Chapter 131: Unstable Forest (Part 1)

As time goes by October, due to the many national teams, the schedule of the Premier League seems a bit chaotic. On October 3, Forests will face Bolton at home. After a thirteen days off, on October 16, they will challenge Norwich away. Then the schedule suddenly becomes dense. On October 21, the first game of the League Cup group stage, on October 24, the Forests will challenge Crystal Palace away, and on October 30, they will go north to challenge Newcastle.

The results of the League Cup group draw were also announced, with Nottingham Forest being divided into the e-group with Igaleo from Greece (as_egaleo_aigaleo_athens), Lazio from Italy, Villarreal from Spain, and Belgrade from Serbia and Montenegro.

Considering that the subsequent games were relatively intensive, Tang En decided that the team's training plan in the first half of the month was mainly physical reserve. Now the team's tactics have basically been formed and the running-in is almost done, so he no longer needs to worry about anything.

On October 3, Nottingham Forest played against Bolton at home. For Donn, this opponent is not unfamiliar with him because they met in the League Cup last season. That time, Donn's team kicked Bolton out of the final. This time, at Forest's home court, it is more reasonable to win the Forest team with more than one level.

2:1, the Forest team won two consecutive victories.

After eight rounds of the league, Nottingham Forest ranked sixth in the league with their three wins, four draws and one loss! This is excellent for the team that has just been promoted. Although the league has just begun, it is hard to say what the final result will be, but the Forest team is already amazing enough to be able to rush to the top six.

Look at the current results of the Forest Team. Go back and look at the "Asking" column article published by Don En in the Nottingham Evening Post a few days ago. Some people think that this young man is crazy, and it seems that he is not crazy, and it is completely unreasonable...

So the media praised Tang En again and even praised the Forest Team to the sky.

Thirteen days later, the Forest team, which was well prepared, had no choice but to win the strength at home, but Dinovic had no choice but to play a depressing 0:0. After the game, the head coaches of both sides had no intention of "shaking hands and making peace". The home coaches complained that they did not win at home. Accumulated more points for the team's relegation. Tang En was very unhappy because he tied with such an opponent.

Nottingham Forest is now... When you don't have any great hope for it, it will definitely surprise you and make you excited to throw the best praise at them. But when you do this, you will soon regret it because the forest team's performance will make you feel so angry.

Take this game as an example. Norwich's strength is definitely lower than Nottingham Forest. But his performance in the game is completely opposite. The players of the Forest team seem to lack interest in this game, and most of them seem to be listless. They can't get excited and cannot enter the game at all. No matter what Tang En does during the break, it will be useless.

In the second half of the second half, he simply sat in the coach's seat, crossing his legs. He looked at the court and said nothing.

In this state, the Forest team is lucky.

But now there is no time to let Don En work hard on this. Four days later, the team flew to Greece to play their first game in the League Cup group stage.

Of course, this game will be won. Because the weakest in this group is this Greek team. If Nottingham Forest wants to qualify in the group, it must score six points in both home and away games, winning more space for the subsequent games.

But looking at the players on the plane who were full of longing for the League Cup, Tang En's brows were always frowning.

Will being too optimistic about the future bring about any terrible results? His arrogance seems to have begun to affect these young players.

But as the team's head coach, of course, he cannot always claim that his opponent is so strong in order to attract the attention of the players. This will affect the confidence of the team and make the players feel that you, the head coach, have no confidence in winning.

On the seat, he looked out the schedule and carefully looked at the game schedule for the next period of time. Then he decided to wait and see.

In the game, you can win if you can win.     Thinking about things in the future, now thinking too much now makes you hesitate and stop.   They are promoted players and are not qualified to plan what opponents can lose and what opponents can not lose. The task is very simple for them: try every means to grab points.   Snatch enough points before they are exhausted and thoroughly studied by their opponents, and they can get on the base safely.   There is no need to worry about relegation in the second half of the league.  You can put more energy into planning for the next season.

As the league deepens, the team has many various problems. The players' mentality problems, the players' physical fitness problems. The players' injuries, the team's personnel problems, and the scout recruitment assessment... In addition, after several months of use, Allen still failed to meet Tang En's requirements. He decided to abandon the company's program completely, but he had no idea which company to do the new program to do. These things naturally need to be considered, because he knows more professional issues than Allen. But now he doesn't care about it. The team's first Premier League season is also his personal first Premier League season, and everything needs to be explored slowly.

When he thinks of these troubles, he feels a headache. After all, reality is not a game. Some things can be ignored. Any point he ignores here may bring him terrible consequences.

Tang En rested his head on the back of the chair and closed his eyes to rest.

But I have to hurry up and have a good rest. A few days ago, when I was videoing the little girl Shaniya online, she shouted and said that Uncle Tony was pale, must be in poor health, and was not in good spirits, etc. Tang En told her that it was the lighting effect provided by the camera, and everyone on the camera looked pale. In fact, he knew in his heart that since he became the head coach of the Forest Team, the pressure has always been with him and will continue to accompany him, unless he left this position from now on and no longer served as the head coach of any team.

By the way, those celebrity players such as Beckham have bought insurance and have insured their body parts. Why are there no coaches insured their hearts?

Thinking of these messy and unreliable things, Tang En slowly fell asleep.

Nottingham Forest's performance was exactly in line with what Don En thought. There was no special change in tactics. There was no special arrangement because this was their first opponent in the League Cup. But the Forest's performance was completely opposite to the previous game. They almost lost the home game at Norwich in the last game, but today they won the first group match of the League Cup 3:1 in the even stranger Greece.

Donn stood outside the visiting team coach's seat at Dimiticon Stadium, looking inside the stadium with both hands. Five minutes before the game, the Forest team has secured the victory.

It is completely different from the game against Norwich. Today, the whole team of Nottingham Forest is very active, with running, passing and receiving, offensive efficiency, and shooting accuracy being more than one level higher than a few days ago.

Maybe it was because this was a European event, which made them excited.

Tsk, there is no way to always make them excited. The climax cannot last, and if it continues, it will not be called an orgasm...

Tang En scratched his head and turned to see David's bright smile. The assistant coach had no complaints about such results. For a team that could only struggle to relegate in the First Division a year ago, he could win the UEFA Cup in a year. The height difference between them was indeed a bit large.

"Congratulations, Tony. We won again."

"What's there to congratulate on this..." Tang En waved his hand, "When we get a bigger victory, such as..."

He is stuck here, and I don’t know what to say. Is it a good idea to win the League Cup? It seems a bit difficult... Or do we win Lazio in the group stage? Then this is too boring.

"For example, is it a Champions League champion?" Unexpectedly, Chris Lack was more bold than Donn and directly expressed his ultimate goal.

Tang En tilted his head and looked at the assistant coach who was more confident than him. Could it be that this is all because of his "Asking the Question" column?

"Ah... Of course, it doesn't matter how you can win that championship or celebrate it. But... we still have a long way to go."

He turned his head back and looked at the home team without fighting spirit.

Such an opponent will have no pleasure in winning.

If you win a coach like Mourinho, the pleasure is like a rising tide and surging...

The Forests returned to England with three points and had no time to breathe for Don and his players. After getting off the plane from Heathrow Airport in London, they did not even return to Nottingham and went directly to Crystal Palace south of London to prepare for the league two days later.

The journey is exhausted, and it is still a away game. Considering that the next round of the league will challenge Newcastle away, it is a difficult team to deal with. Donn decided to send more substitutes in this game to give the main players a chance to rest.

As a result, the result of this game was beyond Tang En's expectations...
Chapter completed!