Watford is not easy to deal with!
Although they are the newly promoted team in the Premier League this season and the runners-up in the Championship last season, their results are not much worse than Crystal Palace at present.
Crystal Palace is currently ranked 7th in the Premier League with 9 points!
Although Watford ranks 10th in the Premier League, their points are still 9 points.
Crystal Palace's record is 3 wins and 3 losses, while Watford's record is 2 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss.
Speaking of which, their record is not bad. In fact, Watford's record is a little better. At least they have only lost one game so far this season, while Crystal Palace has lost three games.
Crystal Palace ranks ahead of Watford mainly because of goal difference.
Currently, Crystal Palace has scored 12 goals and conceded 8 goals, with a goal difference of 4! Watford has scored 5 goals and conceded 5 goals, with a goal difference of 0!
This shows that Watford is difficult to deal with.
Moreover, Watford’s head coach is still Enrique Flores!
Tong Yi is very clear about this coach.
Because in his memory, this guy in the future went to the Chinese Super League and was coached by Yunhai Shenhua. At that time, he was still paying more attention to the Chinese Super League, so he knew about it.
There is something special about this Flores!
He was born as a professional player in Madrid, Spain. He made his career as a professional player and played for Valencia for ten years. He later played for Real Madrid and Zaragoza. He is a famous right back in Spain and has been selected for the Spanish national team.
, participated in the 1990 World Cup in Italy.
After retiring, he entered the Real Madrid youth team.
After spending three years as a youth player at Real Madrid, he went to Getafe in La Liga and successfully helped the team avoid relegation in his first season as coach, making him famous. Later he returned to Valencia and also achieved good results.
, bringing Valencia back to the top eight of the Champions League.
After that, he went to the Portuguese Super League Benfica and won his first championship as a coach, the Portuguese League Cup.
Then in October 2009, he took over the struggling Atletico Madrid. Not only did he lead Atletico Madrid out of the relegation zone, he even led the team to win the Europa League and the European Super Cup.
This is the crowning moment of his coaching career.
Yes, Flores, like Tong Yi, is the godfather of Europa League champions.
This guy really has something.
This is definitely not easy to deal with.
Watford invited him here, naturally hoping that he can lead Watford to avoid relegation and stay in the Premier League, and launch an impact on qualifying for next season's European war!
Of course, their first priority is to avoid relegation.
Yes, Flores only came to Watford this summer. But so far, he has achieved very unsatisfactory results.
He led a newly promoted team to play 6 games in the Premier League and only lost one. This is indeed something.
Tong Yi looked at the information Schwartz prepared for him, which was very detailed.
Even more detailed than what Tong Yi remembered.
Schwartz started collecting it when Flores started coaching. They even found out the number of wins, draws and losses this guy had for each team, as well as the winning percentage of this guy's coaching.
And so on. We even obtained the representative game videos of him in different periods of each team, and even made detailed edits and so on.
To be honest, this information is really too detailed.
It's even a bit too detailed.
However, this is Schwartz's style. Seeing these materials, Tong Yi could tell at a glance that Schwartz's team was very rigorous and excellent.
To be honest, most of Tong Yi's achievements in Munich 1860 and Crystal Palace are due to Schwartz and his team. Because the information he collected is very detailed and very helpful to him.
Vieri and others also looked at this information very seriously.
After a while, he said, "This guy's tactical style is actually not changeable, but that doesn't mean he is rigid. To be honest, this guy is really a coach who assesses the situation and teaches students according to their aptitude. He uses different tactics in different teams.
tactics, but the main idea is still the same!"
Tong Yi nodded slightly and agreed with Vieri's analysis.
This is indeed the case!
This guy has a big characteristic. The teams he coaches are either relegation teams or championship teams.
Between the two ends, the style of this tactic is naturally two extremes.
One is for defense and the other is for attack!
It's not easy for this guy to be able to play both of these things well.
Tong Yi flipped through the information and combined with the characteristics in his memory, he said, "We can see that this is actually a relatively conservative defensive coach."
Vieri and others all raised their heads and looked at Tong Yi, staring closely.
Tong Yi continued, "Although he is a native Spaniard, he has spent his entire career in Spain, playing for offensive teams such as Valencia, Real Madrid and Zaragoza, and he is also in the Real Madrid youth team.
After coaching for three years, he was influenced by Spain's traditional offensive football, and he can also play such tactics."
Indeed, the shadow of traditional Spanish football can indeed be seen in Flores' tactics.
And when coaching Benfica, he dominated offensive football!
Tong Yi also said, “But those who value defense
The factor is engraved in his bones! We can obviously see that Flores was influenced by the former Valencia meritorious godfather Raul Cooper. In 1999, Cooper took over Valencia.
At that time, Cooper was playing defensive counterattack to the extreme. At that time, Flores was retiring at the end of his career and preparing to become a coach. At that time, his old club Valencia suddenly emerged and killed two consecutive days.
We reached the Champions League final, defeated our opponents and won two runner-up places."
Everyone nodded slightly, it was indeed like this at that time. Valencia was also the top team in La Liga and even in Europe at that time. Many people were paying attention to Valencia.
Don't even mention Flores, the meritorious right back who played for Valencia for ten years.
Flores, who was preparing to retire and transition, had studied Cooper's tactics in Valencia in detail, and from this he knew the importance of defense.
Tong Yi continued, "Then, his head coach coached another relegation team in his first season, and then he started studying Cooper's defensive tactics to help the team avoid relegation. Even when he went to Atletico Madrid and got the
During the Europa League and European Super Cup, he also started out as a defender and won the title after helping Atletico Madrid escape the relegation zone. Even the teams he coached later were basically relegation teams, and he had to learn from them.
Mourinho has some experience coaching Real Madrid, and he is moving closer to Mourinho's utilitarian football!"
Vieri and others nodded, Tong Yi was really right.
The two teams Valencia and Real Madrid really had a huge impact on him.
After all, one is his old club where he has played for ten years, and the other is a club where both his father and son have played, and he started his own coaching club here.
These were simply the two most important clubs in the first half of his life.
He pays too much attention to these two clubs and should draw nutrients from these two clubs.
Vieri and others are definitely very good at Tong Yi. He has analyzed a lot of things from these data.
Then, Tong Yi withdrew all the details of Flores' tactics revealed in the information, discussed and studied them in detail with Vieri, Hamann and others, and then asked them to lead the team in training.
, be prepared for the game against Watford.
Moreover, Tong Yi can see from Watford's results this season that Flores, the driver, is quite utilitarian.
Because Watford has played 6 games this season, but has only won 2 games, 3 draws and 1 defeat with 5 goals and 5 goals conceded.
Every game they won was by one goal, the draws were 2-2 and 0-0, and the only game they lost was a 0-2 away defeat to Manchester City.
It can be seen that Flores is really a loyal supporter of Mu's 1-0 doctrine.
Flores really mastered defensive counterattacks at Watford.
To the extreme.
Of course, people also have things.
They don't just defend. A team that only relies on defense cannot win. They also have to attack. In the limited counterattack time, the Watford people were able to seize the opportunity to score and help the team win.
The victory shows that Flores also has something in terms of offense.
These things all come from Spain's traditional offensive football.
Therefore, Tong Yi knew very well that Flores was difficult to deal with.
Even though he leads the newly promoted Watford, he is really capable.
No wonder many people regard Flores as the master of relegation.
The next game will be a tough battle for Crystal Palace.
Even if Crystal Palace's pressing and aggressive attack is in place, it may not be able to tear apart the opponent's defense.
Therefore, in this game with Watford, Tong Yi still has to make use of two wings. In particular, he has to make use of Ignacio, a nearly two-meter high point in the penalty area. This is a nuclear weapon for attacking!
At this time, Tong Yi attached great importance to Watford and did not underestimate his opponent just because the opponent was a newly promoted team.
This has also affected the entire Crystal Palace team. Everyone in Crystal Palace is more cautious and pays more attention to the Watford team. Moreover, the players and other coaches of Crystal Palace also know the importance of this game.
This is Tong Yi's first game back. Crystal Palace absolutely cannot lose!
They cannot embarrass Tong Yi, let alone welcome Tong Yi's return with a defeat.
Therefore, at this time, the whole team is working hard to win Watford and get three points.
I wonder what Flores’s reaction will be after he learns what the Crystal Palace people think?
Anyway, now he feels that he is quite unlucky.
It's so good that Watford is facing Crystal Palace, and this guy Tong Yi is back. This idea is too bad!
Of course, Flores thinks this is both a misfortune and an opportunity!
After all, Tong Yi did not lead the team in the first seven games. It is still unknown whether he has adapted to the team after just returning?
If Tong Yi and Crystal Palace don't get along well, this is still their chance with Watford.
Therefore, Flores is still full of expectations for this game!
In this game, Watford has a chance to win!
Flores also reminded the Watford players, hoping that they can go all out to seize this rare opportunity and defeat Crystal Palace.
By this time, Tong Yi had already led Crystal Palace to Watford's home stadium, Vicarage Road Stadium.
In the seventh round of the 2015-2016 Premier League season, Crystal Palace's away match against Watford is about to begin.
This chapter has been completed!