Chapter 417: Volume 3: Red Forest Advancement (Part 2)

Eastwood's return gave Tang En great confidence. What confidence? It is the confidence to go further in the Champions League.

Now the team has basically no major injuries, and the personnel are neat. In this season, Twain can finally arrange troops regardless of injury factors.

After defeating the Glasgow Rangers in an away game, Tang En readjusted his goal for this season in a meeting with the coaching staff - not to compete for the league title, let Chelsea defend the title. As long as the Forest team can maintain the current ranking, they will focus on the Champions League. As for the FA Cup...their opponent in the next round is Chelsea, and Twain still decided to send players who usually don't play many games to play this game, regardless of the result. It would be great if Chelsea could be eliminated, but he would not be unhappy if he couldn't.

Where is the best stage to become famous? It is not a domestic league, nor is it the tasteless "oldest cup", but the UEFA Champions League favored by TV broadcasters!

Of course, as a former Chinese fan, Twain still has a bit of a "championship complex".

This goal is consistent with Evan Dalgety's goal, so when Dunn told him the direction of the team, he also supported it. Nottingham Forest have nothing to prove in the domestic league. Now everyone recognizes the strength of the Forest team as a first-class team in China. Tang En needs to prove to foreign countries, the European continent, and the entire world. Through the Champions League, let everyone know Nottingham Forest. What about Ac Milan and Inter Milan? Ah, Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Juventus... let these giants know that from now on, they have a strong opponent who will rob them of money and girls... er, rob them of money and Honorary Robin Hood is here!

So, despite one more leg to go, the outcome for Rangers has been decided ahead of time...

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Forest lost a league game away to Everton ahead of their second-leg tie with Rangers, but no one was surprised. Because Tang Enxue hid most of the main players, even Van der Sar, the main goalkeeper who had been starting in the league before, sat on the bench for this game. Everyone knew what Tang Enxue was thinking.

Eastwood, who scored the winning goal in the last game, did not start, but continued to sit on the bench to watch the game.

Tang En gave him fifteen minutes in this match, and his performance was quite satisfactory. The Gypsy striker still lacks a tacit understanding with this team, but he no longer needs to prove himself with goals. He has already proved himself in the last round of the league, and now no one doubts that he is no longer good.

Moyes' team sent the strongest lineup against Nottingham Forest, which played half of the main force. Everton may never forget that Nottingham Forest surpassed them in the final stage of last season, thus becoming the fourth team to represent England in Europe Champions Cup team.

Seeing how the Forest team is doing so well now, the Everton people will inevitably think - if it is their own, it will be just as good!

So the game against Nottingham Forest has some special significance. In the first half of this season, they lost to the Forest team away. This time, when they return to the home court, Moyes does not want to lose again.

He got his wish. The final score of the game was 1:0. The home team Everton defeated Nottingham Forest. Although this is a Nottingham Forest that deliberately retained its strength, three points are three points, real three points. There is nothing more important than this.

After the game, Moyes, who won the ball, was also in a good mood. As a friend, when he shook hands with Tang En, he still wished the Forest team good results in another arena.

"I think the best outcome is that Everton finish second in the league and you guys become Champions League winners."

Hearing this, Tang En burst out laughing, not at all depressed after losing the game. "You're so unmotivated, David. If I were to say it - the best thing we can do is we win the League and you win the Champions League. Everyone's happy."

Moyes also smiled: "No, it's not your style, Tony."

"no?"

"Well, your style is like this." Moyes lowered his voice and said hoarsely, "The best result is that we win the league championship after the end of the season, and we also win the Champions League."

Tang En scratched his head. That kind of day is still some distance away from him, although he would like to say that, but neither he nor the forest team have the confidence at present.

Because Manchester United lost to Everton, while Manchester United beat Wigan Athletic 2-1 away in the same round of the league, the points gap between Nottingham Forest and Manchester United narrowed from nine points to six points. Ferguson's team is aggressive, but Twain has no time to take care of it now.

Three days later, at the City Stadium, Nottingham Forest fans waited for their opponents in the quarter-finals - the Scottish Premiership side Glasgow Rangers.

Nottingham Forest, who played at home, waited for work with leisure, occupying the right time, place and people, and their morale was high, while the Glasgow Rangers were under a lot of pressure. This game is very difficult for the Ke team. They not only have to beat the Forest team, but also win by a big score.

Nottingham Forest's three away goals were like three mountains on top of the Scots.

It was even worse than that.

At three minutes and forty-one seconds into the game, the home team scored.

This time it was Mikel Arteta who fired a shot past the Glasgow Rangers keeper's fingers.

The city stadium suddenly fell into a frenzy, and the 27,000 people seemed to give out the cheers of 270,000 people.

"4:2! Nottingham Forest extended their lead to two goals! Rangers are now facing a difficult situation. Before Arteta's goal, they needed to win Forest by two goals in this game. Now they need Score three goals without letting the Forest team continue to score! But looking at the state and momentum shown by Nottingham Forest, I think this is an 'impossible task'."

This ball greatly shook the confidence of the Rangers players, because it came so fast that they were completely unprepared.

In the next few tens of minutes, the visiting team desperately wanted to score, and they continued to attack the Forest team's penalty area. But there was no way, the Scottish team played simply and rudely, with long passes. In front of defensive players like George Wood, Piqué and Pepe, they are least afraid of this kind of physical attack.

In fact, the players of the Rangers may be asking themselves in their minds when they are attacking: Is it possible to score three goals and not let the home team score? We can't do it at all!

So, they really can't do it...

The game completely entered the rhythm of Nottingham Forest after ten minutes in the second half. The home team passed wantonly on the field. The players of the Forest team have already played well, and they can play with any kind of cooperation.

In the 79th minute of the game, Mark Viduka scored the second goal of the game in a positional battle, completely sealing the victory.

The Rangers players gave up their belief in continuing to resist, and the game then entered garbage time.

The score of 5:2 is a completely insurmountable moat in the hearts of the players of the visiting team.

In the last ten minutes of the game, the strong smell of gunpowder suddenly disappeared. When Nottingham Forest was in possession of the ball on the field, the Rangers players did not step forward to grab it very much.

The fans of Nottingham Forest in the stands started celebrating early.

After returning to the European Champions Cup 24 years later, he reached the quarter-finals in one fell swoop. This is really a remarkable achievement!

The TV cameras began to frequently show Tony; Twain's close-up shots, it was this man who created all this before him, and the revival of Nottingham Forest officially began from the day he took the position of head coach of the Forest team.

"The game is over! The biggest dark horse of this year's European Champions Cup was born - Nottingham Forest eliminated Glasgow Rangers and advanced to the quarter-finals! The scene 24 years ago seems to have appeared before our eyes again: when the team led by Clough Did anyone give that small team a special look when they first played in the Champions League? Did anyone take them seriously? Did anyone think they were a threat to their ball? Team? What is the final result? From now on, all the giants in Europe must seriously consider this issue!"

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