Godfather Of Champions

The situation in this game is very simple, whether it is for Rijkaard or Tony Dunn.

Without too many calculations and complicated and changeable tactics, the situation is very clear-Barcelona needs to attack, need to score in the away game, and must win the game. Only then can they qualify for promotion.

It stands to reason that the loss of Nottingham Forest 0:1 to Barcelona can also guarantee them to enter the quarter-finals, but this is obviously not in line with Dunn's character. The team with this mentality must have died miserably in the end. He used to be a Chinese fan. This kind of thing happened too many times on the Chinese team, and it has become a cliche that can no longer be cliche. So the task of Nottingham Forest is also very simple-win the game at all costs and advance to the quarterfinals.

This is Barcelona’s away game. Rijkaard does not have the right to defend and counterattack. He knows that Dunn will be conservative at his home court, using his best defensive counterattack to deal with himself, lure Barcelona out of attack, and then wait for an opportunity. Sneak attack. The Dutch coach is very clear, but what can be done? Now the choice is not in his hands. The failure of the first round at home has pushed him to a desperate situation-the offense may die, but the offense must die.

In the overwhelming and never-ending booing and swearing of the City Stadium, Barcelona has some tragic and tragic attacks on the Forest team's goal.

The initiative is in the hands of Nottingham Forest, Dunn allows the team to defend firmly without rushing, and then wait for an opportunity to counterattack. In the past few years, no matter when, he has not given up the requirement to establish a "defense first" in the team. In many critical moments, this requirement instilled and saved his team and him.

Of course he likes to watch offensive football, to watch counterattacks, to watch matches like sparks hitting the earth. But that is because he is a fan. Now he is the head coach. He needs to be responsible for his team and for the fans who support him. He didn't have the talent to teach Wenger to let the players play beautifully and still win, so he chose the most utilitarian way to win. He doesn't care what kind of infamy he bears. He has never been a person who cares about what others say.

Defensive counterattack, first solid defense, defense is the basis of offense, just like building a house to build a foundation, there is no defense and talk about offense? This is actually very simple, but why do so many people in the world do not understand it? Fans don’t understand. The coach can’t help but understand, right?

After Barcelona re-emerged on offense in the past few years, Rijkaard seems to have forgotten to defend. Most of the time we see that Barcelona’s midfielder does not have a defensive player. When they play, their tactics always rely on their strong offense to score a few goals first, causing the opponent to quickly lose their fighting spirit, and then they will fall into the game. The track again.

Their strong offense and gorgeous star lineup can make most teams lose their morale when facing them, and they will be caught with nothing. But when Rijkaard’s set was well-known by more and more opponents, he found that the more difficult it was to play later this season. why? Because of the lack of changes in his tactics, once he has been thoroughly studied by his opponent, he will face great danger. Everyone found that Barcelona is not the invincible God of War incarnation. Even though they have many stars, they cannot guarantee to be a winning general. They also have weaknesses and things they can't do. What's more deadly is that their defense is not much better than Real Madrid. As long as the tactics are right, they can beat Barcelona.

After entering the second half of the La Liga schedule this season, Barcelona has encountered more and more resistance, and their tried-and-tested offensive tactics have become increasingly useless against their old opponents. Rijkaard did not realize that the crisis was slowly approaching him and his team, and he also believed that Barcelona is currently on the right track at high speed. Not only him, but the Barcelona players, fans, and directors above all think so.

Born in sorrow, and die in happiness. This is a perfect match for Barcelona in the future... No, it should be said, it applies to all successful teams in the world.

Don't worry about this, just because the forest team's environment is still not "safe".

As mentioned earlier, the biggest weakness of Barcelona is defense, Dunn will make full use of this in this game.

Compared with offense, Nottingham Forest’s most powerful defense is instead. This defense does not rely on one person or a back line composed of four guards. The forest team’s defense is an overall defense. On the contrary, Barcelona's defense is only a matter of four defenders and a goalkeeper, and others are not responsible for defensive tasks.

Now in his home court, Dunn has allowed the team to shrink the defense, draw out Barcelona's offensive players, and then wait for the opportunity to counterattack, which is aimed at the weakness of Barcelona's weak defense. Turam is old. Although Zambrotta is almighty, he has not adapted to Barcelona and Spanish football since he came to Barcelona. Valdes' performance has been ups and downs, and sometimes some inexplicable low-level errors will be easily ruined. The team's ninety minutes of hard work, the only shot on the back line was Puyol.

Dunn aimed at this point, and unexpectedly sent Arnelka, a speed-type counter-strike forward, to partner with Van Nistelrooy, hoping to use his speed and personal ability to give Barcelona a fatal blow in the counter-attack.

In this game, Van der Vaart replaced Arteta as the starter, and Dunn also needs his offensive long-range shooting and organizational skills. Frank Ribery is still on the left, and Ashley Young is replaced by Alan Lennon on the right.

Defensively, left back Gareth Bale was replaced by Leighton Barnes, who is better at defensively, and the other positions remain unchanged.

Barcelona launched fierce offensives against the forest team's hinterland time and time again, and Nottingham Forest held on with the support of the overall defensive tactics.

Barcelona dominates most of the time, but the thunder is heavy and the rain is small. Their threatening shots are few and far between. However, the Forest team is at a disadvantage in all technical statistics-except for fouls-the few counterattacks are quite threatening, and each time the Barcelona people can be shocked in a cold sweat.

Of course Rijkaard knew that hitting his goal like this would be dangerous, but what can he do? Learn from the forest team's solid defense and then wait for the opportunity to attack? That way Tony Dunn will be very happy, because he can play passively without worry, run out of time, and a draw is a failure for Barcelona.

The initiative is not in Rijkaard's hands, and now he has no choice but to attack desperately hoping to score early and break the deadlock. Bad defense? Well, let's concede a few goals, so let's score one more than this number!

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Before coming to Nottingham, Rijkaard and the Barcelona team did a careful study on how to deal with George Wood's defense. They conceived several plans to deal with what they should do if someone is completely frozen by George Wood.

But this time, Dunn didn't ask George Wood to target someone specifically. His task was...freedom.

Go where you need him, and support wherever the situation is dangerous.

Anyway, Wood has good physical strength and runs fast. He ran back and forth in the backcourt, and he was not afraid of cramps due to his lack of energy.

Rijkaard originally wanted the Trident to get rid of George Wood through frequent changes of positions. Unexpectedly, Dunn let Wood be a free agent in the backcourt, making Rijkaard's strategy completely ineffective.

Barcelona is facing a monolithic defense, and there is no difference because of their frequent shifts. The defensive power they face is the same on the wing and in the center, which is really depressing.

To put it bluntly, offense is to use your own position to find loopholes in the opponent's defense, and then use these loopholes to create murder. The current situation is that no matter how Barcelona passes and runs, the forest team's defense stands there like a mountain, unmoved.

The first half came to the end in this situation. A 0:0 score will not satisfy the neutral fans, but it will make the Forest fans happy.

During the intermission, Dunn highly praised the team's defense, but he also demanded that the team's offense should be strengthened. If there is a counterattack opportunity, it must not be let go, as long as one time can kill Barcelona!

On Barcelona's side, Rijkaard was not satisfied with the team's offense. Forty-five minutes, so many chances did not score. I am so sorry for the name Barcelona. In the second half, we must strengthen our offense, and we must not relax on offense. The reason why the Forest team has not scored at present is because Barcelona's offense has put tremendous pressure on them, so they have no time to take care of the offense. Once Barcelona can't sustain this pressure on offense, it will give the Forest team an opportunity.

Anyway, now Barcelona is riding a tiger.

After the start of the second half, the Forest team still put on a defensive posture to meet Barcelona, ​​and Barcelona did not intend to change at all and continued to attack.

As time went on, Rijkaard got up from his seat again and walked to the sidelines. In the noisy court, the players could hardly hear what he shouted. He had tried to remind the players to keep pressing. As a result, he was immediately overwhelmed by the boos coming from his face, opened his mouth and couldn't even hear what he said, let alone the players.

Now he can only take advantage of the dead ball and pull the players close to the coaching bench to face-to-face advice.

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If we take Barcelona bombardment and the Forest team stick to it as a balance. Then at the 68th minute of the game, this balance was finally broken.

Barcelona organized a high-quality offense. Through a continuous pass, they finally opened the forest team's indestructible defense line, allowing it to expose a big hole.

Ronaldinho once again took out his "sounds" and pretended to break through, but unexpectedly passed the football through the crack. Eto'o quickly started. He received the ball behind the forest team's defense line. The forest team The players thought Eto'o was offside, but the linesman did not intend to raise the flag.

"No offside, bastard!" Dunn jumped up anxiously.

George Wood desperately chased back, trying to stop the goal.

He was still a step slower after all, and Eto'o took a shot before he tackled!

At that moment, Dunn's heart almost stopped beating. Not only him, but at that moment, the boos of the city stadium seemed to have stopped, everyone held their breath and stared at the football flying in the air.

Even Barcelona fans, whether on the spot or in the city of Barcelona, ​​dare not talk about leaving football at this moment.

The football flew from Eto'o's feet, past the feet shoveled by George Wood, and past Van der Sar's palm. Fly straight to the goal behind him.

Are you going to score?

With a "clang", the football hit the lower edge of the beam, hit the ground, bounced again, and flew back. Van der Sar second reacted very quickly, jumping up and taking off the football in the air with both hands!

Did the goal score or not?

The Barcelona players immediately raised their arms and jumped up to celebrate the goal. Even Eto'o opened his arms and ran towards the corner flag. Behind him were Ronaldinho and Messi. people.

The Catalan commentator could not wait to shout loudly: "GOOOOOOOOOOAL——!"

The subtitles of Barcelona 1:0 Nottingham Forest were played on the TV broadcast, and it seems that the goal was indeed scored.

But...but!

The ecstatic expression on Eto'o's face in the TV camera suddenly solidified. He pushed Ronaldinho away, looking at the lineman standing next to them with a puzzled look.

After the goal is scored, the line referee should run to the center line, and the referee will whistle and point his hand to the center circle to show that the goal is valid.

But this time, the linesman didn’t run, so what about the referee...The Barcelona people turned to look at the referee, but saw a scene that called their hearts to stop--

The players of Nottingham Forest have brought football to the middle circle and are clearly playing their tradition of quick counterattacks...

The referee did not stop this behavior, but ran along with it...what does this mean? It means that the Forest team is not fouling this, and Barcelona did not score the goal just now!

Puyol just wanted to run up to celebrate, but in the middle of the run, he suddenly saw Van der Sar throwing the football forward. Van der Vaart immediately launched a quick counterattack after receiving the ball.

The Barcelona captain ran back in the middle and quickly retreated while calling out his teammates back to defense. Reluctantly, the stadium was so noisy that the teammates far away from the front corner of the field couldn't hear it.

The Barcelona players who reacted more quickly began to throw a confused Eto'o and turn back to defense.

Of course Van der Vaart knows that he is slow to dribble, which is disadvantageous at this time. So he didn't take more, but immediately passed the football to Anelka, who was running faster.

"Ah... this is really unexpected. Eto'o's shot did not result in a goal, but gave Nottingham Forest a chance to counterattack! Because football is not out of bounds, this is not a dead ball... Barcelona is in big trouble!"

The narrator was right, and now Barcelo is in big trouble.

Because I was busy celebrating the goal just now, most of the Barcelona players are not in their respective positions. The forest team's counterattack is very quick. It does not give the Barcelona a chance to reorganize the attack. Two or three passes are passed to Anelka. At his feet, the French forward got the ball and drove the motor fully and rushed towards Barcelona's gate.

After breaking Puyol forcibly by speed, Anelka was already close to the penalty zone. Valdes can only abandon the door and attack, and the next thing will be easy.

Anelka made a gesture to pass the ball, deceived Valdes, and after swinging the angle, shot without hesitation, the football flew into the net without suspense.

The City Stadium finally stopped the boos this time and changed it to cheers.

This time the referee confirmed that the goal was valid and the whistle finally sounded.

From the Barcelona people thinking they scored a goal to Nottingham Forest really scoring, all this transformation only happened within 32 seconds, everything came too fast, too suddenly, many people have not fully reacted.

Rijkaard used to jump out to celebrate the goal with open arms, but now he clasped his head and looked at what happened in the court in an incredible way.

Dunn had originally looked upset, but now he jumped up and cheered.

The changes before and after the two head coaches illustrate the situation of the two teams.

"This... is so dramatic... Who would have thought that the Barcelona people were so happy for that goal that no one would even confirm whether the goal was actually scored. Nottingham Forest is indeed cunning, and it would not give Barcelona a chance. This quick counterattack was clean and neat, leaving people speechless..."

The Barcelona people came to their senses and surrounded the referee and protested to him. They were convinced that Eto'o's shot must be a goal.

So is it really in? Thanks to advanced technology, it can make us see more clearly.

The slow motion of Eto'o's kick began to be played repeatedly on the TV screen: the football hits the crossbar and bounced to the ground... This is the most important thing. Is the football within the goal line when it lands?

Slow motion is played repeatedly, from different angles, so that everyone can see more clearly. This is not the case of the 1966 World Cup final. It is clear in the slow motion that the football fell outside the goal line. It was indeed not a goal.

No matter how unwilling the Barcelona team is, they can only accept this result. They were deceived by their own ideas and suffered a huge loss.

"It took only 32 seconds for Barcelona to go from heaven to hell. This huge gap is really unacceptable. Look at their confused eyes..."

The blow to Barcelona players by this goal is not as simple as one goal behind. I thought it was myself who was ahead, but I didn't want to turn into an enemy in an instant. The total score could have been equalized, and now it is now two goals behind. If you want to make a comeback on the road, you have to score the Forest team two goals in a diarrhea match, equalize the total score, and both sides scored one away goal. In this way, overtime will be played.

But the mental state of the Barcelona players... can it really be done?

On the Nottingham Forest side, this bargain was picked up by the Forest team, and Tony Dunn naturally "accepted" it unceremoniously. After taking the lead, the Forest team's tactics remain unchanged, and they still insist on defensive counterattacks. Barcelona, ​​which is behind, will naturally attack more crazily. The Forest team's defensive counterattack can be used more easily.

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As expected in the next game, Barcelona's offense, which was eager to equalize the score, had no rules at all. The stars all planned to rely on their personal ability to recover from the defeat. The result? There is nothing but wasted time.

It's the forest team's sharp counterattack, which keeps Valdes busy.

In the eighty-five minutes, the Forest team once again scored Barcelona by a quick counterattack by Van Nistelrooy, which completely declared the end of the game.

"...The game is over! After two matches of 180 minutes of fierce battle, the last Champions Cup champion Barcelona was pulled down by the last runner-up Nottingham Forest. To be honest, after watching the first game, the result was not It’s amazing, but the first goal in this game is very dramatic."

"Tony Dunn has completed his revenge, Nottingham Forest not only eliminated Barcelona, ​​but also a home and away double play!"

In the TV camera, Dunn was standing on the sidelines, raising his arms and waving to the Forest fans in the stands, thanking them for their support. A brilliant smile bloomed on his face like a flower. This time he didn't rush to shake hands with Rijkaard. Dunn felt that thanking his supporters was more important than paying tribute to his opponent.

George Wood walked over and saw Dunn, who was thanking the fans. He planned to walk directly over and return to the locker room, but was stopped by Dunn: "George, how did the final feel?"

"It's a pity that I won and there is no trophy." Wood said.

Dunn happily said, "It's coming." He stretched out his palm, "Eight into four or two, four into two or two, and one final. There are five games left, and you can pick up the trophy with your own hands. "

Wood looked at the five fingers that Dunn stretched out, without saying anything, turned and walked towards the corridor. Dunn continued to raise his hands to thank the fans who called the name of Nottingham Forest in the stands.

He clenched his fist and waved vigorously in front of the fans.

Those fans who were not willing to leave the field followed Dunn's gesture and shouted.

Seeing the distorted faces of these fans with excitement, Dunn smiled very satisfied. (To be continued, if you want to know what's going on, please visit www.qidian.com, there are more chapters, authors are supported, and genuine reading is supported!)

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