After studying the football training master system and using experience to upgrade the union system to a "offensive attribute improvement" effect skill, Wan Sheng was satisfied and began to seriously study the next opponent.

Ipswich.

This is a difficult opponent.

Ipswich's head coach is former Manchester City star Zu Lair. He is a star trained by Manchester City's youth training camp and a signature star in Manchester City's club history. Zu Lair has a brilliant player career. He was once Manchester City's number one scorer and is very famous throughout Europe, but that was something decades ago.

After retiring at Manchester City, Zulair began his coaching career.

Zu Lair started at the age of thirty-five, and it has been more than twenty years now, and he is already in his sixties.

During his more than 20 years of coaching career, Zu Lair has coached many teams, including Manchester City in the Premier League and Fulham. In 2001, he served as the head coach of Ipswich after he left Fulham.

After a year, Zu Lair completed the transformation of Ipswich and had the ability to compete in the Premier League. This season he led the team to try to compete in the Premier League and now he has achieved the seventh place in the league.

Ipswich has a chance.

As long as they can win the last three rounds of the league, Ipswich is likely to surpass the previous Nottingham Forest and qualify for the promotion play-offs, so the last three rounds are very important to them, which can even determine whether they will upgrade to the Premier League.

This is not good news for Derbyshire.

Ipswich is the seventh in the league, strong and strong, and is on the Portman Road Stadium. The game is very important to them. They will definitely do their best to win. Then Derby County will face a fierce battle if they want to win.

Wan Sheng is not afraid of the difficulty of the game.

Derby County and Leicester City had a big fight in the last round, and scored two goals to win. In contrast, there was nothing to be afraid of in the seventh place in the league. What made him headache was Ipswich's tactical style.

This is a team known for its defense.

Ipswich doesn't score many goals in the league and does not have strong offensive ability on the front line. If you just want to win a draw, it is very likely to be a steadily defensive counterattack.

The key is that Wansheng wants to win.

If you want to win the game, you must score a goal. However, Derby County is not good at offense, especially in propulsion. Wan Sheng has always emphasized defense and rarely let the team train to promote offense. The team's propulsion and offense ability is not strong. Moreover, if you fight Ipswich head-on, Derby County has no advantage at all.

But an old coach like Zu Lair must have a very stable defense arrangement, and there will be no loopholes in the tactics against Derby County. It is not easy to make a coach in his sixties make mistakes.

Then Derby County wants to score goals and win, but it seems that there is only one way to fight head-on.

Is this...?

Wan Sheng was a little hesitant.

He spent a day watching Ipswich's game. After looking at it, he found that the overall strength of this team is stronger than Derby County. They are also good at defensive counterattacks. Most importantly, many times they don't care about face or not. In order to win, they will also choose to defend and counterattack at home.

It is really difficult to defeat such a 'turtle' opponent.

Especially Derby County is similar to Ipswich, and is also a "turtle" who is good at defensive counterattack... Maybe you have to be patient with them?

If he wants to win, the other party will definitely want to win too. On the court, if both sides are firmly defending, who will not be able to hold back first?

Wansheng's eyes lit up.

This may be the team's opportunity!

Ipswich is the seventh in the league. If they want to enter the top six of the league, they must win the game, but their team can fully withstand failure because the team's goal is to relegate. If they cannot win, they just cannot relegate two rounds in advance. The next victory can still complete the relegation. Even if they lose to Ipswich, they can relegate even if they lose to Ipswich.

So I am not afraid of comparing patience with the other party.

Wansheng's mouth curled up.

...

At the same time, Ipswich coach Zu Lair is also studying Derby County.

He held a newspaper in his hand, which was the Derbyshire Sports newspaper. The content reported on it was the topic that Derbyshire mainstream media recently talked about - Derbyshire's internal issues.

He has been following news about Derbyshire.

Because on Sunday, Ipswich will face Derby County at home.

Originally, Zu Lair was not very worried about Derby County. He didn't think that this team, which is near the bottom of the league, could pose any threat to Ipswich. Unexpectedly, after they replaced a young Chinese coach two months ago, their performance suddenly rose. In the last round, they even defeated Leicester City, the second-place in the league, at home.

How will Derby County lead by such a young man be different from Gregory's team in the first half of the match?

Zu Lair was a little confused.

For a football coach, the most unacceptable thing is not understanding the opponent, so Zu Lair has been following Derby County these days to learn about their news.

Derby County local media have not had a good evaluation of Derby County, especially the Chinese coach, which criticized and slandered. However, Zu Lair didn't take it seriously. He has been a coach for decades, so how could he not understand the faces of these reporters?

Sometimes what they say is like farting.

A team that is about to be relegated, wins consecutively and beats Leicester City, the second-place in the league, and is hopeless that the head coach who relegates two rounds ahead of schedule will be an incompetent guy?

He certainly doesn't believe it.

This is not something that can be done by luck.

But their reports are still a bit real, such as this report about Derby County players being dissatisfied with the head coach. It is normal for a Chinese coach who is about the same age as a player to be unable to suppress the team's locker room and cannot suppress the players. Even he himself sometimes has headaches for the players' conflicts.

He knew very well how serious the problem was.

It is almost impossible to say that internal problems in the team will not affect the performance. If Derby County really has problems, let alone results or something, it is a problem whether Derby County can still play normally.

But he is Ipswich's coach and is hoping to see something wrong with his opponent.

This makes it easier for Ipswich to win.

But Zu Lair would not place all his hopes on this. He carefully studied Derby County's game and Derby County's playing style. He found that Derby County is very similar to Ipswich, and they are all teams that pay attention to defense.

Two teams with similar playing styles can make a comparison.

In terms of player's personal ability, his team is a little higher. In terms of tactical play, after nearly two years of transformation, the team's playing style has become quite mature. In terms of overall strength, his team's advantages are very obvious. In addition to home court advantages and possible internal problems of the opponent, Ipswich has the advantage in almost every aspect.

Zu Lair couldn't think of a reason to lose.

He was relieved to arrange the team's training and was ready to welcome the game at home.

...

Portman Road Stadium.

The sun shines on the green space, making the huge green space bright and dark. This is a rare good weather. The afternoon in England in April is not very warm, but the 30,000 fans on the stadium make the everywhere full of heat.

In the audience stands, the horse-shaped team logo from the white seats told everyone that this is Ipswich's territory.

Ipswich is known as the "tractor boy", partly because of Ipswich's agricultural background, partly because of fans of other teams teased him as "countryman". But now, the nickname of "tractor boy" has become Ipswich's label, and even many Ipswich fans call the team this way.

They even supported the team with the flags drawn on the tractor.

At this time, there were many such flags in the audience. The stands can be found everywhere in the stadium. The only one that could not be found was in the southeast stands. There were fans wearing different clothes from other fans. You can tell at a glance that this was not Ipswich fans, but Derby County fans who came to challenge today.

Derby County fans are not very loud, but perhaps because of the small number of people, they shout in an organized manner--

"Come on Derbyshire!"

As long as you approach the southeast stands, you can hear their shouts.

The fans all looked at the stadium.

The players from both teams had just finished warming up, and then entered the player passage one by one, returned to the locker room to rest, and then prepared to enter the venue for the official game.

The visiting team locker room.

Wan Sheng was sitting on a stool in the middle, watching the players push the door in. After everyone returned to the locker room, they sat around.

Then he spoke up and gave his final advice, "Did everyone remember what I said?"

Everyone nodded.

Rett, Alfred and others responded and shouted, "Remember."

Wan Sheng smiled and said seriously, "I told you everything I should say. Now I want to emphasize one more thing. In a while, you must not attack rashly and don't give them any chances. We don't rush to score goals, just hold the goal and win."

"The winner depends on the second half, do you understand?"

Wan Sheng glanced at everyone.

The players shouted collectively, "I understand!" and the voice was loud and there was a bit of a buzzing sound, but Wansheng was still very happy that everyone could answer this way.

This shows that everyone is relaxed.

A relaxed mentality can allow them to perform better in the game.

Faced with an opponent like Ipswich who is difficult to defeat, Wan Sheng is under great pressure, but he did not show pressure on the players, and he only showed confidence.

So everyone felt relaxed.

They believe in the victory.

When they saw Wan Sheng very confident, they believed that the team could win. The only thing they had to do on the court was to play according to the arrangement.

They have nothing to worry about.

...
Chapter completed!