Godfather Of Champions

Tony Dunn’s Boy Scouts broke into the semi-finals of the League Cup, but failed to go further. Dunn expressed satisfaction with this result. Originally, the League Cup was used as a training ground, and being able to enter the semi-finals was considered an overfulfillment of the task.

After entering the new year, the FA Cup kicked off and the team successfully passed the first two rounds.

In the league, the Boy Scouts are also very stable, fixing the team's score between five and seven.

The Forest team is not the protagonist of the Premier League this season. After the freshness at the beginning of the season has passed, the media coverage of the Forest team is obviously much less than in previous seasons. In the eyes of the media, the team that can compete for the championship has the value of substantial attention. Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, the traditional Premier League semi-finals, are vying for a league title. Reporting them is much better than watching the Scouts of Nottingham Forest.

When the Champions League reopened in February, everyone paid more attention to the performance of the four teams representing the Premier League. Who cares about a forest?

In such an environment where people are not optimistic and valued, Dunn's team has got the atmosphere they want most, and can develop slowly according to their own ideas without being disturbed by the media.

Not most of the media put tremendous pressure on first-year students, and they know whether they lose or win. Every game is an improvement for these people.

For Dunn, this season passed very fast. Because they have a quarter less games than usual.

So when the media, fans, and coaches of other teams came back to their senses, they suddenly discovered that Nottingham Forest was only two points away from fourth place in the league...

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"Four consecutive victories, three consecutive victories, seven undefeated rounds... Nottingham Forest has quietly completed the task of catching up. When the Premier League semi-finals were still tortured by the two fronts of the league championship and the Champions League, they lost Nottingham Forest, who lost the League Cup and the FA Cup again, is already staring behind them."

"There are eight rounds left in the league. For Tony Dunn, everything is possible."

"Let's see who is the fourth-ranked team...Chelsea! Haha..."

"...Scolari has already felt the pressure. He will have a headache whether he will be the main player in the Champions League quarter-finals or the main player in the next round of the league. Because the next round of Chelsea's opponent is Nottingham Forest! "

"Actually... I want to say that even if the Forest team won the league championship at the end of this season, it shouldn't be impossible..."

Seeing that Nottingham Forest's ranking quietly climbed up, the media also became excited.

"Except for Arsenal, Nottingham Forest has not played against the other three teams in the second half of the season. This represents two possibilities-A. Nottingham Forest will all be defeated against the strong team, and the league rankings will slide again. Go down; B, Tony Dunn led his Boy Scouts to overturn these three direct competitors one by one, and then change the goal to the Premier League championship of the season!"

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League champion? Dunn didn't think so much. Ambition and baseless arrogance were two different things.

Now he only considers how to beat Chelsea in the league, pull Scolari down, and let himself go to the top.

For him, the good news is that there are signs that Scolari will put his energy in the Champions League. Abramovich has lived at Chelsea for nearly seven years. He has tasted the League Cup, the FA Cup and the League Championship, but the Champions League is the only pain in his heart. In the 07-08 season, Grant served as the team's interim head coach. It was Chelsea's best performance in the Champions League. They entered the final but ran into Dunn's Nottingham Forest, and they returned with hatred again.

Scolari has worked for Chelsea for two seasons and has not given the Champions League his main goal. It's a pity that everyone's wish was unfulfilled, and every time I missed the championship.

This season is no exception. Abramovich had mentioned his hope of winning the European Champions Cup in Scola more than once.

As for the league...Anyway, thirty-eight rounds, losing a game is not a big deal. But after the Champions League entered the knockout stage, it was impossible to lose a game.

So in the Champions League quarter-finals with Bayern Munich, in the league before the semi-final right, Scolari did not send all the main lineups as Dunn expected. What Scolari thinks is that even if he doesn't send all the main players, he will still be at home. A tie is the minimum requirement. It shouldn't be difficult to achieve this goal, right?

But he was wrong.

Compared with Chelsea looking forward and looking forward, Nottingham Forest, which has no other way out except to win this game, burst out with huge energy from the beginning of the game, turning away the away game into the home game forcibly. They are aggressively attacking and defending in an orderly manner, allowing Chelsea to take advantage of it.

Eleven minutes into the game, Eastwood ferryed Zikic's header to set the record for the Forest team. At the same time, this is also Eastwood's nineteenth league goal this season. He is currently the team's top scorer and fourth in the league goalscorer. The Gypsy, who had no injuries this season, showed his amazing feeling in front of goal, occupying a place in the league goalscorer with a stable goal rate.

This goal completely broke Scolari's dream, telling him-facing Nottingham Forest, even if it is at home, it is impossible to get a point!

After taking the lead, Dunn adjusted slightly, and Forest began their best defensive counterattack. Scolari got up from his seat and commanded the team to besiege the forest, but until the end of the first half, he did not see a goal.

The score was still 0:1, with the visiting team Nottingham Forest leading.

During the intermission, Scolari was still hesitating-whether to lose the game and focus on the Champions League quarter-finals, or send three main players in the second half and let the players do their best How about going to fight for Nottingham Forest to keep fourth in the league?

In the end, he chose the former. Even if this game is eliminated, there are still seven league rounds. He did not believe that Tony Dunn’s Boy Scouts could not make mistakes, nor did he believe that he had no chance to return to the top four. But the most imminent is the second round of the Champions League quarter-finals next week. That game is directly related to one's own destiny.

At the same time, in the dressing room of the Forest team, Dunn is analyzing the psychological situation of Chelsea for the players: "Scolari will definitely give up this game, because there are seven rounds left in the league. But if in this He tried his best in the game and lost the Champions League next week. Then he may be dismissed by Abramovich within seven rounds. His boss is not a patient person. But we Different, we don’t have to worry about the life and death battle next week...Although we will face this kind of trouble in the future, now the trouble belongs to Chelsea, this is our advantage. So I ask you to continue to put pressure on Chelsea in the second half to fight for One more goal. Chelsea will surrender completely. A goal lead will only make Chelsea’s people suddenly change their minds, thinking that a tie at home is possible... But for us, a point is absolutely unacceptable. ! If you still want to appear in the European arena next season, then this game must be won for me!"

The momentum and fighting spirit of both teams in the second half were completely on different levels from the beginning. Chelsea players are playing against the Forest team, and they are full of minds in the second leg of the quarter-final against Bayern Munich. The idea of ​​Nottingham Forest players is much simpler-they don't even think about things ten minutes after the game, except to win the game.

Different psychology will lead to different results.

Nottingham Forest, who went all out and could not lose, performed even better in the second half than Dunn expected. They scored two goals in the ten minutes from the 70th to the 80th minutes, played by Zikic and Shaheen respectively. Advance completely destroyed Chelsea's fighting spirit and desire to play.

Seeing that this game is hopeless to win, Chelsea's players are more like running warm-ups on the field, and Scolari, the grumpy Big Phil, rarely sits silently on the coach's bench.

Obviously, he himself, the head coach, is thinking about the "finals" three days later-playing away against the Bundesliga hegemon is not so easy.

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Winning this game allowed Nottingham Forest to return to the top four in the league.

Dunn said in a very friendly press conference after the match that he was very happy to win Chelsea, so he wished Chelsea farther and farther in the Champions League. Not only that, he also wished the other two Premier League teams in the quarterfinals-Manchester United and Liverpool will go further and further in the Champions League.

"It's best if they all meet in the semi-finals, and then the two teams from England make it to the final! I am from England and I am eager to see this scene."

Some media believe that Dunn's generosity proves that he is not as careful as some people say. To express support and cheer for a team that also comes from a league, such a thing reflects his "sense of national belonging."

Only Karl Spike shouted in the column: "Why would he wish these three teams so sincerely that they can reach the semi-finals of the Champions League? I think if Arsenal had not played second in the league with the Forest before this For the round, Arsenal should be added to the team he wishes! Look at his game against Chelsea... I know what the **** Tony Dunn is playing. The top three teams, you are the most Be careful! Behind you is a cunning wolf!"

So Spike was once again labeled "against Dun En", but it was a pity... this time he was completely right!

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After a hard fight, Chelsea eliminated Bayern Munich and broke into the semi-finals. Abramovich's mouth couldn't even smile. Scolari can also breathe a sigh of relief, and then focus on—of course, not in the league, but in the Champions League.

Now that you have reached the semi-finals, why stop grit your teeth and eliminate Juventus to enter the final? Although Juventus eliminated the defending champion Inter Milan.

If you enter the finals, you will naturally need to continue to bite your teeth and win the Champions League.

Another break into the semi-finals is Manchester United. Their match with Nottingham Forest is not far away.

Before the Manchester United game, Nottingham Forest met Liverpool, who had already been eliminated.

Liverpool did not go as far in the Champions League as Dunn had hoped. Although they still have the FA Cup final to play, they are still some days away from the game against the Forest, which does not constitute an impact at all.

So this is a head-to-head game, no tricks will work. The only thing that can determine the outcome of the game is the strength of the two teams and... a little bit of luck.

Dunn did his best in this game. In the first half of the season against Manchester United, he did his best as a freshman. At that time, he still had room to lose, but now is not the time to win the season's fate as a first-year trial field. They are all seasoned "veterans" who are bound to fight Liverpool at home to ensure their qualifications for the Champions League next season.

In the end, Nottingham Forest, which took advantage of the home court, defeated Liverpool 1-0 with a penalty kick before the end, scored a valuable three-pointer, and continued to maintain a one-point lead over Chelsea in the standings.

There are still four rounds before the end of the league. Tony Dunn’s ambition is already obvious-maybe the league championship has become a luxury, but he is about to make the Champions League qualification next season!

There are only four places in the Champions League. In the season without Nottingham Forest, the traditional semi-finals are happy. They have long occupied the place in the Champions League and it has become a "tradition." Once Nottingham Forest re-emerges, there is bound to be unlucky for a team. So who will be the sacrifice for the forest team to re-emerge this season?

It now appears that Chelsea has a great possibility. Scolari must reconsider, even if he can win the Champions League this season, but the defending champion next season can only play the UEFA Cup... what does it feel like. Fourth in the league is his bottom line, but now his fate is not in his own hands.

With the remaining four rounds of the league, Manchester United is the strongest opponent in the forest team.

Will Ferguson become Scolari's savior?

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In the 36th round of the league, Nottingham Forest challenged Manchester United away.

Chelsea ushered in Liverpool at home.

The good show of the strong duel attracted everyone's attention.

William Hill opened for the results of these two games before the game. Generally speaking, they are more optimistic about Manchester United and Chelsea at home. The least promising is Nottingham Forest.

No one guessed that four teams would tie at the same time...

Yes, Nottingham Forest used a defensive counterattack away from Manchester United to a 1:1 tie. And Liverpool and Chelsea played a high score match-3:3!

The last goal didn't come until stoppage time. Liverpool narrowly drew Chelsea and clung to their third place in the league. The gap between Nottingham Forest and Chelsea is still one point... Nottingham Forest is fourth and Chelsea is fifth.

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