"Dig your own grave!"

Steve commented coldly, remembering the report that had been placed on his desk yesterday afternoon.

Nottingham Forest has a complete and detailed scouting system, with a team of eleven scouts, five of whom are in charge of the UK, four in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe, and the remaining two are match scouts. Portsmouth's habitual style of play, threatening players, defensive habits, etc., only you can't think of without them.

But the two scouts came to the same conclusion, "the Israeli is the only player in Portsmouth who is still a threat", Steve naturally believes it, he has taken this player and naturally knows everything about Haim, the Israeli is spring, the more you press him, the more you resist, so Steve completely gave up the pressure on his side, just asked the players to give him a cold time for thirty minutes, but I didn't expect to really take this "most threatening" player directly.

So taking advantage of Haim's down, the Nottingham Forest players launched group charges again and again, focusing on the side of the newly replaced Ryan Williams.

Ryan is a chubby-looking player, either strong or fat, a little short, not at all like a full-back, usually in the team is also the kind of taciturn, honest and honest look a bit like a zoo panda.

Williams looked at the captain's armband on his arm, his eyes red. The young man was full of emotion, just patted his ass and tied the captain's armband to him, Ryan gave birth to the urge to die as a confidant, and the whole person seemed to be beaten with chicken blood, and one glorious name appeared in front of him, Zanetti; Paolo Maldini; Roy Keane; Totti and so on.

Hydward was a little worried about the situation on the field, but he was reluctant to breathe a sigh of relief when he watched the panda's textbook tackle destroy Sean's breakthrough.

Ryan Williams' current ability is 73 and his potential is 115, and his attributes have also risen in a mess, and this level of reserve team foothold is enough to choke, in addition to playing a central defender that he is not familiar with. Hydward honestly replaced the person, and he regretted it.

In the end, he was still impulsive, looking at the absent-minded appearance of Haim on the field, Ward became angry at once. The first thought that came to mind was a substitution, and when I looked back at the bench, only Williams kept his eyes on the field, and then there was no more.

Impulsiveness is the devil, Hydward didn't think about it before the substitution, how much destruction he would cause to the team's backcourt defensive system, I don't know, Steve was not wrong to say that he was digging his own grave.

……

With the referee's half-time whistle blowing, the score was still 0-0, with possession 28% to 72%, and Portsmouth fell directly below 30%.

There was silence in the locker room, and all eyes were focused on Haim at the door, consciously or unconsciously. According to the captain's habit, he always shouts two sentences to boost morale at halftime, but how to talk about it today?

"Boss, I'm sorry", Haim remembered the sense of position and concentration that the head coach repeatedly emphasized before the game, and decided to apologize, so he waited at the door.

Hydward said, "Go ahead, run back to the training base." ”

"Uh-huh???"

"What, it's over if you make a mistake and apologize?"

The Israeli was still confused just now, but the next second there was a strong light in his eyes, and he ran out without waiting for the head coach to say anything.

Hydward is not cold and violent, and he is sensitive to any player, person, and you can feel that you are distant, distrustful, or indifferent to him. He can ignore Haim and many coaches like to treat their players who have been substituted early. Replace them and let the players think for themselves, what's wrong? But that in itself is wrong, when you take a player off in the first half, you don't just leave him out but tell the player: "I still trust you, but you need to be calm now." ”

Of course, commanding a team, Hydward sees rewards and punishments as important, Zhuge Liang can cry for the sake of military discipline, and he can also let Haim run back to the training base by himself for the sake of tactical discipline.

Ward sat down next to Ryan and said, "Williams, good performance, you can continue to wear the captain's armband in the second half." ”

Then his gaze swept over everyone, and he said in a slightly warning tone: "Haim was driven back to the training base by me, he has to run most of Portsmouth, who wants to try it together." ”

Everyone shuddered, and after a few months of getting along with Hydward's coaching style, everyone also knew and understood a little, this is an out-and-out general-like figure. It's okay to joke and gag together, but as long as the whistle blows, the 20 or so people in the team have to listen to him.

The game has basically not happened unexpectedly so far, and assistant coach Walker has led everyone in the arrangement and arrangement of the specific tactics of the second half, how to execute the specific tactics, arrange the details and so on. Hydward single-handedly started a small stove for Ryan Williams, and the holes and holes left by Hayem when he was replaced can only be filled a little, the only fortunate thing is that Williams has been practicing with the team and is quite familiar with the team's defensive system.

With a minute left before the start of the second half, Hydward gave the final instructions: "Play with Margery in the second half, and at any other time you feel like you can't kick Robert Shaun." ”

The defensive mode of football is nothing more than man-to-man or zone defense. The difficulty of zone defense is that the defenders must be familiar with each other! It's not that the player just needs to keep an eye on the opponent who enters his zone, it's not that simple. For a defender, there may be two strikers in the area he defends; Or maybe the attacker has a numerical advantage in another area and needs him to go over and follow a striker, then his own zone is unguarded, and another defender needs to come into his zone and watch over any opponent who enters that zone, which cannot be done by improvisation alone.

The players' chemistry was gradually cultivated, and Ward's zone defense was barely enough for a month, and pulling out a Haim on top of Williams was enough to destroy that understanding.

He can only play a little man-to-man in the zone defense right now, like a patch on his black clothes, and Ryan and his teammates around him will not play a rhythm football at all for the next 45 minutes.

Hydward clapped his hands with everyone and hugged him briefly, he was very apprehensive in his heart, but he still had to pretend to be calm, who knows how this flower patch would work?

Football has to be a bit of creative thinking, like dancing tango, the steps are messy, then keep jumping.