Godfather Of Champions

Although in Liverpool City, Liverpool's reputation is greater than their city rival Everton, and they have won more championships. But in fact, the glorious Liverpool split from Everton, a bit like the AC Milan and Inter Milan duo in Milan, Italy, except that Everton and Liverpool split because of the question of whether to continue to rent the Anfield Stadium...

In terms of history, Everton is much longer than Liverpool. Everton was one of the seven promoters of the establishment of the English League. It has a taste of "Seven Elders". In 1891, Everton won the first league title in their club’s history. In the second year, they split into two factions due to the question of whether to continue renting the Anfield Stadium. The crowded side moved out and settled in Goodison. Park stadium.

Even if Everton is not as well-known as Liverpool, and their overseas supporters are not comparable to their rivals in the same city, they are indeed a traditional powerhouse in English football: nine league champions (the top English league at that time), five Second FA Cup champion, once Winners Cup champion.

Today, under the leadership of coach Moyes, this Everton team can stabilize in the midstream every year, playing in the UEFA Cup and so on, and will enter the Champions League as its biggest goal.

Unlike Nottingham Forest, Everton’s results have been basically the same for more than 100 years, with little ups and downs. There are neither particularly brilliant moments nor dark days, just like their jersey colors, stable and calm. .

The Nottingham Forest is the most famous meteor in the history of English football. Established for more than 100 years, it suddenly burst into dazzling light in the late 1970s and early 1980s, won the Champions League for two consecutive years, unbeaten in 42 top leagues, and defeated Europe at that time twice in a year. The Giants Liverpool. Aston Villa, who has also won the Champions League, can't compare to the shock that Nottingham Forest brings to the English and European football. Now they are the only team that won the domestic league championship once but won the Champions League three times.

In the early nineties of last century, the fashion that once bloomed with dazzling light swept across the sky and disappeared into darkness. Until Dunn appeared...

Nottingham Forest seems to be such a team, either very bad or very good. Today's Forest team is obviously in a "particularly good" historical period. They are a guest at Goodison Park. Although they are playing away, they are unanimously favored before the game.

Take a look at the titles that the media gave them—"European Champions", "A strong contender for the new season's league title", "One of the top five in the Premier League", "The scary red storm"...

Only Moyes refused to admit that these titles would help the Forest team beat his own team in an interview before the game: "...For the Forest team winning the Champions League has nothing to do with the first game of the league. The honor belongs only to the past and today. Whoever wins and loses in the game depends on who performs better."

Dunn deeply agrees: "I think Moyes is right. Although we are European champions, if we lose at Goodison Park, we will be laughed at. Those titles are only if you can win. If you can’t win, then bye bye.”

It seems that the head coaches of both sides are very clear-headed, and the media's deployment has not worked. They have found Arteta.

Apart from the first game of Beckham's return to the Premier League, this game really lacks other things to watch. So the current Everton player Mikel Arteta, who followed the Forest to win the Champions League, naturally became another focus of media attention.

Although he left Nottingham Forest, Arteta did not say anything bad about the Forest team. He does not deny that his move to Everton was to get more playing opportunities, but he did not regret the two and a half years spent in Nottingham Forest: "...If I were to make another choice, I would still I will choose to join the Forest team. There, I trained and played with the best group of players in the world. I benefited a lot and helped me a lot in my future career. In addition, Coach Dunn is not like your media As said, we all think he is a good person."

Then the reporters sneered in Grid's media: "I'm afraid Anelka and Ashley Yang don't think so..."

Of course, although there are two coaches and Arteta as the starting point, the biggest focus of this game is David Beckham.

One hour before the start of the game, the starting list of the Forest team has been sent to the hands of various media reporters, and David Beckham's name is impressively listed.

In this game, only Beckham and Arshavin started the game among the newly joined players. Sidwell, Rafinha, Akinfeev are all on the bench, and Grosso did not get the qualifications to enter the squad to go to Goodison Park.

Eastwood felt sore muscles during the training to adapt to the venue yesterday. Out of cautious consideration, Dunn put him on the bench.

Beckham’s appearance on the starting list certainly satisfied the audience’s wishes, but it also aroused a new round of suspicion in the media-they suspected that the old Beckham appeared in the starting line, whether it was because Dunn was received from the club. High-level pressure.

When the team came to the Goodison Park Stadium to warm up before the game, Dunn got off to accept an interview with reporters. When asked this question, he replied impatiently: "Bullshit! Who is allowed to play and who is not allowed to play? After all, what is the pressure from the top of the club? Even the Queen and the Prime Minister, in front of me, do not have a finger on the team lineup!"

He is very upset that many media still focus on Beckham's commercial value, rather than competitive value. But the performance of these media also made him clear that it seems that Beckham still has a hard way to re-establish his own image. The long-term impression cannot be changed by a league champion overnight. If Beckham joins the team, the team is surrounded by various media and rumors all day long, and ultimately fails to win a championship, there will be countless people who will come out and accuse Tony Dunn of signing Baker. Ham's choice. David Beckham and himself will be the sinners of team failure.

This is not what Dunn wants to see.

He also hopes that Beckham will give him a bit of gas on the court, use his excellent performance to prove that his vision is right and relieve him of pressure.

This first game must be played well. People are looking forward to it. Countless pairs of eyes are looking at his team. Some people are still holding magnifying glasses, waiting to jump to the team’s problems in the game, and then zoom in countless times in the media. Lash out.

Don't think that winning a UEFA Champions League is amazing. People who like him like him more, and those who hate him hate him even more. All kinds of verbal criticism will not be curtailed by how many championships he has won.

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The temperature on August 10 was very high, and the weather on August 11 was the same. At three o'clock in the afternoon, as the opener of the game, under the hot sun, with the referee's whistle, kicked off.

Goodison Park is full of seats, Everton fans occupy half of the country, and Nottingham Forest fans also gathered in the visiting team stands to cheer for their team. Perhaps before the start of the game, the people sitting in the stands were still complaining that the weather was too hot today, making them almost heatstroke.

But when the game started, no one thought about such trivial matters.

The singing in the stands was loud and everyone was waving their arms hard and shouting loudly. What's the heat? The enthusiasm of our fans is hotter than the weather! What is the strong sunlight? Running and sweating in such strong sunlight is a man's sport!

"Van Nistelrooy partnered with Arshavin in this game. This is the first time he has played a striker partner with Arshavin in an official match. This is also the first appearance of a Russian striker in the Premier League..."

The narrator started talking about the opening remark he had thought before.

The Forest team has already driven the ball out on the field.

Arshavin kicked the football lightly, and Van Nistelrooy winked at him. He knew that he would stop watching the ball and rush forward.

Van Nistelrooy passed the football back to Van der Vaart on the center line. At the same time, Ribery on the left sprinted forward at full speed.

So far, everything is normal, it's a kick-off that can no longer be regular.

Arshavin was still rushing forward. The people at Everton didn't care about him, anyway, he continued to rush forward and he would be in an offside position soon.

The point is where the ball is.

Van der Vaart did not let the football stay at his feet for an extra second, and as soon as the ball rolled over, he divided the football to the right again.

Unlike Ribery, who has already rushed up, the full-back Beckham, who started on the right, is still standing behind the center line at this time and has no intention of going up.

Ribery and Arshavin continue to run forward, it seems that they are not playing football, but racing in the 100 meters.

Beckham stopped the ball and looked up.

The right side of the stadium is on the coach's side, and Beckham is now very close to Moyes. Seeing this scene, he suddenly felt familiar, and then his heart jumped wildly.

"Don't let him..." Before he finished yelling, he saw Beckham in front of him beating his feet and pumping towards the football!

Long pass!

As soon as Beckham received the football, the cheers of Forest team fans rang, and now it is louder and louder, completely overwhelming the boos of Everton fans.

Just as the football was flying into the sky, Arshavin seemed to be a bomber appearing in the field of vision through the clouds, fighting out from behind the entire defense line of Everton!

Some of the Everton players raised their arms and signaled linesman Arshavin to be offside. But the linesman ignored him and just continued to run down with Arshavin.

Everton's American goalkeeper Tim Howard reacted faster than his guard teammates, and when he saw Arshavin break out of the defense, he decisively abandoned the goal. The goalkeeper coach will never tell the goalkeeper to give up when he is suspected of being offside. Regardless of whether he is offside or not, the goalkeeper must do his job well.

But Beckham's long pass was aimed at Arshavin, not at Howard.

Arshavin turned his head and glanced at the situation behind him at this time. He saw that the football had arrived as planned. Howard is a little far away from him, lob?

Howard saw Arshavin's attempt, he suddenly jumped up, stretched out his body in the air, and opened his arms as if a net leaped towards Arshavin. The advantage of this is that it successfully sealed the space for the opponent to lob. As for the following... Generally speaking, when a football bounces, it is really difficult for a forward to shoot a grounder. The goalkeeper is not a god, he can only choose to block one possibility.

A black projection hung over the little Arshavin's head. Because of the dazzling sunlight, he couldn't see the other person's expression when he looked up, but the lob shot was useless.

Arshavin raised his right leg high, his body almost volleyed, and swept the football across the air. Not being able to shoot does not mean that you can't pass the ball...

Howard strikes, Everton’s goal is empty. Who is on the other side at this moment?

"Frank Ribery!" the commentator exclaimed.

Yes, Ribery, who sprinted at the same time as Arshavin, finally slapped him when he was most needed.

A goal that is 2.44 meters high and 7.32 meters wide looks like a dog hole from 50 meters away, but from the small restricted area, it is simply...broad and sky!

The huge empty goal just crossed in front of Ribery, and the football passed by Arshavin was a bit forward, but it was not difficult for Ribery. He exerted force on his left foot and flew forward like this.

"Fishing to the top-What_GOOOAL!!!"

"Oh_yes! Yes! Nottingham Forest leads Everton 1-0!"

Howard, who pounced on Arshavin, returned to see the football on the net and had already scored...

"Ten seconds! This is the new season appearance of the European champion Nottingham Forest! Beautiful! Wonderful!" the commentator said with a laugh. "David Beckham's precise long pass, Arshavin's cool head, and the team's fast running position! This is the characteristic of Nottingham Forest, fast! Really fast!"

Dunn led a group of coaches and substitute players rushed out excitedly. He did tell the players before the game that scoring as fast as possible in the away game can completely disrupt the opponent's deployment and give us an advantage in future games. But he did not expect this group of players to do so well.

How many seconds was the fastest goal scored in the Premier League before?

"The results of the computer have come out. The whole process of scoring took ten seconds. Ribery broke the previous one and a half seconds of the fastest goal in the Premier League held by Alan Shearer and Ledley King. Record!" The commentator announced excitedly after getting the latest data.

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