When Layton Bynes blasted the ball into the back of the net, the Arsenal fans at Highbury Stadium fell silent, while the handful of Derby County fans and the arriving neutral fans let out loud cheers.

Amid the cheers, Layton-Baines excitedly knelt on the ground and hugged his forehead, letting out an excited yell, and everyone could see his excitement.

Listening to the cheers of the fans in the stands, it suddenly dawned on Leighton Bynes that he had made the right choice to come to Derby County last season, with a manager who believed in him, a group of team-mates he could trust, and as a left-wing-back, he was able to score goals against Arsenal, which was almost a dream.

Highbury Stadium goal!

How many players can do it?

Now I'm one of them.

Last season, I was not bad, but after all, it was in League One, and now in the Premier League, it's completely different, and probably tomorrow there will be a lot of media coverage of me, right?

What will they say?

Fans will also be very happy with their watches, right?

If he can continue to perform like this, maybe soon the England national team will have to call on him...... At this moment, countless thoughts flashed through Baines's mind, and the only thing he was very sure of was that there was a bright path in front of him, and all he needed to do was to train and compete as best he could.

Bynes was surrounded by his team-mates, who had just celebrated the goal together and were still very excited.

Van der Vaart looked at the group of teammates, who were not yet familiar with most of them.

Some players are not even called by name, but it doesn't matter, after this game.

He found himself connected to a lot of people on the team.

At the same time, he also thinks about the game, the opponent Arsenal, and the current 2:0.

The only thing he is sure of now is that the team's young manager didn't lie to himself, it was a really energetic team, although only promoted to the first game against Arsenal.

To be able to play like this away from home gives him more confidence in the quality of the team.

At the same time, he also has some envy of Baines and Ivan Crewe.

These two players are not known in the team.

But they have league goals, and they have scored against Arsenal, and as a starting striker, they have yet to score.

Now he's suddenly desperate to score goals.

For a striker, nothing beats scoring goals...... Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines, very excited.

In the match against Arsenal at Highbury Stadium, the score was 2:0, even if he was very confident in the team before the game, he was still excited to see this score.

He suppressed his beating heart.

As a manager, he knows he has to stay calm and not be as indulgent as the players.

Can't just be as excited as everyone else, he needs to keep his head above water, though, after leading by two balls.

What the team needs to do is to stabilize and drag the score until half-time, which is the safest.

So he called Captain Marcus and told him to tell the others to be defensive.

While attacking was also dominant, Arsenal must have been desperate to pull one back before half-time, with two goal advantages.

It's a lot more than worth losing to play against them, so it's important to defend solidly.

Soon Marcus informed everyone on the team.

Everyone came back from the joy of scoring a goal.

Hurriedly contracted the formation and put on a look of guarding the goal...... Arsenal do want to pull a goal back, being two goals down at half-time is not the same thing as being one goal down, every Arsenal player knows they need to score, so when the game restarted, they attacked very hard.

Derby, meanwhile, have scaled back their formation.

After shrinking the formation, Derby County's half-time defense became very dense, so it was not easy for Arsenal to find space and opportunities.

Arsenal in the dugout.

Arsene Wenger looked at the situation on the field and suddenly frowned, not because he was behind the score, but because he noticed something strange...... It seems that after Derby County contracted their formation and started to defend, the tactics and formation still remained unchanged?

This is very strange place.

Normally, shrinking the formation to defend, and offensive football are completely different tactics, in offensive football, some front-court players do not even need to participate in the defense, and after the contraction of the formation, in fact, the defense is a little chaotic, for example, some front-court players will retreat to their own half, constantly running in the front of the penalty area, their running has no regularity at all, it is to say that it is a random rush, it must not be an exaggeration, even the top league giants are the same, Arsenal is like this when all retreat to defense.

Derby County seems to be a little different.

But what exactly is different, Wenger is not sure for a while, after all, there is not much time left, after a few minutes of battle and two minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, and the two teams rushed back to the dressing room.

On the way back to the dressing room, Wenger was still thinking about it.

But he quickly shook his head and didn't think much about it, knowing that the most important thing was to restore the morale of the team and continue to work hard in the second half...... Highbury Stadium, the away team dressing room.

The Derby County players were excited, and some of them believed before the game that they could beat Arsenal, but they never expected them to be able to lead by two goals in the first half, and it seemed easy.

Wan Sheng looked at everyone with a smile on his face.

This first half was really a bit too smooth, but he knew the reason, one is that the team's tactics are surprising, after adding technical to the original tactics, after a month of training, coupled with their various coaching skills, in fact, the team is not much worse than Arsenal, and another very important point is that for a long time in the beginning, Arsenal did not find the form at all, and the team found the opportunity to score first, and then scored the second goal.

Two goal advantage, that's good news.

It was even enough to guarantee the team's victory.

Wan Sheng raised his arms and motioned for everyone to be quiet.

The players also stopped talking and focused their attention.

Waiting for Wan Sheng to speak, just this simple action and reaction shows that Wan Sheng has the current control of the team, everyone will follow his orders, he is the biggest leader of the team.

After the locker room was quiet, Wan Sheng spoke, "Everyone played very well in the first half. Everyone was nice! ”

"If I were a journalist, I would definitely ask. Derby have two goals ahead, how do you feel? ”

Hearing Wan Sheng's quip, everyone laughed out loud - "Very good! ”

"It's amazing! We're ahead of Arsenal! ”

"Two balls! I can't even imagine it! ”

"Ivan, Leiden! Our hero, haha! ”

“……”

There was a mess in the locker room.

Wan Sheng raised his hand again to signal everyone to be quiet, and his face became stern, "That's right, this feeling is good, and I feel good, but we have to maintain the advantage of the score until the end of the game to be considered a victory!" ”

"Now you, including me, Gail, etc. Everyone was happy, but I didn't want to see that forty-five minutes later we were leaving London with a sense of loss. Do you know what I mean? ”

"Understood!"

The players roared in unison.

"Good!"

Wan Sheng praised the players and pointed to the tactical board, "Let's start to lay out the tactics for the second half, we need to try to take advantage of the score and hold the initiative in our hands......"

…… Compared to the relaxed dressing room at Derby County, the atmosphere in the home dressing room at Highbury Stadium is much more solemn.

Not a single Arsenal player laughed out of the way, and everyone had a heavy and stern look on their faces.

Before the game.

None of them expected to be two goals down in the first half.

In the eyes of everyone in the Arsenal team, this should have been an easy game, as last season's league champions, one of England's two giants in the new century, in their hallowed Highbury Stadium, shouldn't it be an easy victory against a promoted team?

But that's not the case now.

They were two goals behind, a fact that even now some people can't believe it.

How is that possible?

Are we lagging behind?

Behind a promoted team, and still two goals?

But they have to believe because manager Arsene Wenger has walked in with a calm face.

Arsene Wenger stood in front of everyone and just looked at them.

Everyone is reflecting on why the game is the way it is, and it boils down to two reasons, first, the opponent is not as weak as they thought, and second, their performance is not very good.

These two reasons are clear to everyone.

So Arsene Wenger didn't talk about the reason or anything at all, he just said in a low voice, "We need to score goals......

Hearing Wenger's words, many players breathed a sigh of relief.

Arsene Wenger doesn't like other coaches who lose their temper when the team's table is bad.

When he is silent, it is the most frightening, he just stands there with a calm face, it will put a lot of pressure on the player, but after he speaks, the player feels a lot less pressure.

But that doesn't mean it's okay, and if the team loses like this, many players can imagine that it will be difficult for them to see the coach's smile again until the next round of the league.

That's not a fun thing to do.

'We're Arsenal, we're the defending champions, and this is Highbury Stadium, there's more than 30,000 Arsenal fans in the stands, and if your performance isn't good, all the fans will be watching. It's not the end of the day to be two goals down, we still have a chance. ”

"But I hope that in the second half, your watch will change."

Wenger said lightly.

Despite the calm tone, anyone could hear the pent-up anger in his tone, the Frenchman was very unhappy with the game, but he didn't scold the players, he knew very well that it didn't do anything but put pressure on the players, what he needed was to make the team look better, not to let the players play with more pressure...... At half-time, Arsene Wenger only talked about his team scoring goals and didn't say much about the first half.

Despite this, he believes the team will be better in the second half because they are Arsenal and there are a lot of big players in the team and they all know what to do in the second half.

But after the start of the second half, Arsene Wenger frowned again.

He was not for Arsenal's appearance, but for Derby's tactics, just like the feeling in the second half of the first half, and now this Derby County team that has contracted the defensive line gives him the same feeling as Derby County, who played attacking football before.

The opponent's tactics don't seem to have changed much?

He couldn't see any changes at all except that the formation had shrunk, but the surprising thing was here, Derby County had shrunk their formation and began to choose to defend, but their formation and style of play had hardly changed, it was still pressing, it was still fast-breaking, but the pressing was carried out in the half-court, and the fast-break occasionally relied on the individual ability of the players.

In order to ensure safety, there will certainly not be as many passes at the back.

Arsene Wenger suddenly thought of a sentence from some media commenting on Derby's tactics last season, "Derby's attacking football is actually to extend the defensive counterattack to the whole field." ”

He used to think that this was just malicious speculation by those hostile Derby County media, but when he saw Derby County, who were now shrinking their defensive line, he suddenly felt that this sentence was extremely correct.

Derby County really just shrink the defence!

This is where their tactics and formation are surprising, when they don't shrink the defence, they play beautiful attacking football, and can even suppress Arsenal for a while; After shrinking the defensive line, the tactics and formation did not change, and their style of play became defensive counterattacks...... Seeing this, Wenger felt even more incredible.

How did the Chinese come up with such a defensive and offensive tactic?

Most importantly, how did the whole Derby County team adapt to such a tactic in a short period of time?

Wenger couldn't help but turn his head to look at the coach's bench next to him, the young Chinese man was sitting there steadily, as if sensing his gaze, Wan Sheng also looked over to this side, and the two of them were looking at each other.

Wan Sheng smiled at Wenger.

Arsene Wenger smiled back.

Arsene Wenger suddenly felt that he seemed to have one more opponent in the English league.

(To be continued)