champion godfather

Chapter 712 Volume [-] Crimson Soul Possession
Mark Hughes was still having a headache because of Tang En's tit-for-tat containment of his side tactics, but this goal allowed him to find inspiration.

Taking advantage of the opportunity for the players to celebrate the goal wildly, he called Elano from the field and told him that his future offenses should be based on his own observations to decide whether to play the wing or the center.

The person who should have a headache now is Tony Twain.

After Bendtner scored a goal, he became more active, and his teammates also consciously passed the ball to him, allowing him to complete the last shot.It seems that the whole Manchester City team hopes that Bendtner will win the gamble within the team.

The boos of the Nottingham Forest fans became more and more frantic as Bendtner became active.It can be said that when Bendtner was holding the ball, no other sound could be heard in the city stadium at that moment, and harsh boos could be clearly heard on the other side of the Trent River.

"I've never seen the fans of Nottingham Forest treat someone so crazy..." Andy Gray was also frightened, he murmured.

"Maybe it was stimulated by the conceded goal, and also by the action of Bendtner celebrating the goal. So I said, this will be a very exciting game! Haha, only 4 minutes into the game, Nottingham Forest Just behind! How will Twain play the next game?"

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Tang En really felt a headache.The problem now is that Elano sits in the center and he can decide whether the attack will be played in the center or the wing.If he still insists that the full-backs insert assists, then George Wood and Thiago will be very hard-they have to defend and take care of the center.The Forest team will also concede the ball.

After thinking about it for a while, Tang En decided to temporarily give up the plan of assisting by the full backs.During this period of time, a solid defense is more important.

He walked to the sidelines, whistled into the field, and waved his hands to signal the two full-backs who were still in front of them to withdraw and defend.

Bell and Rafinha looked at the empty sidewalk behind them, and ran away reluctantly.

George Wood and Thiago returned to the middle, completely blocking Elano's line of delivery.Now that the full-backs do not assist, Nottingham Forest's offense on the wing relies entirely on the two full-backs.

But Tang En felt that this effect was not good enough. After all, without the assists from the full-backs, the team's offense lacked layers and changes, and it was too easy to fall into the opponent's intensive defense.

He signaled the two midfielders to take turns assisting on the sidelines.

George Wood became active.

In this game, Nottingham Forest played a 451 formation.There are five players in the midfield, the distance between Van der Vaart and the defensive midfielder is a bit far, and the forward Ruud van Nistelrooy is at the front alone. How to connect the backcourt and the frontcourt?

One way is to play wide, that is Ribery and Lennon, but they are mainly active on the wing.The series connection in the middle is plugged in by the back of the midfielder.

George Wood is now very proficient in getting behind and participating in the offense, and he is no longer the stunned young man who ran up and didn't know what to do.

Asked for the ball from Thiago, Wood took the ball forward.Elano came up to interfere, he passed the football to Ribery, who was retracted, ran forward, hit a wall with Ribery, and then passed the football to Van der Vaart.He didn't just go back, but continued to run forward, as if he was going to insert into the penalty area.

Forcing Manchester City to disperse their forces to defend him.The defensive pressure on Van der Vaart was slightly relieved, and he kicked a long shot directly, and the football was slightly higher than the crossbar.

At this time, Wood was turning around and running back, back to his defensive position.

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After Bendtner saw that the Forest team changed their tactics, his chances of getting the ball at the front were much reduced.He started dropping back to get the ball.

Kompany wanted to follow, but Wood stopped him with gestures.

Bendtner has entered his George Wood territory.

Bendtner raised his hand in midfield to signal for the ball.Robinho passed Lennon the football.As soon as the football reached his feet, Bendtner felt a huge momentum coming from behind his body.

He quickly leaned back to protect the football, but he also lost the opportunity to turn around.

He knew who gave it just now.

The corners of the mouth curled up, such a confrontation is really rare...

He knew that he couldn't turn around now, and Ribery was returning to defense at high speed. Once he was double-teamed, it would be over.He could only pass the football to Robinho who ran up to meet him.

Thiago entangled Robinho, while Wood waited for the opportunity.Bendtner ran forward while continuing to raise his hands for the ball.

When Robinho was entangled with Thiago, he picked up the football with his toes, crossed Thiago, and flew towards Bendtner who was going forward.

Bendtner turned sideways to catch the ball, but what was waiting was George Wood's upturned shoe tip - he took the first step and kicked the football still in the air.

"It's not easy getting rid of Wood!" cried Gray.I don't know whether he feels sorry for Bendtner, or praises George Wood's flexibility and courage.

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When Bendtner retreated to the midfield to get the ball again, this time George Wood didn't even give him a chance to protect the ball, and directly pushed Bendtner down with the ball from behind.

Bendtner jumped up from the ground and signaled to the running referee that he should give Wood a card. This was a back foul!
Seeing his action, the boos at the scene became even louder...

Even Pepe couldn't see it, and rushed forward to question Bendtner.Fortunately, Thiago was stopped on the way, otherwise the two sides might have clashed on this ground.

Van der Vaart was so close that he didn't question Bendtner directly.Just applauding him from the side, the meaning of irony and disdain couldn't be more obvious.

Bendtner didn't care what the fans and former teammates thought of him, he was still pestering the referee, and he was determined to get a card for Wood—it would be even better if it was a red card!

Wood didn't step forward to argue, he slowly got up from the ground.He waved his hand to let everyone disperse, there is nothing exciting to watch here.

Then he stood quietly, waiting for the referee's final penalty.

The referee came over and showed Wood a yellow card.

More booing...

Tang En was still sitting on the seat, but Chris Rack couldn't bear it any longer. He rushed to the sidelines and cursed Bendtner, the "traitor": "Think about who raised you, bastard!"

Tang En looked at the excited back of his colleague, shrugged his shoulders and said to Tang next to him, "From another perspective... At least Bendtner has professional ethics..."

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"Bendtner's wish came true, George Wood received a yellow card. The next game will not be easy for Wood."

"That's not necessarily the case. For George Wood, as long as he is not sent off, he can play as he wants."

What Martin Taylor said was right. After the game restarted, George Wood's defense was still fierce.As if he didn't care about the yellow card on his back.

But Dunn couldn't help but care. He instructed Thiago to share more defensive tasks, asked George Wood to participate in more offenses, and put his experience on how to tie the score.

Yes, an equalizer.Nottingham Forest had to equalize before the end of the first half.Otherwise, the Forest team entering the locker room would be a dejected or restless team -- not what Twain wanted to see anyway.And Manchester City's morale will be high, thinking that the Forest team can't do anything about them.

Tang En looked at the watch on his wrist. It was already 27 minutes into the first half.

The game is now in a stalemate. Manchester City's offense was forced to stop when it encountered the forest team's iron wall, and the Forest team's offense was also met with Manchester City's tenacious resistance.Everyone had some opportunities, but no one took them again.

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Van Nistelrooy was alone up front and looked a little isolated in the opposition's penalty area.In fact, he is not a scoring point. Since only one forward is arranged in this game, his role is more to create scoring opportunities for those behind.It's a pity that the two full-backs' assists were canceled by Twain. The Forest team's offensive routine is a bit simple - Ribery and Lennon can either go down or cut inside. Nistruy.George Wood still passes the ball up more.Manchester City's defensive formation remains fairly intact, and no matter how the Forest team moves, their defense will not be chaotic.It can be seen that Mark Hughes has put a lot of effort into preventing the Forest team from sneaking attacks—although it is used to prevent sneak attacks, but this kind of intensive defense has caused the Forest team's positional warfare to encounter trouble.

Hughes' idea in this game is very simple, solid defense in the backcourt, and use a dense defensive formation to compress the space and time for the Forest team to counterattack.The frontcourt used Bendtner, a powerful center, and his excellent breakthrough ability on the wing to score.It's just that I didn't expect that the side roads didn't fight, but blossomed in the middle road.

Although Tang En quickly readjusted his arrangement, it didn't help.Now that Manchester City is leading by one goal, as long as they continue to defend firmly, it is not impossible for the away game to score three points with this goal.

As City's manager, he knows the bet his players are making.But between winning and gambling, he will choose to win without hesitation.

Seeing that the first half was coming to an end, Hughes decided to let the team retreat as a whole, shrink the formation, and decided to fight back against Nottingham Forest.

Of course Dunn knew what Hughes was planning, but now he had to push out and attack because there was not much time left.He didn't want to walk into the locker room with a point behind.

With a wave of his hand, Bell and Rafinha, who had been suppressed for more than 30 minutes, attacked again.

With 10 minutes left before the end of the first half, the Forest team launched their first offensive frenzy of the game.

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"Put your energy out!!" Fat John yelled at the partners behind him in the stands, "Don't always think about booing the Danish kid! What our team needs now is not to boo their opponents, but to cheer them on !Who of you wants to see us one goal down and go to half-time? I don't want to! I won't even have a drink! Guys, let's sing our song-"

"Ooooooh-forest forest! Nottingham Forest!"

"...Forest Forest! Nottingham Forest! We're invincible, we're invincible! We're the best team in the world... We scare our opponents, we scare them! Because the whole world is in our hands - —”

"Ooooooh-Woodwood, grow into a forest! Woodwood, grow into a forest!"

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George Wood is holding the ball.

Still dribbling forward from an important position.Elano's block was easily thrown off by him, and the Brazilian's defense was purely symbolic...

It was here in Ireland that he encountered resistance.But he also passed the football to van der Vaart.Van der Vaart couldn't turn around, and passed the ball to Wood, who gave Lennon a kick on the wing.

Lennon kicks in a cross, Ruud van Nistelrooy jumps up to fight for the top!
The football was pushed out by Dunn.

Once again fell to the feet of George Wood.

He tried to shoot, but no one fell for it—everyone knows how bad Wood's shot is.

Sure enough, Wood didn't really take a shot from 35 meters away from the goal.He passed the football to Thiago, who was catching up from behind, and retreated to defend himself.He and Thiago did a handover.Now Thiago is in charge of offense and defense belongs to him.

The Forest team's offense was quickly ended by Manchester City's Bigfoot.

Ashley Young dribbles the ball down the sidewalk.Bell's assist went up, this side is empty, this is a great opportunity for Manchester City to expand the score before the end of the first half!
But his dribble was stopped by George Wood.Wood broke the ball at Ashley Young's feet with a beautiful tackle.Then he got up and took the ball with big strides, throwing away Ashley Young who had just got up.

Thiago saw Wood coming up, and didn't go back to defend.There was not much time left in the first half, and he wanted to stay in the frontcourt and participate in the attack.

Elano was once again the first to block Wood. This time he almost succeeded, but unfortunately lost in the physical confrontation and failed to stop Wood's forced breakthrough.

After throwing off Elano with his body and speed, Wood made a posture to pass the ball to Van der Vaart-he adjusted the direction of the football and ran towards Van der Vaart.

When Ireland turned its attention to the Dutch midfielder, he distributed the football to Thiago next to him.

Then he ran to the front of the penalty area.

Thiago made a gesture and kicked a long shot, and this time someone believed it.Ireland turned and pounced back again.Thiago passed the ball to Van der Vaart.

Van der Vaart did not stop the ball and pushed the football directly into the crowd in the penalty area.

"George Wood!"

Wood received the ball sideways, facing Dunn's defense, he rushed up without fear.

The two collided, the football jumped out, Dunn fell to the ground, and George Wood looked like he was going to dive and fall on the hand.

At this time, his strong body played a role again, and he got up from the ground in an instant with his hands and feet!

"Wood fouled?"

"No, reasonable collision!"

Manchester City's goalkeeper Joe Hart saw that the opponent had brought the ball into the penalty area, so he quickly attacked.

Wood has adjusted his body position and center of gravity, and now he is behind all the Manchester City defenders, facing Hart and the goal behind him.He swung his right leg.

Hart opened his arms and threw himself sideways. He wanted to stop Wood from volleying vigorously!
Richards also didn't care whether he would be sentenced to a penalty kick for a tackle behind the penalty area, and slid towards Wood from behind.

When they saw Wood's swung right thigh, everyone decided that it must be a powerful volley-because it fits Wood's consistent impression.

Hart and Richards also acted according to this expectation when they went to defend the ball-they both went to the three-way-and if Wood shot the ball up the three-way, there was only one result: the shot flew.

No one would believe that Wood's shot kicked up and his right foot slammed down quickly, hitting the football like a whip.

then……

The football jumped high, bypassed Richards' feet and Hart's body, drew a parabola, and fell directly into the goal...

At that moment, time seemed to stand still.Everyone opened their mouths wide and stared dumbfounded at the football still bouncing in the goal.

what happened?
The silence was broken by Andy Gray's hysterical scream: "Ahhhhhhh! What do I see? A spoon? A lob? A curveball?! God! Someone tell me this must be a hallucination! That George Wood, who can fly against empty goals, actually kicked such a wonderful goal of art! There must be something wrong in this world..."

Tony Twain, who was seated on the coach's bench after Bendtner's goal, also rushed out of his seat with his head in his arms at this moment. He looked at George Wood in the distance with the eyes of an alien, and muttered: "Diego Maradona, Bruno Conte, Francisco Totti, at this moment the soul possesses..."

The three names he mentioned are all world football experts.

"I can't believe it..." Like him, Chris Rack was still holding his head in surprise. "...my own eyes."

Only Tang Zhen calmed down: "When I practiced shooting for him, he tried it before. But he didn't succeed once..."

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After George Wood lobbed the football into the goal, he was shoveled to the ground by the unstoppable Richards.As soon as he stood up, he was pushed down again by the swarming players shouting.Bell lay on top of him, hugged his head, put his noses against each other, opened his mouth and asked loudly, "How did you do that?!"

"I... I don't know, I just think that if the football is picked up, the goals may be higher..."

Franck Ribery slid in from the other side, and after hearing what Wood said, he put his arms around his neck: "So you did it on purpose! You kid... stole the limelight from all of us!"

"What else do you shoot? Next time, how about 'Scorpio', George!" Van der Vaart patted his head with a smile.

Everyone in the stands stood up from their seats, they raised their hands high, waved the scarves in their hands, jumped up and down in the stands and sang praises in unison.

The people in Manchester City were all dumbfounded. They knew about George Wood's shooting skills. It can be said that everyone in England knows that he is not good at shooting.

Unexpectedly, Wood used such a difficult shot to break through the goal guarded by Joe Hart and tie the score at 1:1!
Even Bendtner and Ashley Young, who had played with him before, looked surprised.Is that wood steroided?How could he shoot with a spoon all of a sudden?

"Well, whatever went wrong in the world, and it doesn't matter how George Wood did it. The fact is that he scored the equaliser. Before the end of the first half, Nottingham Forest put the game between the two sides. Pulled back to the starting point!"

"This is George Wood's first goal of the season, so beautiful...enough to be the best goal of this round! 'Wooden Spoon', hahahaha!"

(End of this chapter)