Chapter 141: Adapting to the venue

The day before the game, the whole Barcelona team arrived in Birmingham by plane, and then made a special bus to Nottingham. After they had a simple adaptation training here, all they had to do was wait for the game to arrive.

Messi and Guardiola became the targets of the reporters' pursuit at the airport. Both of them were very low-key. They did not say that they would win, but said that everything was possible in football. This was at Nottingham Forest's home court. Everyone knows that the Forest's home game is very difficult, so they think it is wrong to take it lightly...

That's what Barcelona players think, only they themselves know.

Barcelona at the airport is the most popular team in Europe today and has been warmly welcomed by the media. The density of the flash lights makes every Barcelona player still look like a flower when he walks out of the hall. Later, the title of "The World Sports" in Catalonia was "Campus Arrival", which fully demonstrated Barcelona's ambitions.

After putting his luggage in the hotel, Barcelona went to the city stadium to adapt to the field training. At that time, Tony Donn was teaching tactical classes to his players in Vilford, while assistant coach Chris Lark was entrusted by Donn to secretly come to the city stadium and take advantage of the convenience of the home team to observe Barcelona's warm-up training in the private room.

Guardiola obviously knew the little tricks that the home team liked to play, so he did not arrange any training programs that might reveal his tactical content in the afternoon training, but just adapted to the venue...

A coach in Barcelona's coaching staff laughed after seeing the turf of the city stadium: "What a small club, this arena is probably not as good as our training ground."

"I heard that their new stadium has dragged down the team's finances, and it is normal to have no money to maintain the turf."

"I really don't know where Tony Don't's arrogant self-confidence comes from? Is it just such a turf?"

"A stadium that can only accommodate 30,000 people looks like a stadium in a middle school."

Of course, what they saw was not the best turf, but it was also specially arranged by Tony Donn. Just yesterday he asked the turf workers at the city court not to pounce on the best turf, but to keep the set of turf that had been frequently used before.

Guardiola listened to his colleagues' comments on the venue. He did not express any comments. This venue is indeed not as good as Camp Nou, but it is normal. Stadiums like San Siro have been ridiculed for their turf quality.

What he cared more about was not the venue situation, but Tony Donn's tactics.

He has studied Tang En, and he almost knows what tactics Tang En will use in the game - defensive counterattack.  It is simply uninnovative. When the draw is drawn, he counterattacks defensively, leads the defensive counterattack, and when he falls behind, he counterattacks defensively, and fights defensively on the away field.   Return to home court and still counterattacks defensively.   His tactical manual may only say "defensive counterattacks".

Even when facing the current 1:2 backward situation, Guardiola did not believe that Don Eun would push out and fight Barcelona against this coward. He would never know the beauty of the attack, and his mind was full of utilitarianism.

Due to the gap between heaven and hell in football philosophy, Guardiola has no good feelings for Tony Don.    The reason why people think he doesn’t hate Don’t is just because he didn’t say it publicly.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Guardiola already has plans in his mind. If Donn continues to defend and counterattack, Barcelona doesn't mind defending and counterattacking. Anyway, it will be beneficial to Barcelona if they continue to waste. No matter where this game is, it will be more beneficial to the visiting team Barcelona. For the home team, the 1:2 score is not fatal, and it is not too difficult for Pepe, Barnes, and Fernandez to be suspended from the game.

The most fatal thing is that the person cannot appear on the sidelines to lead the team. Without Don En's on-site command on the sidelines, Nottingham Forest's level will drop by a level. Players who have lost their backbone will perform poorly and become a mess. Inter Milan in the 2008-09 season was Guardiola's role model. Mourinho defeated Nottingham Forest at home, and it was as easy as trampling an ant to death.

If Nottingham Forest wants to push forward and take a gamble, it will be more in line with Guardiola's expectations. In this case, Barcelona will attack the Forest. He is not afraid of losing the ball, the person who is afraid of losing the ball should be Tony Donne. Because Forest only scores one away goal, and Barcelona's chances are infinite in these 90 minutes. With Barcelona's unique offensive, do some believe that they cannot score a goal when they play against Nottingham Forest? Even if Barcelona loses the game 2:3 away, the promotion will be Barcelona, ​​with one more away goals than Forest.

In short, no matter what reaction Tony Tangen reacts, this time he is doomed to fail. The initiative is always here in Barcelona. If Guardiola has read the classical classic "Journey to the West" of Eastern China, then he will definitely feel that Tony who always likes to jump around in front of the media. Tangen is the hateful Monkey King, and he is the Tathagata Buddha who controls everything. No matter how powerful Monkey King is, he cannot reach out to his Five Finger Mountain.

After a hurry to finish the adaptation training at the city stadium, Guardiola took the team back to the hotel where he stayed, where to hold a tactical meeting to make final arrangements for tomorrow's game.

When Guardiola led the team to adapt to the field at the city stadium, Don Eun was giving the team a tactical class. The last day of training before the game was almost always in tactical classes. He was more detailed than ever, because the next day he couldn't even set foot in the locker room.

UEFA is strictly guarding him this time: he cannot wear any communication equipment that can be used. At the same time, they learned from Mourinho's lesson in coaching in Porto, and did not allow assistants to follow Donne to sit next to him to play a soundtrack for him. He will be carefully and thoroughly inspected by two UEFA supervisors before going to the stands to watch the game tomorrow. UEFA does not mind choosing the kind of people who have great prejudice against Tony. Donne to complete this task, because it will help them better eliminate the means and tricks of Donne.

In the last tactical class, Donn analyzed the video of the first leg of Barcelona and Nottingham Forest in detail and made targeted arrangements for his players. He believed that Barcelona would continue to attack away. But he did not rule out that Guardiola suddenly decided to make a utilitarian move and defend 2:1 away.

"I was sent off with a red card, Pepe was sent off with a red card, and Barnes was suspended for one game for accumulating yellow cards. The outside world thinks our prospects are bleak. Guardiola may think their opportunity has come, but I hope you will let them see who the opportunity has come in tomorrow's game. Our core tactic in this game is - fouls." Don't raise his index finger, "The bad field will limit their performance, but that's not enough. You must use frequent fouls and oppressive defense to completely disrupt Barcelona's game rhythm. If you lose the ball, you will fight back in the frontcourt. Don't be stingy with your dangerous actions in less dangerous places. If you make such fouls a few more times, they will know that they are afraid."

"Remember, we must play like this from the beginning of the game. Barcelona, ​​which has a leading score, has a greater hope of advancing than us - at least it seems. So their players are more likely to cherish their chances of playing. They don't want to be injured in this game and miss the subsequent semi-finals and finals. Psychologically, their desire to win is not as good as ours. What kind of team is Barcelona? Their skills and tactics are impeccable, and they are the best in Europe today. But psychological quality..." Tang En shook his finger and smiled, "Artists always lack a bachelor temperament that is not afraid of death."

"Use what we are best at defeating what they are best at, so they will start to collapse from the bottom of their hearts. Body! Speed! Confrontation! and... in the air. "Donn looked at Aaron Mitcher. "Mitcher. Since you already know, I won't talk nonsense. You start playing center tomorrow's game. We need your height and header. You don't have the idea of ​​showing off your skills in this game. If you dare to do this, I will dare to switch you off at the beginning. Do you understand?"

The boss spoke to himself very seriously. Mitcher nodded quickly. His starting lineup did not surprise other teammates, because the training content these days always revolved around Mitcher to train, and even fools could see the clues.

"Your task is very simple. When we hit the frontcourt, we squeeze into the opponent's penalty area. Then get the position and jump to the top. When we are still in the backcourt, you retreat to the near midfield to prepare for the reception, use your header to hit the football point to the teammates who are plugged in, or protect the football and wait for support."

Mitcher continued to nod.

After instructing Mitchel, Donn turned his attention to the whole team: "The key to winning this game is in the sky. Barcelona's air defense capabilities are very weak, and Pique alone cannot be used as four people. As long as we master the air superiority, even if Barcelona has excellent skills and footwork, they can only wait for us to slowly slaughter. Does anyone think it is ugly to do this?"

No one said anything. The fool said nothing.

"It seems that no one has any objections, that's good. Let me tell you a football field that subverts the truth of the unbreakable football field - what is ugly? Only failure is ugly! Those who shout "ugly victory" are those who can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour! If you don't believe it, look, when they win, no matter what method they use, they will never say they are ugly. Barcelona thinks they are the most gorgeous, and we are the representatives of ugly, so let them die gorgeously! In the face of ugliness!"

Tony Donn, who finished his tactics class, did not go home directly like other coaches or players, but drove to the city court.

When he arrived at the city stadium, the Barcelona team had already left. In addition to him, Thompson Isaxon and his team were also there. In addition to that, he also met Chris Lak.

"Are you gaining anything?" he asked casually.

Chris Lack curled his lips: "Guardiola is very cunning. Nothing is planned for any show. Even if the reporter leaves, it will be the same."

Don Neng shrugged: "Normal. Think about how we did it at Camp Nou."

Then he turned to Isaxon.

"Thompson, I have a request."

Isaxon nodded before Tang En could continue to speak and understood.

Tang En felt strange: "I haven't said what the requirements are."

"What our coach Tony Done must have come up with wasn't a good idea. I've guessed it. You want us to make this stadium like that training ground right?"

Tang En snapped his fingers: "It's totally correct! But my requirements are more stringent - I hope you can copy the No. 3 training ground to the city court. ctrl+c and ctrl+v. Even every uneven position must be the same. Can you do it?"

Isaxon frowned and thought for a while, then nodded: "I think it's okay. We are professionally maintaining the turf and have long kept every detail of the site in mind. It's just a simple copy, I think it should be OK."

Tang En breathed a sigh of relief, and he clapped his face: "Thank you so much! But you only have one night, can you?"

"You need to ask the stadium administrator to turn on the lights, but I don't know if the stadium administrator agrees to do this... The stadium is very sacred for them..." Isaxon looked puzzled.

"That's not a problem. You can ask for anything you need, and the club is fully satisfied. It's just that time is urgent and it must be done by tomorrow morning. I don't want those damn media to smell anything."

Isaxon looked back at his team, and when he turned around, he had a look of pride on his face: "They have been with me for more than ten years, and they are my Nottingham Forest team, Mr. Tang."

Tang En smiled and stretched out his hand: "I will give you victory, gentlemen!"

"But the game hasn't been played yet, Mr. Donne." Isaxon said this and stretched out his hand.

"Two Nottingham Forests join forces and win!"

The hands of the two people were tightly held together.
Chapter completed!