When they learned that Manchester United and Chelsea had drawn, the Millwall players were more confident.

In the past period of time, the media has been focusing on 'the good results of small clubs cannot last long', indicating that Millwall is in danger of declining results, and even Millwall players think so, not to mention the strength of the team's squad, the performance of substitute players is always much worse.

But they miscalculated.

When teams win back-to-back against their opponents, their points have been improving and their rankings have not changed, which is equivalent to an improvement, not a 'so-called crisis'.

Back in the dressing room, every player was talking about the team's results, and they were talking about the league standings.

"I never imagined we could stay second in the league for so long!"

"Millwall is second in the league? It's so interesting, if I wasn't on the team, I would have thought I was dreaming! ”

'Chelsea, Manchester United have drawn! If only they had lost a few games, maybe we would have finished at the top of the league! I don't have to win the championship in the end, I am already satisfied with the first place in one round! ”

"It's like a dream!"

"Why do you think the boss leads the team and we can win all the time? Or are we already strong? ”

"The Boss is an amazing man!"

"Yes, the boss is young, but he's amazing! Some of you probably don't follow his Weibo, his Weibo followers are so fanatical that they simply think of him as a god! ”

"I'll see it when I go back!"

“……”

In the discussion of various players, Zhang Yang has appeared at the press conference, he came with Benitez, Benitez was interviewed first, and said a few words sincerely about the game, "In the game, it is obvious that our forward ability is still insufficient. This is a problem that we must solve in the future. If we can strengthen the forward line, the team's performance will definitely improve a lot. ”

"Today's game, the opponent played a great game and they deserved to win. Zhang is also a very good manager, he is very young, but if you are deceived by his youth, you have to be prepared to pay the price. ”

After Benitez praised Zhang Yang, he talked about Millwall's tactics: "It's hard to imagine tactics. It was developed in response to Millwall's situation, and it was evident in the game that every Millwall player was familiar with the tactics, which showed that they had done enough training and that the tactics were the most suitable for Millwall. ”

"After this game, I found that Liverpool still has a lot to improve, maybe we should also try to develop the most suitable style of play according to the difference in the ability of the players."

Benitez sighed from the bottom of his heart.

As the game progressed, the Spaniard was thinking that if Liverpool had a set of tactics that best suited the squad to make the players perform better in the game and the team's results would be better, they might be able to win the Premier League.

Liverpool don't have that capacity right now.

The league is not the same as the Champions League, and Benitez is confident that he will play in the Champions League for a long time, because the essence of the Champions League belongs to the 'cup competition', as long as you prepare carefully, the probability of playing well is very high.

The league is different.

The league is a whole season of competition, the fight is a long-term overall performance, no team can prepare for every opponent, a set of tactical system that allows players to adapt and play to their strength, it becomes extremely important.

Liverpool don't have that tactical system.

In many games, if you want to perform well, you still have to rely on the on-the-spot performance of the players, and the result is full of all kinds of uncertainties, and in the second half of the game, you can only compete for bench depth.

Millwall have relied on a set of tactics that suit the team and have gone beyond the 'normal judgment'.

After a few questions, Benitez shut his mouth and didn't speak, and the reporters automatically turned their heads to look at Zhang Yang.

When Benitez spoke, Zhang Yang's face still had a faint smile, but it immediately became serious, and just when the reporters felt strange, Zhang Yang said, "After this game, we are one step closer to the crisis!" A continuous win means a possible loss in the future, China has a saying that 'climb high, fall heavy', for Millwall, which means that the better our results, the faster the future will decline, so we are closer to not being relegated! ”

"Now is the time to prepare for the crises ahead! I'm sorry, I'll go back first......"

Zhang Yang left after speaking.

The media reporters in the venue were stunned.

Some people are still thinking about the possibility of a causal relationship between 'climbing high and falling hard' and 'Millwall winning but even more unable to relegate'.

When they came to their senses, they realized that they had been tricked!

Regardless of the causal relationship, it is impossible to associate 'winning' with 'poor performance', the two are diametrically opposed.

This young Chinese is playing on them!

Perhaps revenge for the so-called 'crisis' previously reported? But no matter how you think about it, the reporters are angry, but they can't do anything because Millwall won the game and the league points increase also means that the table is a lot more secure.

Before the game, many media reporters still thought that when Millwall lost to Liverpool, they would make a big report to criticize Millwall in order to get more attention from fans, they don't care whether the analysis is accurate, because they are not columnists, nor are they famous figures, and fans can't remember their names after reading the comments.

Now that they have been tricked and can't do anything, the reporters are holding back their anger, and the eyes they look at Benitez have become very unfriendly.

"It's this damn Spaniard!"

"If Liverpool hadn't lost the game, how could that young Chinese have a chance to play us?"

"Liverpool! England's giants, last season's Champions League champions, actually lost at home to Millwall - a promoted horse with a winning streak!? ”

"Shame! Shame on you! ”

Benitez was shot while lying down, and walked out of the venue very innocently, sighing in his heart, "This young Chinese is really too characterful!" "Even he didn't dare to 'fool' reporters so obviously.

Zhang Yang doesn't care.

More than 90 percent of the reporters on the scene are not friendly to Millwall, and only a few reporters can be regarded as 'friendly relations'.

In this case, he didn't want to be interviewed.

Zhang Yang is also confident in doing so: Millwall's results are quite good, with eight wins in ten league games, and after the victory over Liverpool, the media has no way to criticize Millwall.

The premise of what the reporters want to criticize is that Millwall's results are not good, and when the results are good, the reporters can only praise if they want to report.

Really.

Almost all the media were praising Millwall that day, and by the next morning, various newspapers and media published comments on Millwall, which were also unanimously praised, including praise for Millwall's current achievements, and Benitez was quoted to praise Millwall's tactical play, as well as looking forward to Millwall's achievements this season, and even the 'opposition' "British Football Newspaper" said, "Millwall is expected to break the monopoly of the Premier League top four on the league ranking this season!" ”

These reports made Zhang Yang feel very gratified.

Anyone likes to see praise reports, rather than getting inexplicable criticism all the time, praise from the outside world can make people feel very comfortable, but the media reports still have a focus, Millwall's name is constantly mentioned, Millwall's various players are also constantly praised, such as playing against Liverpool, the best performance of Smitchell, is called 'after going to Millwall to find the second spring of his career', Braniff, Josh Simpson and others are also affirmed, and even Livermore's name is frequently mentioned, The media's comment on Livermore was 'success in limiting Gerald'.

The media's praise for Livermore is definitely a bit overdone.

Livermore's performance can only be regarded as average, he gave little support to the team in the attack, and also showed the ability to shoot from the periphery, and the one-on-one defense of Gerrard was not successful, and Gerrard still relied on his personal ability in the second half to help Liverpool complete the goal, which is enough to show that Livermore's defense is not successful. Gerrard's performance at other times was not bad, and Livermore's defense, which cooperated with Gerrard and his teammates, was very restrictive, and it only made Gerrard reduce his individual performance.

But even so, Livermore was mentioned.

Another key role, publicity, is subconsciously ignored by many media, which is also a strategy of media reporters.

When Millwall performs well, they really can't say the voice of criticism, but praise is also different, they praise Millwall, praise Millwall players, and ignore the flamboyant coaching role, so that fans feel that Millwall's success is the result of the joint efforts of the whole team, and the manager does not play much role.

This method of reporting is still very effective.

The names of many of Millwall's players are known by other fans, and Zhang Yang is ignored by many fans, many fans only hear Millwall, know what outstanding players Millwall have, but do not know who Millwall's head coach is.

But in fact, Millwall is most famous for its publicity, which is difficult to compare with even Smitchell, and it can be seen from the number of European Weibo fans that Zhang Yang has exceeded 800,000.

What is the population of England?

50 million.

The vast majority of Zhang Yang's European Weibo fans are English fans, and it is unimaginable that the number of fans will exceed 800,000, even if it is according to the standards of ten years later, that is, after 2015, it is quite amazing to have 800,000 fans, and the number of fans is enough to show how popular Zhang Yang's fame is, and he alone is equivalent to a big media platform.

Zhang Yang has discovered the benefits of having more followers on Weibo.

Now that European Weibo has begun to make money, Zhang Yang asked Andy to help maintain Weibo, occasionally send a few messages, and participate in the discussion of some topics, but in the past two months, he has also received an official share of nearly 3,000 pounds.

Three thousand pounds is not much, but it is not a lot.

Zhang Yang has done almost nothing, and has been so busy with work lately that he rarely logs on to Weibo, but he can still continue to bring economic benefits.

After logging on to Weibo, Zhang Yang also found a benefit, some 'local tyrants' began to ask questions about football, for example, there was a local tyrant fan 'Disvery', who asked questions about Millwall's season goals, and the reward amount was 1,000 pounds.

"Bounty question: What are Millwall's league and cup goals this season?"

Zhang Yang looked at the problem and thought about it.

The so-called clear goal of leading the team, even his own players have not said it, that is, they are afraid of bringing pressure to the team, which will affect the performance of the players, not to mention reporters, Zhang Yang's answer has always been, "Our goal is relegation." ”

This kind of saying that 'high reward answers' is really a bit excessive.

In order to live up to the fans' wishes, ahem, Zhang Yang will not admit that it is for the reward amount, and it is also a thousand pounds, so he replied seriously, "In the Premier League, my personal goal is to compete for the championship, and the whole team will work hard for the championship and play every game seriously." ”

"As for the cups? The FA Cup will definitely be a bit of a fight. ”

Zhang Yang made a 'quite extraordinary' answer, which caused many fans and netizens to watch unanimous onlookers, and was quickly reprinted by major media platforms.

The answer is clear.

Many media platforms have analyzed the meaning of Zhang Yang, "Millwall will take every game seriously, try to fight for every point, and in the league they aim to play the best result. Zhang Yang did not mention the League Cup, indicating that the League Cup was abandoned, and the FA Cup, an ancient competition, will definitely be seriously involved in Millwall. ”

Zhang Yang's answer caused a storm of public opinion, and while getting the bounty bonus, his name quickly appeared in the online reports of major media.

So Zhang Yang found a problem that he had ignored before: those media reporters who covered the game did not like to report on him, which also caused a lot of trouble, but in the era of the Internet, it is not a problem at all.

Those unfriendly media can choose to report at will, and it doesn't matter if his name is mentioned or not, as long as there is Weibo.

You can post new news on Weibo, or you can use the online platform to accept an interview with a 'friendly reporter', and then it will not be a question for the reporter, but he can say whatever he wants, and it doesn't matter if the reporter is not used to listening, then don't interview."

Zhang Yang suddenly had some expectations.

I opened the QQ software that is popular in China, changed the name of the random acquisition to 'Millwall Coach Zhang Yang', and then improved my personal information, and established a group called 'Zhang Yang's personal news interview'.

"I'll be here for interviews in the future!" Zhang Yang made a major decision.