Coaching career started as a college team coach

"I don't think Wolves won the two-round competition because of luck. This was my answer when you asked me in the first round, and my answer is still the same now."

"Today is not Manchester United's day, nor is it our day. Wolves is a strong team, a tenacious team. This is a difficult game. Judging from the performance of this game, I am satisfied with my players. We won at home."

Mourinho sat in the center of the press conference room with his chin in his hand. After finishing this long speech, he sighed.

"I know what you want to ask. What I want to say is that no team will not lose, and no team is perfect, even the Inter Milan I had back then... Everything is just beginning. I have only been here for more than half a season."

"We still have a lot to do. This year, the League Cup champion left us, but it doesn't matter. The League Cup is not held for only one year. See you next winter."

Mourinho gestured to reporters to ask questions freely. Some of the questions mentioned Wei Le.

"Wei Le..." Mourinho smiled, which surprised the reporters. "He is a respectable opponent. If he and his team can be promoted this year, they will definitely be the spoilers of the Premier League next year."

Mourinho smiled when he mentioned Wei Le? This is big news. Mourinho was in a bad mood after this game, and everyone could see it.

Before the reporters asked questions, Mourinho had already begun to expound his views. Reporters familiar with Mourinho knew that this was because he didn't want to spend his time on intrigues with the media and planned to end the press conference quickly.

Mourinho was always in a "expressionless" state throughout the process.

This is understandable, because the team that defeated Manchester United was not a team of Chelsea or Manchester City, but Wolves! The top of the English Championship is also the English Championship! It is one level lower than the Premier League!

Losing to such a team, considering Manchester United's team strength and team status, no matter who sits here, it will be in such an expressionless state.

But when asked about the head coach of such a Championship team, Mourinho actually smiled and gave a high evaluation. Is this to praise the opponent's head coach to prove that he did not lose unfairly?

But Mourinho does not need to praise a head coach of the Championship?

After careful consideration, the reporters found that there was nothing special about the Wolves team. They just made it to the League Cup final, almost beat Liverpool, and led Newcastle to occupy the top spot in the league...

Fuck?

How did the Wolves become so strong without knowing it?

A Championship team is going to Wembley to play the League Cup final!

Having said that, when people really "rationally" look at this game from the perspective of football, they find more content from it.

The tactical play of the Wolves and Manchester United teams is not completely unchanged from beginning to end. On the contrary, the head coaches of the two sides played a wonderful tactical game at different time periods of the game. The adjustments made by the coaches of both sides may be within a millimeter, but these millimeter adjustments will become the winner of the game.

"Central pressing? How to press? Who to press? When to press?" Martin Taylor, who was in charge of commentary, expressed his opinion after the game. "These are not just a matter of one sentence. In normal games, the three midfielders of Wolves can keep in touch and maintain partial control of the midfield, and can compete with Manchester United. This is the result of the tacit pressing of the whole team."

"The focus of Wei Le's pressure is to increase the density of midfield personnel. We can see that no matter where the ball is, Wei Le's team can quickly form a local number advantage in the defensive stage, which is not easy, and it is very useful when facing a team like Manchester United, which has stronger footwork than Wolves."

"But it's also 11 vs. 11, where does the number advantage come from? This is not a simple math problem." The famous British sports magazine "442" took over the conversation. The tactical analysis experts they hired analyzed the game between Wolves and Manchester United and characterized the game as a "tactical game."

"Manchester United was unable to change the score in the second half, and it was not because Wolves were lucky. We found that Pogba's position in this game was basically fixed behind the midfield line and was swaying left and right."

"His pass success rate in this game was far lower than expected, and at the same time, his long pass attempts were much more than he had in the league. Why is this? This is because many of his short passes forward in the midfield were intercepted by Wolves' defenders!"

"The two players introduced in the winter windowYoung players De Paul and Van der Beck successfully did what they were supposed to do. As two central midfielders in the 4-3-3 tactical system, they are the main creators of this "number advantage". Whether the ball is on the left, right or center, the full-backs and defensive midfielders will not be the only ones involved in defense. "

"There is an amazing data. Van der Beck was replaced at the last moment of the game, but he still ran as much as 11,000 meters, averaging 132 meters per minute! This can reflect Wei Le's special arrangement for the midfield, because players who only shoulder offensive responsibilities do not need to run so much. "

Weile's tactical arrangement of Jota's inward movement and De Paul's role as a "pseudo winger" was also discovered. Although both players were inward movement, the cooperation between Jota and De Paul seemed to be more dynamic than Mata's inward movement.

At the same time, in the second half of the game, Wei Le made timely adjustments and replaced Almiron, which made De Paul's operation more sensible. When the problem occurred, Wei Le had already sent Almiron to warm up.

In addition, the Manchester United players represented by Pogba were always "half a beat" slow in the man-to-man defense stage, which made Mourinho's tactics criticized. Rodri and Van der Beck of Wolves scored because of this mistake of Manchester United. Being able to discover this in advance and make targeted deployments must be the result of Wei Le's work.

"Emiliano Martinez, De Paul, Van der Beck, 16-year-old Haaland, Jota and other players gradually rejuvenated under Wei Le's hands. They have gone from being unknown to the unknown to now have tickets to Wembley Stadium! ”

“We will remember them, these young, energetic, talented players and their coach. I can’t wait to see them lift more trophies!” Martin Taylor said with a smile.

But Wei Le seemed very calm in the face of the media’s flattery.

“Mourinho is a good coach. It is never a good way to praise someone. I am definitely not the first person to tell you this, but I think you never listen to it, and this time is the same.” Wei Le shook his head and complained with a smile, and the reporters who interviewed him also smiled knowingly.

“Mr. Mourinho’s work at Manchester United has just begun. For the head coach, I believe we should be more patient. In this era, people want to see changes overnight, but changes should not be produced overnight, but should be the result of subtle changes. ”

“Thank Mourinho for blessing us. We are on the right path. At the same time, I believe Mourinho and his team are also on the right path. I hope they have good luck in the Europa League. ”