Chapter 220: Volume 3: The Red Forest: The Premier League's Curtain (Part 1)

When the time passed through July and entered August. Nottingham Forest quietly withdrew from the transfer list. While the media was still guessing who Tony Twain's next target would be, the Forest team had already integrated the team and fixed the lineup. The rest of the time will be spent preparing for the opponents for the new season.

For this reason, apart from the usual training, he stopped going to the bar to drink every night, but stayed at home with Tang Wo to watch the video data of all their opponents in the Premier League, and studied the performances of all 19 Premier League teams except their Forest team themselves. Summer transfer profile to find out if these rivals have strengthened or weakened.

Tang En's cognition of being ahead of the world by three years played an important role at this time. Regarding this summer's transfer, everyone actually couldn't see through it-whether the person bought by a certain team was worth his worth. , I don't know if an unknown kid will perform beyond people's expectations, and I don't know which characters are worth their money and which people have become parallel imports that do not live up to their names after a season.

But Twain knew that, after a season, he knew who made the right purchases and who made the losers.

When discussing the Premier League with Tang, he would also mention the names of some people, but he would not speak too clearly—he was afraid of arousing Tang's suspicion. After all, I am from the future, and Tang is just possessed in parallel.

Even if the two of them have the same experience, they can have a tacit understanding beyond ordinary people. But there will still be secrets between each other that only belong to themselves. Tang En will not tell Tang En, and I am afraid that Tang En will not let Tang En know.

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Looking at the score, the New Forest team that Tony Twain spent more than 12 million pounds to build was obviously not satisfactory.

The results of the five warm-up matches were two draws and two losses. The biggest problem exposed is not the lack of tacit cooperation, the lack of ideal physical recovery...etc. Routine problems, but he found that the team did not have many ways to switch from defense to offense, and lacked the most efficient means when attacking. Albertini is the core midfielder of the Forest team, but he has not fully adapted to the style of English football-to sum up this style in one word is "fast", fast attack, fast defense, fast from defense to attack, from offense to The defense is also fast, and it is a bit difficult for Albertini, who is used to Italian football, to maintain this fast pace in fierce confrontation.

But Twain gave him full trust. Even if it was obvious that he performed poorly and caused the team to lose, he would not criticize the Italian veteran at the post-match press conference. If the reporters insist on getting worse on this issue, he will put on a straight face and say that Albertini is still in the running-in period with the team, and it is normal that his state is unstable and not ideal.

He does not doubt Albertini's ability and professional integrity, the only problem is the adaptation of football style, which takes time. And he believes that at Albertini's age, there is no need for the head coach to spur anything, and the players themselves want to prove themselves more urgently than anyone else.

As a veteran, Hierro has done a good job defensively, but affected by his age, he has completely abandoned his offensive ability and concentrated on defense.

In the warm-up match of joining the team this summer, the most satisfying player may be the Australian striker Viduka. After all, whether it is adaptation to the Premier League or game experience, age and technical characteristics, they are all in tune with the Forest team. Compared with the 02-03 season, Viduka's performance in the last season of Leeds United declined slightly, which was because of the impact of the club's crisis-to be honest, there were few players who were still thinking about playing football at the time That's a lot - despite this, he scored eleven goals in thirty appearances in the league.

Viduka scored three goals in five warm-up matches, the team's player with the most goals in the warm-up match. Due to his outstanding state, Crouch can only make him a substitute. He is partnered with the more flexible Freddie Eastwood.

Niklas Bendtner and Pete Crouch will be substitutes on the striker line. If necessary, Dunn will consider a rotation. In addition, if the situation cannot be opened, he will be replaced by Crouch, who has very, very distinctive technical characteristics. Bendtner, who has a good header and a tall body, is also a good choice. After all, the opponents in the Premier League are more familiar with Viduka than Bendtner.

The biggest advantage of the Forest team is not that they are young, but that they are too unfamiliar to the opponents in the Premier League. Half of the team are rookies, and the others are people who have never played in the Premier League. They need to adapt Premier League, Premier League teams also need to be familiar with them.

There will be four rounds of matches in the Premier League in August. The Forest team's schedule is that the opponents are weak at the beginning, and it becomes more difficult as it goes on. In the first round, the Forest team will challenge Blackburn away. In the second round, back to the home court against Aston Villa, the opponent's strength has begun to improve. In the third round, the real tough battle - against the defending champion Arsenal at home! In the fourth round, they challenged Everton away.

In fact, the "weakness" mentioned above is relative. Tang En looked at it, and he didn't think which of the four opponents was "weaker". After entering the Premier League, for the Forest team, any opponent can be stronger than them. The days when the teams in the middle and lower ranks of the League One ranked casually in the past are gone forever...

On August 8th, Twain announced that the team would have a day off, and then he took David Chrislake to Cardiff, the capital of Wales, to watch a game at his lucky Millennium Stadium—the 04-05 season England Community Shield Cup. He didn't go there as a fan of the two teams. He went to observe and understand Forest's two opponents this season more closely.

With such a promise of being a league champion, Twain would not dare to mess around with it now. The Premier League and the League One are completely different concepts, and they can almost be regarded as two worlds.

Last season, Arsenal led by Arsene Wenger created a great record of 38 consecutive rounds of unbeaten league championships. Although this is not a consecutive unbeaten record in England's top league, but in today's more intense competition and confrontation, it can be achieved It's not easy to stay unbeaten for a season. With such an Arsenal around, does Tang En dare to say that he will win the league title this season?

Arrogance does not mean idiot, he knows what to be crazy and when to keep a low profile.

Arsenal and Manchester United are the biggest rivalry since the establishment of the Premier League. In the past, the relationship between Manchester United and Arsenal may have been as tense as in the past ten years. The person who changed all this was the Frenchman Arthur Wenger, the head coach of the Gunners. After winning the Premier League championship for the first two seasons in a row, Ferguson began to look forward to his own dynasty in the Premier League. Season, Manchester United successfully overtake Blackburn.

In the first five years of the Premier League, Manchester United won four championships. The light belonged entirely to Ferguson and his Manchester United team. Just when Ferguson had laid the foundation for his Manchester United dynasty, and the next step was to continue to consolidate, the Frenchman Arsene Wenger came. Wenger, who is still coaching the team in Japan, is unknown. No one knows his name and ability, and some people even laugh at the Frenchman-Britain and France have always been at odds.

The results of it? In the first season Wenger came to Arsenal, he won the league championship, and they also became the double champion of the season, including the FA Cup championship. Wenger gave the proud Ferguson a head-on blow, and also made the two coaches and the two teams form a bridge from then on.

As of the end of the 03-04 season, in the next six years, the Premier League was basically a situation where Manchester United and Arsenal competed for hegemony. They won and lost each other, Liverpool completely sank, and Chelsea was not stable enough. Two traditional giants, and two head coaches full of unique personal charm, coupled with a team that has been deeply stamped with their personal marks, the grievances and grievances between the two sides run through most of the Premier League.

Therefore, as long as these two teams meet, it must be a hot scene, playing from the field to the field, and the audience and the media will be hooked, which will cause the FA a big headache.

Even a mere Community Shield is a battleground for them to compete for. Dunn watched the game seriously on the court, greedily absorbing everything he could learn - the impromptu substitutions of the two veteran coaches, the starting lineup, the actual tactics during the game...etc. is the least important.

It wasn't until the end of the game that Tang En, who saw the score, remembered that the result did not deviate from the history in his memory - Arsenal defeated Manchester United 3:1 and won their first championship trophy this season. Even the players who scored the goals were exactly the same way: Arsenal's Gilberto opened the scoring for Arsenal, then turned down Forest this summer, and Manchester United's Alan Smith scored his first since joining the Red Devils. A goal in an official game helped the team tie the score. Then Spanish teenager Reyes helped Arsenal lead again, and finally Manchester United's Sylvester became Arsenal's "hero", and an own goal of his helped Arsenal seal the victory.

After the game, the Arsenal players excitedly held up a silver medal and cheered for their first championship of the season. The Manchester United players took care of the field early, unwilling to serve as the background at the opponent's celebration banquet, and used their own loss to set off the opponent's joy.

Tang En was also not interested in Arsenal's championship celebration. He and David Chrislake rushed out of the stadium with the crowd and planned to return to Nottingham by car.

Arsenal fans are still reluctant to disperse in the stadium, celebrating the victory with their team. Now, almost all the fans who appeared on the stage were dejected Manchester United fans. Around Tang En, there were all fans wearing Manchester United jerseys. Some of them were silent and frustrated, just bowed their heads and hurried on their way. Arguing about the game that just ended. Next to Tang En and Chris Lark, there was such a fat man who walked out from the stands and complained to Tang En how unfair the result of the game was. In the end, they were going to part ways, so he shrugged again. : "That's it, the Community Shield Cup is for them, and the league championship is ours!"

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