After the win over Wigan Athletic, Millwall was very excited, not only because the team finished in the top four of the league or won five in a row, but the players were even more excited about winning the game.

That's Wigan Athletic!

From the start of the season, Millwall's players have largely defined the team: they are a mid-table team, and the poor results in the first half of the schedule have made it clear to them that they are frustrated, and they are only a few better than the few teams on the verge of relegation.

Those teams are either financially in danger or degenerate promoted horses with all sorts of internal problems.

Millwall has no problem internally, they are purely lacking in strength.

Wigan Athletic, on the other hand, are one of the strongest teams in the Championship, finishing sixth in the league last season and have been listed by the media as 'one of the most promising teams for promotion' at the start of the season.

The last time the two teams met, Millwall both lost by three goals at home.

Those players who have participated in the game feel very weak when they think about the game, and Zhang Yang keeps claiming that they can win, but most of the players feel that it is just consolation, with a 'somewhat unreliable' new formation, they can beat the mighty Wigan Athletic?

But now no one questions it.

They've already won!

Many of the players are relieved and have a new view of the quality of the squad: they can't be said to be the top team in the Championship, but they are definitely in the top of the table.

With this idea, many people feel that it is not impossible to publicize the upgrade goals set.

Upgrade it only!

We're already fourth in the league, and if we go one step further and get a few points, we'll be able to surpass Wigan Athletic, and then we will be second in the league? If we work harder and surpass Sunderland, we might be able to win a championship too!

All the players thought so, and Millwall's morale was boosted.

That's what Zhang Yang wants to see: winning games and giving the team confidence is more important than getting three points.

When Zhang Yang went to the press conference, the players were not idle, and some of them left to be interviewed in the mixed area on the way to the bus, and the one who attracted the attention was Branifer.

Braniff is in the spotlight, not because he scored the only goal, but because of his open contradictions with Zhang Yang.

This is well known.

Coupled with the excellent performance in this game, some reporters in London hope to find big news in Braniff: a key player who used his individual goals to help Millwall win, and publicly attacked the head coach after the game, which is very attractive news.

But the reporters were disappointed.

"Contradictions? Non-existent! ”

"I don't have a problem with the boss! I'm glad my boss is in charge because I find myself doing better and becoming more important in the team! ”

When they heard this, the surrounding reporters were dumbfounded, how cheeky do you have to be to say this 'lie'?

This guy hasn't appeared in more than two months!

But what they don't know is that Braniff is saying from the bottom of his heart, "I think the boss is the best manager, it's Millwall's luck to have him in charge, just look at our results, for me, he still appreciates my football, he always praises me, encourages me, I believe Millwall will definitely be promoted!" ”

"In the future, I will work harder and strive to score more goals to help the team achieve the promotion goal!"

Braniff's morale-boosting words silenced a group of media reporters, and they all had a feeling of being sunned, "Don't you know what this guy is talking about?" ”

"He's dreaming, isn't he?"

"Zhang Yang will be optimistic about him? He hasn't played in over two months! ”

"Probably he didn't dare to speak openly and badly."

The last sentence was unanimously agreed by the reporters, the Irishman must not have said what he was thinking, he was probably very wronged, but for the sake of the opportunity to play, he could only say this aggrievedly.

"Poor Braniff!"

Reporters have become sympathetic to Braniff, and in their hearts, Zhang Yang has become the villain who oppresses the players.

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Much of the media coverage of the Championship that night mentioned Millwall's win over Wigan Athletic.

This can be considered an unpopularity.

In many reports, the words 'Millwall is an upgrade' are also mentioned.

This proves that the mainstream media has endorsed Millwall's prospects for escalation.

Perhaps many media outlets are reluctant to admit it, but in the face of Millwall's near-perfect results, they can no longer find a rebuttal.

In the Millwall team, Zhang Yang has also become more prestigious.

In the past, most of the players in the team felt that Zhang Yang only relied on directing the game to make a cameo appearance as the 'interim head coach', but after this game, they found that Zhang Yang coached and the team was able to defeat 'unimaginable opponents on weekdays'.

Zhang Yang's coaching ability was recognized.

There is no player who doesn't like a manager who can lead the team to victory, especially those who want to play in the Premier League with the team, even if they are willing to be substitutes.

The Premier League's substitutes are also better than the main players in the Championship, because they can stand on a bigger stage and have the opportunity to play against top teams such as Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool.

There will be more fan attention, there will be more media attention, when there is an outstanding performance, it can also attract the attention of the world, and the Championship? The interviews were only with the regional media.

What they say and don't say, it doesn't have much impact.

For example, in this game against Wigan Athletic, Braniff scored the only goal of the game, but so what?

When those big media talk about the game, they only talk about "Millwall's upset win over Wigan Athletic", and they can't find who scored the goal in the whole version.

That's the difference.

On the way back to London, the players were talking enthusiastically and they didn't seem tired at all.

After returning to the club, Zhang Yang announced that he would give the team a day off.

Every player is happy.

One day off is not easy at this time, as the international break is staggered, with Millwall having two games to play in the coming week and the next one three days later, a day off is a third less preparation time.

Zhang Yang still did that.

When Aldous asked, he explained, "Everyone was so tired, today's game, you see, we were defending, it was a lot harder than the normal game, the players needed to rest. ”

'Don't worry about the next game, our opponent is just Coventry.'

Under Millwall's fighting spirit, Zhang Yang is a little disdainful of Coventry, as long as he doesn't encounter 'super bad luck', Millwall's victory is not a problem.

He has more confidence than anyone else.

Although anything can happen in a football match, Zhang Yang has the ability to 'stifle accidents', as long as the strength of the two sides is not too different, Zhang Yang's confidence in leading the team will immediately burst.

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Night.

In China, a third of the world away, Century Cyber Football has launched a new monthly issue.

In the domestic football industry, "Century Network Football" still has a certain influence, with more than 100,000 orders for each issue of the magazine, and the total number of orders exceeds 1 million in a year.

Although the performance has declined in recent years, there are still many loyal fans and readers.

Within an hour of its release, the new edition of the magazine was quickly delivered to all pre-ordered points of sale, and then the first fan reader received the new issue.

His name is Wang Kaifeng.

A student at ZY University.

ZY University is close to Century Network Media Company, and the newsstand at the entrance of the university is one of the coverage outlets of "Century Network Football".

The owner of the newsstand is an old man surnamed Zhang, who is over 60 years old, and everyone he knows calls him 'Lao Zhang', and the younger ones are called 'Uncle Zhang'.

Uncle Zhang is also an old fan, and he likes to watch the games of the ZY city team and the Chinese national team.

Today, after Wang Kaifeng got out of class, he came to the newspaper booth after strolling.

Uncle Zhang was about to move the stack of "Century Network Football" magazines that he had just sent to the inside of the newsstand, Wang Kaifeng hurriedly went over to help, "I'll come, Uncle Zhang!" ”

Uncle Zhang was not polite.

Wang Kaifeng often comes to buy magazines, and the two are very familiar with each other, and sometimes Uncle Zhang will give the cost price.

After finishing moving the magazine, Wang Kaifeng took out a copy of it, "This was just delivered, right?" The new issue of "Century Online Football", I came at the right time. ”

"Yes, just delivered."

Wang Kaiwen took out ten yuan and rummaged through his pocket, Uncle Zhang immediately said, "Just ten yuan!" It's not worth one or two dollars, and the cost price of this magazine is ten yuan. ”

He actually said five cents more.

The wholesale price of "Century Online Football" is only nine yuan and five, and the external sale price is twelve yuan.

A magazine earns two and a half yuan, and the profit ratio is not small, but the small newsstand can't sell many things, and Uncle Zhang's income a day is only a few dozen yuan, which is very generous to be two yuan cheaper.

"Thank you then!"

After Wang Kaiwen finished speaking, he flipped through the magazine and was about to leave, but as soon as he took a step, he stopped, with a look of surprise on his face, "The twenty-one-year-old young Chinese coach who coaches in the Championship? ”

"Zhang Yang?"

"Make it up!"

Wang Kaiwen didn't leave at all, just sat down on the wooden stool in front of the newsstand and watched.

Uncle Zhang leaned over suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”

"Look at this!" Wang Kaiwen pointed out the contents of the magazine to Uncle Zhang, and read the headline, "Zhang Yang: A young Chinese who can take charge of the Championship team at the age of 21!" ”

"Really?"

Uncle Zhang was also surprised, he leaned over to take a few looks, simply found a magazine, and sat in the newsstand to look at it.

The two of them watched the content carefully, one inside and one away.

The new issue of the magazine "Century Network Football", the report on Zhang Yang, occupies one-third of the page, and it takes more than 20 minutes to read it word by word.

Wang Kaiwen read it word for word.

He read the book much faster than Uncle Zhang, and after reading it all, he immediately stood up and said, "Uncle Zhang, I'll go first, I'm going to tell the people in our dormitory this news!" ”

"Okay, let's go!"

Uncle Zhang said a word, and continued to look down at the content of the report.