Chapter 102 Smoke Bombs

If you want to beat Tottenham Hotspur, it is not enough to have morale. If you say a few beautiful words, let everyone fight, believe that the team can beat the opponent, and then the team will naturally win. Seung-jin has become the leader of the 'cult'.

This is of course impossible.

It's good to have fighting spirit, but strength is the foundation of everything. Derby County's current strength and Tottenham can still be a little bit better, but in fact, Wansheng is still more worried. Derby County's strength is good in the first league. , but there is definitely a gap with Tottenham Hotspur, which is the absolute powerhouse of the Premier League, and every season there are teams that can compete for places in European competitions.

Another point is the tactical style of the two teams.

If you encounter a team that is mainly defensive, or has no style at all, Derby County still has a tactical advantage if you want to beat such a team. Derby County's offensive football tactics are quite advanced, at least higher than the average English team. Some, advanced tactics have advantages, and it is possible to make up for the lack of strength. But Tottenham Hotspur is different, this team and their city rivals Arsenal are all good at attacking goals, they are not only good at attacking, their football style historically is attacking.

Many people say that Arsenal is the best attacking English team, in fact, fans who really know the Premier League know that Tottenham Hotspur is the pure style of attacking football, and they never change the team even if they are willing to lose. Style, this is what Tottenham Hotspur insists on, and it is a player that Tottenham Hotspur can play against Arsenal in North London - many fans like this team because of the style of Tottenham Hotspur, and It's not about results, their football excuse for attacking Arsenal is 'utilitarian'.

It is precisely this kind of team that Derby County fears the most.

Derby County's attacking football tactics, even the counter-attacking team, are not too restrained, but play against opponents who are equally good at attacking and have better attacking ability than themselves. It's like being completely restrained. It's like Tottenham and Arsenal. The derby between the two teams is one of the hottest derbies in Europe and one of the best to watch, but Tottenham Tottenham wants to win less and lose more. Because the two teams have always been attacking attacking. Tottenham Hotspur is not as strong as Arsenal, and naturally loses more. Derby County and Tottenham Hotspur are completely at a disadvantage.

The strength is not as good as others, the tactics have no advantage, and it is an away battle...

All conditions are unfavorable to Derby County, just relying on 'war of words'. To inspire players' fighting spirit is to beat Tottenham Hotspur. That's a fantasy, unless God is behind Derby County, but there's absolutely no guarantee of winning by luck.

Wansheng can think of, there are not many ways to make the team more favorable, but it is a good way to paralyze the opponent and make the opponent feel that Derby County has no intention of the FA Cup, if Tottenham Hotspur can be more careless. With Derby County going all out, their hopes of victory will definitely increase a lot.

A football game is a victory in times of peace. In order to win, he can do anything he can, just like Mourinho often fights with his opponents, and often releases some smoke bombs before the game. A player is obviously healed, but he does not show up on the training ground, so that the opponent thinks that he is not injured. The more... and so on, the list goes on and on.

Wan Sheng is also ready to release a smoke bomb for Tottenham Hotspur.

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Training at Derby County was open to the public two days before the game.

Many media reporters and fans came to the Derby County club's first team training ground to watch the day's public training.

There are many reporters.

Derby County won a lot of games before and after Christmas, but they drew with Norwich. They also have a six-point advantage in the league. The good result of the league's first place surprised everyone. Many people think that Derby County will play after Christmas. The results will definitely be worse. After all, there are many examples that can prove that some small teams can perform well before Christmas, but as the league enters the middle and late stages, the results will decline, or even plummet. Caused by the depth of the bench, as injuries increase, the strength gap of the lineup will be reflected, and the state of the entire team will also be affected. On the contrary, those big clubs will perform more and more stable after Christmas, and they are likely to achieve results after Christmas. Straight up.

This is just a general situation. At least in the two games after Christmas, Derby County has not yet shown a decline. Despite the draw with Norwich, some media began to make irresponsible remarks, but most of them know that those media are playing against Derby. With hostile counties like the Daily Mirror, Derbyshire and the Daily Mirror almost torn to the core, it's no wonder that the Daily Mirror would have something nice to say about Derbyshire.

But the rivalry between the two clearly has the advantage of Derby County, because their results are quite good, so that the "Daily Mirror" can't get any handle at all. Many times, for the attention of the fans, the "Daily Mirror" Forced to report some news about Derby County. After all, they are the media. Fans want to know the news of Derby County. If you don’t report, you will be behind other competitors. In the face of news competition and development, hostility and so on are all secondary.

Derby County's open training games are very ordinary, there is no difference from before, the players are just doing ordinary training on the pitch.

Wansheng only appeared on the training ground twice, which disappointed many media.

However, Derby County held a press conference after training this time. The excuse was that they wanted to thank the media and fans just after Christmas. Club chairman Ji Smith appeared at the venue and said something to thank the fans in public. Time belongs to Wansheng.

The FA Cup is about to enter an intense stage. Premier League and League One teams will join the championship competition. At this time, media reporters will naturally pay attention to the FA Cup game.

But before the question-and-answer session, Wan Sheng first said about the next league, and his tone was still so 'arrogant', "I said earlier, our goal is the league championship! Look, now we are the top of the league, we want to Working harder to keep the top spot, but I think for my team it's not a problem."

"Now the team is united from top to bottom, we are one unit, we will beat anyone who stands in front of us, and we always believe that we will become the league champions!"

Wansheng highlighted the league championship.

Such remarks are actually not beyond the expectations of media reporters. Wansheng has always been like this in press conferences, and no one has raised doubts about it. Perhaps it is also because in the press conference of Derby County Club, Wansheng has an "independent- No one can intervene when he speaks, but in normal times, when Wan Sheng says these words, there will be media reporters who will question him in the question-and-answer session.

But today is different.

The media reporters are not concerned about the league, but the upcoming FA Cup. They all know that Derby County's opponent is Tottenham Hotspur. This is not a good opponent to deal with, but Derby County is completely unprepared in training. The FA Cup means that it is completely ordinary training.

When it was time for the questioning session, the first person to be named was a reporter from East Midlands Sports Magazine. The reporter stood up and asked a question about the FA Cup, "The third round of the FA Cup is about to start. Now, Derby County's first opponent is the Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur, what do you think of this game?"

Wan Sheng was obviously startled.

It felt like he didn't expect the reporters to ask about the FA Cup, but he recovered quickly and said, "You mean the FA Cup? We are ready for the FA Cup, but our goal this season is It's the league title, the FA Cup doesn't matter to us. All I can say is, we'll try to play."

The reporters in the audience were in an uproar.

They didn't expect that the Chinese who have always been 'arrogant' would say this, but they can understand it when they think about it. After all, Derby County is aiming for the league title, and a competition like the FA Cup that involves the Premier League, a It's almost a dream for a League One team to win the title, and it's understandable that Derby don't want to waste energy on the FA Cup.

Next, another reporter stood up. It was a reporter from the "London Morning Post". This media has always been a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur, and coming here today is a bit of a 'spy on the military' for Tottenham Hotspur. .

"So what do you think of Tottenham?" the reporter asked.

"Tottenham is a strong team!" Wan Sheng said, "I've watched Tottenham a few games, they've played very well, they're a team that has a chance to qualify for the European competition. , it's a tough opponent for us! But we'll try our best to play..."

Wan Sheng was very serious in his words, as if he really valued his opponent, but a reporter in the audience laughed outright.

Anyone who cares about Tottenham Hotspur's game will surely know that Tottenham Hotspur's performance this season is very poor, let alone qualifying for European competitions, now they are all aiming to avoid relegation.

From this flawed statement, they can be sure that this Chinese has never cared about Tottenham Hotspur at all. It should be like what he said, Derby County's goal is the league title, and it is almost also promoted to the Premier League. , the FA Cup is really not important to Derby County.

Tottenham Hotspur reporters were relieved.

They feel that Derby County really doesn't pay attention to the FA Cup. They meet a lower league team in the cup game, and they are playing at home.

Other journalists were also excited because they heard a flawed statement that could have been a fascinating story to report - League One Derby County manager comments Tottenham 'can qualify for European competition this season' ', is there anything more interesting than this?

This is a very funny thing!

In comparison, the game against Tottenham Hotspur is not important, a match between a League One team and a Premier League team, and it is doomed, there is nothing attractive at all. (To be continued ~^~)