The head coach of Ipswich is Joe Royle.

Joe Royle has been a renowned talent in Everton's youth team since the age of fifteen, making his debut for Everton just after his 17th birthday, and has since had a smooth career and has been in the England squad for the rest of the day, where he is regarded as one of the best goalscorers in England's history.

After retiring as a player, Joe Royle became a coach for two decades now.

Joe Royle's coaching career has not been smooth compared to those of the world's top managers, but his long-term tenure in charge of a Championship team in recent years is by no means bad.

Joe Royle's coaching style is what many people talk about.

As a player, Joe Royle was an attacking striker, but as head coach, he has placed a strong emphasis on defense and the team's style has become more conservative.

The contrast is as, 'Royle is a striker, he knows how easy it is to score goals'.

At this time, Joe Royle's face became solemn.

He hasn't paid much attention to it since the start of the game, it's like he says 'the game is under control', and he thinks so, he doesn't think he's going to lose to a young man in his early twenties who doesn't have any professional experience.

This Millwall team is chaotic.

Ipswich will be looking to take advantage of the chaos of his opponents to try to get the first three points after Christmas with ease.

Joe Royle had always thought so, but now it was no longer easy for Millwall to score and Kevin Kiel kicked the ball straight into the Ipswich goal

It was also tantamount to kicking Joe Royle in the face.

Joe Royle doesn't get out of shape, anything can happen in a football game.

He just didn't understand it a little.

Was this just Millwall's balloon, or was everything expected by that young Chinese?

Under normal circumstances, Joe Royle would definitely think it was a balloon, but from the beginning of the game to the present, Royle has been carefully observing, no matter how dangerous Millwall is, or how good the opportunity is, the young Chinese's expression has not changed.

Smile lightly.

Calm.

This is not what a young manager should have in the face of intense competition.

"Maybe that's his character?"

"It can only be explained by a balloon!"

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Kevin Gere's goal, of course, was a dribble.

Zhang Yang did not interfere in the team's tactics and did not adjust the game, Millwall was able to score, it was completely the play of the players on the field.

Maybe arranging the starting lineup and making the luck of 'word and spirit divination' be evaluated as 'auspicious', it is always easy to score goals if you are lucky, but 'luck' itself represents luck.

The reason why Zhang Yang was able to stay calm was only because he knew in advance what would happen.

But in fact, he was still a little excited.

This is his first game as head coach, and the outcome is so important.

He is confident to lead his team to victory, but scoring goals is always exciting.

However, Zhang Yang still remained calm, because he knew that his identity had changed, if he was a 'match instructor', he could be free to carnival like the fans, he is now the head coach of the team, he must control his emotions at any time, even if he has a goal, he needs to keep a clear head at any time, so that he can make judgments and adjustments at any time.

Then the game continued.

Neither team made any adjustments, and the game didn't change much because of the goal.

Millwall are still looking to press offensively, while Ipswich remain solid defensively, coming in from time to time to threaten Millwall's goal.

The situation was rather unfavorable for Millwall.

Aldous began to get anxious again, he was worried that the goal would be broken by Ipswich and the opponent would close to equalizing the score.

Zhang Yang said, "Calm down, Aldous, of course I know it's dangerous, but it's not a good time, we have to go at least to midfield to make adjustments. ”

Aldous was right to think about it.

Now that the game was still going on, it was impossible to make any major adjustments, and then he forced himself to stay calm, sat back in his position, and began to think deeply about his emotions.

He felt like he was too nervous.

Although he has been with the team before, this is the first time he has been the 'first assistant coach', and he hopes that he will win the first time.

Aldous couldn't help but turn his head to look at Zhang Yang.

This young man in his early twenties is really calm and surprising, and the pressure on the other side may be even greater, because he is the head coach of the team, not only facing the game, but also facing the pressure of the media, the fans and the club if he loses.

The difference in mentality between the two is too big.

'The club's decision to make him head coach also makes some sense. Aldous thought.

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The rest of the first half was a tough one.

In the last five minutes, Ipswich attacked in two waves, both into the penalty area, and also completed three shots in the box and on the periphery, but still did not break Millwall's goal.

Millwall fans let out a long breath as they could get through half-time in peace.

The Millwall players returned to the dressing room with some trepidation.

After a tense first half, when everyone was a little tired, they went back to the dressing room and started to rest, and there were people talking about the game, but most of it was about defense.

The door to the locker room opened.

Zhang Yang walked in, and Aldous followed.

Everybody looked at it.

Although Zhang Yang is the head coach voted by the players, most of the players don't really care, because Zhang Yang is so young, and it is difficult for them to believe what he can do.

Zhang Yang didn't have his signature smile, and there was still a hint of solemnity between his eyebrows.

After walking into the locker room, he glanced left and right, stood in the middle, and then beckoned around, saying, "Come here, you must listen carefully, and now we will start to explain the style of play in the second half." ”

Quite a few players came to be interested.

Although Zhang Yang is the head coach of the team, it is definitely the first time for him to explain tactics and playing style.

Zhang Yang looked at the players who came around, first summed up the first half, and his expression was very serious, "We were very dangerous in the first half. You could feel it in the game, we had chances and it looked like we could break down at any time, but we persevered in the end and scored a goal and we played really well. ”

Quite a few players nodded their heads.

"But now is not the time to celebrate, we have to try to maintain our advantage. So in the second half, we have to strengthen our defense. ”

"Everyone should know something about Ipswich, but maybe not many people know about their specific style of play......"

Next, Zhang Yang began to talk about Ipswich.

"Ipswich are a team that is good at counter-attacking, and they tend to stick to their counter-attacking style of play when they are behind. Unless there is no hope at all, they will not really attack. And the way they seek to score goals is roughly to rely on counter-attacks. ”

"Let's talk about their attack, in the past games, Ipswich mostly attacked from the right side, maybe because their right side Jerter is a star player, their habit is to rely on the right side, and in the front end to score goals more rely on the left striker Brand, so the left and right side of the play is also what they are good at, we have to pay attention to this."

"In addition, when they push head-on, they tend to form a triangle attack in the middle, and the offensive and defensive style of play is very solid, and it is quite a headache......

Zhang Yang began to elaborate.

At the beginning, everyone didn't listen very seriously, and a 'amateur layman' talked about football tactics, and it didn't feel connotative, but as the analysis gradually deepened, everyone became serious.

They were also quite surprised.

Most people have always felt that this young Chinese does not understand professional football at all, but does not understand professional football, can he say such a detailed tactical analysis?

Zhang Yang has been talking seriously.

As the saying goes, 'one minute on stage, ten years off the stage', he can't do tactical analysis to this point, but it was only studied in a few hours combined with the first half of the game.

Now it comes in handy.

After explaining to the players the attacking style that Ipswich is good at and asking the positional players to pay close attention, Zhang Yang began to talk about the defense, "Our formation needs to drop back a little bit, the first half of the game was too open. Now we have a ball advantage, as long as the opponent is not in a hurry to attack, we are not in a hurry, this is our general style of play. ”

"I won't talk much about the offense, we must pay attention to the defense, especially the left and the middle, we must keep people at any time, and the key players of the opposing team must also focus on defense."

Zhang Yang said a little more.

It's all about the front, and letting the players know what Ipswich are used to in attacking will help them defend more effectively, and then there's not much to talk about, and the summary is one thing: strengthen the defense.

As for how to strengthen the defense, it is necessary for the players to play freely on the playing field.

Zhang Yang has only been the head coach for one day.

He didn't have time to understand the tactical details of the team, and it was impossible for him to arrange the details of the defense from player to player.

Despite this, everyone still looked up to him.

In the past, everyone thought that Zhang Yang didn't understand tactics, he just had excellent game analysis skills, but now many people have changed their opinions.

He also has a hand in arranging tactics!

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