Not only does the coach think so, but he also thinks so, if the game is an FM game, Ali's current state is definitely full of confidence.

Norris's goal excited all the Portsmouth players on the pitch, who were more daring to make moves and attack the opposition defence more aggressively. In the 36th minute of the first half, Riyad Mahrez played two defenders with a delicate oxtail on the edge of the box, and one of Hull City's defenders even limped to the sideline after straining his left thigh because he couldn't even step up to him.

Mahrez's move not only earned the team a well-placed free-kick up front, but also won the applause of his team-mates and the crowd.

Immediately afterwards, Icardi's wonderful elevator ball hung into the top right corner, and the goalkeeper struggled to save the ball but did not lift the ball off the crossbar, 2-0!

The last time he pressed down with his hands to signal silence, this time he drew two beautiful arcs on the turf, and then turned 180° to face his teammates at the end of the action, and then was pressed to the turf by his teammates who came to celebrate.

Seeing this, Mane, who was a few meters away, remembered the plan in his heart, trotted two steps, turned from envy to practice, and then boom, bang..., and a few seconds later, tragedy was born, slipping and kneeling turned into kowtowing, and his head and hair were full of grass clippings.

Seeing that there was no one around, the embarrassed Senegalese got up silently, pretended that nothing had happened, and left.

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Seeing that the team is in good shape, Hydward is also very happy. Shankly famously said: Boy, your problem is that the mind is too limited! Of course, more fans are familiar with his comments on life and football: football has no light about life and death, and football is higher than life and death.

Bill Shankly, while not the first manager in the world in the modern sense, is definitely the first to focus more on the minds of his players than on the body.

Over the past three or four decades, many people have considered the most important physical fitness in football, a cliché that has been around for almost as long as the history of football. In the past two years, there is a view in German football circles that has been slowly accepted by the mainstream of Europe, who believes that physical fitness accounts for only 20% of football, and the other 80% is mental quality. However, most of the training sessions that the players participate in are aimed at improving the physical fitness of the players, and they need to focus more on mental fitness.

Several paragraphs of Chen Xi's thesis about mental training gave Hydward some inspiration, human movements are controlled by the brain, everyone follows almost the same thought process, and the difference between ordinary people is that professional players have to complete the whole thought process in the second moment of the game. The first stage is cognition, that is, analysis and observation on the field, and the second stage is analysis, inappropriate analysis often leads to inappropriate movements, and this process is the key to distinguishing between 95% of ordinary players and 5% of elite players.

Most players can't see the reality and just want to see what is happening and focus on the information they just received, for example, is a teammate passing me the ball? Is the other person approaching me? Am I going to shoot or pass at this point? If time can be stopped, the coach is eager to give the players the ability to hear and see more information, teach them how to deal with it, and turn all the doubts into this: I am well prepared for this situation, and I have the speed, power, agility and technique to solve this problem. I've encountered this problem thousands of times, and there are thousands of ways to solve it.

The difference between Zidane and a third-tier player may be minimal, and their skills may be similar, but Zizou's ability to do the right thing at the right time is a key reason why he has become a maestro.

Hydward feels that the brain controls every movement of the body all the time, and if he can train the players in these thought processes, there is no doubt that they will be better!

He feels that he is slowly changing, and these changes are the result of his first-team coaching experience, and Heideward is a coach who is willing to work hard, and his personality determines that he will specialize in tactical knowledge like an Italian coach, find countless famous articles to read through all night, and fight with many people on the pitch; Like the Spanish coach, he will push his players to sharpen their skills and put it in his blood, hoping that one day one of his players can decide the trend of the game in an instant like Messi.

A few days ago, after watching the U12 match with Eddie Howe, he followed him to watch a training session of the U10 football team, and Hydward called a young player who played left-back to the sidelines, and he noticed that the little kid named Andrew did not leave his small area for the whole game, no matter where the football was and what happened on the field, as if he was trapped in the Monkey King Demon Circle with a radius of 1.2 meters.

Hydward asked him, "Andrew, what do you do when you catch the ball?" ”

Andrew: "Uh, pass, cooperate, right?" ”

Hydward continued: "yes, good, what else should we do besides passing the ball?" ”

Andrew fell into thought and said for a long time: "Shoot! ”

Hydward nodded: "Yes, shoot." So when you get the ball, don't you want to dribble forward and shoot? ”

Andrew said as a matter of course: "Of course I want to, but the coach won't let me step forward." ”

Hydward was shocked, when learning to play, the little guy first recognized that he was a defender, and secondly, as a defender he couldn't rush to the front of the court, he couldn't shoot! How so? How many children are so confined in this way? In this way, how can you enjoy the joy of football and express your thoughts freely?

At moments like this, when Norris scored, Heidward suddenly realized that as a coach they would have a big impact on the players, and that such an impact had nothing to do with the age of the players.

So, is it enough for a coach to just learn and practice the techniques and tactics of football? Of course, technology and tactics are just as important. However, before learning this, is it time to learn how to communicate effectively with the players, understand their ideas, and see if what the coach hears and sees is realistic, and if Hydward can't listen to them and help the players, then what is the use of learning so much technical and tactical knowledge?

It's a change in coaching philosophy and philosophy that has been good so far and has made his players more united, harder and more trusting of each other.

It's a more team philosophy.

Almost all football coaches will have the idea that if you can bring their players together, you can still lead them to great results, even if they are not the most talented. A team with tenacity and complete belief in their teammates cannot be beaten, and if you add the individual efforts of the players, there is no game that cannot be won.

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Just when Hydward was thinking, the referee on the field blew the whistle for the end of the first half, and a light rain fell in the sky to ease the tense atmosphere of the game, and the players on the field were walking towards the locker room, and Ali said hello to the coach and ran to the court.

He wanted to use those 15 minutes to warm himself up and then kill the game in the second half!