Chapter 125: Face Matters

on the field.

The game resumes.

Millwall caught Stoke City off guard with an attacking attack, and Livermore took the lead with a powerful shot from the perimeter, and the score changed, the mentality of the players changed, and it also affected the game.

Millwall is still stretching the style of play, the tempo, basically unchanged.

Stoke City couldn't help but speed up the tempo, if they want to win, they must tie the score, and the time to tie the score is, of course, the faster the better.

So they picked up the tempo and stepped up their attack.

But Stoke City are a 'conservative' team who are good at going head-to-head and not at fast-paced transitions.

When they tried to pick things up, the performance got a little bit worse, and the most obvious thing was that the mistakes went up a lot.

A mistake on the field of play is not a big deal, most of the time it will not have much impact, but after the mistakes increase, the opponent's chances will definitely increase, so Millwall has more time on the ball, and the fans watching the game also have a feeling that Millwall's advantage seems to be greater.

Pallis saw this.

He knew he should have reminded the team to play more poisedly, rather than letting Millwall go with the rhythm.

That would be bad for Stoke City.

But Pallis thought about it and decided to take a look.

It's a bit of a disadvantage for Stoke City in the fast-paced game right now, but what if you find a chance to score when the team is behind? It would have been nice to have equalised in the first half.

That's fifteen minutes!

Pallis didn't move, just watched the game quietly, and the bottom line in his heart kept lowering: at first he was thinking about the next wave of attack and then adjusting, then he was thinking about the next wave, and when he saw the team get the ball again, he pushed back again. By the 40th minute of the game, he thought, 'Let's make adjustments at half-time', and he didn't do anything because of the thought of delaying.

As the clock ticked by, the pace of Stoke City got faster and faster, and they were all about to catch up with Millwall.

The competition has also become much more intense.

The rhythm was clearly in Millwall's favour, and the fans on the periphery couldn't see it, and some commentators began to worry about Stoke City, "It looks like Stoke City won't be able to survive the half, their defence is full of danger. But manager Pallis doesn't seem to be in a hurry to make adjustments, he's probably waiting for time......"

Parris's wait was somewhat effective.

In the 43rd minute, Stoke City won a corner and the striker scrambled for the back post and almost sent the ball into the back of the net.

The other side failed to take advantage of the opportunity.

Stoke City fans are saddened, and manager Pallis is even more regretful.

That's the best chance yet!

What no one knows is that this goal should have happened, but because of the fanfare...... Zhang Yang will not watch Stoke City score, at that time he used the ability of 'following his words', affecting the performance of the opponent's striker, 'saying' to drop a goal of the opponent, Millwall still has the lead.

It will be too difficult for Stoke City to find another opportunity.

Chance belongs to Millwall!

Millwall are comfortable with the fast-paced game, and this may also be due to the fact that Wise-Wise doesn't have a set of tactical ideas, he just gives the team simple tactical training, so that the team is more free to play when it comes to the game.

Whether it's slow or fast-paced, Millwall is able to adapt.

This kind of adaptation is not as good as other teams that really 'play fast', but it is much better than Stoke City's 'unsuitability'.

Stoke City's chance was just a surprise.

The game was playing out again and they were still attacking at a fast pace, this time Stoke City played the ball in front of the box, but they had no chance to shoot at all under Millwall's tight defence.

In the end, one of Stoke's midfielders kicked a ball that he didn't know if it was a cross or a shot, and goalkeeper Graham Stark was comfortably picked into his arms.

Taking advantage of the fact that Stoke City was still reminiscing about the 'drift' just now and failed to retreat in the first place, Graham Stark kicked the ball forward.

Millwall launches a quick counterattack!

Kevin Kiel was set up in the front, he started this game, he ran forward against the football, jumped up before the opposing player, and knocked back to Jody Morris with an overhead to meet the ball and volley!

The shot was not fast but at a tricky angle, and the opposing goalkeeper was almost at the limit and took the ball off the post with both hands.

Brilliant shot!

Nice save!

The opposing goalkeeper rubbed his palms with palpitations, but Millwall still won a corner, just now Stoke City used the corner kick opportunity to threaten the Millwall goal, this time it was Millwall's turn.

Standing in the penalty area, squeezing into positions with opposing defenders is striker Kevin Gere, midfielder David Livermore, and wing-back Joey Healy.

Josh Simpson Free Throws!

With everyone watching, Simpson curled a run-up.

The ball travels fast in the air, reaching the highest point and falling straight into the middle of the box, where Kevin Keele competes with the opposition for position, wins by height and size, and jumps first.

Shake off!

The ball hits him on the head and bounces towards the goal straight into the near corner!

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“Gooooooooooooal!!!!!!”

As the stadium crowd became boiling, Mike Johnson excitedly shouted, "Goal!! Goal!! Goal!! Kevin Gere! He put the ball in the back of the net with his head! Stoke City's brave goalkeeper failed to create another miracle to save the ball! ”

"Two to zero! Millwall leads Stoke City by two goals! ”

"Kevin Gere! The goal belonged to Kevin Gere, who started for the first time in four games, but the number of appearances is not entirely indicative of strength, and he has brought goals to Millwall every time he appears! ”

Unlike Mike Johnson, Stoke City supports the media, their local TV commentator, and they are weak when it comes to goals, "I don't know what happened today, Stoke City's performance is too bad, a previous goal is forgotten, and now the opponent has scored another one, maybe you don't have to watch the second half of the game." ”

"Stoke City is careless, manager Paris is careless, Millwall is not easy to deal with because of a young coach!"

"Now it's time for us to worry about what Stoke City is going to do......"

“……”

This goal was too important for Kevin Gere.

After Scott Dobby left and Braniff was relegated to the youth team, Kevin Keele became the team's second striker, but as the second striker, he was still a substitute because Zhang Yang made a change in tactics, making the team play 4231 with only one striker.

Millwall only need to play in the league and no other cups to play, and when the schedule is not dense, one Neil Harris is enough.

Kevin Geele has been affected in recent times and he wants to have more chances and not always play when Neil Harris is resting, so when he has the chances, the performance is important.

For a striker, scoring goals is the best performance!

Kevin Gere is happy.

There are happy and unhappy, and the Stoke City players are not happy, and their manager Palis is not happy.

Pallis was frustrated.

He had always wanted to stand up and direct the team to play the game more steadily, but in the end he didn't.

As a result, Millwall scored.

When you're two goals down, it's too hard to get it back.

Pallis was depressed, he didn't care about losing: in fact, it didn't matter if Stoke City won or lost, they didn't have much relegation pressure, there was no hope of promotion at all, and it was nothing to lose a game.

Importantly...... Face!

At the pre-match press conference, he made a victory declaration, and it was Stoke City who spoke to the media about the victory.

Those reporters will definitely do the report!

Now Stoke City are two goals down and if they can't recover in the second half, they will be the losers, and he will be the 'loser of all' because the promised victory has not materialised.

Those damn reporters are going to laugh at him to their heart's content!

Pallis thought hatefully.

Parris was right about the media, and when he saw Millwall score the second goal, many reporters in the media table had already begun to scold him.

"Paris? The guy also said that Stoke City would win? ”

"We're going to be the winners? Hahaha, that's funny! That stupid guy! I'm counting on him to lead the team to win Millwall! The result? ”

"We shouldn't trust him!"

"And say 'Stoke City will teach them a lesson', it's just the other way around! Maybe comparing Pallis's words to the game is also a good report! ”

“……”

A lot of the media began to gloat.

The reporters in the London area were actually very depressed, and what they wanted to see was a victory for Stoke City, but it was Millwall that won.

Millwall won, how can they criticize? They don't hold back their anger, they can only vent their anger on Paris!

Pallis didn't want to accept the reporter's wrath.

At halftime, Parris was angry in the locker room, and even the goalkeeper Bilzaev, who performed well, did not escape, throughout the first half of the game, Bilzaev has been performing well, Millwall's two goals are unreactive, and it is normal to score, and at other times, his saves are still very accurate.

But Palis ignored Bilzaev's performance.

He's venting his anger!

It was only after Pallis lashed out at the player that the anger in his heart subsided slightly, and then he began to talk about tactics.

He hadn't even thought about how to deal with it!

Stoke City is a conservative team, and when they are two goals behind, they have no choice but to attack in formation.

But what's the difference between that and the second half of the first half?

Parris talked about the wings, allowing the wide players to plug in more and the defenders to plug in at the right time to allow the team to take the initiative.

It's about giving the team a specific approach to attacking.

As for whether the players can adapt, Paris can't care so much, anyway, he is already two goals behind, no matter how he doesn't adapt, he just loses, his face is lost, and it is not much worse to lose two or three.