Extraordinary coach

"Play normally. As long as we play normally, it's fine!"

This is what Sun Yi said to the players before the game.

For the current Southampton team, as long as they play normally, it should be no problem to beat Tottenham.

In other words, the current Southampton team will only lose to themselves.

Not only Sun Yi thinks so, but also the Southampton team thinks so.

Because Southampton really has this strength.

Of course, this does not mean that Sun Yi does not value Tottenham.

Before the game, Sun Yi and the coaching staff also studied a lot of Tottenham's game videos.

This season, Tottenham's lineup has not changed much, so Sun Yi is still very confident.

"Don't worry! Boss. Our state is fine. It's not easy to play beyond the ordinary, but it's still possible to play normally."

The players all said confidently.

Then, the Southampton team stepped into the stadium with confidence.

After the necessary entry links, the game started soon.

At the beginning, everything was going according to the normal track.

With the absolute advantage in strength and the advantage of home court, Southampton has a reasonable advantage.

Such a normal scene allows Sun Yi to talk with Dio and Kaka sitting next to him easily.

Now Kaka, since he took the initiative to give up his position to Felix, Sun Yi has actually regarded him as an assistant coach.

Although Kaka is still a player, Sun Yi will send him to make up for almost every game, but when Sun Yi sits on the bench, he will discuss the problems on the field with Kaka. Just like Dio.

Now the whole Southampton team understands that Kaka is equivalent to the team's assistant coach.

"Boss, I feel that the Tottenham team seems to be a little different today?" Kaka said while looking at the field.

"What do you mean?"

"You see, Kane is no longer their offensive core. Their offense is not centered around him."

"Yeah. You are right." Sun Yi looked at the field and nodded in agreement. "The starting point of their attack is Eriksson. He controls the rhythm of the attack."

"And Sun~uh~Sun Heung-min. The key point of their attack is Son Heung-min." Kaka pointed at Son Heung-min and said. The pronunciation of Son Heung-min and Sun Yi's names is very similar, and Kaka felt a little strange when he said it.

"Your judgment is very accurate, Kaka. The key points of Tottenham's attack today are Eriksson and Son Heung-min. As for Kane, he is more like a bait put out by Pochettino." Sun Yi said with relief.

He felt that Kaka had a talent for being a coach. He had a keen perspective and could quickly capture the key points on the field.

This trait will make Kaka an excellent coach in the future.

"Kaka, you are really getting better and better. It seems that you are really more and more like an assistant coach. I say, you are really adapting to developing in this direction." Dio said with a smile. It looks like a joke, but it is his true words.

Dio's words made Kaka very happy in his heart, but his face was also a little shy.

He could see that Sun Yi really regarded him as an assistant. But he didn't have a clear assistant coach status in the team after all, and his mentality hadn't changed yet.

"Old Dio is right. And you can think of yourself as a real assistant coach. As long as I'm in the team for one day, you are. It doesn't matter if you're not." Sun Yi smiled and patted Kaka on the shoulder to show encouragement.

"Thank you!" Seeing that Sun Yi was serious, Kaka thanked him sincerely.

Sun Yi and the other two had already deviated from the game when they talked about this.

But Sun Yi glanced at the field and didn't see anything unusual on the field, so he was relieved.

However, Sun Yi quickly brought the topic back to the game on the field, and discussed with Kaka, Dio and others how to deal with Tottenham's tactical style that was different from usual.

On the other side, Tottenham's head coach Pochettino was watching Sun Yi and others talking and laughing over there with a cold eye.

Pochettino looked very calm, and didn't seem to care about what he saw. And he didn't look worried about the situation on the field where Tottenham was slightly behind.

In fact, he was not worried at all, but rather a little happy.

You look very relaxed.

That's right, just relax and laugh as much as you want.

This is exactly what I want.

The more relaxed you are, the easier it is for my plan to succeed.

Wait, you will soon stop laughing, and you will be surprised!

Sun Yi certainly didn't know what Pochettino was thinking. And they have already discussed some countermeasures.

"Okay. That's it. Focus on Sun Xingmin and Eriksen. With our strength, we should be able to limit them."

"As long as we don't let these two people explode, the situation will be under our control."

Sun Yi set the tone with a relaxed look, then he stood up and went to the sidelines and began to shout to the players.

Soon, the players on the field of the Southampton team strengthened their defense against Sun Xingmin and Eriksen according to Sun Yi's request.

While Sun Yi was adjusting the defensive focus on the field, Pochettino on the other side showed a barely perceptible smile on his face.

After waiting for a minute and confirming the changes on the field, Sun Yi nodded with satisfaction.

He saw that the Southampton team on the field had restricted the performance of Sun Xingmin and Eriksen.

Next, Southampton will completely suppress Tottenham, and then slowly attack until they defeat them.

At this time, Pochettino rushed to the sidelines nervously, and shouted to the Tottenham on the field with his hands moving loudly.

"They are afraid that they can't bear it, so they are ready to shrink." Dio said with a smile.

"That's right! In the face of absolute strength, what else can they do except do this?" Sun Yi also laughed.

Shrinking and defending is the only way to fight against Southampton. However, with Southampton's offensive strength, in the face of its high-altitude balls, ground penetration, fixed ball positions, and three-dimensional attacks, it is really not possible to defend.

Since this season, Southampton has no idea how many turtle shells have been broken and how many buses have been smashed.

As long as the key points of Tottenham's attack are controlled, shrinking back will also be death!

Seeing that Tottenham was suppressed and shrunk back, Southampton's morale increased greatly, and they began to attack wantonly.

As the attack became more and more exciting, Southampton's formation was unknowingly quite close.

No one cared about this. What everyone cared about now was when they could break through Tottenham's goal.

Many people felt that a goal would be scored next.

And this was indeed the case. In this situation where the situation was almost tilted to Southampton, a goal did appear next.

It was just that the goal was not scored by Southampton, but by Tottenham.

In a favorable situation, the goal was scored instead. The most likely reason was a counterattack.

That's right, Southampton was counterattacked by Tottenham.

Many people would think that Tottenham's goal was likely to come from Son Heung-min or Kane at the first time.

However, it was not. It can even be said that these two people did not play a big role in the sneak attack.

Losing the ball cannot be said to be a mistake in Southampton's defense or a problem in defense.

In fact, Southampton's defense was pretty good. Not only did they keep an eye on Kane, but Son Heung-min, a player with a particularly great counterattack threat, was also watched to death.

Even Eriksson, the engine of Tottenham, was entangled by Paulinho at the first time.

It can be said that Southampton has done well enough in the key places. Sun Yi and the coaching staff have also made the right arrangements.

Unfortunately, Sun Yi has calculated everything, but he did not calculate the real attack point of Pochettino in this game.

It is neither Kane, nor Son Heung-min and Eriksson. It is Ali who has not been given special attention.

When Southampton focused its main attention on Kane, Son Heung-min and Eriksson, Tottenham made a long pass from the backcourt in a counterattack and found Ali who was ambushing on the left side of Southampton.

Bertrand is in charge of the left side of Southampton. It cannot be said that he is not capable. There is no problem facing Ali in a short time.

But this time, Ali played exceptionally well. Not only did he pass Bertrand in a high-speed attack, but he also cut inside to pass Pavard who was filling in the position.

After cutting inside, Ali fired a world wave straight into the far corner of the goal without giving Parva a chance to block it.

Casillas tried hard to save the ball, but the quality of Ali's shot was too high, and he was powerless.

In this way, Tottenham relied on Ali's world wave and unexpectedly led Southampton at St. Mary's Stadium.

"Oh!!"

Seeing the players fall behind like this, Sun Yi, Kaka and others were a little stunned.

They fell behind like this?

You know, Ali's shot was the only shot that hit the goal frame of Tottenham in the nearly 20 minutes of the game. But this only shot on target led to a goal.

Thinking about Southampton having nearly ten more shots than Tottenham but not scoring a goal, it's really speechless.

And no matter how surprised the Southampton team was. Tottenham was ahead.

This made all the Tottenham players present cheer wildly.

"Oh my god! We scored a goal!"

"We are ahead of Southampton here at St. Mary's."

"This is incredible!"

Surprise filled every Spurs player.

As the head coach of Spurs, Pochettino was also very excited, and his eyes were full of confidence.

"Haha. Done. Done!"

"Haha. The initiative is on our side next."

"As long as we don't make mistakes, it's not impossible to take three points from St. Mary's."

Pochettino was really happy, and he was getting more and more excited.

Win. I want to beat Sun!

"Huh~" Sun Yi let out a long breath. Get rid of the frustration caused by falling behind.

He admitted that he was careless. He admitted that he ignored Ali, which led to the loss of the ball.

He also realized that this loss of the ball was probably not an accident, and it was probably a deliberate strategy set up by Pochettino.

This made Sun Yi turn his head and look at Pochettino, who had been defeated by him several times.

When Pochettino met Sun Yi's eyes, he also showed a very confident and somewhat complacent smile.

Pochettino's complacent smile made Sun Yi realize that his guess seemed to be correct.

"It seems that I underestimated Pochettino."

Thinking of this, Sun Yi turned his head to look at the field, and then shouted to the Southampton player who was about to serve: "Stay calm. Keep calm."

"As long as we play normally, no one can beat us."

"If we fall behind by one goal, we can equalize at any time, or even overtake!"

In addition to using words to appease the team, Sun Yi naturally asked the defenders to pay attention to Ali.

Soon, the game started again.

After falling behind, Southampton naturally had to launch a fierce attack.

In addition to obviously strengthening the defense, Tottenham also strengthened their investment in counterattacks. They were really determined when they had the opportunity to counterattack.

Due to Ali's goal, Southampton also had an additional defensive point to pay attention to when defending Tottenham's counterattack. This invisibly increased the pressure on Southampton's defense.

Therefore, Southampton was unable to fully recover and invest in the offense.

As Tottenham's counterattack became more and more determined, Southampton was increasingly unable to attack with all their strength.

Under the restraint of Tottenham's counterattack, the defenders could only put more energy on defense.

After Southampton invested more energy in defense, Tottenham naturally had no good chance to threaten the goal.

Especially Ali after scoring the goal, he naturally could not get such a sneak attack opportunity after being defended more strongly.

It was just that Southampton created a lot of opportunities in the full-strength counterattack when they could not attack with all their strength. But they failed to score.

When Tottenham was desperately defending, especially when they had hope of winning, they burst out with great energy.

Almost everyone of them was desperately devoted to defense.

Even if they had just participated in the attack, Kane and others would immediately run back to participate in the defense.

Under Tottenham's desperate defense, Southampton's offensive firepower was strong, but they could not score for a while.

Even until the end of the first half, Southampton had an absolute advantage in the number of shots, but they could only return to the locker room with the regret of falling behind by one goal.

After returning to the locker room, the pressure on the faces of the Southampton players was obvious.

There was no frustration, but their faces were a little solemn, and the atmosphere in the locker room was obviously very different from before the start of the game.

There was no way, the situation in the first half was somewhat beyond their expectations. It was more difficult and harder than they imagined.

Seeing this situation, Sun Yi knew that he had to find a way to relieve the pressure on the players.

"Yeah! Long live..."

"We, the Tottenham team, will not lose to anyone..."

The away locker room was far away, but Sun Yi heard the cheers coming from there. It seems that the situation in the first half made the Tottenham team very happy.

Sun Yi saw that the door of the locker room was not closed tightly, so he went over to close it.

Isolate the opponent's voice and isolate the negative psychological impact on his own players.

After organizing his mind, Sun Yi began to speak to the players.

"My fault. It was my negligence that allowed the opponent to cheer like this!"