Coaching career started as a college team coach

"This Wei Le is also interesting." Mike Phelan touched his bald head and talked to himself. On the computer in front of him was the battle about the English League game style "detonated" by Wei Le.

"Should we rotate in the next game?" Assistant coach Anthony Pinnock came up with two cups of hot coffee and asked his head coach.

"Let me think..." Phelan slumped in the chair a little irritably, took the coffee and put it on the desk, "Thank you for the coffee."

Hull City is not having a good time now. It is better to say that Hull City has not had a good time throughout the season.

After the strong promotion to the Premier League last season, the board of directors of Hull City may think that it has achieved the established goal of cultivating the club, and now it is time to enjoy it. They only gave the team very limited investment and asked the team's head coach Bruce to "do his best to complete the relegation."

Bruce, a somewhat frustrated head coach, announced his resignation during the team's training camp in Portugal. And his former assistant coach, Mike Phelan, had to take over the coaching baton.

The team first bought the center forward Noha Dicko from Wolves at a fair price in exchange for the team's future star Bowen. As a result, Dicko suffered a serious injury in winter training, and then suffered minor injuries continuously, and basically had few appearances.

In addition, the team made a total of five signings, two of which were goalkeepers, and four of the five were completed at the end of August, that is, in the last one or two days before the window closed. Unsurprisingly, these hastily arrived "mercenaries" did not perform to the level they should have.

For some teams whose systems have been fixed and whose league rankings are almost stable, the five signings are considered to be relatively qualified signings. But for a team that has just been promoted and urgently needs to gain a foothold in the Premier League, it is really far from enough.

Take Burnley, which was promoted in the same season as the leader of the English Championship, for example. The team spent 11 million euros to buy Irish midfielder Hendrick and 3 million euros to dig Icelandic striker Gudmundsson from Charlton. In addition, they also introduced Chelsea's young player Bamford and signed talented goalkeeper Pope.

In order to stay in the Premier League, Burnley has made great efforts. They basically cleaned up the entire lineup.

In contrast, Hull City, which ranked fourth in the league and barely won a chance to upgrade from the promotion play-offs, does not seem to be very wise to "play badly".

Originally, Mike Phelan was appointed as the "interim head coach" and was just a substitute.

In fact, he did not do well enough. Of course, no one believed that he really had the ability to turn decay into magic at the beginning. Under his leadership, Hull City is currently ranked second from the bottom in the Premier League. In the 13 rounds of the league that have been experienced, it has only won 3 games in total.

A few days ago, they were beaten 1-6 by Bournemouth, a mid-table team in the league.

Since Phelan could not meet expectations, why is he still leading the team?

It's simple, because no one wants to come.

Such a team with a "bad" management just tied with West Bromwich, which is not too strong, and now they will face Will and his young Wolves, who are making great strides in the Championship.

Mike Phelan is not a novice coach. In fact, after retiring from the famous Manchester United Class of 92, he also assisted Ferguson in the later period of his coaching of Manchester United. He is at least much more experienced than Will and must have seen big scenes.

So of course he has a clear understanding of his team.

Especially when seeing the dominance shown by Wolves in recent games, he and his assistant asked a question together-is it really necessary to fight hard?

Phelan habitually rubs his bald head, which looks like a spiral ball to his assistant.

"Fight." After a while, Ferran blurted out a sentence.

"But..." The assistant was still a little hesitant.

Ferran didn't know what the assistant was thinking, but he shook his head, smiled bitterly, and said, "I know, I know everything. But we really need a victory."

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The status of Hull City and Wolves seemed to be reversed.

Hull City was like a Championship team facing a Premier League team, while Wolves were the opposite. They seemed to have taken this game seriously. They ate and drank and played games.

Although they looked relaxed, Wolves did not completely relax. In the two league games at the end of November, Wolves won easily.

First, in the away game against Preston, the opponent they met in the League Cup before, Ziro had a big outbreak in this game. First, Rodri's straight pass allowed Ziro to kick directly outside the penalty area.An opportunity to threaten the goal.

As a result, Qi Luo missed the kick.

But the ball drew a strange arc, and flew into the upper right corner of the goal. Not to mention Qi Luo himself, Rodri was stunned - can you kick like this? Are you doing it on purpose?

Qi Luo reacted quickly, he acted as if nothing had happened, waved his hand, and said nonchalantly that this was what he wanted to do, and responded calmly to the praise from his teammates.

"Not worth mentioning!"

Qi Luo's performance made Wei Le in the audience stunned.

If it weren't for the ability to systematically analyze the players' psychology, Wei Le would not have thought whether this was a guess or a deliberate shot.

Wei Le was very impressed, and he was a man with thunder in his chest and a calm face. He can be worshipped as a general.

After leading by one goal, Qi Luo continued to work hard. This time he finally did what he was good at, leaning on the defensive player, passing the ball back to the midfielder who inserted in the back row, and then running into the empty space to receive the ball and shoot. The assist was still from Rodri this time.

Rodri got two assists in the league, which made him very happy. In this game, Wei Le made a small adjustment to the lineup, which was to let Rodri appear more in the front position of the wing, and being close to the offensive area made Rodri play very happily.

The score of 2-0 was maintained until the end of the game. In the last moments of the game, Bowen didn't brake at the bottom line and passed a high and floating cross into the small penalty area. As a result, the Preston defender was dizzy after the impact of the whole game, and the ball hit the back of his head and flew into his own goal!

3-0 was the final score.

With victory and cheers, on November 26, Wolves returned to their home court to face the visiting Sheffield Wednesday.

In this match, Sheffield Wednesday showed tenacious resilience. They put up a very tight defensive formation, which caused a lot of trouble for Wei Le's team. Wolves still lacked a way to face this kind of team that obviously shrank back and counterattacked.

Especially when Sheffield Wednesday had a strong back line, Ziro's pivot role was not obvious, and Jota was also given special care and was closely guarded. Wolves could only try long shots, but the effect was not great.

But in any case, Wei Le could only admire that there is always a loophole in a hundred precautions. In a set-piece attack opportunity, Sheffield Wednesday's defender accidentally slapped the ball directly in the penalty area.

"Penalty!!!!"

Unsurprisingly, Sheffield Wednesday's tie, which had been defended for the entire game, was broken by Ziro's penalty kick.