Godfather Of Champions

Before the game against Manchester City, the Forest team also played a game-the European Champions Cup group stage. For Nottingham Forest, the question they are considering now is not to qualify, but to qualify.

Dunn hopes that his team can win the remaining two games and get the top of the group.

So the Forest team defeated Porto who came to challenge by 4-1 at their home court. Although Porto has been a good one a few years ago, but now this Porto really can't compare with Nottingham Forest.

Some people may not want to believe it, but Nottingham Forest is indeed one of the top teams in Europe. Whether it is the player's strength or the coaching level of the head coach, they can all be numbered.

Before this, no one in European football would have thought that Nottingham Forest, which has been struggling in the low-level leagues, would have a glorious day. This mist-shrouded forest seems to have appeared out of thin air, and everything is only because of Dunn who came back from 2007...

What would happen without Dunn's outfit? Perhaps Nottingham Forest has now been reduced to the current League One or League Two due to frequent changes of head coaches, economic crisis and other factors...No one will mention this once brilliant name. Nottingham Forest will have countless in the history of modern English football. Like other clubs, they have a glorious past, but they can only be submerged under the tide of time and money, and are quickly forgotten.

Of course, the above may not happen. They changed to an equally good head coach and had a bit of good luck. After several years, they re-killed the English top league... As for whether they can reproduce their glory, it is hard to say.

But none of this happened, did it?

They may happen in the space of another parallel universe, but in the world that Dunn is in, they can only be "if" and "if".

The problem for Dunn now is that with the intensive Christmas schedule approaching and the reopening of the Champions League in the second half of the season, he must allocate the team's physical fitness more reasonably to ensure that he will not fall behind in the final sprint. At this time, the rotation system is particularly important.

The rotation system and the players' wishes are contradictory. No one likes to be replaced by others to rest when they are in good condition, because that means the main position is not stable enough.

But Dunn must do this. His first-team lineup is not as bloated as Chelsea and other teams. He has always implemented the policy of "refining troops and simplifying administration" to reduce the number of first-team teams and improve the quality of competition. The advantage of this method is that it can save a lot of unnecessary expenses, but the disadvantage is that it is a little stretched when it needs to be replaced...especially when there is an injury.

Dunn asked the team medical team to give him statistics on the physical conditions of everyone in the team and give him the coefficient of possible injury.

Both Eastwood and Beckham were tortured by old illnesses and illnesses, and occasionally suffered minor injuries; Van Nistelrooy’s physical fitness was severely challenged during the previous series of devil races. His current physical condition is not It’s not very good and needs to be included in the rotation system; Ribery has recovered, and after a few games he didn’t find any hidden illnesses, so he can use it with confidence; Pepe’s problem is a bit complicated, he seems to be able to deal with it The game was played, but after playing two games, the team doctor thought that he should be observed carefully. So in the game against Manchester City, Dunn did not let him play. He didn't even enter the big squad and sat in the stands watching After this game, Ayala is too old and can’t taste them all. Rotating him is necessary. His experience and ability help the team not only in the game, but also in training. These experiences can also help those guards. Just like what Hierro did to Pepe, Pikwe and others when the Forest team just ascended to the Premier League, Ayala just passed on his understanding of defenders and defense to his teammates.

George Wood was directly excluded from this report. Fleming had told Dunn long ago that Wood is an unknown creature that does not belong to the earth. If he does not play football, he will definitely be taken to the laboratory for dissection. The physical condition is too good... good, unlike the earthlings.

Dunn deeply understands and agrees with this, because he himself thinks Wood is a biochemical robot from the future. The English media made a fuss and gave Wood a very tacky nickname-"Monster".

Whenever he thinks of Wood's physical fitness, Dunn will follow his respectable and great mother Sophia. Compared with most people, Sophia has no ability to buy all kinds of nutritional products for her son, nor can he get the best food for him to develop balanced nutrition in all aspects. She just left the best food she could earn to her son. In this way, a skinny and sickly mother who was almost dying, raised a "monster" that amazed all English football by herself. . Although this is not very in line with the scientific explanation, Dunn believes it is true, because behind the crude food, there is the love that Sophia poured out, and George Wood has no reason not to be strong.

When Wood became famous, Sophia was also exposed-this is inevitable-everyone was surprised that Wood could have such a strong body after learning about Wood's childhood. Dunn would sigh and say, "This is love..."

Pulled away.

If it were not for Sidwell's mood, Dunn would never allow Wood to rotate. But in the end Wood also made the rotation list-but his rotation is not the same as the others. He only rotates once for a long time. Sidwell has more chances to play and counts on the Forest team to be able to walk in the FA Cup. Farther, they have been eliminated in the League Cup...

This season, Dunn still does not change his idea of ​​using domestic cups to train troops. In the English League Cup and the FA Cup, no matter who the opponent is, he always uses the "youth team plus reserve team plus some first team players" to deal with it.

Dunn really looks down on the League Cup. He has won it once anyway, and there is nothing to regret if he doesn't take it in the future. The champion of this kind of game will only be seriously considered by the teams that have been defeated on several other fronts and the teams that have no chance to win other championships except this. Obviously Tony Dunn’s Nottingham Forest is not like that. team.

The FA Cup... In fact, even in the first few years of the establishment of the Premier League, the status of the FA Cup is still very lofty-although it is not low, it is not as good as before-as the world's oldest modern football cup. , Has a history of 136 years, which is older than the history of most football clubs in the world. In England, a team that can win the FA Cup is worthy of respect, and the team will also regard the FA Cup as a great honor. Even many years after the creation of the Champions League, English people believe that the best cup in the world is the FA Cup, not the European Champions Cup.

The only regret of the emperor Brian Clive of the Nottingham Forest dynasty is that he did not lead the team to win even one FA Cup. Dunn did not want this to become his regret. But the problem now is that the forest team may be so strong that they can win the Champions League, but they can't achieve the results that they want to achieve in three-line battles. In order to lose the FA Cup and the Champions League, Dunn did not do it. It is not twenty years ago, and the FA Cup is far from satisfying the ambitions of a professional club team.

For Premier League teams, the FA Cup officially starts in January every year, and then continues until May. It just crosses the league and European competitions. The competitions are intensive and there are many distractions. In the end, it is very likely that they are not everywhere. Please. So Dunn doesn't want to play in the FA Cup yet.

Strong teams such as Barcelona and Real Madrid have not been able to solve the problem of multi-line combat at the same time, and ultimately all get what they want, let alone the just emerging Nottingham Forest. If you are used to games such as FM and CM, you may think that multiple crowns are an easy task, but in fact there are not many teams that can achieve the triple crown. It is not difficult to explain why Manchester United had such a high reputation after winning the Triple Crown, and many people considered it to be a "great" result. Although Liverpool’s "five crowns" are not too high in gold, they have also been talked about by Liverpool fans for a long time. It’s the same thing-to be able to win the championship on multiple fronts at the same time, not only the team’s strength needs to be strong, but also good luck. Be swayed by manpower.

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There was a strong rebound in Nottingham Forest in December. Dunn hopes that the team will seize the opportunity that the schedule is not too dense to close the gap with the top-ranked teams.

After sweeping Manchester City 4-0 at home, they defeated Bolton 4:1 away.

In this round of the league, Grant's Chelsea finally achieved a winning streak, they beat Sunderland 2-0 at home. Manchester United also beat Derby County 4:1 at home, but Dunn’s other two rivals, Arsenal and Liverpool, lost the game away: Arsenal lost to Middlesbrough 1:2, Liverpool lost 1:3 Reading. By the way, Manchester City, one of the top six, lost to Tottenham away with a score of 1:2.

Next, the seventeenth round. Arsenal, who lost the ball, played against Chelsea at home, and Manchester United, who had won at home, had to go to Anfield to challenge Liverpool. Among the top six teams, only Manchester City and Nottingham Forest have a better life-Manchester City is at home against Bolton, and Nottingham Forest is at home against Blackburn.

Two strong dialogues attracted everyone’s attention. Even Dunn paid attention to these two games. Fortunately, the two games and the Nottingham Forest game did not kick off at the same time, otherwise he would miss these two exciting games. It’s the game-the process may not be exciting, the result must be very exciting.

After a very difficult 90 minutes, Arsenal beat Chelsea 1-0 at home.

In the same arduous ninety minutes, Manchester United relied on a breakthrough from the almost omnipotent Cristiano Ronaldo this season, assisted Tevez to score and defeated Liverpool 1-0.

Then on the second day, Manchester City beat Bolton 4:2 at home and Nottingham Forest beat Blackburn 5:3.

Now the points and ranking list are very interesting.

After the sixteenth round of the league, Arsenal lost the game and Manchester United won, so the two teams still scored the same, 36 points ranked first and second in the league leaderboard. Since Liverpool and Manchester City, who had 32 points with Nottingham Forest before, lost the game, Nottingham Forest jumped to third with 35 points. Chelsea won two consecutive victories, and the points also changed from 25 to 3. eleven. So first and Arsenal, second is Manchester United, third is Nottingham Forest, fourth and fifth are Liverpool and Manchester City, and sixth is Chelsea.

Order returned to the eleventh round of the league.

By the seventeenth theory, there have been changes.

Arsenal win, Manchester United win, Nottingham Forest, Manchester City both win. In this way, Arsenal and Manchester United have 39 points, still the first and second relationship. Nottingham Forest is also third with 38 points, but the fourth and fifth have changed. Originally, Liverpool squeezed Manchester City with the same points on goal difference and ranked fourth. Now that they lost the game, they had to give up the fourth position. Manchester City took 35 points in this position, Liverpool 32 and Chelsea 31, ranked fifth and sixth respectively.

The difference between fourth and fifth is not just the front and back of the standings. If you put this ranking in the final round of the league, you can go to heaven in the fourth round-playing in the Champions League qualifiers, you have a great chance to participate in the Champions League main match; in the fifth place, you can only play in the UEFA Cup, which is much less paid, although not Hell, but for Liverpool, which has played the UEFA Cup for three consecutive years, it is a result even more hateful than hell.

The pressure on Benitez’s shoulders is not light, coupled with the turbulence of Liverpool’s top management, there are rumors that Benitez may be fired, on the one hand because he has a bad relationship with the club’s chairman, on the other hand. On the one hand, it serves as the club’s board of directors’ explanation for the team’s failure to reach the UEFA Cup for three consecutive years.

Regardless of the usual scenery, the position of the head coach is chatting with big-name players. The pressure they face is beyond the players' imagination. Dunn was very sympathetic to the legendary situation of Benitez, he didn't want to leave Mourinho and then Benitez. If all the excellent coaches in this league are finished, he will not be interested in playing. There are always various challenges in life to be interesting. If all the good opponents are gone, what is the use of those champions no matter how good they are?

Why the championship trophy looks radiant, so that countless people are fascinated, in Dun En's view, it is because there are enough good enough opponents on the way to fight for the championship, stepping on the body of the strong and walking to the throne, comparable to stepping on the corpse of an ant. A sense of accomplishment.

Fortunately, the Liverpool club board issued a statement soon, stating that they fully trusted Rafael Benitez and evaluated Benitez's past few years in Liverpool as "excellent results".

Don't worry about losing another good enough opponent.

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In the Champions League group stage, Dunn did not let those who have always wanted to watch the forest jokes get what they wanted. The Forest did not play in the UEFA Cup, and Nottingham Forest beat Marseille 4-0 in the final game. He ranked first in the group with four wins, one draw and one loss with 13 points, and he qualified. At the same time, they qualify for Porto, they ranked second with 11 points.

In the last two months of the game, whether in the domestic or European arenas, the Forest team suddenly became a "goal professional."

After losing 0:1 away to Liverpool in the league, they scored goals in every game. They beat Besiktas 8:0, Tottenham Hotspur 3:1, and Chelsea 1:1. This is their goal. The least game, 2:3 loss to Arsenal and two goals, followed by a scoring frenzy: Champions League group stage swept Porto 4:1, League 4:0 win Manchester City, 4:1 win Bolton, In the final match of the Champions League group match, they beat Marseille 4-0, and the Seventeenth League defeated Blackburn 5-3.

Suddenly someone exclaimed that the Forest team was not conservative and was about to play offensive football, so the offense was king. Dunn dismissed it. In fact, his style has not changed much, but in controlling the ball to control the rhythm of the game, the Forest team has indeed improved a lot. No matter what tactics the opponent adopts, Dunn has a way to deal with the opponent, and will not be helpless like before when encountering a team that can't defend.

In fact, Dunn has always believed that in the competition for the league championship, the important thing is not to win the game with the strong team, but to win the game with the weak team, and firmly hold the three-pointer that should have been obtained. Not losing points in unnecessary places is the key to determining who will become the league champion in the end. Otherwise, like Viali and Gullit’s Chelsea back then, they have a group of talented players and advanced tactics. However, due to the unstable overall performance of the team, although they can repeatedly defeat strong teams, they are always weak. The inexplicable loss of points on the team ended up getting nicknamed "spoiler". This is really not the original intention of Gullit and Vialli...

In the Champions League group stage with the first result, Dunn can put all his energy into the league, because Christmas is coming... (to be continued, if you want to know what will happen, please visit www.qidian .com, more chapters, support authors, support genuine reading!)

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