Chapter 102: Manifestation of Might
Hart was thinking, but he couldn't.
At the moment, the two teams are playing head-to-head, with Nottingham Forest completely at the bottom of the game.
What's there to adjust here?
Perhaps in order to stabilize the situation, Nottingham Forest should strengthen their defence and prevent possible conceding goals, but Nottingham Forest are not a good defensive player, they need to find confidence in attack, and defending is almost a way to lose.
"What to do?"
Hart was no longer calm, and he began to be secretly anxious.
The players of both teams continued to fight on the field.
In the 41st minute, Nottingham Forest launched a wave of fast attacks, the ball was passed to the edge of the box, striker Bennett rushed over to shoot, but Darren Ward cleared the ball in time and kicked the ball forward to teammate Marvin Elliott.
Elliott takes the ball and passes to Jody Morris.
Millwall launches a quick counterattack!
At this moment, the situation on the pitch became tense and everyone was watching the game, and Sky Sports commentator Paul Scott also shouted, "Millwall has made the break!" They're rushing forward! ”
Everyone was watching the attack.
In the Millwall dugout, quite a few people noticed that their young head coach was on his feet.
Zhang Yang walked to the sidelines, his face full of smiles.
It's weird.
Often at this time, as the head coach of a team, he will definitely watch the game very seriously.
Zhang Yang's face was full of calmness, and he didn't seem to care about the attack at all, or he was just a spectator of the game, and he didn't care about whether there was a goal in the game or not, he just held his hands on his chest and looked leisurely.
But what no one knew was that his fists were clenched.
Millwall's counter-attack started with the whole team up front, with striker Neil Harris, two wing-backs Joey Healy and Josh Simpson, and midfielder David Livermore all desperately rushing forward.
Their movement also drove the team's overall formation forward quickly.
Football was soon in the front court.
Josh Simpson got the ball and had to cross the middle, but David Livermore, who was closest to it, was heavily defended and he could only kick Jody Morris big.
The pass landed inaccurately.
Morris ran several steps forward to catch up, but he could no longer fully control it, and could only symbolically go for a stab.
Neil Harris hurried back, he was so tightly defended that he couldn't control the ball at all, and he kicked the ball back to Livermore.
Livermore is also being defended.
From the opening to the present, after two threatening long-range shots, Nottingham Forest has not neglected his defense, and whenever he runs to the front, there is always a nimble little man following, which makes Livermore very distressed.
However, his physical advantage is too great.
The opponent simply couldn't compete with him for position, such as this time, the ball rolled from the front, Livermore quickly stuck the position, and the opponent could only watch him receive the ball.
Livermore took a small step forward with the ball.
He then trotted to follow.
Nottingham Forest panicked, they thought of Livermore's threatening shot, and immediately rushed to block the route, but immediately they knew they were being tricked!
Livermore didn't shoot!
There was a short player next to him who was pestering all the time, and he couldn't have had time to swing his foot and volley, otherwise he would have been snatched straight away, he just trotted forward and passed the ball to the left.
Millwall have been practicing this simple midfield routine for a week.
Even Livermore is familiar with it, he just divides the ball according to the routine, and he doesn't even pay attention to whether there are teammates in that position, but it is this pass that gives Jody Morris a chance.
The edge of the exclusion zone.
Jody Morris was just twenty metres from goal and there were players defending next to him, but it was too late to stop him from shooting.
"Good opportunity! Morris! ”
Paul Scott has already shouted out.
Morris still didn't shoot, he delicately pushed the ball to the left front of the box, where Joey Healy followed and swung his right foot hard!
"Bang!"
The soccer ball rushes to the far corner of the goal!
“Goooooooooooooal!!!!!”
Paul Scott let out a shout of excitement and few games can occasionally elicit him cheering, but Millwall's wave of combination just now was too good to be seen in the Championship.
Zhang Yang also waved his arms fiercely.
In the 'Prediction' picture, he already knew that the team was going to score, but the 'Prediction' is different from reality, and the feeling is not the same, the difference is like knowing that he won 5 million and really got 5 million, he feels very excited, but the situation is different, when he learns that he has won 5 million, he may still be in charge of the money disappearing, or he makes a mistake or something, and if he really gets 5 million, he can make people feel at ease, and he can cheer with other people to his heart's content.
At this moment he was like a regular fan.
In front of the coach's seat, Zhang Yang and everyone next to him hugged each other, and everyone yelled together, he didn't know what he was yelling, he just wanted to vent the excitement in his heart completely.
Demeanor?
That thing has long been thrown out of the clouds!
The Millwall fans who came to City Square with the team were also cheering, and there were nearly 6,000 Millwall fans in attendance, and their cheers were silenced for a while.
This is uncommon for Millwall.
It is difficult to fill Neil Stadium in a normal Millwall home game, but now there are 6,000 fans who have come with the team to the away stadium, which is really surprising, but if you think about it, you can understand it.
Millwall's results have been too good in recent times.
Since Zhang Yang came to Millwall as a 'match coach', until he became the head coach, and until now, Millwall has experienced seven games, but only one draw during the period, and the remaining six games have all been won, and the good results have greatly increased the confidence of Millwall fans in the team.
The number of fans who came to watch the game has become very large.
The cheers of the fans are the greatest support for the players.
In the field.
Joey Healy rushed to his own half of the court for the first time, he didn't know exactly where to run, but he just kept running, and he still made a shouting sound.
Soon he was caught up by his teammates.
One by one, his teammates stepped forward to rub his hair, patted him the shoulders and back, and some hugged him.
This is a moment that belongs to Joey Healy.
Joey Healy is really excited, or rather, he gets excited every time he scores, but as a full-back who mixes the Championship with his physicality, pace and defence, it's too hard to get the score.
Over the past three seasons, he has averaged just 3.9 goals.
For a fullback, the average goal of less than four goals in the season is actually a very embarrassing statistic, as long as it is a front-court player, they will hope that they can score, although it is not as good as the striker players, but they can still find some opportunities, and the goal efficiency is too low to be criticized by fans, so every goal is very important to Joey Healy.
Joy Healy is content to score now.
In Millwall's celebrations, Nottingham Forest was in the opposite mood.
Coach Hart has a pooping expression, which makes people don't want to take a few more looks, Hart's mood is really good, not only because of a goal lost, even if it loses a game, it's nothing, Nottingham Forest will definitely not be promoted, the crisis of relegation is not as big as imagined, and a league game is still lost.
Hart was incredulous that Nottingham Forest was completely suppressed!
With the eyes of a manager, you can see this very clearly.
Nottingham Forest being suppressed?
Is it the team's poor performance, or is the opponent's performance too good?
At the beginning, Hart thought it was the team's poor performance, but after this goal, he found that Millwall was too good!
If only the former was a little better, it would be good to reprimand the players to remind everyone to play seriously, as long as the team performs well, then there is still a good chance, but the team's performance is not bad, but the opponent is too strong.
Hart didn't want to believe that judgment.
But the facts are in front of you!
Hart couldn't help but think back to Millwall's performances all along.
Millwall is not a strong team, it can only be said that it is similar to Nottingham Forest, Nottingham Forest still has a little advantage, but now there is a big gap between the performance of the two teams.
This is also the reason why the team is passive.
So what is the reason?
Everything has a reason, the league hasn't gone through a summer transfer yet, Millwall don't have more or less personnel, and they just sold striker Scott Dobby, so the quality should be down.
But the current Millwall performance is indeed much better than Nottingham Forest.
Hart thought about it and found the key point: David Livermore, Millwall's starting lineup, this is the only one player to change, and their formation has been adjusted from 442 to 4231.
Before, Hart didn't care what formation Millwall was.
Now he cares.
Millwall's two-man midfield formation showed its might in the game.
Thinking about the pre-match media report on 'Zhang Yang is optimistic about Livermore', Hart couldn't help but think: "Could it be that this formation was brought to Millwall by that young Chinese?" ”
Perhaps, most people are wrong. This young Chinese...... It's still a bit level! ”