West Ham United are not an unfamiliar team, the two teams met once in the Championship season at Millwall, and in last season's FA Cup, the team also met West Ham United, and in both meetings, Millwall won easily.

In the Premier League, the two teams met for the first time in history. Facing West Ham United with a derby mentality, it is also the first time to be flamboyant.

The mentality of the derby is different from that of a normal league.

In the derby, you have to give it your all.

Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't show your strength, sending a substitute lineup is also a humiliation for the opponent, as long as you can win, you can do anything, provided that you can win.

To say that last season, Millwall met West Ham United, Zhang Yang didn't care at all, the gap between West Ham United and Millwall is a bit big, the two sides are not a level of competition, and sending a semi-substitute lineup is enough to win the game.

This season has made a difference.

Last season, West Ham United rallied to finish second in the Championship and were able to secure a promotion place and return to the Premier League.

It's really nothing.

West Ham United is only a promoted horse, and it will be too difficult for a promoted horse to challenge the defending champions, but the strength of West Ham United still needs to be paid attention to, and in the summer transfer, West Ham United is one of the biggest winners.

West Ham have added a large number of players, the squad has almost changed, and there are a few old players left in the squad, which is tantamount to rebuilding a new team.

In addition, West Ham United also made one of the most spectacular transfers of the summer – they took Argentinian stars Carlos Tevez and Mascherano.

The transfer shocked the world.

Tevez and Mascherano are known as the 'Argentine twin stars', their performance and strength go without saying, many big teams, such as Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal want to get them, Millwall also considered Mascherano, this Argentine backfielder, the technical strength is very good, as long as he can adapt to the Premier League, it is enough to play the main team of any team.

No one could have imagined that Tevez and Mascherano would join West Ham together.

The transfer was made quietly.

The transfers of Carlos Tevez and Mascherano have been foggy, and clubs with the biggest appetites will negotiate their transfers separately rather than putting them together.

When the media broke the news, it lasted for a week, and it was all related news, which contained a lot of content, such as MSI (Sports Media Investment) Group, which operated the transfer, and they had the transfer rights of Tevez and Mascherano.

Another example is the grapevine, MSI Group boss Horabchin wants to buy West Ham United, with Tevez and Mascherano just as gifts knocking on the door.

There are also transfer deals between Carlos Tevez and Mascherano, both of whom are valued at great prices and have a minimum of more than £10 million, and West Ham have the ambitions to come up with such a dollar to invest in summer transfers.

In the end, the news broke that West Ham United had packaged Tevez and Mascherano on loan, and they bought Tevez and Mascherano as a priority, and as long as the club was willing to pay £15 million each, then the 'twin stars' would join the team permanently after a year.

On Tevez's personal website, a statement was released about the transfer, which said: "Carlitos Tevez and his former Corinthian teammate Javier Mascherano have signed a transfer agreement to play for West Ham United in England. ”

The news did not convince the media.

Tevez and Mascherano want to transfer together, they can choose Manchester United, Chelsea and other big clubs, they will definitely not be stingy to spend 30 million pounds to buy the 'twin stars' in a one-time package, 15 million pounds is the lowest estimated value.

Millwall, for example, tentatively offered Mascherano £15 million.

Later, some media broke the news that West Ham United only bought the ownership of Tevez and Mascherano in the Brazilian Corinthians club, and the other half of the ownership of the two is still in the hands of MSI Group.

The news caused quite a bit of controversy because it violated the rules of transfer transactions and led the FA to set up a special team to intervene in the transfer investigation.

But in any case, the transfer of West Ham United has been very successful, and the addition of the 'Argentine twins', coupled with the summer transfer, has bought many strong players, which has also made the media exclaim, "West Ham United may become a new force in the Premier League!" ”

West Ham's supporting media also said 'the team has a chance to pull off the miracle of Millwall last season'.

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Millwall seem to be facing a tough derby opponent with a strong opponent and a different meaning to the game, and it seems that the team should be under pressure.

Before the game, Zhang Yang discussed with the coaching staff, "How can we make West Ham United win without any chance!" ”

That's the goal.

Whether to beat West Ham United or not, is not in the team's consideration, in fact, West Ham United is only the surface of the glamour, the first seven rounds of the league, one win, two draws and four losses, it is really difficult to look high.

Current West Ham boss Alan Padreux is under criticism for leading a 'limitless possibility' side towards relegation.

West Ham United's squad is quite strong.

With the addition of the 'Argentine twin stars', the overall strength of West Ham United was listed in ninth place in the Premier League by The Times, ranking more than Bolton, Aston Villa and other teams, but the result was the eighth strength of the Premier League, only played a difficult relegation start, how can it not be convincing.

In August at the beginning of the season, West Ham's poor results were forgivable, after all, there were many players who changed and the overall cohesion was a problem, but in the last round, West Ham United lost 1-0 at home to Reading, which made many media lose confidence.

Such an opponent is still easy to deal with.

West Ham United boss Alan Paderu didn't seem to realise the gap with Millwall, and in the midst of public opinion about the 'derby', he said: "This game will be a turning point. ”

'A win over Millwall will give confidence to the whole team, we're only getting promoted and the players need confidence. Confidence allows us to perform better and win more games. ”

At the pre-match press conference, Zhang Yang responded, "They want to use us to find confidence? Very interesting. I don't know what confidence he has, but the game will tell you and I'm sure my players will be confident when it's over. ”

In the gunpowder team of both sides, the match at Neil Stadium officially began.

As soon as the game began, Zhang Yang noticed a detail: Mascherano was not sent on the field, but was on the bench, so he had a definition of Padru: stupid.

That's Mascherano!

It can't be said that a well-known player can be strong and perform well, but Mascherano is a multi-million-pound star, and after all, he is much stronger than a million-pound player, even if he is not adapted to the Premier League, the top players will definitely perform well.

For example, former Arsenal striker Reyes has not adapted to the Premier League for several seasons and has been criticized by the media for his performance, but in fact, Reyes's performance is good and bad.

Reyes is worth a lot of money, and the media is comparing him to top players such as Henry and Pire.

If you only compare Arsenal's substitutes, Reyes has an average of less than 30 appearances this season, about ten goals, and five or six assists, and his performance is quite good, even if he plays less and has many problems such as not contributing much to the team's defense, the data will not lie, and he can score goals and assists, how to say that the performance is not too bad.

West Ham United's centre-back combination is Anton Ferdinand and Mayals, Anton Ferdinand is the core centre-back of West Ham United, and Mayals' appearance is a bit strange, and a new player from the Championship, who is worth less than a million pounds in the current West Ham United squad, how can he play as a starting centre-back?

It would be good if West Ham's defence had been solid, as the first seven league games have shown that their quality at the back is quite poor, as evidenced by the fact that 22 goals have been scored.

Zhang Yang was a little upset about Mascherano, and then he felt that he was worrying too much.

Maybe it's because in the summer, the chase for Mascherano failed, and what you can't get is the best? He recognized Mascherano's ability, and only then did he regret that Mascherano was not reused.

That's good news for Millwall.

After the start of the game, the media and fans noticed that Millwall's performance was not as expected, they did not attack around West Ham United, but continued to control the ball in midfield, and the situation was somewhat conservative.

This is a strategy developed by the coaching staff.

If you want to not give the opponent a chance at all, you have to use strength to suppress, Millwall's strength is definitely not comparable to West Ham United, which has not been able to stick together, the team's cooperation is quite smooth, and there is a full tacit understanding between players and players, and it is precisely by using the advantage of cooperation that the team can control the ball more.

Control the ball, defend solidly, find opportunities and then tentatively pass forward.

The point is not to give the opponent any chance.

This was the inspiration that Zhang Yang found in Barcelona, who did not imitate Barcelona's tactics, but simply imitated their style to control the game.

Millwall is certainly not technically inferior to Barcelona, but the smooth combination brought by the two cores is also enough to connect the front and back of the field and the two wings, and the opponent West Ham United is not an equal opponent, and the team can use this to control the situation and not give the opponent any chance.

West Ham United are already feeling the tough game.

From the first minute, Millwall were constantly in possession, occasionally looking for opportunities in front of them, and most of the time, the football was under Millwall's control, they had more attacking opportunities and could control the tempo of the game at will.

In the face of this style of play, the only thing West Ham can do is drop back to defend.

However, West Ham United is obviously not one mind, the strikers are still thinking about attacking, and the defenders are thinking about defending the penalty area, which also causes the formation to be a little unstable.

Millwall's tentative attacks again and again have finally figured out the strength of West Ham United.

In the 19th minute of the game, Braniff received a pass from Zambrotta and stabbed the ball to the left without hesitation.

Pire's follow-up catches the ball and passes straight to the edge of the box.

The pass immediately penetrated the West Ham defence, and when Morris followed up in the middle, there was an opposition centre-back in front of him, and he did not choose to shoot, but picked the ball up with skill, and the ball went around the centre-back in front of him and fell to the right side of the penalty area.

Simpson followed up with a volley, and the ball flew into the goal instantly!

“Goooooooooooal！！！”

"Simpson! Simpson! He helped Millwall score their first goal! 1-0, Millwall took an early lead! ”