58. Improve offense
The strategy formulated by Wen Sheng and the coaching staff before the game was still defense-oriented, but in the game, the successive victories some time ago swelled the players, and under the encouragement of more than 20,000 enthusiastic fans at the scene, the players were a little lost and failed to keep their hearts.
Just when Wen Sheng sensed that something was wrong, Petersburg returned the favor and relied on a beautiful counterattack to break through the gates of the Crystal Palace.
0:1, Crystal Palace, which is fighting at home, is actually behind!
"Damn it!" Wen Sheng spat to the side fiercely.
"Steady! Steady! Don't panic! Defend solidly! Don't rush to attack! Wen Sheng clapped his hands and shouted on the sidelines.
Statistically, Crystal Palace have the upper hand at the moment, either way.
But the problem for Crystal Palace is that the error rate of the pass up front is too high, the players shoot in a hurry, everyone wants to go up and shoot, but the striker Jamie Vardy gets few chances, he is always a team player, constantly trying to cooperate with his team-mates, but the effect is barely enough.
The defense of Petersburg was terrible, but it wasn't scum either.
"We kicked like shit!" Wen Sheng unceremoniously criticized his players, everyone bowed their heads, they knew that a huge mistake had been made, and that was to underestimate the enemy.
Due to today's rotation, it is said that Crystal Palace is not higher than their opponents on the field now, their only victory is in their high self-confidence, but they are too high, turned into pride, and the result is that they do not take advantage of the momentum of the home stadium at all.
In the second half, Crystal Palace had no other way but to attack, of course, this time the players finally woke up, patience was maintained, and the attention of the defense was never lost.
Wen Sheng's response was right, Crystal Palace was too bad at attacking in positional warfare, so he had to be direct and use the method of impact.
Peterborough's weak defence was a bit of a frustration to withstand such a direct onslaught, but they always had a way to stop Palace's shot.
The players were anxious and tired, and Wensheng made two substitutions in the 74th minute, and finally Scannell made a difference for the team, setting up Vardy to score the equaliser on 81 minutes.
After scoring this goal, the team was obviously a little unable to hold on and was unable to overtake the score, while Peterborough was also a little satisfied.
In the end, the two teams played 1:1 at Selhurst Stadium.
"Are you happy with the score?! Of course not! But to be able to get a point in such a tough game, I think I can accept it! We played a little messy in the first half and it got a lot better in the second half! "Wen Sheng's attitude is always unexpected, the reporter thought that Wen Sheng would be angry, disappointed, and there would be a lot of dissatisfaction with his players, but Wen Sheng did not.
"Wen, judging from the pre-match analysis, almost everyone thinks that your team seems to be more deserving of this game?! And your team will now be a little further away from sixth! The reporter felt that Wen Sheng's answer was incorrect.
"Analytically, we're in great shape! But let's not forget that we are a young team, our goal has always been the same, our task is to stay relegated! I'm more concerned about how many points my team is from 22nd than how many points from sixth it is! Wensheng always insisted on not taking the bait, thinking that his team was a relegation team.
In front of the reporters, Wen Sheng took a very unusual way, without the slightest anger.
The players in the dressing room were dejected, they thought they should be able to win the game because they thought they were stronger from the bottom of their hearts.
They thought Wen Sheng would scold everyone in the locker room once.
But Wen Sheng didn't, Wen Sheng just said, "This game is a lesson!" Everyone should reflect, including me! I have always emphasized that we must be soberly aware of every enemy, and I think we should all remember this sentence! ”
After the game against Peterborough, there is an away game against Scunthorpe on 6 February, with about a week in between, and as originally planned, the team will have two days off after the game against Peterborough.
This plan was still implemented after this draw, and Wen Sheng did not make punitive moves, which undoubtedly made the players feel more guilty and, of course, grateful.
In fact, everyone is too tired, training day after day, after a long time, there will be a sense of boredom, the head coach is eager to command robots, but these are players and people, and we must respect the laws of nature.
In the evening, Wen Sheng specially invited the members of the coaching staff to have dinner together, to be honest, after coming to the team for so long, the coaching staff had dinner together only twice, and today is the second time.
Also participating were Cheryl and Elizabeth, Wen Sheng was a thief, he was afraid that he was now a "celebrity", and he didn't want to publicize his "love" (whether Cheryl said it or not!). I simply invited my cousin, whom I hated, to use as a cover.
After the two-day holiday, Cheryl will no longer follow the team, although Wen Sheng wants to keep it, after all, it is quite eye-catching to have a beautiful woman by his side, but he told people that it is a week, and he counts as a talk, and Cheryl is an intern reporter, and he has to go back to work.
So they made an appointment to do an interview the next day, an exclusive interview, in the past few days with the team, Wen Sheng was too busy, and Cheryl didn't have many opportunities to ask questions, even if the questions were a bit "touching Jingsheng to ask", she didn't ask any of the questions in the question list she prepared.
Derry quietly told Wen Sheng that everyone was talking about the fans making info for Wen Sheng in today's game, and he thought that the fans were emphasizing Wen Sheng in this way, which might cause some dissatisfaction among the players, so he said that Wen Sheng was just a local.
Wen Sheng is very grateful to Delhi, and to be honest, he really doesn't know why the fans are doing this, and he doesn't understand, but thinking about it, Delhi's concern is right.
Now he has brought nothing to the team, relegation has not yet been relegated, the dream FA Cup and promotion are all shadows, how can He De get preferential treatment from fans, and supporting local coaches is just nonsense.
They didn't know that it was actually because the fans wanted to support Wen Sheng and refute the criticism of public opinion for Wen Sheng's bus.
said that he didn't talk about work during meal time, but Wen Sheng couldn't help but talk about the future of the team.
"I have to admit that the team was a bit surprised by this!" Wen Sheng was telling the truth, and he thought so earlier.
'It's the result of the hard work of the players, but I have to give credit to myself for choosing the right tactical path for the team!
Everyone nodded one after another, it was impossible to erase the efforts of the players, but the key figure was Wen Sheng.
"But in peacetime, from the games against Newcastle and Peterborough, I think you can see that we are not good enough in attack! Now our opponents will definitely study our routines well, and our weaknesses will soon be discovered by them, and we will be more and more difficult in the future! ”
After all, Wen Sheng is the head coach, and he looks at the problem more thoroughly than them, everyone was shocked when they heard it, knowing that Wen Sheng is not alarmist, these are all facts, Crystal Palace has such an outstanding result, and it is strange that it does not attract everyone's attention.
"So the next step is to improve our attack, but the foundation of it all is to have a solid defense! Do you guys have any good comments?! ”
Crystal Palace's attack often relies on counter-attacks, and the control and rhythm control in positional battles are not at all the ideal state of Wensheng, but it is difficult for the team's existing personnel to play that kind of state, not to mention others, there is no qualified passing rhythm controller in the midfield.
Wensheng's vision is to build on the existing personnel, enhance the team's ability to pass and receive the ball, improve the scoring ability of the wings, and share the pressure of Vardy's goal.
He doesn't know what to look like, but at least it will keep the team from being as bad as it is now.