Chapter 619: Sporting Lisbon was stunned! Even with Figo and Ronaldo, we can't win!

Sporting Lisbon is also a well-known team. This team has produced world-class stars such as Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Nani, Quaresma and so on.

Not only that, their youth training is also very strong, especially the production of wingers, which can definitely be regarded as one of the star factories in Europe.

But at this time, Sporting Lisbon does not have any big-name stars.

After the game started, Southampton was relatively cautious at first, and Sporting Lisbon also played to its own advantages and dominated Southampton.

Sporting Lisbon continued to attack for more than 20 minutes, but could not break through Southampton's defense.

On the contrary, Southampton was able to seize several opportunities and launch a few tentative counterattacks.

Southampton immediately realized that Sporting Lisbon was not as strong as they thought, so the Southampton team changed their defensive strategy and began to use physical confrontation and high pressure throughout the field.

This change of pace makes Sporting Lisbon very uncomfortable.

In the 27th minute, Gu Ran cooperated with Lallana in the middle. After two two-twos, Gu Ran dribbled the ball into Sporting Lisbon's penalty area, and then made a pendulum move to get rid of the defender who was guarding him. The two central defenders immediately launched a powerful shot!

Sporting Lisbon's goalkeeper is helpless!

The ball went in!
Southampton takes the lead in the away game!
Saints fans who came from afar to support the game celebrated wildly.

Sporting Lisbon, which conceded 1 goal, did not reflect on its own problems well, but instead increased its offensive intensity.

This also caused a serious disconnect between Sporting Lisbon's front and backcourt, and the loopholes became more obvious.

In the 33rd minute of the game, Van Dijk intercepted a pass from the right wing, and then handed the ball to Gu Ran with a big foot who ran out of the neutral position.

Gu Ran made a pass, and after attracting the attention of most of Sporting Lisbon's defensive players, he directed the ball to Sturridge on the left side of the penalty area with his foot on the ground.

After Sturridge got the ball, he turned around and fired a blast!
Sporting Lisbon's goalkeeper threw the ball away, and Salah, who was following behind, lightly nudged the ball into the net with his toes!

The ball went in!
The score on the big screen was immediately rewritten as Sporting Lisbon 0:2 Southampton!
In the injury time of the first half, Sporting Lisbon got a corner kick opportunity.

The midfielder of Sporting Lisbon drove the ball far away. There was chaos in Southampton's penalty area. A defender of Sporting Lisbon took advantage of the chaos and headed the ball into the goal.

Davis didn't react in time and watched the football roll into the net.

Sporting Lisbon got 1 goal back!
This goal also allowed Sporting Lisbon to maintain the suspense of winning.

After the first half, the players from both sides left the field and returned to their respective locker rooms to rest.

In the second half, the side changed sides and the Southampton team played more relaxed and proactively, while Sporting Lisbon put everything on the line and attacked desperately.

It's a pity that Sporting Lisbon has no stars who can support the overall situation.

In the 59th minute, Sporting Lisbon made some brilliant cooperation in the frontcourt, but the final kick fell just short of the mark.

Immediately afterwards, Southampton immediately launched a counterattack from Van Dijk's position on the right.

Van Dijk dribbled the ball quickly along the right wing. After a wonderful rim cooperation with Henderson, Van Dijk handed the ball to Henderson.

Most of Sporting Lisbon's players are attracted to Henderson at the bottom.

Henderson saw the right moment and passed the ball in a curve. He beautifully bypassed the Sporting Lisbon players who rushed to intercept and gave the ball to Sporting Lisbon's penalty area. Sporting Lisbon's two defenders desperately retreated to grab the ball.

Gu Ran's position was originally one position behind the two defenders, but Gu Ran's start was extremely fast and his sprint speed was ridiculously fast. In almost the blink of an eye, Gu Ran surpassed the two defenders with his speed. , and used his body to eat the squeeze and confrontation of the two defenders. Under the full defense of the two defenders, he forcibly stretched out his right leg and shot a blast!
The football was like a heavy artillery bomb that exploded at close range, blasting directly into Sporting Lisbon's goal.

Sporting Lisbon's goalkeeper was stunned without any reaction.

Southampton leads Sporting Lisbon by two goals again!
Sporting Lisbon also has to play against Southampton.

The competition between the two sides in the midfield was very fierce, and both sides also had several good opportunities and several obvious mistakes.

After the 80th minute of the game, the situation on the field completely turned towards physical fitness and confrontation with the more dominant Southampton team.

Southampton also, under the leadership of Gu Ran, went all out to attack and expand the score advantage.

In the 81st minute, after Gu Ran stole the ball from the backcourt, he ran straight away, eating at least 6 Sporting Lisbon players alive with his speed and physical fitness. Then he dribbled the ball to the top of the penalty area and shot a long shot—— The ball went in! .

In the 89th minute, Gu Ran received a pass from Henderson again, made a beautiful fake move, dribbled the ball into the penalty area, and was brought down to the ground by two Sporting Lisbon players.

The referee immediately awarded a red dot package.

Sporting Lisbon was sent off, but Gu Ran stood at the penalty spot and scored in one fell swoop!

The score on the big screen was immediately rewritten as Sporting Lisbon 1:5 Southampton.

This score continued until the end of the game.

In the end, Southampton easily won the first leg of the Europa League second knockout round.

The two sides will play the second leg at Southampton's home stadium in the near future on March 3.

Judging from the current score, Sporting Lisbon wants to eliminate Southampton at Southampton's home court. Even if they have Figo and Ronaldo, they have little hope unless they have Gu Ran.

Unfortunately, not only did they not have Gu Ran, Gu Ran was also on their opposite side.

After this game, Coach Adkins also asked all the main players to rest in order to better alleviate the physical exertion of the game and long distance travel.

On March 3th, the English Championship match day started, and Southampton challenged the strong team Birmingham City away from home.

Coach Adkins still rested Southampton's main players and only sent out a substitute lineup for the away challenge.

Birmingham City seized the opportunity and eventually defeated Southampton with a full substitute lineup 2:0.

Of course, winning or losing in the English Championship no longer means much to Southampton. After all, the English Championship has been won, and promotion to the Premier League next season is a certainty. Therefore, it is important to give substitute players more playing time. The most meaningful.

On March 3, the Europa League war resumed. In the second leg of the second knockout round, Sporting Lisbon challenged Southampton away.

After the game started, Sporting Lisbon made a big fuss on the wing attack.

However, Southampton has the young Van Dijk and Luke Shaw, plus Chamberlain and Henderson are not vegetarians, and Gu Ran can sprint to the rescue at critical moments, so Sporting Lisbon's wing attack is basically useless. Nothing much happens.

...(End of chapter)