075: The battle for the top young manager in the English Championship

September 29, 2012, Macron Stadium, Bolton, England.

The stadium, which can accommodate 25,000 people, was packed.

In the stands, Bolton fans pulled up many pictures that humiliated and ridiculed Tong Yi.

There is even a picture of Tong Yi kneeling down and licking Martina's toes, which is used to satirize Tong Yi as a soft-boiled man who relies on women. At the same time, there is also a picture of Tong Yi kneeling down under Louisa's pomegranate skirt, and there is also a picture of Martina and Louisa sitting on the throne, with Tong Yi prostrate in front of them.

Anyway, he was just madly disgusting and humiliating Tong Yi.

Even when they saw Tong Yi entering the stadium, they cursed Tong Yi crazily and booed Tong Yi like a tsunami.

Seeing the behavior of Bolton fans, Tong Yi was very angry.

These guys at Bolton really deserve to die!

Tong Yi glanced at these Bolton fans coldly, and sneered in his heart, "You won't be able to be arrogant in a while!"

Then Tong Yi walked to his coaching bench.

At this moment, Bolton coach Friedman, who was also wearing a suit, came to Tong Yi, stretched out his right hand and said, "Welcome to the Macron Stadium, Tong Yi!"

Tong Yi looked at the young Friedman and extended his right hand, "It's a great honor to come to Macron Stadium!"

Friedman is indeed a young coach!

Friedman is 38 years old and has just retired for more than 2 years.

Yes, Friedman was once a professional football player. He is a Scotsman who trained at Queen's Park, the same team that Andrew Robertson previously played for.

As a player, Friedman played for Crystal Palace twice.

The first time was between 1995 and 1997, when he played 94 times for Crystal Palace and scored 31 goals.

The second time was in 2000-2008, when he played 239 times for Crystal Palace and scored 64 goals.

It can be said that most of his career has been dedicated to Crystal Palace.

After he retired, he went to Crystal Palace to coach the team. And he officially became the head coach of Crystal Palace's first team in the 2011-2012 season, leading the team to successfully avoid relegation.

However, he left Crystal Palace shortly after the end of last season and came to Bolton.

Therefore, Friedman has only been a professional football head coach for more than a year. He is naturally a young coach in football and is naturally very young.

Of course, he is incomparable to Tong Yi!

Tong Yi is only 27 years old now!

This game was also hyped by media reporters as a battle for the top young coaches in the British Championship.

Is Tong Yi, a foreign marshal, more powerful, or is a local marshal like Friedman more powerful?

This game will give the answer

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Friedman looked at the extremely young Tong Yi in front of him and seemed to be very shocked.

When he was as young as Tong Yi, he was still playing in the Crystal Palace league, and Tong Yi already coached a team alone, and also became the youngest Bundesliga championship coach and the youngest Europa League championship coach in history. .

This is really infuriating!

Friedman immediately said, "I didn't expect you to be so young. You are very capable. You did a great job at Crystal Palace. You are better than me!"

Tong Yi was slightly startled, not expecting Friedman to say that.

Then he said, "Indeed, I did a good job. I believe that after this season, our Crystal Palace can be promoted to the Premier League."

Friedman raised his eyebrows, not expecting Tong Yi to be so arrogant.

Yes, in his opinion, Tong Yi is a little arrogant.

Friedman immediately said, "Really? I don't know whether you can lead the team to the Premier League at the end of the season, but what I know is that you can't win this game!"

Tong Yi chuckled and said, "Are you so confident?"

Friedman sneered and said, "This is my home court and I have the final say. You have no chance in this game!"

Tong Yi shrugged and said, "Then let's wait and see!"

Friedman said coldly, "We'll see!"

Then, the two people immediately turned around and walked to their own coaching benches.

The live broadcast footage recorded this moment.

"Today's game is still very interesting. This should be regarded as the battle for the number one young coach in the British Championship this season! We won't talk about Tong Yi. He is the youngest young coach in world football today, and he is also an honorary man. The most brilliant young marshal!" Mortensen said immediately.

"Friedman is indeed our outstanding young coach in the UK. He only retired in 2010 and became a coach. In 2011, he became the head coach of the Crystal Palace first team and led the team to avoid relegation. This season he came to Bolton Wanderers , became the first team coach of Bolton Wanderers." Shearer also said immediately.

At this time, the fans at the scene screamed with excitement, because they had already seen the players from both sides entering the stadium, and the game was about to start.

They really can’t wait any longer!

"After Tong Yi took over the Crystal Palace this season, his performance in leading the team is still very good. Except for the five consecutive losses in the five warm-up matches before the season, the Crystal Palace games he coached have won all games, and even won the August The best coach in the league, very powerful!" Mortensen said immediately.

Indeed, after seeing Tong Yi leading the team to five consecutive defeats in the pre-season warm-up match,

At that time, no one could have imagined that Tong Yi could lead Crystal Palace to perform so well and so well in the main game. It was simply unexpected.

Tong Yi's ability really surprised people in English football.

Of course, Crystal Palace has one win and two losses in the last three games, but this has nothing to do with Tong Yi. Campbell is the coach. In other words, Tong Yi's current performance in coaching Crystal Palace is still undefeated, or even a complete victory.

It can be said that so far, Tong Yi is the strongest young coach in the English Championship this season.

"Friedman is actually quite good. He took over the turbulent Crystal Palace last season. This was his first season. He took the job daringly. After all, he was initially positioned as one of the assistant coaches. member, Crystal Palace's target coach last season was Eddie Howe. However, Howe, who was about to leave Bournemouth, finally chose Burnley and rejected Crystal Palace, so Friedman took over on a temporary basis. But he still led the team Completed relegation and allowed Crystal Palace to stay in the English Championship." Shearer said immediately while looking at the information in his hand.

After a pause and a sip of water, he continued, "It was precisely because of Friedman's outstanding performance at Crystal Palace last season that Bolton took a fancy to him. He came to Bolton this season. When he first came to Bolton, he It is completely opposite to Tong Yi's situation at Crystal Palace. Friedman achieved complete victory in the first five games after taking over at Bolton, which is completely opposite to Tong Yi's complete defeat."

This is indeed the case. Friedman achieved complete victory in the first five warm-up games of the season after taking over Bolton. This made Bolton fans and senior management very excited. They found the most suitable head coach. At the same time, they are also full of confidence and expectations for the upgrade in the new season.

Mortensen continued, "But after the start of the main match, Friedman and Bolton Wanderers did not perform very well. After the first seven rounds, Bolton Wanderers are currently ranked 15th in the Championship, with 3 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. 10 points. However, they are still ranked in the middle of the league, only 6 points behind Brighton at the top of the league, and only 5 points behind Crystal Palace in second place. This result is not bad."

Shearer also nodded slightly. It was indeed the case. Bolton's results were actually not very bad.

If you include the League Cup, Bolton's results are only 4 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses, because they had one win and one loss in the League Cup and stopped in the second round.

Bolton fans and executives don't care about the League Cup. After all, their focus is on the league.

Being eliminated from the League Cup will allow them to devote themselves wholeheartedly to the league.

Therefore, Bolton's senior management and fans now have very high expectations for Bolton's results in the league. They hope that the team can reach the top six of the English Championship this season and at least have a chance to compete for promotion places.

Moreover, the current performance of Friedman’s team is that they

I saw that there was such hope.

Now, their expectations for the team are very high.

And today's game is their perfect opportunity for Bolton.

After all, Crystal Palace is the second-ranked team. If they beat them, it would be equivalent to gaining 6 points. Therefore, Bolton fans and executives hope that Friedman can lead the team to victory in this game and defeat Crystal Palace.

Moreover, this is also a good opportunity for Bolton.

Because before this, the Crystal Palace was in turmoil. Amid the chaos, they had one win and two losses in the three games coached by Campbell. Now Crystal Palace is in very poor shape and their morale is also very low. Tong Yi has also not coached for three rounds. He will definitely be a little bit raw when he just came back.

Facing such a Crystal Palace, will Bolton be unable to win?

This is their home stadium of Bolton!

Today, Bolton have the advantage of the right time, place and people. They will win this game!

At this time, the Bolton fans thought so and sang excitedly.

"So, these two are currently the best young coaches in the English Championship. So who is the best? This will be judged by the result of this game. So, now I think about this game I am looking forward to this game very much, I want to see who can win in the end?" Shearer said.

Mortensen also nodded slightly and said, "I'm also looking forward to it very much. Let's see who is the final winner of this game, shall we?"

At this time, the fans of both teams were choking madly at each other. The Crystal Palace fans of the visiting team were not at a disadvantage at all.

The atmosphere at the scene was very hot.

"Okay, now that the players from both sides have entered the stadium, let's introduce to you the starting lineups of both sides today." Mortensen said immediately.

Today’s starting lineups for both sides are as follows:

Home team Bolton Wanderers, head coach Friedman, formation 442

goalkeeper bogdan

Back four from left to right Samuel Ricketts, Matt Mills, Za Knight and Tyrone Mills

The four midfielders from left to right are Li Qinglong, Mark Davis, Keith Andrews and Chris Eagles

Forwards Kevin Davis and Marvin Soldale

Visiting team Crystal Palace, head coach Tong Yi, formation 4213

Goalkeeper Speroni

The back four from left to right Robertson, Van Dijk, Delaney and Ward

Double defensive midfielder Jedinak and Kanter

Single attacking midfielder Pogba

The front three from left to right Zaha, Murray and Mane