Godfather Of Champions

Ranieri is not a head coach who is good at on-the-spot command. Facing the sudden change of Tony Dunn, he was as slow as his team to react.

When Juventus had no response, Nottingham Forest easily won control of the midfield.

There is such a saying in modern football-the midfielder takes the world.

Slightly exaggerated, but the importance of midfield is self-evident.

If Nottingham Forest wants to beat Juventus in the away game and break the opponent's counterattack, it must first control the midfielder in its own hands. Only then can there be capital to advance layer by layer.

Juventus's ball could not be passed in the midfield at all, and the four people from Nottingham Forest were both offensive and defensive. Especially George Wood, tirelessly running and intercepting in the midfield, harassing every attack of Juventus. With the fast-paced pressure of the Forest midfielder, Juventus's pass turnover rate began to rise.

Another weakness of Juventus's lineup has gradually emerged-they lack a midfielder who can control the football and master the team's offensive and defensive rhythm. Camoranesi is a wide player and he is very old. Qiao Wenke is still a bit too tender. He has good ball handling, but he doesn't know the rhythm. As for Malouda... he is more of a striker than a midfield organizer. Not to mention the muscular man Sissoko, he's just an engineer, he's a very promising job of grabbing the ball, but letting him pass is just to pass the football to the opponent.

Del Piero has this ability, but he sits on the bench. Because of a slight injury, Ranieri did not dare to let his captain take risks.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Nottingham Forest took control of the midfield, and then pressed heavily, completely ignoring that this is the home court of Juventus. When the team was overwhelmed as a whole, goalkeeper Akinfeev's range of activities changed from in front of the goal to the entire penalty area, and even extended to the outside of the penalty area, acting as a scavenger. The distance between the three lines is moderate to ensure that even if the first wave of offense is hindered, there is a follow-up offensive, so that the opponent will counterattack if an attack fails. The double interception in the midfield also ensured that Juventus's offense could not pass there quickly, buying time for the Forest team's defense.

Ranieri's goal of scoring goals in the opening five minutes was not achieved, and it was Nottingham Forest's turn to perform.

The Forest team, which has control of the midfield, has many ways to send football to Juventus's penalty area, and it is no longer a tedious sidewalk.

George Wood held the football at his feet, Sissoko was far away and wanted to come up to grab it. But he just thought about it, if he really did this, and the empty door behind him opened wide, letting Nottingham Forest hit Huanglong, he would not be far from being replaced.

Sissoko's role became more important when it understood that the main attack direction of Nottingham Forest was not two sides, but the middle.

Wood can't remember that he had ever played against Sissoko. In his eyes, all opponents are the same, and few people will impress him. He ignored Sissoko's provocative eyes and passed the football to Thiago.

Nottingham Forest attacked from the middle, but it doesn't mean it must hit the opponent's penalty area directly from the middle. In fact, Fernandez and Shaheen can disperse to the two sides when attacking.

For example, this time, when Fernandez saw Thiago receiving a football, he leaned forward obliquely.

Sissoko looked at him, let him go, and did not guard him. His task is in the middle.

Thiago passed the football to Fernandez and ran forward.

Juventus's defense contracted quickly. Fernandez soon encountered resistance, he could only stop and turned around to protect the football.

Italy's defense is not that easy to break.

Wood looked at the situation in front of him, thought about it, and decided to go up and support himself.

After Fernandez handed the football to Wood, he continued to pull to the side.

Fernandez went to the side, and Juventus could not help but guard. The corresponding right back Grigra stepped forward and stared. Wood passed the football to Eastwood who had retreated.

Eastwood didn't stop the ball and gave it to Thiago.

Thiago was already facing the goal head-on when he received the ball, and he did not hesitate to take a long shot.

Buffon struggled to save but did not touch the football. The ball flew off the baseline against the goal post.

The Juventus fans at the Alpi Stadium were shocked in a cold sweat.

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In the next few minutes, Nottingham Forest won three shots, but they were all long shots.

This made Ranieri a little relieved. Although the forest team suddenly changed tactics, he was caught off guard. But Juventus's traditional football is still very effective-no matter how our opponents change, we just stick to our own football and deal with each other. Juventus football must be the first football to make itself invincible!

Regardless of their aggressive offensive, they can only threaten our goal through long shots. As long as they can't get into the penalty area, there is no threat.

He walked to the sidelines, blew the whistle and gestured, asking the team to push the Forest team outward and not give them a chance to enter the penalty area. Don't be afraid of long shots, that is the way to shoot with the lowest scoring rate.

Even the commentator discovered this: "Juventus's defense is very stable, and their defensive formation is maintained very well. Passing from Nottingham Forest can not find a suitable offensive point, and can only play a few feet outside. Shoot. It seems that Tony Dunn still couldn't find a better solution in the face of Juventus's tactics."

After several waves of the forest team's offensive, Juventus began their counterattack.

The normal procedure of the game should be Nottingham Forest attack, and Juventus defensive counterattack.

But this time they encountered a strong interception in the midfield.

Qiao Wenke's body is almost like a kindergarten kid in front of George Wood. Unless he takes the ball far away from Wood, as long as he is entangled by Wood, then the football under his feet will probably be lost.

Sebastian Giovenco with shaved hair is a bit like former Italian national team captain center-back Cannavaro, but his height is much worse. He is only 1.64 meters tall and weighs 61 kilograms. He is not considered thin. But in front of George Wood, his agility and physicality are not useful at all.

Wood is as flexible as him, and stronger than him. For the kind of five-to-five-point goal, as long as Wood exerts a little effort, Giovenke will definitely lose control of the football. Perhaps the easiest way is to get rid of this inseparable person with a fast pass.

But he couldn't find a way to pass the ball forward, so he could only pass the football back. In this way, the attacking speed of the team was forced to slow down. The two full-backs pressed by Nottingham Forest all returned to the defense. Juventus found that they had to face the "solid defense" in their attack...

Juventus have a way to make Nottingham Forest only use long-range shots to threaten their goal. Isn't it possible that Nottingham Forest can only let them fire long-range guns?

At a time, everyone's offense was mostly finished with long shots. As a result, the offensive quality was not high. By the 30th minute of the first half, it was still 0:0.

The commentator really wanted to yawn. This kind of game is really boring-the offensive quality is low, the rhythm is slowed down by the "joint efforts" of both sides, there is no passion, and there is no bright spot. Both sides are careful not to make mistakes, to prevent their opponents from catching possible mistakes, and the mentality of not seeking meritorious deeds determines that this game is absolutely unflattering.

Ranieri is very satisfied with the current situation, anyway, his intention is to defend and counterattack. Now there are ten minutes before the last five minutes before the end of the first half, and by then will Juventus have a real chance. He still remembers what it was like when the two sides met in the Champions Cup for the first time-Tony Dunn was eager to score a three-pointer on the road, so he dared to make bold tactics and was taken advantage of by Juventus, who defended the counterattack, and started the second half. Just five minutes each scored a goal and completely defeated Nottingham Forest.

He believes that with Tony Dunn’s character, he will never learn from experience and lessons in matters related to his decision-making. Regardless of his low-key manner in this game, in fact, his heart is more eager to win the game.

why?

Because his record against Juventus is one loss and one tie. Apart from Juventus, there is no other team in the world that he has not defeated. This tone is Ranieri's words, maybe that's it, but if it is Tony Dunn, he can't swallow it!

He will definitely attack, and he will attack!

Then it will be Juventus' chance!

During the ten minutes, both sides were still in a stalemate on the court, and they could only threaten the opponent's goal through long shots. Occasionally, the ball that hit the penalty area several times did not pose a real threat to the goalkeepers of both sides.

Apart from the fans on both sides, I am afraid that no one will be interested in such a game.

Those neutral fans must be disappointed about this-the media before the game hyped that this is Tony Dunn's revenge battle, this is a "two heroes meeting", but in fact? Any game with Juventus must be boring, and any game with Nottingham Forest will not be exciting. The two teams met together, the dull effect ×2, how could it be better?

Football games need passion! Such a game is simply a shame of modern football!

Those people complained in their hearts.

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Ranieri looked at his watch, six minutes before the end of the first half. He stood up from the coach's bench, ready to give the players a signal of full onslaught.

At the same time, Tony Dunn, who had stood on the sidelines for almost forty minutes, seemed to finally feel the soreness of his legs. He turned and walked back to the coaching bench.

Buffon saved Eastwood's long shot brilliantly. He didn't choose to kick the ball this time. Instead, he looked up at the midfielder and then threw the ball to attack!

Sissoko's header put the football forward, Camoranesi withdrew to catch up, and passed the football to Giovenco, who sprinted forward with all his strength.

Giovenke looked back at the ball that was rolling towards him, and then looked up to look ahead-there was no one there now, but from the corner of his eye he caught a dark shadow from his left. You don't have to think about it to know who it is.

George Wood is closely following Giovenco like a silent wolf, he has entered a hunting state.

Although Wood still didn't do anything, and he was still some distance away from Giovenco, the Italian genius kid suddenly felt nervous out of thin air. He felt that if he continued to dribble the ball, he would be cut off by the silent 13 next to him. If Juventus finally waited for an attacking opportunity to be ruined in his own hands, he might be replaced in the second half. Captain Del Piero has been called by Ranieri to warm up. It must be right. I’m not satisfied with my performance...

Since you can't take the ball to break through this person's defense, you must pass the ball! No matter how great he is, no one can take care of the entire second half.

Qiao Wenke made up his mind, suddenly stopped, and then looked up to find the pass target.

He shouldn't stop the ball-this stop plunged himself into "death." Wood was in front of him, the position was very well chosen, and almost blocked all the routes he might rush out with the ball-unless he turned around and took it back.

Wood was not in a rush to grab, as that might make him pass easily. He just blocked in front of Giovinco and prevented him from continuing to dribble forward, slowing Juventus's counterattack, while waiting for his teammates to return.

Ranieri saw Giovinco stop suddenly off the court and waved his fist in a hurry.

"Jovenko was blocked near the sideline by Wood! The players of Nottingham Forest have returned to defense, and Juventus's quick counterattack did not succeed!"

Giovinco understood his situation when he looked up and saw Wood after stopping the ball. He knew that he could not continue to carry the ball forward, and seeing Wood's calm facial expression as if it were a deep pool, he was even more panicked. Feeling that he might be intercepted.

At this time, you can only pass the ball quickly!

Thinking like this in his heart, he glanced at a person from the corner of his eye-it was him!

"Giovinco passed the ball directly to the back of Thiago's feet! Does he think Thiago is his teammate? Now Juventus are unlucky-they have just finished a press attack, but the ball is inexplicable At the feet of the opposing player."

Of course, Nottingham Forest smiled at the gift from Giovenke.

Thiago has not forgotten to thank his former teammate in Italian: "Thank you."

This sentence suddenly irritated Qiao Wenke, his eyes flushed and he rushed to Thiago.

Wood called Thiago's name from behind, reminding him that Giovenco rushed forward.

Tiago obviously had anticipated Giovinco's reaction, and he knocked the football directly to Wood with his heel.

Qiao Wenke pounced, then turned to pounce on Wood. This time Wood passed the football directly to Shaheen ahead.

Nottingham Forest fought Juventus's counterattack after the spot counter-robbing!

When Shaheen dribbled the ball forward, he was tackled fiercely by Sissoko, and he rolled out with the ball, but the referee did not whistle to signal a foul. It seems that Sissoko was very aggressive with the tackle. clean.

Malouda next to him intends to rush to get the ball, and then continue to counterattack Nottingham Forest. Just when his foot was about to touch the football, the ball in front of him suddenly disappeared!

As soon as Sissoko got up, he saw a man with a yellow captain's armband and a red Nottingham Forest jersey passing by Malouda. The football is at his feet!

He didn't even think about it, so he forced it at the figure.

We are finally face to face, kid!

Sissoko did not tackle the ball for the first time, but slammed into George Wood sideways, intending to knock Wood on the side.

He succeeded. George Wood was slammed to the sideline by him, but he didn't miss the ball at his feet. He hooked him and followed him obediently.

Seeing that he hadn't cut the ball, Sissoko rushed forward, trying to push Wood to the sideline. Just like what Wood did to Giovenke just now.

This time he didn't succeed. Just when he rushed towards Wood at full speed, Wood suddenly stopped and stopped the football at his feet. Sissoko jumped!

Sissoko dashed past Wood with a look of astonishment, he couldn't even stop the brakes.

If Wood had enough sense of humor, he could even wave goodbye to Sissoko, who rushed past him.

"Beautiful escape!" The commentators couldn't help but applaud Wood's sudden stop. "How smart! Sissoko was completely deceived!"

George Wood, who got rid of Sissoko, had plenty of time to adjust the football. He raised his right foot. This is a long shot posture...

"Chiellini rushed to defend...pass?"

Wood didn't shoot. Although his action looked like a shot, the football drew an arc and flew to the right of the penalty area.

Ibisevic stood there, but he was offside-it was obvious that he was dragged behind Juventus's entire defense at the moment Wood's pass. Another central defender Lerotalie raised his arm and gestured to the referee and linesman.

Ibisevic didn't mean to catch the ball, he was running back, completely ignoring that the football was flying to where he was.

"Offside!" The narrator couldn't wait to announce the end of Nottingham Forest's attack.

It is a pity that neither the referee nor the line referee heard his shouts, the referee did not whistle, and the line referee did not raise the flag.

Their gazes were obviously not on Dko Ibisevich with their heads lowered and running back, but on another red figure plugged in at high speed from behind.

Rafinha!

When Tiago passed the football to Wood, Rafinha ran forward. Seeing that Shaheen's ball was cut off by Sissoko, he hesitated, stopped, and wanted to turn around and ran back to prepare for defense. But after seeing George Wood snatching the football back, he no longer had any concerns and moved forward resolutely.

After a sudden stop, Wood had intended to shoot directly, but he happened to see Rafinha coming in from the side, so he temporarily changed his mind. Passed a kick to the top of the ball to the right, just in time for Rafinha to arrive!

The ball comes to the person.

Rafinha went straight to the ground without stopping the ball!

Buffon obviously didn't expect Nottingham Forest to have such a hand. All his attention just now was on George Wood. Who would have thought that an opposing right back would appear in front of his own goal?

The football passed through the gap between Buffon and the goal post!

The goal is scored!

Got the ball?

The Juventus players still seem to be unable to accept this reality-they wanted to use the last five minutes of the first half to break the deadlock, but they did not expect that they were tricked by Nottingham Forest...

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