Craven Farm Field.

With the referee's whistle, the first half of the game ended, and the players of both teams on the field walked to their respective locker rooms.

The score on the scoreboard remains the same as it was opened.

Both teams scored.

Most of the fans in the audience were full of regret, Fulham played the advantage in the first half, they kept the attack pressing, but in the end they still did not break through the Millwall goal, but many people found that Fulham's advantage was a bit 'fake', because in terms of the quality of the shots, Millwall made four direct threats to Fulham, and Fulham only once.

That's what the Fulham players thought too.

They silently walked into the players' tunnel, few people were talking, and when they returned to the dressing room, the overall atmosphere was also a little depressing, and many players felt that the head coach Coleman would definitely be dissatisfied with the team's performance, they played with the advantage they deserved, but the number of threatening shots on goal was negligible.

The frontcourt players are even more worried.

The lack of a decent threat in the overall offense is the reason for their poor performance, but the opposition defence ...... It's really remarkable!

"Their defense was so difficult that every time I went up, I would be caught by two people."

"It's not easy to pass to the front."

"I feel like they just deliberately don't attack, and every time the ball goes in front of it, it gets cut off!"

"They defended very well."

“……”

There were a few players discussing.

When Coleman showed up at the door, everyone was shut and they were ready to salivate.

Coleman was only thirty-five years old.

He is a very young manager in the world of football coaching, and many of his contemporaries, some of whom have not yet retired, have been in charge of the Premier League for two seasons.

Coleman started high.

As a young man, Coleman started his career at Manchester City as an excellent centre-back before moving to Welsh club Swansea, where he began his professional football career in 1986 and played for Swansea, Crystal Palace, Blackburn Rovers and Fulham before joining Fulham in 1997.

After retiring early due to a car accident, Coleman was offered a managerial position at Fulham.

Very few coaches start as Premier League managers, Coleman did it in his retirement club, there are many players in the team, they were all teammates with Coleman before, but if you think Coleman is easy to talk, it is very wrong, Coleman has a bad temper, whenever the team performs poorly, Coleman can spray anyone's face.

Now many Fulham players are worried.

Seeing Coleman's frowning face, many people closed their mouths tightly, not even daring to say a word more.

However, their worries were a little unnecessary, and when Coleman walked into the dressing room, he simply explained how he played in the second half, and then let the players rest, and he found a place to sit down, frowning and thinking.

Until the start of the second half, Coleman maintained that expression.

Many people are puzzled.

Assistant coach Beral also asked with concern, "Chris, what are you thinking?" ”

Coleman just shook his head.

At the start of the second half, Coleman returned to the dugout, still with a frown on his face, and he didn't say a word, just stared at the game.

The game on the field was intense.

Fulham had the upper hand in the first half, but were denied good chances for a long time, and understood Millwall's defensive intensity, and in the second half they slowed down their tempo and began to look for steady progress.

That's not what Fulham is good at.

But now they have no other way, the Millwall defence is as hard as a turtle shell, they need to steady the attack, otherwise they may give the opponent a chance.

Fulham have been trying to get on the offensive and they will be hoping to score a goal and only need one goal to give them the absolute advantage.

But twenty minutes later, the score was still 0-0.

By this time, Fulham were a little restless, but they were waiting for Millwall's goal.

The goal came in the seventy-first minute.

Millwall unleashed a fast-paced counter-attack, with Joey Healy hanging into the box on the wing, Branifer fighting for the penalty area and knocking the ball back behind him, with Jody Morris following up to send the ball into the back of the net.

"The ball is in!"

"1 to 0!"

'Morris set Millwall through the Fulham goal, it was a simple combination, a cross from the wing, Braniff knocked back, Morris followed up and shot! The combination was simple, but the process was fluid, and there was nothing good about Fulham's defence. ”

"It was a great shot as well! Football in the bottom corner! Goalkeeper Drobney only had time to wave his hand......"

Millwall fans cheer!

Morris excitedly ran to his team-mates and hugged everyone he met, a goal seemed like nothing, but it was his first goal of the season and the first Premier League goal of his career, and he couldn't be too excited.

As the core player of the team, Morris is also under pressure.

Many people know that Morris is the core of the midfield, but he also has competitive pressure, such as the new addition to the team, Smitchell, who has only made one substitute appearance so far, but everyone knows that in the next game, Smitchell is not worried about the opportunity to play, and now he has less playing time, just because he is not familiar with the team, and he came late during the summer preparations, and it is a problem to cooperate with his teammates.

In addition, Morris is under pressure to perform.

He is considered by many to be the most important player for Millwall, and most of his team-mates think so, but without a good enough performance, the title is not well deserved.

While Josh Simpson and Braniff were shining, Morris also wanted to help the team score, not only as an offensive playmaker, but also as a key player in the goal.

Now that there is finally a goal, Morris can be regarded as breaking the 'goal drought'.

Sidelines.

The Millwall bench all rushed out, and Zhang Yang also paced to the sidelines, but he was not as excited as the others, just smiled and applauded a few times.

Coleman on the other side was looking.

Zhang Yang seemed to feel the gaze paying attention to himself, and he also turned his head and smiled at Coleman.

Coleman took a deep breath and his expression became serious.

When the camera pointed over, the match commentator said with Coleman's expression, "Coleman must be unhappy with the game now, Fulham dominated the field, but in the end Millwall scored first......

But in reality, Coleman didn't even want to be scored, he was surprised by his tactical judgment of Millwall.

After dozens of minutes of closer observation, Coleman felt like he understood something.

The media is saying that Millwall's style of play is chaotic, and the players seem to be free to perform on the field, and there is no special tactic at all.

One was fine.

They have been so good in a couple of games in a row, they have played well against Fulham, they have been passive in the situation, but Fulham has basically not had any good chances, and it was Millwall who scored first.

It's certainly not as simple as luck and improvisation.

As a professional head coach, Coleman will not easily believe what others say that he has been observing Millwall's performance, Millwall's tactics are indeed very chaotic, on the surface there is no strategy at all, often a team is on the defensive, it is easy to see the formation, because when the players retreat, they will subconsciously pay attention to the position of their teammates to ensure a fixed defensive formation.

Millwall is different, when they are defending, it is difficult to see any formation, just a bunch of players in a mess at the back, and it is this kind of defense that makes Fulham helpless.

Why is this happening?

Coleman finally saw something: Millwall's tactics don't seem to focus on the overall formation, or the overall tactics, their players on the field, it is indeed random play, but the players cooperate with each other very skillfully, and the counterattack is also very smooth.

This is the strange place, and it is also the place where the outside world does not understand!

Why is this happening?

Once is luck, two, three times, more times it can't be explained by luck.

"Is this kind of tactic designed to make the most of a positional player?"

Coleman's mouth opened wide, shocked at his thoughts.

In the sixtieth minute of the game, this idea had already appeared in his mind, but he immediately rejected it, subconsciously felt that it was impossible, and after continuing to observe carefully, he confirmed his thoughts.

That's right!

Definitely!

"That's the only way it makes sense!"

But the explanation itself is incredible.

What are the tactics?

If a team is described as a set of precision machinery, the players in each position are individual parts, the tactics are the design drawings of the machinery, and the job of the head coach is to put all kinds of parts in the right position to make the machinery run reasonably, so there is a mechanical design drawing before the parts can be placed in each position.

Millwall did the opposite.

They make the design according to the different parts and make the most of each part, in other words, the tactics they use are completely based on the abilities of the individual players in the team.

In this way, players in each position will have a good performance, and it is precisely because each player can play his or her own ability that their tactics will look chaotic.

But again...... Is this possible?

No manager in the world can create a strategy specifically for different players, right?

"If we can really design a tactical system like this, Fulham may be able to challenge Manchester United and Chelsea!"

Coleman thought in surprise.

And then look at Millwall's lineup --

Braniff?

Simpson?

Morris?

Other positions are even less well-known, with the exception of a first-choice goalkeeper, Heatlop, Millwall's squad is nothing at all, and it is difficult to rank at the top of the Championship.

Can such a team play well in the Premier League?

If Coleman had scoffed before, now he thinks it's normal, because he can design a unique tactical system specifically for a fixed lineup, which can't be described as genius at all.

Coleman suddenly understood why the young Chinese coach of the other party could be the manager of the Premier League team at such an age, "If this is the case, this Chinese is terrible." If he were given a big team, who else would be his opponent? ”