I just wanted to play football, but I became a Hollywood god

January 1th at 29pm.

In the fourth round of the FA Cup, Southampton's home game against the Premier League team Blackpool began.

After just experiencing the game of eliminating the Premier League hegemony Chelsea, Southampton fans, media reporters, and even bookmakers all have high expectations for this game.

Blackpool is the bottom team in the Premier League and is basically determined to be relegated. Although Southampton is still a League One team, it is basically equivalent to having one foot in the Championship.

The strength of the two teams is essentially not very different.

Especially when Southampton has Gu Ran, the gap at this level is almost negligible.

What's more, today is Southampton's home court again. Southampton has just eliminated Chelsea and their morale is at its peak.

Coach Adkins continued to use the 4231 formation today, letting Gu Ran act as a midfielder and play defensive counterattack.

After the game started, the Blackpool team also relied on the fact that they were a Premier League team and forced the attack. However, their two sides had very large loopholes. Compared with Chelsea, Blackpool was simply equivalent to a wild team.

Southampton defended for a few rounds and after testing the strength of the Blackpool team, they let go.

In the 10th minute of the game, after Gu Ran stole the ball from the backcourt, he dribbled the ball all the way, eating five Blackpool defenders alive, and while attracting the entire Blackpool defense, he hit Matthews with a move. Shen shouldered the pass with his back foot and passed the ball straight to Chamberlain who had already cut in from the left wing to the left side of the penalty area.

Chamberlain easily rubbed the goalkeeper and sent the ball into the net.

Southampton 1:0 Blackpool!

Saints fans cheered wildly, and the entire St. Mary's Stadium was immersed in a sea of ​​red and white.

Southampton is off to a fantastic start! Chamberlain, who had scored the goal, knelt down in front of Gu Ran excitedly and hugged his eldest father's thigh tightly.

Gu Ran, on the other hand, just split the wind with one palm and didn't celebrate too much.

After all, this is just the beginning.

The Blackpool team, which conceded a goal first, continued to strengthen its offensive and wanted to get a goal back.

The Southampton team, led by Gu Ran, calmly defended and counterattacked.

Judging from the scene, Blackpool had a higher ball possession rate, but at the end of the first half, the score between the two sides was still 1:0.

Blackpool's attack found it difficult to break down Southampton's defense, while Southampton's counterattack also made many mistakes.

These mistakes are, firstly, because Southampton has just experienced a big battle with Chelsea. Many of the main players are injured and have some lack of physical fitness, so they often fail to pass and receive the ball in place. Secondly, because Although Blackpool's offense and defense are far inferior to Chelsea's, they can still reach the Premier League level after all. Under this continuous high-intensity confrontation, Southampton still lacks competition experience as a whole.

Therefore, this level of competition is the one that can really improve Southampton's strength.

The score in the first half was fixed at Southampton 1:0 Blackpool.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. Blackpool continued to attack hard to save their face, while Southampton became more calm and calm after fine-tuning their tactics in the midfield.

In the second half, Blackpool blasted 10 consecutive shots, but failed to gain anything. Southampton gained something during their second counterattack——

In the 72nd minute of the second half, Gu Ran intercepted the ball in the midfield and passed the ball to Lallana who came up to support him. Lallana dribbled the ball into the penalty area and directly took a long shot towards the goal. The football was saved by the Blackpool goalkeeper. , and was cleared out of the penalty area by Blackpool's own defender, but Gu Ran arrived just in time and directly faced the ball that was released and kicked the ball in the world!

The ball went in!

St. Mary's Stadium was plunged into endless cheers and excitement!

The score on the big screen was immediately rewritten as Southampton 2:0 Blackpool!

Time is running out for Blackpool. In the 87th minute of the game, Blackpool relied on the right winger's breakthrough and won a corner kick.

A corner kick was taken, Aaron Martin took off under the pressure of Blackpool's center, and was awarded a penalty kick by the referee.

Southampton's players complained in various ways, but the referee ignored them.

Blackpool's center forward stood on the penalty spot and scored in one fell swoop.

The score was immediately rewritten as Southampton 2:1 Blackpool.

After the goal, Blackpool had no time to celebrate and continued to seize the time to attack.

Southampton continued to defend steadily.

Finally, after more than 5 minutes of injury time, the referee finally blew the whistle to end the game.

Southampton successfully eliminated the Premier League team Blackpool with a score of 2:1 and advanced to the fifth round of the English League One.

After this game, all games in January are over.

Gu Ran was also named the League One Player of the Month, head coach Adkins was also named the League One Coach of the Month, and captain Davis was also named the League One Goalkeeper of the Month. .

The transfer market during the winter window will close in just three days, and all clubs have stepped up their recruitment efforts.

After Coach Adkins had a previous phone call with Gu Ran, he asked the club's senior representatives to contact Moussa Sissoko and Phil Jones, and even the ill-tempered Jan Mwe mentioned by Gu Ran. La also tried to make contact.

but……

When Moussa Sissoko heard that it was a League One team, he ignored it at all.

Jan M'Vila demands a core player. Southampton must build the team around him and enjoy the highest salary in the team.

Phil Jones is hesitating. After all, he is now a Premier League player. Moving to League One is really a downgrade.

It happened that Manchester United took action against Phil Jones, so Phil Jones immediately decided to accept Manchester United's transfer offer.

Southampton caught none.

There is nothing that can be done about it. The reputation of Southampton Club is indeed too small, and the club’s senior management is coy and coy. The funds they agreed to provide for signings are pitifully small. It is really not that easy to recruit capable players. .

In desperation, Coach Adkins had no choice but to turn to Gu Ran, asking Gu Ran to help ask Chelsea if they could loan Nigerian superstar Mikel Obi to Southampton.

So, on the night of winning the fourth round of the FA Cup, Gu Ran called Sister NO.

After waiting for more than twenty seconds, Gu Ran was already about to hang up, before Sister NO finally picked up the phone.

This hard-to-get emotional pull, Sister NO still plays it well.

"Hi, Gu, I didn't expect that you took the initiative to call me!" Sister NO on the other end of the phone pretended to be calm, with unconcealable excitement in her tone, "What, have you figured it out?"

...(End of chapter)