Chapter 102: Smoke Bombs

If you want to beat Tottenham Hotspur, you can't just have morale, if you say a few nice words, make everyone fight and believe that the team can beat the opponent, and then the team will naturally win, then Wansheng has really become the leader of the 'cult'. ↖ ↖ ↖ Top ↖ Story, www.

This is of course impossible.

It's good to have a fighting spirit, but strength is the foundation of a qiē, Derby's current strength and Tottenham can fight a little, but in fact, Wansheng is still more worried, Derby's strength is good in the first division, but there is definitely a gap with Tottenham Hotspur, which is an absolute powerhouse in the Premier League, and there are teams that can compete for European places every season.

There is also the issue of the tactical style of the two teams.

If you run into a team that is mainly defensive, or simply has no style, there is still a tactical advantage to beat such a team, Derby County's offensive football tactics are quite advanced, at least more advanced than the average English team, and more advanced tactics have an advantage, it is possible to make up for the lack of strength. But Tottenham Hotspur is different, this team and their city rivals Arsenal are all attacking goals, they are not only good at attacking, their style of football has historically been attacking.

Many people say that Arsenal is the best attacking English team, in fact, fans who really know the Premier League know that Tottenham Hotspur is the pure style of attacking football, and they are willing to fail and never change the style of the team, which is the insistence of Tottenham Hotspur Club, and it is also the player that Tottenham Hotspur can play against Arsenal in North London - many fans like this team because of Tottenham's style, not results or anything, and they criticize Arsenal's football excuse as 'utilitarian'.

It is precisely this kind of team that Derby County are most afraid of encountering.

Derby's attacking football tactics, even a team that plays defensive counter-attacking will not be too restrained, but playing against an opponent who is also good at attacking and has a stronger attacking ability than oneself is tantamount to being completely restrained. This is like the Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal game, the derby between the two teams is one of the hottest derbies in Europe, and it is also one of the best-looking derbys, but Tottenham Hotspur wants to win less and lose more, because the two teams have always attacked against the attack, Tottenham Hotspur is not as strong as Arsenal, and naturally loses more, and Derby County and Tottenham Hotspur are completely at a disadvantage.

The strength is inferior to others, and the tactics are not superior. It's an away game again

All kinds of conditions are not good for Derby, just relying on 'verbal battles' to stimulate the morale of players to beat Tottenham Hotspur, that is a fantasy, unless God is behind Derby, but there is no guarantee of winning by luck.

There weren't many ways Wan Sheng could think of to make the team more advantageous, but to paralyze the opponent and make the opponent feel that Derby County has no FA Cup. It's still a good idea, and if Tottenham Hotspur can be careless, Derby County will definitely have a lot more hope of victory with all the strength of the Derby.

Football is a victory in peacetime. You can do anything to win, just like Mourinho often fights with opponents, often releases some smoke bombs before games, and a player is obviously recovering from an injury. It's just not showing up at the training ground, making the opponent think that he hasn't recovered from injury, and so on, and so on.

Wan Sheng is also ready to unleash a smoke bomb on Tottenham Hotspur

Two days before the game. Derby County training is open to the public.

Many media reporters and fans came to the Derby County club's first-team training ground to watch the day of open training.

There are a lot of journalists.

Derby County won a lot of games before and after Christmas, just drew with Norwich, the league also has a six-point advantage, the good result of the first place in the league, which surprised everyone, many people think that Derby County's results after Christmas will be worse, after all, many examples can prove that some small teams can be very good before Christmas, but as the league enters the middle and late stages, the results will decline, and even plummet, which is caused by the depth and depth of the bench, As injuries increase, the gap in squad strength will be reflected, and the state of the whole team will also be affected, but those big clubs, which will become more and more stable after Christmas, are likely to skyrocket their results after Christmas.

This is just a general situation, at least in the two games after Christmas, Derby County has not shown signs of decline, although the draw against Norwich City, some media began to talk nonsense, but most of them know that those media are hostile to Derby, such as the Daily Mirror, Derby County and the Daily Mirror are almost torn apart, and it is strange that the Daily Mirror will say good things about Derby.

But the hostility between the two, obviously Derby County has more advantages, because their results are quite good, so that the "Daily Mirror" can't catch any handle at all, many times, for the attention of fans, "Daily Mirror" is forced to report some news about Derby County, after all, they are the media, fans want to know the news of Derby County, if you don't report it, it is equivalent to falling behind other competitors, in the face of news competition and development, hostility or something, all are secondary.

Derby County's open training matches were ordinary, no different from before, with the players just training on the pitch.

Wan Sheng also only appeared twice at the training ground, which disappointed many media outlets.

However, Derby County held a press conference after training this time, under the pretext that they were just after Christmas to thank the media and fans, and the club's president, Ji-Smith, showed up at the venue and said something like thanking the fans in public, and the rest of the time was a win.

With the FA Cup just around the corner, with both Premier League and League One teams in contention for the title, it's only natural that journalists will be interested in the FA Cup.

But before the question session, Wan Sheng first said the league, and his tone was still so 'arrogant', "I said a long time ago, our goal is to win the league!" Look, now we're at the top of the league and we're going to have to work harder to keep the top spot, but I think it's not a problem for my team. ”

'Now the team is all together, we are a unit, we will beat anyone who stands in our way, we always believe that we will be the league champions!'

Wan Sheng highlighted the league title.

This kind of statement is actually not unexpected by media reporters, Wan Sheng has always been like this at the press conference, and no one has questioned this, perhaps because at the press conference of the Derby County Club, Wan Sheng has the right to be a 'dictatorship', and no one can interject when he speaks, but in the usual times, Wan Sheng said these words, and there will be media reporters who will question it in the question session.

But today is different.

The media reporters are not concerned about the league, but about the upcoming FA Cup, they all know that Derby's opponent is Tottenham Hotspur, which is not an easy opponent to deal with, but Derby County is in training, and there is no intention of preparing for the FA Cup at all, it is completely ordinary training.

It was the turn of the question session, and the first person to be named was the reporter of the "East Midlands Sports Magazine", and the reporter stood up and asked the question about the FA Cup, "The third round of the FA Cup is about to start, and the first opponent of Derby County is the Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur, what do you think of this game?" ”

Wan Sheng was obviously stunned.

It felt like he didn't expect a reporter to ask about the FA Cup, but he quickly came to his senses and said, "You said the FA Cup? We are prepared for the FA Cup, but our goal this season is to win the league and the FA Cup is not important to us. All I can say is that we will try our best to play. ”

The reporters in the audience were in an uproar.

They didn't expect the Chinese, who have always been 'arrogant', to say this, but if you think about it, you can understand that Derby County is aiming for the league title after all, and in a competition with the participation of the Premier League like the FA Cup, it is almost like a dream for an English One team to win the title, and it is understandable that Derby County does not want to waste energy on the FA Cup.

The next reporter stood up, the London Morning Post, a media outlet that has always been a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur, and coming here today is also a bit of a 'spying on the military' for Tottenham Hotspur.

"So what do you think of Tottenham Hotspur?" The journalist asked.

"Tottenham Hotspur are a strong team!" "I've watched a few games against Tottenham Hotspur and their table is very good, they are the team that has a chance to qualify for European competitions, so it's a tough opponent for us! But we'll definitely try our best to play."

Wan Sheng's words were very solemn, as if he really valued his opponent, but a reporter in the audience laughed directly.

As long as you care about the Tottenham Hotspur game, you will definitely know that Tottenham Hotspur's results this season are very poor, let alone trying to qualify for European competitions, and now they are all aiming for relegation.

From this flawed statement, they can be sure that this Chinese does not care about Tottenham Hotspur at all, it should be just like he said, Derby County's goal is the league title, almost promotion to the Premier League, the FA Cup is really not important to Derby County.

Tottenham Hotspur journalists were relieved.

They think that Derby County really doesn't pay attention to the FA Cup, and when they meet a lower league team in the Cup, and they play at home, and the opponent doesn't pay attention to the game, will there be any suspense in the game?

Other journalists were also excited, as they heard a flawed phrase that could have been a catchy news story – could there be a more interesting topic than the Derby County boss in League One who said Tottenham Hotspur 'could qualify for European competitions this season'?

It's a really funny thing!

In comparison, the game against Tottenham Hotspur is unimportant, a match between League One and Premier League teams, and it is a predestined result, there is nothing attractive about it at all. (To be continued......) R527