Godfather Of Champions

On the second day after the renewal was announced, the Nottingham Forest team ushered in their opponents in the league at home.

The current situation is very delicate for Nottingham Forest.

On the one hand, the Champions League is advancing so hard, on the other hand, the points gap is continuously narrowed by Manchester United in the league.

Before this game, the points of the two teams had been reduced from a maximum of twelve points to four points.

Despite this, Dunn still hid half of his main force before the second Champions League game with Inter Milan. Even George Wood was on the bench.

The schedule has been very intensive recently. Dunn has to consider the physical fitness of all players. This is of course a decision made after listening to the advice of the fitness coach.

Finally, at his home court, Nottingham Forest shook hands with Aston Villa 2:2.

On the other side, Manchester United won Bolton 2:1 away, and the points difference between the two teams was only two points.

Two points, the distance of a game.

The Manchester media have already slogans to surpass Nottingham Forest and return to second place in the standings.

Since being eliminated from the Champions League group stage, Manchester United's condition is getting better and better. Is it really frustrating, how can you know it?

On one side, Nottingham Forest and Manchester United are entangled, and on the other side, Chelsea have been doing everything. By the end of the 32nd round of the league, Mourinho’s Chelsea have accumulated 79 points. They have been ranked No. One, until now, has never been pulled down.

Chelsea today looks like an invincible army, with excellent players, excellent coaches, and generous and rich bosses. The English media have been discussing who can surpass Chelsea and pull them down this season. The conclusion that has been drawn up to now is-don't expect it this season...

Chelsea had 79 points and Nottingham Forest had 71 points. With six rounds left in the league, although eight points are not an insurmountable moat, in theory, the possibility of winning the championship is of no use to Dunn. He knows that if he wants to win this season, not only his team has to win in the last six rounds, but also to count on Chelsea to continue to lose. At the same time, considering that the Forest team will participate in the Champions League, it may be too much to achieve the above. Difficult.

Dunn's goal is to go as far as possible in the Champions League, while holding second in the league. In this way, you can continue to participate in the Champions League next season and make money.

The two-point gap with Manchester United now makes him smell of danger. For the first time in the entire league, he feels the chase is so close to him, two points... With six rounds left in the league, too much can happen. Up.

But what makes Dunn more troublesome is that now he has no time to look after Manchester United. In his mind, Manchester United’s catch-up crisis now needs to be temporarily ranked second, and the first urgent need to solve is the second round of the Champions League quarter-final with Inter Milan.

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After playing the game against Aston Villa the next day, Inter Milan's plane has arrived in London.

Dunn originally planned to rely on defensive counterattacks away from home and then use offense to eliminate Inter Milan.

But when he scored two away goals at the Meazza Stadium, he changed his mind.

Lost two goals at home. If you want to appear, Mancini must let Inter Milan choose to attack on the away game. Not mentioning the surpassing of these two away goals, Inter Milan needs at least to break the 2:2 score. balance. So it must be offensive. If you still choose to defend away, Inter Milan will be eliminated only after ninety minutes.

As long as Inter Milan strikes out, they are not afraid to find their defensive loopholes. Dunn is determined to stick to the defensive counterattack at his home court, quietly waiting for Inter Milan.

When going to Italy, the two thousand Nottingham fans deeply felt the "enthusiasm" of the Inter Milan fans in the stands of the Meazza Stadium. Now it is their turn to show their "more enthusiastic" side to the Italian fans.

The deafening singing on the city's stadium, which can only accommodate 27,000 people, made the Italian fans silent.

"This group of England lunatics..." An Italian fan complained. But this is not an exaggeration at all. Nottingham Forest fans are crazy enough. Before the game started, the Englishman’s singing rang and never stopped.

Their voices never seem to be hoarse enough to be speechless. In other countries’ leagues, in order to activate the atmosphere and make the game look more exciting, there may be live broadcasts to broadcast the shouts of the fans. The top players cheered up and made everyone sound as if the fans were singing and shouting.

However, only England’s arena is completely “artificial”, and live broadcasts are only used to broadcast the list of appearances, scorers, substitutions... and other procedural things. The atmosphere of the scene depends on the mouth of the fans.

When a qualified England fan goes to watch a game, he must always have a throat lozenge.

Singing, cursing, and cheering, they are like a chorus that cooperates with each other, making their own responses as the situation of the game changes. People who don't understand will think they are too noisy, just like noise. But people who know it think this is the most wonderful enjoyment-think about it, tens of thousands of people shouting your name at the same time, singing songs that sing your own composing to praise you, it feels... really great!

Of course, it is a nightmare for their opponents.

In this game, Inter Milan took the initiative to attack the penalty area of ​​Nottingham Forest from the first minute. And Nottingham Forest also retreated, just like the first round of the two sides.

No matter how ugly the scene is, when opponents are bombarding the goal, you will never hear the dissatisfied boos from the fans of Nottingham Forest. They continue to cheer for the team as long as you make a good defense. Can get a full house of cheers in the stands.

This is the motivation to support the forest team all the way forward.

In the first half, Forest and Inter Milan drew 0:0.

This is what Dunn wants to see most because he didn't lose the ball.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides to fight again. The Forest team did not change their tactics. They played a "head-shrinking turtle" at their home court, threatening Inter Milan's door with occasional counterattacks.

Inter Milan had even more chances in this game than in the first round, but they bombed together. After the smoke cleared, Inter Milan supporters were desperate to find that the goal of Nottingham Forest was still standing. The score on the electronic scoreboard has not changed at all.

The forest team maintained a good defensive formation. Once the Inter Milan players scored into the 30-meter area, they found that there was almost no room to pass the ball.

As the game time passed, Nottingham Forest became more confident, while Inter Milan played more and more impatient.

Inter Milan players know that if this score is maintained to the end, they will be eliminated because of fewer away goals. And they only need one goal to change this result.

Inter Milan's offensive is in full swing. Mancini has sent all the offensive players he can, to score a goal at the last minute to save him and their fate.

"One goal! We only need one goal!" Inter Milan captain Javier Zanetti cheered up his teammates and told them not to give up the game.

"Hold! They won't be able to get half a goal!" Albertini shouted.

The game has entered a fierce heat. For the victory of their own side, it can be said that the rules allow it to use almost any means... In fact, it is mainly manifested in Nottingham Forest.

In order to delay the game, the players of the Forest team paid the price of three yellow cards in the last five minutes. Even Van der Sar got the first yellow card in the Champions Cup because of the long time when opening the goal kick. , And the people who took the cards were scattered. Dun En had specially confessed these. He would not let those who already had the cards to deliberately take the cards. That would be more than the loss.

In addition to some overly obvious delays in the game time, there are some that are not cards, but objectively it does cause the game time to be delayed. For example-in the last five minutes, three players from Nottingham Forest fell on the court due to lack of energy and calf cramps. Anelka, Frank Ribery, and Leighton Barnes, these three people cover the three positions of the front, middle and back. When they are holding their calves and rolling on the ground in pain, who knows whether they have cramps or fake cramps?

However, the players of the Forest team did very fiercely in this game. At the last moment, it made sense to be physically weak. If George Wood suddenly fell to the ground in pain, indicating that he was cramping, I guess all he would get is hiss—too fake.

George Wood's physical fitness is really good. Whenever the Inter Milan players are exhausted and see the opponent's No. 13 monster sprinting at full strength, a feeling of "despair" will flow from deep in his heart.

The final moments of the game were the most tense. Dunn would never dared to talk to David Chris Lack next to him, laughing and saying that we won this bullshit. Before the last second of the game, he couldn't let go of his heart.

Inter Milan's last attack opportunity, corner kick!

Even their goalkeeper, Giulio Cesar, gave up the goal, rushed over, and squeezed into the crowd to fight for the top. There is no need for goalkeeping anymore. If the goal cannot be scored, Inter Milan's Champions League road this season will end here.

After the corner kick was taken, the front of the Forest team was in chaos. The people in the stands, in the commentary stand, and on the side coach's bench could not see what happened in front of the goal.

Did the ball score?

Who is holding the ball now?

Don't block my sight... asshole!

No foul?

What happened to the ground!

In the chaos, there seemed to be an Inter Milan player who raised his arm, but that arm was quickly put down.

Materach's header was very powerful. Van der Sar couldn't make a save, but he blocked Zimbanda, who was standing at the side of the goal post, and there was chaos. Someone kicked the ball, some kicked the man, and everyone turned on their backs. Giulio Cesar found that the football was right in front of him!

This is a chance to become a hero!

When he lifted his thigh, he found that someone had already kicked the ball faster than him, but in the opposite direction...

George Wood was very keenly aware of the unmarked Giulio Cesar and the ball in front of him in the chaos, so he risked being awarded a penalty for a tackle in the penalty area. Shovel the football before Cesar!

Seeing the football fly off the sideline, all the Nottingham Foresters breathed out.

At the same time, the referee also blew the whistle at the end of the game.

"competition is over!"

Dunn raised his hands and stood up, his fists were tightly clenched, and his nails were even pinched into the flesh. He was about to have a heart attack just now, it was too **** exciting... If Cesar scored that ball, he might not be able to get up in the chair now.

Fortunately, there is no if.

"Congratulations Nottingham Forest! They broke into the Champions League semi-finals! For Tony Dunn's team, this is a great result!"

"In addition, I feel sorry for Inter Milan. They were very brave in the away game, but unfortunately... luck did not stand on their side. Goodbye, Inter Milan, come back next season!"

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"The Red Forest returns to Europe! 》

This is not the “bragger” of the local media in Nottingham, it is the front page headline of the Italian Gazzetta dello Sport. The red Nottingham Forest players under the headline are running to celebrate, in stark contrast with the blue and black Inter Milan players on the other side.

And below this big photo there is a small photo, also a red figure, but the style of the jersey is very old. This is a photo of Nottingham Forest in 1979 when it won the first European Champions Cup glory.

The two photos put together, the meaning is obvious, reminding everyone that the team that was almost forgotten by the world is back.

The Italian analyzed from the tactical level and believed that Inter Milan's loss to Nottingham Forest was not at all wronged. Dunn eliminated the Italian team with the Italians' best defense, and he convinced the Italians to lose.

"Invincible youth"

This is the headline of the Spanish newspaper "Aspen". The article focuses on the age of the forest team. The Spanish reporter said that it was not incredible for the Forest team to reach the semi-finals. After all, this team was considered the dark horse of this Champions Cup in the group stage. It's amazing, or amazing, that this team is so young. From the assistant coach to the head coach, to the players are so young. Thirty-seven-year-old Tony Dunn is the youngest coach of the semifinals and the youngest semifinal coach in the history of the European Champions Cup.

For a while, Dunn’s name and photos were on the front pages of major European sports media. The UEFA Champions League TV magazine released a carefully prepared feature film to introduce you to a comprehensive Tony Dunn and that one. The magical forest team.

The name of "Nottingham Forest" has been mentioned repeatedly in various reports, and Evan's smiling mouth can't close. He was convinced again that he had chosen Dun En at the beginning, and what a correct decision was to let him stay.

Nottingham Forest’s opponents in the Champions League semi-finals have also decided that this will be a "civil war" in England. The two sides have a lot of origins in history. The first two players from Nottingham Forest established this glorious club today. Arsenal.

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When assistant coach Pat Rice knocked on the door of the head coach's office, Wenger was playing with his video recorder.

"What can I do...what are you doing, Arthur?"

"I intend to let you study my latest video." Wenger squatted on the ground without looking up. "As you can see, I was fiddling with this video recorder. There was a small problem, but it didn't affect anything."

"But there was no game yesterday..." Les was puzzled, and he walked over. There were snowflakes floating on the TV screen and there were no images.

"Not a game video, Pat." Wenger stood up, holding the remote control in his hand, and turned to his assistant coach and said, "Have you seen that, the latest issue of the Champions League TV magazine."

Pat Rice guessed: "You mean the issue that introduced Nottingham Forest?"

Wenger nodded: "What do you think of the show?"

"Not bad. I learned a lot of things that I couldn't understand before. It was very interesting. I rarely saw such a feature film that reflects the football club in such a detailed manner. But Dunn doesn't act like a football coach, but more Like the star of the eight o'clock soap opera..."

"This is not something we care about. Even if he is going to release a record, it doesn't matter to us." Wenger has no interest in what kind of person Dunn is.

"Then you called me to..."

"I have down the catalogue of that issue. I agree with the first half of your sentence. The show is very meticulously filmed. It feels real like a documentary. I don't think it was Tony Dunn acting and showing off in front of the camera. He is Such a person." Wenger pressed the remote control in his hand, and a picture appeared on the TV screen, which was the scene where Dunn was speaking on the training ground. "So I think this episode is very research worthy. Especially before... the Champions League semi-finals."

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