Mustafi finally accepted the punishment and solemnly apologized to Icardi again, much to Mauro's baffe, in his eyes the matter was over, it was not a big deal at all, and he was not so narrow-minded.

Mousse was depressed for a while, but in the blink of an eye the game was close again, and the final round of league games before the promotion play-offs was against Bristol City. The opponent's coach is an old Italian coach named Biel, who has been very successful in fighting Bristol City in the middle of the season. When reading the life experience of the old man, Hydward remembered the tinkerer Ranieri, who has a mediocre resume of 20 years in the eyes of the media, a coach who can bring hope to the middle and lower teams, but also take away the hope of the giants. Biel's best years in charge were at Croatian giants Dinamo Zagreb, where his side beat the mighty Real Madrid in the Champions League over two legs, but after all these years, few people remember the heroism of those years. When he was most depressed, he went to Qatar to pan for gold, and after three weeks of coaching, he was swept away by his father.

In that part of Qatar, it's not news that a team changes seven or eight managers a year.

The old handsome man in a suit and leather shoes, looking polite, with a smile on his face, time has left a heavy mark on him. Born in a small Bosnian town, Biel won the World Junior Ski Championships in Yugoslavia as a young man, then played as a right winger before moving to Ukraine to play for Dynamo Kyiv, Rijeka Sarajevo and Swiss side Sion before retiring as a coach at the age of 32 due to injury. He also worked in a watchmaking factory to support his family, and Hydward also knew a little story about Biel, which used to be a good story in European football.

After he became coach of Sion Switzerland, the club's owner's daughter found him cleaning the dressing room, meticulous and sweaty.

"What are you doing here?" "It's not your job, you're our head coach," she asked. ”

"Yes, I'm the head coach." Biel replied: "One day, I will be the head coach of the Swiss national team. ”

The girl laughed: "Of course no problem, one day I will be Miss Switzerland." ”

After leaving Sion, Biel coached Lausanne and Basel successively, and finally became the head coach of the Swiss national team, and the girl was also elected Miss Switzerland as she wished, and even won the third runner-up of Miss Universe for a time. Eventually, she became Biel's wife, and their love has remained for decades, ever since that agreement.

(So who said that football dogs can't fall in love, who said that I can't write emotional dramas, I'm just too lazy to write!! ）

Like the beautiful wife Biel married, his style of football is not a dull chain defense like many Italian coaches, and there are no surprises: No. 2 against No. 11, No. 3 against No. 7, No. 4 against No. 10, No. 5 against No. 9, No. 6 Scavenger, No. 7 against No. 3, No. 8 against No. 8, No. 10 against No. 4, No. 9 against No. 5, No. 11 against No. 2...... He breathed new life into Bristol City, implementing an attacking style of play centered on the opening attack, coupled with sharp counter-attacks, and got rid of the embarrassing situation of multiple rounds without a win in one fell swoop. Fans here once thought the team had secured a relegation spot, but by the final round, they had miraculously landed and if it weren't for Hydward's later arrival, the promotion play-off race would likely have to be added to the mix.

Portsmouth were in trouble early on the road, as Robin captain Kranica broke the deadlock with a volley in the seventh minute, and he was loved by the local fans like a natural leader, who once made the front page headlines of the BBC for slapping his teammates in the mouth. Kranica could play in all positions in midfield, and when he took the lead, he led the team back and the full-backs dropped back and shifted their focus to marking the opposing wingers, changing the formation to 352.

There is a retro trend in tactics around the world, with Mourinho's 4231 becoming popular after the 442 and now the back three increasingly appearing on the field. Heidward has always been very adept at dealing with teams with a back three, because the demands on wingbacks and dragging-back centre-backs are extremely high, and he is a little uncomfortable.

Biel was cunning enough to hide 352 under a back four system to fool Hydward, and his use of a backfoot winger was also very similar to Ward's original set-up of Etuhu, which was put into a lot of work.

That's why he both admires and hates Italian football, and although their tactical style seems to have weakened, the coach's football mentality here is to turn the game into a tense tactical game, making a big fuss in the middle of the flank, until the game is hanged.

Hydward had no choice but to give the order to attack on all fronts, but unfortunately once again he hit the enemy, who had already laid out their pockets and were waiting for you to rush in. There is a tactical saying in Italian football: when deciding on various formations and tactics, you must first consider three factors: first, the characteristics of the players under your command, second, tradition, and thirdly, integrate the first two points into the current style of play. Italians often think that going to a new club and then saying "I'm going to play like this" regardless of the characteristics of the players in the team is that only the worst coaches do this, and only bad coaches fall victim to a certain system.

This philosophy of football is very different from that of Germany and Spain and England, where the Germans emphasise the mentality, Spain puts technology in their blood, and England has their own unique pragmatism. This philosophy in Italy has produced a group of tinkerers like Ranieri, who is not a single individual, but a group.

Portsmouth conceded a goal in the 33rd minute and it was a beautiful athletic counter-attack that was scored by Kranica.

Coming down by two goals, Heidward made a decisive substitution, getting off Drinkwater and playing on Campbell, one man didn't work, and the two stared at Kranica, and the whole formation of the team showed an irregular and serious left-side tilt, which is a situation that does not occur in any football tactics textbook. Bristol City panicked, Portsmouth was a veteran master, like Rommel and Montgomery, the Desert Fox was strategically superior to Montgomery, but he had no fuel, the tank couldn't move, and Montgomery won.

So Biel is not a perfect coach, he is opinionated, impatient by nature, look at his dense resume, a job always can't stay long, Basel stayed for half a year, and the relationship with the Swiss Football Association deteriorated and simply left, this is also him.

At the end of the first half, the players, Kranica, defender Wolf, and midfielder Bony were all waiting for Biel's tactical set-up, they conceded two goals in five minutes and were equalized by Pompey's army, he couldn't say anything, just looked at the players, the dressing room was silent, as if everyone was dead.

After a while, Biel noticed that the player's face was just as green as he was. The old coach was in good spirits, took a blank piece of paper and talked about tactics, and after six or seven minutes of theoretical talk, the players' faces became more and more ugly, and their expressions became greener.