Chapter 637 Volume 5 Red Guest: AC Milan

"It's not that friends don't get together", this sentence couldn't be more vivid to describe Tang En's coaching career in the past few years.

Nottingham Forest vs. Barcelona, ​​Nottingham Forest vs. Chelsea, these games have all appeared in the UEFA Champions League. Any team that has become an opponent of the Forest Team cannot avoid a battle with the Forest Team in an important game in the end.

Now, this "honor" is the turn of AC Milan.

The Italian media, especially the local media in Milan, were very happy to see this encounter - finally found a chance for revenge. These Italians still couldn't forget Tang En's attitude towards them after the Forest team won the championship last year, which was simply jaw-dropping.

At that time, because the Forest team was the champion and Tang En was the winner, no matter how angry they were, they had no choice but to accept being insulted. Tang En was right. He was an Englishman. He didn't ask the Italian media to interview him. Instead, it was the Italian reporters who needed news who asked him...

It's not the same now, and now the wind and water are turning. As long as AC Milan can eliminate Nottingham Forest, then Twain will be retaliated wildly by the Italian media. The Italians will be very happy to see Twain being attacked by them at the press conference... No, no, we won't ask Mr. Twain a question at all, so prepare to accept the cold reception from the Italian reporters!

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AC Milan's coach Carlo Ancelotti watched the players train with a frown. He is going to England tomorrow, and he is in a bad mood. Nesta's injury is still not healed, and AC Milan's defense line is too old, which really makes him worry.

On the offensive line, since Shevchenko left, AC Milan's strikers always forget to bring shooting boots. The work of scoring goals requires more help from the midfielders.

Inzaghi is old and has constant injuries; Gilardino has not shown the level that people expect at all; Ronald, who was bought from Real Madrid, has multiple injuries and bid farewell to this season, and this Brazilian fat man is likely to be more thorough. Saying goodbye to his career... Pato, who joined the team this season, gave people hope.

Since he was under 18 years old before, according to the regulations of the Brazilian Football Association, Pato can only train with the team and cannot officially play on behalf of AC Milan. His birthday is September 2, but when the player registration date for the Serie A and Champions League matches passed, he could only play some youth games with the AC Milan youth team. It was not until after January 2008 that he was selected into the AC Milan first-team squad and at the same time entered the qualification list for the Champions League competition.

After officially becoming a member of AC Milan, Pato showed his amazing talent. Now he has become the most reliable shooter when other teammates are weak. This time to Nottingham, he will also be entrusted with important tasks.

Kaka's performance is as good as ever. But thinking of that George Wood... Ancelotti's heart sank again.

Tony Twain has obviously studied AC Milan very thoroughly, and he has studied the core figures of AC Milan even more thoroughly...

The media outside are as annoying as flies, advocating a war of revenge, they know nothing! Is it possible to get revenge in such a match? With so much antagonism between the two teams, he couldn't even keep a low profile during his away trip...

Ever since he lost to Nottingham Forest in the Champions League final, Ancelotti has been enlightened - he realized that all the remarks made by Twain before had no more than one purpose: to irritate him, make him lose his composure, and lose his accuracy. judge.

Therefore, the most important thing to play against the Forest team is to be calm. No matter what that big mouth coach says, it's just fart.

Ancelotti shook his head slightly. The current situation is that the media has heated up the game between the two teams. How many people can remain calm?

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"I think AC Milan will choose a more conservative strategy in the away game. It is the most practical way to get a point in the away game."

In the tactical class before the game, Tang was explaining to the players the tactics to be used in tomorrow's game. Tang En sat next to him and listened quietly.

"Italian teams are very good at defending and if they really wanted to defend we would be in trouble. So we played on the wings, ripped apart their dense defense and crossed..."

In this game, the Forest team decided to use their best wing attack to tear apart AC Milan's defense. Franck Ribery and Beckham will start the game. Their breakthroughs and crosses will help the high center Van Niste in the penalty area Rui made a murderous attempt. And Eastwood is cruising behind Ruud van Nistelrooy, looking for opportunities.

George Wood is responsible for the strict marking of Kaka. The only person he needs to deal with in this game is Kaka, and he does not need to consider other defenses. There was Pepe, Piqué, and other defenders. The forest team's defense has always been an overall defense. George Wood just because he is the captain and has one-on-one with world-class masters, so it looks like he has a lot of glory. In fact, he himself knows that behind him, there is a group of defensive teammates silently supporting him.

It took Tang some time to finish explaining the tactics. After everyone understood what they should do in tomorrow's game, they returned the initiative to Tang En.

He stood up and coughed: "Just now I have been thinking about a question. Before the season, I publicly said that our goal this season is the league championship. So I want to ask guys, do you think we should give up the Champions League, or... ...doesn't matter what the Champions League achieves?"

"Of course, the more champions the better, boss!" Someone responded.

Tang En looked over and found that it was Eastwood.

"What about the rest?"

"We all agree with the gypsies, sir!" they all chorused.

Tang En nodded heavily: "Ah, then I'm relieved. I thought you guys lost your fighting spirit in the Champions Cup..."

There was a booing in the tactical room.

"Should we stop training and protest because we were underestimated?" Eastwood stood up and waved his arms exaggeratedly.

"Are you looking for your own welfare, Freddy?" Tang En sneered. "I promise you will never need training again."

Eastwood quickly shrank his neck and sat down.

The hisses turned into giggles.

After the laughter faded away, Tang En said: "I'm sorry for the groundless speculation before, so I formally apologize to you."

In fact, this is not an unwarranted guess. When Tang was explaining the tactics just now, he really lost his mind. At first, his mind was distracted because he could memorize what Tang said in his heart, and because he was also one of the planners of tactics, so Tang En decided to use this time to think about other things. Later, I didn't know what to do, but I turned to worry about the team's competitive spirit.

Before the season, he wrote a newspaper column saying that the team's goal this season is the league championship, just because he has not won the league championship. For countless professional clubs, the Champions League championship is of course important, but the league is the foundation and the foundation . He hopes he can lift the league championship trophy.

But this does not mean that he will give up the Champions League game-some media did think so before. Therefore, he is worried that there will be this kind of thinking within the team, and it is impossible for him to keep abreast of the latest ideas of the players. People's hearts are separated from each other, and people who are familiar with them may change their minds, let alone these professional players.

Therefore, he is worried that the players will have psychological problems when they need to fight on two fronts in the future and their physiology is severely challenged. He wants to guard against the passing of time.

Seeing the performance of these people now, he was relieved. The basis for the survival of Tony Twain's Nottingham Forest is still there, and the source of strength to keep winning is still there, so there is nothing to worry about.

Therefore, he apologized to the players, a sincere apology, and an apology full of joy.

"In this case, tomorrow's game will be as good as AC Milan."

Everyone laughed again.

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AC Milan has arrived in Nottingham, and the hype about the "Battle of Revenge" in the Italian media has also reached a climax. If the fire is added, these Italians will probably climax to the point where they collapse on the ground...

But Tang En didn't take up the challenge.

No matter how the outside world hyped up the "special significance" of this game, Tang En just refused to accept it.

He wants to kill the group of Italian media who are hanging in the air.

In fact, Tang En didn't want his team to fall into the opponent's psychological warfare. This may not be initiated by AC Milan, but it is definitely the result they are happy to see-if they and their team lose their cool.

He himself likes to launch psychological warfare against his opponents, so how can he allow himself to be tricked?

He didn't want to fight because he didn't want the players to feel that this was such a great game. In fact, it was just an ordinary quarter-final. It cannot be done just because the opponent is the traditional Italian giants AC Milan and the final opponent of the Champions League.

Isn't it normal to encounter opponents of this level in the Champions League?

Against Barcelona last season, he valued the significance of the battle of revenge so much because the gimmick of "revenge" can help him stimulate the full energy of the players and defeat powerful opponents. And this season, as the winner, he has no position to use the "Battle of Revenge" as a gimmick. The best way is to deal with it calmly, and don't let yourself be caught by the media accidentally...

At the press conference before the game, some Italian media finally couldn't help but directly asked: "The outside world is talking about AC Milan's revenge battle. May I ask Coach Tang En, what do you think of this issue..."

"No comment." Tang En prevaricated in diplomatic terms with a straight face.

Those Italian reporters were not willing to let Twain go like this. This was the last chance. When the game is over, who knows when and what the result will be. Just in case... just in case, if Nottingham Forest wins at home, they really have no excuse to hype the battle of revenge.

"Coach Ancelotti didn't just say that they want to win this game, then..."

"Don't you want to hear Coach Ancelotti say that they want to lose this game? Well, this is very good news, shocking enough..." Tang En touched his chin and said seriously.

There was a burst of laughter at the press conference, and most of the laughers were from the English media.

It's a pity that the two head coaches did not appear at the press conference at the same time this time, otherwise Ancelotti's expression on his face must be very exciting...

The expressions on the faces of the Italian reporters sitting together began to become awkward.

Tang En glanced at these unwilling reporters and yawned. "I have nothing to do. I'm leaving. Thank you everyone for participating in this press conference. See you next time." He imitated the tone of a TV host, waved his hands, stood up and patted his buttocks and left leisurely.

He has already answered questions from the English media, so the English reporters did not say anything to persuade him to leave. But the Italian reporters present were very upset.

For Italy, where the personality of the head coach is far less prominent than that of England, how many head coaches dare to embarrass the "uncrowned kings" like this?

Last May, Tang En ridiculed the Italian media by relying on himself as the new champion. Come again today, why should he?

Italians were outraged.

Someone muttered and cursed Tang En to go to hell immediately. Of course he used Italian. If he used English, there must be a kind British colleague next to him to remind them:

For Tony Twain, hell is his home field.

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The evening wind blowing from the Sherwood Forest was still bitingly chilly. After all, it was still February, but only at the City Stadium on the south bank of the Trent River, the temperature was so high that it could melt ice and snow.

The din around the city stadium was clear a mile away, and it wasn't the weekend, but it wasn't low at all, because today was Champions League match day.

AC Milan is a guest at Nottingham Forest's home city stadium. Not everyone can keep their cool amidst the frequent "Revenge War" hype, so many Forest fans want to give the warmest welcome to their guests on their own turf.

The police force on duty around the stadium has doubled and a half. Italian fans and England fans have always been troublesome characters. The police chief of Nottingham City must not want to have another fan fight to death during his term of office.

AC Milan's bus has been closely guarded, and the Milan players sitting on the bus have no interest in the outside world. They have seen such a fanatical away game atmosphere a lot, and the Devil's home game is not unique to England.

Only Kaka was lost in thought looking at the hideous faces outside. He was not afraid of these vicious looking fans, he just thought of the game last May.

Last season, AC Milan had a bad year. Because of the "Telephone Gate" scandal, they almost went to the second division to start again. The team's performance in the league was also ups and downs, very unstable. Andre went to London, as if he took away all the shooting boots in the AC Milan dressing room. The strikers almost forgot the feeling of shooting. He stepped up and saved the team. Especially in the Champions League, how many times has he saved the team? Even he himself can't remember, the fans are always talking about their omnipotent Kaka.

He thought so too, and was proud of his performance. He believes that as long as he maintains this state, the Champions League this season must belong to AC Milan. Since joining AC Milan in 2004, he just missed this honor.

result……

As a result, everyone knows that he missed the Champions League again. In the final he once had a chance to save the team again and become an omnipotent hero. But that number 13...

The car stopped, and Kaka came to his senses. He found that the player entrance of the stadium was not far ahead.

The automatic door opened, and a huge noise poured in instantly. Kaka stood up from his seat, and together with his teammates, walked towards the car door. Not affected by this fanatical atmosphere at all.

This time, we must not pass by!