385. Take Norwich
Although Paul. Lambert's move from Colchester United to Norwich was very undisciplined, and Colchester United even had a long relationship with Norwich, but from the later story, Lambert obviously made the most correct decision in his life.
Because after arriving in Norwich, Lambert began another more sci-fi journey, which was not much more than Wensheng's journey with Crystal Palace.
Starting from League One, Lambert led Norwich City to triple jump, all the way from League One to the Premier League, without even hitting a bump!
You say God or not?!
Norwich are a proper poor team!
Their boss is called Deria. Smith, who has been active in the BBC's cooking show for a long time, can be regarded as a well-known food column host in England, good at teaching housewives "how to boil eggs" or something, and the recipes he wrote are also the best sellers of the same kind, but the years when the old lady was active were not Internet celebrities, how much money can she make?!
Besides, the recipe is not!
As a die-hard Norwich diehard, the old lady and her husband became Norwich's boss from '96 onwards, leading Norwich up and down all the way.
In order to support the team, the old lady once said, "In order to give Norwich more money to spend, I am working a new recipe TV show!" In this way, the old lady's words and actions are indeed touching, but she really does not have much money to help Norwich.
It was in this situation that Lambert led Norwich to complete the triple jump, and you have to admit that it was very sci-fi, and you can't help but admit that Lambert is indeed capable.
Norwich has not invested much in the transfer market this season, not even 10 million pounds, there is no golden finger like Wensheng and there are tens of millions of pounds in transfer investment without Wensheng promotion, but Lambert's Norwich City did not fall into the relegation zone as the brick professors imagined, and now they are ninth in the league with 20 points, seven points higher than Wigan in 18th place.
At the current state, the possibility of Norwich relegation is very high.
For an opponent like Lambert, Wen Sheng admires it.
But Lambert was a little embarrassed when he saw Wen Sheng.
Last season, Norwich City in the Championship went all the way, and the first thing that media people thought of was Wensheng's Crystal Palace, which also advanced to the Premier League under extremely unoptimistic circumstances, and Norwich City was the same.
Many media named Lambert Daniel II, which embarrassed Lambert, speaking of which he is more than ten years older than Wen Sheng, but in the coaching world, he is not as good as Wen Sheng, but he was named such a name, which is really embarrassing.
Of course, Lambert himself admired Wen Sheng very much, and he did not refute the title of the outside world, and he also blew Wen Sheng into the sky before this game.
"I love Daniel! He is at the top of England's young generation of coaches and has led Crystal Palace to a series of incredible results! I watched Crystal Palace play a lot and learned a lot from him! This game is a great learning opportunity! ”
Look, this all regards Wen Sheng as a teacher.
However, when he saw Wen Sheng before the game, Lambert was reserved, just smiled and exchanged greetings with Wen Sheng before letting go of his hand.
Lambert's Norwich City were the top scorers in the Championship but they also conceded the most goals in the top six.
The stats don't tell the whole story, but they do reveal the tendency of some managers, such as Lambert, who is actually better at tuning offense, and defending is their weakness.
After entering the Premier League, Lambert has also worked the defensive side, they have invested too little in the transfer market, many players are players who have previously played with the team in League One, and the defensive side has not improved much, and after 16 games, they have conceded 29 goals, an average of almost two goals per game.
Their real strength is at home, as they have played eight home games so far, but only lost two at home, but won four games, which can be classified as a team like the home dragons.
Of course, the corresponding is the away game, they played badly away from home, but it is normal compared to their quality.
Another characteristic of them is that they have a poor record against the top four teams, the top four teams have played against them, Arsenal and Manchester City, these three games without exception, Norwich have lost, and there is no shortage of worse losses.
Because of these characteristics, Wensheng asked the team not to be impatient, not to press the opponent too much, and it doesn't matter if he plays positional warfare and attacks slowly.
Of course, Lambert will not be stupid to play against Crystal Palace, as a team that has beaten Manchester City twice, as long as the head is normal, he will not make the choice of attack.
But Lambert is not resting on his laurels, and he has also made a lot of arrangements on offense.
These arrangements are not very important, Crystal Palace is strong in strength, Wen Sheng is not unreasonable to blame the team's lack of luck for not winning, even if the opponent is in good shape, but Crystal Palace does create opportunities.
Norwich's situation is that the defense is really not good.
In the first half, they defended patiently and had a lot of personnel at the back, but there were many holes, and in the 10th minute, Crystal Palace assisted De Bruyne to score an ice-breaking goal through Mkhitaryan, and then there were at least three great chances to change the score.
In the second half, Lambert was unwilling to let the team move and was just trying to get his team moving, but Vardy received a through ball from Kevin De Bruyne and successfully scored the second goal for Crystal Palace in an offside position.
Crystal Palace did not take advantage of the slaughter, after Christmas Crystal Palace has another important away game against Arsenal, this game and that game are relatively short, Wen Sheng had to stay, two goals lead after replacing his favorite De Bruyne, Vardy, Kante.
Norwich City was fit enough to save some face, but the Palace defenders didn't make too many mistakes this time around, and Norwich didn't create any good chances at all.
In the end, Lambert also had to suffer the bitter fruit of 0:2 in this game, and continued their winless luck in every four!
Compared with the game against Stoke City a few days ago, Crystal Palace seems to have made great progress, but in fact, Wen Sheng knows very well that the team has not improved much, and the main reason for winning is that Norwich's defensive system is really bad, and the players' condition is only slightly better, not yet at its best.
But in any case, the game was won, because the Manchester City game was played in the evening, and Crystal Palace were back at the top of the table with 43 points, maybe only a few hours to experience, but it was not bad.
In addition to winning the expected three points, the team's fierce man, the long-lost Melo, who came off the bench for a long time, also made Crystal Palace fans happy, and the strong man who was the iron waist of Crystal Palace before he was injured performed very well.
Lambert would certainly not be happy to lose this game, but he also knows that the quality of the team is indeed far from that of Crystal Palace.
"They are very strong and they are one of the favourites to win the league title! They created a lot of chances in this game and we had a lot of problems in the defensive end that we still need to solve! ”
The reporters did not embarrass Lambert, after all, Norwich's away team is also famous for not playing well away at all, only playing 8 away games in total, and their average goal conceded is almost 3, and it is not bad to lose two in this game, but the opponent is Crystal Palace.