Super Prophecy Master

Chapter 408 The Wisdom of Dealing with the Media

There is an old saying in China, "Three cobblers can top a Zhuge Liang". Sports media reporters, football commentators, and peripheral football fans are not professionals, but a group of people discussing a topic together is sure. Certain conclusions can also be drawn.

"How to beat Millwall?"

Or, "How to play against Millwall to increase your winning percentage?"

This question soon had an answer.

The media reported that there are three styles of play with the most approval. One is the mode of dead defense and counterattack, which means that using crowd tactics to create trouble for Millwall's offense, and adding a striker who is good at counterattack will give Millwall The defense creates a threat, which is generally the most extreme defensive counterattack style.

This style of play is very shameless, but it is almost universal when playing against strong teams.

Of course, the media will not say 'shameless play', especially when discussing how to deal with Millwall, they will send a sentence, "This is the best choice for weak teams."

"A very smart move."

"This is the way to play, the most likely to get points."

"..."

The second method is to refer to the match between Roma and Millwall. Roma's style of play is very restrained against Millwall. Roma's defense is based on the Italian football-style chain defense system. The backcourt players fix the area and cross. Run defense and try not to miss any positions. Considering that Millwall has few players with excellent dribbling skills, they have to rely on short passes to cooperate, and it is difficult to break through a tight defense.

If on this basis, the active full-court press can be added, it will be more able to restrain Millwall.

Some people have come up with a third method, which is to refer to the second half of Manchester United and Millwall. Manchester United used offensive suppression to force Millwall to shrink their formation.

This method is not suitable for small clubs, because they do not have such a strong offensive ability, but teams that are good at attacking, such as Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, and Newcastle United, can refer to them appropriately.

The media's vigorous analysis and reports gave Zhang Yang a headache.

Millwall seems to have really become the public enemy of the Premier League. The media have spent a lot of thought and even bought tactical analysis manuscripts at high prices to analyze Millwall's tactics and discuss ways to deal with Millwall.

Zhang Yang could understand what the media did.

Speaking of last season, the major media still supported Millwall, because Millwall was the 'spoiler' of the Premier League, and few media regarded Millwall as a contender for the Premier League title.

Now Millwall has a different identity.

Just like last season's Chelsea, carrying the prestige of being the 'defending champion' and playing quite outstanding results, became the target of the Premier League. The media and opponents tried their best to beat Chelsea. If they can't beat Chelsea, Chelsea will continue' Domination' Premier League.

English football is an open environment. Even the FA will hope that the competition in the Premier League will become fierce instead of being ruled by one or two clubs. The biggest development direction is to balance the strength of the twenty teams. Every game will be very exciting, and every game will leave suspense.

At that time, the Premier League will truly become the world's number one league.

That's the beauty of competition.

Millwall put on the appearance of a "weak team killer". After a few games, the opponents did not have any strength to contend. They also defeated Manchester United in an away game.

The British press didn't like it.

Other opponents don't like it.

The vast majority of fans do not want to see that kind of situation.

The FA also don't want to see Millwall 'dominating' the league, they don't want any team to dominate.

Except for the Millwall club and fans, everyone else will become Millwall's opponents and enemies.

Thinking of Millwall's situation, Zhang Yang has a feeling of 'the loneliness of a master'... Ahem, it's too early to say so, but masters are always envied.

There is no other way!
Millwall can only continue to move forward under pressure, disappointing those who don't want to see Millwall have good results, maybe it is Millwall's goal?

Zhang Yang is not interested in the media's analysis of why Millwall is a 'weak team killer'.

What 'dual-core' tactics!
What a strong striker!
wrong!
All wrong!

Why can Millwall beat small clubs in a row?In many games, the opponent seems to have little resistance?It's not because of any tactics, because of any lineup, it's entirely because Zhang Yang has a 'supernatural ability' that other head coaches don't have.

This is the root.

Why can a weak team beat a strong team?

Football games are unpredictable, and on-the-spot performance is often more important than tactics and strength. In football games, a goal can sometimes determine the outcome.

For example, in a match between a weak team and a strong team, the weak team scored a goal first by luck, and then kept defending continuously. Appeared.

However, there is one thing... Zhang Yang can 'predict' the game, relying on the 'prediction' ability, he will know what will happen in the next 5 minutes, and other abilities can also change the game.

The football game has become "predictable" when it comes to Zhang Yang. Other weak teams want to beat Millwall, relying on luck, which is equivalent to losing most of them. With Millwall's stronger strength, it is naturally easy beat weak teams.

This is the root cause!
The foundation of media analysis tactics is wrong.

Of course, the several methods they listed against Millwall may still have some effect, but how much effect they can have is not as good as imagined.

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On November 23, the UEFA Champions League Group D match started again, with Millwall playing at home against Valencia.

This game is very easy for Millwall, because they have already secured the qualifying places in advance.

However, the group qualifying is also divided into first and second in the group. The nouns of first and second are related to the draw of the top sixteen, and the second in the group is more likely to meet a strong team.

Zhang Yang asked the players to take the game seriously.

This doesn't really need a reminder.

Regardless of whether Millwall has qualified for the group stage, every player will be very motivated to play in the Champions League, because the game is watched by the world, and a good performance in the Champions League will attract the attention of many media fans.

Valencia is also easy.

Valencia lost to Millwall in the first round, but in the next three rounds, they played very well and had three points more than their rival Roma. Even if Roma defeated Shakhtar Donetsk in this round, Valencia lost to Millwall. As long as Valencia can beat or draw with Rome at home in the final round, they will still be able to qualify as second in the group.

This is divided into two situations.

Valencia's victory over Roma naturally has more points than Roma; and with a draw against Roma, Valencia can also take advantage of the win-loss relationship and beat Roma to finish second in the group.

All the premise is that Valencia lost to Millwall and Roma defeated Shakhtar Donetsk.

Therefore, Valencia's qualifying situation is very good, but head coach Enrique Flores still hopes to control his fate early. If he can beat Millwall in this round, Valencia will win the final round. No matter what it looks like, it will be invincible.

Flores still has a little thought: he hopes to lead Valencia to achieve revenge!
This is also a battle of faces!
In the first round of the UEFA Champions League group stage, Valencia lost to Millwall at home. After the game, the Spanish media satirized him as useless, thinking that he did not pay attention to the match with the "Premier League defending champion", and all Valencia made careless mistakes. , which led to the home loss to Millwall.

The Spanish media are better. For example, "Aspen" and "Marca" are only criticizing, hoping that Valencia can do better. The Catalan media is even more hateful. They put Flo Reis satirized as a 'clown', that's what the article in "World Sports Daily" said, "We have reminded Flores a long time ago that Millwall was the Premier League champion last season. After the Champions League group draw, the young The head coach Zhang Yang also said that Millwall got a good draw. Obviously Flores was very unconvinced. Maybe he thought that Valencia got a good draw. The result? Valencia easily lost to Millwall at home. Well, the answer is obvious."

"Compared to Millwall's young coach Zhang Yang, Flores has no other advantages except that he has lived a few more years. Valencia has a bleak future under his leadership. The next time Valencia challenges Millwall Wall, probably won't have any good results..."

Flores was so satirized, one can imagine his mood.

Now that Valencia is challenging Millwall in an away game, Flores desperately hopes to lead Valencia to defeat his opponent, to prove to the Spanish media that Valencia led by him is not a soft persimmon.

So this is a battle of revenge, a battle of face!
Flores believes that the game is beneficial to Valencia. Although the venue is the Neal Stadium, Valencia is definitely not as busy as Millwall sitting on his own site waiting for the game, but Millwall has already secured the qualifying spot in advance. , there is no reason to go all out in this game.

The match between the two teams has attracted much attention.

Roma is also paying close attention to the game. In an interview, Roma coach Spalletti expressed the hope that Millwall can abide by professional ethics and do not release water to Valencia when it is determined to qualify.

This is crucial.

If Millwall loses the game, no matter how hard Roma works, they will have almost no chance.

Under the severe situation in Rome, the Italian media paid much attention to the game. Before the game, there were Italian reporters who asked questions about Millwall's preparations on the sidelines.

Zhang Yang answered patiently.

But in response to the reporter's question of "whether Millwall will release the water", Zhang Yang did not make a statement.

Zhang Yang is also quite experienced, he knows that this is a "pit" question, even if he answers it, he won't let it go, but what if Millwall loses the game?The Italian media will also say that Millwall has released water.

No matter how you answer it, it will be regarded as "letting water". How to say how wrong the question is, simply don't express your opinion. What the Italian media say will not affect Millwall. The most correct answer is not expressing your opinion.

(End of this chapter)