cheering loudly...

They came to support Ji Ya and Du Yue.

Ji Ya is now an absolute role model for Chinese football. Although he has never been in the Chinese football circle for a day, his coaching at Southampton has shocked everyone. For a Chinese to have such an outstanding performance, it is enough to prove something in itself.

Chinese fans don't care about his British blood.

With their arrival, the Southampton players began to feel the warmth on the court.

When the players from both sides came out, there were warm cheers from the stands.

In this game, Kiya sent a mixed lineup.

This lineup is actually four four two, not four three three.

Because Dembele had some minor injuries, Kiya did not let him play.

Goalkeeper Gulac, Cancelo and Chilwell on the back wings, Van Dijk and Rudiger at the center back, the more flexible Rudiger is more useful than Maguire in such a situation, the midfielder is Phillips and Hoybil, De Bruyne on the right, Coutinho on the left, double forwards Du Yue and Vardy.

Ji Ya obviously still attaches great importance to this game.

Such a lineup can increase the strength of the midfielder, and at the same time make the midfielder's organization and delivery better. Through the suppression of the two wings, the striker can better grab points in the penalty area.

This is to play this game with the attitude of playing an official Champions League game.

This also makes FIFA officials very happy.