The 2003-2004 League One season ended.

Derby County won the league championship, with the second place being Norwich. The two teams directly advanced to the Premier League next season, with the third to sixth place being West Bromwich, Sunderland, West Ham United and Ipswich. They will participate in the upgrade league play-offs to decide the final promotion place.

Three days before the end of the League One, the Premier League also ended. Arsenal finally won the league championship, Manchester United ranked third in the league, and Chelsea, whose richest man Abramovich joined, ranked second with a point advantage. At the same time, Leicester City, Leeds United and Woolf Hampton were confirmed to be relegated.

The league is over, and the remaining games are the cup finals and the European finals.

England's team won nothing in Europe this season.

In the final of the UEFA Champions League, a battle between the French dark horse and the Portuguese dark horse was staged. Monaco and Porto competed for the Champions League championship in Germany, which was really uninteresting. In addition, in the UEFA Cup, it was also a showdown between Valencia and Marseille, and it had no relationship with the English.

So at this stage, what the English media care about is that besides the summer transfer and the upcoming European Cup preparations, the only cup final in China - Manchester United and Derby County.

All England are paying attention to this game.

Many media outlets who have never interviewed Derby County have come to the town of Grand Derby County for interviews, mainly because at this time, many people are concerned about the match between Manchester United and Derby County. Although most fans do not think Derby County has a chance to have an unpopular victory over Manchester United, Derby County is also one of the teams in the finals, especially Derby County has performed quite well this season and will become one of the 20 Premier League teams next season.

In fact, fans think there is another reason why Derby County is difficult to get into a bad spot, that is, Manchester United has achieved nothing so far this season.

Manchester United is the overlord of England, which is well known. Even if some clubs are unwilling to admit that they are not as good as Manchester United, Manchester United has dominated the Premier League for a full ten years. Their results in the domestic league and cup competitions are quite gorgeous. This season is also the only season that has won nothing since the great achievement of "Marion United's 1999 Triple Champions League". So even for the sake of face, Manchester United will do their best in this FA Cup final and try to ensure that there is no accident. In this case, it is still very difficult for Derby County to be upset.

But even so, there are still quite a lot of media who want to interview Derby County, after all, there are no other events to report at this time.

It's a pity that they can't interview anything.

With only more than a week left in the game, Wan Sheng will not let the team appear in the public eye of the media. The team only does closed training and refuses all interviews, which angers the media that came to interview.

"Derby County doesn't want us to know what they are doing..." some media interpreted, "but everything they do is useless, and no one expects them to beat Manchester United."

This may be a media outlet who hopes Derby County will win.

In fact, in England, there are many such media. As long as they do not support Manchester United, they will hope that Manchester United's opponents will win. This is the truth. Manchester United has been the target of public criticism for so many years, and some people still hope that Derby County can win.

But Derby County actually has problems, that is, they have a lot of hostile media...

The media of Murdoch News Group will not take the initiative to look forward to Derbyshire at all. They will not say that, at most they will report the game from a neutral perspective. So one-third of the sports media is gone, plus the media that supports Manchester United and other media that have little relationship with Derbyshire. In short, one-third of the media that supports Derbyshire is good, and most of them are biased towards Derbyshire, not purely support.

Such words like "no one expects them to beat Manchester United" sound unpleasant, but among the many reports that are not optimistic about Derby County, such reports are already considered good.

The only thing that angered the media reporters was that no matter how they reported it, the Derby County Club was saying, "The team is doing closed training and will not accept any interviews before the game."

They couldn't interview them, so they could only go and dig Derby County.

"Derby County also does secret training? Haha..."

"How do they lose if they want to train?"

"Is that Chinese man going to use mysterious Chinese spells to turn his players into Superman, and then go to the court to abuse Manchester United..." This statement is full of imagination, but it is a bit close.

Of course, media reporters are simply sarcastic about Derby County.

They think that it is meaningless to do anything Wan Sheng and his team do. The opponent is Manchester United, so it is better to stand up and fight. After all, no one will say anything about losing. Derby County loses to Manchester United? This is really normal.

And what is the use of closed training in Derby County?

Their tactics are nothing more than offensive football. After the whole season has been like this, what else can they change?

It is worth mentioning that many fans are looking forward to Derby County's offensive football. After all, offensive football is still very attractive. In particular, the media's report on Derby County is that Derby County has maintained this tactic throughout the season, so that even if the finals are decided, they will definitely become very good.

Perhaps in the view of hostile media in Derby County, the most important thing is that ‘the victory and the outcome have been decided’.

They also describe this as a ‘learning’ for young people.

"...He (Wan Sheng) won the whole season and should be taught a lesson. He told him not to be arrogant when he was in the Premier League. His team could sweep the league in the League One, but in the Premier League, he was nothing, just a weak team working for relegation..."

"So it's a good thing for him to lose to Manchester United at this time..."

......

Although they don’t know what Derby County is training, there are quite a lot of reports about Derby County in the media. When the game is only this decisive battle, they are happy to talk about both sides of the game.

Wan Sheng's outstanding team-leading results were once again discovered.

The previous few times, Wan Sheng's fame was a bit "negative", and it was all done by hostile media to satirize Wan Sheng. So in the minds of many fans, the head coach of Derby County is a "arrogant" and "arrogant" young man from a distant Chinese. That's all.

But now they know that this young Chinese man has achieved great results in leading the team.

The league won the first place in four rounds ahead of schedule and the FA Cup reached the final. Such a result can be said to be very outstanding for any coach or any English League One team. Especially Derby County was just a team working hard for relegation last season, and there was no investment in the summer. It is still certain that this young Chinese can bring such a team to its current level in one season.

So the fans had a new impression. "This guy has a bit of an arrogant capital."

The media is more willing to describe Wan Sheng as a "young man who doesn't know the so-called results if he has some results.'. The media can influence fans, so naturally many fans will think so, especially now that Derby County is about to start a decisive battle with Manchester United. What they also think is, "If Manchester United teaches him a lesson, he won't be so arrogant."

This is what many fans outside Derby County think of Wan Sheng.

However, these fans are following the crowd. They don’t read the reports about Wansheng carefully, but they just think about what the media says. But many fans still read the reports carefully. One reason why fans don’t understand Wansheng is that Derby County is a League One team. Many fans will not care about how the League One is, and naturally they will not care about how the head coach of Derby County is.

But this time it was the FA Cup final, and it had already surpassed the English League One level and even received more attention than the Premier League. Many media reported Wan Sheng’s information in detail. Wan Sheng was definitely a trust at this level, so they never tire of introducing Wan Sheng to fans.

After carefully reading Wansheng’s information, many people were stunned.

Their impression is, "This guy really has a personality, no wonder the media said he is arrogant." At the same time, many fans think this young Chinese is very interesting. It is really something to look forward to when such a character appears in English football.

So fans' views on Wan Sheng are divided into two types - one is disgust and the other is expectation.

However, for Manchester United coach Ferguson, no matter how the media reports or fans view it, it is not important, because he has a deep impression of Wan Sheng.

The first time I saw Wan Sheng was in the training ground of the youth team at the Carrington Training Base. At that time, Ferguson did not know Wan Sheng. He only felt that the young coach had a very loud voice and felt a little disliked. But in fact, his impression of Wan Sheng was not very bad. After all, the two of them didn't know each other at all.

Later, Manchester United revealed the "McGinness Incident". The impact of this incident was very bad. Naturally, Ferguson had no good impression of the "probable mastermind" Wan Sheng.

As McGuinness said, "This guy is a scathing, sinister, mean little guy!"

Then, at the cocktail party and the FA Cup semi-finals draw, the two had an argument when they met. The young man could even confront him with a few sarcastic confrontation with him. In addition, his team-leading results, in Ferguson's impression, naturally, "no ability" was ruled out.

"This is a very capable young man." Ferguson's impression was that, but he also added, "...it's very annoying."

But no matter how capable it is, Ferguson does not think Derby County can defeat Manchester United.

However, everything can happen in football matches, and strong teams may not necessarily win. The key is to pay attention to it or not. As England's most famous champion coach, Ferguson naturally would not underestimate any opponent. Before the FA Cup final, he also asked the team to prepare well and carefully studied Derby County.

Tactics and players are two aspects of research.

It would be fine if I didn’t study it, but after such research, Ferguson really discovered something new.

The first is tactics. Derby County's offensive football tactics are indeed very interesting. Such offensive football looks good, and more importantly, it can still win. The latter doesn't matter. After all, the level of the League One is limited. Even Ferguson must admit that Manchester United's tactics are not as good as Derby County.

The second is the main one, that is, Derby County players.

Ribery, Cahill, Morris... Several players who performed well were caught in their eyes, but with Ferguson's eyes, these players who performed brilliantly were not attracted by him. After all, there are many players with excellent skills, and it is difficult to detect how outstanding the technology is in the level of the League One. On the contrary, one player entered Ferguson's vision, that is Derby County goalkeeper Oaks.

Manchester United have always had goalkeeper problems. Last summer, they spent $4 million to buy Howard to replace Butters' main position, but Howard's performance is not very satisfactory, and his "nervous knife" is always worrying.

This season, Manchester United was eliminated by Porto in the Champions League, which has a lot to do with Howard's "low-level mistake". At the last moment, Howard's saves the ball and makes the opponent successfully shoot, and Manchester United was eliminated.

This made Ferguson quite dissatisfied with Howard.

Manchester United's second goalkeeper Carol also often makes "low-level mistakes". It is precisely because of this that he can only be the second goalkeeper. The 28-year-old Carol is at the best age of a goalkeeper, but he can only watch Howard appear repeatedly and he has been sitting on the bench.

So Ferguson has been considering finding an excellent goalkeeper. When studying Derby County, goalkeeper Oaks came into view. This goalkeeper was not very famous, but he only conceded 26 goals in 46 League One games. Such data is very gorgeous. Especially Derby County has been using offensive tactics throughout the season. Oaks has definitely faced a lot of pressure, so this data is extremely precious.

But the specific situation is still to be seen in the real game, but it is better to cause some trouble for Derby County before the game.

So a week before the two teams' matches, Manchester United club revealed that Ferguson was optimistic about Oaks. Oaks soon became associated with Manchester United. Some media even said with concise words, "Oaks will transfer to Manchester United after the FA Cup to replace Howard!"

Wansheng felt amused and laughed at this.

He knew that the old guy would definitely make something happen before the game, otherwise he would not be Ferguson, but he didn't expect that the players involved in this matter were not Ribery, Cahill, or Morris, but... Oaks?

Oaks' performance is very stable, but it's just stable. His data is gorgeous, but it's not really good to concede 26 goals in 46 league games. The key is that the reason why the team concedes fewer goals is that in many games, the team almost crushes the opponent. The tight defense of the whole game makes it difficult for the opponent to enter the penalty area, so naturally there are not many times that the ball is threatened.

In this case, no goalkeeper will perform too badly.

Of course, Oaks' ability is still certain, especially after a season of training, he is no less than those goalkeepers in the top league, but that's all. If you want to say something special about Oaks, there is really no one.

Did Ferguson take a fancy to Oaks?

Is this a smoke bomb, or is it true?

Wan Sheng didn't understand.

When it comes to making smoke bombs, Naribery, Morris and others are not better, so what to do is to find Oaks... This really has little impact on the team... (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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