Chapter 8 The Unappreciated

Osman is defending Vieira. This is the task given to him by Wansheng. Arsenal is currently centered on Vieira. Defending Vieira can limit their offense. A very important task, he gave this job to Osman, because Osman defends a lot and has the best physical fitness. Even if he cannot completely restrain Vieira, he will definitely bring enough trouble to Vieira.

Vieira also felt it. Five minutes into the game, his feeling was that the game was not as good as he imagined.

He had thought it would be an easy victory, the opponent was just a newly-promoted horse, that's all, no big deal, but now he finds it's not easy to win.

Vieira turned to look around the stands. Fans were cheering everywhere, and Highbury Stadium was full of this cheering. It was Arsenal fans putting pressure on their opponents.

This is a little trick that fans will use.

At Highbury Stadium, in the first round of the league, even if they don't think Derby County has the ability to threaten Arsenal's victory, they still have to do what they need to do, they have to cheer for the team and use noise to influence opponents .

In addition, Arsenal fans also have a mind to give the 'league rookie' a showdown. This Derby County has many newcomers to the top league, and they are also a newly-promoted horse.

A bunch of top-flight freshmen?

Plus a top-flight rookie coach?

Then let you rookies see what the top league looks like. The top league is not where any player or coach can come. Under the influence of our voice, these league rookies must be overwhelmed with fear? Arsenal fans thought proudly.

Too bad the Arsenal fans were disappointed.

On the field of play, Derby County performed very well. This kind of excellence can already be compared with Arsenal. Every Derby County player is seriously involved in the game. On the scene, they and Arsenal did not fall behind. .

Just like how Vieira felt. This Derby County team is really hard to mess with.

Wan Sheng was sitting firmly on the coach's bench. He stared at the game field expressionlessly, with a solemn expression on his face. Now this game is the time to test the results of a summer, and let the team train hard for a summer. Incorporate technology into original tactics. Whether it can play out in the game depends on now.

He still has some confidence.

In one month of training time, the 200% tactical training effect of coaching skills 'collaboration' is equivalent to the team's continuous high-intensity training for three months, plus the effect of personal training, the average player of the team is passing the ball. There is a 2-point improvement in the attribute evaluation, plus the game skill 'passing boost' can increase the player's passing attribute evaluation by 3 points. At present, this Derby County team is on the field. In the evaluation of personal passing ability. The average is over 85 points, some of them are higher than 90, and some are lower than 80. This kind of passing ability rating value can be compared with Arsenal.

In the transformation of integrating technology into tactics, passing ability is an extremely important attribute, which is guaranteed by the overall passing ability, plus some coaching skills to add to the game. It is absolutely certain that in terms of data strength, Derby County will not be weaker than Arsenal in using new tactics.

Data strength doesn't mean something. Those are just some data, but the data reflects the truth. As long as the team plays normally, Wansheng believes that even at Highbury Stadium, they and Arsenal have a fight.

It all depends on the play.

Therefore, Wan Sheng was very focused on the game. He hoped to see the team bring out what was in training. Ten minutes after the game, Wan Sheng's heart was a little more settled.

He found the team to be doing well.

In ten minutes, they and Arsenal were attacking and defending each other, and they did not fall into the disadvantage. Arsenal only had one shot and failed to create a threat, while they had two shots, one of which was within the range of the goal frame. In terms of data, they still have an advantage.

At the same time, the team's physical recovery training also played a role.

At this time, many players of the team have not yet entered the state, because they have just finished the holiday and gathered training not long ago, and the new season has only just played the first game. They have not yet found the citrus to return to the league, and the team's physical fitness has resumed training. It's over, that is to say, most of the players in the team have recovered their physical fitness, and their mentality is uncertain, but their bodies must have returned to the rhythm, so their performance in the game will be even better. better.

Now, every Derby County player is running on the pitch.

There is only one football, but all the players are running. The team uses this kind of running to open up their positions and look for opportunities. Increasing technical skills means increasing the number of passes. However, Derby County’s offense is still dominated by grasping the rhythm. Most of the passes on the field are mainly forward and cross. There are many times when there are back passes. That is to say, the team's attack is still one word - fast. Arsenal's football is already fast enough, but now The speed of Derby County even makes Arsenal players very uncomfortable. What's more, Derby County's speed has increased its accuracy after increasing its technical skills. It's hard to limit Derby County.

The Sky Sports TV commentator George Woodgate, who was in charge of commenting the game, didn't even react at first. He was the commentator responsible for explaining the Premier League game on Sky TV. He had only been in office for two years, so he was explaining the Derby County game for the first time.

Before the game, Woodgate got to know a little about Derby County.

As far as he knows, Derby County is good at attacking football and is also good at defensive counter-attack (the FA Cup final against Manchester United at the end of last season, Derby County used the defensive counter-attack), but their football and 'technology' are absolutely irrelevant , Fast offensive football may be beautiful, but that kind of beauty is only at the second league level, it is difficult for them to play a continuous and similar smooth and beautiful.

But now it's different.

In the continuous attack of Derby County, the football is passed out by one player one by one, and then runs to the feet of other players, such a continuous one-footed pass, each attack can last many times, just like Derby County players rely on Passing and eating are the same, but in fact, most of this team's players are participating in the Premier League for the first time.

How is this possible?

How can they have such good technology?

Soon Woodgate discovered from a professional point of view that Derby County's passing was not a mess. They are very targeted. They rarely return the ball. After every few passes, the football is closer to the goal. The purpose of their passing is actually to find opportunities closer to the goal.

Woodgate is sure. This tactic is the attacking football tactic used by Derby County last season. The difference is that it is more technical and more threatening.

In fact, Derby County's tactics have a great influence in England. Many professional football professionals have discussed this tactic. After all, Derby County has achieved amazing results in League One with this set of offensive football tactics. This has reached the FA Cup final, so this strategy must be very good.

Many people do research on this.

But they found that the tactics were actually not that complicated. To use one word to describe it is something like 'full-court defensive counterattack'. It means that Derby County has expanded its defensive range to the whole court, and will directly conduct a quick counterattack after getting the ball. If you want to use such a tactic, you must have two guarantees. The first is that the defensive ability of the entire team is very strong, and the physical fitness of the players is also You must keep up, otherwise tactics will be impossible to talk about, and ordinary teams can't run like that for a whole game. The second is that the defensive ability of all players should not be too bad, and they want to gain something in the offense. There must also be fast players, players with excellent skills, etc. The requirements for the latter point are simple, and the most important thing is the physical fitness of the entire team, so that the tactics can be guaranteed to continue.

But now Woodgate feels that there is one more requirement to be added to this set of tactics-the players on the team have good passing ability... The above two points are easy to do, but the last one added is not ordinary. The team can do it, even at the Premier League level, only a few top teams can meet this requirement.

This is where it gets confusing - how can a newly-promoted team like Derby County be able to pass the ball so well?

This is incredible!

"We can see that Derby County's coordination is very subtle. They don't look like a newly-promoted horse at all, but rather a top team with a heritage!"

Woodgate could not help but exclaimed.

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Not only Woodgate can see it, but more professional football people have seen it for a long time.

For example, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger sitting in the dugout.

The Frenchman is not surprised by Derby County's tactics, he is surprised that Derby County can do so well, which is incredible.

The relationship between Wenger and Wan Sheng can be said to be passable. Although there is no such thing as a friend, the enemy of the enemy is a friend. He and Ferguson are old rivals. The relationship between Wan Sheng and Ferguson is extremely bad, so the relationship between the two is It's okay, even if they're rivals now.

Wenger has never underestimated Derby County, he will not underestimate a team that can beat Manchester United in the FA Cup final, and only he, who has been a rival to Ferguson for eight years, knows that Ferguson's Manchester United has No matter how strong they are, even if they have been sinking in the past two years, it is still very difficult to beat them, otherwise Manchester United will not end Arsenal's unbeaten record in the league last season.

Wenger knew something about Derby County, their manager, their tactics, and a few good players, but he still didn't expect this Derby County team to perform so well on the pitch.

Tactics are nothing at all, but the kind of quick one-kick delivery in the game is not something that a small team can play. It requires all players to have extremely high personal ability and coordination ability.

Ten minutes have passed since the game.

Arsenal still haven't played any advantage, and it can even be said that there is still a little disadvantage. This is very incredible. You must know that this is Highbury Stadium, and they are the league champions Arsenal last season, and their opponent is only a newly promoted horse.

Just...a newly promoted horse!

Thinking of this, Wenger couldn't help but turn his head to look at Wansheng on the other side. He was just over 27 years old. At 27 years old, many players are older than him, but in his coaching career, he has already been able to do this. At this point, he has specially created tactics for his team and let the team play. Just this, how many coaches can do it?

This young man is incredible.

Wenger suddenly remembered what the young Chinese said when the two shook hands before the game, "This will be a wonderful game!"

He originally thought it was just polite words, but now he feels that the other party is very sincere.

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For a long time, Arsenal and Derby County have been attacking and defending each other.

No fan could have imagined that the game would be so exciting.

Arsenal is a team that has always been good at attacking football, and Derby County is also a team that is good at attacking football. When the two teams collide, they are attacking and attacking. If someone puts the two teams together before the game, they will definitely Get ridiculed by Arsenal fans, but no Arsenal fans do this anymore because they are cheering for a wonderful game and often worrying about their own goals.

Derby County players just keep running.

Whether attacking or defending, they are running, as if they came to the game to run. In this dazzling movement, Arsenal's offense was middle fingered again and again, and Derby County's offense was repeated again and again. Threaten the Arsenal goal.

This kind of run is very difficult to defend.

Arsenal's defense is mainly man-to-man tactics, but Derby County's frontcourt players keep running again and again, although the goal is to move forward, but how to mark people and target anyone has become a problem that Arsenal's defensive players need to think about. It's not uncommon for people to miss out.

This time it was Ivan Crewe.

On the field of play, Ivan Kru is never a conspicuous person, because his skills are average. When he has the ball, he rarely brings it himself, but gives the ball to his teammates. His speed is not too fast. The key He's also a full-back, so a lot of people would rate him as -- a barely qualified full-back.

So many times, Ivan Kru is not valued by opponents.

This time, too, it was Ribery on the other side who shined before, Maurice and Van der Vaart in the middle. The three formed a 'Trident' on the left. People felt dazzled, and even Arsenal fans couldn't help but applaud a few times. The excellent skills and subtle cooperation of the three attracted the attention of all fans, and at the same time attracted most of Arsenal's defense in the backcourt.

So Ivan - Kru's opportunity came.

When explaining the tactics, Wan Sheng emphasized that, "The players in all positions of the overall formation are equally important. If they attract the attention of the defense, they will be passed to other neutral positions. As long as there is no problem with the formation advancing, there will definitely be a response. player."

Just like this time, after Morris and Van der Vaart played with their feet twice in a row, the football had reached the Arsenal penalty area line, and it was difficult to pass forward, so Morris moved the ball across to the right, At the moment of passing the ball, he didn't even think about it. When he saw the football flying towards him, it was just a kick back with a heel. Of course, if there was no one behind him, this action would be ironic. 'Juggling' too.

Fortunately, there is someone behind Morris.

Ivan Crewe.

While advancing on the left, Ivan Crewe has followed, and no one noticed him, so he received the pass smoothly, and he also wanted to move the ball again, but when he realized that it was a good When the opportunity came, Ivan Kru didn't hesitate, he pulled the ball to the left, and immediately raised his foot to shoot!

The football flew off the penalty line and went straight to the left corner of the goal.

Arsenal goalkeeper Lehmann tried his best to make a save. He stretched out his arms and stretched them as long as possible, but unfortunately, Ivan Crew adjusted his movements to shoot the ball. His shot seemed to be in The training ground was just as natural, especially since the shooting position was still the penalty area line, only about 17 meters away from the goal. Although the speed of the football was not fast, the angle was very tricky, and Lehmann failed to catch the ball in the end.

The only thing he can do is stare at the football in mid-air and rub his fingertips over it.

That gesture... so elegant! (To be continued ~^~)