Chapter 527: Volume 4: The Storm, the Dangerous Forest

The commentator said "Long time no see, the offensive players of the Forest team" is actually not an exaggeration at all. The offensive players of the Forest team have indeed not appeared in the eyes of TV cameras and TV audiences for a long time.

Since they scored the Barcelona goal, they have been under pressure from Barcelona. The few attacks either ended without a problem or were abandoned halfway. Bendtner would come back to participate in the defense, not to mention the overall offense.

Now, the Forest team is attacking again. Will the result this time be the same as the previous few times?

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"Fribery received the ball and unloaded it very beautifully! Eastwood is preparing to respond..."

Of course, Ribery saw Eastwood. It really felt completely different in the center and on the wing. On the wing, his job was very simple: break through the opponent, and then cross. But in the middle, he has more choices. It is certainly an option to come up to meet Eastwood, but he can't pass like this...

Why?

Because he saw Eastwood, the Barcelona players also saw Eastwood who retreated to respond.

Puyol is following Eastwood. If he passes the ball, it will be difficult for Eastwood. He has his back to the attacking direction and can hardly turn around under Puyol's defense. This is an irresponsible pass, but also a pass that meets the hopes of the Barcelona people.

It cannot be passed on like this. Ribery tilted his head. He saw Ashley Young running diagonally from the wing to the center. This is a way.

Just when the two were about to cross, Ribery passed the ball to Ashley Young who was running diagonally, and then he ran off the ball to the right. He and Ashley Young completed a Swap left and right.

Barcelona's defense is retreating quickly, but the players on the front line are not returning quickly. After all, they are all offensive players, not defensive players. They are required to return to defense immediately after losing the ball...somewhat difficult for a strong man.

The Barcelona players thought that Ashley Young would continue to take the ball to the left after receiving the ball. Unexpectedly, he had just run two steps. He turned around and passed the football to Frank Ribery who was running past.

Ribery did not continue to dribble the ball to the right, but adjusted his direction while catching the ball, facing Barcelona's goal head-on!

Due to the crossover between him and Ashley Young, there was no one to mark him for the time being. He didn't miss this opportunity, and suddenly took a long shot before Marcos forced him up!

“High quality long shot!”

The football came whistling, but Valdez didn't dare to catch it hard, so he could only jump up and hit the ball with both fists.

"In most cases, Ribery gives the impression of a winger who relies on speed and technique to break through the wing and then cross. This long shot reminds us that he is also a single-season highest scorer. Nine goals scorer!"

That's right, in Ribery's most successful season in the Premier League, the highest number of goals was nine goals. That was his first season in the Premier League, and it was that season, his superb speed and sharp breakthrough, as well as his excellent scoring ability, made him the best foreign player of the season.

He still played well in the second season, but in the third season, after the opponents have studied his routines, his threat is no longer as great as before. Coupled with the fact that Tang En bought Petrov with similar characteristics to him this season, many people believed that Ribéry's once indestructible main force position in the Forest team was gradually being shaken.

In this game, Petrov was sitting on the bench watching the game. Everyone speculates whether Ribery is not performing well and will be replaced soon?

The time has come for a change.

The football played by Valdez was falling on the left side of the field. After receiving it, Ashley Young crossed it without hesitation. Unfortunately, he is not used to his left foot here, and the quality of the cross is not high. He was praised by the defense. Brotta pushes out.

Eastwood lost the battle with Puyol, and the Barcelona captain pushed the ball forward, hoping for a returning Deco, or Xavi. The two of them are very close, no matter who receives the ball, it's like a double insurance.

Deco is even ready to stop the ball with his chest.

"George Wood!" Following the narrator's exclamation, Deco, who was ready to move, saw a black figure suddenly appearing beside him from behind, and it appeared from the air...

George Wood flew in the air, his body leaned back, his waist and abdomen exerted strength, and he pushed the football back hard with his head.

Deco and Xavi both ran empty and the football was back in Barcelona's half.

This time, it was Eastwood, not Puyol, who received the football.

After receiving the ball, Eastwood did not turn around, but directly passed it back to Mikel Arteta, who had already plugged in.

Nottingham Forest's attack has been fully rolled out.

Tang En's requirement for the team is to retreat quickly in defense and attack quickly. In short, one word - fast!

This is well reflected in this game.

The Forest team's offense went up very quickly. After Arteta received the football, he was surrounded by passing routes. Whether it is passed to Ribery or Ashley Young, or Eastwood, Bendtner, even George Wood who is not far behind, and Gareth Bell who is plugging in, he can do it pass.

The biggest difference between Nottingham Forest and Barcelona is that the Forest team doesn't care about the situation. If there is the most direct passing route, it must choose that one.

Arteta looked around and decisively passed the football to Frank Ribery, the team's playmaker in the second half.

When Ribery received the ball, he was already on the right. Zambrotta thought that Ribery would break through from the side. The exchange between him and Ashley Young looked like an ordinary left-right cross. That's all.

Franck Ribery tricked Zambrotta by making a fake straight-line breakthrough—he didn't really make a direct breakthrough, but suddenly moved the football to the middle while Zambrotta shifted his center of gravity backwards. Dial, cut in!

The left foot will cut inside the center from the right, what is the most likely and best thing to do?

"Watch out for his shot!" Valdez shouted.

That's right, it is to use your good foot to shoot directly from a long distance.

As if to cooperate with Valdez, Ribery swung his left leg in a lateral run, and he wanted to shoot!

Marcos rushed forward desperately to block Ribery's long-range shot, completely forgetting the situation behind him.

Ribery could see clearly that he didn't shoot, it was just a fake move to pull out Barcelona's defense and open the gap. Marcos stepped forward, and Barcelona's originally consistent defense appeared a gap that could be exploited.

The Frenchman turned his legs and changed his twitch into a push, and the football rolled quickly from Marcos into the penalty area.

“Beautiful straight plug!”

It's really beautiful. Before Ribery passed the ball, Bendtner had already moved diagonally to this empty position. The ball arrives, and Bendtner takes a shot from a small angle!

If Valdés hadn't reacted quickly and moved in time to block Bendtner's shooting angle, the passing and running cooperation in front of the penalty area might have really scored a goal.

The football hit Valdez's leg and flew out of the bottom line.

There was a loud gasp from the stands at the Camp Nou, and the Barcelona fans were terrified.

After Dunn saw Bendtner and Ribery making a wonderful cooperation, he had already stood up from his seat, clenched his fists, and was waiting for the moment when he raised his arms and shouted to celebrate the goal. Na's shot was blocked by Valdez out of the bottom line.

The ups and downs of emotions made him almost unable to control his body. He jumped up suddenly, knelt down on one knee, and punched the ground. "Such a good opportunity... I didn't get in! I didn't get in!"

He was still babbling as he got up and walked back to the dugout.

"At least we have seen a good news - Franck Ribery's performance is very good." Chris Lack comforted him.

Tang nodded beside him: "It's better than we imagined."

"But it's not enough..." Tang En muttered to himself, "We need to put more pressure on Barcelona." After saying this, he turned back, took a deep breath after standing still on the sidelines, and then shouted: " George! When attacking, rush up and hurry up! If you can't run, I will replace you!"

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"Nottingham Forest's offense has improved, which is really a feast for the eyes of our neutral audience. The scene is very good to watch, and the offensive quality of both sides is very high. Now the suspense is... who will be the first to break the current embarrassing deadlock of balance?"

The forest team took a corner kick and was pushed out by Thuram. Arteta, who was ambushing outside, tried to shoot directly from a long distance, but it was high. This made Twain slap his thigh angrily off the field. Facing this situation, he didn't want to see his players act too hastily. He preferred to see Arteta choose to unload the ball and reorganize the attack just now, instead of Kick the ball into the stands.

After Barcelona sent a goal kick, they continued to attack the Forest team's goal. The situation on the field was deadlocked. It seemed that everyone had a chance, but every chance always passed them by. Fate seems to be playing tricks on the mood of the fans of the two teams, sometimes making them nervous, sometimes letting them breathe a sigh of relief, sometimes making them excited, and sometimes making them depressed.

In the second half, twenty minutes passed gradually in such a stalemate.

Tang En didn't make a substitution, he was waiting for the opportunity. He believed that Rijkaard would not be reconciled to scoring a point at the Nou Camp, and would definitely start sending offensive players at the last moment, and that would be his chance.

In the eyes of everyone, Twain should be very satisfied with this situation. In fact, his thoughts are exactly the same as Rijkaard's - failure is not acceptable, and neither is a draw!

Seventy-three minutes into the game, Rijkaard finally couldn't sit still, and he had to take the lead in making adjustments.

Brazilian full-back Belletti replaced Thuram. This is not a defensive adjustment. Belletti has a very good assist ability. Rijkaard replaced him to strengthen Barcelona's wing attack.

Seeing this substitution, Twain also stood up from his seat and asked Chris Lack to call back Ruud van Nistelrooy who was warming up. Bendtner was still close. He now needs an experienced player with excellent world awareness. level center forward. To be clear, Tang En needs a terminator.

Compared with Ruud van Nistelrooy, Bendtner is still worse.

After calling Van Nistelrooy to his side, Tang En raised his head to observe his expression, and there was nothing unusual.

"I only have one request." Twain raised his index finger and said to the Dutch shooter, "Do your best to score goals."

Van Nistelrooy nodded. He likes that, he's an experienced shooter, and if a head coach is nagging in his ear, he just feels underestimated and not given the credit he deserves.

"Go ahead and fuck them!"

Ruud van Nistelrooy was replaced on the field, Bendtner ran down quickly, Tang En grabbed him and said to him: "You did a good job, Nicky."

"Thank you boss, but I didn't have that ball just now..."

Tang En interrupted Bendtner's remorse with a smile: "No matter how good a striker is, he can't guarantee to score every time he shoots. If you are not reconciled, you can practice shooting more when you go back to training!"

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"Both sides have made offensive adjustments. It seems that in the last moments of the game, the two teams were not reconciled to the 1:1 draw. This is really exciting!"

After Tang En yelled at Wood, Wood was indeed quicker and more determined in attacking. Of course, in this way, there will naturally be more space behind him to allow Barcelona's offense to participate.

How to balance offense and defense has always been a big problem for every team, coach and player. Dunn didn't expect Wood to perform well in this regard. Strengthening the offense will inevitably weaken the defense, and the price of a solid defense is to sacrifice many opportunities to counterattack.

This should be a multiple-choice question that only the head coach needs to do.

Twain chose to attack with 20 minutes before the end of the game.

Ruud van Nistelrooy was sent on the field is a very obvious signal.

The Dutchman has more experience, and his ability to grab points in front of the goal is better than Bendtner. Coupled with the assistance of Eastwood and Ribery... It seems that Twain is determined to win this game.

The consequence of this is...Wood relaxes his marking on Ronaldinho, and Barcelona will also have many opportunities to attack.

Now let's see who can catch it one step ahead of time...

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After Ronaldinho got rid of George Wood's defense, he passed the football to Eto'o under interference. Eto'o played very depressed in this game. His speed had little room to play under the dense defense of the Forest team. , After receiving the football, you can only try to shoot more, or pass the ball again.

For shooting, Twain asked the defense to push Eto'o out of the penalty area before the game. In short, the farther away from the goal the better, Eto'o can only rely more on long-range shots now. Now he found that the forest team's defense seemed to be a little loose, and he planned to rush in directly!

With a flexible and quick start to change direction, Eto'o dunked Kompany who was defending him, intending to squeeze through the gap. Just as he was on the brink of success, Piqué rushed to fill the gap.

He kicked the football with his big foot before Eto'o, and then collided with the African cheetah who couldn't stop the car, and the two fell to the ground at the same time. There were deafening boos again from the stands. The Barcelona fans naturally thought that this should be another penalty kick, but the referee did not award it and signaled the game to continue.

Piqué kicked the ball to the feet of Ashley Young. He didn't pass it forward, because Barcelona's press came up in time this time. When he adjusted the football, there was no room to send it forward. He can only protect the ball on the wing, or wait for his teammates to come up to support, or kick the football on the Barcelona players, bounce out of the sideline, and get a throw-in.

To be honest, the second option can only be a move of desperation, because once that means Barcelona's on-the-spot defense has succeeded. They blocked a fast break from the Forest team.

The first option was a bit more difficult. Chimbonda wanted to come up to meet him, but he was closely followed by Eto'o. What about Arteta? The location is not very good, and I can't confirm where he is.

"Here!" Just as Ashley Young was about to make a throw-in, he heard the captain's voice.

As soon as he looked up, George Wood appeared in front of him, but there was no one around him for the time being. The Barcelona players obviously didn't expect that George Wood would suddenly appear here and ask for the ball to participate in the attack. Ashley Young didn't hesitate anymore, and immediately passed the football, and then he turned around and continued to run forward from the outside of the court. This is what he thought-he ran out quickly so that Wood could pass the ball to himself for a penetrating two-to-one! After all, after more than half a season of personal experience in training and competitions, Ashley Young still knows Wood's ability to pass long passes, and knows that this is the most likely way to tear through Barcelona's defense.

Because of his accelerated running, he took away Barcelona's Deco, and the Barcelona players also thought that Wood would choose to pass the ball at the first time, which happened to be able to take advantage of Ashley Young's fast speed. Everyone was preventing Wood from passing the ball, but Wood unexpectedly chose to dribble the ball himself!

Wood's dribbling speed is not fast, but steady. Deco followed Ashley Young for a while and found that Wood had no intention of passing the ball, so he turned back to guard George Wood.

Wood did not continue to dribble the ball in the face of Deco, but passed the football to Mikel Arteta who ran up with him, and Arteta passed the football to Gareth who followed up from the left back position Bale, the attention of the Barcelona players followed the football to the wing. Bell suddenly made a horizontal diagonal pass!

The football passed between the players on both sides, no one intercepted it, and finally fell at Wood's feet!

He didn't go back after passing the ball, but continued to respond forward. Bale saw him and sent the football over.

At this time, Wood was only ten meters away from the arc top of Barcelona's penalty area. It was not easy to run across this distance. Barcelona erected a barrier here to prevent Nottingham Forest from attacking.

Puyol commanded the team's defense to collectively press up and create offside. As long as Wood passed the ball forward, either the two forwards of the Forest team would be offside, or no one would receive it at all.

At the same time, Deco continued to approach Wood, intending to take the opportunity to steal.

Pass the ball, or bring it yourself?

Wood looked at the large space in front of him, and suddenly kicked the football to the right.

There was also no one there now, but a second later, a running figure appeared in the TV camera, Ashley Yang!

He was running from just now, but when he realized that Wood didn't pass the ball to him, he stopped. Later, when Wood received the ball for the second time and was blocked by Barcelona's offside, he keenly discovered the neglected side corridor. Ashley Young didn't know if George Wood would see the empty hallway, or if running up to Wood would pass the football to him.

But if you run, you will only run for nothing. If you don't run, you will lose all chances. He chose to go forward at high speed.

This is not an offensive routine that has been repeatedly rehearsed in training. Wood did not turn his head to see where Ashley Young is, but he sent the football there exactly, to Ashley Young's feet.

"How did he see it?" The commentator's exclamation was also Rijkaard's question.

Everyone is paying attention to Wood, who is holding the ball in the middle, and Barcelona's defense line also shrinks unconsciously to the middle, intending to completely block this defensive midfielder who is not good at attacking and dribbling.

Unexpectedly, Wood suddenly passed a ball that was not within his vision, and with a stab, it tore open Barcelona's defense.

After Ashley Young received the ball from the wing, there was a large blank area in front of him. He adjusted the football diagonally, and then rushed towards the penalty area with the ball.

Gianluca Zambrotta fought his way back to the defense, and it didn't look hopeless to stop Ashley Young before he entered the danger zone.

Yang swung his foot, regardless of whether he was going to cross or shoot, Zambrotta strode up and stretched out his foot to block.

It wasn't a shot, but it wasn't an ordinary cross either. Ashley Young passed the football to his diagonal, near the penalty spot.

Neither Eastwood nor Ribery received the ball in front of the goal, but Ruud van Nistelrooy's professional sensitivity made him run to the goal and then suddenly withdraw, just in time to catch the ball, without hesitation, kicked glance!

Valdez's reaction speed is amazing. Although there are usually a lot of criticisms about him, his performance at this moment is amazing.

When he ran to block the near corner and saw the football coming back, he immediately turned around and ran towards the center of the goal. Halfway through, he saw Ruud van Nistelrooy swish his foot and shoot. Valdez's body immediately soared into the air and rushed towards the football.

He pounced on the football!

Ruud van Nistelrooy's shot didn't go in!

The Forest players were going to raise their hands to cheer the goal, but this time it was replaced by the cheers of the Barcelona fans in the stands behind the goal.

They were about to shout Valdez's name, but the first syllable had just come out, and the situation at the door suddenly changed.

Valdés tried his best to catch the football for the first time. He had no spare power to shoot the football farther. The football fell in front of the goal, and Valdés himself had already fallen to the ground. Struggling to stand up again, he already smelled danger.

The football is right in front of my eyes, about one palm away from my palm, and unfortunately, the danger happens to be one palm away.

Franck Ribery was going to rush in to grab the first point, but Ashley Young passed to Ruud van Nistelrooy behind him. He thought he was going to waste a trip, but he didn't expect Van Nistel Rui's shot didn't go in, but was saved by Valdez, and what he didn't expect was that the saved ball happened to land not far from his feet!

Godsend!

Ribery, who was about to shoot, suddenly felt a strong pull from behind him, trying to pull him to the ground. Obviously, this was done by Barcelona defender Marcos who was leaning behind him.

Valdes is also trying to get up from the ground, intending to hug the football again.

How can you get what you want? !

Ribery and Marcos did not compete with each other in front of the goal line. He has no time to test who is stronger now. He took advantage of the force that Marcos pulled himself, and threw his body out, which freed his feet and could use them for more important things, such as... turning around and shooting!

Valdez saw his palm approaching the football, perhaps only half a palm away. But in the next moment, the football disappeared, only a piece of grass was thrown up.

"Frank Ribery! He scored! He fell in front of Barcelona with Marcos, foul? No, no foul! The referee signaled the goal! Nottingham Forest took the lead for the second time at the Nou Camp Barcelona! Look at Tony Twain's excitement on the sidelines. Ha, it's as if he scored the goal! Nottingham Forest is like a jungle shrouded in thick fog and full of dangers, trapping Barcelona inside. Frank Rijkar Can the German team rush out? They don't have much time, there are still seventeen minutes!"

In one shot, Dunn swung his fists to the sky and roared with his mouth open. A little farther away, Rijkaard stood on the sidelines, with his hands folded over his chest, biting his lower lip, with a solemn expression.

In the background for the two is the blurred Camp Nou stands, like a choppy red and blue ocean.