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In fact, even if no one makes trouble, Southampton's away game against Manchester City will definitely become the focus of everyone's eyes.

Because this game deserves that kind of focus.

After the [-]th round of the Premier League, Southampton won [-] wins and [-] draw, and Manchester City won [-] wins and [-] draw. It is seventeen consecutive victories, including five consecutive victories in the Champions Cup and two victories in the League Cup.

Such a result is of course quite exaggerated, and Southampton recently lost their winning streak in various competitions. They lost to Roma in the fourth round of the Champions League and Manchester City in the fourth round of the League Cup. In other games, they lost to Arsenal on penalties in the Community Shield Cup, and they were tied [-]-[-] by Liverpool in the last round of the league.

In short, the performance of both sides is the best in Europe.

How could such a confrontation not get enough attention?

In fact, before the last round, many media started to create momentum for this game.

Southampton naturally wants to guarantee their own records. They are attacking for three consecutive league titles this season. Only Manchester United have done it.

Only when Southampton wins three consecutive league titles can they be compared with Manchester United.

For Southampton, who wants to create a more stable giants status, any record cannot be ignored.

And Manchester City wants to prove that they are already a wealthy family, spending the highest coach salary to invite Guardiola, of course, it is for the championship.

For Ji Ya, it is also necessary to suppress Guardiola well.

Because in his opinion, Guardiola and his Manchester City are the most capable of threatening them in the Premier League.

Although Manchester United has a lot of money and has invited Mourinho, there will always be problems between their management and the first team. In addition, the internal situation is too complicated. Even Mourinho, I am afraid it will be difficult to grasp With the pain of Ferguson's retirement, it will be difficult for them to recover before they find the next Ferguson. However, Manchester United's management does not need the next Ferguson.So in Ji Ya's view, if Manchester United wants to rise, they have to wait for a while, and this period of time may be very long.

Liverpool is a strong opponent. With Klopp coaching, they have begun to rise strongly this season. However, Liverpool's management has limited financial resources and will not support Klopp too much. Under such circumstances, Liverpool It is also difficult to maintain continuous combat effectiveness. With the addition of luck, maintaining top-level competitiveness for several years is already top-notch, and it will always decline next.

Needless to say, Arsenal, Wenger has not adapted to modern football, and his imprint is too deep, it will take a long time for the new coach to stabilize.

Chelsea has money and people, and the management is not too involved in the affairs of the first team. However, they are still a bit chaotic overall, unable to maintain continuous pressure. If Mourinho became the existence of Ferguson at Chelsea, they might still be able to maintain it. Long-term and stable competitiveness, but now it is also difficult.

As for Tottenham... Levy is their biggest problem.

So no matter from any point of view, Manchester City with Guardiola is Southampton's biggest opponent.

Their management is patient, rich and out of touch with the first team - it's the perfect management.

Coupled with Guardiola, a top coach, Manchester City will definitely be able to maintain their competitiveness for a long time in the coming time.

Therefore, we must target such opponents in order to have more guarantees for our team's performance!

After Kiya led the team to Manchester, he did not accept too many interviews. He just said a few words at the pre-match press conference, saying that Southampton will still try their best to win this game, and he didn’t say anything else. , It's a mess of low-key.

Kiya's attitude was considered by the local media in Manchester as a concern about losing, so he kept a low profile.

Guardiola didn't give too many interviews either. After all, the enemy would choose to keep a low profile unless he wanted to make trouble.

In the eyes of the local media in Manchester, his approach is calm and easy, with a general demeanor.

"Guardiola has experimented with many lineups this season, three-four-three at the beginning, four-four-two later, and now four-three-three. In short, their tactical core has not changed. Attacking to support the midfield, creating opportunities for the forwards in the frontcourt during the control of the midfield. They do not have a standard center forward on the field, but several forwards have excellent skills. Through their own passing and coordination, they can create opportunities. They played a lot of threatening offenses... They have a lot of frontcourt combinations and a lot of players that can be used. Except for the midfielder Fernandinho who will definitely play and use his defense and passing to balance the midfielder, the others The two midfielders may be Gundogan and Seat B, or it may be Gundogan and David Silva. The striker may play together with Aguero and Jesus, and then cooperate with a winger, or it may be Ster Lin and Sane played at the same time, playing a center forward between Aguero and Jesus...even as a full-back, in addition to Walker's relatively stable right back position, Mendy may be on the left, and Del Fey, maybe even Zinchenko... Like our midfielder last season, except De Bruyne is indispensable, no matter which two other people play, the effect will be similar."

Listening to Kiya's analysis, the Southampton players nodded one after another. When he said this, the players understood, indicating that except for a few players, Manchester City's lineup can rotate some players. Neither had much effect.

"We have to remember that no matter how they change, their offensive and defensive foundation is based on possession of the ball. They take the ball in the midfield, pass it constantly, and after opening the gap, they rely on the individual ability of the players to create opportunities and then seize them. …Their players all have such abilities. They are basically players with excellent skills, strong passing and coordination skills, so there is nothing to say about the specific tactics. Let them know what Southampton is by fighting against their skills. Control the ball!" Kiya finally said.

The players nodded one after another. Over the past few seasons, Southampton has used ball possession and passing tactics to play all over Europe, relying on their skillful cooperation with each other and the excellent foot skills and passing ability of the players. , With this foundation, coupled with excellent breakthrough players on the wing and agile scorers in the penalty area, their tactics seem so incomprehensible.

Now Manchester City is also such a team, so of course they have to use all their strength to fight hard!