Godfather Of Champions

A week after the Community Shield, the 04-05 season of the English Premier League officially kicked off.

The team that the whole England cares about is Arsenal. They are only two league games away from that dusty record of 25 years-from May 7, 2003, a make-up match at home in the 02-03 season began with a 6-1 home win over Southampton, the Frenchman Wen Grid’s team is constantly breaking the records of English football: Preston remained unbeaten in the 1888-89 season. Although there were only 22 games in a season at that time, it was still an untouchable success at the time; Burnley was unbeaten for 30 consecutive games in the 1920-21 season. They only lost three games at the beginning of the league. Then they restored their morale and maintained their unbeaten record until the end of the season, thus taking the club’s history. First league championship; Leeds United, unbeaten in 29 consecutive games in the 1973-74 season; Liverpool unbeaten in 29 consecutive games in the 1987-88 season.

At the beginning of the new season, Arsenal had achieved an impressive record of forty consecutive league rounds unbeaten. Today, there is only one record left in front of them: Nottingham Forest, led by Brian Clough, set an unbeaten record of 42 consecutive league games from 1977-78 to 1978-79!

As long as they win the first two league rounds this season, Arsenal will tie this record. After that, if they didn't lose a game, they set a record of consecutive unbeaten records.

Arsenal are in very good form now. Even in the first round of the league, they are going to challenge Everton away. Not many people are worried about this.

Sure enough, Arsenal beat Everton 4:1 away, unbeaten in 41 consecutive games!

On the other side, Tony Dunn’s Forest team seems to be in trouble...

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During the summer transfer period, Nottingham Forest frequently shot, and in the transfer market and Russia's wealthy Chelsea on the same level, the limelight. This makes people look forward to Dunn's team, and the local media in Nottingham are also very optimistic about this brand new forest team.

In the first round of the league, the Forest team challenged Blackburn away. Before the game, Dunn made a lot of effort to study their first opponent, the team, players, and coach. He did investigation and analysis. Self-confessed to be familiar with Blackburn, so as usual, with confidence, he led his team to the Buklaiburn Rangers' Ewood Park.

Ninety minutes later, the Forest team, who was full of hope for the new season, lost 0:1 to the home team Blackburn.

From the point of view of the score, it is not bad for a traditional team that was promoted to play in the Premier League and only lose one goal. But the game process is completely different, the score is always unable to faithfully reflect the gap between the two sides.

In this game, Dunn ranked the 442 formation that was practiced the most times in training, and sent him the eleven men he considered the best: the goalkeeper is Darren Ward, and the central defenders are Hierro and Matthew Ai. Pusen, the right back is the French teenager Zimbanda, his performance in training has completely compared John Thompson. The left back is Leighton Barnes, who has been sitting firmly in the main position in the second half of last season. The midfielders stand in parallel, with no suspense on the left by Frenchman Frank Ribery, on the right by Ashley Young, and George Wood and Albertini on the right. On the front line are Freddie Eastwood and Mark Viduka.

In addition, on the bench are goalkeeper Paul Gerrard, defenders Wes Morgan, Hrade Pique, midfielder Chris Commons and forward Pete Crouch.

This lineup can be regarded as the strongest lineup that Dunn can come up with, and it is also a stable starter in pre-season training. Dunn doesn't think it will be much worse than Blackburn.

But Blackburn, who was ranked 15th in the league only at the end of last season, taught the Forest team a lesson: Don’t think that you buy a lot of players in the summer, even if you are a strong Premier League team, the Premier League and the Premier League are completely different. Two worlds!

To play in the Premier League with the mentality of playing in the English Championship (formerly League One), failure is inevitable.

The performance of many newly promoted horses after the upgrade is not satisfactory. In addition to not investing enough in the transfer market, it also has a lot to do with their mentality.

Judging from the scene of the game, the forest team’s problem lies in the transition from defense to offense. Albertini is obviously not very comfortable with the fast and intense style of English football, and is slow in controlling the rhythm. What about Wood... Apart from defense, don't expect him to do anything else for a while.

Dunn knew these problems, so he made the two full-backs more active in the game, took more **** to break through, and tried to open the situation from the side. At the same time, he asked the two forwards to change positions frequently during the game, and constantly pull them up to attract the attention of Blackburn's defense and make room for teammates who break through the wing.

The idea is very good. In the first ten minutes or so, the wing of the Forest team did create a lot of trouble for Blackburn. But Blackburn’s head coach Mark Hughes quickly discovered Dunn’s intentions. The biggest threat to this forest team came from the side. Their central route was due to staffing reasons and could not directly threaten Blackburn’s goal. . So he simply placed the defensive force on the wing. In this way, Ribery and Ashley Young failed to break through several times, and even after taking the ball with their backs, they couldn’t turn around. Misfire.

The forest team's offense mainly relied on two wingers. Dunn saw Ribery and Ashley Young being stared to death by opponents and agreed to activate the second layer of offensive system-the full-backs inserted assists. Zimbanda and Layton Barnes are both full-backs who like and are good at assists. In normal training, Dunn also consciously requires the two full-backs to actively participate in assists, so that the Forest team's offense is more layered.

The back of the two full-backs reactivated the forest team's offense. The two sides are coming and going on the court, and the offensive and defensive transfer is very lively. But the helpless score is 0:0. In the second half, after Mark Hughes was familiar with all the offensive routines of the Forest team, he also found a way to completely paralyze the Forest team's wing. He asked the team to strengthen the offensive on the wing, and the Forest team started on the two wings. Contest head-on, with offense against offense, and offense instead of defense. Inexperienced and not yet tacitly cooperating with the Forest team, the two wings were gradually pushed back by the opponent, and then... Blackburn scored.

When the home team's old guard, Craig_Short (Craig_Short) used a corner kick to score the only goal of the game, the Ewood Park stadium was boiling, Blackburn made a good start, but the Forest team tasted the bitter fruit.

Despite losing the first round of the league, Dunn did not treat the players with anger as he gave the impression. In the press conference after the game, he admitted that his team did not perform very well, but that was because "you can't expect a German team that replaced nearly half of its main players in the summer to immediately play an amazing cooperation. , And Xingyun Liushui's offense. I only lost one goal away, I am very satisfied."

That's right, Dunn didn't lose his temper with the players after the game. The loss was in his plan. Even if he paid the tuition for his first Premier League season, and if nothing happens, the tuition will have to be paid from time to time. Nottingham Forest is not Arsenal, and Tony Dunn is not Wenger. He is not interested in carrying forward the record set by his team 25 years ago. If you want to be unbeaten in a row, please continue to be unbeaten. If you want to win the championship, please work towards the championship trophy. Dunn’s goal is simple: to stand firm in the Premier League and survive.

Rather than putting the blame on the players who performed poorly after losing, it is better to think about what else the team has not done well. He still has one week to improve with all his colleagues in the coaching staff during training.

After the first round of the game was over, the media commented on the performance of each team. The Forest team received a "disappointing" evaluation. They think that in the summer, they spent 12 million pounds and bought eleven people for the Forest team. They didn't play anything impressive at all. The tedious and unchanging side attack made themselves into a dead end.

Dunn insisted that the direction of the side attack was correct, and only needed to solve the specific details such as the coordinated movement of the side during the attack. At the same time, I look forward to Albertini adapting to the Premier League as soon as possible. Even if he only played half the level of his peak in AC Milan, it would be enough to revitalize the midfielder of the Forest team.

Seven days later, on August 22, the City Stadium ushered in the Forest's first home game of the season. It was also four years later that this stadium hosted the Premier League again. For many Forest fans, this is A memorable day.

On this day of the game, the City Stadium, which can only accommodate 27,000 people, was packed. Although the fans were disappointed that the team lost the first round, they still firmly supported this young team. From the beginning of the approach, the singing voices in the stadium have never stopped.

When Dunn was still a fan, he often watched La Liga, mainly watching the game between Real Madrid and Barcelona. Seeing this scene, he also had to lament the difference in football culture between England and Spain. Being able to coach in such an environment is almost the dream of all coaches.

In this game, for the loyal fans, nothing can be lost!

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