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Tonight: Wayne Rooney's Real Derby Israel today

2022-01-03T09:30:37.345Z


Wayne Rooney hoped his coaching career would take off through Derby County, but did not imagine the journey that awaited him ● After reducing 21 points due to outrageous management, the latter in the second division found the right direction ● "If we stay it will be my biggest achievement in football" Championship bottom


On November 20, 2021, Derby County fell underground to the championship table.

A nine-point reduction penalty following breaches of financial laws joined the 12-point reduction penalty for entering a bankruptcy proceeding it received in September, and thus the team found itself in last place in the table with minus three points.

Everything she achieved in the first 17 rounds was taken from her.

Survival became in one moment a task that seemed impossible.

"It's not easy to deal with everything that happens here," said then-team coach Wayne Rooney, who nevertheless tried to maintain a pinch of hope;

"There is a lot of work to do before we start talking about it, but if we stay in the league it will be my biggest achievement in football."

Roni, as I recall, has five English championships, winning the Champions League, 53 goals in the national team and countless other individual and team titles.

And yet, he has never had a challenge like this.

Derby persuaded him to return from the US to its ranks, first as a player and then as a player coach, so that he could take her first steps in the next stage of her career.

Since starting to coach her exclusively last year the team has won 17 of 60 games, and last season survived in the league only in the final round, but it is hard to say that it is his fault.

Derby - two-time English champion in the 1970s - ran into huge debts during the tenure of former owner Mel Morris.

Roni.

Survival has become a task that seems impossible ?,

It owes taxes, transfer fees to other clubs, payments to service providers and kneels under the burden of lawsuits.

In addition, she is subject to penalties for buying chess, and is only allowed to borrow players for short periods.

All of these together make Ronnie's work almost impossible.

Why only almost?

Because the 36-year-old former player decided to give it a try anyway.

In the first game after dropping the points, Derby came back from behind to win 2: 3 over Bournemouth II, stabilizing with zero points in last place.

She has since ended in a draw and lost twice, but in the last month has raised her head above water.

Despite the Corona outburst on the team and the natural tendency to ask for a postponement of the games, Ronny insisted on playing.

Against Blackpool he brought up in the squad some inexperienced young players, and got a winning goal from 19-year-old Luke Flange who opened for the first time in his career.

Two weeks later, against West Brew Mitch from the top, Derby lacked stars Tom Lawrence, Phil Jagiellka, Camille Yuzoyak and others, and still won again 0-1.

The winning goal was scored by Colin Kazim Richards who recovered from Corona that week.

A few days later, away against Stoke, Roni got back some of the car players and together with them the team recorded a third victory in a row, this time. 1: 2.

"Know that the chance is small"

The conclusions generated by these games are that Derby is a good football team and Sharoni is not a bad coach at all.

Without dropping the points she had 31 points today that would have placed her in 14th place, but in reality she is still in last place with ten points.

Roni.

Not a bad coach at all, Photo: AP

However, a month ago it was 20 points away from the red line, and now it's only nine.

"We always believe you can survive in the league," Rooney said this week, "but we know this chance is small and therefore not drifting."

More specifically, to get to the 45 points that are usually equal to survival, a derby needs to get 1.46 points per game in the remaining 22 rounds.

Since falling to minus three points, Derby has averaged 1.85 points per game, making it possible to believe it is possible.

Tonight (Monday) Derby will try to continue the momentum when it hosts Redding, and it will be interesting to follow.

Still, we may be anticipating Wayne Rooney's greatest achievement.

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Source: israelhayom

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