Chapter 13 Different Choices, Different Paths

"Rafael Vander Vaart!! Rafael Vander Vaart!!" Sky TV commentator George Woodgate exclaimed excitedly again.

His eyes widened in disbelief.

"In the 73rd minute of the game, Derby County scored another goal and Raphael van der Vaart, the young former captain of Ajax, helped Derby County score the third goal!"

"Derby County lead by three goals!"

"This is Van der Vaart's first goal for Derby County. He is only 21 years old this year. In the summer, Derby County spent 700 euros to bring in Van der Vaart from Ajax. His arrival is to replace the summer. Australian striker Cahill, who left for Everton! Many media believe that Van der Vaart is difficult to replace Cahill. Cahill is Derby County's top scorer. His departure brought Derby County nearly 9.2 million pounds , the difference in value between the two is more than double, but in today's match at Highbury Stadium, Van der Vaart will make many people shut up, not only this goal, but also Van der Vaart's previous performance in attack. It's pretty good, he cooperates well with his teammates, and the first two goals have something to do with him..."

After the goal, Van der Vaart looked excited.

He put his hands on his cheeks and waved his arms vigorously. Even his teammates rushed over to hug him, but he didn't change his movements. He just looked at the sky. Some commentators explained that he was thanking God for his guidance.

There were cheers for the goal from the stands.

The cheers came from Derby County fans, as well as many neutral fans. They applauded Derby County's performance and Van der Vaart's goal, but Arsenal fans have no intention of competing with their voices. They all felt powerless because Arsenal were already three goals behind. They were extremely disappointed with the game. In the cheers of the fans, Van der Vaart finally calmed down. He and every teammate who came over warmly embraced him. He felt satisfied.

in Ajax. He is the core, the captain. But he can only play in midfield, and when he comes to Derby County, he can play the second forward position he hopes most. Here he can play against the giants Arsenal and score at Highbury Stadium. Now Van der Vaart feels, Coming to Derbyshire on your own was the right choice.

A goal against Arsenal!

When I was at Ajax. There are not many goals in the league, let's not mention it. Even scoring a goal can only break Feyenoord's goal, other teams are not even interested in talking, and now, any opponent in the league is worth mentioning, and now it is facing an opponent like Arsenal.

Arsenal, that's not something Feyenoord can compare to!

With this goal, the English media's evaluation of themselves will be much better, right? Not as good as Cahill? It's up to you to see if it's me or that Australian!

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Also very excited is Wansheng. He took the initiative to hug Diamares.

For him, beating Arsenal in the first round of the league is new. This victory brought him the same joy as what he paid for.

Since coaching Derby County, since last summer, he has been working hard to train the entire team, every player in the team, plus a series of work such as transfers, and now this Derby County is his own creation. , This summer, the whole team has been training for a month. For a month, the players are working hard, and as a head coach, it is even harder. He has to care about the training situation of each player, and at the same time spend a lot of brain cells on tactics and football research. Team, study training, study opponents... and so on, and now, this victory is the harvest of the job, victory over Arsenal is the beginning of Derby County's return to the Premier League, and it is also an announcement to the world that he, Wansheng, stands in The start of the top league stage.

With a three-goal lead, Wansheng is absolutely sure that the team will win.

No matter how much the team trained before, they didn't know the effect without a real game. After this game, the team's ability was revealed. The victory over Arsenal at Highbury Stadium was enough to prove a lot of things. At least, this set of tactics he studied himself. is successful.

In fact, before the real test of success, Wansheng was not sure about the tactical effect. Now that the team leads Arsenal by three goals, he is extremely sure that he is right.

After this game, Wansheng believes that the confidence and morale of the team will be greatly increased. At the same time, this season, the team will at least have a good start.

A good start is half the battle, and the team has taken the first step to success.

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Wenger stood on the sidelines, his face full of helplessness.

He knew very well that Arsenal had pressed very high just now, and the opponent would have a chance to counterattack, but he tried his best not to think about that, because Arsenal had no other choice. To seize the chance to win, they had to press on the whole line, but now, Derby County still scored.

Three goals behind!

Wenger is more clear that the team has no hope of tying the score, this game, Arsenal is going to lose.

But what surprised him most was the performance of Derby County.

Arsenal's defense is not very good, but their defensive ability is definitely at the top of the Premier League. Derby County can score three goals, which is really surprising.

At the same time the media and fans were also surprised.

Fans on either side are surprised by Derby County's performance, this is just a newly-promoted horse! Can a newly-promoted team score three goals at Highbury?

To say that Arsenal's performance is not too bad. At the beginning of the game, they seemed to be out of shape, but then every player in the team showed their ability, and the result was still scored by Derby County. What happened? thing? How could this Derby County team be so strong?

Arsenal players are all standing on the field, and they have the same doubts in their hearts. Now, they are just watching Derby County celebrate, standing there one by one, and even forgot to urge the referee to start the game quickly.

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After the game restarted, Wenger made a substitution adjustment.

He replaced the 'Ice Prince' Bergkamp with the Spanish boy Reyes. Bergkamp did not perform very well in this game, but among Arsenal players, he still performed very well. There are two He passed the threatening ball every time and created opportunities for his teammates, but in the end his teammates failed to send the ball into the goal.

Most of the game is now over, in this fierce confrontation. His stamina could no longer support him, so Wenger replaced Bergkamp.

It's just a normal substitution.

Just one minute later, Wenger used the teenager Van Persie to replace Gilberto Silva, who had done nothing for the whole game, reducing a midfielder. Add a striker. Obviously the French want the team to use the last minute of the game to score a goal.

Van Persie came on.

Van Persie had been sitting on the bench before. For him, this game was very strange, because Derby County also invited him to join the team in the summer, but he chose not to because he had never heard the name of Derby County, He doesn't think a newly promoted horse is worth playing for himself.

But what he didn't expect was. He considers Arsenal a 'strong team'. Actually conceded three goals at home, but did not break the opponent's goal once.

3:0.

Such a game surprised him.

He saw Van der Vaart's performance, and when he was on the bench, he was thinking that if he went to Derby County, he would appear in Van der Vaart's position, and perhaps, he could have the same performance as Van der Vaart.

That would be very nice, right?

Come to England. Scored a goal in the first round of the league, followed by the team's big victory over the defending champion... It's the same as empathy. Compared to his obscurity at Arsenal now, the media even ignored him as "there is no transfer job in Arsenal's summer", and he can only get some substitute minutes here. Van der Vaart's situation is really good.

Van Persie secretly regretted it.

He never thought that joining the 'big team' would be inferior to Van der Vaart, who joined the small team.

Both of them are Dutch, of the same age and know each other, but the two choices put them in diametrically opposite situations, but Van Persie quickly adjusted his mentality and devoted himself to his league appearances, but he soon found out that he was there. It feels completely different on and off the field.

When he was on the bench, Van Persie only felt that the team was not doing well and that Derby County still had a lot of loopholes in defense, but when he got on the field, whenever he got the ball, Derby County players would come over Intercepting, in the face of intensive defense, he can only choose to pass the ball. It turns out that almost every teammate is surrounded by people. It is not easy to break such a tight defense. He passed the ball three times in a row, and was directly interrupted twice. .

The on-site commentator at Highbury Stadium said disappointedly, "Van Persie and Van der Vaart are also Dutch players. He is only 6 months younger than Van der Vaart, but the performance of the two is not at the same level. Van der Vaart has repeatedly created opportunities for goals. , he also scored a goal, but Van Persie played three passes and made two mistakes..."

Sky TV's George Woodgate said directly, "...It is said that Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger is good at digging out young players, but obviously he got it wrong this time. Van Persie's performance is much worse than Van der Vaart's performance. From now on, it should be said that Wansheng is good at digging out young players, think of Ribery, think of Baines, and a kind of young players from Derby County, such as Burton Reiter, Alfred, Ziegler, etc., coupled with the current Van der Vaart, maybe Derby County will replace Arsenal in the future and become the club that young players yearn for most."

Just as the commentator spoke, Derby County had already used Van Persie's failed pass to launch a counterattack.

They are very fast!

This time it was a pick from Van der Vaart. The football jumped over the head of Campbell, the core of Arsenal's defense, and appeared on the right side of the penalty area.

Burton-Leiter is there!

One of the Arsenal players raised his hand, Bolton Reiter was offside, but at the same time Bolton Reiter had jumped up and tried his best to head the ball to the goal!

In everyone's eyes, football once again flew into the gate guarded by Lehmann!

"4:0! 4:0!"

"Unbelievable! Unbelievable!"

"Derby County were four goals ahead of Arsenal at Highbury Stadium, it was a carnage! But unlike most people think, this carnage was made by Derby County, they completely destroyed the defending champions. Four goals, every single one of them! This goal came from Derby County's young striker Burton Reiter, who is only 21 years old like Van der Vaart!"

"The striker formed by two 21-year-old young players produced two goals and two assists in this game. The performance of the two is almost perfect!"

"Derby also did a great job in the midfield and they didn't let Arsenal score a single goal..."

"This game belongs to Derby County!"

Following the commentator's words, the large lens of the camera pointed to the sidelines, and I saw Wan Sheng sitting on the coach's bench with his arms folded on his chest and a smile on his face. He didn't have the excitement of scoring at all. Same as normal.

"Maybe this young Chinese is used to scoring Arsenal goals..." added George Woodgate.

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