champion godfather

Chapter 591 New Record of Volume [-] Red

Although in Liverpool City, Liverpool's reputation is greater than their city rivals Everton, and they have won more championships.But in fact, the glorious Liverpool was split from Everton, a bit like AC Milan and Inter Milan in Milan, Italy, except that Everton and Liverpool split because of the issue of whether to continue renting the Anfield stadium...

In terms of history, Everton is much older than Liverpool. Everton was one of the seven initiators of the establishment of the English League at the beginning, which is quite like the "seven elders". In 1891, Everton won the first League One championship in their club history. In the second year, they were divided into two factions because of the issue of whether to continue renting Anfield Stadium. The side with more people moved out to Goodison. Park pitch.

Although Everton is not as famous as Liverpool now, and their overseas supporters are not as good as their rivals in the same city, they are indeed a traditional powerhouse in English football: nine League One (the top league in England at that time) champions, five Two FA Cup winners, one Cup Winners' Cup winner.

Today, under the leadership of head coach Moyes, this Everton team can stabilize in the mid-range every year, playing in the UEFA Cup or something, and will enter the Champions League as the biggest goal.

Unlike Nottingham Forest, Everton's performance has basically been the same for more than 100 years, with little ups and downs, neither particularly brilliant moments nor dark years, just like the color of their jerseys, stable and calm.

Nottingham Forest is the most famous shooting star in the history of English football.It has been established for more than 100 years. In the late 70s and early 80s, it suddenly burst into dazzling light. It won the Champions League for two consecutive years, was unbeaten in 42 top league games, and defeated the then European giant Liverpool twice within a year.Aston Villa, who also won the Champions League, can't compare to the shock that Nottingham Forest brought to English football and European football.They are now the only team to have won the domestic league title once and the Champions League three times.

At the beginning of the 90s of last century, the fashion that once bloomed with dazzling light crossed the sky and disappeared in the darkness.Until Twain appeared...

Nottingham Forest seems to be such a team, either very bad or very good.Today's Forest team is obviously in a "very good" historical period. They are a guest at Goodison Park Stadium. Although it is an away game, they are unanimously optimistic before the game.

Look at the titles that the media gave them-"European Champions", "Strong contenders for the league title in the new season", "One of the top five in the Premier League", "The terrifying red storm"...

Only Moyes refused to admit that these titles would help the Forest team beat his own team in an interview before the game: "...Forest's winning the Champions League has nothing to do with the first game of the league. The honor belongs to the past, today's Who wins and loses the game depends on who performs better."

Tang En deeply agreed with this: "I think Moyes is right. Although we are the European champions, if we lose at Goodison Park, we will still be ridiculed. Those titles can only be won if you win. It will only take effect if you have to win, if you can't win, then bye."

It seems that the head coaches of both sides are very clear-headed, and the transfer of the media has not played a role.They have found Arteta.

Except for Beckham's first game back to the Premier League, this game really lacks other highlights.So the current Everton player Mikel Arteta, who followed the Forest team to win the Champions League, naturally became another focus of media attention.

Although he left Nottingham Forest, Arteta did not speak ill of the Forest team.He does not deny that he moved to Everton to get more opportunities to play, but he has no regrets about the two and a half years he spent at Nottingham Forest: "...If I had to make another choice, I would still I will choose to join the Forest team. There, I practiced and played with the best players in the world. I benefited a lot and helped me a lot in my future career. In addition, Coach Twain is not like you in the media. That said, we all thought he was a good guy."

Then the reporters sneered at Grid's media: "I'm afraid Anelka and Ashley Young don't think so..."

Of course, although there are two coaches and Arteta as a cover, the biggest focus of this game is David Beckham.

An hour before the start of the game, the forest team's starting list has been sent to various media reporters, and David Beckham's name is impressively listed.

In this game, among the newly joined players, only Beckham and Arshavin started.Sidwell, Rafinha and Akinfeev were all on the bench, while Grosso was not eligible to enter the squad to come to Goodison Park with the team.

Because Eastwood felt muscle soreness during the training to adapt to the venue yesterday, Twain put him on the bench out of caution.

Beckham's appearance in the starting lineup certainly satisfied the audience's wishes, but it also aroused a new round of suspicion from the media—they wondered whether the old Beckham's appearance in the starting lineup was due to Tang En being received by the club. Pressure from the top.

When the team came to Goodison Park for pre-match warm-up, Tang En got out of the car to be interviewed by reporters. When asked this question, he replied impatiently: "Nonsense! Who is allowed to play and who is not allowed to play? After all, what is the pressure from the top management of the club? Even the Queen and the Prime Minister have no right to dictate the team lineup in front of me!"

He is very upset that many media are still focusing on Beckham's commercial value instead of his competitive value.But the performance of these media also made him clear that it seems that Beckham still has a very difficult way to rebuild his image. The long-term impression cannot be changed overnight by a league champion.If after Beckham joins the team, the team is surrounded by various media and rumors all day long, and in the end they fail to win a single championship, there will be countless people jumping out to accuse Tony Twain of signing Beckham back then. Ham's choice.David Beckham and himself will be blamed for the team's failure.

This is not what Tang En wants to see.

He also hopes that Beckham will give him some confidence on the court, use his excellent performance to prove that his vision is right, and relieve him of pressure.

This first game must be played well, and everyone is looking forward to it. Countless pairs of eyes are looking at his team, and some people are holding a magnifying glass, waiting for the team's mistakes in the game, and then magnifying them countless times in the media. lash out.

Don't think that winning a European Champions Cup is so amazing.Those who like him like him even more, and those who hate him hate him even more.All kinds of verbal criticism will not be restrained at all because of how many championships he has won.

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The temperature on August [-] was high, and the weather on August [-] was also the same.At three o'clock in the afternoon, as the opening game, under the scorching sun, with the whistle of the referee, it kicked off.

Goodison Park was packed, Everton fans occupied half of the country, and Nottingham Forest fans also gathered in the away stands to cheer for their team.Perhaps before the start of the game, the people sitting in the stands were still complaining that the weather was too hot today, which made them almost suffer from heat stroke.

But when the game started, no one thought about such small things anymore.

The singing in the stands was loud, and everyone was waving their arms vigorously and screaming loudly.What is heat?The enthusiasm of our fans is hotter than the weather!What's the deal with strong sunlight?Running and sweating in such strong sunlight is a man's sport!
"Vud Nistelrooy partnered with Arshavin in this game. This is the first time he has partnered with Arshavin as a striker in an official game. This is also the Russian striker's first appearance in the Premier League..."

The narrator began to speak the opening remarks he had thought up before.

The forest team has already opened the ball on the field.

Arshavin kicked the football lightly, and Van Nistelrooy gave him a wink.He knows he will stop managing the ball and rush forward.

Ruud van Nistelrooy passed the ball back to Van der Vaart on the center circle.At the same time, Ribery on the left also sprinted forward at full speed.

So far, everything is going well, a kick-off that couldn't be more regular.

Arshavin was still rushing forward, but the Everton people didn't care about him. Anyway, he would be offside soon if he continued to rush forward.

Who has the ball is what matters.

Van der Vaart didn't let the football stay under his feet for a second. As soon as the ball rolled over, he divided the football to the right again.

Unlike Franck Ribery, who had already rushed up, the winger Beckham, who started on the right, was still standing behind the center line at this time, and had no intention of going up at all.

Ribery and Arshavin continued to run forward, as if they were not playing football, but running a [-]-meter race.

Beckham stopped the ball and looked up.

The right side of the court is on the side of the coach's bench, and Beckham's current position is very close to Moyes.Seeing this scene, he suddenly felt familiar, and then his heart beat wildly for no reason.

"Don't let him..." Before he finished yelling, he saw Beckham in front of him swinging his feet on the spot and slapping the football!

long pass!

From the moment Beckham received the football, the cheers of the Forest fans rang out, and now it became louder and louder, completely overwhelming the boos of the Everton fans.

Just as the football soared into the sky, Arshavin, like a bomber piercing through the clouds and appearing in sight, shot out from behind Everton's entire defense line!
Some of the Everton players raised their arms, signaling to the linesman Arshavin for offside.But the lineman ignored him, and just followed Arshavin and continued to run down.

Everton's American goalkeeper, Tim Howard, reacted faster than his defenders, and when he saw Arshavin come through the defense, he gave up the goal decisively.The goalkeeper coach will never tell the goalkeeper to give up when he is suspected of being offside. Regardless of whether he is offside or not, the goalkeeper must do his job well.

But Beckham's long pass was aimed at Arshavin, not Howard.

At this moment, Arshavin turned his head to look at the situation behind him, and he saw that the football arrived as scheduled.Howard is still a little far away from himself, lob shot?
Howard saw Arshavin's intention, he jumped up suddenly, stretched his body in the air, opened his arms, and rushed towards Arshavin like a net.The advantage of this is that it successfully seals off the opponent's lob shot space.As for the following... Generally speaking, when the football bounces, it is really difficult for the striker to shoot a ground ball.The goalkeeper is not a god, he can only choose to block one possibility.

A black projection shrouded the short Arshavin's head. Because of the glare of the sun, he couldn't see the other's expression when he looked up, but the lob shot was useless.

Arshavin raised his right leg high, his body almost volleyed, and swept the football sideways in the air.Just because you can't shoot doesn't mean you can't pass the ball...

Howard strikes, Everton's goal is empty, who is on the other side at this moment?
"Frank Ribery!" The commentator shouted.

Yes, Ribery, who sprinted at the same time as Arshavin, finally slapped him when he was needed most.

If the goal is 50 meters high and [-] meters wide, it looks like a dog hole from [-] meters away, but when viewed from inside the small penalty area, it is simply... the sea and the sky!
The huge empty goal is just in front of Ribery, and the football passed by Arshavin is a bit forward, but this is not a problem for Ribery.He exerted force on his left foot and flew forward like this.

"Dive to the top - What_GOOOAL!!!!"

"Oh_yes! Yes! Nottingham Forest leads Everton 1-0!"

Howard, who jumped on Arshavin, came back and saw the football was on top of the net and had already scored...

"Ten seconds! This is the new season appearance of the European champion Nottingham Forest! Beautiful! Wonderful!" The commentator said with a big laugh. "David Beckham's precise long pass, Arshavin's calm head, and the team's fast movement! These are the characteristics of Nottingham Forest, fast! Really fast!"

Dunn led a group of coaches and substitute players and rushed out excitedly.He did tell the players before the game that scoring goals as quickly as possible in the away game can completely disrupt the opponent's deployment and give our side an advantage in future games.But he didn't expect this group of players to do so well.

How many seconds was the previous record for the fastest goal in the Premier League?

"The results of the electronic computer have come out. The whole process of this goal took ten seconds. Ribery broke the previous record of [-] seconds for the fastest goal in the Premier League jointly held by Alan Shearer and Ledley King. Record!" The commentator excitedly announced after getting the latest data.

New season, new record.Is there a more perfect start?
(End of this chapter)