Compared with Leicester City's layered football and small areas of smooth cooperation in the frontcourt, Millwall's football is too simple and rough. When defending, when the whole court is pressing, the players are constantly running, grabbing everywhere, and when attacking, it is difficult to find creative highlights.

This is actually not to blame.

Over the past few seasons, Millwall has been changing managers, a manager has a style, and with Dennis Wise, he doesn't even have a style, he's more of a player than a coach.

Zhang Yang is not good at any tactical style or anything like that, even if he carefully considers the tactics of the whole team, it is too late for the team to adapt, and the tactical style is not something that can be cultivated in a short period of time.

He doesn't value that either.

Whether there is a fixed tactical style has little impact on the overall performance, at least at the Championship level, English football pays attention to the body, the lower the league, the more obvious, too complex tactical coordination, will only drag down the team's performance.

That's the case with Millwall now, their football is simple, straightforward, and when it comes to counter-attacking, there's only one word to describe it – fast.

Fast, it doesn't need to be cultivated.

As long as every player knows how to run with the formation and the players with the ball are faster, the speed of the whole team will follow.

Adams didn't care about Millwall's speed.

Every team fights with a speed boost, and the same goes for Lescot City, but when he noticed something different, he immediately realized the danger - Millwall's offense and defense were too fast!

Offensive and defensive conversion speed and counterattack speed are two different concepts.

Counterattack, roughly refers to the speed of the attack launched by one side after it is obtained, such as the speed of the player with the ball, the speed of the pass, and the most direct refers to how long it takes for the football to play from this half to that half, or even the speed of hitting the opponent's penalty area.

The transition between offense and defense is the speed at which you transition from defense to offense, or from offense to defense.

When a team suddenly loses the ball, or steals the ball from the opponent's feet, there will be a switch between attack and defense, and every player in the team, one second thinking about assisting, the next second will retreat to defense.

It takes time to get used to.

If a single player is pointed at, or a second is enough, but a player will also slow down, such as thinking about other teammates to defend, running back slowly, or seeing teammates to attack, just run together next to them, the speed of the rush will not be fast, when the reaction to the whole team, there is a time for the transition between attack and defense.

Millwall's transition was too quick.

When the backfield completed the break, their overall formation quickly moved forward, and the players completed the position change in the rapid forward run, and quickly changed from the defensive side to the attacking side.

"This ...... It's so fast! ”

Adams was quite surprised, and he had to admit that the young Chinese coach on the other side did a pretty good job at this point.

Under the camera lens, I don't know when, Zhang Yang has already walked to the sidelines, and he is also satisfied with the team's counterattack performance.

This is actually related to the training on weekdays.

Millwall has no style, but also has a big advantage, that is, the tactics are very easy to adapt, on weekdays tactical training, Zhang Yang will not let the team adapt to any complex tactics, most of the time is adapting to the original tactical routine, in the process of getting familiar with the adaptation, every player knows the tactics by heart, even David Livermore, you can imagine that when Millwall suddenly breaks the ball, every player knows how to run, and the speed of offensive and defensive conversion is naturally fast.

Leicester City certainly can't do it, their tactics are too complicated, and there may be many players who haven't figured out the details, let alone switch between attack and defense quickly.

That's the advantage of simple tactics.

Millwall are playing to that advantage and Leicester City are experiencing the horror of the speed of transitioning between attack and defence, and when all the players react, most can only watch.

Leicester half-time.

Millwall formed a four-on-three situation, Josh Simpson with the ball on the wing was already cutting down the middle, and with Neil Harris and Jody Morris rushing through the middle, the three of them formed a straight line and pushed towards the Leicester goal, and the speed made the Leicester defenders panic.

Behind the trio was also a David Livermore.

Leicester City have also studied Millwall, and they know that Livermore, who is keeping up, is not the 'no threat' strong defender he used to have, and if he gets the ball near the box, he can also pose an immediate threat.

Adams realized something was wrong.

In just a few seconds, Simpson was up front, and he kept rushing forward quickly, attracting enough attention to move the ball laterally.

Maurice got the ball!

Leicester City suddenly panicked, Morris was undoubtedly the most dangerous player, one defender ran quickly, the other also went to the defense, Morris attracted the attention of the defence, and immediately chose to divert the cross.

Neil Harris got the ball!

Leicester City is in a panic!

When Harris got the ball, there was no one around him, and the only defender who was close to him was about to help defend Morris, but he was out of position and Harris was able to dribble the ball over the box line with ease.

The Leicester defenders were chasing back, but they couldn't stop Harris and had to flank with goalkeeper Ian Walker!

"Single-handed!"

All eyes were on Harris.

After rushing into the penalty line, Harris did not face the goalkeeper alone, but chose to continue to cross!

This pass, the Leicester City players did not have time to react at all, goalkeeper Walker slowed down, but could only watch to keep up with Josh Simpson and send the ball into the unguarded goal.

"The ball went to ——!!"

"It's Millwall's full-back Josh Simpson!"

The moment the football flew into the goal, the Millwall fans who came with the team cheered excitedly, Josh Simpson turned around and ran wildly around his own half, and the other teammates chased after him excitedly.

The entire staff in the coach's seat rushed out.

Zhang Yang had already stood on the sidelines, watching the football fly into the goal, as if he had just watched an opera performance, and applauded calmly to show his satisfaction with the goal, but the others were different, they rushed over and shouted frantically, Aldous walked to Zhang Yang's side, "It's in!" Entered! Did you see that! We're ahead! ”

Zhang Yang rolled his eyes, "Be calm!" Be calm, Aldous, it's just the first ball, the game has just begun. If I didn't know, I thought I had missed the whole game and waited until the game was won! ”

Aldous smiled embarrassedly, he really couldn't understand why Zhang Yang could be so calm.

That's a goal!

Leicester City are not easy opponents to deal with, and they are playing away from home, scoring the first goal in less than 20 minutes, so they can't be overjoyed, right?

How can this guy be indifferent?

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'Millwall scored the first goal! Josh Simpson, it's a quick comeback! ”

"They fought back very quickly and did a great job of cooperating! From Simpson, to Morris, to Harris, and then Harris faced the goalkeeper and chose to trust his teammates, and his cross left goalkeeper Walker with no choice. ”

'It was a goal that showed Millwall's ability to counter-attack! Quick, decisive and direct, several passes in the middle were very targeted, Millwall used a simple football to directly break through the defense of Leicester City! ”

"Sky Sports" commentator Paul Scott has not hesitated to praise Millwall, so far this season, Scott has commented on many games in Millwall, and he has seen Millwall's results improve.

So Scott was also unstingy in praising Zhang Yang, "Since Zhang Yang took charge of Millwall, Millwall's football has become more direct and effective, and the results have gone all the way. From the game, we can see that although the home team Leicester City had more possession, they did not pose a threat to the Millwall defence, while Millwall relied on constant counter-attacks to threaten the Leicester City goal. ”

'If the game continues like this, Leicester have little chance of winning, even though they are playing at home......

This sentence speaks to Adams' heart.

Adams had previously thought that Leicester had an advantage, and it had been that way since the start of the game, and Millwall had been very dangerous in attack on several occasions, and he only thought it was a chance occurrence.

From the attack just now, Adams saw something else.

Millwall's football is simple, but they switch between attack and defence too quickly and are so targeted that just letting them find their chances and just using counter-attacks is enough to pose a huge threat.

Leicester City has a lot of time on the ball, but Millwall's defense is also very targeted, and they are pressing all over the field to defend tightly, which is also the most hated defensive style of Leicester City.

If it's just a defence that's targeted, it's nothing, but the counter-attack is just as targeted, and the combination of the two is not as simple as one plus one, but can form a decisive threat to Leicester City.

Adams realized that he had made a big mistake.

He underestimated his opponents too much.

When facing Millwall, Adams didn't study it carefully, only felt that a young man in his early twenties would not formulate any tactical strategy, Leicester City only needed to play normally, and there was no reason to lose at home.

Now he finally knows why Millwall's results are good.

This kind of simple and practical football is a sharp weapon in the Championship, coupled with the arrangement for the opponent, not only Leicester City, but also other teams are also difficult to deal with, and the game is in the current situation, it is impossible to make adjustments, and it is impossible for any team to adjust their tactical play halfway.

But in terms of the style of play of both sides, Leicester City was seriously restrained.

Now what?

Adams can only hope that his players will perform better, that they can't tie the score in the first half, that they don't concede any more goals, and that there will be chances in the second half.