Godfather Of Champions

In the home team locker room, Dunn gave Ribery a powerful hug.

"Oh, Frank, if you are a beauty, I would kiss you." Dunn said "affectionately", and the hot crowd laughed.

When everyone was finished laughing, he stretched out his hands, raised four fingers on his left hand and five fingers on his right hand.

"Forty-five seconds, I'm very happy that we beat the arrogance of Chelsea in time. I like this kind of game. When the opponent has just ignited a glimmer of hope, we shot it unceremoniously!" He made one. "Pinch" gesture. "Let them go from heaven to hell, know what the difficulties of the world are, the warmth of human relationships, and the harshness of society!"

Everyone laughed again.

"Okay, let's talk about the second half." Dunn clapped his hands and the players gradually calmed down. "Now the situation is in our favor, which is the biggest benefit. Mourinho's team wanted to use full-court pressing to disrupt our game rhythm and disrupt our offense and defense. They almost succeeded, fortunately, Berry equalized the score in the next forty-five seconds. I can predict that Chelsea will do the same in the second half and continue their full-time press tactics. Because there is no other way to go except this way." He shared He opened his hand and made a helpless gesture.

"This kind of press is very physically demanding. This is our opportunity. Nothing changes, just like the second half of the first half, play with them in the midfield and defend firmly, don't give them the chance to directly threaten our goal. "

The players nodded, and the boss made a lot of sense.

"After the intermission, they will regain some strength. So the first ten minutes of the second half is the key, we must defend, don't let them score. As long as the score is maintained until 70 minutes later, the balance of victory will tilt towards us. If the score is still 1:1, Chelsea will become impatient, they will press it heavily, and they are not physically strong...At that time is our chance!" Dunn raised his right index finger, "One goal, just score another The ball, Chelsea will completely collapse!"

"Keep in mind, it must be us who went to Athens!"

"Yes! It's us——!!!"

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Fifteen minutes later, the second half of the game restarted and the two teams changed sides to fight again.

Mourinho stood on the sidelines from the first minute, watching the game with his hands around his chest with a serious expression.

He told his players that the first ten minutes of the second half is the prime time for scoring and must be caught, no matter what method is used.

He knows, Dunn knows, of course, so he will let the team pay attention to the ten-minute defense at the beginning of the second half during the intermission.

In these ten minutes, the Forest team completely gave up the offense, and everyone blocked the penalty area to prevent Chelsea’s offense.

In these ten minutes, Chelsea made three murders, each time causing the Forest team fans to exclaim. But it was just exclaiming—there was no danger. Drogba, Robben and Lampard's shots were blocked by the Forest team outside the goal line.

One van der Sar is not enough, there are Pique, Kompany, Zimbanda, Layton Barnes and George Wood.

Except for arms that are not allowed by the rules, they use every part of their body to block the opponent's attack. Chelsea are pressing hard in the front court? Then go ahead and drag time is the forest team's current tactical guiding ideology.

Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes, twenty minutes... drag it on until the Chelsea team starts to be impatient and show signs of being unable to run. That is the chance for the Forest team to fight back.

Prior to this, the Nottingham Forest team needs only patience, patiently waiting for opportunities to appear, and ensuring that they do not reveal fatal flaws.

In this way, ten minutes passed quickly. Chelsea did not score. It seems that they have lost their best chance of scoring.

No, Chelsea did not give up, knowing that this is a physically demanding thing, but still insisting on running and full-court pressing, not letting the slightest threat to the Forest team's goal.

Dunn looked at the time on the big screen, ten minutes had come. But he couldn't just relax, he walked to the sidelines, rolled his hands into a "bucket", and shouted inside: "Don't relax, keep me on guard!"

Dunn finished shouting and went back. Mourinho walked up there. He shouted Shepchenko's name loudly, hoping that the world-class shooter could enter the state as soon as possible and break through the forest team's defense line for the team. Open the deadlock.

Helpless... The striker Abramovich admired very much at Chelsea. He faced the forest team with a defense comparable to Italy. Without room, he could only be a "setter" or try a few long shots.

Chelsea have also tried to pass from the side, passing the football into the penalty area with a high ball, hoping that the all-round striker Shepčko can fight for a header, but the forest team's defense is too high, and air superiority is their strength. , Even if Shepchenko can hit the ball, most of them are wide or higher.

The most important thing is... the forest team is an overall defense, starting from the forward and building the first line of defense, until the goalkeeper, everyone must participate in the defense. They compressed the three lines into this narrow 30-meter area, because the formation of the team remained very intact, like a thick wall, it is not so easy to penetrate.

The Forest team first used this defensive tactic in the 2003-04 season of the League Cup final, when this overall defense made McLaren's Middlesbrough helpless. It also helped Dunn win his first championship trophy in his coaching career.

At that time, the game was criticized by the media as a boring and boring battle that would leave no trace in the forty-two years of the League Cup, except for a championship trophy for Tony Dunn. Meaningless.

Later, with the strengthening of the forest team's strength, this extremely low attitude tactic Dunn rarely used. Although he uses less, it doesn't mean he can't practice. Defense is what Dunn always talks about. He will not change his style of acting because of outsiders' opinions. He requires the team to practice various defensive tactics, even if this "wall defense" is not used very much. As he once said to Des Walker:

I train them and they can do it when I ask them to do it.

This was his goal, which has now been achieved.

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What is competing for in professional football matches? It's not the ball at the foot, but it's also something like victory and honor. In the eyes of coaches, there are only two simple words in football matches that are covered with countless big hats-time and space.

When attacking, you need time and space to handle the ball. When defending, you need to contain time and space so that your opponent cannot control the ball.

To put it bluntly, a football game is actually a battle for time and space on the pitch.

The wall defense of Nottingham Forest is an extreme situation that compresses time and space.

Dunn can allow his opponent to fall back and forth in the third zone of the midfield (near the center circle), because there is still enough distance from the goal, unless everyone can get from it like Beckham and Habi Alonso Kicks in the backcourt to score. The key area of ​​defense is in the third zone, which is commonly referred to as the 30-meter area. This is an area where any team must deploy heavily.

Why is "wall defense" extremely extreme, because most other teams just put a complete back line here, at most, they don't allow two full-backs to assist and require the midfielder's defensive midfielder to help defend.

But Dunn moved almost three lines to this 30-meter area.

Except for the center forward near the center circle, ready to counterattack, everyone else will withdraw from the defense. When necessary, two full-backs can even move into the penalty area to act as a center-back, and let the full-back retreat and temporarily exercise the responsibility of a full-back.

Not to mention the two in the midfield. George Wood is known as the "man born for defense." His other partner, whether it is Albertini, Arteta and Van der Vaart, must be in the coach’s needs. When they come back to defense. It's just that Van der Vaart is in a special situation, and he doesn't need to be too deep when returning to defense, because at the same time he has to shoulder the task of getting the team to counterattack at any time.

Under the guidance of Dunn's "defense is the basis for victory" tactics, such a lineup can be conceivable for the defensive tactics that have been trained hard.

This is the second time Dunn has allowed the team to use wall defense, and it was used on Chelsea. It shows how ambition he is to go to Athens.

In the face of such a game, the commentator wanted to yawn: "We originally thought that the Forest team returned to their home court and took the lead. Maybe we will have the confidence to have a lively confrontation with Chelsea... Unfortunately, Tony Dunn really Worthy of being the'most conservative head coach', no matter when he can't forget it is defense, defense, defense...Even if he can make it to the finals, this kind of performance can't win them a place in the hearts of fans."

If Dunn could hear the commentary of the live broadcast, he would definitely scorn the commentator's statement. He is not responsible for most of the neutral fans, but for Nottingham Forest fans. You ask them which one to choose between a good-looking football and a champion football. Nine out of ten people will tell you-champion football.

why? Because these people have been away from the championship for too long, away from the glorious years for too long, the glory of the past is rolling in their minds all the time, reminding them of how great the Nottingham Forest was once, and the years when the red robe swept across Europe is It's so exciting and hard to extricate yourself.

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There was a huge shout from the corner of the stand.

Chelsea through the relentless frontcourt press, once again grabbed the ball from the Forest team and turned to attack. They used the personal skills of several star players to create an amazing collaboration.

First, Makelele passed the football to Essien, and then Essien stabbed the football out of George Wood's close press.

Chelsea are in a close press against the Forest, why is the Forest doing the same thing against Chelsea?

In front of the ball is Shepchenko, and at the same time, Layton Barnes has taken aim at this forward who has been called "parallel imports" by the English media.

Just when he planned to attack the opponent from behind, Shepchenko had already noticed the movement behind him. His very smart Li Yongle Barnes turned around to protect the football from the opposite direction!

Just turning around, Shepchenko saw Pikwe who was in front of him. At such a close distance, if you want to make a strong jump, it’s not impossible, but... he caught a glimpse of Drogba in the middle, and Kompany was watching. Hold him.

There should be a better choice...

A little farther, because there are too many people, his vision is blocked and he can't see. But during training, he knows who the area belongs to, and there is no reason for that person to be away at this time.

Shepchenko made up his mind and passed the ball with his feet shaking.

The ball came out very powerfully. If Drogba received it, it would be too powerful for him to stop the ball, and instead give the opponent a chance to rob the ball. Drogba also knows the situation, obviously the ball was not passed to himself...

He catches the ball and draws Kompany and other defensive players to come up, but when the football comes, he scores with his legs and lets the ball roll directly under his crotch.

This shook the forest team's entire defense line!

Robben really appeared where he should appear.

"Roben! He received a pass from Shepchenko! Unmarked... This is a great opportunity for Chelsea!!"

The narrator shouted hoarsely, wishing that Luo could have penetrated Van der Sar's door. Once the ratio was 1:2, it would be useless for Dunn to be conservative. At that time, the situation will force the conservative coach to give up being conservative and press out to attack. Then there will be good looks.

After receiving the football, Robben adjusted a bit, and Zimbanda had already turned and pounced on him.

As a teammate of the Dutch national team, Van der Sar knows that Robben is almost impossible to pass in this situation. He moves quickly to block the angle of Robben's shot.

Both Zimbonda and Kompany are moving towards Robben. As long as they cooperate well, the offensive crisis can be resolved safely.

Just when everyone thought that Robben would pass the ball, just when the forest team's defensive focus quickly shifted to him, Robben passed the ball!

He swept the football to the middle...

"Drogba shoots!"

Although there were still people in front of him, WoW still kicked and shot without hesitation. He knew that once the football was stopped, there would be no chance.

The football did not fly into the goal, but hit Leighton Barnes’s arm...

When Barnes turned around and blocked the ball with his back, his arm was raised, and the football hit his hand. His castration was reduced and he was kicked out by George Wood who dared to return.

Just as the Forest team fans were about to cheer their team escaped, the referee's harsh whistle sounded.

All Chelsea players in the penalty area raised their arms and signaled to the running referee for a handball foul!

"Leyton Barnes handball! It's so obvious! It doesn't even need to be replayed in slow motion!" the commentator exclaimed excitedly. Although there is no goal, but this situation is not much different from scoring, right? The deadlock is about to be broken, the balance of balance has been tilted!

The referee pointed to the penalty kick without hesitation-no doubt a penalty!

The players in Nottingham Forest were stupid. Leighton Barnes knelt on the ground with his hands holding his head. Of course he knew he had a handball, but he didn't mean it. The problem is that now that the referee will not believe it at all, otherwise any player who fouls handball can say that he did not intentionally... It is useless to go to the referee to defend himself. He knelt on the ground and was full of regret. Why should I? Raise your hands!

He didn't expect that if he didn't raise his hand, the ball would fly directly into the goal. Although it was a penalty, there was still another chance to decide whether the ball went in.

Other forest team players surrounded the referee and pleaded with him to show that Barnes did not deliberately foul, he was an unintentional handball, a ball player, not a hand ball...

Useless.

Facing these people's explanations, the referee kept shaking his head. How could the penalty be changed, not to mention seeing him handball with my own eyes. This is not the time for self-doubt and criticism.

Seeing the referee awarded a penalty kick, Mourinho jumped up from his seat. He couldn't wait to hug and celebrate with the people around him. The frontcourt finally let him grab a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

It's really appropriate to use this penalty kick to end the madness of Nottingham Forest this season!

On the other side, Dunn stared at the court with wide-eyed eyes, he couldn't believe what he saw...

Hard work to defend... He looked up again at the big screen, defended for 68 minutes, only two minutes to 70 minutes, but was sentenced to a penalty!

This is too tricky!

"What's this? What's this?" He murmured, already full of anger in his tone. "What the **** is this!"

Tang lightly patted Don's shoulder next to him: "Maybe things are not as bad as you think."

Dunn turned his head and stared at him: "What do I think?"

Tang didn't answer his words, but looked at Van der Sar, who was standing in front of the door, shaking his arms and doing simple warm-up movements.

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Mourinho smiled when he saw Dunn getting angry in front of the coaching bench. If the opponent loses his peace of mind, he has won half. Psychological warfare is also very important in football matches.

He could almost see the goddess of victory beckoning to him, and the goddess of victory was also dressed as an Athens priestess...

With a thick smile on his face, Mourinho wondered how he would verbally report his revenge in the first round after the victory of the game. (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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