Chapter 160 Personal Judgment Interview
When the score becomes 0-2, Mirwall's advantage is too great.
With two goals in hand, there are still fifteen minutes left. Just as the commentator of "Sky Sports" said, it is not easy for Leicester City to recover, nor can it be said that it is completely impossible. There is also a little hope.
Leicester City is also fighting for hope.
Their method is to continue to implement the tactics formulated by Adams, and if there is a chance, they can score one. When the number of shots increases, they may be able to score one by luck?
Not every frontcourt player is very capable. In Leicester City, Scocroft is the only one with outstanding long-range shooting ability. This Greek player has a good ability. However, as the core striker of the team, Millwall is also a focus on defense against him, so it is difficult for him to find opportunities at the forefront of the penalty area.
The others were bombarded simply by chance, and there was no technicality to the threat to the goal.
When there is only one goal, Millwall is still worried that the opponent will score one by luck, but with two goals in hand, he is not afraid at all. After the opponent scores one, he still falls behind.
So Millwall defended easily.
When they found that Leicester City players wanted to shoot from a distance, some players stopped defending. It was too scattered to threaten the goal. Unless the opponent's players became long-range shot masters, it was impossible at that time. In fact, Leicester City is a technical team. Even if they can't match those top Premier League skills, their football is made through cooperation. When they make chaotic shots in the frontcourt, they have a sense of attacking their strengths with their own shortcomings, which is completely unworthy of the loss.
Leicester City's offensive was very fierce, with attacks one after another and shot one after another, but there were no real threatening shots at all. As the game time slowly passed, Leicester City became more and more impatient, and the threat became smaller and smaller.
Millwall took the opportunity to launch several quite threatening offensives.
In the 86th minute, Braniff's shot was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Walker, and then he took advantage of the corner kick opportunity to help Millwall score the third goal with his head.
This goal also completely shattered the hope of Leicester City's tie.
The game is basically the end here. Marvin Elliott helped Millwall expand his goal advantage to three, killing all the hopes of tying in Leicester City, and they cannot recover them in the remaining time.
Adams was very unwilling to fail, which would make him lose all his face.
What Adams cares more about is the young coach who lost to Millwall, or the loss to Millwall. He doesn't think the other party has the qualification to communicate with him on an equal basis. Now the game has become like this, which seems to prove that he is not qualified to compete with the other party?
When Adams thought about this, he became even more angry.
But no matter how angry he was, he could not change the result of the game. In the end, Millwall won Leicester City three away goals.
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"Congratulations to Millwall for winning the game! They defeated Leicester City and scored all three points at Volkers Stadium!"
"Sky Sports" commentator Paul Scott summarized the game, "Full game, Leicester City has an advantage with its exquisite cooperation, but they are not able to win the ball. In the face of Millwall's fast attack, defense became a big problem, and Millwall scored three goals in the first and second half."
"Milwall's football is not gorgeous, but it is very practical. They proved it with the results of the game!"
"Interestingly, Adams said before the game that Leicester City will definitely win, and also said that he and Zhang Yang are not equal opponents. Now we have seen it, but I don't know what Adams will think..."
Paul Scott remained neutral in the game, but he supported Zhang Yang with joking support for the head coaches of both sides.
Paul Scott's views also represent most of the media.
When Leicester City lost the game, almost all media reporters criticized Adams because Adams vowed to win before the game. As a result, Leicester City lost three goals at home. It is worth mentioning that in the first half of the game, in the sixth round of the league, Leicester City was visiting Neal Stadium, facing Millwall led by Dennis Wise, he also lost three goals.
The host and the guest are three to zero.
Whether facing Dennis Wise or facing the new coach Zhang Yang, Adams has become a loser. The key is that the outside world does not believe that Leicester City is worse than Millwall's lineup.
When the lineup is not bad, losing both home and away is naturally a problem with the head coach's ability.
Adams is about to face huge public pressure.
This comes not only from the media, but also from the club level and even the fans level.
The senior executives of the Leicester City Club have always said that they believe in Adams' ability, but the team's performance has not improved, and it is meaningless to say that trust is meaningless. Leicester fans are even more dissatisfied. They think that Leicester City is a member of the team, but a season is about to end and they don't even have the chance to participate in the play-offs.
This match against Millwall will become the fuse of public opinion.
At the press conference after the game, Adams had already begun to face pressure. He had to face doubts from various media. He pushed the reason for his poor performance to the incomplete tactical system. He made some complex team explanations from the perspective of a football coach.
This is considered an excuse for poor grades.
Various doubts came to mind.
Adams should thank Zhang Yang. Just when he had nothing to say, Zhang Yang's arrival immediately attracted the attention of the audience, so he became much more relaxed, but the first sentence Zhang Yang came in almost made him vomit blood, "I have said long ago that we are not equal opponents, so you don't have to report on Millwall's winning. It's big news that we lose the game."
The media reporters immediately looked at Adams with a funny look.
Adams' face turned red with anger. He gritted his teeth angrily, "Winning a game doesn't mean anything. The next fight..."
"Next time?"
Zhang Yang interrupted Adams and said with a lip squint, "I think Mr. Adams should be worried about whether he can continue to coach Leicester City next season. If I were the chairman of Leicester City, I would definitely not let a head coach who can only lead the team to win the 14th league. I am also looking forward to continuing to stay in the Championship next season and continue to meet his original opponents to continue coaching!"
"In addition, we will probably go to the Premier League next season. Maybe we will meet again in the League Cup or the FA Cup. I hope that Leicester City led by Mr. Adams can persist in enough rounds."
Two sarcasm made Adams leave the venue angrily.
Just after Adams left, Zhang Yang shrugged at the reporters and sarcastically said, "No demeanor!"
Zhang Yang doesn't like to play verbal battles, especially when playing against Millwall. He knows that it is not easy for any professional head coach. The head coach's work is too tiring and he has to bear tremendous pressure from the outside world.
But it's different for some people.
People like Adams, they think of Brand from the BBC Sports Department at a glance. This type of person seems to be posing pride on their faces at any time and relying on the sense of superiority brought by conditions such as race and resume.
Do you need to say anything else to them?
When they fail, sympathy and pity are not the emotions they should not have. Instead, they should step on the wound a few times so that they can never turn over. This is the most correct way to do it.
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Transfer domestic perspective.
The day before the match between Millwall and Leicester City, "Tianxia Football" published a new semi-monthly issue, with the core content being the report's "exclusive interview" with Zhang Yang.
That was an exclusive interview fabricated by Li Lei.
Li Lei's "fabricated" level is indeed outstanding. He spent several hours writing an exclusive interview report that he thought was seamless, either in the form of dialogue and analysis.
This exclusive interview report tells the story of Li Lei’s ‘interview process’.
There are detailed conversations with Zhang Yang, most of which are normal communication content. The coaching situation of Mirwall and Zhang Yang are also asked about, but there are three points that are ‘self-created’.
First, Li Lei asked about the 'key' coaching time issue, and Zhang Yang said, "I am Millwall's game instructor, and I am just a temporary coaching job. When Dennis Wise is injured, he will continue to coach."
This is the judgment made by Li Lei.
Just like most British media, he doesn't believe that Zhang Yang has any coaching ability. If you think about a 21-year-old young man, you won't really be a head coach. So when his former coach Wise recovers from injury, he will probably hand over the head coaching work to Wise?
Second, Li Lei asked whether Zhang Yang would leave Millwall after Wise recovered from injury. Zhang Yang replied, "I may continue to serve as a game instructor? But maybe I will also be a professional football commentator or game commentator. Who can tell the future of things?"
Third, Li Lei asked about Millwall's good results, and Zhang Yang gave an official answer, "The team's good results are all people's credit. Other coaches in the coaching staff have done a lot of work, and each player is also working very hard. Maybe I have made contributions, but it only accounts for a small part. In the field of football, I am still too young and still in the stage of learning."
In this "exclusive interview" report, every answer by Zhang Yang is the answer that a young man who has achieved a little success should have.
The title of the report "World Football World" is also, "Milwall coach Zhang Yang: a young Chinese footballer who is confused about the future!"
With the report on "Century Online Football", many domestic fans have begun to care about Zhang Yang, and they can't wait to know the latest news.
"The World Football World" satisfy the appetite of fans.
When the bimonthly magazine came out, it immediately caused a lot of sensation and made fans roughly think of Zhang Yang. "This is a lucky young man, but his position as a head coach is only temporary."
"Maybe he will be a successful football coach in ten or twenty years, but now he is still too young and is still in a learning stage, and he is in a state of confusion about the future and has not thought about what to do in the future."
This impression disappoints the fans a little.
They hope that outstanding footballers can appear in China, but from the reports, this young man named Zhang Yang is just a figure with fireworks appearing.
Next, major forums will also begin discussions.
Many fans think that the interview news of "The World Football World" is in line with the actual situation. Who can expect a young man in his early twenties to grow into a world-class head coach quickly?
After losing the "magic halo", Zhang Yang's news has become less attractive to domestic fans, but all fans who have read the report will not think that the report is just a fabrication.
"The World Football World" also gained many new readers with this "exclusive interview" news. Editor-in-chief Zheng Zhiguo praised Li Lei severely and was preparing to raise his salary, plus a year-end bonus of tens of thousands of yuan.
What Zheng Zhiguo didn't know was that big trouble was coming.
Chapter completed!