Chapter 358: Former Disciple

The match against Arsenal was followed by the third round of the league as Manchester City hosted Derby County.

More than two years ago, Wan Sheng led Derby County to the Premier League title.

It was Derbyshire's most glorious moment in decades!

Derby County fans also remember Wansheng deeply, and even his name was engraved in the Derby County trophy showroom, just to commemorate the good memories that Wansheng brought to Derby.

Even if the chairman who holds the power of the club, Pierce, has a conflict with Wan Sheng, he can't erase history, erase Wan Sheng's Premier League championship left to Derby County, and erase Wan Sheng's memories for Derby County fans, so he can only follow the wishes of the fans and list Wan Sheng in the ranks of Derbyshire club's historical celebrities.

After Wan Sheng left Derby County to take charge of Manchester City, Derby County's results jumped from the Premier League title to the relegation zone, and in the final game of the season, Derby County lost to Fulham and were relegated.

After last season's hard work, Derby County finally relied on a strong squad to return to the Premier League under the leadership of manager Billy Davies.

Billy Davies is a team with deep regrets that he has led Preston North End to the Premier League on several occasions, only to teeter on the brink of promotion for several seasons.

He was in charge of Derby County last season and finally completed a promotion to the team.

However, according to Derby's past record, the media unceremoniously listed the team that won the Premier League title two seasons ago as the first favorite for relegation.

The only team they can rely on is a striker, Burton Reiter, who is still listed as a 'Ten Thousand Victorious Disciples'.

Burton-Reiter's loyalty to Derby County is unquestionable.

Despite the successive incidents such as the departure of his mentor and the relegation of the team, familiar teammates, such as Morris, Ziegler, Ivan Crewe and others, chose to follow Wansheng to Manchester City when the team was relegated. The likes of Rousey, Rishi Ferdinand and Peter Kennedy also opted to leave, while the powerful Alfred went to Serie A to join Fiorentina, but Burton Reiter chose to stay, and he was in superb form in the Championship last season, scoring 23 goals individually. Helping Derby County return to the Premier League.

Now Bolton Reiter has become Derby's number one star, and when people think of Derby, the first player that comes to mind is him, and he is an iconic player for Derby.

When Wan Sheng saw Bolton Reiter playing for Derby County, he was also very emotional, and he couldn't help but recall the scene when he trained Bolton Reiter.

This is a very serious and hard-working player.

Although it has been more than two years since he left Derby County, just listening to Burton-Reitter's stats, Wan Sheng can tell that he has improved a lot in the past two years.

Scoring 23 goals in the Championship is not something that the average striker can do. Especially a physical player like Bolton Reiter, who is not very technical and not easy to score in the second division, but he has scored more than 20 goals, which is enough to show that his individual ability has improved.

In addition, it is particularly admirable that after becoming famous, Bolton Reiter did not choose to leave like the rest of his teammates. Even after the team suffered relegation, he remained in the team. Continue to play for the team in the second division.

That's loyalty.

For professional players in the 'age of money', loyalty is a very valuable quality.

is like Liverpool's Gerrard, who is bent on winning more titles, and has repeatedly said that he wants to leave Liverpool, but in the end he still gave his entire career to Liverpool.

Burton Reiter is one of those players, perhaps. Because of his potential, Bolton Reiter will not reach Gerrard's achievements in the future, but Wansheng believes that he will definitely become a celebrity in the history of Derby County clubs, and will be deeply remembered by many, many Derby County fans.

When both teams played. Bolton-Reitt glanced at Wan Sheng from a distance.

Wan Sheng smiled and nodded at him.

Bolton Raynod nodded in response, some excitement in his eyes, but he didn't do anything.

After Wan Sheng paid attention to the entire Derby County, now this Derby County, the lineup has completely changed, the 11 players who started the game, Wan Sheng is only familiar with Bolton Reiter, compared with more than two years ago, it is completely equivalent to changing teams, and Wan Sheng does not have to recall anything.

After the start of the game, Wan Sheng found that Derby County not only changed personnel, but also completely changed tactics.

Instead of beautiful attacking football, they played a rough defensive counter-attack.

Everything he left behind is gone.

Wan Sheng smiled bitterly, feeling a little old, and always liked to reminisce about the past.

The tactics used by Derby County were not controlled and fluid, coupled with the difference in strength and home advantage, Manchester City suppressed Derby County from the opening minute.

Manchester City laid siege to Derby County, who had little to fight back.

There was not much suspense at all.

The only thing Derby could do was defend passively, with Bolton Reiter at the front of the formation waiting for an opportunity to counter-attack, but for a long time he couldn't even get a pass.

Manchester City achieved an absolute press on the situation.

It can be seen that Derby County is very tenacious, and the team led by Billy Davies still has a fighting spirit, perhaps because some of these players can play in the Premier League and have a rare opportunity to play against a strong team like Manchester City, but no matter what, they play very hard.

This tenacious defence has caused a lot of problems for City's attack.

Despite the tight defence of the opponents, Manchester City still had absolute strength to suppress, coupled with the good play of the attack, Manchester City still scored two goals at the end of the first half.

“2:0!”

"The winner is decided!"

'City are already two goals ahead and there is no suspense in the game.

The on-site commentator, Belbart, has already decided the winner.

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Derby County boss Billy Davies sat in his seat and couldn't help but shake his head and smile wryly as he thought back to City's dazzling attack.

Manchester City almost passed the ball into the goal just now, and in the face of this highly technical attack, the team had no way to defend at all, and the originally stable back line was in chaos almost instantly.

It's a complete strength gap!

In fact, Billy Davis still has some expectations for this game, when he took charge of the Derbyshire coach, he deeply remembered a name - Wan Sheng, every Derby County fan knows Wan Sheng, and those big Derby County regional media will often compare him with Wan Sheng.

The results of the comparison...... Naturally, he is worse in every way, if not a lot.

Billy Davies is also a little concerned, and since he became the head coach, he has always wanted to erase the stigma of Wansheng in Derby, and he hopes to make Derby County truly 'his own team'.

It's not a long season, but he's done a lot.

The old men who stayed in the team before, who didn't have much quality, were traded out by him, and in terms of tactics, he also insisted on focusing on offensive and defensive balance, rather than continuing the attacking football of Derby County's past.

Billy Davis didn't deliberately change tactics, he understood the offensive system built by Wansheng, but at that time, Derby County, which had Van der Vaart, Ribery, and Morris, was definitely a strong team, but when he took over, it was completely different, most of the powerful players in the team left, leaving only some players with very average strength, and it was difficult to get a better contract if they wanted to leave, these people were completely marginal players in tactics, and the new entrants to the team were also very average in terms of technical strength, after all, the value was there, It is impossible to have too strong strength.

Since the team generally does not have technical strength, it will not be able to play an advantage at all if you insist on that offensive football system, but it is a normal tactic that balances offense and defense, which can make the team stabilize its results in the second league.

Billy Davies led Derby County out of the Championship and into the Premier League again.

After another summer of remodeling, Derby County have a solid personnel and are still very good, and the draw at home to traditional powerhouse Portsmouth in the first round is very telling, but as soon as they play Manchester City, the gap is revealed.

This young Chinese is really very capable, and the attacking football system he played was applied to Manchester City, and at least Derby County had no power to fight back.

Just after the first half, Billy Davis knew there was no hope for his team.

Looking back at the young man's coaching achievements in Derbyshire, and looking at him now, even if he doesn't want to admit it, Billy Davis knows that he really wants to say what the media in the Greater Derbyshire area said: at least in terms of coaching the team, he is really not as good as this young Chinese.

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The first half ended with a two-goal lead for Manchester City.

After a half-time break, the second half started quickly again, and you can see that Derby County is still very tenacious, Billy Davies has not completely given up on the game, maybe he also hopes that the team can perform better, at least score one goal, then the players will have a lot more confidence, after all, the opponent is the defending champion Manchester City, and it is an away game, and it is normal to lose.

Unfortunately, City's press was strong and Derby County found their chance.

Even when they found an opportunity to launch a counter-attack, City's pressing always left them in vain, and time and time again, even their players gave up.

In the 65th minute of the game, Manchester City scored again, this time by Robert Carlos!

In this game, Carlos got the chance to start, he followed the rhythm of the team at the right time, and grabbed the opponent's clearance ball in the front, after that, Carlos kicked up 25 meters from the goal, the force was amazing, the football flew into the goal with a roar, and goalkeeper Bewert was completely unable to stop it.

“Goooooooooooal!!!!!“

"Robert—"

"-Carlos-!!"

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