Chapter 316: Volume 3: The Red Forest, As Expected (Part 2)

It is a bit too far away to consider such illusory things now. Wood couldn't play, and Dunn decided to give up too much defense in the away game. He decided to start with Albertini and Arteta in the middle of midfield.

The opponent has already scored two goals at home, and it is meaningless to go to the away game and want to keep a one-goal lead. It's better to simply let go of the attack and try to score more than two away goals, so that Sporting Lisbon's away goals can be offset.

Therefore, this week, the Forest team has been practicing offense, with Arteta as the core of the offense, and let him organize the offense. Twain also just took this opportunity to realize the idea in his heart-letting Arteta take this opportunity to gradually establish his role as the core playmaker in the team.

Judging from the performance of the last few substitute appearances, Twain firmly believes that the Arteta here is no different from the Arteta he knows. The strength and talent are still there, so he has the potential to become the core of the organization. Tang En was worried that his arrival would change the abilities of other players, but now it seems that most of them have maintained their due level.

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After three days of training in Nottingham, the Forest team flew to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. There, two days of adaptive training, familiarization with the venue, a press conference...etc.

From the moment he stepped off the plane and set foot on the land of Lisbon, Tang En felt all kinds of hostility from the home team. Who told them to cripple Sporting Lisbon's main midfielder in the last round, and still sneer at Picero so mercilessly in the post-match press conference?

Now, they are going to start their road trip under great pressure.

In the two days before the game, the Forest team's training always had Sporting Lisbon fans come to the sidelines to harass them. So much so that Chris Rack had to ask the Portuguese side to block the training ground.

On the day of the game, the situation was even worse.

The Alvalade Stadium was full of seats, and from the moment the Forest players entered the field, harsh boos often sounded. In fact, more boos were directed at the head coach of the Forest team, Tony Twain.

Today's Twain is no longer the football coach who drove the ducks to the shelves halfway two years ago, and this is not the first time he has been booed by all the fans. It's just that there are fewer people and more people. He has long ignored. Now all his thoughts are on the game.

From the beginning of the game, the tactics that the two sides insisted on in this game were very clear.

Because there are two away goals in hand and only one behind. Sporting Lisbon did not play in a hurry, but they used defensive counterattack tactics at home that surprised even the commentators.

Nottingham Forest also unexpectedly put up an attacking formation.

The two teams seem to have changed their home and away games.

Forest took advantage of their kick-offs from the very first seconds of the game and slammed into Sporting's hinterland.

However, Sporting Lisbon without Roschenbach has turned defense into the task of the whole team-everyone must participate in the defense, first with the goal of not conceding the ball at home, and then wait for an opportunity to counterattack.

George Wood's red card had a knock-on effect, and Picero was well aware of that. The current Forest team does not dare to defend the advantage of that goal in the away game. As long as they are scored by Sporting Lisbon, they will be finished. So the Forest team will definitely strive for goals in this game, the more the better.

Pesero grasped the mentality of the opponent, defended first, waited until the forest team became impatient, and then suddenly launched a counterattack. They only needed one ball to defeat the forest team.

Tony Twain practiced offense for a week, while Jose Peceiro practiced defense for a week. The two of them are a match.

At the end of the first half, the Forest team tried their best to break through the home team's gate. On the contrary, Sporting Lisbon became more and more courageous amid the cheers of the home fans. The frequent sneak attacks made the Forest team's defense panic, and Van der Sar was in a hurry .

After the intermission, the Forest team continued to attack in the second half. But also began to pay attention to defense slowly. Tang En intends to use offense to suppress the opponent's offense, so as to play a role that defense can also play.

The score was always stalemate, and the Forest team's tide-like offensive allowed Sporting Lisbon to devote more energy to defense. Time passed by every minute and every second, just when everyone thought that the Forest team would win the quarter-finals in this way, when there were four minutes left in the game and it was about to enter injury time, Sporting Lisbon scored a goal.

It wasn't Sporting's counterattack that lasted 86 minutes, it was a corner kick.

The Forest team's defense loosened at the last moment. Matthew Epson failed to follow his goal. A moment of negligence caused irreparable results.

Sporting Lisbon leads Nottingham 1:0! This score was maintained until the end, and Sporting Lisbon will rely on more away goals to eliminate Nottingham Forest.

Of course the Forest team is unwilling. At the last moment, Tang En also used the third substitution spot, replacing forward Bendtner and central defender Epson.

Counting the three minutes of stoppage time, in the last seven minutes, the Forest team actually had only Hierro as a defender. Leighton Barnes and Chimbonda received Dunn's instructions to let them do nothing. Defensive, full attack.

The formation of the Forest team became a very, very strange 1333-one defender, two full-backs moved forward to become a midfielder, and Albertini was on the same line.

Twain's desperate style of play meant that he didn't want to defend at all. Even so, the Forest team didn't get the results they wanted at the Alvalade Stadium.

When the German referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, cheers erupted in the Alvalade Stadium, and the players of Sporting Lisbon embraced to celebrate their difficult victory.

The Nottingham Forest players fell on the field, panting heavily, and looked at their elated opponents unwillingly.

Tang En didn't feel dissatisfied or sad about this. After Eastwood was seriously injured and taken to hospital, when George Wood was sent off for retaliation for the injury, this result had already appeared in his mind.

Watching the opponents celebrate the victory, listening to the cheers from the stands of the Alvalade stadium, one wave after another.

Tang En turned his head and said to David Chrislake next to him: "I think...you are right, David. I made a big mistake, a very, very big mistake...now I have failed."

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