Chapter Seventy-One: Turning Defense into Attack
Leicester City boss Adams is a little uneasy. ++++
He had been watching the game carefully, expecting his players to score the first goal, but instead of seeing the goal, the team was gradually becoming a little passive.
This...... What's going on?
Adams suddenly felt that something was wrong, and immediately frowned and watched the game seriously, he soon saw that Derby's half-court defense was very solid, and the team's attacks could not advance into the penalty area at all, and many times the pass would be dangerous at a distance from the penalty area.
Derby County seem to have built a solid defence right in the middle line?
At first, Adams thought so, but many of him didn't see it that way, he saw the interception ability of the Derby midfielders, but gradually, he is now actually Derby County players on every front are trying to run, but the football is in the opponent's penalty area and the middle line most of the time, so the opposing midfielders have more opportunities to show Xiàn, so these players play a very prominent role in defense.
Even so, it shows that these players have good individual abilities.
At least comprehensively.
Adams watched the game, constantly analyzing the defensive tactics of Derby County, his current Derby County defensive method is very similar to zone defense, most players will run and intercept in the area allowed by the formation, and when the football reaches a certain area, the nearby Derby County players will rush over as soon as possible.
Every Derby County player is very resolute in defense, obviously the opposing manager has made a lot of arrangements for the defense, can maintain a formation against Leicester City in the game, fix the defensive task, and even if some players are thrown away, they will not panic, but choose to defend others.
This kind of solid defense is much better than what Leicester City have done.
Thinking of this, Adams hurriedly shook his head, now is not the time to praise his opponents, especially the young people he hates, although he thinks Derby County played well, he must now think about how to deal with it.
Under such a solid defense of Derby County, their players seem to be a little uncomfortable, and the delay in scoring has also made them lose some confidence, and the attack is gradually weak, but the opponent is playing well in both attack and counter-attack, and the game seems to be unfavorable to Leicester City.
But how so?
Adams' sudden appearance of the game is not easy to win, Derby County is not a fish bag team, and their young Chinese coach is not completely lucky, at least by luck alone can not play such a defense, this kind of tactical defense, not by luck can play.
At the same time, he also realized that victory did not seem to be as simple as he imagined.
Before the game, he didn't think Wansheng was capable of anything, and he didn't think Derby could threaten Leicester's three points, but that is not the case now.
He was a little annoyed by the Derby County media reports – didn't you say that the Chinese coach won the game by sheer luck? Didn't you say Derby County won five in a row by luck?
What the hell, shit!
If luck can make the team play such a tactical defense, then what else does the manager need to do, and all the players should worship God and his old man!
Adams didn't even think about how much of his own reasons were for the team's carelessness, and completely blamed the current situation passively on the Derby County media, maybe he didn't have enough brain cells to think about it right now, he was the manager of the team, he needed to think about how to change the situation, make Leicester more dangerous in attack, better defensively, easier to score, and so on.
But the only way he could think of it was to keep attacking!
Leicester City can't suddenly change their tactics, and Adams can't think of any other tactics the team can use to deal with the 'turtle shell and spiky 'Derby County', all he can think of is to attack, as long as they can score first, in the case of a score advantage, no matter how strong Derby's defense is, then they must take the initiative to attack, otherwise they will lose their chance to win.
At that point, the initiative is in his hands.
So Adams then walked to the sidelines, yelling and waving his hands to direct the team's attack, and anyone could tell that he was unhappy with the long-term lack of scoring.
But it wasn't easy for Leicester to score.
Even if Adams stands on the sidelines and directs in person, their players will still have to face the solid defense of Derby County, and they will have to find a way to break through the Derby County defence, which requires a chance to swing, not a rush.
The first half of the two teams ended with the constant roar of Adams, and the game entered halftime.
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After remembering the whistle at the end of the first half, Adams looked at the 'o:o' on the scoreboard on the pitch and looked a little unpleasant, and he hurried back to the tunnel without saying a word to the others.
On the other side, Wan Sheng stood up calmly and slowly, and returned to the player's tunnel with leisurely steps, he looked not in a hurry or slow, and patted the shoulders of the players around him on the way to encourage them.
After returning to the locker room, Wan Sheng praised the team's watch.
In Wan Sheng's view, the team's swing in the first half was still very good, the only pity was that they failed to score, but Leicester City attacked the half without scoring, and the situation has been very strong for Derby County, and he believes that the second half will definitely belong to Derby County.
Scoring goals is just a matter of time and luck.
In the away dressing room at Pride Stadium, Leicester City coach Adams also talked about the game, but unlike the home team's dressing room, there was no relaxed atmosphere here, only nervousness and strictness.
It's all because of head coach Adams.
"We have to score first!"
'The opposition defended well. I know, I saw it, but so far we have no other way to beat them, so we have to score first. ”
"Believe me, only if we score first, the victory will be ours!"
"You don't want to lose to a relegation team, do you? Look, their manager is only in his twenties, how young, I think losing to a team like this would be humiliating for us......"
The last sentence Adams said was very emotional, but what he didn't know was that the players in the dressing room scoffed at it – would we be humiliated by losing to Derby? It's just that you, Coach Adams, are disgraced!
Many people are talking about it.
However, they still agree with Adams's statement, if you want to win, you must score, if you want to gain an advantage, you must score first, so the purpose of scoring first must be very correct, the difference is that you can score and you can't score.
They will try.
But no one is sure if they can score, after all, they tried hard for a half without scoring.
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Leicester's half-time break was spent with manager Adams' constant emphasis on attack, and it was still very effective, and they immediately started the second half with a more aggressive attack than in the first half.
They pushed forward and threatened the Derby County goal.
This made many Derby County fans pinch a cold sweat for the team, and the whole Derby County team had to continue to work defense.
Wan Sheng was standing on the sidelines.
Under Leicester City's fierce attack, he was also a little worried about the goal, but at some point, the corners of his mouth curled.
He looked in the direction of the Leicester half.
The opposition were so eager to score that they completely forgot that Derby County also had the ability to counter-attack and did a good job in the first half, so they pressed forward and the gap at the back became more and more wide.
It's as if even their defenders can't wait to get involved in the attack.
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On the pitch, the Derby County players were trying to defend hard.
Many of them now have a lot of admiration for Wan Sheng, because Wan Sheng told them at half-time that Leicester City was likely to continue to attack fiercely after the start of the second half, and now the opponent really did so.
Wan Sheng said it, so they were prepared.
When faced with Leicester's onslaught attack, they were very comfortable and despite the threat of the opposition's attack, they managed to defend successfully and did not allow Leicester to find the back of the net.
This is the first step to winning.
Fifteen minutes later, Leicester's attacking intensity was much lower and they couldn't keep attacking like that for long, they needed some time to adjust, and the pressure on the Derby players was much less, so some people started to think about a second step to win.
That's the goal.
Defending alone can't win, and everyone knows that they are looking for counter-attacks while defending, or simply pushing forward to try to break down Leicester's defence.
Whatever the method, it's all about finding good scoring opportunities.
In front of the Derby County penalty area.
Alfred jerked forward to block the ball, then calmly kicked the ball to Morris.
Morris handed the ball back to Ian Taylor, who took it forward.
At the same time, Morris, Reiter and wing-back Webelson all rushed forward, and they all ran forward as best they could, with surprising reflexes and insertions.
In an instant, Derby County switched from defense to attack!
When they saw the football at the feet of the Derby County players, the Leicester City players also ran back for the first time, but what they didn't expect was that the Derby County's offensive and defensive transitions would be so fast, some of them were still slowly retreating, and the opposing players had already run into their own half.
They were slightly surprised.
But when they saw that the opposing players had already dribbled the ball over the halfway line and most of their teammates were in the opposition half, they had no time to be surprised, and they hurried back to defend, but it was obviously too late for them to catch up with the ball.
And Derby's quick counter-attack has formed a 4-on-3 situation for Leicester City at half-time!
"Danger!" The pro-Leicester City media exclaimed.
"Chance!" Live commentator Lyle Woodgate was pleasantly surprised.
"Bump!" Adams slammed to his feet from the dugout, his eyes fixed on his own half, and he couldn't even bother to hit his head on the visor.
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