Godfather Of Champions

In an away draw with Real Madrid, the Forest team has already occupied the advantage in the duel between the two sides to compete for the semi-finals, but this advantage is not safe, Dunn dare not say that his team can definitely enter the semifinals. He must be cautious in the team's two-line battle. This season is not like last season, the policy of "abandoning the league and guaranteeing the Champions League" was determined early, and the team can concentrate on preparing for the battle on one front. Today, Dunn’s team needs to work in both the League and the Champions League, narrowing the gap with Manchester United in the league, and striving to reach the finals for the third consecutive time in the Champions League.

Back in Nottingham, Dunn faced the weaker Birmingham in the league and implemented a rotation system.

The Forest team, who played with a semi-substitute and semi-main lineup, easily defeated Birmingham 2-0 at home. George Wood did not play in this game. Sidwell started off the bench well.

Dunn obviously also noticed the players' desire for more opportunities to play. If conditions permit, he will allow everyone to play.

Bendtner started off as a substitute for Van Nistelrooy and scored two goals. After the game, he was selected as the best player of the game and got champagne. He seemed very happy when interviewed by reporters. When Dunn brought him from Denmark to England, he said that he was the future of the team, the core player of the forest team and the main forward. But... with Viduka and Anelka before, and Van Nistelrooy behind, Bentner's position has always been awkward. What he can do now is to seize these unusual opportunities and try his best to show himself and strive for more goals.

His performance this season is very good, with 11 goals scored under the bench - eight in the league and three in various cups.

In the Danish national team, he also secured the position of the main striker.

In Dunn's heart, he really regarded Bendtner as the forest's main center for the future. Van Nistelrooy is always getting old, his physical condition is declining, his competitive state is declining, and he gets injured frequently... these are all normal and predictable conditions. At that time Bendtner just grew up to take over. The strong center is guaranteed, and everyone on the front line is easy to find, Eastwood, Arshavin, and then find one in the transfer market. In this way, the striker of Nottingham Forest will basically not have to worry too much in the next ten years.

After buying Bendtner, the fate of the Danish boy has been changed. However, in order to avoid the tragedy caused by eager quick success, Dunn still intends to let Bendtner grow up slowly according to the experience he is familiar with. Zi pushed him to the main front line. He hoped that in the past few years, Bendtner could slowly learn and grow up, and finally became the head shooter of Nottingham Forest.

This is his plan, step by step, Dunn feels that he has considered very well, and he has taken care of all aspects. There should be nothing missing...

So seeing that Bendtner won the best of the game, he also praised the Danish boy in the dressing room. At the time of praise, Dunn seemed to be able to see Bendtner becoming the Premier League shooter in the future, and Nottingham Forest would dominate Europe's glorious years...

Another piece of good news that makes Dunn feel comfortable is that in this round of the league, the other competitors of Nottingham Forest are even or lose-Manchester United away 2:2 and Middlesbrough tied, Arsenal home 1: 1 draw with Liverpool, Chelsea lost to Manchester City 0:2 away.

In this way, the Forest team is still ranked second, but there is only one gap with the first Manchester United, and the third Arsenal is six points away. As long as no big mistakes are made, this second place can basically not run. .

Dunn's goal this season is of course not second in the league. He has been second for two consecutive seasons, and the media has called him "the second in the millennium". This is unfair to him, because he is the coach who won the Champions League and League Cup. But the media There is no word "justice" in our dictionary, as long as there is a gimmick, we must do it.

Even if the media doesn't give Dunn such a bad nickname, Dunn doesn't want to be second in the league anymore. His goal this season is the league championship. The second place in the league is not a reason to make him happy. What makes him happy is the mistake of Manchester United. The two teams are only one point away. More importantly, the Forest team has not played against Manchester United in the second half of the league.

As long as they don't make mistakes themselves, there is still a chance to fight Manchester United-according to the schedule, in the final round of this season's league, Nottingham Forest will challenge Manchester United away. At that time, as long as the points difference between the two sides is still one point, it will be the moment when the league championship is released.

Competition to such a fierce point is a good thing for the Premier League and fans.

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After the 33rd round of the league, Nottingham Forest ranked second with 76 points. Then they will face their powerful opponent Real Madrid in the main scene.

This is not the first time Real Madrid has visited the City Stadium. Although they met in the knockout stage for the first time, in the season when Dunn participated in the Champions Cup for the first time, the first opponent in the group stage was Real Madrid, which is also the city. The stadium returned to the Champions League after many years.

There are many Spanish media who came to England with Real Madrid, and they are still very concerned about this game. Because Real Madrid has stopped in the Champions League for three consecutive seasons, and reached the quarter-finals this season, people expect them to win the tenth Champions League trophy in club history. If this is really achieved, Real Madrid's achievement can be regarded as the well-deserved first among football clubs.

In the face of such strong expectations, there is no reason to stop at the quarterfinals.

Even though the home game was drawn by Nottingham Forest 1:1, the media and fans are still more optimistic about Real Madrid. After all, the Forest team only had one away goal, and the total score between the two sides was a tie. They believe that it is impossible for Real Madrid to lose a few goals for the time being to prevent them from scoring. As long as there is a goal, it is an away goal, one offsets Nottingham Forest's away goal, and more goals are Real Madrid's net profit advantage.

Even if the two sides drew 3:3 at the City Stadium in the end, Real Madrid advanced.

From the above analysis, the Real Madrid people have come to an optimistic result that they are bound to advance.

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Before the game started and the Real Madrid team had not set off for Nottingham, Tony Dunn provoked the end of the battle.

In an interview with the British "Guardian", he talked about the first round of the match between the two sides. He first admitted that his tactic was to deal with Guti, and then he praised Guti as the core of Real Madrid. These seem to be normal, and it was just an ordinary interview.

But then, Dunn's conversation turned around——

"...Actually, I think Guti should be happy about this (referring to being violated by everyone and limping after the game), because it shows one thing. He got the attention of the enemy. Think about it. He was on the bench a few years ago..." At this point, Tang En laughed and didn't continue.

The content of the interview was marked in bold by the editor of the newspaper, which meant it was self-explanatory.

Sure enough, after the Spanish media reprinted this interview, it caused a great response.

I will not say what the Real Madrid fans in Spain reflect. On the Guardian’s website alone, the comments following this interview were almost one-sided scolding Tony Dunn, some in English, some in Spanish, and even Japanese and Chinese...

In addition to Real Madrid's supporters, more people think that Tony Dunn lacks sufficient respect for his opponents.

"...It is really hard for me to believe that this is what a famous head coach said..." The famous commentator of the Spanish media "As" commented on Tony Dunn's words.

"...We are a country of gentlemen, and sportsmanship is emphasized here. I think Tony Dunn’s remarks are seriously contrary to what we are proud of..." Even British government officials felt that Dunn’s words They had to make them faceless, and Sports Secretary Tessa Joewell criticized Dunn directly. After all, the relationship between Real Madrid and the Spanish royal family is very good. They represent Spain's sports image abroad. If this image is denigrated by a Premier League coach...

"Tony Dunn's brain is cramping again." The headline of the "Sun" is very eye-catching. They even made a special project to find out all the incredible remarks that Dunn has said since taking office. It is "The Crazy Talk of Tony Dunn".

The Spanish media was full of crusades, and the English media also stood on the opposite side of Dunn almost one-sidedly, slamming him that he never spoke through his brain, and asked Dunn to face this obviously insulting remarks. Explanation.

So Dunn came out to explain, in his own column-

"...I am very surprised by the reaction that this sentence can elicit. I just evaluated my opponent and didn't use an insulting vocabulary. It's all facts. In the eyes of some people, it turns into disrespect. Opponents. Ask Guti yourself, did he only play as a substitute in a great team like Real Madrid in the past few years? I did not say that he is not good enough, but the main positions belong to Beckham, Zidane, and the Philippines. Compared with a greater player like Ge, Guti is really not good. Am I wrong? I really don’t understand that a group of people holding a magnifying glass all day to find faults in my words is a very interesting job? "

How does this seem to explain? In other words, although this meant to be explained, with Dun En's unpleasant tone, it would add fuel to the fire.

"Sportsmanship? When my goalkeeper Paul Gerrard was hit by a Redding player with a concussion and retired directly, why didn't the respected Minister of Sports Tessa Jowell come out and give an announcement about sports "Spirit's high-level theory? She should now pay attention to the Beijing Olympics and prepare for the London Olympics, instead of telling me what to say."

"Just by expressing our views on the opponent's players, we will be attacked. Then we will stop talking, okay? Everyone shut up, and the world will be clean."

"If you really can't find anything to report on in the media, I suggest that you put out all the pages and publish public service advertisements to promote sportsmanship?"

Said it was an explanation, but it was Dunn's counterattack, right?

I don’t know if Tony Dunn is the first person in the history of English football to criticize the British Minister of Culture, News and Sports so mercilessly... Anyway, he is completely red, red and purple, and purple. Hei...he has many more enemies.

Although Qiaoweier is the Minister of Sports, she has no right to ask Dunn what to do. The only thing she did wrong was that she shouldn't be involved in this matter. Her remarks stabbed Dunn's hornet's nest. . After Dunn fought back, she didn't say anything. For a senior government official, keeping silent during a war of words with ordinary people is the most appropriate way. She should have been so...

The Spanish media are reluctant, but the English media's voice is much weaker. Because the game is approaching, it doesn't make much sense to hype this kind of thing. In the end, it will be the game itself.

In fact, the hype in the media is not for "the dignity of Spanish football", "for sports ethics", "respect for the opponent"... They just do so because they can attract attention and have greater benefits.

The media is the world's best job of "being a **** and setting up an archway". Dunn knew what they were thinking, so he didn't give them a good look.

His words had the greatest impact on the Real Madrid team, and Guti, who was "named", was even more furious. When he arrived in Nottingham, he was angry when he was interviewed: "I have no good feelings for people who judge others maliciously, and I am not interested in answering such boring topics." He rudely rejected the reporter's words about Dunn. Question, but even if he does not answer this question, will the media have nothing to say?

"Guty expressed strong dissatisfaction with Tony Dunn's remarks!"

"Guty thinks Tony Dunn is not worth mentioning!"

...

And so on.

Anyway, with the help of the media, the two sides officially went on.

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In fact, Tang was a little bit incomprehensible about Dun En's sudden talk about Guti. He felt that Dunn didn't need to cause trouble for himself.

Dunn just shrugged and said that the boring sports minister was an unexpected "accident". In the past, it was normal for everyone in the football circle to spat each other, and it was also a major attraction of football. It was a gimmick that the media would like to see. Mourinho once called Wenger a "voyeur", Ferguson also said that he hoped that there would be two bullets to let him kill Wenger and Victoria... Why don't you see British government officials come out and talk about it?

So Dunn hadn't expected Qiaoweier to get out, and it made him particularly angry. There is a kind of hegemony of "people in our circle talk about things, but laymen will chime in", and it doesn't matter that this is a government official and a woman at the same time, making ridicules.

Putting aside the impulsive sports minister, Dunn’s plan went smoothly. He paid the price of being stigmatized and hated by others, and then successfully angered Real Madrid’s midfielder Guti. .

Perhaps he is not as famous as Raul and others, but in Dunn's eyes, he is the real core of Real Madrid today. He has a direction and strategy in Real Madrid's offense, and it is messy without his Real Madrid offense.

Guti is irritated, and he will lose the calmness that an organizer must have. What will Real Madrid's offense be like at that time... You can guess with your knees.

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Nothing came out of Dunn's expectation. In the second round of the match between the two sides, Guti's performance was different from that of the first round. The impetuous mood can be seen by anyone, and Real Madrid's offense is also the first impression, becoming chaotic. At the beginning, Guti relied on Guti, but Guti made frequent mistakes and lost the ball frequently, and passed the football directly to the feet of the forest team players several times to prove.

In the overwhelming boos on the city court, his temper was getting worse and worse. Before the end of the first half, he applied for a yellow card-an unnecessary and fierce tackle knocked down George Wood. He got a yellow card, and the players of the Forest team reluctantly asked the referee to give him a red card and sent him off the field.

The game was full of gunpowder, and verbal conflicts between the players of both sides were common.

In the 70th minute of the game, Schuster couldn't bear it and replaced Guti with Gago. In these 70 minutes, Guti passed the ball 76 times, but only succeeded 30 times. Frequent mistakes did not help the team's offense at all. Instead, the whole team followed him to become impetuous.

There are fewer conflicts, but Real Madrid's offense has completely lost its direction. They rely more on the individual skills of the stars to fight alone, and occasionally want to cooperate will be overwhelmed by the forest team's overall defense. The incredible Real Madrid faced Nottingham Forest's defensive battle at home.

In the end, the two sides tied 0:0.

This result left the fans of Real Madrid face ashamed, and the players of Real Madrid lost their faces-they were eliminated by Nottingham Forest with a disadvantage of fewer away goals...

"Nottingham Forest breaks into the semifinals again! For the third year in a row! This is amazing, this is amazing..." the commentator repeated, some not knowing what to say.

The game was really ugly and there were no highlights at all. If the neutral fans saw such a game, they would have turned off their TV or changed channels. Such a game makes the commentator really unable to take any interest in answering the special comment. However, breaking into the Champions League semi-finals for three consecutive years is indeed an amazing result. Few teams in today's football do this... No, it can even be said that "almost none".

The ugly and disgusting game, and the terrific great results, this pair of contradictions is wonderfully unified in Tony Dunn's team. The narrator felt his lack of vocabulary for the first time, and could not express this feeling appropriately.

Had to...

"Good luck to Tony Dunn and his team." (To be continued, if you want to know what's going on, please visit www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)

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