Chapter 72 The opposite of expectations

The atmosphere at Stamford Bridge has been ignited, and red and blue acted in two distinct square arrays in the stands. Their numbers were unequal, but from the perspective of momentum, it seemed to be comparable.

Forest, which has no advantage in numbers, faces a large number of Blues fans away, and is not showing any weakness, and frantically responds to the opponent's various provocations. Apart from not directly pounces on and starts fighting and throwing wine glasses, they do everything.

Don Edward likes such fans, and in this regard he and Roy Keane have something in common - they both hate so-called fans who are wearing suits and ties in first-class private rooms.

If the fans who came to the scene did not go crazy into the atmosphere, they might as well watch the TV broadcast at home honestly.

It is precisely because of the support of such a group of fans that he has the confidence to lead Nottingham Forest to travel around and sweep his opponents.

Before entering the court today, I saw the Forest fans cheering his name wildly, fighting against Chelsea fans for him. Tang En's sense of accomplishment could no longer be expressed in words.

Apart from winning the game and winning the Champions League, is there anything else that can be used to repay these cute fans?

So he told his team members not to stop until they reach their goal.

Just kidding, we are galloping on the right highway, how could we stop?

"The two teams have nothing to do with each other in the past hundred years, and they are strangers. The arrival of Tony Don and Mourinho has changed all this. Both people with unique personalities and extreme conceits are unwilling to become the opponent's defeat.

The two teams have been in peace in the past 100 years, which does not mean that they can still communicate friendlyly from now on. There will be a pair of enemies in the classic red and blue confrontation in England... But we all like to see such a game because it is exciting enough... I won't say it's exciting because this game may be a bit conservative because of the importance of the results, but there will definitely be fierce scenes on the scene... Even if you want to, you will be indispensable.

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The TV commentator speculated the tactics of both sides according to his experience. Because this is a semi-final of the Champions League. The result is more important than anything else, so the probability of seeing a wonderful offensive battle is too small.

What's more, Mourinho and Tony Don are both famous conservative coaches.

The audience may only expect the intensity of the scene - red and yellow cards, fouls, banging collisions, saliva, glaring, and head coaches on both sides performed passionately on the sidelines...

Don En is standing on the sidelines waiting for the game to begin at this moment. Mourinho is standing on the edge of the head coach's command area like him. The two coaches couldn't sit still a few dozen seconds before the game began.

Van Nystruey and Eastwood stood in the middle circle, waiting for the kickoff.

The referee was talking to the fourth official through the headset. The Stamford Bridge Stadium, which was just noisy and as if it was boiling water, gradually became quiet.

The referee looked down at the watch, then gave a thumbs up to the fourth official on the sidelines. Everything is OK, it's time to kick off.

"beep--"

The commentator is also introducing his impression of Tony Donne, what a conservative head coach, his football is boring and cannot make the audience cheer and applaud him. Except for the Nottingham Forest fans, no one will support him.

This person offended many people in English football.

Then when he found out that England was too small, he went to harm the European continent and saw what he did to poor Frank Rijkaard... If he finally won the Champions League, I'm afraid the whole UEFA will go crazy...

Just as he was chattering, the Forest team drove the football out. After a simple pass, the football came to Wood's feet.

Wood did not continue to pass back, but kicked the football to Dutch midfielder Van der Fate in front of him. He handed him over to Van der Fate to organize the specific attack.

Van der Fate did not dribble the ball either. He was passing the ball out. This was Donn's requirement. Chelsea's midfield defense ability is world-class. If a person takes too many balls, he will easily fall into Essin and Marklele, as well as Barack's ground defense.

Tang En hopes to let the team pass through the midfield quickly and not give the opponent time to entangle him. In this case, passing is obviously a more effective method than dribbling.

He always tells his players that no matter how fast a person runs, even if he lets a 100-meter sport run, he will never run beyond the speed of football flying. So if you want a fast attack, passing is the best choice.

Van der Fate passed the football to Ribery. After Ribery attracted Chelsea's defensive attention on the left, he immediately transferred the football's big foot to Ashley Young on the right.

The Forest team made a quick and decisive pass in this offensive, and they were very skilled in overall running and receiving, fully demonstrating their tacit understanding.

"Just as calculated, the Forest team switched the football from left to right with a few passes."

"Pay attention to his cross!" Chelsea goalkeeper Cech yelled loudly. As an opponent in the Premier League, he is well aware of Ashley Young's technical characteristics. This past season, the Premier League assist king has great talent and ability in passing.

Now the Forests center is Van Nestroy, known as the "king of the small penalty area", who is known as the "king of small penalty area", and Ashley Yang has a place to use its cross.

Cech dared not be careless and made everyone more vigilant.

Ashley Young did pass the ball. But he didn't pass it to Van Nystruee and Eastwood who were circling in the middle. He kicked the ball back and passed it to Chimbonda who assisted it.

"Track their offense on the wing!" Chelsea players rushed up to surround with this idea, preventing Chimbonda and Ashley Yang from cooperating with the wing offense.

Chelsea's left back Ashley Cole watched Ashley Young firmly, not giving him the chance to slip away from him, while Essin came to defend Chimbonda and prevented him from passing the football to Ashley Young easily.

"Forest's offense quickly reached a deadlock, and Chelsea's defense was very stable."

Generally speaking, more people are needed to support Chimbonda at this time. Van der Fate did not go. He just watched from a distance from the middle. Maybe this matter has nothing to do with him?

No, it's just that there are better candidates.

George Wood ran over from his defensive position. Chimbonda saw him in the cracks and immediately passed the football to the captain who came up to pick him up.

After receiving the football, Wood did not adjust or even observe, so he kicked the football again to Van der Fate, waiting in the middle.

Barack also wanted to come up and force Wood to turn around and pass back when he stopped the ball. Unexpectedly, Wood passed the football again without even observing, and the pass was very accurate...

After Van der Fate stopped the football, he could not turn around under the close guard of Marklele, so he moved the football to the left. Ribery inserted it again and made a cross!

Van Nistroy had a head-on confrontation with Terry in front of the goal, and Terry finally pushed the ball out of the bottom line with his interference.

"A beautiful attack, but unfortunately there was no goal. Terry's defense is reassuring!" The commentator gave praise to the Blues captain John Terry.

But Tang En and his coaching staff smiled at each other, and these people saw what they wanted to see.

The key to this offense, or where is the transit station? It is not Van der Fate, but George Wood's catcher pass after inserting it, pulling the ball out of the quagmire and then passing it to the open area.

This is the ability that Don En always hopes Wood has. Help the team's offense and complete seemingly inconspicuous but actually very critical tasks in seemingly inconspicuous places.

Obviously, before he ran to pick up Chimbonda, he had already seen Van der Fate's position and knew how to do the best. So he immediately sent the football to the place where he should go after receiving Chimbonda's pass.

The front midfielder is too forward, and the vision is limited and it is easy to be stared at by the opponent's back midfielder. The back midfielder is the same. The position is more free, and there is no inseparable defensive player around you, and there is plenty of room and freedom to do the movements.

It would be a waste to just use this position to defend.

"Although there was no goal, we started very well." Donn shook hands with the coaches to celebrate. Then he walked to Albertini.

"He did a good job."

Albertini nodded. His expression was very proud. "Of course, my student."

Donne laughed. “I hope he can become the next metronome.”

Albertini had this nickname when playing football, which means that he wanted to control the team's rhythm and the rhythm of the game on the court. If he was just a midfielder who could participate in the offense, Tang En was not willing to give up.

When Wood can become the dual core from spirit to tactics, he can formulate special tactics around this kid. At that time, the Forest team... gathers a large number of outstanding players around Wood and will be extremely powerful.

"Then he still has a long way to go. It not only requires training, but also experience."

"He's still young anyway." Looking at Wood running on the field, Don Eun added, "I'm still very young too..."

After the Forests' corner kick was taken, Pique's header was directly taken by Cech, and then Chelsea launched a quick counterattack.

Cech threw the ball with his hand, and Barak received the ball and passed the ball to Essin, who passed the ball to Lampard.

It also passes the midfield quickly. Mourinho doesn't want to confront the midfielders of Nottingham Forest here. Although the Forest team does not have world-class lineups like Barack, Essin and Marklele.

But a George Wood was enough to give him a headache.

After Lampard got the ball, he chose to shoot directly. He shot from a long shot at 28 meters away. He wanted to hit Van der Sar off guard, but he didn't expect to miss the goal.

After a brief sigh at Stamford Bridge, applause was replaced immediately.

"The two sides have a beautiful offense after the opening... Maybe this game will present us with a completely different Nottingham Forest and Chelsea?" This is the commentator's beautiful wish.

This desire in his next game was shattered by ruthless reality.

The Forest quickly chose the defensive counterattack tactic, and Chelsea did not have many ways to defend against the Forest. The European Champions League semi-finals were trapped in a quagmire five minutes after the start of the start.

Defense, mistakes, steals. These are all the keywords of the game in these ten minutes. After both sides contributed a shot, their offense suddenly became silent.

Ten minutes later, he received the first yellow card. Marklele tackled Van der Fate in defense, but was warned by the referee for being too big of an action.

Both head coaches wanted their football to pass through the midfield quickly. At the same time, they didn't want the opponent to pass through the midfield quickly, so the midfield became the most intense area of ​​the war and a strategic place where both sides would not give in.

Most of the time, football was wandering around the midfield, and appeared at the foot of the Forest, and in an instant, it ran to Chelsea again.

Because everyone is focusing on the midfield, the offensive efficiency is pitifully inefficient. The number of shots in threatening ways is no more than five fingers.

This situation was something that Don En was happy to see, so he turned his head and sat back on the coach's seat. On the other side, Mourinho walked out of the coach's seat.

In the away game, Donn's baseline is a draw and away goal, so he can sit firmly on Diaoyutai after the game is deadlocked. And Mourinho, as the side of the home game, has a lot of pressure and he must win.

Mourinho, wearing a light blue shirt, rolled his sleeves to his elbow and was waving his arms hard to keep pushing forward, while roaring into the field.

The team's offense was at a deadlock. He was in a serene position, wandering back and forth between the command area and the coach's seat.

Tang En glanced at him squintedly, wondering if Mourinho had to take a shower and change clothes during the intermission. Look at his light blue shirt, which had gradually oozed out sweat...

"The game took twenty minutes and the ball possession rate came out. According to statistics, Chelsea had the upper hand, with 69% of their ball possession rate against 31% of Nottingham Forest, which is a huge gap.

But Chelsea players are not easy at all. Having a ball possession rate but not causing goals is Chelsea’s biggest problem now. Nottingham Forest...if.

I mean if the Forest wins in the end, then it is really a typical 'Tony Don't' game - winning the most important game with the ugly scene. But that would be a disaster for us fans..."

Tang En, sitting on the coaching seat, simply crossed his legs, and he was deliberately annoyed someone.

It doesn't matter if the busy person can't see it now. Tang En believes that sensitive TV broadcasts will definitely be captured, and the effect will be the same after the game.

It’s messy, the better, the more messy Chelsea can’t find the offensive route, and the more messy they don’t have to check the loopholes in their defense line... That would be the best!

Mourinho paced back and forth on the sidelines for a while before sitting back. After seeing Don En's restless posture, he suddenly became uneasy.

"George Wood is not a god, he alone cannot replace the entire defense line..." He murmured to his assistant beside him while sitting in the coaching seat.
To be continued...