Godfather Of Champions

April 3, showers.

Nottingham, outside the city stadium.

Although the sky is not beautiful, this kind of ordinary weather for the British can not prevent the fans of the Forest team from coming to watch the game. Colorful umbrellas line up a long snake in front of the entrance to the stadium. When these umbrellas moved to the stands with the current, they all disappeared without a trace in an instant. Only people with open arms, singing and shouting against the wind and rain, one individual, a group of people.

This is the 31st round of the English Premier League. Nottingham Forest will play against Everton. Perhaps for other fans, this is a nothing special game, you can watch it or not. But for the fans on both sides of the competition, this is a crucial game, no less than a derby in the city where the two teams are located.

Everyone has worked hard for this game, and no one wants to be a loser after ninety minutes.

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The home team's locker room was quiet. The players have just warmed up from the field, all wet, and are seizing the time to replace clean jerseys. Dunn stood at the door of the locker room, watching his players doing all this in an orderly manner. David Chris Lak was a little anxious, and looked at his watch from time to time next to him.

Dunn cleared his throat, and then raised his hand: "You are busy, let me say a few words." The players stopped what they were doing and looked back at him. Dunn waved his hand vigorously and motioned them to continue doing their own. Seeing the players turned around again to continue dressing, Dunn scratched his head and said, "Well, half a month ago, we lost the UEFA Cup... I happily declared that we were going to win the UEFA Cup. The result was ridiculous. I lost. ."

Dunn said "I lost" so easily, which surprised the players present. Their coach can be regarded as the kind of person who won't admit defeat even if they really lose. Why is it so abnormal today?

Dunn looked at the expressions of these players and naturally knew what they were thinking. He grinned, "Have you changed your clean clothes?"

The players nodded.

"Very well, quiet down and continue to listen to me. We are newly promoted, right?"

"Yes. Promoted." One of the players replied.

"The goal of promotion is usually to relegation, right?"

"Yes." More people said this time.

"But..." Dunn said, "The league has been in thirty rounds, let’s see our current results. Sixth in the league! Which newly promoted horse has such good results as ours? If we exceed two more, we can participate. The UEFA Champions League next season! I think it’s worth it to discard the UEFA Cup for the Champions League. There are eight rounds left in the league. For this goal, we have to sprint from now on. Sprint with all our strength! Everton is our direct competition Opponents, we are sprinting, and they are too!"

Dunn walked from the door to the center of the dressing room, standing in the crowd, looking around. "Recently, our luck has not been very good. We have lost consecutive games, lost the UEFA Cup, and lost two games in a row in the league. The media out there is a big noise, and they describe our Nottingham Forest as if the end of the world is coming. They advance. We were sentenced to death, when there are still eight rounds in the league... we announced in advance that our season is over, we are finished!" He pointed to the door and shouted, "That group of bitches! What do you think? Do you think our season is over? Are we finished?"

At this time, if someone still says "Yes, I think we are out of the game", it is simply looking for death. All the forest team players shouted: "No!"

Dunn is very satisfied with the performance of the players.

"I tell you, I can assure you that Liverpool will fall behind and Liverpool will definitely fall behind! Don’t look at them now that they are ahead of us, they will definitely be overtaken by us! So our main competitor is actually only one Everton, And the day of the decisive battle with them is today! As long as we can narrow the gap with them to one point! The one who can't bear this pressure and collapses first must be our opponent!" He clenched his fist and threw it down. Although nothing was hit, everyone could hear the "bang".

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"Sixth in the league, the last 16 of the UEFA Cup... I think this result is good enough for a newly promoted horse. For a head coach who is only 36 years old, it is also good enough." To begin, the work of the narrator has begun. Martin Taylor and Andy Gray analyzed some relevant information about this game for everyone.

Gray laughed. "Martin, I don't think Coach Dunn will agree with you."

"Ok?"

"He must feel that it is not enough, because he has not achieved his goal. If he fails to achieve his goal, it is not considered outstanding. From this game we can see something. I can bet that the Forest team must We will fight Everton, and this game cannot be a draw. Because at this time, a draw is a loss for someone like Tony Dunn."

"Andy, when did you know him this way?"

The two laughed in front of the microphone.

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After the players from both sides came out, Moyes met Mikel Arteta among the eleven starting players in Nottingham Forest, and he was immediately impressed.

This was supposed to be a player who was trained under him and wore an Everton blue jersey to compete in the Premier League, but now he is in the Nottingham Forest and is his opponent.

He tilted his head to look at the coach's bench.

The look of Tony Dunn sitting upright makes it almost impossible for him to connect with the disappointed and frustrated man two years ago. It has been less than two years, the changes are really big...

No, we are opponents now.

Now is not the time to appreciate each other.

Moyes retracted his eyes and sat on the coach's bench waiting for the game to start.

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By the time the game started, the rain did not stop and it was not heavy, but it was very annoying. There was no water on the court, but it was slippery.

In the past, Dunn's most annoying was to play on rainy days, because it would make the team unable to perform even the usual two-thirds of the level. But after staying in the UK for more than two years, he had to succumb to the forces of nature. He could never change the climate of the British island country? Then he would not be a football coach, and just put on underwear and change his job as a superman.

Now the Vilford training base of the Forest team. Since the match against the Arsenal youth team, there has been a dedicated field. When the weather is bad, a lot of water will be poured on this field to simulate The conditions of fighting on rainy days allow the team to conduct adaptive training. After repeated such targeted exercises, the team's loss of strength in the rainy weather has been very small.

Now it seems that he made Bendtner and Crouch to start in this weather condition. With two big tall men, most of the team's offense can avoid the slippery ground and go into the air.

He is not like Wenger, he must make the team play well. Tony Dunn is a pragmatist. If ugly can win, he doesn't mind making the game look worthless. Of course, Arteta, who has exquisite technique and imaginative passing, can also enrich the forest team's offensive methods in the team. Dunn is not afraid of too many offensive routines, he is eager to have more, too much to make his opponent confused and don't know how to defend.

Everton's midfielder lost a lot of strength after leaving Graveson. Although Dunn remembers that Gravesen failed in Real Madrid, he was a well-deserved core when he was in Everton. Not only can he defend, but his passing ability makes him competent for organizing offenses. It’s just that I went to Real Madrid later. There are too many strong men in Real Madrid’s team. There is no room for him to play. Real Madrid’s team is not suitable for Gravesen. After all, not all players who are the core of small and medium teams can play. Giant clubs play the main force. Later, the Danish "Hulk" became more under pressure after Capello entered Real Madrid, and was purged by Capello because of a fight with Robinho.

Today, in this Everton team, there is no Gravesen, and there is no Arteta that Dunn is familiar with, so Moyes had to train another player to be the core of the midfielder-Australian Tim Cahill.

This person, Dunn is no stranger to him. Whether in his memory or personally experienced as a head coach, Cahill has left a deep impression on him. Millwall's players now wore Everton's blue jerseys and once again stood opposite Dunn.

But this time, Dunn is no longer the Dunn that was more than a year ago, and Nottingham Forest is not the deputy squad leader who is still struggling in the second level league and has no future in sight.

As the core midfielder, Cahill is still too tender!

Moyes is completely catching the ducks. With such a midfielder, George Wood is more than enough to deal with two.

Moyes also knows that Everton’s midfielder can’t compete with the Forest’s midfielder at all, so regardless of the appearance that Cahill is a midfielder, in fact, he is a forward.

Everton’s starting forwards are Duncan Ferguson (Duncan_Ferguson) and the "Saint" James Beattie (James_Beattie) who transferred from Southampton this season. Perhaps their biggest role is to help Cahill attract the Forest team. Defensive firepower.

The real final blow was done by this Australian kid.

As for the midfield, Li Tie, who Dunn is most familiar with, didn't even make the big list. He was injured and is still recovering.

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