Coaching career started as a college team coach

The weather is getting colder, and the second round of Wolves vs. Manchester United is getting closer. The calendar turns day by day, and the match day on January 28 is getting closer.

Wei Le doesn't know how Manchester United is preparing for the game, but Wei Le believes that Mourinho will never underestimate Wei Le again this time.

In addition, January 28 is still a good day. January 28, 2017 is exactly the Chinese New Year, the 27th is New Year's Eve, and the 28th is the day of the Chinese New Year! The game on the 28th was held at around 3 pm, which is exactly 10 pm in Chinese time.

At this time, the Chinese people are probably still awake.

For China, this is simply the perfect time for the game. Wei Le doesn't know whether arranging such a game at this time is considered as the English Football Association's care for the Chinese market.

For England, playing at three or four o'clock in the afternoon means - yin and yang.

This phenomenon is even more obvious when visiting Old Trafford. At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun has just begun to set. If the game is held in some oriented stadiums at this time, half of the field will be in shadow and half in the sun.

In addition, athletes actually have their own biological clock.

After some special training, football players have developed a physical habit of getting excited during this period of time on weekend nights - this is generally the time when the game is held. But the game at three or four o'clock in the afternoon does not quite match this habit - it stands to reason that at this time, the afternoon nap has just woken up and the afternoon training session has not yet started.

It's not that you can't play, but some players don't perform as well as playing football at night in the game during this period. Fortunately, this phenomenon affects both sides, and Wei Le can't say whether this is good for Wolves.

However, the advantage is that the game at three or four o'clock in the afternoon is generally warmer. Playing in a warm place, players are at least less likely to suffer from strains caused by stiffness and inactivity in the cold environment.

Before Wolves face Manchester United, on January 21, Wolves will play another league game. This game is a game between Wolves as a guest team and Norwich. On this day, Norwich had heavy rain, or to be more precise, sleet.

Norwich's home stadium, Carrow Road, has not been renovated since 1982. Therefore, in the face of such extreme weather, Carrow Road was flooded.

Players from both sides fought hard on the muddy field for 90 minutes, but no one scored a goal, and the football flew in the sky. Wei Le replaced the main players in advance for the purpose of protecting the players and saving strength for the game against Manchester United.

The score of 0-0 remained until the end of the game, and one league point was an acceptable result for both sides of the game.

After the game on January 21, Wolves had a relatively long break until the next game on January 28. 7 days of rest time is already considered ample for the schedule of the Championship League, which has a game every three or four days.

During this period, Wolves basically had a good grasp of Manchester United's situation.

For a team of Manchester United's league level and league status, there are actually no real secrets. Perhaps it is difficult for us to know what happened in Manchester United's training base and what targeted deployment was arranged, but the technical and tactical play shown in the game is on the surface.

Including the information and characteristics of the players, these contents have been analyzed countless times by various scout teams and have been openly placed on the Internet.

On the contrary, teams with lower league levels such as Wolves have received less attention. For these players, not so many people are idle to analyze the Wolves' game lineup and tactical play.

Some teams don't even have many clear full-game videos, let alone analyze the characteristics.

This gives Wolves room to make special preparations.

"We will inevitably face greater pressure in this game." Wei Le said solemnly.

He believes that in order to win and to make up for the disadvantage of 2 goals as soon as possible, Mourinho will definitely not stop this time.

"Ibrahimovic will play, there is no doubt about that. In addition, Fellaini may have a chance to start in this game. Full-back Rojo should also play."

Weile thinks that Mourinho's focus in this game is to score goals. But how to score goals? Celars' opinion is that Mourinho may still use an offensive style of play to suppress Wolves, just like they did well in most of the last game.

"No." Wei Le shook his head, "Since MourinhoKnowing that we have the ability to counterattack, they will definitely be a little more cautious this time. If he wants to win this game without risk, he will treat us as a strong team. "

One hundred and fifty kilometers away in Manchester, Mourinho was also struggling with the Wolves' lineup prediction chart.

"What do you think you would do if you were Wolves?" Mourinho asked his assistant Faria.

Faria thought for a while, "I think I might play more conservatively. Now if I were Wolves, I already have a two-goal advantage, so I don't need to continue attacking."

Mourinho nodded, thought a little, and shook his head again, "I don't think it will be like this. "

Faria has been Mourinho's physical trainer and tactical analyst since the Porto period, and has been Mourinho's most reliable assistant until now. Mourinho is very optimistic about Faria's future as a head coach. Therefore, Mourinho often deliberately trains Faria's ability to see problems from the perspective of a head coach.

"Look, can Wolves not know that we will send out a full lineup to attack them?" Mourinho asked, and Faria shook his head.

"Then do you think they think they can defend two goals away from home, which is our home court?" Mourinho asked again, Faria thought about it and shook his head.

"That's right." Mourinho spread his hands, "Since the defense may not be able to defend, then maybe they will choose to give it a try. If they can score another goal at Old Trafford, it will be the biggest benefit for them. "

"They will not park the bus at all, their starting lineup will definitely be aggressive, and they may even send out a double striker tactic. "Mourinho touched his chin, "So we just need to do what we are good at, that is, defensive counterattack."

"But they are just a Championship team..." Faria scratched his head, thinking that Mourinho might have taken the opponent of this game too seriously.

"Faria, it's not like that." Mourinho shook his head, his expression serious, "Wolves were able to break our goal twice. We can say that the first goal was luck, and the second goal was our failure, but they were indeed able to score two goals against us in their home court."

"And they shut us out. Remember, we have Rooney, Juan Mata and Pogba. Isn't this worth our attention?"

Mourinho attaches great importance to this game. Even if the opponent of this game is still in the Championship, looking at their league ranking, it must not be difficult to upgrade at the end of the season.

"Have you heard of their head coach Wei?" Mourinho asked Faria. Faria shrugged, "No, not at all. "

"Which crack did this guy come from..."

Mourinho muttered to himself, closing his eyes and rubbing his temples. Stacks of reports from various scout teams came to his desk, and the more he read, the more Mourinho felt that Wei Le was not simple.

What surprised Mourinho was not his 21-year-old age, nor his almost blank background and amazing experience, nor the once unknown rising stars he discovered one by one.

What really surprised Mourinho was that he found that in these few games, Wolves' new players basically played well in their positions. Not only in these few games, at the beginning of the season, Wolves' new players such as Jota and Rodri were basically seamlessly inserted into the Wolves' tactical system.

For a general team, newcomers are like hammering nails. No matter how you hammer, there will always be gaps between the nails and the board, which will have to be slowly adjusted during the long process of use. But Wei When new players come to Le's team, it's like combining mortise and tenon structures. A part seems to belong to the position it is in, and there will be no gap between the two.

From the winter window to now, less than 10 days have passed since the new players arrived and played. During this period, the average player may not be familiar with the team, let alone have a good performance.

For example, Almiron just arrived two days before the game, but on the day of the game, Wei Le boldly sent him to start, and he performed well.

This can explain two aspects of the problem. On the one hand, the team atmosphere of Wolves is very good. On the other hand, Wei Le has a relatively complete idea about how to use these players who have never met before.

Or for example, Almiron.

Almiron played as a front midfielder, center forward, right winger and left winger in Lanus, his former club. But Wei Le concluded that Almiron can play on the left.The winger did a good job in his duties of cutting inside, and this is exactly the case.

Another example is De Paul. The young man had experienced a nightmare season before. His position was also rotated between the attacking midfielder and the right winger, but it was Wei Le who made De Paul retreat to the midfield, and almost let him find his true position in his first game.

Mourinho saw the adjustment of Van der Beck with his own eyes.

Van der Beck's first game after joining the team was the starting lineup against Manchester United, which was the first round of the League Cup semi-final.

Van der Beck's performance in the first half was mediocre, and it can almost be said that he was invisible for half the game. But in the second half, when Van der Beck's position changed, everything changed. And this change was made during the short halftime break.

Van der Beck was reborn in the second half. Van der Beck, who regained more breakthrough space, began to frequently exert his strength on the offensive end. It was also in the 67th minute that he assisted Jota to complete the key goal against Manchester United.

Wei Le's deployment can be evaluated as "confident".

You know, before a coach and a new player actually meet, the way for the coach to understand the player's game habits is through the player's performance in the previous club. The coach actually has relatively few ways to understand the technical characteristics of the player.

Is the player suitable for the coach's tactical deployment? Can the player gain a foothold in the club? These are things that the team cannot grasp, and they are all variables in the transfer transaction.

How a player should integrate into the team's already formed tactical system often takes some time.

But Wei Le's players don't seem to be involved in this issue at all.

It seems that Wei Le didn't just meet these players, but has played hundreds of games with these players in another timeline, and has already understood every characteristic of each player.

Now, Mourinho is looking at these young players with little information and is in trouble. Almiron is okay, his game style has not changed, and by studying his game videos during the Lanus period, it is probably clear that the characteristics of this player are good at breakthroughs, but lack physical confrontation ability.

But De Paul and Haaland are hard to say.

The main reason is that they had almost no playing time in their clubs before, let alone enough sample research characteristics.

"Mourinho will definitely be in trouble." Wei Le smiled and took a sip of tea in the thermos cup, "He is such a person."

"Are you familiar with him?" Celars was a little confused.

"No, I am familiar with him, but he is not familiar with me."

"Mourinho's football education so far has helped him develop a complete way of thinking, which starts with defense."

"First of all, when Mourinho faces an important game, he must first understand the opponent's offensive deployment, and then break the opponent's moves based on the opponent's offensive deployment."

"But he doesn't know how we should play. This is very troublesome." Wei Le shrugged.

"So how do we play?" Celars was a little worried.

Wei Le didn't say anything. He took a piece of paper from the table, which seemed to be a tactical map. Celars picked up the paper and took a closer look, and then exclaimed in surprise.

"I didn't expect you to be so radical?"

Wei Le nodded firmly, "We have to play like this."

"But Haaland is only 16 years old! You let him fight with Smalling and Phil Jones! You are too..." Celars didn't know how to organize his words.

"When Wilshere first played that year, he was only 16 years old."

"Can Haaland and Wilshere be the same..."

"No, but I believe Haaland will not be worse than Wilshere."