Football giants

Chapter 66 Goal!
When everyone saw Benatia, the deepest impression must be his eyes.

It's like never waking up.

But only those who have actually competed with him one-on-one on the court can experience the defensive ability of this central defender.

Since coming to Southampton, Benatia has always been favored and relied on by Bielsa. His partner was first the veteran Jose Fonte, and later became the young teenager Varane, but Benatia's position is unshakable.

Many fans are full of doubts about Southampton's invincibility in the new season, doubting the strength of the team, but Benatia has never doubted it, because like all his teammates, he knows the strength of the team very well.

So why can't Southampton play this strength?

Benatia believes that it is still a matter of tactical adaptability.

Take his central defender as an example, leaving aside the defense of the midfielders and the planning of the team's entire defensive system, let's talk about one of the trivial details, the running position.

The running position of a defender is a technical job. Who do you partner with, where are your teammates, and how to respond...

These are the questions!

And you must know that once the defender is intercepted, it will be a single-handedly.

Southampton has conceded this kind of ball this season. Goalkeeper Kevin Davis passed it to Varane. As soon as the French teenager stopped the ball, someone appeared behind him. It was too late to pass again. He lost the ball and gave the opponent a single shot.

Whose problem?

Many fans and the media accused Varane, but Kevin Davis apologized in the locker room after the game.

It was just a matter of movement, and Southampton was tossed up and down.

What's more, the tactics of football are complex, and running positions are only a small part of it.

When Kevin Davis was behind him, Benatia always felt uneasy, fearing that a situation would catch him off guard.

But in this game, standing behind him is the goal of the German national team, Manuel Neuer.

The German goalkeeper sits in front of the goal line, and Benatia has confidence.

What made him more confident was that just after the game started, Neuer shouted at the two central defenders in front of him.

"Don't stay in the penalty area. You play as the coach tells you to play. Go up when you need to, and shrink when you need to. I'm behind you!"

What is momentum?
This is the momentum of top players!

Benatia and Varane looked at each other, turned their heads, glanced at Neuer, and nodded at the German goalkeeper.

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Seeing that although the team got the right to serve, the ball was broken as soon as it was delivered to Charlton's 30-meter area.

Charlton hit a counter-attack, midfielder Semedo got the ball and played it to Bradley Wright-Phillips.

Benatia saw that Bradley Wright Phillips was short, flexible, and fast, and he couldn't have enough space to hold the ball, so he made a decision immediately, "I'm going up!"

The Moroccan shouted at his teammates in broken English.

The language barrier is another problem encountered by Southampton's international team.

As soon as Varane saw him go up, he moved to the middle, and Neuer stared forward as if facing the enemy.

Bradley Wright Phillips has just got the ball and Benatia is close.

The tall Moroccan, like a dark cloud, blocked Wright Phillips. The surging momentum made Wright Phillips turn around to protect the ball.

Trying to turn around, Benatia made a clean kick, but while stealing the ball, he also tripped Wright Phillips.

An indirect free kick was given to Charlton from 30 meters away.

"Get rid of these bloody Southamptons!"

"Come on, Charlton!"

"Goal! Goal! Goal!"

The Charlton fans in the stands suddenly cheered.

This is an opportunity to set the ball in the frontcourt and score!
In the chairman's stand, John Huntel even stood up, applauded vigorously, and cheered loudly.

"Great opportunity, let's go ahead and give them some power!"

The group of lackeys around him also booed one by one.

It looked as if Charlton had scored.

"As for what? A set ball, so smug like that? Petty!"

Yang Huan looked at this group of fussy guys, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't like it, it was too embarrassing for the rich second generation.

However, it's not difficult to see from it that these guys have spent all their money on Yang Huan's gamble.

If he loses, his face must be extremely pretty.

Below the field, Charlton's head coach Phil Parkinson rushed out to direct the team, arranging how to play this free kick attack. Several tall players of the team also rushed into Southampton's penalty area.

With the whistle of the referee, the ball was sent out and fell into the penalty area.

I saw the German goalkeeper Neuer, who played for Southampton for the first time, suddenly rushed out of the penalty area, jumped high, raised his hands above his head, grabbed the ball in mid-air before everyone else, and landed in the penalty area like a god descending from the earth.

"Give it to me!" Neuer pointed forward, rushed forward quickly, and drove forward with a big foot.

But the game has just begun, and Charlton is also nervously defending Southampton.

Therefore, this time the fast break was not completed.

But the ball was controlled by Southampton. Midfielder Adam Lallana saw no chance and passed the ball back.

Varane stopped the ball on the defensive line, saw Carvajal raised his hand for the ball on the right, and split the side with a kick.

After Carvajal stopped the ball close to the right, he quickly moved forward.

As he charged into Charlton's half, he saw Oxlade-Chamberlain and Adam Lallana running in tandem and was immediately split into the middle.

Adam Lallana faced the ball and pushed it directly to Chamberlain.

The Southampton teenager rushed forward, but Adam Lallana's kick was not very good. He went too far when he stopped, which caused him to slow down and was successfully intercepted by the opponent's midfielder Semedo.

As soon as Chamberlain was intercepted, he immediately went into a counterattack, fell to the ground and shoveled, and intercepted the ball again.

Adam Lallana caught up and stabbed Carvajal on the right.

The fast and high-intensity midfield pressure is the biggest change for Southampton this season.

After four games of familiarity and more than a month of training, they have adapted to Bielsa's tactical style and the requirements of the game.

As soon as Carvajal got the ball, he looked up towards the penalty area.

Vidal has already rushed into the penalty area, and Neymar and Strowman, who was inserted in the back row, also followed to the front of the penalty area.

What about Ibrahimovic?

Carvajal wants to find the commanding heights of this frontcourt!

Later!

The Swedish center is too conspicuous!

As soon as Carvajal saw Ibrahimovic, he swung his right foot and made a pass.

Phil Parkinson was on the sidelines, first paying attention to Southampton's counterattack in the frontcourt. After seeing Carvajal stealing the ball, his first reaction was to look towards the penalty area. After a sweep, he saw Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The 31-year-old Spanish veteran Miguel Le Leila followed on his right.

"Be careful with Zlatan Ibrahimovic!" Parkinson shouted towards the field.

But as soon as he shouted, the Swedish center suddenly started in the penalty area.

To Miguel Lelera's surprise, the Swedish center was no shorter than him, but his flexibility was much better than him, especially when he started it, he was thrown away directly.

By the time he reacted, Ibrahimovic had rushed to the front of the small penalty area.

Goalkeeper Elliott moved quickly to the left and even fell to the ground early, trying to block Ibrahimovic's close-range shot.

But the Swedish center forward was too cunning. He noticed Elliott's move, swung his right foot, and hit the ball in mid-air.

The ball turned in one direction, passed Elliott's left side, and went straight to the right side of the goal.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!"

Harry, a Southampton fan in the stands, grabbed the guardrail and shouted excitedly, waving his arms.

The sound of the little drums became more intense, and the drummer beat with all his might.

Southampton's more than 4000 fans were carried away and cheered.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic rushed out of the court with a calm face, not seeing even the slightest joy of scoring a goal on his face.

Perhaps, for him, such a goal is too simple, too easy!
Charlton's entire defensive line looked at the ball in the goal line in frustration. They still haven't figured it out. Why did the ball go in all of a sudden?
Could it be that the world's top superstars are really that strong?
In the stands, Yang Huan stood up from his seat excitedly after seeing Zlatan Ibrahimovic's goal.

"Well done, well done, Zlatan!"

After finishing speaking, Yang Huanxi hugged Zhang Ning tightly and enthusiastically, making the beauty's pretty face flush, and then turned to high-five Sun Yue and others to celebrate.

"1:0, we will definitely win this game!"

Unlike Yang Huan's excited celebration, at the moment Ibrahimovic scored, John Huntel felt as if someone had cut his heart, and the burning pain made him almost out of breath.

Got a goal?
That's how Southampton scored?

Southampton scored in less than 3 minutes?
Is Charlton's defense just paper?
A goal of 50 pounds, even John Huntel, no matter how rich he is, has the urge to cry. He felt that what Charlton lost was not the ball, but his money, and he threw it directly into the Thames.

"Damn, damn, damn!"

John Huntel was so angry that he stood up and yelled at the players on the field, "Damn it, what are you all doing? You were scored by Southampton so easily? You simply don't deserve to be players, you are all fucking trash!"

His heart ached, and the rich second generations around him also felt heartbroken, and they also lost money.

"Yeah, a bunch of trash, conceding the ball in the first 3 minutes, this is even more trash than trash!"

"I've never seen such a coward. How do the defenders stare at people? Didn't you see Ibrahimovic?"

"Damn it, did you take money from Southampton?"

Yang Huan on the side heard it, but was not happy.

"Hey, familiarity is familiarity, talk nonsense, be careful, I will sue you for defamation!"

Yang Huan pointed at the second-generation rich and scolded them, "I have no skills, I lost the ball, who do I blame?"

John Huntel was furious, but when he heard Yang Huan's scolding, he calmed down and kept telling himself in his heart that it was only 3 minutes, only 3 minutes, and there was still time and opportunity.

"Don't be too arrogant. The game has just started. What's so great about being attacked by you and scoring a goal?"

After finally calming down, John Hunter also forced himself to calm down and immediately fought back.

"That's right, isn't it just a goal?"

"I was lucky and scored a goal. Do you think you will win?"

"When a blind cat meets a dead mouse, it's hard to say who will win!"

Now that Yang Huan has won the game, he is in a good mood, and he is not as knowledgeable as these people.

"Then let's wait and see."

John Huntel was also staring nervously at the players on the field. The game had restarted, but Charlton was still very passive on the scene, retreating across the board.

"God, although I'm not very pious at ordinary times, you must help me. I can't lose this game, I absolutely can't lose!"

He knew very well that he simply didn't have £50 to lose.

Not to mention, looking at Southampton's momentum now, I'm afraid they won't just be willing to score a goal!
When John Huntel was praying to his God, Neymar took the ball from the left side of the court, dribbled the ball to the center, and sought a two-for-one cooperation with Adam Lallana.

Neymar went straight to the left post like a bolt of lightning, volleyed with his left foot in front of the goal, and once again broke through Charlton's goal.

2: 0!

(End of this chapter)