Chapter 76 Principles

In the second half, Tang En changed people. After all, this was just a friendly match. The number of substitutions for such a game was not the three players in the regular game, but decided by the two sides. According to the previous agreement between the two sides, up to eleven people can be replaced in this game.

Even in the third team of England, there are not many players who are allowed to play the whole game by the club. Don Eun almost never recruited anyone and promised the opponent's club that the player will only play half-game at most. As a Tang En, who just coached the national team and had a blank performance in the national team, his current attitude is very humble. Even in the media, there are no remarks that cause trouble.

After the halftime break, Donne changed four people in one breath, James Milner replaced Joe Cole, Michael Johnson replaced Mark Noble, Paul Pepper replaced Ashley Cole, who had just recovered from injury, and James Vaughan replaced Darren Bent.

Unlike Tang En's large-scale substitutions, the second half started for five minutes, but Martin O'Neal did not move. He did not substitute.

"It seems that O'Neal wants to win this game." Don murmured to himself on the coach's seat.

O'Neal's idea is actually very simple. The strongest lineup of the Forest team must stay on the court for a while, because his plan is to attack England's penalty area just at the beginning of the second half and strive for a goal. If the player is replaced at the beginning of the second half, how can he attack?

So when the score was still 1:0 five minutes after the second half, he seemed a little nervous. He stood up from his seat and paced back and forth on the sidelines. At the same time, he quickly considered the possibilities and countermeasures in his mind.

If you can't open the England goal in ten minutes, you have to replace most of the main players, give them enough rest, and at the same time shrink the formation and turn into defense. Confront England. O'Neal has such confidence - with the strength of that English team, it is not easy to break through the goal of his team. Even if you win this game 1:0, you can be considered as a match, at least you will win by yourself.

What if England equalizes the score? Then replace a small number of main players, maintain enough strength, and continue to attack. Strive to lead again.

Unlike Martin O'Neal, who was a little restless, Tony Donn has been sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai. He crossed his legs on the leather seat. The England team reclaimed the defense line as he said, compressing Nottingham Forest's activity space and time in front of their penalty area. This made Nottingham Forest a little uncomfortable. O'Neal hopes that the team can play better, so there are many short passes, especially short passes in the middle.

In Tang En's opinion, this is unnecessary, but perhaps O'Neal chose to do this in order to deliberately distinguish himself from Tang En.

After another ten minutes of attack, Nottingham Forest still did not find a good opportunity to enter the England penalty area. They could only rely on long shots to try to score goals. However, doing so also caused some trouble for England - during the break, Donn asked the team to use the two wing assists left by Forest to make the gap, but fifteen minutes into the second half, the two full-backs of Forest did not actively assist. This seemed to be O'Neal's intentional arrangement. Bale and Rafinia only pushed the center line after the entire England team retreated to the 30-meter area.

In this way, Tang Endi can't fight back from the side.

After fifteen minutes, O'Neal saw that he didn't score, and Tang En's attack was not very sharp, so he decided to substitute.

He replaced Fernandez with Cohen and replaced Bentley with Mok. He then replaced Shahin with Gago and replaced Abanglaho with Ibissevic. He also replaced four people, but no one on the defense line moved. He was still very careful and did not want to leave a little chance for Don En.

Donn saw O'Neal substitution.   He knew that his chance had come.

So he got up from his seat for the first time in the second half and walked to the sidelines.

Seeing him get up and walk out, there was a booing sound in the stands. Tang En turned a deaf ear and just shouted the names of the players on the field and waved his hand to signal that they could press it out a little.

O'Neal has George Wood as his support, so he hopes to build Nottingham Forest into a team that can play beautiful football, which is a world of difference from the fast passing midfield that Don An emphasized before. His efforts have been slightly effective. Now, the Forest team's performance in the midfield is indeed much more beautiful than the previous one. The playback of layer-by-layer and the team's passing and cutting running cooperation makes the Forest team's offense as smooth as flowing.

However, his plan did not play the role he deserved when facing England, which had to defend before.

O'Neal also decided to make some adjustments.

The only goal of the Forest team in the first half was to hit the ground through a cross from the wing, and it seemed that the two wings would still be reinstated. He made gestures on the sidelines to allow Bale and Rafinia to re-inva the offense.

This is the signal that Bale and Rafinia most hope to see. For them who are stronger than defense, only attack can make them feel fulfilled.

After Bale passed the football to Cohen, he did not wait to see the situation in the back like he did in the previous few times before deciding whether to insert it. This time he stepped forward very firmly. He surpassed Cohen.

As a teammate who has been together for several seasons, Chris Cohen also knows what Bale means. Since the coach has relaxed the limit on assists for the full-back, coupled with his trust in Bale's offensive ability, Cohen passed the football over.

It must be said that the national team that Done temporarily pieced together has a big gap in strength with Nottingham Forest. Jack Cook alone could not stop Bell's assault, and because he did not have enough tacit understanding, Ferdinand did not come up to fill the position immediately. The two of them just let Bell rush past him.

There were huge cheers in the stands, cheering for Belldi's breakthrough. They were eager to see the Forest team score another goal, and the score of 1:0 is really not enough. You have to know what level of team the Forest team's opponent is - England's third team!

Seeing Bell break through, Tang En became a little nervous. He understood Bell. This little monkey usually looks harmless, but when he arrived at the game, he refused to recognize his relatives. He showed calmness that was inconsistent with his age. This was what Tang En valued him at the beginning, but now it has become the thing that Tang En worried the most.

Mitcherko is still waiting inside, as long as he passes the ball in...

Tang En couldn't help but clenched his fists.

Bell indeed passed a high ball. This time, Whit saved England and Donne. David Whit, who was 1.96 meters tall, got stuck in the position, making Mitcher unable to compete for the top, and then he jumped up and pushed the ball out.

The cheers in the stands immediately dissipated into sighs.

Tang En's fist did not let go because he saw another scene that made him wait for more than ten minutes.

The football that Whit pushed out did not fall to the Forest players. Instead, it fell to Delphi. Delphi happened to be on the side of Bale. Bale just assisted and had not had time to return to defense...

"Counterattack!" Tang En couldn't help but yelled off the court. For a moment, he forgot that he was at the Crimson Field, and his opponent was Nottingham Forest, where he had been advised for eleven years. His mind only wanted the booing in the stands to temporarily disappear, and the words in the corridor of the Crimson Field emerged again.

In addition to victory, it is also victory.

This is how I, Tony Don't coaching career, even if I change a team...

Delphi also noticed this little bit of absent, and he did not drive the ball forward by himself. After all, no matter how fast a person runs, he is not as good as a football flying in the air.

He passed the football to James Vaughan, who only played in the second half, and Everton's leading scorer has already pulled to the wing at this moment. Although they have not practiced together for a long time before, as a professional player, his tactical qualities have made him at least know that he has to use it when attacking.

He and Delphi thought of this together.

He had just pulled to the side when Delphi's ball came over.

The full-back is empty. The central defender and the midfielder must come to fill the position.

George Wood was as fierce as ever, and he rushed up to break Vaughan's ball. As a veteran opponent in the Premier League, Vaughan certainly knew Wood's strength. He did not arrogantly think that he could escape from Wood's press. The smartest way was to pass the ball out before he could pounce...

Wood knocked Vaughan, but the referee did not whistle to indicate that the Forest team was fouled, but raised his hands flat toward the attack - the offense was favorable and the game continued!

Vaughan passed the football to Everton's teammate who was inserted from the midfield before Wood, his junior brother Joseph Baxter.

Nottingham Forest's central defender is still paying attention to another forward, Frazel Campbell, and he has just invested an offense and has insufficient defensive forces, except for two central defenders. It is George Wood.

Baxter is equal to no defensive lander at all.

Pepe and Thiago Silva made another mistake in cooperation at this time - logically speaking, one of them should have gone up to defend Baxter, while the other stayed behind to look at Campbell. As a result, the two of them rushed up at the same time when they saw Baxter get the ball.

At this moment, Baxter passed the ball. He gave the ball to Campbell, who was waiting in front but was not offside.

When Campbell received the ball, he was behind the entire forest defense line, with no one around.

Silva raised his hand to signal Campbell to offside, but the referee and the lineman had no response.

Only Pepe turned around and rushed towards Campbell.

He was too late, and Campbell broke into the penalty area. Pepe rushed over but just tripped Campbell there.

This time the referee and the linebacker finally responded. The linebacker raised the flag and kept shaking, while the referee blew the whistle and ran towards the penalty spot in the penalty area!

"Punishment!" the commentator shouted.

O'Neal widened his eyes on the sidelines. He could hardly believe all that he saw.

The commentator followed and joked about the foul Pepe: "In the Champions League final, he also gave Real Madrid a penalty kick, and he gave another big gift in this game. Does Pepe really want to help Tony Done? Think about what did he and Done hug each other before the game started, and what did the two of them say to each other?"

The fans in the stands were surprised to express their dissatisfaction with the penalty with booing. Perhaps someone would also think whether it was Pepe's intentional...

In any case, England got a "lucky" penalty kick. Vaughan took the penalty and scored it in one go, tied the score 1:1.

Seeing his team's goal, Tang En did not deliberately make those celebrating actions on the sidelines as excited as before. He didn't even slap his face, standing on the sidelines, as if he was still moving.

It is logical that he would have made an excited expression and movement at this time so that the English players would recognize him as the new head coach. But Don Eun gave up such an opportunity to bring closer to his relationship with the players, just because he still couldn't let him make such movements in the game against the Forests.

To him, Nottingham Forest is not an enemy until now... not in the future. Because the English national team will hardly have a chance to compete with Nottingham Forest in the future. They should have been two parallel lines that do not interfere with each other, but by chance they crossed today.

He was not mentally prepared to see Nottingham Forest again so soon...

Fans can boo him because they have reasons to hate him. He can also lead the team to beat Nottingham Forest here because he cannot violate his professional ethics. But at least he can choose not to celebrate after the team scores a goal. This may make him and those fans feel better.

However, he couldn't let outsiders see that the reason why he didn't celebrate was this. So he could only pretend to be cool with a stern face, as if he was not satisfied with the team's score for so long. At least he successfully deceived the commentator.

"Tony Don seems to be not very satisfied with the draw. He still had a stern face after the team scored. What a strict head coach. I can almost see the days of those big-name English stars under him, ahha!"

The thin Bill was still leading his loyalists to express their dissatisfaction with the goal conceding with boo, while the fat John didn't care about the result of the game at all. He came here to see Done. Seeing Done standing there without even raising his hand. The posture did not change, John thought of Tony Done, who was more eye-catching than the goal-scoring players on the sidelines when the Forest team scored a goal. He flipped a little, he slid on both knees, and he was swarmed by the players...

Such a scene. I'm afraid I can never see it again, right?

John sighed softly, then turned away from his actions and walked towards the exit.

"John? Don't look?" Someone next to him noticed his abnormal behavior.

John shook his head, "Don't look." He slowly moved his fat body and disappeared from the exit.

Fatty John left the game early. So he didn't see the scene of Nottingham Forest's missed pass in the backcourt in the 80th minute twenty minutes later and Vaughn seized the opportunity and won another game.

The huge Crimson Field was silent, as if they had just lost the European championship. Those who were waiting to see Don Eun's jokes and wanted to make Don Eun look good were shocked, their brains were blank, and they didn't know what to say. Even people like Bill didn't expect that the powerful Nottingham Forest would fall behind at home to a third team in England...

The English players on the court hugged each other excitedly to celebrate their overtake and score. And Tang En sat in the coaching bench this time and still showed nothing. He stubbornly abides by his inner "principles" - not cheering and celebrating any goal in his team in the game against the Forests.

But how many of the more than 50,000 people in the stands understand his ridiculous "principle"?

This Tony Don! This abominable traitor! This innocent and shameless Judas!

You betrayed us! You betrayed Nottingham Forest!

Now we are ahead. You still look so arrogant and unforgivable! How do you feel when you defeated your once favorite Nottingham Forest? Do you feel happy?

But we don't!!
Chapter completed!