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2:0 victory over Benfica.

Although this was only the first round, it undoubtedly made Southampton's promotion situation very good.

Therefore, the Southampton team was very happy.

Basically, it can be said that it is very likely that they will advance to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

And Sun Yi was also very happy.

However, it was not because of the victory over Benfica, but because Juanjuan, who had been away for a month, came to the UK again after the winter vacation.

When he sent Juanjuan away before, he felt a little liberated.

But after a month of loneliness, he felt that he had stored enough public grain again. Therefore, he especially welcomed Juanjuan's arrival.

Even his father-in-law and mother-in-law came with him, so that he could not do whatever he wanted.

Of course, Sun Yi did not welcome the arrival of Juanjuan's parents. The more people there are, the more lively the house will be. Let him have a more homely taste during the Spring Festival.

And they came together, just in time to accompany him to welcome the first honor of 2020.

Next, he will soon have another championship to win.

Because, soon, the League Cup final will come.

However, before the start of the League Cup final, Southampton still has a game to warm up.

Warming up does not mean playing a warm-up match, but actually playing a Premier League game.

It's just that the opponent is Aston Villa.

Aston Villa, which has returned to the Premier League from the Championship, is definitely one of the weakest teams in the Premier League this season.

They are currently struggling to stay in the league, and the prospects are not good.

Such an opponent is not challenging at all for Southampton. What's more, Southampton started this game at home.

So, for Sun Yi, this is an opportunity to warm up the players and restore their form.

Sun Yi will naturally not send out all the main players for the upcoming League Cup final.

He used a semi-main lineup to play against Aston Villa. And the main goal in the game is to warm up those main players who are not in good enough form.

Aston Villa, because they are trying to stay in the league, they said they would fight to the end against Southampton.

In addition, Southampton needed to prepare for the next League Cup, and Aston Villa felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so they had the idea of ​​getting points from Southampton.

Southampton's points are different from others, and they are very valuable. If they can really get them, even one point, it will be of great help to their relegation situation.

For this possible hope, Aston Villa tried their best in the game. And they parked the bus all the time.

But even so, in the face of the absolute strength gap, Aston Villa did not create a miracle.

In the end, Aston Villa still lost to Southampton 0:2 at St. Mary's Stadium.

Only won two goals and did not reach the minimum consumption. It seems not perfect.

But Sun Yi felt very satisfied. He thought that winning was fine. The most important thing is to help improve the players' state.

If he hadn't wanted to save the physical strength of the core players, Aston Villa would naturally not have lost only two goals.

In any case, the game was won. Southampton can face the League Cup final with a relaxed attitude.

Sun Yi is also very confident about the next League Cup final.

Because the opponent in the final is Arsenal.

The opponent is Arsenal. To be honest, Sun Yi was very surprised at first.

But he was very happy in a blink of an eye. Facing Arsenal, which can only compete for the top five now, Southampton has a very high chance of winning the championship.

And it is very likely that it will not be consumed too much.

There is no doubt that the opponent is Arsenal, which is really a very happy thing.

Although he has great confidence in winning Arsenal, Sun Yi did not take Arsenal lightly.

He did not want to give Arsenal even a 10% chance.

Therefore, Sun Yi made sufficient preparations before the game. He also conducted multiple battle simulations.

After conducting multiple battle simulations and seeing that the results were very ideal, Sun Yi was relieved to wait for the arrival of the game.

After a while of waiting, Sun Yi finally led Southampton to start the League Cup final with Arsenal.

Before the game, Sun Yi did not make any bold statements. With the current strength of him and Southampton, there was no need to say anything more.

Just win the championship.

Seeing Arsenal again on the field, Sun Yi observed carefully, and then he had a bottom line in his heart.

"Well, the strength is still the same. It's just that the state is okay."

"Go. Go up and win the game." Sun Yi waved his hand and let Southampton go to the field to play.

But when the game started, Arsenal surprised Sun Yi.

They performed very well.

Obviously, their overall strength was a level lower than Southampton, but for a long time after the game started, they played back and forth with Southampton.

This made many people who supported Arsenal very surprised.

"Wow! Arsenal played really well!"

"Look at this scene, how is Arsenal inferior to Southampton?"

"It's possible, this game is definitely possible."

"As long as Arsenal keeps up this performance, it's definitely possible to beat Southampton and win the championship."

"Come on! Arsenal!"

"It's time for Southampton to hand over the League Cup trophy."

When the thought of this possibility came, the Arsenal fans were particularly excited. They cheered for the team even harder.

Hearing the fans' cheers, the Arsenal players on the field were also in high spirits, playing more actively and with motivation.

"Today's Arsenal played really well!" Dio said to Sun Yi with surprise on the sidelines.

"Yes. They surprised me." Sun Yi nodded.

He was really surprised. Arsenal's performance was much better than in the match simulation.

"What made them perform so well?"

"Maybe it's because they didn't play Guendouzi?" Kaka next to him said uncertainly.

"Guendouzi? Hey, it seems to be true!" Sun Yi looked around the field and realized that Guendouzi did not appear in the Arsenal team's starting lineup.

Well, in fact, Sun Yi had already seen it from the lineup. It's just that he still thought Guendouzi would definitely start in his substitute consciousness.

There is no way, who calls Guendouzi the famous "Prince Gong"?

In many previous games, anyone in the Arsenal team may not play, but Guendouzi will definitely play.

Regardless of the record or performance, Guendouzi is the main force of the Arsenal team.

Sun Yi has always felt speechless about this point.

Sometimes he wondered if Guendouzi was the illegitimate son of the Arsenal boss?

And judging from the situation in this game, it seems not to be.

The iron Prince Gong is gone, no wonder Arsenal's performance has improved.

Sun Yi had to start paying more attention to Arsenal.

The Arsenal team in front of him is probably their strongest lineup.

Sun Yi observed carefully and found that it was indeed the case.

Arsenal's overall strength is definitely not as good as Southampton's.

But their forward line is very strong.

The forward trident composed of Aubameyang, Lacazette and Nicolas Pepe, with all A+ level strength, is also very competitive in the Premier League.

And Sun Yi soon discovered that the main reason why Arsenal could play well with Southampton was a midfielder.

That is 'Big Eyes' Ozil.

In previous matches, Ozil's performance was always unsatisfactory. And it always gave people a feeling of not being active enough and not in good condition.

But today's Ozil is very different.

Not only was he very active, but he was also in good condition.

It was Ozil's outstanding performance that allowed Arsenal's forward line to exert far more combat effectiveness than before.

This is also the reason why Arsenal has not fallen behind on the field until now.

"Paulinho, go take care of Ozil. I want to see him invisible."

Seeing the key, Sun Yi immediately walked to the sidelines and made adjustments.

If Southampton had already taken the lead, perhaps he would not do this. But in this situation, it is natural to freeze Ozil.

Sun Yi is very confident in Paulinho. He believes that he will be able to limit Ozil.

Before, Sun Yi arranged Bednarek to defend Ozil. It is naturally difficult for Bednarek, who is only A-level, to defend Ozil who is in good condition.

With Paulinho's strength, there should be no problem. He mainly focused on offense before.

Following Sun Yi's request, Paulinho gave up participating in the offense and began to focus on defending Ozil.

Paulinho's footwork is a bit tricky, but he is definitely "dark and hard" in defense.

He didn't suffer any loss against Barcelona's midfield back then, and now he has no problem against Ozil, who has begun to decline.

After Paulinho tried his best to deal with Ozil, the latter soon began to perform abnormally.

Ozil, who was afraid of confrontation, was really defeated against Paulinho.

And as Ozil's performance was limited, Arsenal's offensive threat naturally plummeted.

Although Arsenal's forwards are still working hard, they can't attack at all when facing the Southampton defense led by Van Dijk without the midfielder.

Originally, Arsenal relied on a very good offense to compete with Southampton.

Once the offense failed, they immediately fell into a passive situation.

In fact, Arsenal's midfield defense with Xhaka and Torreira as double defensive midfielders is quite good.

At least they are not inferior to Southampton in the midfield competition.

But Arsenal's defense is relatively poor.

The defense line with only A grade may still be very strong against mid- and lower-level teams.

But facing the Southampton forward line led by Ronaldo, it really doesn't work.

The strength gap is too big.

Such actual conditions began to make Arsenal play particularly passively, and the defense was frequently threatened. Gradually, Arsenal was almost suppressed.

"Bang!"

"Bang!!"

...

Southampton kept threatening Arsenal's goal with shots.

Unfortunately, Southampton's luck was a little worse today.

There were many good chances, but they were just a little bit off.

This is really regrettable.

However, Sun Yi was not too worried about it.

He had a complete grasp of the situation, and it was only a matter of time before he scored. He would score once after a few more shots.

What surprised Sun Yi was that Southampton attacked for a long time, but they didn't score a goal until the end of the first half.

"My goodness, Arsenal had good luck in the first half." Sun Yi couldn't help but sigh.

In this way, Southampton could only end the first half with the regret of not scoring a goal.

After the halftime break, both sides quickly returned to the field.

Then, Sun Yi found a good news.

"Hey, it seems that there is good news. Prince Gong is on the court."

"Good. Good. This is good." Seeing that Guendouzi replaced Ozil in the second half, Dio also smiled happily.

Sun Yi couldn't help but smile at Kaka.

Guendouzi's appearance is good news for Southampton.

Before, Sun Yi still needed to use Paulinho to deal with Ozil.

Now he only needs to let Bednarek deal with Guendouzi. The two are about the same strength, both A-level. There is no need to worry at all.

In this way, Sun Yi can also let Paulinho participate more in the attack. Let the team's offensive firepower go to a higher level.

So, Sun Yi immediately made tactical adjustments.

Soon, the second half of the game began.

Then Southampton quickly broke the deadlock.

It was only five minutes into the second half, and Southampton scored a goal by Ronaldo.

"Okay, the championship is stable."

Sun Yi felt that the victory was in his grasp.

Then he smiled and said: "Thank you Prince Gong for playing. Haha."

After Guendouzi came on the court, he was actually very active.

It was just a matter of strength, and he couldn't take advantage against Bednarek. This made Arsenal's substitutions completely meaningless.

It also released Paulinho's offensive firepower.

Southampton's offensive firepower was originally very strong, and after this increase, Arsenal couldn't bear it at all.

In the first half, they escaped by luck. Now, their luck can't bear it.

As Southampton took the lead, the game was basically declared a suspense-free game.

Arsenal's morale also dropped, and they even lost confidence.

In the following games, after Felix scored a goal, the suspense was completely lost.

In the end, Southampton won the game smoothly.

So, Southampton has another championship to win.

"Yeah, we won the championship again."

"Well~ we can celebrate a little."

…….

As the game came to an end, many people said lightly after seeing the news:

"Southampton won as expected."

"No surprise, the championship was taken away by Southampton again."

"Southampton is so greedy! They have won the League Cup for three consecutive times. When will they let one slip to other teams?"