Chapter 12 New Records

Although in Liverpool City, Liverpool has a greater reputation than their city rival Everton and has won more championships. But in fact, the glorious Liverpool split from Everton, a bit like the double AC Milan and Inter Milan in Milan City, Italy. However, Everton and Liverpool split because of whether to continue to rent Anfield Stadium...

In terms of history, Everton is much longer than Liverpool. Everton was one of the seven promoters of the founding of the English League, which is quite like a "Seven Elders". In 1891, Everton won the first League One championship in their club's history. The next year, it split into two factions because of whether to continue to rent Anfield Stadium. On the other hand, the crowded side moved out to the Goodison Park Stadium.

Although Everton is not as famous as Liverpool now and his overseas supporters are not as good as those of the city's rivals, they are indeed a traditional powerhouse in English football: nine times the English League One (the top league in England at that time), five times the FA Cup, and one time the Winners Cup.

Now, under the leadership of head coach Moyes, this Everton can stabilize in the middle of the game every year, playing the League Cup and other games, and entering the Champions League is the biggest goal.

Unlike Nottingham Forest, Everton's achievements have basically been like this for more than a hundred years, with little ups and downs. There are neither particularly brilliant moments nor dark years. Just like the color of their jerseys, they are stable and calm.

Nottingham Forest is the most famous meteor in English football history. It has been established for more than 100 years, and suddenly burst into dazzling light in the late 1970s and early 80s. It won the Champions League for two consecutive years, unbeaten for 42 top league games, and defeated the then European giant Liverpool twice in a year. Aston Villa, who also won the Champions League championship, is not as shocking as Nottingham Forest brought to England and European football. Now they are the only team that has won a domestic league championship once but has won the Champions League three times.

In the early 1990s, it once shone with dazzling light across the sky. It disappeared into the darkness. Until the appearance of Tang En...

Nottingham Forest seems to be such a team, either particularly bad or particularly good. Today's Forest team is obviously in a "specially good" historical period. They are visiting Goodison Park Stadium. Although they are away games, they are unanimously favored before the game.

Let’s take a look at the titles the media has given them—“European Champion” “Strong Contender for the New Season League Championship” “One of the top five in the Premier League” “The terrifying red storm”…

Only Moyes refused to admit these titles in an interview before the game, which would help the Forest defeat his team: "...The Forest won the Champions League and the first game of the league, the honor only belongs to the past. Whoever wins and loses in today's game. It depends on who performs better."

Donn agrees deeply: "I think Moyes is right. Although we are European champions, if we lose at Goodison Park, we will be ridiculed. Those titles will only take effect if you can win. If you can't win, then be bye."

It seems that the head coaches of both sides are very clear-headed, and the media's transfer has not worked. They have found Arteta.

In this game, except for Beckham's first game back to the Premier League, there is really a lack of other highlights. So Mikel Arteta, a current Everton player who followed the Forests to win the Champions League, naturally became another focus of media attention.

Although he left Nottingham Forest, Arteta did not say bad things about Forest. He did not deny that he transferred to Everton to get more opportunities to play, but he did not regret the two and a half years spent in Nottingham Forest: "...If I had to make another choice, I would still choose to join Forest. There, I would have benefited a lot from training with the best players in the world.    It has helped me a lot in my future career.   In addition, Coach Donn does not think he is a good person as you say in the media.

Then the reporters sarcastically said in the lattice media: "I'm afraid Anelka and Ashley Yang don't think so..."

Of course, although there are two head coaches and Arteta to play the cushion. But the biggest focus of this game is David Beckham.

An hour before the game started, the Forest team's starting lineup had been delivered to reporters from various media, and David Beckham's name was listed.

In this game, only Beckham and Al Shavin started the game among the new players. Sidwell, Rafinia, and Akinfeyev were all on the bench, and Grosso did not get the qualification to join the roster to join the team to Goodison Park Stadium.

Eastwood felt muscle aches during yesterday's training to adapt to the field, and out of caution, Don put him on the bench.

Although Beckham's appearance on the starting list satisfies the audience's wishes, it also arouses a new round of suspicion among the media - they doubt that the old Beckham will appear in the starting list. Is it because Donn was under pressure from the club's senior management?

When the team came to Goodison Park Stadium to warm up before the game, Tang En got out of the car and was interviewed by reporters. When asked this question, he replied impatiently: "Nonsense! I have the final say for whom to play or not. What kind of club senior management pressure? Even the Queen and the Prime Minister have no choice but to point fingers at the team's lineup in front of me!"

He is very unhappy with many media now focusing on Beckham's commercial value rather than competitive value. But the performance of these media also made him clear that it seems that Beckham still has a difficult road to re-establish his image. The impression he has formed for a long time cannot be changed by a league championship overnight. If Beckham joins the team, the team is surrounded by various media and rumors all day long and does not win a championship in the end. At that time, countless people will definitely jump out to accuse Tony. Donn of the first choice to sign in with Beckham. David Beckham and himself will become the sinners of the team's failure.

This is not what Tang En hopes to see.

He also hopes that Beckham will give him some excitement on the court, use his excellent performance to prove that his vision is correct, and reduce pressure on him.

This first game must be played well, and everyone is looking forward to it. Countless pairs of eyes are looking at his team, and some people are holding magnifying glasses. Waiting for the jumping team to have a problem in the game, then magnify countless times in the media and criticize it.

Don’t think that winning a European Champions League is so great. People who like him like him like him more, while those who hate him hate him even more. All kinds of criticism will not be restrained at all because of how many championships he has won.

The temperature on August 10th was very high, and the weather on August 11th was the same. At 3 pm, the game as the opening match was in the scorching sun. The referee began with a whistle.

Goodison Park Stadium is full, Everton fans occupy half of the land, Nottingham Forest fans gathered in the visiting stands to cheer for their team. Perhaps before the game started, the people sitting in the stands were still complaining that the weather was too hot today, which made them almost heatstroke.

But when the game started, no one thought about such a trivial matter.

The singing in the stands was shocking, and everyone was waving their arms hard. He shouted loudly. What is heat? The enthusiasm of our fans is hotter than the weather! What is the sunshine? Running in such a strong sunshine and sweating is a man’s exercise!

"Van Nystruei has partnered with Al Shavin in this game. This is his first forward partner with Al Shavin in the official game. This is also the first Russian striker's debut in the Premier League..."

The commentator began to speak as he thought about opening the remarks before.

The Forest team had already driven the ball out on the court.

Arshavin kicked the football out gently. Van Nistruy winked at him. He understood that he would no longer care about the ball and rushed forward.

Van Nistroy passed the football back to Van der Fate on the middle circle line. At the same time, Ribery on the left also rushed forward at full speed.

So far, everything is normal. It is a kickoff that is so regular that it can't be more regular.

Al Shavin was still rushing forward, but Everton's men didn't care about him. Anyway, he would not be in an offside position until he continued to rush forward.

The key is who the ball is.

Van der Fate did not let the football stay under his feet for an extra second. As soon as the ball rolled over, he divided the football to the right.

Unlike the rushing forward of the leverbery, Beckham, who started on the right, was still standing behind the center line at this time, and had no intention of going up.

Ribery and Arshavin continued to run forward, as if they were not playing football. They were running in a hundred meters.

Beckham stopped the ball and looked up.

The right side of the court is on the coach's seat, and Beckham's current position is very close to Moyes. Seeing this scene, he suddenly felt familiar, and then his heart jumped wildly.

"Don't let him..." Before he could finish his words, he saw Beckham in front of him swing his feet on the spot and whipped the football!

Long pass!

When Beckham received the football, the cheers of Forest fans rang out. Now it is getting louder and louder. It completely overwhelmed the booing of Everton fans.

Just as the football flew into the air, Al Shavin seemed to be a bomber appearing in his sight through the clouds. He broke out from behind Everton's entire defense line!

Some of the Everton players raised their arms and signaled that the lineman Arshavin was offside. But the lineman ignored him and just followed Arshavin to continue running downward.

Everton's American goalkeeper Tim Howard's reaction was faster than his defenders' teammates. When he saw Arshavin break out of the defense, he decisively abandoned the goal. The goalkeeper coach would never tell the goalkeeper to give up when it was suspected of offside. Regardless of whether it was offside or not, the goalkeeper must do his job well.

But Beckham's long pass was for Al Shavin, not to pass it to Howard.

At this time, Arshavin looked back at the situation behind. He saw that the football came as promised. Howard is still a little far from him, is he shooting?

Howard saw Arshavin's intentions, and suddenly jumped up, stretched his body in the air, spread his arms, as if he was rushing towards Arshavin. The advantage of doing this is that it successfully sealed the opponent's shooting space. As for the lower part... Generally speaking, when the football bounces up, it is really difficult for the forward to shoot a ball. The goalkeeper is not a god, he can only choose to block one possibility.

A black projection enveloped the short Alshavin's head. Because of the dazzling sunlight, he looked up and couldn't see the other person's expression, but there was no chance to shoot.

Arshavin raised his right leg high, almost swept the ball horizontally in the air. Not being able to shoot does not mean that he can't pass the ball...

Howard attacked, Everton's goal was empty, who was on the other side at this moment?

"Frank Ribery!" the narrator shouted.

Yes, Ribery, who was sprinting at the same time as Al Shavin, finally arrived at the moment when he was most needed.

If the goal is 2.44 meters tall and 7.32 meters wide, if it looks like a dog hole fifty meters away, it looks like... the sky is wide!

The huge empty gate was just ahead of Ribery. The football passed by Arshavin was a little forward, but this was not a problem for Ribery. He exerted force on his left foot and flew forward like this.

"The fish leaps to the top - what_goooal!!!"

"oh_yes!yes!Piao Tianwen, I have already entered the door...

"Ten seconds! This is the new season debut of European champion Nottingham Forest! Beautiful! Wonderful!" The commentator laughed and said. "David Beckham's accurate long pass, Al Shavin's calm mind, and the fast running position with the team's cooperation! This is the characteristic of Nottingham Forest, fast! So fast!"

Tang En led a group of coaches and substitutes to rush out excitedly. He did tell the players before the game that scoring as fast as possible on the away game can completely disrupt the opponent's deployment and give us an advantage in future games. But he did not expect this group of players to do so well.

How many seconds did the fastest goal record in the Premier League have been?

"The result of the electronic computer has come out, and the whole process of scoring took ten seconds. Ribery broke the fastest Premier League goal record of 10:5 seconds held by Alan Hiller and Ridley King!" After the commentator got the latest data, he announced excitedly.

New season, new record. Is there any more perfect start?
Chapter completed!