Dream Training : The Champions

Southampton's winning streak made everyone feel complacent. As the result of that, in the 6th round of Premier League season 2012/2013, Southampton got the first defeat. This defeat was given by Wolverhampton Wanderers. In this match, Southampton failed to score a goal. Kazuki fought hard in the front, but the support from the midfielders was too lacking, so he only had 3 chances throughout the match, That 3 chances was a difficult opportunity to execute.

In that match, even Ryan, who always appeared stable, now seemed to disappear throughout the match. As a result, The Wolf managed to rip Southampton's net 3 times. This defeat made the media that previously praised Southampton sky-high, agreed to say, Southampton was back to the original. That was mean, they were considering that it was a normal for Southampton to lose like this.

However, some of their opinion was true, there was a lot of luck in Southampton's 5 wins. Sooner or later, Southampton will feel defeat. However, what disappointed Kazuki was that Southampton's defeat was due to his teammate's poor performance. If Southampton lost after doing their best, perhaps Kazuki wouldn't feel too disappointed.

Being too emotional, Kazuki forgot to reply to an extended arm from George at the end of the match. This incident went viral in the magazine.

In the latest The Sun magazine, they included one of the articles entitled, [Is this Kazuki's true nature? This young player has star syndrome!] In that article, The Sun brought up Denilson's problem again, then The Sun carelessly concluded that Kazuki was an arrogant person.

Meanwhile, other magazines also reported more or less the same thing, although not as provocatively as The Sun. On the other hand, even though Kazuki was angry with The Sun's article, he knew this was the result of his own actions. Instead of taking care about The Sun, the first thing Kazuki did was apologize to George in the next day at the training ground.

He explained to George that he was disappointed at the time because of the Southampton defeat. Luckily, the coach didn't really mind it. Instead, George gave a piece of advice to Kazuki.

"I have no issue with your actions. I understand you didn't mean to do that. After all, you're still young Kazuki, it's only natural if sometimes you let go of your emotions. But remember, you have intention to do that or not, it doesn't matter. These things will get the attention of the wider community, because you are a public figure.

If one day you become a great star, playing in a big club, you have to show yourself as an inspiration and role model for many people. I know you're a good person, and I know you can do it."

Kazuki was touched by George's words, he didn't expect to get advice from the coach. Even though George was not a very genius tactician, Kazuki really liked this man for his personality and belief in young players. Especially to Kazuki.

Every human being was not free from mistakes, as well as public figures, but when a public figure made a mistake, this mistake will be magnified by the media, so that the public and group of haters of that public figure will boldly release hate speech and justify their insults through wrongdoing which the public figures had done.

This was not only true in football, but in all fields. This made Kazuki wonder again, apart from being a great soccer player, had he become an inspiring public figure?

Does he have to do a donation or something? However, nowadays donations or such like thing will only be branded as an image. No matter how good a person was, there will be people who label that person badly.

Thinking of this, Kazuki decided to do everything according to his way of life only. After all, he didn't live to live up other people's expectations.

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Meanwhile, the league cup or carabao cup matches are back. Southampton vs Norwich City. In this match, George entered the semi main players. He played several players such as Wright-Phillips, Crage, Osmund, Jimmy, Ben Carter and others.

Southampton got fierce resistance from Norwich City. At the end of the first half, the score was still 0-0. Both teams played very fiercely in midfield, but failed to score. The second half was running, both teams were still struggling to score goals. In the end, George put Kazuki on in the 70th minute. Fifteen minutes later, The Saint scored a goal through Kazuki's volley. Finally, Southampton won with a score of 1-0 over Norwich City.

However, in the next draw, Southampton will face Arsenal in the Carabao Cup. The next Carabao Cup match will definitely be fierce.

In the 7th round, Southampton will welcome Tottenham at Saint Mary's Stadium. This match will be a challenge for Southampton. Could The Saints got back to winning path after losing to Wolverhampton Wanderers? Or will they sink and go on a losing streak?

Different from the previous season, this season Tottenham had undergone significant changes. Firstly, this was Andre-Villas Boas' first season at Tottenham, replacing Harry Greenknap. Second, Tottenham's main players now looked different from the previous season. This Tottenham change had an unfavorable impact on The Lilywhite, it could be seen from Tottenham's record in 6 rounds of the Premier League. They only won 3 times, drew 1 time and lost 2 times.

Losing players like Gareth Neill, and also coaches like Harry Greenknap, made Tottenham feel confused at the start of this season.

"Good evening everyone, welcome to the 7th round of the Premier League between Southampton and Tottenham.

Southampton will host Tottenham at their home, namely Saint Mary's Stadium. Both teams have experienced changes this season, especially Tottenham. They lost players like Gareth Neill and Moric. It can be seen that the loss of these two players had a significant impact on Tottenham.

They brought in Roberto Saldado from Valencia to replace the position left by Gareth Niell. In addition, in midfield they brought in Erik Lamela, and Christian Eriksen. So far, although these new players have performed quite well, unfortunately, they have not been able to fill the hole in Tottenham's formation.

In this match, Southampton will use the 4-2-3-1 formation again.

Goalkeepers: Dean Smith;

Defenders: Vicente, Hilton, Okhalo, Benson;

Defensive midfielders: Orlando, Simone;

Attacking midfielders: Rustan, Joe Bennet, Wright-Phillips;

Front: Kazuki.

On the other hand, Tottenham used a 4-3-3 formation.

Goalkeepers: Llorente;

Defenders: Zouma, Michael Dawson, Anderson, Kyle Walker;

Midfielders: Flaminho, C. Eriksen, Moussa Dembele;

Front: Saldado, Luminare, Shradder.

Let's watch the first half between Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur in the 7th round of the Premier League."