Chapter 35: I only want the savior

Less than fifty meters away from the Preston reserve training ground is the first team training ground. Although it only takes a few seconds to sprint from the reserve training ground to the first team training ground, for most members of the reserve team, this distance of only fifty meters is a natural barrier.

Of course, for Moyes, it was just a simple journey from the reserve team to the first team. After staying in the reserve team for less than a week, Moyes had already returned to the first team.

In fact, this is also strongly requested by first-team head coach Gary Peters. Recently, Preston's situation has become worse and worse. In the last league game, he lost 2-4 to Petersburg, who ranked sixth, and his ranking has dropped one more time and has fallen to 16th place - this is almost close to the red warning line of relegation.

The 24 teams in the English League Two were relegated to the last three, but although Preston seems to be far from the relegation zone, he only has four points ahead of the relegation zone with points. Previously, Preston won two of his seven games and lost five of them. If this continues, it is not uncommon to lose and relegate in a row...

Three wins, three draws and five losses in the eleventh round, this is not a good result, so Peters is more eager to return to the team quickly. His experience and defensive ability are what Preston needs. Although Preston has many good defensive players, Moyes has always been the leader of the defense on the court. Without him, Preston's defense is still very good, but there are always some mistakes and omissions.

Last season, Preston conceded an average of 0.8 goals per game, but since the eleven games that began this season, Preston has conceded thirteen goals. Although Moyes is old, he is still an indispensable part of Preston.

Of course Moyes knows this, but his views are different from Peters. Peters's view is that after Moyes returns, Preston's defensive ability will increase a lot. As long as he can reduce the conceding goals, Preston's ability to grab points will slowly recover, and no matter what, it will not fall into the level of relegation.

Moyes is confident about this. He stayed in Preston for a long time, and many of the defenders on the court were brought out by him. He knew them like he knew himself. With this defense line alone, Preston would not have any problem with gaining a foothold in the League Two, but with Preston's ability, he could actually have greater ambitions.

This ambition may be to enter the top ten, maybe to enter the playoffs, or even - upgrade to enter the League One!

If you want to do this, defense alone is not enough.

In Moyes's view, Preston actually has a few distinctive players on the offensive line. The combination of two forwards, one high and one fast, is definitely the best in the League Two. Nogan's scoring ability and Grant's speed are quite good. Although the two wing forwards have their own shortcomings, one is experienced and the other is active in running. However, Preston lacks a lubricant that can pinch these offensive hands together. In the game, they rely more on personal abilities and small-scale cooperation to attack. Of course, the offensive effect is not good.

Of course, it is difficult to find such a clamp, but Moyes feels lucky that he found a player in the reserve team who could become such a role!

He stayed in the reserve team for a whole week. Two days ago, he saw Tiger's outstanding performance in the confrontational training and training matches. In the next few days, he was carefully observing Tiger to see if this young man really has this ability.

Although I could not fully understand a person in five days, Moyes could almost conclude that Tiger was the person he was looking for.

During these five days, Tiger came very early every day. After the training, he would stay for two hours. During these two hours, he was with his best friend Paul Barrett. During the extra training, half of the time Tiger and Barrett were physically fighting, and the other half was Tiger teaching Barrett various offensive skills, including ball control, pass and choose the opportunity to get ahead.

This approach seems a bit inefficient, because Moyes found that Tiger will improve after every confrontation with Barrett. If he compares his current confrontation ability with his confrontation ability more than a week ago, it is completely different. On the contrary, Barrett's technical progress is not great. In Moyes's view, if Tiger can do more confrontation training, he will make progress faster, but Tiger is not stingy with Barrett and shares his respective time with Barrett without any complaints.

This kind of personality is already a very good personality.

In his usual training, Tiger also showed enough things - ball control skills and pass awareness... Although most of the time he relies more on his own personal abilities to break through, it is not that he will not be able to pass the ball, but in Moyes's view, this is enough, and he will naturally learn to play football in a more labor-saving way in the future.

With such a midfielder who can control, break, pass, and shoot in the middle, the attacks of the two wings and the forwards will naturally be alive. Nogan's grabbing points requires more crosses. If Tiger passes the ball in the middle in time, he can get more crosses. Grant's speed requires a large number of straight passes. Tiger just has the ability to pass the ball directly, and two wing forwards who lack the ability to drive the ball through, can also play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses with Tiger's support...

"This guy is the type we need now!"

With this idea, Moyes found Peters.

"David, it's great that you can come back." After seeing Moyes, Peters's already haggard face began to shine: "After returning to the team to train, they have made many mistakes since the beginning of this season."

"No problem." Moyes nodded. His position in Preston was very transcendent. In addition to being the captain, he was also the team's assistant coach, so he had no worries when talking to Peters.

"By the way, Gary, this time I found a good little guy in the reserve team, that Chinese, Tiger Lee. His progress has been great over the past year..."

Moyes was interrupted by Peters just halfway through his words, and he smiled bitterly: "David... I'm so busy with the first team now, so how can I have time to take care of the reserve team... Look, now we only have 12 points, leading the relegation zone for four points. The last time we scored points was still 2-1 at home, and Millwall won two-to-one at home... If we lose, I guess my head coach is over. There are good players in the reserve team, which is of course a good thing, but now I have no interest in any player except the savior."

Moyes opened his mouth and wanted to say something. Peters waved his hand: "Two days later, it will be the Qualification Cup game. I hope you can play in this game. Whether you can win is secondary. It is mainly to let you quickly become familiar with the game. In the next game, we can't lose any more."

Moyes nodded silently. He knew the pressure on Peters. If his grades were good now, he might be happy to promote a newcomer, but now...

"Then let's talk about it." Moyes said silently in his heart.
Chapter completed!