Tottenham Hotspur is not an easy team to deal with.

Tottenham ranked ninth in the league last season. In order to allow the team to compete for European competitions, Tottenham spent 26 million pounds to buy six players to supplement the lineup in the summer. Tottenham's prospects also look very bright for the first time.

Tottenham Hotspur’s improvement is obvious.

In the past leagues, Tottenham Hotspur won five games, tied five games, and lost only one game. The opponent is Chelsea, who is at home, and the 1st round of 20 is enough to rank among the top in the league. However, compared with Chelsea, Millwall and Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur's results are still quite different, but just like their strength, they have narrowed the gap with the First Group.

Before Tottenham Hotspur faced Millwall, many media also predicted the game. Most media believed that the match between the two teams should be a big score, because Tottenham is very good at attacking, and Millwall's forward line is also worth mentioning. In the past games, Millwall rarely did not score goals in the game. Two teams with good offensive abilities faced each other, and the score would naturally make people satisfied.

But in the twelfth round of the Premier League, the matches held at White Hart Lane Stadium were disappointing.

0 to 0.

This is the final score.

Tottenham Hotspur, who was at home, did not score, and the away team Millwall did not score either. The two teams only played a draw within 90 minutes. The game where they did not score for a long time also made fans feel drowsy.

After the game, when Zhang Yang shook hands with Tottenham coach Yoer, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, "I didn't expect you to play so conservatively."

Yole didn't care at all, but instead squinted his eyes and said, "For the sake of points, Millwall is not easy to deal with!"

Is this a recognition of the team's strength?

Zhang Yang shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Millwall sent a half-substitute lineup in this game. She originally planned to compete with Tottenham Hotspurs. Although it was a half-substitute lineup, she could still play a certain level of strength. Josh Simpson and Darren Bent were all sent on the court. Zhang Yang's idea was to replace Simpson if he had the chance to score a goal. But at the end of the game, Millwall still failed to score. Twenty minutes into the end of the game, Zhang Yang had no choice but to replace Simpson and let him rest for a while and not to affect his performance in the next game.

From that moment on, Millwall gave up on the game.

It’s not that Simpson is that important, but Tottenham Hotspur is trying hard to defend, and fans have an impression of Tottenham Hotspur. This team is very good at offense, similar to Arsenal’s style, and their style is more pure.

This is also an important reason why Tottenham fans like the team.

But this game is different. Tottenham Hotspur made arrangements for Mirwall, and it was quite targeted. For example, they did not keep a close eye on the two sides, and focused on defense near the penalty area.

This greatly reduced Millwall's threat to the goal.

Millwall's strength on the wing is not strong, and Josh Simpson gives people a good feeling, but in essence, apart from the ability to play a free kick, he is just an ordinary player and his abilities are not outstanding.

Conchesky, on the other side, has average technical skills.

It is not practical for Millwall players on the left and right sides to threaten their opponents by relying on their personal abilities. Tottenham Hotspur saw this. They relaxed the restrictions on the wing and focused on the middle and in the penalty area. The targeted restrictions are very obvious. Millwall did not threaten the goal in the whole game.

Zhang Yang didn't expect that the team's tactics would be targeted, but the facts proved that the Premier League coaches are not fools. Just like when Yoll only watched a few games of Millwall, they understood Millwall's tactical arrangements, they immediately found a good solution. Yoll's adjustment to the defense was completely aimed at Millwall's lineup, and he didn't even need to understand why Millwall can perform so well, just need to understand the abilities of players in each position.

If Millwall is strong in the middle, then strengthen the defense of the middle; if Millwall is weak in the wing, then relax the defense of the wing. In addition, Millwall has an excellent set-piece player, so let the players be careful not to foul the outside of the penalty area. Without the opportunity to set-piece, the opponent will naturally be unable to play.

etc.

That's what Tottenham Hotspur did.

Their approach sounds simple, but it is very effective. Zhang Yang had long understood the shortcomings of tactics, but he still didn't expect that Mirwall began to be targeted after only a dozen rounds of the league. He originally thought it was about to be after Christmas.

This is actually a tactical issue.

Millwall's tactics are to allow players at each position to fully display their strength. But the problem is that Millwall's players can only be said to be average, and there are no players who are too comprehensive: fast speed, excellent skills, and excellent physical skills, and other aspects of strong physical fitness.

That's what most Millwall players are like.

Each player's technical ability has its own tendency. Tottenham Hotspur easily completed targeted defensive arrangements based on the ability of Millwall players.

Zhang Yang doesn't have many ways to think of Tottenham Hotspur's approach.

In fact, the fundamental reason is the gap in strength between the two sides. If Millwall's player level is consistent with Tottenham Hotspur, it will be difficult for the opponent to make targeted defense, and they cannot guarantee that their players can defend.

However, there is a gap in strength between the two sides.

Millwall's overall strength is definitely less than six stars, Tottenham Hotspur's strength is definitely more than seven stars. There is a gap in the ability of ordinary players of the two teams. No matter how exquisite the tactics are, they cannot be perfect, so they will naturally be easily targeted.

The way Zhang Yang could think of was to increase the choices in front of the goal and make the tactics simpler.

When the tactics are simple, it is not easy to be targeted.

To give the simplest example, when a forward wants to shoot, he doesn't think about anything else in his mind, just lift his foot to complete the shot. If the opponent next to him cannot limit the defense, it will be meaningless no matter how much he interferes, because the player who shot has no other thoughts, just kicks the ball directly towards the goal.

This is the simple tactic.

The easiest thing to crack is simple tactics, and the most difficult thing to crack is simple tactics. Simple play is not easy to be targeted, because if you pass the ball straight, the opponent can only fight head-on if you want to defend. For example, if a player wants to pass the ball, everyone knows who he wants to pass it to, but the speed is not fast enough, and it doesn't make sense to know it alone.

Cracking is also very simple: just fast enough!

Zhang Yang has thought about the next stage of tactical training content, which will also make the team work hard for the goal as a whole, but that cannot be completed in a short time. At present, they must prepare for the game against Manchester United.

Before that it was the English League Cup, Millwall had to play against Tottenham Hotspur in the last game.

This game is completely a training game.

Some media analyzed the game and explained that "Milwall may 'do her best to get back her face', but Zhang Yang has no idea of ​​regaining her face. Many outside media believe that Miilwall lost to Tottenham Hotspur is embarrassing because they are the second in the league, but if they are bewitched by the media, they will become fools.

The two teams fought in the last round at White Hart Lane Stadium!

There is Tottenham Hotspur's territory, and Millwall is not the main player, so he has been prepared for not winning the game. The draw is actually a good result, just like Zhang Yang said after the game, "We are a relegation team, and the depth of the bench cannot be compared with other teams, and the decline in the results is predictable."

This low-key attitude made the reporters unable to say anything.

What can they say?

As Millwall's head coach, Zhang Yang admits that the team's bench depth is insufficient and its performance will definitely decline in the future. Can't they still refute it?

That would be equivalent to supporting Millwall!

The media of the 'opposition' cannot say anything, and can only say in a cliché that 'the good results of the dark horse cannot last too long'. Even so, they were scorned by fans: Millwall only drew with Tottenham away, and they still rank second in the league and remain unbeaten in the league so far.

This kind of result is called a decline?

Does Millwall have to rank first in the league before he can be called a good result?

The media are all very depressed.

Some media are still very concerned about the contest between Millwall and Tottenham Hotspur, but they were soon disappointed again. There is nothing to say about the game. The main lineup sent by Tottenham Hotspur is in a "striving for victory" at home, while Millwall sent a full substitute, with no main players on the court.

The results of the competition can be imagined.

Tottenham defeated Millwall 3-1 easily.

After the game, the media could only say, "Zhang Yang doesn't care about the League Cup. Mirwall sent a substitute, which is enough to prove that they did not regard the League Cup as their target."

In fact, Zhang Yang still has some regrets.

The elimination of Tottenham Hotspur in the League Cup means that there will be no League Cup in the future. The team lost an important "training place". There is also good news that the final training played a role: Vardy scored a goal.

Millwall's only goal came from Valdi.

That was in the 49th minute of the game. Tottenham Hotspur was careless in defense and the football was passed to the penalty area. Vardy received the ball and went into the penalty area, facing the goalkeeper and shot the ball.

The media don't care about goals.

Millwall lost the League Cup and was at a disadvantage in both matches with Tottenham Hotspur, which was the key to media reports, but Zhang Yang cared about the goal because the goal belonged to Valdi.

Valdy!

Vardy is the future striker. She is just 18 years old now. The normal history is not yet at the time of rising, but when Vardy scores against Premier League teams, maybe it will start to explode?

By then Millwall will have another powerful forward.

Braniff, Darren Bent, and with Valdy, Manchester United's forward line is not so gorgeous, right?

Zhang Yang began to look forward to the game against Manchester United.
Chapter completed!