Godfather Of Champions

After eight rounds of the league, the Forest team won seven wins, one tie, 22 points, and topped the list with an unbeaten record. Arsenal, ranked second, played one less game than Forest, with six wins, one tie and 19 points, and is also an unbeaten record.

Ranking first in the league is certainly something to celebrate, and the scenery is infinitely good. But at the same time bear the pressure of the front runner. If you enjoy the scenery of the climbers, naturally you have to pay the corresponding price.

Nottingham Forest has now become a team that looks like a blocker in all England football, and Dunn feels as hard as playing in the Champions League final in every game. Because his opponent is always inexplicably special.

In the ninth round of the league, the Forest team fought hard for 90 minutes and beat Birmingham 3:2. But it paid the price that Pepe was injured and missed for a month and Grosso was sent off with a red card.

After the game, despite the victory, Dunn still sullenly denounced his opponent Birmingham for playing rough football.

"I think there is a bad problem with the Premier League right now. That is that any team will be particularly enthusiastic when they play against us. I don't just mean how good their form is, but that other than that, the actions of these teams are very good. Rough. I feel that this is not a Premier League, but a desperate game. Will you die if you lose? All opponents are used to using rough moves against my players, but look at what the referee did? The player of the United States was sent off with a red card, and the opponent was just a yellow card. I really doubt whether all this was instructed by the FA..."

Dunn's remarks, after the media's added oil and jealousy, set off a lot of disturbance in English football. He was also given a fine of 15,000 pounds. At the same time, the Football Association issued a formal warning to him, hoping that he would advise his words and deeds and not mislead the general public.

I can't tell how many grievances this is between Dunn and the FA. Dunn doesn't care about fines. If he pays a little money to make him criticize things he doesn't like, it's actually quite a bargain.

Looking at the schedule, it is not difficult to understand why Dunn suddenly went sour after the match against Birmingham and berated his opponent and the FA. Lost defender Pepe and Grosso’s Tony Dunn’s upcoming opponent is the mighty Manchester United. Now the Red Devils are ranked third in the league and have unconsciously completed a series of surpasses. The top two teams are eyeing.

In fact, it is fair to say that Grosso's being sent off feels a little self-blaming. Before being sent off, he was mediocre. It has been more than three months since he came to Nottingham Forest, and he still can't fully adapt to the rhythm of the Premier League game. This disappointed Dunn. The "great Italian left-back" in his mind seems to have retreated from the magic halo.

It's not that Grosso's ability is not enough. His assists are very sharp, but he can't keep up with the rhythm of the Premier League wingers on defense, and he has repeatedly broken through. Now the forest team's left defense has become a key attack position for other teams.

He took the second yellow card because he helped Pepe fight injustice, and the referee showed a yellow card because of his excessive speech. The first yellow card was because after being broken by the opponent, it was too late to intercept, so he turned around and pulled the opponent down and was sentenced to foul.

If Dunn just wants an offensive full-back, he might as well use Gareth Bale. The problem is that Dunn needs a full-back with a balanced offense and defense. Grosso should be such a person in his impression. How dazzling his performance in the Italian national team... even if he missed many games due to injury at Inter Milan He is still in the competition.

Dunn now has to admit that when he bought Grosso, he did not carefully consider the difference in football style.

Grosso doesn't seem to adapt to the high-paced game of the Premier League.

Taking advantage of the red card suspension, Dunn planned to put him on the bench to rest.

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Next, the eleventh round, the focus battle. The Forest team lost to Manchester United at their home court and lost 1:2.

"Nottingham Forest started on March 17th of this year with an 18-round undefeated and 13-game winning streak in the English Premier League. Since the 0:0 away draw with Chelsea on March 17th, Nottingham Forest will never again. I have never lost a league game. Before the away game was tied by Reading on September 15th, he scored 15 consecutive victories. This remarkable result was broken by Manchester United last night."

The summary after the game explained the game in a few words.

The actual situation is much more exciting than these few words. Dunn didn't want to lose to Manchester United at home, he did his best. Ferguson is also unwilling to lose at home, and is doing his best. It is a pity for everyone that Beckham, who has received much attention before the game, felt muscle soreness two days before the game. Dunn was cautious and did not put him on the big list, so David Beckham missed it. Opportunity to play head-to-head with your favorite team.

Although there is no topic person like Beckham, the game is still very exciting. There are only three goals, but every minute the fans on both sides will talk about it for a long time. The two coaches tried their best, tactically facing each other.

In the end, Dunn lost the battle, because there was no Ferguson.

Losing the strong dialogue made Dunn feel unhappy. When being interviewed by the media, he could not speak without speaking. When asked about "winning streak" and "unbeaten consecutively", he was surprised and asked: "Is it? They are all unbeaten in a row. Fifteen rounds of winning streak... It's a pity, what a pity..." Then I won't talk about other things, and the media felt that this interview was too boring.

But everyone knew that Dunn was in a bad mood. No one likes failure, and Dunn doesn't like it even less.

In fact, there is another reason for Dunn's bad mood-in the game against Manchester United, Pique and Ribery were also injured. Pique was replaced on the spot, and Ribery insisted on finishing the game, but the results of the post-match physical examination were not optimistic.

In the past few seasons, thanks to God’s care, the Nottingham Forest has rarely seen large-scale injuries. After they won the Champions League and Super Bowl, good luck seemed to be exhausted.

Is it because of poor physical strength that the movement did not do well and caused the injury? Not really. Some injuries are due to the opponent's rough movements, and some injuries are unexplainable. For example, Ribery, he just didn't kick the football when he made a fake action, but kicked it directly to the ground! It's unbelievable that such amateur action appears at the core of the French team. But it just happened.

At that time, Ribery fell to the ground with his right foot after being injured, but after a simple treatment he returned to the court and continued the game, which seemed to be fine. Who knows that after a checkup after the game, a phalanx fractured, and it takes at least one month of training to resume training.

In comparison, although Pikwe's injury looked serious at first, the actual situation was much better. You only need to rest for ten days to get back on the court.

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During this time, Nottingham Forest was surprisingly unlucky. In the league, they lost their troops and lost the ball. The Champions League group stage has not won. In the first round, they drew with Porto at away. In the second round, they lost to Marseille with a small home goal.

When this result came out, many people fell through their eyes. You must know that when the lottery was drawn, the media has almost always been optimistic that Nottingham Forest will become the first place in this group. Now, after two rounds, he is ranked third in the group with one draw, one negative and one point. Two rounds of the Champions League group stage were played, and the defending champion was still unwinnable. Someone said in a strange way that the Forest team did not intend to win the UEFA Cup after winning the Champions League, right?

According to the rules, the third place in the Champions League group stage is eligible to participate in the UEFA Cup. If Nottingham Forest can't get the top two in the group, and get third, it can only "condescend" to play the UEFA Cup.

Pepe’s injury doctor said it was a sequelae from the old injuries of last season. If he is not careful in the future, he may have repeated attacks. If he is brought back to the court too quickly this time, it is even more likely that he will be constantly injured and constantly injured throughout the season Wandering back and forth between comebacks.

Pepe is the absolute main force and core figure in the forest team's defense line. His absence was a heavy blow to the Forest's defense. But Dunn didn't dare to let Pepe return to the team prematurely. After all, if he really turned into a glass man who was constantly injured, Pepe would basically be destroyed.

Pique has to rest for ten days, Kompany and Ayala will play the role in the following days, Grosso is temporarily beaten into the cold palace, Layton Barnes and Gareth Bale take turns on duty and pulls on the right. Phinea's performance is very stable. However, Zimbanda's mood was a bit low, because in the game where the Forest team slaughtered Portsmouth, it was a rotation. Dunn chose Sun Jihai instead of him at the right back position. In addition to the intermission, Dunn enthusiastically said not to change another person, but he was put on the bench and didn't even get a minute to play. This makes him very disappointed.

Before winning an important championship, everyone can wither this unified goal and unite together, struggle and work hard, no matter how hard or tired, there is no complaint. But once the honor is obtained, there is no guarantee that no one will make their own calculations in their hearts.

Get more weekly salary for yourself, and get more chances to play for yourself...

Dunn felt a little headache.

Now the team counts the Champions League and has lost two consecutive games. This situation of losing two games in a row only happened twice in the team's first season of promotion to the Premier League. At that time, Dunn and the Forest team were inexperienced and were very pure newly promoted and rookies.

The foundation for Dunn to rule this team is "victory and continuous victory". Victory can cover up everything and repair everything. But what happens when the team can't win?

I don't know, but it's definitely not a good thing.

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During this time, everyone can see that their head coach Tony Dunn is in a bad mood. There are too many reasons: Pepe and Ribery’s injuries, the undercurrents flowing out of the team, the declining results, and the turmoil of the media...

In daily training, Dunn no longer joked with his coaches and players. Wearing sunglasses with a stern face makes people afraid to talk and laugh loudly, for fear that he might cause any wronged boss and be held hostage.

In fact, this is not the normal atmosphere that the Forest team should have. The training of the Forest team has always been strict and relaxed. Dunn, Chris Lak and Tang, these three coaches attach great importance to the quality of training, and absolutely do not allow players to sneak and skid during training. But while training earnestly, Dunn will often make innocent jokes with the players, tell some cold jokes to invigorate the atmosphere, coupled with the good atmosphere of continuous winning, everyone will train with high intensity in laughter and laughter. Finish, and will not feel too tired.

It's different now. Dunn pretended to be cool and didn't tell jokes to liven up the atmosphere. In addition, after losing two games in a row, everyone was thinking about each other. This repressive atmosphere is really unbearable.

Eastwood and Ribery have always been the two biggest treasures in the team, and the two also have the feeling of "heroes cherish heroes" and they all play together. With them in the atmosphere, it won't cool down. As a result, Ribery has left the team due to injury, and Eastwood has continued to suffer minor injuries.

This situation was maintained until Ribery returned to the team.

Before daily training on this day, Dunn met Ribery, the "Blade Warrior" on crutches, on the side of the training field, and he was a little surprised.

"Isn't it one month before you resume training? Can you get out of bed and walk so soon?"

Ribery held the guard rail next to him in one hand, raised the crutches in the other hand, and smiled at Dun En, "With this, I can go anywhere."

Tang En smiled dryly: "But you can't train yet."

"Come and see everyone. I just take this opportunity to rest."

Others came one after another, Ribery was busy greeting them one by one, so Dunn turned and went in by himself. Riberido glanced at his departure.

After the team started training, Ribery was not in a hurry to leave, he was alone watching from the sidelines.

Although everyone's faces were filled with enthusiastic smiles when they said hello, the atmosphere changed completely after the training started.

The people who just greeted each other with smiles were like killing their fathers and enemies on the training ground, one by one they were murderous, glaring at each other. Seeing this scene, Ribery shook his head slightly from below. The situation is not so good...

At the end of the training, in accordance with the practice of the Forest team, there were a few small-scale intra-team matches, with one goal to decide the winner. In the end, the winner was not rewarded, and the loser would be penalized for a run.

The purpose of this game is to cultivate the players' sense of victory and defeat, but it is also a way of entertainment and relaxation. Compared with the boring training subjects, most players still like to have the ball under their feet and can play freely. Although the atmosphere of competition is usually strong, everyone is talking and laughing. It is natural to booze at others' mistakes, but there is always a relaxed smile on his face.

What Ribery saw today was different.

The smell of gunpowder is strong when it comes up.

As a result, within five minutes of the game, Zimbonda made a fierce back shovel in the defense and overturned the huge Bendtner and rolled on the ground for several laps. The gunpowder accumulated before finally got a chance to burst. Suddenly vented out.

Pepe, Pique, Eastwood, Beckham, Ribery... all have been injured one after another. Under this background, whether it is competition or training, everyone will pay special attention to this aspect. Everyone is afraid that they will The injury became the next person to sit in the stands, and the position that was finally won may disappear with this injury.

Bendtner had always been under the pressure of Van Nistelrooy, and finally had the opportunity to perform, staged a hat-trick in the game against Portsmouth, and was selected as the best team in the Premier League round. He sees this as an opportunity to enter the main lineup. Now he is letting Zimbanda shovel to the ground in training, not to mention whether he has been injured, but the behavior of his teammates makes him very angry. It is a fluke that he is not injured. , What if you get hurt?

So Bendtner turned a few times on the ground and found that he didn't seem to be injured. He immediately jumped up from the ground, rushed in front of Zimbanda, and slammed his punch!

Zimbangda just got up, unexpectedly Bendtner's reaction was so fast, he was caught off guard... Bendtner's right straight punch accurately hit the target, and Zimbangda, who had just got up and hadn't stood still, was directly Slapped and fell down.

But don't underestimate French defender Zimbanda! In other words, he is also black, his physical fitness is different from ordinary people, and his anti-strike ability is also super strong. He had just sat down, turned over and jumped up, and kicked towards Bendtner. Although this kick did not hit the target, it prevented Bendtner from pressing and made him temporarily retreat.

At the same time, it also gave the teammates next to him time to come up and fight.

Suddenly, a group of people poured in and separated the two. Whether any physical contact happened again in the chaos is unknown.

Chris Lak, who is in charge of the referee, blows the whistle in his mouth as a police siren, "beep beep beep—" The harsh whistle made the already noisy and chaotic scene even more chaotic. Everyone is a little bit enthusiastic, Zimbanda is struggling to break free from the interception of his teammates, wanting to go up and beat Bendtner. The big Danish man waved his fist at him without showing any weakness, yelling: "You come!"

The coaches of the coaching staff all rushed into the field to separate the angry sides.

Dunn was standing on the sidelines wearing sunglasses, coldly watching everything that happened inside, as if these had nothing to do with him.

Ribery turned his head conditioned to look outside the training ground. Fortunately, this is when the training is about to end, and there is no media on the scene, otherwise such a scandal will be revealed, and there will be an uproar. What makes Nottingham Forest proud is that they have never had an internal conflict scandal, so the impression of this team on the opponents is united and terrible. But if once the enemy knows that this fortress is not as indestructible as it looks...what will happen?

Ribery was relieved by not seeing the media. He turned back and saw the teammates who were still clamoring, suddenly felt that they were strange. This situation is **** bad!

He shook his head. (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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