Chapter 51: The match with Arsenal

The hottest August of the year has passed, and September is approaching, and the weather in Nottingham is getting cooler. Sometimes when you wake up early in the morning, Don Eun has to wear a coat on the outside of his T-shirt.

Yang Yan ended her summer vacation and returned to Nottingham from China. During the two-month holiday, she first went to Italy with her friends, and then returned to her hometown after the SARS epidemic in China was eased and the travel ban was abolished.

Poor Tang En couldn't go back even if he wanted to. He was leading the team to play games.

After Yang Yan returned to Nottingham, she called Tang En to greet him and told him that this trip came back from China and brought a Chinese gift to coach Tang En, who loved Chinese culture.

This should have been something that made Tang En very happy, so I expressed my gratitude to Yang Yan.

But he is no longer as looking forward to Yang Yan's appearance as before. He hasn't seen Yang Yan for more than two months, hasn't heard her voice, and has no idea of ​​thinking about her at all.

In the past, the biggest expectation of leading the team to win every week was Yang Yan's Chinese class.

Later, after the start of school, Yang Yan offered to reduce the Chinese classes twice a week to once a week because she would be busier in the new semester than before, and she believed that Tang En's Chinese level was already very high - "I'm afraid it's higher than some Chinese people', and she didn't need to waste time on it anymore.

Tang En doesn’t have more time to study Chinese now, because he actually doesn’t need to learn at all.

So when Yang Yan made this request, he simply agreed and added that if Yang Yan was inconvenient to come that day, just call and explain.

Due to the adjustment of the schedule, most teams' sixth rounds were postponed to the end of October, including Nottingham Forest. Collimore finally could breathe a sigh of relief.

But the media did not intend to let him go. They were staring at him every day, wanting to see what other excuses Mr. Collimore could find.

If he says the team does not cooperate well, it is very good.

Now I have given the team a two-week adjustment period. Twelve days will be enough for you to get into the team, right? No matter how stupid Gareth Taylor is, he should have a tacit understanding with the team, right? If you can't win the game then, let's see what you have to say.

Now, in addition to recharge himself every night and learning the notes that Tony Don has left for him, he spent it in Burns' bar, talking about the current football situation and the difficulties the Forest team has encountered recently.

If anyone wants him to return to the city court, he never refuses.

Since I learned that Don't often goes to Burns' Forest Bar, Pierce Bruce has almost regarded it as his second home.

Don Eun didn't want the media people to be too close to him, he hated the media very much. So he tried every means to catch Bruce away when he saw him in a bar several times.

"Hey, are you going to drive me away again today?" Bruce stood in front of Donn's seat, looking at him with his hands in his pockets.

Donn was having a meal when he saw Bruce, and he put the spoon aside. "It's so damn, I have no appetite when I see your face. Why are you going to come?

You should work overtime in the office to compile sensational news...Where is Kenny?" He looked up.

"Stop looking, I'm a customer who pays for money to spend here. He has no right to drive me away, so do you." Bruce took two glasses of beer from the messenger and gave one to himself. One was placed next to Don't eat plate.

Then he pulled open the chair and sat down.

"Do you want to bribe me with a glass of beer..." Before Tang En could speak, Bruce pushed the beer in front of him.

"If you want more, that's fine."

Looking at Bruce's smiling face, Don Neng sighed: "Okay, if you want to come to me, you can do whatever you want. But I want to warn you: You are not a reporter here, and I don't want to see it in the newspaper no matter what we talk about.

"Donn used this to test Bruce's purpose to approach him.

If he wants to get any scoop from here, then drive him away immediately.

Bruce nodded: "Of course, I'm just an ordinary Forest team fan after work."

"Very good, not bad." Done pushed the glass back to Bruce. "I thought of it. Mr. Bruce. If one day I suddenly plan to write a biography, I will definitely find you."

"If there really is such a day, that's my honor." Bruce smiled. "Also, can I ask you a question? Mr. Tangen."

"Um?"

"Are you ready to go back to the city court?" Bruce brought up the wine glass.

The two of them gently touched their wine glasses.

"What do I need to prepare? I don't need to prepare anything...but it's not now when I go back, it's not OK now."

Yes, now is indeed not the best time for Donn to return to the city court, and God seems to have not abandoned Stan Collimore.

Forests, who had been resting for twelve days, defeated them at home in the seventh round of the league. This is very important for Forest fans and must not lose the game.

Collimore and the Forests players obviously also know the importance of this game to them. So it is natural for them to win at home in this game.

Gareth Taylor, who was highly anticipated by Collimore, finally broke out. He scored two goals in the thirty and fifty-six minutes respectively in this game. He tied the score to 2:1.

In the 71st minute, Andy Reed added icing on the cake. In the end, Nottingham Forest won the game amid the roar of fans.

Collimore, who won the ball, was very proud. In an interview, he kept mentioning Taylor's two goals - both iconic headers.

Of course, it is not completely fine. Although Rebrov contributed an assist, as the main striker, his number of goals has stalled since the first round of the league. What's the use of a striker who can't score goals?

On September 17, in the eighth round of the league, Nottingham Forest challenged Burnley away, and this time the win was even more straightforward. 3:0.

David Johnson, Andy Reed, and Gareth Taylor each scored one goal, won two consecutive rounds, and Taylor scored two consecutive rounds. The happy Collimore excitedly announced that the team had a day off... Then he disappeared on the night of the game, and the hotel room was empty. Who knew that he had found the beauty to spend the night together again.

The two consecutive wins allowed Collimore to spend the night with the beauty, which also reduced the pressure on him. As a head coach, the victory and loss are normal...so he always easily forgets the situation he faces.

Tang En commented that Collimore is a typical example of "Wine is drunk today. Tomorrow is sadder and even more worried." He seems to never plan the future of the team. If he wins the ball, he will pick up girls. If he loses the ball, he will blame this and that.

He thought Evan Dogerty was not like a fool. What can a coach of this level bring to the Forest team? Even Americans who don’t understand football should be very clear.

But why did the club's senior executives not make any noise? Don En began to pay attention to all the news about Forest's finances and the club's board of directors.

Anyway, his current work is compared to his previous first-team head coach, and he seems to be on vacation and has a lot of time to study these things that he never involved.

Speaking of Donn's own work... Nottingham Youth Team ranked second in the fourth group of youth leagues.

Only two points less than Aston Villa, the number one, you should know that Villa youth team was the champion of the 2002 English Youth Cup.

The Forest team also successfully entered the third round in the Youth FA Cup.

The young players all like Tang En's coaching style very much because it can bring them victory. Isn't it just to win the game? If you win the ball, you will be favored by more people and have a better future.

Even if you are not attracted by the first team, you can still feel good, right?

Don Never let his players "enjoy football" when playing, unless the team has already led the opponent by more than four goals, and there are less than ten minutes left in the game.

He also never tells the young players "What a wonderful sport football is." He usually says "What a wonderful thing victory is."

The youth team has George Wood's name on the bench list for every game, but he still hasn't won even a minute of playing time.

To be honest, Tang En's approach made other youth team players quite puzzled. Everyone can see that the coach pays attention to Wood. After training every day, he has to take him to the second court for extra training, but why don't he get in one game? This kid performs well in training, and often makes Chris Lack praise him loudly.

Even Chris Lack sometimes advises Donn when there is no one around and asks Wood to go up and play. Donnn's answer is "Wait a little longer".

So I waited for another two months...

When Don En finally changed into a black suit with a red round neck short-sleeved T-shirt and put on a long-sleeved shirt under the suit, even if he could still feel the chill in the morning, late autumn in Nottingham came.

The rainy season in the UK is also here... Ah, I'm wrong, the rainy season is all year round in the UK. It's the cold rainy season now.

Tang En stood on the sidelines and watched the youth team training with his neck hunched. He simply raised the collar of the suit and poured the rain into his neck. Chris Lak, who personally guided the players on the court, looked even worse than him.

The umbro sportswear is reflected by rain.

Tomorrow is the third round of the Youth FA Cup. The Forest team will face their opponents here, from the Super League. Arsenal, a strong team with world reputation in training young players!

Arsenal's adult team is a strong team, and their youth team is equally strong.

In addition to head coaches like Wenger who attaches importance to youth football construction, they also have modern youth training bases and the best youth training coaches, as well as young players with great potential from all over the world who have strong cultivation of abilities.

Donn is not afraid of Arsenal, but he must pay attention to this team. Because there is a very special person in the Arsenal youth team today.

Practicing in the rain is mainly targeted defense. George Wood is obviously a key figure in the training and he is "focused on" by the coaching staff. Eighteen-year-old Ross Gardner (ross`

Gardner is a midfielder who came from Newcastle in the summer. He is now the youth team's main midfielder and the core of the organization. Eighteen-year-old James Biolmont (james`

Beaumont) is Gardner's partner in the midfield, with an average technical and all-round midfielder.

The coaching staff asked the two of them to take turns to organize the offense, while Don En asked Wood to defend the two men. Whoever came up would go up and stare at someone to hold on to him.

If two people come together, he must get a good position, don't let the other party break through his own line of defense easily, don't expect that there will be help around him, he must do all this alone.

"George Wood!" Chris Lark whistled and paused his training, strode towards Wood standing in the rain, gasping for breath.

"You are out of position again! Position, position! How many times do you want me to tell you? Defense is not an idiotic way to rush up to tackle when you see the opponent dribbling the ball! Look at your front, back, left and right. Stuck the position, forcing the opponent to only transfer horizontally or pass back.

Look at you...been passed by Gardner again!"

Chris Lark's roar was clearly heard in the rain, knocking the raindrops around him away. Wood lowered his head and did not speak, while the other players took the opportunity to take a break.

The training class has been interrupted many times. Wood's defense always likes to grab the first point, and then is easily overwhelmed by the opponent. If he is asked to keep a single eye, his performance is pretty good. Once he is allowed to stand on the position to defend... the problem comes.

Done stood on the sidelines and watched Chris Lack teach Wood a lesson. He knew Wood’s current problems. This kid was good at human-tapping defense because of his perverted physical ability and was able to make up for the gaps in experience, awareness and technology in one-on-one.

Stand and defense require more experience and awareness, which are what Wood lacks the most now.

Tomorrow's competition... can you count on him?

The players were seen sprinting back and forth in the rain-soaked court, tackled, rolling... and digging pieces of dirt and turf.

Standing next to Tang En, Mr. Andrew, who was specialized in the maintenance of the turf at the training base, frowned with distress.

"Mr. Tang En... can't you go to the second yard for training? We just leveled and trimmed this field. Now... look, it's all swampy!" he complained. "We will compete on this field tomorrow!"

Tang En turned his head and looked at the turf worker in his forties and comforted him. "Don't worry, Mr. Andrew. I did it on purpose.

After the training, you need to cover the turned up turf back and don’t put in a lot of effort to level the place.”

"This..." Mr. Andrew was a little confused.
To be continued...