Godfather Of Champions

Losing the FA Cup did not affect Dunn's mood, nor did it affect the overall atmosphere of the team. Everyone knows where they need to work this season.

Time entered February. Although the Forest team was eliminated in the FA Cup, their progress did not stop there. Manchester United helped the Forest team shed a heavy burden, and the Forest team played lightly.

On February 1, 2005, Nottingham Forest played against Crystal Palace at home. After losing the FA Cup, Dunn was lucky. The Forest team can use this weak team to adjust their state and psychology. In the shouts of nearly 30,000 fans at the City Stadium, Nottingham Forest easily won the visiting team Crystal Palace 2:0.

Twenty-five rounds of the league, accumulating forty points, still ranked sixth below Liverpool.

Nottingham Forest wants to improve its ranking. Liverpool, who is on their heads, is the first enemy. At present, the two teams have a total of 40 points. As long as Liverpool make a small mistake, the Forest team may replace it.

It is almost impossible for Liverpool to not make mistakes. This season they will put more energy into the Champions League. The team has limited energy and specializes in the Champions League and must give up the league. At that time it was an opportunity for the Forest team.

What Dunn has to do now is to win all the games that he can win, and then hibernate quietly behind Liverpool, waiting for it to lose strength and will fall behind, and then surpass it suddenly.

It doesn't matter if Liverpool have made no mistakes. Nottingham Forest has a direct match with Liverpool. This time it is at home. Dunn will not allow the team to fail again.

Of course, before the decisive battle with Liverpool, the Forest team themselves should not be left behind. Dunn didn't want to see the team work hard for most of the season, and in the end slowly couldn't keep up with the big team and was left behind.

In the training, Dunn strengthened the team's defensive practice, as soon as possible to allow Van der Sar and the defense line to cultivate enough tacit understanding-the FA Cup lost to Manchester United, the goalkeeper Van der Sar and the defense line have some coordination problems. one of the reasons.

In addition, after joining the player, Arteta has already positioned himself with the team, which is also something Dunn needs to worry about.

When the Forest team bought Arteta, some people worried that Coach Dunn would not be able to arrange the Forest team's midfielder. Because the combination of Wood and Albertini proved to be very successful in the first half of the season, the coach has no reason to break up the pair because of a new player.

But in Dun En's eyes, this is not a problem at all.

The tempo of the Premier League is the fastest among the four top European leagues (except for Ligue 1, one of the previous five major leagues), with fast offensive and defensive transitions, fast offensive speeds, fast passing speeds, fast-paced fighting...In short, everything fast. Such a rhythm of the game requires high physical fitness for the players. Albertini is already a 33-year-old veteran after all. His physical fitness cannot support him to start the entire season and play 90 minutes in each game. He must have a substitute player, and Arteta is the most suitable candidate.

Unlike Dunn’s memory in Everton, the core position of Arteta is different. Now Arteta belongs to the kind of player who has not proven himself in the Royal Society, so he has no right to play a big name. He is neither The core of the forest team's midfielder is not a big-name star of the forest team. This can be seen from his worth of 3 million euros, and it is only about 1.5 million pounds in pounds, which is pitiful. .

Arteta entered the Nottingham Forest very low-key. From the first day he came to this team, Dunn told the Spaniard very frankly that now he can't become the main player of the Forest team, but he will be Albertini's first substitute. Because he is the player with the most organizing and offensive ability in the midfield besides Albertini. As long as he performs well, he has the same opportunity to turn from a bench player into a starting main force. Of course, if he doesn't mind playing the midfield wing, he will have more chances to play.

Arteta accepted Dunn’s opinion. He considered trying to play multiple positions in the midfield-he also wanted to prove that his strength was not as unbearable in Real Sociedad. In order to make a good impression on the new coach, he also did a great job. .

Dunn hasn't bought those big-name players so far because of this consideration: Can he manage the well-known players when he is so young? If there are too many big-name players in the team that do not obey him, the coach has to be disciplined, then the team will have no fighting power at all. Tang Enning is willing to find some ordinary players who are not well-known but not weak, and will never find those who have been famous for a long time. To put it nicely is "no one can be above the team as a whole", and to be arrogant is "no one can be above his Tony Dunn".

How similar is this to the deceased Clough...

In terms of adapting to the English football style, Arteta does not have any problems. Albertini has been used to the Forest team for a while. Arteta doesn’t have to worry about this because he has played in Scotland. Used to this football style of the British Isles. Adaptation is not equal to assimilation. He can adapt to English football while retaining his delicate foot skills and outstanding imagination. The advantages of Spanish players are not few. Such a player is the dream of all head coaches. He can bring new things to the team and make the team unique in the entire league.

Dunn is very optimistic about Arteta and hopes to train him into the core of the forest team's midfield organization. At that time George Wood will protect Arteta as he protects Albertini and Rebrov.

Therefore, in training, Dunn would often arrange Wood and Arteta in a group, and from this time on, slowly cultivate their tacit understanding.

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On February 5th, in the twenty-sixth round of the league, Nottingham Forest continued their road trip. This time the opponent was Aston Villa.

When the Premier League just started this season, the Forest team once tied Aston Villa with an own goal at home. That was the first point of the Forest team in the Super League. Since then, the Forest team has played ten consecutive rounds in the Super League. Undefeated!

Although the people are still those people, the Forest team now and back then are completely different teams.

After half a season of running-in and experience, today's Forest team is more mature and stronger, and can always stay in the top six, but it can't be done by luck alone.

Despite being on the away game, the Forest team defeated Villa.

In this tough away game, the man who helped the team achieve the final victory was Freddie Eastwood.

The Gypsy hasn't appeared in the headlines of newspaper sports for some time. Recently, because of the needs of the club, he has been promoting his teammate and "enemy" George Wood in high-profile. I don't know how he would feel when he saw those reports. Fortunately, these did not affect Eastwood's performance. Maybe he is not the most dazzling star in the Forest. In addition to scoring goals on the field, he seems to have disappeared in a low-key manner. Occasionally he will go back to London to visit his dad, but more often he is in that car. Take care of his wife and children in the wagon.

Eastwood hasn't found an agent until now. Someone once asked to be his agent, but he refused. So apart from playing football, he has no commercial activities. The chance of exposure in the newspaper is naturally greatly reduced.

But this time, he made the headlines, and not only the local media in Nottingham, he was a popular figure on Fleet Street in London this week.

In Villa_Park, there may be many people who shine. The striker Angel, who scored the first goal for Aston Villa, and the Ecuadorian veteran who scored the second goal for the home team, made the fans crazy. Ulises_de_la_Cruz (Ulises_de_la_Cruz), the Dutch goalkeeper Van der Sar who is still calm despite conceding two goals, the veteran Hierro who rebuilds the defense no longer gives the opponent any chance, and Viduka who creates opportunities for teammates to attract the attention of the opponent's defense Substitute Albertini played for the first time in the Premier League for Arteta...but the most radiant person is the low-key gypsy Freddie Eastwood.

Although the game had just started twenty minutes, the home team used the fast break to score two goals. Fans at Villa Park must have thought that the Forest team had been beaten. They could start celebrating the victory seventy minutes earlier. At this time Eastwood stood up and told the Villa fans how stupid it was to celebrate so early.

His vigorous long shot from outside the penalty area bounced high on the Villa player's leg, from a vigorous volley to a long-range lob, just over the Villa goalkeeper's head and was fooled by the first shot. Thomas Sorensen (Thomas_Sorensen) on the ground looked up at the football flying over the sky and then fell into the empty goal...

After scoring, Eastwood has become more and more active. Viduka is in the front to help him attract vitality. He has more freedom. Eastwood is not the kind of center forward waiting for the ball in front of the opponent. He is a second forward and prefers to move freely behind his teammates. Although Villa's head coach David O'Leary (David_OLeary) has strengthened the defense at the front of the penalty area, it is still a headache for this erratic forward.

He sometimes appeared in the middle, hiding behind Viduka looking for a direct shot. When defending the counterattack, he was at the forefront, dribbling the ball. When you put the defensive focus on the center, he pulled to the side and crossed...

Towards the end of the first half, Eastwood seized a fleeting opportunity in the penalty area and suddenly shot out between the two tall central defenders and pushed Ashley Young's pass into the goal. 2:2! The Forest team evened the score!

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