Super Prophecy Master

Chapter 410 Crowd Defensive Tactics
Valencia and Roma compete for the second place in the group. They will decide the winner in the final round. The game time is December [-], two weeks from now.

Both teams are in a hurry and can't wait for an immediate result, but they also have to put their energy back into the league.

Millwall also needs to re-enter the league, but as a team that qualified early, they don't need to consider the group stage. Zhang Yang focused his attention on the draw for the top sixteen.

On the second day of the competition, Zhang Yang paid attention to the situation of other teams to judge the possible opponents.

After getting a general understanding, Zhang Yang had a sudden feeling, "No wonder the British media are so happy and willing to report on the Champions League!"

England's four teams performed quite strongly in the group stage.

Both Manchester United and Chelsea have won consecutive victories in the first three rounds of the group. They also secured their qualifications in the fourth round. Manchester United also won the fifth round and secured the first place in the group ahead of schedule. Chelsea lost in the fifth round. However, considering that rival Barcelona tied two games, Chelsea also secured the first place in the group ahead of schedule.

Arsenal's results are slightly worse, but with three wins and one tie in five rounds, they can almost secure the first place in the group.

This has a bit of a bearing on the Millwall round of [-] draw 'forecast'.

The principle of the UEFA Champions League round of [-] draw is that the eight first-ranked teams in the group stage are used as seeds, and the eight second-ranked teams are determined by drawing lots.Among them, teams that have faced each other in the group stage will be avoided in the draw, and club teams from the same country will also be avoided in the draw.

Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Millwall are all first in the group. It is meaningless to avoid the principle of 'same country club team'. The eight second-ranked teams, except for Valencia and Roma In addition, the other seven teams are likely to be met by Millwall.

How to judge this? !
Zhang Yang shook his head with a wry smile, and realized that studying this was a waste of time, so he immediately adjusted his energy to study the league opponents.

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Three days later, Millwall played away to Newcastle United.

Newcastle United ranked eighth in the league last season. Unfortunately, they failed to qualify for European competitions, but the newly appointed coach Rodell was unanimously praised. After he accepted the position of head coach, Newcastle United swept away the decline at the beginning of last season. All the way straight up and still qualified to compete for rankings, which is quite remarkable.

Rodell is also from Newcastle. He has a very deep affection for the club. Newcastle fans also support Rodell very much. They hope that this excellent coach can help Newcastle achieve revival.

However, Newcastle United did not gain much in the summer transfer market and did not buy a large number of players. The biggest star transferred was Chelsea's Irish international Damien Duff. His joining has strengthened Newcastle United's midfield strength.

Can also enter the case.

Before the season, the media predicted that the biggest problem for Newcastle United was the striker. The retirement of the legendary striker Alan Shearer was a huge blow to Newcastle United. Michael Owen had some attributes of a glass man. Frequent injuries made it difficult for Owen to help Newcastle United play a few games. Once again, if Newcastle United wants to get good results, they must improve their striker situation.

Newcastle United did not pursue a suitable striker, so the striker line has not been improved. In the past games, their striker line problems have also been revealed. A team that focuses on attacking style has a striker line problem. The impact on the results is not small .

Newcastle United is currently ranked No.11 in the league, and the results are really disappointing.

When Newcastle United met Millwall, Newcastle United fans still hope that the team can rise up and try to beat Millwall, who is number one in the league. Millwall played.

I don't know who came up with this idea, let alone who made the decision. Newcastle United led by Rodell really showed a gorgeous offensive in the game. They put on a pair at the beginning, completely suppressing Mill Wall's look.

Zhang Yang was stunned!
When they played against Manchester United in the league, in the second half, Manchester United did adopt a massive offensive style of play to suppress Millwall, making it difficult for them to take advantage of the midfield coordination.

But... that's Manchester United!
In front of you is Newcastle United.

It's not that Zhang Yang looks down on Newcastle United, but the outside world knows that Newcastle United's striker is weak. Even if their strength in other fronts is not bad, can they really be more efficient in a confrontation with Millwall?

The score in the first half gave the answer: 0 to 2.

The home team is in front and the visiting team is behind. Millwall leads Newcastle United by two goals.

In the second half, Newcastle United did not repent... In other words, they had no way out and could only continue to attack. The two sides continued to fight each other. The audience and fans enjoyed watching it, but the Newcastle United fans were very upset. More shots than Millwall, but Millwall always score.

It was the "Sky Sports" commentator Paul Scott who said the reason, "Newcastle United's striker efficiency is simply incomparable with Millwall."

"With just one Darren Bent, Newcastle United's entire striker is on top. They are equivalent to one less player than Millwall!"

Darren Bent backed up Paul Scott's claim with the number of goals, scoring his third goal in the 78th minute to complete his first hat-trick of the season.

In the end, Millwall defeated Newcastle United 4-0.

After the game, Zhang Yang commented on the game and said, "We won on the front line. But Newcastle United don't need to be discouraged, their performance is already quite good."

These words made Rodel almost vomit blood in anger.

Only then did the British media reporters discover that Zhang Yang's mouth was no worse than Mourinho's. He won the game by a big score, and he wanted to taunt his opponent.

Zhang Yang didn't care anymore.

For Millwall, a normal league win is won, no big deal.

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Five days later, Millwall was at Anfield.

This is a tough game.

Liverpool coach Benitez also seems to have read the media's tactical analysis report on Millwall, and learned the "turtle style of play" in it, and put on a defensive look at the beginning.

This kind of crowd tactics is very effective.

When a team as strong as Liverpool puts on a defensive attitude, no team dares to say they can score goals, and Millwall is no different. Constant efforts to attack in exchange for Liverpool's threatening counterattacks again and again.

In the second half, Zhang Yang simply told the team to slow down the pace, instead of pursuing quick goals, they played normally and did not give Liverpool any chance.

This kind of stalemate game makes people sleepy.

Liverpool's 'tortoise spirit' lasted until the last minute of the game. Millwall failed to score in many attacks and had no choice but to accept the draw.

0:0.

Millwall suffered their third draw of the season.

After the game, the British media became active. They believed that Benitez helped verify the tactical analysis, and the use of the 'crowd tactics' defensive play could make Millwall helpless.

Zhang Yang said, "If Liverpool draw at home, we should be happy. I think we already have the ability to deter giants." His attitude of indifference immediately made the media re-examine the game.

Liverpool!

Anfield!
Liverpool is England's traditional giants, and is also considered one of the 'Premier League semi-finals'. There is really nothing to be happy about such a team showing a defensive attitude at their 'devil' home court.

Apart from proving that Millwall is strong enough, there is basically no other meaning.

But in fact, Benitez doesn’t know why, Zhang Yang is indeed a little helpless. After Millwall showed a good result of dominance, all opponents in the Premier League are looking for the maximum possible points, rather than chasing after defeating Millwall you.

This is not good news!
In the future, there will definitely be many teams that adopt the same style of play as Liverpool. Millwall will have to return to the old question of 'how to break the dense defense', otherwise the draws one after another will drag down Millwall's results .

Undefeated, although not bad, but undefeated cannot help the team win the league championship.

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November passed, and December arrived in a blink of an eye. Millwall ushered in a new round of the league, which was a home game against Aston Villa.

Aston Villa is not a strong team, they can only become a 'strong team' at most, and the media's prediction before the season is 'No.

The current Aston Villa has not fallen to the level of relegation, but it is only a little stronger. The No.13 ranking in the league makes it difficult for people to see any hope of improvement.

Millwall is facing Aston Villa at home. Most of the media are naturally optimistic about Millwall. There is not even much media attention in this round of the game. Most people think that the game will not be suspenseful.

But in the end Millwall drew with Aston Villa.

This result is quite surprising. Many people re-watched the game video and discovered the reason for Millwall's draw: it was not that there was something wrong with Millwall's performance, but that Aston Villa was too conservative.

From the first minute of the game, Aston Villa retreated to defend, leaving only one high center forward Baros in front, and all other players went to the backcourt to participate in the defense.

They can even be said to be 'rooted in the backcourt'.

When the football was under the control of Aston Villa, no more than three players crossed the half-time, and every attack was ended hastily, followed by a large retreat, a shrinking formation, a large group of players piled up near the penalty area, just that All these scenes are a bit tingling.

Under such circumstances, Millwall's "dual core" and any coordination became tasteless. The offense lasted for 10 minutes, but failed to bring a goal. In the end, they could only accept the result of a draw.

After the game, Zhang Yang said helplessly, "I just want to say one thing about this game: It seems that only one team is playing seriously, and the other team is studying the whole process. goal."

That's the only representation.

The opponent's 'shameless' doing this, what more can you say?

Everyone can understand Zhang Yang's mood, but they are happy to see Millwall hit a wall, because Millwall was too strong before, and even Manchester United and Chelsea did not seem to be opponents.

It is only natural that such a strong team be targeted.

Zhang Yang also knows this truth, but he is not reconciled to the fact that the team has repeatedly lost its wings in crowd tactics. Almost every opponent in the Premier League will make tactical arrangements against Millwall, especially this crowd defense tactic, which is the most impressive. Headache.

There are only 10 and [-] minutes in a game. No matter how great the advantage is in Millwall's situation, it is meaningless not to score.

On the second day after the match against Aston Villa, Zhang Yang handed over the training to the rest of the coaching staff, while he headed into the head coach's office to think about an important issue - how to add The style and means of 'breaking the dense defense'.

(End of this chapter)