Chapter 126: Language Arts
Parlis's situation deserves sympathy, but the game of football is brutal.
Millwall will not show mercy to Stoke City's bad situation, but will take a few more kicks when they have the opportunity to let the opponent step into the abyss.
The second half began.
Stoke City put on a big attack, but it was too short-lived, and after two or three waves of attack, they were a bit languishing and were overwhelmed by a scrappy Millwall.
Millwall didn't just press, they scored goals quickly.
In the 51st minute, Jody Morris's cross allowed Josh Simpson to find the back of the net, who scored from a tight angle to help Millwall score a third.
The home fans in the audience were boiling.
"Josh Simpson! The third goal of the game still belongs to Millwall! The score became three pizza zero! Millwall fans can celebrate the victory early! ”
The advantage of three balls is too great.
In an ordinary league, if a team has three goals, the opponent will give up directly, because they have nothing to fight for, and it is too difficult to recover three goals, which can only be described as a miracle.
Are miracles so easy to create?
In the Championship, there are many games with a three-goal difference in the middle, but the side behind will tie the score, and there will not be one in a season.
The odds are so slim!
In addition, there is a price to be paid for creating miracles, if you let the players fight, it may cause injuries, in the absence of a huge drive, the players will not work hard, or that sentence, it is just a league, the players on the field have no motivation to fight, losing the game is just losing the points, after falling behind by three goals, most of the players have given up the game.
Pallis wanted the team to work hard, but he couldn't do anything alone, and there was nothing he could do if he wasn't reconciled.
So Stoke City didn't stand a chance.
Many Millwall fans began to celebrate the victory in advance, and in the laughter of victory, the fans couldn't help but look at the fanfare differently.
Most Millwall fans are 'neutral' towards flamboyance.
Just like when I came to watch the team's open training that day, most of the fans only shouted slogans together under the leadership of Melvin and remembered the team's recent results, expressing support for Zhang Yang, and more fans were still hesitating.
The media kept saying bad things about Zhang Yang, and they weren't sure if it was true, but with just a few wins, it's hard to really say anything, and the report makes a lot of sense: Zhang Yang is too young and he has no experience.
But with the increase in the number of Millwall victories, many fans were also moved, the last Millwall drew with Gillingham, many fans were shaken again, and then saw this big victory, many fans stood in the camp of support.
Zhang Yang has yet to conquer all Millwall fans, but he has conquered a large part.
The rest of the game was as expected.
Millwall slowed down the tempo and with a three-goal lead, their attack slowed down and instead started to focus on defence, and if they defend well, they can get the win, and some players can't wait to finish the game and want to enjoy the moment of victory quickly.
It's the same with Stoke City.
They hoped to score a goal to save face, but they didn't have the intention to attack aggressively before, because the loss was a foregone conclusion.
Twenty minutes passed, and the score remained unchanged.
By this time, Parris had to give up, and he began to make frequent substitutions, allowing the players who played less to adapt to the game and the players who played more to rest.
Zhang Yang did the same.
Then it's garbage time.
The final result of the game was also 3-0, with Millwall beating a visiting Stoke City by a big score at home.
This result was difficult for Parris to accept.
At the end of the game, his gloomy expression was imprinted on the camera lens, thus reflecting on the TV screen, the other half of the screen was the picture of Zhang Yang walking to the sidelines to greet the next players, his face was full of sunny smiles, giving people a very friendly feeling, "The experienced Pallis also fell under Zhang's men." He is not the first, and we believe he will not be the last, Millwall, led by Zhang, have been performing well, they have a good chance of getting into the promotion circle, and the top six teams in the league should be careful, especially the sixth-placed Wolves, who have a good chance of being overtaken. ”
"For this game, the interesting thing is that just half an hour before the game, Pallis also vowed that Stoke City would teach Millwall a lesson, and that was a speech directly aimed at Zhang, and what he wanted to express was that he himself would teach Zhang a lesson in coaching."
"But Stoke City lost the game by a big score, and it's no wonder that Palis's face is so bad."
"He broke his word."
"I don't know how he's going to face the reporters next......"
The last sentence of the "Sky Sports" commentator was a bit of schadenfreude, but it got to the point, during the game, Parris began to think about how to face the reporter's question, and he swore that the result of Stoke City's big loss was a super joke, and he became the protagonist of the joke.
Will those media let him go?
The answer is no!
The media will not care about his face, they will definitely report on him, and then he will become a 'clown' figure, and his image among the fans will be greatly reduced.
"Damn it! What should I do! ”
Paris had been thinking about this problem, and when he saw Zhang Yang smiling and walking over to shake hands, he felt that the other party was laughing at him, so he snorted coldly, slapped Zhang Yang's hand, and turned around and left directly.
Zhang Yang was stunned for a moment.
In fact, he felt that the relationship with Pallis was not bad, although the two did not say a word, but before the game press release, he took the initiative to say hello, and the other party smiled back.
A game is a game, and a friendship is a friendship.
Football coaches must be making the distinction clear, and it is impossible for Parris not to understand that.
So ...... he?
Zhang Yang was a little puzzled, he turned to the camera and shrugged, pointed to Paris who walked away behind him, with a very innocent expression.
Immediately, the reporter had something to say, "Zhang showed his demeanor, he took the initiative to shake hands with Parris, but Pallis didn't appreciate it, and after losing by a big score, he completely lost his demeanor!" Zhang is really innocent, does Millwall still need mercy when he meets Stoke City? ”
The ridicule of Paris by the media reporters has only just begun.
As the saying goes, "the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment", the media reporters have great hopes for Stoke City to win the game, and Paris also vowed to 'teach him a lesson', but Stoke City lost by three goals, which is equivalent to losing all the face, and the senses of the media reporters can be imagined.
In their eyes, Paris has become a clown.
In the scene of the post-match press conference, almost all reporters began to target Paris, and every question they asked was deliberately poked in the wound of Paris.
"Mr. Parris, you said before the game that you were going to teach Millwall a lesson, now do you have anything to say?"
'Millwall slowed down after Stoke City lost by three goals, and if both sides continue to put in the effort to play, will Stoke City lose more?'
"I think this one is Millwall teaching Stoke City a lesson, Mr. Parlis, what do you think?"
"Why did Stoke City lose so badly, and do you have anything to say to the fans?"
“……”
One by one, the targeted questions made Paris almost vomit blood in anger, and he only stayed in the venue for five minutes before getting up and leaving in embarrassment, and the Times reporter took a photo behind him and named it 'The Back of the Loser'.
It was different when Zhang Yang arrived.
The reporters were very 'enthusiastic', but instead of switching sides and supporting publicity, they wanted to get a 'bashing Palis' news opinion, just listen to a few questions --
'Before the game, Parris said, 'Stoke will teach Millwall a lesson', what do you think about that?'
"Mr. Zhang, do you think Millwall taught Stoke City a lesson in this game, or did Stoke City teach Millwall a lesson?"
"How would you rate Stoke City's performance?"
“……”
Zhang Yang was a little stunned.
He understood why Pallis's face was so bad, not only because of the big loss, but also because of the pre-match rhetoric.
He's kind of funny.
As the saying goes, 'If you don't die, you won't die', Pallis has a tendency to die!
However, Zhang Yang still maintained his demeanor and did not fall into the trap of reporters, saying anything about Paris and Stoke City, which would not benefit him and Millwall at all, and could only cheapen these reporters.
So he said, "Stoke City are a very good team, they just didn't play well today, and we played a little bit better. ”
"It's hard to replicate the big scoreline, and the next time we meet, we won't necessarily beat them."
"Mr. Parris is a very capable manager and his coaching style is worth learning from and instructing!"
"Every game, both sides want to win, but football often has only one winner, and that's the cruelty of football. This time it was Stoke City who lost, and who knows if it will be our turn in the next round? ”
“……”
The flamboyant tone is kind of a favor for Stoke City and Parlis, he doesn't really have a good impression of each other, he just doesn't want reporters to get the news they want.
But the thinking of journalists cannot be judged according to common sense.
Those reporters who were gearing up to push Pallis's back directly regarded Zhang Yang's words as 'irony', "Millwall coach Zhang Yang kept praising Paris and Stoke City after the game, but Lenovo what Parris said, and Stoke City's big loss, anyone can hear it, it is a kind of praise and irony!" ”
"This is the art of flamboyant language!"
"If you don't think about it, you'll really be deceived by his words. In fact, it's much more effective and more interesting to directly scold your opponent......"