Alex Ingleps's words are very individualistic and one-sided, but one thing is undoubtedly true in his opinion, and that is that Tottenham Hotspur are so strong that Derby County cannot match.

Many people know that there are four major clubs in English football, namely Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea, which has just become an upstart, but in fact, England can also be said to have five major clubs, and the fifth largest club is Tottenham Hotspur, whether in history or now, Tottenham Hotspur can be called the 'fifth largest club', and in their 105-year history, there have been extraordinary glories.

Regardless of history, even now, Tottenham Hotspur is also extremely strong, at least much stronger than Derby County, even if the Tottenham Hotspur semi-substitute lineup on the field is now on the field, the full main squad of Derby County can still have an advantage.

Wan Sheng is prepared for this.

He is well aware of the current strength of Tottenham Hotspur, their results in the league are very poor, but that may be a problem left by the previous manager Glenn Hoddle, not that Tottenham Hotspur is really poor, otherwise, after David Pulit and Alex Ingleps are in charge of the team, Tottenham Hotspur's results will not improve steadily, after all, these two are not real managers, if they are really capable of being the head coach of a top league team, they don't need to be an assistant coach at Tottenham Hotspur.

It is precisely because of the understanding of the strength of Tottenham Hotspur that Wan Sheng took great pains to deal with this game, the purpose of which is to increase the team's chances of winning.

If he does play Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane, the odds of Derby County winning are no more than 20 per cent, but if he does, the chances of winning may increase to 50 per cent.

Facing a strong team like Tottenham Hotspur, and playing at White Hart Lane, the 50% chance is already quite good.

Take a look at Tottenham Hotspur, who are now on the pitch with a semi-substitute line-up. Robbie Keane in the forward line, Simon Davies and Redknapp in the midfield, Gardner, Tariq, Carr in the back, and goalkeeper Keller, these people are quite famous in European football, and each of them alone is enough to take charge of a small club and become the absolute core of the main force.

In the face of such a team, Wan Sheng can only use all means to improve the team's chances of winning.

But nevertheless. In the opening game, Tottenham Hotspur still suppressed Derby County, just like Alex Ingleps said, Tottenham Hotspur is indeed much better than Derby County, and only using the semi-main lineup is enough to dominate.

Seeing the opening game situation, David Pulit also breathed a sigh of relief.

Maybe the Chinese coach of Derby County is very smart, but when it comes to the game, he still has to rely on strength to speak, and he believes that as long as the team plays normally, even the semi-substitute Tottenham Hotspur is not something Derby County can deal with.

Goal. It's only a matter of time

The game is moving the way David Pulit wants.

Tottenham Hotspur is not only a top five club in England, but also one of the best teams in attack, in attack. Among the teams in England, the only team that can compare with them is the city rivals Arsenal.

In the eyes of Tottenham Hotspur fans, the team's attacking ability is no worse than that of the 'utilitarian' Arsenal.

No matter who is stronger or weaker between the two teams, it is not something that Derby County can compare. Even now Derby County have been training attacking tactics from the summer to now, and under the attack of Tottenham Hotspur, Derby County seems to be quite passive.

Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines at the beginning.

He personally commanded the team to do the defense. Let the players strengthen their running, make the defense more active and active, so that the team's defensive advantage of the full-court pressing can be brought into play, and the team's offensive foundation is also the full-court tight defense, only can intercept the opponent's attack again and again, and continue to play a fast attack, in order to control the rhythm of the game into the hands of the team.

But the effect of such a temporary command was not very effective.

Under the stormy attack of Tottenham Hotspur, the players in the opening Derby County were somewhat uncomfortable, and the most fierce attack they faced this season was the game with Norwich, but Norwich and Tottenham Hotspur are completely two levels of teams, and the offensive ability is very different, in fact, against Tottenham Hotspur, defensive counterattack is the best choice, but Wansheng still makes the team choose offensive football, the reason is that the team is more familiar with this set of tactics, and may be able to play better, If the team is kept in a passive situation, it is not easy to fight back, and this can be regarded as a warm-up for next season's Premier League journey.

Derby County's overall discomfort gave Tottenham Hotspur more opportunities, and their semi-substitute lineup fully unfolded Tottenham Hotspur's offensive, Derby County could only struggle to support under their offensive, and even shrunk into the penalty area for a while, and the full-court pressing in defense was not reflected at all.

Seeing such a game, David Pulit also smiled, Derby County is not as strong as he thought, and the outcome of this game may have been predestined.

In the eyes of many media reporters, this is also a test of Derby's strength.

Derby County have relied on a set of attacking tactics to almost sweep League One, but now that they have met a Premier League side who are good at attacking, what kind of table will Derby County have against a more attacking Tottenham Hotspur side?

In the opening stages, Derby County really didn't show much of a game, and they didn't have much to do in the face of Tottenham Hotspur's attack, and in the 21st minute of the game, Derby County also conceded a goal.

Despite the hard work of the whole Derby County, it has been passively facing the attack of Tottenham Hotspur, and it is still too difficult to keep the goal.

This time it was the Ottoman defense at the back that was a little immature, and when facing Redknapp's dribble, he made a somewhat hasty move, only to be easily shaken by Redknapp in front of the penalty area, and then Redknapp got up and stabbed the ball into the left side of the box.

It was too late for the Ottomans to stop it!

The only thing he could do was turn to Redknapp's steady pass, and Robbie Keane, who was on the other side, shook off Alfred and slashed in the direction of the ball.

The next thing is that he is already famous at the age of 20, and he was brought to Inter Milan by the silver fox Lippi. And for Robbie Keane, who is known as the 'super golden boy' by England fans, it's very simple.

Facing Oakes standing in front of goal, Robbie Keane pushed the ball directly into the corner of the goal.

Even if Oakes reacted quickly and saved at the first time, he couldn't stop the shot from such a small angle, and the football passed through the small penalty area line unhindered and flew into the goal against the left post!

“goooal！！！ Robbie-"

"-Keane-"

Accompanied by the frantic shouts of the on-site commentators, the Tottenham Hotspur fans also cheered enthusiastically, and their voices resounded throughout the White Hart Lane stadium.

"Robbie Keane! He scored the first goal of the game and it was his ninth goal of the season for Tottenham Hotspur! Tottenham Hotspur took the lead over Derby County in the 21st minute, which proved that the team is strong! ”

The on-site commentators talked excitedly about the goal. In his opinion, there will be no suspense in this game at all, and Tottenham Hotspur will be enough to beat Derby County even if they send the first half of the main line-up, and the result of the game is already sealed after the FA Cup draw, and no matter how much Derby County struggles, it will be useless.

Twenty-one minutes into the game, Tottenham Hotspur had a goal.

In terms of the situation of the game, Tottenham Hotspur were also in control of the game, and Derby County did not fight back at all, in the previous game time. Derby County had just one poor shot on goal, and it was a forced kick from the edge of the box that didn't pose any threat at all.

It's 1:0 now, and Derby County is lucky!

After Robbie Keane scored. Running towards the fans with their arms raised and shouting twice at the fans underneath the stands, Redknapp and the rest of his team-mates catching up, each hugging Robbie Keane.

That's all.

Tottenham Hotspur's celebration wasn't too intense. For Robbie Keane himself, a goal in an FA Cup game is nothing, for Tottenham Hotspur as a whole. In the first FA Cup game of the season, at home to a League One side, it's normal to be one goal ahead and it's not worth the excitement to celebrate.

But Tottenham Hotspur's players have a good feeling, they used to play against other lower league teams, and they didn't expect this Derby County team to play against them, which is why they scored so easily.

Now that they've scored the first goal, the game is much better, but will the second goal be far away?

Not only on the field, but also on the Tottenham Hotspur bench celebrations, after seeing Robbie Keane score, Alex Ingleps simply said, "They are not opponents at all, I will say that the Chinese have no ability"

This time David Pullett didn't refute either, just nodded with a smile.

He didn't get excited either, and for Tottenham Hotspur it was nothing to lead a League One side in the FA Cup, and if he was too excited, he would be ridiculed by the media

Derby County fans also saw a goal from Tottenham Hotspur.

For Tottenham Hotspur to score, they have long been mentally prepared, and they are not disappointed, in fact, they have long been mentally prepared for losing, and it is nothing for the opponent to score a goal.

Derby County fans, on the contrary, felt that Wan Sheng had made the right choice.

Look!

We all sent the main line-up, but the opponent still scored a goal first, and the situation is still so passive, it was right to give up the game, and the energy consumption in this kind of game without a chance is really worth the loss, we should focus on the league.

The reporters in the media gallery were gloating.

By now, these media have long reacted, look at the main lineup of Derby County, and then look at the look of the Chinese directing the game on the sidelines, where does Derby County have a little meaning of giving up the game? Before the game, the Chinese were putting smoke bombs, the key is that they were all deceived They were actually deceived by this simple 'trick', and the media reporters felt quite annoyed, so when they saw at this time, Derby County, who had played 'tricks' for a long time, was still suppressed by Tottenham Hotspur, or was the first to score a goal, they were very happy in their hearts.

See!

That's the difference between Derby County and the Premier League teams!

In the face of this gap, it is useless to play any 'tricks', at this time they can only gloat in their hearts, and even hope that Tottenham Hotspur can score a few more goals to make the annoying Chinese lose a little worse.

Many reporters looked at the Derby County coach's bench while talking about the goal, they wanted to see what the Chinese was doing, would he be disappointed in the game, and recently perceive the gap between the two teams, and stop doing these meaningless struggles?

It's a pity that what they see is a grim face.

Wan Sheng was thinking about the game very solemnly.

After more than 20 minutes of play, Wan Sheng has generally understood the reason for the team's passivity now, not how strong Tottenham Hotspur is, nor how much higher the personal ability of the opposing player is than his own player, but the main reason is that his team does not play well.

There are many reasons why the team does not play well, such as this is White Hart Lane Stadium, which is a familiar fan of Tottenham Hotspur, and there are more than 30,000 Tottenham Hotspur fans in the audience, and the players are somewhat uncomfortable with the venue and atmosphere.

Playing against a Premier League team for the first time this season, and with so many media reporters interviewing them, the players' mentality is a little unbalanced.

In addition, this game is also the first time that the team has used new tactics, facing such a strong opponent in attack, and the player's performance will also be affected in the face of the opponent's attack.

There are many reasons for this.

It's always a matter of the player's mind and state, it's very difficult to adjust the mentality of the players in the game, unless the team can score goals soon, it's difficult to adjust temporarily, Wan Sheng also feels tricky, but he also knows what to do now.

That's defense!

Tottenham Hotspur can't be allowed to score again, they have to strengthen their defence and if they score two goals, it will be very difficult to equalise in the second half.

The game on the pitch has restarted.

Tottenham Hotspur's coach David Pulit has been sitting firmly in the dugout, on the contrary, on the side of the Derby County coach's box, Wan Sheng has been standing on the sidelines, with all kinds of shouts to remind the players to pay attention to defense, don't let Tottenham Hotspur have a chance to take advantage of it.

The on-site commentator saw Wan Sheng's appearance in his eyes, and he gloated that "the Chinese coach of Derby County was panicked by Tottenham Hotspur's attack"

But the truth is that in the shouting of Wan Sheng, the Derby County players found their backbone.

They were a little dazed after Tottenham Hotspur scored, not knowing how to play the next game, and when they heard Wansheng's shout, they all knew what to do, so Derby's defense also improved a lot, and it was not easy for Tottenham Hotspur to find good opportunities to score. (To be continued......)