The coaching career started as a college team coach

During the holiday, Wei Le locked himself up at home for three days.

To ease his homesickness, Wei Le chose to shut himself off.

He temporarily closed all social accounts, chose to ignore any holiday posts from people he knew, and did not go out. If you focus on yourself, you can forget the beauty of home for a short time.

So Wei Le watched the video of Manchester United and Liverpool's games this season over and over again, and while watching, he was also writing, drawing, and taking notes.

When he got tired of watching, he turned off the TV, turned on the computer and played Football Manager or other stand-alone games for a while. In Football Manager, he likes to lead a team from a low-level league to the top league, which does not conflict with his work at Wolves.

Football Manager 2017 is a good game. Compared with the previous one, the picture quality of this game has been improved a lot. Although the face-pinching system is still a "strange species" and the game screen is still a pixel animation from the 1990s, Wei Le can play it very hard.

Putting aside the matter of Wolves, Wei Le completely replaced himself with "Wei Le" in the game.

Apart from wishing his players and colleagues a happy holiday, he did not touch foreign social software. During this period, he made several phone calls to his family, talking endlessly about the people and things he met here.

After that, he asked his family to talk about their family.

Maybe his parents' language expression ability is not very strong, but Wei Le listened very seriously and laughed happily - as long as he could hear them talking, it was good.

The holiday passed quickly, and the Wolves quickly returned to work mode. Training was as usual, everything was as usual, but someone felt something was wrong.

"Why didn't the boss show up in the group during this period?" After the training session, the players were sitting in the lounge. Bowen asked with some confusion.

Joao Teixeira shook his head, and he also found that Wei Le seemed to be a little silent these days.

Usually, Wei Le often appeared under the social accounts of the players, and liked their posts from time to time.

But in these three days, he didn't click once.

"Did we do something to make him angry?"

"No." Edwards smiled and shook his head, he walked up, "It's not your fault."

"He missed home." Rodri said. Edwards nodded in approval.

"He didn't celebrate our festival, he was happy to see us, but he was alone. Chinese people are born to love home, so they will definitely miss home." Edwards sighed. Whenever he realized that Wei Le was only 22 years old and had already made his way alone in the English football world, he would sigh at Wei Le's difficulties.

"It's our problem." Jota's expression was a little solemn, "The boss usually treats us so well, but at this time we didn't think about his feelings."

Bowen thought about it carefully, and it was indeed the case. He felt a little ashamed, "Then, what should we do? We have to make amends, right?"

"How about an apology?" Rodri suggested, but Edwards rejected it, "If you apologize, the boss should be ashamed, we can't embarrass him."

In the end, Cody came up with a solution.

"First of all, this kind of thing should never happen again. The boss is our coach and one of us. He brought many of us to England and trained us to be what we are now. He is the benefactor of everyone, including me. In the future, no matter what festival it is, everyone should think about the boss's feelings. He is alone in a foreign country and has more pressure than us."

"First of all, we should train well. Secondly, let me tell you, since we have missed Christmas, let's give the boss a surprise in the New Year."

"Surprise? What surprise?" Jota was curious.

"No hurry, let's play this game well first. Surprises are paved with victory." Coady did not give a specific plan for the time being.

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Wei Le didn't know all this, and he is in a very positive mood now.

After returning to work, Wei Le forced himself to put aside his bad mood. Time waits for no one, he can't just sink into this, there are more things to do.

After watching the game video for three consecutive days, he thought he had a clearer understanding of Manchester United under Mourinho.

Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle.

First of all, Manchester United is very strong. Manchester United is really strong.

Manchester United in 2016 is really star-studded. The goalkeeper is De Gea, the central defenders are Dutch defender Blind, the famous Luke Shaw and "Flying General" Phil Jones, and the already successful English central defender Smalling.

The two sidebacks are Damian, Antonio Valencia, and "Manchester City's only Ronaldo King" Rojo.

The midfielder has the tall and mighty Fellaini, who is at the end of his career but still quite solid.Carrick, who was very strong, and Pogba, a talented player at the time. In addition, there is no need to say much about "Uncle Mata" Juan Mata, the 30-year-old Rooney should not be underestimated, and Mkhitaryan, who transferred from Dortmund, is ready to go.

Of course, there is also Lingard who has not yet become the "Lin Huang".

The striker is Rashford and Martial, and more importantly, the man who calls himself "God", Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who is a threat as long as he stands on the court.

Wei Le predicts that although it is the semi-final of the League Cup, he believes that Mourinho will not send out all the main players, because a few days after the game on January 10, on January 15, Manchester United will face the challenge of Liverpool.

Mourinho, who has just arrived at the team, will surely pay more attention to the results of the league. Wei Le believes that Mourinho will definitely save his strength to deal with Liverpool.

Saving strength does not mean giving up. Although Mourinho will not send out a killer like 35-year-old Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Wei Le believes that Mourinho must want to win this game.

Mourinho will definitely choose the 4-2-3-1 formation as the opening formation.

But Wei Le has an idea about the specific tactics.

People say who plays what tactics, such as Mourinho plays defensive counterattacks, Guardiola plays passing and controlling, and Klopp plays high-position pressing. In fact, it is more of a relative concept. The essence of these head coaches using these tactics is to win.

Everyone has a different understanding of the goal of winning.

Scoring four goals and beating the opponent is also winning, but similarly, scoring one goal and then parking the bus for the whole game is also winning. The specific direction of winning depends on the head coach's consideration of the team's physical fitness, the team's league goals, and other actual conditions.

Based on this consideration, the head coach will arrange the most suitable tactics to achieve his game goals.

For example, Mourinho grasped the characteristics of defensive counterattack that the overall quality of the players is not high and it is simple and easy to understand. He felt that his team was suitable for this style of play. Therefore, when facing strong dialogues, Mourinho's team is often not the dominant side in terms of game posture. They will give up some ball possession and pursue offensive efficiency from defense to offense.

But this is not absolute, such as this game, Wolves against Manchester United.

Wei Le felt that Mourinho's goal must be to win the game quickly and return to Old Trafford with an advantage, so that Wolves will find it difficult to turn the tables. And he can also take care of both sides, which not only ensures the promotion of the League Cup, but also does not affect the league a few days later.

But if you grab both hands, you often can't grab both hands. Wei Le felt that he had found a place to target.