Vol 3 Chapter 11: Offensive football and defensive counterattack

When Leighton Bynes drove the ball into the goal, Arsenal fans at Highbury Stadium were silent, and a few Derbyshire fans and the neutral fans who came came cheering tremendously.
In the cheers, Leiden Bynes knelt on the ground holding his forehead excitedly, and shouted excitedly, everyone could see his excitement.
Listening to the cheers from the fans in the stands, Leiden Bynes suddenly felt that the choice to come to Derbyshire last season was extremely correct. There are coaches who trust themselves and a group of trusted teammates as a left Defender, he can also score goals in the game against Arsenal, which is almost like a dream.
Highbury Stadium goals! How many players can do it?
Now I have become one of them.
Last season, I performed well, but after all, it was the Premier League, and now it is completely different in the Premier League. Maybe there will be a lot of media coverage of myself tomorrow? What would they say? Fans will also be very satisfied with their performance? If he can continue this performance, perhaps the England national team will soon call on himself ... At this moment, Bynes has countless thoughts flashing in his mind. The only thing he is very certain is that In front of him is a bright road, all he needs to do is to do his best to train and go to the competition.
Teammates are all around Bynes, they just celebrated the goal together, they are still very excited.
Van der Vaart looked at this group of teammates, he was not familiar with most people. Some players even have incomplete names, but it doesn't matter, after this game. He found himself familiar with many people on the team.
At the same time, he also thought of the game, his opponent Arsenal, and his current 2: 0.
The only thing he is sure about now is that the team ’s young head coach did not lie to him. This is really a vibrant team. Although it is only a newly promoted team, the first scene is against Arsenal. This can be done on the road, he has more confidence in the team's strength.
He also envied Baines and Ivan Crewe.
These two players haven't changed names in the team. But they had a league goal, and it was against Arsenal, and as a starting striker, they haven't scored yet. Now he was suddenly eager to score.
For a striker, there is nothing more convincing than scoring.
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Wan Sheng stood on the sidelines and was very excited.
At Highbury Stadium and Arsenal, the score was 2: 0. Even if he had confidence in the team before the game, he was still excited when he saw this score.
He strongly suppressed the beating heart.
As the head coach, he knew he had to remain calm and not vent like a player. Can't be just as excited as the others, he needs to keep his head clear, after leading the two balls. What the team needs to do is to stabilize and drag the score to the end of the half, which is the most safe.
So he called Captain Marcus and told him to tell others to pay attention to defense.
Although the offense is also an advantage, Arsenal must be very eager to pull back a goal before the end of the first half, there are two goals advantage. Fighting against them is very worthless, so a solid defense is the most important.
Soon Marcus notified everyone in the team.
Everyone recovered from the joy of scoring. Hurry to shrink the formation and put on a look like holding the goal.
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Arsenal really want to pull back a goal, two goals behind at halftime, and one goal behind is not a concept at all, every Arsenal player knows they need to score, so after the game restarts, they attack very violent .
At the same time Derbyshire has shrunk.
After shrinking the formation, Derby County's half-time defense became very dense, so that it is not easy for Arsenal to find opportunities and opportunities.
Arsenal coach.
Wenger looked at the game and suddenly frowned. He didn't frown because of the backward score, but he found something strange ... It seems that after the contraction of Derbyshire began to defend, the tactics and formation Still no change?
This is a very strange place.
Normally, shrinking formation to defend is completely different from offensive football. In offensive football, some front players do not even need to participate in defense. After shrinking formation, the defense is actually a bit messy, such as some The front-court players will retreat to their own half and continue to run in the front of the penalty area. Their running is not regular. It is said that they are robbing all at once. This must not be an exaggeration, even if it is a top-level league goal. The same is true for the team, which is how Arsenal pull back their defense.
Derbyshire seems a little different.
But the specifics are different. Wenger is still uncertain for a time. After all, there is not much time left. After a few minutes of competition and two minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half of the game. The team rushed back to the locker room.
On the way back to the dressing room, Wenger was still thinking about the problem.
But he quickly shook his head and stopped thinking about it. He knew that it was the most important thing for the team to return to morale and continue to work hard in the second half.
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Highbury Stadium, the visiting team locker room.
Derbyshire players are very excited. Some people before the game believed that the team might beat Arsenal, but they never thought that the team could lead two goals in the first half, and the process seemed to be very easy.
Wan Sheng looked at everyone with a smile.
This first half was a bit too smooth, but he knew the reason, one was that the team ’s tactics were surprising. After adding technical skills to the original tactics, after a month of training, plus his various coaching skills, the actual In fact, the team is not much worse than Arsenal. Another very important point is that for a long time in the opening, Arsenal did not find the state at all. As a result, the team found the chance to lead the ball and then scored the first. Two balls.
Two goals advantage, this is good news. 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 obey his instructions, he is the team's largest leader.
After the locker room became quiet, Wan Sheng said, "Everyone did well in the first half. Everyone was very good!"
"If I were a reporter, I would definitely ask. Derby County led by two goals, how are you feeling?"
Everyone laughed when they heard Wansheng joking--
"well!"
"This is great! We are ahead of Arsenal!"
"Two balls! I dare not imagine!"
"Ivan, Leiden! Our hero, haha!"
"..."
The locker room was in a mess. Wan Sheng raised his hand again to signal that everyone was quiet and his face became serious. "Yes, this feels good, and I feel very good, but we must maintain the advantage of the score until the end of the game to be considered a victory!"
"Now you, including me, Gael, etc. Everyone is very happy, but I don't want to see that after 45 minutes, we left London with loss. Do you understand what I mean?"
"understand!"
The players shouted neatly.
"Very good!" Wan Sheng praised the next player and pointed to the tactical boarding. "The second half of the tactics will be arranged below. We need to use the advantage of the score as much as possible to put the initiative in our hands ..."
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Compared with the ease of the Derbyshire locker room, the atmosphere of the Highbury home team locker room is much more dignified. No Arsenal player laughed, everyone's face was heavy and serious.
Before the game. No one expected that they would be two goals behind in the first half.
In the eyes of everyone on the Arsenal team, this should have been an easy game. As a league champion last season, one of the two giants of England ’s new century, faced a team at their sacred Highbury Stadium. Should n’t the newly promoted be an easy victory?
But this is not the case now.
They are two goals behind, and the fact that they are in front of them is still unbelievable even now.
how can that be possible?
Are we behind? Behind a newly promoted horse, and still two goals? But they must believe, because the coach Wenger has come in with a sullen face.
Wenger stood in front of everyone, just looking at them.
Everyone is reflecting on why the game became like this. It comes down to two reasons. First, the opponents are not as weak as they think, and second, their performance is not very good.
These two reasons are clear to everyone.
So Wenger didn't talk about the reason at all, he just said lowly, "We need to score ..."
Hearing Wenger's words, many players were relieved.
Wenger, unlike other coaches, loses his temper when the team does not perform well. It was the most frightening when he was silent. He just stood there with a sullen face, which would put a lot of pressure on the players. On the contrary, after he spoke, the players felt a lot less pressure.
But this does not mean that it does not matter. If the team loses the game like this, many players can imagine that before the next round of the league, they will hardly see the coach's smile again.
That's not interesting.
"We are Arsenal, defending champions, and here is Highbury Stadium. There are more than 30,000 Arsenal fans in the stands. If your performance is not good, all fans will see it. Two goals behind is not the end. , We still have a chance. "
"But I hope that your performance will change in the second half."
Wenger said lightly.
Although the tone is very calm, anyone can hear the depressed anger in his tone. The Frenchman is very dissatisfied with the game, but he will not yell at the players. He is very clear that in addition to putting pressure on the players There is no role outside, what he needs is to make the team perform better, rather than let the players play with more pressure.
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At halftime, Wenger only talked about the team's goal, and didn't say much about the first half.
Despite this, he still believes that the team will perform better in the second half because they are Arsenal, there are many generals in the team, they all know what to do in the second half.
But after the opening of the second half, Wenger frowned again.
He is not for the performance of Arsenal, but for the tactics of Derby County. It is like the feeling of the second half of the first half. Now the Derby County, which has contracted the defense, gives him the feeling of playing Derby County. It's no different.
There seems to be no change in the opponent's tactics?
He did n’t see any other changes except the contraction of the formation, but what was surprising was that Derbyshire contracted the formation and started to choose defense, but their formation and style of play hardly changed, and they were still forced. It is still a fast break, but the forced is done at halftime, and the fast break occasionally depends on the player's personal ability. In order to ensure safety, there will certainly not be so many passes in the backcourt ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Wenger suddenly thought of a sentence that some media evaluated Derby County tactics last season, "Derby County's offensive football is actually to defend The counterattack expanded to the whole audience. "
He used to think that this was just malicious speculation against the Derbyshire media, but when he saw Derbyshire, which is now shrinking his defense, he suddenly felt that this statement was extremely correct.
Derbyshire is really just a contraction of defense!
The surprise of their tactics and formation is here. When there is no shrinking defense, they play beautiful offensive football, and they can even suppress Arsenal for a time. After shrinking the defense, the tactics and formation have not changed. Law became a defensive counterattack ... Because of this, Wenger felt even more incredible.
How did the Chinese come up with such a defense and offensive tactic? Most importantly, how did the entire Derby County team adapt to such a tactic?
Wenger could not help turning his head to look at the coach seat next to him. The young Chinese man sat there steadily, as if he had sensed his gaze. Wan Sheng also looked over here, and the eyes of the two were just right.
Wan Shengchao Wenger smiled slightly.
Wenger smiled back.
Wenger suddenly felt that he had one more opponent in the English League. (To be continued)