When the frontcourt players were under heavy pressure and the team took a high-level press, Tony Cross appeared in Arsenal's half.

He has been playing behind the midfield for more than a season and has played dozens of games.

In the past few dozen games, he has been constantly summarizing his experience and experience, and is also working hard to make up for his shortcomings.

For example, his slow football style has changed a lot in the past year or so.

Now his style of play is much more concise.

But this conciseness is the progress he has made while maintaining his own characteristics!

This season, the team introduced Modric. After the early stages of the season, he found that he and Modric were becoming more and more compatible. He also learned a lot from the Croatians.

But Modric is Modric and Tony Cross is Tony Cross.

He will never become Modric, and the other way around is also true!

With Southampton winning streak in the Premier League this season, the double midfielder formed by Tony Cross and Modric has become the focus of countless fans and is talking about it with relish.

Some people even quarreled on the Internet about who is the core and who is the deputy, but they didn't know that they were both the team's offensive and defensive transformation hubs, and there was no distinction between the core and the deputy.

Since there are two people, there must be some division of labor and cooperation.

Although Tony Kroos' defense has improved a lot compared to when he was in the Bundesliga, he still cannot stand alone. Therefore, he needs teammates to cooperate, but Modric doesn't need it, so in this regard, the Croatians are very eye-catching.

Modric is more familiar with the Premier League. His running ability and defensive ability, as well as his ability to get rid of and dribble, plays a key role in both offense and defense, so Bielsa gives Modric more room to play in tactical terms.

Therefore, it is often seen that Modric dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, helping the team open the offensive situation, and even a threatening ball was passed, followed closely by him, and he was seen retreating to his own defense line to participate in the defense.

Modric is also better in dealing with the impact of Premier League players.

These are Modric's advantages!

But what about Tony Cross?

When Modric receives and dribs in the front, Tony Kroos needs to act as a contact point behind the Croatian. Once the attack ahead is not effective, Ronni Kroos is the first consideration for his teammates to pass the ball back.

When the Croatian retreated to the defense line to participate in the defense, Kroos needed to stand in front of the defense line, connect the defense line and the midfield, and act as a midfielder to protect the defense line. At the same time, he was also the first point of departure that everyone considered after the team grabbed the ball.

The tactical roles prompted Tony Cross to be as free and so eye-catching as Modric.

Does that mean that Tony Cross is not as good as Modric?

Wrong!

The division of labor is just different!

Many people don’t know that every cooperation on the football field is made of careful design.

And Tony Cross is the chief designer of Southampton!

When he felt that the team's rhythm needed to slow down, he would tell his teammates through gestures and back-and-forth passes that we needed to slow down.

Because even if the ball is passed to the front, it may be difficult to create a threat.

Therefore, at this time, the teammates in the frontcourt will actively retreat and respond, including the frontcourt Trident.

But as long as he discovers the opponent's weakness in defense, he will take the initiative to push his position forward.

At this time, every pass of his ball represents the team's offensive direction.

Giving David Alaba to the left means that the team will launch a fierce attack on the left.

If you give it to the right, it means that the team will launch an attack from the right.

To Modric, to Vidal, and even to Ibrahimovic and Drogba, they all represent the team's offensive direction.

These are all the tactical effects of Tony Cross!

Of course, it is not absolute.

Modric himself also has an excellent overall view and passability, so with him on the court, Tony Kroos has been much more relaxed on both offense and defense, and seems to be more at ease.

However, in this game against Arsenal, Bielsa rotated and replaced Modric with James Rodriguez.

Not only that, Southampton adopted targeted tactics, James Rodriguez was in a high position, swimming behind Drogba, and also restraining Arsenal's backdoor organizer Arteta.

The starting left winger Hazard is in the position of the backwards than James Rodriguez, while Gareth Bale in the right winger position is more likely to take the reverse foot winger route that cuts inward on the right.

In the midfield, without a good partner Modric, he was replaced by Vidal who was straight up and down.

When it comes to Vidal, his running ability, defensive ability, and even his offensive ability are better than Modric.

But only in terms of organization, response and pass, Vidal is not as good as Modric.

This puts Tony Cross in the midfield with heavy tasks and a lot of pressure!

Once Vidal presses on, Tony Cross becomes a single midfielder!

For Germans who don’t have excellent defensive skills, can they be under a lot of pressure?

Fortunately, whether it is Hazard, James Rodriguez, Vidal, Drogba and Gareth Bale, they are actively participating in pressing and oppressing, reducing Tony Cross's defensive pressure.

Judging from the opening stage, Southampton pushed forward, posing a huge threat to Arsenal.

Especially the oppression of James Rodriguez and Drogba in the middle of the frontcourt has caused big trouble for Arsenal's two central defenders and drag-back midfielder Arteta.

Tony Cross was in the back, when he saw Arsenal's strong oppression after the opening of Southampton, the left-back Vermullen's side was exposed, and the opportunity came!

So, after receiving the ball from his teammates, he got a chance and moved to the right.

After Gareth Bale used his body to withstand Virmulen on the right, facing Tony Cross's pass, he stopped with his chest and pushed his left foot to Vidal, turning around and rushing forward quickly.

Vidal also understood it and passed the ball over as soon as possible.

After passing Virmuellen, the ball fell in front of Gareth Bale, and the Welsh received it as soon as he sprinted.

After receiving the ball, Gareth Bale dribbled the ball and cut the penalty area diagonally.

Arsenal's defense has also returned to the penalty area. Mertesacker followed Drogba as if facing a big enemy, while Coschelney stood on the penalty area line, defending Gareth Bale, blocking the Welsh's cut-in route.

Everyone knows that once the left foot is cut into the range, his left foot will hit the goal, which is quite threatening!

So far this season, Gareth Bale has scored a lot of such goals!

Seeing that there was no chance, the Welshman had no choice but to make a move to force a breakthrough, but in fact he knocked the ball to Vidal who followed behind and broke into the penalty area to grab the spot.

After receiving the ball, Vidal avoided Vermullen and made a diagonal pass to the right.

The starting right-back Danilo in this game was very fast. The Brazilian, who was coming from the right side, caught up with Vidal's pass and went to the bottom line.

The penalty area suddenly felt like a big enemy!

Whether it is Drogba or Gareth Bale, they are quite threatening scoring points!

Danilo just glanced at the penalty area and saw James Rodriguez raising his hand outside the penalty area.

Arsenal was secretly secreted, but no one defended the front of the penalty area!

There will be a chance this time!

So, Danilo heard a bang and made a low cross. Instead of looking for Drogba and Gareth Bale as Arsenal players thought, the ball fell to the front of the penalty area.

I saw James Rodriguez follow quickly and shoot with a volley on his left foot!

Danilo's pass was quite good, and James Rodriguez's volley was also very beautiful!

I saw the ball drew a strange arc, bypassing the crowd in the penalty area, and directly into the upper left corner of Arsenal's goal. Szczesny was beyond the reach!

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!"

With the commentator's long sound of the goal, more than 30,000 Saints fans at the St. Mary's Stadium rushed out of their seats frantically, cheering loudly, shouting James Roriguez's name!

"In just less than eight minutes of the opening, Southampton forced Arsenal to go through excellent high-pressures, and problems arose, breaking through the Gunners' goal and achieving a fantastic start!"

"One to zero, the goal is from James Rodriguez!"

After the Colombian player scored a goal, he rushed out of the stadium excitedly and waved at the fans in the stands.

Behind him, Southampton players were also rushing to rush up.

So beautiful, is there any?

Such a volley and such a goal can be called a world-wide wave!

Is there any flying immortal even comparable to Zidane?

While the entire stadium was boiling, Yang Huan in the chairman's stand also stood up from his seat excitedly and applauded vigorously. Such a world goal was really amazing!

"James Rodriguez is indeed quite outstanding. I heard that he is only twenty-one years old!" David Bernstein also praised.

Southampton's Youth Team is the most beautiful landscape in the Premier League this season.

Not only James Rodriguez, but also Pogba, Ravel Morrison, Hazard, Neymar, Sturridge and other players, all had very good and wonderful performances.

"He entered this world and he will definitely become famous after the game!"

"Who said no? This goal is indeed wonderful. The best goal in this round must have been gone!"

"The ball feels so good, that kind of ball is hard to hold back!"

"Well, that's why he's very talented!"

Martin Hunter is also very satisfied with James Rodriguez's goal, but he is more of a better understanding of another player, that is Tony Cross.

"Young Master Huan, Tony Cross has made obvious progress. The interception before the goal was that he stuck the pass line in the middle and forced Arsenal to transfer the pass to the wing, so that Southampton could only cut it off. Once this side was cut, the other side immediately made a long diagonal pass planned the attack, which was quite good!"

Yang Huan also smiled and nodded, "Belsa is quite satisfied with his progress. He is a smart person with strong learning ability and obvious progress. He has been enlightened this season!"

Martin Hunter also smiled and nodded.

Tony Cross spent 60 million pounds to introduce him, and the team had high hopes for him. Bielsa often gave him some small training and special training.

Now it seems that he has made significant progress!

"This game of Arsenal is hanging!" David Bernstein shook his head and sighed.

The Gunners team was not good at fighting against the wind, but now they are away games and conceded the ball shortly after the start. Wenger's team is in big trouble!

Yang Huan also smiled slightly.

Although I didn't say anything, my eyes were full of confidence!
Chapter completed!