327. League Cup promotion
The appetite of Crystal Palace fans has also been fed by the results of the new season.
Of course, this is just a small group of fans, most of the fans are still sensible, knowing that our family temple is small, and the players have only blessings when they leave.
This is exactly the small group of fans who have abused Boateng who left the team, and now Boateng cannot be reused under the new coach Villas-Boas, and these fans gloated and said that he was retribution.
Now that Mertens has accidentally said something, fans have begun to accuse Mertens of being disloyal.
What age is this Nima, and he still talks about loyalty?!
The media fanned the flames again, and it was clear that a matter that could not be more small made Mertens very unhappy.
Wen Sheng remembered that Mertens actually had a lot of loyalty, and it was not without the club's pursuit during the Napoli period, but he stayed.
"Driss is not disloyal to the team, in fact I think he is much more loyal to the team than I am!" Feeling worthy of the fans, Wen Sheng teased himself at his pre-match press conference against Millwall in the Carabao Cup in midweek.
"Driss has no doubts about his loyalty to the team!" Wen Sheng immediately talked about the facts seriously, "The departure of the players is caused by many factors, and I don't think it can be simply attributed to disloyalty!" We also left a lot of players in the summer and I always remember their contribution and I don't doubt their loyalty when I was in the team! ”
"It's not right for a small group of extreme fans to insult Driss, if you want to insult Driss, scold Sean first! Can you say Sean isn't loyal enough?! ”
Team Captain Sean. Derry is still recovering from injury, his play for Crystal Palace is divided into two phases, after his first spell at Crystal Palace, he also went to Nottingham Forest, Leeds United, Warnock only returned to Crystal Palace during his tenure, but no fans said that the veteran captain who followed Crystal Palace to create glory was disloyal.
With Wen Sheng's defense, many normal fans have left messages saying that some people like to pull pigtails and have a virtue with the paparazzi.
Mertens's matter has just disappeared, of course, in addition to Wen Sheng, the club management also comforted Mertens in a timely manner, and put the contract issue with Mertens a priority.
The first half of the season was an extremely busy period for the Palace hierarchy, with many players' salaries not in line with their status and in need of adjustment, with Morelli complaining to Wensheng that his current daily job is to constantly communicate with his agent and that there are too many contracts to talk about.
Wen Shengxin said that this is also a happy trouble, right?! It means that the players are worth the money, which is the wealth of the club.
In the League Cup, Wensheng naturally made a big rotation, he let De Bruyne, Mertens, Kante and other key players get rest, and then let Aubameyang as the starting striker, which is also a kind of experiment, Aubameyang has not played this role before.
What Wensheng is hoping for now is that Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang can play the role of Jamie Vardy.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang rejoices and wants the role of centre-forward.
The match against Millwall must be a relatively well-known club for fans all over the world.
The reason is very simple, there is a lot of hatred between this team and West Ham United, one is a regular in the Premier League, and the other is difficult to play in the Championship, so there are naturally not many opportunities to meet, but once they meet the club players, they may not have anything, and in private the fans may serve each other with bricks.
Wen Sheng also knew about this team through the movie "Football Hooligans", he had not heard of this team before, after all, Millwall had not been in the top league for N years.
Every team has extreme fans in the London team, but Millwall is notorious, and Millwall has to be mentioned, so Wensheng is very worried about Millwall's fans making trouble.
Millwall is now in the Championship, but when Wensheng led Crystal Palace to the Championship, Millwall was still in League One, and only mixed in the Championship last season, and Wensheng is far from familiar with this team.
Given that the intelligence gathered showed that Millwall was the kind of team with a tough style of traditional English football, he also adopted a large rotation strategy to protect the main players, especially players like Kevin De Bruyne, who really couldn't afford to be injured.
Hao Junmin also got a starting place in this game, and Keylor Navas also made his official first appearance after arriving at Crystal Palace.
In fact, when it comes to the game, these teams are not fools, Wen Sheng thought that the opponent would be very rough at home, but in fact the opponent is indeed harder but not rough.
For Crystal Palace, the League Cup is like a chicken rib, and Wen Sheng is not a greedy coach, even if he hopes that every line goes hand in hand, but he does not have to win the League Cup.
But it's a different story for Millwall, who are more eager than Crystal Palace to reach the next round.
The multiple-choice questions are very easy to do, and in the face of the crystal palace in full swing, they are still playing against each other, isn't that looking for death?!
They pay a lot of attention to their own defense, this habit is not uncommon, the League Cup and FA Cup are a hotbed of underdogs, and those who dare to play against high-level teams often do not have good fruit to eat, but carefully defend, and the team that takes the opportunity to sneak up is more likely to be upset, and Millwall also knows this.
But after all, their level is still a lot worse, compared to the Crystal Palace led by Wen Sheng back then, the Crystal Palace at least the defensive level was quite good, otherwise how could Wen Sheng play a defensive counterattack?!
Millwall's defensive line is not of sufficient quality, and there are no fewer opportunities for Crystal Palace.
They like to foul and give Crystal Palace set-pieces, which is a trick that eats Crystal Palace to death, and the fierce Millwall is not afraid of Crystal Palace's high-altitude bombing.
The only goal came in a positional battle in the second half, when Mkhitaryan burst into the box to create a penalty and took the penalty himself, making it 1-0 for Crystal Palace.
His performance today was reasonable, the problem was Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
In the centre-forward position, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's performance has made Wensheng a little frustrated.
One of them is a physical confrontation, damn, empty body, against Millwall's muscle group, he suffers, the ability to hold the ball in the forward position is not as good as Vardy, Vardy is a player who is used to the lower leagues after all, and his bravery is not bad, don't look at his thinness, he is definitely not afraid of any defender when he should come out, Aubameyang is obviously not successful.
Second, there is a problem with the running position, and I don't know if he is a little weak to be entangled with the opposing defender, he always likes to go to the side to hold the ball, and is always used to the winger's style of play, can the winger's style of play be the same as the center's style of play?! You're away from someone's penalty area, who will go to the center position?!
He's always out of place!
The third is too urgent, this is the chain reaction of the first two, after getting the ball, he has to shoot if it is not a chance, because if he doesn't shoot, he feels that he can't find a chance to shoot.
Again, Wen Sheng specifically reminded him after the game.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang no longer has the spirit of scoring in the Champions League, and the opponent is only a Championship team, and he has already tasted the strength of the opponent and is a little frustrated.
"Don't be too frustrated!" After criticizing Aubameyang, Wen Sheng patiently comforted him, "There is always a process of adaptation!" I believe that you can play well in the center forward position, you have to strengthen your own learning, you have to think about your own shortcomings, there is no need to lose confidence for a poor performance, this is not good! ”
"I'm not in a hurry, why are you in a hurry! You're sure to get better and better in the future! ”
It's certainly useless to criticize, Aubameyang says it's not small, it's not big, it's necessary to be patient enough with him as a coach, otherwise his career itself was bad in previous years, and now it's easy to lose his superstar path if he is too hit.
Wen Sheng's set of carrots and sticks has been used perfectly, and it will not make the players feel disgusted.
got Wen Sheng's personal advice, and Aubameyang also knew that the leader must not have given up on him, otherwise why would he say so many words, just go straight to the cold palace.
Hao Junmin played the role of fullback in this game, and the confrontation rose, but he performed very well in this game, one is that the opponent has a deep defense, which does not put much pressure on him, and several counterattacks from his side, his speed can keep up, and his tackling ability is okay, and the second is that he can press out to give the necessary support to the front court, and the quality of the two-legged cross is really good.