Chapter 20 More Room to Play

Derby County drew just one point with Aston Villa in the third round and dropped to ninth in the league table.

Their first three rounds of league results were one win and two draws, which is actually quite good for a newly-promoted horse, especially their opponents in the first three rounds were Arsenal, Blackburn and Aston Villa, Blackburn It is a powerhouse in the Premier League, Aston Villa is a traditional strong team, and Arsenal, as the defending champion, is one of the top teams in England. In the face of such three opponents, as a newly-promoted team, they can score one win and two draws. The results are quite good.

Derby County fans can also say with satisfaction, "We are unbeaten for three consecutive rounds!", they can also say, "We won the Community Shield and beat Arsenal twice!"

Derby County fans are still very satisfied with the team's performance, which has actually exceeded other expectations. More teams at the beginning of the season are just hoping that the team can keep their Premier League position this season. Simply put, it means 'done' Relegation', the current team's performance is naturally better than this expectation.

However, in the English media, the evaluation of Derby County is not very good.

This may be related to Derby County's previous victory over Arsenal, and the media's high expectations for Derby County. What's more, the hostile media of Derby County saw their mediocre results and directly made a sound of schadenfreude--

"Derby County is going downhill with a draw against Aston Villa!"

"Their grades will get worse!"

"The Chinese said that he wanted to qualify for the Champions League, but what he needs to consider now is to keep the league ranking. For a newly promoted horse, the ninth in the league should also be satisfied!"

"What can Derby County do when they can't score?"

"Do they really think that with a League One squad, they can run the Premier League?"

"They won't have time to celebrate the Community Shield, they will worry about their league results. After their victory over Arsenal, they are in a downturn. It seems that they are not far from their first defeat!"

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In these media reports, perhaps Arsenal is the most embarrassing. The media is not optimistic about Derby County. But Arsenal lost to Derby County twice in August, and the voices in the media seem to be saying that through the two games against Arsenal, other teams have learned about Derby County, so they played against Derby County. will be much easier.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have gloated on hearing other teams being told the same. But now he can't laugh at all. Because they're the 'the team that's talked about', the 'team that paved the way for other teams to take on Derby', two defeats to Derby put Arsenal in an embarrassing situation, and their league The results are also very general - three wins, one draw and one loss, with four points, ranking 12th in the league.

Because of this, Wenger has not spoken for a long time.

in an interview. Wenger will also keep his mouth shut about Derby, only talking about the current situation in the team. and expectations for improved performance.

Wan Sheng was already prepared for these reports.

He is very clear that as long as the team does not perform well, there will be a lot of criticism and more gloating voices, but he believes that the team will use performance to make these voices disappear, all they need is time.

August is coming to an end, and the team has achieved a lot during this month.

The biggest reward was a Community Shield. Although it was a small trophy with little influence, it still made Derby County fans very happy. For the Derby County club, this is also a rare honor in history.

Wansheng pays more attention to the actual effect brought by this trophy - the 5 points of the "Cup Honor" of the football training master system.

An FA Cup winner brings 30 points to the 'Cup Champion' honor skill, the Community Shield only has 5 points, but it's better than nothing, it's better than nothing, and now this honor skill has become, "Cup Champion (Points: 35): Under the aura of cup champions, your players will increase all personal mental attribute evaluations by 3.5% in the official game state."

In addition, this also allowed Wansheng's one-person honor mission to progress.

Three days before the first round of the league with Arsenal, Wansheng received a personal task for the season. There are three tasks in total, which are basically similar to last season. The first task is nothing more than the task of ranking the league and leading the team. If you get the top four in the league, you can get the biggest reward, but if you get the top six, the reward will be a little worse, and the rest will be gone. The second task is the fixed winning streak achievement task, and you can get five consecutive victories and ten consecutive victories in the Premier League. Wins, 15 consecutive victories, naturally have experience to get, but in fact, even if there are no tasks in terms of achievements, you have experience. For example, if you win 1 league game, you will have 50 experience points, and if you win 10 league games, you will have 100 points of experience. A little experience, Wansheng estimates that when you win 100 games, you will definitely gain a lot of experience, of course, this is definitely not as much experience as the achievement mission; the third is the honorary mission, this time it is not easy to win a championship , turn on the honor skills', but become a more difficult task.

"Personal Honor Mission:

Task content: You need to lead the team to win three championships in the 2004-2005 season.

Mission Progress: (1/3)

Mission reward: 2000 experience points, get MAX points honor skill "Glory". "

The task requirement is to get three championships, and the difficulty is quite high.

At present, there are only five championships that Derby County clubs can fight for, including two cups - the Premier League, UEFA Cup, League Cup, FA Cup and Community Shield. The Community Shield depends on the results of last season. eligible to participate.

Even if you win the Community Shield, you still need to win two championships if you want to complete this task. Among them, it is very difficult to win the league and the UEFA Cup, and the League Cup is easier, but it has to face fierce competition. Derby County won the FA Cup this season, but the difficulty of defending the FA Cup is needless to say. In short, it is very difficult to complete this honorable task.

However, the task is difficult, and the rewards are also very rich--a MAX point honor skill, 'Glory', I don't quite understand what the name means, but a MAX point honor skill will definitely not be bad, such a reward, Wansheng is still Very excited. So far, he only has two honor skills, and the points are not many, and the effect is very general. If he can have a top honor skill. The strength of your own team will naturally be greatly improved.

Except for the Community Shield harvest. The other is not considered a gain, it should be considered a 'problem'. After the first three rounds of the league, Wansheng saw some problems with the team, especially the two games against Blackburn and Aston Villa. The attack was good, but the goal was late. That's the problem -- the team's offense isn't up to par.

To say for a newly promoted horse. The two traditional powerhouses in the Premier League can only choose defensive counterattacks. This alone is already something to be proud of, but Wansheng has nothing to be proud of. What he has to consider is how to break through opponents when they choose a solid defensive counterattack. line of defense.

Perhaps other teams are not doing much better than Derby County in this regard, even a team as adept at attacking as Arsenal.

But put another way, if Arsenal play normally. Surely there will be no such troubles.

That's the problem.

It sounds like Derby County has beaten Arsenal twice. It seems that the attacking ability is stronger than Arsenal, but in fact it is not the case. The team's victory over Arsenal depends not only on offense, but also on defense. Relying on the pressing defense of the whole court, the team made Arsenal's offense unable to play. If they can't score goals, the team's chance of winning is naturally greater. When facing Blackburn and Aston Villa, these two teams directly choose to defend and counterattack, defend, counterattack, first defend, then counterattack, so the ball It is very difficult for the team to score goals against a solid defense.

Derby County did not encounter this problem last season, that is because the defensive ability of the League One team is like that. For example, Ipswich is the best among them, and the Premier League team and the League One team are not the same. Grade, even if a non-traditional defensive team like Aston Villa, they defend seriously, and the back line is extremely solid, it is not easy for Derby County to rely on the offensive to break the opponent's goal.

This is the key reason for the two draws.

The only thing that makes Wansheng gratified is that the team's defense is very good. If they heard him say that, many people must feel incredible, but in fact, this is the case. It is because of a solid defense that the team can let go. To attack, and the team's tactics are also based on defense.

For the average newly promoted horse, it is not bad to be able to draw with the Premier League powerhouses, but Wansheng is very dissatisfied. He wants to strive for the honorary task of completing three championships.

As soon as the opponent chooses to defend, it is very difficult for the team to win, then it is too difficult to win three championships, which means that any opponent knows how to play against the team, which is definitely not acceptable.

So the only way is to increase the team's offensive ability.

Last season, at the beginning of the season, Wansheng considered adding more offensive means to the team, but now, the team has a solid lineup, and the strength of players in all positions is quite good. It's like a fantasy.

Therefore, Wansheng's idea is to make some adjustments to the team's formation.

The strength of the team last season has been played to the extreme.

Regardless of the overall lineup, tactics, and player performance, the team played 100%, or even 120% of its strength last season. Think about it, last season, with one set, it was slightly better than the League One. In the lineup, Derby County beat Manchester United to win the FA Cup, and Manchester United played well in that game, and Derby County's performance can be imagined.

If you want to make changes in tactics and player performance, it has no effect. Wansheng refers to the play styles of top English teams such as Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea in order to find some inspiration.

After two days, Wansheng found some reasons.

He sees the disadvantage of the team and the top teams in the way of play - like Manchester United, Arsenal and other teams, in the game some powerful stars will have a lot of room to play, such as their wing Pires, C-Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs and others dribbled the ball. Henry, Ruud van Nistelrooy and other shooters were very active in the penalty area. They could also show off their footwork to shoot when they received a pass. In short, when these stars perform well At times, their performance will attract the attention of fans.

This is not the case with Derby County now.

For example, since the beginning of this season, Ribery's performance has been a little low. Although Van der Vaart's performance was outstanding, if it weren't for the goal and two assists, his performance was actually very dull. The same is true for other players. In addition to the ball, the team showed the cooperation of the whole team.

Wansheng also asked for this, but in fact he did not ask the players not to perform individually, but this is what happened in the team's game. He stared at the tactical board for a long time to understand the problem - the team has been The 442 formation adopted limits the player's personal play space!

For example, like Frank Ribery, he was very active on the wing alone last season. Now he also dribbles the ball, but he rarely performs well. One of the key factors is the addition of Van der Vaart in the frontcourt. Cahill rarely retreats and cooperates in midfield, but Van der Vaart's running is very active and he likes to cooperate with his teammates, so Ribery is accustomed to passing the ball to Van der Vaart and Maurice. The 'Trident' on the left has a good name, but it also limits the position and play of the three.

The same goes for Van der Vaart.

He is supported by a center in front, followed by Morris in the back, sandwiched between the two. He is more of a linking role, and Morris is not much worse than him. If there is no Van der Vaart, in fact, Morris is The ball can be passed directly to the forward center, so in many cases, the role of Van der Vaart's connection is also very small.

The space in the frontcourt is limited. One more active Van der Vaart naturally affects the personal play space of many players.

Of course, this is not to say that having more Van der Vaart is bad, but that having one more Van der Vaart did not improve the team's offensive ability much. Offensive capacity has become 105, which is actually only 5% more, not much increase because Van der Vaart also affects the performance of other players.

Wan Sheng's job now is to make Van der Vaart play his 20's ability without affecting the other players.

To sum up - give the team's 'stars' more room to play.

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