Both sides entered the game from the first second.

There was no warm-up, no temptation, no feint attack, from the first second, both sides completely entered the state, and each attack was aimed at the goal.

Gerald tried a long shot and almost scored. Fortunately, Van der Sar was very focused and hit the football with both fists. Facing Gerald's long shot, he didn't dare to hold it directly with both hands, for fear of losing his hand.

This powerful long shot instantly exploded the atmosphere of Louis II's stadium.

Don Eun sat in the coaching seat, behind him was a stand for the Reds Liverpool fans. Huge cheers filled every inch of space around him, stirring his eardrums. He had long been used to this, and he didn't even twist his head, but was just considering his own problems.

It seems that Liverpool really can't wait to defeat itself. The only question now is - is this what Benitez means or what Liverpool players think?

He turned his head to look at the coaching seat next door at Liverpool. Benitez sat in his position, surrounded by his assistants. Don could not see his expression or hear what they were saying.

The Forest team has never been afraid of meeting a team that can't wait to win, or the Forest team likes to encounter such a team the most. They launch fierce attacks as soon as they come up and bombard the Forest team's goal. They are eager to penetrate the goal with two or three shots and take the lead.

In that case, the forests' best defensive counterattack will be useful.

Donn decided to wait for a few minutes to see Liverpool’s true intentions before making a decision.

In the first five minutes, Liverpool took advantage of their kick-off opportunity to siege the Forests' goal. Nottingham Forest also cooperated with shrinking the defense line, allowing the opponent to press forward to attack.

Judging from the scene alone, anyone will conclude that "Nottingham Forest is in a passive terrain and is in a mess by Liverpool's powerful attack." But a real expert will not see it this way.

For those who are familiar with the Forest team, this is the most dangerous time for the Forest team opponents.

Have you seen a spring? Before it is about to rebound, it will definitely be compressed into a ball by external force. The strength of its rebound is related to the degree of compression before. If a sharp knife is installed at the top of this spring, then when it rebounds...

The three lines of the Forests contracted very tightly, except Eastwood. Everyone else came back to participate in the defense. No matter how strong Liverpool's offensive was, these three lines were kept in good condition.

It's like a spring that has been compressed to the extreme...

"Liverpool's offensive is very strong, but let's look at Coach Tony Donn, he doesn't seem to be worried. Of course, Forest's football always stabilizes its defense first and then needs opportunities to attack. It's not a matter of being suppressed by others like this." The commentator's tone was sarcastic. No one would like to regard defense as more important than offense. Donn't say that the Forest is not popular.

While securing defense, seeking offensive opportunities. This kind of thing no longer requires Done to stand on the sidelines and use gestures to remind players. Most of the players of the Forest team know what to do. Those who don’t know must be newcomers who have just joined the team this summer. In the starting list of this Forest team, only Beckham has recently joined the team.

Whether at Manchester United or Real Madrid, the football that Beckham comes into contact with is always an offensive and advocating offensive football. Except for his last season at Real Madrid, he rarely thinks of paying so much attention to defense in the game.

After coming to the Forest team, the defense accounted for a large proportion in training, and he needed to adapt from the beginning.

Fortunately. He has been a midfielder at Real Madrid. Even if he plays on the right forward, he will actively participate in defense. Although his defense level is average, his mentality is very correct. This is enough.

In this game, Donn made Beckham starter not only value his tireless running and professionalism, but also needed to rely on his set pieces and crosses from the wing.

Van der Sar saved Torres' close shot, and he pressed the ball firmly under his body, without giving other opponents the chance to make a follow-up shot. Although Akinfeyev returned to the team from Russia this season. But for a period of time, Russia's number one goal may need to sit on the bench to adapt to the Premier League.

Van der Sar got up and threw the football in his hand to Beckham who came back to pick him up. All the attacking players of the Forest team rushed up. Ribery, Van Nystruei, Van der Fate, Eastwood... were all in the frontcourt. Only Beckham ran back to the front of the penalty area to receive the ball.

This is a new offensive tactic of the Forest team. It uses Beckham's precise long pass to help the team get rid of the opponent's crazy blockade in the midfield and directly hit the opponent's defense line. Except for the possibility of his forward narrowly into the opponent's offside trap... everything else is fine.

After receiving the football, Beckham turned around and prepared to pass it a long time. But as soon as he turned around, he was pushed down by Gerald.

The referee's whistle sounded. Signed for Liverpool to commit a foul. But such a foul will neither give Gerald a yellow card nor have any verbal warnings. Instead, a counterattack from the Forests was ended in the cradle.

Forests took a free kick in the backcourt, and Pepe's long pass was pushed back by Liverpool's Danish central defender Daniel Agger (daniel_agger). Forests had no chance to fight back. At this time, Liverpool was all within 30 meters. Forests had no other good way to break through Liverpool's defense except for looking for opportunities outside.

Donn's brow frowned. He thought he probably knew what Benitez was going to do.

It seems that the Liverpool people are still blinded by anger...

When it's time to attack, it's time to recover very quickly. If the Forest team wants to play fast attack, they will try every means to delay, even if it's a foul.

The tactics are clear and the players are decisive in their execution.

It seems that this game is not easy to play.

The more severe the spring is compressed, the greater the attack power caused by the rebounding force. This is common sense. This is the principle of defensive counterattack.

But what if the force applied to the spring suddenly exceeds the force that the spring itself can bear? What if the added force is not simply from top to bottom?

What would that result?

"Calm" sound.

"Fernando Torres!!" The commentator shouted the Spanish scorer's name, and Liverpool No. 9 was spreading her arms to accept the congratulations from his teammates.

At the eleventh minute of the game, just as Donne racked his brains to think about how to deal with Liverpool's tactics, Forest's goal fell.

After a beautiful frontcourt cooperation, Gerrard attracted Wood's attention after taking the ball, and then he successfully brought Wood out of his defense area. He then made a long shot. Just as all the Forest players were focusing on him, he pushed the football under his feet straight out. Torres inserted it from the front of the back line and came in a small-scale counter-offside. He received the ball behind the defenders of the Forests. The next thing was simple. He pushed the shot from the far corner while Van der Sar had not blocked the shooting angle. The football easily rolled into the goal.

Liverpool led 1:0 in the eleventh minute. This made the Reds fans at Louis II stadium cheer, while the Forest fans were temporarily silent.

Tang En sat on the coach's seat and scratched his head. This was his only move after seeing the ball concealed. He jumped up from his seat without anger and then dropped the water bottle in his hand. The opponent's tactical cooperation was very exquisite, and his own defense made an inertial mistake. At that moment, the defensive players only looked at whose feet the ball was at. He really didn't need to be too angry at the ball concealed.

Besides, the game has only eleven minutes to begin, and the Forest team still has time. He is not in a hurry.

Thinking of this, Tang En adjusted his sitting position and crossed his legs again.

If the spring is pressed too hard on the ground, it may be broken and deformed. But for Tang En, it is just one spring that turns into two, two into four, four into eight, eight into sixteen...

The leading Liverpool continued to strengthen the offensive against Forest in the first half. They were not satisfied with one goal, and Benitez also knew that the reason why one goal was the most unsafe to lead.

Nottingham Forest is completely at a disadvantage in the face of the strong Liverpool. Of course, this is still the view of outsiders. Tang En doesn't think it's just "at a disadvantage". He still remembers that when he was obsessed with martial arts novels in high school, he read Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". There is a sentence in it that is very applicable to the current situation and also very suitable for summarizing the Forest's football tactics style:

He is strong, and he is strong, and the breeze blows through the hills; he is letting him go. The bright moon shines on the river.

No matter how powerful the enemy is, no matter how vicious he is, he can be regarded as a breeze blowing through the mountains. The bright moon reflects the river, although it can be added to me, it will not be damaged at all. But how can we not harm my body?

He comes from his own way and he is evil, and I am full of my true energy.

In the football world, it means that as long as we are strong enough, we will not be led by our opponents. No matter how strong they attack, our defensive formation is maintained intact, disciplined and unified in thought, the opponent's attack will be nothing but a breeze blowing across the hills and the projection of the bright moon on the river, without any threat.

This is the temperament of a strong team, and it is a manifestation of self-confidence.

Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, the besieged Forest team is in danger and may lose the ball at any time, but the Forest people themselves know how safe they are now.

The goal was lost just an accident. It was enough to happen once.

The Liverpool players on the court have now deeply experienced the "mountain" football style of Nottingham Forest. It seems that they attack around their opponents, and their chances are several times higher than those of the opponent, but what about the number of times they can truly threaten the opponent's goal? There are only a handful of them.

Moreover, everyone knows that the Forests are good at defensive counterattacks, which will make Liverpool players unconsciously think of their attacks after they attack. Although Benitez's tactics have arranged this point, people's psychological inertia is terrible. Nottingham Forest has repeatedly staged a quick sneak attack in various competitions to kill their opponents. If you don't let them think about them, you won't think about it?

The result of this over time is that before the first half has been played, Liverpool players are obviously tired. Apart from that goal, they can no longer start the situation in the frontcourt, and they may be attacked by the opponent at any time. How can they not be tired?

As we all know, Tang En is actually a complete Chinese. He has a very strong Chinese background. These things are not only reflected in the relatively superficial Chinese language and the preference for eating Chinese food.

After he became the head coach of the Forests, he was slowly thinking about how to integrate Eastern wisdom and modern football?

The Forest Team’s tactics are integrated into the wisdom of "The Art of War".

"Fenglin Volcano" is influenced by Japanese animation and games. Many people think it comes from Japan. In fact, this is purely "Made in China".

In order to fool Yang Yan, Tang En's bookshelf had placed a lot of books related to China. Tang En often read very few, and like the "×× Travel Notes" that he left aside, but "The Art of War" was a book that Tang En often reads and studied.

"The Art of War. Military Competition" says: "Therefore, it is as fast as the wind, its slow as the forest, its invasion is like fire, and it is as motionless as the mountain, and it is difficult to know it is as dark as the yin. Move like thunder and shock."

This sentence is a highly summarized of the Forest Team’s tactics:

As fast as the wind when attacking, as if waiting for opportunities, as if the forest is clean, as fast as the fire when attacking, as fast as the fire, and as calm as the mountain when defending, making it difficult for the enemy to guess your intentions. In that case, once it moves, it will be like thunder and shaking and unstoppable.

Quietness is the defense, attack means movement. Quietness is the root of movement. Movement is the minister of quietness, and offense is based on the defensive ground. Most of the time, both sides confront and defend in a quiet manner, and the attack to solve the problem is often a matter of moment. It is like after the Forest team defended for 89 minutes, they used a quick as lightning strike to make the opponent unexpectedly sneak attack.

Of course, Tang En did not read "The Art of War" to his team members. Although there is a translation of the British Museum, he doesn't have to worry about his poor translation. He just thinks that telling these words to his subordinates is a proof of the leader's low level because they have no understanding of themselves. He can only copy the books. He himself incorporates Sun Tzu's many wisdoms in the Art of War into daily training and competition command.

The things of the ancestors of China have been tested for more than two thousand years, and have not been eliminated and are still being promoted. This proves that it is indeed unique and does make modern people feel ashamed of. Although the level of Chinese football is extremely low, Tang En never thinks that everything in China is low. At least he thinks that using the ancient wisdom of the Eastern way can also lead the team to win.

I love Chinese culture. That's not just a vulgar excuse for me to speak Chinese in the future. I really love the culture of this country. Because they have never been outdated and have surpassed this era.

Still moving. Xu Rulin's Nottingham Forest finally found a good opportunity in the last moment of the first half. Three Forest players completed three passes at the front of Liverpool's penalty area, and then the football flew into Liverpool's goal.

George Wood cut off the counterattack in Liverpool and launched a counterattack in the counterattack. He passed the ball to Ribery, who then passed it to Van Nistruy, who van Nistruy shot in front of the shot.

Reina was blocked by her own people and her reaction was slowed by half a beat and she had no time to watch the ball enter the net.

This is a sneak attack, a sneak attack as fast as the wind and as fierce as the fire.

Benitez knew that Nottingham Forest had been defending like this and had to fight back, but he didn't know when the Forest team would fight back - if someone knew about it, it wouldn't be called a sneak attack.

He did not expect that Nottingham Forest chose to fight back at the last moment of the first half after 45 minutes of tightening the nerves and fighting.

Those who are surrounded and beaten may not be the most embarrassing, and those who are surrounded and beaten may not be the most relaxed.

It is as fast as the wind, as slow as the forest, as invading as fire, as unmoving as mountains, as difficult to know as yin, as moving as thunder.
Chapter completed!