Chapter 204: Round 1·City Stadium (Part 2)

Although Raul's condition is much worse than before, and although Ronaldo is already fat, these two people are the superstars who can decide the outcome of the game with three seconds of time and space.

There is no such player in the Forest team. Don't guarantee that his players will keep a close eye on Ronaldo and Raul every second in the ninety-minute game.

What's more, the central defenders of the Forest team rarely played together in this game.

With in-depth analysis, Tang En felt that it would be too difficult to defeat Real Madrid based on the current situation of the Forest team.

Every day when he goes home, he sits with Don to study Real Madrid's game video, hoping to find out the weaknesses that they can exploit.

"I don't think Real Madrid is invincible, but the premise is that we must score first." Tang said to Tang En, "If you let Real Madrid score first, then wait to lose the game."

"Can you ensure victory by scoring first?"

"Of course not, but it can increase your winning rate..." Tang thought about it carefully for a while and said, "Twelve percent."

"What a disheartening analysis. Come on, I don't care about these messy things. No matter whether you can win or not, or the winning rate, at least you can fight hard in the game..."

Tang expressed a different opinion on this: "If you know that the winning rate is not high, you still have to spend so much energy and invest so much in this game? This is not a knockout match. There are still many games in the group stage. If you lose too much in this game, it will affect the future..."

Don Eun interrupted him: "This issue cannot be simply considered from the results and schedule of the game...or in other words, it cannot be simply considered from the football game itself.

Do you know what this Nottingham Forest relies on from the Championship to the Premier League, from the League Cup to the Championship in two and a half years? Strength? Of course we have the strength, but we have not yet reached the point where we can complete this rocket-like rise. Luck? Maybe.

We don’t have many injuries and are lucky. But the most important thing is that this forest team has a spirit - a spirit of never giving up. It is this spirit that has enabled the forest team to create many achievements that others dare not imagine.

We are not afraid of any team, and we will never give up. Do you think I don’t know the priorities of the game? Of course I know, but as the head coach, I must keep this spirit for the team.”

"No matter how you look at some games, we have no hope of winning. Even at this time, I have to speed up my players: we can definitely win.

We want those who swear that we are sure to lose and lick the saliva they spit out back!" Tang En clenched his fists, and he did a lot of such things.

"And even if we really can't win the game, we will be the winners in the end.

I won't just emphasize the theory of spiritual invincibility, but if a team doesn't even have this spirit... Then there is no difference between the Forest team and those teams that are wandering and struggling downstream of the league and only considering how to relegate all day long. "

"I absolutely cannot tell my players - everyone will give up this game and take a break and prepare for the future game. Maybe that's the case, but I can't say it out.

Because if I say it, it means that I agree with this attitude. When the competition is in a difficult situation, when we need to work hard.

My players will think of this sentence, and then they will say that since there has been a precedent, it is nothing to give up this time. Anyway, we still have to play in future games, and the head coach will definitely agree with our approach... This is a very terrifying idea.

He would spread quickly like a plague." Tang En opened his arms and waved him, "and then it would invisibly erode the players' fighting spirit and competitive spirit. At that time, the team was also done, and the head coach's technical and tactical level was high.

There is nothing we can do with such a team.”

"A team must have soul, and the soul of the Forest team is - doing it even though they know they cannot do it..."

Tang En finished his speech. Tang looked up at him for a long time and then slowly said, "You are indeed... suitable for... to be the head coach than me."

As analyzed before the game, even if Real Madrid has many internal conflicts, it is still difficult to deal with. But Tang still said one thing right - Forest scored the first goal.

At the beginning of the game, Forests took an unexpected full-on attack attitude, which made Real Madrid's head coach Brazilian Lucemberg completely unexpected. He thought Forests would first stabilize the defense against the powerful Real Madrid.

Unexpectedly, Forests' three tricks at the beginning made Real Madrid stunned.

Real Madrid superstars were a little at a loss when facing the aggressive offensive of the young men of the Forests.

As a result, in the seventh minute, Casillas' goal was declared lost. The goal scored by Ribery detonated the atmosphere of the whole game, and Don Eun seemed very excited, as if he had seen the dawn of victory.

However, after leading, the pace of the game slowly fell into the control of Real Madrid.

After all, Pepe is not an authentic midfielder, so it is a bit difficult for him to keep a guard against Zidane. The Forest team can only rely on physical strength to form an advantage in number in local defense. The price is that they have no time to attack.

After leading, the Forest team was beaten by Real Madrid. They were in a mess.

Before the end of the first half, Real Madrid equalized the score. It was not Raul or Ronaldo that scored, but midfielder David; Beckham, the iconic Moon Scimitar free kick.

Beckham is indeed very popular in the UK. After he scored a goal, he could even hear applause from home team fans at the city stadium.

Faced with such a loss of the ball, Tang En really had no choice. Before the game, he emphasized that he could not give Real Madrid too many free kicks in front of the penalty area. His players also implemented it seriously. Faced with Real Madrid's tide offensive, he only gave Real Madrid free kicks in two dangerous areas for 45 minutes. The first Beckham hit the ball and scored the second time...

This ball is not lost at the tactical level, but to the stars' personal abilities.

"David; Beckham! Impeccable goal! Van der Sar can do nothing!"

Seeing Beckham hugging and celebrating with his teammates on the court, Don En thought that two years later, such a person would go to the American football desert to end his career. No matter what the purpose... it was a pity.

The situation did not improve in the second half, and Real Madrid continued to occupy both sides away. Usually everyone didn't think anything, but when Wood was absent from the game, everyone felt the difference - this is not a problem of one person missing, it is two people missing.

Pepe couldn't defend against Zidane at all. He was too different from Zidane. The requirements for adding the back waist were different from those of the central defender, so he played very awkwardly.

Done pulled Wes off in a row; Morgan, let Pepe return to the most familiar and good-for-all central defender position, and then replaced a forward - Bentner.

In this way, Forest team changed to 433, basically completely abandoning the midfield defense, hoping to rely on a crazy offensive to push back Real Madrid's arrogance and score again, so that the situation will be beneficial to itself.

He was half successful. The Forest team, which had just made the adjustment, did show a momentum that Real Madrid players did not expect, and they pushed Real Madrid's offense back.

Facing the Forest's attack after wave of attack, even Real Madrid cannot be careless. After all, their defense has never been relieved. Luxenberg's team began to focus on defense, and for a long time, the score did not change at all.

It seems that this game may end with a draw between the two sides. If this is true, Tang En also thinks it is good, at least he can't lose points first.

What is the difference between a giant and an ordinary team? It is not that they will have a very powerful head coach, nor that their tactics are stronger than ordinary teams, but that they have some superstars who can decide the game with one person.

In the last five minutes of the game, Ronaldo, who had already left eighty-five minutes, suddenly started and successfully counterattacked, received a long pass from Beckham from the backcourt and broke into the penalty area, then easily shook Van der Sar, pushed the ball into the empty goal, and the score became 1:2, and the Forest fell behind at home.

"Five minutes! It's not time to finish!" Tang En waved his hand and asked the whole team to put the front pressure. Anyway, if you lose one ball, you lose two balls, or three balls.

It is not a knockout match now. Without the rule of "double goal scoring away goals", you may be able to equalize the score evenly after being pressed across the board.

Tang En's goal has become to win the game and equalize the score...

The result did not make him come true. The fact was cruel. Nottingham Forest lost 1:2 to the "Galaxy Battleship" Real Madrid at his home court.

Real Madrid made a good start for their new Champions League season, while Forests' prospects for qualifying were cast in a shadow.

At the post-match press conference, Don En was not convinced. He kept emphasizing that his team lost to two people - Beckham and Ronaldo, the implication was that Real Madrid did not defeat Forests.

"I admit that Wood's absence has caused us a lot of trouble. I will give you a surprise when I go to the Bernabeu next time."

This is very, very consistent with Tang En's usual style of losing but not losing words. But how many people take it seriously?
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