Godfather Of Champions

From the first second, the two sides entered the game directly.

There is no warm-up, no temptation, no pretending to attack. From the first second, the two sides are fully in the state, and every attack is aimed at the goal of scoring.

Gerrard tried a long shot and almost scored. Fortunately, Van der Sar's attention was very concentrated, and he hit the football with both fists-facing Gerrard's long-range shot, he was not too daring to hold his hands directly for fear of letting go.

This powerful long shot instantly burst the atmosphere of the Louis II Stadium.

Dunn was sitting on the coach's bench, behind him was a stand for the Red Army Liverpool fans. The huge cheers filled every inch of space around him, stirring his eardrums. He had been accustomed to this for a long time, he didn't even twist his head, just thinking about his own problems.

It seems that Liverpool really can't wait to beat themselves. The only question now is-is this what Benitez meant or the idea of ​​the Liverpool players?

He turned to look at the coaching bench in Liverpool next door. Benitez was sitting in his place, surrounded by his assistants, Dunn could not see his expression, nor could he hear what they were saying.

The Forest team has never been afraid of encountering a team that can’t wait to win, or that the Forest team likes to run into such a team. Once they come up, they will launch a fierce attack and bombard the Forest team’s goal. A three-footed shot went through the gate and took the lead.

In that case, the forest team's best defensive counterattack is useful.

Dunn decided to wait a few minutes to see Liverpool's true intentions before making a decision.

In the opening five minutes, Liverpool used their opportunity to kick-off and sieged the Forest team's goal. And Nottingham Forest also cooperated with the shrinking line of defense, allowing the opponent to press on.

Judging from the scene alone, anyone can conclude that "Nottingham Forest is in a passively beaten situation and is embarrassed by Liverpool's powerful attack". But true experts don't think so.

For those familiar with the Forest team, this is the most dangerous time for the Forest team opponents.

Have you seen a spring? When it wants to rebound, it will be compressed into a ball by external force. The strength of its rebound is related to the degree of compression before. If you install a sharp knife on the top of this spring, when it rebounds...

The forest team's three lines contracted very tightly, except for Eastwood, everyone else came back to participate in the defense. No matter how fierce Liverpool's offensive is, these three lines have remained very intact.

It's like a spring compressed to the extreme...

"Liverpool's offensive is very fierce, but when we look at Coach Tony Dunn, he doesn't seem to be worried. Of course, the Forest team always defends firmly first, and then needs opportunities to attack. This is no longer being pressed by others. It happened once or twice." The commentator's tone was a little sarcasm. No one would like a team that puts defense more important than offense. Dunn was right, the Forest team was not welcome.

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Seek offensive opportunities while maintaining a solid defense. This kind of thing no longer needs Dunn to stand on the sidelines and use gestures to remind players. Most of the forest players know what to do, and those who don't know must be newcomers who have joined the team this summer. In today's starting list for the Forest team, only Beckham has recently joined the team.

Whether in Manchester United or Real Madrid, Beckham's football is all about offensive, advocating offensive football. Except in the last season of Real Madrid, he rarely thought of attaching so much importance to defense in the game.

After coming to the Forest, the defensive part of the training accounted for a large proportion, and he needed to adapt from the beginning.

Fortunately, he played as a midfielder in Real Madrid, even if he plays right midfielder, he will actively participate in the defense, although the defense level is average, but the mentality is very right. that's enough.

In this game, Dunn made Beckham not only value his tireless running and professionalism, but also rely on his set-pieces and wide crosses.

Van der Sar threw down Torres's close-up shot, he firmly pressed the football under him, and did not give his opponent a chance to shoot. Although Akinfeev returned to the team from Russia this season, Russia's number one national team may need to sit on the bench to adapt to the Premier League for some time.

Van der Sar got up and threw the football in his hand to Beckham, who came back to meet him, and all the offensive players of the Forest team rushed up. Ribery, Van Nistelrooy, Van der Vaart, Eastwood... are all in the frontcourt. Only Beckham ran back to the front of the penalty area to catch the ball.

This is a new set of offensive tactics for the Forest team. It uses Beckham's precise long pass to help the team get rid of the opponent's crazy interception in the midfield, and directly hit behind the opponent's defense line, except for the possibility of his own striker entering the opponent. Offside trap... Everything else is fine.

After receiving the football, Beckham turned and prepared for a long pass. But he had just turned around when he was pushed down by Gerrard.

The referee's whistle sounded, signaling a foul by Liverpool. But such a foul would neither give Gerrard a yellow card nor a verbal warning. Instead, a counterattack by the Forest team would be ended in the cradle.

The Forest team opened a free kick in the backcourt. Pepe’s long pass was pushed back by Liverpool’s Danish central defender Daniel Agger (Daniel_Agger). The Forest team had no chance to fight back. At this time, Liverpool’s 30-meter area There are people inside. In addition to looking for opportunities outside the Forest, there is no other good way to break through Liverpool's defense.

Dunn's brows wrinkled. He thought he probably knew what Benitez planned to do.

It seems that Liverpool people have not been dazzled by anger...

Press up when it's time to attack, and recover very quickly when it's time to defend. If the Forest team wants to play a fast break, they will try to delay it, even if it is a foul.

The tactics are clear, and the players are also very decisive.

It seems that this game is not easy to play.

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If the spring is compressed harder, the attack force caused by the rebounding force will be greater. This is common sense. This is the principle of defensive counterattack.

But what if the force exerted on the spring is suddenly greater than the force that the spring itself can withstand? What if the force exerted on it is not simply a force from top to bottom?

What will be the result?

"Kaba" said.

"Fernando Torres!!" The commentator chanted the name of the Spanish striker. Liverpool's No. 9 was opening his arms and accepting congratulations from his teammates.

In the opening eleven minutes, when Dunn was thinking about how to deal with Liverpool's tactics, the Forest team's goal was lost.

With a beautiful frontcourt cooperation, Gerrard caught Wood's attention after he got the ball, and then he successfully brought Wood out of his defense zone and made a long shot. Just when all the Forest team players focused on him, he pushed the football under his feet in a straight line, Torres inserted from the front of the back line, and came a small range of offside. The guards of the Forest team After receiving the ball from behind, the next thing was simple. He pushed the far corner when Van der Sar had not blocked the shooting angle, and the football easily rolled the goal.

Liverpool led 1:0 in the eleventh minute. This made the Red Army fans at the Louis II Stadium cheered, while the Forest fans were temporarily silent.

Dunn sat on the coach's bench and scratched his head. This was the only action he took after seeing the ball lost. He jumped up from the seat without angrily, then dropped the water bottle in his hand. The opponent's tactical coordination was very subtle, and his defense made an inertial error. At that moment, the defensive players only looked at whose feet the ball was. There is really no need for him to be overly angry at this loss.

Besides, the game only started eleven minutes, and the Forest team still has time, so he is not in a hurry.

Thinking of this, Dunn adjusted his sitting posture, and he cocked his legs again.

If the spring is pressed too hard, it may break and deform. But for Dun En, it was nothing more than changing one spring into two, two to four, four to eight, and eight to sixteen... it was nothing.

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Leading Liverpool continued to strengthen their offensive against the Forest team in the first half. They were not satisfied with a goal. Benitez also knew that a goal lead was the least secure.

Nottingham Forest is completely at a disadvantage in front of a strong Liverpool. Of course, this is still the opinion of outsiders. Dunn didn't think it was just as simple as "being at a disadvantage." He still remembered that when he was a fan of martial arts novels in high school, he watched Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Dragon Slaying the Heaven". There was a sentence in it that is very suitable for the current situation and also very suitable for summarizing the forest team's football tactical style:

He is strong by him, and the breeze blows the hills; he let him be horizontal, and the moon shines on the river.

No matter how strong or fierce the enemy is, you can treat him as a breeze blowing on the mountain, and the moon reflecting on the river. Although it can be applied to me, there is no harm. But how can I not harm me?

He is arrogant, he hates himself, and I am really angry.

Putting it in the football world means that as long as we are at home, we will not be led by the nose of our opponents. No matter how fierce they attack, our defensive formation remains intact, disciplined, and our minds are unified. The opponent's offense is just the breeze blowing over the hills and the projection of the moon on the river, without threat.

This is the temperament of a strong team, this is a confident performance.

Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, the besieged Forest team is in danger and may lose the ball again at any time, but the Foresters themselves know how safe they are now.

That loss was just an accident. One accident is enough.

The Liverpool players on the field now have a profound experience of Nottingham Forest's "immobile" football style. It seems that they are attacking around their opponents, and the chances are many times that of the opponent, but how many times can they really threaten the opponent's goal? Few.

Moreover, everyone knows that what the Forest team is good at is defensive counterattacks, which will make Liverpool players always think of behind them after they attack when attacking-although Benitez's tactics are aimed at this. The arrangement is made, but the psychological inertia of people is terrible. Nottingham Forest has repeatedly staged a good show of killing opponents with a quick sneak attack in various competitions. Wouldn't you let them think they would not think about it?

The long-term result is that Liverpool's players obviously feel tired before the first half is finished. Except for the goal in the front field, the situation can no longer be played, and there is the possibility of being attacked by the opponent at any time behind. Can you not be tired?

As we all know, Dunn is actually a complete Chinese. He has a very strong Chinese background. These things are not only reflected in the relatively superficial speaking Chinese and the love to eat Chinese food.

After he became the head coach of the Forest team, he slowly wondered how to integrate Eastern wisdom with modern football?

The forest team’s tactics incorporate the wisdom of "The Art of War".

"Fenglin Volcano", due to the influence of Japanese animation and games, many people think it is from Japan. In fact, this is purely "Made in China".

In order to fool Yang Yan, the bookshelf in Tang En's home had placed a lot of books related to China. Dunn often reads very few things, like the kind of "XX Travel Notes" and shelved it, but "The Art of War" is a book that Dunn often reads.

In "The Art of War. Military Struggle Chapter", it is said: "So it is as fast as the wind, its as fast as the forest, invading like fire, immovable like a mountain, hard to know as yin, and moving like thunder."

This sentence is a high summary of the forest team's tactics:

The assault is as fast as a gust of wind, the quiet waiting period is like a strict forest, the attack is as swift and merciless as a fire, and when defending, you must be as calm and calm as a mountain, making it difficult for the enemy to guess your intentions. In that case, once It moves like thunder and shakes, unstoppable.

Static is defensive, offense is active. Static is the root of motion, and motion is the minister of static. Offense is based on defense. In a game, most of the time the two sides are facing off and defending, the attack to solve the problem is often a matter of a moment. It's as if the forest team used a lightning-fast surprise attack to solve the battle after the forest team defended for eighty-nine minutes.

Of course, Dunn did not read "The Art of War" to his team members. Although there is a translation by the British Museum, he doesn't have to worry about his own translation. He just felt that telling these words to his subordinates intact was proof of the leader's low level, because they did not have their own understanding and could only copy books. He himself incorporated a lot of the wisdom of Sun Tzu's art of war into daily training and game command.

The things of Chinese ancestors have gone through the test for more than two thousand years, have not been eliminated, and are still being carried forward, which proves that it does have its own uniqueness, and it does make modern people sigh. Although the level of Chinese football is extremely low, Dunn never thinks that everything in China is low. At least he thinks that the ancient wisdom of the Eastern style can also command the team to victory.

I love Chinese culture, it is not just to give me a bad excuse to speak Chinese in the future. I really love the culture of this country, because they have never been out of date and have surpassed this era.

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Not moving like a mountain, Xu Rulin's Nottingham Forest team finally found a good opportunity at the last moment of the first half. Three Forest players completed three passes at the front of Liverpool's penalty area, and then the football flew into Liverpool's gate.

George Wood broke Liverpool's counterattack and launched a counterattack on the spot. He passed the ball to Ribery, who then passed to Van Nistelrooy. Van Nistelrooy made a point before the shot.

Reina was blocked by his own eyes and reacted half a beat slowly, only having time to watch the ball into the net.

This was a sneak attack, a sneak attack that was as fast as wind and fierce as fire.

Benitez knows that Nottingham Forest has always defended this way and must counterattack, but he doesn't know when the Forest will counterattack-if someone knows it, then it is not called a sneak attack.

He did not expect that Nottingham Forest chose to fight back at the end of the first half when Liverpool players were generally exhausted physically and mentally after 45 minutes of tightening their nerves.

It may not be the most embarrassed to be beaten around, and it may not be the easiest to be beaten around others.

Surge is like wind, Xu is like forest, invading like fire, not moving like mountain, hard to know like yin, moving like thunder.

The ancestors are sincere and not deceiving me. (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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