How did Millwall achieve such a smooth cooperation?

This has become a huge question.

In many people's opinion, Millwall's smooth coordination is incredible, as they only had less than a month of preparation.

What can I do in a month?

Perhaps new players can be slightly integrated into the team, but in the previous wave of cooperation, there was no "new player" from Millwall. From Josh Simpson on the right to Konchesky on the left, they were all "old players" from Millwall.

These "old players" have a certain understanding, but Millwall did not play a smooth offensive last season. Most of the time, their football was ugly. Except for the occasional counterattack speed that made people shine, other advantages were nowhere to be found.

After only half a summer, the players took a long vacation and gathered for less than a month to train together. How could they play a gorgeous cooperative offensive?

Media reporters don't understand.

Millwall fans in the audience were all excited. They would not think about why the team could perform well. As long as the team performed well, it would be fine. What is the reason is not important at all.

Millwall fans saw the team playing beautiful football, and the audience immediately cheered enthusiastically from the fans.

Every fan will love beautiful football.

Although they support the team, they will support it no matter what kind of football the team plays, but if they can play beautiful football, it will definitely be even more perfect. The fans are extremely satisfied with Millwall's performance, and they are also excited to talk about it-

"It seems that the team has made progress again!"

"The game has been so good during this period! I never thought that Millwall could play a good offensive football!"

"This must be brought by Zhang Yang!"

"Zhang Yang never disappoints people, it always brings surprises!"

"It seems that I'll buy the season ticket in advance! I will definitely not pull off any games this season and will watch them all!"

“…”

Udinese, as the visiting team, was very frustrated.

Millwall's continuous gorgeous offensive caught Udinese off guard. They never expected Millwall to be so difficult to fight.

Although it is just a warm-up match, the players are all determined to win. Millwall was the Premier League champion last season, and Udinese's players hope to win. At that time, the media will say that Udinese went to London and defeated the Premier League champion.

But the game is too difficult!

At the beginning of the game, Udinese could still play some offensives, but as time went by, they played more and more passively, and the opponent's offensives became more and more gorgeous. They felt that they were not playing against a newly emerging Premier League team, but were playing against top European clubs such as Barcelona and Real Madrid. I won't talk about other teams, because even when they played against AC Milan, they would not play so passively. It's not that AC Milan is not as good as Barcelona and Real Madrid, mainly because of the team's style gap. AC Milan focuses on defense and will not play so gorgeously in offense.

Udinese began to face Millwall, admitting that he was indeed facing the Premier League champion, not a rashly rising small club.

"The Premier League champion is different!" Udinese player sighed.

Next, by the end of the first half, Zhang Yang made three substitution adjustments, but it did not affect Millwall's performance. When the players of both teams adjusted and rested, the score on the scoreboard had become '2:0', and Millwall led by two goals.

Taking advantage of the break, media reporters looked back at the first half and began to have sympathy for Udinese. Italian reporters sighed: "Maybe Udinese shouldn't come to London, and the game will likely cause a psychological blow to their players."

This is actually the reason why ordinary teams will not find equal opponents in warm-up matches.

The warm-up before the season is mainly to practice tactics and also to help the team find confidence. Most teams will look for low-level teams to let the players play smoothly, help them find the feeling of the game and find the confidence to win.

If you find an equal opponent, it will be very uncomfortable to lose the game.

Udinese has the worst situation. They are almost the 'abused' side. This kind of game is likely to bring psychological pressure to the players. The only good news is that Mirwall is not a Serie A team and the two sides will not meet in the new season, otherwise Udinese will be hit harder.

When the second half of the game began, many people paid close attention to the game. The important thing was to pay attention to Millwall's performance. Many football professionals also began to analyze why Millwall's offensive was so smooth.

Half an hour later, someone concluded, "Milwall's smooth offense is mainly due to their double-frontal lineup."

A double-forward refers to two midfielders in the middle, which sounds nothing, but in fact, most teams will not send out a double-forward formation, such as the 4231 formation, which is two back midfielders, one forward, and the 442 is one back midfielder and the other forward. Most of the 433 is three back midfielder. There is no concept of "double-forward" in the general lineup.

"Milwall's 'double-forward' formation allows frontcourt players to have more pass options, and also makes the connection between the wing and the midfield closer!"

This is close to the correct answer.

When Mirwall defeated Udinese 3-0, the latter was ignored. Both the British and Italian media began to rush to report on Mirwall and use various analysis to illustrate the game.

After a month of silence, Millwall became the topic team again.

Most British sports media talked about Millwall's "double avant-garde tactics". They either considered their own or quoted their peers' statements and kept analyzing this "new formation"--

"This is beneficial for offensive fluency. Adding a forward is more obvious than adding a forward. They will have more choices in the front of the penalty area."

"Add avant-garde, making tactical play flexible. Millwall's warm-up match shows flexibility in cooperation, left, right and middle three-way teams, and continuous cooperation makes Udinese exhausted."

"Milwall didn't even make any targeted arrangements. He just used the connection of the midfield to make a large-scale transfer of football, immediately putting Udinese's defense in a passive position."

"This is Millwall's new tactical mystery."

"Taking out the trump card too early may make Mir Volvo very unfavorable. Other teams can quickly crack it, or even imitate it..."

The last sentence made Zhang Yang laugh.

Other teams crack? Imitation? Dual-core tactics are a global problem, and it is almost impossible to imitate them, and there is no way to crack them.

Zhang Yang is not afraid that other teams know Millwall's tactics. Just like last season, the media reported Millwall's tactics in various ways, and repeated analysis in the middle.

What's the result?

The answer is ‘cannot be imitated’.

Millwall formulates corresponding tactics based on player abilities, and other teams can do this, but the effect is definitely not as good as using the tactical framework directly.

The same is true now.

The dual-core tactics can be imitated, and Zhang Yang also believes that there will be teams that can be used in the future, but the "dual-core" is just a form of Mirwall's tactics.

Without dual-core tactics, Millwall's performance would not be much worse, but dual-core can make the team's cooperation more smoothly.

That's all.

As time transitions to the next day, the words used in the media have changed, because more people have studied the game between Mirwall and Udinese and have also given very professional analysis, "Mirwall is indeed playing double-forward, but that is not the point. Both of their avant-forwards are core!"

That is... dual core?

When this analysis came out, it immediately attracted a lot of doubts, but the first person to say this made it difficult for the media to question what -

Raphael Benitez!

Benitez is the head coach of Liverpool and has been named the 'tactic master' by fans. Benitez said in an interview that he should be alert to Mirwall. "I watched Mirwall's game and they used dual cores. That was really amazing. I don't know how he did it, nor why he did it, but this cannot increase the smoothness and flexibility of Mirwall's frontcourt coordination."

"In the field of football tactics, I dare say he is such a genius! After coming to Liverpool, I never thought of using two cores. If Liverpool could have the same tactics, our offensive would be very smooth and gorgeous!"

"But it is still difficult to determine what Millwall can do, because there is only one game, and no one can be sure of anything."

Benitez made his judgment. He believed that Mirwall's dual-core tactics are worthy of praise, but the dual-core problem is also very obvious. Being good at playing in a warm-up game does not mean that they have solved the existing problems of dual-core problems.

The season has not yet begun, and it is hard to say what performance Millwall will perform.

When the media reported on what Benitez said in an interview, a large number of football professionals stood up and stood on the united front with Benitez.

Before, they analyzed Millwall's game and were puzzled about the meaning of this "double advanceer", but when they heard the words "double core", they immediately understood the key.

It turns out to be a dual core!

This is an old topic, but it is incredible to do it!

Many football players were surprised.

Next, the media began to quote the speeches of various football players to provide overwhelming reports on Millwall's new formation.

As the outside world reported continuously, Mirwall continued to conduct preparation training, and also held continuous team competitions in the middle, finding problems to correct them, gradually improving tactics and cooperating step by step.

The players on the team are also becoming more and more adaptable to tactics.
Chapter completed!