Moyes is back.

This news not only made Preston fans frustrated by the poor results this season start to have hope, but also allowed Preston first-team members to find the backbone - Moyes's existence is indeed too important to this team, especially when there are not many veterans on the team.

In the third round of the Qualification Cup two days later, Moyes made his first appearance this season.

Moyes was warmly welcomed by all the fans at home, and Preston's team changed its previous decline and launched a fierce attack at home - of course, this is also related to the opponent's strength.

In the end, Preston defeated British-Class team Dunington 2-0 at home and entered the second round of the Qualifying Cup Northern District.

In the 12th round of the League Two four days later, Preston continued to play at home, defeating visiting Sherubery 2-1, and rose to 14th place, and everything seemed to be getting better.

Just as Preston fans were looking forward to their team continuing to win, Preston quickly lost the game in the 13th round. They lost 0-1 to Stoke Port away. Then in a back-to-back away game, Preston suffered another defeat in the crazy shouts of Millwall fans, and another zero-to-one. After a league victory, Preston suffered two consecutive defeats, and his points fell to the 20th place at once, and he only ranked in this position with a goal difference advantage - the points of 20th, 21st and 22nd were all fifteen points.

Then... it was a plague-like three-game tie.

He drew Walsal one-to-one away game, tied by Burnley one-to-one at home, and tied by Rotherham to zero away.

The points snails grow upwards, while their rankings fall downwards at a faster rate.

It was November. After 17 rounds of the league, Preston's points were only 18 points, barely ranked 19th, but the team at the bottom also reached 14 points.

In addition to the rankings that have not yet fallen into the relegation zone, it can be said that Preston has become a standard relegation team now.

Faced with this situation, the club's chairman, Mr. Drake Shaw, began to unable to sit still.

Nowadays, there are fans who hold signs to protest outside the club gate. However, they have no objection to the head coach Peters who brought the team from the English-Class to the English-Class. Instead, they aimed all the fingers at the club chairman Drake Shaw - they didn't buy people when they were in the English-Class, they didn't buy people when they entered the English-Class, and they barely rank in the middle of the English-Class. They still didn't buy people when they were in the English-Class. Now, they are about to be relegated. Are you still buying people or not?

In fact, Drake Shaw was also helpless about this situation. Although he was the chairman of Preston, he was not the only one who had the final say. There was also a board of directors below him. To put it bluntly, he also worked for this board of directors. Those directors were delayed when paying money, and were not ruthless when distributing dividends. He didn't have much choice.

But in this situation, he always had to say something, so Drake Shaw summoned Peters.

When Moyes saw Peters coming to the head coach's office with a gloomy face, he knew that the situation was definitely not very good.

To be fair, Preston's poor performance during this period also has something to do with their bad luck. The main right forward Barrel was injured in the 13th round. Originally, Preston's main lineup was a carrot and a pit, and there was a missing main player. The substitute players who came on the bench were quite average, which made Preston's originally not very good attack line worse. The poor attack naturally led to an increase in the pressure on defense.

"Gary, Mr. Chairman, what do you say?" Moyes asked Peters carefully.

Peters' face was so dark that water was about to drip. He glanced at Moyes and replied: "The next league game...if I don't win, I will no longer be Preston's head coach."

Moyes was stunned for a moment: "Next league game? God, although it is home court, our opponent is Berry! The current leader!"

Peters smiled bitterly, without answering.

Just based on Preston's three consecutive draws against his opponents who came later in the past three games, he defeated the seventeenth league round and scored 37 points, and Berry, who had already left the second place with Oxford United by more than seven points? What a joke!

No wonder Peters's face looked so gloomy.

Moyes thought for a while and said, "Actually, although Berry is the leader, he may not have a chance to defeat them."

"Oh, what do you mean?" Peters became interested.

"Berry is not a particularly strong team either. Their success this season is mainly due to their offense."

Peters nodded, and won 11 games in the 17th round of the league, scoring 31 goals, with the most conceded by the All-British League, conceded by 16 goals, and the most in the top six. Berry's current good results depend on their offense, not their defense. After Moyes' return, Preston's conceded fewer goals than Berry.

"Their offense does not depend on one player, but on multiple points. Thirty-one goals were scored by nine players. Mora, who scored the most goals, only scored seven goals. Defence is not enough for such a team, because we cannot keep an eye on all their scoring points. If you want to win this game, you have to rely on offense!" Moyes said decisively: "In this game, we only have offense, and we both take into account defense while attacking. At the same time, they run very actively on the field. In terms of physical fitness, we should have certain advantages."

"But Barek was injured, and our offense lacked an important part." Peters frowned and said, "And our offense has not been good all the time."

"That's because we lack a person in the frontcourt who can hold the ball, because we have always used the tactic of steady defense and counterattacking." Moyes nodded: "It's just that our offensive players are not bad. Norgan and Grant are all excellent strikers. What they lack is the person who delivers shells to them. It's hard to find such people, but now there is one."

"Is it the Chinese boy from the reserve team you mentioned last time?" Peters thought for a while and replied: "His skills are indeed good, but his confrontation is very poor, and he is over the age of physical growth. We were no longer optimistic about him at that time."

"But he has grown a lot now," Moyes said with a smile. "I didn't believe it at first, but this time in the reserve team, he made me change my mind."

Peters looked at Moyes, and after a while, nodded: "Okay, then recruit him to the first team... We are short of staff now and we really need to supplement it."

Moyes nodded, he could see that Peters did not believe that Tiger would grow to a great help to Preston within more than a year, but Moyes felt that Tiger could become a key figure and his existence would be of great help to Preston.
Chapter completed!