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Chapter 461 Volume [-] Red Forest Reincarnation
What is Nottingham Forest's usual approach?
Ask ten people, a hundred people, a thousand people and you will get only one answer.

Ugly scenes, ugly defense and one or two unlucky counter-attacks, the game was over and Forest won.

Except for Ribery's assault on the wing, the Forest team's game was lackluster.

The vast majority of neutral fans will be on the side of Barcelona. They hope to see the team that represents artistic football and brings them joy and enjoyment wins. They hope to use Barcelona's victory to prove that there is still a place for beautiful football in modern football. In other words, beautiful football still has hope of restoration.

Originally, Twain planned to play against Barcelona here, because Wood couldn't play, and if the Forest team stayed conservative, they might not be able to win the game, and they would be called ugly.There is still a glimmer of hope for the counterattack.But after experiencing the media hype of "artistic football vs. utilitarian football", he suddenly changed his mind and wanted to use Forest's best defense to compete with Barcelona.Today's heavy rain has strengthened this belief-the field is not suitable for playing skills, and the Forest team, which is superior in physical aspects, does not need to use their weaknesses to avoid their strengths.

Although without Wood, the team's defense will be affected to some extent, but the forest team can get to where it is today, not all because of Wood's performance, Pepe and Piqué have shown their respective talents and strengths, There are also the diligent and honest Layton Barnes, Chimbonda, and world-class goalkeeper Van der Sar. Such a lineup is not considered weak anywhere.

Of course, this does not mean that Twain will put the team completely on the defensive during the game.He knew that if he kept defending blindly, he would definitely not get the result he wanted.Really high-level defense is based on offense, just as offense needs to be based on a solid defense.Stable defense needs to rely on offense to share the pressure and contain the opponent's forces.

So from the beginning of the game, it was unexpected that Nottingham Forest, who are good at defense, launched a fierce offensive against Barcelona, ​​changing their conservative image in the past.

Barcelona obviously didn't expect the Forest team to take the initiative to attack, and they were a little at a loss after the opening.Coupled with the slippery field, everything made them very uncomfortable.

Compared with Barcelona, ​​which is technically delicate, the Forest team is more adaptable to fighting in such weather.Because their means of attack are very simple and quick.There are no complicated penetrations through the middle and dizzying pass and cut cooperation, personal dribbling, two or three passes can send the football to the dangerous area, and then there is a shot.Because of the presence of Viduka, the Forest team can pass the ball more in the air, use Viduka's height and header to make a ferry, or directly attack the goal. This style of play minimizes the impact of the bad field.

If there is a weakness for Barcelona, ​​it is the defense against high-altitude balls.Perhaps their foot skills are too good, so some disdain to work hard on the golf ball.

But their opponent in this game is Nottingham Forest, an England team.

"Ashley Young! He's so fast!" Ashley Young on the right dribbled the ball at high speed, and the slippery field seemed to have no effect on him. At that time, he slammed the football out for more than ten meters, and then started to accelerate. When Van Bronckhorst wanted to turn around, it was too late. His speed could not keep up with the fifth-ranked winger in the Premier League. Assaulter, he ran the [-]-meter run after chasing the ball in [-] seconds. After the Dutchman turned around, he could only see a back.

After breaking through Van Bronckhorst, Ashley Young didn't cut inside, but kicked a pass directly, high ball!
This was specifically ordered by Tang En, to let the players play more high balls on the court, and use the air superiority to overwhelm Barcelona.

Viduka jumped high in the crowd, ahead of Puyol and Marquez, and headed the goal!

"Valdes! Great save!"

Spain's No. [-] national goalkeeper Viduka's header went over the crossbar, which shocked the Barcelona fans into a cold sweat.

"At the beginning of the game, the Forest team did not choose to defend, but used the kick-off opportunity to launch wave after wave of offensive against Barcelona. This time they almost took the lead!"

After the corner kick was taken, both Pepe and Piqué rushed in, and there was another chaos in front of Barcelona's goal. It was finally Puyol who kicked the football out and ended this chaotic situation.

"Barcelona's header defense is really a mess... It seems that Coach Twain has found a way to deal with Barcelona."

The TV broadcast gave Tang En a close-up. He was sitting on the coach's bench. The short shed couldn't cover the rain from the sky. His pants were completely wet and his jacket was half wet.At this moment, he is staring at the court intently, fully in the state.

Next to him, Rijkaard stood up from his seat. He was a little worried about the series of dangers in front of the door just now, frowning and whistled twice, asking the players to pay attention to the side defense.

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Rijkaard's reminder didn't work. Five minutes passed. Barcelona, ​​which is famous for its offense, didn't even have a decent shot. Level.

Tang En's idea is very simple, take advantage of this period of time when Barcelona is still not used to it, seize the opportunity to score a goal - of course it would be better to score more goals - turn the advantage into a victory, let your team feel psychologically Gaining the upper hand, Barcelona was led step by step into the quagmire of impatience and mistakes.

This is the pre-match plan, and everyone knows it.

It would be so much easier if the game could go according to plan.

Tang En is not a coach who likes to use plans to arrange everything, and he doesn't think his opponents will obey his arrangements obediently.So he pays more attention to temporary adjustments in the game.

Ashley Young was brilliant on the right and Franck Ribery, not to be outdone, cut inside to Oleg on the left, then dribbled laterally and then shot suddenly from the angle !Valdés concentrated and flew to block the ball, another corner kick!
Nottingham Forest fans, who were outnumbered in the stands, burst into loud cheers. Under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Forest team, the Barcelona fans were a little silent.

The corner was taken, and while Barcelona's defenders focused on Pepe and Piqué in the penalty area, Forest made a change.Albertini did not directly drive the football into the penalty area, but passed it to Arteta who came up to meet him, a tactical corner kick!
Seeing Arteta receive the ball, the Barcelona defenders pressed out collectively, trying to cause offside. At this moment, Spain made a cross.It's not a high ball, but a half high ball.

Everyone was running out, including the Forest players who were afraid of offside.Anelka suddenly turned around halfway through the run, and Arteta's pass just arrived!The French striker lifted the football forward and touched the Barcelona defender Max!
The commentator yelled, and the fans at the scene also yelled loudly.

"Anelka's chance! One-handed!"

Valdez struck out bravely and fell to the ground to make a save at a very close distance.After Anelka brushed over Max, there was very little room for him to make moves. He could only choose to shoot with the arch of his foot. The football hit Valdez's thigh and missed the baseline.

Sighs sounded at the same time.

"What a pity! This is Forest's best chance so far! Barcelona is overwhelmed!"

Anelka puts his head in his hands and regrets not kicking the ball in.

Tang En was as regretful as him. When he saw Anelka break through Max, he stood up from the coach's bench and prepared to raise his hand to celebrate the goal.Unexpectedly, Valdés was as miraculous as taking medicine today. He saved several necessary goals for the Forest team in a row, and this time was no exception, blocking Anelka's shot.

"Damn it, he really should have had a urine test after the game!" Dunn sat down, venting his displeasure.

Chris Lark shook his head beside him: "Don't worry, Tony, we have a good momentum."

"Until I score a goal, I don't believe in anything." Tang En stared at the field and gritted his teeth.

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"We need to attack!" As Barcelona's field captain, Catalan Puyol is boosting morale, "They can't let them play like this. Ronaldinho!"

The Brazilian looked stern: "I know."

"Think of a way to push them back!"

Ronaldinho looked up at the time on the big screen, the game has been going on for 4 minutes.Barcelona has no decent offensive yet. As the core of the team's offense, he certainly has the obligation and responsibility to change this embarrassing situation.

Soon, after relying on his personal skills to overtake Arteta in the midfield, he planned the first effective offensive of Barcelona since the opening.While Forest's defenders were focusing on Eto'o, Ronaldinho passed the ball to Giuly on the wing.

Giuly relied on speed to break through Layton; Barnes then kicked the goal directly from a small angle!
Van der Sar was also focused, and after blocking the shooting angle, he buffered the heavy footed shot with both hands, and then hugged it firmly.

"This is Barcelona's first shot since the start of the game. No. 15 minutes of the game... It's pathetic. The strong Barcelona seems to be a little uncomfortable in front of the crazy Nottingham Forest."

"Another thing I don't adapt to is the field and the weather. It can be seen that the field is very slippery, and Giuly slipped on the soles of his feet before shooting. In fact, players on both sides slipped suddenly, but for players who pay more attention to technology and ground cooperation For Barcelona, ​​it has a greater impact. Nottingham Forest insists on playing high and playing high, which minimizes the impact of the field on them."

The commentator's analysis is very correct, but this does not help Barcelona change the embarrassing situation on the field.They are not good at the English football tactics of holding high and playing high. Ground possession is their tradition, and it has been integrated into their blood. It is impossible to change it for a while.

"It suddenly occurred to me that before the game, some media believed that this game was a duel between the artistic football represented by Barcelona and the utilitarian football represented by Nottingham Forest. But after watching the game for 15 minutes, I couldn't put this team against Barcelona's attacking team. Teams are associated with 'utilitarianism'."

The narrator laughed.

As outsiders, they laughed extraordinarily easily.

As the two sides fighting on the field, it can't be easy at all.This was the first time Dunn's team played against Barcelona. Their understanding of this team before probably came from Piqué, a teammate who came out of Barcelona's youth academy.

Just when the Forest players felt that Barcelona was nothing more than that, Giuly warned them with a sharp breakthrough and shot-Barcelona is not an ordinary person.

George Wood sat in the box, watching the game with his mother and the president of the club.The impact of his absence has so far been invisible.

What Twain said before the game seemed to make sense. For a team that wasn't a certain person, the forest's absence wasn't fatal.

It seems like this...

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No. 18 minutes, when Nottingham Forest continued to press Barcelona, ​​Barcelona broke the ball in the backcourt and launched a fast break.

After Puyol passed the football to Edmilson, six people from Barcelona rushed up in an instant. The speed was so fast that the Forest team, which was used to the embarrassing reactions of their opponents, did not expect it.

If there is George Wood at this time, he will definitely push Ronaldinho at the first time, but when the Forest team's midfielder does not know how to deal with it, Edmilson has already passed the football to Ronaldinho in front of him. Nardinho.

"Ronaldinho has the ball, and there is no Forest player beside him!"

The impact of George Wood's absence exploded at this moment.

With no full-time defensive midfielder, the Forest team's central defender was blank.The defense has to mention the midfield position defense, so there will inevitably be a lot of space behind them...

Instead of passing the ball in the open hand, Ronaldinho continued to dribble forward, drawing Albertini and Pepe forward to defend, shifting the center of gravity of Forest's entire defensive line to himself , Then he suddenly slammed on the brakes and passed the ball!

The African cheetah Eto'o stabbed out obliquely, and no one noticed him, because everyone was watching Ronaldinho, for fear that he would show some amazing magic again.But this time, he's just the bait!
Eto'o sprints from behind Pepe, Ronaldinho just swayed Arteta's back tackle, and then sent a direct pass!
"Single-handed! The direct pass that pierced the Forest team's defense came from Ronaldinho! Not offside!"

When Tang En, who was sitting on the coach's bench, saw this scene, his eyes suddenly widened, his pupils shrank, and his butt left the seat.

too familiar...

Damn it!
This time, Eto'o made a beautiful counter-offside. He received the ball, and there was no Nottingham Forest defender around him.

Putting Eto'o up against a goalkeeper with plenty of room to accelerate and there's only one...

"Van der Sar strikes!" In fact, when he saw Eto'o and plugged in, the Dutch goalkeeper had already judged the next situation in advance, so when Eto'o just received the football, he had already rushed to the penalty area edge.

The two met on the penalty area line, Van der Sar fell to the ground to block, Eto'o used his speed advantage to turn the football to the right, at this time Van der Sar had lost his focus, and he could watch the opponent pass him Score the ball?
Van der Sar reached out to the jumping Eto'o, who caught his ankle but let it go again.

It was too late, Eto'o fell in the penalty area!

Giuly saw the football rolling to his feet, and he kicked the ball towards the empty goal.The cheers of the Barcelona fans sounded from the stands of the stadium.

but……

"foul!"

The referee's whistle blew, and he ran to goalkeeper Van der Sar, while the Forest players ran to him, and they surrounded the referee to plead.

This is undoubtedly a foul, but what will the referee do?

Tang En has completely stood up from his seat without knowing it.

The scene he was familiar with resurfaced and gradually coincided with what happened on the field in front of him. Ronaldinho's pass, Eto'o's running position, and even Harvey's follow-up shot did not change. Arsenal also wore a yellow away jersey for this game, only Van der Sar replaced Lehmann.

"The goal is invalid... It looks like the referee is going to give Van der Sar a card... Red card! God, it was only 8 minutes into the game, and Van der Sar got a red card! He pulled Eto'o down with his hand outside the penalty area, the referee The referee is merciless!"

In fact, the red card is the ending that Van der Sar knew. When he stretched out his hand to Eto'o, he knew the price of this foul, but the idea of ​​not wanting to concede the ball occupied all his thoughts at that moment.

At this moment, he covered his face with his hands and stood outside the crowd, while his teammates surrounded the referee angrily, thinking that the sentence was too severe.Together with them, they surrounded the referee to ask for an explanation, and the Barcelona players were dissatisfied that the goal was cancelled.The Barcelona people believed that the best result was that the goal was valid and Van der Sar was sent off with a red card.

Tang En angrily kicked the shed on the side of the coach's bench, directly smashing the windshield...

"This bastard referee! Does he know what the art of law enforcement is?! How do we play this game?"

While he lost his temper, Chris Lacke had gone to get backup goalkeeper Paul Gerrard to warm up.

No matter how angry Tang En was, even if he tore down the ceiling of the entire coaching bench, he still couldn't change the result.

Van der Sar walked down the field in frustration, and his third Champions League final was over.

The Forest team must replace the substitute goalkeeper and replace a player on the field.

Twain chose to replace striker Anelka with substitute goalkeeper Paul Gerrard.

When the fourth official held up the substitution sign, Anelka couldn't believe it when he saw that he had been replaced. After confirming that it was correct, a large cloud suddenly appeared on his face, which was more hazy than the night sky in Paris. .

Albertini ran over to comfort him and told him to get off the field quickly, but he lingered down, without high-fiving Paul Gerrard, or shaking hands with head coach Twain, and just walked straight back to the dressing room. room.

And when he passed by, Tang En also ignored Anelka who was in a bad mood.He didn't have that kind of leisure at all, he was staring at the referee who was directing the wall back on the field.

It's not bad at all from what he remembers, history is going to repeat itself?
The rain subsided unknowingly...

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