Godfather Of Champions

"He is the King of Arsenal, he saved the team, he is Thierry Henry——!"

The Arsenal players rushed to their captain. The goal came too timely and too important. With six minutes to go into stoppage time, Arsenal tied the score of the game and tied the total score of both sides.

Wenger jumped up from his seat and hugged Patles with open arms.

The two thousand Arsenal fans who followed the team to Nottingham also burst into cheers. In their cheers, Nottingham Forest fans fell into a brief silence.

Dun En's heart fell from the cloud to the bottom, and that feeling was really indescribable. He bit his lip and stared at the Arsenal players celebrating on the court.

Seeing that it was about to advance to the final victory, Henry scored a goal at the last moment! Damn...

At that moment, what were your players thinking? Do they think they are determined to win? In the moment of transition from offense to defense, the reaction speed is slow, like a ninety-year-old man!

The players of the Forest team held their heads in annoyance and looked at each other to celebrate.

George Wood looked down at his feet.

When shoveling at Henry from the side and back just now, he suddenly remembered Dunn’s warning in his mind. With two yellow cards on his back, he was very tender and would receive a third yellow card for this foul, or even a straight one. Red card. So he closed his feet reflexively.

It was such a distance that made Henry avoid...

He shouldn't close his foot, he should directly shovel the opponent forward to the ground, so that he can't break through the shot, but the body does not listen to it at that moment.

What a bastard, he spoke beautifully, and he was still a coward in the end...

He raised his head again and saw the dejected teammates around him. The depression caused by his performance turned into anger, and he blurted out: "What are we doing? We haven't lost yet!"

Arteta looked up at Wood, who was clenching his fists and roaring loudly. Everyone turned to look at him.

"We haven't lost yet! I don't know who is eliminated, what are you doing?!"

Then he walked to Arteta: "Don't protect me, it's not necessary."

"But George..."

"I'll talk about it when I'm in the final." He turned and ran to the goal, fished the football out of the net, then ran all the way to the middle circle with his arms and put the football on it.

"kick off!"

Dunn, who saw this scene off the court, turned his head and said to Chris Lak: "Whether we can make it to the final, what makes me feel less frustrated is that at least we have gained a real captain."

Chris Lak smiled, not knowing what to say.

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The game restarts, Arsenal want to seize the final moment and then kill the Forest team, and the Forest team hope to score another goal in the remaining minutes to let the advantage return to their hands. The two sides refused to yield to each other, and fierce battles were launched in every corner of the court.

The result was that when the referee blew the whistle at the end of the 90-minute game, the score between the two sides was still 1:1.

"Total score 2:2, both sides have an away goal, both sides. Now they need 30 minutes of overtime to decide the winner... If they still can't, then they need a penalty shoot-out. This is really true. A dramatic game, when the Nottingham Foresters thought they were set to win, Henry evened the score at the last minute..."

The teams on both sides will not enter the locker room to prepare for overtime. They will sit or lie on the sidelines, let the team doctor massage while listening to the latest instructions from the head coach.

"We are short on time, so I won't criticize your distractions at the last moment." The players of Nottingham Forest formed a circle, Dunn squatted in the middle with a serious expression. "In extra time, defense is still the primary goal, and we take the time to counterattack. Fortunately, we prepared a penalty kick before the game...If the fight cannot be resolved within 30 minutes, let's delay it."

On the other side, Arsenal's halftime, Wenger stood in front of the players, pacing back and forth, and said to them: "Overtime, half-time rest, half-time attack, and goal. If you can't force it, we and They hit a penalty kick."

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There is only a short five-minute break before the 90-minute game and overtime. Many players only have time to catch their breath before they re-enter the court and enter the game.

George Wood stood up from the ground, Dunn looked at him, then watched him return to the court without saying anything. Because he doesn’t know what to say... It’s really meaningless to say “Don’t get a yellow card anymore” now. It’s even questionable whether he can make it to the final. What's the point of reminding him not to get a yellow card. ?

Everything, let the flow go.

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After the start of the first half of the extra time, Arsenal took advantage of their momentum just to tie the score and launched a siege on the Forest team's goal, as if they were about to resolve the battle within 30 minutes.

And Nottingham Forest put on their best and most familiar defensive formation to welcome Arsenal's stormy offensive.

Dunn made the last substitution. He replaced Layton Barnes with Gareth Bale. Barnes ran into cramps. Bale had good physical fitness and allowed him to go up and defend firmly.

Throughout the first half of the overtime game, the forest team's counterattack was basically not seen. Anelka wandered alone in front for a while, and found that the football could not be transmitted at all. He looked at the tension behind and hesitated. I decided to go back and participate in defense.

Generally speaking, although there are no regulations stating that this must be done, the overtime of football matches does present a very interesting phenomenon. That is, the 30-minute overtime divided the performance of the two teams into two extremes because of the first and second halves. Take this game as an example. Now the first half is madly attacking by Arsenal. Then after the second half, Arsenal There must be no spare energy to attack, and it is Nottingham Forest's turn to attack.

This may be due to the fact that the physical strength of both sides does not allow them to attack for 30 minutes, and they can only choose to rest halftime and attack halftime.

Arsenal attacked for fifteen minutes without gain. The Forest team's defense is very well organized. The score was still 1:1, and the players of the Forest team knew their chance was here.

There is no rest time between the upper and lower halves in overtime. The courts are exchanged directly. Players can only gain time for themselves by slowly crossing the court.

At this time, both the Arsenal players and the Nottingham Forest players have reached their physical limits. The intensive schedule and continuous battles have made everyone tired. They moved slowly on the court. There is only one exception...

George Wood ran to the other half with his head held high. When he and Fabregas passed by, the Spaniard could even feel a gust of wind across his cheek!

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After the start of the second half of the game, the Forest team went up and attacked as usual, and no one really wanted to drag the game to a penalty shoot-out, which was a decisive way with no safety factor.

Everyone went up, Gareth Bale also frequently participated in the offense. Only George Wood remained behind, protecting everyone's rear.

Almost everyone thought that after 15 minutes of indiscriminate bombing, Arsenal would no longer have enough power to threaten the forest team's back line. It was a bit silly for George Wood to stand behind and watch others perform. Look at the offensive momentum of Nottingham Forest. Arsenal's defense alone will exhaust all their remaining energy. How could it still endanger the Forest team's goal?

Eastwood's shot was held by Lyman. The German goalkeeper did not choose the inefficient method of driving forward with his big foot.

Football came to the feet of Fabregas in a blink of an eye. Before the Forest players could react, Fabregas transferred the football to their captain, the most trusted forward Henry.

Then, while most of the Forest team players were still in the frontcourt at the sudden change, Henry had already adjusted the direction of the football and started rushing towards the Forest team goal!

"This is Arsenal's counterattack! The Forest team attacked too hard, they forgot Arsenal and Henry, this extremely dangerous man with top speed!"

"Damn it!" Dunn jumped up from the sidelines, "I told them to take the time to fight back! It's not a siege!"

"Don't worry, Tony. George is behind..." Chris Lak comforted.

"This is what I'm most worried about..." Tang En muttered.

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Henry looked back. The teammates couldn't run anymore. Few people followed. At the same time, although the forest team members were desperately returning to defense, looking at their running posture, it was obvious that they were physically weak. So to say……

Henry turned his head and looked at George Wood in front of him.

Only the two of us are left?

"Thierry Henry, George Wood! The collision of the two captains..."

Wood didn't need to look around to know what was going on now. Apart from him and the two central defenders, there is no one else on the back line. Just now when the Forest team was on the offensive, everyone rushed forward without any consideration, hoping to become the hero who helped the team to the final at the last moment.

He didn't go up, not because he couldn't run, nor because he wasn't interested in attacking, but because he saw Henry cruising near the middle circle. With everyone returning to the penalty area to defend, why didn't Henry, who is the captain alone, lead by example?

He thought of a possibility, and soon this might become a reality-Henry is the ultimate weapon for Arsenal's counterattack, and when he returns to Arsenal, he really gave up.

The cunning Wenger still hoped to use this opportunity to score the goal for the overtake until the last minute!

Henry is very aware of George Wood's advantages. Once he gets close to him, he is tantamount to being entangled, and he doesn't know what the attack will be like by then. So the key to this counterattack is absolutely not to be close to Wood, and not to let yourself have a chance to entangle yourself.

Wood knew that Henry was fast and had good physical strength. Looking at his current running posture, and his swinging legs were still strong, he knew that he could accelerate and break through himself forcibly by speed. You must never get away from him. Once you let him get away, he can use speed to force a breakthrough. I must lean up and entangle him...

Henry swung the football to the left for a diagonal break. George Wood moved sideways and greeted him.

Henry began to accelerate, and Wood also began to accelerate, following Henry, not allowing him to escape from his control.

Suddenly Henry stopped suddenly, as if he was about to break through from another direction. Wood slammed on the brakes, carefully guarding the opponent's next move. Henry didn't change direction, it was just a change in speed and rhythm. He saw Wood slowing down, so he speeded up immediately, trying to get rid of the opponent.

But Wood's physical condition is very good, starting almost at the same time as Henry. This time it was not successful.

"Henry is going to be entangled by Wood! The two are very close. The players from Nottingham Forest are returning to the defense. As long as Henry is dragged, Wood's defense will be successful...Wow!"

Just when everyone thought Henry could do nothing, he suddenly pushed the football diagonal line between Wood's legs!

Immediately afterwards, he stopped and turned around and broke through from the other side of Wood's body!

"The ball is divided! Beautiful!"

Wood was not prepared for Henry's move. When he reacted, the opponent had already passed by.

What does it mean to let Henry break through the past like this?

There are Pepe and Pikwe behind, maybe the situation is not so bad that it must be done. Thinking this way, Wood looked up and saw Fabregas and Van Persie running desperately forward.

Three on two? !

Wood knew what it meant.

He turned quickly and saw Henry's back. It seems that the other party has not completely shaken himself off. This was his last chance... He saw Henry preparing to accelerate.

Wood gritted his teeth and rushed forward. Before Henry could raise his speed, he slammed into it from the side and back!

Unprepared, Henry was hit and lost his center of gravity. He staggered and kicked the football ten meters away. Then his body could no longer maintain his balance. After a few steps, he stumbled and fell to the ground!

Arsenal fans booed from the stands, they desperately tried to suppress the shouts of Nottingham Forest fans.

After seeing Wood knocking Henry to the ground, Dunn got up from the coach’s bench. The one who was more nervous than him was assistant coach David Chris Lak, who kept scolding for unintelligible swear words. .

"This is a foul! There is no doubt!" the commentator cried, "Faced with Henry's sharp breakthrough, George Wood can only use a foul to stop..."

Henry sat on the ground very helpless, Fabregas ran to the referee, doing the card action to remind the referee.

The forest players ran back and surrounded the referee. Arteta even pushed Fabregas out rudely, and Arsenal's players came forward to fight Fabregas.

The scene suddenly became a little chaotic.

Wood stood outside the crowd. He looked at Henry, who was still sitting on the ground sorting his socks, and at his teammates and opponents who were crowded and arguing. He didn't come forward to defend himself. He did nothing and just stood outside and watched, as if this matter had nothing to do with him. He was just an indifferent spectator.

Finally, the players from both sides separated, Henry also got up from the ground, Wood's collision did not hurt him.

Chris Lack was still chattering around Dunn swearing swear words that no one could hear clearly, but Dunn calmed down. Like Wood, he is fully prepared for what is about to happen.

There is no way to escape, whether it is attacking the referee, accusing Fabregas of fueling the fire, or swearing foul language.

The referee separated the crowd and saw Wood standing outside. He bowed his head and took out a yellow card from his trouser pocket and showed it in front of Wood.

Wood lifted his eyes and glanced at the yellow card, then turned and walked away.

The close-up of the TV broadcast followed Wood's back, with subtitles at the bottom of the screen: "George Wood, yellow card, missed the next game."

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Chris Lak stopped scolding, he covered his face. Dunn was still standing on the sidelines with his hands around his chest, his face gloomy, as cold as an ice sculpture.

When a bad thing can happen, then it must happen-Murphy's law.

Dunn had this hunch, and always had it, but he didn't want to admit it, didn't want to think about it, for fear that it might become reality just thinking about it in his mind. So he tried his best to think about the good side of things, but this bad result still happened.

"George Wood succeeded. He prevented Henry from making this fatal breakthrough. But... the price he paid was the absence of the next game. If the Forest team can really defeat Arsenal and advance to the final, it has nothing to do with him. Seeing his expressionless face, doesn't he know that he has already received his third yellow card?"

How could he not know? But this is the path he chose himself, why should he regret it if he did it? He chose to accept the price calmly.

He certainly hopes that he can have the opportunity to appear in the finals, after all, that is the highest pursuit of a professional player other than the World Cup. But if he wants to choose between "Forest team lost the final ticket" and "He personally lost the final ticket", he chooses the latter. If the whole team is not eligible for the finals, it would be meaningless to not eat a yellow card. This is not a multiple-choice question. Obviously, this is cause and effect. Without team qualification, there is no individual qualification. If you give up the interests of the team for your own benefit, you can only get the ridiculous result of nothing.

Dunn sat down, and he turned his head to see Albertini hit the seat back with a punch.

"Demi." He beckoned Albertini. "Don't spread your emotions to other people. You see, George is very calm. The game is not over yet, and now is not the time to be distracted."

Albertini sat beside Dunn and looked at Wood on the court. "Boss, do you know what the UEFA Champions League final means for a professional player?"

"Of course I know... But you should tell George this sentence." Dunn said without looking back, without any emotional fluctuations in his tone. "Demi, I have to thank you. You are an excellent captain, and now you have brought out an equally excellent captain for the Forest."

Albertini was not at all happy with Dunn's praise. He bit his lip and stared at the court. (To be continued, if you want to know the future, please visit WWW.CMFU.COM, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)

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