Chapter Thirty-Nine: We Won by Luck Again

'It's the fifth round of League One, Cardiff City hosts Derby County, and it's 80 minutes into the game, just now Ian Taylor scored the first goal of the game for Derby!"

"The goal in the 80th minute is quite valuable!"

'It could have decided the game, in the previous 80 minutes, Derby County bombarded Cardiff City in the first half but they didn't score, the overall table was not good, it looked like Derby County didn't have any form today, but Taylor saved the team!"

"It was a goal from an assist from Francois Franco-Ribery, a pretty nice assist."

"But I personally think there was a lot of luck in this assist, Ribery had squandered countless chances in previous games, and if it wasn't for Taylor's good awareness, maybe the ball would have been passed to the Cardiff players......"

After Taylor's goal, the on-site commentator kept commenting on it.

He praised Ian Taylor's appearance and sarcastically mocked Ribery's appearance, who was obviously impressed by the opportunity he had wasted, but his statement was hardly impactful for the Derby County fans, who were more likely to score and they were ahead.

Taking the lead in the 80th minute of the game was clear to all.

After Taylor's goal, Derby County slowed down their attacking tempo and tightened up their defence more, after all, there was not much time left in the game.

Wan Sheng also knew that this victory was not easy to come by.

He stood on the sidelines and shouted for the team to step back and focus on the defence, which reminded many Derby County fans of the scene at the end of last season, when the young Chinese coach did the same, and every time Derby County retreated, the kind of defense was almost the same as 'no attack at all'.

That kind of game would be ugly.

Fortunately, Derby County are playing a new tactic now, and the focus is still on attack, although shouting to drop back to defence. It's just that the three fronts have retreated a little, not all of them have defended, they still have to put pressure on the Cardiff City defense, and the attack is the best defense, which is quite reasonable for the team that is good at attacking.

That's what Derby County did.

They pulled back and formed a half-time gap with Cardiff City, like some teams trying to lure their opponents to come and grab the ball before attacking, and then look for opportunities to make a surprise attack.

Cardiff City clearly had to do this.

In the situation of backwardness. They had no choice but to take the initiative to attack, and only to attack for the second time, Derby County suddenly increased the tempo of the attack.

Cardiff City did not have time to organize its defense for a while.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Morris took the ball in the middle and pushed it to Taylor in front, and Taylor received the ball and inserted Osman to make a one-two, find an opportunity to shoot directly with his feet, and send the ball into the Cardiff City goal again.

2:o。

The winner is decided.

In the end, Derby relied on two goals from Ian Taylor. With a 2-O win away at Cardiff City, they are unbeaten in five games, with four wins and one draw to accumulate 13 points, and are still tied with Norwich City for second place in the league.

Derby County fans celebrated wildly after the game.

Now Derby County is a result that they could not have imagined before. They were a relegation team last season and they thought they would still be relegated this season, even if the media said 'the Derby boss is crazy to announce that he is aiming for the league title', they didn't take it seriously.

It's like the media said. That's crazy!

They don't believe it at all.

But they never expected that after five rounds of the league, the team would have such a result, if it were not for West Bromwich Albion's good results. With all five wins, they will be able to jump directly to the top of the league.

Every Derby County fan was in high spirits.

They felt it was worth it to follow the team to Cardiff City, and although it was a thrilling game, with both goals coming in the last ten minutes, the team won anyway and won four of their five games and are still unbeaten!

This is something they never dared to think of before!

Now the Derby County fans are really happy with the team's results, and as for what the media say, it is difficult to shake them.

……

What Derby County fans think, it is estimated that the media will not care, at least not media like the Daily Mirror, because they don't care about Derby County fans at all, and their market is facing the whole of England, and even covering the rest of Europe.

Derby County won, but not pretty.

Cardiff City are just a promoted team, and the two goals after 80 minutes don't prove anything, so the Daily Mirror has good reason to question Wansheng.

"Ribery's cousin, everyone can see it, but that Chinese insists on not replacing him!"

"Because Ribery is the ...... he brought into the team"

"He's a dictatorship!"

'It's been said before that players close to him get a chance to play, and obviously Franck Franck Ribery is one of them!'

"They won, but it was just luck."

"God doesn't visit Derbyshire every time! In the game, we can see that they must not have done anything in the face of Cardiff City's dense defence. ”

"A stroke of luck leads to victory, what is there to be proud of?"

"Look at how happy the Chinese smiled after the game, probably he can only enjoy this kind of victory in the future."

“……”

In fact, what they said is not too one-sided, and it is also somewhat reasonable.

Ribery's cousin did drag the whole team back, in other words, the whole team dragged Ribery back, in short, in the game, Ribery wasted countless opportunities, under normal circumstances, the manager would definitely replace such a player.

There was some luck with the ball, as Ribery just made a gap on his own and Taylor got into position...... Maybe that's luck.

In addition, in the face of Cardiff City's dense defense, Derby County really can't do much.

In football, there is a saying that 'crowd tactics are the best defensive tactics', which actually makes a lot of sense, and this game confirmed this sentence, Cardiff City retreated from the back from the first minute. In the face of such a defense, it is estimated that it is not only Derby County, even if those top teams in England come to play, there are not many ways.

However, the above is the understanding of ordinary fans.

In fact, Wan Sheng had intended to use this game to try to use new tactics and let Ribery swing freely.

Although the overall effect was not very good, the team's table in the second half was obviously much better than in the first half, and Taylor's first goal was also the result of the actual effect of the tactics. The so-called 'luck' mentioned by the media is actually the tactics themselves, the tactics are originally Ribery using his personal ability to find a gap to pass, it was originally other players running to find opportunities, Ribery passed, Taylor found opportunities, and this is how goals are born.

Is this all luck?

Definitely not.

As for facing Cardiff City, there are not many options...... There is nothing the English team can do in the face of this kind of defense, let alone Derby County. The opponent was clearly ready to play defensive counter-attacks from the start, and later saw that it was difficult to defend. The counterattack was ignored.

So that's not a problem at all.

Without being reminded by the media, Wan Sheng also knows that it is difficult to win the game, but he thinks that this is the price that must be paid, how much training the team does. It's not enough to get a round in the game, so it's worth taking a little risk in order to make the team more adaptable to the new adjustments, in order to add new offensive means to the team.

After this round of the league. He believes the team will be able to do better in the next game.

What he wants most is for the team to play better and better, game by game.

This means that the team is always improving.

So after the game, Wan Sheng seemed very happy, and at the press conference, he also praised Cardiff City in a good mood. 'They played really well, they almost managed to hold on for 90 minutes, but alas, God was behind us.

Wan Sheng said to the reporters in the audience.

Now the media in England, except for the poor "Derbyshire Life", which has little influence, no other media has a good relationship with him, so Wan Sheng has no good face for them at all, and the smile on his face is only because he is in a good mood.

"We were so lucky, this win will keep us happy all night, I like good luck and I love winning, and I hope to have this good luck next time......"

Wan Sheng constantly emphasizes luck, but his tone is full of sarcasm.

After saying the opening remarks, Wan Sheng glanced at the reporters in the audience, and saw that all the faces seemed to be familiar, so he walked directly away from the press conference. He felt that he didn't need to be interviewed at all, most of these people were in the blacklist of his notebook, and a few of them were not very friendly to look at each other, as for the reporter of the "Derbyshire Life", it was enough to directly message the MSN group.

Internal news, you don't have to share it with other media.

The reporters in the press conference were all stunned when they saw Wan Sheng leaving, they didn't expect the Chinese coach to leave like this, but the press conference has just begun!

Some people also prepared questions to ask them, but they didn't ask anything.

They were a little annoyed and even planned to complain to the FA and the Coaches Association, but Wan Sheng didn't care.

According to the FA's regulations, the manager must attend the press conference after the game, but it is only to attend, and there are no rules on what interviews and answer a few questions.

That's the post-match press conference.

……

Over the next few days, Derby's training continued to revolve around adapting to Ribery's rhythm.

However, at this time, it is not only Ribery, Wansheng also requires Morris, Webson, Ivan Crewe and others to pass the ball as much as possible when they have the opportunity to pass the ball, and the movement of others has also been adjusted.

This adjustment is difficult to grasp.

After all, the game field is ever-changing, and Wan Sheng just said a general idea, just like software programming to make a framework, what to fill in it completely depends on the player's free swing, which also depends on the player's personal ability.

Wan Sheng attaches great importance to this kind of training, because he knows very well that this is a qualitative improvement in the team's offensive system.

If the team can adapt to it, the offensive ability will be completely improved by a notch, even if it is only half adapted, the team will improve a lot, if it can only adapt a little...... It is better to abandon tactics and return to the original way of attacking more effectively, after all, the offensive opportunities on the court cannot be wasted again and again.

The match against Cardiff City was used as a reference for the whole team.

Wansheng Tong guò game to the players to explain the key points of tactical coordination, through the guò game video, analysis of each person's running position of those problems, this method is quite effective, at least everyone sees their own shortcomings in the running position, and when training, they will try to improve, improve a little can improve a little.

The overall progress of the team is still very fast.

However, this is not a pre-season fixture, Derby County have not had much training time, and soon they are in for a new league game against Walsall, which is still an away game.

This isn't the first time Wansheng has played Walsall.

In the penultimate round of last season, Derby's opponent was Walsall, when Derby County had been relegated, and Wansheng had to implement yàn tactics, so they didn't care about the result of the game at all, and in the end Derby County lost to Walsall, which was a victory for them.

Walsall were worse than Derby County at the end of last season, with only one point more than third-bottom Sherington on Wednesday, and those three points were still important to them.

In fact, Walsall still finished the league with just one point more points than Sherington on Wednesday, which means that the victory that Wansheng 'gifted' Walsall helped them achieve relegation, and they should be very grateful to him.

It's a pity that Walsall obviously didn't care about this 'favor' at all.

Before the match against Derby, Walsall's new boss even declared that he wanted to beat Derby, "This round is very important for us, so we have to try to win!" That's what he said.

This kind of remark is obviously a bit provocative before the game.

However, when the reporters told Wan Sheng as if provocatively, Wan Sheng didn't care at all, but looked at the reporter, waved his hand and said lightly, "You are a reporter from the Daily Mirror?" Sorry, I am not interviewed by the Daily Mirror. ”

The Daily Mirror has been blacklisted by him!

When the reporter heard Wan Sheng's words, he gritted his teeth angrily, but Wan Sheng left directly after speaking, he could only stand in place, and he cursed Wan Sheng countless times in his heart, but this seemed to have no effect.

So he could only hope that the Walsall coach could really do what he said - win over Derby County and get three points.

It's a pity that when the game ended, the reporters were disappointed again.

1:o。

That's the final score.

In the 35th minute, Gary Cahill's powerful shot gave Derby County a narrow win over Walsall.

The whole game was uneventful, nothing surprising, Derby County and Walsall attacked and defended each other, Derby County did not completely suppress Walsall, and Walsall did not choose to defend on all fronts.

The game was very good.

However, the luck of both sides was not good, and Cahill's goal was found by a delicate combination, with Franck Francis, Morris and Cahill making five consecutive passes near the box before Cahill found a chance to turn and shoot.

That was the only highlight of the game.

Wan Sheng appeared at the press conference after the game, with a smile on his face, looked at the reporters in the audience, and only said one sentence, "Sorry, we disappointed everyone, we won the game by luck again." ”

Then, turn around and leave.

Only a group of reporters looked at each other at the newscloth venue. (To be continued!)

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