Seeing Watford recovering a goal, Diamares was a little unaware of what to do. He thought about substitutions, but the second half had just begun. What's more, should we replace offensive players to strengthen our offense and strive to widen the score gap, or replace defensive players to strengthen our defense and defend this point advantage?

If he had to make his own decision, he would definitely choose the latter.

If you have a goal advantage and choose to defend, even if the opponent scores another goal, you will have a point in your hand. The draw can definitely be guaranteed. Choosing an offense is also beneficial. As long as you can widen the score gap, they will definitely get three points.

Diamares was hesitant about how to choose.

Now he suddenly thought about it, it would be great if Wan Sheng was there. If Wan Sheng was there, he would definitely draw a conclusion directly on this kind of question.

Then how would Wansheng choose?

attack!

Diamares still knows Wan Sheng quite well. He knows that in the heart of this young Chinese, a draw can probably be equated with failure, so he will definitely choose to attack.

But thinking of substitutions... Diamares suddenly realized that his judgment should be wrong. If it were Wan Sheng, he would definitely not move now. At most, he would go to the sidelines to remind a player that he would not substitution at all... because the second half of the game has just begun!

Soon Diamares won't have to think about this issue, because the Derby County players on the court have already made his choice.

This is a wave of attacks launched from the left.

Ribery dribbled the ball and broke through the baseline, then passed a pass and fell straight to the right side of the penalty area. Bodonret followed and topped the ball to the left. Morris, who had just followed, shot directly.

The ball entered.

Morris helped the team score the third goal and helped the team lead the opponent two goals again.

With this goal, Diamares doesn't have to worry about anything.

The team scored another goal, which shows that the team is in good shape at present, and there is no need for him to make substitution adjustments... This is the case. Diamares felt even more depressed. He sat here for so long, but found that what he did was to do, the players on the court could solve everything. At the same time, his hard work became useless and wasted a lot of brain cells.

But what meaningful things did he do today?

Diamares couldn't think of it.

He found that changing himself to Jim was probably the same as what he could do, and there was no difference at all, because the game actually had nothing to do with him. Before the game, he did not say anything to everyone to boost morale. The team was just playing step by step. He worked hard and nervously to prepare for the game. As a result, the game proved that his worries were of no use at all.

After Morris's goal, Diamares finally didn't have to think too much. He sat on the coach's seat and watched the game without thinking about anything.

The next game was nothing. Derby County suppressed Watford and attacked. Watford wanted to find an opportunity to create a counterattack. As a result, every counterattack ended in a mistake, and the game time slowly passed.

In the end, Derby County did not score a goal, and the game ended 3:1.

......

The Derby County League rankings changed after winning this game. Because in another game that was held at the same time, Norwich drew with his opponent, and many fans in the stands learned about the news during the game, cheering for the fans to occupy the top of the league.

Derby fans never expected that the team would have such results. Perhaps the future is still possible, but that is the future rather than the present. Derby has just fallen from the Premier League for more than a year. However, it is facing the team's biggest crisis in more than a decade - lack of money, weak overall strength, etc. These bad problems have also occurred to Derby, which has also led to Derby having to focus on relegation.

What's the result?

Eight rounds of the league have passed and Derby County has advanced to the league first!

This is really unbelievable!

From this we can imagine the mood of Derby County fans. They did not expect the team to achieve such good results, but they ended up having a carnival in the stands.

After the game, Diamares also learned the news. Many other people in the club said when they saw Diamares, "Man, you're doing a good job!" Diamares also smiled at them.

When Diamares knew that the team was ahead of Norwich and ranked first in the league, he felt better. What's important is that Norwich's draw with his opponent happened in the game he led.

What is this? This is luck!

In comparison, Wan Sheng's luck is not as good as himself. He has always been able to lead the team to win, and the competitors have also won.

Diamares feels that he has finally found a place that is better than Wan Sheng, that is luck. You must know that in football games, luck is also important. Compared with other sports, "luck" in football games is more important. Sometimes luck is also dramatically related to the team's major events. For example, those teams on the verge of relegation hope that luck can come, and at the same time hope that their competitors will have bad luck and will always lose. For example, teams with good performance will also hope that their competitors will have bad luck and at the same time hope that they will have good luck.

In a single game, luck is also very important.

In some games, no matter how hard both sides try, they cannot score goals, but perhaps a mistaken shot can create a classic goal, which is good luck. Bad luck is also obvious, and the feet are all goal posts, which is not uncommon in football games. As a result, the team that has an absolute advantage on the field will lose to the team that is weaker than themselves because they do not score goals again and again.

Now luck is on Diamares' side!

At least that's what Diamares thinks himself. While he led the team to victory, Norwich also drew with his opponent. As a result, Derby County squeezed Norwich away from Norwich to top the league.

In this way, after the game of "leading the team to do nothing and winning the victory", Diamares finally smiled on his face.

However, at the press conference, Diamares' mood "recovered" again, because no reporters were concerned about his problems in the entire press conference, and even the team's problems were concerned about Wansheng's problems.

"Where is Wansheng?"

"Have Wan Sheng the commander in this game?"

"Did you see Wan win after the game? Is he happy? Derby County can be the top of the league! It's amazing when he was suspended."

“…”

Diamares is tired of dealing with this problem. At this moment, how much he hopes a reporter can ask the previous question. "What do you think of Derby County's victory?" or "Do you have anything to say about the team being the top of the league?" Similar questions are the key to 'your view', 'your thoughts', not 'Is Wansheng happy?', 'What are you doing 'Why'.

But obviously the reporters didn't understand Diamares's thoughts, and they were still asking questions they were concerned about.

For them, it is indeed not important what Diamares thinks and sees it.

What Diamares didn't notice was that in fact, he was relieved when the reporters asked this. He didn't think deeply about how he would deal with the relevant questions he asked according to his own ideas.

But in fact, he knew very well inside.

If a reporter asks, "What are you feeling now?", he will become nervous while being a little satisfied, because he doesn't know how to answer specifically. Should he say his true thoughts? Or do he say some hypocritical lies to deal with the reporter's questions?

This is another question of choice, and he doesn't know how to answer the best one.

......

After this game, Diamares was a little silent in the team, and the smile on his face was much less.

He communicated with the players without a smile, his daily training became very strict, and occasionally the players joked with him. He treated him with a dull expression.

The result is that many people in the team are a little afraid of him.

Diamares is 35 years old. He is older than the players. Now he looks like this every day, and many people think it is difficult for him to get along with. At the same time, it has also improved his majesty in the team a lot, which is beneficial to everyone in the team's serious training.

Under the supervision of Diamares, the team's training attitude has become much more serious in the past few days.

Wan Sheng discovered the changes in Diamares. But he didn't say anything. He knew that Diamares cared too much about leading the team. As long as he crossed this threshold, it would be great. If he could change a little, face the pressure at work, and work hard to face difficulties, a new Diamares might really appear at that time. He might really have hope of becoming the head coach in the future. If he can't get through... He is still a normal Diamares, an assistant coach who gets along well with players and does a very outstanding job.

Diamares was very unwilling to give up. He knew that he didn't do well in the last game - although in fact, he did nothing, the pressure he put on himself almost crushed him. It was hard for him to imagine what he would have done if Mr. Ji Smith had really chosen to let him take over as the head coach position at that time.

It is precisely because of this idea that he feels even more depressed.

It's like a person striving to become a billionaire, but when the opportunity finally appears, there is a condition, that is, he can put all his savings to this day into goals. If he succeeds, he can become a billionaire, and if he fails, he will have nothing.

Faced with this kind of choice, how many people dare to take a gamble?

In the past, Diamares thought he was the one who dared to bet, but the opportunity was really in front of him, but he found that he would not dare to block this. He would rather live the life of an ordinary person than bear the pressure of nothing.

He discovered this, so he became more depressed and put his abilities aside, which meant that he was not mentally prepared to take on the head coaching job.

Thinking about how I always wanted to be a head coach, but in fact I was not even prepared to bear the pressure on the head coach... How sad is this?

Diamares is now experiencing this kind of mental struggle.

He hadn't figured out this problem for a few days.

On this day, Derby County welcomed Watford again, which was a battle in the League Cup, and the location was changed to Vicarage Road Stadium. Diamares led the team to Watford, Hertfordshire to participate in the game.

The two teams have just met each other and have a good understanding of each other.

Now we have just changed the location, and the event has also changed from the league to the League Cup. The other difference is that the players are playing. Derby County has adopted rotation in this game. After all, all the main players cannot be played in every game. It will be easy to get injured and lead to the players' state being gone. Morris and Ribery did not play. Peter Kennedy and Ivan Crew had a chance.

Even though the lineup was replaced, Derby County's tactics were still there, and Watford was still suppressing the playing at Vicarage Road Stadium.

However, in this game, luck did not seem to be on Derby County. Watford scored the first goal. They used a wave of advance to break through the goal guarded by Oaks.

In the second half, the two teams changed positions and fought again. Derby quickly recovered a goal, but before the end of the game, Watford pushed the ball up and scored the ball in the chaos. He finally won the game.

The moment the game ended, it also meant that Derby County was eliminated in the League Cup.

This result is disappointing.

However, Diamares didn't feel guilty, because Wan Sheng told him before the game that the team didn't have to pay too much attention to the League Cup. The goal of this season is the league championship, the League Cup, the FA Cup, and it was a little difficult for Derby County to win the championship. After all, in the end, you will definitely encounter the Premier League team, even Manchester United and Arsenal. For a team of English League One, it is even more difficult to win the League championship than to win the League.

Moreover, the league is the foundation. Only by playing the league well can they upgrade to the Premier League and win the championship in the cup, which means they can play European events next year. If they cannot be upgraded, there is no point in playing European events.

......

Three days later, Derby County ushered in another round of league matches, rivaling Sunderland.

Compared to Watford Sunderland, it is a little harder to deal with, but Derby County is still at home. Because it just topped the league, many Derby County fans came to watch the game. The tickets were sold out a day ago. When the game was about to start, the stadium stands were already full of fans.

After being relegated from the Premier League, Pride Stadium rarely welcomes so many fans, which is the first time in more than a year.

But with the attention of many fans, Derby County lost.

This was Derby County's first league defeat.

During the game, Derby County's forward line seemed a little weak. Two defensive mistakes allowed Sunderland to seize the opportunity. In the end, Derby County was defeated 2:1 by Sunderland.

After losing this game, Derby County's unbeaten league ended, and the league points were one point behind Norwich, and it was re-ranked second in the league.

After the game, Diamares' expression felt strange.

The team won the game in the last game and ended up being the top of the league. Diamares didn't see much happiness on his face, but after losing the game, Derby County fell to second in the league, he looked very happy.

No, it should be said to be relaxed.
To be continued...