Chapter 174: With Everton (Part 2)

On the defense line, there is an old acquaintance in Tang En's memory - Joseph_yobo, who was the one who squeezed Li Weifeng away back then. This person is also a powerful defender in the Premier League, but he has never been very famous.

In general, Everton is a team that lacks stars compared to the Forests, but their overall strength is very strong. From this point of view, it shows that Moyes, a coach, is able to combine a group of seemingly mediocre players into a "strong team" that has the potential to participate in the Champions League next season. Except for the coaches who are good enough, there is no second reason.

Sometimes Tang En still admires Moyes. After all, he does not have the advanced memory and consciousness of his own. He relies entirely on his true level and has reached this point step by step. But it’s a pity that he admires him. Tang En does not have the excellent character of being an adult. If he makes Moyes successful, he will have nothing.

This season should have been a season where Moyes shines, but it's a pity that I'm here...

Yabo was ordered to defend Bentner, which increased the difficulty of defense in the rain. However, the Nigerian was still following Bentner tenaciously, preventing the Danish boy from getting the ball comfortably.

Moyes saw that Donn wanted to play a long pass and rushed, so he let Yabo, who was the best header in the central defender, defend Bentner, who was also the best header in the Forest team's offensive line. The Forest team immediately changed the focus of the long pass to Crouch, and relied on Crouch's height to make up for his header weakness.

Both sides fought each other for several rounds, and no one could do anything to do.

The game was at a deadlock, the score was frozen at 0:0, and it was motionless for half an hour.

Donn shook his head gently and said to Chris Lack: "Long passes are not enough, our opponent is also the English team...change the formation!"

Chris Lack understood what Donn meant. He got up and walked to the sidelines and made a position change gesture. The Forest quickly turned into a diamond-shaped 442, and George Wood was still dragging behind, playing a single midfielder, responsible for midfield defense. Arteta was further liberated. Although he pushed to the front, it did not mean that he could only stay in the front. He could run back and forth in any corner of the midfield. Appeared in any place.

This tactical Forest team has practiced repeatedly during these twelve days of closed training. This is also the first time the Forest team played a diamond-shaped position in the Super League. Donn believes that he can completely catch Moyes off guard! Previously, everyone thought that the 442 parallel position was the only good formation for the Forest team, which is actually a common problem for most English teams - they played the 442 parallel position for 40 years and have never changed, nor have they thought of changing - because English football always regarded itself as the "original originator of modern football" and always wanted to maintain their ridiculously "traditional".

But it turns out that the final results of those teams in England that dare to reform and take a new step are pretty good. A typical example - Arthur Wenger's Arsenal.

Moyes did not expect that the Forests would suddenly change the team when there were five minutes left in the first half when the injury time was in progress. Arteta's premise was to become a front midfielder, and George Wood played a single midfielder alone. This adjustment made the Forests' offensive line closer to Everton's goal, which was more threatening. There were more opportunities.

Facing the aggressive Forest team, Everton did not adjust their defensive deployment in time and used the set of long passes to defend Nottingham Forest's ground attack. Could there be no problem?

Arteta controls the ball at Everton's half. Everton's midfielder Lee Carsley (lee_carsley) is defending him, but it's a bit difficult. Espanyol's foot skills are very good. Even if Carsley organizes him to advance, it will be difficult. Intercept the ball? Don't think about it for the time being, unless it's a foul, but a foul in such a sensitive place... If this person scores a direct free kick, he will still fail.

Just delay their offensive and summon more teammates to come up to help.

Two Everton players rushed up. It seemed that the Forest team had no chance to attack this time. Arteta had to turn his back to the offensive direction and continue to protect the ball.

Then under the clamping defense of the two, Arteta finally lost possession. Everton took this opportunity to fight back quickly, and one goal was fatal!

The people in Everton must hope that things will work like this.  But what?

"Arteta divided the ball to the wing, Ribery followed up... a beautiful breakthrough! The French boy was like a razor, cutting open Everton's defense! Crossing!! itss - gooooal!! Pit Crouch! This England's highest player is telling Erikson with practical actions. How unfair it is not to call him into the national team!"

Of course, these are all ideas fabricated by commentator Andy Gray himself. Crouch did not intend to demonstrate to the national team head coach, although Erikson was sitting in the private room above the home stands of the city stadium at this time.

After scoring the goal, Crouch just ran to the camera position of the corner flag with his arms wide open. He waved his teammates to follow, and then he lifted up his jersey, with a sentence written on the white vest inside:

Freddy, we're waiting for you!

Other Forest players pointed at Crouch's words on his chest and signaled to the TV camera: Don't shoot people, just shoot them!

At the same time, a banner was also put on the stands of the city court:

Eastwood, we are with you!

The teammates rushed to the camera, and Crouch, who was scoring the goal, no one rushed over to overwhelm him, but just surrounded him, giving up a space so that the camera could clearly capture Crouch's chest.

Under such circumstances, George Wood stood outside the circle, not knowing whether he should go in or escape. He raised his hand, finally scratched his head and put it down, and hid in a corner that the camera could not find.

The carnival people did not pay attention to this person's abnormality. The stands and green fields were cheering one after another. Nottingham Forest finally made a good start for their sprint stage when he was unable to win three consecutive league games.

Although the rain is still falling, all the fans of the Forest team feel that the rain has stopped.

Don Eun looked at Chris Lack in surprise, and his assistant looked at him with the same expression: "I didn't ask them to do this, and I don't know they would do this..."

Tang En nodded, but didn't know what he should say in the face of such a scene, so he had to pat his thigh hard: "I understand... these kids! OK, very good!"

Chris Lark smiled.
Chapter completed!