Pierce's abilities are really good.

In many ways, Pierce's experience can bring a lot of help to Wansheng; He also feels good personally, and working with Wansheng has taught him a lot.

After the communication, the relationship between the two sides has taken a step forward, and the work of the entire coaching staff has become much smoother, such as the division of labor is clearer.

Wan Sheng, as the head coach, coordinates everything in the team.

Peter James is responsible for doing tactical research and other related work with Wan Sheng, that is, using his brain with Wan Sheng, and other chores are also entrusted to him to do, Diamares mainly leads the team in training, Pierce is as a guide, and the two also handle the game-related things together.

After the division of labor is clear, the entire coaching staff is put into the work.

The team's tactical training continues, according to Wan Sheng, the adaptation to the new tactics is just beginning, this set of tactics is somewhat similar to the Dutch all-attack and all-defensive football, and focuses on the control of the rhythm and passing, the requirements are still quite high, except for Andy Cole, Morris, Ziegler and a few other people, everyone else is the first time to contact such complex tactics, it will inevitably take a long time to adapt, and now everything has just begun, the team to the game, but also just play tactics.

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

Ongoing training is also a process and everyone in the team and the coaching staff is involved.

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

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

Pierce's biggest role is the current job, and this job can't be replaced by anyone else. His seriousness is also worthy of admiration, whenever a player has a problem in training, he will run to it, and throughout the tactical training, he does not run less than the players involved in training.

That kind of seriousness can be interesting at times, such as when Pierce is now explaining to Joey Barton the benefits of choosing to break down or dribble from the left, just because David Silva is a little bit higher up on the left, but the game is varied and improvised reactions and habits are important. Pierce was a bit too demanding, which made Joey Button roll his eyes, but he didn't dare to refute Pierce's words, after all, Pierce was his 'senior', he had been in the team for a few years, he was already very dignified, and now he is also an assistant coach.

He could only endure listening.

Fortunately, Wan Sheng came over and helped him out, "Okay." Joey, do what Stewart says, come on, training continues! ”

Pierce's seriousness is good. But sometimes if you take it too seriously, it's a bit dead-eyed.

That's the best thing about Pierce, but it's also interesting at times, especially as a spectator. It's a pity that he is the head coach, and after a laugh, he still has to get the team's training back on track

On September 1, the fourth round of the English Premier League began.

This round is quite ordinary. There are no strong team encounters, and there are no focus battles, but this round is really special for Wan Sheng, because the team's opponent is Derby County.

After a summer, Derby County's personnel adjustments are relatively large, and the players in the team are gone, and only a few players such as Alfred and Bolton Reitt have left, plus only a few free agents have been signed in the summer, and Derby's strength has declined significantly.

Because of this, the 'defending champions' were directly labelled by the media as 'impossible to compete for the title'.

Some media even believe that Derby County is likely to fight for relegation at the end of the season, and after Wansheng leaves and the team 'falls apart', their overall strength is likely to be unable to catch up with other Premier League mid-table teams.

However, the results of the first three rounds of Derby County were not bad, one win, one draw and one loss, which was neither bad nor good, which gave chairman Pierce a chance to breathe. He's in no good shape right now, and Derby fans have been expressing their displeasure and fearing possible relegation before the start of the season, so results are very important for Derby County FC and for Pierce.

Facing Manchester City in this round, before the game even started, Pierce will be under pressure again, as Manchester City has made Derby County fans think of Wansheng again.

Fans can think of Wan Sheng, and the media will naturally not let Pierce go, so whether it is the Derby County regional media or the outside media, they unanimously began to report on the grievances between Wan Sheng and Derbyshire, or in other words, it is to report on the reasons why Wan Sheng left the club, and the 'facilitation role' played by Pierce.

These reports have made Derby County FC very passive, and it is conceivable what the situation will be for Pierce, who is the target, and now he has to drive quickly to and from the club for fear of being surrounded by disgruntled fans.

You can imagine how important the outcome of the game is to Derby.

As long as they can win Manchester City, the pressure on Derby County Club and Pierce will be much less, and the pressure on them will only become greater if they lose the game, so the Derby County Club attaches great importance to the game, even if many of them know Wan Sheng and have a good personal relationship, but now after all, it is the competition between teams, related to the development of clubs, that is, between teams and teams, not simple personal issues.

As the defending champions, Derby County still received a lot of attention, and Manchester City's big win over Manchester United in the first round also paid a lot of attention to them, so when there was no focus battle in this round, this game became a focus battle.

Many people analyze the game and still think that the two sides will be evenly matched.

Derby County's strength has declined, but they are after all last season's champion team, even if the strength declines, it is not comparable to the general team, however, Manchester City will definitely have some advantages, Wan Sheng knows Derby County quite well, this team is completely built by him, even if some newcomers are signed in the summer, but the main framework of the team is still there, from the first three rounds of games, it can also be found that Derby County's tactics are still the same as last season' OSF', that is, Manchester City will know a lot about how Derby County plays, and in addition, Manchester City have an advantage. It's just that they're playing at home.

It was also City's first home game of the new season.

The first home game was quite significant, and Wan Sheng was also the first time to lead the team to a Manchester Stadium game.

The stadium is still quite ornate, with an oval interior with three tiers of seats on both sides and two tiers of seats with good views from the top and bottom, with a super-torus roof, steel cables suspended from towers, and a spiral ramp to provide access to the upper seats.

No shutters were installed in this area to improve ventilation in the playing field.

There is also a very interesting system for entering the stadium called the 'RFID Intelligent Transmission System', which is a human-operated turnstile that allows all entrances to handle up to 1,200 people per minute.

Other than that. The stadium has the widest grass in England, and is made of natural real grass, rather than artificial grass used in many sports fields, and the sports field injects 27,000 miles of 20 cm thick plastic fibres into the soil enough to stretch step by step, which is a synthetic method to increase the grass surface, called the Grass Synthetic Growth System.

All in all, the new stadium is quite gorgeous.

The first time he led the team to play at home, Wan Sheng also arrived early. And walked around the stadium, by the way, and his calm attitude was also surprising to the media, in the eyes of the media. Against his old club Derby County, the young Chinese's mentality will definitely be affected, such as his eagerness to prove his ability to lead Manchester City to beat Derby County. In this way, it is easy to be superficial, for example, it will become a little nervous.

But they don't see that in Wan Sheng. Those reporters who have been paying attention to Wansheng even found that he had been walking around the stadium before the press conference, which was a sightseeing attitude at all, how could there be a little nervousness in the face of his old club?

Actually, Wansheng really didn't have any nervousness.

When it comes to the game, he still attaches great importance to it, and he naturally wants to win in the face of Derby, but in his opinion, it is not difficult, one is that the strength of the team is definitely not worse than the current Derby County, and the other is that he knows Derby County very well, and has formulated a targeted tactical style of play for this, and Derby County does not know anything about his team at all, and third, the game is in Manchester Stadium, which is the territory of Manchester City.

The time, the place, the people, all the advantages are on Manchester City's side, what is there to be nervous about facing the game!?

If you still can't win the game, then it can really be said that God is on the opposite side of the team, and no one can do anything about it

At the pre-match press conference, most of the reporters' questions were related to Wan Sheng's grievances against the Derby County club, and Wan Sheng only responded to these questions, after all, the matter has passed, and he has a new start at Manchester City, and it is pointless to always hold on to the past.

So his mentality is still very peaceful.

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

Finally this much-talked-about game begins.

As many people think, Derby County's tactics have basically not changed, still using the 'OSF' system left by Wansheng, using quick attacks as a means to find opportunities, and the overall running is also very much, which also increases the ability to press the whole game.

Such a tactic is still quite powerful, but Wan Sheng only watched a few attacks, and he was even more sure of victory.

Now this Derby County on the field, like last season's Derby County he led in terms of tactical play, many positions of players have not changed, such as the forward is Bolton Reiter, the central defender Alfred, and the wing also has Ivan Crewe, but these are not the main ones, mainly their core players have changed, the midfield is with Peter Kennedy as the core, obviously after Morris left, Kennedy got a chance.

But there is a reason why Wan Sheng asked Kennedy to play as a substitute, and he is far worse than Morris in terms of the big picture and ability to grasp the game.

In addition, the Derby County side have clearly lacked off in preparation in the summer, and they have not been as active in their running, with two veterans in the midst of several new signings, suggesting that their new manager does not know much about this tactic.

If the game goes on like this, they don't have to do anything at all, their physical fitness will not be able to keep up, and then the tactics will be self-defeating.

Manchester City, of course, would not play so passively.

Manchester City's defense is somewhat similar to Derby's approach, which is also to use the running full-court pressing, but Manchester City will choose to defend quickly instead of actively pressing in the frontcourt, which is more passive, but the defense will be more solid.

In addition, both teams have a more attacking approach, but City play better with their passing and control the tempo of the game.

The most important point is that the current Derby County does not have all kinds of offensive and defensive bonuses, while Manchester City enjoys all kinds of bonuses.

So you can imagine what the game will be like.

In the opening ten minutes, Derby County played well, but as soon as ten minutes passed, they were completely suppressed, and the fast-attacking football could not be played at all, and the full-court pressing had no effect, but the retreat was not timely, resulting in frequent loopholes in the backfield, and they had to frequently switch positions to make amends, but in this way, the game was very passive.

By this time, Derby County had been completely suppressed.

Derby's 'OSF' is to suppress the opponent in order to get the maximum tactical effect, and the most afraid is to be suppressed by the opponent, once suppressed, it is difficult to play an advantage, and then it is like a 'snowball' The more passive it is, the defense will also have various problems.

Of course, Wansheng is very familiar with his own tactics, and the tactics formulated for Derby County are mainly suppressed, as long as Derby County is suppressed, the game is equivalent to winning.

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

By the 16th minute, City had converted the advantage into a scoreline.

It was a combination of wide and middle.

Sinclair dribbled the ball to the bottom line, directly transferred the ball to the edge of the penalty area, Anelka jumped up in the chaos and headed the ball to Morris, Morris stopped the ball and shot directly with his feet!

Goalkeeper Karachi reacted fairly quickly, making an instant save and smashing the ball out with both fists.

The fans at Manchester Stadium let out a sigh of regret, but at this moment, a figure appeared in front of the football that bounced back into the penalty area, he was about 180 tall, and his dark and thin face looked very inconspicuous.

But at this moment, he became a hero!

He ran up to the ball, swung his right foot directly behind the ball, and the ball was pumped straight towards the goal.

Karachi saw the shot, but he had just made a save and couldn't turn around at all, so he could only watch the ball fly in from his side.

1:0！

It was only then that many people recognized the player who scored the goal under the camera lens, and it was none other than Darren Bent, a young striker who joined the team in the summer! (To be continued......)