At first, there were teammates who had a boiling passion to practice with Zhang Tiehan, but after a few days, no one did it. Because they insisted on not coming to ordinary training, they were very tired. It was really boring and chatting to go to practice again, and it was not much higher without training with the team.
They don’t need training to shoot like Zhang man of iron, and they also need to complete that amount of training.
This training life is very fulfilling. Zhang Tiehan feels that his footwork is improving day by day, especially his shooting skills are growing rapidly. However, he can easily blast the ball to a fixed range with the ball 20 meters away, which is very remarkable.
Soon everyone in the team got used to it.
They put Zhang man of iron in a’ different category’, and even bulykin often wrote a sentence to describe Zhang man of iron. "That’s crazy! You can’t compare with madness! "
Zhang Tiehan listened to is indifferent smile.
In the training life, Wigan Athletic ushered in a new rival Watford, which belongs to the middle reaches of League One. The winning rate of Wigan Athletic at home is still very high.
Zhang Tiehan is eager to take part in the competition.
He still remembers Alexia’s arrogant face. The woman looked down on herself and thought she was a hopeless player. He wanted to prove herself in the game.
Unfortunately, he got a red card in the first round and was banned from the game.
Fortunately, the FA didn’t impose additional punishment on him. He was banned for one game, but it was depressing enough that he couldn’t participate in one game.
"It is impossible for anyone to participate in all competitions," Riddell comforted Zhang Tiehan.
Riddell said that Zhang man of iron is also very clear, but in fact he is worried about his own strength. He wants to go to the game to prove it. This is to get the approval of the fans, but isn’t it to prove it to himself? He needs to prove more confidence to himself, especially since he has just been suspended by a red card. He wants to find a balance between defense and foul, and he also wants to try to shoot himself.
But this time is impossible.
On the day of the game, Zhang Tiehan didn’t go to JJB Stadium either. He was training himself in the training ground. He couldn’t win or lose a game. Since he couldn’t decide, he simply didn’t watch it, hoping that the team would win.
In the end, the team beat wolford at home with the goal of full-back Matt Jackson.
With the victory of this game, Wigan Athletic returned to the fourth place in the League One standings, which was quite good. More media focused on Wigan Athletic. They were surprised that Wigan Athletic showed such a strong newly promoted horse. Is it really necessary to compete for the promotion place in League One?
A reporter asked this question at the post-match press conference.
Dever said frankly, "I and my players are very happy to be ranked fourth in the standings. That is our honor. It is too early for us to fight for the promotion quota. Now the league is just beginning. What we need to do is to strive for every victory."
The only goal in this game came from full-back Matt Jackson, but the best performance in this game was probably the midfielder Riddell.
More reporters noticed Riddell.
Former Riddell was an English B player who performed quite well and was only an English B player, but he was still excellent in the first division. It was this Wigan Athletic core game that constantly brought the whole Wigan Athletic attack to life.
He played an important role in the competition.
"He is excellent and has always been the core player of the team. In my team, Dell is irreplaceable. He shows the performance of the whole team." He paid a generous compliment to Riddell Dever.
Riddell’s performance also deserves these praises.
After the game, the team returned to the training ground, where they were dissolved. When bulykin saw Zhang Tiehan, he said, "Andy has become a big star. Zhang, you don’t know how many reporters interviewed Dale just now. Among them, I saw a reporter from Manchester Sports Daily. I really wanted him to interview me, but he asked Andy …"
There is some sadness in his words.
Zhang Tiehan heard that because he was also very sad, Riddell had some fame since he came, and his fame grew bigger and bigger after game. Now the big media are interviewing him, and he is still training hard to have a good performance, but he is also trying hard, even if he performs in the game, it is difficult to catch up with Riddell.
The main reason is that I am a defensive player … just like bulykin, no matter how good he is, it is hard to attract attention. Unless the English national team takes a fancy to him one day, he can become famous directly, otherwise he can take his time.
"Sometimes it’s better to envy Andy and train with me." Zhang Tiehan hooked bulykin’s shoulder with a smile.
"Ahem …" bulykin got a fright and his face was exaggerated. "I’d rather not be famous than train like this, then I’m sure I’ll die."
Zhang Tiehan has something to say.
Chapter 37 Strength is talent
Wigan Athletic started preparing for a league match after the Watford game.
It is very important to prepare early, which can make the team more prepared than the opponent, but generally the team still has fixed tactics to cooperate with the trainer. Dever will not start to let the team do some training for the opponent until the game is about to start.
This time, after winning wolford, Dever began to explain some opponents’ situation the next day. The team knows that this is because a league opponent is West Bromwich Albion.
West Bromwich is the West Bromage Football Club, Sandwell, West Midlands, England. It was founded in 1878 and is a founding member of the Football League.
As far as the historical background is concerned, Wigan Athletic, which built the team in 1993, is still a young man.
More importantly, West Bromwich Albion is quite strong. It may not be a big deal in the whole of England, but West Bromwich Albion is a giant team in the English first division.
The strongest teams in West Bromwich Albion are relegated teams in the first season, and the relegated teams in the Premier League often become the favourites for promotion in the second year.
West Bromwich Albion is not just a hot promotion, they are still at the top of the standings. After the first round of the league, West Bromwich Albion ranked first in the standings with six wins, two draws and twenty points.
This achievement is really shocking!
In other words, West Bromwich Albion has not lost a game in the first division of England until now.
In this way, opponents will be a test for every League One team. Some media also pointed out that "this will be a test for Wigan Athletic. If they can survive this, they can prove that they are all vying for the promotion quota."
A league game may be nothing.
Less than two months after the start of the league, losing a game can’t decide anything, but Dever still hopes that the team can beat this opponent.
He also thought it was a test for the team.
It’s absolutely a lie to say that Dever didn’t lead the team to strive for the promotion quota!
Think about how attractive it is for a football coach to just lead the team to upgrade to League One and then to upgrade to Premier League the following year.
At the beginning of the league, as Dever himself said, he didn’t dare to compete for the promotion quota, but the fourth place gave him confidence and the opportunity to fight for nothing.
It’s a dream to lead a League Two team to the Premier League for two years. It’s definitely a lifelong honor for a football coach, especially a coach like Dever, who is about forty years old. If he wants to go further, he must lead the team to defeat the strong enemy.
Dever hopes to win.
Only by beating West Bromwich Albion can the team prove its strength, and he will be more confident to lead this team to the Premier League.
This is a certificate for others to see, and it is also a certificate for yourself to see!
Show the team!
Show it to all Wigan fans!
In the face of a strong opponent, there is a lot of pressure for the team to play well, so Dever shifted the pressure to the players. In the next day’s training, he was very strict with the players’ training. Every player must complete specific training and also practice various small tactical cooperation.
These are all crucial in the competition.
In this way, the players have been complaining for more than a day. Everyone is very tired after training, but they insist on coming here because of fatigue. They are ordinary football players. The team wants to prove their strength. They also want to improve, get approval from fans and become big stars.
The team are all in high spirits, and there is a kind of sharpening.
After training, everyone was exhausted and went back to the stadium, and Zhang man of iron was left alone. He was tired from training during the day, but that didn’t defeat him.
More anxious than training is that he suddenly feels that the shooting training has not improved significantly in the past two days.
He found Cahill Bellonte.
Since two days ago, Bellonte has stopped giving individual guidance to Zhang Tiehan, and Zhang man of iron also knows how to do shooting training, but the training effect in the last two days is really not obvious. He probably wants to come because of talent.
Everyone’s talent is different. Some people can grow a lot in a short period of training, while others can hardly make progress no matter how hard they try.
This is the difference between people.
The same is true of the football world. Zhang man of iron doesn’t know what his talent is. Except for what is in his body, he really doesn’t have much confidence in learning a skill by himself.
He was not a football player in his previous life. How did he know his talent?