Before the game, Wan Sheng knew what Macgson said. It was when he led the team to Pride Stadium and got off the bus. When he passed by the mixed zone, a reporter from Sandwell, West Midlands (West Bromwich's city) told him.

Wan Sheng didn't expect that he was only half an hour late, and the other party actually spitted water at him first?

This game is very important to both sides, but it is just a round of league. He didn't expect the opponent's head coach to take the lead. Is this a goal to hit Derby County's morale?

Even if he disdained the other party's remarks, he could not lose face in the game. After listening to the reporter, Wan Sheng asked, "What gave him confidence and made him think he could definitely defeat Derby County in this stadium?"

The reporter was about to explain McGerson's theories such as 'we understand their tactics and arrangements'. Wan Sheng asked himself and continued, "Did he lose to Norwich? I think this is the reason."

The reporter's face turned dark when he heard this!

Losing to Norwich gave McGerson the confidence to defeat Derby County? Is this a reason to be confident, or is it a satirizing West Bromwich who was kicked off the top throne in the league!

At this moment, Wan Sheng suddenly praised McGerson, "I know he is an excellent head coach. In 2002, he led West Bromwich to the Premier League."

The Sandwell City reporter felt so comfortable.

Isn’t the other party’s compliment to McGerson just to praise West Bromwich? Is this young Chinese feeling scared when facing the powerful West Bromwich?

"But..." Before they could continue thinking, Wan Sheng's voice suddenly turned a big turn. "He is also the head coach who leads the team to lose to the strong team. Just look at West Bromwich's performance last season. They only stayed in the top league for a year and then returned here. They also lost to Norwich some time ago."

"Yes, he is a coach who can lead the team to upgrade. But he will also lose to a strong team. So, this victory must belong to us!"

A reporter immediately couldn't help but retort, "Even if you're right, Derby County is not a strong team compared to West Bromwich, right?"

"How could that happen?" Wan Sheng shrugged, "You go and look at the League One standings. We have one more point than them. We are second in the league, they are only third in the league, and..."

"He is the head coach who can lead the team to advance. I am the head coach who can lead the team to compete for the championship."

Wan Sheng explained with a smile.

This is the first time he explained so much to reporters from other teams. Is the reason? Naturally, the reporter needs to pass these words to McGson. That guy actually took the initiative to provoke a fight of verbalism. Do you really think he is easy to bully?

After explaining for granted, Wan Sheng left the reporter's sight and went to the locker room with the players.

The reporters who had just interviewed him stared at Wan Sheng's back as he left, and after a while he realized it. They gritted their teeth with hatred, "As long as the Daily Mirror said, this young Chinese is so arrogant!"

"He actually said that he was the head coach who led the team to compete for the championship!"

"Unreasonable!"

"He still explains for granted why Derby County won West Bromwich? It's ridiculous!"

"It depends on what he says after losing the game!"

“…”

As expected, these reporters quickly conveyed Wan Sheng’s original words to Macgson. They hoped that Macgson could say something to make a powerful fight back. But Macgson just said angrily, "That's what he said!? What an arrogant guy!"

Then... it's gone.

McGerson is actually not a guy who is good at verbal battles. He originally thought the other party's head coach was still young, so he just said his thoughts "very sincerely". Now he found that the other party's words were very sharp, especially "presenting facts" and "reasoning". His team just lost to Norwich. He definitely couldn't take advantage of verbal battles, so he naturally wouldn't say much.

But McGerson was still very angry.

Except for the words of this young Chinese coach, "He is the coach who is competing for the championship" that shows arrogantness, other statements about West Bromwich are all naked and uncovering the scars. Macgson is naturally quite angry, especially in the face of these remarks, he doesn't know where to start if he wants to refute them.

McGerson brought this mentality to the field.

Before the game, the head coaches of the two teams shook hands politely. Wan Sheng's face was always smiling. His expression seemed very friendly, but McGonson was not very friendly. He symbolically patted Wan Sheng's hand, glared at him, and turned around and walked away to West Bromwich coach's seat.

At the camera, Wan Sheng shrugged and said, "What an irrespectful guy..."

His voice is quite loud.

Not only was the camera in front of him captured it, but also McGerson, who had just turned around and left, he also stopped. He quickly pretended not to hear it and continued to move forward. What is certain is that he must have been even more angry.

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The confrontation between the head coaches of the two teams, that is, the gossip of the commentators, did not affect the normal progress of the game. Soon, the two teams lined up and the whole game began under the whistle of the referee.

At the beginning of the game, the commentators and reporters were concerned about the starting lineup of the two teams.

The most noteworthy thing in the Derby County lineup is Frank Ribery. In the past half month, Ribery has been a topical player, not because of his good performance, but because of his poor performance. He wasted many opportunities in Derby County's two games alone. In the eyes of the public, such players should stay on the bench instead of getting a starting opportunity in every game.

Media from all walks of life who have a bad relationship with Wan Sheng also use this reason to attack Wan Sheng. They say that Wan Sheng is a dictator and only let those players who are close to him start.

Ribery is the most obvious example.

Ribery's appearance gave the commentators and reporters a lot of talk. They seized this sufficient reason and talked about the victory a lot before. Generally, coaches faced such pressure, and the player did not perform well in the game, the most rational choice was to not let him play.

Even if it is really "let the closest people appear", Ribery can be sent to him when the subsequent attack is unfavorable. In this way, the media reporters will have no talk. After all, it is normal to make substitution adjustments and change the situation when the attack is unfavorable.

But this Chinese did not do that.

He still insisted on Ribery's appearance. The commentators and reporters felt very confused about this. Many people thought in their hearts, is it true that this Chinese likes to "send close players to play" as the Daily Mirror said?

This is unlikely.

Fans may be confused by what the various reports say, but as professional journalists, they naturally know the moisture mixed in media reports. Whether it is true or not can be determined by looking at the reports or the influence of the news media. For example, the report made by the Daily Mirror on Wansheng can be seen at a glance that there is a lot of content worth pondering.

For example, this article, ‘only send close people to the game’. If the young Chinese coach of Derbyshire really does this, there will definitely be a lot of resistance within Derbyshire, but in fact, Derbyshire seems very united. There has been no internal locker room problems recently, and their performance is quite good, which shows that the Chinese are still very reasonable in the lineup, and it is definitely not as the Daily Mirror said.

But what's going on now?

Even if you see Ribery, the future of this French player, if you want to train him, you should be in other games, rather than the current match against West Bromwich. The importance of this game to both sides is self-evident. It can directly determine the top three rankings of the league. Which side loses the game has a great impact, so why did he do this?

The commentators and reporters don't understand.

Pride Stadium Broadcasting Room. Commentator Alfie also puzzled after introducing the starting lineup of the two teams, "Ribery's performance in the previous two games was not very good. He had many opportunities, but only one assist data. This is not worth mentioning compared to the opportunities he wasted, but Wan Sheng asked him to start again, and I don't know why..."

He could also hear Alfie's voice, and he was not optimistic about Ribery's performance.

...

Many West Bromwich in the stands also knew Ribery. There have been many reports about Derbyshire in England during this period, and Ribery is one of the keywords. As Derbyshire's opponent, West Bromwich fans will also care about the situation of their opponents.

These West Bromwich fans were very happy to see Ribery appear again.

This is good news for West Bromwich!

The performance of this French player has been criticized by the media. Now he starts again, and the opponent's offense will definitely be affected. West Bromwich fans are very happy to see the opponent's head coach make a wrong decision. Of course, this does not affect their preparation to make fun of Ribery. Who made this player so "famous" in recent times?

So when Derby County made its first attack and Ribery got the ball and made a mistake in passing the ball to the bottom line, West Bromwich's laughter came from the stands.

"It's indeed this guy!"

"He is as ridiculous as those media reports! He keeps losing the ball! He keeps losing the ball! It's a wise decision to send him out!"

"We're going to continue watching his concealment of the ball! That's really interesting!"

Ribery heard the thunderous laughter in the stands.

West Bromwich who came to Pride Stadium had only more than 3,000 people. The sound was not much compared to the noise of the entire stadium, but Ribery happened to be in front of the stands on that side.

But Ribery didn't care at all.

During this period, he was under a lot of pressure from the outside world, but he didn't care at all, because he knew that the reports were not aimed at him, but at head coach Wan Sheng. He was just a big shot used by media reporters to criticize Wan Sheng.

Even so, the pressure is still not small, but Ribery is a little used to it. More importantly, he is very aware of the players he has underperformed.

But after this period of training and the running-in between the two league games, the team has made great progress in terms of the teammates and his cooperation has become much tacit. The mistake just now was just the opponent's position. He wanted to kick the ball to the opponent's player and asked for a corner kick but failed.

It doesn't matter.

He just failed in an offense, and he had long been used to these two games.

Ribery shrugged indifferently towards the stand where West Bromwich was, and soon joined the game again.

...

Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines and watched the game carefully.

Unlike others' concerns, Wan Sheng didn't care about Ribery's performance at all, because he knew that the team's cooperation could already play, so Ribery's performance should not be too bad anyway.

What he cares about is defense.

What effect can the defensive adjustments a few days ago have? This game will verify the appearance. West Bromwich's technical strength is still stronger than Derby County, and their offensive ability is also very strong, so the game will definitely detect the effect of defensive changes.

Whether it is good or bad, it depends on this game.

Wan Sheng was somewhat confident.

In fact, he is very clear about the shortcomings of this "bread-filled" style of defense, and he also understands how the opponent does it. It poses the greatest threat to the team's defense. It is very simple. It is to use England's most traditional long pass rushing and have a fast forward. As long as the counter-offside is successful, it is easy to break through all defenses.

But the premise is that West Bromwich has time to make adjustments.

They don't know the team's defensive method yet. That is to say, even if McGerson has a high coaching ability and can see the shortcomings of this defensive tactic, he must rest at halftime if he wants to adjust. In the first half, the team's defense should be very safe.

If the defense is not good in the first half, it means that the defensive adjustment has completely failed.

So Wansheng is very concerned about the team's defense.

As for the second half, even if the opponent's head coach saw the team's defense weakness and used long passes to find opportunities, he had no intention of making adjustments at all.

You know, Derby County is an offensive tactic!

Offensive tactics must be based on offense. Although defense is very important and the basis for tactics, offense is the most important. As long as it is offensive tactics, defense will definitely have loopholes, but it does not mean that the opponent can gain an advantage by grasping the loopholes in the team's defense.

First of all, only by success can we find opportunities when we reverse offside.

If the counter-offside fails, it is equivalent to offside and the offensive opportunity will naturally be missed.

If you want to succeed in an offside position, it depends on the player's ability, timing, and luck. If you fail a lot, it will have a great impact on the team - every failure means giving up the offensive opportunity and handing over the football to the opponent.

If the team has more offensive opportunities, it means that the chance of scoring will naturally increase.

In addition, Derby County originally played offensive football.

What is offensive football?

It’s not about comparing with the opponent who has a stronger defense, but about comparing with the opponent who has more goals!

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