The relaxed living atmosphere made Zhang Yang relax a little.

On the next day, Zhang Yang had to devote himself to the heavy and intense work. Millwall's schedule was very challenging. All the staff did not have any day off, and every player had to continue to devote himself to training.

Zhang Yang is much more diligent than before.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Zhang Yang came to the club and stayed in the head coach's office, considering tactical training related matters, and even if he had free time, he had to study his opponents in the next game.

When the training officially begins, he will stay in the first team training ground with others and stare at the training of each player.

Zhang Yang has strict requirements on training!

In the past, all players were seriously involved in training and didn’t have to worry about anything, but in the past two days, he found that some players started to be lazy during training.

So he personally supervised the training.

This works very well.

As the team wins one victory after another, many players recognize Zhang Yang's ability, and Zhang Yang's majesty is also improving day by day. However, in terms of the majesty within the team, Zhang Yang's disadvantage is that he is too young.

Many players look like they don't care.

They think it would be embarrassing to "carry" because Zhang Yang is too young. He can't stand a favor when he hears a person who is younger than him.

But in fact, most players care.

The example of Braniff is there, and the club's bulletin board, and a few photos are still posted there, and everyone passing by can see it, which is really embarrassing.

Braniff has been staying in the youth team in recent days.

Not to mention participating in the competition, he couldn't even participate in the first team training.

At this time, many players also knew the effect of this move.

That's a bit scary!

If Zhang Yang is targeted, not only will the photos posted on the bulletin board be embarrassing, it will become impossible to train normally, and you will have to think about it even more if you want to play.

When Zhang Yang stood on the sidelines himself, most of the players trained with peace of mind and did not dare to be lazy anymore. This may also be related to the atmosphere in the team. Millwall's main core players are still very conscious, such as Jody Morris, Darren Ward, and Neil Harris. They will not train in a sensible way. With the attention of several coaches, the others can only hold on to the training seriously.

But it is still a problem for players to train unconsciously.

Alders was worried, "I don't know why recently, but everyone seems to be in much mood to train."

"Maybe it should be two days off!"

Frederick made a suggestion that he had been reluctant to say.

Zhang Yang was thinking.

In the past, everyone was training seriously. Perhaps it was Wise's driving role, or perhaps because the team was under pressure to relegate and had always had poor results, all players trained very seriously. That was the enthusiasm brought by the pressure.

Now that the team's performance has improved, maybe it's because it's no motivation?

He decided to observe it again.

Zhang Yang said, "Let's go in two more games! After playing the Queen's Park Rangers, we will give the team two days off to relax."

The three agreed.

What the team needs to worry about is not only "not active in training", but more importantly, "injuries". Tony Clegg was injured in the middle of the training that day. The 21-year-old young defender is already half the main player of the team. His injury is still very annoying. In addition, several players have a cold. Although it is not serious, it may also affect their performance.

These are all troubles.

However, Zhang Yang still has strict requirements on training. He stipulates that every player must complete the training he should do, especially in tactical training, so he must be more serious about it.

In the afternoon, the players gathered together, and Zhang Yang said in public, "I saw some people start to be lazy! I understand the mood of those lazy people, just like when I was in school, some students would sleep when the teacher was not paying attention. But you are already adults, I don't target anyone, I want to see everyone, concentrate on completing the training."

Zhang Yang walked in front of the team with his hands behind his back, "Of course, I also know that training is very tiring, especially the weather has not been very good recently, so it is not easy to persevere. But at this stage, our schedule is very intensive. We have discussed that after playing the Queen's Park Rangers, the team will take two days off. I hope the holiday will help you regain your enthusiasm!"

This news made many players cheer.

During the intensive schedule, every training day seems to be repeated, and nothing is more attractive than a holiday.

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With the 30th round of the English Championship, Millwall welcomes his opponent Woolf Hampton.

For the majority of Chinese fans, the name "Wolf Hampton Wanderers Football Club" is too long, so for convenience and habit, the general name "Wolf Hampton Wanderers" is "Wolf Team".

Team Wolves is a nickname and a code name.

Wolves are a 'Premier relegation team'.

In the 2002-2003 season, Wolves performed very well. They stood out from the upgrade playoffs and successfully advanced to the Premier League. However, Wolves were not adapted to the Premier League environment last season and eventually returned to the Championship with the last place in the Premier League. With this up and down, Wolves seemed to be infected with the "top league halo", but they are still just a mid-range team in the Championship.

Teams that have performed well in the Championship in the past seasons will not be worse than those of the Premier League relegation teams at all.

Since it was a match at Neal Stadium, Millwall had plenty of time to prepare for the game. The team conducted a simple training in the morning and went to the stadium together at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

When they arrived at the stadium, they were much earlier than their opponents.

Zhang Yang still has time to go to the stadium with Ebenezer. He has been the coach of Millwall for nearly a month. He has only led the team to participate in the I-game, but has not visited his home court carefully.

Neal Stadium is still very young and was established in 1990.

The reason at that time was that the old Neal Stadium could not be rebuilt into a full-seater stadium, so the Millwall Club decided to build a new stadium.

At the beginning, the planned capacity of the new stadium was 28,000 people, but that was the reason - the funding limit, and the team did not raise additional funds, so Neal Stadium only built 20,000 seats. In 1993, Millwall officially used Neal Stadium, which was only half a block away from the old stadium.

In the whole of British football, Neal Stadium has no reputation.

This may be because Millwall has always had poor performance and other fans rarely hear its name. However, due to factors such as geographical location and surrounding environment, this stadium is often used as a shooting venue for TV series, movies and advertisements. For example, it is the real body of the home stadium of the virtual team "Schester United" in the British Sky Radio and TV series "Fantasy Team". At the same time, the stadium is often used as a venue for boxing matches and women's football matches.

All these made Zhang Yang sigh, "You have really struggled to make more money for the club."

Ebenezer laughed, "I think this is a compliment."

"There is no way, right?"

"Yes, the club has always been tight in funds, we have very little support and no other income..." Ebenezer sighed a lot when talking about the club's economic problems.

Zhang Yang felt that Ebenezer was the biggest contributor to the club's development.

Compared with most other Championship teams, Millwall's fan support is one of the worst, and the fan support represents the market and directly affects the benefits of the club's various business matters.

Without fan support, there is not much business to develop.

But as a mid-range team, Millwall's financial situation is actually not bad. Although there is not too much transfer funds, the club at least doesn't have to worry about bankruptcy.

This is already very good.

Most of the small clubs in the UK suffer losses all year round.

The FA continues to promote the "commercialization" of professional football, but they are only targeting the top Premier League, not the Championship, the English League One, or other downstream leagues.

Zhang Yang took a walk around Neil Stadium, checked the time and went to the press conference.

The press conference was deserted.

Even as an English Championship team, the number of 2 or 30 reporters at the press conference is definitely pitiful.

Zhang Yang is mentally prepared.

Until now, there are still many media reporting on the Championships, who are criticizing him personally. The British Football News also declared that "as long as Zhang Yang serves as the head coach for one day, he will never send reporters to Millwall for interviews!"

"London Sports News" did not say it directly, but its content expressed similar meanings.

Driven by the two medium-sized media, some small media that rely on the support of upper-level news materials no longer send reporters to interview. The medium and small media in the London region seem to have begun to join forces to "boycott" Zhang Yang and Millwall.

So the number of reporters who came to interview became very small, but the quality increased because most of them came to the big media.

"BBC TV", "Times", "Sky Sports"... Several reporters all came from the big media, which gave Zhang Yang some psychological comfort.

When there are fewer reporters to deal with, the level of seriousness will increase.

Zhang Yang carefully answered each reporter's questions, and said every question in detail about the game, team, and individual, and it also made the reporters who came to interview the game very fond of him.

When the reporter has a good impression, the question is no longer so sharp.

The atmosphere of the interview is rare and friendly.

Dave Jones of Wolves' head coach McGuinness is much more busy, with only dozens of reporters on the scene, but most of them are Wolf Hampton reporters who followed the Wolf.

It takes a long time for each reporter to deal with so many reporters to ask questions once.

Zhang Yang left first.

Dave Jones noticed Zhang Yang's departure and focused on studying Millwall. Of course, he knew what had happened in recent times - Millwall "banned" two influential media in the London region, and was tragically "anti-banned" by two media outlets.
Chapter completed!