Chapter 115: All kinds of beards have scissors to deal with

Charlton's head coach looked at the situation on the court with an ugly face. Now the game has reached the fifteenth minute of the second half. The score is one-to-two, with the home team in front and the away team in back.

In Charlton's plan, this home three-pointer is definitely considered to be within the plan. The fourth-ranked team plays against the 12th-ranked newly promoted team at home. They don't think that victory is a failure.

However, after Tiger assisted Gott to score the first record, Charlton equalized the score. When they were preparing to take the opportunity to overtake the score, they were stubbornly blocked by Preston. Not only that, when the first half was about to end, Tiger broke through and tripped and created a free kick. Ridell's free kick was opened into the penalty area, and the central defender Squiers, who assisted the forward, headed the ball and took the lead again!

What annoyed him was not that he was behind the score itself, but that during the game, Preston was able to suppress Charlton forever. The ball was much more in Charlton's halftime - it would be fine if that was the case. Interrupting Preston's offensive rhythm, and quickly attacking and launching a counterattack after a midfield steal are the best and most labor-saving way to deal with Preston.

This was how he arranged it before the game. However, in this game, Preston's offensive core Tiger rarely took the ball and broke through. He received the ball a lot, but he almost didn't dribble. Every time, he passed the ball out before the defender he arranged to rush up, allowing the opponent to save it.

After this, Preston's offensive rhythm is difficult to interrupt. At the same time, other players should lead and pass, and Tiger's continuous running and receiving support, Preston rarely concedes the ball in the frontcourt and rarely gives Charlton a chance to counterattack.

Charlton's head coach looked ugly because he found that he could not find a way to deal with Preston...

At this moment, Preston scored another goal.

After the midfielder made consecutive shots, Tiger got the ball at the front of the penalty area. He looked up at Ridell on the right and made a straight pass.

This action deceived everyone's eyes. Charlton's defenders focused most of their attention on Ridell who was in front of them. The other people's attention was also attracted by Tiger and the two forwards in the penalty area, ignoring Brian who was quietly inserting from the left!

However, Tiger's pass was sent to the left without warning!

After receiving the ball, Brian completed the shot without hesitation! The ball bypassed the hand of the goalkeeper who rushed over in a hurry and flew into the goal for the third time!

"It's over!"

The word came to mind all Charlton supporters at the same time as the cheers of hundreds of Preston fans rang out!

The final score was frozen in three to one. Preston lost his downturn and won two consecutive victories in the league. With sixteen points, he jumped to tenth place!

After a period of unaccommodation, Preston finally returned to the top half of the standings, and their fierce momentum has just risen and is far from over.

Often, it is not so easy for a team to continue after a good momentum. Similarly, it is not so easy for a team to reverse when it is not in good condition.

Fortunately, Preston's current momentum is developing towards a better place.

On October 18, in the 12th round of the league, Preston faced Portsmouth at home.

Another clean and neat three-to-one. Although Preston was not scored by the opponent's fast break after the opening, their rapid ground advancement in the following game still made the opponent unable to resist. Nogan broke his goal drought and helped Preston equalize the score. Then there was the moment of Tiger's performance. He first used a wonderful personal breakthrough in the penalty area and then assisted Gott with his heel to overtake the score, and then used a straight pass without warning to help Ridell expand the score to three-to-one.

Preston's confidence, who won three consecutive victories, has reached its peak. Although they still make many mistakes on the court, they have much fewer mistakes than between them. There are fewer mistakes, which means that the offensive efficiency is higher and that the opponent has fewer counterattacks. It is impossible for a team to perform perfectly in football games to win. You only need to create more opportunities than your opponent and seize more opportunities than your opponent, so you will naturally be able to win.

Just like when two people are chased by bears, the person who survives is not faster than the bear, but faster than the other person...

In the 13th round of the league, Preston defeated Oxford United 3-2 at home. The one who was outstanding in this game was Ridell, a beautiful free kick, a volley after inserting into the penalty area on the wing, and a cross from the wing helped Nogan to overtake the score again. Ridell played the most perfect game after joining Preston. It also proved that his worth of £1.2 million is worth the money...

Next was Gott. In the 14th round of the game, the Bermuda scorer scored two consecutive games in the game, helping Preston beat Wolves 2-0 at home, and won two consecutive home games. Preston's attendance rate at home was once again full!

No one said nothing in front of Moyes now. After winning five consecutive victories, Preston's points have reached 25 points and has jumped to sixth place. The three teams in front, Sunderland, Charlton and Birmingham have 28 points, 28 points and 26 points respectively. The advantage of leading Preston has become very few.

The top three are the Premier League relegation teams from last season. Nottingham Forest has performed extremely well this season. They achieved an amazing record of 12 wins and 2 draws in the 14th round of the league. The 38-point score is the best in the standings. Middlesbrough quickly reversed the situation after an unfavorable start in the early stage, ranking second with ten wins, two draws and two losses, which is also a very outstanding result. In addition to three Premier League relegation teams in the top six, Charlton was only one step away from advancing to the Premier League last season. Birmingham also accumulated strength in the League One for many years. Only Preston, as a newly promoted team, seems not inferior to these veteran League One teams as a newly promoted team!

Look at the team behind them. Norwich, who entered the European arena in the early days of the establishment of the Premier League and competed with Manchester United, has Royal Garden Rangers, Ipswich, Stoke City, Portsmouth, who are already in the relegation zone, not to mention Huddersfield City and Manchester City, who are already in the relegation zone for a year in the English League One, not only did they fail to return to the Premier League, but this season, they only won three games in the 14th round of the league and have entered the relegation zone!

Preston is indeed worthy of pride, and their victory continues - in the 15th round of the league, they defeated Ipswich 2-0 away, opening a good start for their three consecutive away games.

Preston, who won six consecutive victories, finally lost. They lost to the veteran team Sheffield United away in the 16th round. The loss was not ugly, but it made Moyes feel alert enough.

First of all, the schedule has been intensive recently. After playing six games in more than half a month, Preston's main lineup has never changed. Just eleven guns have been shot from beginning to end. They were in good shape before, but the players were not robots, and they could not always maintain their state at the best. After the peak of the previous six consecutive wins, many players in this game experienced a low point in their state. Their running on the court was not as active as before, and the mistakes of passing and receiving the ball began to increase...

This is a sign of a decline in player condition and physical fitness.

Originally, Preston's pre-season training camp was enough to ensure the players' condition, but now Preston adopts this improved offensive method, the players' running and the number of times they focus on the field have increased significantly. While achieving good results, it also makes the players much more tired than last season's game! What's more, the intensity of the League Two games is much worse than that of the League One. Most players who only have League One experience must pay such a price.

In fact, in this game, in addition to Tiger, who has always been in a stable state and has many amazing works, are two former League One players, Tagat and Ridell. They are very adapted to the fast pace of League One and therefore perform better than other players.

Secondly, Sheffield United adopted a very extreme approach to defending Tiger in the game - at least one player has been following Tiger, which has reduced the number of times he received the ball. At the same time, another player is helping to defend. His role is not to attack Tiger for the purpose of intercepting the ball, but to try to block Tiger's forward pass route, forcing Tiger to have more cross-passes and oblique passes. In this way, the threat of Preston's offense is naturally reduced a lot.

After considering these two points, Moyes rotated most of the players in the next round of the league, only goalkeeper Mims, central defender Jackson, forward Gott, Tiger and two League One players won the start, giving the players a proper rest and helping them perform better.

Moyes could not think of a good idea for the opponent to cut off Tiger's forward pass route for a targeted manner, so he could only expect Tiger to perform better on the court.

However, this problem was solved by Tiger himself.

In the 17th round of the league, Preston, who had half of the main players, lost 0-1 to Reading away. However, Tiger's performance on the court made Moyes's eyes shine. In the first two rounds of this season and the next few rounds of the game, Tiger mainly focused on personal dribbling and passes as a supplement. That was because he knew that his current ball control ability far exceeded his passes and had better results after dribbling and breakthroughs. After this offensive method was in trouble, Moyes and Tiger jointly formulated more tactics to use passes to drive the overall offense, which made Tiger's breakthroughs much less than before, but for the entire team, the offensive effect was better.

In this game, Tiger seemed to have returned to the previous offensive method, dribbling more, using his breakthrough to disrupt the opponent's defense and then passing the ball out. Although the team's strength has dropped by a large extent and the condition of several offensive players is not very good, it has provided Moyes with a new idea.

That night, Moyes came to Tiger again. He now likes to talk to Tiger about tactical issues. First, he often discussed tactical issues with the head coach when he was a player, and he did not feel that his coach's authority was challenged. Second, Moyes found that Tiger was a brain-wrenching player. He was not only playing football, but also observing, and constantly thinking about ways to make the team better.

The head coach on the court sees more direct and deeper problems. After all, playing football on the court in person is still different from watching on the sidelines.

"I found that I had overlooked something before. Fast pass is not the only way to keep the team's rhythm from being interrupted. Personal breakthroughs are also required. Just breaking through, it is easy to be stared at by the opponent by multiple double-teams. Just passing the ball is also easy to be cut off by the opponent. Only by choosing to pass or break through the situation can the opponent's defense be more difficult."

Moyes told Tiger very frankly that after all, he has not been a head coach for a long time and does not have any inexplicable sense of superiority. On the contrary, he can always find his shortcomings and learn from them. Obviously, Tiger is also such a person.

"Yes, this conclusion should be very simple. We were all stubborn before." Tiger smiled bitterly. He found that he was completely too much before. After finding that the pass effect was good, he only passed the ball instead of breaking through. Isn't this losing his best part?

Moyes used a small magnet to form a defensive formation on the tactical board: "As long as the position is good, it is difficult to break through with enough defense lines, because everyone has stood in their own position. Facing such a defense line, it is impossible to tear the defense line by relying on passing. However, on the football field, it is impossible to stand anywhere like football on the table to defend a place. The players are sporty. When the players move, they may make up for the flaws or reveal the flaws. The charm of football lies in this. Both sides are eleven players. When the players have the advantage of their personal abilities, they can break through the surface by pointing out. If the players' personal abilities do not have the advantage, they can also find ways to form a numerical advantage in the local area to break the deadlock."

“That’s how it is.”

Tiger also posted a few magnets on it: "If I get the ball at this point, then I have three forward pass routes, one of which is the best pass route. However, if a defensive player blocks it here, it will be difficult for me to pass it over. I can only choose to pass back or cross it, just like in the last league game."

Then he moved the magnet that represents himself a few times: "If I get rid of the opponent's defensive players at this time, then my pass route will be more, because I am closer to the penalty area, and at the same time I have more choices, and I can continue to break through. If my teammates start running around, there will definitely be enough gaps for me to use. They send more people to attack me, and their defense against others will weaken. At this time, it is a more appropriate time to pass the ball."

Moyes moved the magnet a few times, and immediately the formation on the defensive side became a mess, then he stopped and looked at Tiger with a smile.

"That's what it means, Tiger."

Moyes breathed with satisfaction: "When eleven people blocked the goal neatly, no one could score a goal, but football games are not like this. In addition to the level of players' abilities, the way of attack is also crucial. If each of my players has the ability to break through one or two players on the other side, then no matter how we play, we can score goals, but we don't, so you, a player with such ability, will play a greater role."

Tiger nodded. He now has this confidence because he not only has the ability, but also has a main god space that allows his tactical ideas to be practiced. No matter what difficulties he encounters, he can always solve it after simulated in the main god space.

“The place where I live is a place with a lot of immigrants.”

Tiger suddenly said this, and Moyes looked at him for some reason, not knowing why he suddenly said this.

"When I was a child, I lived next door to my house with an Egyptian uncle. Later, he moved away. This was a very kind uncle. When I was a child, he often chatted with me and told me some Egyptian stories and Egyptian proverbs."

Speaking of this, Tiger laughed: "I suddenly remembered it just now. He once said something to me, and I think it makes sense."

"What do you mean?" Moyes' curiosity was also mobilized.

"All beards are used to deal with scissors." Tiger smiled and said this: "The so-called proverbs are the crystallization of ancient wisdom, which can often be used in many places, and the same is true on the court."

Moyes laughed: "That's right! There are always tactics that will be restrained in all kinds of tactics. However, no matter what method the opponent uses to deal with our tactics, we can always find ways to restrain the other way around. The charm of football is at this point!"

Tiger nodded heavily.

There is no undefeated tactics, no undefeated team, but we can work hard to make ourselves better. Not only Preston, but also the same is true for the player Tiger and coach Moyes!

"Let's try it out in the next game. There is no harm in multiple offensive methods."

Moyes laughed and said, "Next, let's see if the scissors we created can be repaired cleanly for Swinton's beard!"
Chapter completed!