Football Giants
Chapter 572: The Butterfly Effect
As Southampton beat Reading 7-0 away, Manchester United lost to Manchester City 1-2 at home, and the points gap between the two teams quickly shortened to five points.
As for Manchester City, although they have won Manchester United, they are still far behind the top two teams in the league standings.
When analyzing the situation of the league after the end of this round in the daily game of the TV station, the guests almost all had their own opinions.
Charlene Laheri and Alan Shearer are unswervingly supporting Southampton, believing that Ferguson will find it difficult to solve Manchester United’s biggest bottleneck at present, especially since all the Premier League teams have already figured out Manchester United’s tactics under.
Although Alan Hansen has a poor relationship with Ferguson, this time he believes that Manchester United is likely to win the championship.
As for Southampton, if you want to win, come back next season!
This kind of controversy in the daily competition also continued to the pages of major newspapers in Britain and even Europe the next day.
The fierce competition in the Premier League has attracted the attention of all fans around the world.
Whether Southampton can achieve the great feat of hanging silk counterattack is also concerned by countless fans.
Coincidentally, this season's La Liga, Atletico Madrid's performance is also quite eye-catching, entering the final stage of the league, the Sheets Corps still firmly control the position of the league leader.
Although the lead is not obvious, it is chased by Barcelona and may be pulled off at any time, but this is undoubtedly the biggest achievement for the fans of La Liga.
After all, in the past ten years, the league championship has always been the prohibition of Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Now, Atletico Madrid has finally made a strong revival!
The appearance of dark polo teams in both the Premier League and La Liga immediately injected a new blood into football fans all over the world. Countless fans are vying to pay attention to the situation of these two teams and the two major leagues.
Especially in the Premier League, Southampton’s positive momentum in the past two seasons, coupled with the defeat of many giants in the International Champions Cup, and the championship record, have made fans all over the world talk about this team. High hopes.
Now, the performance of the Saints is amazing!
If Nengcai completes the reversal, it would be even more ideal!
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After defeating Reading, Southampton ushered in the quarter-final knockout round of the Europa League, against Lazio.
As a guest in Italy, Southampton relied on Vidal's key lore to beat Lazio with a one-to-zero away game.
It was Drogba who assisted Vidal. The Ivorian was always strong and strong, grabbed the spot in the penalty area, flew the header to Vidal, and assisted the Chilean midfielder to score a key lore goal!
Then came the FA Cup semi-final, Southampton opponent is Wigan Athletic.
Although Southampton did not try their best, Hazard and Sturridge's two goals still ensured that Southampton's two-to-zero home court defeated Wigan Athletic and successfully reached the final.
In another arena, Chelsea played against Manchester City at Stamford Bridge.
In the end, Benitez's team relied on their home advantage to defeat Manchester City two to one and successfully reached the final.
When Southampton competed in the FA Cup, Manchester United, who had been eliminated early, was on the away game. With the goals of Van Persie and Carrick, they defeated Stoke City 2-0.
But this game was very controversial, because after Manchester United took the lead in the fourth minute by Carrick, the scene has been passive. Stoke City played vigorously and seemed very threatening.
But at a critical moment, the referee gave Manchester United a penalty, and Van Persie made a penalty. In the end, Manchester United won by two to zero.
Because of Southampton's participation in the FA Cup, one round was missed, so Manchester United successfully expanded the points to eight points.
Three days later, Southampton ushered in Lazio at home.
Although Manchester United won and expanded the lead, which put a lot of pressure on Southampton, the goals of Ibrahimovic and Gareth Bale ultimately helped Southampton beat the visiting team 2-0 at home. Lazio.
After the end of the two rounds, Southampton eliminated Lazio with a total score of 3-0 and reached the semi-finals.
After the draw, the opponent in the semi-finals of Southampton is Benfica, a strong player in the Portuguese Super League!
After returning to the Premier League, Southampton ushered in the 34th round and challenged Swansea away.
Laudrup’s team played quite amazing this season, continuing the beautiful football style of Swansea’s past, and it has made fans talk about it, especially Spanish midfielder Michu, who has become the Premier League. The most surprising scorer.
Southampton challenged Swansea away, and the Saints dare not care.
In fact, the game was very hard.
It was not until the 76th minute of the second half that Southampton scored a crucial goal by left back David Alaba, and the assist was center Ibrahimovic.
After that, Southampton continued to threaten Swansea, but Laudrup did not dare to lose and was determined to counterattack.
But in the eighty-one minutes, Hazard's key goal came off the bench, and Swansea finally had to accept the defeat with hatred!
Southampton finally relied on David Alaba and Hazard to take the ball and retreated from away.
But this battle was extremely difficult, Laudrup's team can be described as a glorious defeat!
At the same time, Manchester United was not idle, relying on Van Persie’s hat trick, defeated the visiting Aston Villa 3-0 at Old Trafford, scored another three points and continued to maintain an eight-point advantage. .
But in the middle of the week, Southampton ushered in a make-up match, sitting at St. Mary's Stadium, relying on Ibrahimovic and Vidal's goals, defeated Allardys's West Ham United by 2-0, and once again shrunk. Points gap.
With four rounds left in the league, Manchester United still leads Southampton by five points!
Faced with such a fierce championship battle, the whole of Britain felt a tense atmosphere up and down.
It seems that everyone is tensed, and they are nervous, nervous and uneasy together with Manchester United and Southampton.
This atmosphere even continued to the Premier League chairman summit.
As the owner of a Premier League team, naturally, like ordinary fans, they will not be tit-for-tat at every turn, or even fight.
Even with rival teams like Arsenal and Chelsea, or Manchester United and Manchester City, the boss met face to face, everyone still smiled and said hello and respected each other.
After all, the identity and status are there, if it is like ordinary fans, it is a bit inappropriate.
But even so, because the competition for the league title, the competition for the Champions League qualification, and even the competition for the three relegation places have completely heated up, the atmosphere of the Premier League presidential summit is still somewhat tense.
Fortunately, this time the Premier League presidents summit did not have much topic, that is, the CEO of the Premier League, Skudmoore, stepped up and introduced some of the Premier League situation and the problems encountered.
Among them, Skudmore focused on Liverpool striker Suarez.
The Uruguayan striker bit Chelsea defender Ivanovic in the just-concluded 34th round of Liverpool's game against Chelsea.
Although he escaped the eyes of the referee at the time, he failed to escape the omnipotent media and live broadcast footage.
For Suarez's extremely bad behavior, the Football Association has already released harsh words and will definitely add additional punishment.
Even the Premier League has named and criticized at the chairman's summit. It can be seen that this time, the FA and the Premier League have the idea of purging the Premier League. Waving the big stick in their hands, Suarez must be severely taught.
According to preliminary estimates from the external media, at least ten games will start!
There are thirty-eight games in one season, and the ten-game suspension is undoubtedly quite serious.
If the FA were more cruel, I'm afraid...
The media has also dug up the news that once the suspension is too long, Suarez is likely to move to leave the Premier League after the end of the season, avoiding the suspension from the FA.
Coupled with the possibility of Liverpool participating in the Champions League next season, Suarez is eager to participate in the Champions League and prove his strength, which also makes it possible for him to transfer to a team that can participate in the Champions League this summer.
The really interesting scene of this Premier League presidential summit happened after the meeting.
When Skudmoore announced the end of the meeting, Abramovich took the lead to leave his seat, leading Chelsea’s chief executive Granovskia, to Liverpool owner John Henry.
"What's the matter?" Yang Huan turned around and asked Peter Kenyon.
Mr. Bald immediately leaned forward, "It is estimated that Chelsea wants to dig Suarez!"
When Yang Huan heard it, he suddenly felt funny.
Damn it, isn't this a trick made by Abramovich on purpose?
Suarez just bit your player in a game against Chelsea, and you have to face an overweight ticket and a long-term suspension. But when you turned around, you ran to dig Suarez?
Isn't this the favorite material of conspiracy theorists?
While Yang Huan was smiling, Peter Kenyon gently reminded Yang Huan.
Following Peter Kenyon’s eyes, I found that Arsenal’s general manager Gazidis had also approached John Henry and Ian Al. Could it be that Arsenal are also interested in Suarez?
Yang Huan looked at Peter Kenyon, and the latter nodded heavily, very likely!
Before Chelsea spent a lot of money to bring in Torres from Liverpool, the Spanish striker has become an out-and-out parallel seller. Despite his poor performance, he also occupies a considerable salary space for the team.
As for the introduction of Dembaba from Newcastle during the winter break, everyone knows that this guy is good off the bench. He really wants to support Chelsea's striker alone. He is not qualified yet!
For a team like Chelsea aspiring to the Champions League, the striker must at least be a first-class scorer!
Looking at the entire European football scene, the most likely and safest goal is naturally Suarez.
After all, the Uruguayan striker has no problem adapting to the Premier League.
Besides, Suarez's technical features are so comprehensive, and his tactical adaptability is better than Torres. It is worth starting!
As for Arsenal, the striker has always been an old problem.
Strictly speaking, after Van Persie switched to Manchester United, the Gunners' striker did not get better.
In addition, Wenger now has money in his hands, and his back is tough. The top four in the league this season have been so fierce that the Gunners have to increase investment to sign up and strengthen their own strength.
Otherwise, the strength of other teams will increase and Arsenal will be hopeless in the Champions League!
I have to say ~lightnovelpub.net~ This is also the butterfly effect brought about by the rise of Southampton.
After all, there are only four teams in the Champions League. Southampton grabs a spot, and other teams lose one chance!
Sitting in his place, Yang Huan watched the group of people not far away in his spare time. It was obvious that he was understanding the situation.
However, John Henry and Ian Al are shaking their heads constantly, as if saying that Suarez is not for sale.
But these words are so pale and weak!
Liverpool’s Champions League is hopeless and Suarez’s determination to move is great. In addition to Suarez’s contract terms, there is a 40 million pounds termination clause. Naturally, teams that can afford the money are moved by the wind!
When Yang Huan thought of this, Huo Ran also stood up.
"Go, Peter, let's join in the fun too!"
After that, he strode towards the crowd.
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