Football: The Journey of a Coach

50. Portsmouth

In the 24th minute of the match, Kante intercepted the Portsmouth midfielder's ball and counter-attacked from the backcourt, Deco making a pass from the bottom, Alan Lee's header saved by the opposing goalkeeper, and Crystal Palace got a corner kick.

The header was the Crystal Palace's weak spot. Since Daniel led the team until now, Crystal Palace have not scored a single header. Daniel initially paid little attention to this aspect of training. He doesn't consider the team to have Potential dead balls, McCarthy's header is excellent, but he can't support him alone, and he can't make the difference with this one point.

The more important point is that Crystal Palace simply do not have a very good feeder. There were three rude people in the middle. Kante's skills are good, but a long fax is not his strength. Only Derry had a little bit of power in set-pieces.

Deco played today, and he took over the dead ball without hesitation. It's also a tactical setting before the game. After all, with Deco coming to Crsytal Palace, he would be the main executor now.

Arguments that Crystal Palace's header was weak have been confirmed by the opposing team, their defence relatively weak. But now Deco is doing a corner kick, underestimating this guy would be fatal for Portsmouth.

The ball curved accurately towards Ryan Shawcross, with the advantage of his body, the ball successfully deflected towards the corner of the goal. The opposing goalie couldn't hold him back.

Needless to say, the excitement of the staff on the sidelines saw a Ryan Shawcross header.

William Carlton has strong feelings for Palace, it doesn't matter whether he's a respectable board member or not. He could not help but stand up and applaud for the team when he saw Crystal Palace take the lead.

 Wayne's face was getting more cheerful. He is a fan who likes to think positively. He reminded Daniel that he was not far from the leader of the standings. He also mentioned that we can win the League Cup.

If we can maintain our current lead, our future dreams may actually come true.

The Portsmouth players looked perplexed, they dominated the game from start to finish, but Crystal Palace took the lead with a corner kick.

The opposing team didn't actually make a big mistake, but they did negligence in this critical moment, and the lesson was painful.

After Crystal Palace took the lead, the opponent's morale took a bit of a hit. They eagerly attacked, and the frontcourt was a bit of a mess. Crystal Palace also had a chance to counter-attack, but Portsmouth's backcourt defence was still so strong that the Crystal Palace striker did not get a good chance.

Fans in the stands sang songs praising Vardy, but Vardy's performance was difficult to portray. No one doubts Vardy's attitude.

When he is on the wing, he needs to have a positive attitude to get back into defence. He has done a good job, but his weaknesses on the offensive side have also come to light. When he dribbles once, he can still run at his pace, but for the second time he cannot. The opponent stuck in first position and forced him to die. Short or long.

Alan Lee had less interaction with him, and Daniel was also annoyed, the team could not continue to defend like this, and they had to give the opponent a powerful medicine if there was a chance.

Portsmouth did not cover it either. More than ten minutes after Crystal Palace's goal, in the 40th minute, Kante was fouled and they also got a set kick on the frontcourt. the attacking midfielder took a free-kick and a Portsmouth centre-back header past Speroni's handle and they equalised.

This time, Crystal Palace failed to get offside defensively, Lawrence and the others believing his opponent was offside, but Daniel knew that the opponent should not be offside, Butterfield did not move in time and was dragged backwards.

“Oh!” Daniel was a little disappointed, but he wouldn't blame anyone, because everyone performed very well, especially from the first ten minutes.

Derry also greeted his teammates on the field to encourage. Scores 1:1. Why should he be frustrated like losing? ! It's not the end of the world even though this game ends at 1:1, don't forget we still have a chance to rematch.

After scoring, Portsmouth planned to attack again, but failed altogether, Crystal Palace's defence went too deep, and it was difficult for them to play quickly.

***

Daniel is not talking at all about tactical arrangements, how else should he manage them? ! Everything is fine!

At the end of the break, the players were already well and walked into the battlefield with a high attitude of concentration.

More than 70 minutes had passed unnoticed. Neither side can do anything to the other. Daniel Ward observes that the attention of the players on the Portsmouth side is also starting to decline, and their mentality is also a little impatient.The coach and his players are not willing to play hard, so Daniel started to prepare for the change of players.

Zaha is a big bomb he will give to the Portsmouth team

"Later to play, you'll take over Jamie's position! you have to be smart! They lose focus and become impatient! Don't rush to play to your advantage, you can focus on defense, retreat deeper, Do you understand if they are confused?!"

Zaha nodded to show that he understood.

"Then move a little closer to the middle, so you can get the ball from our backcourt more easily!" "

Once you get the ball, you can start your game and try to break through to the front!" "

But you've got to reduce running near the baseline, you have to cut, as I'm asking you to do on the training ground, cut to look for chances to shoot or pass the ball

"Will, are you nervous ?!" After talking about the arrangements, Daniel asked.

"Don't be nervous!" zaha said firmly.

Daniel nodded, and pushed Zaha, "Go! Well, the weather is great today, a rare sunny day! Show yourself and tell them how good you are! Go, go!"

In the 72nd minute, 18-year-old Wilfred Zaha played for the first time in the league after being pulled by Daniel while playing against Newcastle United.

Lawrence disagreed with Zaha's inclusion, as he felt the team was in an important game, and Zaha has yet to show himself capable against a big team.

But since the current coach of Crsytal Palace is Daniel, Lawrence only subtly wants a head coach about this.