champion godfather

Chapter 864 Juan Seven Lion King's Heart Dash
An away win over Portsmouth, the Forest team has crossed another hurdle, and the relegation team Portsmouth did not bring any trouble to the Forest team.

Next, Dunn temporarily shifted the focus of his work from the league and put it on the Champions League.

In the semi-finals, Nottingham Forest's opponent is Ligue [-] overlord Lyon.

Although it has always been the champion of the Ligue [-] domestic league, it is a well-deserved overlord.But this team is recognized as the weakest among the Champions League semi-finals.Their strength is really not at the same level as Nottingham Forest. It is also luck to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League this time.

The direct consequence of Lyon's dominance in Ligue [-] is that the Ligue [-] teams lack competitiveness in the European arena-if a league lacks competitiveness, how good can the trained teams be?

The media were unanimously optimistic about the Forest team entering the final, and the English media even directly allocated a final ticket to Nottingham Forest before the game.They've already started introducing readers to the final venues.

People in English football are also optimistic about Forest, and some people think that they don't need to go all out to fight Lyon, and Twain should stay focused on dealing with the opponents in the league.

Even so, Dunn still didn't dare to take it lightly.On the contrary, it is precisely because of these media hype that he is even more worried-he is afraid that his team will be affected by those public opinions, and he will be proud and underestimate the enemy.

For this reason, he has a gloomy face all day long, as if he is worried that his team will be eliminated. Book tickets to the Bernabeu" and so on.

His behavior made people feel strange, and they all wondered if Tang En was abducted by aliens and changed his mind...

"...For a team like Arsenal, he dared to say before the game that he would win. Facing the weakest team in the semi-finals, he dared not mention the final... Maybe he deliberately doubted the opponent ?”

Tang En didn't care what the outside media thought of what he did, as long as the team didn't take it lightly, and didn't feel proud or underestimate the enemy.

Under the influence of him and Wood, the team as a whole did not appear to underestimate the enemy.Tang En asked the team to fight Lyon with the attitude they should have when dealing with a semi-final opponent.Wood is very serious about training and preparing for the game to set an example.Twain's locker room has a high prestige, and the power of George Wood's example cannot be ignored.Before the match against Lyon, Dunn had nothing to worry about.

Go away for the first leg.

This is the first time in the history of the Lyon club that they have entered the semi-finals of the Champions League. They even have hopes of reaching the final and winning the championship trophy.So Lyon's morale was stronger, and following the home court advantage, they launched wave after wave of offensives towards the Forest team's hinterland, as if a stormy wave hit the shore, making the hearts of Nottingham Forest fans beating wildly.

Tang En asked the team to defend and counterattack in the away game, because he calculated that Lyon's momentum at home was very strong.The art of war said to "avoid the sharp edge", so Tang En would not be so stupid as to go out and face Leon head-on. In this match, he would win if he could score one point.It would be even better if there are goals.

Lyon's idea is very simple. It is to use the home court advantage to attack the Forest team, strive for goals, strive for the lead, and finally win the game and lay a good foundation for the next round.After all, the Forest team's home game is very difficult to play. If there is a victory in hand, there may be more room for maneuver.In any case, Lyon is tired of always being the domestic hegemony, and they want to make a historic breakthrough-to be the European champions.

But Nottingham Forest obviously has more experience in the Champions League semi-finals than Lyon.Tang En handled it very skillfully, on the contrary, Leon seemed too impatient.What if you attack hard at the beginning and don't score?What should I do if I am exhausted?
Twain let the team hold steady, slowly grinding away with Lyon, wearing down Lyon's fighting spirit, confidence and physical fitness.The Lyon players were overexcited and rushed all over the field. The scene was really beautiful. Fans who didn't understand could follow suit, thinking that Lyon had the absolute upper hand and it was only a matter of time before they scored.

But in the eyes of professionals, this is not the case at all.

The match was held in France. As a Frenchman, Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger, who has been eliminated, accepted an invitation from a French TV station to come and comment on the match.When he saw Nottingham Forest being beaten into the penalty area by Lyon and unable to get out, he asserted that if Lyon continued to attack like this, they must be the unlucky ones in the end.

The French commentator also had some doubts, thinking that judging from the situation on the field, it would be a matter of time before Lyon broke through the Forest team's goal-"This is a passive defense. No matter how tight the defense is, if the opponent is besieged, there will definitely be loopholes. I don't believe that Nottingham Forest's defense is flawless. If this continues, the pressure will be on the Forest team, not Lyon..."

Wenger just smiled and didn't speak.He couldn't argue with the commentators during the live broadcast, but he couldn't agree with what the commentators said. He could only wait for time to tell them who was right and who was wrong.

In the 10 minutes of the first half, Lyon was almost besieging Nottingham Forest. The Forest team had only two shots, while Lyon had six shots, and the number of times they scored in the 30-meter area was also far ahead of Lyon.The Lyon fans sang and danced in the stands, in a happy and relaxed mood.They seem to have felt that Nottingham Forest was nothing more than that, nothing to be afraid of.

Lyon's defense line is getting higher and higher, and the central defender can't wait to dribble the ball into the opponent's penalty area and shoot.

Just when everyone thought Lyon would be able to break Nottingham Forest's goal in the next attack, the Forest team counterattacked.

As if the spring had been compressed to the extreme, when the pressure on it was slightly lighter, it would spring up violently, and the sharp thorns at the top shone coldly under the night light.

Akinfeev directly throws the ball to attack, and Shaheen quickly breaks through with the ball.After using his speed to force a breakthrough, Abanglahor, the starting right midfielder, did not continue to dribble the ball along the sidelines as the Lyon players thought, but suddenly cut inside and rushed directly to the goal.He wants to shoot directly!
Abanglahor's speed was too fast, and Lyon's players were not prepared enough for Forest's counterattack. When Abanglaho cut inside, there was only one goalkeeper in front of him.

I can think of the next thing on my knees.

Abang Lahuo broke into the penalty area, but when he was about to shoot, he was tackled from the rear by the returning defender.Although Abang Lahuo's fall was a bit exaggerated, the opponent did make a foul.The referee made a decisive decision and gave the Forest team a penalty. Not only that, he also gave the foul player a yellow card.

Off the court, Tang En was still reluctant, thinking that it was too light to give only a yellow card, at least he should have been sent off with a red card!

His protest "won" a lot of boos from the stands.

Lyon's players were not prepared enough for the penalty kick. After being stunned for a while, they gathered around the referee and asked for an explanation.They thought it was Abanglaho diving.

On the other side, Abang Lahuo is celebrating with his teammates by high-fiving and hugging.He did deliberately earn a penalty, otherwise, with his speed, it would be impossible for the opponent to shovel from behind. He only needs to move the football to the outside and accelerate to avoid it.But in this way, he also lost the best angle and timing of the shot.In this case, it is obviously the most reasonable way to take a penalty kick.So he dragged one leg behind, waited for the opponent to shovel, and then took advantage of the situation and won the penalty.

The person responsible for taking the penalty kick is Shaheen.He did it overnight and hit the football into the goal. The goalkeeper misjudged the direction, and he threw it out only to find that the football fell from the middle to where he had been standing.

Seeing the Forest team score a goal, the commentator of the French TV station fell silent for a while. Wenger kept his smile as always, so that others could not see his pride.

In the end, the commentator found a way for himself: "This penalty is a bit controversial, but the referee insisted on his penalty... Forest team is lucky to lead away..."

Wenger thought to himself: How is this lucky?You haven't watched a Premier League game, Mr. Commentator.This set is one of Tony's most commonly used tricks.You thought he was being beaten passively, but in fact he was not hit critically... He was just waiting for the most suitable opportunity to counterattack.If I were the coach of Lyon and saw the Forest team play like this, I would tell the defenders to pay attention to defense, then retreat to the formation and draw them back out.

It's a pity that Lyon's head coach lacks the experience of playing against Twain, and also lacks the experience of playing in the semi-finals of the Champions Cup, which Twain took full advantage of.

The leading forest team played more easily.Lyon continued to attack, and the Forest team stepped up their counterattack.They nearly scored another goal before the break.

During the intermission, Wenger chatted with the commentator about the game. When talking about the second half, Wenger said that if Nottingham Forest takes the lead in such a knockout match, it will be very difficult for Lyon in the second half.This time, the commentator finally agreed with Wenger's opinion. After all, this coach is more familiar with Twain than he is.

The trend of the game in the second half was exactly as Wenger said, Twain still used the defensive counterattack to lead Lyon by the nose.

Lyon desperately wanted to equalize, which gave Forest more chances to counterattack.

However, it is clear that the forest team's physical fitness has indeed been affected by continuous high-intensity battles. Their physical fitness also began to have problems in the second half, and their counterattack was not strong.Even though Tang En kept asking the team to attack on the sidelines, the players of the Forest team were powerless.Later, Tang En also resigned himself to his fate. He began to change players, replaced the exhausted starting players, and replaced them with substitute players. He began to focus on defense.

The last five or six minutes were a severe test for Tang En's heart.Only one goal ahead, and Lyon is still pressing hard.If Lyon scored the goal, the hard work of this game would be in vain for him-6 minutes into the game, maybe he would accept the result of 10:1, but at this time he still leads by one goal, then he will decide Any outcome other than victory will not be accepted.

Fortunately, although the scene was very thrilling, Nottingham Forest finally held on.After 4 minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game. Nottingham Forest got a valuable away victory and an away goal amidst the boos of the home team fans.

With an away win and an away goal, it seems that Nottingham Forest has already entered the Bernabeu with one leg.How terrible the Forest team is back at home, I believe it will not disappoint Lyon.

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Three days later, Tang En led the team to win against Fulham at home in the No. 30 six rounds.A day later, Arsenal also won on the road. The points gap between the two teams is still three points, and there are two rounds left in the league.The odds of bookmakers such as William Hill are still optimistic about Arsenal winning.And in the odds of winning the Champions Cup, Twain's team is also the second-to-last among the four teams - apart from Lyon, Forest is the underdog.

Real Madrid has the first odds, because they drew 2:2 away with Barcelona in the Champions League in midweek, scored two valuable away goals, and have a great chance of entering the final.And this year's Champions League final happened to be held at their home stadium, the Bernabéu.Once Real Madrid enters the final, they will gain a real unreserved home court advantage, and half of the championships will almost belong to Real Madrid.

No one can doubt Real Madrid's desire for the Champions League. They have always been short of a championship and won ten Champions Leagues. This time it is at their own home court.It can be seen from their away game against Barcelona in the semi-finals that their anti-customer momentum completely suppressed Barcelona. Although the score was 2:2, everyone who watched the game, even Barcelona fans, would admit that Barcelona can A draw against Real Madrid was a stroke of luck...

On both fronts, Tang En was facing a team of tigers and wolves, a team with infinite desire for the championship.Real Madrid, once the world's No. 12 club, has not been involved in the Champions League, which they have won nine times, for [-] years.And Wenger's Arsenal also wants to regain their own championship in the league. The Champions League has already lost to Nottingham Forest. Will the league lose again?

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Another three days later, Nottingham Forest defeated the invading Lyon 2:1 at the City Stadium, and used a victory to bid farewell to the City Stadium in the Champions League. They advanced to the final with a total score of 3:1, five years later And then reached the final again.

At the same time, Real Madrid also beat Barcelona 1-0 at home, and eliminated their rival Barcelona 3-2 with a total score.Successfully made the Bernabéu, the main board of the Champions League final, their real home.

FA Cup, Nottingham Forest into the final, their opponent is Tottenham Hotspur.Champions League, Nottingham Forest also entered the final, their opponent is Real Madrid.In the league, there are two rounds left, three points behind Arsenal.

Will Nottingham Forest, which is sprinting on three fronts, return to Nottingham with three championship trophies after the end of the season, or will they collapse one after another and gain nothing?
See you in half a month.

(End of this chapter)