Rafael Benitez is still somewhat confident about defeating Derby County, or gaining an advantage in the first round of the two teams. Although Liverpool lost to Derby County both home and away games in the league, it is Derby County with a full lineup, not Derby County where the main core players are injured.

Benitez still believes in the media analysis.

More importantly, he believed that Ivan Crue, who was injured last week, would not recover so quickly. As for Cruevit, it would definitely be impossible to play. Rafael Van der Fat Benitez had never considered it. When Van der Fat was carried off the court, everyone saw that the direct collision injury, even if it was lighter, would not be able to recover in a short time. What's more, after the game, the Derby County Club did not come forward to announce Van der Fat's injury situation as soon as possible. Benitez believes that this just shows that it takes a long time to check the recovery time of Van der Fat, and usually his approach is the same.

Van der Fate, Ivan Cruy, Cruyvit, and Morris, who had been said to be on the field before, Derby County is now too weak in the frontcourt, and these threatening players are unable to play. In the home game, Benitez is naturally confident of playing an advantage.

But if you want to determine the outcome in one game, it is useless to have some advantages. The key is to score a few more goals. If you cannot score more goals, such as ending the game with 1:0, it is almost no different from a draw. Even the score is no different from losing. The knockout match is determined by the home and away game. At the home court of Derby, the opponent's lineup must be quite complete, and Liverpool's chance of being eliminated is still very high. In other words, if they want to eliminate Derby, they must go through a big battle, which is something Benitez cannot accept.

Therefore, this game must maximize the score advantage!

In consideration, Benitez was more sure about the tactics he arranged yesterday. In fact, Liverpool's tactics were confirmed a few days ago, but he has always been very conservative. The "luck-gambling" offensive football is not what he is good at. He doesn't know if that will have a good result, but if you want to defeat your opponents in the same level in the football game, you have to surprise you. In other words, thinking about this a lot now is just to give him more confidence and more comfort before the game.

Now that I see the media analysis, I feel comforted.

Benitez also breathed a long sigh.

No media received the Derby County roster before the game, and the media has long been used to it. Since Wan Sheng coached Derby County, he has never announced the roster before the game.

Of course, the same is true for this game.

Because of this, the media began to analyze the Derby County roster. In fact, there is no need to analyze too much. The players who have played in Derby County have almost been called on the roster.

But two hours before the two teams started, someone checked the official website of the FA, but was completely shocked.

According to the regulations of the FA, the roster must be reported two hours before the game. The FA will make records and publish the roster on the official website. Generally speaking, large-scale events will be reported for a long time. For example, in the knockout stage of the UEFA Champions League, the reporting time stipulated by UEFA is one day, which means that the media will know the roster one day in advance. The FA Cup is not valued, so the detailed regulations are almost no different from the league.

Derby County has not released its big list, and the media can only view it through the content released by the FA. It would be better if it doesn't. It was really shocking to check it out, because the names of Van der Fate and Ivan Kreu on the big list of Derby County are the names of Van der Fate and Ivan Kreu.

How is that possible?

The media who saw this roster were all stunned. They couldn't believe that Van der Fate and Ivan Kru were really "recovered well" as Wan Sheng said, and even entered the roster of the two teams.

Are they all analysing wrong? Did they fall into the trick of the Chinese?

Many media reporters gritted their teeth.

But someone quickly said in a 'consolation' manner, "Even if they are on the list, they can only be substitutes, because even if they recover from injuries, they will not have time to recover!"

This kind of remark has received a lot of voices of approval.

So the media put their heart back to their original position. As for the previous analysis, they didn't care at all. They reported news about Derby County, and the analysis errors were not once or twice. Many media have long been used to it. They analyzed Derby County's "weakness" just for analysis, and it has nothing to do with reality.

If they were Derby County supporting the media, they would not do so. Unfortunately, most of them here did not support Derby County. So even if the recovery of Van der Fate and Ivan Kreu is really good as the Chinese said, so what?

As long as it doesn't affect the two teams' game!

Rafael Benitez was also shocked. He received the news more than an hour before the game. At this time, the entire Liverpool team was ready to enter the stadium to warm up. He also wanted to attend the pre-match press conference, and then an assistant coach told him the news.

Benitez looked at the Derbyshire's roster carefully, his face hesitant.

What he originally thought was that Van der Fate and Ivan Krue would not be on the roster, but both of them were on the roster. The only one who guessed correctly was Cruivet. Cruivet's injury was a little worse than the two, so it was naturally impossible for him to recover so quickly.

Whether the two will play will have a great impact on Derby County.

As the head coach, especially the Liverpool coach of Derby County who lost twice, Benitez still has some understanding of Derby County. The most important core player of Derby County is Lee Morris, but Morris is still recovering and cannot play. The other offensive core in the frontcourt is Van der Fate, who is also the player with the most goals in Derby County and is even expected to challenge Henry's scorer status.

Ivan Kru is also very important. Although he is a full-back, he is also the second-most goal player in Derby County so far. His back insertion and free kick are quite threatening.

Such two players cannot play, which is why Benitez wants to play unexpectedly. But if both of them appear to compete with Derby County in the offensive battle, is there really a chance?

Benitez had no confidence at all.

Not to mention how gorgeous Derby's offensive is and how efficient it is, Liverpool's own offensive problems are. Now their goals rely more on midfielders. Especially the midfield core Steven Gerrard, who is the team's number one shooter, is a recognition of Gerrard's ability, and it also proves how poor Liverpool's striker is. With such problems, it is unwise to compete with Derby County at home.

Benitez knew this very well, so he began to worry about the game.

However, he soon read the analysis of other media, and pointed out that Van der Fate and Ivan Krue had definitely not recovered, and it was very likely that they were just substitutes. Seeing these analysis, Benitez secretly hoped that the fact was the case, otherwise the game would definitely be very difficult to play.

At the pre-match press conference, Wan Sheng appeared at the venue with a serious expression.

That kind of smile gives people a completely different feeling than usual. Seeing Wan Sheng's expression, the media firmly believes that Van der Fate and Ivan Kru are not players, otherwise the Chinese would definitely be smiling and there would not be too much pressure on the game.

They thought about this, but in fact, Wansheng was about to be happy.

He didn't expect these media to cooperate so much. He originally thought that after publishing the list, the media would definitely know that their analysis was wrong, and Liverpool would also be wary of this. Unexpectedly, the media found an explanation that "certainly not the main force." "This makes completely understandable."

This is really a perfect match!

Thinking of this, Wansheng's face was just solemn. Sure enough, when he came to the venue, the first question asked by the media was about Van der Fate and Ivan Kreu.

"Why did Van der Fate and Ivan Krue appear on the roster? They should have been injured." The reporter asked.

Wan Sheng looked at him like an idiot, and then said, "I said yesterday that their recovery is very good."

The media off the stage was stunned. Thinking about it carefully, this Chinese really said that, but they thought that the two of them had a bad recovery, and then kept making wrong analysis.

Despite this, they gritted their teeth.

They thought they were misled by the Chinese in front of them, so why did they analyze it like that? It was not because the Chinese looked wrong at the time, so naturally they came to a conclusion.

"He must have done it on purpose!"

Many people thought, and then a reporter asked, "Will they appear on the list?"

Wan Sheng nodded and affirmed, "Of course, Raphael scored the most goals in the team, and Ivan scored the second most goals. It was a waste for them to sit on the bench."

Even if he said that, the media off the audience still did not comment.

Especially when they saw Wan Sheng's solemn expression, they thought he was worried about the game. Because of this, they felt that their analysis was definitely correct. "The recovery of the two people could not be so fast, so they could only sit on the bench. As Derby County was helpless, they would send a gambler to the field." It has to be said that everyone's subjectivity is too strong, and without actual evidence, it is difficult to change their views.

They felt that they had been "spoofed" by Wan Sheng before because Wan Sheng's expression was hard to believe, but now they were deceived by Wan Sheng's expression again.

If Wansheng knew what these media reporters were thinking, he would definitely be unable to laugh, "It is said that people cannot fall twice in the same place, but it is not easy for these guys to do it."

Wan Sheng didn't know, but he didn't care. There was not much time left before the game. Even if Benitez knew everything, he would definitely not be able to temporarily adjust his tactics before the game. Otherwise, temporary adjustments would definitely affect the performance of the game. In other words, Benitez had no choice. After all, Liverpool was not Derby County. They would definitely have to do a lot of targeted training to prepare for the game. Without the bonus of "cooperation" tactical training effect, it is naturally impossible to use every set of tactics skillfully.

This is also the advantage of Derbyshire.

Don't underestimate this advantage. Generally, teams use the same tactic throughout the season. It's not that they don't want to have more means, but they can't do it. In terms of time, a team has many games and it's impossible to have so much time to train tacticals. The same is true for Derby County. But Wansheng has the 'cooperation' skill. One hour of training is equivalent to two hours of training. After being promoted to a high-level skill, it also comes with an effect of "spiritual attribute 'match awareness' will be slowly improved". This effect is not much improved, but it is also objective over time. For example, the overall view of all players in the team has increased by 1-2 points on average, especially those players with very weak mental attributes. The improvement effect is even more obvious.

In this way, the players in the team are not only twice as effective in tactical training, but also their adaptability to tactics is constantly improving.

Because of this, Derby County can change its tactics in the game, and even temporarily adjusting its strategy before the game starts will not be affected too much. Liverpool is different. Benitez takes over the team in the summer and still cannot do anything like a finger to the team, let alone temporarily adjusting its tactics before the game.

So to now, what Wan Sheng needs to do is to lead the team to fight directly with the opponent. It is no longer necessary to perform some small moves. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!