Chapter 60 The Big List

November has come and gone, and in November, Derby County's performance has been perfect.

Derby County has won all leagues, advanced to the UEFA Cup and League Cup. It can be said that there is no regret for Derby County in November. In addition to winning the game, the results of the comments outside the field are also perfect, not only It was Wansheng who won the 'Coach of the Month', and even the 'Premier League Player of the Month' was awarded to Rafael van der Vaart, and Derby County won the two best coaches and players. This month's game is absolutely It is worth remembering from the team up and down.

But Derby didn't have time to reminisce about past games, and when November's games were over, December's games were just around the corner.

As a manager, you have to look at the game from a global perspective, not one by one, which will make the team underprepared for many games, especially when Derby County is so intensive, so the game against Chelsea was over as early as possible. Wansheng has its sights set on the December game.

The month of December is divided into two phases, one before Christmas and one after Christmas.

Christmas is a watershed moment for Premier League teams, not only does Christmas mark the end of half the fixture, but it also marks the beginning of an intensive phase - for every Premier League team, Derby County has not been eliminated from any games so far, and their schedule is naturally very dense.

Let alone after Christmas, Derby County have four games to play - three league games and one League Cup before Christmas alone.

After Christmas, if the League Cup is eliminated, when the FA Cup enters the knockout stage, the teams from the Premier League and the British Championship will also join the competition, and Derby County will have a more intensive schedule. The team dragged into the vortex, not to mention a team that lacked depth on the bench like Derby County.

Wan Sheng was also very troubled by this.

The depth of the team's bench does have problems. After all, they are not Chelsea. Even if he can make players improve, each player has different talents, different strengths, and different performances. The gap between Derby County's bench players and the main players is still somewhat obvious. For the three fronts, the number of players is also a problem. There are 23 players in the team. If the injury is too serious, he will even be unable to make up the 18-man roster.

So this problem is very fatal to Derby County, he must be careful to deal with, otherwise the injury problem is likely to directly destroy the team.

Even with the football training master system. Wansheng can only help players recover faster. Faster recovery does not mean that there will be no injuries. In the cold winter, the temperature in England is still cold, and the cold temperature is naturally easy to bring about injuries. Other leagues have winter breaks. One purpose is to allow each team to rest. , Another purpose is to give professional players more rest time in the injury-prone winter. Thereby reducing the possibility of injury, but English clubs may not have a winter break. On the contrary, the closer to this time, the more intensive the schedule, and because of this, small teams will face more severe tests.

Derby County is a small team, so this problem is more of a headache than a difficult schedule.

Over the past few days, Wansheng has been paying attention to Derby County's schedule in December. Before Christmas, in 20 days, Derby County had four games, an average of one every six days. At this level of competition, the team can still Accepted, but the next two games need to be focused on, one is the next round of the Premier League, Derby County hosts Manchester United's game, and the other is the League Cup quarter-final with Everton.

Neither opponent is easy to deal with, and the point is that the two games are only three days apart.

After a big battle, the two days in the middle of the holiday were a bit short, and after training all the time, Wansheng could not guarantee that all the players would be able to recover, so these two games were still very troublesome. The key is, No one can choose to give up directly.

The League Cup and Everton match, of course, cannot be given up. From the perspective of the club’s honor, they all reached the quarter-finals of the League Cup. If you choose to give up, the previous efforts will be in vain; from Wansheng’s personal point of view, His honorary task requires three championships to complete, and the League Cup is the best one to strive for among the remaining championships, and naturally he cannot choose to give up.

So this one must be taken seriously.

In comparison, the league with Manchester United seems to be less important, but because the opponent is Manchester United, Wansheng has to pay attention to it. Losing to other teams only lost three points, but Manchester United who lost at home to Ferguson, Wansheng is very important. Unwilling, thinking about the old man's appearance, Wan Sheng felt that he had to defeat the opponent.

However, Wansheng still considers it from the side of the team. After all, leading the team can't mix too many personal emotional factors. If it is because of his own emotions that affect the performance of the entire team, then it is really worth the loss.

So for Manchester United's game, Wansheng still intends to adopt an appropriate rotation.

However, Derby County often has a lot of starting players. Wan Shengli used the football training master system to find the main players who were most affected by regular games-Van der Vaart and Ribery. After all, the match against Manchester United can be lost, it is just a league game, and there is still a chance to catch up later, but the League Cup must be won, otherwise it will be eliminated directly.

The good news is that Wan Sheng is not entirely without confidence in the team's game against Manchester United, even if it decides to let Van der Vaart and Ribery rest for a round.

At least this game Derby County has a chance.

The reason is of course the current state of Manchester United. In terms of media public opinion, Manchester United has entered the whirlpool of 'acquisition'. In early November, the English media broke the news that American Glazer, the president and CEO of the American First League Group, A takeover proposal has been formally submitted to the London Stock Exchange, and Manchester United has entered the stage of being acquired by foreign capital. Although many English media have no idea whether Glazer, whose net worth is less than 400 million euros, can acquire Manchester United with a market value of more than 800 million euros. Bullish, but there's no denying that Glazer has a chance.

The influence of this news is still very big. Maybe Manchester United insiders have already known the news. Because of this, Manchester United's performance this season is not strong. They are currently only ranked fourth in the league, and they are still 4 points behind Arsenal. , 7 points behind Derby County and Chelsea. It is not easy to recover this point difference.

In November, United didn't do well either, with one draw and one loss in four league rounds. Won two games. For Manchester United, this result can only be regarded as barely passing, but Manchester United's performance in the last round was very good. They defeated Fulham 3:0, and Scholes, who scored twice, was quite eye-catching. Manchester United manager Ferguson said happily after the game: "Our confidence is back."

Perhaps Manchester United is no longer a rival, and Derby County has become the number one enemy. Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho after the last round. He also began to pay attention to the match between Derby County and Manchester United. His attitude towards the game must be that he hoped that Manchester United would win against Derby County, because Derby County had the same points as Chelsea. The throne will change hands, but Mourinho's method is aggressive, perhaps because he will not show mercy to Ferguson while using saliva tactics. "Manchester United are in a terrible state, their forward line has not scored for a long time. 3-0 can only rely on Scholes, it is like we lost Gudjohnsen, Kežman and Didier Drogba at the same time, It's also like Arsenal lost Henry, Bergkamp and Van Persie at the same time, so I don't think they can beat Derby County. I don't want to be in a situation like Ferguson, he has a bunch of good players, but they just can't get good results "Maybe it's good news that Manchester United is bought, like we are now, of course, I don't want to talk about it off the pitch. Anyway, I don't think Manchester United can win. But with football, you never know what will happen."

While saying 'cold words', Mourinho did not forget to show off Chelsea's top position in the league to Manchester United, "Our goal is to still occupy the first place on the last day of the league. It is very important to maintain the first place in the league. I think we Being able to do that. We've shown people one thing: we're not afraid to lead, we were at the top at the beginning of the season, and up to this point, I hope we can stay there. For me, being number one doesn't pressure."

When Ferguson heard Mourinho's words, he didn't know how he would feel, but Wan Sheng could already imagine Mourinho's schadenfreude when he saw these reports.

However, Wansheng will not be affected by what other people outside the world say. In the two days before the game, he was only preparing for the game seriously. Even if Van der Vaart and Ribery had to take a round of rest, he would not easily give up and Manchester United. Contest.

In the past two days, the media also reported on the next round of league matches. Naturally, the most important thing is the match between Derby County and Manchester United.

However, there was a news circulating in the media before the game, and Wan Sheng had to come forward and clarify, because a transfer was linked to Derby County, not so-and-so team took a fancy to Derby County players, but Derby County County is linked with other players in the team, and that is Tottenham Hotspur striker Jermaine Fowler.

It's not uncommon for Derby County players to be linked with other teams in the news, but it's surprising that other team players are linked to Derby County.

But this news is serious, "Because of the addition of the team lineup, Derby County coach Wan Sheng has planned to sign Tottenham Hotspur striker Jermaine Defoe..."

Jermaine Defoe is indeed a good choice, because this player has just recovered from injury, and I don’t know what state he will be in when he comes back, but the most important thing is that he doesn’t need to pay a transfer fee to get him, Tottenham Hotspur can’t wait to hurry If a team takes Fowler, they will save a lot of money on wages, and Fowler has been very consistent before Tottenham Hotspur, and the transfer of this player is still attracting attention.

However, Wansheng has little interest in Defoe, because the team has no shortage of strikers.

Not to mention the strong van der Vaart, Bolton Reiter also performed quite well, and Kluivert also scored three goals in the league, and he can also play important responsibilities in many cases, plus Ian Taylor, and can make a cameo appearance. Among the other players in the striker, Derby County's striker is the most stable and prominent in the team. Wansheng has no idea of ​​supplementing the striker's strength at all.

So Wansheng's response to this was, "This news is purely fabricated."

Before the game against Manchester United, a reporter asked this question, but Wan Sheng replied, "It's not because I don't like Defoe, he is indeed a very good young player, but we are not interested in signing another striker. "

Wan Sheng's answer was unequivocal, dispelling the doubts of many media reporters.

But Wansheng is actually very happy about this. There are such transfer news rumors, which proves the influence of Derby County, or his influence is constantly increasing. Take a look at some young players in the team, and look at the veteran Iraqi En-Taylor and Kluivert, who has performed well again, probably many old and young players, hope to be linked with Derby County, and they have proved their ability to develop and use players, even if Derby County is a small club, but It is still very attractive for some young players, or players who are not performing well. They want to increase their strength and perform well. If they want to recover their form, they naturally want to play under their own hands.

Wansheng believes that as he leads the team with better results and more fame, more players will come to join him in the future. Even if he does nothing, there will be more players. On the news, hook up with your team and your name.

Of course, these are all in the future, and the game against Manchester United is still to be faced at present.

Before the game, the two teams were still calm. Wan Sheng and Ferguson kept silent in a tacit understanding, and did not talk much about their opponents. Perhaps the grievances between the two did not need to be discussed any more. Even if they did not say anything, the news of catching the wind in the media was still very hot. , but what they said, that is, to make fans more interested in the game, is too old news, and it has little effect on the two teams.

After a series of pre-match preparations, the game is about to start soon.

Before the game, media reporters and various commentators got the rosters of the two teams, and soon they noticed the unusualness of Derby County's list, because there were no names of Raphael van der Vaart and Frank Ribery. This surprised a lot of people.

Derby County's game, without Van der Vaart and Ribery in the squad?

So how are they going to play against Manchester United?

In the eyes of many people, Van der Vaart and Ribery are the core players of Derby County. They are like Henry and Vieira of Arsenal, Gerrard of Liverpool, Lampard and Terry of Chelsea, etc. The absence of a player has a huge impact on the entire team, not to mention the absence of two players.

Such Derby County will definitely drop a notch in strength!

So what suspense is there in the game? (To be continued ~^~)