Chapter 27 The Good Mr. Koper (Part 2)
The next day, Tang En led the team to the away game.
The 36th round of the League One League, because of the last loss, Forests now fell to seventh place, but they were only four points away from third, and the situation was not at the end of their lives. The media's scolding was still in my ears, and Tang En turned a deaf ear, but contrary to himself, he would even read the players' evaluations about Forests in the newspaper published that day after training. Of course, he only picked bad ones.
Walker didn't understand, and Don told him that he knew it before the game.
Brighton was their opponent in this game, before that the team ranked fourth from the bottom of the league, just one point away from the relegation zone. They desperately needed a victory.
Perhaps others may think that for the Forest team, this is a tough battle, and away challenges teams that need to be relegated, and even those giant teams cannot win. But Tang En believes that his team can do it.
If you think that Tang En spent his time on a woman these days, it would be a big mistake. He carefully studied Brighton's previous 11 rounds of games, with three draws, four losses and four wins, and the results of these three games are separated by each other, and there are few winning consecutive games, which shows that this team is very unstable. They won at their home court in the last round of the league, but this does not mean that the team's home winning rate is high. So far, they have only won five games, scored twenty-three goals, and conceded twenty-eight goals in the 18 home games this season.
No matter what point, Donn did not believe that his team should lose to such a team. But he learned his lesson. He described Brighton as a very terrible thing, saying that away games are difficult to play, and the Forests will face Brighton's powerful challenge, and he had to be cautious. In an interview, he said that Brighton could definitely get a satisfactory ranking at the end of the season, and also said that he was a fan of Steve Coppell when he was a child. Brighton must have a bright future under the leadership of Kopel...
In fact? Done has never seen this man play a ball at all. He doesn't even know that there is such a person in Manchester United's history - he is not a hardcore Manchester United fan. As for whether Tony Done has seen this man play before, it's unclear. Former England team and Manchester United star Steve Kopel retired due to injury at the age of 28 in 1983. When he played for Manchester United, he was one of the darkest years in Manchester United's history. At that time, Manchester United was still struggling in the second division. The winger played 396 times for Manchester United, scored 72 goals, and played 42 times for England, scoring seven goals. In his most glorious moment, he was the only choice for Manchester United and England to the right.
As for the results of being the head coach, this person's most glorious moment was when he led Crystal Palace to the 89/90 FA Cup final in 1990, but they finally lost to their former club Manchester United. The next season he led Crystal Palace to win the third place in the English First Division (the highest-level English league at that time), which was also the best result in Crystal Palace's history.
Although Manchester United can be regarded as the most successful team in England's history since the "Red Army" Liverpool, the results of outstanding players from this excellent team are often terrible. Manchester United has the tradition of cultivating great players, but there is no soil for cultivating great coaches... It's really strange. They have the greatest head coach of English football in the past two decades, but the coach's disciples are not very good, even when his assistant coaches the team alone
Hou's performance was not very good. Afar, Brian`Kidd, who was trusted by the Jazz, was the first to coach the team independently in 1998, Kidd, who had been assisting Sir Ferguson for seven years, tried to coach the team independently, but after 44 games, he was removed from his senior management. Afar, the Portuguese Queros, who coached Real Madrid may be a season that he and Real Madrid fans never want to recall. The first five consecutive defeats in the 100-year history of Real Madrid's team was born in this hands.
While Donne was traveling through time, Manchester United's former captain Roy Keane was coaching in Sunderland and had a great chance of getting promoted to super. I wonder if this Irishman can change this embarrassing history.
Tang En bluffed to make Kopel and his team think that the Forests were afraid of them, so he has been very low-key since he went on the battle. As long as the media asked about the plan for this game, Tang En said, "If I can get a point in such a difficult away game, I will be very satisfied." This is completely contrary to the team's confidence in winning five consecutive games.
Then in the hotel room, Donn read the reports from Brighton local media to Walker one by one.
"Brighton is full of confidence and can't lose a single point on the road to relegation!"
"Look at this again - Kopel is not afraid of the best coach...tsk tsk!"
Walker sat on the sofa and asked Donn: "What do you think? Even the media in Nottingham think our game is in danger."
"This is the situation I like to see the most, Des. I wish the whole world would not be optimistic about us... Walker, now you know why I did that after training, right?" Tang En said "doing that" means reading bad news in the newspaper to the players. Every time the players hear reporters and media say bad things about them, they get angry.
Walker smiled and nodded, "You're so bad, Tony."
"If you are a good person in this world, you usually have no good ending." The good person card should be sent to the opponent's head coach. After defeating him, he held his hand and said to him: "You are such a good person, Coach Koper." In order to strengthen his tone, you can repeat the word "good person" again, and it will make the other party cry.
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Brighton, the Visdan Stadium, which can accommodate 7,000 people, is full. Brighton's home jersey is blue and white. When he suddenly saw that Don Ng thought he had arrived at Argentina's home court, but there were a lot fewer people, but the fans were not inferior to the crazy South Americans at all.
"It's just seven thousand people, there's nothing to be afraid of." Amid the deafening noise, Tang En muttered and entered the locker room. The players were ready to go and waited for him to give orders.
"You were looked down upon by them, they defamed you as worthless, and the whole world did not believe you could win." Tang En shook the newspaper in his hand, "Tell me, guys, what are you going to do?"
Dawson took the lead and stood up, he yelled, "Go and defeat them!" Then everyone stood up and roared like this.
"Very good..." Donne and Walker and Bowyer both laughed.
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Ninety minutes later, the final whistle of the game finally blew. Pierce Bruce, an intern reporter from the Nottingham Evening Post who followed the team to interview away, shook his head gently: "Another game with satisfactory results, but the process was thrilling..."
Brighton fans had a hundred reasons to be dissatisfied with the score of the game, because their team might have a hundred reasons to win the game, but the result was that Nottingham Forest, who was away, took three points.
1:0, Forests won! David Johnson, the Jamaican, made a three-pointer in the 16th minute of the game.
Once he won, Tang En didn't have to pretend to be a grandson in front of the media. He was arrogant at the post-match press conference. He answered very few words and his pronunciation was so vague that many reporters couldn't hear clearly. He looked like he was ignorant. He only said a few more words when answering Pierce Bruce's question.
Two head coaches, one was unwilling to cooperate, and the other was a little frustrated because they lost the ball and didn't talk much. The press conference ended in a hurry after only ten minutes. The media were a little dissatisfied, but what can I do? If they don't want to say it, you can't force them to say it...
When he said goodbye, Don Eun suddenly went up and grabbed Kopel's hand. He could finally say the words he had been brewing for two days.
"You are a good person, good luck, Mr. Kopel. Good man!" He shook the other party's hand vigorously. After saying this, he threw down Steve Kopel, who was confused, and turned around and disappeared into everyone's sight.
The Forest team, who won this game, returned to the promotion team, sixth in the league. If this term is maintained until the end of the league, they can guarantee that they will be qualified for the promotion playoffs. For Tony Donn, the rookie coach who took over the middle of the league, this is the best result. So after the game, he said that Kopel is a good person. When he needs victory the most and three points the most, the coach immediately presented it with both hands. What is it that he is not a good person?
The result of this game once again proves that a good kick may not necessarily become an excellent head coach. There is no direct proportional relationship between playing football and coaching level. At least in Old Trafford, there is never an equity between "famous players" and "famous coaches".
Chapter completed!