Chapter 144: Resuming Training
The moment the whistle ended, David Winston breathed a sigh of relief, and even when his team was leading 3-1, his heart was always hanging in his throat, after all, he was facing the defending champions. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
David Winston and Hierro clapped and walked over to Jose Mourinho. He saw Jose Mourinho walking towards him with a blank face.
Jose Mourinho stretched out his right hand to shake hands with David Winston, but he didn't expect David Winston to hug him and whisper in his ear. "I'm beating you again!!"
Naturally, the reporters on the sidelines couldn't hear what the two temperamental coaches were saying, but their intimate hug gave them a lot of different photos and topics.
Jose Mourinho was surprised, but also happy, because he was not a disheartened guy who threw in the towel on the spot, and the person in front of him was talking to himself so arrogantly, so the next time he was in a fight, he would make this person double the pain he had suffered.
At the post-match press conference, a reporter asked Jose Mourinho what the two men talked about in the hug, and Jose Mourinho gave the reporter a royal scorn, then refused to answer the question and walked away. And David Winston also laughed when he heard this question, raising the mystery to the highest level.
After this game, Southampton temporarily topped the table, which also made Southampton club history, and the Guardian, Daily Mail, Sky Sports all covered the game with front-page headlines and praise for David Winston and his Southampton team.
David Winston and Southampton left London with the praise and returned to their home city to prepare for the game against Birmingham City in three days' time. There is no room for error in this game, and it will be a crucial battle to secure the top spot in the table.
Looking at the standings, the second place Arsenal team is only in second place because of the goal difference, Manchester United is two points apart, and then there is the Chelsea team that just lost to themselves. Only one game is the slightest mistake and it will fall out of the Champions League zone.
It was late at night when they returned to the team, and David Winston was not on vacation this time, but told everyone in the car to train as usual tomorrow, just an hour later to give everyone more time to rest.
David Winston came home by himself but didn't have any feeling of wanting to sleep, so he began to watch the game against the Chelsea team, looking for the links in the game that the team should have avoided, and watched the whole game only to find that if it wasn't for the unsatisfactory performance of Claude Makelele, the anchor of the Chelsea team, then it would be really difficult to win, and after Michael Essien really integrated into the Chelsea tactical system, it was really a pretty terrible African bison.
In the early morning, the sky was slightly bright. David Winston felt a hint of sleepiness rushing to his brain, glanced at the time, it was just five o'clock, and he could still sleep for a few hours, so he set the alarm for nine o'clock and fell asleep.
David Winston slept a lot this time, he felt that he hadn't slept so solidly for a long time, and he now felt more and more that the job of head coach was really not something that ordinary people could do, but fortunately, he was also engaged in night shift work in his previous life, and he could still adapt.
The sun is shining and the weather is good. In Southampton, David Winston never seemed to worry about waking up one day to see the world grey, and he had very few such situations.
Even though it's summer, the weather in Southampton isn't very hot, but rather gives people a sense of comfort, and David Winston has fallen in love with it more and more. At this time, he thought of Chen Jun's parents, that is, his own parents. They had been moving to Southampton for a while, and at first he didn't have the courage to face it, and then it was a busy schedule, and it was only now that David Winston decided to wait until the game was over to meet his long-awaited parents.
When David Winston arrived at the training ground, he found the players and Hierro and strength and conditioning coach Ortega already on the training ground starting a warm-up session. This was specifically allowed by David Winston before. In the past, a team waited until the head coach came before starting a day of training, waiting for the head coach to give orders. But David Winston himself knew he wasn't going to schedule a training schedule, so he made such a human decision.
The players and Hierro all saw the drowsy head swaying to the sidelines, and they all knew that the manager must have stayed up late to watch the video again, which was all told to them by Hierro, so the warm-up activities were done more carefully.
David Winston took advantage of this time to sit on the sideline chair and squinted.
"Hey, David, it's your turn!"
At this time, a familiar voice sounded in David Winston's ears, it was Hierro's voice, a spirit, who woke up and found that it was Hierro in front of him.
"Ahh I'm asleep again!! Done with the warm-up? David Winston asked dimly.
"Yes! It's over! ”
"Okay." David Winston stood up and walked with Hierro to the training ground.
In the morning training, David Winston did not arrange the players to conduct confrontation training, but mainly focused on physical recovery training, supplemented by simple coordination training with the ball and small-scale passing cooperation, and continued to cultivate the tacit understanding between the players.
He also arranged for Hierro to lead Yaya Toure and Las Diarra in defensive training, and González Vieta and Lettening Silva to lead two young wingers, Franck Ribery and Adam Lallana, to conduct technical training and coordination training.
He took the rest of the players and began to pass and cut together. This is the end of the morning training.
In the afternoon, David Winston started an hour earlier, and he didn't let the players leave, but had lunch together at the new center, which also allowed the players to get to know each other better and increase intimacy. David Winston doesn't want any conflict with his players, and if that happens, it will undoubtedly be a devastating blow to the team's results, the team's stability, and the team's construction.
In the afternoon, David Winston played an 11-on-11 match, which was no less intense than a Premier League game, and in the end, the main team wearing yellow vests unexpectedly lost 3-4 to the substitutes. Contributing to the bench were Alan Shearer and Peter Trokhovski. Veteran Alan Shearer put in a brilliant performance and scored a hat-trick, while Germany's Peter Trohovski also played well, scoring a hat-trick of assists and a goal.
(To be continued.) )