(Found a small bug, playing Hull City is the 39th round of the league, missing three points from the relegated team Coventry City, and now the points should be 61 points, sorry to everyone)

After the game against Hull City, Hydward gave their squad a half-day off before they travel to Nottingham Forest tomorrow. Starting with Leicester City on March 10 and ending with Forest on March 24, Portsmouth will experience two fortnights and two games a week, which will be a great test from fitness to training.

Not only was the team's training content greatly compressed, but Hydward didn't even have time to do some research on every player in the opposition.

On the bus to Nottingham, he suddenly remembered a metaphor Chen Xi made to professional football players and coaches: "You are a group of patients who may suffer from experimental neurological disorders at any time." ”

The name is a bit of a mouthful, so she told about a psychological experiment she did with her mentor when she was in college. Researchers put a dog into a device, and when a circle appears on the screen in front of them, press the button in front of it to get a food reward. The dog was quickly rewarded, and then the instructor made an ellipse appear on the screen, and if the dog still pressed the button, it would be shocked. The dog soon discovered that there was an ellipse on the screen that could not touch the buttons, and the experiment went smoothly so far.

The next step was the key to the experiment, and the researchers began to change the shape of the ellipse to make it look more like a circle, and finally, the dog couldn't tell whether it should press the button or not. But in order to find out the difference, the dog kept trying, sometimes getting food, sometimes getting electric shocks. As a result, the dog became more and more restless, and entered the state that Chen Xi just said, "experimental neurological dysfunction".

The dog kept twisting and twisting in order to avoid being put on the experimental device and barking, of course, no matter what he saw on the screen, he only needed to stop pressing the button to avoid the electric shock, but the dog was still trying to solve such a seemingly unsolvable problem. It struggles to grasp an uncontrollable outcome, sometimes rewarded, sometimes punished, and the only result is that the dogs want to escape from this stressful and unpleasant environment as soon as possible.

One of the most important reasons why Hydward likes his wife is that she is smart enough and independent enough, she has a very clear understanding of the nature of the job of a professional coach and a professional footballer, football is the screen that doesn't know whether to jump round or oval, and he and the players are the DOG sitting in front of the screen!

A lot of times you don't know if it's a circle or an ellipse, but it doesn't matter at all, winning a game can bring a lot of rewards, and losing a game can be very painful for a player, but it's not the wins and defeats that frustrate a player, but how hard he tries to win, or no matter how hard he trains, how well prepared, how focused, football can still make you fall short, and of course, Heidward has to admit that this is the key quality that attracts him to football.

That's because of the saying, football is round, you can't always have good luck.

After drawing the circle 5 times in a row, the team finally drew the ellipse. They took the bus to their hotel in the city center at exactly 1.30pm, and Hydward led the team in search of food in an upscale shopping mall, and half an hour later, the team reboarded in the underground garage, only to find that both cars had been broken into the door, and many personal belongings and football equipment had been stolen.

"Oh my God!" Margery, who had always been calm, looked at his empty seat and froze, except for a cry of exclamation, his brain went blank. The same voice rang out next door to Icardina, and the team was thrown into chaos, with even the coaching staff feeling sorry for what had happened to them.

Hydward's first thought was that his laptop, which had a lot of valuable player profiles, scouting reports, club contracts, and materials for tomorrow's game all lost. Not only that, but his wallet, including many cards, was also lost with a handbag.

He fell into a moment of anxiety, and his mind was full of thoughts about what to do tomorrow's game, what to do now... Hydward fumbled for his phone in his pocket and tried to pull it out to do something, but it turned out to be nothing.

He didn't even have it with him...

A few seconds later, Hydward looked up to see his team scurrying around like headless flies, and those who kept their finances with them secretly rejoiced that they were all in the car almost like crazy.

I don't know what kind of force it was, but Hydward clapped his hands vigorously, grabbing everyone's attention as if he were giving a lecture to the players in the locker room: "Be quiet, everyone! ”

'The players look at what they've lost, make a list, the coaching staff go and look at our equipment, there's a lock under the bus, we should have something left.'

The calmest of them was the head coach, and Hydward demanded that each player take stock of what they had lost, so that they could take their attention away from sympathy, so that they had no time to feel sorry for what had happened, and he could not let the bad situation continue to deteriorate into a disaster.

The big-hearted N'Golo Kante, Mendy and Campbell immediately regained their composure, especially Saul, who began to organize his teammates to check their finances and tell them that the robbery had taken place, and there was no way to turn back the clock but to accept it: something was stolen, and only by first determining what was lost could we think of a solution.

Hydward is trying to manage the team's anxiety to reduce or eliminate the impact of this event on the future.

"Damn, I lost my computer."

"My computer! Damn it! ”

"Lost, damn it, my computer!"

After a few minutes, the losses of the players were counted one after another, because there were many young players in the team, so the loss of money and goods was not the most important thing for them, but those computers. A lot of people are still in school, Mageri and Ali are still in high school, and Mustafi, Icardi and Mendy are just starting their university careers. Most of the 13 computers that were stolen contained assignments, projects or papers to be handed in for the next week, and the most serious one was Mustafi, who was only two weeks away from his final exams, and the computers recorded that he had been preparing his final defense for three months.

Mustafi was depressed and his eyes glazed over, and Hydward felt the need to do something to dispel his doubts. He used the few mobile phones left in the team to call the principal and the director of education at the team's school in turn, and on the phone, both of them said that they would work with teachers and students to give them enough time to make up their homework in the next week. Hearing the news, the players relaxed, at least they didn't have to worry about their homework.

"Okay, you don't think it's a big deal!" Hydward's pretense of relaxation in front of the team reveals a kind of momentum in the face of crisis, "I am in control." ”

After another half an hour, the mood of the team members was basically calmed, and then the local police came belatedly, without the consent of the coaching staff, they inquired and took pictures at the scene, which stirred up the team's thoughts that had finally calmed down. You know, it was only a few minutes before that Hydward's team tried to calm all the players.

One of the police officers suddenly said to Hydward: "Sir, I sympathize with what happened to your team, so I ask your team to go back with us to make a record, and we will do our best to get your property back." ”

Ward looked at his watch, it was 15 minutes late for them to get to the hotel to rest, and he patiently asked, "How long will it take?" ”

"Not necessarily, about two or three hours."

Hydward looked at the players present and frowned.

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