Chapter 503: Volume 4 Storm In Addition to Offense, It Is Still Offense

Against Chelsea...

Since Tony Twain became the head coach of the Forest team, he has formed an indissoluble bond with Chelsea. Chelsea's head coach Mourinho and him are considered to be the two most personal head coaches active in football today. Although there are some exaggerated techniques used by the media in it, they are almost the same.

So as soon as the two of them appeared in the Premier League, they were compared together. In this case, it is difficult to think that it has nothing to do with it.

The outside world said that Tang En and Mourinho were enemies who had never been in touch with each other. From the way the two of them grind their teeth every time they play, yes. But if this is the case, Mourinho came forward to help Tony Twain's player Pepe to testify in court to resolve the labor certification issue, so what?

Tang En never considered the relationship between him and Mourinho. Because thinking about this can't help him win a game, could it be that the relationship between the two is really good, so they called Mourinho to release the water? He is really an enemy, so he is afraid of Mourinho?

What's more, Mourinho is not a beautiful woman, what are you doing to die so many brain cells for the relationship with him?

He doesn't care what the relationship between Mourinho and himself is, he only cares about his team's record against Chelsea.

Nottingham Forest has maintained an unbeaten record against Chelsea since returning to the Premier League. This is where the Forest team has a great psychological advantage. In this home field last season, under such a difficult and dangerous situation, the Forest team did not lose. In the end, Bell scored a wonderful free kick to turn defeat into victory.

Mourinho's team is running rampant in the Premier League, and when it comes to playing whoever is afraid, there is no opponent that has not been defeated by him. The only worry was Nottingham Forest under Tony Twain's command.

This time, for him, is a good opportunity. Forest's main defensive midfielder George Wood was suspended. Without such a midfield barrier, Chelsea's attacking lineup can be unimpeded.

Lampard can finally play undisturbed. His drive and long shots are quite threatening.

Of course, Tang En also knew that his team's goal was the midfielder. No matter how hard Sun Jihai tried, he couldn't make up for the gap in strength. Since Wenger knows to use this to make a breakthrough, Mourinho must know it too. Tang En decided to let Sun Jihai rest.

The plan was like this, but Dunn didn't want his opponent to know. The team had a few days of closed training at the last moment. The outside world only thought that Tang En valued the twice-a-year "dating" with Mourinho, and didn't think much about it.

Until an hour before the start of the game, when the media got the starting list of the game from the club, everyone was stupid.

"...We got the starting lists of both sides for this game." John Mortensen picked up a piece of paper and shook it at the camera, "What were we analyzing just now? Mark?" He looked at the seat beside him , and commentator Mark Lawrenson, who explained the game with him.

Because the bearded Mark Laurensen lost the bet, he touched the smooth skin on his lips, "I think Dunn will stick to his defensive counterattack strategy in this game, so it's the home game. After all, his team is in a bad situation right now." , without George Wood, it will be difficult for the Forest team's midfielder to stop the attack of Chelsea Lampard and others. If the defensive line composed of Piqué and Kompany is directly facing Chelsea's offensive players, it will be very difficult for this young defensive line too much stress."

Mortensen nodded: "From the analysis of the situation before the game, you are quite correct. Mark. But if Tony Twain no longer surprises you, he will not be called 'Tony Twain'. Although we We don't know his specific tactics yet, but from this starting list, we can see that defense is definitely not what he wants..." After finishing speaking, Mortensen began to pick up the list and read, "Goalkeeper Van der Sar, Centre-backs Piqué and Kompany, left-back Gareth Bale, right-back Chimbonda." He stopped to look at Mark Lawrenson.

"Midfielders - Franck Ribery, Ashley Young, and Albertini and... van der Vaart!"

Laurence raised an eyebrow.

"Forward Ruud van Nistelrooy and Eastwood."

"Gareth Bale is an assisting full-back, and his defensive ability is not as good as Leighton Barnes. He is not a midfielder, but a Dutchman whose offense is far stronger than defense..." Lawrenson analyzed, "Tony Twain wants to play against Chelsea at his own home court? My God, this game should really be recorded. This is the first time that Coach Twain chose to take the initiative to attack when he played against Chelsea! home ground!" Lawrenson sneered.

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"What's going on here?" Mourinho frowned while holding the opponent's starting list given to him by his assistant. "I thought that coward must be using the back-and-forth tactics again..."

"Obviously, Twain wants to attack us at his home court," said his assistant coach Steve Clark.

Mourinho glanced at him, isn't this nonsense? Any fool could see that Dunn was about to attack.

But... the question is really that simple?

"Twain is very cunning...I always feel that there is something wrong." Another head coach beside him, Baltemar Brito, frowned and said, "Could it be that he deliberately made us think they were going to attack? Then let your guard down?"

This time, Mourinho glanced at the Brazilian again. Did we let our guard down when we thought they were going to attack?

But what Brito said was right: Tang En is very cunning, and things should not be so simple.

"In any case, our preparation for a week is to use offense to deal with their intensive defense. It's okay for them to press out and play now. If they attack, they will only have more loopholes." Mourinho said Forest team Throwing the starting list aside, he turned and walked into the locker room. Give the players a boost and it's time to get them ready to play.

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On the other side, Tang En was already assigning today's tasks to his subordinates.

"...In our home court, we always stay in the backcourt and wait for the opponent to attack, and then we wait for the opportunity to attack... Don't you feel very uncomfortable about such a game?"

There was a moment of silence at first, and everyone didn't know what the boss meant by asking this question suddenly. Then Eastwood stood up and shook his head: "We don't feel bad, boss. It's very happy to win."

"Don't talk about it." Tang En waved his hand, "I'm very annoyed to see the other party showing off their might in our home court. Can you youngsters bear it?"

Someone below laughed.

"At home, we have to act like a home team. We are not afraid of Chelsea, because they have never beaten us. Your task in this game is to score goals and score more goals. Show Chelsea boys Look, we're not going to be undefeated against them by more than defense! Offense! Offense! Offense, except fucking offense!"

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When players from both sides lined up on the sidelines for the media to take pictures, Tang En and his coaching staff were already sitting on the coaching bench.

"Tony, do you think you can stop Chelsea just by attacking?" Chris Lack asked from the side.

"Is there any other way for us? Defense?" Dunn asked back.

Tang helped Tang En speak from the side: "Offensive is the only way to solve the crisis. Besides, I don't think Chelsea's offensive is very strong. Compared with scoring goals, we don't necessarily lose."

Tang En smiled at Chris Lark: "I mean the same thing. Shevchenko and Ballack didn't integrate well with the team. Mourinho went around and found that last season's lineup is still reliable. Now all England It's been said that we don't have George Wood, defense is a weakness. Today I want to show those people why they say 'offense is the best defense'. Hey David, don't you expect it? "

"What to expect?"

"Expecting us to press out crazy offensive scenes."

Chris Rack looked up at the sky, as if the scene was in the blue sky.

"It's really hard to imagine... We always seem to be defensive and counterattack..."

"Then take a good look at today's game."

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At the beginning of the game, as analyzed from the starting list, Nottingham Forest did not intend to continue to defend and counterattack at their home court.

Captain Albertini beat Chelsea's John Terry in coin guessing. Nottingham Forest took advantage of their possession of the ball after the kick-off and started to attack Chelsea.

Unlike in the past, the Forest team did not launch a quick counterattack, but fell the football under their feet for a while, as if looking for a flaw in the opponent's defense.

It's really rare for the Forest team to play possession like this...

After all, there is still very little time for training. After falling down a few times, the forest team suddenly launched an offensive. Albertini's direct pass to van der Vaart got the ball in the middle. With his back against Chelsea's Essien, he wanted to turn around and found it was not so easy, so he passed the football back to Albertini instead.

Just when everyone thought that Albertini would pass the ball again, he suddenly took a long shot from an area nearly 30 meters away from the goal!

"Demetrio Albertini!"

It was a bit far from the goal, but Cech didn't let it go. His instinct told himself that the ball was dangerous...

"Peter Cech! Great save!"

The Czech national goal flew to the right and hit the football with a single fist!

But it's not over yet, the football didn't fly to the sideline, or went straight out of the baseline, the ball was hit by Cech and flew to the side, Ashley Young grabbed the ball in front of Ashley Cole, Cole was very smart He didn't choose to attack the second point with him, but stayed on Yang's forward route.

Everyone knows that Ashley Young was the assist leader in the Premier League last season, and people like Kerr dare not be careless. His passing awareness is very good, and if he is not careful, he will pass the football into the penalty area.

Although Cole was very careful, he was still caught by Ashley Young. He didn't break through with the ball, but made a direct pass. The movement of swinging his leg was very fast and very subtle. Before Ashley Cole could react, the football had already flown past his face!

"Push it out!" Before Petr Cech finished speaking, Terry jumped up and pushed the football out ahead of Ruud van Nistelrooy.

Seeing the football flying towards him, Van der Vaart opened the angle without hesitation, bent his bow and set an arrow, swung his left leg, and volleyed across the body!

The Dutchman is very smart to choose to shoot directly, because the ball is sudden enough and concealed enough. The restricted area is full of people, and whoever accidentally bumps into it may change direction, perhaps flying directly out of the baseline, or directly entering the door? In addition, Cech's showing off behind the crowd will definitely hinder his sight and affect his judgment of the ball.

Just hold it down, that's...

There was a huge cheer at the city stadium, as if they had seen the moment when the football hit the net in advance. But this time, they were wrong.

Cech still made the correct response and judgment in a very difficult situation.

Van der Vaart's shot hit no one and went straight for the goal. After Cech moved a small step to the left, he found that the football appeared in his field of vision, and immediately threw it sideways without hesitation. Catch the flying football!

"It's on the goal line! Nottingham Forest fans rejoiced!"

After van der Vaart saw Cech save his shot from the crowd, he held his head in his hands regretfully.

"It's truly a world-class goalkeeper on par with Buffon!" Mortensen exclaimed, but he didn't know what else to say. Cech's performance on this ball was perfect.

Seeing this scene off the field, Tang En remembered what happened to the Czech goalkeeper "once". But Paul Gerrard saved him by sacrificing himself...

Now he doesn't have to wear a tank helmet to guard the goal, and he doesn't have to worry about his state declining due to injury.

I am really a living in the new era...

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"Nottingham Forest's attack made the Chelsea people nervous even though they didn't score. They are used to the scene of this opponent shrinking in the second half and counterattacking them. Now it is time to change the impression."

Mourinho turned his head from his seat to look at Tang En who was also sitting on the coach's bench.

The Forest team has changed a lot this season, and it is no longer possible to look at this opponent with old eyes.

"Jose, Twain wants to play offense with us." His assistant coach Clark saw it.

"Then play." Mourinho shrugged and didn't care.

"Should we...shrink the defense and fight their counterattack?"

Mourinho glanced at him: "What are you doing? When we played against this opponent, did we shrink our defense?"

Clark shook his head: "No..."

"That's it. Our original plan was to attack, and it's just right for them to attack us. I know what that bastard Tang En thinks. They can't defend our offense, so they want to use offense instead of defense. If we If you are pushed back by their attack, you will be fooled by him. If you don’t take it back, they will attack, and we will attack too. Let’s see whose attack is stronger!" Mourinho absolutely cannot bear being pushed back by Tang En What happened, to him, Tony Twain was not as simple as an ordinary league opponent.

Not only must the result of the game be won, but the scene must not be ugly, otherwise it will give this cheap guy an excuse.

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Watching Chelsea and Nottingham Forest fight each other, Tang En was not worried at all. He simply crossed his legs on the coach's bench.

"Coach Twain doesn't seem to be worried about his team's fragile defense..." Mortensen sighed after seeing the scene where Twain raised Erlang's legs and kept shaking them.

"John, you're right. He really doesn't think about whether he can defend which line of defense at all, because it's useless even if he thinks about it. His unexpected choice of attack in this game is to put pressure on Chelsea by attacking and let the opponent retreat. Go back, this will achieve his goal of defense..." At this point, Mark Laurenson paused, as if he suddenly realized, "In the end, he still wants to defend in his bones! This conservative utilitarian coach!"

Laurence made no secret of his distaste for the man.

Mortensen didn't intend to improve his perception of Twain, he laughed beside him and said, "But for now, he is successful, isn't he?"

"Success? Apart from a League Cup title, has he won any other championships? He didn't win a warm-up match like the Amsterdam Invitational. John, I don't know where your 'success' comes from? "

Mortensen shrugged and didn't dwell on the topic any further.

Bringing a fallen noble who was almost relegated to England's third tier league and was troubled by the financial crisis back to the Premier League, the UEFA Cup quarter-finals in the first season, and the Champions League runner-up in the second season... If this is not enough Count it as a success, then countless professional coaches in this world are useless...

The BBC's arrangement is also very interesting. Whenever there is a Nottingham Forest game and the BBC has the right to broadcast it, the partners must be the "pro-Twain" John Mortensen and the "anti-Twain" Mark Lawrenson. , Lineker and Alan Hansen come back for cameo appearances, but chances are rare.

If Dunn heard Mark Laurenson's evaluation of himself, he would definitely agree with this "enemy"'s evaluation of him.

He doesn't think he is very successful now, it's very simple, because in four seasons, he has only won a tasteless League Cup championship, other than that, he is always one and a half steps away from real success. In Tang En's mind, evaluating his own success is definitely not based on his tactical skills, the discovery of young players, and the affinity with the players... He only values ​​results, and only the championship is the proof of his success.

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Sorry, overslept again...