Chapter 86: Waiting to stop and clean up the old mountains and rivers

Chelsea did not score a penalty, and Nottingham Forest did not seize the subsequent counterattack opportunity. The two sides were even, although everyone was unwilling to give in, there was nothing they could do.

Chelsea players began to have physical problems, and they were experienced and slowed down. Instead of pressing the whole game, they reclaimed the defense line and compressed their backcourt space, and did not give the Forest a chance to fight back quickly. They just dealt with each other and slowly recovered their physical strength.

Nottingham Forest thought that in 70 minutes, Chelsea would face a double blow in morale and physical fitness. But unexpectedly, Carvalho's foul seemed to arouse their fighting spirit. The whole game was pressed away, but the retreating defense line was organized in an orderly manner, so the Forest team could not find too many ways to attack their hinterland.

On the court, Don En didn't expect the game to evolve into this way. Chelsea players seemed to have not been affected by the penalty kick at all, and they were still full of fighting spirit and wanted to deal with the forest to the end.

Tang En, who was sitting on the coaching seat, smacked his lips: "Zhou Xuan? OK, I will waste time with you. Let's see who can afford it!"

He is not in a hurry. Anyway, the Forest team is now leading the total score. If Chelsea is not in a hurry to attack, they will be eliminated when the time comes. Nottingham Forest is happy to defeat the opponent without bloodshed. If Chelsea intends to counterattack wildly at the last moment, the Forest team will follow the scheduled strategy to hit the opponent's quick counterattack behind the opponent. If one goal can be scored, they can completely defeat the opponent. Even if they cannot score, they can use constant sneak attacks to harass the opponent, so that they cannot devote themselves to the attack.

"Pay attention to defense!!" Tang En, who made up his mind to play with the opponent to the end, stood up, walked to the sidelines, and shouted loudly inside. Remind the team to pay attention to the team shape during defense, and not to be attacked by sneak attacks but instead. "Stay calm down, don't worry! Play with them slowly!" He pressed down with both hands, so that the players on the Forest team knew what he meant.

I just wanted to ask that Nottingham Forest, who played in Chelsea in the 30-meter area, was indeed full of offensive rhythm, with fewer forward passes. The number of passes in horizontal and backward increased significantly. Everyone is not fools, and now they are leading the score, so they should not be the ones who are eager to attack.

Five minutes passed, and the score and situation on the field did not change at all. Mourinho couldn't sit still, he looked at his watch and stood up from the coach's seat.

If you want to rest, it's time to rest.    There is fifteen minutes left in the game, and Chelsea still has not qualified for promotion.   How can it be relaxed?

Can't run? That won't work. Now is the critical moment. Even if you fight your life, you have to run and grab it!

Seeing Mourinho standing on the sidelines with a serious face, Chelsea's players on the court knew what they should do.

That's right, now is not the time to rest, and they are not qualified to rest, even if it's only five minutes.

"Fifteen minutes before the end of the game, Chelsea is active again. They pressed the game again, which is very physically exhausting."

When Don saw Chelsea pushing up again, he smiled.

It seems that Chelsea has no way out and has no choice but to score the goal, defense can't take care of anything. He decided to add another last straw to Chelsea's back.

In the 76th minute, the Forest team substitution. Anelka replaced Eastwood, who was unable to run.

Now, except for Van Nistruei and Van der Fate, the Forest's front-court attack combination is full of people with excellent personal skills and extremely fast speeds. Any of them is qualified to be a quick counterattack to the arrowhead.

Nottingham Forest is determined to carry out the defensive counterattack to the end.

Anelka performed very actively after playing. Of course, he wouldn't do this for Don En. He was just for himself. His two agent brothers have repeatedly reminded him that since he didn't have many opportunities to play this season, teams that were still interested in him said that they need to re-examine whether Anelka would be introduced. After all, it's hard to say how in a player who can't even participate in the game.

If he wants to leave Nottingham Forest this summer and find a team that satisfies him, he needs to show his level with limited opportunities to play and tell the hesitant buyers: Anelka is all good. Whether it is physical or in good condition.

With this idea, Anelka is a bit independent whenever he comes on the court. He is trying his best to show himself, and at the same time, he slowly pushes himself away from Nottingham Forest, a team that pays more attention to the overall.

When he first came to Nottingham Forest, no one welcomed him except the head coach. He and Don Eun had a very beautiful "honeymoon period", but unfortunately the honeymoon was always short. Now that his football with Don Eun is getting farther and farther away, the good memories of the past have long been thrown into Java.

Maybe it was a "beautiful mistake" that his transfer to Nottingham Forest was originally...

Anelka desperately wants to prove himself in limited opportunities. The football is at his feet. Basically don't expect it to be passed. Van Nistrui is quite dissatisfied with this. He is a center forward, but when the team needs it, he can even run back from the opponent's penalty area to the penalty area to tackle the enemy's attack. He will not frown if he needs to play a wall in the frontcourt to pass the ball for his teammates.

In the heart of this Dutch veteran, serving the team as a whole is normal. As long as the team needs it, he can sacrifice his shooting opportunity and pull out and create space for other teammates to insert it. He and Anelka play completely different footballs.

These two people are not in any way able to cooperate with each other.

Both Don and Chris Lack saw this situation off the court. Don was silent and did not ask any questions about it. However, Chris Lack couldn't help it. He asked Don directly: "Tony, you asked Anelka to go up to try to hit the opponent's quick counterattack, right? But he disrupted the entire attack rhythm... Are there some inappropriate substitutions?"

Donn looked at Anelka's back and shook his head: "No, this is a kind of gambling in itself. He is the only one who agrees with the requirements on our front line, so he can only be allowed to play. As for his problem of blocking our other offensive routes... half of the pros and cons are each, and there are definitely risks. You can't expect us to take Chelsea and David smoothly. Most of the time, people always have to face one or another choice, and I like to use gambling to describe these choices."

Chris Lack shook his head: "You are such a fanatical gambler. Tony!"

Don Eun laughed, said nothing more, and continued to stare at the game.

Nottingham Forest players have a good mentality. Although Anelka is outside the team's tactical system, it does not affect their interest in dealing with the increasingly anxious Chelsea people.

Time is poison. As it passes, the Forests' mentality will get better and better, and Chelsea's anxiety will become more and more obvious, and it will be manifested through continuous proactive mistakes.

Don En sat back on the coach's seat. Mourinho had been standing on the sidelines long ago and no longer moved.

It is not that Don Eun must be better than Mourinho. The two head coaches performed completely differently in the last stage of this game. The root cause is the result of the first round.

If that game was Chelsea's 2-1 home victory over Nottingham Forest, then the person who was anxious and restless under this score should be Done, not Mourinho.

Why could Sima Yi make Zhuge Liang helpless and eventually die in a foreign land? Star falls into the Wuzhangyuan. It is not that Sima Yi's ability is better than Zhuge Liang, because the two of them have different outbound countries and different mentalities.

Zhuge Liang must break through Sima Yi's defense line and take over the State of Wei, and he must take the initiative. He must attack.

Sima Yi just needs to keep a firm foothold and let the other party provoke outside the formation just ignore it, not go out to fight, and do not give Zhuge Liang a chance to fight to the death. It is like a turtle shrouding head. Although it is a bit embarrassed and a little embarrassed, the actual effect is very good - Sima Yi won the game of chess.

Just like this game, Mourinho is Zhuge Liang. In order to advance to the final, he had no other way but attack. And because of the victory in the first round, Tang En had the option of adapting to changes and following Mourinho's adjustments. He dragged Chelsea to death, and at this time he was Sima Yi.

The game time on the big screen entered the last ten minutes.

The score next to time is still 1:1, and it has not changed for a long time.

Chelsea has almost been under pressure from the entire army, and completely ignored the nearly half of the empty space behind the court, which will be used by the Forests' fast attacking players.

In the last ten minutes, if you don’t fight hard, you will have no chance.

This is a game that must be fought to win...

Chelsea got a corner kick, and Terry and Carvalho rushed into the penalty area. The corner kick was taken, and Carvalho competed for the top of the front point, but did not hit the ball under the interference of Kompany. Instead, the football leaked to Terry behind him.

Terry and Pique fought in the air. In the end, Terry, who had more experience, pressed Pique and pushed the ball towards the goal.

Pique did not completely fail. The competition with Terry forced Terry to choose an angle in the air, so he could only win... The football was thrown directly into Van der Sar's arms.

Van der Sar drove the ball out with big feet, but soon the football fell at the feet of the Chelsea player, and another crazy offensive hit the Forest goal.

This time, Drogba's long-range shot outside the penalty area directly fired the anti-aircraft gun. Seeing this shot, Tang En laughed happily below. This kind of shot really hit the morale of his teammates too much - he worked hard to pass the ball to you. In the absence of time and every offensive opportunity is particularly precious, you actually came with the anti-aircraft gun so hasty!

"If we can finally advance, I have to go and hug the big black guy." Tang En said to the two assistant coaches around him with a smile.

Chris Lak did not have the same mood as Tang En. He kept frowning and paying attention to the situation on the field. He was afraid that when he was besieged by the other party, his side would make mistakes that he should not have made, and all his eighty-minute efforts were wasted.

He is not a coach who advocates defense. Every time he sees his team's goal being besieged by his opponent, he is always worried, although he has seen the overall defense ability of the Forest team many times in his daily training...

No matter how strong the defense is, it will be the day when the ground is broken. Chris Lack has a bad premonition in his heart.

Mourinho has used up all three substitutions, and all the offensive players who have been replaced are: Karau, Barack and Sean Wright Phillips.

Apart from the wonderful pass he gave to Robben, Shepchenko has never been integrated into Chelsea from beginning to end. In the end, Mourinho, who could not bear it, finally replaced his boss with a very important position in the Earth. At this critical moment, he no longer believed in the "nuclear warhead" that once shocked all directions.

When Abramovich in the box saw that Shepchenko was substituted, he stood up politely and applauded the star he admired the most with a smile. Say goodbye to the former Soviet Union fellow villager and leave the stadium. I wonder if he would think that Shepchenko's back of bid farewell to the stadium was also a scene that Chelsea is about to present.

After Shepchenko left the stadium and entered the bench and the people in the box could no longer see, the Russian rich man's face was ashen. Four years have passed, his team has never taken another step forward in the Champions League, and his best result is to reach the semi-finals. Three years ago, because of Ranieri's stupid performance in the Champions League, he fired the Italian pot maker and invited Mourinho, the magical coach who had just won the European Champions League. Hope he brought the glory he had always dreamed of to Chelsea.

He looked coldly at Mourinho, who was standing on the sidelines, waving his arms to direct the game, with no expression on his face, as if he was a piece of iron. No one knew what he was thinking about at this moment.

At this time, there are only five minutes before the end of the game. Unless a miracle happens, Chelsea will definitely be eliminated.

Don Eun didn't want to create a miracle for Chelsea, so he immediately used the last substitution place in his hand.

Unlike Mourinho, all the offensive adjustments, Donn made a defensive adjustment this time. He replaced Van Nistruei with Albertini. In this way, Anelka became a single arrow. Albertini and George Wood were partnering in the middle of the midfield. Both of them were defensive, as if they were a pair of pliers, trying to cut off Chelsea's offensive route.

Albertini received the order and quickly moved the coach's latest tactics to everyone.

"We defend! Don't give Chelsea any chance!"

Chelsea went out in full swing. There was a kind of tragic feeling of "to die generously". On this slightly cool night in Nottingham, tens of thousands of Chelsea fans could only bit their lips and couldn't speak.

The Forests' defense erected a thick wall of ground and a wall of sighs in front of them. Faced with this strict overall defense. What else can Chelsea fans do besides sighing?

Mourinho no longer waved his arms because it was meaningless. He asked the whole team to press on, without considering defense. Now, except for goalkeeper Cech, everyone has pushed over the center line. And once there is a chance to get a corner kick, he has no doubt that Cech will rush up.

The Chelsea radio commentator shouted at the top of his lungs: "Goal! Goal! We only need one goal to change everything that is damn!"

In the bar in London, in the stands at the city stadium. Some Chelsea fans in blue have closed their eyes in pain and cannot bear to look at them anymore.

But the game is not over yet, and the Chelsea soldiers are still struggling. How much do they want to hear cheers from the stands? But in the sky, there are only the indulgent cheers from Nottingham Forest fans and the red fireworks set off in advance.

The fourth official raised an electronic prompt on the sidelines. The numbers on it were the injury stoppage time of this game and would also be Chelsea's last hope for advancement.

5.

"Five minutes of injury time. Everything is not at the end. Chelsea still has a chance. In five minutes, just score another goal. You can equalize the total score and offset the away goals of both teams at the same time. The game will be dragged into overtime at that time... It can be seen that the Chelsea players are exhausted, but I must say that even if you enter overtime exhausted and fight another thirty minutes, you will definitely fail here!"

While talking, Chelsea won another corner kick. This was their tenth corner kick in this game. Sure enough, Cech ran out of the goal and ran all the way. Lampard, who was responsible for taking the corner kick, stopped and waited for him after seeing Cech running here.

"Chech, who is 1.97 meters tall, appears in the penalty area of ​​the Forest team. He is the highest height in the team now, maybe..."

Lampard drove the corner kick and looked directly over Cech's head. He bet on Cech, who was very tall and outstanding.

"Peter Cech! Head-to-head attack - Zimbonda! Zimbonda, who was standing near the post, blocked Cech's header on the goal line! The Forest team escaped again..."

Cech, who had no goal, did not turn around and run back to the goal. Anyway, it is no difference whether it is 1:2 or 1:3 at this time. It is better to stay in front and look for a better opportunity and be a hero in the end.

The football is at the feet of Chelsea, and the Chelsea players pass it back and forth.

Forest is on this side, the substitutes and coaches are standing shoulder to shoulder on the sidelines, waiting to rush into the stadium to celebrate.

Chris Lack yelled on the sidelines: "Snatch their ball! They are empty goals! Snatch it... Damn!"

George Wood's tackle against Lampard was swung by the opponent. Just as Lampard was about to shoot, Albertini broke out from the diagonal and crossed the line of Lampard's shooting.

He stabbed the ball under Lampard with one kick, then followed the ball with another, passing the ball to Van der Fate.

The city stadium was deafening and cheering. At this moment, the commentator on the scene could hardly hear what he was saying even with soundproof headphones. He could only keep increasing the volume, as if he was arguing: "Chelsea lost the ball! Cech has not returned yet... Nottingham Forest faces an empty goal! Van der Fate chose to shoot directly-"

The football drew a parabola in the air and fell towards Chelsea's empty goal seventy-five meters away!

Cech was halfway through running and looked up at the football that had already flown in front of him. He slowed down and stopped running... It was useless to run. Can people catch up with the flying football? He can only do one thing now, which is to pray that God will let the ball miss.

Everyone's eyes were attracted by the ball. Everyone looked up and their eyes followed the football flying in the air. The hearts behind these eyes were either surprised, excited, full of expectations, or panic.
To be continued...