Millwall's motivation for training that day was significantly higher.

In the normal training time, many players are constantly discussing, Zhang Yang's words gave them a great shock, but that does not affect their training, especially those main players, who want to play the Premier League with the players, under their drive, those players who are not motivated, have become a lot more positive.

This may also be a psychological effect.

When most people become positive, a small number of people will follow suit, and no one wants to be the special one.

As a result, everyone's enthusiasm for training became very high.

This is also the effect that Zhang Yang wants to see.

Back in early January, he had set a goal of leading the team to promotion, but in order to reduce the pressure on the team, he didn't tell anyone else.

Now is the time.

When the team doesn't have a goal, a lot of people become lazy, and when a goal is set for the team, everyone becomes much more enthusiastic.

Due to the fierce competition the day before, the team mainly focused on recovery training, so that the players who came out could recover their physical condition in slow-paced training, and by the next day, Zhang Yang increased the content of tactical training.

Tactical training is much more boring than regular training.

Most of the time of tactical training, players have to use their brains to remember how to run, how to pass, how to cooperate with teammates, some key players also have to understand the key points of tactics, and try to be 'adaptable', tactical training has higher requirements for players.

A guy like David Livermore, who has a bit of a lack of brains, doesn't bother to waste his mind on him, he participates in tactical training, but he is assigned simple tasks.

For example, plug it in at the right time.

What is the meaning of 'timely insertion', what is the time of 'timely insertion', David Livermore was a little confused, so Zhang Yang asked his partner, back Marvin Elliott to remind, "When you pull back, let David come forward, and then you have to remind him with words or actions!" ”

On the defensive side, Livermore did a good job.

Although he can only understand part of the defensive position, formation and the like, he has enough physical fitness, and when he gets to the playing field, he keeps running in front, and he alone is enough to put up a defensive line for the team.

This also surprised Zhang Yang: Why didn't the previous coach like Livermore?

Aldous gave the answer, "He's always in a bad position!" Sometimes you can clash with your teammates! ”

Zhang Yang learned a little.

A player like David Livermore, you can't treat him like an ordinary player, you have to design a simple tactic that suits his ability.

The flamboyant way is to put Livermore on the premise.

Livermore runs and defends in his own penalty area, and there is indeed a problem with the position of his teammates, so put his position premise to the front area of the penalty area, where in defense, it is almost impossible to repeat the position, he has been running in front, which can definitely bring a lot of pressure to the opponent.

The rest of the players weren't too much of a problem.

Zhang Yang did not specify too complicated tactics, but just asked the team to train the formation and train some small routines to cooperate.

These are all basic things.

When everyone is motivated, the training of the whole team becomes very good.

Zhang Yang can also breathe a sigh of relief when the team's training is on track, and the whole team is working hard for the goal of promotion, and he must give 100% seriousness as a head coach.

Zhang Yang began to think about the schedule.

It's not easy to lead a team through upgrades.

If you want to lead the team to achieve good results, Zhang Yang doesn't make any preparations, he is very confident, and with all kinds of buggy abilities, the results of leading the team will not be bad after all, but it is different if you want to lead the team to upgrade.

Zhang Yang didn't lead the team from the beginning, he was coached halfway through the season, when Millwall were on the verge of relegation, and until now they have been getting good results, only two draws in the middle, only finishing seventh in the league.

Now the league is in its 32nd round, and there are only 14 rounds left.

It is not difficult for Millwall to get into the top six, but if they want to be promoted, they must strive for a better position, otherwise in the promotion play-offs, four teams will compete for a spot, and one will be eliminated if they are not careful.

So for the next tournament, Millwall have to fight for points.

Zhang Yang roughly calculated, in order to rank second in the league, he must win at least 30 points in 14 rounds of the league, that is, win at least 10 games and get 30 points, and it is still 'possible' to finish in the top two of the league, rather than definitely being promoted.

The next month is important.

From the end of February to the beginning of March, Millwall had a total of four games to play over the course of twenty days, an average of five days, which is not too difficult, but the intensity of the competition can still bring a lot of pressure.

For Millwall, the 20 days were a 'rush to installment' as the four opponents were not strong, namely Stoke City (14th in the league), Cardiff City (19th in the league), Brighton (17th in the league) and Leeds United (11th in the league).

None of these four opponents are in the top 10 of the league.

After considering the situation of his opponents, Zhang Yang put the four games in the "must win" ranks, as long as he wins four games in a row, the next schedule will be much easier, and the goal of winning ten games will also become easier.

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Just two days before the game against Stoke City, Millwall had an open training day in February.

On this day, fans can buy tickets to watch the training.

Some of the journalists who follow Millwall will not miss the team's open training either.

The reporters weren't very friendly.

This is also the embarrassment of Millwall, because they are located in the London region and are only a second-tier team, they don't have their own supporting media like those regional teams, and the media that follow Millwall are all medium-sized and small media in the London area.

These media outlets are dealing with London fans, who are only a small part of Millwall, so they are also focusing on London football, not just Millwall.

In the past, it was better, Millwall's relationship with the media was not so good, and it was not bad.

The media do interviews, the teams participate in the game, and they don't interfere with each other.

Due to Zhang Yang's coaching, many media participated in the ranks of 'criticizing Millwall' and 'not optimistic about Millwall', plus some time ago, Zhang Yang publicly banned "British Football News" and "London Sports News", Millwall Club also expressed support for the current Zhang Yang, so Millwall and these small and medium-sized regional media, the relationship is not very good.

The reporters came to watch the training, and they also had the intention of 'finding problems'.

They can find problems in Millwall's training and then magnify them to find reasons to criticize Zhang Yang or Millwall, or they can find problems in the reactions of Millwall fans to show that 'Zhang Yang is not supported by the fans'.

These are the fodder for the report.

Media reporters are also very confident, they don't think Zhang Yang will be welcomed by fans, because since Zhang Yang took charge, he has received very few positive reviews, even if he led the team to victory, many reports and analyses explain it as 'luck', fans will be swayed by public opinion, they will definitely not support Zhang Yang.

If Millwall had been winning, the fans wouldn't have said anything.

In their last game, Millwall drew with Gillingham.

A lot of negative news reports will also make fans see through the 'essence' of this young Chinese, and they may protest en masse?

That would be fun!

Even before the public training session began, the reporters who came to interview the reporter were already imagining the scene of a large number of fans booing together.

"It's going to be hilarious!" One reporter wisted.

Among the more than a dozen reporters, there is a figure that is not very social, that is the "Century Network Football" reporter Li Jiandong, he knew that there was no public news in China, and immediately felt very excited, and he has been staying in London for the past two days, hoping to enter Millwall Club for interviews and get big news first-hand.

However, on weekdays, Millwall Club is closed to journalists.

Li Jiandong can only wait for the opportunity.

When he learned that Millwall was training openly, he waited in front of the goal early, was the first journalist to enter, and it is worth mentioning that when the club staff knew that he was a journalist from China, he was also warmly welcomed.

"Are you Chinese? Zhang is also Chinese! He was really brilliant and from the day before yesterday I decided to make him my idol! ”

"Yes, Zhang's speech was so wonderful!"

"He actually said that the team's goal is to be promoted! I can't even imagine it! I've been working at the club for more than 10 years and I've never seen such a motivated manager!

“……”

The club staff were very enthusiastic about Li Jiandong, they especially took Li Jiandong to the best location, and allowed him to take photos at will inside.

When the training was about to begin, Li Jiandong returned to the group of reporters.

He is not social.

When other reporters learned that he was a Chinese journalist, they hardly paid much attention to him, not because they discriminated against the Chinese, but because they knew that Li Jiandong was a Chinese journalist and must be a supporter of Zhang Yang.

The two sides are not in the same camp.

These experiences made Li Jiandong feel inexplicable.

The enthusiasm of the Millwall staff can be understood, but they don't understand what they said, and now they don't understand why the peers next to them are so cold, I don't know why the other party says bad things about Zhang Yang, and I don't know why these people unite to target Zhang Yang.

"Why?"

Li Jiandong felt that if he could interview Zhang Yang, he must ask things clearly.

He has so much that he doesn't understand.

Maybe all of this can be used as news material?