Godfather Of Champions

Aaron Mitchell's transfer to the first team proved that Zikic's transfer has officially started.

Allen selected several teams with the highest bids and accepted their applications. As for Zikic himself, he has no special views on the transfer. He is not the kind of loyal minister who wants to swear allegiance to the Forest team. If the opponent can offer better conditions than in Nottingham Forest, he will naturally not refuse. At the same time, Mitchell, who was the same height as himself, was suddenly transferred to the first team. He also knew that the boss didn't want to keep him, so there is no point in staying.

The three clubs Alan Adams accepted were Newcastle in the Premier League, Hamburg in the Bundesliga and Villarreal in La Liga. All three clubs quoted a price of ten million pounds. It's no wonder that Allen will come to Dunn. At this time, he can still offer 10 million pounds, which is really attractive.

Negotiations went well, and in the end Zhikic chose Villarreal in La Liga. This team gives the best personal treatment, and they also have the strength to compete for the annual Champions Cup qualification.

Three days later, Nottingham Forest and Villarreal officially announced the completion of the transfer at the same time, and Zikic switched to the yellow submarine at a price of 10 million pounds. Dunn originally bought Zikic at a price of 10 million euros, and now it has become British pounds, which is equivalent to 10.8 million euros. In today's economic environment, a small profit is pretty good.

At the very least, it shows that Dunn's vision is fine, and the people he bought didn't lose money.

After Zikic left, his No. 9 jersey remained, and Dunn gave it to Mitchell.

When handing over the jersey, he still sternly said: "The number does not represent anything, and the number nine is not a symbol of the main force."

Mitchell was used to the boss's tone and attitude, and nodded: "I know, boss. I will work hard."

Dunn grinned, Quan Dang smile.

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Zikic is gone. He has scored 21 goals and 25 assists for the team in two and a half seasons in Nottingham Forest. This result is not ugly. However, his two seasons with the Forest team were the two darkest seasons for the Forest team. There was no championship, no honor, he came empty-handed and left empty-handed.

In the hearts of Nottingham Forest fans, Zikic's status can never be compared with forwards such as Van Nistelrooy and Eastwood. He didn't even leave any classic moments worth remembering, so he left.

Not long after the transfer of Zikic was settled, Bostock also accepted Fulham's loan contract. In this contract, Dunn specifically destined for one-when Fulham and Nottingham Forest play, Bostock is not allowed to play.

This clause in the contract is no stranger to La Liga, but it is rarely done in the Premier League. Dunn was a bit shameless to do this, but he didn't want the Forest team to be knocked down by the players he had cultivated. The "tragedy" of Eto'o against Real Madrid in Mallorca must not happen to Nottingham Forest.

Former Real Madrid player Pablo Garcia (Pablo_Garcia) once talked about this clause, which he called the "stool clause". It shows how much he hates this clause.

Don't care about the reputation of this clause, as long as it is useful to him, it is good!

Fulham didn't care about this one. Anyway, it seems to them that there is only half of the season left, and the forest team will also have a chance to meet this time, and they will not be allowed to play.

Bostock has a bit of a small opinion-he hopes to give full play to his level when playing against the Forest team, so as to attract more attention from Dunn, so that he can compete for the main position next season.

This is what Dunn is most worried about... He is afraid that the players on loan will have the mentality of proving themselves to the old team, play a level more than 200% than usual, and become the star who defeats the Forest team. Players. Therefore, this possibility must be stifled in the infancy.

Bostock finally accepted this condition-what if he didn't accept it? Either accept, or you can only stay in the team and continue to sit on the bench. Sometimes Dunn is a kind friend, but most of the time, he is a hateful devil.

Nottingham Forest sent away two players during the winter transfer period, but did not bring in one. Dunn believes that the current lineup is sufficient for all the next games.

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On January 16, Nottingham Forest challenged Everton away. In this game, Dunn showed everyone his new formation for the first time.

Before the game, Moyes had carefully studied the performance of the Forest team in recent games. He felt that Dunn would stick to the offensive strategy. But he didn't guess that Dunn would change.

For a long time, no matter how Dun En changes, he will always insist on a few points: first, attach importance to defense; second, wing attack; third, double forward; fourth, midfielder.

4231. This is the formation used by the Forest in the game against Everton.

The four guards are Joe Matoke, Peppa, Woodgate and Nkulu, which is normal. But in the midfield, he didn't have a back midfielder!

It's not that George Wood didn't play. Wood was not injured, sick, and in good condition. He was not suspended. How could he not play? It's just that his position on the court has changed a bit.

No longer a pure midfielder, he and his partner Tiago have moved forward from a midfielder to a central midfielder. Don't underestimate this change. The responsibilities of the midfielder and the midfielder are not the same. The defensive midfielder focuses on defense, while the midfielder is more of a tandem work between defense and offense, and needs to play a greater role in offense.

Although the Forest team coaching staff has been focusing on cultivating George Wood's offensive ability since several seasons ago, his position has always been a midfielder, and he has more demands on defense.

The change of position now means that he can let go of his offense. This is a rare breakthrough for both Wood and the Forest.

In midfield, he and Thiago are responsible for organizing the offense, but also for the defense. Arguably the busiest person in the team.

The "3" in front of them is Cohen, Fernandez and Abang Raho. Cohen and Abangraho are on the left and right wing, Fernandez is placed in the middle, playing the characteristics of his ability to pass the ball well and long shots, can not only complete the last pass for the team’s offense, but also His own shooting, said to be an attacking midfielder, is not actually an organized midfielder, but more like a scoring midfielder.

This is one reason why Dunn uses Fernandez instead of Shahin. Shaheen is slightly inferior to Fernandez in scoring ability.

Abangraho playing on the right side will not surprise people, because he has played this position many times in Aston Villa, and it is not the first time he has played an attacking right midfielder in the Forest.

The top forward is Ibisevic.

At the same time Dunn asked two full-backs to actively assist. He changed the previous rule that he easily did not allow full-backs to insert assists. It can be seen that he is determined to play offensive football at home in Everton.

Although in normal training, the coaching staff did not miss Wood in the midfielder position, but in actual combat, this was the first time. Therefore, the coaching staff of Nottingham Forest has been very nervous about the progress of the game. They need to see if the training content can be fully utilized in the game.

Wood was a little uncomfortable at first, he always had to run back and become a midfielder. So Dunn shouted loudly from the sidelines, letting him return to his position.

Retreat is allowed. After all, the central midfielder needs to take care of the defense, but if it is not allowed to retreat, it will not come up.

Thiago took on the responsibility of organizing the offense while Wood was still trying to adapt to his new role. He used to play this position, and he can enter the role immediately without adapting.

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At the beginning of the game, it can be seen that the entire Forest team tried this set of formation and tactics for the first time in the game, because they are all adapting...

Moyes didn't understand why Dunn suddenly used this tactical formation in this game that his own players have not yet fully adapted. But he won't think about things that don't make sense. Since the Forest team hasn't entered the rhythm of the game, then I'm not welcome!

He directed the team to launch a swift offensive towards the forest team. Finally, in the 17th minute of the game, their forward genius James Vaughan (James_Vaughan) showed his talent outside the penalty area. After receiving a pass from his teammate, he intended to break into the penalty area, but he was met by Tia outside. Ge's interception. Thiago's tackle did not completely stop Vaughan, he staggered under his feet, and quickly adjusted his center of gravity, rushing to volley before Wood came to tackle! The football flew through Akinfeev's fingers like a cannonball and rushed into the goal!

"World Wave!" the commentator exclaimed excitedly, "Wayne Rooney had scored almost exactly the same goal in a game with Arsenal when he was still at Everton! Vaughan's performance has long been let down. Everton fans have forgotten Rooney, as Everton’s main striker, he has scored eleven goals so far this season! The future is limitless!"

This goal ignited the atmosphere of Goodison Park Stadium, Everton fans set off blue waves in the stands, like a storm on the sea.

Dunn was a little depressed. This is the difference between a genius player and an ordinary player... Ordinary players can only raise their hands and surrender in the face of Tiago and Wood’s joint interception, while geniuses can seize the fleeting opportunity to get the ball out of the gap. Shot on goal.

This is definitely not the fault of his coach...

Now that the team is behind, should they return to the 442 they are most used to? With the current staffing of the Forest, it is not impossible to change to 442. Abang Raho can be a forward and Cohen can play on the right.

But Dunn resolutely said "No!"

4231 must persevere. He firmly believed that after the adaptation period, it was Everton's turn to be unlucky!

The power of 4231 has undoubtedly been demonstrated in training, just how to make this power be successfully used in actual combat.

The key is George Wood. If he cannot enter the role, it will affect the performance of the entire team.

Dunn believes that Wood's football wisdom will not be so bad. After all, he is a person who Albertini is optimistic about. Who is Albertini? The midfielder commander, that is famous for his football wisdom!

After struggling for twenty minutes on the court, George Wood finally gradually adjusted to his new position. But he has his own understanding-instead of fixing himself in the midfielder position, he is more flexible, similar to the traditional "Box_to_box" players in England, and can be very active and active on both the defensive and offensive ends. .

Such players have a wide range of activities and require higher physical fitness, but physical fitness happens to be Wood's strengths. He doesn't have to worry about sprinting back and forth so that he will lose energy in the second half of the game. This is also right.

Dunn laughed after seeing this scene off the court. Although it is different from what I arranged, it is better this way.

Let him use the method he finds best for him to play, maybe he will do better than all of us thought.

Wood began a performance that flew from one restricted area to another.

He intercepted Everton's offensive, he organized the forest team's offense, he kept appearing where he was needed, energetic and looked like a superman.

"George Wood tackled Vaughan's dribble! Did you foul? No, a clean tackle!"

"George Wood's through ball is really beautiful! It penetrated Everton's defense line! It's a pity that no one can catch it-too much force..."

"He tried to shoot for a long distance, but he went above the beam!"

"Ohhhhhh-George Wood!! He once again killed Everton's counterattack!"

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Nottingham Forest’s tactics are based on two central midfielders as the core. The core of the two central midfielders is of course George Wood. Wood lived, all lived.

In the 40th minute of the first half, Wood intercepted Tim Cahill's ball in the midfield and handed it to Thiago, who then split to Cohen on the wing.

Cohen made a cross from the side and Everton’s goalkeeper Tim Howard made a misjudgment and did not touch the football, allowing the ball to leak over him!

How could Ibisevic let go of such a good opportunity? He threw off his defending Joseph Yabo, jumped up and pushed the football into the empty goal!

This is the advantage of the double midfielder, who can counter-grab on the spot and launch a counter-attack immediately, without delay, and will not give the opponent the opportunity to counter-grab in the midfield.

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During the intermission, Dunn affirmed the performance of the players in the second half of the first half, and asked them to continue to play like this in the second half. Everton could not resist the forest team that launched an all-out attack.

Sure enough, Everton resisted for a while in the second half and the situation on the court was all controlled by Nottingham Forest. The five midfielders are not good-looking. The feature of this tactic is to control the midfield and kill the enemy's counterattack in the opponent's half, while at the same time oppressing their defense, pressing harder and harder, trying to gain an advantage on the scene, thereby reducing the advantage. For victory.

Dunn's use of Everton as an experiment was also intentional for him. Opponents who are too strong are afraid of accidents, and opponents who are not strong enough are not qualified to be experimental products. Therefore, teams such as Everton that rank in the middle, have stable performance, and are qualified to hit the Champions League have become the top choice.

Poor Moyes...

In the 80th minute of the game, the scene where Nottingham Forest always pressed Everton in the second half finally had a result.

This time it was Fernandez who was involved in the running position and opened the gap. Thiago passed the ball directly and Ibisevic successfully scored his fourteenth goal in the league this season against offside, total goals. The number reached sixteen.

There are four goals left to bet on the victory, which is no problem for Ibisevic.

In the end, Nottingham Forest relied on Ibisevic's two goals to beat Everton away. But in fact, the real reason for winning was Dunn's "Christmas Tree". The well-known Christmas tree formation is AC Milan’s 4321, but Dunn’s 4231 also looks like a Christmas tree, so Dunn simply called himself "my own Christmas tree", "unique", "the only one in the world" "The other 4231 are not called Christmas tree formations, only mine 4231 is a Christmas tree."

The statistics of the game explained the reason for Everton's loss-the possession rate of Nottingham Forest was 50% long, the pass success rate was 79%, the steal success rate was as high as 89%, shooting Fourteen times, the target was hit ten times. By comparison, Everton had only six shots, three of which were on target. Completely at a disadvantage.

At the press conference after the game, Moyes reluctantly admitted this reality: "They have a complete grasp of the situation, and they deserve to win..."

Dunn was very proud: "I'm very happy to see this kind of scene. We won without suspense."

A reporter asked why he gave up the 442 that had been used for several seasons uncharacteristically.

Dunn spread his hands out: "Why? Couldn't the 2:1 score and three points still answer your doubts?"

"But isn't your football style defensive counterattack and 442?"

"That's what you think. My style is the same afterwards-victory. Only winning and championships are my football styles, and everything else is just a means to serve this result. As long as I can win and win, I don't mind. Is it a defensive counterattack or a full offense and defense, and don't mind whether it is 442 or 4231." Dunn threw out his unscrupulous theory with a smile.

"In order to win and champion, I can do whatever it takes." (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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