Chapter 608 EFL Cup semi-finals! Meet Arsenal again!

On January 2012, 1, the third round of the FA Cup began. Southampton challenged fellow English Championship team Norwich away away.

The last time Southampton was defeated at Norwich's home court with half of the substitutes, it was also Southampton's first defeat since entering the British Championship. This time in the FA Cup knockout round, Southampton naturally couldn't. I will miss this good opportunity for revenge.

Coach Adkins sent out the entire main lineup.

At the beginning of the game, Gu Ran used his personal speed to eat up six Norwich defenders from the backcourt, smashing Norwich's formation into pieces and leaving them defenseless. Immediately afterwards, Gu Ran Then he saw the right opportunity, guided the way with a skillful magic lamp, and passed the ball straight to Sturridge in the gap in the penalty area.

Sturridge lived up to expectations and stuffed the ball into the Norwich gate.

The score on the big screen was immediately changed to Norwich 0:1 Southampton.

Southampton got off to a fantastic start.

Then, in the 9th minute of the game, Gu Ran dribbled the ball from the left wing again. Chamberlain and Gu Ran played two wonderful one-on-ones in a row. Then Gu Ran and Chamberlain switched positions and dribbled the ball. Bottom.

Such a strange tactic caught Norwich's defensive players off guard.

They all thought that Gu Ran should be the one to receive the ball in the center, and Chamberlain should be the one to pass from the bottom. However, Gu Ran's change of position completely threw Norwich's defense into chaos.

After going down, Gu Ran did not pass the ball back, because most of Norwich's main defensive players were concentrated in the middle, and the left wing where he was located was considered a weak area.

Gu Ran made a quick turn, shook off the full-back who was marking him, and dribbled the ball directly along the baseline into the small penalty area.

When the Norwich goalkeeper saw that it was okay, he immediately rushed out to block Gu Ran from a small angle.

Gu Ran calmly made a move that knocked the Norwich goalkeeper to the ground, and then easily pushed the shot from a small angle and hit the goal!

The ball went in!
This ball is very exciting! Not only is the exchange of moves beautiful, but the close penetration is also explosive!
Norwich's defense was torn apart twice by Gu Ran in just the first ten minutes!

The Norwich players began to regret that they should not have won the Southampton team without Gu Ran.

The game continued, and Southampton was still attacking frantically under the leadership of Gu Ran.

Norwich had no power to fight back at all.

In the 15th minute, Van Dijk blocked the interception on the wing. A precise long pass sent the ball to Gu Ran's feet. After Gu Ran got the ball, he immediately attacked Norwich's midfielder and double-teamed him with speed. Send the ball to Salah's feet.

Salah started calmly without anyone pressing him. Unfortunately, Salah was not in a good condition and the football hit the edge of the goal frame and bounced off the baseline.

It doesn't matter if the state is not good, with Gu Ran here, no matter how bad the state is, no matter how big the goal drought is, it won't be a problem.

Immediately after the 18th minute, Gu Ran dribbled and pulled horizontally in Norwich's midfield. After attracting at least six Norwich players to double-team, Gu Ran relied on his strong personal ability to withstand it. Three of them fought closely, protected the ball with their feet, and calmly passed the ball straight to Salah who was coming up from the side.

Salah volleyed again without being marked.

This time, the football hit the target!

The score on the big screen was immediately rewritten as Norwich 0:3 Southampton.

Next, the Southampton team blossomed under Gu Ran's teamwork. In the 26th minute, Chamberlain scored a goal. In the 1th minute, Sturridge scored twice. In the 39th minute of injury time, Lara scored. Na scored a complementary shot.

At the end of the first half, Southampton was already 7 goals ahead of Norwich. The mentality of the Norwich players has been broken.

If they could surrender, they would have surrendered long ago.

Unfortunately this is a football match and there is no way to surrender.

In the second half, the game changed sides, but Southampton still did not put down its butcher knife.

The Norwich team began to mess up, and their defensive actions gradually became larger. Their hands and feet were not directed at the ball, but at people.

Southampton's Sturridge was directly hit by the opponent in the corner of his eye during a scramble.

The two sides almost started fighting.

Coach Adkins originally wanted to kill Norwich by double digits, but seeing that the game was already out of control, he made an emergency substitution and replaced all key players such as Gu Ran, Mikel Lallana and others. , to prevent them from getting hurt.

After all, the victory of this game has been decided, and there will be more important games later.

After Gu Ran and others came off the field, Southampton scored another goal before the end of the game, while Norwich relied on their home advantage to get a penalty kick by diving and scored. Saved some face.

In the end, in the third round of the English Football Association, Southampton eliminated the British Championship team Norwich with a score of 8:1.

On January 1th, the main event is here.

In the first leg of the EFL Cup semi-finals, Southampton's away game against the Premier League giant Arsenal began.

This game attracted a large number of domestic and foreign news media, as well as a large number of scouts and celebrities to watch the game at the Emirates Stadium.

Southampton is the defending EFL Cup champion, and Arsenal is also performing very strongly this season.

Two powerful teams met early in the semi-finals. I don't know whether it was Southampton's misfortune or Arsenal's misfortune.

At the pre-match press conference, Arsenal's head coach Arsene Wenger praised Gu Ran without hesitation, claiming that he had already taken a fancy to Gu Ran before he joined Southampton to play in the English League. The bank was closed, so he would definitely be able to lend money. He really almost signed Gu Ran.

Coach Adkins warned Coach Wenger at the press conference not to take advantage of their big boss.

After the game started, Arsenal still used their best passing flow and ground coordination.

Southampton adopted a 442 defensive counterattack.

Salah plays the center forward, Lallana retreats half a position and plays the second forward/central midfielder/attacking midfielder, Chamberlain goes to the left, Henderson, who has returned from injury, goes to the right, Gu Ran and Mick Er is sitting in the middle as a defensive midfielder, the left back is young Luke Shaw, the right back is young Van Dijk, the two central defenders are one old and one young, the old one is Jaidi, the young one is Rudiger, and the goalkeeper is It’s Davis, the steady captain.

This lineup is basically Southampton's full lineup at this stage. This lineup is quite young, especially the back line, which is almost all young Mavericks. But regardless of their youth, their defensive ability and assist ability are very strong. of.

Southampton is truly a star-making factory with such a group of Mavericks players.

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