Chapter 154: A Chance to Catch Up
"Announcing that Millwall's goal is to finish in the top two of the league – scrappy or megalomaniac?"
"Zhang Yang issued a declaration of victory? It's funny! ”
"Whether Zhang Yang will coach until the end of the season is still a suspense, he is just Millwall's 'match coach'!"
"Gregory is sure of his ability to show off? That may just be appeasement! ”
"Infighting erupts at Millwall: Braniff openly criticizes Zhang Yang for exercising managerial authority with personal feelings!"
"The road to a flamboyant football commentary: starting as a guest on the BBC!"
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Li Lei used a search engine to constantly check the relevant news pages, and found that most of the reports were not very good, and many reports were not optimistic about Zhang Yang's coaching.
That's normal.
A 21-year-old young manager? Don't say that the media doesn't believe it, even he doesn't believe it at all, if it weren't for the fact here, he would definitely think it was a rumor, and it was inconceivable to be the head coach, let alone any coaching ability.
There are also some reports that criticize Zhang Yan, saying that he is arrogant, arrogant, and has no one to look at when he has achieved a little, and there are also ridicules of his arrogance and so on, all of which have similar meanings, and are basically criticisms of character.
Li Lei directly skipped these reports.
The criticism of the British media is meaningless at all, and the 'search and editing work' has been so long, Li Lei knows very well that domestic fans want to see positive reports, such as stars staying overseas, and fans want to see good performance.
The same goes for a young coach. There are some flaws in the personality, but it's not a big deal.
What Li Lei is looking for is detailed information.
For example, his resume.
For example, he is only 21 years old, how did he become the manager of Millwall?
Wait a minute.
These materials are what domestic fans want to see, and it is not easy to find information on the Internet, especially to find detailed information, and there will be no detailed personal introduction on Millwall's official website.
Li Lei searched for it, and called the headquarters and asked his colleagues to help him come to the report of "World Network Football", he wanted to eliminate the content of the report, and then add some things to it according to the information he found.
Li Lulei 'worked' for several hours that day.
Li Lei found interesting information on the Internet, such as Zhang Yang is a European Weibo Internet celebrity, and his personal Weibo has nearly 600,000 fans, for example, during the war some time ago, Zhang Yang was very successful as a guest of the BBC, and he also made a cameo appearance as a commentator, which was well received by the majority of fans, and for example, in the Millwall club, Zhang Yang is not the head coach of Millwall, the job title is 'game instructor', but also serves as the head coach.
After getting these news, Li Lei is confident that he can write a good report.
But just when he was about to start writing, Li Lei suddenly thought of the report of "Century Network Football".
It is not a simple report, and it is mixed with the content of an exclusive interview, and it is precisely because of the content of the interview that it will have considerable authenticity, and it has attracted the attention of many domestic fans recently.
If you write a report with content, it will definitely attract the attention of fans, but the effect is definitely not as good as the interview report of "Century Network Football".
"Am I going to Millwall for an interview?"
Li Lei hesitated.
He is in Manchester, it is still a little far to go to London, and in addition, when he goes to Millwall Club, he may not be able to interview Zhang Yang, he has thought about it carefully for a long time, and feels that it is still a little too troublesome to do the interview, not to mention the delay, it may not be fruitful.
In the end, Li Lei decided to make up an 'interview report'.
'Fabricated' interview reports, must risk being exposed, and when the time comes, if they are caught, they will definitely bring trouble to the magazine's children, but Li Lei still decided to do this, first, his 'fabricated' reports are experienced, and he is confident that others can not find flaws, and second, Zhang Yang is in the UK, and he will definitely not see domestic reports.
Zhang Yang has no problem here, fans and readers are no problem, and media colleagues will not know whether he did an interview.
All in all went smoothly.
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On this day, Millwall regrouped for training.
After the match against Wigan Athletic, the whole Millwall team was full of fighting spirit, and even the weekday training was much more active. Training started at nine o'clock in the morning, but by half-past eight, most of the players were already on the training ground.
Zhang Yang arrived at 8:45, he didn't have the habit of arriving early, even if he came early, he would go to the head coach's office to take a break.
By the time Zhang Yang arrived at the training ground, most of the people had already arrived, and when he saw Aldous dressed in sportswear and warming up with the players, he was a little embarrassed, and then he saw Frederick who was late to Shanshan.
Zhang Yang raised his head, coughed lightly, and said, "It's so late!" ”
Frederick looked at his watch, a little confused, "It's not time yet?" I thought it was early enough! ”
"Be more positive in the future! Now the team's goal is to be promoted, we can't afford to slack off! Persistence, must persistence! Try to be the best you can be! We are coaches, we have to set an example for the whole team, and we should be more motivated! ”
Zhang Yang pointed to the hot scene on the training ground and launched a serious criticism of Frederick.
Frederick tugged at the corners of his mouth, feeling depressed in his heart.
But he found that he was indeed the latest, and as the assistant coach in charge of training, it was indeed a little embarrassing to come late.
But......
“FU/CK! You're the laziest person in the team! Don't let me see when you're late! Frederick made a secret note.
After Zhang Yang found confidence in Frederick, he participated in warm-up training, and he occasionally had to exercise his body, after all, good physical fitness is the foundation.
In the morning, Millwall conducted recovery training, and by the afternoon, targeted tactical training began.
Three days later it was the game against Coventry.
Although Zhang Yang has a great grasp of leading the team to win, he can prepare more, or try to do as much as possible, and in terms of training requirements, he is also very strict with the team.
The game against Wigan Athletic still has some negative effects, such as the team's formation, the team has been doing defensive formation training for a week before, many players are used to defending, the original formation is a little rusty, Zhang Yang must let them reverse the habit.
However, not every opponent is Wigan Athletic, and when facing an opponent like Coventry, it is better to strengthen the attack and have a better chance of winning, otherwise it will be very embarrassing to not score in the whole game.
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When a team is positive and every player is full of fighting spirit, they can play better on the field.
Millwall was like this, the previous Millwall players still thought that the team was mid-table, but after finding confidence from Wigan Athletic, they suddenly became full of fighting spirit, and the next game became much easier.
On 12 March, Neil won a new round of competition.
To the cheers of 20,000 Millwall, Millwall's players performed extremely well, leaving Coventry City unable to do anything about it, scoring four goals in both halves.
Although Coventry City used late time to pull back a face-saving goal, it was to no avail.
4 to 1.
Millwall got a big win!
After the game, the media had to admit that "Millwall are much stronger than Coventry, and it was a game that became unsuspenseful from the first minute." ”
It was March 16th.
Millwall have another home game against 16th-placed Plymouth.
Plymouth are promoted to the Championship, and so far they can narrowly get out of the relegation zone, which is actually a good result, but their strength is definitely worse, and they have not adapted to the fast pace of the Championship as a whole.
As an established Championship side, Millwall must have to coach their newcomers, so they showed Plymouth what a gap is with a 3-0 victory.
At the end of this game, Millwall added six points and extended their winning streak to seven.
Seven wins in a row is not easy to come by!
Sunderland's longest winning streak since the start of this season's Championship campaign came with seven consecutive home wins between late September and early November.
Millwall equalled Sunderland's record.
Seven wins in a row are not only good results, but also a rapid increase in league points, with just two wins to see Millwall surpass Preston North End in third place in the Championship.
The only pity is that Wigan Athletic also won two games, and the points of both teams did not really pull in.
Zhang Yang's goal is already looking at the next round of the league.
Millwall's opponents are Leicester City, a decent team, but Wigan Athletic's opponents are Sunderland, who will be first and second in the league.
That's the chance to catch up!