Chapter 7 This Opponent Is Not Easy to Mess With!

Derby County met Arsenal in the first round of the league, which was an early collision between the two teams.

One of them was the Premier League champion last season and the other was the FA Cup champion last season. In August, they will have a 'Community Shield' competition. It is not a big trophy, but it is still the first trophy to start the game. Worth fighting for.

When the two teams collided in the first round, Derby County supporters were cursing the damn schedule. The first round of the league is quite important for any team. There is a word in China called 'a good start'. There is a similar saying in Europe, called 'the first step to success', winning the first game is a good start, but the first game to meet the league champion last season, this is not a good sign, especially Derby County It's still an away game, so many Derby County fans are cursing the FA that sets the schedule.

Of course it makes absolutely no sense to do so.

But this also shows that even the supporters of Derby County are not optimistic that the team can beat Arsenal, not to mention the remarks in the media. Fortunately, Derby County has not appeared in the media many times recently. , In addition to the local media, many large media have abandoned Derby County a bit, because they feel Derby County is just a relegation team, although their young coach said before the start of the European Cup that the team will fight for European competition places, but who believes that Woolen cloth?

In the summer, Derby County has some moves to sell the team's main goalkeeper Oakes and leading striker Cahill. They are equivalent to 'break-even'. Most people think that Derby County's strength has declined. After all, Van der Vaart and Karachi Haven't proven themselves in the Premier League yet, even if the strength of these two is guaranteed, but no one expects them to do better than Cahill and Oakes, so the public thinks Derby County's strength has declined.

They were originally just a newly-promoted horse, and their strength dropped a little, and they could only work hard to avoid relegation this season.

A team working hard to avoid relegation. What else is there to pay attention to?

Wansheng was also very clear about the voices outside, but he didn't care at all. After the warm-up with Middlesbrough, he was stuffy in the office to prepare for the first game of the new season.

His preparation was not to study Arsenal. In fact Arsenal has nothing to study. Their lineup has hardly changed from last season, and the new Robin van Persie will definitely not be able to play in the first game, so the media reports and the video of last season's game are enough, and his preparation is to study Team formation.

In the football training master, Wansheng turned on the formation system and moved the players' positions again and again, while observing the evaluation values ​​of 'offense' and 'defense' displayed below.

Wansheng has not used the formation system for a long time. But the new season begins. After making some adjustments to the tactics, he still has to use this system to simulate the team formation to find out the formation strategy that is most suitable for the current player configuration.

This system is somewhat 'mechanized' and 'digital', but it is not very useful, but in the case of fixed tactics, it is still very useful to use this to choose the best formation, such as letting the full-backs stand forward. . Or stand back a little bit and run within a certain range. These will affect the team's overall offensive and defensive capabilities. He has to find the most suitable formation to deal with Arsenal.

In the face of a team like Arsenal, the defense is naturally better, otherwise Arsenal will be in good shape and the goal will be difficult to defend. At the same time, the offense must not be weak, otherwise the game will be completely passive defense, which is not what Wansheng wants. See, he needs to find the optimal strategy to balance the two.

This work seems to be just turning on the system and adjusting the players' positions, which is similar to playing a game simulation, but the workload is still quite large. After all, there are ten players on the field except the goalkeeper. To find the optimal strategy, you must constantly adjust ten players. Wan Sheng has been doing this almost all day, until in the afternoon, when he looked at the defensive and offensive attribute values ​​above, he breathed a long sigh of satisfaction.

Next, he will explain the formation and position to the players.

There is no need to explain the tactics. For nearly a month, he has been making the team adapt to the tactics. Now the team has been able to apply 'OS-Fast' to actual combat, and its strength is no worse than the team's ability at the end of last season. That is to say, I am not sure about the improvement, but the strength of the team has at least increased, which is already quite good. Wansheng believes that as the league progresses, the team will become more and more skilled in adapting to tactics, and the strength that can be exerted will naturally increase. getting stronger.

Just like last season, the team's results are getting better and better.

This is what he wants to see.

......

Soon the first round of the Premier League is approaching.

The Premier League has started, and the English media have also started to do some reports. For example, many large media have made some team comments. In the comments of various media, the top four in the league are undoubtedly Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool. These four Among the teams, the media believe that Arsenal and Manchester United are stronger, Chelsea ranks third, and Liverpool can only rank fourth.

There are also some ratings for other teams, Derby County have only 6 points and are in the bottom of the 20 teams, but this is also normal, and generally newly promoted horses will be ranked in this position.

Compared with the positioning of the newly promoted horses and the prospect of only trying to avoid relegation, there was very little news about Derby County before the first round of the Premier League. The whole of England was paying attention to the first round of Chelsea's home game against Manchester United. A heavyweight match that tests two strong teams, other matches become unimportant in comparison, let alone this one, Arsenal vs. Derby County, in the eyes of most people, it will not be at all. What a suspenseful game.

Even the media that have been hostile to Derby County before did not report on it. In their opinion, Derby County can no longer make waves. When Derby County was the focus before, they would still do some reports, but now Derby County is just A relegation team, such a team is not even qualified to let them report, because no one pays attention, even if the Chinese loses? Nobody cares.

It's normal for a relegation team to lose to Arsenal, so they don't even have to report.

What they are waiting for is that when Derby County is in the quagmire of relegation, they can go down and laugh at it.

So before the Derby and Arsenal game, the media was unusually quiet, with few other media caring about the game except for some genuine Derby and Arsenal media.

The Arsenal media certainly don't care about Derby County, and in their view there will be no suspense in the game. Arsenal were the league champions last season, and they will definitely win when they encounter a newly-promoted horse in the first round. Derby County media will also report the game, looking forward to the team's performance in the top league next season, but they are not optimistic about the first round, and Derby County's local media is relative to the whole of England. The influence is really poor. The sounds they made were completely muffled.

In this low-key atmosphere, the entire Derby County team has come to Highbury Stadium.

At the pre-match press conference, the head coaches of both teams seemed very low-key. Wenger didn't say much, and Wansheng also didn't say much about the game. The media did not comment on the attitude of the two, as it should have been. Same.

All in all, both teams were silent.

in this atmosphere. Wan Sheng returned to the locker room. After the players warmed up from the stadium, they returned to the locker room in turn.

After all the players returned to the locker room, Wan Sheng turned on the computer he was carrying and opened a video file in the computer. Amid everyone's doubts, the video played, showing the penalty shootout between Derby County and Manchester United last season. Moment.

"...Webberson was probably too nervous, he couldn't get the ball to the hoof. It's still 3-2 and Derby is ahead of Manchester United!"

"Roy Keane! The Manchester United captain is in front of the goal. He steps forward... shoots!"

"Ox! Ox! He blocked Roy Keane's penalty! 3:2! 3:2! Derby County won! The game is over! Add in the score of the first 120 minutes and Derby County won 5: 4 wins over Manchester United and won the FA Cup!"

"This is Derby County's second FA Cup title, but their last title goes back to 1946, when World War II ended!"

"This title means a lot to them! Derby County have been almost perfect this season, they won the League One with a record number of points, they beat Manchester United to win the FA Cup, they are the League One 'double'. !"

The visiting team's locker room at Highbury Stadium was filled with the roar of the commentator in the video. The players on the screen were celebrating the goal with excitement, and many of them were crying with excitement.

Even watching this video now, many Derby County players can't help but get excited.

They couldn't help crying when they recalled the moment they beat Manchester United last season. Wan Sheng is also very excited. When he recalls the end of last season, he will feel a wave of blood spreading in his heart, which is why he wants to show the players this video of the game.

He wants to remind the players what it was like to win last season!

"Do you know why I let you watch this video of the game?" Wan Sheng's majestic voice sounded in the locker room. As the game approached, the enthusiastic voices of the fans had already sounded outside the window. Most of them were Arsenal at home. fan.

"This is an honour we have achieved, just two and a half months ago, most of you were involved, we were at the top of the FA Cup, but that was just the beginning!"

"Now, here, it's this season! Our opponent is Arsenal, the opponent is very strong, we still play away, but I want to tell you, we are not a weak team! We beat Manchester United last season, and now the team is strong If you add more, you can definitely beat Arsenal!"

"This is the first round of the league! No one outside is optimistic about us, but each of you should be aware of the hard work we have put in this month!"

"Now, it's time to test the results!"

Wan Sheng stretched out his arm and pointed out the door, "Guys, what are you waiting for! Go and kill them!"

"it is good!"

"Rush into the field and kill them!"

"F-damn those Londoners!"

The players, with excited expressions, filed out from the locker room door. Wan Sheng was at the back of the team. This is what he wanted. He wanted to tell everyone that we are not a weak team. Tell them, We can beat Arsenal, give the players confidence and make them fight, then the game is half won.

For a head coach, let the team train to improve their strength, arrange the most suitable tactics and formations, plus encourage the entire team before the game, and improve the team's fighting spirit, Wansheng has done everything he can do. , the next step depends on the team's performance.

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The Arsenal players never imagined that the Derby County team in front of them had completely changed. In the tunnel, all the Derby County players looked at their opponents viciously, as if there was some deep hatred between the two sides.

One of the most touching is Vieira.

In the player tunnel, Vieira felt an extremely hostile look. He turned his head to look over and met a pair of fierce eyes. It was a white player who was much shorter than him. His eyes were slightly sunken. On that strong body, it looks really ferocious.

It was Leon Ottoman.

But...you don't seem to know him, do you?

Vieira thought.

He was very puzzled. Arsenal and Derby County have never played against each other. His knowledge of Derby County players can be said to be a bit blank. Coach Wenger only introduced a few outstanding Derby County players before the game, such as Morris, Ribery, the sunken-eyed guy is definitely not on the list, so why is he looking at himself like that?

This question has been hanging in Vieira's mind.

Finally, players from both sides came out. After guessing the coin and picking sides, as the atmosphere in the audience became warm, the game between the two teams officially started.

After the start of the game, Vieira was still thinking about the hostile look in his eyes. This question has been lingering in his mind, but he soon had the opportunity to solve his doubts. When he dribbled the ball for the first time, the guy who glared at himself came over. On defense, Vieira wanted to pass him, but shaking twice in a row had no effect at all except that he was almost cut off by the opponent, so Vieira could only choose to pass the ball to his teammates.

Seeing that the other party was about to run away, Vieira hurriedly seized the opportunity and asked, "Boy, do we know each other?"

Osman shook his head.

"We have a grudge?"

Osman still shook his head.

Vieira was even more puzzled, and he asked directly, "Then why are you looking at me like that? It's like... as if we were having a holiday...?"

Osman turned his head to stare at Vieira, and said very seriously, "Boss asked me to keep an eye on you, we are opponents now! You should stop talking so much nonsense!"

Osman said and ran away.

Vieira ran a few steps forward, still a little confused... Just because the opponent's coach asked him to mark him, and then he looked at him with that kind of hatred?

Is it really just that?

Vieira turned his head to look at the Derby County coaching bench, where the opponent's young coach was sitting with a serious face and a slight smile.

Vieira hardly paid attention to the opponent's coach before the game, because the two would never meet, but now he suddenly felt that the young coach of Derby County really has a certain ability, otherwise the young boy just now would not Facing him at Highbury, he was full of hostile fighting spirit.

If there are no Derby County players like this, even if they are at home, they have an advantage in strength, but it is still not easy to defeat the opponent. Vieira suddenly felt that he should remind his teammates to pay more attention.

This opponent seems a little awkward. (To be continued ~^~)