Chapter 199: The Main Competition (Part 2)

After finishing the league with Bolton, the team only stayed in the UK for one day and flew to Spain together.

On August 25, at Villarreal's home love song stadium, Forest will challenge their Champions League qualifying opponents.

This is a crucial game. Even if Forest defeated Villarreal 2-0 at home in the first leg, there is no guarantee that nothing will happen in this game.

Tang En could think that this game would be difficult, so he reminded his players more than once that they should think about the game more difficult and don’t think that 2:0 can rest assured.

In terms of tactical arrangements and lineup arrangements, Tang En showed this caution. The strongest lineup is defensive counterattack.

Anelka still starts, and his speed in this game is Don En's most trusted weapon.

There is Anelka in the middle, Frank on the left, Ribery on the right, Ashley on the right, and Young. This is the trident in the Forest's counterattack. Don Neng only has one requirement for them - to send the football into the opponent's penalty area as fast as possible.

Although Riquelme's performance in this game was much better than in the first leg, although Pellegrini did not make a swing mistake again, and Villarreal's overall performance was excellent, they scored two goals in the game.

But in the second half, the Forest team still held their destiny firmly in their own hands.

Anelka's shot was blocked after a beautiful breakthrough, Villarreal's goalkeeper saved the ball and lost his hand, Arteta followed up and shot, and the ball entered the net!

This goal happened four minutes before the end of the game. Espanyol was looking forward to playing extra time, but unexpectedly, Arteta, who is also Espanyol, sent his compatriots out of the Champions League.

A away goal, a score of 3:2 means that Villarreal wants to drag the game into overtime, he has to score two goals in the remaining four minutes!

But this is an impossible task for the yellow submarine to suffer a heavy blow.

The fourth official raised the sign of injury stoppage time on the sidelines, which took three minutes. But from one and a half minutes, the substitutes from the Forest team gathered on the sidelines and rushed into the court to celebrate just after the referee blew the whistle.

Now every Nottingham Forester thinks that three minutes of stoppage time is too long, and every second seems to be as long as the year. Is there still a person afraid of having troubles at this last moment? Isn’t it said that football is round? Is anything possible?

finally……

"The whole game ends! Twenty-four years later, Nottingham Forest returns to the European Champions League!"

Of course, it can't be called the "Champions League", but now it has to be called the "Champions League".

All members of the ecstatic Forest team did not stay on the court for too long. After all, it was not good to be too arrogant on their territory. Their celebration was moved to the locker room.

Club Chairman Evan, Dogerty, and Marketing Manager Alan, and Adams also came to watch the game on site. After the game, they all came to the locker room to congratulate the team on their achievements.

Of course. The most finale in the locker room was the head coach. Tang En waved his hand to calm everyone down, and then announced loudly: "You guys are doing well, now... let's go to the Champions League to have a big fight!"

The team returned to the UK with glory and greeted them at Heathrow Airport in London in addition to the hardcore Forest fans who sang songs, there were also many media.

Because before the Forests went to Spain, there was good news at Liverpool.

As the defending champion of the Champions League, Liverpool, the "Red Army" who was played by UEFA Fairfield, passed the qualifying round and finally defeated Bulgaria's CSKA with a total score of 3:2 in the third round and advanced to the main match of the UEFA Champions League.

Then after Forest eliminated the Spanish team Villarreal, it set a record - as many as five English teams appeared in the Champions League this season!

Although this is a special situation due to special reasons, as the European Champions League champion, he was unable to participate in the new season's Champions League due to league rankings, this is regarded as a mockery of the European Champions League - the defending champion was unable to participate in the next season's Champions League, which is the first time in the 50-year history of the Champions League.

Because the local Champions League was a cup competition that only champions of various leagues could participate, and the champions of the previous Champions League were automatically shortlisted, which means that although Nottingham Forest did not win the league championship, they could participate in the Champions League and successfully defend the title. They automatically participated because they were the previous champions.

Later, after the Champions League was reorganized and became the Champions League, the number of teams that could participate in the Champions League increased, and the setting for the defending champion to automatically be shortlisted was also cancelled.

Liverpool's situation was special. UEFA discussed for a long time at that time, and even involved whether to sacrifice Nottingham Forest in exchange for Liverpool's qualification to participate in the Champions League. If this resolution is passed, then the Forest will be in trouble.

Fortunately, this absurd decision was rejected. UEFA Charter Liverpool can participate in the Champions League in the new season, but it will start from the first round of the qualifying round. And it is said that this is an exception and will not appear again in the future.

But what will happen in the future? Who cares?

The Liverpools get benefits. The English get benefits too.

From the moment the news was announced, the English were looking forward to the arrival of this day: five English teams gathered in the European Champions League, the highest-level club league.

Now this day has finally arrived. For English football, it can be regarded as a major victory. It is natural for the Forest team to receive this attention from the media.

"It would be even better if they could bring flowers..." Don En said indifferently as he looked at the scene. What does the victory of English football have to do with him? He only cares about his own team.

"No matter what you think, you have to go down and be interviewed." Chris Lack said with a smile while waiting to get off the plane.

"I once again think that Anelkati's two brothers are too smart. I should set myself a price of £100,000 per interview so that I don't have to deal with this kind of situation."

"Then you might as well have a word of 100,000 pounds." George Wood walked past Donn and suddenly said this, and laughter from other players suddenly rang around him.

"Hey!" Tang En rolled up his sleeves and laughed louder.

Then amid the laughter, Wood walked past Done and left a sentence: "My mother invites you to dinner tonight."
Chapter completed!