champion godfather

Chapter 559 Volume Four

Chelsea did not score a penalty, and Nottingham Forest did not seize the subsequent counterattack opportunity.The two sides evened out, and although everyone was unwilling, there was nothing they could do.

The physical strength of the Chelsea players began to have problems, and they slowed down with their experience.No longer press the whole court, but recover the defense line, compress the space in the backcourt, and do not give the Forest team a chance to counterattack quickly.Just like this, I slowly regained my strength.

Nottingham Forest thought that after 10 minutes, Chelsea would usher in a double blow in terms of morale and physical fitness.Unexpectedly, a foul by Carvalho seemed to arouse their fighting spirit instead. The press was gone, but the retreated defense line was well organized, so that the Forest team could not find many ways to attack their hinterland.

Tang En, who was off the court, did not expect the game to turn out like this. The Chelsea players seemed to be completely unaffected by the missed penalty, and they were still fighting high, wanting to fight Forest to the end.

Tang En, who was sitting on the coach's bench, smacked his lips: "Zhou Xuan? Okay, I'll fight with you. Let's see which of us can afford it!"

He is not in a hurry.Anyway, the Forest team is leading the overall score now. If Chelsea does not rush to attack, they will be eliminated when the time comes. Nottingham Forest is also happy to win the opponent without bloodshed.If Chelsea plans to counterattack wildly at the last moment, the Forest team will follow the predetermined strategy to play a quick counterattack behind the opponent. If they can score a goal, they can completely defeat the opponent. Can't go all out on offense.

"Pay attention to defense!!" Tang En, who made up his mind to play with the opponent to the end, stood up, walked to the sidelines, and shouted inside.Remind the team to pay attention to the formation when defending, and don't be attacked if you fail to attack. "Steady down, don't worry! Play with them slowly!" He pressed his hands down, letting the forest team members know what he meant.

Just now I wanted to ask about Nottingham Forest, where Chelsea played in the 30-meter zone, and they also played with a full attacking rhythm. There were fewer forward passes, and the lateral and backward passes increased significantly.We are not fools. Now that they are ahead in the total score, they should not be the ones rushing to attack.

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Five minutes passed, and the score and situation on the court did not change at all.Mourinho couldn't sit still, he looked at his watch and stood up from the coach's bench.

If you want to rest, you should rest enough now.There are still 15 minutes in the game, Chelsea still have not qualified for the promotion, how can they relax?
Can't run?That's not okay.Now is the critical moment, even if you risk your life, you have to run and grab it!
Seeing Mourinho standing on the sidelines with a serious face, Chelsea's players on the field knew what they should do.

That's right, now is not the time to take a break, and they are not qualified to take a break as the lagging side, even if it is only 5 minutes.

"With 15 minutes to go, Chelsea came alive again and they pressed again, which was very exhausting."

When Tang En saw Chelsea pressing up again, he laughed.

It seems that Chelsea has no way out. In order to score goals, they don't care about defense.He decided to add the final straw to Chelsea's back.

No.706 minutes, the Forest team made a substitution.Anelka replaced Eastwood, who was physically weak and unable to run.

Now, apart from Ruud van Nistelrooy and van der Vaart, the forest team's frontcourt attack combination is all people with excellent personal skills and extremely fast speed.Any one of them is qualified to serve as the arrow in the fast counterattack.

Nottingham Forest is determined to carry out the defensive counterattack to the end.

Anelka was very active after he came on the field. Of course, he didn't do it just to make Twain do it.He is just for himself.His two agent brothers have repeatedly reminded him that since he doesn't have many opportunities to play this season, the teams that had some interest in him have expressed that they need to re-examine whether they will introduce Anelka. It's too hard to say how the players who can't participate in the game are in a stable state.

If he wants to leave Nottingham Forest this summer and find a team that satisfies him, he needs to show his level in the limited playing opportunities and tell those hesitant buyers: everything is fine with Anelka Well, whether it's the body or the state.

Out of this kind of thinking, every time Anelka plays, he is a bit independent in handling the ball.He is trying his best to express himself, and at the same time he is slowly pushing himself away from Nottingham Forest, a more holistic team.

When he first came to Nottingham Forest, no one welcomed him, except the manager.He and Tang En originally had a very beautiful "honeymoon period", but unfortunately the honeymoon is always short.Now that he and Twain's football is drifting away, the good memories of the past have long been thrown to Java.

Maybe it was a "beautiful mistake" when he transferred to Nottingham Forest...

Anelka desperately wanted to prove himself in limited opportunities, and when the football was at his feet, it was basically impossible to expect it to pass.Van Nistelrooy was quite dissatisfied with this.He is a center forward, but when the team needs him, he can even rush from the opponent's penalty area back to his own penalty area to tackle the enemy's offense, and he will not frown if he is required to be a wall in the frontcourt to pass the ball for his teammates.

In the heart of the Dutch veteran, it is perfectly normal to serve the team as a whole. As long as the team needs it, he can sacrifice his chances of shooting and pull it out to create space for other teammates.He and Anelka played two completely different kinds of football.

The two of them don't have any cooperation at all.

Both Tang and Chris Rack saw this situation off the court. Tang kept silent and didn't ask any questions about it, but Chris Rack couldn't hold back. He asked Tang En directly: "Tony, why did you let Anelka go up?" Hit the opponent's quick counterattack? But he disrupted the entire offensive rhythm... Is there some inappropriate substitution?"

Tang En looked at Anelka's back and shook his head: "No, this is a gamble in itself. We only ask for him from the front line, so we can only let him play. As for his existence, our other offensive lines The issue of being blocked... is a mixed bag, and there are risks. You can't expect us to win Chelsea, David. Most of the time, people are faced with choices. I like to use gambling to describe these choices. "

Chris Rack shook his head: "You are such an avid gambler, Tony!"

Tang En laughed, said no more, and continued to stare at the game.

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The mentality of the Nottingham Forest players is very good. Although there is an Anelka who is out of the team's tactical system, it does not affect their interest in dealing with the increasingly restless Chelsea.

Time is poison.As it goes on, Forest's mentality will get better and better, while Chelsea's restlessness will become more and more obvious, and it will be shown through repeated unsolicited mistakes.

Tang En sat back on the coach's bench, while Mourinho had already stood on the sidelines and stopped moving.

It's not that Twain is definitely better than Mourinho. The completely different performances of the two head coaches in the final stage of the game are rooted in the result of the first round.

If that match had been Chelsea's 2:1 home victory over Nottingham Forest, then with the current scoreline, it would have been Twain, not Mourinho, who was anxiously fidgeting.

Why did Sima Yi make Zhuge Liang at a loss what to do, and finally died in a foreign country, and the star fell to Wuzhangyuan.It's not that Sima Yi's ability is superior to Zhuge Liang's, it's because they have different backgrounds and mentalities.

Zhuge Liang must break through Sima Yi's line of defense and win the state of Wei. He must take the initiative and attack.

However, Sima Yi only needed to stand firm and not be able to resist, and to allow the opponent to provoke outside the formation was to ignore him, not to fight, and not to give Zhuge Liang a chance to fight to the death.Just like a tortoise, although a little embarrassed and a little embarrassed, the actual effect is very good - Sima Yi won the game of chess.

Just like this game, Mourinho is Zhuge Liang. In order to advance to the final, he has no choice but to attack one way.As for Twain, because of his victory in the first round, he could choose to stay the same and follow Mourinho's adjustments, dragging Chelsea to death. At this time, he was Sima Yi.

The game time on the big screen entered the last 10 minutes.

The score next to the time is still 1:1, and it hasn't changed for a long time.

Since Chelsea almost pressed the entire team, they completely ignored the fact that the nearly half of the pitch behind them would be exploited by Forest's fast attacking players.

In the last 10 minutes, if you don't work hard, you will have no chance.

This is a game that must be fought hard to win...

Chelsea win a corner and John Terry and Carvalho sprint into the box.The corner kick was taken, and Carvalho fought for the top. Under the interference of Kompany, he did not hit the ball, but let the football leak to Terry behind him.

Terry and Piquet fought in the air, and in the end the more experienced Terry overwhelmed Piquet and headed the ball towards the goal.

Piqué did not completely fail either. The fight for the top with Terry forced Terry to choose an angle in the air, so he could only win and flick the ball... He threw the football directly into Van der Sar's arms.

Van der Sar kicked the ball out with a big foot, but soon the football fell to the feet of the Chelsea players, and another crazy offensive hit the Forest team's goal.

This time Drogba's long-range shot outside the penalty area directly fired an anti-aircraft gun.Seeing this shot, Tang En laughed happily from below. This kind of shot really hurt the morale of his teammates--you worked so hard to pass the ball to you. When time is running out, every attacking opportunity is extraordinarily important. Under precious circumstances, you have fired anti-aircraft guns so hastily!
"If we can finally qualify, I have to go to that big black guy and give him a hug." Tang En said to the two assistant coaches beside him with a smile.

Chris Rack didn't have Tang En's mood. He kept frowning and paying attention to the situation on the court.I am afraid that in the case of being besieged by the opponent, there will be mistakes that should not be made on our side, and all the efforts of more than 80 minutes will be in vain.

He is not a coach who advocates defense. Every time he sees his team's gate being besieged by opponents, he is always in fear, even though he has seen the forest team's overall defensive ability many times in normal training...

No matter how strong the defense is, there will be a day when it will be breached. Chris Lark has a bad feeling in his heart.

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Mourinho has used up all three substitutions, and they have been replaced by attacking players: Kalou, Ballack and Sean Wright-Phillips.

Except for the wonderful pass to Robben, Shevchenko has never been integrated into Chelsea from the beginning to the end.In the end, Mourinho, who couldn't bear it anymore, finally replaced the star that his boss valued very much-at this critical moment, he no longer believed in the "nuclear warhead" that once shocked all directions.

Abramovich in the box saw Shevchenko being substituted, so he got up politely, smiled and applauded the star he admired most, and saw the former Soviet fellow leave the stadium.I don't know if he thinks that the back of Shevchenko's farewell to the stadium is also a scene that Chelsea is about to present.

The face of the Russian tycoon turned livid after Shevchenko left the pitch and went to the bench, out of sight of those in the box.For four years, his team has never been able to take a step forward in the Champions League, and the best result is to break into the semi-finals.Three years ago, because of Ranieri's stupid performance in the Champions League, he fired the Italian tinkerer and invited the magic coach Mourinho who had just won the European Champions Cup, hoping that he would bring Chelsea the coveted dream. glory.

He looked coldly at Mourinho who was standing on the sidelines and waving his arms to direct the game, his face was expressionless, as if he was monolithic.No one knew what he was thinking in his mind at this moment.

At this time, there are only 5 minutes from the end of the game. Unless a miracle happens, Chelsea will definitely be eliminated.

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Tang En didn't want to give Chelsea a chance to create a miracle, he immediately used up the last substitution spot in his hand.

Unlike Mourinho who made all the offensive adjustments, Tang En made defensive adjustments this time.He replaced Van Nistelrooy with Albertini.In this way, Anelka became a single arrow, while Albertini and George Wood partnered in the middle of the midfield. Both of them were in charge of defense, like a pair of pliers, trying to cut Chelsea's offensive line.

Albertini took the lead and surprised everyone with the latest tactics of the head coach.

"We defend! Don't give Chelsea any chance!"

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Chelsea went all out, with a kind of "generous death" tragic.On this slightly chilly night in Nottingham, tens of thousands of Chelsea fans could only bite their lips, speechless.

The Forest's defense erected a thick wall in front of them, a wall of sighs.Faced with such a tight overall defense, what else can Chelsea fans do but sigh?

Mourinho stopped waving his arms because it was pointless.He put the whole team on top without thinking about defense, and now everyone is over the halfway line except goalkeeper Petr Cech.And once there is a chance for a corner kick, he has no doubt that Cech will also rush up.

Chelsea's radio commentator was shouting at the top of his lungs: "Goal! Goal! We only need one goal to change the damn thing!"

In the bars of London, in the stands of the City Stadium, some Chelsea fans in blue had already closed their eyes in pain, unable to bear to look any longer.

But the game is not over yet, and the Chelsea soldiers are still struggling. How much do they want to hear the cheers from the stands at this time?Unfortunately, there were only the wanton cheers of Nottingham Forest fans in the sky, and the red fireworks that were set off in advance.

The fourth official raised an electronic reminder board on the sidelines. The number above is the injury time of this game, and it will also be Chelsea's last hope to advance.

5.

"With 5 minutes of stoppage time, everything is not over. Chelsea still have a chance. In 5 minutes, as long as they score another goal, they can equalize the total score and offset the away goals of the two teams. At that time, the game will be dragged into overtime... It can be seen that the Chelsea players are exhausted, but I must say that even if they enter overtime exhausted and fight for another 10 minutes, they will still be exhausted. Just fail here!"

While speaking, Chelsea won another corner kick.It was their tenth corner of the game.Sure enough, Cech ran out of the goal and ran all the way.Lampard, who was in charge of taking the corner kick, stopped to wait for Cech after he saw Cech running towards this side.

"Cech, who is 1.9 meters seven, appeared in the penalty area of ​​the Forest team. He is the highest height in the team now, maybe..."

Lampard took the corner and went straight for Cech's head.He bet on Cech, who is very tall and stands out from the crowd.

"Peter Cech! Head swing - Chimbonda! Chimbonda at the near post blocked Cech's header on the goal line! Forest escaped again..."

Cech, who didn't score a goal, didn't turn around and run back to the goal. Anyway, it doesn't make any difference whether he loses 1:2 or 1:3 at this time. It's better to stay in front and look for better opportunities, and finally come to be a hero.

The football is at Chelsea's feet, and the Chelsea players are passing it back and forth.

On the opposite side of the forest, the substitute players and coaches stood side by side on the sidelines, waiting to rush into the field to celebrate.

Chris Lack yelled from the sidelines: "Take their ball! They are empty! Take it...damn!"

George Wood's tackle on Lampard was passed by the opponent. Just when Lampard was about to hit the goal, Albertini shot out from a diagonal stab and crossed Lampard's shooting path.

He poked the ball away from Lampard's feet first, and then poked it again, passing the ball to Van der Vaart.

There were deafening cheers at the city stadium. At this moment, even though he was wearing sound-proof headphones, the commentator could barely hear what he was saying. He could only keep raising the volume, shouting as if he was arguing: "Chelsea lost the ball!" Cech hasn't gone back yet... Nottingham Forest is facing an empty goal! Van der Vaart chose to shoot directly-"

The football drew a parabola in the air and fell towards the empty Chelsea goal 75 meters away!
Cech looked up at the football flying in front of him in the middle of the run, slowed down, and stopped running... It's useless to run, no matter how fast a person can catch up with the flying football?There is only one thing he can do now, and that is to pray to God for the ball to miss.

Everyone's eyes were attracted by the ball. Everyone raised their heads and followed the football flying in the air.The heart behind these eyes is either pleasantly surprised, excited, full of anticipation, or flustered.

With these emotions, football dragged its tail like a comet and fell from the highest point.

"Vander Vaart! Van der Vaart! Van der Vaart—oh!"

The commentator yelled. He saw the football fall to the ground in the penalty area in front of the goal, then bounced high, then bounced off the crossbar, and landed on the top of the net...

"Not scored! What a pity! If this goal is scored, it must be the best goal in the Champions League this season!"

Nottingham Forest failed to break Chelsea's goal again in the end.

Van der Vaart held his head in frustration, and there were many fans of the Forest team who acted like him.

Twain on the sidelines didn't care about it. The current score and time are enough to ensure that he advances to the final.

With half a minute left in stoppage time, Chelsea were at their wit's end.

He withdrew his arm from the shoulders of Chris Lak and Don, raised it high, and clenched into a fist amidst the cheers like a tsunami.

He remained in this position until the referee blew the final whistle.

"The game is over! Nottingham Forest eliminated the deadly Chelsea with a total score of 3:2! Entered the Champions League final for two consecutive years! This is really amazing... The red storm of Nottingham Forest has appeared over Europe again! The air defense alarm has sounded— — Nottingham Forest is back!!”

(End of this chapter)