Chapter Twenty-Nine: Three Wins in a Row
At New York Stadium, the home team Rotherham was scored twice in only half an hour, and the score of 0-2 finally made the Rotherham players realize something, but it was very difficult to make temporary adjustments.
The tactics laid out by the manager have been finalized.
Even if the Rotherham players on the field realized that they needed to pay attention to the opponent's number 13 and were two goals behind, Wigan Athletic was very conservative and played defensive counterattacks, and they would not attack at all, and they could only attack when they were behind.
They communicated with each other, but they didn't know what to do, and the most important thing was that the head coach didn't speak, and they didn't know how to adjust.
The opponent only defends, they have to attack, and they can only be careful in the face of the thirteenth.
That's all.
Kicking the ball like this, the opponent's No. 13 is a midfielder, and he has been running in the area in front of the penalty area, which has a large range, and even he sometimes goes to the side to make up for the defense, if he passes the ball when he sees the opponent, they need to do more short passes, and it is easy to make mistakes.
Rotherham still has a very high quality of players on the field.
Even if there is no one to command, they quickly realize what to do, which is to play a few long passes, attack from both wings, and as soon as the opponent's number 13 comes, they will pass the ball to the other side.
In this way, the opponent will not be able to grab the ball at all.
It's just that there are obvious flaws in this way, that is, the pass is not accurate, this is after all the English League One field, the strength of the players is limited, Rotherham's two full-backs have good footwork, but the long pass of dozens of meters is not very accurate, and a careless football will reach the feet of the opposing player.
Fortunately, the Wigan Athletic players did not play well on the counter-attack for the rest of the first half and failed to score again.
They held up until half-time.
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Intermission.
The visiting dressing room was relaxed, the players were tired, they were all smiling, they were two goals ahead, they were relaxed and they didn't have to worry about anything. If you keep playing like this, you'll win.
Ridell became the main character.
He scored both goals, and he deserves the title role, so Bregin pushes Ridell in the middle and funnily puts a bottle of water on his head, "Look, our Andy!" Baby Andy! ”
"Haha......"
Many people are a little confused when they see Bregin's approach, but there are still many people who laugh and laugh, and those who are familiar with Riddle know that there is a barwoman who likes to call him that.
Andy baby, what a cute title!
Ridell was ashamed and angry, he pulled out the lid and splashed water on Bregin's face, who hugged his body miserably and muttered, "Look, Andy baby is angry, he looks so cute, it's really my Andy......"
Zhang Tiehan hurriedly asked his teammates about the origin of 'Andy Baby'.
It was a sunny afternoon, but the town of Wigan was very hot. For the first time in Wigan Athletic's history, Wigan Athletic won 10 consecutive wins in the English Second Division, while winning the English Second Division title four rounds ahead of schedule and automatically promoting to the English First Division.
Riedell took a few friends to the bar party together.
They celebrate and dance with the fans they know at the bar, and while they are half drunk, Riedell has some bed-to-bed contact with Dali, the bar's landlady.
There were a lot of fans, a few players in the room, and a lot of people knew about it.
Riddle was born in Wigan, he grew up here, everyone knew him, so it spread very quickly, it was nothing, it was just a drunken night, and in England, it was so normal.
But afterwards Dali announced that she was in love with Ridell.
Herein lies the embarrassment.
Ridell is only twenty-five years old, and Dali is thirty-three years old, Dali's mother is the sister of Ridel's grandfather, that is, Dali is the cousin of Ridel's father, they have known each other since childhood, and Ridell has always called Aunt Dali.
This relationship is not far or close, and it is not against the law for the two to get married.
But Wigan Town is not big after all, and it doesn't matter if no one knows the road, and it is embarrassing for everyone to know the road.
But Dali is a romantic woman, and she always promotes her romantic love story with Ridel...... Riedell hadn't been to that bar since that time.
"A third-rate dog blood love story with a little color, this evaluation is not right, in short, Andy, you should face up to your love, it's not wrong to like your aunt, everyone can understand it......" Listening to the whole story, Zhang Tiehan made a concluding speech loudly.
"Bastard! Who told him! Ridell angrily searched for the man with the big mouth.
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Compared to the bustle of the away team's dressing room, the atmosphere in the home team's dressing room is much more solemn. Many players remember that head coach Holroyd didn't care about the opponent's number 13 at all.
"It's just a newcomer, newcomers are eager to perform, we just need to be more steady." Holroyd said so at the time.
But the result?
It's this newcomer's defense that makes the team so passive!
The players think that way, it's a mistake on the part of the manager, not a bad performance. As a client, even if Holroyd is thick-skinned, he has to admit his mistake, and he apologized to the player, "It was my mistake. ”
In a word, the players were comforted a lot.
"It's just two goals, we still have a chance, the opponent has two goals advantage, they will definitely defend, and the worst thing they are good at is defense, we still have to take the initiative to attack, play the momentum of the team, the tactics are still the same, but you need to be careful, don't let that number 13 grab the ball."
'On the other hand, it is better to cooperate more on the wings, we were tackled too many times in the first half, not only the opponent's number 13, but everyone else.
What Holroyd said and said, in fact, he was emphasizing that our tactics were fine, but we didn't pay attention to the opponent's number 13, coupled with today's performance was not very good, which caused the current backwardness, everyone worked hard, and continued to play like this in the second half, we still have a chance!
These words may have some effect.
Hall Royd was still very prestigious at Rotherham for a few years, so the players stepped back onto the field with the intention to keep trying.
Very few people questioned Holroyd, but when the game restarted, some players began to question it.
If the tactics are not adjusted, then they played no different from the last stage of the first half, in that kind of game, the team did not have any advantage, but the opponent did not play well on the counterattack a few times, so they did not score, and the team still had no chance.
How to penetrate the opposing defense? The coach didn't say.
How to pass to find opportunities? The coach didn't say.
And even how to stop the other side from fighting back...... The coach still didn't say.
So how exactly do they fight?
A lot of Rotherham players are at a loss, they don't know how to play, they still play according to the previous way of playing, they are the attacking side, but the situation is very dangerous, every time the opponent attacks can bring threats, and they have the advantage of possession, but they can't find good chances at all.
The only consolation was that halfway through the second half, the opponent's No. 13 was fouled.
It was a normal steal.
Zhang Tiehan rushed quickly, before the opponent passed, he fell to the ground and touched the ball with the tip of his sword, and also touched the foot of the opposing player, and the opponent fell, but he also received a yellow card from the referee.
"I didn't foul!" Zhang Tiehan was depressed and explained to the referee.
Ridell hurriedly pulled him away.
This ball said that there was no foul, no problem, but the opponent flew out of the ball and fell to the ground more than a meter with the ball, and it was normal to give a foul, and the yellow card was a little wronged. But this is the opponent's home stadium and the referee is not a penalty machine, you can't expect the referee to be precise.
At the same time, the clock was already in the 77th minute of the game.
Holroyd couldn't sit still for a long time!
From the beginning, he sat firmly in the coach's seat, and the temperament of the 'famous handsome' was vividly expressed, but at this time, if he sat like that, it was estimated that the fans would throw him to death with eggs, for the sake of his life, Holloyd stood heroically on the sidelines.
"Press! Press on! Come forward! ”
"Be careful! Stupid, this will also make a mistake, go back to defense! ”
"Hold on! Don't worry...... Bastard! At this time, what are you still grinding about, pass the ball quickly! ”
Holroyd kept shouting to direct the game.
But the balance of victory has irreversibly tilted in Wigan Athletic's side.
In the last ten minutes, Rotherham's attack was good amid Holroyd's frequent shouting, but he couldn't score, but it was Brygin's big foot at the back that gave Ellington a chance, he took the ball to the right, passed straight into the box, and Makalocchi scored with a low shot.
Zero to three.
With three goals down, Rotherham had no hope and the rest of the game was garbage time, and they didn't even want to score a goal to save face.
With the referee's whistle, the game was over.
Wigan Athletic picked up another win with a three-goal win over home side Rotherham United at New York Stadium, bringing the team to a third straight league win.