Super Prophecy Master

Chapter 100 Five Star Strength
in the afternoon.

The training ground is very lively.

Aldous and Frederick were there, and Zhang Yang called Burleigh to help.

Standing on the training ground of the first team, Burleigh looked very excited. When he was a player, he only joined the youth team, and he was still a marginal player. Training is pretty good.

Being able to stand on the training ground of the first team, he has a feeling of reaching the pinnacle of his life!

Burleigh and Masterson said, "I didn't expect that I could stand here! The first team training ground! So many first team stars! I am also an assistant coach."

"You're just a handyman!" Masterson rolled his eyes.

The two had known each other a few years ago, at the Millwall youth team, and he hadn't mind helping Burleigh point out the situation.

"So what? Doing odd jobs here is better than going to the youth team!" Burleigh said excitedly, "This is the first step. I will have more opportunities in the future. Maybe one day, the club will consider my ability and give me A formal first-team assistant coach contract!"

Masterson patted him on the shoulder and said, "I believe that when I retire, your dream will definitely come true."

"Thank you, but...why?"

"At that time, I may become the head coach and hire you as an assistant coach!"

"..."

Burleigh rolled his eyes.

"Come here!"

A few coaches greeted everyone to come over, Zhang Yang stood in the middle, and started a simple training explanation.

"Today we are going to start tactical training. As you all know, we have not had tactical training for half a month. It is because of the intensive schedule and because I am not familiar with the team. Yes, I admit it, I just A rookie learning to be a coach!"

Many players laughed.

There was no contempt for these laughter, on the contrary, everyone felt that Zhang Yang was very hearty, and he would say everything, if he had experience, people would not believe it.

Zhang Yang said, "But I went to ask Wise, and he gave me a lot of suggestions. I summarized and revised these suggestions, and decided to let everyone adapt to a new set of defensive and offensive methods."

"Then I will start to explain. Everyone must listen carefully and remember to understand. In the next few days, or even a month, two months, or even longer, we will have to get familiar with it."

Zhang Yang started to explain.

Ask Burleigh to help set up a large tactical board, and then talk about it from the two aspects of offense and defense. The content framework is the formation position and running route.

The tactics are actually quite simple.

Wise talked about the team's tactical coordination in general, and Zhang Yang made changes based on the content.

There is no need to talk about the offensive methods of the two wingers. The winger breaks through with the ball, or cooperates with the players in the center, and then passes in the winger. It is the most traditional, simple and practical way.

That's not much to say at all.

If the cooperation on the wing is made more complicated, it will involve the running of the team as a whole, and it will become a very complicated system, which cannot be thought of in a short time.

Even if it is thought of, it is impossible for players to become familiar with it in a short time.

Zhang Yang was talking about the middle lane.

The offense in the center is more complicated than that in the wing. Player movement is a problem. With two forwards, two central midfielders, and occasional defenders, several players can attack and defend. How to form an offensive position? The greater threat is what every coach is studying.

Zhang Yang didn't conduct in-depth research, he just wanted the team to have one more point that might create opportunities, that is, to use David Livermore's long-range shooting ability.

It is not easy to arrange a player to enter the tactical system.

A team has eleven players.

If one goes up, one must come down. The four-back formation cannot be changed. Millwall's defense is very average. If there is one less central defender, it is hard to imagine how the job of a 'tinker' will become. Difficulties.

The middle of the midfield cannot be changed either.

There must be a core player to drive the offense in the middle, and the midfielder is also very important. The midfielder can not only help the team form a barrier in defense, but also bring the necessary behind-the-back support in the offense.

Then we can only start from the front line.

Cutting off a striker is what Zhang Yang has always considered. In the past few games, the double striker did not bring much effect. Often, one striker played well, and the other played only so-so.

Like Kevin Gere and Neil Harris.

When Kevin Gere is playing well, Neil Harris seems to have no one in the room.

The reverse is also true.

Zhang Yang thought for a long time, watched a lot of game videos, and finally came to the conclusion: the team's tactics are too simple, resulting in a serious overlap of striker positions.

In the formation 'theory', the two forward positions do not conflict because they are left forward and right forward.

Kevin - Kiel also occupies a 'center' concept.

But the team's tactics are very simple. Forward players just rush to the front to look for opportunities. In the very narrow area in front of the front goal, how can they distinguish between "left and right forwards"?
One striker has a chance, the other striker doesn't.

As for coordination?

Near the opponent's penalty area, it is good for the forward players to get the ball. If they cooperate with each other, perhaps their level should be improved by two levels.

In short, due to the limitations of player strength and team tactics, the two forwards can only play one and a half roles.

Cutting a striker is still acceptable.

However, the change of formation, the advance of tactics, or the newly added players can at least play the role of half of the striker. Whether it is offense or defense, as long as they can play a certain role, then the change is worthwhile.

Zhang Yang's final choice was to cut off a striker and add a midfielder.

This becomes a 4231 double midfielder formation.

This change undoubtedly increases the defense, but whether it will affect the offense depends on whether the offense can make up for it.

Zhang Yang hopes that David Livermore can play a role.

If his long-range shooting ability is improved, then he can pose a considerable threat to opponents, and no matter how bad he is, he can attract enough defensive attention.

In this way, the transformation effect will be there.

Zhang Yang just changed his formation and changed 442 to 4231. It sounds like it's no big deal, or a fan who knows a little bit can tell it.

But formation transformation is not a matter of numbers.

How can it be so simple to add a defensive midfielder and reduce a forward?A tactical framework is holistic, and if one point is changed, there will be an impact, and other points will also change.

A small change involves many things.

For example, if there is one less forward player, when crossing from the side, there is one less person in front, and the problem will arise, so there is a greater chance of choosing the back when making a cross from the side.

This is only a small effect.

The offensive and defensive positions of the entire team must also be changed, otherwise there will be positional conflicts when players arrive on the field, or problems in some areas not being covered.

and many more.

It took Zhang Yang nearly half an hour just to explain.

At the very beginning, Frederick and Aldous heard that Zhang Yang was going to do tactical training, and the content was revised based on Wise's tactical suggestions, so they were not very optimistic.

Zhang Yang seemed too young to do tactical planning.

Often some "academic" coaches have to participate in a lot of assistant coach work, and only after accumulating a certain amount of experience in tactical planning can they start to study tactics by themselves.

Following Zhang Yang's explanation, the views of the two changed.

Frederick still looked pessimistic, but he had to admit, "He did a lot of preparation.

Aldous said, "This tactic is also good, double midfielder, no matter how bad it is, it can increase our defense."

The players in the team are also more convinced.

In the next week, the tactical training content of the Millwall team is to get familiar with the use of new tactics.

Since the tactical changes are small, it is not difficult to train.

The only special player is David Livermore. In addition to tactical training, he is doing more personal long-range shooting training, not just normal training time. Zhang Yang will give him two extra shots every day. hours of training.

One hour in the morning and one hour in the evening.

After every day's training, seeing David Livermore still looking energetic, Zhang Yang lamented that the time is cold winter—the dawn is too short, and he can only practice for two hours at most. It is impossible to train against the dark night sky.

After a week, Livermore's improvement is also quite fast.

Zhang Yang watched from a distance, the footballs were kicked with clinks, and they were still accurately sent into the goal. He felt a little sad for Millwall's opponents.

'Spirit divination' also confirmed this point.

After the tactical change and the addition of David Livermore, there is an all-main starting lineup, and the strength evaluation has reached 'five-star'.

This is not a small improvement!
Although it is just a set of 'five-star', changing a position player immediately becomes a 'four-star', but it is already quite remarkable, and it also proves the improvement of the team's strength.

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Time seemed to pass by in a blink of an eye.

Millwall is about to usher in a new opponent - Nottingham Forest, and the team has begun preparations in the last two days.

Zhang Yang has been looking forward to the game for a long time.

After taking over as Millwall manager, he led the team to participate in the intensive post-Christmas schedule.

That was not an easy experience.

Millwall achieved quite outstanding results - 3 wins and 1 draw. They also became the best team in the Championship after Christmas.

But even so, there are still many doubts from the outside world.

That's a question about his ability.

During the Christmas match, there were not many doubts from the media. Perhaps they did not pay attention to what happened at Millwall. In the past week, the media discussions about the British Championship kept mentioning Millwall. The young coach is also mentioned frequently.

Much of it is bad news.

That has nothing to do with Millwall's results, it just questions his ability as a manager.

The media is talking about old topics.

For example, at his age, how can a 22-year-old young man serve as the head coach of a professional club?

Another example is his experience. He has no coaching experience, and even the most basic coaching qualification certificate is still in the process of learning.

Finally, there is his nationality—China. In the eyes of Europeans, China is a football desert country, let alone a head coach.

Chinese players have heard of it.

head coach?
not a single one!

Zhang Yang is somewhat used to seeing some media questioning, but the situation has intensified in the past week, and it has affected the entire team. That is the impact of Braniff.

This guy is very dishonest.

Braniff said some bad things about him, "Why did I take the punishment? It's because he didn't like me! When he was an assistant coach, our relationship was not good. He is such a person, he likes to take emotions. to work, so after Christmas, I never got a chance to play!"

"I don't think he is qualified to be the head coach! He doesn't know anything, he doesn't know anything. Our training is arranged by Frederick and Aldous. He just leads the game."

"Everyone knows that football is more than a game, and winning or losing is not just a game. The hard training on weekdays affects performance. Recently, our results have been very good, but that has nothing to do with him, it is the credit of the whole team."

"As for the head coach, I support Frederick!"

"..."

Braniff's bombardment wiped out the good results of Zhang Yang leading the team.

The media is willing to report on this!

The media had already questioned Zhang Yang's ability, but now that he has the evidence of the players, it has even spread the coverage.

Of course, conflicts in the locker room are also indispensable.

For example, "British Football" reported that "Zhang Yang has conflicts with the players. He uses the power of the head coach to deny players the opportunity to play. Such an approach will definitely affect his prestige in the team."

"Millwall may have conflicts in the locker room! The conflict between the head coach and the players! This will definitely affect their state!"

Other media also reported some.

Zhang Yang is somewhat used to the negative media reports. He has always told himself that he should deal with it calmly, but everyone hopes that there will be good news in the media, not bad news.

Now Millwall needs to use good form to give those who doubt it a powerful counterattack.

As for what the media said about 'his ability'?
As long as Millwall remains in good shape, plays well, and wins one, two, three, countless games, any doubts will disappear.

This is professional football!
Zhang Yang began to expect the team to win more games.

(End of this chapter)