The two-day holiday of Christmas flew by, and in the blink of an eye, the holiday was over, and Wansheng returned to the club to work.

It's the day after Christmas.

While the whole of England is still in the festive spirit, Derby County clubs have restarted training in preparation for tomorrow's league game.

This morning, Wansheng let all the players go for a physical examination according to reason, the new year has begun, the player physical examination work still has to be carried out, although he has a football training master system to know the physical state of all players, but after all, it is only a temporary state, some hidden diseases, the attributes of the football training master system can not be revealed, so a professional and scientific physical examination is still very necessary.

Wansheng has read the physical examination reports of the players one by one, and there is no big problem, so he is relieved.

In the afternoon, we will start to do targeted tactical training.

Tactical training is still based on confrontational training matches, interspersed with some small tactical training in the middle, so that the team can add some offensive means in specific positions, although these small training is difficult to use, but when it is really used, it often has unexpected effects.

Wan Sheng didn't let the team do any training for tomorrow's game, one is that there is too late, and one afternoon to prepare for the game will obviously not have any effect, and the second is that the opponent is not very strong.

Next up is Sheffield United, a team that has been a bit better than last season but is only mid-table in the league, and Wansheng believes that with the current quality of the team, they will be able to win at the Pride Stadium.

Soon the next day's race arrived.

Due to the Christmas holidays, there were so many fans who came to watch the game, Pride Stadium was completely full, and some standing tickets were sold at the stadium, and many fans stood in the aisles or in the open space behind the spectator seats to watch the game.

Pride Park can only accommodate around 34,000 people, but nearly 40,000 people came to the stadium today, the highest number of Derby County home fans this season.

In the dressing room before the game, Wan Sheng said to the players, "Yesterday was Christmas, Christmas should have a cheerful atmosphere, I hope everyone can give the victory as a gift to the fans!" ”

With so many fans here, the Derby players were also a little excited.

When it came to the game, they played quite well, Sheffield United, who had been suppressed from the start, were unable to fight back, and the opponent's occasional counter-attacks were scattered and not enough to threaten, and as a result, Derby County scored two goals in the first half alone.

Sheffield United wanted to attack big at the beginning of the second half to get a goal back, seeing that they underestimated Derby's full-court pressing defensive ability, and soon made two consecutive midfield steals, which let Sheffield United know that it is not so easy to attack, and the second Osman's steal also gave Derby County the opportunity to score the third goal.

3:0, the winner has been decided.

The next game turned into an exhibition match, Sheffield United knew that there was no hope of victory, so they didn't pursue anything, they replaced two players in a row to adapt to the atmosphere of the game, Derby County played very casually, the players were a little free to play, a wonderful individual performance, so that the fans in the audience were addicted, and Derby County also scored the fourth goal in the 78th minute of the game.

The final match ended 4:0.

He is still quite satisfied with this big win, and he is most satisfied that although the team played very casually in the second half, the defense did not relax, and Sheffield United had no more chances in the second half, they have been suppressed by Derby County.

This proves that what he said to the players before still has an effect.

There is really nothing to report about the home win over Sheffield United for Derby County at the moment, but there was still a lot of media talk about the game after the game, because in the other game, Norwich drew 4-4 at Rotherham, which gave Derby County a six-point lead over Norwich.

This is really good news for Derby County as their next opponent is Norwich City, and this is the second meeting between the two teams, with the difference being that this time Derby County play Norwich City at home.

Derby won away at Norwich City in their last meeting, and this time back at home, the morale of the team is also good.

You can win away from home, so what are you afraid of at home?

However, Wan Sheng still reminded everyone to be cautious before the game, Norwich is a very difficult opponent after all, if you are careless, it is normal to lose, they are finally 6 league points ahead of Norwich, in case of another loss to Norwich, the advantage is only one game left.

Wansheng doesn't want that to happen.

Facts have proved that Wansheng's worries are very necessary, this game Derby County made repeated mistakes at the beginning, and was suppressed by Norwich for a while, for Derby's offensive tactics, the suppressed situation is equivalent to being very passive, which will make the team's tactical advantage completely nullified.

As a result, Norwich took the lead in the opening 25 minutes.

Next, Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines, personally commanded the team's game, and shouted loudly to remind the players to concentrate and play seriously, which made the team's performance slightly better and saved some of the disadvantages.

"It seems that Wansheng is very dissatisfied with the team's appearance, indeed, they haven't been so passive for a long time, the last time they played against Norwich, it was on the road, they were able to suppress Norwich."

Sky TV commentator Belko Kresman.

Although Wan Sheng personally went to the sidelines to direct the team's game, a disadvantage is a disadvantage, and Norwich was very good, so Derby County could not equalize until the end of the first half.

At halftime, Wan Sheng was a little annoyed and focused on mentioning the names of several players, including Ribery, who was very out of shape, "I said a long time ago not to be careless, we are the first in the league, but we are not much better than Norwich, do you want to bury the results of half a season's hard work like this?" ”

The players all kept their heads down.

They know that the team's table is really bad, otherwise they would not have been led by the opponent at home and played half the game suppressed.

Seeing the coach's annoyed appearance, many people were worried and decided to play the game well in the second half, which was also the result that Wansheng hoped for. It's normal to lose a league game, but it's also a loss to a team and he doesn't want to lose to Norwich because they're direct rivals and it's a home game.

After a half-time break, Derby County returned to the pitch much better, at least in attack and defence, the formation was well maintained, and the overall play was very orderly.

The two teams were evenly matched.

This kind of game has made the fans addicted, and now the game on the field is not only the first and second in the league, but also the battle between the two teams in the English League One who are the best at attacking.

As it turns out, Derby County do have a certain superiority in tactics.

Compared with Norwich's rough offensive style, Derby County's cooperation played more, and the full-court pressing defense responded better, and the personal skills of Ribery, Morris and others also had some superiority, interspersed with running, formation-based offensive methods, completely different from Norwich's simple offense of straight passing, coupled with the change and control of the rhythm of the game between Derby's offensive and defensive transitions, after a period of attack, Derby County gradually played some advantages.

With less than ten minutes to go, Derby County played a great combination.

After making a tackle at the back, Morris played a straight pass to Ivan Crewe on the wing, who then played a long ball to the left and Ribery crossed the ball down the middle.

A few accurate passes in a row made Norwich's defensive formation a little chaotic, and their positioning was affected, and when Cahill got the ball in the middle, there was no one to defend at all.

Cahill received the pass, glanced at the box and made a shot, but took a step to the left and sent the ball diagonally forward, where Ian Taylor, who had just come on as a substitute, cut in and finished straight with his feet.

"Taylor's shot!"

With the roar of the on-site commentator Alfie, the football rushed directly into the goal without any suspense.

1：1。

Late in the game, Ian Taylor equalised for Derby County and the two teams were back on the same page.

Derby didn't celebrate, just the equaliser, and Taylor took the ball out of the net and ran straight back to the halfway line before the game resumed.

But then Norwich strengthened their defence a bit and it was very difficult for Derby to find another chance to score, and in the final stages Derby had three shots on goal, but both of them were forced shots that had no chance at all, and a header in front of goal, but it was not on target.

In the end, the match between the two teams ended 1:1.

After the game, Wan Sheng also exhaled a long sigh, the draw with Norwich was a bit regrettable, but throughout the game, it would be good to have this result, although it failed to open the points gap, but at least the gap has not narrowed, especially in the game, the team's table in the second half was quite good, and Norwich was completely suppressed in the second half, and this encounter also proved that the team is indeed improving a little bit.

Maybe the result of the game doesn't tell us much, but the game proved that the team played Norwich City much easier than the last meeting.

Wansheng believes that as long as the team plays normally, there will be no too difficult games in the English League One level.

A draw strengthened Wansheng's confidence, which was probably not expected by the media and fans.

After the match between the two teams, many media reported the game, using the word 'difficult' to describe the situation of Derby County, and some media even asked, "This is the beginning of the decline of Derby County's results." ”

Wan Sheng is not very interested in these remarks.

He didn't care what the hostile media had to say, because the Christmas season wasn't actually over and the FA Cup was a week away.

The team has given up the League Cup, this chicken rib cup, Wan Sheng is really not interested, but the FA Cup is still very meaningful to the team in England, and in the FA Cup, it is easy to meet the Premier League strong team, even if it is in the spirit of training for the Premier League next season, Wan Sheng will not give up this cup -

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