Super Prophecy Master

Chapter 101 Media Routine



Chapter 101 Media Routine

Nottingham Forest.

The history of this team is much more brilliant than that of Millwall. They won the European Champions Cup consecutively in the 1978-1979 and 1979-1980 seasons, becoming the only team in the history of the Champions League with only one domestic top league title. But since the time entered the 90s, especially when England's top league was reorganized into the Premier League, Nottingham Forest's performance began to decline. They have been hovering between the Premier League and the English Championship.

The current Nottingham Forest is just a team similar to Millwall.

They rank No.15 in the Championship.

This ranking can start to consider the relegation crisis.

From the point of view of the media concerned about the game, Millwall has a high chance of losing because they have a 'locker room crisis' because they have an incompetent head coach.

The third reason is that Millwall played away.

The away game definitely has certain disadvantages, and Nottingham Forest sits at home and can deal with the game with a more relaxed attitude.

So Nottingham Forest has a higher winning percentage.

Zhang Yang doesn't think Nottingham Forest can threaten Millwall, let alone a 'five-star' Millwall team.

The day before the game, Millwall publicly trained.

This is a rare public training.

Only when there is a gap between games, similar to international breaks.

The open training is to open interviews to the media, and by the way, to promote the club, it is also to give support fans the opportunity to watch the team's training up close.

Zhang Yang paid more attention to the latter.

He doesn't like the media after a series of 'bad reports'.

Of course, some media are excluded, such as BBC sports broadcasting.

Since Zhang Yang worked as an intern at the BBC, the BBC publicized him as a "head coach trained by a TV station". When there is news, it is natural to increase the publicity.

So the BBC official website always sees good news about his reports.

Once Zhang Yang saw that he was described as "the most influential head coach after 20 years" in a report, and when he saw that the writer was Frieda, he understood a little bit, and sometimes friendship and support can give people to comfort.

In any case, the BBC is a media worth getting close to.

This time the public training, the BBC also came to interview reporters, but it was not Frieda, but Gail, who had met once, and a cameraman. What Zhang Yang paid special attention to was the BBC. There were many other media who came, so I took a rough look. There were also nearly twenty reporters.

For a public training in Millwall, the number of [-] reporters is unimaginable. In the past, only a few reporters could be attracted to take pictures.

As the saying goes, 'flies don't bite seamless eggs', or 'everything goes to the Three Treasures Palace', the meaning is similar. When a reporter arrives, it means that there is news material worth interviewing.

That must be about Millwall.

To talk about Millwall is to talk about Zhang Yang as the head coach.At this time, he was standing on the court and was dividing the players into teams.

After a week of training, the new tactics are almost familiar, and there will be an open training match, which will be divided into two teams to compete.

Zhang Yang divided into two teams.

This time, the main force and the substitute were directly divided.

Zhang Yang didn't specify the 'main team' and 'substitute team', but looking at the rosters of both sides, you can see that almost all the players who always play are in the same team.

The training match is to test the new formation.

This is not a big secret. It was revealed in one game. Perhaps more media, fans and opponents are not interested in Millwall's new formation.

Such is the strength of the English Championship.

There is nothing special to pay attention to when replacing a striker and replacing a defensive midfielder.

Most media reporters are concerned about whether there is a 'locker room' problem in Millwall. There have been many related reports in the past few days. They also want to see how a young man in his early twenties trains the team .

What many media want to see is that Zhang Yang has no authority in the team, or "he doesn't care about anything" as Braniff said. Unfortunately, they did not see this scene.

There was plenty of laughter on the Millwall pitch.

From the public's point of view, the atmosphere in the team was obviously good. When Zhang Yang directed the training, there were no players to refute or any other problems, which showed that his authority was not bad. At least no players resisted his arrangements.

Some fans who were worried about the team also discussed this-

"It seems that the team is fine, Braniff is lying!"

"Zhang Yang is very familiar with every player, and everyone listens to him, even Jody."

"When we split up just now, we could see that Zhang Yang's prestige was not bad, and no one refuted him. Think about it, this division of the main force and the substitute team is the easiest to offend. No one wants to be a substitute."

The reporters next to this sentence nodded.

If there is a problem with Millwall's dressing room, or if Zhang Yang's prestige in the team is not enough, it can be seen from such a team alone, especially the players who are between the main force and the substitute, they definitely don't want to be assigned to the substitute Team.

But no players resisted, which shows the majesty of the head coach.

This makes reporters very sorry.

They didn't think of the picture they imagined, and naturally they couldn't talk about the news materials they hoped to get.

Some media reporters wanted to leave.

In the absence of 'gossip' news, Millwall's public training was not much to interview, but they quickly found a new focus-

David Livermore!

He was assigned to the main team!

When it was brought up, everyone took notice, fans started talking, reporters started talking.

Livermore?

He's like a Millwall joke!
The genius who was praised a few years ago, and the stupid big man who can't play now, how could he be assigned to the main team?

Everyone can't figure it out.

Many onlookers are still discussing, and the media reporters are already excited.

Livermore becomes the main player!

This will be the most funny topic in English football!
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'Livermore entered the lineup of Millwall's main team' became a topic of interest in the media's news about Millwall the day before the 29th round of the British Championship.

Of course, the media reporters are not optimistic.

Livermore?

He has become famous for several seasons, and Livermore is a big fool. His body is very strong, but his skills are terribly rough. It is amazing to be able to play in the professional league.

Zhang Yang started Livermore and assigned him to Millwall's 'main team', which seems to mean that he is very optimistic.

What kind of vision is this?
Even Aldous frowned, and couldn't help asking, "Why did you let David enter the main team? You know he's not suitable, and he's been acting..."

Aldous shook his head as he spoke.

Frederick said simply, "I don't think David is eligible to enter the main team! This is a wrong decision!"

Whether it's Aldous or Frederick, they are all for the sake of the team, but Zhang Yang is quite stubborn, he doesn't care at all, he just smiled, "I don't think a team will have a main force and a substitute." I just want David to try and give him a little more time. Yes, as you understand, I like him."

"But if his performance is not satisfactory, he will still be a substitute."

This reassured Frederick and Aldous.

But when arranging the starting lineup for the game, Zhang Yang put David Livermore in it.

Frederick was rather dissatisfied.

Aldous can only attribute this to 'willfulness', "He is still young, after a game, he will know what to do."

"No, maybe it only takes half time, and he will replace David!"

Frederick said with certainty.

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Zhang Yang's confidence in making Livermore the starter lies in the calculation results of the "Spiritual Divination".

With the addition of Livermore, the 'lineup prospect evaluation' has reached 'five-star', and Millwall's 'five-star' strength is enough to beat most of the English Championship teams head-on.

Nottingham Forest is no exception.

In addition, the "lucky" calculation of this lineup is "auspicious", with strong strength and good luck. Before the game started, Millwall had already won half of it.

Zhang Yang didn't care about anything.

In the two nights before the game, he took time to study Nottingham Forest. Past game videos showed that Nottingham Forest's defense and offense were very different.

Their defense is not good, but their offense is very strong, but when they are unable to break through the goal, it seems that the mentality of the entire team will be affected, and the formation will become a bit chaotic.

Whenever Nottingham Forest played against a defensively focused team like Ipswich Town, their performance was pretty poor.

To play against Nottingham Forest, the best way is to stabilize the defense. As long as the goal can be guaranteed, the team will have the dual advantages of heart and play.

Before the game, Zhang Yang talked about this with the players.

He repeatedly emphasized defense.

"As long as we can defend, half of the victory has been won. The other half depends on whether we can score goals, and there is also some luck!"

1 month 15 day.

The Millwall team took a bus to Nottinghamshire and entered the City Square Stadium.

Zhang Yang went to the press conference.

He is the focus.

When Zhang Yang walked into the venue, he was locked on by various interview equipment. Under the light of the flashlight, he walked to the stage and sat down with a smile on his face. He also nodded and greeted Nottingham Forest coach Hart.

The interview officially begins.

Hart came earlier than Zhang Yang, and he had already answered several questions.

Now it's Zhang Yang's turn.

Media reporters would prefer to interview Zhang Yang, especially want him to talk about Braniff, or talk about Livermore, they 'like' to hear Zhang Yang praise Livermore, it would be 'this young Chinese did not Evidence of vision'.

On the previous point, Zhang Yang didn't want to satisfy the media.

"Braniff? No, he was late in a row. I gave him a penalty. It's that simple. Please pay attention to asking questions related to the game. Braniff is not in the squad."

Later, Zhang Yang met the needs of the reporters, "David? I think he has great potential. Yes, he is 24 years old, but so what? He just didn't find the right direction."

"I've given him the right direction and I'm sure he'll be amazed!"

So the media had something to say before the game—

"Zhang Yang is optimistic about Livermore? That's really interesting. A 'professional player' whose skills are so rough that they are not as good as amateur players will be favored one day."

"Millwall will lose the game!"

"This young Chinese is very stubborn. That may be a common problem among head coaches, and it may be an advantage in the eyes of his peers, but his judgment on Livermore is obviously wrong."

Zhang Yang is almost familiar with the routines of media reports.

Journalists first find a topic that the audience is interested in, and then look for evidence to prove their point of view and attract more audiences.

This is the trick.

From the perspective of an outsider, of course it's not a big deal, but it's very uncomfortable to use it on yourself.

Zhang Yang didn't want to give the reporter a chance to ask questions, so he left directly after answering a few questions.

Then he updated a Weibo message—

"I think Livermore has potential, but other people probably don't see it that way.

There is a lot of talk about it in the media.

I don't think it should be published, because it's 'ridicule', 'sarcasm', it will cause a psychological blow to a player and affect his performance, but I always believe that Livermore can succeed! "

This Weibo message was quickly forwarded by media platforms.

Most of the comments were not optimistic, but many Millwall fans expressed their support for Livermore.

Before the game started, Zhang Yang gave David Livermore the Weibo messages on his tablet, "David, look at what these people said, I believe you will know what to do when you are on the field !"

This is the biggest motivation!
Faced with many comments that were not optimistic about him, Livermore's face turned red, and the phrase "I believe Livermore can succeed" on Weibo also made him very grateful to Zhang Yang.

Livermore nodded fiercely!
The eyes of this normally limuna guy have become a little fierce.

(End of this chapter)


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