Before the match against Manchester City, Forest also played a game - the European Champions League group stage. For Nottingham Forest, the question they are considering now is not to qualify, but to qualify in which ranking.

Don En hopes that his team will win the remaining two games and win the top spot in the group.

So the Forest defeated Porto, who came to challenge, 4-1 at home. Although Porto was a glorious a few years ago, this Porto is really not comparable to Nottingham Forest.

Perhaps some people are unwilling to believe it, but Nottingham Forest is indeed one of the top European teams. Whether it is the player's strength or the coach's coaching level, they can be ranked among the top.

Before this, no one in European football would have thought that Nottingham Forest, which has been struggling in the low-level league, would have a day of reappearance. This forest shrouded in fog seemed to appear out of thin air, and everything was just because of Tang En, who had traveled back in 2007...

What would have happened without Tang En's outfit? Perhaps Nottingham Forest has now dropped to the current League One or League Two due to frequent changes in head coaches and economic crisis... No one will mention this once extremely brilliant name again. Nottingham Forest will have a brilliant past like countless other clubs in the history of modern English football, but can only be submerged in the tide of time and money and quickly forgotten.

Of course, the above may not happen. They replaced an equally excellent head coach and had some good luck. After several years of re-killing the top league in England... It is hard to say whether they can regain glory.

But none of this happened, didn't it?

They may occur in another parallel universe. But in the world where Tang En is located, they can only be "if" and "if".

Now the problem with Donn is that with the approaching Christmas schedule and the reopening of the second half of the Champions League, he must allocate the team's physical fitness more reasonably to ensure that he will not fall behind in the final sprint. At this time, the rotation system is particularly important.

The rotation system is a contradiction between the players' wishes. No one likes to be replaced by others when they are in good condition. Because that means that the main position is not stable enough.

However, Tang En must do this. His first-team lineup is not as bloated as teams such as Chelsea. He has always implemented the policy of "simplifying military and streamlining administration" to reduce the number of first-team players and improve the quality of competition. The advantage of this method is that it can save a lot of unnecessary expenses, and the disadvantage is that it is a little stretched when it needs to be replaced... especially injuries.

Tang En asked the team doctor team to count the current physical condition of everyone in the team and give him the possible injury coefficient.

Eastwood and Beckham were both tortured by the chronic diseases of old age and illness, and were injured from time to time; Van Nistruy's physical fitness was severely challenged in the previous series of devil schedules. He is not in good physical condition now and needs to be included in the rotation system; Ribery has recovered and has not found any hidden diseases after playing a few games, so he can use it with confidence; Pepe's problem is a bit complicated, and he seems to be able to deal with the on-court game. But after playing two games, the team doctor thought he should still observe carefully, so he was in Tongman

In the game of the City team, Don En did not let him play. He didn't even make the roster and sat in the stands to watch the game. Ayala is old and can't taste it. It is necessary to rotate him. His experience and ability to help the team is not only reflected in the field, but also in daily training, his experience can also help those defenders. Just like what Jero did to Pepe, Pique and others when the Forest team was promoted to the Premier League, Ayala is just passing on his understanding of the defenders and defense to his teammates.

George Wood was directly excluded from this report. Fleming had told Donne that Wood is an unknown creature that does not belong to the earth. If he does not play football, he will definitely be arrested for dissection in the laboratory. His physical condition is so good... It is not like the Earthlings.

Donn deeply understands and agrees with this because he himself believes that Wood is a biochemical robot from the future. The English media made a fuss and gave Wood a very tacky nickname - "monster".

Whenever he thinks of Wood's physical fitness, Tang En will follow his respectable and great mother, Sophia. Compared with most families, Sophia is not able to buy all kinds of nutritional supplements for her son, nor can she let him eat the best food. The nutritional development in all aspects is balanced. She just leaves the best food she can earn for her son. In this way, a thin and sick mother who is almost dead. She raised a "monster" that makes all the English football world amazed. Although this is not very scientific, Tang En believes that this is true, because behind those crude foods, Sophia is devoted to love, and George Wood has no reason not to be strong.

When Wood became famous, Sophia was also exposed - this is inevitable - after everyone knew Wood's childhood, they were surprised that Wood could have such a strong body. Don Eun would sigh and say, "This is love..."

It's gone far.

If it weren't for Sidwell's mood, Donn wouldn't have let Wood rotate. But in the end Wood was still on the rotation list - but his rotation was different from others. He only rotated once a long time ago. Sidwell had more chances of playing and hoped that the Forests could go further in the FA Cup, and they had been eliminated in the League Cup...

This season, Don N still remains unchanged his idea of ​​using domestic cups to train. No matter who the opponent is in the English League and FA Cup, he will use the combination of "youth team plus reserve team plus some first-team players" to deal with it.

Don Eun really doesn't like the League Cup. He has won it once anyway, and there is nothing to regret if he doesn't win it in the future. Only those teams that have all lost on several other fronts and those who have no chance to win other championships will seriously consider it. Obviously, Tony Don Eun's Nottingham Forest is not that kind of team.

As for the FA Cup... In fact, even in the early years of the Premier League, the FA Cup status was still very noble - although it is not low now, it is not as good as before. As the world's oldest modern football cup, it has a history of 136 years. It is even older than the history of most football clubs in the world. In England, teams that can win the FA Cup are worthy of respect, and the team will also regard the FA Cup as a great honor. Even many years after the founding of the Champions League, English people believe that the best cup in the world is the FA Cup, not the European Champions League.

The only regret of Brian Clive, the land emperor of Nottingham Forest Dynasty, was that he had not led the team to win even once the FA Cup, and Don did not want this to be his regret. But the problem now is that Forest's strength may be so strong that he can win the Champions League, but he cannot complete the results that he wants to fight at the third line at the same time. Don't do it for the sake of the FA Cup. It's not twenty years ago. The FA Cup is far from satisfying the ambitions of a professional club team.

For Premier League teams, the official start of the FA Cup is in January every year, and then it will continue until May, which will form an intersection with the league and European competitions. The competitions are dense and distracted. In the end, it is likely that it will not please everyone. So Don Eun doesn't want to play the FA Cup yet.

Teams like Barcelona and Real Madrid have not been able to solve the problem of fighting on multiple fronts and moving forward together. In the end, they all have to be willing to get what they want, not to mention the newly rising Nottingham Forest.   If you are used to playing local games like FM and cm, you may think that multiple championships are easy, but in fact there are not many teams that can achieve the triple crown.   It is not difficult to explain why Manchester United had such a high reputation after winning the triple crown, and many people considered it a "great" result.  Liverpool's "five crowns" are not very valuable.   Liverpool fans have also talked about it for a long time.  The same principle is--you can win championships on multiple fronts at the same time, not only the team's strength needs to be very strong, but also good luck. Such things are not something that can be achieved.   Sometimes it is not controlled by manpower.

Nottingham Forest had a strong rebound in December. Don hopes that the team will seize the opportunity that the schedule is not very intensive to narrow the points gap between the top teams.

After sweeping Manchester City 4-0 at home, they beat Bolton 4-1 away.

In this round of league, Grant Chelsea finally won a winning streak, defeating Sunderland 2-0 at home. Manchester United also defeated Derby County 4-1 at home, but Donn's other two rivals Arsenal and Liverpool both lost away: Arsenal lost 1-2 to Middlesbrough, and Liverpool lost 1-3 to Reading. By the way, Manchester City, one of the top six, lost to Tottenham away, with a score of 1:2.

Next. Round 17. Arsenal, who lost the ball, faces Chelsea at home, and Manchester United, who won the ball at home, will go to Anfield to challenge Liverpool. Among the top six teams, only Manchester City and Nottingham Forest have a better life - Manchester City plays Bolton at home, while Nottingham Forest faces Blackburn at home.

The two strong conversations attracted everyone's attention, and even Don Eun paid attention to these two games throughout the whole process. Fortunately, these two games and Nottingham Forest were not kicking off at the same time, otherwise he would have missed these two exciting games - the process may not be exciting, but the result must be wonderful.

After a very difficult ninety minutes, Arsenal narrowly defeated Chelsea 1-0 at home.

It was also a tough ninety minutes. Manchester United relied on a breakthrough from Cristiano Ronaldo, who was almost omnipotent this season. Assisted Tevez to score, defeating Liverpool 1:0.

Next on the next day. Manchester City defeated Bolton 4:2 at home, and Nottingham Forest defeated Blackburn 5:3.

The points and rankings are very interesting.

After the 16th round of the league, Arsenal lost the game and Manchester United won, so the two teams still scored the same points, ranking first and second in the league rankings with 36 points.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      �

The order has returned to the 11th round of the league.

The seventeenth theory has changed again.

Arsenal won, Manchester United won, Nottingham Forest and Manchester City both won. In this way, Arsenal and Manchester United have 39 points together, and they are still in the first and second relationship. Nottingham Forest is still third with 38 points, but fourth and fifth have changed. Originally, Liverpool was defeated by Manchester City with the same points by goal difference, ranking fourth. Now, due to losing the game, they have to hand over the fourth position, and Manchester City has 35 points in this position, Liverpool 32 and Chelsea 31, ranking fifth and sixth.

The fourth and fifth places are not just the front and back of the standings.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

The pressure on Benitez's shoulders is not light, and Liverpool's senior management is in turmoil, and there are rumors that Benitez may be dismissed, on the one hand because he has a bad relationship with the club's chairman. On the other hand, it is the explanation of the club's board of directors that the team has not entered the League Cup for three consecutive years.

The head coach's position is not as beautiful as usual, and the pressure they face is not something that players can imagine when they are drinking with big-name stars. Donne is very sympathetic to Benitez's situation in the legend. He doesn't want to leave Mourinho and Benitez. If all the excellent head coaches of this league are finished, he is not interested in continuing to play. There must be various challenges in life to be interesting. If all the good opponents are exposed, what's the use of those champions even if they are easy to win?

Why the championship trophy looks shining, which makes countless people fascinated? In Tang En's opinion, it is because there are enough and excellent opponents on the road to the championship. Stepping on the corpse of a strong man and walking onto the throne is much more fulfilling than stepping on the corpse of an ant.

Fortunately, the board of directors of the Liverpool club soon issued a statement saying that they fully trust Rafael Benitez. And they also commented that Benitez had "remarkable achievements" in recent years at Liverpool.

Don En doesn't have to worry about losing another good enough opponent.

In the Champions League group stage, Don En did not let those who always wanted to watch the Forest team jokes get what they wanted. The Forest team did not play in the League Cup, Nottingham Forest defeated Marseille 4-0 away in the last game. He ranked first in the group with four wins, one draw and one loss, and qualified with thirteen points. At the same time, it was Porto, and they ranked second in eleven points.

In the past two months, whether in domestic or European games, Forest team has suddenly become a "professional goal scorer".

After losing to Liverpool 0:1 away from the league. There are goals in every game. 8:0 defeated Besiktas and 3:1 defeated Tottenham Hotspur. 1:1 draws Chelsea. This is the game where they scored the least goals, and 2:3 losses to Arsenal also had two goals. Next is a goal frenzy: swept Porto 4:1 in the Champions League group stage, defeated Manchester City 4:0 in the league, defeated Bolton 4:1 in the last game of the Champions League group stage, defeated Marseille 4:0 in the last game of the Champions League group stage, defeated Blackburn 5:3 in the league.

Suddenly, someone exclaimed that the Forest team was no longer conservative and wanted to play offensive football, so offense was the king. Tang En disdained this. His style has not changed much, but in controlling the ball and controlling the rhythm of the game, the Forest team has indeed improved a lot compared to before. No matter what tactics the opponent is used, Tang En has a way to deal with the opponent, and will not be at a loss like when he encountered a team that could not defend himself before.

In fact, Tang En always believes that in the competition for the league championship, the important thing is not to win the game with the strong team, but to win the game with the weak team, and hold the three-pointers that should have been in hand. Not losing points in unnecessary places is the key to deciding who can become the league champion in the end. Otherwise, you will think that Viali and Chelsea were like Chelsea in Gulite’s hands, with a group of talented players and advanced tactical styles. However, due to the unstable overall performance of the team, although they can defeat strong teams repeatedly, they always lose points inexplicably on weak teams, and in the end they get nicknamed "spoiler". This is really not the original intention of Gulite and Viali...
Chapter completed!