Chapter 39 We Won by Luck Again

"This is the fifth round of League One, Cardiff City vs. Derby County, and now the game time has reached the 80th minute of the game, just after Ian Taylor helped Derby County score the first of the game. Goal!"

"The goal in the 80th minute is quite valuable!"

"This may be the decisive factor in the game. In the previous 80 minutes, Derby County bombarded Cardiff City half-time, but they never scored, and the overall performance was not good. It didn't look like Derby County was in great shape today, but Taylor saved the team!"

"The goal was an assist from the French player Franck Ribery, a pretty good assist."

"But I personally think that this assist has a lot of luck. In previous games, Ribery wasted countless opportunities. If Taylor hadn't been conscious and performed well, maybe the ball would have passed to Cardiff City players. Underfoot..."

After Taylor scored, the commentators kept making comments.

While praising Ian Taylor's performance, he also satirized Ribery's performance. Obviously, Ribery's previous opportunity wasted gave him a deep impression, but his remarks were difficult to affect Derby County fans. For the fans, it's more about the team scoring a goal, then they're ahead.

Taking the lead in the 80th minute of the game meant everyone knew what it meant.

After Taylor's goal, Derby's attacking pace slowed down a bit, and the defense was more reinforced, after all, there was not much time in the game.

Wansheng also knew that this victory was not easy to come by.

He stood on the sidelines in person, shouting for the team to retreat and pay attention to the defense, which reminded many Derby County fans of the scene at the end of last season. At that time, the young Chinese coach did the same, and every time Derby County has It's a full retreat, and that kind of defense is almost the same as 'no offense at all'.

Games like that would be ugly.

Fortunately, Derby County is now playing new tactics, and the focus is still on offense. Although they shouted to retreat to defend, the three fronts only retreated a little, not all of them. They still have to create pressure on Cardiff City's defense. Offense is the best defense. This is for teams that are good at attacking. Still quite reasonable.

Derby County did just that.

After they pulled the line back, they formed a half-time interval with Cardiff City. It was like some teams wanted to lure opponents to take the initiative to grab the ball before attacking, and then look for opportunities to make surprise attacks.

Cardiff City clearly had to do it.

In a backward situation, they have no other choice but to take the initiative to attack. Results only when the second attack. Derby County suddenly accelerated the attack rhythm.

Cardiff City was too late to organize a good defense line for a while.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Morris dribbled the ball in the middle and made a diagonal pass and pushed it to Taylor in front. Osman, who Taylor received the ball and inserted, came to a two-for-one match, found an opportunity to shoot directly, and sent the ball to Gao again. City goal.

2:0.

Victory is decided.

In the end, Derby County relied on Ian Taylor's two goals to beat Cardiff City 2-0 away, and they won five rounds unbeaten. With four wins and one draw with 13 points, they are still tied for second place in the league with Norwich.

Derby County fans celebrated wildly after the game.

Derby County's results are now beyond what they could have imagined before. They were only a relegation team last season, they thought that the team's goal this season would still be relegation, even if the media said 'the Derby County manager is crazy and declared the goal is the league title', they didn't take it seriously. .

Like the media said, it was crazy!

They don't believe it at all.

But they never imagined that after the five rounds of the league, the team could have such a result. If it wasn't for West Bromwich Albion's good results, winning all five games, they would have jumped directly to the top of the league.

Every Derby County fan was elated.

They felt that it was worth following the team to Cardiff City. Although the game was very thrilling, both goals came in the last ten minutes, but no matter what the team won, and won four of five games, Still unbeaten so far!

This was something they had never imagined before!

Now Derby County fans are so satisfied with the team's results, as for what the media say, it's hard to shake them.

...

What do Derby County fans think? It is estimated that the media will not care, at least the media like the "Daily Mirror" certainly do not care, because they don't care about the Derby County fans at all, their market is facing the whole of England, even covering to other European countries.

Derby County won, but not beautifully.

Cardiff City are just a newly-promoted team, and the two goals after 80 minutes can't prove anything, so the "Daily Mirror" has reason to question Wansheng.

"Everyone can see Ribery's performance, but the Chinese insisted not to replace him!"

"Because Ribery was the one who brought him into the team..."

"He's running a dictatorship!"

"It has been said before that players who are close to him can get the chance to play, and obviously Ribery is one of them!"

"They won, but it was just luck."

"God doesn't bless Derby County every time! We can see in the game that they have nothing to do with Cardiff City's intensive defense."

"A luck brings victory, what is there to be proud of?"

"Look at how happy the Chinese laughed after the game, maybe he can only enjoy this kind of victory in the future."

"..."

In fact, what they said is not too one-sided, and it is somewhat reasonable.

Ribery's performance really dragged the team down. In other words, the whole team dragged Ribery's back. In short, in the game, Ribery wasted countless opportunities. , the coach will definitely replace such a player.

There was some luck in that ball. Ribery just passed a neutral block according to his own thoughts, and Taylor just ran to the position... Probably this is also luck.

In addition, facing Cardiff City's intensive defense, Derby County really can't do much.

In the sport of football, there is a saying that "tactics of crowds are the best defensive tactics", which is actually very reasonable, and this game confirms this sentence. Cardiff City have all retreated from the backcourt from the first minute. Faced with such a defense, it is estimated that it is not only Derby County. Even if the top teams in the Premier League come to play the game, there are not many ways.

But the above is the understanding of ordinary fans.

In fact. Wansheng had intended to take advantage of this game. Come try out new tactics and let Ribery play freely.

Although the overall effect was not very good, the team's performance in the second half was obviously much better than that in the first half. Taylor's first goal was also the result of the actual effect of the tactics. The so-called 'luck' that the media said was actually tactics themselves. The tactic was originally Ribery to use his personal ability to find a neutral pass. Originally, other players ran to find opportunities, Ribery passed the ball, Taylor found the opportunity, and the goal happened like this.

Is this all luck?

Absolutely not.

As for facing Cardiff City, there are not many options... Premier League powerhouses have nothing to do with this kind of defense, let alone Derby County. The opponent was obviously prepared to play a defensive counterattack from the very beginning, but later, seeing the difficulty of the defense, the counterattack was ignored.

So this is not a problem at all.

Without those media reminders, Wansheng also knows that winning the game is difficult. But he thinks this is the price that has to be paid, how much training the team does. In order to make the team more adaptable to the new adjustment and to add new offensive methods to the team, it is worth taking a little risk.

After this round of the league, he believes that the team can do better in the next game.

What he most wants to see is the team playing better game by game.

This means that the team has been improving.

So Wansheng looked very happy after the game. At the press conference, he was in a good mood and 'praised' Cardiff City, "They played very well and almost managed to defend for 90 minutes, but it's a pity, God standing behind us."

Wan Sheng told reporters offstage.

Except for the poor Derbyshire Life, which has little influence, there is no other media that has a good relationship with him, so Wansheng has no good face towards them at all, and the smile on his face is only because he is in a good mood. Not bad.

"Our luck is really good. This victory can make us happy all night. I like good luck and victory. I hope to have such good luck next time..."

Wan Sheng kept emphasizing luck, but his tone was full of sarcasm.

After the opening remarks, Wan Sheng glanced at the reporters offstage, and when he saw all the faces that seemed to be familiar, he walked out of the press conference directly. He felt that there was no need for him to be interviewed at all. Most of these people were recorded in his notebook blacklist, and a few who were absent did not look very friendly. As for the "Derby County Life" reporter, you can directly message the MSN group. .

There is no need to share internal news with other media.

When the reporters in the press conference saw Wan Sheng leave, they were all stunned. They didn't expect the Chinese coach to leave like this, but the press conference has just begun!

Some people also prepared questions to ask, but they didn't ask anything.

They were a little annoyed and even planned to complain to the FA and the Coaches Association, but Wansheng didn't care.

According to the regulations of the FA, the head coach must attend the press conference after the game, but it is only there. There are no specific requirements for interviews and answers to a few questions. He appeared at the press conference, even if those The reporter's complaint was just a matter of quarreling with each other, and it did not affect him at all.

This is the post-match press conference.

...

For the next few days, training at Derby continued to revolve around getting used to Ribery's rhythm.

But at this time it was not only Ribery, Wansheng also asked Morris, Weberson, Ivan Crewe and others to pass the neutral as much as possible when they had the opportunity to pass the threatening ball. There are also some tweaks to the bits.

This adjustment is difficult to grasp.

After all, the field of play is ever-changing. Wansheng is only talking about a general idea, just like software programming to create a framework. What content is filled in, it depends entirely on the players to play freely, which also depends on the players' personal abilities.

Wansheng attaches great importance to this kind of training, because he is very clear that this is a qualitative improvement of the team's offensive system.

If the team can adapt to it, the offensive ability will be completely improved by a level. Even if it only adapts to half, the team will improve a lot. If it can only adapt to a little... Then it is better to abandon the tactics and return to the original offensive method. It is effective. After all, offensive opportunities on the court cannot be wasted again and again.

The game against Cardiff City was the whole team as a reference.

Wansheng explained the key points of tactical cooperation to the players through the game, and analyzed the problems of each person's movement through the game video. This method is quite effective, at least everyone has seen their own shortcomings in movement. At the same time, when you train again, you will work hard to improve, and you can improve a little if you improve.

The team as a whole is progressing fast.

However, this is not pre-season preparations. Derby County does not have much training time. Soon they ushered in a new round of the league. The opponent is Walsall. This is still an away game.

This is not the first time Wansheng has played against Walsall.

In the penultimate round of last season, Derby County's opponent was Walsall. At that time, Derby County had successfully avoided relegation. Wansheng wanted to experiment with tactics, so he didn't care about the result of the game. In the end, Derby County lost to Walsall. gave them a victory.

Walsall were worse off than Derby County at the end of last season, and they were only one point ahead of third-last Sherrington Wednesday, which is still a big deal for them.

In fact, at the end of the league, Walsall were still only one point ahead of Sherrington Wednesday, which means that the win that Wansheng 'sent' to Walsall helped them avoid relegation, They should really be grateful to him.

It's a pity that Walsall obviously didn't care about this 'human feeling' at all.

Before the game against Derby County, Walsall's new coach even declared that he would win against Derby County, "This round is very important to us, so we have to try to win!" These are his exact words.

This kind of remark was obviously a bit provocative before the game.

However, when the reporters provoked and told Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng didn't care at all. Instead, he looked at the reporter, waved his hand and said lightly, "Are you a reporter from the Daily Mirror? Sorry, I don't. Interviewed by a reporter from the Daily Mirror."

The Daily Mirror has been blacklisted by him!

When the reporter heard Wan Sheng's words, he gritted his teeth in anger, but after Wan Sheng said that, he left immediately. He could only stand where he was, and cursed Wan Sheng countless times in his heart, but it seemed to have no effect.

So he can only be like other reporters, looking forward to Walsall coach, really can do what he said - beat Derby County, get three points.

It's a pity that when the game ended, the reporters were disappointed again.

1:0.

This is the final score.

With the 35th minute, Cahill's strong shot scored, Derby County beat Walsall away with a goal.

The whole game was flat, nothing surprising. Derby County and Walsall had each other's offense and defense. Derby County did not completely suppress Walsall, and Walsall did not choose to defend across the board.

The game was pretty good.

However, the luck of both sides was not very good. Cahill's goal was found with a delicate cooperation. Ribery, Maurice and Cahill passed five consecutive balls near the penalty area. Cahill found the opportunity to turn around and shoot.

That's the only highlight of the game.

Wan Sheng appeared at the press conference after the game, with a smile on his face, looking at the reporters in the audience, he only said one sentence, "Sorry, I disappointed everyone, we won the game by luck again. "

Then, turn around and leave.

All that was left was a group of reporters who looked at each other at the press conference. (To be continued ~^~)