At the weekend, the twelfth round of the league kicks off, and Derby County face Southampton, a team already in the relegation zone, with only slightly better results than Crystal Palace and Norwich City.

Although it is an away game, Wan Sheng still intends to let some players rest for a round, after all, Derby County is a bit dense, he needs to use a certain rotation to ensure the team's state, and with Southampton's strength state, even if it is at home, it is difficult to threaten the current Derby County.

In this game, players such as Morris, Van der Vaart and Ribery were not brought, so the lineup became a semi-substitute lineup, Lichtsteiner, Peter Kennedy and the captain Marcus, who had just returned from injury, started one after another, and the striker was replaced by Ian Taylor, who rarely played, and Wan Sheng only brought Bolton Reiter as a forward substitute.

Wansheng's judgment is still very accurate.

Although Southampton manager Troke claimed that the team's goal was to enter the European battlefield in the summer, but the financial embarrassment has caused Southampton to decline a lot compared to last season's strength, and now they are in the league relegation circle, with one defeat after another, all of them have no fighting spirit, and even their fans do not have much confidence in the team, in this situation, against the strong Derby County, the result is naturally conceivable.

Thanks to goals from Ivan Taylor, Layton Bynes and Roussy, Derby County won the game comfortably 3-0.

Southampton is not a strong team, with the current results of Derby County, there is nothing strange about winning Southampton, and this game is not eye-catching, but after the game, there are still many media reports about Derby County, because so far, Derby County is still unbeaten in the league!

Derby County are not first in the league, but Derby are the only team unbeaten with twelve league games. No one has ever lost, and even the most critical media must admit that Derby's results so far have been spectacular, and in any case, this is an unbeaten run of 12 rounds!

Many media lamented, "Who can stop Derby County's undefeated!" ”

Their eyes are on the next round of the league with Derby County against Middlesbrough.

McLaren's team is definitely not easy to get along with, and the media is also expecting McClaren to win against Wansheng, and the English media naturally hope that Middlesbrough will win. Because McLaren is English and Wan Sheng is Chinese, it is not difficult to choose between the two, and they hope that McClaren can lead Middlesbrough to defeat Derby County and break Derby's unbeaten golden body.

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At the same time, Wansheng's attention is not focused on the league, because the group stage of the UEFA Cup is still very intensive.

After playing the league, you have to prepare for the group stage of the UEFA Cup.

Their opponents are Schalke 04.

Take on a German team. The game is not easy, especially since there are few players in the Derby County team who have European experience, and they know very little about the German team, even if Wan Sheng knows about the German team. It's just a 'theory', he knows what the German team has in character, he knows what stars Schalke 04 has, he knows a lot about them. But these are all theories, after all, he has never fought head-to-head, and he is not too sure about the game. However, he believes that as long as the team can play normally, there will be a good chance of winning.

He is still very confident in the current strength of Derby County.

However, Wansheng still has some headaches, before this game, Alfred suffered a small injury during training and needed to rest for a round, Alfred is very important to the current new formation, the players in any position of the team can be replaced, but Alfred can not be replaced, his core position is the guarantee of the offensive and defensive conversion of this set of 4321 formations, without Alfred, he can only pull Moris back, but it is better to return to the original formation.

So Wan Sheng could only let the team change to the original 442.

442 formation, Osman can also start, the two full-backs are still Ribery and Ivan Crewe, the core is Morris, Van der Vaart's position is a little predicament, and Bolton Reiter partners to form a double striker, which is also a relatively strong lineup for Derby County.

Before the game, many media hyped this game, because this is the most watched game in Group A of the UEFA Cup, and now many media have believed that Schalke 04 and Derby County are the strong teams in Group A, and Feyenoord, as a Dutch giant, has been excluded.

The German media naturally said good things about Schalke 04, and they didn't think that Derby County, which had almost no experience in European competition, could really play any good results.

However, there are still a lot of hype methods in the German media, they came up with the killer "Bayern Munich", before the game, they reported a lot of "two or three things between Bayern Munich and Ribery", so that it is as if Ribery will belong to Bayern Munich tomorrow.

The German media is trying to influence the state of Derbyshire.

Wan Sheng didn't care about the media reports, for him, more impact reports have been experienced, who cares about the German media's means, not to mention, he will not take the initiative to read the German media reports, before the game he mainly arranged for the team to prepare for the game.

The 442 formation is definitely worse in attack than Alfred's 4321, but the diamond-shaped position in the midfield, Osman blocked in front of the penalty area, will also make the defense more stable, so that the game with Schalke 04, especially at home, as long as it plays normally, the strength is enough.

But the game was a little different than he had imagined.

Schalke 04 had just started the game and played a clever combination to score a quick goal to take the lead in advance, a goal that put some pressure on Derby.

Soon Derby County pressed and Schalke 04 went head-to-head.

However, Schalke 04's defense is very solid, and it is not easy for Derby County to find opportunities for a while, and more importantly, Wansheng found a problem, that is, Ribery's table is a bit too 'lonely', which leads the team's attack is not very smooth.

Whenever the football gets to Ribery's feet, the attack gets a little stuck.

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Ribery played the same way in the last game.

With his two-goal table, he received praise from all over England, including some French media, and in addition, the national team manager Domenech also praised his table, and it was clear that Domenech saw that game and was impressed with himself.

Looking at the media coverage of him after the game, Ribery felt that success was within reach.

So this one, he continued to play like this.

Ribery didn't care whether the team's attack was smooth or not, just with confidence in the skills of his feet, he continued to try his best, he worked hard, and he didn't care about one or two mistakes, in his opinion, there will always be failures in attack, otherwise it won't be so difficult to score goals in football games, and it doesn't matter how many times he fails, as long as he can help the team find good opportunities next, or even score his own goals to help the team equalize, how many mistakes will be covered up, but he can still be unanimously affirmed.

That's what Ribery had in mind.

What he didn't know was that in the coach's seat, Wan Sheng had already frowned.

In the last UEFA Cup, the team won easily, Ribery said this, Wan Sheng still doesn't care, but the premise is to win the game, if the same table Xiàn affects the victory of the game, he must care, now the team's attack, whenever it comes to Ribery's feet, is like a smooth music suddenly paused, which makes people feel very awkward.

Once or twice, let alone 10,000 wins, even the Derby players felt it, so they obviously reduced the number of passes to the left.

But the key is in Derby's 442 formation, although Ribery is a full-back, he is one of the core of the midfield attack, and his role is still very crucial, unless he always attacks from Ivan Crewe, many attacks can't be wrong with Ribery at all.

The biggest problem for Derby County now is Ribery, and Ribery doesn't seem to notice it, still sticking to his watch, which reminds Wansheng of his games in League One.

In the English League, Wansheng let Ribery play freely, and as a result, Ribery can attract attention in every game, so now Ribery is so expressive, and he can't be blamed entirely, there are also some problems such as the team's playing style and habits, but after arriving in the Premier League, Wansheng asked Ribery to integrate into the team's tactical system, after all, the Premier League and English League One are not the same grade, whether it is a European competition or a domestic league, the strength of many teams encountered is not worse than Derby County, Many opposing stars will have a very strong defensive ability, and it will be difficult for Ribery to 'play' no matter how 'free he plays'.

Just like now, Schalke 04's defense is very solid, when Ribery makes a personal breakthrough, it is easy to fall into the siege of the two, it cannot be said that every time the ball is conceded, but many times at least time is wasted, and the opportunity is missed in vain.

Ribery didn't feel anything, he was still showing his superb footwork, as if he wanted to tell the audience how good his foot skills were, and the defenders of Schalke 04 could only be played by him, I have to say, in terms of appreciation, Ribery did a good job, but he wasted the team's time and opportunities.

This is a football match, not a circus, and victory is decided by the score, not by the eyeballs of the audience!

Obviously, you can pass the ball directly, but you have to show off your footwork, and in the end you have no choice but to pass the ball, or just lose the ball directly, such a table is 'negative' for the whole team's offense, and at the same time, it also makes the whole team unable to play the soul of the offense - speed.

After the other players ran to the front court, they had a chance to play the ball but did not pass it, and the opportunity was wasted.

Wan Sheng frowned as he watched from the sidelines.

He didn't care about the media coverage before, but now he knows that the report must have affected Ribery's mentality, otherwise he wouldn't have played like this inexplicably.

Franck Ribery must be hoping to be better in the game, that's for sure, but his mind seems to be in the wrong place, does he think that as long as he can attract attention, he can quickly become a big star or go straight to the French national team? (To be continued......)