November passed, and in November, Derbyshire's table xiàn was perfect.

Derby County won all the leagues, the League Cup promotion, the League Cup promotion, it can be said that November is no regret for Derby County, in addition to winning the game, the off-field comments are also perfect, not only Wan Sheng won the 'Coach of the Month', even the 'Premier League Player of the Month' was also awarded to Rafael Van der Vaart, Derby County won the two best coaches and players, this month's game, it is definitely worth the team to recall.

But Derby County didn't have time to reflect on the past, and when November's game was over, December's game was just around the corner.

As a manager, you have to look at the game from a holistic perspective, rather than one game at a time, which would make the team unprepared for many games, especially in Derby, so early after the game against Chelsea, Wan Sheng had already set his eyes on the December game.

The month of December is divided into two phases, one before Christmas and one after Christmas.

Christmas is a watershed moment for Premier League teams, not only as Christmas marks the end of half a fixture, but also as it marks the start of a busy schedule – for every Premier League team, Derby County have not been eliminated from any competition at the moment, and their schedule is naturally very dense.

Not to mention after Christmas, Derby County have four ∫ games to play before Christmas alone - three league games and one League Cup.

After Christmas, if the League Cup is eliminated and the FA Cup enters the knockout stages, Premier League and Championship teams will join the competition, and Derby County will have a more dense schedule that can drag the deep-seated giants into the vortex, let alone a team like Derby County who lack bench depth.

Wansheng also has a headache about this.

The depth of the team's bench is a real problem, after all, they are not Chelsea. Even if he can make the players improve their strength, but each player's talent is different, there is a difference in strength, and there is also a difference in the table, the gap between the Derby County bench players and the main players is still somewhat obvious, and the number of players on the three fronts is also a problem, the whole team of 23 players, if the injury is too strict, he will not even be able to make up the eighteen-man squad.

So this problem is very fatal for Derbyshire. He has to be cautious or the injury problem could go straight to the team's downset.

Even if there is a football training master system, Wansheng can only help players recover faster, faster recovery does not mean that there will be no injuries, in the cold winter, the temperature in England is still cold, cold temperatures are naturally easy to bring injuries, other leagues have a winter break, one purpose is to allow each team to rest. Another aim is to give professional players more time to rest during the injury-prone winter months, thus reducing the likelihood of injury, but there is no winter break for clubs in England. On the contrary, the closer to this time, the more intensive the schedule becomes, and because of this, the smaller teams will face a tougher test.

Derby County is a small team. So this problem is more of a headache than the difficult schedule.

These days, Wansheng has been keeping an eye on the Derby County schedule for December. In the run-up to Christmas, Derby County have four games in the 20 days, an average of one every six days, and the schedule is acceptable, but two of them are close to the next round of the Premier League, when Derby host Manchester United and the other is the Carabao Cup quarter-final against Everton.

Both opponents are difficult to deal with, and the point is that the two matches are only three days apart.

After a big battle, two days in the middle, when the vacation time is a bit short, training all the time, Wansheng does not dare to guarantee that all the players can recover their condition, so these two games are still very headaches, the key is that none of them can choose to give up directly.

The League Cup and Everton games naturally cannot be given up, from the perspective of club honor, they have reached the quarterfinals of the League Cup, if you choose to give up, the previous efforts will be in vain; From Wansheng's personal point of view, his honor task needs to win three championships to complete, and the League Cup is the best one to fight for among the remaining championships, so he naturally can't choose to give up.

Therefore, this scene must be taken seriously.

In comparison, the league with Manchester United seems to be less important, but because the opponent is Manchester United, Wan Sheng also has to pay attention to it, losing to other teams is just conceding three points, but losing to Ferguson's Manchester United at home, Wan Sheng is very unwilling, thinking about the old man's appearance, Wan Sheng feels that he must defeat the other party.

However, Wansheng still considers it from the side of the team, after all, leading the team can not be mixed with too many personal emotional factors, if it is because of his own feelings that affect the results of the entire team, then it is really worth the loss.

Therefore, when it comes to Manchester United's game, Wan Sheng still intends to use appropriate rotation.

But Derby County often start a bit of a lot, Wan Shengli used the football training master system to find the main players who are often affected the most - Van der Vaart and Ribery, determined to let the two of them rest for a proper round, to prepare for the League Cup with Everton, after all, the game with Manchester United can be lost, just a league game, and there is still a chance to catch up, but the League Cup must be won, otherwise it will be eliminated directly.

The good news is that even if it is decided to give Van der Vaart and Ribery a rest, Wan Sheng will not be completely confident in his team's game against Manchester United.

At least Derby County have a chance in this game.

To say that the reason is naturally Manchester United's current state, the current Manchester United in terms of media opinion, has entered' In early November, the English media broke the news that the American Glazer, the president and CEO of the First Alliance Group in the United States, had officially submitted a proposal to the London Stock Exchange to acquire Manchester United, so that Manchester United entered the stage of being acquired by foreign capital, although many English media are not optimistic about whether the Glazer, who is worth less than 400 million euros, can buy Manchester United with a market value of more than 800 million euros, but it is undeniable that the Glazer has a chance.

This news is still very influential, perhaps Manchester United insiders have known the news for a long time, and because of this, this season's Manchester United table Xiàn is not strong, they are currently only in fourth place in the league, but also 4 points behind Arsenal, and Derby County and Chelsea points difference is 7 points, this point difference is not easy to recover.

In November. Manchester United's table is not very good, in the four rounds of the league, they have drawn one, lost one, won two, this result for Manchester United, can only be regarded as barely passing, but in the last round Manchester United table xiàn is very good, they beat Fulham 3-0, Scholes table xiàn is quite eye-catching. Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson said happily after the game: 'Our confidence is back. ”

Perhaps it is no longer an opponent of Manchester United, and Derby County has become the number one enemy, Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho after the last round, also began to pay attention to the game between Derby County and Manchester United, his attitude towards the game must be to hope that Manchester United beat Derby County, because Derby County and Chelsea have the same points, if it were not for Chelsea scored a few more goals in the last round, the top spot in the league would have changed hands, but Mourinho's approach is agitation. Perhaps because while using the tactics of saliva, he will not show mercy to Ferguson, "Manchester United are in terrible form right now, their forward line has not scored for a long time. 3-0 can only rely on Paul Scholes, it's like we lost Gudjohnsen, Kezman and Drogba at the same time, and Arsenal lost Thierry Henry, Bergkamp and Robin van Persie at the same time, so I don't think they can beat Derby. I don't want to be in Ferguson's situation. He's got a whole bunch of good players, but they just can't get good results. Maybe the takeover of Manchester United is good news, like we are now. Of course, I don't want to talk about it from the sidelines. In short, I don't expect Manchester United to win. But with football, you never know what's going to happen. ”

While saying 'cool words', Mourinho did not forget to show off Chelsea's top spot in the league to Manchester United: 'Our goal is to remain top of the league on the final day of the league and it's important to stay top of the league and I think we can do that. We've shown people that we're not afraid to take the lead, we stayed at the top of the table at the start of the season and I hope we can stay until now. For me, being number one is not stressful. ”

When Ferguson heard Mourinho's words, he didn't know what kind of mood he would have, but Wan Sheng saw these reports, and he could already imagine Mourinho's gloating face.

However, Wan Sheng will not be affected by what the rest of the outside world says, and in the first two days of the game, he is only seriously preparing for the game, even if Van der Vaart and Ribery have to rest for a round, he will not give up the game against Manchester United lightly.

In the past two days, the media has also reported on the next round of league matches, and naturally the most important is Derby's home game against Manchester United.

However, the news circulating in the media before the game still had to let Wan Sheng stand up and clarify, because a transfer was linked to Derby County, not that a certain team took a fancy to Derby County's players, but that Derby County was linked with players from other teams, that is, Tottenham Hotspur goalscorer Jermaine Fowler.

It's not uncommon to see Derby players linked to other teams, but it's surprising that players from other teams have been linked to Derby.

But the news is very interesting, "because of the need to replenish the squad, Derby County boss Wan Sheng is already planning to sign Tottenham Hotspur striker Jermaine Defoe"

Jermaine Defoe is indeed a good choice, because the player has just recovered from injury, and he doesn't know what form he will be when he returns, but the main thing is that he doesn't need to pay a transfer fee, Tottenham Hotspur can't wait for a team to take Fowler away, and Fowler has always been very stable before Tottenham Hotspur, and the player's transfer is still noticeable.

However, Wan Sheng has little interest in Defoe, because the team is not short of people in the forward line.

Not to mention the strong Van der Vaart, Bolton Reiter is also quite good, and Kluivert also has three goals in the league, and can also play a heavy role many times, plus Ian Taylor, and other players who can make guest appearances as strikers, the Derby County forward line is the most stable and prominent in the team, and Wan Sheng has no idea of supplementing the strength of the forward line.

So Wansheng's response to this was, "This news is pure fabrication. ”

Before the game against Manchester United, a reporter asked this question, but Wan Sheng's answer was, "It's not because I don't like Defoe, he's a really good young player, it's just that we're not interested in signing another goalscorer." ”

Wan Sheng's answer was unequivocal, dispelling the doubts of many media reporters.

But in fact, Wan Sheng is still very happy about this, there are such transfer news rumors, it proves that Derby's influence, or his influence is increasing, look at some of the team's young players, look at the veteran Ian Taylor and the re-expression of the excellent Kluivert, probably many old players and young players, want to be linked to Derby County, they have proven the ability to develop players and use players, even if Derby County is a small club, but for some young players, Or the players who are not good are still very attractive, they want to increase their strength, they are good, they want to get back to form, so they naturally want to play under them.

Wansheng believes that as his team results get better and better, and his fame grows, more players will take the initiative to join him in the future, even if he doesn't do anything, there will be more players who will be linked to their own teams and their names in the media news.

Of course, these are all in the future, and we still have to face the game against Manchester United now.

Before the game, the two teams were quite calm, Wan Sheng and Ferguson tacitly remained silent, and did not talk much about the opponent, maybe the grievances between the two do not need to be talked about anymore, even if they didn't say anything, the news in the media is still very hot, but what they say, that is, to make fans more interested in the game, is old news, and it has no impact on the two teams.

After a series of pre-match preparations, the race will soon begin.

Before the game, media reporters and various commentators were given the squad for both teams, and they soon noticed that Derby's big list was unusual, as the names of Rafael van der Vaart and Frank Ribery were not listed, which surprised many.

Derby County game, without Van der Vaart and Ribery in the squad?

So how are they going to fight Manchester United?

In the eyes of many, Van der Vaart and Ribery are the core players of Derby County, they are like Arsenal's Thierry Henry and Vieira, Liverpool's Steven Gerrard, Chelsea's Frank Lampard and John Terry, such players do not play, the impact on the whole team is huge, not to mention that neither player plays.

With such a Derby County, the strength will definitely drop by a notch!

So what suspense will there be in the game? (To be continued......)