Super Prophecy Master

Chapter 160 Advantages of Simple Tactics
Compared with Leicester City's football that advances layer by layer and cooperates smoothly in a small area of ​​the frontcourt, Millwall's football is too simple and rough.When defending, the whole court is pressed, and the players are constantly running and grabbing everywhere. When attacking, it is difficult to find creative highlights.

This is not to blame Zhang Yang.

In the past few seasons, Millwall has constantly changed the head coach. A head coach has a style. When it comes to Dennis Wise, he doesn't even have a style. He is more like a player than a coach.

Zhang Yang is not good at tactical style and so on. Even if he carefully considers the tactics of the whole team, it is too late for the team to adapt, and tactical style cannot be cultivated in a short time.

He doesn't value that either.

Whether there is a fixed tactical style has little impact on the overall performance, at least at the level of the British Championship. English football pays attention to the body, and the lower the league, the more obvious it is. Too complicated tactical coordination will only hinder the team's performance. .

This is the case with Millwall now. Their football is simple and direct. When it comes to counterattacks, there is only one word to describe it-fast.

Quick, it doesn't need to be cultivated.

As long as every player knows how to run with the formation, and the player with the ball speeds up, the speed of the whole team will also speed up.

Adams didn't care about Millwall's speed.

Every team will increase their speed when they counterattack, and the same is true for Lescote City, but when he found something different, he immediately realized the crisis-Millwall's offensive and defensive transition speed is too fast!
Attack and defense conversion speed and counterattack speed are two concepts.

The counterattack generally refers to the speed of attack launched by one side after they get it, such as the speed of the player with the ball and the speed of passing. The speed of the opponent's penalty area.

Offensive and defensive transition is the transition speed from defense to offense, or from offense to defense.

When a team suddenly loses the ball or grabs the ball from the opponent, there will be an offensive and defensive transition. Every player in the team, thinking about assisting in the last second, will retreat to defend in the next second.

This takes time to get used to.

If you only point to one player, or one second is enough, but a player will also slow down. For example, consider other teammates to defend, and then run back slowly, or see teammates to attack, and run side by side. , the speed of rushing will not be fast, and when the reaction reaches the entire team, there will be a time for offensive and defensive transitions.

Millwall's offensive and defensive transitions are too fast.

After the backcourt completed stealing the ball, their overall formation quickly moved forward. The players completed the position change while running forward quickly, and quickly changed from the defensive side to the offensive side. During this period, Leicester City Most of the players haven't had time to withdraw their defense yet!
"This... is too fast!"

Adams was quite surprised in his heart. He had to admit that the opposing young Chinese coach did a pretty good job at this point.

Under the lens of the camera, at some point, Zhang Yang had already walked to the sidelines, and he was also satisfied with the team's counterattack performance.

This is actually related to daily training.

Millwall has no style, and one big advantage is that the tactics are very easy to adapt. During the daily tactical training, Zhang Yang will not let the team adapt to any complicated tactics. Most of the time he is adapting to the original tactics. During the process, every player knows the tactics by heart, even David Livermore. It can be imagined that when Millwall suddenly steals the ball, every player knows how to run, attack and defend. The conversion speed is naturally fast.

Leicester City definitely can't do it. Their tactics are too complicated. Perhaps many players haven't figured out the details, let alone switch offense and defense quickly.

This is the advantage of simple tactics.

Millwall is taking advantage of this advantage, and Leicester City has experienced the horror of fast offensive and defensive transitions. When all players react, most people can only watch.

Leicester half.

Millwall formed a four-on-three situation. Josh Simpson, who dribbled the ball from the side, was already cutting to the center. Cooperating with Neil Harris and Jody Morris, who rushed to the center, the three formed a straight line. Pushing towards Leicester's goal, the speed made Leicester's defenders flustered.

Behind the three, followed by a David - Livermore.

Leicester City has also done research on Millwall. They know that Livermore, who is following up, is not the original 'no threat' strong defensive player. If he is allowed to get the ball near the penalty area, he can also pose a direct threat.

Adams realized something was wrong.

In just a few seconds, Simpson rushed to the front court. He has been rushing forward quickly, and after attracting enough attention, he immediately shifted the ball laterally.

Morris got the ball!
Leicester City became even more flustered immediately. Morris was undoubtedly the most threatening player. One defensive player ran over quickly, and the other also went to pinch the defense. After Morris attracted the attention of the defense, he immediately chose a cross pass transfer.

Neil Harris has the ball!

Everyone in Leicester City panicked!
When Harris got the ball, there was no one around him. The only defensive player who was close to defending Morris just now was staggered, and Harris was able to easily dribble the ball across the penalty area.

Leicester defenders were chasing back, but they couldn't stop Harris, so they could only flank with goalkeeper Ian Walker!
"Single sword!"

All attention is on Harris.

After rushing into the penalty area, Harris did not face the goalkeeper alone, but chose to continue crossing!
The Leicester City players had no time to react to this pass. Goalkeeper Walker slowed down, but he could only watch as he kept up with Josh Simpson and sent the ball into the unguarded gate.

"The ball went in—!!"

"It's Millwall winger Josh Simpson!"

The moment the football flew into the goal, the Millwall fans who came with the team cheered excitedly. Josh Simpson turned around and ran wildly in his own half, and other teammates chased excitedly.

Everyone on the bench rushed out.

Zhang Yang had already stood on the sidelines, watching the football fly into the goal, as if he had just watched an opera performance, he applauded calmly to express his satisfaction with the goal, but the others were different Yes, they rushed over and shouted frantically, Aldous walked to Zhang Yang's side, "Come in! Come in! Did you see that! We're ahead!"

Zhang Yang rolled his eyes, "Calm down! Calm down, Aldous, it's just the first ball, and the game has just started. If I didn't know, I thought I missed the full time and waited until the game was won!"

Aldous smiled embarrassedly, he really didn't understand why Zhang Yang could be so calm.

This is a goal!

Leicester City is not an easy opponent to deal with, and it was an away game, and they scored the first goal in less than 10 minutes, so you can't be too happy, right?

How could this guy be indifferent?

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"Millwall scored the first goal! Josh Simpson, it was a quick counterattack!"

"Their counterattacks were quick, and the coordination was excellent! From Simpson, to Morris, to Harris, and then Harris faced the goalkeeper and chose to trust his teammates. His cross made goalkeeper Walker have nothing to do. Method."

"This goal showed Millwall's counterattack ability! Quick, decisive, direct, and the few passes in the middle were very targeted. Millwall directly broke through Leicester City's defense with simple football!"

Paul Scott, the commentator of "Sky Sports", praised Millwall generously. So far this season, Scott has commented on Millwall's many games, seeing that Millwall's performance has improved. of.

So Scott also praised Zhang Yang equally, "Since Zhang Yang took the coach of Millwall, Millwall's football has become more direct and effective, and the results have been improving all the way. From the game, we can see that, Although the home team Leicester City had more possession of the ball, they did not pose a threat to Millwall's defense, while Millwall relied on continuous counter-attacks and repeatedly threatened Leicester City's goal."

"If the game continues like this, Leicester City have little chance of winning, even though they are playing at home..."

This sentence speaks the voice of Adams.

Adams believed that Leicester City had an advantage before, and it has been like this since the beginning of the game. Millwall's several attacks were very threatening, and he only thought it happened by chance.

But from the attack just now, Adams saw something else.

Millwall's football is simple, but their offensive and defensive transitions are too fast, and their offense is highly targeted. As long as they find opportunities, just using counterattacks is enough to cause a huge threat.

Leicester City spends a lot of time in possession of the ball, but Millwall's defense is also very targeted. They are carrying out a tight defense of the whole court, which is also the most annoying defensive method for Leicester City.

If only the defense is targeted, it is actually nothing, but the counterattack is also targeted. The combination of the two is not as simple as one plus one, but can form a threat to Leicester City that can determine the outcome. .

Adams found himself making a big mistake.

He underestimated his opponent too much.

When facing Millwall, Adams did not study carefully. He only felt that a young man in his early twenties would not be able to formulate any tactical strategies. Leicester City only needed to play normally, and they did not lose at home. reason.

Now he finally knows why Millwall's grades are good.

This kind of simple and practical football is a sharp weapon in the English Championship. Coupled with the arrangement against the opponent, not only Leicester City, but other teams are also very difficult to deal with. Now that the game is in the current situation, if you want to do it It is impossible to make adjustments, and it is impossible for any team to adjust their tactics midway.

But in terms of the style of play of both sides, Leicester City was severely restrained.

What should we do now?
Adams can only pray that the players perform better, that they can't tie the score in the first half, and don't concede more goals. There will be opportunities in the second half.

(End of this chapter)