Chapter 55: Strong Enemy(1/2)
"Pick shot! Beautiful - the ball is in!" Accompanied by the excited voice of the narrator on the TV, even louder cheers rang out from Kenny Burns' Forest Bar.
"Beautiful job, Gipsai Rooney!"
"Let them see how powerful we are!"
"Woo--"
"Cheers to this beautiful goal!"
The fans were in a mess, and the golden wine was thrown to the ceiling. Kenny Burns smiled and watched the excited actions of the fans.
He glanced a few times, then turned his eyes back to the TV and arrived at the Camp Nou Stadium through the TV screen.
Forest players are celebrating in the form of stacking arhats - this is their favorite way of celebration. Of course, Don Eun has strictly prohibited the goal and then put the head coach under him to celebrate.
At the Camp Nou Stadium, after a brief silence, the home team fans all made huge booes, which suppressed the cheers that the Forest fans had just shouted.
But the Forest players were not affected by the booing of the home team fans. They were unscrupulous and celebrated at the other party’s home court without any hesitation.
Ten minutes into the game, I took the lead with Barcelona's goal without being favored, which felt very good!
After the team scored, Donn also stood up and waved his fists to demonstrate to Barcelona fans.
Aren’t you known as “Dream Team 2”? Let me tell you today why you can only be “Dream Team 2” instead of “Dream Team 2”!
The referee intervened, and finally the celebration that the Forest players was extremely excited about was over. The Barcelona people had already placed the football in the midpoint and were a little impatient to wait.
The TV broadcast camera followed Eastwood, who scored the goal, and the commentator introduced the player with special experience to the audience: "... Eastwood was once kicked by George Wood, the current captain of Nottingham Forest, and fell to the point where he could only play in the amateur league.
Finally, Tony Donn found him and gave him a chance to play in the professional league again... Although he has been injured repeatedly in recent years, we can see that as long as he plays, he can maintain a stable goal.
In Nottingham, he is called 'Rooney of Gypsy'. Unfortunately, he does not represent England, he represents Wales..."
When the players rushed up to celebrate Eastwood's goal, only goalkeepers Van der Sar and George Wood stopped at their original position and did not move. The former was because the distance was too far. The latter was because...well, some well-known reasons.
As the crowds of celebration dispersed, George Wood was already standing in his position in the second half waiting for the opponent to kick off.
Eastwood was also running backwards, but instead of standing on the middle circle line like Bentner, he ran straight to George Wood standing behind and stretched out his hand.
The two of them said nothing, and brimmed each other with high-highs, and Eastwood ran away again. Eastwood's attitude towards George Wood was much better than before. But the two's most intimate actions were limited to this.
They still don’t chat with each other, joke, and say hello when they meet. After getting off the court, they may not even have the action of combo-fives.
When Tang En saw this scene below, he just smiled. It is better to be willing to high-fives than to always be cold-eyed.
The game started again. Barcelona kicked off. The goal was conceding so quickly, somewhat beyond Rijcalde's expectations. Nottingham Forest was more tenacious than he thought.
This team has changed significantly from the Nottingham Forest last year, not only in terms of mental outlook, but also in real strength. It is a change in its strength. It is impossible to admit that the Nottingham Forest in front of us is stronger.
And... George Wood is really active. No one can imagine. Before the game, all intelligence said that this person was a "defensive genius, offensive idiot."
But looking at the goal just now, can the "offensive idiot" accurately find such a passing route during high-speed running and pass the ball to the place he wants to pass?
Rijkald was also a midfielder in his player age, and he was the kind of midfielder who was both offensive and defensive. He saw some of his own shadow from the ball just now.
Hasn’t Barcelona always lacked a midfielder with excellent defense? Why don’t you consider buying the No. 13 in front of you? If you train yourself carefully, you might become the second Rijcalde…
The Dutch coach made up his mind and waited for the game to end. No matter what the result was, he would submit an application to the club, hoping that the senior management could buy George Wood at all costs. With him, it would not be a problem for Barcelona to truly dominate.
Look at the Nottingham Forest now, with George Wood on the court, Ribery, Ashley Young, Bentner, Eastwood and others, you can attack with confidence and boldness. What about Wood? Everyone has to bear the dual tasks of offense and defense.
If his team has such a person, Ronaldinho, Xavi, Iniesta, Etoho, Messi... and others can devote all their energy to the offense. Barcelona's offense is already powerful, so they will do their best.
I believe there will be no team in this world that can resist.
All the above can only be said to be "good wishes". He still has to withdraw his mind and throw his mind into this game.
If George Wood organized the offense this time, it was not luck.
But if he is truly strong, how should Barcelona deal with it? Send a special person to guard it? Don’t joke. There are only three people in Barcelona’s midfield. Even if two wingers retreat and become five, how many of them are playing defense?
Barcelona's midfield configurations in this game are Iniesta and Deco, as well as Xavi. The three forwards Etoo, Messi and Ronaldinho.
None of these six people specializes in defense.
Rijkald originally planned to crush Nottingham Forest with offense at home, but he didn't expect that the Forest team's resilience was far beyond his expectations. Not only was it not crushed, it bounced up and gave it to himself.
Now that the team is behind with one goal, as the head coach, Rijkaard must make a choice. Should he strengthen his defense or continue to attack?
This multiple-choice question only stayed in the Dutch's mind for a few seconds, and the answer came out without any suspense. The Dutch, who advocates offense, How could Barcelona, the representative of artistic football, be forced to defend at his home court because of one person?
It's not the style of me and my team.
Rijcard stood up from his seat, walked to the sidelines to whistle to attract the attention of all the players, and then used gestures to tell Barcelona players on the field - don't take this conced to heart and continue attacking!
This is also an instruction that conforms to the ideas of Barcelona players on the court. They don’t know how to defend if they let them defend... For six offensive players, how can they defend with four defenders and one goalkeeper alone?
The best defense is offense. Only by using a stronger offense can you get back to your disadvantages.
Barcelona launched another wave of rapid offensive against Nottingham Forest again. After taking the lead, Nottingham Forest temporarily chose to recover and decided to defend this period first and then fight back after Barcelona's momentum declined.
The ancient Chinese book "Zuo Zhuan. The Tenth Year of Duke Zhuang" says: Fighting is courage. One fight will bring you down again and then you will lose three times.
Tang En knew very well that this principle could also be used on the football field. When the opponent is in the limelight, don’t face it, but should take the initiative to avoid it. After the opponent’s momentum is exhausted, then suddenly attack. It will definitely achieve miraculous results.
Not only this game, but other times, even during training, and when watching the game video after the game, Tang En would warn his players like this. Why do sometimes find that he had just scored a goal and was recovered by the opponent?
It is because the opponent was eager to equalize the score after losing the ball, and his morale did not fall immediately, but instead had a short-term growth trend.
If we cannot calm down and treat it calmly at this time, and think that the other party will be depressed and take this opportunity to score another goal and put a big push... that would be dangerous.
When will the morale of the other party fall down? When the other party finds that their counterattack has not achieved any results and the opponent's defense is as solid as a stubborn person, and they are desperate, their morale will drop.
Because Don En instilled this idea in his players more than once, after leading Barcelona, the Forest team's thoughts were very unified and immediately reclaimed the defense.
George Wood, who had just shined in the offense, became the most eye-catching person in defense this time.
Ronaldinho chose to pass the ball against George Wood. But after he passed the ball, he found that his current idea was useless.
Nottingham Forest, who was just in the field of Barcelona, suddenly chose to defend the game after leading the game - yes. It was defending the game. It was completely defending the game completely. The Forest team's goal seemed to be surrounded by iron circles, crowded with people.
There are crowds of people, and looking around, they are all people and legs. It is very difficult for him to accurately deliver the football to his teammates.
Sure enough, it was reported that the earth was kicked out by Pikui.
Barcelona is going to reorganize the offensive again.
Ronaldinho was surprised at how a team could make such a huge tactical change in such a short time, and at the same time, he was surprised at why this team could resolutely give up the offense and turn to defend in full force after leading...
He couldn't understand this tactical change. Could it be that the coach of Nottingham Forest is really a complete conservative as rumored outsiders? Did he think a single ball could make them laugh to the end and become the winner?
Ronaldinho clenched his fists.
The football was passed to the Brazilian again. Because of the previous two experiences, George Wood believed that Ronaldinho would pass the ball as soon as possible, so he did not force it over immediately.
But this time, he was wrong.
Ronaldinho knew that there were people in front of him, and it was useless to pass the ball alone. He usually used long shots to break through dense defense, because this method is the simplest. In fact, there is another way, that is, personal breakthrough.
Although there are many people, as long as you are skilled and brave, you can take the ball to break out in the crowd.
Ronaldinho had full confidence in his skills. He seized George Wood's chance in this moment, suddenly accelerated and rushed over from Wood!
George Wood hurried forward to defend, but Ronaldinho slammed over with a very hidden spike. After passing Wood, no matter how many people there were in front, Brazil's football elves were no longer afraid.
His upper body swayed for a moment, causing Arteta to lose the correct judgment. The center of gravity was deviated.
Ronaldinho immediately pulled the football past Arteta, and then faced the aggressive Pique, he suddenly scored the ball in a very small space!
Pique had no idea that Ronaldinho was in the penalty area, and there were people around him, and it was impossible to accelerate and sprint, so he dared to use the man ball to score. He was stunned and stood there, watching Ronaldinho go around from the other side of his side.
"Beautiful! Beautiful... He entered the goal area. Van der Sar attacked! Shooted-"
Ronaldinho wanted to shoot with a kick, but Van der Sa was prepared. Although his body fell to the ground, his right hand was raised high. Ronaldinho shot out the football, which happened to hit him, and he took the opportunity to shoot out of the bottom line!
"...What a pity! There was no goal, Van der Sar attacked in time to resolve the danger in front of the Forest team this time! Although there was no goal, Ronaldinho presented us with a wonderful personal breakthrough! Faced with the Nottingham Forest intensive defense.
What other ways can I crack it besides long shots? That's this Brazilian!"
The live TV broadcast gave Ronaldinho a back. He had just gotten up from the ground and looked at the football that had fallen outside the bottom line.
"One person collapsed the forest team's almost entire defense line, and he dared to score the ball in such a small area in the penalty area! If it weren't for him, it would have been difficult for others to do it! It's just a pity... Van der Sar's attack and save were equally wonderful. A beautiful attack.
Beautiful defense! From the moment, as Tony Don said before the game, this is a wonderful game!"
After Van der Sar got up from the ground, he patted his big hands and shouted loudly: "Concentrate! Don't let him break in so easily! George!" He was calling Wood's name.
Wood looked back at him.
Van der Sar crossed his hands: "Closed him outside!"
Wood nodded. It was caused by his negligence just now that he had nothing to say.
Albertini and Donn, outside the field, looked at each other, left their seats, walked to the sidelines, rolled their hands into a trumpet, and shouted to the inside: "George! Don't leave him one meter! Close to him!" He even made a pulling move.
Ronaldinho suddenly showed his power, which made the Forest team feel a little nervous. At this time, they woke up. Standing in front of them was the last Champions League champion, the world footballer, and the world's number one midfielder.
He has the ability to change a game by one person. He is not an ordinary football star, he is a real... superstar.
Arteta saw that everyone seemed to remind Wood to pay attention to defense and was a little harsh. He ran up to comfort his midfield partner: "Don't take it seriously, George. That person is not an ordinary person. He is very strong.
It’s nothing to be missed once by him, as long as you don’t lose the ball…”
He found that Wood seemed not listening to him. His eyes were always staring at Ronaldinho, who ran to the corner flag area to prepare for a corner kick.
To be continued...