Osman is defending against Vieira, this is the task given to him by Wan Sheng, Arsenal's team is currently with Vieira as the core, defending Vieira can limit their attack, this is a very important task, he handed over this job to Osman, because Osman has a lot of defense and the best physical fitness, even if he can't completely limit Vieira, he will definitely be able to bring enough trouble to Vieira.

Patrick Vieira felt it, and with five minutes to go, he felt that the game wasn't as good as he had imagined.

He had expected it to be an easy victory, against a promoted team, nothing more than a big deal, but now he found that it was not easy to win.

Patrick Vieira turned his head to look around at the stands and there were fans cheering everywhere, and Highbury Stadium was filled with the cheers of that kind of cheer, it was the Arsenal fans who were putting pressure on their opponents.

It's a little trick that fans use.

At Highbury, in the first round of the league, even if they don't think Derby County have the ability to threaten Arsenal's victory, they still have to do what they have to do, they have to cheer for the team and influence the opposition with the noise.

In addition, Arsenal fans also have a desire to give the 'league rookie' a dismissal, this Derby County team has a lot of top-flight newcomers, and they are also a promoted team themselves.

A bunch of top-flight newcomers?

Plus a rookie coach in the top flight?

Then let you rookies see what the top league is like, and the top league is not for any player or coach.

Under the influence of our voices, these league rookies must be overwhelmed, right?

Arsenal fans thought haughtily.

It's just a pity that Arsenal fans were disappointed.

On the field, Derby's is very good.

This kind of excellence can be compared to Arsenal, every Derby County player is serious about the game, and they don't fall behind when it comes to playing with Arsenal.

Just like Patrick Vieira felt, this Derby team is really hard to mess with.

Wan Sheng was sitting firmly in the coach's seat, he stared at the game with a blank face, his expression looked solemn, and now this game was the time to test the results of a summer.

It took the team to train hard for a summer, and put the technicality into the original tactics.

Whether or not you can play in the game depends on now.

He still has some confidence.

In one month of training, the coach's skills 'cooperate' 200% of the tactical training effect, which is equivalent to three months of continuous high-intensity training for the team, plus the effect of individual training.

The average player of the whole team has an improvement of about 2 points in the attribute evaluation of the pass, plus the game skill 'passing increase' can increase the player's passing attribute evaluation by 3 points, and the current Derby County on the field, in the evaluation of individual passing ability, has reached an average of more than 85 points, some of the higher ones have reached more than 90, and some of the lower ones have exceeded 80, such a passing ability rating value can be compared with Arsenal.

In the transformation of the technical into the tactics.

Passing ability is an extremely important attribute, which is guaranteed by the overall passing ability, plus some coaching skills to add to the game.

It is absolutely certain that Derby County will not be weaker than Arsenal in terms of numbers.

The strength of the number jù does not represent some, it is just some number jù, but the number jù reflects the truth, as long as the team plays normally, Wansheng believes that even if it is at Highbury Field.

They also have a fight with Arsenal.

As soon as you look at it, you can see how it plays.

So Wan Sheng is very focused on the game, and he wants to see the team play with what they have in training.

Ten minutes after the game, Wan Sheng's heart was a little more settled.

He found the team's table to be very good.

For 10 minutes, they and Arsenal exchanged attacks and defenses and did not fall into the inferiority, Arsenal had only one shot on goal and failed to threaten, while they had two shots, one of which was also in the woodwork, and they still had the advantage in this number.

At the same time, the team's physical recovery training also played a role.

At this time, many team players have not yet entered the state, because they have just finished the holiday and have only just finished the first game of the new season, and they have not yet found the citrus to return to the league, and the team's physical recovery training has ended, that is to say, most of the players in the team have recovered their physical condition, and their mentality is uncertain, but their bodies must have returned to the rhythm, so the state of mind in the game will be better.

Now, every Derby player is running non-stop on the pitch.

There is only one football, but all the players are running, and the team is using this kind of running to open up the position, looking for opportunities, and increasing the technicality means increasing the number of passes, but Derby's offense is still based on grasping the rhythm, and the passing in the front court is mainly forward and crossing, and many times there are back passes, that is to say, in fact, the team's offense is still playing one word - fast, Arsenal's football is fast enough, but now Derby County's speed even makes Arsenal players very uncomfortable, more importantly, Derby's speed has increased its technicality as well as accuracy, with occasional succession of quick passes, making it difficult for Arsenal to limit Derby at the back.

Sky Sports commentator George Woodgate, who was the Sky TV commentator for a Premier League game, had only been in charge for two years in the role, so it was his first time covering a Derby County game.

Woodgate got some insight into Derby County ahead of the game.

In his understanding, Derby County are good at attacking football, and they are good at counter-attacking (Derby used counter-attacking in the FA Cup final against Manchester United at the end of last season), but their football has absolutely nothing to do with 'technique', and fast attacking football may be beautiful, but that beauty is only at the second division level, and it is difficult for them to play a smooth and beautiful game with continuous combinations.

But now it's different.

In Derby's successive attacks, the ball was passed by one player at a time, and then ran to the feet of another player.

With such a continuous pass, each attack can last many times, just like the Derby County players eat by passing.

But in reality, most of the players in this team are playing in the Premier League for the first time.

How is this possible?

How can they have such good technology?

It didn't take long for Woodgate to discover from a professional point of view that Derby's passing was not a mess, they were very targeted, they rarely returned passes, and after every few passes, the ball was closer to the goal.

The purpose of their passing is really to find opportunities closer to goal.

Woodgate is sure that this tactic is the same attacking football tactic that Derby County used last season.

The difference is that it's more technical, it's more threatening.

In fact, Derbyshire's tactics still have a great influence in England, and many professional football people have discussed this tactic, after all, Derby County uses this set of offensive football tactics.

It's been an astonishing run in League One and it's been to the FA Cup final, so it's certainly a good tactic.

Quite a few people have studied this.

But they found that the tactics are not complicated, and the words used to describe it are similar to 'full-court defensive counterattacks', which means that Derby County will expand the defensive range to the whole court, and directly carry out rapid counterattacks after getting the ball, if you want to use such tactics, you must have two guarantees, the first is that the whole team has a strong defensive ability.

The fitness of the players must also keep up, otherwise there is no way to talk about tactics, and it is impossible for an ordinary team to run like that for a whole game.

The second is that the defensive ability of all players should not be too bad, if you want to gain in the attack, you must also have fast players, players with excellent skills, etc., the latter point of the requirements is simple, the most important thing is that the physical fitness of the whole team is good.

In this way, there is a guarantee that the tactics will continue.

But now Woodgate feels that there is another requirement for this set of tactics - the players on the team are good at passing the ball...... The above two points are easy to do.

But the last addition is not something that ordinary teams can do, even at the Premier League level, only a few top teams can meet this requirement.

That's where the puzzling part is – how can a promoted horse like Derby have players in their squad pass so well?

It's incredible!

"We can see that Derby County are very well coordinated, they don't look like a promoted team at all, they look like a top team with a lot of potential!"

Woodgate exclaimed.

…… It's not just Woodgate who can see it, but more professional football professionals have long seen it.

For example, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger sitting in the dugout.

The Frenchman wasn't surprised by Derby's tactics, he was surprised that Derby could do so well, which was incredible.

The relationship between Wenger and Wansheng can be said to be passable, although they can't talk about friends or anything, but the enemy of the enemy is a friend, he and Ferguson are old rivals, and the relationship between Wansheng and Ferguson is extremely bad, so the relationship between the two is still good, even if they are now opponents.

Arsene Wenger has never underestimated Derby County, he will not underestimate a team that can beat Manchester United in the FA Cup final, and only he, who has been an opponent with Ferguson for eight years, knows how strong Ferguson's Manchester United is, even if they have sunk a little in the past two years, it is still very difficult to beat them, otherwise Manchester United will not end Arsenal's unbeaten league record last season.

Arsene Wenger knows a little bit about Derby County, knows their manager, knows their tactics, knows a few players who are very good, but he still didn't expect this Derby County team on the pitch to be so good.

Tactics are nothing, but the kind of quick one-kick passing cooperation in the game is not something that a small team can play, which requires a high level of individual ability and coordination ability of all players.

Ten minutes have passed.

Arsenal still haven't played any advantage, or even a little bit of a disadvantage, which is very incredible, you know, this is Highbury Stadium, and they are last season's league champions Arsenal, and the opponent is only a promoted team.

It's just that...... Promoted Horse!

Thinking of this, Wenger couldn't help but turn his head to look at Wan Sheng on the other side, he was just over 27 years old, 27 years old, many players are older than him, but in the managerial profession, he has been able to do this, he has created tactics specifically for his team, and let the team play, just this, how many managers can do it?

This young man is incredible.

Wenger suddenly remembered what the young Chinese said when the two shook hands before the game, "This will be a good game!" ”

He thought it was just a kind word, but now he felt that the other party was very sincere.

…… For a long time, Arsenal and Derby County were attacking and defending each other, and the game between the two teams was quite exciting, and there were exclamations from the stands.

No fan could have imagined that the game would be so exciting.

Arsenal is a team that has always been good at playing attacking football, Derby County is also a team that is good at playing attacking football, when the two teams collide together, it is attack against attack, if someone puts the two teams together before the game, they will definitely get the ridicule of Arsenal fans, but now no Arsenal fans do this kind of thing, because they are cheering for a good game, and many times they will worry about their own goals.

The Derby players just kept running on the pitch.

Whether attacking or defending, they are running, as if they came to the game to run, and in this dazzling running, Arsenal's attack was fingered again and again, and Derby's attack was to threaten the Arsenal goal again and again.

This kind of running is very difficult to defend.

Arsenal's defense is mainly a man-to-man tactic, but the Derby County frontcourt players keep running again, although the purpose is forward, but how to mark people, to mark who has become a problem for Arsenal defenders to think about, so it is not uncommon for the backfield to leak.

This time it's Ivan Crewe.

On the playing field, Ivan Crewe is never a conspicuous person, because his skills are average, when he has the ball, he rarely carries it himself, but hands the ball to his teammates, his speed is not too fast, and the key is that he is still a full-back, so many people will evaluate him as a barely qualified full-back.

So many times, Ivan Crewe is not taken seriously by his opponents.

This time is the same, the previous table shines on the other side of the Ribery, is the middle of Morris and Van der Vaart, the three form the left 'trident', the football between the three of them continue to pass and cooperate, people feel dazzling, a few times even Arsenal fans can't help but applaud, the excellent skills and subtle cooperation of the three have attracted the attention of all the fans, but also attracted the vast majority of the Arsenal backfield defense.

So Ivan Crewe's chance came.

When explaining the tactics, Wan Sheng emphasized that "the players in all positions of the formation are equally important, if they attract the attention of the defense, they will pass to other spaces, and as long as the formation is not a problem, there will be players who respond." ”

Just like this time, after Morris and Van der Vaart combined with their feet twice in a row, the football had reached the Arsenal penalty area, and it was difficult to pass forward, so Morris moved the ball across to the right side, and at the moment of passing, he didn't even think about it, and saw the football flying towards him, and it was directly a backheel kick, which was very chic, of course, if no one answered behind him, this action would be ironically 'juggling'.

Fortunately, there is someone behind Morris.

Ivan Crewe.

While advancing on the left side, Ivan Crewe had already followed, and no one noticed him, so he received the pass smoothly, and he also wanted to transfer the ball again, but when he realized that this was a good opportunity, Ivan Crewe did not hesitate, directly pulled the ball to the left, and immediately raised his foot and shot directly!

The ball flew off the penalty line and headed straight for the left corner of the goal.

Arsenal goalkeeper Lehmann struggled to save, he stretched out his long arm and stretched as long as possible, but unfortunately, the ball was shot by Ivan Crewe after adjusting his movements, his shot was as natural as if he was on the training ground, especially the position of the shot was still the penalty line, only about 17 meters from the goal, although the speed of the football was not fast, but the angle was very tricky, Lehmann still failed to save the ball in the end.

The only thing he could do was stare at the football in mid-air and fly past his fingertips.

That gesture...... Very elegant!

(To be continued)