Extraordinary coach

Chapter 546: Someone took the points

Bought midfielder Mathieu Gigno and goalkeeper Bernardoni, Southampton's winter transfer was successfully completed.

There is no way, there is no money. It is impossible to be perfect.

It is true that Sun Yi is very satisfied with these two signings.

In his words, at least in the next few years, he does not have to worry about the lack of manpower for Southampton.

As long as there is no accident and no one is poached, Southampton will become stronger and stronger in the future.

In fact, after playing for half a season, Southampton is actually stronger than at the beginning of the season.

In this half season, many players in the team have made great progress in the training of multiple fronts.

For example, Rebic's strength has grown from A level to A+ level. Although he is not a fixed main force, he is a major rotation player. Sufficient playing time still allows him to exercise.

Rebic's growth will give Sun Yi more choices. There is no need to worry about the center position being not strong enough when taking a rest.

And Lozano and Prowse, after several seasons of training, also have signs of breaking through to the A+ level.

Perhaps before the end of this season, these two will become members of the A+ club.

No need to consider transfers, the vacation is over.

Next, it is time to start fighting for the second half with all our strength.

After a few days of vacation, the players' mental outlook has improved a lot. They don't look as exhausted as before.

However, a little bad is that during these days of rest, the competitive state of many players has declined.

This is not to say that the players indulged themselves during their vacation, but that after a long period of intense competition and a sudden break, their physical condition will inevitably decline significantly.

It takes a period of active recovery to get back to the previous state.

In this regard, Sun Yi is not worried about anything.

With the overall strength of the Southampton team, it will be fine to use a few games to adjust. There is no need to worry about being robbed of the top spot in terms of points. After all, if Southampton is like this, others are probably not much better.

With such an inevitable situation, Southampton soon ushered in the 21st round of the Premier League.

In this round, Southampton will go to the King Power Stadium to challenge Leicester City.

Leicester City's record this season is still not bad.

Although they were given a minimum consumption by Southampton at St. Mary's in the first half, they performed well against other teams.

For a while, the outside world thought they were going to revive the miracle of the 15/16 season.

However, in the recent seasons, Southampton has completely crushed the record.

This gives Southampton a huge psychological advantage.

Even in the Fox City, Southampton's players shouted to continue to give Leicester City a minimum consumption.

Soon, the game started at the King Power Stadium.

In this game, since the main players have had enough rest, Sun Yi basically arranged the main players to play.

Only the left back and the defensive midfielder were played by two non-main players, Sarr and Bednarek.

Sun Yi originally thought that there wouldn't be too much suspense in this game, but after the game started, he couldn't see Southampton's overwhelming advantage.

It's not that Southampton's strength is not advantageous, but the whole team's performance is not very good, and the players are a little lazy.

This made Southampton unable to really enter the game state for a long time.

Leicester City played very excitedly.

From the beginning of the game, they entered the game state early.

This made them not only play very actively, but also play above their level.

It seems that they didn't have a lazy period after the Christmas schedule.

One side was in no state as a whole, and the players were not excited enough.

One side was in good overall condition, and the players were all shouting to deal with the opponent.

In this way, Southampton couldn't play a satisfactory game at all.

In the first half, Southampton didn't even score a goal, but was scored by Leicester City using the home advantage.

Sun Yi was naturally very dissatisfied when he returned to the locker room with a lag.

He couldn't help but criticize the players.

After his criticism, Southampton finally improved in the second half of the game.

Knowing that they were behind and that they might lose.

The players of Southampton finally woke up from their dreams and started to play actively.

The players were active and started to play seriously. Southampton finally played most of their overall strength advantage.

After some efforts, after Ronaldo's outbreak, Southampton finally broke through Leicester City's goal.

One to one, Southampton finally tied the score.

It can also be regarded as a boost to morale.

After scoring a goal, Southampton naturally wanted to continue to work hard. It would be best to directly overtake the score.

However, after being scored by Southampton, Leicester City was worried about being beaten, so they shrank.

Sun Yi wanted to say that Leicester City was a coward. But in fact, they were very pragmatic in doing so.

Leicester City's retreat allowed them to focus more on defense.

Coupled with their already high morale and positive attitude towards the game, they did a good job of defense.

This made it difficult for Southampton, who wanted to win, to attack.

Because of the strength, Leicester City's defense could not stop Southampton in the past.

However, Southampton's state in this game was not good.

Although they had many shooting opportunities, they just couldn't break through Leicester City's gate.

The players of Leicester City really fought hard. And the foot feeling of Southampton's players was really bad. Many good opportunities, no matter how they kicked, they didn't have them.

Even if Sun Yi used up all three substitutions later, he still couldn't change the situation that Southampton couldn't find the offensive feeling.

'Bang! '

"Bang!!"

"Bang!!!"

...

Watching Southampton shoot again and again, and then miss the goal again and again, Sun Yi was anxious and helpless.

In the end, at the end of the game, Southampton was unable to break through Leicester City's gate again.

In this way, Southampton could only go back with a draw.

Facing such an ending, Sun Yi was also quite helpless.

"There's really nothing we can do!"

"We had opportunities and advantages, but we just couldn't score more goals."

"This situation only shows that the team's competitive situation needs to be adjusted. We need to recover properly."