Chapter 185: Volume Two: Nottingham's Skies, Pressure (Part 1)

The forty-second round of the English Premier League is over, and Nottingham Forest is ranked third, four points away from West Bromwich Albion, which is second in the league, and there are still four rounds in the league.

In the forty-third round of the league, Nottingham Forest played against Millwall at home. This was a match that made the whole team excited. Tang En didn't need to worry too much about the result. Their rivals West Bromwich Albion travel north to challenge Sunderland, fifth in the league. In Twain's plan, this game is the first chance to narrow the point gap with West Bromwich Albion. I hope that Sunderland, who are playing at home, can cause some trouble for the opponent.

In the forty-fourth round, Nottingham Forest played an away game against Ipswich Town, which is ranked behind them. The West Bromwich Albion people must be happy. The result they most hope to see in this game must be a draw, or the Forest team Lost away to Ipswich Town. They have enough reason to believe that Ipswich will not let the Forest team go at home, because they also have the possibility of rushing to second in the league in the last three rounds. When the third and fourth in the league were fighting each other, West Bromwich Albion was waiting at home to face Bradford, who had already been relegated.

In this match, Tang En needed to worry about himself, not his opponent. Only by winning a strong opponent can you be eligible to talk about catching up with West Bromwich Albion.

The forty-fifth round, the penultimate round of the League One this season. Nottingham Forest host Wigan Athletic and West Bromwich Albion host Reading. In this round of the league, it is estimated that the points of the two sides will not change. If Sunderland can defeat West Bromwich Albion in the forty-third round of the league, then the points difference between the two sides should be only one point.

In this way...the most critical moment came to the last round of the league—the forty-sixth round, when Nottingham Forest played against their direct rivals, West Bromwich Albion at home!

If the Forest team had been stable before, then this game would have been decisive. As long as the Forest team wins against West Bromwich Albion, they can achieve the greatest comeback of the season, rank second in the league and qualify for direct promotion.

And if the Forest team performed poorly in the previous three rounds and lost points, or if West Bromwich Albion played steadily and kept suppressing the Forest team by four points, this game would lose its meaning. When the time comes, Twain will have to prepare for the play-offs.

When the Forest team rushed to third, those who had asserted that the Forest team could not return to the Premier League after the end of the season shut up. The less optimistic they are about this team and that head coach, the better the team he leads will perform—now that the Forest team’s qualifications for the promotion playoffs can be said to be certain, except for a few diehards, most Everyone wisely never mentioned the prospects of the Forest team.

Careful TV viewers have also noticed that in recent episodes of "Today's Game", Lineker has changed from a pen to a... razor!

Mark Laurenson did not appear on the show, but he promised in his personal column on the BBC website that if he lost, he would definitely shave his beard himself on "Today's Match".

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Millwall, this is a name that makes Forest players and Forest fans jealous when they mention it. Originally, the two teams did not have much grievances, but because of the young fan Gavin Bernard who was killed in the fan conflict, the two teams and their respective supporters seemed to have become feuds. When Millwall fans challenged Forest with Gavin in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals, Forest fans were waiting for the day - welcome Millwall at the City Stadium and beat them! Respond to them with the middle finger and "FUCK!" Let them know Nottingham Forest is not to be trifled with! Let them know how great is the sin of desecrating the dead!

In order to prepare for this special game, the city of Nottingham mobilized one-third of the city's police force, all of which were concentrated on main roads, commercial streets, stations and city stadiums. There are even police cars patrolling back and forth and using loudspeakers to remind fans of both sides to keep calm and not cause trouble. But who cares?

From the meeting of the fans of both sides, the curtain of swearing and cursing began.

"Fuck you calm! Millwall bastards, you don't want to leave this city alive!"

"You folks from Nottingham, we want to get back all the humiliation in the League Cup today! The teams you support don't want to be promoted to the Super League! Today is your death day!"

"The coward who lost to us 1:7 still has the face to bring up that game here? Did you go back and hug Mommy to eat her milk? Ahaha!"

"Fuck your mother! I'll fuck you all!"

Similar scolding across the triple police wall is constantly staged around the city stadium. The emotions of the fans have reached the breaking point, and they need something to vent. Since they are not allowed to rush forward to fight, then there is only competition.

Tang En in the locker room looked at the players who clenched their fists tightly, and shrugged: "I know that I'm asking you to calm down at this time, and it's a bit difficult. So what I want to say is..." He shook his fist violently, "... Go out and fuck those bastards for me! Let them know that the only way to get angry with us once is to be trampled under our feet forever! Fuck them! For victory! Fuck them! For leveling up!"

Poor Millwall, suffering repeatedly just because of the uncool behavior of their fans. At the City Stadium, they enjoyed the treatment that the Forest team enjoyed at the Newden Stadium last time-as long as they got the ball, they were greeted with overwhelming boos and curses. And when Forest had the ball, the Millwall fans wanted to do the same to Forest, but their boos had just begun before being drowned out by louder chants.

Such a horrible atmosphere at home made Millwall have no fighting spirit, but the players of the Forest team played more and more vigorously amidst the cheers of the fans.

By the end of the game, 3:0! Nottingham Forest won so cleanly that people have nothing to say. When the referee blew the final whistle, the entire city stadium was surrounded by cheers, and the Millwall fans were still cursing, but no one paid any attention to them.

The head coach of Millwall has changed from the incompetent Mr. Alan McCleary to the semi-retired player and head coach Dennis Wise. At the press conference, he didn't say much about the game, he just admitted that Dunn's team was better than Millwall in every aspect, and they deserved to win. Millwall's goal is not this season, lose is lost.

Winning is something that makes Tang En feel very happy, but at the same time, the news from Sunderland halved his double pleasure-although Sunderland played at home to West Bromwich Albion. Some troubles, but did not stick to the end. West Bromwich Albion beat Sunderland 1-0 away, continuing to lead Nottingham Forest by 4 points with 78 points.

Tang En won a beautiful victory at his own home court, and his opponent did not lose the chain... Now the situation has become very unfavorable for the Forest team. In the next round of the league, it is too difficult for West Bromwich Albion to lose to Bradford, which ranks second to last in the league. He was unwilling to pin his hope of upgrading in the hands of unrelated strangers.

There are still three rounds in the league... No, to be precise, there are still two rounds. If West Bromwich Albion never makes mistakes, then the last round of Forest's game against West Bromwich Albion at home will be meaningless.

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As if to confirm Tang En's worries, the Forest team played extremely hard in the forty-fourth round of the league, while West Bromwich Albion on the other side established a two-goal lead at home early and easily maintained it until the end .

The outcome of Nottingham Forest and Ipswich Town was not decided until the last minute. Ashley Young's breakthrough ushered in a free kick for the Forest team. Eastwood took the penalty under tremendous pressure. When he blasted the football into the goal, the people around him were cheering. Twain But almost slumped on the ground. It is not only Eastwood who is under pressure, but also his head coach.

He is unwilling to play in the play-offs because his team's physical strength is almost unbearable. The League Cup in the middle of the season has consumed them too much energy. At the beginning of the season, Collymore's free and easy team has almost no systematic training. Physical fitness, and now the sequelae are all breaking out in the final stage of the league. He didn't dare to bet on the play-offs at all... The morale of the team is currently high, and the physical problems can be temporarily forgotten. Once the season is over, can the Forest team, which has broken this rhythm, be able to calmly cope with the play-offs?

Tang En didn't know anything about it.

Therefore, the best way is to take advantage of the high morale of the team and go all out to reach the top two in the league and qualify for direct promotion to the Premier League.

There are so many dreams in the night, the longer the time, who knows what will go wrong?

After the forty-four rounds of the league, Nottingham Forest is still four points behind West Bromwich Albion. There are two rounds left. No matter how they look at it, it is impossible for them to achieve the goal of direct promotion...

Just when Tang En was in a bad mood and depressed, he received a call from Kenny Burns in the forest bar.

"Tony, if you feel too stressed, come to my place for a few drinks. Tomorrow at 7:30 in my bar, come and have a drink. I think... there is someone who would really like to see you."

"who?"

"If I told you, you might not come. So if you want to know who he is, come and see for yourself!" Burns said with a smile. "Besides, you haven't come to my bar for a long time, since you became the head coach of the forest first team..."

"Uh... sorry, Kenny. I'm so stressed at work that I forget a lot of things. Okay, I'll be here on time tomorrow."

Burns is right. When he accepted the Forest team in the middle of last season, he didn't feel as much pressure as this season. Because at that time, I was confused about the future, and it was a bit muddling along. It's different now, he has a clear goal and he has to work hard towards it. The pressure... and that's what came with it.

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