champion godfather

Chapter 937 Volume Seven Lion King Heart Team First
England's three-game winning streak in the qualifiers has greatly encouraged the confidence of England fans, and now they begin to feel that "this is the strongest England national team in history" advocated by the media is finally credible.

Especially the 4:2 victory over Serbia in the away game showed the solid offensive strength of this England team.

The fans, the media, or even Tony Twain himself were the happiest of England's consecutive victories.The happiest person was Sean Barclay, the FA chief executive who called him in the first place.

Although Tang En was not his first target, he was also the candidate he had found.His good grades mean that he has a good eye.In addition, since Tony Twain took office, apart from having trouble with the media about the captain issue, his big mouth has not sprayed around, which made Barclay, who was worried about it, breathe a sigh of relief.

To be honest, after Twain was chosen to be the head coach of England, for a while he was really worried that when he woke up in the morning, he would find that his home was blocked by countless media. These people came to ask him about Tony Don What do you think of what En said.

It's not a wonderful experience if something like this happens every day.

It's good now, Twain is focused on the work of the team, and rarely fights with others in the media, nor does he comment on the work of UEFA or FIFA.

Perhaps the reason why Twain was so quiet was his recent grades?Once the grades are not good, who knows what shocking things that mad dog will do...

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Tony Twain was so proud of being the head coach of the England national team that even UEFA's official website devoted an article to re-introducing this young "godfather of champions".He was questioned by some experts because he had never had the experience of coaching the national team before, and now those voices of doubt have disappeared.

But the more he was in the limelight, the more Nottingham Forest fans missed him.

August and September can be regarded as the honeymoon period between Flores and Nottingham Forest. He led the team to five wins, one draw and one loss in seven league rounds, ranking No.3.

The media who followed suit advocated that Flores is the new hope of Nottingham Forest. Under the leadership of the Spaniard, the Forest team will surely return to glory.In order to prove that they are not lying, they also cited many examples.One of them was rather nonsensical - Flores was a "madman coach" in Spain, similar in character to Tony Twain.Twain with the same personality can succeed in Nottingham Forest, why can't Flores?

But now the luck has run out.

Nottingham Forest lost two consecutive rounds under the leadership of Flores before the England team played against Serbia.After the national team's game, the league restarted. As a result, the Forest team drew with the "underdog" Middlesbrough.They went all October without a single victory.

This is not over yet, after entering November, Flores' team finally defeated Everton, but injured Bentley.Bentley was seriously injured in the game and left the field. The bad news came from the hospital the next day that he will be sidelined for at least three months.

Bentley was seriously injured, and George Wood, the captain, was sent off in the game against Manchester United and suspended for two games.The game against Manchester United attracted much attention, but in the end the two sides played full of gunpowder.As soon as Mourinho hits the Forest team, Flores is not willing to lose to Mourinho, who is also a character coach.

The game started with intense body collisions from the first minute.

Twain also came to Old Trafford to watch the match, which he called the focus of the "rugby match".

Mork, who replaced Bentley in the starting lineup, was fouled twice in just 10 minutes, which aroused the anger of Forest players.

In the subsequent game, the referee became the protagonist, and he showed a total of [-] yellow cards and two red cards.

Nottingham Forest won 7:6 on the number of yellow cards, and the two sides drew on the statistics of red cards.George Wood and Anderson each received a red card and were sent off.

In the end, Manchester United relied on a somewhat controversial penalty kick to beat the Forest team 2:1 at home.Returned to the top of the standings.Nottingham Forest fell to seventh.

After the game, the commentator said: "Flores is in a big trouble."

Tony Twain would agree with him.

He originally inspected the players for the next game against Denmark, but in this game, both sides played poorly, and Nottingham Forest was even worse. The players he wanted to inspect did not perform as they should have. come level.It annoyed him.Originally, he planned to use the lineup of the last game against Serbia, but now it seems that he may have to make adjustments.

Bentley bid farewell to the national team with a serious injury, Wayne Rooney was exposed to beating someone in a bar, he is currently being entangled in media and lawsuits, Michael Carrick was injured in the game, Manchester United does not want the national team Pull him to play against Denmark, because that will aggravate his injury.

The head coach of the national team seems to have an easier time than the coach of the club, because he can choose suitable players from the whole country, regardless of the transfer fee.But there are not many players in a country who can meet Twain's needs, especially in some positions.In a country with highly developed professional football like England, there are no more than 40 people who are eligible to be selected for the national team.

It would be a headache for Twain to change any main position.

So Tang En must be cursing Mourinho and Flores right now.

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November [-], Wednesday, the national team international match day.

England returned to home again after two away games, ushering in the second Danish team in the group at the new Wembley Stadium.

The 26-year-old Niklas Bendtner is Denmark's number one star. A few days before the game, the media kept interviewing him and asking him what he thought of Twain.He refused to answer any of these questions.For him, Nottingham Forest and Tony Twain are already past tense.

Now he also left the hopeless Manchester City in the summer and joined Everton.Although this is still a team that does not have much hope of winning the championship, at least this team has the desire to attack for honor.He rediscovered the joy of playing football in this team.

Twain also did not use Bendtner to provoke psychological warfare.That former genius boy was one of the biggest regrets in his coaching career, but now it has long since calmed down.

He is already a coach who has won the Triple Crown, so what else is there to dislike?

So this game is just an ordinary qualifier for him, and it is impossible for the media to use the grievances between him and Bendtner to hype it up.

If they hype it up as a group title fight, he'll chime in.

This is indeed a battle for the top spot in the group. Denmark and England have the same points, with three wins and nine points.However, Denmark's goal difference and goals are less than England, so they temporarily rank second.

In fact, the first place in the group is just to fight for face. As long as the final ranking is in the top two of the group, they can directly advance to the final stage of the competition.Even if it is No.3, as long as it is the third place in the best group, it still has the opportunity to go to Spain.

In the expansion of the European Cup in 2016, the number of teams allowed to participate increased from 24 to [-], which gave hope to many European mid-range teams.This qualifier is also divided into ten groups. Except for England, which has seven teams, the other nine groups have five teams. The top two teams in each group will advance directly.Then the six third-team teams with the best results will play two home and away playoffs to determine the remaining three teams going to Spain.

England's lottery is good, and it is not a problem to qualify for the group.But qualifying as the number one in the group is more in line with the psychological requirements of the Football Association, and it also makes England fans feel proud.

Twain made some adjustments to England's lineup for this game.Theo Walcott appeared in the midfield position on the right, James Milner on the left, Gerrard and George Wood in the centre.Mitchell started on the forward line, Rooney disappeared from the starting lineup, and Abang Laho replaced him.

Leighton Barnes and Joe Mattock didn't start at left-back. Lescott, who can play both central and left-back, started.

At right-back is Glenn Johnson, who has not played for the national team for some time.

In the press box, the media from all over England gathered to discuss Dunn's starting list.

"Since he took office, his lineup has not been fixed!"

"This is also normal. How many games did he take over the team?"

"Is he trying to find that feel of the Forest team?"

"Actually, it's not just Tony. I'm still dissatisfied with England's candidates for several positions, such as right back..."

"Under such circumstances, he can still lead the team to three consecutive victories, which is remarkable."

"Denmark is not Serbia. They definitely have the ability to cause trouble in our home court. I think Tang En's constant changes are not conducive to our results."

The reason why the reporters have the leisure to chat in the stands is naturally because the game is not good to watch.

The game played at Wembley was dull, the Danish team's away tactics were very conservative, and the England team had no better way to face such a dense defense.

Moreover, Dunn didn't have much interest in competing with Denmark for the first place in the group, as long as he could qualify, it would matter where he was.

It was about to face the Christmas devil schedule in the league, and the players also seemed weak, for fear of getting hurt.It's only natural that the game was so uninspiring.

In the end, the "group top spot battle" that was hyped up by the media before the game ended in a 0-0 boring battle. Those Asian fans who stayed up late in front of the TV to watch the game must be very disappointed. But why did Tony Twain not serve them?

Although the result was a 0:0 draw and the scene was dull, Twain was still very satisfied.In the press conference after the game he praised the performance of the Danish team. In fact, the performance of the Danish team has nothing to praise.He also praised his team's performance, which sounds more like talking nonsense.Anyone who wasn't an idiot with a bad IQ could tell that the England team wasn't performing well. Tang En did this because he didn't want to put too much pressure on the players.

The game against Denmark is over, and the two teams have the same points. England continues to rely on the goal difference advantage to overtake Denmark, ranking first in the group.Holding the first place in the group, England fans and the media did not make things difficult for Twain.

After this game, the European Cup qualifiers will not restart until April next year.During this time, apart from playing warm-up matches, Twain was flying around paying attention to the performance of those players on the roster.

This is the point that gives him the most headache-unlike in the club team, he can observe the state of each player at close range every day.The players of the national team are scattered all over the country, and it is impossible to maintain their state all the time, so he needs to be a "trapezeman" so that he can keep abreast of the latest state of those international players.

The most hateful thing is that there is no such thing as a "winter break" in the Premier League. If you are the head coach of another national team, you will have more than a week off before and after Christmas. He can spend Christmas with his wife.But in the Premier League, the more frequent the game is at this time, and he can only fly around, keeping his feet on the ground all day long.

"Maybe I should buy a private jet..." Tang En complained.

"You should be glad that you don't have to pay for the food, lodging and travel expenses of flying around like this, Tony." Walker poured cold water on him.Like Twain, there is also this assistant coach, Des Walker, Twain's most trusted person.

"I might as well be glad that the flights we've taken so far haven't had any problems..." Dunn rolled his eyes.

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In the November schedule, Nottingham Forest had two losses, one draw and one win, and their results fell further.In the media can already see more and more negative news about the Forest team.There were also discordant voices in the locker room. Gareth Bale publicly questioned Flores' coaching level. In addition, he had been banned by Flores before. His doubts set off a wave in the media. There was a wave.

Although Flores vehemently denies that he has conflicts with the players, it is clear that he is losing control of the team.

It was Evan Dalgety who stood up and expressed his support for Flores, claiming that no matter what the results were, his position as head coach was solid.

But only half a month later, he licked back the saliva he spit out.

Before Christmas, the Forest team suffered a three-game losing streak, and the team was in a mess inside and outside.Evan Dalgetty announced that the contract between Flores and Nottingham Forest was terminated, and Flores became the first head coach to dismiss get out of class in the new season of the Premier League.

Flores is also dissatisfied with the club's high-level backlash.After being dismissed, he accepted an interview with the Spanish media and criticized the club's top management: "...they said the day before yesterday that they would support me, turned around and pushed me into the abyss... I thought that the coaches who coached in the Premier League would have a long-term implementation plan. Room to plan, but obviously I was wrong. You can't get the minutes you need on a team like this..."

Some people cheered for Flores' dismissal, because they couldn't stand Flores' poor performance for a long time.They look forward to the new coach can lead the team to a new glory.Some people think that Flores is just a poor scapegoat. Nottingham Forest has been unable to find a suitable head coach since O'Neill dismissed get out of class.Constantly changing the head coach can only accelerate the degeneration of this team.

The locker room was very quiet about this coaching change. No one came forward to express their opinion on Flores' resignation, even if they said good things for him. This can also explain from another aspect that Flores is in the locker room The relationship with the players is really bad.

Before finding a new coach, Evan Dougherty appointed first assistant coach David Chris Lack as the team's interim head coach.But no one thinks that Chris Lack is qualified for this position. He has always lived in the shadow of Tony Twain. In the eyes of many people, his fame has a lot to do with him being Tony Twain's assistant coach. , as for what abilities he has... who cares?
There was a personnel change at Nottingham Forest that could shake the English football world, but Tony Twain didn't care.For him, Nottingham Forest really is a thing of the past.Pierce Bruce once called Dunn after Flores got out of class, hoping to hear his evaluation on this matter.

Tang En felt that there was nothing to say about this: "...This is normal. His grades are not good, so he will naturally be dismissed from get out of class. It is impossible for Evan Dalgety to pay for the team's performance. Flores must be I forgot the words on the side wall of the player tunnel at the Crimson Stadium. 'Besides winning, win', this is the tradition of the Forest team... When you can't bring victory, then leave. What is the future of the Forest team Like? I don't know, I'm not a prophet..."

Now he is flying over the European continent.Before Christmas, he had to go to Milan to watch a game, concerned about Lennon's recent performance.Since leaving the Forest team, Lennon has inherited the traditions of Paul Ince and Gascoigne, showing that an English player is not acclimatized to Italy. He has not been selected for the national team for a long time. I hope this time he will Your performance can impress you.

(End of this chapter)