Chapter 131: Unstable Forest (Part 2)

Nottingham Forest before the game was considered a tired army by the local media in South London. He ran back and forth, but even Nottingham did not return. Although he won the League Cup, it did not explain any problem. Instead of dealing with such a intensive schedule, Crystal Palace can wait for it to be free and can win Nottingham Forest, currently ranked sixth at home.

By the way, because of the recent achievements and arrogant and arrogant personality, Tony Don and Nottingham Forest have been listed as key research by many Premier League coaches. Especially the teams with low rankings hope to balance their psychology a little by defeating the Forests - a newcomer can rank sixth, and if we beat them, is our strength close to sixth?

Therefore, although Crystal Palace only scored five points after nine rounds of the league and ranked last, it did not prevent their fantasy from defeating the Forest at home and getting out of the sea of ​​suffering.

But reality is often cruel...

In this game, Donne sent most substitutes and young players to rest on the one hand, and train the team on the other hand. Central defender Pique and Wesmogan start together, the left back has not changed much, right back Zimbonda rests, and John Thompson takes the place. Mid-back Albertini rests, Blanya Gunnarson and George Wood are partnering, left forward Chris Commons replaces Frank Ribery as the starter, right forward Allen Lennon replaces Ashley Young, and the forward line is a double center combination - Crouch and Bentner.

The Forest team's tactics in this game are very simple, which is to try to play high-altitude balls, and the wing forward crosses from the bottom instead of cutting in.   There are few coaches sending two high centers at the same time in the game, but Tang En did that.  The effect is surprisingly good.

Crystal Palace was completely stunned by the "two towers" combination of Bentner and Crouch, because he didn't expect the Forest team to have such a staffing configuration. Bentner has comprehensive skills, excellent heading, strong body, can shoot by himself, and can also pass and assist teammates. Although Crouch's heading and physical strength are not as strong as Bentner, his outstanding height still allows him to win more headings on the court than ordinary people. His long legs often make the opponent's defenders unable to defend.

Such a team combines a weird front line. In the game, they made eleven shots, seven shots within the goal frame, and three goals were scored. Crouch scored twice, and Bentner also won his second league goal this season.

Although the result of the game made Tang En very happy, what excited him was the growth of young players. Bentner would not say that. Tang En clearly knew his strength, and so was Crouch. He was more than two meters tall and attracted the attention of some clubs.

What made Tang En feel excited and even a little relieved was Allen Lennon. As England's new star of hope - although England's least immorality is perhaps the star of hope, the media are always good at hyping an unknown boy into a talented boy overnight - after coming to the Forests, because he was young, he could only be Ashley Young's substitute. Most of the time he trained in the first team. And when he had to compete in the reserve team, he would sometimes be borrowed by the youth team.

But he seemed very down-to-earth and did not make any excessive requirements, such as having to play the main force. He had to ensure his playing time... he just focused on training and worked hard to improve his level.

In the game against Crystal Palace, two of the Forest's four goals came from him directly assisted, and one was an indirect assist - he passed it to Bentner, Bentner flew to Crouch, and Crouch scored the ball.

In addition, Chris Commons' performance on the left side is average, although not as good as Lennon. But it is very stable. Don Edward likes such players. They often have low requirements and will not like those star players who want to start and raise their salary, hope that they can do this and that. They are very clear about their positioning, work hard to do their best, and play the greatest role when they need them. Maybe their ability is not competent for the main players. But being an excellent substitute is enough.

There must be such a player in any team who is willing to be a substitute. Chris Commons is such a person. He is very low-key in the Forest team, a person who is not very noticeable in normal times and even Don Eun sometimes ignores it, but when he needs to play his role, he will not disappoint everyone.

The same situation as Commons is also substitute central defender Wesmogan. He was able to play as a main player last season. He can only be a substitute this season, but no one has ever expressed any dissatisfaction with him. He is still one of the most optimistic people in the team.

If such a person exists in the team, Tang En will be much more worried.

The final score of this game was Nottingham Forest defeated Crystal Palace 4:2 away, allowing Crystal Palace, the last one, to further consolidate their position as "deputy squad leader". Nottingham Forest's ranking has not changed at all, and 17 points are still ranked sixth. Look at the name of the team in the standings: Manchester United ranked fifth with 17 points, and Liverpool ranked seventh with one point less. The fans of the Forest team have enough reasons to be proud of the team's performance.

After the game, the Crystal Palace people were depressed, while Tang En answered Nottingham with the Forest team with satisfaction.

Five days later, they will go north to challenge Newcastle, ranking eighth with 16 points like Liverpool, and are not at the same level as deputy squad leader like Crystal Palace.

The Forests can easily defeat Crystal Palace away, which does not mean that they can also easily defeat Newcastle away.

Moreover, starting from the Crystal Palace, it will be a small devil schedule for the Forest team:

Newcastle away challenge on October 30th.

On November 4, in the second round of the League Cup group stage, they face Lazio at home.

On November 7, away against Liverpool.

The Forest team is not in a stable state now, and is sometimes good and sometimes bad, which is also an important reason why Tang En is unsure.
Chapter completed!