Chapter 354 Reversal
The Swedish center staggered and almost fell into the penalty area with the shoving of Lamy and Victor Ruiz behind him.
But he did not fall to the ground, but after standing on his feet, he opened his arms excitedly.
He doesn't need to look, even with his eyes closed, he can know that the goal was scored!
He rushed out of the penalty area, out of the pitch, and he could feel the shouting from the entire Mestalla stadium getting louder and louder.
From the stands, more and more fans are shouting his name!
Someone called Zlatan, someone called Ibrahimovic...
It's such a wonderful feeling!
The whole person rushed to the bottom of the stand where the Southampton fans were, and he suddenly raised his arms and shouted!
Suddenly, the shouts from the stands poured down like a waterfall and swept him in it!
At this time, the Southampton players rushed up one by one and hugged the Swedish center tightly!
Equalized!
Finally tied the score!
"One to one! Southampton equalised!"
"Eleven players hugged and celebrated on the sidelines, Southampton's performance was impressive!"
"At the critical moment, Ibrahimovic led Southampton back to the score!"
"The situation is very favorable for Southampton now!"
"Southampton's head coach Bielsa stood on the sidelines and shouted loudly. He should be telling his players now that he must keep on pushing hard and try to break Valencia's goal again!"
As soon as the camera turned, it landed on the home team's coaching bench.
"It's Unai Emery, the Valencia manager, and he doesn't seem to have much reaction."
When the players were called back by the referee, the Saints fans in the stands of the Mestalla Stadium were not satisfied. More and more fans stood up from their seats and kept shouting, Saints. !
The momentum is getting louder and louder, and the voices are getting more and more neat.
The Mestalla Stadium seems to have become the home ground of Southampton!
Yang Huan's hand felt a warmth.
Before he knew it, the cold iron guardrail was warmed by the body temperature of his hands.
With a soft laugh, he turned and walked back to his seat.
The president of Valencia, Manuel Llorente, who was still in a position of victory just now, was full of anxiety and restless at this time.
Seeing Yang Huan's smiling face, he was so embarrassed that he didn't dare to look at anyone.
"Don't worry, Mr. Llorente, the game has just begun!"
The chairman of the Bat Legion flashed a trace of anger in his eyes, but he cursed the Valencia players in his heart.
It's too outrageous, I just took the lead, and this time I was caught up by others!
If it's on the road, that's fine, but now it's at our home!
If it is really cleaned up by a British Championship team, then in this La Liga league, where will I put my old face?
Don't you have to be laughed at by those competitors?
But without waiting for Manuel Llorente to speak back,
Valencia's attack just crossed the halfway line and was interrupted again.
It's Stroman again!
"Stroman did a great job on both ends of the floor in this game!"
"This is the fourth time the Dutchman has won the ball for Southampton!"
The game has only been going on for more than 20 minutes, and there have been four fights for the ball back. Strowman's contribution is really good.
Ibrahimovic's goal just now started when he blocked the ball.
Strowman steals the ball and hands it to Tony Cross.
The German's position is relatively high. As soon as he got the ball, he immediately fell into the entanglement of Valencia players and had to knock back again.
At this time, Strowman has retreated and ran to the open position. After catching the ball, he turned around, left foot, and made a long pass!
Still looking for Neymar on the left.
At this time, the frontcourt was three-on-three.
"Chance! Southampton three on three!"
But as soon as Charlene Laheri finished speaking, Neymar tried to dribble the ball by himself, but was cut off by Miguel and Albelda.
Valencia's defense this time is obviously more attentive.
Seeing Albelda's big foot make a clearance, Gary Cahill made a good decision.
"I come!"
The England central defender rushed up quickly, jumped high before Soldado, and directly pushed the ball back.
He and Varane both bear the main responsibility for the team's first goal just now.
If they hadn't missed the ball, Valencia's goal wouldn't have been possible!
This makes Gary? Cahill with a sense of guilt, a strong desire to help the team, win this game.
Therefore, he kept reminding himself in his heart that he can't make mistakes again, absolutely can't make mistakes again!
With his back to the attacking direction, Strowman stopped the ball that was brought back by Gary Cahill with his chest.
Albelda quickly appeared behind him.
The Dutchman was in good physical condition and turned to the left, blocking the approaching Albelda.
The Spanish veteran was unable to reach the ball at the feet of the Dutchman and had to stay in position.
But Strowman skillfully moved the ball forward two steps with his left foot, and then suddenly a left-footed pass.
It turned out that Strowman had been observing the situation and noticed that the gap between Miguel and Lamy was a bit large, while Neymar pointed behind Miguel to signal that he could start quickly.
The Dutchman's straight pass was very powerful, very fast, and impartial. It was just passed between Miguel and Lamy to the penalty area of Valencia.
But Neymar is just as fast!
Miguel has been keeping an eye on Neymar, but when the Brazilian rushed up and waited until Miguel turned around to catch up, he was already at least one position behind.
After Neymar caught up with the ball, he kept making a pass from the inside of his left foot.
The ball fell to the front of Valencia's small penalty area and rebounded after landing.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic had long been in ambush in the penalty area waiting for an opportunity. As soon as he saw Neymar passing through Miguel, he turned and rushed towards the goal.
The ball arrives, and the people just arrive!
Diego Alves did not dare to attack, watching Ibrahimovic rush up.
Teammate Victor Ruiz fell to the ground and slipped, trying to intercept the ball, but it was too late.
He was about half a second slower!
Which angle do the Swedes want to play?
Diego Alves stared at Ibrahimovic, at his every move, guessing in his heart.
But time did not give him too much judgment. Ibrahimovic rushed up and made a strong volley with his right foot.
Without any tricks, without the slightest hesitation, the Swedes directly hit a lower right corner.
Diego Alves judged the right direction, but the angle of this shot is too tricky!
"!!!"
Charlene Laheri got up from her seat excitedly and shouted.
There's no way she could have called out a goal sound as long as John Mortensen or Andy Gray.
But at this moment, she is definitely more excited than the two seniors!
"Ibrahimovic, Ibrahimovic, in the 33rd minute, he scored a goal for Southampton to overtake! Two to one, Southampton completed the reversal!"
The live TV footage was always given to Ibrahimovic and never left for a moment.
I saw the Swede excitedly rushed to the left and hugged Neymar whole.
Stroman also rushed up from behind quickly and hugged directly into a ball.
"Southampton's performance was very, very good, Ibrahimovic was very calm in front of goal, and Neymar almost made Valencia's Miguel useless on the left!"
"There is one more player that must be mentioned, and that is Strowman, the Dutch midfielder who was eye-catching on both the offensive and defensive ends of the game!"
Soon, the live TV broadcast began to replay the entire scoring process just now.
"We saw that Stroman's straight pass was very sharp, and it ripped apart Valencia's defense and found the most deadly weakness of the Bat Legion. Albelda had nothing to do with him. !"
Judging from the playback process, Strowman's through ball was just right.
No matter the angle or strength is impeccable!
It is precisely because this ball is very comfortable that Neymar can directly kick up and pass after rushing up.
"It can be said that this goal of Southampton, Strowman is very important!"
"Southampton has been very eye-catching on all fronts in the past season, almost invincible!"
"But it also exposed a lot of problems, such as the configuration of the midfield. After sitting on the two major midfielders of Strowman and Vidal, although Toni Kroos was added, the organization of the midfield and the overall situation. All pretty good.”
"But in terms of creativity, especially penetrating passing, Southampton is still a little short, and the control is not satisfactory, after all, there is no way to ask Stroman and Vidal to complete David Silva. what a player can accomplish."
"So, Southampton has always felt more than tough, but not delicate enough!"
"From the adjustment of Bielsa in the past two seasons, we can clearly feel that after completing the formation of the overall tactical framework of Southampton, the Argentine madman began to gradually turn to the pursuit of delicate foot skills."
"The introduction of Tony Cross is the embodiment of this idea!"
Charlene Laheri noticed that Valencia consciously wanted to hold the ball after the game resumed.
This makes the pace of the game a little slower.
So she continued to talk about some topics related to Southampton.
"I remember, before the Carabao Cup final, I had a one-on-one interview with Bielsa."
"He said something at the time, which left a deep impression on me."
"He said that what made Barcelona's treble great was that they used their results to tell everyone the tides and trends of football and to tell everyone where to work."
"That is, with the compactness of the overall formation and the improvement of tactical execution, the space for individuals to hold the ball will be greatly compressed."
"Future football will pay unprecedented attention to personal ball-handling skills, especially midfielders' personal ball-handling skills."
"Because, without enough personal ball-handling skills, you simply can't stand in the opponent's tight and compact defensive system that is full of tactical execution, not to mention the skillful completion of one-kick delivery and coordination like a Barcelona player. ."
"Belsa raised this question again when answering why Southampton brought in Tony Kroos instead of a defensive midfielder. He believes that the era of Essien and Gattuso's type of midfielder is over. It can only survive in the fond memories of fans, and such players will not be allowed in the top teams in the future."
"That's why he played Tony Kroos at the back and Harvey Martinez at centre back."
"In his view, defense depends on the orderly whole, not on the individual as in the past."
"At the same time, his philosophy is that defense and offense are integrated, it's like a rubber band, defense is pulling back, conceding a goal means the rubber band is broken, but if you hold it, you get Once you have the ball, the rubber band will bounce forward hard, and the further back you pull, the more he bounces."
"The toughness of this rubber band depends on the execution of this team!"
"From what he said, we absolutely have reason to believe that his transformation of Southampton is still going on!"
"At least, the Saints are still a long way from the top team in his mind."
Just after Charlene Laheri finished her remarks, there was a sudden change on the court!
*This subtitle is provided by the XY subtitle group, x-on:published*