Derby County drew with Blackburn Rover, as the head coach Wan Sheng doesn't care too much, after all, the league has to last for a season, it is normal not to win a game, the team always has a good table and a bad time, besides, this game is also a warning, let the whole team know that they can't be careless about the game, in addition, it also makes them understand that the team did not win the league with a big win over Arsenal, they still have a long way to go.

Wan Sheng saw some problems in the game, such as the team being too young.

This is the most critical question.

The quality of the team is good, but it is too young. The main lineup striker Bolton Reitt partners with Van der Vaart, both of whom are only 21 years old, midfielder Morris is the pillar, but Ribery is only 23 years old, although Ivan Crewe is of moderate age, but his top league experience can be said to be no, in addition, such as Osman, Alfred, Baines, Ziegler and others, all of them are young players who have just had a table, for them, it is the first time to play in the Premier League, and most of the players in the team have little experience, which will naturally have some impact on the results.

But it can't be helped.

He can't expect the team to mature immediately after entering the top league, that is very unrealistic, football experience is still very important, so Wansheng only set the goal of 'try to win as many games as possible' and 'try to fight for the Champions League places', it is actually quite difficult to do these two, if the team is given two seasons, {Wansheng is sure to fight for the championship, but it is still very difficult for the current team to compete for the championship.

This is a reality that must be faced.

However, there are also advantages to young teams, such as the last round against Arsenal, when the team played in form, the table was no worse than Arsenal, even at Highbury Stadium, the team still won by four goals, and the young team is like this, good at playing tailwind. But there is no guarantee that every game will be a tailwind game, so Wansheng still needs to do some mental work for the players, and try to make them perform well in the headwind game.

That's up to new assistant coach Walton Cooper.

Walton Cooper was originally a strength and conditioning coach, but he studied sports psychology, in fact, he is also half a psychiatrist, while helping the team develop training plans, he can also give some mental guidance to the players, and he is no worse than Wan Shenglai in this regard.

After the match with Blackburn. Wan Sheng and Cooper comforted the team, telling the players not to care about this game, and to face up to the strength of the team and prepare to play the next game.

The effect of this work is still good, at least the next day of training, the team returned to the relaxed atmosphere that should have been, even if the recovery training was very hard, but there was still talk and laughter in the team.

In short, the failure to beat Blackburn Rovers did not have much impact on the whole Derby County team.

But Wansheng doesn't care about the game, but someone does. That's the hostile media in Derbyshire. These hostile media outlets didn't pay attention to Derby County before, because they felt that Derby County didn't deserve to do anything after they entered the Premier League, after all, it was just a promoted polo team. But with Derby's big win over Arsenal, they had to pull their attention back and grit their teeth to make some coverage of Derby.

They weren't willing to do that, but Derby County beat Arsenal by a big margin. They can't afford not to report it, and if they don't report it, readers will be very unhappy with them.

There is a saying that 'the customer is God'. Readers are God to them, and what readers like, they need to report, and every report is carried out without affecting sales.

They don't like to tout Derby and tout wins, but they have to.

What makes them even more angry is that when they come to the Derby County club, they can't interview Wan Sheng at all, although the same is true of their peers, but some big media reporters are still very dissatisfied, especially the reporters of the "Daily Mirror", they can't even enter the door of the Derby County Club and Pride Stadium, and the Derby County Club almost wrote at the door "The Daily Mirror reporter and the dog are not allowed to enter", in this case, the "Daily Mirror" has to make some praise reports on Derby, their mood can be imagined.

So when Derby drew with Blackburn Rovers in the second round, they immediately laughed because they had something to say.

After the big win over Arsenal, it drew directly with Blackburn?

The turning point of these two games can be done with a lot of internal analysis, what is wrong with Derby County, and the gap between their two games is so big?

First, it can be considered that the first game is just a bad Arsenal table.

"Derby's big win over Arsenal at Highbury Stadium was a good one, but perhaps the reason for the win was Arsenal's poor form, the defending champions have not yet recovered from their summer break, and several of their national team players, such as Campbell and others, have just finished the European Championship and they haven't fully adapted to the league ......"

Second, it can be considered that Derby County is just a tactical wizard to defeat Arsenal, Arsenal could not adapt to Derby's tactical play for a while, so they lost, but in the second game, Blackburn was prepared for Derby's style of play, they used a solid defense to defend the goal, so there was no 'surprise win', so it was difficult for Derby County to score.

There is a basis for saying this, and if you don't look at Derby County, they only scored one goal in the whole game, or is it a direct free kick?

'Derby County have won a game with a summer of preparation, but to be expected, when the tactics are cracked and every team knows how to play against Derby, then they will be ready to lose game after defeat......

In addition, it can be understood as 'God's punishment for the arrogant'.

There are still a lot of Catholic believers in the UK, and they believe in God, so this statement can still be recognized by many people, see? The young Chinese were too arrogant for God to see, so no matter how hard they tried, they could only draw Blackburn.

Of course, the last statement is more of a joke, but in the end, Derbyshire's hostile media has something to say, and the Daily Mirror, as a representative of it, has conducted a series of analyses of Derby's failure to win Blackburn, which feels like Derby County lost some important game, but in reality, Derby County only drew one league game, and that's it.

Nevertheless. In fact, the Derby County league ranking is still very high, after two rounds, Derby County won one and drew one, ranking fourth in the league with four goal differences, the first three teams all won two rounds in a row, and Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United are all behind Derby County, because they all lost a game, England's four giants, and only Chelsea won the first two rounds in a row, temporarily ranking first in the league.

The media was not in the air for Derby. After all, the media is not one-minded, the media led by the Daily Mirror is a hostile media in Derbyshire, and Derbyshire also has local supporting media, and those big neutral media will also say a word of justice.

Some media outlets have raised the issue of 'Derbyshire is too young'.

For example, in the game against Blackburn, the average age of the starting eleven for Derby County was only 23.6 years old, and this is still because goalkeeper Carraci is a veteran, otherwise the number would be lower than 23. In the top flight, that's definitely a pretty scary number.

Being too young will naturally lead to inexperience, so it is normal for the game to go up and down.

These neutral reports are somewhat true, but no matter what the media reports, Wansheng has no time to pay attention to them. He has long been accustomed to the fact that there are always 'nothing to do' media in the outside world, especially now that Derby County is getting more attention, the number of media doing negative reports will naturally increase, which is actually quite normal. For example, when a team like Manchester United loses, the media all over England is sarcastic and sarcastic. Because they are Manchester United, they are public enemies of teams in the rest of England and who has allowed them to dominate the Premier League for almost a decade?

So it doesn't matter if there is negative coverage, it actually means that the team is still moving forward step by step, otherwise it would be like a month ago, there was no other big media reporting on Derby County, and it would be the worst to be left out in the cold.

Although it is correct to look at it this way, Wan Sheng is also in a bad mood at this time, not because of media reports, but because the captain of the team, Marcus, is injured.

He was injured in the game against Blackburn.

Originally, I didn't think there was a big problem, but on the second day of the game, Wan Sheng received news that Marcus had been diagnosed and confirmed that the calf muscle in his right leg was broken, and some old injuries were involved.

Wan Sheng was really in a hurry.

Marcus is still very important to the team, although his table is not as brilliant as Morris, Ribery and others in the front, and he is nearly 27 years old, but Marcus is quite experienced, and he is one of the few teams in the team that has participated in the top league, and he is also the anchor of the defense, Alfred's table is also outstanding, but he is too young after all, and he still needs Marcus to command many times on the field, and Marcus's importance to the team's defense has been the whole team's game. His injury was a big blow to the team.

When Wan Sheng received the news, he was stunned for a while, he didn't expect that the injury problems that he didn't encounter last season would be encountered at the beginning of this season.

Marcus' injury means he needs to put Peter Kennedy or Nemanja Vidic, who has just transferred, to take his place, but can these two really replace Marcus?

Wansheng is not sure.

He was a little out of luck, and he had a headache when he thought about it.

After arranging the team's training, Wan Sheng went directly to the hospital to visit Marcus, Marcus and his personal friendship is still good, more importantly, Wan Sheng is worried that the injury will have some psychological effects on Marcus for three months, so he needs to comfort Marcus.

His reassuring words were direct, "Don't worry, Browning, the doctor said you're going to recover in three months, but I promise you'll have a shorter recovery time!" ”

If other people, especially doctors, heard Wan Sheng say this, they would definitely think that Wan Sheng was purely comforting Marcus, and it was also a 'insincere' comfort, but Marcus let go of most of his heart, he was a veteran of Derby County, and he was in the team when Wan Sheng was an assistant coach, so he naturally knew that Wan Sheng would have a way of 'recovering training' to help injured players recover quickly.

The first to benefit was Ian Taylor, others like Ferdinand, Reiter and others have also benefited from this, he was surprised before, but now he has great trust in Wansheng.

Since Wansheng said that it can recover faster, it must be possible!

He has been injured for more than two months, and it is only October, and he only needs to recuperate quietly for two months, but what Marcus is most worried about is not his own injury, but his main position.

Derby County is much more competitive now than it was a year ago.

A year ago, Marcus didn't have to worry about his main position even if he was injured because there was no one to compete with him, but now it's different, the team has a great Alfred, Alfred is younger, stronger, and he knows very well that the only thing he is better than Alfred is experience. In addition, the team's new young player Vidic is also quite good, after a month of familiarization, he knows that a player like Vidic is likely to become a star in the future, because he is doing a good job defensively, except for the experience of being young, he can't find any other shortcomings.

If you cultivate by yourself for two months, can you still have the main position?

Marcus didn't know anything about it.

Wan Sheng seemed to see through Marcus's thoughts, and said words that comforted him, he did not directly talk about the main position, but as if he was worried about the team's backline, he said, "Browning, your injury really caused me a lot of trouble, we only have three real central defenders, you, Baker and Nemanja, and this season, we have to play in the league, as well as two cups and European competitions, so many events, even if you don't get injured, I can't arrange it......"

Marcus immediately stopped worrying.

Wan Sheng is telling the truth, there are two cup competitions for English teams, one with a tough league game, plus the UEFA Cup, which is a bit too frequent for Derby County's depth of bench.

Marcus doesn't have to worry about the main position at all, because even if he is not a real main player, there will be many opportunities to play.

If you can start in the top league and European competitions, does it matter if you are the main team of the team? What's more, he is the captain of the team, and he will still be the captain of the team after returning from injury.

Marcus originally felt that he was very tragic, the team had just been promoted to the top league, and he was going to be injured for three months in two rounds, but after listening to Wan Sheng's words, he felt that he had nothing to worry about at all, and he was also the old man of the team, and Wan Sheng would not forget him because he had been cultivating for more than two months.

He doesn't have to be so pessimistic at all! (To be continued......) R1292