Chapter 229 Promotion (Part 2)

Eastwood's return gave Donn great confidence. What confidence is it? It is confidence to go further in the Champions League.

Now the team has basically no major injuries and is in a well-equipped team. In this season, Tang En can finally arrange his troops without considering the injury factors.

After defeating Glasgow Rangers away, Donn re-adjusted his goal this season at a meeting with the coaching staff - not to compete for the league and let Chelsea defend his title.

As long as the Forest team can maintain its current ranking, it will focus its main energy on the Champions League.

As for the FA Cup...their opponent in the next round is Chelsea, and Done decided to send players who usually play in the game, no matter what the result is.

If Chelsea can be eliminated, it will be good. If he can't, he will not be unhappy.

Where is the best stage to become famous? It is not a domestic league, nor is it a "oldest cup match" with no money, but a European Champions League favored by TV broadcasters!

Of course, as a former Chinese fan, Tang En is somewhat of a "Champion Cup complex".

This goal is consistent with Evan Dogerty's goal, so when Donn told him the team's direction, he also supported it. Nottingham Forest no longer needs to prove anything in the domestic league.

Now everyone recognizes the strength of the Forest team's first-class team. The targets that Donn needs to prove are abroad, continental Europe, and the whole world. Through the Champions League, everyone will know Nottingham Forest, what AC Milan, Inter Milan, Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Juventus... Let these giant teams know from now on.

They have a strong opponent, robbing their money and girls... uh, the Robin Hood who robs their money and honor is here!

So, despite one round of matches, the ending of the Glasgow Rangers has been decided in advance...

The Forest lost away to Everton in a league match before the second leg against the Glasgow Rangers, but no one was surprised.

Because Tang En hid most of the main players, even the main goalkeeper Van der Sar, who had been starting in the league before, sat on the bench in this game. Everyone knows Tang En's thoughts.

Eastwood, who scored the winning goal in the last game, did not start, but continued to sit on the bench to watch the game.

In this game, Tang En gave him fifteen minutes, and his performance was pretty good.

The Gypsy striker still lacks tacit understanding with this team, but he no longer has to score goals to prove himself. He has proved it in the last round of the league, and now no one suspects that he is no longer able to do it.

Moyes's team sent the strongest lineup against half of the main players. Everton may never forget that Nottingham Forest surpassed them in the final stage of last season, thus becoming the fourth team to represent England in the European Champions League.

Seeing the Forest Team so glorious now, Evertons will inevitably think that if it were themselves, it would be as glorious as well!

So the match against Nottingham Forest has some special significance. In the first half of this season, they lost to the Forests away and returned to home this time. Moyes doesn't want to lose again.

He got his wish, and the final score of the game was 1:0. The home team Everton defeated Nottingham Forest. Although this was a Nottingham Forest who deliberately retained its strength. But a three-pointer was a three-pointer, a real three-pointer.

Nothing is more important than this.

After the game, Moyes, who won the ball, was in a good mood. As a friend, I wished the Forest team good results in another field when shaking hands with Done.

"I think the best result is that Everton won the second place in the league after the season, and you will become the Champions League champions."

Hearing this, Don An laughed out loud, without any frustration at all. “You are too unambition. David. If this is the case in me, the best result is that we become the league champions and you become the Champions League champions.

Everyone was very happy.”

Moyes also smiled: "No, it's not your style, Tony."

"no?"

"Well, your style is like this." Moyes lowered his voice and said in a hoarse voice. "The best result is that after the season is over, we won the league championship, and we also won the Champions League."

Tang En scratched his head. That kind of life is still a distance away from him. Although he really wanted to say that, he and the Forest team are not confident at the moment.

Because he lost to Everton, Manchester United defeated Wigan Athletic 2-1 away in the same league round. The gap between Nottingham Forest and Manchester United narrowed from nine points to six points.

Ferguson's team is in full force, but Tang En has no time to take care of it now.

Three days later, at the City Stadium, Nottingham Forest fans waited for the 8th-final opponent, the Scottish Premier League team Glasgow Rangers.

Nottingham Forest, who plays at home, is waiting for the job, occupying the right time, place, and people, and has high morale, while the Glasgow Rangers are under heavy pressure. This game is very difficult for the Ke team. They not only have to defeat the Forest, but also win with a big score.

Nottingham Forest's three away goals were like three mountains and above the Scots' heads.

What's worse is more than that.

The game just started with three minutes and forty-one seconds, and the home team scored a goal.

The person who scored this time was Arteta, who shot through the Glasgow Rangers goalkeeper's fingers.

The city court suddenly fell into madness, and 27,000 people seemed to cheer from 270,000 people.

"4:2! Nottingham Forest expands its lead to two goals! The Rangers are now facing difficulties. Before Arteta's goal, they need to win two goals in this game. Now they need to score three goals without allowing Forest to continue scoring! But looking at the state and momentum of Nottingham Forest, I think this is an "impossible task".

This ball greatly shook the confidence of Rangers players because it came too fast, leaving them completely unprepared.

In the next few dozen minutes, the away team tried their best to score, and they kept attacking the Forest's penalty area. But there was no rules. The Scottish team played simply and roughly, just long passes. In front of defending players like George Wood, Pique and Pepe, they were least afraid of such physical attacks.

In fact, when the Rangers players are attacking, they may be asking themselves in their minds: Scoring three goals and not allowing the home team to score goals. Is such a game possible? We can't do it at all!

So, they really can't do it...

The game completely entered the rhythm of Nottingham Forest ten minutes after the second half. The home team passed it freely on the court, and the Wanderers players robbed it very fiercely, without any use.

The players of the Forest team have already played in form and can play any kind of cooperation.

In the 79th minute of the game, Mark Viduka scored his second goal in a positional battle, completely securing the victory.

Rangers players gave up their belief in continuing to resist, and the game then entered garbage time.

The 5:2 score is a completely insurmountable barrier in the hearts of the away team players.

In the last ten minutes of the game, the strong smell of gunpowder suddenly disappeared. When Nottingham Forest was controlling the ball on the court, the Wanderers players did not come forward and snatch it.

The fans of Nottingham Forest in the stands had already started celebrating in advance.

Twenty-four years later, he returned to the European Champions League and reached the quarterfinals in one fell swoop. This is a great achievement!

The TV cameras began to frequently give close-ups of Tony Donn, and it was this man who created all this in front of him. The revival of Nottingham Forest officially began from the day he took up the position of the Forests' head coach.
Chapter completed!