Pire doubts whether the two-core style of play can be successful, in fact, it is a problem of the tactical system of the whole team, and it is also the work of Zhang Yang and the coaching staff, and it has little to do with him directly.

So Pire followed Smitchell's advice, kept the doubts in his heart, and simply didn't think about it.

Zambrotta is a different mentality.

Zambrotta has long had a career plan, although he is just over 29 years old, still in his prime, and a few years before retiring, but if he wants to become a football coach, he must start learning and preparing early, which is why he chose to leave Juventus to develop in the Premier League, so that he can be exposed to more football models, so that his mind will not be imprisoned by a specific league style.

When he heard Zhang Yang talk about the two-core play, Zambrotta's curiosity was immediately aroused, and he did not think about whether the 'two-core play' would be successful, but hoped to know the details of the tactics in all aspects.

Perhaps this is good for the growth of tactical capabilities?

Zambrotta thinks from this perspective, so when all his teammates left, only Zambrotta remained, hoping to learn more from Zhang Yang in terms of dual-core play.

It is rare for a player to take the initiative to understand the tactics, and Zhang Yang also stayed to Zambrotta to guide alone.

It's interesting.

Zhang Yang couldn't help but think of the make-up class of the students in his previous life, and he became a one-on-one tutor? The only regret is that there is no high return, especially for the big stars of Zambrotta's level, or to explain in detail in Italian, why do you have to charge 2,000 pounds an hour?

Zhang Yang regretted that he was not paid, but he still seriously explained the overall tactical essentials to Zambrotta.

The core point of the dual-core style of play is to carry out collective 'command' on the players on the field, and the core players are to lead the offense, organize the defense, and control the rhythm.

Zhang Yang asked the players on the field to perform their duties.

It sounds easy, but with the exception of Millwall, where the tactics are based on letting players play freely, it is very difficult for other teams to do that.

Millwall will definitely be affected a bit as well, so the two cores will have to be divided into regions, and in terms of rhythm, the two core players will also have to coordinate it.

It takes the performance of the core players and the overall confidence.

When the football is at their feet, they run forward to attack, at most to look at the position of their teammates, on the contrary, they retreat to defend, even if the rhythm of the game is directly related to the overall running, the captain on the field will not shout, "speed up the rhythm", but follow the overall running, a single player knows how to run.

The 'conductor' in football is mostly a kind of 'psychological awareness'.

Millwall will minimize the real 'command', in other words, even if there is no core, no captain on the field, Millwall can still play well.

This is the fundamental reason why Zhang Yang dared to use the dual-core strategy: he did not solve the fundamental problem of the dual-core, but Millwall's tactics fundamentally solved most of the problems.

In the explanation to Zambrotta, Zhang Yang found that he had a more thorough understanding of tactics, and there were some things that he hadn't thought of before, but after explaining it again, he found that he had thought of more things.

Zambrotta, for his part, was amazed by the team's tactics.

"Based on player play?" Zambrotta has seen some media reports, but he thinks it's nonsense, it's just random guessing tactics, but he didn't expect it to become a fact, he found that it didn't make much sense to discuss the dual-core style of play with Zhang Yang, and he should know how to develop 'tactics for players to play their abilities' for the team.

There is no way to do this publicity.

Unless Zambrotta also has a system and a 'Speech and Soul Measurement' function, he will never be able to learn it.

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For the next week, the team will have normal training in the morning, tactical training in the afternoon, and then two hours of tactical lessons at the end of the training.

A week, more than ten hours of study, let most of the players understand what they should do on the field.

As for the tactics as a whole, there are still not many people who know about them, most of the players are not interested, and only Zambrotta, Jody Morris, Smitchell, etc., players who hope to have an understanding of the overall tactics will take the initiative to understand these things.

Of course, that didn't matter.

As long as every player knows what to do on the pitch, what other people do, how the team as a whole plays, it has nothing to do with them.

The effect of this kind of indoctrination education is still very good.

At the same time that the players are 'learning', the tactical training is also being carried out simultaneously, some players are beginning to adapt to the tactics, the old players are easier to adapt, they have the experience of 'adapting', the new tactical basis is still to give full play to the player's ability, and there are only running, cooperating with the rules, and the team's offensive and defensive tendencies have some changes, the new players need a longer time, they have not been able to adapt directly, and they can 'play freely' on the field of play.

To borrow a phrase from Pire, "It's so peculiar!" ”

'If I had to play as I pleased, I would probably take the ball straight into the goal, but that's obviously not possible, I have to follow a tactical framework, there is a balance between free play and tactical planning...... Anyway, that's how I understand it, and it's not easy to find this balance. ”

Pire's statement also represents the experience of most new players.

This is to be expected.

Last summer, most of the players had a similar experience, it takes a long time for them to adapt, it is not a dozen days, a month can be fully played, some players take a season to adapt, and as time passes, the performance is getting better and better.

Zhang Yang doesn't expect all players to adapt quickly, but there are some key players, such as Pire and Quaresma, who still need to get into form quickly, otherwise it may affect the team's results.

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In the process of preparing for training, Millwall also had new reinforcements.

Li Wei can't participate in the Premier League, he can only be sent to the youth team to participate in training, Zhang Yang is to train him as a seed, if he can grow rapidly, of course, it is the best, otherwise give a young player a chance, there is no loss.

However, it certainly won't work with just two goalkeepers, with Millwall quickly agreeing a loan deal with Arsenal and their young goalkeeper Vito Mannone has been loaned to Millwall.

Vito Mannone is an Italian player, only 18 years old, who has been in the Arsenal youth team before and has performed quite well, but the goalkeeper at this age, with too little game experience and inconsistent performance, will definitely not be able to play for Arsenal.

Millwall have loaned Vito Mannone only to add a goalkeeper and prevent the unexpected.

The day after Vito Mannone joined the club, Millwall made a quick signing of 33-year-old veteran Dietmar Hamann.

Dietmar Hamann is quite a well-known star, having played for Bayern Munich, Newcastle United and Liverpool in his career, and fans are still known for Liverpool, he is the absolute main force of Liverpool, even last season, Hamann also played for Liverpool eighteen times, rich experience and consistent performance, so that he is easy to be trusted, and there is always a chance to play.

Millwall FC offered Hamann a "2+1" contract, that is, a two-year contract, and if he can still play after two years, he will renew the contract for another year, otherwise Hamann can leave with compensation.

Harman received an annual salary of £1.8 million.

Millwall still have rivals, with Manchester City always wanting to sign Hamann and they have offered a better contract with a salary of more than £2 million a year.

In the end, Hamann chose Millwall, and in an interview with reporters, Harman said, "Millwall are more promising, they were league champions last season and there are a lot of great additions this season, Zambrotta, Pire, I would love to be teammates with them and chase wins and titles together. ”

With the addition of Vito Mannone and Dietmar Hamann, Zhang Yang promoted two youth team players and expanded the first-team squad to 25 players, complementing the FA's mandated league number.

At this point, the first team is fully staffed.

In order for the players to quickly adapt to the tactics, the team played a warm-up match against Sporting Sivir from La Liga.

In this game, Millwall played very openly.

Zhang Yang did not arrange the established tactics, but let the players play freely on the field, and play how they wanted, Millwall players are also quite active, but in the absence of established tactics, each player is like a wild horse on the loose, some of them show off their footwork, and some carry out creative cooperation, which makes the opponent a little confused for a while, and also makes the media and fans a little confused --

What is Millwall doing?

The game is too chaotic!

Many people frequently looked at head coach Zhang Yang, Zhang Yang stood on the sidelines smiling, with a relaxed and leisure expression, just like last season's coaching state, he was always like this, and no one could see what he was thinking.

The reporters who came to interview had different opinions.

It is difficult to see from the game what tactics Millwall played, the tactics seem to be 'no tactics', is Millwall deliberately using 'no tactics' exhibition games to attract the attention of the media and fans?

No one can figure it out.

New players can't grasp the balance between free play and tactical planning, so they simply let them play at will, know what free play is, and when they are gradually familiar with the feeling, they will also know how to cooperate according to the tactical memory.

As the game progressed, quite a few people noticed that Millwall played some rules.

The movement of the players, the combination of passing and receiving from the middle to the front, the breaking cross of the wide players, etc., when Millwall played some combinations, Athletic West Ville was under a lot of defensive pressure.

Millwall's main threat is still on the 'free play' side.

Quaresma and Pire, the two wide players have too much of an advantage over the individual ability of Athletic Sivir, they are constantly looking for breakthroughs, passing the ball to dangerous positions again and again after they get to the position, and each time they can make the Sivel Athletic defense scramble, they have no good way to stop.

Then came the individual play time for Pire and Quaresma, who also used Millwall to score two goals in a row.

Halfway through the second half, Pire and Quaresma were substituted, and they didn't mean much in the game, with Millwall looking for a link in the middle and the rest of the players to play.

In the end, Millwall won 4-1 against Athletic Siwell.