Albertini's injury suddenly made the team's atmosphere a little solemn. The key figure fell down at a critical moment, which greatly affected the team's morale.

Whether Tang En wants it or not, he must now accept the reality that the team will start the new season in the absence of the captain.

He made some adjustments and placed Arteta at the center of the midfield in training, which was obvious to let Espanyol replace Albertini.

At the same time, because Arteta starts, the Forest's offensive tactics need to be further adjusted. After all, Albertini and Arteta organize different attack methods, and these need to be familiar with the team.

Fortunately, Arteta played a lot of games in the last stage of last season, and the team is not unfamiliar with this more delicate offensive method.

The only problem is George; Wood and Arteta's cooperation is not tacit enough, and the running-in in less than half a season is far from enough. Many times, Wood is still following the ideas and routines he had when he partnered with Albertini.

The most obvious example is that Arteta is closer to the opponent's penalty area than Albertini, so the distance between Wood and Espanyol is invisibly widened, and it is easy for the other party to cut off the connection between the two.

Once the defensive midfield cannot provide sufficient protection for the offensive midfield, the Forest team's offense will not be organized, and their rhythm will be easily destroyed by the opponent's pressing, and then completely lose control of the midfield. Losing control of the midfield is equivalent to losing the game.

When Donn saw this situation under the training ground, he had to shake his head in his heart. Albertini's influence on George and Wood... was so deep that he was not visible.

This was a good thing to put in the past, but in the current situation... Tang En's head hurts again.

If there is only good news during this period, it is that Anelka, who has joined the new team, performed quite honestly and did not add fuel to Tang En's fire. The chaos is even more messy.

When he has arrived in a new team, facing a brand new teammate and head coach, he is not sure about the head coach's temper, so he will naturally restrain himself a little. Tang En did not relax his vigilance against Anelka because of this. He firmly believed in one sentence:

The country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change.

He didn't think Anelka would suddenly become an optimistic, cheerful, and likable guy just because he ran to the Nottingham Forest. Even if he really looked like this on the surface, it was just because he was trying to suppress his deep nature.

Anelka is not a player he strongly advocates to introduce. Unlike Bentner and Eastwood, he is not enthusiastic about this person.

Although he told Chris Lark "treat like any ordinary first-team player", in fact, he still brought some tinted glasses - he couldn't bring them without them, he couldn't do it.

If you perform well, I can give you a chance, just like giving any player a good performance. But if you have a problem, I will give others a chance.

But if something goes wrong with Eastwood, even if Donn pushes with his shoulder, he will help Eastwood get back in shape.

This is the difference.

On August 10, the third round of the UEFA Champions League qualifiers, the first round, will be held in two days at the Forest's home city stadium.

This is the first step for Nottingham Forest to return to the European Champions League after 24 years. An ordinary or even a low-level qualifier, because of this new significance, immediately became a popular match.

Tickets for the competition were sold out a week ago. All Nottinghams were very interested in the competition.

Until two days before the game, many people held signs "I need to ask for tickets" outside the square outside the city stadium, hoping to get someone to refund the tickets.

But everyone was disappointed without exception. Not to mention refunding tickets, even the scalpers have disappeared - they can sell them long ago. Even if the scalpers want to make another profit, they will have no tickets.

Now the players in Nottingham are starting to worry because their relatives and friends who have not bought tickets are coming to the door. They hope to get the tickets allocated to players and club staff, but not many.

Each person only has three or four pictures.

As a result, the tickets in the hands of players who were not in Nottingham, and even foreign players were plundered by local players.

Of course, there are exceptions, George and Wood are local players, but he also gave all the tickets in his hand to Wes and Morgan. He had no relatives and friends to ask for tickets except a mother. He didn't even know that there were relatives and friends for him.

Is it a good thing or a bad thing...

Tang En has six tickets in his hand, which is the privilege of the head coach. However, no player dares to plunder the tickets on him. This is also the privilege of being a head coach.

Tang En really couldn't imagine who else to give these tickets to. Shania has not come back in Brazil, and Sophia doesn't need him to show her diligence. Wood will leave it for his mother.

I had nowhere to go for the six tickets in my hand.

The group of people at Forest Bar are all loyal fans of Forests. How could they not have tickets for this game? Kenny Barnes has to guard his bar. He hasn't been to watch the game for a long time. No matter how meaningful this game is, he will not go there.

However, when it comes to Forest Bar, Tang En thought of someone.

He ran to find Fatty John and asked Michael's contact address in the United States.

"What are you going to do? Send him a ticket? But he won't come, and he is in the United States. When you send it, the game will be over..." John was puzzled.

"Of course I didn't let him watch the ball.

"Donn said to John while writing the address on the air envelope, "I just told him the guy who swears not to love football anymore. Not only did I let Forests return to the top league in England, but I also let Forests return to the top league in Europe! I don't care whether he cares about these things, and I don't care whether he still remembers them, but I promised him, and now I have done it.

"Donn looked up at John, and put the ticket into the envelope.

John was speechless.

Tang En sent a ticket, and there were five left, and he took them all to Gavin. Bernard's tomb, lit with a lighter, and "sent" to the Forest's eternal fan Gavin in China.
Chapter completed!