From that day on, Braniff began to practice juggling the ball, controlling the ball, and occasionally pulling in a teammate for one-on-one drills.

When the first team is training, the rest of the team-mates do the same, but it's extremely rare to take more than an hour out to train with this kind of ball feeling. That may only be seen in 'football lovers' and 'youth team training', and even the youth team training is very rare, because the ball sense is something that you adapt to and is not in the formal training plan.

After the age of eighteen, most players cannot be said to have a fixed technical strength, but no matter how hard they try, they have not improved much.

This is also the reason why a player starts with rough skills and his career skills will not be outstanding.

Braniff doesn't care at all.

Most of his teammates have a very average relationship with him and don't come to talk to him, and the only good friend, Vardy, is envious of him, but Braniff feels honorable and trains harder.

After two days of perseverance, Braniff found that he was improving very quickly!

At the beginning, it is already very good to be able to juggle the ball more than 100 in a row, juggling the ball sounds very simple, but it can rely on perseverance and control ability, of course it is nothing to start a few balls, and sometimes it is not good to control the force after a long time, and there will be some mistakes.

Two days later, things were different.

Braniff has clearly found that his control of the ball has increased, maintaining the same force with every kick, and he can easily control the spin back even if the ball deviates a little.

And that's only part of the story.

Again.

Braniff found that he was able to easily perform gestures that were previously seen as 'ornamental', and he became more and more sensitive to the opponent's movements.

Blaniff's 'heads-up' partner is Alan Hutton, Alan Hutton is one of the few players who can say a few words to Braniff, because he occasionally helps Branniff train, Alan Hutton's improvement of Blaniff feels the most profound.

In the beginning, Braniff had some difficulty in getting past Alan Hutton, basically three or four times, and only succeeded once.

This probability is actually not low.

Naturally, there will be no help from others when the two go head-to-head, and Alan Hutton, as a defender, is quite good defensively, and he just needs not to be deceived.

This kind of heads-up is good for the defender, and he doesn't have to think about whether Braniff will pass the ball.

But two days later, things changed.

Braniff's moves have become more skilful and sophisticated, and the agility of his feet has Alan Hutton grinning, and he needs to 'rely on luck' to get the ball or else he will have to defend closely, and the situation becomes three or four times before he can steal the next one.

This is not to say that Blaniff can easily pass Alan Hutton, the premise of the heads-up is that Alan Hutton cannot play a close follow-up defense, otherwise without strong explosiveness, Blaniff will not be able to get rid of Alan Hutton.

As training progressed that day, Alan Hutton decided never to go head-to-head with Braniff again.

After Braniff successfully shook off Hutton again, he said something that he owed, "It's really boring to fight with you, I'll go find David!" ”

“……”

Alan Hutton was shaken in a row, feeling depressed, and wanted to slap Braniff angrily.

He held back.

But Braniff's next words made Alan Hutton feel a lot better, "Thank you for training with me, I bought you a special gift and it should be in your closet right now." ”

Alan Hutton grinned.

After the afternoon of practice, Alan Hutton couldn't wait to return to the locker room, open his closet and find what Braniff called a gift – a delicate 'women-like' backpack.

In fact, the backpack is a men's model, but some are biased towards women and some are too delicate.

Alan Hutton looked at the backpack and grinned, he sketched a picture in his mind: a rough black-faced man, took a few goods to the front desk to check out, the cashier said the price, and then the black-faced man took out a women's bag, rummaged through it for a long time, and finally found the change, handed it to the cashier, and said prominently, "Pretty!" This is the ...... my boyfriend gave me."

"Gross!!"

Alan Hutton almost vomited in disgust, quickly threw away the things in his hand, heard a sound in the corridor, immediately picked it up again, looked left and right, quickly stuffed it into his handbag, and also made the decision to stay away from Braniff as much as possible in the future.

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Braniff didn't know about his good intentions, disgusted Alan Hutton, and he thought his decision was wise.

Branifer had never given anything to anyone before, he didn't have this concept in his head, and very few people would give him anything, but it was Vardy who reminded him that "giving things to each other deepens friendship", and Braniff decided to give Alan Hutton a backpack.

For the first 'gift', Braniff also chose for a long time in the mall, and finally valued a backpack.

Braniff didn't have the concept of 'if he likes others or not', he thought the backpack looked good, and he thought that other people would like it too.

Of course, these are just incidental.

Braniff is most happy about his rapid improvement, and he has more trust in Zhang Yang.

Really!

The boss said he could do it, and he really did it!

The first league game in early February was against Wigan Athletic, and Braniff also started the game.

In this game, Zhang Yang gave Braniff enough freedom to see how much Braniff improved in a few days.

Under the effect of 'Verbal Spirit', Braniff's dribbling ability has improved quite quickly, but referring to the situation of Livermore and Simpson, the improvement speed will not be too fast, and it will take about a month to develop some of the potential, and some of the remaining ones need to be slowly improved in the future.

This has nothing to do with ability, but is directly related to the experience in the game.

Now Braniff is facing an experience problem, he doesn't know how to use his feet properly when it comes to the game, and he doesn't have a clear judgment of his ability.

In the first ten minutes of the game, Braniff made two mistakes, one was when he should have passed, he chose to go it alone, and finally the opponent grabbed the ball, and the other time, he broke through two players in a row, but let himself stick to the baseline, and dribbled the ball out of the line without controlling it properly.

Two mistakes were equivalent to sacrificing two offensive opportunities, and his teammates didn't say much, but they were certainly unhappy with Braniff's 'independence'.

Zhang Yang generally understands the situation.

Braniff's improvement was still obvious, especially in the latter one, when he used his superb foot skills to shake two opposing players in a row, but he didn't pay attention to the position and took the ball out of the line.

The process of dribbling the ball itself represents an ascension.

But Braniff obviously didn't adapt to his own improvement, he can't be accurately applied to the game, take the game as an analogy, control the character and the opposite heads-up, the experienced will definitely observe the opponent's blood, equipment and occupation, to judge whether he can 'PK', but if it is a novice, go up and cut it randomly, when he can cut it, the other party has already run in advance, and when he can't cut it, he doesn't even have a chance to run.

Braniff couldn't tell how much chance he had of getting past his opponent, he just had a lot of skill at his feet and didn't improve his experience, so he naturally had a similar problem.

That's a matter of experience.

If you want to improve your experience, you can only keep playing games, but you can't use Braniff's experience in key games, otherwise the loss will outweigh the losses.

It's not a big deal.

The best news before the game is the return of Darren Bent and Simpson, and the recovery of other players is also optimistic, the players who have recovered from injury have not been able to start, and it will take some time to adjust, but Darren Bent and Simpson are sitting on the bench, which is enough to boost the team's morale.

Despite Braniff's mistakes, Millwall's overall performance was quite good.

In the 29th and 44th minutes, Millwall scored two goals each.

With two goals in hand, Zhang Yang encouraged Braniff to take advantage of the time to adapt quickly, gain more experience, and explain to the rest of the team, "I hope Kevin can play with some flexibility, it takes adaptation." ”

It turned out to be arranged by the coach!

No wonder Braniff behaved so strangely!

The rest of the team blamed Braniff a lot less.

In the end, Millwall won the game 2-0, and many media comments on the game after the game talked about Braniff, all of which were negative, because Braniff made six mistakes, and the offensive performance was also very poor, and the help to the whole team was too small.

The Times gave Braniff a rating of just four points, the lowest in the game, "The Irishman doesn't seem to know what to play anymore, he's out of shape and completely out of the game. Maybe it's the bad weather that has affected him, hopefully he can recover soon......"

The comments of other media are also all criticism.

Fortunately, Braniff just didn't play well this time, he was the best player in Millwall before, and Millwall won the game again, and the media will not be too harsh.

In this atmosphere, Zhang Yang urged Braniff's training even more, and especially found Livermore to act as Branif's 'sparring partner', and also asked Credrick to pay special attention to Braneyff's physical condition, after all, it was January, and the weather in London was not very good, because the training injury was more than worth the loss.

Many people could sense the importance that Zhang Yang attached to Braniff.

Wise was puzzled by this, "Kevin has already performed well, why did you let him go to workouts?" Can you still exercise? And I think it's much more important to work together than to go it alone. ”

In the eyes of the coach, it is all like this.

Every coach likes the team to play a subtle match, rather than a single player to do something that singles out the opponent's entire defense, because the subtle coordination represents the overall strength, but also represents the role of the coach in the team, and like some clubs with more stars, such as Real Madrid, once and now Real Madrid, many goals rely on the individual play of the stars, so what does it have to do with the manager?

So the role of the head coach has been weakened a lot.

Zhang Yang smiled indifferently, "I think Kevin has the potential for this." He should develop it a little bit and maybe he can do better. ”

"Really?"

Wise is deeply skeptical.

In this atmosphere, Millwall ushered in the important event in early February.

The second meeting between the Carabao Cup and Tottenham Hotspur!