Chapter 90: Penalty · Decisive Battle (Part 1)

The confident Forest players were aroused by Wood's wonderful performance and held Middlesbrough's crazy attack at the last moment. Even though they seemed to be in a mess and in a mess, they finally managed to defend the score of 0:0 to overtime.

This is a watershed. Middlesbrough never thought that this game would be dragged into overtime before the game, so they would attack wildly in the last few minutes of the game. In Don't see that his heart beat faster and his pupils contracted sharply, he saw a scent of dying struggle from the crazy Middlesbrough people.

This is their last madness. When the game goes into overtime as it wishes, the Middlesbroughs will no longer have the strength to threaten my goal. This is to underestimate the outcome of my team and me!

Within ninety minutes, they spent too much physical and energy on the offense. McLaren did not wait until the Forests collapsed and could not hold on. Instead, his own players were under increasing pressure. In the last shot, they could actually kick directly into the stands - this was to help Forests clear the siege.

There is a five-minute break between the ninety-minute main game and the half-hour overtime. The time is not long. It is just enough for the players who have fought for ninety minutes to sit down and take a breath, drink a sip of water, and listen to the coaches' endless tactical arrangements. Then they will stand up and continue to fight.

This time is not suitable for detailed tactical arrangements. Don Eun asked everyone to sit together and then told them: "Continue to defend in overtime, scored a penalty kick, we will definitely win!"

Everyone understands the simple and clear tactical arrangement. He no longer needs to be encouraged by the mission spirit. Now the team is confident and morale is booming. He doesn't need to talk more about anything.

After the game entered overtime, because both sides were physically weak, Middlesbrough could not siege the Forest again, and Don began to make plans to delay time. In the first half of the overtime, he replaced the exhausted Crouch with Rebrov, and in the last moment of the second half, Clint Hill replaced Gunnarson with overdrawn and cramped.

At the last moment, except for the goalkeepers of both sides, there was only one George Wood who could sprint back and forth. This is also the most important guarantee that Forests did not concede goals in overtime. His physical strength was so surprising. McLaren also used the last substitution in overtime and planned to make a last try, but when Zenden, who had just started playing, was planning to break through George Wood with speed. He encountered the same problem as Downing, who ended up.

Like McLaren, he thought that Wood, who had run for a hundred minutes, would no longer have the energy to get involved with them, but they were wrong, and it was outrageously wrong. George Wood was like he was replaced with Cenden, with no physical strength and his running speed was not affected. Cenden also fell in front of him.

"Permanent Motion Machine George Wood!" In the end, Andy Grey simply gave this young man who didn't know what fatigue was, and he had such a nickname. He was quite imaginative.

Under the leadership of the "permanent motion machine", the Forest team persisted in the scene they most wanted to see - amid the huge booing of Middlesbrough fans. The referee finally blew the whistle to the end of the 120 minutes of the game!

"The game ends! Of course, it's just a 120-minute game end! After a long battle, the two sides entered the penalty kick! This is the most hope for coach Tony Donn to watch, but can his team beat Middlesbrough in the penalty kick?" Gray was skeptical about this. The coaches deliberately dragged the game into a situation they liked to see, but in the end they found that the result was not what they wanted - there are many such things. "Punishment kicks are a way to decide the outcome with a lot of luck..."

Tang En squatted on the turf. He held the floor in his hand and was the final list of the Forest team. He sat around him with a lot of breath and gasping. The game finally came to this moment in his plan. He held on to the last moment of his opponent, and he had never been as confident as he is now - yes. I can win, I can win the first championship trophy since I was a coach! If I had to ask me the reason, my answer was: No! I just believe that I can win!

Looking at the players sitting next to him and being massaged by the team doctors, Tang En shook the list in his hand, and then said: "I have heard this argument countless times. They think that penalty kicks are a way to compete for luck. The winner is just a little better than the loser. Now I hope you know how shit this statement is! If the penalty kick can determine the result by luck. Then why do we have to practice it every day for a week in a row? Let me tell you what the factors that determine the final result of the penalty kick - confidence! Will! Just these two! Do you believe that you can win this final battle? We have experienced a difficult challenge of 120 minutes, and we have successfully reached the end. Are there still people who doubt that we cannot win?"

"No, boss!" The players replied loudly despite being exhausted.

"Very good! I know you have never doubted it, because you are my players, you are all people who believe that the final victory must belong to us, you are all strong-willed. Never shake the fighters easily! Close your eyes. Think about the path you have walked so far this season, think about the opponents we have defeated. We are facing difficulties... When the team's situation is at its worst, we challenge Millwall away. What kind of game is that?" Tang En was very tempted, and the players who closed their eyes frowned and clenched their fists. Those who had not experienced that game also closed their eyes. Tang En didn't care what they thought of. Anyway, there was no one from Millwall in his team...

"Carriage jams, taking the subway, meeting football hooligans, and we won in the end! 7:1! All those who laughed at us and humiliated us shut up! The Super League team couldn't stop us, and we reached the final. Before that, a few people thought that we would finally appear at the Millennium Stadium? No one, except ourselves. We put in so much effort, defeated one opponent after another, stepped on their bodies to the throne, and now we are only one step away from the shining crown! What reason do we have to fall here? I know you are tired, and some people are fighting to get cramps. "Tang looked at Gunnarson, who was wearing a team coat and helping the team doctor massage his teammates. He was bought by former coach Corymore, but his professionalism and professional attitude madeTang choose to continue to trust him. He was very happy that he had not read the wrong person.

"But now... even if we climb, we have to climb up! There is no difference between losing at the last step and losing at the first step. They are losers! To win! You must win!" Tang En roared with his fists, gritting his teeth and his face was ferocious, making everyone feel his desire for victory and championship.

Walker quietly watched Tang En make this special "punishment tactical arrangement". According to common sense, most coaches will try their best to relieve the pressure on the players before such an important penalty final, telling them to be calm or putting aside the outcome, only Tony, he is trying hard to make everyone understand that only winning is their only way out, letting them know that winning this game must be won and put pressure on them. Isn't he afraid that the players will be crushed by pressure? Or... he trusts his players more than most coaches.

This sentence suddenly rang in his mind: "I train them, and they can do it when they need them." At that time, Tony's voice was filled with pride, just like a general who watched rows of trained soldiers walk past him and then rushed to the battlefield. He trained them, he trusted them, and they repay his trust with practical actions.

If the boss says we can win, then we will definitely win! If the boss says we can do it, then we will definitely do it!

What? You want to ask me the reason? Why? I can't tell you, because we don't know, but we just believe in him, just like he believes in us. This doesn't require any reason!

Walker thought, this might be the head coach's personal charm. Just like his boss, Brian Crowf. Although he rarely appears on the side of the training ground and meets less than a few times a week, everyone is willing to follow him, believe in every word he says, and obey his arrangements. If the boss says, "Guys, we need a victory." Then they will try their best to win that game.

And there are fewer and fewer such coaches nowadays... Nowadays, the era of players' personality is booming, and coaches are becoming more and more a kind of workers without technical content. They command games but cannot discipline the team. They may be fired by their boss at any time and become a scapegoat for the team's poor performance. Not to mention anything else, do the current head coach dare to slap the main players in the team? Do you dare to beat a player in the stomach because of a poor performance? Do you dare to risk being late before the European Champions League final to make a player return to the hotel to shave his beard?

No, there will never be such a coach again. Because such a person will definitely not work long in today's football environment.

Although Tony dared not slap his players in the face or let them shine his shoes. But from some places he is really similar to "Tao"! No wonder Bowyer said that someone will definitely compare Tony with "Tao" in the future.
Chapter completed!