Godfather Of Champions

After defeating Tottenham, Nottingham Forest continued their trip to London. In the sixth round of the league in midweek, they beat Fulham with an away goal and won two consecutive victories in the new season.

Criticism of the "Boy Scouts" in the external media has gradually diminished.

Except for a few stubborn "Tang En black" elements, everyone else began to slowly accept this team.

"After all, they are very young. Being younger means more possibilities... don't they?" said an expert in the newspaper.

But then they will face another test.

"...I think a young team has one advantage, that is, it is full of energy. But when facing experienced opponents, it will show the immature experience. Tony Dunn and other players on the team do not exist. This kind of problem, but some people are the team's time bomb. For a team like Manchester United, if I were Tony Dunn, I would send the'veteran' to deal with Ferguson."

Yes, the opponent in the seventh round of Nottingham Forest is the defending champion Manchester United.

On September 20, 2009, Nottingham Forest will welcome Manchester United's challenge at home.

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On the Vilford training ground, Tang is announcing the 18-man roster for the Manchester United game tomorrow (since last season, the Premier League has begun to implement the "seven bench system") and starting roster.

Just after reading the list of 18 people, Tang En stood up before Tang continued to read the starting list.

"Before the announcement of the starting list, I have a question for you. Among you... what do you think about pressure?"

A group of people looked at each other, wondering why the boss suddenly asked this question.

Dunn called: "Milan, let's talk about it. What do you think of pressure? When you played for the club's first team at the age of fourteen, did you feel pressure?"

Nicholas Milan hesitated, then replied, "A little bit...but I feel okay, boss."

"Why do you feel okay?"

"I said to myself, it's just playing with someone older than myself, it's no big deal. Even if the performance is poor, no one will say anything to me, because I'm only fourteen years old, which is normal."

Dunn nodded and turned his gaze to Bostock: "What about you, John."

"Me?" Bostock smiled and shook his head. "I don't feel anything, boss. I am a professional player. Since I am a professional player, I will definitely face all kinds of pressure. I am used to it." He said. Truth be told, John Bostock, as one of the high-profile England talents, has been noticed by major clubs and the media when he was sixteen years old, and he also represents England’s national team of all ages in the international Appeared in the game. So for him, the pressure brought by professional football is not a big problem.

Dunn asked one by one, but he selected the young players who were newly transferred to the first team this season.

The results obtained satisfied him.

Of course, he can't know that these answers are from the sincerity, or just to satisfy his coach. But he has a way to check the authenticity.

He shook his head to Tang, indicating that he could continue to announce the starting list.

"Goalkeeper Akinfeev." After the new season, Van der Sar has gradually withdrawn from the starting lineup, and fools can see Dunn's intention to straighten Akinfeev. Van der Sar is also mentally prepared for the future that he will gradually fade out of the main lineup, after all, he is almost thirty-nine years old. The Dutch goalkeeper's contract expires next summer, and it will be only four months before his fortieth birthday. He has long decided not to renew his contract with Nottingham Forest. Of course, he will not go elsewhere. He will announce his retirement directly after the contract expires.

"Guards Gareth Bale, Pepe, Kompany and Rafinha." This back line is the absolute main line of defense for the Forest team this season. After working together for many years, we have cultivated enough tacit understanding. And Woodgate only came last season and can only do rotation players. The only problem with this line of defense is that it is a bit heavy offensive than defensive.

"Midfielders George Wood, John Bostock, Chris Cohen and Lennon."

Bostock and Cohen, who were called by their names, looked at each other, and both saw surprise in each other's eyes. They thought the starting lineup should be George Wood, Shaheen, Petrov and Lennon. This is also the midfield configuration of the last Forest team's away win over Fulham.

"Strikes Abangraho and Niklas Milan."

Dunn looked at the puzzled players and smiled: "Use practical actions to prove to me your performance under pressure, guys."

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"Nottingham Forest's expected starting lineup should be goalkeeper Akinfeev, left back Gareth Bale, center back Pepe and Kompany, right back must be Rafinha. Midfielder George Wood will definitely start. , As for his partner... it should be Shaheen. If the Forest team is going to defend, it might be Thiago. On the front line..."

Ferguson is working with his assistants in the hotel room to calculate Tony Dunn's starting lineup for tomorrow's game. That is convenient for them to study countermeasures.

The door was pushed open, and assistant coach Mike Ferran walked in with a piece of paper.

"Boss, Nottingham Forest has announced their starting roster for tomorrow's game." The expression on his face was a little strange when he spoke.

Ferguson raised his head to look at his assistant who had only been appointed last season.

"This is the list." He handed the paper in his hand to Ferguson.

After a glance, Ferguson's expression on his face was exactly the same as Ferran's.

"Is Tony crazy?"

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"I'm not crazy, I just want young people to accept this kind of game training as soon as possible. Losing? I'm not afraid. Anyway, we don't have to expect any champions this season. It takes a season to let young people accept training. Cost-effective." Dunn replied in response to Chris Lak's question on this starting list. Of course, this happened before they announced the starting list.

Dunn persuaded the other coaches to use the inexperienced young people as much as possible for Manchester United's main event. The result of the game was put aside by him, and training these young people was the goal. As long as he can serve the purpose of training newcomers, even if he really loses the game, he will not be angry about it.

For him, now playing against those strong teams is a rare actual combat exercise...

Whether it is Ferguson's Manchester United, Wenger's Arsenal, Benitez's Liverpool, Scolari's Chelsea, they are just NPCs that allow his players to accumulate experience and upgrade to become stronger.

He doesn't care about losing so many games. As long as those young players can learn useful things from it. Failure is **** success. I lose a few more games this season, and I will win all the next seasons.

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The day of the game.

"Tony Dunn announced their starters for this game one day in advance. This list is really surprising. Facing a strong team like Manchester United, Dunn actually sent a veritable'Boy Scout'. Abbangla Huo’s performance has been pretty good recently, but Miklas Milan... He has played a total of 110 minutes so far this season, and his performance is very average. There are also Bostock and Cohen, their performances are completely the same. To speak of it. I don’t understand why coach Tony Dunn suddenly reused these young players in the game against Manchester United. Petrov, Eastwood and Zikic are in good condition and there is no injury problem. . The team does not need to store energy for multi-line combat..." Commentator Mortensen was puzzled by Dunn’s lineup.

The man who doesn't understand what Tony Dunn wants to do like him is Manchester United coach Ferguson.

Until the start of the game, he didn't understand what the smiling man was thinking. He can only let Manchester United play in the way he is used to, and take the rhythm of the game in his own hands.

The next thing... depends on the players themselves.

At the beginning of the game, it did not exceed most people's expectations. Manchester United has completely taken the upper hand in the game through experienced experience and superb skills, as well as the tacit cooperation between the players.

Although Nottingham Forest also has proven "veterans" such as George Wood, Bell and Pepe, they are all defensive players. They can only guarantee that their goal will not be easily broken by Manchester United, and they cannot pose any threat to Manchester United's goal.

Abang Raho performed as well as ever, but unfortunately it is hard to be alone.

He lacks effective support from his teammates, and more often he has to run back to the backcourt to participate in defense.

In the away game, Manchester United completely turned away from home and started bombing around the forest team halftime.

Mortensen said with concern: "If this goes on, Ferguson will get the result he wants..."

Ferguson was worried in his heart—He was so familiar with the attitude of Nottingham Forest. After studying this opponent for four years, he had already reached the point where the opponent lifted his **** and knew what **** they were going to do. Isn't this preparing for a defensive counterattack?

Both Abangraho and Lennon are fast. Milan is not bad either. The only slower is probably Cohen.

He thought about how this team came to its first victory of the season...

Should the formation be reclaimed now? Slowly deal with the forest team?

Do not!

In the face of such a Nottingham Forest, if Manchester United want to tie as the goal, it really makes Ferguson feel shameless. In any case, it is the best way to continue to strengthen the attack, and then score the game as soon as possible to drag the game into its own track.

Ferguson didn't wait long before Manchester United scored.

After receiving a pass from Nani in the penalty area, Berbatov cleverly blocked Kompany behind him, kicking the shot at the first time, and the football passed under Pepe's crotch, who came to defend, and bypassed Ah. Kinfeev's ten fingers shut, and got into the goal.

The Manchester United fans at the City Stadium cheered and celebrated the goal.

Ferguson also stood up and applauded, expressing joy.

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But Manchester United's excitement did not last long. Then the Forest team used the opportunity of the kick-off to force the ball to the front of the penalty area by Bostock, and was tripped by Hargreaves. The referee whistled and gave Nottingham Forest a free kick.

When Bell stood in front of the football, Bell's hymn rang out on the city stadium. They sang: "Little Monkey Bell, he is our number one free kick master! The football is under his feet, as precise as a hand control! It draws an arc and bypasses the wall of people, no matter how far away, it can be directly Hit the red heart... ten rings! You are dead!"

Every time if Bell takes a free kick, there will be such singing at home. Even if Beckham came, the lyrics have not changed. Bell was once asked about this song in an interview. At that time, he was very modest and said: "Actually, I'm not that good anymore..." In fact, his heart was very refreshing.

Ben Foster tensely commanded the wall position. Bell stood in front of the ball, watching all this coldly. Only at this time, his focused look will make people ignore his actual age.

The wall was set up, and the referee whistled.

Bell is running up!

The football crossed the wall, passed the restricted area at low altitude, and got into the upper left corner of the goal!

Ben Foster was still standing there, staring blankly at the football that rolled up the net behind him...

"After half a minute, they evened the score!" Mortensen yelled. His response was thunderous cheers and singing on the city court.

"Ten rings! Ten rings! You are dead!"

This time it was Dunn's turn to rejoice. He was off the court and gave high fives to everyone around him.

"This is the key goal!" He smiled when he was high-fiving Tang.

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Yes, this is the key goal. The young players of the Forest team were encouraged by this ball and their morale was greatly boosted. Bell used his free kick to tell his recruits-even the defending champion Manchester United, there is nothing to be afraid of!

Manchester United's advanced goal did not bring them any benefits, but from another aspect inspired the determination and fighting spirit of the Forest team players.

The benefits of young people are undoubtedly reflected here-everyone is full of enthusiasm and fights with Manchester United players, every fight must use all their strength, in the frontcourt, the strength of the counter grab surprised the Manchester United players.

In terms of experience, this forest team is indeed slightly inferior to Manchester United. But in terms of fighting spirit, Manchester United is not as good as this forest.

In the first half, the two sides drew 1:1. In addition to encouragement or encouragement during the intermission, Dunn fully affirmed the performance of several young people in the first half-although not everyone's performance deserves his praise.

Next, he asked the team to continue to maintain this state, the second half of the full-court pressure on Manchester United. Start grabbing from the opponent's incoming line, forcing the opponent to chaos and creating opportunities for his own offense.

After the start of the second half, the two sides continued to fight in every corner of the court. The performance of Nottingham Forest surprised many Manchester United fans. But Nottingham Forest fans know that this is the Nottingham Forest under normal conditions-Tony Dunn always emphasizes and values ​​the team's physical construction. The situation last season is a compelling exception and cannot be used as a reference.

Nottingham Forest's full-time press paid off, and they scored another goal in the 27th minute of the second half. Assisted by Nicholas Milan after a breakthrough with the ball, Abang Raho scored.

The City Stadium is almost in madness. The defending champion will be cut off by them!

Some Forest fans even yelled at the Manchester United fans in another stand: "We were not there last season, you won the championship! Nothing great. Now we are back!"

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It is a pity that they still did not leave the glory of the defending champion in the City Stadium. Ferguson dispatched troops and finally equalized the score before the end of the game and retired proudly.

Although the fans of Nottingham Forest may be disappointed by this result, the players of Nottingham Forest will certainly be disappointed by the score. But only Dunn was happy. The first-year students showed great bravery in the face of the defending champion, which is more valuable than three points.

This is also the first time New Forest has not lost a game against a strong team this season.

This is a forest team that makes him feel familiar-no matter what kind of opponent he faces, he will not feel afraid or in awe. Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, young is arrogant and proud capital...

Although I didn't win today, it doesn't matter. It's still a long time, and we still have many opportunities for arrogance.

The media are more concerned about ——

"The defending champion almost lost to Tony Dunn's Boy Scouts!"

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PS, fix an error in the previous article. Because both teams are from Liverpool City, I was confused for a while. In the third round, Nottingham Forest lost to Everton’s mortal enemy Liverpool...

Thank you friends who pointed out this mistake to me!

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