In martial arts novels, honest people are never the objects that can be arbitrarily despised and bullied, because their honesty is only a kind of appearance of "once shipwrecked as water", and the realm of the wind forest volcano is close to the extreme. Do you think Vieira is such an honest person?
After Vieira became coach, many automatically blocked his illustrious history as an Arsenal player and a Player for France, looking down on the 47-year-old Selhurst Park's new manager deep down. Before the start of the new Premier League season, he was listed as the number one coach who was expected to be fired.
However, it is unexpected that after 11 rounds of the league, Vieira has successfully changed the style of play of the club, he is like a magic wand-wielding mage, mobilizing, arranging, and implementing nearly half of the new signings of the summer team, and in the shortest possible time, crystal palace has become a normally functioning team, as he said, has been growing in "maturity". In encounters with the Premier League powers, they defeated Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur, only to be beaten by Liverpool and Chelsea. Across the capital, Crystal Palace fans have seen that they may be able to win more and feel they have won the jackpot.
The following three points are the secrets of Vieira's success at crystal palace:
First, the counter-attack philosophy adapted to the team and was accepted by the fans
Roy Hodgson's safety first style has long been regarded as a guigao by Crystal Palace, and they are really based on reality and adapted to local conditions, controlling their personnel management in a small but tight team. They don't think much about expanding their institutions for the needs of European games, and they believe that offensive ornamental football does not belong to the crystal palace now, they just need someone to upgrade Roy's theory and give security more weight.
So now we see the 47-year-old manager's counter-attack philosophy perfectly connected to Selhurst's game. Today Crystal Palace is actually one point less than Hodgson was in the same stage last season, but almost all of the available statistics show progress. According to analytics firm Soccerment, the Hawks have averaged 11 percent more possession in 11 games this season than last year; and have completed about 100 passes per game; expected goals have risen while opponents' expected goals have fallen. Although Crystal Palace face its most challenging schedule, it still scored 15 goals with three wins, six draws, two losses, 14 goals and 15 points to climb to the top half of the table, ranking tenth.
Second, cultivate new talents as stars to be recognized
Unlike Hodgson, who is wildly popular and universally respected, Vieira's star qualities, one of the true superstars of the Premier League era, make him a much more inspiring and relevant presence. Reflected in the influence of players, as a coach he is the backbone of the team.
Wilfried Zaha, who has been an Arsenal-era Vieira fan and grew up watching his ball, clearly loves life at the moment: "I feel like now we're using the talent we have up front and across the pitch!" ”
Another staunch supporter, James MacArthur, is playing the best football of his career, and next summer, there will be countless teams pulling on cartloads of money to seek to sign him.
Odsonne Edouard arrived on a summer contract, at the discretion of his compatriots, willingly becoming a selfless assist and tenacious attacker for his teammates on the field.
Then there's the case of the young Conor Gallagher, whose head coach, Vieira, is letting them draw from themselves the domineering spirit that defines the attributes of Vieira's players.
Third, a steady and pragmatic attitude is expected to be coached for a long time
Crystal Palace was once full of Hodgson "relics", and after a long goodbye to him in the minds of most Crystal Palace fans, time reached a consensus on the success of the post-Roy era.
Vieira's coaching resume is well known but difficult to decipher: the trajectory of the fall in the complex environment of Nice is like a mystery, and the football club in New York City, a league that is still unfamiliar to most British fans, it is hard to imagine anything that would make The British casually tout his Premier League qualification. But to shake off the mist, savor his coaching trajectory, steady, down-to-earth like the brilliance of puyu, warm and introverted, not dazzling but beautiful flowing.
At the beginning of the season, Crystal Palace had linked its survival to more adventures because of summer mistakes, and team managers and fans could not judge where the team would go. But so far, Vieira's steady and down-to-earth style has exceeded expectations. Optimism around Selhurst Park has replaced the tension that accompanied the news of his impending appointment at the time. Frank De Boer 2.0? At least not at the moment.