Derby County encountered Arsenal in the first round of the league, which was considered an early collision between the two teams.

One of them is the Premier League champion last season and the other is the FA Cup last season. At the low of August, they will have a "Community Shield" competition. That is not a big trophy, but it is still worth fighting for as the first trophy at the start of the competition.

When the two teams collided in the first round, Derby County supporters cursed the damn schedule. The first round of the league is very important to any team. There is a word in China called "good start". There is a similar saying in Europe, called "the first step to success". Winning the first game is a good start, but in the first game, it met the league championship last season, which does not bode well, especially Derby County still plays away, so many Derby County fans are cursing the FA that has set the schedule.

Of course, this is completely meaningless.

But this also shows that even Derby supporters are not optimistic about the team's ability to defeat Arsenal, let alone the remarks in the media. Fortunately, Derby has not appeared in the media many times in recent times. In addition to local media, many large media have a little given up on Derby because they feel that Derby is just a relegation team. Although their young coach said before the start of the European Cup, who believes it?

In the summer, Derby County has some moves that can sell the team's main goalkeeper Oaks and the leading scorer Cahill. They are equivalent to "breaking even". Most people think that Derby County's strength has declined. After all, Van der Fate and Karachi have not proved themselves in the Premier League. Even though the strength of these two people is still guaranteed, no one is optimistic that they can do better than Cahill and Oaks, so Volkswagen believes that Derby County's strength has declined.

They are just a team of promoted players, and their strength has declined a little further, so they can only work hard to relegate this season.

What should I pay attention to when a team working hard to relegate?

Wan Sheng was also very clear about the voice outside, but he didn't care at all. After the warm-up with Middlesbrough, he was stuck in the office to prepare for the first game of the new season.

The preparations he made were not to study Arsenal. In fact, there was nothing to do with Arsenal. Their lineup had almost no changes compared to last season. Van Persie, who joined the team, would definitely not be able to play in the first game, so media reports and videos of last season's game were enough. The preparations he made were to study the team's formation.

Among the football training masters, Wan Sheng opened the troop arrangement system. He moved the player's position again and again, while observing the "offensive" and "defense" evaluation values ​​displayed below.

Wan Sheng hasn't used the platoon formation system for a long time, but starting the new season, he has made some adjustments in his tactics. He still has to use this system to simulate the team's formation to find the most suitable formation strategy for the current player configuration.

This system is a bit "mechanized" and "digital", and is actually not very useful, but in a fixed tactic situation, it is very useful to use this to choose the best-position formation, such as letting the full-back stand in front, or stand in the back, and running within a range. These will affect the team's overall offensive and defensive ability. He needs to find the most suitable formation to deal with Arsenal.

Facing a team like Arsenal, the defense will naturally be better, otherwise Arsenal will be in a state and it will be difficult to defend the goal, and at the same time, the offense cannot be weak. Otherwise, the game will be completely passively defended, which is not what Wan Sheng wants to see. He needs to find the best strategy to balance the two.

This job seems to be just opening the system and adjusting the player's position, which is similar to playing game simulation, but the workload is quite large. After all, there are ten players on the court except the goalkeeper. If you find the best strategy, you must constantly adjust the positions of ten players. Wan Sheng has been doing this for almost a day. It was not until the afternoon when he looked at the defense and offensive attribute values ​​above, and he breathed a long sigh of satisfaction.

Next, he will explain the formation and position to the players.

There is no need to explain the tactics anymore. For nearly a month, he has been making the team adapt to the tactics. By now, the team is enough to use ‘os-fast’ in actual combat. Their strength is no worse than the team’s ability at the end of last season. In other words, it is not certain that there has been improvement, but the team’s strength has increased at least, which is quite good. Wan Sheng believes that as the league progresses, the team will become more and more skillful in adapting tactics, and the strength that can be used will naturally become stronger and stronger.

Just like last season, the team's performance is getting better and better.

This is what he hopes to see.

......

Soon the first round of the Premier League is approaching.

As the Premier League starts, the English media also begins to make some reports, such as many large media make comments from teams. Among the comments from various media, the top four in the league are undoubtedly Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool. Among these four teams, the media believes that Arsenal and Manchester United are stronger, Chelsea ranks third, and Liverpool can only rank fourth.

There are also some ratings for other teams. Derby County only scored 6 points, ranking last among the 20 teams, but this is also normal. Generally, the newly promoted teams will rank in this position.

Compared with the positioning of the newly promoted team and the prospect of only striving to relegate, there is little news about Derby County before the first round of the Premier League. The whole England is paying attention to the first round of Chelsea's home match against Manchester United. This is a heavyweight match that tests two strong teams. In comparison, other games have become unimportant, not to mention this game. Arsenal's home match against Derby County is a game with no suspense in the eyes of most people.

Even the media that had been hostile to Derby County before did not report related reports. In their opinion, Derby County could no longer make any waves. When Derby County was the focus, they would still do some reports. But now Derby County is just a relegation team, and such a team is not even qualified to report, because no one pays attention at all. So what if the Chinese loses? No one cares.

It is normal for a relegation team to lose to Arsenal, so they don't even have to report.

What they are waiting for is to add to the wrong side and laugh at Derby County when it is trapped in the quagmire of relegation.

So before the Derby County and Arsenal matches, the media seemed extremely quiet. Except for some pure Derby County and Arsenal media, almost no other media would care about this game.

Arsenal media definitely don't care about Derby. In their opinion, there will be no suspense in the game. Arsenal was the champion of the league last season. If you meet a newly promoted team in the first round, you will definitely win. Derby media will also report on the game and look forward to the team's performance in the top league next season, but they are not optimistic about the first round. Moreover, Derby local media has very little influence compared to all England, and their voices are completely buried.

In this low-key atmosphere, the entire Derby County team has arrived at the Highbury Stadium.

At the press conference before the game, the head coaches of both teams seemed very low-key. Wenger didn't say much, and Wan Sheng didn't say much about the game either. The media did not comment on the attitudes of the two, as if it should have been.

In short, both teams were silent.

In this atmosphere, Wan Sheng returned to the locker room, and the players also returned to the locker room one by one after the warm-up from the stadium.

After all the players returned to the locker room, Wan Sheng turned on the computer he was carrying and opened a video file in the computer. In everyone's doubts, the video started to play. The video was displayed on it. The moment Derby County and Manchester United had a penalty shootout last season.

"...Weberson was probably too nervous. He couldn't put the ball on the ball. The score was still 3:2, Derby County led Manchester United!"

"Roy Keane! Manchester United's captain stood in front of the goal. He stepped forward...shot!"

"Oaks! Oaks! He blocked Roy Keane's penalty! 3:2! 3:2! Derby County won! The game ended! Adding to the score in the first 120 minutes, Derby County defeated Manchester United 5:4 and won the FA Cup championship!"

"This is Derby County's second FA Cup title, but their last title goes back to 1946 when World War II ended!"

"This championship means a lot to them! Derby County's results this season are almost perfect. They won the League One championship with historical points, they beat Manchester United and won the FA Cup. They are the "double champions" in the League One!"

The visiting team locker room at Highbury Stadium was filled with the roar of the commentator in the video, and the players on the screen were celebrating the goal excitedly, and many of them were excited to shed tears.

Even when I see this video now, many Derby County players can't help but be excited.

When they recalled the moment they defeated Manchester United last season, they couldn't help but burst into tears. Wan Sheng was also very excited. When they recalled the end of last season, he would feel a stream of passion spreading in his heart, which is also the reason why he wanted to play this game video to the players.

He wants the players to recall the feeling of winning the championship last season!

"Do you know why I asked you to watch this game video?" Wan Sheng's majestic voice rang in the locker room. As the game approached, the enthusiastic voices of fans were already heard outside the window, and most of them were Arsenal fans at home.

"This is the honor we have achieved, just two and a half months ago, most of you were involved, we were at the top of the FA Cup, but that was just the beginning!"

"Now, here is the starting point of this season! Our opponent is Arsenal, our opponent is very strong, and we still play away, but I want to tell you, we are not a weak team! We were able to defeat Manchester United last season, and now the team's strength has increased, so we will definitely defeat Arsenal!"

"This is the first round of the league! No one outside the world is optimistic about us, but each of you should be clear about the efforts we have put in this month!"

"Now, it's time to test the results!"

Wan Sheng stretched out his arm and pointed out outside the door, "Guys, what are you waiting for! Go and kill them!"

"good!"

"Run into the court and kill them!"

"Fuck-die those Londoners!"

The players were all excited with hideous expressions, and they came out of the locker room door one after another. Wan Sheng walked at the end of the team. This was the effect he wanted. He wanted to tell everyone that we are not weak teams, and told them that we can defeat Arsenal, give players confidence and make them full of fighting spirit, and then the game would be equivalent to winning half of it.

For a head coach, if the team is trained to improve their strength, arrange the most suitable tactics and formations, and the motivation for the entire team before the game to enhance the team's fighting spirit, Wan Sheng has done everything he can to do, and it depends on the team's performance next.

......

The Arsenal players never expected that the Derby team in front of them had completely changed after only ten minutes. In the players' passage, the Derby team all looked at their opponents fiercely, as if they had a deep hatred.

The one who touched the most was Vieira.

In the player channel, Vieira felt an extremely hostile gaze. He turned his head and looked at him, facing a pair of fierce eyes. He was a white player who was much shorter than him. His eyes were a little sunken. With his strong body, he looked really ferocious.

It was Leon Ottoman.

But... I don't seem to know him?

Vieira thought.

He was very confused. Arsenal and Derby County had never played against him. His understanding of Derby County players can be said to be a bit blank. Head coach Wenger only introduced a few outstanding Derby County players before the game, such as Morris and Ribery. This guy with sunken eyes is definitely not among them. So why did he look at himself like this?

This question has been hanging in Vieira's mind.

Finally, the players on both sides appeared. After guessing the coin and picking the side, as the atmosphere in the audience became warm, the game between the two teams officially began.

After the game started, Vieira was still thinking about his hostility towards him. This question was always in his heart, but he quickly had the opportunity to resolve his doubts. When he dribbled the ball for the first time, the guy who "glided" him came to defend. Vieira originally wanted to pass him, but he shook twice in a row, and except for almost being cut off by the opponent, it had no effect at all, so Vieira had to choose to pass the ball to his teammates.

Seeing that the other party was about to run away, Vieira hurriedly seized the opportunity and asked, "Boy, do we know each other?"

Ottoman shook his head.

"We have a grudge?"

Ottoman still shook his head.

Vieira was even more puzzled, and he asked directly, "Then why do you look at me like that? It's like... it's like we have a holiday..."

Ottoman turned his head and stared at Vieira and said very seriously, "Boss asked me to stare at you. We are our opponents now! You should not have so much nonsense!"

Ottoman ran away after saying that.

Vieira ran a few steps forward, and was still a little confused... It was just because the opponent's head coach asked him to keep an eye on him, and then he looked at him with that kind of hatred look?

Is it really just that?

Vieira turned her head and looked at the Derby County coach's seat. The opponent's young coach was sitting there with a serious face and a smile.

Before the game, Vieira had hardly noticed the opponent's head coach because the two would not have any intersection at all. But now he suddenly felt that the young coach of Derby County really had certain abilities, otherwise the young boy would not have faced him at the Highbury Stadium, and he was full of hostile fighting spirit.

If there is no Derby County players like this, even if they are at home and have an advantage in strength, it is still not easy to defeat their opponents. Vieira suddenly felt that she should remind her teammates to pay more attention.

This opponent seems a bit difficult to mess with. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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