Pierce's ability is really good.

In many aspects, Pierce's experience can bring considerable help to Wansheng; he personally feels good, and working with Wansheng can help him learn a lot.

After communication, the relationship between the two parties further improved, and the work of the entire coaching team became much smoother, such as the division of labor became clearer.

As the head coach, Wan Sheng coordinates everything about the team.

Peter James is responsible for tactical research and other related work with Wan Sheng, that is, he uses his brains with Wan Sheng, and he also leaves other chores to him. Diamares mainly leads the team training, Pierce serves as a guide, and the two of them handle the game related matters together.

After the division of labor was clear, the entire coaching team was devoted to the work.

The team's tactical training continues. According to Wan Sheng, the adaptation to new tactics has just begun. This tactic is somewhat similar to the Netherlands' all-off and defense football, and the focus is on regulating the control and passing of the game, which is quite high. Except for a few people in the team, Andy Cole, Morris, Ziegler, etc., everyone else has been exposed to such complex tactics for the first time, which will inevitably take a long time to adapt. Now everything has just begun, and the team is just playing tactics in the game.

In short, the team's adaptation to new tactics is a long-term job, and Wansheng even has several years of planning and mental preparation.

Continuous training is also a process, and everyone in the team and coaching staff must participate.

In this process, the busiest person is not a certain player, but Pierce, who is the "training guidance work", will blow the whistle and pause whenever he sees the player making a wrong choice on the field, and run over to demonstrate and guide himself.

Wan Sheng couldn't help but laugh when he saw this scene on the sidelines.

Pierce's biggest role is his current job, and this job cannot be replaced by others. His serious attitude is also worthy of admiration. Whenever a player has problems in training, he will run over. In the entire tactical training, his running is not less than that of the players participating in the training.

That serious attitude is sometimes quite interesting. For example, Pierce is now explaining the benefits of choosing to break through or dribble from the left, just because David Silva on the left is a bit ahead. However, the game changes a lot, temporary reactions and habits are important. Pierce's requirements are a bit high. Joey Patton rolled his eyes, but he dared not refute Pierce's words. After all, Pierce is his "senior". After all, Pierce has been in the team for a few years and is already very majestic and is now an assistant coach.

He could only bear to listen.

Fortunately, Wansheng came over and helped him clear the siege, "Okay, Joey, do as Stewart said. Come on, the training will continue!"

Pierce's serious attitude is good, but sometimes he is a little bit sloppy when he is too serious.

This is the biggest feature of Wansheng discovery of Pierce, but it is also very interesting sometimes, especially as an onlooker, it’s a pity that he is the head coach, and after a smile, he still needs to get the team’s training back on track.

On September 1, the fourth round of the Premier League will begin.

This round is very ordinary, and there is no confrontation between strong teams and no focus battles. However, for Wan Sheng, this round is really special because the team's opponent is Derby County.

After a summer, Derby County personnel were adjusted relatively heavily. All the players in the team were gone, and only Alfred, Burton Reit and other several signature players stayed. In addition, they only signed a few free agents in the summer, Derby County's strength has declined quite a lot.

Because of this, the "defending champion" was directly labeled as "impossible to compete for the championship" by the media.

Some media even believe that Derby County is likely to fight for relegation at the end of the season. After Wan Sheng left and the team "falls apart", their overall strength is likely to be unable to catch up with other Premier League mid-range teams.

However, Derby County's results in the first three rounds were still past, with one win, one draw and one loss, and it was not good to be bad, which gave Chairman Pierce a chance to breathe. His current situation is definitely not good. Before the start of the season, Derby County fans were always expressing their dissatisfaction and were worried about the relegation the team might face, so the results are very important to Derby County Club and Pierce.

In this round, when he met Manchester City, Pierce had to face pressure again before the game began, because Manchester City made Derby fans think of Wansheng again.

If fans can think of Wansheng, the media will naturally not let Pierce go. So regardless of the Derby County media or the outside media, they will unanimously start to report on the grievances between Wansheng and Derby County, or rather, it is the reason why Wansheng left the club and the "promotional role" played by Pierce.

These reports made the Derby County Club very passive. It is conceivable what situation Pierce, who is targeting, would be in the target. Now he has to drive quickly when he comes and goes to the club, for fear of being surrounded by dissatisfied fans.

From this we can imagine how important the game is to Derby County.

As long as you can win Manchester City, the pressure on Derby County Club and Pierce will be much smaller, and the pressure on them to lose the game will only become greater. Therefore, Derby County Club attaches great importance to the game. Even if many of them know Wan Sheng, their personal relationship is good. But now it is a competition between the teams, which is related to the development of the club, which is between the teams, not a simple private issue.

As the defending champion, Derby County has received a lot of attention, and Manchester City has won a lot of attention from Manchester United, so when there is no focus game in this round, this game becomes a focus game.

Many people analyze the game and still believe that both sides will be evenly matched.

Derby County's strength has declined, but after all, they are the champion teams of last season. Even if their strength declines a little, they are not comparable to ordinary teams. However, Manchester City will definitely have some advantages. Wan Sheng knows Derby County quite well. This team was created by him. Even if he signs some new players in the summer, the team's main framework is still there. From the first three rounds of games, it can be found that Derby County's tactics still use the "osf" of last season. In other words, Manchester City will have a good understanding of how Derby County plays. In addition, what Manchester City has advantages is that they play at home.

This is also Manchester City's first home game in the new season.

The first home court was quite meaningful, and Wan Sheng led the team to play at Manchester Stadium for the first time.

This stadium is quite gorgeous. It is an oval venue inside, with three-layer seats on both sides and two-layer seats with a high upper and lower viewing angle. The top of the cover is in a super-circular shape. The steel cable is suspended from the tower, and a spiral slope ladder provides a way to enter the upper seats.

There are no shutters installed in this area to improve ventilation of the sports field.

There is also a very interesting system when entering the stadium, called the 'rfid intelligent transmission system'. This is a human-controlled turntable. This system can allow all entrances to handle up to 1,200 people per minute.

In addition, the stadium has the widest grass in England. It uses natural real grass instead of many sports fields using artificial grass. The stadium injects 27,000 miles of plastic fiber with a thickness of 20 cm under the soil and stretches step by step. It is a synthetic method to increase the grass surface, called the grass synthesis growth system.

Anyway, this new stadium is still quite gorgeous.

The first time he led the team at home, Wan Sheng arrived early, and circled around the stadium and visited. His calm attitude also surprised the media. In the media's opinion, the mentality of this young Chinese will definitely be affected in the face of his old club Derby County. For example, he is eager to prove his ability and lead Manchester City to defeat Derby County. Such an affected mentality can easily become superficial, for example, become a little nervous.

But they couldn't see this in Wan Sheng. Those reporters who had been following Wan Sheng even found that he had been wandering around the stadium before the press conference, with a tourist attitude at all. How could he face the tension of his old club?

In fact, Wansheng is really not nervous.

When it comes to the game, he still attaches great importance to it. He naturally has to win against Derby County, but in his opinion, this is not difficult. One is that the team's strength is definitely not worse than the current Derby County. The other is that he knows Derby County very well and has formulated targeted tactical strategies for this, but Derby County has no idea about his team at all. Third, the game is at Manchester Stadium, which is the territory of Manchester City people.

The time, place, people, and all the advantages are all on Manchester City. What are the tensions in the face of the game?

If you still can't win the game like this, then it can be said that God is standing opposite the team, and no one can do anything about it

At the pre-match press conference, most of the questions from reporters were related to Wan Sheng's grudges after leaving Derby County Club. Wan Sheng just responded to these questions. After all, things have passed and he has a new beginning at Manchester City. It doesn't make sense to always hold on to the past and not let go.

So his mentality is still very peaceful.

After returning to the locker room, Wan Sheng also told all players to play with a normal mindset and not to have any special emotions.

Finally, this game that attracted attention began.

As many people think, Derby County's tactics have basically not changed much. It still uses the 'osf' system left by Wansheng, and uses fast attack as a means to find opportunities. There are also a lot of running overall, which also increases the ability to press the whole game.

Such tactics are quite powerful, but Wan Sheng only watched the offense a few times and his grasp of victory became even greater.

The Derby County team on the field is the same tactical style as the Derby County he led last season. Many players in positions have not changed. For example, the forward is Burton Reit, central defender Alfred, and Ivan Crew on the wing. But these are not the main ones, mainly because their core players have changed. The midfield is Peter Kennedy as the core. Obviously, after Morris left, Kennedy got the opportunity.

But there is a reason why Wan Sheng let Kennedy play as a substitute. His overall view and ability to grasp the game are much worse than Morris.

In addition, this Derby team obviously slacked off in preparation in the summer, and they were not so active in running. Among the several newly signed players, there were two veterans. It can be seen that their new coach does not have a high understanding of this tactic.

If the game continues like this, there is no need to do anything. Their physical fitness will not be able to keep up, and their tactics will be self-defeating.

Of course, Manchester City won't play so passively.

Manchester City's approach to Derby County in defense is somewhat similar, and it also uses running full-game pressing. However, with all attacks and defenses, Manchester City will choose to quickly return to defense rather than actively pressing in the frontcourt, which is more passive, but the defense will be more stable.

In addition, both teams focus on offense, but Manchester City's pass cooperation is better and has better control over the rhythm of the game.

The most important point is that Derby County does not have various offensive and defensive performance bonuses in Wansheng, while Manchester City enjoys various bonuses.

So you can imagine what the game is.

In the first ten minutes, Derby County played well, but after ten minutes, they were completely suppressed. The fast-attacking football could not be played at all. The pressing of the whole game was of no effect. Instead, it was not timely retreating, causing frequent loopholes in the backcourt, and they had to frequently change positions to remedy it. However, in this way, the game was very passive.

By this time, Derby County had been completely suppressed.

Derbyshire's 'osf' needs to suppress the opponent in order to achieve the greatest tactical effect. What you fear most is to be suppressed by the opponent. Once suppressed, it will be difficult to gain an advantage. Next, it will be like a "snowball" and the more you play, the more passive the defense will be, and various problems will occur.

Wan Sheng is of course very familiar with his tactics. The tactics formulated against Derby County are mainly suppressed. As long as Derby County is suppressed, the game will be equivalent to winning.

This 'strategic goal' was achieved fifteen minutes into the game.

In the 16th minute, Manchester City converted its advantage into scores.

This is a cooperation between the side and the middle.

Sinclair dribbled the ball to the bottom line and directly transferred the ball to the front of the penalty area. Anelka jumped up and headed the ball to Morris in the chaos. Morris stopped the ball and shot directly!

Goalkeeper Karachi reacted very quickly. He made a save move in an instant and hit the ball out with both fists.

The fans of Manchester Stadium all sighed regretfully, but at this moment, a figure appeared in front of the football that bounced into the penalty area. He was about 180 years old and his dark and thin face looked inconspicuous.

But at this moment, he became a hero!

He ran towards the ball, waved his right foot and hit the ball directly behind it, and the football was pulled and rushed straight towards the goal.

Karachi saw the shot, but he had just completed the save and was unable to turn around and could only watch the football fly in from his side.

1:0!

Until then, many people recognized the player who scored the goal under the camera. It was the young forward Darren Bent who joined the team in the summer! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!