Godfather Of Champions

Tony Dunn personally confirmed his future in Nottingham Forest, he will not leave Nottingham, which makes Forest fans a little relieved. But rumors in the media that he might leave the City Stadium did not immediately disappear. "The Times" has vowed to declare that Dunn will leave the City Stadium in four years and find another job. At that time, his contract expired and he was free to leave without having to bear high liquidated damages. I believe there will be countless rich clubs vying for someone.

Dunn did not come to Manchester United, but Manchester United did not stop looking for a successor to Ferguson. Because after the end of this season, old coach Ferguson will definitely retire. This is the news that has not been officially announced. Most people would rather think that this is just a momentary confusion for the old coach. At the end of the season, he will find that he is inseparable from football and Manchester United. Then he took it back and decided to stay. Old Trafford. In this way, many people can take a sigh of relief-except for his enemies.

Both Dunn and Ferguson confirmed their future, but the story between the two did not end there, but just started.

After playing the last match of the Champions League group stage, both teams qualified first in their group. Three days later, it was a highlight-Nottingham Forest challenged Manchester United away.

This is the only strong confrontation in that round of the league, and it is also a game that will be broadcast live across the country. Because of the recent tidbits of Ferguson's successor, this game has attracted much attention. In addition, the points difference between the two teams is only two points. The victory or defeat of this game will determine the ranking of the two teams in the league standings.

After playing the Celtics game, Dunn reopened the battle with Ferguson at the press conference. He declared that he had no interest in being his successor and intended to stimulate Ferguson.

Ferguson did not show any weakness, and immediately fought back: "When he has been in this business for 20 years, his wish will be realized."

Outsiders can’t tell from the war of words between these two people that their personal relationship is still relatively harmonious...

These two people are typical "butt decides the head", where to say what to do.

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When the two teams are fighting, the head coach can't always be the protagonist. The players of the two teams are also the target of countless people's attention.

Cristiano Ronaldo has said to leave countless times, but in the end he stayed at Manchester United. In this game he will be Ferguson's sharp knife against Nottingham Forest. The reporter ran to interview him, wanting to hear his views on the game. Ronaldo appeared very low-key: "This is just an ordinary league."

Although he is telling the truth, this game is meaningless. But the media were very dissatisfied, so they ran to ask Rooney. Rooney is a little hotter than Ronaldo: "We will beat Nottingham Forest at home. I can't imagine that we will lose at home."

Nani, the young man, looked arrogant. "Who do you think is the biggest threat to the opposing team?" the reporter asked him. His answer was: "The whole team is not a threat."

His words annoyed the players of the Forest team. Pepe was the first to stand up and express his dissatisfaction with Nani: "I hope he has a chance to play, and I will let him know what threats are."

Eastwood said: "I'm very happy that their whole team has this mindset, as if everyone wants their opponent to be an idiot." He rounded and rounded Nani as an idiot.

George Wood is not a person who wants to start a quarrel with others, he prefers to shut up the other party with a fierce foul. When entangled by reporters, he had no choice but to say: "I will know when the game comes."

what do you know?

He didn't say, but I believe that the media believe that George Wood is going to show those **** who look down on them a lot!

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The verbal battles of coaches, players, and supporters of both sides emerge endlessly. This is a special landscape of professional football. All of these are foreshadowing, for the climax of the final game.

Three days passed quickly. After Nottingham Forest returned from the Rangers in Glasgow, after only staying in Nottingham for one day, he set off again for Manchester. For the team to prepare for the game, running around so frequently and densely is not a good thing. The team was unable to continue the systematic preparation and training. Fortunately, the qualifying quota was decided early, so the Forest team has actually been preparing for the Manchester United game since the last round of the league. For Manchester United’s main attack points, the team has made detailed arrangements during training. Regarding the team's offensive methods, it is also reflected in training.

The only thing to worry about running two away games in three days is the team's physical fitness.

Before the game, countless expert fans analyzed that Nottingham Forest will play their best defense at Old Trafford. After all, no team dared to play against Manchester United here. In that case, without exception, the results will be very miserable...

But this time Dunn once again intends to do the opposite-he will play this game in a way that no one can think of.

"We are attacking." Dunn said bluntly at the tactical preparation meeting the day before the game. "I bet Ferguson wouldn't think that we had the guts to do this, so I ask you all to suppress the offense and start the game first. The sooner you score, the better for us." He snapped his fingers.

"Boss, what if there is no goal in the opening game?" Eastwood asked.

"Slow down the rhythm, take into account the defense, and then continue to attack."

Dunn seems to be determined to use offense to conquer the Dream Theater.

Due to the offense, Shaheen replaced Thiago as the starter in this game. The formation of Nottingham Forest also changed from parallel 442 to diamond 442. Two full-backs will frequently intervene in the offense, and when the two sides are deadlocked, the two full-backs will stay in the backcourt to participate in the defense, and rarely come forward to assist. At the same time, George Wood is responsible for the defense in this game, and all the offensive work is given to the teammates in the frontcourt.

Although it was offense, Dunn still did not forget that defense is the foundation. So it’s almost impossible to see Dunn’s team completely disregarding the defensive offense... Maybe in the last five minutes of the game, and his team is still one goal behind, he will do it.

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Ferguson did not expect Tony Dunn to dare to play against Manchester United at Old Trafford. He thinks Dunn is a pragmatist, if he wants to retreat at Old Trafford, or even win, then the defensive counterattack is obviously the most appropriate.

Although the outside world is very dissatisfied with his main tactic of defensive counterattack, he feels that he is cowardly and timid. But Dunn has never been shaken by outside criticism.

Ferguson felt that he already knew Tony Dunn well, but this time he was still wrong.

Before the game, Wood and Manchester United’s captain Gary Neville guessed the coin. He guessed and lost, so Manchester United got the right to pick the side. Nottingham Forest got the kick-off right. In fact, getting the kick-off right is a good thing for Dunn’s Forest team, because they can control the football at their feet from the beginning of the game.

There was a misunderstanding in the past: Nottingham Forest never cared about ball possession, and they came up with data to prove that Nottingham Forest had a lower ball possession rate in 90% of games, no matter what the result was.

But in fact, Dunn just doesn't care about the kind of ineffective ball possession that is repeated in his backcourt to make up the ball. What he pays attention to is that he can form a threatening offensive ball in the opponent's half. As long as the goal can be scored in the end, even if there are only two passes from the start to the end. So although his possession rate is always less than that of his opponents, he can win.

Watching the games of other teams, most people may have this idea-when the football is not at the feet of the players of that team, their supporters will start to worry about the opponent scoring. Because it is really dangerous to let the football be controlled by the opponent.

But watching the game in Nottingham Forest, the fans of the Forest team have become accustomed to the scene where the opponent is holding the ball and defending. In their eyes, once the football falls to the opponent's feet, then the opponent's fans should be worried. They will definitely come up to attack, and if they come up, there will be space behind them, that is the opportunity of Nottingham Forest.

But today's game at Old Trafford will change the perception of Forest fans.

Nottingham Forest controlled the football after the kick-off, but did not rush to launch a fast break. It seems to fall in the middle of the circle at random. In the past in Nottingham Forest games, the scenes of backcourt players falling back and forth are rarely seen, because Dunn believes that falling in the backcourt is meaningless, and while losing the opportunity, he also wears off his own spirit. . So his game has been very fast.

Now, they are leisurely at Old Trafford Stadium, and pass the football back and forth. In the end, the football was passed to Akinfeev by Woodgate. Booing against Nottingham Forest began to sound from the stands at Old Trafford.

Berbatov rushed forward to enter the penalty area to break Akinfeev's ball, and behind him, Rooney, Ronaldo and Tevez pressed on.

Akinfeev did not give Berbatov a chance to steal the ball. He kicked the football to the front court with a long pass when the two were still ten meters away.

"Long pass! This is in line with the style of Nottingham Forest!" the commentator teased.

In this game, Dunn sent on the front line not the tall center Zikic, nor Ibisevic, but the former Manchester United player Van Nistelrooy, and his partner is Eastwood.

Because Fernandez was injured in the previous game, Lennon played the left midfielder in this game, and Bentley accumulated yellow cards and suspended, so the right midfielder was replaced by Abang Raho. Dunn hopes to use the speed of these two men to attack Manchester United's sideline defense. Van Nistelrooy still received the ball under Carrick’s mark, and used his skills and experience to firmly control the football at his feet, waiting for his teammates to come forward and take it. Carrick tried very hard to steal the ball behind his back, but his position was gone. Unless he committed a foul, he would definitely not be able to steal the ball.

Just when he was about to foul, Van Nistelrooy passed the football and the goal was Shaheen.

After receiving the ball, Shaheen sent a diagonal pass to the side. On the side close to the coaching seats of both sides, a whirlwind blew past, it was Abang Raho!

Abang Raho's speed is quite fast. Manchester United's defender here is Evra, who is also a fast player, and the two are close to each other.

Before Abangraho received the ball, Shaheen's through pass was quickly shoveled out of the sideline by Evra.

After seeing this scene off the court, Ferguson smiled. This is the Nottingham Forest he is familiar with. It seems that today's forest will not be any different from usual.

The forest team is characterized by more direct passes. They like penetrating passes very much. Although the success rate is not very good, as long as they succeed once, it can be fatal.

In order to deal with this kind of direct pass, Ferguson did not go to Scholes, but placed two outstanding running midfielders Hargreaves and Carrick in the midfield, focusing on defensive midfielders. At the same time, the defense is required to pay attention to the protection of the defense, and the Forest team cannot be given a chance to pass the ball. On offense, once the Forest’s direct pass is intercepted, immediately counterattack. Neither Carrick nor Hargreaves is actually the kind of passer who can organize the offense, so Manchester United’s main attackers are Ronaldo and Gai. Rooney, who plays in the midfield, is responsible for bringing the football to the frontcourt before passing it to Berbatov or Tvez.

It now appears that they did a good job. In this way, Shaheen's through pass was destroyed by the responsive Evra.

Nottingham Forest's possession from the kick-off was ended by Eastwood's long shot from the top of the penalty area. The ball he shot deviated from the goal.

Some people might think that Nottingham Forest is so aggressively offensive, just because they got the kick-off right, so it's not for nothing... But in fact, the Forest team soon let them know they were wrong.

After Manchester United's shot was saved by Akinfeev, he did not kick the ball, but launched the attack. Wood passed the football to Shaheen, and Shaheen sent a diagonal pass again, but this time it was Lennon on the left.

Thirty-five-year-old Gary Neville did not pounce like Evra to tackle. He knew he was definitely at a disadvantage in terms of speed, but his experience could help him deal with Lennon. So he chose to retreat slowly, not giving Lennon room to sprint.

This trick worked very well. Although Lennon successfully received the ball, he found that he could not directly break through the Manchester United captain's defense. Nottingham Forest's fast break can't be played, so the football can only be re-passed back and slowly polished.

Ferguson sat on the coach's bench, chewing gum in his mouth, which was his signature gesture. When he is sure, he will do it. After watching Nottingham Forest's performance in the opening five minutes, he became more confident in winning the game.

It is no different from the previous Nottingham Forest. In another five minutes, if they can't score, Tony Dunn will command the team to retreat and wait for the opportunity to fight Manchester United's counterattack.

Ferguson is not worried about this style of play. Their training for a week has been arranged for the tactical characteristics of the Forest team. Once the Forest team can't score in the first ten minutes and can't lead the game to the track they are used to, then it's Tony Dunn's turn for the unlucky person.

After the opening, fight for the first ball, then shrink the defense, lure the opponent out, and then rely on the tenacious defense and speed to fight the opponent's counterattack.

For the forest team's tactics and game habits, Ferguson has studied quite thoroughly. He firmly believes that Dunn can't escape his palm.

The current Ferguson suddenly regrets why he didn’t use the victory of this game to bet with Tony Dunn-if he wins, the two will sign an agreement to retire after the end of the season and Dunn will come. Be in command. (To be continued, if you want to know what's going on, please visit www.qidian.com, there are more chapters, authors are supported, and genuine reading is supported!)

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