At the press conference, Zhang Yang showed off his language appeal.

Many media reporters were surprised.

Of course, they don't know that it was 'rehearsed' by the audience, or to put it bluntly, it is an imitation of the speech, tone and action of the big man.

As a manager, when you have a war of words with your opponent, your demeanor and tone of voice are also very important, and if you express something that doesn't make people see the flaws, you need to modify your body and movements.

Zhang Yang has practiced especially for this.

For example, expressing humility, confidence, fighting spirit, hard work, happiness, etc., all kinds of emotions, you can find videos on the Internet.

In the learning module, the ability to 'imitate body memory' is most appropriately used in this regard.

So in reality, the journalists were fooled.

Zhang Yang naturally has confidence in the game, but the confidence is not as sufficient as it seems, after all, anything can happen in a football match, and the result of the previous day's 'word and spirit divination' is only 'auspicious', the team's strength and luck have no advantage, tactically, everything depends on the team's performance.

The greatest confidence comes from the trust in the whole team, the trust in the development of tactics, and most importantly: the trust in Braniff.

Braniff is important.

To say that in the Manchester United team, the star of the house is C-Ronaldo, and the star of Millwall is Branifer.

The current C-Ronaldo's performance is not as dominant as a few years later, but he has shown superhuman strength.

The same goes for Braniff.

Braniff has also been one of the best performers in every game.

To say that in recent times, Braniff is improving at the speed of a rocket, the last time Braniff gave Manchester United a deep memory, every Manchester United player knows Braniff, but they must not have imagined that Braniff will have such a big improvement after not seeing each other for half a year.

Surprise is the real hole card!

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Neil Field.

The atmosphere was already very strong, with the home team Millwall fans cheering incessantly, and the occasional cheering of Manchester United fans could be heard in the west stands, who were smaller in number, less than 4,000 people, but still shouting frantically, hoping to do their part for the game.

This game is important, very important.

The fire of the fans on both sides is also a bit big, the junction of the seats of the fans on both sides of the spectator stand, is a row of corridors, in order to prevent accidents, the person in charge of the game even vacated the seats on the side, just to make the fans farther away, there is a buffer zone of nearly two meters, otherwise there is really a possibility of fan brawls.

This is not surprising.

Millwall and Manchester United are not mortal enemies, but the two teams are direct competitors to the league title, and the scene of each other's confrontation is very hot.

The game has not yet started, and it is already in the stands, which shows the intensity of the game.

This has become a war without gunpowder!

The overall atmosphere at Millwall is in the ascendancy, with the home fans having a clear advantage, and most of the spectator stands cheering for Millwall. Against the backdrop of these shouts, the Millwall players who walked out of the tunnel and trotted into the pitch seemed to have become more energetic.

Zhang Yang followed the end of the team, scanning the stands around him, feeling the unique atmosphere of the competition.

It's exciting.

Zhang Yang enjoys the atmosphere, especially at his home turf, where there are too few major tournaments at Neil Stadium.

Looking at the fans cheering and the high-spirited players, Zhang Yang unconsciously became more confident.

Tactics are already laid out.

Everything that needs to be said has already been said.

The next step is to see how the whole team performs.

When the players of both teams stand in position, as the referee blows the whistle, the game officially begins.

Manchester United kick off.

United were playing away from home, but they were a strong team on the opener, relying on the strength of the flanks to attack Millwall in the half.

Manchester United lined up 433, with a back four of Brown, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic and Heinze; The midfielders of Ryan Giggs, Carrick and Fletcher are positioned laterally; The front three (forwards) are Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Alan Smith.

Van der Sar did not appear in the squad due to injury, and the starting goalkeeper became Kuczzak.

The 433 is Manchester United's new formation.

Manchester United have always played the traditional 442 formation, but since February, manager Alex Ferguson seems to have fallen in love with 433, constantly making the team play 433 in the league, FA Cup and even the Champions League.

Manchester United's 433 formation is undoubtedly very successful.

Since February, Manchester United have won all of their league games, eliminated rivals Barcelona in the Champions League, and advanced to the semi-finals of the FA Cup.

With such a result, it is no wonder that against Millwall, Ferguson will continue to believe in 433.

Zhang Yang has carefully studied Manchester United's 433 and found that this formation does have merit.

First of all, by adding a defensive midfielder in the midfield, the problem of a single midfielder's lack of defensive ability can be solved. This is a bit similar to Chelsea's three-back lineup, but there are differences, Manchester United does not have so many excellent defensive midfielders, Roy Keane has already left, Giggs, Scholes and other veterans, they are already old, and they are not pure defensive midfielders, and in terms of defensive ability, they must be much worse.

In order to increase the defensive intensity in this game, Ferguson asked Carrick to start with Fletcher, and both of them were still okay defensively.

In addition, the 442 style of play is abandoned, and the full-back does not need to be set up.

In world football, there are a lot of full-backs, but the all-round ability of the forward-midfielder is very rare, and the 433 formation does not need to set up full-backs, and the side-to-side staffing position can be solved.

All of the above are the advantages of 433, or the advantage of Manchester United's 433 over 442.

Of course, Manchester United's 433 also has a disadvantage, and defense is a big problem.

Chelsea's 433 defensive intensity is because they have enough midfielders to really line up with a three-back formation, listen to these names: Ballack, Lampard, Makelele, Essien, and a little worse than Grami, Diarra, each of which is a defender who is good at defending, Manchester United is in the same position, and the gap in player configuration is too big.

So Manchester United 433 is not necessarily stronger than 442.

But the reason why Ferguson insists on using 433, as long as fans who care about Manchester United, may be clear and understandable: the 433 formation can completely untie the shackles of C-Ronaldo's wing position and let him play freely in the game.

That's the key!

Even Manchester United players know that Ferguson used 433 to liberate C-Ronaldo, and because of this, Manchester United's 433 was nicknamed 'C-Ronaldo's 433' by the media and fans, just like Van Nistelrooy's 442' when he played before.

The latter cannot be compared to the former.

442 is Manchester United's traditional style of play, Ferguson has been insisting on 442 for more than ten years, but after Van Nistelrooy's arrival, he has been playing quite well, and the formation will also be nicknamed 'Van Nistelrooy's 442'.

'C-Ronaldo's 433' was purely created to liberate C-Ronaldo, and the two are not the same concept at all.

It can be seen that Ferguson loves C-Ronaldo.

Cristiano Ronaldo has also lived up to Ferguson's trust, as evidenced by his fourteen goals in the past league goal, and is currently third in the Premier League's scorer list with fewer goals than Darren Bent and Didier Drogba.

Darren Bent and Drogba are both standard strikers, and it's normal for them to score more goals, while Cristiano Ronaldo is just a wing-back, but he can score so many goals, which is enough to prove that he has played amazingly.

Now against Millwall, C-Ronaldo came up with an excellent performance, with his strong explosiveness, he threw off Koncheski in an instant, rushed to the edge of the penalty area and crossed through the middle, Alan Smith squeezed Wes Morgan and rushed over, almost found a chance to shoot.

As soon as the game started, the Manchester United frontcourt led by Cristiano Ronaldo gave Millwall a dismount, and also made the Manchester United fans who came to Neil Stadium with the team high-spirited.

Next, Manchester United relied on the full-court pressing scramble to achieve some pressure on the situation.

This also makes the media a little incomprehensible.

Instead of the 'two-core' style of play that Millwall is good at, they switched to the usual 442, with Branifer and Livermore in the middle of the midfield and Simpson and Konchesky on the wings.

The two wide players were a bit far apart, with only Braniff and Livermore in the middle of the midfield, and the midfield suffered a bit against Manchester United.

What kind of play is this?

Although it is a 442 formation, Morris or Smitchell should also be placed in the middle, right? How is there only one Braniff?

A lot of people don't understand it.

But in any case, United played a small advantage, and the cheers of the United fans were louder, and they were a bit anti-guest-oriented.

Millwall fans don't agree.

When Millwall went on the attack, they erupted in frenzied cheers that completely silenced the voices of the United fans.

Millwall's 442 formation, it really has no characteristics, the only advantage is that any formation of Millwall is based on the strength of the players, even if it is just an ordinary 442, the style of play is also based on the player's individual ability, and each player can be fully exerted in the tactical system.

Eleven players are the eleven parts of the tactics, and when they are combined, it depends on the overall operation.

Braniff was at the heart of the tactics.

In this game, because there was only one core of Braniff, he stood a little deeper, and at the beginning of the attack, he was still in the same position as Livermore, and as the team pressed up, his position moved to the front.

When Millwall launches the overall attack, it's hard to say that there is any specific tactic, the 'on-the-spot' approach is used, the football is on the left, the left and the middle are combined, on the right, the right and the middle are combined, and in the middle Branifer is controlled and adjusted.

From the launch of the offensive, you can see the importance of Braniff.

Braniff's presence is key!

In the opening 10 minutes, Millwall made six attempts, two of which were tackles followed by quick counter-attacks, and the remaining four were orderly advances. Two of the four advances hit near the box, and one of them resulted in a shot on goal.

Looking at the stats, Millwall's offense is playing pretty well.

In fact, this is also true.

Millwall gave up the 'dual-core' style of play and switched to the 442 single-core and single-back midfielder, which surprised Manchester United, who were preparing for the 'dual-core' style of play, but it became useless in the game.

The 442 formation style of play is simple and simple, and complex and complicated.

Manchester United have always played 442 and the players are familiar with it, and they know that the best way to limit 442 is to limit the core of the opposition, which is the pesky Irishman - Kevin Braniff.

The United players soon discovered that Braniff was not so good at limiting.

Braniff's movement is a bit backward, which is the way the core players should run, otherwise they will not be able to continue if they are always rushing forward.

This is an aspect that is difficult to limit.

The biggest headache for Manchester United is Branifer's personal skills, most of the Manchester United players didn't think that Braniff could be much of a threat before, as long as they defended seriously, they would be able to limit the opponent's play, but when they did this, they found that things were not so simple-

Carrick can't stop Braniff!