Chapter 37 Someone at home is waiting(1/2)
The Forest team suffered two consecutive losses in the league, and the most direct effect was that their rankings had declined.
When Tang En played FM games in the past, he once led the team to win consecutive victories. He felt that the team won consecutively and ranked first, and he would have to be second in the standings, so he would have to be second in the standings. As a result, he went to see the league standings and found that the difference between the second place and his score was only three or five points. He was quite surprised at the time and just thought that the computer was too naughty.
Now in reality, Tang En deeply feels that it is not a computer trick, but a fact in football games.
When his team won five consecutive victories and nine rounds of unbeaten history after the start of the new season, he thought that his first and second place would score a lot. But unexpectedly, after losing two games in a row in the league, the Forest fell from first to third place.
It turned out that Arsenal, who had been biting behind their butt, took the opportunity to occupy the first place in the league. Manchester United, who had scored 26 points with them, ranked second because they had fewer goals than Arsenal. Manchester City and Forest had the same points, both had twenty-five points. Manchester City also ranked fourth because they had fewer goals than Forest.
Liverpool ranked fifth, with 21 points in eleven rounds of games.
Ranked sixth is Chelsea led by Mourinho. This team that was incredible in the past few years has now encountered a lot of trouble. The contradiction between Abramovich and Mourinho's sword, the contradiction between Mourinho and technical coach Grant, the contradiction in the locker room... In short, there are many contradictions. If it weren't for the eleventh round, Chelsea beat Manchester City 6-0 at home, the media speculated that Mourinho's life at Stamford Bridge would be over.
The current situation of Chelsea is that everyone thinks that Mourinho will be out of class in the next round of the league, but whenever the next round comes, people find that he is still the person sitting in the position of Chelsea's head coach.
At the beginning of this season, Manchester City's unexpected outbreak made them squeeze into the top four. But Don did not take this team seriously. He knew the most about what Erikson is. What a nouveau riche team like Manchester City lacks sufficient heritage and stability. Their lack of this aspect will inevitably lead to the team's ups and downs in the long season. The most important thing for a team with the ability to win the championship is to "stability". Teams that are not stable enough will be eliminated midway through the season. In Don't think that Manchester City will fall slowly in the league behind. Their 0:6 defeat to Chelsea on the road is a sign.
What Done cares about is the traditional Premier League teams - Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea. Only these four teams are the opponents that can pose a huge threat to Forests' goals this season.
By the way, before this season, Don Eun wrote an article in his column that the team's key goal this season is the league, and he did not say he wanted to win the league championship. But everyone knows that he meant this. After winning the Champions League championship, it is also a normal goal to win the league championship.
With experience from last season, no one will laugh at Tang En as a fool this time, but instead pay more attention to it. Therefore, the resistance of the Forest team in the league is getting greater and greater - since you said you wanted to win the league championship before the league starts, and you are so arrogant and look down on us, then let's show you the best in the league!
The Forest team, which lost two consecutive league games, has given their opponents a chance. They want to take the opportunity to widen the gap between them. Because this period can be said to be the Devil schedule of Forest team - here, the "Devil schedule" does not mean that Forest team has a intensive schedule, and requires a double match or a three-week match, but because Forest team's opponents in this period are not weak recently. Starting from the tenth round, they play Manchester United at home. They play Liverpool away, and these two games have already lost. The 12th round challenged Tottenham Hotspur home away, the 13th round of home away, and the 14th round of home away against Chelsea, and the 14th round of London to play Arsenal away. The 15th round of home away against Manchester City.
Look at this schedule. As soon as the schedule came out, many people turned their attention to October 20th to December 1st. This period was a time when the Premier League’s top players frequently talked and classic battles continued to take place. The majority of fans were looking forward to coming early in such a time period, and they would have many exciting games to watch. The Premier League broadcast also understood the mood of the fans very much, so when arranging the schedule and broadcast schedule, they staggered the game time of these strong conversations. In this way, fans can watch all the exciting games without missing a single game.
The fans are happy. The Forest team is in a miserable state.
During this period, there is still a group match for the Champions League. And since I didn’t win the first two games, if I don’t want the “defensive champion group to qualify” to really happen, they must play well in the next three games, and winning is the only way out. It’s hard to say what will happen under the pressure of fighting on both sides.
In the 12th round of the league, Forests challenged Tottenham Hotspur away. Compared with other opponents in the Devil's schedule, Tottenham Hotspur is still the weaker team. This is the only one of Forests who can win a breathing opportunity in the Devil's schedule - if they can defeat Tottenham. It will effectively prevent the team from further decline. A place to survive in the huge powerful attack.
But if they lose to Tottenham... the situation will become very dangerous. Mourinho's Chelsea will not miss the opportunity to beat the dog, not to mention that he urgently needs to use victory to stabilize his position. Although Don Neng is very suspicious. With the character of Abramovich, even if Mourinho wins him back the Champions League, he may still be fired if he has a bad temper.
Arsenal has no reason to let the Forest at home. In the past two seasons, Nottingham Forest has been incredibly glorious, covering up the glory of a group of traditional strong teams. Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea have all lost to Donne. Although the personal relationship is good, Wenger will not have any special care in the game... No, Coach Wenger's special care is to defeat this "arrogant" friend at home.
With the pressure of having to win, the Forests went to North London. In the end, they withstood the pressure at the White Hart Lane Stadium and beautifully defeated Tottenham Hotspur with a score of 3:1.
This is a very critical victory, so Tang En performed very excitedly in front of many home team fans at White Hart Lane Stadium. This also attracted some criticism after the game. Some people think that his arrogant behavior is disrespectful to his opponents. Tang En doesn't care about those, such criticism is as ordinary as eating and shit. He will also throw all these critical voices behind his butt like excretion.
Some media just hope to become famous by scolding him, and they will not give those people such opportunities.
Tang En still used rotation in this game, but not all eleven people were replaced. His rotation of half of his main players allowed the team to beat Tottenham away and also warmed up for the mid-week Champions League.
Midweek, November 6th. Nottingham Forest will welcome Besiktas, the team proved to be the weakest in the group, at its home court. If you want to determine the qualifying quota early and lay a solid foundation for a stable "devil schedule" in the league, you must win this game. So despite the home game and the opponent is not strong, Tang En decided to send all the main players and use the strongest lineup to welcome the opponent. After all, "I am a visitor from afar"...
Before this game, Tang En hadn't forgotten that there was one thing he had to finish.
Eating a dinner carefully cooked by Shania for him. The two were watching sports news on TV, playing the "Latest News" at noon: Turkey's besiktas has arrived in Nottingham.
Just as the two were watching this news, the red iPhone placed on the coffee table after Don En turned on again made a pleasant music sound, which was a very popular pop song "God is a Girl" from the German orchestra "Groove_coverage".
Both of them were immediately attracted by the phone. Tang En did not get up to pick it up immediately. Shania bit the spoon and smiled wickedly: "The beautiful creditor is here to come."
Tang En glared at her. Then he got up to answer the phone.
Instead of taking his cell phone upstairs, he sat on the sofa to answer. “Hey? Ah… have you arrived in Nottingham? Well… Tonight? Now?” Tang En glanced at the dining table with some embarrassment, “But I haven’t eaten yet, ma’am. treat me to? Uh…” This time Tang En glanced at Shaniya instead.
To his disappointment, Shania was eating with her head down and did not notice his eyes.
"Uh..." He uh another uh.
Shania finally spoke: "It's okay, Uncle Tony. You go." Then she raised her head and smiled at Tang En, "But go early and come back early, be careful of the reporters."
Tang En nodded, agreed to the proposal on his phone, and asked clearly where to meet. Then put on his coat and put his phone in his pocket. Then he called Randy twice with his cell phone and asked him to pick him up.
Before the taxi arrived, Tang En sat at the dining table and started eating.
Shania felt a little surprised: "Isn't someone treating you to a meal? Why do you still eat? You can't eat it for a while."
"I have a strong stomach and I am nicknamed 'Big Eater'." Tang En patted his stomach. Compared to when he was traveling through time, this body has a small belly and his body shape is gradually gaining weight. So it's not a pity that he can eat.
Shania was not as funny as Tang En. She reached out to grab the remote control and switched the TV screen to the news station.
"When did you care about international affairs?" Tang En smiled.
Xianya gave him a look: "Just just now."
The atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward, and at this moment, the sound of car horns sounded outside the house. The savior is here.
Tang En hurriedly said goodbye. Go out.
In the car, Tang En remembered that he had forgotten to ask the owner of the phone's name and appearance and clothing characteristics. How can he recognize the meeting place later?
But after getting off the car, he soon realized that he was over-concerned.
Just as I got off the car, a young woman dressed up passed by, "Is it... Mr. Tony Don?"
Tang En felt very strange, why this stranger knew him, he nodded: "I am. You are..."
"I am its owner." After confirming the identity, the woman's tone of speaking was not as cautious as before. She pointed to the red phone in Tang En's hand and introduced herself.
"Ah..." Tang En looked at the woman in front of him a little. He wanted to see what the crazy fans who dared to smash him with their mobile phones looked like. Under the neon lights on the street, Tang En found that the woman in front of him had black and shiny curly hair. Her facial features were upright, although she was not a beauty, she was worthy of her dignified appearance. He had to sigh again that the fans were the most wonderful creatures in the world and could not guess based on common sense.
Seeing her dressing, she carried a delicate bag and stood on the side of the road, she was a "lady of a noble family".
Facing such a woman, can you imagine her face painted with oil. She raised her middle finger in the stands, pouted and cursed "f u", and did the thing of throwing her phone downward and hitting someone else's head?
It was very impolite to Tang En stare at the other person for a long time, but he was immersed in the shock caused by the huge contrast between the two images and did not notice it. But the other person's face had already sunk, but because his beloved phone was still in the other person's hands, it was inconvenient to attack. She coughed: "Mr. Tang En!"
"Ah...oh! Sorry." Tang En withdrew his gaze and then reacted - why should I apologize! Didn't the other party apologize to himself in person tonight? "Well. I just didn't expect that such a beautiful lady was an avid fan who smashed my head with a mobile phone. She couldn't accept this cruel reality for a moment and was distracted. But this person... damn." He whispered a swear word, "You know I'm Tony Tang En, but I don't know who you are. Isn't that fair?"
"Ask the lady's name rashly, and swearing in front of the lady, like staring at the lady without looking around, it is very impolite. Mr. Tang En." The other party responded in a cold tone.
"Hey." Hearing the other party say this, Tang En turned around and walked towards the taxi parked on the roadside, without any hesitation at all.
The other party didn't expect that Tony Tang En was a person who turned against him and quickly chased after him: "Don't you want to return my phone?"
"I'm sorry, ma'am. I said if you apologize sincerely, I'll repay it. But you don't even want to tell me your name, and I'm too lazy to care about you so much. This phone..." Tang Enyangyangyang's phone in his hand, "I've collected it." After that, he opened the car door and was about to step in.
The woman was quick-witted and stuffed her delicate palms into the crack of the car door. If Tang En wanted to close the door, she would definitely clamp her hand.
"Okay, okay, I apologize, I apologize to you sincerely, and to fully show my sincerity, I will also invite you to dinner." She pointed to the Turkish-style restaurant not far behind her. "The tables are all ordered."
Tang En turned his head and looked at her and asked, "Can you tell me your name now? Madam?"
The woman said reluctantly: "Sila Akjol."
Don Eun took his foot back from the car and said to Randy, who was sitting in front of watching the show: "Sorry, Randy, it seems you have to wait a little longer."
Randy smiled and said, "It's okay, you can go ahead, Tony!"
Then Tang En closed the car door and turned to look at the other party: "Ms. Akyoll..."
"I'm not married yet, and I'm very young."
"Okay, Miss Akjol. You really can't equate you with a football hooligan..."
"I'm not a football hooligan! Only the British Empire produces and exports this kind of thing." She sarcastically.
Unexpectedly, Tang En didn't mind her ridicule of her motherland, and did not retort, just nodded: "Okay, it's just an ordinary fan who is too enthusiastic. I'm very grateful for keeping your promise, so now..." Tang En put the phone in his hand into the other party's hand, "I also want to fulfill a man's promise. It's yours again, Miss Akjol."
After doing this, he opened the car door again and planned to sit in. This time the other party did not put his hands in the crack of the car door, but looked at him strangely: "Did I not explain it clearly? I said I would treat you to a meal to show my sincerity. The location has been set, don't you believe me? Mr. Tony Tangen."
Tang En closed the car door, poked his head out, and said to Sila Akjol, who looked surprised outside, said, "I'm so sorry, thank you for your sincerity. Of course I believe in you, Miss Akjol, I don't doubt the sincerity of such a beautiful lady." Tang En smiled at her. This was the first time that he had smiled when they met. She had always been stern before.
"Oh, I understand, because I am a Besiktas fan, and you are Nottingham Woodland... The head coach is not convenient to have dinner together, right?" Only when he said this did Sila suddenly realize that the other party was the head coach of the team he supported.
Tang En shook his head: "No, I have nothing to do with what I have to eat with whom I have." He thought for a while. "I can't have dinner with me just because, well, because... there are people waiting for me to have dinner at home. We were having dinner when you called..."
Speaking of this, Akyoll nodded with a sudden realization. Tang En knew that she was going to understand it wrong. Sure enough... "I understand. It turns out that Mr. Tang En's wife is waiting for you. I understand this very well." Xira Akyoll clapped her hands. "Then I... well, can I leave my mobile phone number, Mr. Tang En?"
"Why do you want my phone number? You won't be interested in me, right? Miss Akjol?" Tang En teased with a smile. Since the other party could misunderstand him, he didn't mind taking the opportunity to fight back.
"Who would like a man with a wife?" Akjol gave Tangen a blank look. "I just... well, I just think Mr. Tangen is not like the rumored one, um..."
Tang En smiled: "Hey, how about me in the rumor?"
"There are horns on the head. The back is wings, the tail behind the butt, the eyes are fire-breathing, sharp teeth, and the demon whose tongue is longer than a woman's braid." When Akjol tilted his head and said this, his expression was a little cute like a girl.
"Does the Turkish media say the same? All media in the world are just as uncreative..." Tang En sighed. "If I were really a demon, the Forest team would not have played so hard at the Inonu Stadium."
"But you won in the end, and our interference did not affect you at all! I know that you, British media, call Turkey's stadium 'Hell Stadium'. But you still came back alive. What do you say you are not a demon?"
Randy, the driver who eavesdropped in front, couldn't help laughing. Tang En glanced at him and turned to say goodbye to Akyoll: "It's a pity that you are not a fan of the Forests, Miss Akyoll. I think I like you a little... Ah, don't get me wrong, it's not that kind of like. I just changed my original view of you, just like you changed my view of me. I'm very happy to know you, my phone number..." He told the other party his mobile number.
"Okay, goodbye. The beautiful Turkish lady." Donn waved to Sila Akjol standing on the side of the road. Then he signaled Randy to drive.
"Goodbye, Mr. Demon." Akjol held the red Apple phone and waved to Tang En. Will there be a chance to meet again in the future? Maybe there will be no more... No, it is actually easy to see him. If you often read sports news and newspapers, you will definitely see him...
Sitting in the car, Randy, who was driving, suddenly asked, "Tony, why don't you explain when she misunderstood you and Shania?" Randy was one of the few people who knew that Shania was living in Tang En's house. He knew Shania's identity and the relationship between them, so he found it strange.
Tang En leaned against the back seat, turned his head to look at the night view outside the window, and murmured: "How to explain it? If you really want to explain this kind of thing, it can't be finished in just one or two sentences. If she wants to misunderstand, let her continue to misunderstand. I don't care what others think of me."
Tang En turned back and saw Randy in the rearview mirror, opening her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but she still didn't say it out in the end.
"What do you want to say?" he asked.
"No, it's nothing... I just think the lady just now is very cute."
"Concentrate on driving your car, women who are full of mind will run red lights."
Randy laughed twice in front of him. “You have to believe me, Tony, I am an experienced driver. But Tony, no matter how you say it is, you are a big shot. You always take my taxi in and out... it’s not good for your image.”
To be continued...