The match at Portman Road Stadium has begun.

Before the game, many media reported that the two teams were particularly mentioned that Derby County defeated Leicester City two goals at home. Leicester City is the second in the league. Not all teams can defeat the second in the league, so many people are very concerned about Derby County. They want to see if this team led by young Chinese will have any special performance when facing Ipswich.

The result was disappointing.

As the game started, Derby County put on a full-strength defensive posture. Except for forward Botton Reit, everyone else was huddled in their half, and it seemed that they didn't want to attack at all.

"Defense again!"

"He can't bring out something new!"

"The Chinese man won't have anything else. He just wanted to rely on defense to defend the goal, but the opponent in this game is Ipswich! Ipswich is a player with steady defense. Under the leadership of the old coach Zu Lair, they will play very steadily and will not launch rash attacks... Then we can imagine that no one of the two defensive players will take the initiative to attack. This will definitely be a boring game..."

"But Derby County is really affordable. Their relegation situation is pretty good, and they are not afraid of losing. It's just that the Chinese tactics are a bit disappointing."

"What else will he do besides defense?"

A group of reporters said in the media seat, and each of them turned into football experts to continue to analyze the game in detail. The general meaning is that Derby County's playing style is disappointing. Their head coach, the young Chinese, has no new tricks, only knows how to defend.

This is what most journalists think.

This "most" is the media reporters of Derbyshire and Ipswich. The mainstream media led by Derbyshire Sports naturally will not support Wansheng. No matter how Wansheng does it, how good it is, they are hostile, so they will definitely find faults. Ipswich's media naturally support Ipswich. They also think that Derbyshire is nothing surprising and actually chooses to defend directly. This is really too conservative.

However, in the eyes of neutral media reporters, the ideas of these people are really unreasonable!

This is Portman Road Stadium, Ipswich's territory, a team that can only relegate, comes to the seventh home court of the league. What's strange about choosing defense?

What's more, Ipswich is also very conservative...

At Portman Road Stadium, their formation was not widened on their own territory, and their playing style was also very conservative. Although Ipswich was attacking from the beginning, it was obvious that they did not press the entire line, and only half of the players came to the frontcourt in each attack.

If you really want to be conservative, Ipswich will definitely not be able to escape!

...

Derby County players don’t know what the media reporters say, and they don’t care. What they care about is the coach’s tactical arrangement, the defense emphasized by the coach, and the victory or defeat of the game.

So they know what they should do.

The game is ugly or not. They don’t care at all. Being able to win is more important than anything else. So at the beginning of the game, they all hurried in the half, waiting for Ipswich to attack.

The coach said...

"We just defend and hold the goal tightly. If they don't push the attack on the entire line, we will keep defending..."

"On the contrary, if the opponent attacks the entire line, we will have the opportunity to counterattack then!"

Both teams are teams that focus on defense. It is too difficult to score a goal by relying on normal pushing, so there is no need to consider pushing and attacking, just kick it casually. The important thing is to defend the goal in the half.

Everyone knew what to do, so the entire Derby County team held the half and would not rashly cross the center line.

Ipswich's side.

Zu Lair also reminded the players to pay attention to defense. He knew that Derby County is also a team that is good at counterattacking, so he must not give them a chance to counterattack. There must be enough players in the backcourt so that they will not be afraid of loopholes in defense if they are suddenly intercepted.

Ipswich was attacking, but they were always alert to the counterattack from Derbyshire.

In two years, Zu Lair has been enough to imprint the concept of defense into the minds of every Ipswich player. They all want to defend, and each player follows the arrangements of the coach, so they have no intention of putting a big push to attack.

Similarly, Derby County players are very disciplined.

Wan Sheng knew very well that Ipswich could not be given any chance. If Ipswich scored one goal, it would be difficult for them to defeat Ipswich. If there was a choice, he would rather not score a goal than give Ipswich a good chance. A rash may not be a big deal, but an opponent's goal is enough to decide the outcome of the game.

The players of both teams are like this, and the game scene can be imagined.

Ipswich is also not good at attacking, not to mention that they are mostly focused on paying attention to the counterattack of Derby County. The game scene is really sleepy.

In the auditorium.

The 30,000 fans before the game kept the stadium full of heat. As the game progressed, the fans' voices became smaller and smaller. Even the purest Ipswich supporters felt that they were too lazy to watch the game.

This game is really... boring!

Not to mention those not very pure Ipswich fans and some neutral fans, they even chatted in the stands, and the content had nothing to do with the game between the two teams.

By contrast, Derby County fans watch the game seriously.

Because Derby County is passive, they will also worry about Derby County fans, which makes them more serious when watching the game.

But they didn't complain about the team's playing style.

Like the neutral media's ideas, you should know that Derby County's opponent is Ipswich, the seventh-ranked team in the league, and it is Portman Road Stadium. It is normal for Derby County to choose defense, and Derby County led by the Chinese are already good at defense.

They also hope that the team will play great, but they care more about the outcome.

If this game can be won, Derby County will be able to relegate two rounds in advance, which is the most important thing for Derby County at present!

In contrast, the game is nothing if it is a bit ugly.

...

Ipswich head coach Zu Lair sat on the coach's seat and watched the game on the court. There were two deep marks on his wrinkled face and eyes.

The old coach is worried about the game.

He has coached so many teams and experienced so many games. Now he is old and it is difficult to have the spirit of daring to fight like a young man. What he cares more about is the stability of the team and the stability of the game. He also knows that his tactical style is too conservative, but he always believes that moving forward step by step is the best.

So the tactics he arranged were still conservative.

Even if this is Portman Road Stadium, he hopes that the team can play steadily, not to attack rashly, and not give the opponent any chance.

He is not afraid of the other party's counterattack.

He has already arranged all the strategies for attacking the opponent. If the opponent suddenly finds an opportunity to counterattack or pushes forward, the team's defense is enough to limit the opponent, which is their chance.

What he was most worried about was that the other party would not attack.

Just like now, the opponent has no intention of attacking at all, he is completely defending, and it seems like he is saying, "We just need to defend the goal, and the offense is not important at all."

Facing such an opponent, Zu Lair was hesitant.

A large-scale attack is equivalent to stepping into the opponent's trap.

Just continue the game like this? But relying on only a few players in the frontcourt, it is really a bit difficult to break through the Derby County goal, which is good at defending. I guess God really needs help from the goal.

This is not that he has no confidence in the team's frontcourt, it is that he knows the team very well.

Ipswich's frontcourt did not have outstanding players. The biggest advantage of the two forwards, including two wing forwards, is that they are fast, and the others are average. However, facing Derby County, which steadily shrinks its defense line, fast speed is not an advantage. The limited area in the frontcourt makes them unable to perform at all.

What to do now?

Zu Lair couldn't help but turn his head and look at the Derby County coach's seat. The young Chinese was watching the game with his legs crossed, and it seemed that he was not worried about the game at all.

He shouldn't be worried either.

Zu Lair knew that the game had become a patient competition. Whoever wanted to win more would not help but want to score a goal first, and launch a large-scale attack in the near future, then who would be at a disadvantage. Whoever wins and loses will depend on luck.

He thought about it for a long time and saw that the game was only less than twenty minutes before he sighed.

It's better... let's do it first.

...

Wan Sheng sat on the coach's seat with his legs crossed, chewing gum in his mouth.

He is not worried about the team.

Before the game, he carefully analyzed many Ipswich's games and found that Ipswich was a very conservative team. In addition, they had an old coach over 60 years old, and the current situation of this game was long as he expected.

Ipswich is good at defending and the frontcourt players are only average, so he is not worried about his own goal.

In the field, the Derby team on the field, the defensive evaluation was not too high in the football training master's arrangement system, but it also reached 73. He sent Ivan Krew, Wilberg, Leon Ottoman who were better at attack and replaced Rich Fedinnan, Vicente and others who were better at defense, so the defensive evaluation value was slightly lowered, but he believed that the defense of the whole line was enough to resist the offensive of half of Ipswich's team.

Football matches are the battle of wits and courage between the coaches of the two teams.

He carefully analyzed Zu Lair's life as a coach and many games of Ipswich, and he had already thought of what tactics Ipswich would use. This was a bet, but at least he won the bet for the time being.

He was not worried that Ipswich would not make a big attack, and Derby County would not have a chance to counterattack, but was a little worried that they would do this, because the defensive evaluation of 73 points was not very large. If the opponent made a big attack, maybe there would be a real crisis in the goal.

But the other party did not do this, everything was under control.

He likes this feeling.

As a football coach, controlling the team and controlling the game is a feeling. He doesn't want anything to be out of his control. Now the opponent's tactical arrangement is under control. He can put down his mind and watch the game, just like an ordinary fan. He even has the mood to chat and joke with Diamares next to him.

The camera lens pointed at it.

This is a TV station in the East Suffolk County. As a regional small TV station, they only broadcast the games of the Eastern Suffolk County team, and Ipswich is one of them.

Seeing the young Chinese coach in Derby County and was joking with the assistant coach, commentator Brown disdained, "This Chinese coach is really calm. He doesn't worry about the game at all, but how long can he keep it like this? Ipswich has the advantage on the court..."

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Chapter completed!