Chapter 139 pomo

Before the match between Nottingham Forest and Norwich, the media rushed to report such a piece of news:

Carl Spike, the host of Sky TV's "Football Things...", appeared as a bald person in the show last night. Spike, who has been confirmed to lose in the bet with Tony Donne, is willing to accept the loss and shaved his hair. Mr. Carl Spike became the second public figure to lose in the bet with Tony Donne, the first one is Mark Laurenson, who lost the beard. His beard has not grown until now...

This is certainly a scandal for Spike, but it is a good thing for Sky TV. Because they can use this opportunity to further gain the reputation of the show. So before the show, they advertised that Carl Spike will appear in a "new image" later on the show. The show that day set a new high in ratings.

Tang En did not forget to sprinkle salt on his wounds and mocked Spike in the column: "He should be grateful for his insistence on making this bet with me. I heard that their ratings have increased sharply, which is entirely my credit. I think Sky TV should seriously consider giving me dividends."

In the away locker room, the Forest players celebrated Ibisevic's 20th season goal. However, he did not start in this game.

The media knew the starting list a day before, and Tony Donn was going to rotate, and there was nothing to hide.

The forward who replaced Ibissevic's starting lineup was not Eastwood or Abon Rajo, but the young player Aaron Mitchel. This was his first debut for Nottingham Forest in an official game.

This arrangement is not unexpected. After all, Nottingham Forest will face his strong rival Barcelona at home in the middle of next week, and there is no need to send the strongest lineup to play against an opponent like Norwich.

Aaron Mitcher might think this day is the most memorable day of his career, because when he was a central defender, he never thought he could start in the league as a member of Nottingham Forest so quickly.

But Tang En did not take any special care of this lucky boy. The words he spoke to the whole team, that is, what he wanted to say to this boy.

"I don't know if you will feel deep and shallow when you walk onto the court later?"

The players burst into laughter. They have been training in that bad training ground for the past half week. Three injuries were injured on the first day, and Eastwood was also among them. Fortunately, they did a good job of warm-up, and they were not a big injury. In order to seize the time, Don even rushed to the away game on the morning of the game. For the sake of the Champions League, he was ready to give up this league.

"The quality of the turf on the Norwich stadium is definitely not as good as that of Camp Nou, but it must be much better than our training ground. Don't forget your physical memories because of this venue. To be honest, I won't put any pressure on you in this game, and it doesn't matter whether you win or lose. Just treat yourself as training in that bad venue. Keeping your physical memories is the only task in your game."

After the game started, the players of Nottingham Forest showed a state that outsiders were surprised. This was not a question of whether to slow down or not. The players of the Forest team seemed to be unable to play football collectively, and their performance was quite clumsy.

In terms of the simplest running, the football is obviously closer to the Forest team players, under normal circumstances, the Forest team must have won the ball.

But in this game, the players in Nottingham Forest seemed to be unable to run. From the start, they were very powerless and could not keep up with Norwich's players in the middle of the run. They just watched the football be taken away by the opponent in the first place.

"I really suspect that the players of the Forest Team went out to visit prostitutes collectively last night, otherwise how would they explain their weak legs?" The commentator also felt that such a Forest Team was really ugly.

"The desire to win is not strong, and something is wrong with my body. What are Tony Tangen training for three days?"

“Only God knows…”

Aaron Mitcher was replaced after starting for 65 minutes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Ibissevic, who was replaced, did not see his condition improve. This made the commentators even more difficult to understand - "Why is Nottingham Forest starting from the field to the substitute in the field and being off the field, the whole team is so bad? Did they get any witchcraft?"

In the end, everyone was in a bad state and could not find the game on the court. Nottingham Forest, who seemed to be unable to play football, lost to Norwich unexpectedly 0:1 away, revealing the biggest upset in the league in this round. You should know that before that, Norwich ranked last and was almost certain to be relegated.

After the game, in the mixed zone, the players who lost the game became the target of media pursuit. All reporters wanted to ask the players of the Forest team: "Can you explain your poor performance in this game?"

Most players may be in a bad mood because they lost the ball. Refusing to answer questions. Even if a few people answered, they actually meant nothing: "We don't know what's going on in a state. We feel that there is no problem, but there are problems in the game, so we don't know where the problem is."

Well, these players obviously refused to cooperate with the reporters' work. Maybe they all felt that their performance was too bad and were ashamed to answer such questions. So the reporters moved to the post-match press conference. They planned to hear what Tang En said. According to the usual example, their team played such a bad game, and Tony Tang En must be very angry.

But what did they see on the scene?

Tony Done sat in front of a row of microphones with a smile. He talked about the game just finished.

"That's how football is. You can never say that because we are strong, we deserve to win. We cannot pre-celebrate the victory before the game begins. No one knows what the result is before the last second. I am really sorry for the result of such a game."

Can anyone see the slightest "regret" expression on his face?

"I'm very angry, too."

Is he really angry? "Smile and angry"?

"Finally I want to congratulate Mr. Glenn Rhodes on his team's beautiful game." Donn stood up and shook hands with a proud look on his face. The two of them were quite related - Donn's debut opponent was West Ham led by this guy. At that time, he showed his "big mouth talent" for the first time at the press conference. Not only did he successfully curse West Ham's relegation, but he also let himself know for the first time where the English FA door opened.

Now eight years later, Mr. Rhode has experienced a heart attack and cerebral thrombosis and appeared in front of Donne again. However, this time he is neither West Ham's head coach nor Newcastle's guardian coach, but has become the head coach of the newly promoted Manovic. Last season he led the team to upgrade, but this season he is likely to bring the team back to the Championship. At this critical moment, being able to defeat the strong rival Nottingham Forest is naturally a timely help.

Unfortunately, even so. He could not be the protagonist at the press conference. On the contrary, Tang En, who lost the game, became the focus of attention. If Tang En had not stood up and shook hands with him and congratulated him, he would not know how long it would take to wait for the attention of the reporters.

After the game, Norwich defeated Nottingham Forest became a big upset, but what appeared prominently was the media's articles analyzing why Nottingham Forest suddenly couldn't find its state. Poor Mr. Glenn Rhodes...

Some people say that this is a rotation that Don En did to face Barcelona, ​​but with the strength of the Forest team, even if it is fully rotated, it will not be defeated when facing a team like Norwich, right?

Some people said that the away loss to Barcelona had a profound impact on Nottingham Forest. Their originally indestructible locker room had already appeared. And Tony Don, who could only jump up and scold people, could no longer control the stars under his command. Now Nottingham Forest is like a set of sand. After losing two games in a row, morale dropped to the bottom. Barcelona's chance has come.

Some people even analyze that Don Eun's abnormal performance at the post-match press conference shows that after he lost control of the team, he also turned against the club's senior management. He was completely out of the box. There are rumors that once he lost to Barcelona, ​​Tony Don Eun will get out of Vilford. Manchester United club has signed a private agreement with Don Eun. After he leaves Nottingham Forest, he will go to Manchester United to take office immediately.

These rumors are half true and half false, some cannot withstand scrutiny, while others seem to make some sense. The true and false are mixed together. Readers cannot tell the truth of the facts at all. They can only be led by the media.

Regarding these media reports, Don En chose silence, and Nottingham Forest also chose silence. It was like a nuclear submarine diving into the deep sea, lying dormant in the dark, making the enemy unable to understand their movements and not knowing what they were going to do.

The only trouble is that some of the fans in Nottingham Forest believe these rumors. After all, the game was really ugly, almost catching up with the game they lost to Bolton at home. And Tony Donn did not lose his temper when he was abnormal. No wonder some Forest fans were wrongly thinking.

But from this point of view, Nottingham Forest has done a really good job in confidentiality.

While rumors about Tony Donn were about to be dismissed from class, the players of Nottingham Forest continued to train on the rotten vegetable field. After several days of "scrap", the field became even worse.

However, this has little impact on the training effect, because Nottingham Forest does not conduct any ground cooperation training, and the focus of the team's training this week is on the sky - long passes and claws.

The offensive players in the frontcourt are asked to handle the ball as simple as possible and the faster the better. Don’t think about anything to play the exquisite ground to cooperate - in fact, many players did think so at the beginning, but when they saw that they could not roll on such a field, they gave up this unrealistic idea.

To put it bluntly.   The only trick to playing football on a field with uneven grass quality is to minimize the contact between the football and the ground, so high balls are the king.

If there are people to guard the defenders when they get the ball, then you must drive forward with big feet; when the double back midfielder is not short passes, but long passes; the wing forward frequently passes at an angle of 45 degrees, rather than crossing from the bottom. Then put a high center forward with an excellent header at the front, and the football will be passed wherever the high center forward is. In addition, practice set pieces, whether it is offense or defense, set pieces will become the top priority of that game. Because Tang En knew very well that his tactics might not get more direct shooting opportunities, and if he wanted to score, he needed other means. Set pieces were the best choice.

Nottingham Forest players will not be too unfamiliar with this style of play, nor will they think this is a new thing created by the boss on a whim. Because even when the Forest team plays the most beautifully, they can still see such "efficiency football" or "ugly football" representatives in their tactics. Otherwise, why do the media always scold them?

The coaches of Nottingham Forest would not be surprised.   Because Tony Donne’s initial success with the Forest team was based on efficiency football and the “useless theory of ball control”.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     �

Almost all coaches in England know and are familiar with this theory, because this theory was founded by Charles Hughes, the man who had the greatest influence on English football in the last century, and used his position as the technical director of the FA in the 1960s and 1990s to promote it. It was the culprit for the fact that the technical style of English football has not yet developed or even regressed.

This is a typical example of "paper talk" in football. The theory is flawless, but the actual situation is completely different, and it is not the same thing. In this case, why did Tang En suddenly decide to use this extreme tactic?

Since pomo has been promoted in England for 30 years and has a far-reaching impact, it must have its advantages, even if it is small. George Graham's Arsenal was successful in the early 1990s, although they played rough football that made Arsenal fans themselves tired of. But they won the championship, which is the advantage.

The bad venue is obviously very suitable for long passes. Don Eun said that he could do anything to win, so it would be no big deal to resurrect the "notorious" pomo in Nottingham Forest for a brief resurrection.

The winner will smile even if he is scolded, and the loser will not be happy even if he receives more praise.

The Catalan media always has only one reason to criticize Donn - the football he plays is ugly and full of utilitarian odor, and he is England's largest football hooligan.

Then Tang En will tell them: What is the ugliest and utilitarian football that you have seen? It doesn’t matter if you haven’t seen it, it will open your eyes immediately!
Chapter completed!