Chapter 155: Play-offs, I'm Here (2)

As the only suspense left in the final round of the Championship, the Derby County home match with Willingham attracted a large number of reporters and FA officials, and when it was learned that Henry and Helder were still not able to play, Derby County breathed a sigh of relief, for them, it is not too much of a problem to be one point behind, as long as these two super bulls are not on the field, combined with various factors, they still have more than 80% certainty of winning.

The game started and Arsene Wenger's starting line-up was exactly the same as the previous one, which seemed understandable, given that a draw would have solved the problem, and with a severely disorganized attacking staff, the defensive counter-attack seemed to be the only tactic, and it only took 90 minutes to get into the damn play-offs.

This lineup has been very mature Wenger's drills, the cooperation between the players is very good, Cabo gradually showed the demeanor of a general, the last game because he just returned from injury, there are some problems in terms of physical fitness, but this game he is in the middle of the midfield, attacking and retreating.

"Are you going to raise him to Vieira?" Yesterday in the training ground, Lao Liu couldn't help but ask Wenger, Wenger smiled silently, pointed to Holder, Daleval, Lao Liu understood what he meant, but the old man seemed to ignore a problem, Daleval is on loan, maybe next season Mateus will be taken back.

Anyway, in this game, Wenger handed over the responsibility of connecting the front and back fields to Capo, and Seawalker has been proving himself to be a fierce steal-type midfielder from previous games, who looks like Gattuso on the field, and it is almost meaningless to expect him to be effectively organized, and Held's offensive potential is being continuously developed by the professor, so the team really needs a midfield playmaker like Vieira or Pirlo.

Obviously, Cabo is still a long way from that goal, but at least now he's already working in that direction.

At the request of Wenger, Ferores began to defend in front of the opponent's penalty area, and he did not hesitate to force the defenders of Derby County to get the ball.

'Your task is simple, use up your energy in the half, and again, at least let those defenders together consume as much energy, and don't expect you to score, but if they don't change defenders in the second half, even if you don't complete the task. These were the only words that the professor had to say before he came on the pitch.

With this guy running in front of the penalty area non-stop, the route and angle of the Derby County defender's pass did suffer to a certain extent, and in the midfield, West Walker and Song, under the protection of Daleval and Toni Zhang, intercepted the Derby County player's cannonball to the front with a ferocious tackle.

As a result, the two strikers, Italy's A.Lupoli and England's 1.91 meter tall striker S. Howard, had fewer chances to get a good pass, and the first half went on for 30 minutes, and it seemed that Willingsham's tactics had worked well, at least for now the score was still a draw.

But the players and coaches from Derby County didn't seem to be in a hurry, they pressed the offensive formation little by little, and now except for the occasional long-range shot or two from Capo and Song, Willingham couldn't even organize a threatening attack.

If you keep playing like this, it is a matter of time before the goal is breached, and the hundreds of Wellingham fans cheering on the scene are getting more and more nervous, but there is no way to do it in a hurry.

This was the end of the first half, the score did not change, but it was clear that the Willingsim players used more energy, and at the beginning of the second half, Ferores was replaced by Miller, and Song was replaced by Tomsen.

But it was this substitution that sounded the clarion call for Willingsmu's general attack.

Willingham suddenly changed formation: three, four, one, two, completely opposite to the first half, and put on an all-out attacking posture.

Goalkeeper: Johnson Defenders: Diawara, Rozenard, Van Den Boray Midfielders: Madis, West Walker, Tomson, Toni Zhang Forward: Capo Forward: Dalleval, Miller believes that even at halftime, the Derby County coach did not expect Wenger to have such a big change, in fact, in terms of changes in the Premier League, Wenger is relatively conservative, because there are Henry, Ljungberg, Hleb, Van Persie, Rosicky and other players with super speed and attacking ability, so in some key gamesArsene Wenger is usually more adept at counter-attacking with defence.

Therefore, Derby County estimates that in the second half, Wenger will take advantage of the decline in the physical fitness of his backfield players to strengthen the defensive counterattack, and strive to form a threat through speed and lethal passing, so they also adjusted this prediction, replacing the 35-year-old veteran Alan Wright, who has suffered a great decline in physical strength in the backfield, and replacing it with the 18-year-old L.Nyatanga, who has better physical speed, with the purpose of using speed to suppress the opponent's high-speed counterattack.

But from the second half of the kick-off, Willingham began a sea of offensive shockwaves, in terms of the strength of the field, it is obvious that the Derby County team has an advantage, and now the opponent has one less defender, there should be more opportunities, but because from the beginning, Capo and Daleval, Miller was crazy in the front court, Derby County's defenders were stunned all of a sudden, and mistakes and omissions continued to appear, so that Derby County's midfielders had to often come back to assist in the defense, and in the local area of the midfield, Willingsmu actually formed a situation where Willingham played more and played less, Lupoli and Howard simply did not receive effective support.

The battle took place mainly at the back of the Derby County, which was not expected by the fans in the stadium.

Nyatanga was quick, but a little too immature in one-on-one, and was denied twice by Carpo and finally crashed on the second time, when Capo's pass tore through the last line of defense and Miller headed into the net from the back post.

It only takes one draw to qualify for the play-offs, and Willingham take the lead.

At this time, Derby County is a little messy, some people want to strengthen the attack, some people want to strengthen the defense, The head coach had to immediately replace the Danish midfielder M.Bisgaard to try to strengthen the control of the midfield, but the morale-boosting Willingsm took advantage of the opponent's inconsistent thinking after ten minutes of attacking Derby County, and Madeis sent an anti-offside ball, Daleval inserted it at high speed, facing the goalkeeper, a light pick, the football drew a beautiful arc, flew fifteen centimeters above the goalkeeper's fingertips, and fell into the dead corner of the goal between the crossbar and the post.

With less than 20 minutes to go, Derby County, who have home advantage, have put themselves in a desperate situation where they will have to score three more goals to progress to the play-offs.

The Derby players calmed down, were united in their thinking, and did create some dangerous chances, scoring in the 85th minute of the second half through Lupoli's powerful shot from the top of the six-yard box, but after more than five minutes of stoppage time, they still lost the game that most thought they should have won comfortably.

Lao Liu waved his fist lightly in the stands: The Premier League promotion play-offs, Lao Tzu is here.

(To be continued)