Chapter 77 Similar Opponents

After studying the football training master system and using his experience to upgrade the trade union system with an 'offensive attribute enhancement' effect skill, Wan Sheng was satisfied and began to seriously study the next opponent.

Ipswich.

This is an easy opponent to deal with.

The head coach of Ipswich is former Manchester City star Zu Lyle, who is a star trained by Manchester City's youth academy and a signature player in the history of the Manchester City club. Zoe Lyle had a brilliant career, he was Manchester City's top scorer and he was very famous across Europe, but that was decades ago.

Zu Lyle started his coaching career after retiring from Manchester City.

Zu-Lair started at the age of thirty-five, and it has been more than twenty years now, and he is already in his sixties.

In his more than 20 years of coaching career, Zu Lyle has coached many teams, including Manchester City and Fulham in the Premier League. In 2001, after he left Fulham, he served as the coach of Ipswich.

It took a year for Zu Lyle to complete the transformation of Ipswich and have the ability to impact the Premier League. This season he led the team to try to hit the Premier League, and now has achieved seventh in the league.

Ipswich have a chance.

As long as they can win the last three rounds of the league, Ipswich is likely to surpass the former Nottingham Forest and qualify for the promotion play-offs, so the last three rounds are very important for them, which can even decide Are they promoted to the Premier League.

This is not good news for Derby County.

Ipswich are seventh in the league, they are strong and they are at Portman Road. The game is very important to them. They will definitely try their best to win, so Derby County will face a tough battle if they want to win.

Wansheng is not afraid of a tough game.

Derby County and Leicester City both fought in the last round and scored two goals to win. In contrast, seventh in the league has nothing to be afraid of. What gives him a headache is Ipswich's tactics style.

This is a team known for its defense.

Ipswich has not scored many goals in the league, and the attacking ability of the front line is not strong. If you just want to fight for a draw, it is very possible as long as you play the defensive counterattack steadily.

The key is that Wansheng wants to win.

If you want to win the game, you must score goals, but Derby County is not good at attacking, especially advancing the attack. Wansheng has always emphasized defense, and rarely let the team go to training to advance the attack. The team's ability to advance and attack is not good. Strong, and, going head-to-head with Ipswich, Derby County really has no advantage at all.

But a coach like Zoe Lyle must have a solid defense, and his tactics against Derby County will not have any loopholes. It is not easy to make mistakes by a coach in his 60s.

So if Derby County wants to score goals and win, it seems that there is only one way to go head-on.

Is this...?

Wan Sheng was a little hesitant.

He spent a day watching the Ipswich game and looked around and found that this team is better overall than Derby County, they are also good at counter-attacking, and most importantly, a lot of times they don't care about face For the sake of face, in order to win, they will also choose to defend and counterattack at home.

It is really difficult to defeat such a 'turtle' opponent.

In particular, Derby County is similar to Ipswich, and is also a 'tortoise' who is good at defensive counterattacks... Maybe you have to be more patient with them?

He wants to win, and the other side must want to win too. When it comes to the game, if both sides have a solid defense, who will be the first to bear it?

Wan Sheng's eyes lit up.

This may be the team's chance!

Ipswich is seventh in the league. If they want to get into the top six in the league, they must win the game, but their own team can fully afford to lose, because the team's goal is to avoid relegation. If they can't win, they just can't. It is only two rounds in advance to avoid relegation, and the next victory can also complete the relegation. It is even said that as long as Sherrington loses on Wednesday, they can avoid relegation even if they lose to Ipswich.

So you are not afraid to compare your patience with others.

Wan Sheng's mouth curled up.

...

Meanwhile, Ipswich manager Zoe Lyle is also studying Derby County.

He held a newspaper in his hand, it was "Derby County Sports", the content reported above is the topic of the mainstream media in Derby County recently - Derby County's internal problems.

He has been following news from Derby County.

Because on Sunday, Ipswich will host Derby County.

Originally, Zu Lyle was not too worried about Derby County. He didn't think this team that was near the bottom of the league could pose any threat to Ipswich. I didn't expect them to replace a young Chinese two months ago. After the coach, the performance rose sharply, and even beat the league's second-place Leicester City at home in the last round.

How will Derby County, led by such a young man, be different from Gregory's team in the first half of the fixture?

Zu-Lair was a little confused.

The most unacceptable thing for a football manager is not knowing your opponents, so Zoe-Lair has been following Derby County these days to find out about them.

The local media of Derby County did not give a good evaluation of Derby County, especially the Chinese coach, who slammed and slandered it, but Zu Lyle didn't take it seriously. He has been a coach for decades, how can he not understand The faces of these reporters?

They talk like farts sometimes.

A team that is about to be relegated, won consecutive victories, and defeated the second-placed Leicester City, the manager who has the hope of relegation two rounds ahead of schedule will be an incompetent guy?

He certainly didn't believe it.

This is not done by luck.

But there are some truths to their reports, like this one about Derby County players unhappy with their manager. It is normal for a Chinese coach who is about the same age as the players to be unable to control the team's locker room and players. Even he himself sometimes has a headache for the contradictions of the players.

He knew very well how serious the problem was.

It is almost impossible to say that the internal problems of the team will not affect the results. If Derby County really has problems because of this, let alone the results, it will be a problem whether Derby County can still play normally.

But he is the coach of Ipswich and is hoping to see problems with the opponent.

This makes it easier for Ipswich to win.

But Zullair wouldn't pin his hopes on it. He studied Derby County's game carefully and Derby County's style of play. He found that the current Derby County is very similar to Ipswich. Pay attention to the defensive team.

Two teams with similar play styles can be compared.

The player's individual ability, his team is higher. In terms of tactical play, after nearly two years of transformation, the team's play has become quite mature. Overall strength, his team advantage is very obvious. Combined with home-court advantage and possible problems within the opposition, and so on, Ipswich have the edge in almost every way.

Zullair couldn't think of a reason why he might lose.

He put down his mind to arrange team training, and was ready to welcome the game at home.

...

Portman Road Stadium.

The sun shines over the green ground, making the huge green space bright and dark, which is a rare good weather. England's afternoon in April wasn't very warm, but the 30,000 fans in the stadium filled with heat.

On the spectator stand, the horse-shaped team logo lined out from the white seats told everyone that this was the site of Ipswich.

Ipswich, known as "Tractor Boy", partly because of Ipswich's agricultural background, and partly because of other team fans ridiculed as "Hillman", but now, the nickname "Tractor Boy" has been It has become the label of Ipswich, and even many Ipswich fans call the team so.

They even supported the team with a flag painted on a tractor.

At this time, there were a lot of such flags in the auditorium. You can find them in the stands around the stadium. The only thing you can't find is in the southeast stand. There are a lot of fans there who are dressed differently from other fans. You can tell at a glance that this is not Ipswich. Odd fans, but Derby County fans who came to challenge today.

The Derby County fans were not loud, but perhaps because of the small number of them, they were organized and neatly shouted--

"Derbyshire, come on!"

As long as you get close to the Southeast Stand, you can hear their shouts.

Fans are looking at the stadium.

The players of the two teams had just finished their warm-up, and then they entered the player tunnel one by one, returned to the locker room to rest, and then prepared to enter the venue for the official game.

The visiting team's locker room.

Wan Sheng was sitting on the stool in the middle, watching players push the door in. After everyone returned to the locker room, they sat around in a circle.

Only then did he open his mouth to give his final instructions, "I said, do you all remember?"

Everyone nodded.

Reiter, Alfred and several others shouted in response, "Remember."

Wan Sheng smiled and said seriously, "I've told you everything I need to say. Now I want to emphasize one more point. In the next game, we must not attack rashly, and don't give them any chances. We are not in a hurry to score goals, just guard the goal. It's victory."

"Winning or losing depends on the second half, understand?"

Wan Sheng glanced at the crowd.

The players collectively shouted, "Understood!" The voice was loud and a little bit of coaxing, but Wansheng was still very happy that everyone could answer this way.

This shows that everyone is easy.

A relaxed mentality allows them to perform better in the game.

Facing a difficult opponent like Ipswich, Wansheng is still under a lot of pressure, but he did not show pressure on the players, he only showed confidence.

So everyone felt very relaxed.

They believe in Wansheng.

When they see that Wansheng is very confident, they believe that the team can win, and the only thing they have to do when they arrive on the court is to play according to the arrangement.

They have nothing to worry about.