champion godfather

Chapter 782
"A beautiful counterattack! George Wood's wonderful performance created this goal!"

In the eerie atmosphere at the Alpi Stadium, Nottingham Forest's players hugged each other tightly.It's their first goal at the Alpi Stadium and that's a good sign!

Not long after Tang En's butt touched the chair, he jumped up again.He waved his fist vigorously, venting his emotions to his heart's content.Act as excited as if you won the whole game.

"George is becoming more and more like the core of the midfield!" Chris Lack was also very excited, shouting excitedly from the side. "This break and pass is so beautiful!"

Ranieri shook his head in disappointment, turned and walked back.He was still chattering: "How can he pass the ball to the opponent's feet? I really don't know what he thinks!"

The cause of this loss was Giovinco's frontcourt pass error.It's really frustrating to lose the ball like this.

By the time Sebastian Giovinco ran to the edge of the box, the ball was already lying quietly in the goal.He stopped and looked at the football in a daze.

He felt that his performance today was like a piece of shit.

After a moment of silence at the Alpi Stadium, boos finally resumed.Of course this was aimed at Nottingham Forest, but in Giovinco's ears, it seemed that it was aimed at him.

The boos continued until the end of the first half.Nottingham Forest entered the dressing room with a one-goal lead, while the Juventus players looked a little confused-they thought the last five minutes should belong to them.

Ranieri had already left his seat and turned towards the aisle when the whistle sounded for the first time.He was quite dissatisfied with the result and had something to say at halftime.

And Tony Twain was not in a hurry to go back to the locker room. He stood by the side of the field, patted the head and shook hands with every Forest player who was leaving the field, expressing his congratulations and encouragement.After doing this, he turned and left. He was the last person to enter the visiting team's dressing room.

"Good job, guys!" Tang En was in a good mood, his voice was loud and his movements were powerful.It can be seen that he is also quite satisfied with the result of the first half. "The game is within our plan. But we will continue to work hard in the second half and lead by one goal..."

"It's the most unsafe score in the world!" Eastwood helped Tang En express what he wanted to say.

Tang En pointed at him, and everyone laughed.Tang En always treats this favorite general with the most tolerant attitude. Things like inserting his own words in the locker room are unthinkable for others, but Eastwood can do it, and There is almost never any criticism.

"Freddy, I think you can be the head coach in the future."

Everyone laughed again.

Eastwood smiled: "I can't do it, boss."

"I bet Ranieri is very upset now." Dunn ignored Eastwood, but continued, "His plan should be the same as the last time he beat us, using the opening or before the end of the half game. It took a while to break our goal. Because he felt that we would only relax at that time. But he didn't expect to be tricked by us." Tang En smiled happily, and he was also a bit thief.

"In the second half, they will definitely continue to attack for a while, because they are not willing to lose to us at home. That is our chance, seize it!" Tang En clenched his hands.

Meanwhile, in the Juventus dressing room.

Ranieri's face was gloomy, and the target he was facing was now sitting in front of his locker room with his head bowed without saying a word, holding a towel to wipe sweat in his hand, but he didn't know where to wipe it.

Ranieri didn't scold Giovinco for making a key mistake. He just stared hard for a while, then turned around and sighed.

"Let's see how we get back this situation in the second half..."

He looked at the tactical board, on which the formations of the two teams were drawn.In his eyes, the formation on the Nottingham Forest side has shrunk back to the front of the penalty area, posing as an iron barrel formation.

Since he coached Juventus, he has always emphasized not to let himself make mistakes.He hopes to catch other people's mistakes, but he doesn't want to be caught by others.But now the only active error in the first half was caught by Nottingham Forest.Tony Twain is also a person who is very good at catching opponents' pigtails...

Not so good now.Nottingham Forest is leading, and with Ranieri's understanding of Juventus, he also understands what Nottingham Forest will do.

Defensive counterattack!

I would do the same if I wanted to...

"We must attack..." He said this a little weakly, "but we can't press all of them, and we must also pay attention to defending their counterattacks while attacking. In the second half, we mainly concentrated our offensive forces on the two sides. Road..." He pointed to the opponent's formation on the tactical board.

From the formation point of view, Nottingham Forest's center is very thick, and the general attack here will encounter strong resistance.But it is relatively empty on the sidewalks.The resistance encountered when walking on the side road is petite, and it is easier to pass quickly.

Ranieri figured it out, Twain must have used the superior force in the center to gain control of the midfield.And Ranieri stopped playing with him, and used the method of quickly passing the sidewalk to hit Huanglong.

"In the second half, Alessandro, come on, replace Giovinco."

Although he did not criticize Giovinco's performance in the first half, his substitution has already shown everyone his attitude towards the new midfield star.

Del Piero nodded.

Giovinco lowered his head even lower.

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"I guess Ranieri will attack more in the second half, but he is not a fool. Look at our midfield configuration, he wants to play from the center. It is a dream come true. So he will definitely focus on attacking the wings." Don Eun drew two lines on the tactical board. "Because it looked like our sides were empty. So we had to adjust a little bit in the second half..."

"The two full-backs reduced the number of assists and moved forward. We adjusted the formation to a 442 parallel position. George, you and Thiago continue to be responsible for the defense in the middle, Mathias, you go back to the left, Shaheen, you rest in the second half , enter Lennon."

Shaheen nodded and accepted Tang En's arrangement.

They also made substitutions during halftime, but Twain and Ranieri had completely different goals.So the emotions of the two players who were replaced were completely different.

"Back to our most familiar wing attack tactics in the second half. Surprise Juventus again!"

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Before the start of the second half, both sides were preparing to make personnel adjustments near the sidelines.

Juventus replaced Del Piero with Giovinco after a fatal error in the first half, while Nottingham Forest replaced Shaheen with Lennon.

"Replacing Giovinko is easy to understand. After all, his performance in the first half was too poor. But what does it mean to replace Shaheen with Lennon? Shaheen's performance in the first half was remarkable..." commentary The officials were still wondering about this, but Ranieri was keenly aware that something was wrong.

Lennon is a pure side player, Shaheen is a pure center player.What does this adjustment mean?
Nottingham Forest is back on the wing!
He just made his players pay attention to the side attack, and now he has a head-on encounter with the Forest team...

He believed that this must be Tang En's conspiracy - in the first half, he thought that Nottingham Forest would stick to their traditional wing play, so he deployed heavy troops on the wing and waited for Nottingham Forest to throw themselves into the trap.Unexpectedly, Tony Twain played the card in the center uncharacteristically, which caught him off guard. In the end, the Forest team attacked from the center and scored a point.During the intermission, he made his own countermeasures against this situation, but he didn't expect Dunn to change again!

Tang En asked the team to focus on the side attack in the second half, not only for offense, but also for defense - when the Forest team stepped up their side attack, Juventus' side attack would inevitably be affected.

It was Twain's idea to attack on the wing.

The effect is still very significant...

After the game started, Juventus wanted to attack Forest's goal, but was dragged into the quagmire by Nottingham Forest.

Del Piero was able to control the ball after he came on the field, but George Wood's tight marking of him made him very difficult.Dealing with this ball-handling skill is excellent, but his body is not as good as the former Italian golden boy. George Wood used his excellent physical fitness, even fouling, and succeeded in making Del Piero tired.

In the first half, Wood and Thiago also took care of offense, but in the second half they focused almost all their energy on defense.They are like two midfield meat grinders, dragging in and grinding all Juventus' offenses.Such a midfield defense has brought a lot of trouble to Juventus' offense.

There was a feeling among the Juventus players that no matter where they passed the ball, there would be an overwhelming number of Nottingham Forest players, and it seemed that they were everywhere.

In terms of physical fitness, the players of the Forest team have no problems at all, and they are running around to steal the ball from Juventus.

The game was at a stalemate, and neither side had any better chances. Most of the time, the two teams kept making mistakes——Nottingham Forest dragged Juventus, a graceful and rich man, with its own Premier League rhythm. He ran wildly regardless of his image.After a long time, the old woman couldn't bear it anymore... Active mistakes began to increase.

At the same time, the Forest team also made more mistakes, but this was still within the range that Tony Twain could bear.They now have the lead, as long as Juventus is dragged into chaos, for the Forest team, there will be a lot of opportunities.

Tang En returned to the coach's bench, sat down, and crossed his legs.He is not in a hurry.

As time passed, Juventus became more and more anxious.

The head coach seat of Juventus coach bench seems to have nail boards, Ranieri's buttocks will be lifted up again as soon as he puts it down, and then he walks to the sidelines, staring anxiously and helplessly at what is happening on the court everything that happened.

Now he can only hope that Amaury can explode his energy in the league and break through the gate of Nottingham Forest.

It's a pity that Pepe's close marking on Amauli, this powerful center has encountered a strong opponent.Moreover, Nottingham Forest has cut off the connection between Juventus' midfield and striker. Neither Amaury nor Iaquinta can get support from the midfield. ball.

In short, Juventus' offensive system was messed up by Nottingham Forest, and Ranieri couldn't do anything about it—he was always slow to Twain, and the adjustments he made were all aimed at Twain's previous deployment, and the players were messed up. I am very at a loss.

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The second half of the game was a hundred times duller than the first half. It was not until the end of the game that Juventus set off a wave of counterattack.Seizing the last moment, they laid siege to the gates of Nottingham Saylin.And Nottingham Forest seemed to be a little bit unwilling to attack anymore. They returned to defense across the board and huddled in their own penalty area.

Tang En was very dissatisfied with this situation. He stood on the sidelines and yelled for the team to fight back.

But his voice was drowned out by the cheering storm of home fans at the Alpi Stadium.

"This is Juventus' last chance! If they don't hurry up, they will lose at home!"

At the last moment, Ranieri replaced Sissoko, who had no contribution to the offense, and replaced him with Yago, an excellent midfielder produced by the La Masia youth academy, hoping to strengthen the offense, equalize the score at the last moment, and create a miracle.

"Amauri's header!"

"Ah - Akinfeev! Great save! Great!"

"Iaquinta fell in the penalty area, and the referee blew his whistle! But it was just a free kick outside the penalty area. Kompany's foul was timely, and if it was later, it would definitely be a penalty kick!"

"Del Piero took the free kick...in the wall! The Juventus players complained to the referee that Forest's wall was too far away, but the referee just signaled them to throw a throw-in. "

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It was only in the last 10 minutes that the game entered the truly exciting moment.Juventus pressed the Forest team to go in and play, threatening shots appeared one after another, and the hearts of the Forest team fans almost jumped out of their throats.The goal guarded by Akinfeev was swaying in the wind and rain, as if it would be captured at any time.

Tang En also became nervous. If Juventus scored an equalizer goal at the last moment, and then saw them hugging and celebrating wildly, Tang En really didn't know if his nuclear-powered heart could bear this kind of situation. Stimulate……

"Tony!" Don shouted from behind.He was also worried about Tang En's heart.

"I'm fine, Don." Tang En waved his hand, then rushed to the sidelines and yelled again: "What are you doing hiding behind? Being a turtle? That head of yours is not a fucking bitch!!"

Under Twain's frenzied roar and body language prompts, Nottingham Forest finally had two counterattacks, one of which almost scored a goal.

Juventus were not disturbed by Nottingham Forest's two counterattacks. They continued to press hard and wanted to score a goal before the end.The always gentle and elegant old lady finally put aside the veil that concealed her face, rolled up her sleeves, picked up her skirt and tied it around her waist, planning to fight Nottingham Forest with her life.

It's a pity that they made such a decision a little late...

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Del Piero kicked the football into the stands behind the Forest goal.

As the captain of Juventus, he is not expressing dissatisfaction with anyone.He's just upset about losing like this - they were beaten to death by Nottingham Forest's defense...

According to the statistics after the game, they counted nearly one-third more goals than Nottingham Forest, but they just didn't score a goal.

At the end of the game, Nottingham Forest's players did what Juventus did two years ago at the Alpi Stadium - wildly celebrating victory.

But Tang En seemed very calm. He didn't even celebrate, and got up to shake hands with Ranieri.

"This is really a wonderful game..." Tang En said in English, regardless of whether Ranieri could understand it or not.In fact, the language barrier will not be an obstacle for Tang En to express himself, because while saying so, his face is smiling brightly like a flower.

Ranieri knew what kind of person Tony Twain was. Although he couldn't understand what he was saying, he also knew that it was definitely not a good thing.He ignored this opponent who sincerely wanted to show off in front of him, shook hands with Tang En, turned and left.

As soon as Ranieri left, the reporters rushed forward and surrounded Tang En.Want to hear what he thinks about this win.

"Three consecutive victories." Tang En raised three fingers, "We are guaranteed to qualify!"

"Mr. Tang En, are you a little overconfident?"

"You're wrong, Mr. Reporter. It's not overconfidence, I'm just telling the truth."

"Are you not satisfied with just one small victory over Juventus?"

"No, I only care about three points."

"How does it feel to get revenge when your team lost away to Juventus in the Champions League group stage two seasons ago?"

"I don't feel anything right now. Because we still have to play against them at home. After that game is over, you can ask me this question again."

"Can you talk about Nottingham Forest's Champions League goals this season?"

This time Tang En had a rare moment of humility. He smiled and said, "We will do our best and see how far we can go."

As a result, on the second day after the game, his modest smile was interpreted as "Tony Twain is back to the Champions League champion".In the photo, Tony Twain smiled mysteriously, his squinted eyes seemed to be calculating how far his team was from the European Championship.

Tang En was quite innocent - "That was just a professional smile..."

Tang's comment on this is: "Don't be humble, you are already stereotyped, madman."

(End of this chapter)