Not all the media care about Zhang Tiehan, in fact, no matter how good Zhang Tiehan's performance is, he is only in League One, which is the second tier of England, and no matter how good his performance is, it belongs to the players who are in the 'wait-and-see period', after all, the level of competition in League One is lower than that of the Premier League.

They are more concerned about Wigan Athletic's results.

Around Christmas, the league won eight in a row...... So how long will their winning streak last? Who will stand up and stop them from continuing to soar?

These are the questions that the media care about.

Wigan Athletic's current results are inseparable from the players and coaches, and there is only one of the latter.

From the perspective of the former, in addition to No. 13 Zhang Tiehan, they also have many outstanding players, such as Ellington, whose goals are second only to Zhang Tiehan and rank fourth in the league scorer list, and Riddle, almost every goal of the team is related to Riddle, he is the real core of the team, and he is a player with strong personal ability.

Coupled with outstanding players such as Macarlochi, Barnes, and Bregin, Wigan Athletic's overall strength can indeed compete with League One powerhouses, such as West Ham United.

However, the media is not optimistic that Wigan Athletic can go all the way to the close, because they are a promoted team...... No, it should be said that it is because of Wigan Athletic's heritage, which caused their problem of bench depth, they were only promoted from League Two last season, and there are many second-division players in the squad, and it is impossible to improve the overall strength without a major change, which causes the gap between their main force and the substitute to be too large.

In these many games, it is impossible for them to keep the team's main team starting, but their substitute strength is much weaker than the main team.

So sooner or later there will be failures......

Their eyes turned to Wigan Athletic's next two opponents, Preston North End and Burnley, with the former drawing away at Wigan Athletic in the previous round and the latter losing by two goals at home to Wigan Athletic.

Compared to Burnley, it is still Preston reliable......

Unconsciously, Preston received more attention, and on the day before the game, the number of reporters who came to Preston for interviews was much higher, and Preston FC wondered why there were so many reporters to interview, and they were all here to inquire about the next game.

"Can you tell us about the starting line-up? Will David Perris play? ”

"Will Preston have the confidence to win the race?"

"For Wigan Athletic's number 13, how are you going to restrict it? Can you share your thoughts? ”

Wait a minute.

Many reporters were concerned about the next game and seemed to be looking for a win for Preston North End. Preston North End are also full of momentum, the last time the two teams met, they drew away from home, and back at home, they are still full of confidence.

It was only when the game actually started that Preston realized that something was wrong.

The last time they met, Zhang Tiehan had not yet transferred to Wigan Athletic, they didn't know much about Zhang Tiehan, and could only analyze it through game videos and statistics, etc., in fact, Preston head coach Larrick did not develop any effective defensive strategy.

They had some headaches for Zhang Tiehan's defense.

However, in the first half, Preston was full of momentum, with home advantage, they scored a goal, did not let Wigan Athletic score, and then in the second half, Zhang Tiehan suddenly made a cold shot, rewriting the score to 1:1, and then the two teams launched an offensive battle with each other, in the final stage of the game, Ridell's pick shot scored the winning goal for Wigan Athletic.

The final score was 1:2, and Preston still lost the game.

Faced with this result, the journalists who had hoped for Preston were scolding.

Preston drew away from home last time out, but now they lose 1-2 at home, and reporters don't care that Preston is actually doing well, the results and data are the most important, and then Preston will be overwhelmed with criticism.

They feel like a season where all the criticism is focused on this game......

Journalists then focused on Wigan Athletic's home game against Burnley in the next round, but unlike Preston Nacional Nacional (Preston), they were not at all optimistic that Burnley would beat Wigan Athletic, and many had already written articles to hail Wigan Athletic's 10-game winning streak.

As they thought, Burnley had no way to take Wigan Athletic, and three days later they were beaten by four goals at the JJB Stadium and were yet to score a single goal.

With these two victories, Wigan Athletic have won the league for the tenth in a row!

Ten wins in a row!

It doesn't get any better than that, even in League One, where it is not easy to win 10 games in a row, a result that shocked the media, and with this victory, combined with a draw for rivals Sunderland, Wigan Athletic overtook Sunderland in third place in the league.

In terms of points, with Norwich and West Bromwich Albion also winning, Wigan Athletic are still five and four points behind the two teams respectively, but have moved up one place in the table.

This is quite an achievement!

A lot of reporters talked about Wigan Athletic in their coverage the second day, about their 10-game winning streak, about their league standings, and about their players. Riddle, Zhang Tiehan, Ellington and others have all been more or less reported.

Wigan Athletic FC has also received more attention.

Every day, there are many reporters crowded in front of the club, waiting for the opportunity to interview, almost every player who comes to the club, will be surrounded by reporters to ask a few words, even they drive by, sometimes will be stopped by reporters, up to the main team of the first team, down to the youth team players, and even the club's staff, will be asked questions by these all-pervasive reporters.

Many people are happy to see this.

For example, some youth team players or substitute players of the team, they are unknown, and no media reporters take the initiative to come to them when they want to be interviewed, but now they can say a few words in front of reporters, and they enjoy this kind of life very much.

Wigan Athletic Club is also pleased with this change, the more attention the club has received, which means that the club's influence is more extensive, it will attract more fans, it will attract more sponsorship, which is good for the development of the club.

There are also people who feel bad, such as Zhang Tiehan.

If it is after the game, it is okay to have an interview, maybe it is a reporter who supports the club to do an exclusive interview or something, he doesn't care at all, and he will be happy to be interviewed, but since he has received more attention, he must pay attention to it at any time when he goes for a morning run in the morning, otherwise he may be harassed by reporters.

Zhang Tiehan had no choice but to give up his morning run in the town in the morning and go to the training ground instead, but in this way, he had to go to the club to eat a nutritious meal, otherwise it would be a waste of time to come out of the training ground again.

Nutritious meals are not a good thing.

Although Zhang Tiehan pays attention to his body very much, and nutritious meals are also good for the body, but personally, he likes to enjoy, eating nutritious meals is not a pleasure, in the case of satisfying hunger, sometimes even suffers, and his body cannot be affected by a breakfast, these reporters still bring a lot of troubles to Zhang Tiehan.

He misses Lola a little......

If Lola could live with him, breakfast would be served at home in the future. Every morning when you wake up and have a beautiful girlfriend prepare a breakfast for yourself, you must enjoy a lot of life.

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The team is in good shape, but not everyone is optimistic.

Jewell's face is a little grim, he has been like this in the last two days, it stands to reason that the team's results are good, Jewell should be happy, but some things are not happy at all, such as Ellington, Roberts, Jackson, Jensen and many other main players have physical problems, in the new blood sampling test, the team doctor pointed out this problem, "Paul, it's time for them to rest." ”

Jeville, of course, knows that too.

Among these people, Ellington and Jensen have played too many games, and the same is Riddle, Bregin, and Zhang Tiehan have similar problems, their starters and full game times are too much, fortunately, the latter people are in good health, and Ellington's health has been poor, and in the last game, Jewell replaced Ellington for this consideration.

He didn't expect the problem to arise so quickly.

Thankfully, the next game wasn't crucial, it was the first round of the FA Cup knockout round.

The English FA Cup is the oldest football competition in the world, and its influence in England is second only to the league.

Even those big clubs, such as Manchester United and Arsenal, will not voluntarily give up the FA Cup.

This cup has a different format than the League Cup.

The League Cup is only between the professional teams in England to decide the champion, and the FA Cup is not limited to professional teams, England has nine leagues, and the amateur teams in the lowest league can participate as long as they sign up, but the teams in the lower leagues need to go through the first-level knockout rounds, while the teams in the Premier League and League One can start directly from the round of 64.

However, Jevir is interested in abandoning the FA Cup in consideration of the team's situation.

And there's nothing wrong with that.

The team has to spend all their energy in the league alone, plus the League Cup has reached the semi-finals, they need to face a strong Bolton Wanderers, the FA Cup round of 64 has just begun, it is too far away to talk about the FA Cup title, and if you give up now, you will have a few fewer games, which is good for the team's league situation.

So in the face of the first opponent of the FA Cup, Wigan Athletic sent almost all the substitutes, and the only main players were Ridell and Makarlochi, Zhang Tiehan and Ellington were not in the squad, and the forward sent the energetic Jove Holyfield.

Even so, Jevier was afraid of victory......

He wanted to lose.

If you lose like this, it will be beneficial to the team, after all, it is too illusory to talk about competing for the FA Cup title now, not to mention, if you play a few rounds, it will be worth the loss if you delay the league.

The team is already tired from fighting on two fronts, and it is simply unable to support three-line operations.

Wigan Athletic's opponent is York City, an English second division team, and they are promoted from the second division this season, so it is very normal for such a team to lose to Wigan Athletic's substitute lineup.

Jevier would certainly not say that to the players, it would make the substitutes unhappy with the club, they finally got the opportunity to play, and they just gave up the game, then no one wanted to play.

It's just that Jewell's worries are a little unnecessary.

York City can reach the FA Cup round of 64 with the strength of a promoted team in League Two, which is not a soft persimmon, not to mention, this is an away game, York City's performance is still quite good, they scored in the first half.

Their tactics are very straightforward, which is a simple defensive counterattack, and even so, Wigan Athletic has no way to do it, Holyfield is completely out of shape in the front, and no matter how good Riddle is in the middle, it is impossible to lead the team to victory without the support of his teammates.

In the end, Wigan Athletic lost the game.

This was 'good news' for Jewell, but to his headache, Ridell was injured during the game.

That happened in the 83rd minute of the game, Ridell was directly tackled to the ground by the opponent with the ball, and then was carried off the field, after a short treatment by the team doctor, he couldn't stand up at all, and went to the hospital for a detailed examination after the game, and the doctor diagnosed it as a muscle strain, and he had to be out of action for at least four weeks.

Four weeks...... That is, a month.

Riddle was out of action for a month, and the blow to Wigan Athletic was huge, especially before the battle with Bolton, because Wigan Athletic's midfielder had no one to replace Riddle's position.

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