"It's time to change formation!!" Finnan, who had been silent, eagerly reminded Hydward.

Ward slapped the windshield of the coach's seat and woke up like a dream: "Ali, go warm up!" ”

Dele. Ali pursed his lips and slowly removed his ass from his seat, this guy is a kid who thinks very highly of himself and doesn't take anyone seriously, not only that, but it's not uncommon for training to be late and leave early. This move caused a considerable number of players to be dissatisfied, and thus the anger was transferred to the head coach, and the boss was blind to bring such a small thing to the team!

The whole Portsmouth team was formed by Hydward, every salary and contract of the players passed through his hands, as a manager, although he is as young as the players, but the players have a sense of their own; The coaches who brought them to the professional arena were all respected. But there is one exception, Ali is not interested in who brought him to the team, he does not have the idea of knowing the grace of the encounter in his head, he does not understand what gratitude is, and even less understands what is good and what is bad. He would provoke captain Campbell, who had been watching over him, on the training ground, and the two men fought bullfights one-on-one, and with his youth, Ali made the 38-year-old Saul lose face in front of everyone. For the second time in a month, Hydward made a decision to punish the lad, in exchange for a sneer.

But even so, Ward still did not deprive Ali of the right to play, he understood that the young man in front of him really loved football, and when he played, he was happier than ever. Ali usually tries his hand at home with the ball for hours, he likes the friends who always praise him and play on the street, he hates the coaches and teammates who always lecture him, he hates this group of people.

A few minutes later.

Hydward took the tactical board and communicated with the absent-minded Ali: "Ali, you go for Vardy, let Mahrez go to the right, you go to the left, we play 433, those defenders in Reading are about to collapse, use your speed to beat them." ”

"Oh." The young man reacted flatly.

Hydward grabbed Ali's face and said viciously, "Boy! Repeat! ”

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The sixteen-year-old felt that the manager on the field of play was like a beast that could eat him at any moment, and his heart trembled: "I change Vardy... Riyad Mahrez kicks on the right... We played 433 instead. ”

He's still a kid after all.

"Good, go ahead!" Ward slapped Ali on the ass and threw him onto the court.

Before Hydeward's butt was hot when he returned to the coach's box, Finnan sat next to him with a tactical board: "Hydeward, I don't think the team is suitable for 41212. ”

"Tell me what you think," he discussed with his TA with great interest. Finnan was once a favorite of tactician Rafael Benitez, and the Spanish coach's tactical prowess could throw him a few streets.

"The forward midfielder of 41212 has two accusations, one is to connect the midfielder and the forward line through constant pulling and running; The second is to press the opponent's back and make them unable to play comfortably. Therefore, it is important for the midfielders to have excellent technical and tactical awareness. Only in this way can you know when to attack forward, when to drop back to get the ball, and integrate the whole team with ease. Riyad Mahrez is not a particularly hard-working player on the pitch, and although he did well in this game, there will be problems in the long run, and his technical and tactical awareness does not meet the requirements of the formation for 41212......"

As it turns out, the players who have been with the master tacticians are really different, with their own thoughts and ideas.

'There's also the strikers, and the relatively simple requirement for Icardi and Vardy is to storm the opposition defence and score goals, which requires the two of them to work together and that's great. However, Ward, the width of the 41212 is often not enough, the striker has to leave his preferred position often to pull, Vardy is fine, but this is not a characteristic of Icardi......

The manager's face was a little unpleasant, and it was not pleasant to be completely overturned by Finnan in a few words, and what he had designed in a week. And he doesn't think there is anything wrong with the players up front, they are constantly creating chances, it's just bad luck not to score, and the front midfield in the Championship requires some skill, how can there be so many twists and turns.

Finnan sensed that Ward's face was not quite right, patted his partner on the shoulder and said, "I sometimes speak aggressively, but I still have to point it out......"

Hydward doesn't feel that he has anything wrong, the tactical setting in his mind is actually more on the level of the Championship, and the style of the second division is more rugged, after all, the long-pass rush that is gradually dying in the Premier League still has its own soil here, and once survived very well. Finnan's thinking is more about the tactical setting at the level of the Premier League or even the Champions League, which is more detailed and involves every corner of every aspect. Heideward felt that Mahrez was great in the midfield today, but in Finnan's eyes, it was not enough to do so, because 41212 is not played like this, and when this formation is working properly, the team can often play exciting football, rather than thundering and not raining for half a day, forcing the manager to change his tactics!

"Steve, I don't agree with everything you said, but some of it makes a lot of sense...... It seems that in the future, we will have to follow Liverpool's example and build our own boot room in Portsmouth! He laughs.

Boot Room – Born in the 1973-1974 Champions League, Liverpool's defeat to Red Star Belgrade at Anfield, and the next day, a small windowless room was born under the hallway leading to the dressing room, when Liverpool's six-man coaching staff set in motion a shift in English football. Any belligerent opponent is willing to talk about the game; Coaches who talk about the players are invited here for a glass of Kennis beer. The boot room had disappeared without a trace during Liverpool's dark years, and Rafael Benitez, the ordinary one at Anfield, had reopened a small room that had been in the dust for decades.

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Just as Hydward on the sidelines was brewing a change, the situation on the field also changed dramatically.

In the 61st minute, Dele Ali, who had just been replaced, took 100 steps through Yang and scored with a long-range shot close to the ground, Portsmouth 1:0 Reading.

Two minutes later, Joel used his trademark succession of wobbles to play the game against his marker N'Golo Kante, sending in a cross that striker Hunt had slotted home with a close-range header over Antonio Rudiger.

In the 63rd minute, 30 seconds after the equalizer, Mahrez received a straight plug sent by Pierce, and drew a big arc on the left side of the opposing defender to score 2:1!

In the 66th minute, Drinkwater completed a steal in front, the old driver of Jem overturned, and Icardi, who received the ball, volleyed into the top corner of the goal, 3-1!

In the 67th minute, 34-year-old striker Jason . Roberts substitute Robson. Kanu appears.

Then, in the 68th minute, Reading defender Alex. Pierce made a mistake in clearing the siege and was scored by Dele' Ali, 4-1!

Reading's manager and players didn't even know what was going on in those eight minutes as they were 1-4 down.

The Portsmouth fans in the stands shouted Alli's name, and they loved the lad who could score goals on the pitch.

Just as Hydward started waving his little fist in celebration, Mendy was the first to cramp, and then, this thing was the same as the effect of the dominoes after the first one, Mahrez twitched, Rudiger twitched, Meunier twitched, and Drinkwater, who looked very good, actually twitched...

What to do? The sadness is big again, Lao Tzu doesn't have so many substitutions.