Super Prophecy Master

Chapter 290 You Did Great!

A remark from Eriksson ignited a spark.

Other people around looked over, and they all showed interested eyes. Many people still remember that Zhang Yang talked about the England team at the last reception, and expressed unfavorable remarks.

Eriksson was not involved at the time.

Unexpectedly, Eriksson knew about it, and now, a year later, he still remembered it and pointed it out to his face.

How vengeful is this?

What many people are interested in is, what will this young man do against Eriksson?

Apologize?

Very interesting!

Zhang Yang felt like disaster had come from heaven. He didn't know Eriksson, but he didn't expect to be targeted because of what he said last year. He started and said with a smile, "I am very optimistic about the England team."

"Oh?"

Everyone was a little surprised. Could it be that this young man has given up?

Eriksson raised his head proudly.

Zhang Yang continued, "I really think so. The current England team is very strong, all fronts are top in the world, and every player is very good. This England team, even without a head coach and without any command, just Relying on a strong lineup and relying on the performance of individual players, we can reach the top eight in the world!"

Zhang Yang's praise for the England team made Geoff Thompson, Beckham and others all smile. This is also where they are proud. The England team's lineup is too strong, and the value of all members easily ranks among the top three in the world, and even ranks in the world. First, and this is also the case, they will set their goal to win the championship.

Eriksson didn't laugh, he felt that Zhang Yang still had something to say.

Zhang Yang looked at Eriksson with a smile, and continued, "So this England team, no matter who leads it, can easily achieve good results. Another excellent head coach must be qualified to win the championship."

"such a pity……"

After Zhang Yang finished speaking, he sighed regretfully, and didn't continue to say anything, but he had already expressed his meaning clearly.

Many people around couldn't help laughing.

Wenger laughed the hardest, and the other coaches didn't shy away from laughing.

Geoff Thompson couldn't stop laughing.

Eriksson couldn't laugh anymore, his face was full of anger.

Zhang Yang's meaning couldn't be more obvious: the powerful England team can reach the semi-finals as long as they are paired with a coach, but because Eriksson is leading the team, he is not optimistic about the England team.

Eriksson suddenly said angrily, "You should maintain the necessary respect for your seniors!"

Zhang Yang glanced around, looking very helpless, what he meant was 'I actually respect the other party, but the other party picked it up first' before continuing, "In private, I respect anyone who is older than me, But the work of the head coach has nothing to do with age. If the England team wins the championship this year, no, just reach the final, then I will publicly apologize to you, otherwise I think that a head coach who leads the most luxurious team in the world and only gets mediocre results, His coaching ability should only be questioned."

As soon as Zhang Yang's sonorous and powerful voice fell, he was mentally prepared to be criticized and boycotted.

Eriksson is the coach of the England team, and his influence is much greater than him. He must be a figure supported by the FA. He looked up, and Geoff Thompson's face was not very good. He probably didn't expect it. He will openly exchange views with Eriksson.

The next moment there was some applause around, including Wenger, Moyes, and McLaren, all of whom were afraid of chaos in the world, or they didn't like Eriksson well, even the distant Ferguson all cast appreciative glances.

This is... an honor!
Zhang Yang twitched the corner of his mouth, and faced Eriksson's extremely angry eyes, he immediately glared at him like a counterattack. At this point, the two of them are in the same situation, and they must not lose their momentum.

"Okay, calm down! Today is the New Year's reception. You are all influential people in English football. Let's get together and chat, and take a step back..." Geoff Thompson hurriedly rounded up the situation. If at the New Year's reception, the two head coaches fight, it will really become the laughing stock of English football.

"Humph!"

Eriksson snorted coldly, as if to express his disdain for Zhang Yang, but he walked away directly. In fact, he was even more annoyed that after being beaten by a young man, other people standing around, except Beckham, Except for Rooney and other players who expressed a little bit of dissatisfaction, the rest of the team turned towards each other.

Zhang Yang was a little surprised. He has been in English football for a long time, and he will definitely learn some secret news, such as 'Eriksen is not popular'. Looking around, Eriksson is not only popular, he is simply 'bad' To the extreme'.

What a surprise!
The top coaches in the entire English football world are here, but none of them spoke up for Eriksson, and it was the chairman of the FA to smooth things over.

In fact, it is not surprising that this happened. One is that what Zhang Yang said is very reasonable. The whole world knows that the England team has a gorgeous lineup, but Eriksson led the team to participate in the World Cup qualifiers. was not recognized.

This is the root cause.

Second, it is very important that the English coaching circle generally looks down on Eriksson, because Eriksson was "airborne" to become the coach of the England team. His previous coaching performance is not surprising.

Eriksson became famous in Gothenburg. In the first season of coaching, he won the Swedish Cup for the club. In 1982, the club won the triple crown honors, including the honors of the league, the Swedish Cup and the UEFA Cup.

After that, Eriksson switched to the Portuguese club Benfica. In the first season, he won the Portuguese League Championship and entered the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup for Benfica.After winning the second league title, Eriksson went to Italy as the head coach of Roma, but he did not achieve good results.

Then Eriksson coached Valencia, Benfica, and Sampdoria, and finally he achieved some success in Lazio. After joining Lazio in 1997, he won two Italian Cups and the European Cup Winners Cup for the club in Lazio. Championship and led Lazio to the Italian Serie A title in 2000.

That was the top honor that Eriksson led the team to win.

Throughout Eriksson's coaching career, it seems to be very brilliant, but in fact, even coaching Lazio was not considered a success. At that time, Lazio had only one competitor, AC Milan. This kind of team won the league championship, which proves nothing at all.

The fundamental reason why Eriksson was able to become the coach of the England team was that the English Football Association urgently needed to change the "conservative face of English football" at that time, so Eriksson, who had just stepped down as the coach of Lazio, became the first player in the history of English football. foreign coaches'.

At that time, many people expressed their dissatisfaction.

The proud Englishman does not think that a Swede is qualified to lead the England team. In addition, even if a foreign coach is hired, he should find a 'top coach'.

European football's criteria for judging top coaches are straightforward: if you have the experience of leading a team to win the Champions League, you will automatically be considered a top coach.

Eriksson did not have the experience of leading the team to win the Champions League, so he was naturally not recognized as a "top coach", but he got the opportunity to coach the England team and also got the highest salary in the coaching world at that time.

This really made colleagues 'envy' and caused dissatisfaction among many people.

It would be fine if Eriksson leads the team to achieve good results, but from the outside world, Eriksson's greatest contribution is to balance the dressing room of the England team. Since he coached, the England team has not had any internal conflicts.

This makes others look down on it even more.

What is Eriksson's approach?
England's starting team is almost all star players. Eriksson will not 'offend' star players, such as midfielder Gerrard and Lampard. They play together. Poor performance is a worldwide problem, but Instead of solving the problem, Eriksson played the pair together time and time again.

The other locations are similar.

Whoever is more famous can play more games. This is Eriksson's means of balancing the locker room. He has won the support of a large number of English players.

It is a strange thing that such means can make colleagues look up to them. Whether it is Ferguson, Mourinho, Wenger or other Premier League coaches, they are very disdainful when talking about Eriksson.

In addition, Eriksson's private life is also a mess. Two years ago, he had a relationship with a female employee of the Football Association. The female employee was also the lover of the chief executive of the Football Association. The chief executive of the Football Association dismissed get out of class, Eriksson relied on the support of the players, and put forward the sentence "If I want to dismiss get out of class, it should be the reason in the football field", and continued to stay in the position of England coach.

How many colleagues can look up to such a coach?

The reception that followed seemed to be a time for the head coaches to express their dissatisfaction with Eriksson. The small circle headed by Wenger was like this. Publicity became the core of the circle. thumb.

"You said what I've always wanted to say!"

"The speech just now was awesome! The Swede is probably about to explode?"

"I'm not optimistic about the England team either. It's strange that the team he coaches can get good results!"

"Zhang, you did a great job!"

"I've been displeased with that guy for a long time..."

"..."

Zhang Yang just responded with a smile, and didn't say anything more.

How about Eriksson, it has nothing to do with him at all. If it wasn't for Eriksson's "seeking trouble for nothing", he even talked about last year's reception with an obviously hostile attitude, and he wouldn't go back the other way. .

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The reception went on for a whole day, and it ended at three o'clock in the afternoon.

This is the case at every reception. The purpose of the organizers to propose a theme is only to allow everyone to discuss at will. The biggest purpose of holding a reception is to provide a platform for coaches and clubs at all levels to communicate.

But in fact, the real significance is not great.

The head coaches of each team will contact each other in private if the relationship is good, and it is difficult to say a few words when the relationship is not good.

The only advantage of the reception is that there is no media, and general news will not be spread to let the reporters know. The exchange between Zhang Yang and Eriksson is only circulated in the industry. In some people's 'memoir fun', but also in the long-term future, it will not make a difference.

Of course, the only impact is that the relationship between Zhang Yang and Eriksson is extremely bad.

But it's okay.

Zhang Yang is not in the mood to have a good relationship with the Swedes. Even if he is involved in English football, the Swedes will not affect him. Moreover, after the end of this year's World Cup, the Swedes will leave England's coaching position. In his memory, he seems to have been They were all unsuccessful, and finally went to China?

Ok.

After attending the reception, Zhang Yang didn't think about it anymore.

Millwall returned to training the next day.

During the assembly in the morning, Zhang Yang came to the training ground. After the intensive Christmas games, the schedule can be a little more leisurely. Taking advantage of the time period in early January, the team can also carry out targeted tactical training.

The coaching staff has already arranged the training content: let the team adapt to the new formation.

433.

This is the formation that Zhang Yang proposed very early on and hoped that the team would adapt to it.

For Millwall's lineup strength, the 433 formation, compared to 442 and 4231, actually has no advantages in terms of strength. The only advantage is that it can reduce the pressure on midfielders to play.

The 433 formation can have three forwards and only three in the midfield. Of course, the defensive ability in the frontcourt is poor, and the pressure in the midfield will be great, but anyway, it can still be used in some games.

The next training was very straightforward. After the players warmed up and had a routine physical examination, they started formation training.

It will take at least a week for the team to adapt to a new formation, and it will still be played in each position without much adjustment.

Millwall doesn't have a week.

On January [-]th, Millwall ushered in a new event - the FA Cup.

The FA Cup is the oldest football competition in the world.

The FA Cup competition system is a one-on-one knockout match for football clubs at all levels in England. Since there are a large number of non-professional league teams participating, in order to alleviate the pressure on professional teams, professional teams at all levels will join the competition step by step. Teams in the Premier League and the British Championship will directly advance to the top 64 and will not join the competition until a year later.

If it's a normal cup match, if Zhang Yang thinks about it or not, he will make the team give up.

Millwall's most important goal is to enter the top four in the league, or even compete for the league championship. Being distracted by the cup and affecting the competition for the league is completely worth the candle.

But the FA Cup is different.

The influence of the FA Cup is too great. Many traditional English fans believe that the FA Cup is more important than the league.

From this you can imagine.

If Millwall puts on the look of 'giving up the FA Cup', it will definitely cause a lot of criticism, and even the resistance of the fans.

It doesn't matter at the media level, but the thoughts of the fans still have to be taken into account, so the FA Cup should be "slightly more serious", and it must not be like the League Cup, which is obviously "used as a training ground".

Zhang Yang's idea is: follow the fate.

If you don't prepare for the game, if you meet any opponent, just play normally. It doesn't matter if you win or lose the game.

(End of this chapter)