Legend of Green: Rise of the Red Rebels

As the saying goes, it's easy to beat others, it's hard to beat yourself, and the best way Lu Wei thinks of is to beat the opponent head-on against a team with a similar style to his own.

FC United failed to win in both league meetings, the first of which was equalised by Russell twice by grabbing Tafnir's assist from the back air defense left by the front.

The second game coincided with Tyrone's suspension, when FC United were unstable and Martin seized the opportunity to score a goal to lead, and later Holihaan accidentally swung an own goal to give Derby County a win against the Reds.

With the experience of two meetings in the league, Lu Wei's starting lineup in this game made Steele and others complain for half a day.

Goalkeeper Mendy, four defenders Tafnir, Tarkovski, Tyrone and Robertson, four midfielders Baird, McGim, Holihaan and Grimes, and two strikers Michu and Gnabry.

What makes Steele complain is not anything else, but too conservative, four players in the midfield and two defensive midfielders, Grames and Holihaan also have relatively strong defensive ability and running ability, and the strikers only play Michu and Gnabry with strong individual ability, which is to play defensive counterattack at home in Derbyshire.

"Derby are very balanced in attack and defense, but their home results are much better than away results, and they have scored a lot of goals at home, which is very similar to us, I want to put the game in our home stadium, so we have only one task in the first leg, which is to defend and counterattack, we have the best back line in the Championship, we have the fastest attacking group of strikers, why not play to that advantage?"

This is the task that Lu Wei conveyed to the coaching staff during the pre-match preparation.

Derbyshire's starting line-up is expected by Lu Wei, goalkeeper Carson, defenders Christie, Shackel, captain Keow and Olsen, Scotsman Bryson at the back, Hughes and Johnson are the two core midfield, and the three forwards are Ince, Russell and Martin.

Pride Park was packed with more than 33,000 fans, while FC United's away fans were a measly 4,000, not because they didn't want to come, but because Derby County gave so many tickets to the away fans.

"These shameless things, when they return to the red stadium in three days, they will look good, brothers, shout to me, what about the lack of people, our voice is still louder than them, red rebels, rush!"

Red Rebels fan leader Johnson led FC United fans to sing "Nobody can drag me down", and the voice of more than 4,000 people was no less than that of nearly 30,000 Derby County fans.

Sure enough, as soon as the opening game, Derby County tried to start storming the FC United half, but four defensive midfielders launched a tenacious blockade, Hughes was forced by the experienced Baird to not even hold the ball, in the original time and space, Baird will join Derby County this season, but in this world, Baird came to FC United to block the attack of "former teammates".

Derby's attacking center of gravity began to shift to the sides, but FC United, which had long been prepared, responded immediately, McKim assisted in defending the right flank, Graems assisted in defending the left flank, even if Robertson and Tavernir assisted in the front, there would be no room for it, and the entire first half Derby County could not organize an effective attack.

Before the end of the first half, Derby County had only completed two shots on goal, neither of which was within the goal frame, and Mendy just waved his hand to symbolically make a save before taking the ball picked up by the caddy and placing it on the line of the small penalty area.

Instead, Michu and Gnabry used their abilities to threaten a goal guarded by Carson, and Gnabry overtook from the outside of the wing in a quick counterattack and passed the ball to Michu under the siege of the central defender, and Michu's point-grabbing shot was confiscated by the goalkeeper under the interference of Keo.

"In the second half, their attack will definitely be more violent, Wei Mann, Hendrik have the possibility of going on the field to strengthen the attack, so our defense must not panic, stabilize the defense, and then seize the opportunity to counterattack, give them a fatal blow, don't let the football stay too much in our backfield, cut off the ball and make a long pass, don't pass the high ball, try to pass the low flat ball, Miguel and Serge have a technical advantage, don't entangle with their midfield, break through them with speed and technology, As for the dirty work, just leave it to John and the four of them. "

Lu Wei was quite irresponsibly assigning tasks to the four midfielders in the dressing room.

"I protest, it's not fair."

Grimes raised his hand and coaxed, and McKim, Tyrone and others also raised their hands in protest.

"Protests are invalid!"

Lu Dawei's hand pressed down.

"Revolutionary work is only different in the division of labor, there is no distinction between high and low, being a big president is one thing, pulling a rickshaw is also a thing, harm, tell you what to do, everyone has their own tasks on the field, we FC United are united red rebels, everyone completes their sacred tasks, in order to bring victory to the team, listen to me, what do you say those who have not done."

"Hahahaha."

The players laughed one after another, Lu Wei also laughed with them, now the atmosphere in the team makes Lu Wei very satisfied, the players are very confident in themselves and their teammates, Lu Wei firmly believes that as long as the players' mentality does not have problems, the team will definitely appear in the Premier League next season.

The second half was still a play for Derby County to attack FC United, and it didn't change until seventy minutes later, when Lu Wei replaced Sollot for veteran Baird, Robertson and Tavernir began to frequently cut forward from both sides, and the offensive and defensive balance on the field was adjusted in an instant.

Derby, who had been storming, was in turmoil for a while, and if goalkeeper Carson had not focused enough, FC United could have taken the lead away from home.

FC United's three-board axe also scared Derby County manager Worsall, fortunately, he has not replaced Bryson, the defensive ability on the field is not weak, and he hurriedly arranged for the players to retreat to withstand the stormy attack of FC United.

When referee Swarbrick blew the final whistle, the Derby players sat rather reluctantly on the pitch, and they were able to take the lead several times in the game, but until the end of the game, FC United's goal was rock-solid, but their own city gate was almost broken.

Although the score was only 0:0, Lu Wei also got what he wanted, but the Derby County side looked gloomy, because they all knew that Pride Park was not the home of the devil in the Championship, and the red court was the real home of the devil.