I just wanted to play football, but I became a Hollywood god

Chapter 481 Recharge your batteries and fight Chelsea again!

After the start of the second half, Southampton continued to attack.

Colchester United switched to full defense.

But that doesn't help at all.

Southampton was determined to win the game in the first round.

In the 55th minute of the game, Cochester United made a mistake on the right. Gu Ran dribbled the ball to the right. Schneiderlin took the opportunity to cut inside and run into the space. Gu Ran attracted at least 6 Cochester United players. After the defensive player, he hit the ball across the crotch and passed the ball to Schneiderlin in front of the goal!

Schneiderlin took the ball and scored directly with a push!

Southampton 7:0 Colchester United!

The Colchester United players are all going crazy.

Yet the killings continued.

In the 68th minute of the game, Southampton forced a corner kick from Cochester United's intensive defense.

Gu Ran took a corner kick to the backcourt. High center forward Gurley jumped high and shook his head like a lion. The football hit the Cochester United player's shoulder and bounced into the goal!

Southampton 8:0 Colchester United!

Seeing that they were about to be kicked into double digits, the players of Cochester United began to make mistakes, and various rough fouls came one after another.

Coach Adkins immediately replaced Gu Ran, Lallana, and Chamberlain to ensure that they would not be injured before the decisive battle with Chelsea.

The time after that turned into pure garbage time, with neither side scoring a new goal.

In the end, Southampton defeated Cochester United in the first round of the British Championship Southern Division final with a stunning score of 8:0.

Next month, the two sides will also compete in the second round at the home court of Colchester United.

But in fact, there is no suspense about the result of the Southern Division. Southampton has basically entered the finals of the British Championship.

After the game, personal affairs assistant Rick brought Gu Ran the results of the third round draw of the FA Cup:

At 1pm on Saturday, January 29th, in the fourth round of the FA Cup, Southampton will face Blackpool, the bottom team in the Premier League, at home.

They met a Premier League team in the fourth round of the FA Cup, and the intensity was really good enough.

Fortunately, Blackpool's performance this season is very poor, and they are about to be relegated to the English Championship. Therefore, Blackpool's true level is probably only in the upper reaches of the English Championship. There is still hope to play Blackpool.

In the next few days, the Southampton team prepared for the second round against Chelsea. Coach Adkins focused on how to intensively defend.

Playing against Chelsea, you can only use tactical strategies to catch them off guard. Once Chelsea reacts, they will definitely counterattack wildly. Therefore, the focus of the Southampton team in the second round is not to counterattack or to defend. As long as they can hold on to a draw, let If Chelsea scores no more than 3 away goals, then Southampton will win, tie the club's highest record in history, and reach the EFL Cup finals.

During this period, the entire team became a team, and even center forwards such as Gurley and Connelly actively trained to return to defense.

At 1 pm on Saturday, January 22, in the 3th round of the English League One, Southampton's away challenge to Brentford began.

Coach Adkins only sent a small number of the main players, and most of the main players stayed at home for training.

As the core of the team, Gu Ran naturally stayed at home to train and prepare for the game.

Brentford also knew that Cochester United was beaten 8-0 by revenge, so after the game started, Brentford did not launch a fierce attack, but focused on defense.

The two sides played relatively harmoniously, just like a training match.

In the end, Brentford 2:2 Southampton, the two sides shook hands and settled for a draw, each scoring one point.

After this game, the main players of the Southampton team did not take a holiday, but continued to conduct closed training at Staplewood.

Finally, the second leg of the EFL Cup semi-finals on January 1 has arrived. At noon that day, the Chelsea team took the bus and arrived at St. Mary’s Stadium.

Chelsea Blues fans also waited outside St. Mary's Stadium early for the game to kick off.

The Southampton fans came earlier than the Blues fans. Almost all Southamptonians wanted to witness Gu Ran lead their team to the EFL Cup final for the second time in history.

In the morning, the Southampton team conducted warm-up training on the field in advance.

In the afternoon, the Chelsea team conducted warm-up training on the field.

At 5 p.m., the lights came on at St. Mary's Stadium and fans began to enter the stadium.

The attendance at St. Mary's Stadium today exploded. Not only was the stadium full, but the outside was also filled with Saints fans and Blues fans who couldn't buy tickets.

Fans from both sides almost clashed. Fortunately, Southampton Club invested a lot of security today, which ensured that order was basically stable.

At 7:45 pm, as the referee blew his whistle, the second round between Southampton and Chelsea officially began!

Chelsea's formation and lineup today have not changed much from the last game. Ancelotti still continues to trust Torres and lets Torres serve as the center of the Trident.

Malouda and Anelka are still the left and right wingers of the Trident respectively.

The inverted midfield triangle is still dominated by three world-class B2B midfielders: Lampard, Ramirez, and Essien.

The left back is still the scumbag Ashley Cole, and the right back is still the underrated world-class defender Ivanovic.

The two central defenders are world-class Terry and quasi-world-class David Luiz.

The goalkeeper is still Cech.

This kind of formation is also Ancelotti's style - unless there are special circumstances, Ancelotti likes to use a lineup to death.

This is also a relatively conservative approach. After all, the running-in and cooperation between familiar lineups are also very stable.

Today, the Southampton team made relatively big adjustments.

Southampton's formation was changed from the previous 442 to a 4231 formation - four defenders, two defensive midfielders, three central midfielders and one forward.

The forward is played by Lallana.

Veteran strikers like Gurley and Connelly all sat on the bench.

Coach Adkins has a very clear tactical idea for this game, which is defense! Defend! Defend again!

It doesn't make much sense to have a center forward, not to mention that the reason why Southampton has reached this point is by no means relying on the forward ability of the forward and center.

Although Lallana is placed in the forward position, Lallana can actually play as an attacking midfielder/central midfielder. His defensive ability is not too bad for a frontcourt player. At critical moments, Lallana can return. Withdraw to the midfield and line up with the three midfielders to form a dense defensive formation of 4 midfielders.

Is it embarrassing to throw a tantrum at Chelsea?

No shame, because this is Southampton, a League One team.

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(End of this chapter)