Coaching career started as a college team coach

Reading coach Stam looked embarrassed. He was the Stam who had played for Manchester United. He was bald and looked like Jason Statham. Now he looked embarrassed, solemn, and even more scary.

His mood was as bad as his appearance.

He expected that Wolves would score a goal in the game against Wolves, but he didn't expect that they would score a goal in such a short time. He didn't expect that the goal was scored in such a... very demoralizing way.

If he were a fan, he would certainly applaud and praise such a wonderful goal. But unfortunately, he was the head coach, and the head coach of the opponent.

"Don't they like to attack? Then we will attack too. Let's push from the middle. Since their wing performance is good, we will bypass there." Stam called the front midfielder Swift back to give instructions.

"Tell Daniel (Williams) to cooperate with you more and let the forward come back a little as support. We need to equalize the score as soon as possible." Stam said firmly, and Swift also agreed with this statement.

Soon, he brought the coach's intention to the whole team, and they were ready to counterattack.

"Pull back! Pull back!" Stam applauded on the sidelines to boost the morale of the players.

After the game started, Reading really launched a fierce attack, mainly from the back midfielder Daniel to Swift and the wingers on both sides. The Wolves players looked at the situation on the field and admired Wei Le even more.

This is not a new coach, this is clearly a coaching genius!

So they blocked the passing route near Swift as Wei Le said. The effect was remarkable. Swift felt that he couldn't catch the ball at all, and he was a little impatient.

It was agreed to pass it to himself more!

He ran back to Daniel to explain this matter, and Daniel looked innocent.

"There are three tall people around you staring at you, and I can't pass it to you."

Swift looked helpless. From the beginning of this game, he felt the difference from previous games - he played very uncomfortable. He couldn't tell where he was uncomfortable, but he felt the pressure from Wolves was very great, so he had to make a decision under pressure.

This caused a lot of mistakes.

This was of course due to Wei Le's mid-position pressing. He attached great importance to the pressure that pressing brought to the opponent's players. Unfortunately, in this game, he took a fancy to Swift and made him the focus of pressing, which made it impossible for him to play calmly at all times.

After Daniel and Swift had a brief talk, Swift insisted that Daniel pass the ball to him, and if he lost it, it would be Swift's fault.

So Daniel had to try, but the pass was either kicked away by the Portuguese Ruben Dias, or Rodri pressed too hard, and Swift made a mistake in his own action and was still intercepted.

"Too difficult, too difficult." After being intercepted again, Swift pulled Rodri down on the spot to prevent the opponent's counterattack. And this action was also warned by the referee.

"If you commit a similar foul again, I will play a card. My whistle was not too strict this time, but it is not a reason for you to violate the rules of the game at will!"

After the referee left, Swift spit on the ground in dissatisfaction and cursed a word starting with F. He could only ask Daniel to try more on the wing.

Weile was very satisfied with the situation on the field, so he asked Jota to retreat a little more and made a gesture of encirclement to Daniel, and Jota understood.

This was to ask Jota to try to ambush Daniel and cause the opponent to lose the ball in the backcourt. At the same time, Wei Le also asked Jack Pierce to follow Swift, and even if Swift retreated to support, he should not let him turn around easily.

Several steals led to threatening counterattacks. The most threatening one was when Jota turned around and tried a long shot directly after the steal. If goalkeeper Alan Habusi had not been distracted by the loss of the ball just now, and had remained highly focused and saved the ball, Wolves would have been two goals ahead.

In this case, Daniel didn't dare to take the ball. He signaled the central defender to pass the ball to the winger or leave it to the full-back to deal with.

Therefore, Reading completely lost the hope of passing the ball from the middle. They could only choose the last resort and the style of play engraved in the DNA of English football - long pass.

But the full-backs Ben Godfrey and Doherty were not vegetarians. They ran very fast. This caused the two wingers of the Reading team to be unable to catch up with the full-backs, and the scene looked very aggrieved.

In the 24th minute, Swift's long shot soared into the sky, scaring a pigeon that landed on the roof of the stadium and flew away.

In the 27th minute, ReadingReading winger McCully finally outran Godfrey once, but his cross was easily caught by Emiliano Martinez.

In the 32nd minute, it was Wolves' counterattack. After receiving the ball, Rodri advanced forward and passed it to Godfrey on the wing. Godfrey's precise long pass crossed most of the football field and flew directly into the Reading bench, which made Wei Le stare.

The attacks of both sides were back and forth, but the quality was not high. Wei Le asked the team to keep the ball on the ground and stabilize the rhythm.

Rodri then had more room to play.

Just like the goal in the 40th minute, Rodri did not rush forward after receiving the ball, but passed the ball horizontally to Jack Pearce, then he moved closer to the opponent and signaled the opponent to pass the ball back.

Jack Pearce's return pass was just right, and Rodri did not make any adjustments, but made a diagonal pass to the right side!

This simple pass was actually very meaningful.

If he follows Wei Le's initial fast break, Rodri might have made a long pass directly over Ziro's head. This long pass is not difficult for Rodri, but it is still difficult for Ziro, so the first few times can have unexpected effects, but soon the routine will be seen through and will be focused on defense.

But Wei Le hopes that Rodri will be stable and make more short passes.

You know, Rodri grew up in Spain and was deeply influenced by passing and controlling football. He likes Barcelona under Guardiola very much and envies them for being able to play dominant football. At the same time, in reality, he also agrees with head coach Wei Le's statement on efficiency.

He always has his own ideas about playing football, and he has his own understanding of football games, which is also the key factor that Wei Le likes about him.

This time, Rodri did not choose to pass directly because there was a player who caught up with him to press, that is, Swift, and there was also the opponent's midfielder in the frontcourt.

He observed this situation, so he passed the ball horizontally to Jack Pierce, who was almost on the same plane as him, thus mobilizing the opponent's defense and creating a short vacuum in the space where he was.

So he took two steps forward and received the return pass, which just took advantage of this space. This time he did not slow down the pace. On the contrary, he wanted to take advantage of the reaction gap of the opponent's defensive players turning around continuously and quickly move to the side.

Bowen on the right side waited for a long time, and the pass was a little small. Bowen had to stop the ball backwards, so he passed the ball to the right back Doherty. Doherty chose to dribble the ball inward, and Bowen ran to the sideline to open up space. So Doherty's straight pass went straight through the opponent's crotch and was given to Bowen!

This ball gave a lead time, so Bowen needed to speed up a few steps to receive the ball. He remembered Wei Le's guidance, so he consciously observed the situation on the field before Doherty passed the ball. He found that this was an opportunity!