Chapter 100 Irony
"Ellington! He ran to the open, he received the pass, no defender...shot-"
Next was the overwhelming cheers on the court, and Williams's high voice that was comparable to the Rockets' ascend to the sky, "goooooooooooooooooal! The ball has entered!"
"Ellington scored the second goal for Wigan Athletics, 2-0!"
After scoring the goal, Ellington hugged Ridell happily, and did not forget to laugh at Zhang Tiehan and spit out his tongue. The expression seemed to be saying, 'You see you are so eye-catching, but I scored the goal'.
Zhang Tiehan understood it.
He also laughed, as if he was helping Ellington celebrate the goal, and then gave the latter a bear hug... It was really a bear hug. Anyway, after the hug, Ellington insisted on not hugging others.
He looked at Zhang Tiehan's arm and felt a little shadow in his heart.
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Wise stood on the sidelines and watched the game nervously.
When he saw Wigan Athletic finish the goal, he was no longer angry, but instead walked back to the coach's seat silently.
He knew there was no hope for this game.
Failure is not scary. What is scary is that the players have no fighting spirit. What is even more scary is that without fighting spirit, there is no hope of victory. He suddenly feels that he is wrong. Before the game, he is afraid that the players will be careless in the game, but he feels that under tight defense, the opponent's No. 13 will not be too threatening.
He was wrong.
A big mistake!
After the game, he found that his players really want to limit the No. 13, and it takes a lot of energy to separate several players to defend. In other words, if there are only one or even two players, it is impossible to limit the No. 13.
They couldn't defend against each other, and that No. 13 was no longer at the level of the League One.
In this game, it was not lost in carelessness or fighting spirit, it was completely lost in strength. If the opponent did not have No. 13, then it is hard to say what the result of the game would be, but Wise is sure that his team would not be so passive.
In short, losing is due to strength.
Their strength is not as strong as others. They seem to have no fighting spirit, but in fact they have nothing to say about losing.
No matter what, there is no chance in this game. Although there is still a lot of time left, the result is clear at a glance. His team will not have a chance to turn the tables. Fortunately, this is the second time he has played against Wigan Athletics, so he doesn't have to worry about meeting this difficult No. 13 next time.
In the next game, in order to prevent Millwall from making a temporary counterattack, Jewell replaced Ellington, who had just scored, and replaced him with Tony Dingning to strengthen the defense.
With Ding Ning, Brekin and Jason in the backcourt, the team's defense has become much more stable, so that we don't have to worry about the opponent's sudden quick counterattack and there is no time to defend.
In offense, without Ellington, Zhang Tiehan needs to bear heavier pressure.
Fortunately, the team led two goals, and he only needed to hit the opponent's penalty area again and again, creating pressure on the opponent. The opponent could not let him play like this, and he could only put more energy into defense and could not find a chance to counterattack for a while.
Time passes little by little.
Not to mention Millwall coach Wise, even Millwall players know that they must have no chance.
The more they played, the less energetic they were, the less they couldn't find the feeling. In addition, they were completely at a disadvantage in the situation, so they had no fighting spirit at all. As a result, Zhang Tiehan used a sudden long shot to knock on Millwall's door again.
Three to zero, this is also the final score.
It may be surprising to look at the score alone. After all, Millwall is not a soft persimmon. They are getting better and better in the league, from fourth to ninth in the league. Their strength is not much worse than Wigan Athletics. How could Wigan Athletics win the game so cleanly?
But if you watch the whole game, everyone will think that Millwall only conceded three goals, which is pretty good.
Especially in the last stage of the second half, Millwall had no fighting spirit in the game, only Zhang Tiehan scored a goal, perhaps because Wigan Athletics strengthened its defense and replaced Ellington.
No matter what, Wigan won.
This is their eighth league victory since November 28th, and they have won eight consecutive league games. This result is gratifying. Wigan Athletics has also consolidated its fourth place in the league with its eight consecutive victories. They have pulled down eight points in the league, and are only one point away from Sunderland, the third in the league.
Now in the league, Norwich ranked first, and they only accumulated five points more than Wigan Athletic. The second place West Bromwich was only one point away from being close behind. Wigan Athletic has consolidated its fourth position in the league, which is equivalent to stepping into the first group for the league championship. This result is quite gratifying. Many Wigan and Manchester media expressed optimism about Wigan Athletic's results after the game.
But after the game, head coach Javier was not happy, and was not even affected by the eight-game winning streak in the league. He said, "We need to work harder because there are still many problems with the team."
But no one paid attention to Javier's words, they were more willing to interview players.
In comparison, Zhang Tiehan is much more arrogant!
When a reporter came to interview, Zhang Tiehan was excited about Ellington's goal in the second half. His expression was obviously to fight back against Ellington's goal. "You don't know how many opportunities there will be in the end. If I hadn't been lucky, I might have been promoted to second place in the scorer list."
Ellington's face turned dark when he heard this.
He was replaced in the second half and did not participate in the final game at all. Listening to Zhang Tiehan muttering about the game just now, he regretted that he would not have messed with this guy who had known it would have been.
At this time, a reporter came to interview, "Zhang, Wigan Athletics has won eight consecutive victories in the league. Do you have anything to say about this?"
"Of course!" Looking at Ellington's defeated look, Zhang Tiehan was in a good mood and immediately replied, "Eight consecutive victories are just the beginning. We will have nine consecutive victories and ten consecutive victories..."
He pointed at the reporter, completely ignoring the latter's stunnedness, "You have to remember! Remember!"
When Zhang Tiehan said this, he pointed at the camera and laughed. The reporters around him were very tacitly shooting at him and recorded Zhang Tiehan's arrogant appearance. As for what Zhang Tiehan said, they understood it as "Wigan Athletics yearned for continued victory", and as for other meanings, they consciously ignored it.
However, this photo can be used to post it in tomorrow's newspaper.
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Around Christmas, there were not many people paying attention to the League One game. Wigan Athletics ranked fourth in the league, not that it was the ranking that attracted attention. Just in a very silent state, Wigan Athletics won eight consecutive league wins.
When many media turned their perspective, they were surprised to see that Wigan Athletics had achieved such good results.
In December and January around Christmas, they exploded!
Eight consecutive victories...
Even in the League One, it was not easy to achieve a good record of eight consecutive victories. Among other League One teams, only Norwich, who ranked first, won nine consecutive victories in his work schedule, stabilized their league top. At that time, many fans paid attention to Norwich.
Now Wigan Athletics is about to surpass Norwich.
However, in terms of league points, the two teams are three different, but the points are only five points away. Wigan Athletics has a lot of opportunities to catch up with Norwich.
The media have noticed it.
In England, there are still many attentions to the League One. In fact, England is one of the few regions that attach importance to the second-level league. You can understand one or two from one data. England's second-level league is only 30% less than the average attendance rate of the Premier League, that is, the first-level league.
Last season, the average attendance rate of the Premier League was 27,756, while the English League One was 19,882. Compared with the two data, and the Premier League can attract neutral fans and tourists, it means that the fans of the English League One team are actually not much less than those of the Premier League.
The number of fans also represents the wishes of the media.
Their reports on football must be shown to fans. Only with fans can there be a market, so the English media have always attached great importance to the League One event.
When they saw Wigan Athletic wins eight straight, they rushed to interview some news.
Zhang Tiehan was quickly excavated.
This time he went to the special report of the English newspaper "Daily Telegraph". Although it only occupies a small corner of the page, it is already quite good. After all, there are very few players in the English League One who can go to "Daily Telegraph" alone.
"Daily Telegraph" introduces some information about Zhang Tiehan and some data on his performance this season. These information and data all illustrate Zhang Tiehan's talent.
Finally they played for Manchester United, "We are very happy to see another young genius appearing in Manchester United's youth training camp. Unfortunately, this genius has left Manchester United and he belongs to Wigan Athletics."
This is the finishing touch.
With the influence of "Daily Telegraph", it is released more than 500,000 copies every day, and the official website click traffic, this report was seen by many people, and then many people speculated about the meaning of "Daily Telegraph".
Is it irony, irony, or irony?
Not clear.
In short, it is full of irony.
Everyone knows that Daily Telegraph supports South London football and has never been very friendly to Manchester United. This may be because they are newspapers with right-wing political tendencies, while Manchester has left-wing political tendencies. The full name is Manchester Guardian. The competition between the two newspapers is very fierce. As a result, Daily Telegraph never says good news about Manchester football, and its reports on Manchester United are even more one-sided.
Anyway, they are not very friendly to Manchester United.
Then this report is pure irony. Since the "Golden Generation" in 1992, there have been no players who are too talented in Manchester United's youth training camp. Now the player who can be played in Manchester United's youth training camp is Fletcher. He is difficult to play in Manchester United, let alone compared to Beckham, Scholes, Giggs, Neville brothers, Bart Cook and other Manchester United seniors.
Zhang Tiehan has already shown a genius side in the League One, but such a genius no longer belongs to Manchester United and was still listed for sale by Manchester United for 400,000 pounds.
Isn't this irony, what's it?
Chapter completed!