Portsmouth finally stopped their winless streak by losing to Millwall; Watford picked up a valuable three points at Nottingham Forest after the draw with Crystal Palace. In this way, after 17 rounds, Pompey's points have reached 15 points.

Richards called up the live standings on his phone and handed it to Hydward. It's almost a habit for the whole team, and no one likes to be the vice-president of the league, but Portsmouth has been sitting in this position for nearly 10 rounds, and they are calloused on their buttocks. Ward pulled down his fingers to the end, fourth-to-last Bristol City with 19 points, third-to-last from the relegation zone Doncaster with 18 points, second-to-last Coventry City with 16 points, and Portsmouth still from the bottom!!

Relegation is sometimes so helpless, no matter how much effort is paid, after a round of games, it should be where or where. This invisible pressure is almost overwhelming, and the players who won the game acted as if they had lost, and everyone seemed to be well-informed.

The job of a head coach is sometimes cheap, splashing cold water when he is happy and hot water when he is down. Assistant Coach Walker went to shake Steve's hand, and he gathered all the team members together to cheer everyone on!

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The words are divided into two ends.

"Walker, you're doing a good job!"

Steve noticed that there were media cameras, straightened out the suit that had fallen out of order during the command, and warmly patted his past partner on the shoulder.

What is Portsmouth like, can Steve not have a B number in his heart? If you want money, you don't have money, you want no people, cigarettes and alcohol fly in the locker room, and the players can change this into a chess and card room as long as they are bold enough.

Steve's praise was completely heartfelt, and he really didn't expect that a reserve coach who had been so Muna in the past would have the strength to pinch a team. The defense is orderly, with tacit understanding, look at the central defender named Margery, the skill is not talked about, and the defensive awareness is rushed, and people drool. I was blind at the beginning, but I didn't expect that there would be such a pearl in the Portsmouth Academy! Looking at Jonathan, the hardness of the defense and the relentless running are a world away from him coaching. Lawrence, Etuhu, and Haim, who was replaced early, all left him with some degree of imagery.

Walker felt the force coming from his shoulder, and his face didn't change in the slightest, and he was as typical of Steve's dislike as the majority of Portsmouth players.

Walker put the small notebook in his hand that recorded the changes in the game into his jacket pocket and said, "No, Hydeward is better." "Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho also has such a book, and he can learn from it and can better assist Hedeward.

"The young man? …… Well...... He's a nice lad," Steve's praise was rather perfunctory, and he had no idea if the so-called Hyde was the young man who had been with Pierce the whole time, or the young man who rushed onto the field.

The two of them discussed Portsmouth's games for the past month on the sidelines of the pitch, one enthusiastic and the other cold, and the two did not discuss on one channel. The Nottingham Forest players were back in the dressing room, and Steve was a little reluctant to ask Walker to go to the press conference half an hour later. In front of the camera, he fully showed his care and love for his old club, and even prepared a speech for a while.

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On the other hand, Heidward is studying the fixtures with his players, and the Championship is halfway through the middle of next month, and 50 points is a relatively safe figure according to the relegation form of previous years.

"With 15 points in 17 rounds, we have an average of 0.8 points," Ward said, pulling out his phone and using the calculator function to press the players.

"46 rounds of the league, there are 29 rounds left, 29 times 0.8 equals 23.2, plus 15 equals 38.2, far below the safety standard of 50!"

Many players in Portsmouth are confused, such a simple math multiplication and addition calculation problem, Etuhu has not studied much, and he can't figure it out with his fingers.

Learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, and you will not be afraid to go all over the world, and you will not deceive me. I don't even know the standings, what kind of football I still play, and going home to farm is more promising than this. In the UK, it's just a simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and when I go to China, wouldn't it be a loss of my life to calculate the probability of qualifying for the national football team? !

Portsmouth's relegation form has never improved, Hydward has never shied it off, the players have eyes and hearts, they will see and feel.

"We have to climb out of the relegation zone halfway through the game, and we have to get out on our hands too!"

Richards brought a teaser map of the upcoming fixtures, which clearly marked the opponent; home and away; The time and place of the competition.

Heidward used a red pen to write and draw on it, the 18th round of the Championship at home to the Blue Foxes Leicester City, the 19th round away to the strong Birmingham, followed by the 20th round of the home game against Coventry City relegation 6 points. There is also an FA Cup fixture, with eight rounds of the FA Cup where Championship teams are exempt from the first and second rounds. In the third round, Hydward was still in charge and Portsmouth eliminated an amateur league team. In the fourth round, which is the 32-16 game, Pompey will first go away to challenge Milton Keynes Dons in League One, a name that many people are not familiar with, and Hydward prefers to call him "Crazy Gang" Wimbledon!!

The story of the mad gang hardly needs to be told too much, and it's not too late to tell it when it actually comes across.

December has a busy schedule, and if it weren't for an early elimination of the English League Cup, Portsmouth might now face a third-tier battle. It is impossible for the Pompeo Army to put together a 23-man roster, and it is a joke to fight on three fronts.

Drawing a red circle around the Wimbledon game, Hydward calmly said: "Relegation is really boring. ”

'Starting with Leicester we need to grab points and prepare for the FA Cup. If it goes well, we need to go to Old Trafford to face Manchester United after beating Wimbledon! ”

He asked rhetorically: "Isn't this much more interesting than relegation?" ”

A group of Portsmouth players flipped through the FA Cup matchup schedule, and when they looked closely, the whole person was excited. It's a team with a glorious tradition, Manchester United reached the Champions League final last year, the Theatre of Dreams, Lord Ferguson, what an honour it is to have the opportunity to play against them.

The players replied: "It's really more interesting than relegation!! ”

Hydward smiled a little meaningfully, patted Margary on the shoulder, and walked away alone.

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It's an account for the player, and there is another account in his heart. Tom's 25 million Hydward didn't dare to forget for a moment, and the money was worth 15 league points, which happened to be the number of points Portsmouth had desperately won in 17 league games.

From now on, everything starts from scratch. Hydward unbuttoned the shirt around his neck and said to himself.