Super Prophecy Master

Chapter 385 Confidence and Stupidity

West Ham United is not an unfamiliar team. During Millwall’s Championship season, the two teams met once. In the FA Cup last season, the team also met West Ham United. In the two meetings, Millwall Wall won easily.

In the Premier League, the two teams met for the first time in history.It is also the first time for Zhang Yang to face West Ham United with a derby mentality.

The mentality of Derby is different from the normal league.

Derby must do its best.

Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't show your strength. Sending a substitute lineup can be regarded as humiliating the opponent. As long as you can win, you can do whatever you want, provided that you can win.

Last season, when Millwall met West Ham United, Zhang Yang didn't care at all. The gap between West Ham United and Millwall is a bit big. The two sides are not competing at the same level. A semi-substitute lineup is enough to win. Contest.

This season has been different.

Last season, West Ham United worked hard and won the second place in the British Championship. They were able to obtain promotion places and returned to the Premier League.

It's really nothing.

West Ham United is just a newly promoted horse. It is really too difficult for a newly promoted horse to challenge the defending champion, but the strength of West Ham United still needs to be paid attention to. In the summer transfer, West Ham United is one of the biggest winners. one.

West Ham has added a large number of players, and the lineup has been changed almost all over. There are only a few old players left in the team. They are equivalent to reorganizing a new team.

In addition, West Ham also broke the most amazing transfer in the summer - they won the Argentine stars Carlos Tevez and Mascherano.

This transfer shocked the world.

Carlos Tevez and Mascherano are called the "Argentine Twin Stars". Needless to say, their performance and strength, many rich teams, such as Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal want to get them, Millwall also consider After Mascherano, this Argentine backcourt player has very good technical strength. As long as he can adapt to the Premier League, he is enough to be the main force of any team.

No one thought that Carlos Tevez and Mascherano would join West Ham together.

The transfer was carried out quietly.

The transfer of Carlos Tevez and Mascherano has always been foggy, and no matter how big the appetite is, the club will conduct transfer negotiations separately instead of putting the two together.

When the media broke the news, it lasted for a week, and it was all related news, which contained a lot of content. For example, MSI (Sports Media Investment) Group operated the transfer, and they owned the transfer of Carlos Tevez and Mascherano. right.

Another example is some gossip, Joorabchian, the boss of MSI Group, hopes to acquire West Ham United, and Carlos Tevez and Mascherano are just gifts for knocking on the door.

There is also the transfer agreement between Carlos Tevez and Mascherano. Both players are worth a lot, and the minimum level is more than ten million pounds. West Ham United has great ambitions, and it is unlikely that they will spend so much money , to invest in the summer transfer.

The news that finally broke out was that West Ham United rented Tevez and Mascherano in a package. They bought the priority of Tevez and Mascherano, as long as the club is willing to pay 1500 million pounds each, Then one year later, 'Gemini' will join the team permanently.

A statement about the transfer was released on Tevez's personal website, which said: "Carlitos Tevez and his former Corinthians team-mate Javier Mascherano, have Signed a transfer deal to play for West Ham United in England."

The news did not convince the media.

If Carlos Tevez and Mascherano want to transfer together, they can choose Manchester United, Chelsea and other big clubs. They will definitely not hesitate to spend 3000 million pounds to buy the 'Gemini' in one package. 1500 million pounds is the most Undervalued.

For example, when Millwall made a tentative offer to Mascherano, it was 1500 million pounds.

Later, some media broke the news that West Ham United only bought the ownership of Carlos Tevez and Mascherano in Brazil's Corinthians Club, and the other half of the ownership of the two is still in the hands of MSI Group.

This news has caused a lot of controversy, because it violated the transfer transaction rules, and it also caused the FA to set up a special team to intervene in the transfer investigation.

But in any case, the transfer of West Ham United was very successful. The addition of the 'Argentina Twin Stars', coupled with the summer transfer, bought many strong players, and the media exclaimed, "West Ham United may Will become the new force of the Premier League!"

The support media of West Ham United also stated that 'the team has the opportunity to create the miracle of Millwall last season'.

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Millwall seems to have encountered a difficult derby opponent. The opponent is strong and the meaning of the game is different. The team seems to be under pressure.

What Zhang Yang discussed with the coaching staff before the game was, "How can we make West Ham United win without any chance!"

That's the goal of the game.

Whether to beat West Ham United is not in the team's consideration. In fact, West Ham United is only superficial. In the first seven rounds of the league, the record of one win, two draws and four losses is really hard to look up to.

Now West Ham boss Alan Padrew is being criticized for leading a team of 'endless possibilities' heading straight for relegation.

The strength of West Ham United's lineup is quite good.

With the addition of the 'Argentine Twins', West Ham United's overall strength was ranked ninth in the Premier League by The Times, ranking even higher than Bolton, Aston Villa and other teams, but it turned out to be ninth in the Premier League. , Only made a difficult start to relegation, which can't be convincing.

In August at the beginning of the season, West Ham United’s poor performance can be forgiven. After all, many players have changed, and the overall bonding is a problem. However, in the last round, West Ham United lost [-]-[-] at home to Reading, which made many media All lost confidence.

Such an opponent is easy to deal with.

Alan Padrew, coach of West Ham United, seemed unaware of the gap with Millwall. Amid the public opinion about the 'derby', he said, "This game will be a turning point."

"The victory over Millwall will bring confidence to the whole team. We have just completed promotion, and the players need confidence. Confidence can make us perform better and win more games."

At the pre-match press conference, Zhang Yang responded, "They want to use us to find confidence? It's very interesting. I don't know what kind of confidence he has, but the game will prove everything. I believe that after the game, my players will be very happy. confidence."

In the gunpowder-flavored teams of the two sides, the game at Neal Stadium officially started.

At the beginning of the game, Zhang Yang noticed a detail: Mascherano was not sent to the field, but sat on the bench, so he had a definition of Padreu: stupid.

That's Mascherano!

It cannot be said that a well-known player can be strong and perform well, but Mascherano is a ten-million-pound star. After all, he is much stronger than a million-pound player. Even if he does not adapt to the Premier League, the top Players will definitely perform well.

For example, former Arsenal striker Reyes has not adapted to the Premier League for several seasons, and his performance has always been criticized by the media, but in fact, there is a contrast between Reyes' good performance and bad performance.

Reyes is worth a lot, and the media compares him with Henry, Pires and other top players.

If we only compare Arsenal's substitute players, Reyes averaged less than [-] appearances this season, scored about ten goals, and had five or six assists. His performance is quite good. There are many problems such as not contributing much to the team's defense. The statistics will not lie. If you can score goals and assists, your performance is not too bad.

West Ham United's central defender combination is Anton Ferdinand and Meyers. Anton Ferdinand is the core central defender of West Ham United. Meyers' appearance is a bit strange. The current West Ham United lineup Among them, a newly joined player from the British Championship who is worth less than one million pounds, how can He De play the starting central defender?

It would be fine if West Ham's defense has been solid. The first seven rounds of the league have proved that their defense is quite poor, as evidenced by the 22 goals scored.

Zhang Yang complained a little for Mascherano, and then felt that he was worrying too much.

Maybe it's because in the summer, if you failed to chase Mascherano, what you can't get is the best?He recognized Mascherano's ability, and he regretted that Mascherano was not reused.

That's good news for Millwall.

After the start of the game, the media and fans noticed that Millwall's performance was different from what was expected. Instead of attacking around West Ham United, they kept holding the ball in the midfield. The situation was somewhat conservative.

This is the strategy developed by the coaching staff.

If you don’t want to give your opponent a chance at all, you have to use your strength to suppress it. Millwall’s strength is definitely not comparable to that of West Ham United, which 'failed to stick together'. The team's cooperation is quite smooth. , and also have a full tacit understanding, and it is precisely because of the advantages of cooperation that the team can control the ball more.

Control the ball, defend firmly, find opportunities and then tentatively pass forward.

The point is not to give your opponent any chance.

This is the inspiration Zhang Yang found in Barcelona. Millwall did not imitate Barcelona's tactics, but only imitated their style to control the game.

Millwall is certainly no better than Barcelona technically, but the smooth cooperation brought by the dual core is also enough to connect the front and rear and the two wings. The opponent West Ham United is not an equal opponent. The team can use this to control The situation does not give the opponent any chance.

West Ham United has already felt the difficulty of the game.

From the 1st minute, Millwall was in constant possession of the ball, occasionally looking forward for opportunities, most of the time, the football was under the control of Millwall, they had more chances to attack and could play freely Control the tempo of the game.

Faced with this style of play, the only thing West Ham can do is to retreat and defend.

However, West Ham United is obviously not of one mind. The forward players still want to attack, while the defenders want to defend the penalty area, which also causes the formation to be a little unstable.

Millwall's tentative attacks again and again finally figured out the strength of West Ham United.

In the 19th minute of the game, Braniff received a pass from Zambrotta and stabbed the ball to the left front without hesitation.

Pires followed up to catch the ball and passed it straight to the front of the penalty area.

This pass immediately penetrated West Ham United's defense. When Morris caught up in the middle, there was an opponent's central defender in front of him. He did not choose to shoot, but picked the ball up cleverly, and the football bypassed the central defender in front of him. , fell to the right side of the restricted area.

Simpson followed up with the volley, and the football flew into the goal in an instant!

"Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!"

"Simpson! Simpson! He helped Millwall score the first goal! 1 to 0, Millwall took the lead early!"

(End of this chapter)