"Thierry Henry!wow!"

The football flew out of the post and the Arsenal captain's shot missed.

"Seven minutes into the game, Arsenal shot three times and two goalscoring ranges, this time it missed. Arsenal seemed very proactive at his home court."

"Henry is in very good condition, I think Nottingham Forest is in trouble."

When the commentator said this, Donn and Chris Lack were sitting in the coaching seat and chatting.

"It doesn't look like a defense no matter how you look?" Chris Lack said with a frown.

"What do they defend when there is no goal?" Don said, looking at the court, "We have a chance to change Wenger's plan.

As long as we break through their goal before they want to score, we can force Wenger to give up his defensive counterattack and bring the game back to the track we are familiar with."

As soon as Tang En finished speaking, the Forest team got an opportunity to attack. Arteta made a wonderful pass in the frontcourt. Viduka covered Anelka. Anelka broke into the penalty area and shot, but was rushed by Leman.

Lehman's performance won applause from Arsenal fans, but booed the scene. The booed naturally not targeted Lehman, but "dedicated" to Anelka, who shot.

Anelke turned around and ran out of the penalty area as if nothing had happened. Of course, he did not forget to give him a thumbs up to Arteta who passed the ball to him.

Lehmann threw the ball and launched an attack, Fabregas turned around to catch the ball, while George Wood followed up. He didn't care about his original position, because Donn told him that if Fabregas retreated and received the ball, he had to follow.

He followed Donn's request, which made Fabregas feel a little uncomfortable.

"Fabregas. George Wood! The two of them are facing each other again! This is one of the things we expect when watching Arsenal and Nottingham Forest game. Two excellent young men are like enemies in fate... I know it's tacky to say this, but can we find a more suitable description?"

The Forest team's No. 13 has been entangled with him for two seasons, starting from a youth team match at the earliest.

He originally thought it was an ordinary youth team game. With his level at that time, he no longer needed to participate in the English Youth FA Cup of the same age. He had the ability to directly promote the first team.

However, in order to test his condition before the real first-team game, Wenger still put him on the youth team to play a few games.

Before the match against Nottingham Forest youth, he did not take his English peers seriously at all. For him, the game was as casual as playing on the street, and he could win casually.

After all, he has seen the world and achieved great success. What's the use of such a game besides warming up? He is already tired of the seemingly endless youth team games, and he is eager to go to the first team.

Go to participate in the real league and experience real victory and failure... If he continues to play with this mentality, who knows if he can see the radiant talented young man Fabregas in the future?

The game against Nottingham Forest youth team changed his future. That was his first failure after participating in the Arsenal youth team. What made him feel worried was that his defeated opponent was an unknown person.

He didn't know who this person was before. After that, he followed the information about Together George Wood and found that he was a novice in less than a year of training!

He was very angry. He wanted to defeat Wood completely. He worked hard in training. He tried to adapt to the cold and humid weather in London as quickly as possible... All these efforts were to defeat him next time he met Nottingham Youth Team, and he also lost a lot.

But there was no chance. More than a month after that game, he was transferred to the first team by Wenger. Perhaps Wenger also saw that participating in the youth team competition was too small for Fabregas.

He became a member of Arsenal's first team, he became the youngest player to play in the league for Arsenal, and he even became the youngest player to score official goals for Arsenal.

For a time, countless praises such as "genius" and "child prodigy" flew towards him, and he became the target of attention of the world, a football celebrity, a TV commentator, and a fan... praised him endlessly.

But in this overwhelming success, he was not lost as he was in the youth team. His mind was particularly clear because he knew that there was another person he wanted to defeat but had no chance to defeat.

Until Nottingham Forest successfully upgraded, he finally had the opportunity to compete with George Wood on the official court. He thought that all the grudges between him and this person could be ended in one game. But he did not expect that it would continue to this day.

George Wood is not a coward who will be knocked down by one failure. And neither is Francesque Fabregas!

George Wood's breathing sound came from behind, feeling the touch caused by his constant collision.

He must work hard to protect the football and prevent it from being snatched away by the guy behind him. At the same time, as a midfielder who is responsible for controlling the rhythm of the entire team, Fabregas also has to look up and observe the teammates' running position and the opponent's formation, find loopholes that can be used to use, and pass the football through... If there is no chance, he must transfer the football out, then run away from Wood and reorganize the offense.

He saw such a gap that could be used. But Wood was pushing him tightly behind him. He was not sure that the ball would fly to where he wanted it to go. What if it was intercepted halfway and let Nottingham Forest fight back?

Fabregas quickly weighed the pros and cons in his heart, gave up the opportunity to pass the ball, but passed the football to Edu next to him. Then he turned around and ran to another place. George Wood did not give up, and he continued to follow up.

Edou passed the ball to him again, and Wood continued to lean on it as soon as possible. Fabregas was helpless to pass the ball out again. This time he passed it to Ashley Cole, and the England international drove the ball out.

Next, Fabregas deliberately noticed Wood beside him. He saw Wood turn his head and look at him, then look at Ashley Cole who was driving the ball forward, and finally chose to run back to defend.

He ran very fast, not at all the normal speed of returning to defense, but more like he had only one goalkeeper left in the backcourt and ran desperately. He ran away from Fabregas in an instant.

The Spanish young man shook his head. He really didn't know what he should be in. Such a person who is not smart would actually be his opponent he wanted to defeat.

Suddenly, a feeling of "I am so stupid" came to my mind, but soon the feeling disappeared without a trace.

Because he saw Ashley Cole losing while competing with Wood...

This monster!

George Wood's restrictions on Fabregas were very successful, but Fabregas quickly knew how to deal with it.

He no longer just observes his teammates' positions after receiving the ball, but instead observes his teammates' running route and opponent's defensive position in advance when raising his hand to ask for the ball, and then sends the football out as soon as possible.

Or you can make the next move immediately after receiving the ball, and you don’t need to stop and think about what to do next.

This has indeed caused great trouble for Wood's defense. No matter how fast he is, he will seize the opportunity to pass the ball out.

Fabregas is alive, and Arsenal's offense is alive.

Edou passed the football to Fabregas. Before George Wood could force it to come up, Fabregas passed the ball to Borgkamp in front, and the Dutch veteran passed the football to Henry. Then Henry shot.

Although he did not score a goal this time, Wenger had already seen hope.

Fabregas has completely replaced Vieira's position and role in the team. Arsenal now has to operate with him as the core, and he is the central nervous system of the team. As long as he can find out how to deal with George

Wenger is not afraid of Wood's method.

The game was in a stalemate. The Forests tried hard to break through the Arsenal goal first, and Arsenal's idea was exactly the same as theirs. It seemed that both sides were attacking, but neither of them achieved any results.

As mentioned before the game, these two teams are too familiar with each other. They don’t feel like playing in the Champions League at all, and they usually play in the league. Arsenal knows the habits of every player in Nottingham Forest, and Nottingham Forest is also familiar with Arsenal.

Don't have to give George Wood a lot of advice to see Fabregas, nor do you have to tell Anelka how to find Arsenal's defensive space, or talk too much about the defense to deal with Henry and Borgkamp, ​​they all know what they should do.

It's quite awkward to play against such an opponent, especially in the context of the Champions League semi-finals. Not excited enough...

The Forest launched another attack. Ribery hung the ball into the penalty area, Viduka was struggling to top, while Anelka was swimming in the back point, preparing to suddenly insert it. The football was not pushed by the two of them, but was pushed out of the penalty area by defender Duer.

Fabregas, who returned to the edge of the penalty area, received the football. At this time, George Wood was not close to him, but was rushing towards him quickly.

The Spanish teenager glanced at Wood and then passed the football to Henry, who came to meet. Everyone's attention turned to this world-class striker. If everyone still had an impression, they would definitely think that Henry's position of taking the ball is very familiar.

That's right, November 17, 2002.

In the North London Derby, Henry scored the best Premier League goal of the season in the first half of the game. He robbed the ball from the side of his team's penalty area, and then started a 65-meter-long lightning rush, passing several people in a row, from one penalty area to another, and hit the ball into the Tottenham Hotspur's goal.

Is he going to do it again?

Henry starts to start.

George Wood changed his target halfway through and chased Henry. Now he is the only one in the middle and backcourt who can catch up with Henry at the speed.

Henry did not dribble in a straight line, but dribble in a horizontal direction, so George Wood easily caught up with him.

But Henry used his experience and skills to shake Wood away, then changed direction again, and pointed the attack directly at the Forest's penalty area.

Wood would not be thrown away once, he turned around and pounced on him. At this time, Reyes was already coming up quickly to support him. George Wood did not notice that he devoted all his energy to Henry who was dribbling the ball.

Of course Henry knew that Wood’s goal was himself. He had fought with Wood several times, and was not unfamiliar with it. He also knew that once this guy was involved, things would be in trouble.

So I didn't bother with him. When everyone was focusing on their attention, a stunning pass suddenly came.

At that time, Wood was already standing in front of Henry, forcing him to slow down. It seemed that Arsenal's fast break had ended here. Henry made a move to cross directly in front of the goal, allowing George Wood and the left-back Rayton behind him.

Barnes focused all his attention in the penalty area.

Henry's fake moves were very realistic, and even deceived the TV-spreading camera for a while. The camera moved to the penalty area as Henry swung his right leg, but he did not see the football flying out.

It was not until this time that the TV director realized that he was also fooled. The camera lens quickly switched, and he saw Henry's right leg swaying. The left toe that was supposed to support his foot poked the ball to the right. There, Reyes was plugging from behind him at high speed.

"Reyes! Beautiful pass, so inspiring! Henry's performance is exciting!"

There was a huge cheer at the Highbury Stadium. Henry played a beautiful move, which not only won the cheers in the stands, but also made Arsenal's morale high.

Compared with his passes that are slightly playful, Nottingham Forest on the defensive side seems a little embarrassed.

George Wood was completely deceived by Henry. When Xiang turned around and helped Barnes defend Reyes, it was too late. Reyes did not stop the ball, but made a cross directly, using his right foot that he was not good at, to send the ball to the middle of the Forest's penalty area.

The football bypassed Pepe and Pique's defense and fell to the back point of the no-man's area.

Who will show up there?!

George Wood turned his head to see.

"Fabregas!!" the narrator screamed.

Wood saw Arsenal's No. 4, the slightly thin figure suddenly appeared at the landing point of the ball like a ghost, appeared in front of Van der Sar. Then he calmly raised his left foot and gently padded the ball from Reyes...

The football bypassed Van der Sar's hands who jumped up to defend, and then fell into the empty goal!

All Arsenal fans in the stands of the Highbury Stadium, wearing reddish-brown jerseys, jumped out of their seats with their hands raised.

"What a wonderful cooperation! Wonderful goal! This is a typical Arsenal-style attack, Nottingham Forest was tricked by them! Fabregas, Henry, Reyes, Fabregas! Perfect loop, Arsenal lead 1:0! They have a good start!"

Arsenal players rushed towards Fabregas, who was running wildly to celebrate. Henry and Reyes ran past George Wood and opened their arms. Wood stood there, keeping a twisted look back, looking at their backs and bit their lips tightly.

He saw that he lost the boy...

At the same time, off the court, Don Eun also turned his attention to Arthur Wenger, who was celebrating with his assistant coach. He was scored by Arsenal first, which means that the game entered the track that Wenger most wanted to see in the next time.

The situation is not good.

Wenger, who had celebrated with the assistant coach, also noticed someone looking at him. He turned his eyes to the Forest coach's seat and smiled at Don En.

Tang En turned his eyes away.

Wenger turned around and said to assistant coach Pat Rice: "Look, Pat. I said that we need to absorb some of the strengths of others, but at the same time we have to maintain our own style. This is an Arsenal-style goal. Our old friends are worried.

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Chapter completed!