Chapter 206: Ups and downs

No matter what the result of Nottingham Forest’s complaint was, this red card still affected Anelka’s mood.

On the day of the game, Anelka in the locker room was so gloomy that it seemed like a ghost, and getting close to him would make people feel cold.

In fact, Anelka is usually quite "cold", but because of this happening, something is wrong with him being so cold.

Tang En thought about it and decided not to talk to the French for the time being. At this time, he must not be in much better mood.

Some things will be discussed later.

After receiving the complaint from Forest, the English League Committee and the referees committee responded to Forest that they needed to study before making a decision, but they did not say when the research was done.

After hearing this, Don En cursed in the office: "Damn bureaucracy! Even if the bastards' research result is that Anelka is innocent, he will miss the game against Arsenal!"

No matter how angry he was, Tang En had no choice. He could never go to the office of the league committee and make a big fuss, right?

I can only seize the last time during training to practice my new style of play.

Freddy; Eastwood's recovery was not very optimistic, and Don En would rather let him continue to recuperate than force him to return to the team.

Now Anelka cannot play, and the only forwards available to the Forest team are Mark, Viduka and Nicklas, and Bentner.

Don Eun did not intend to send two centers to the court at the same time. He decided to play a defensive counterattack in Arsenal's away game and took a point from Highbury, and was very satisfied.

This is a highly anticipated game, with Nottingham Forest challenging Arsenal away.

However, such a heavyweight game did not meet people's expectations before the game, because the game had nothing to do with "exciting".

Anelka did not enter the Forest's roster, and Donn lined up 541 in this game. Mark; Viduka broke into the front alone, with Matthew, three central defenders; Epson and Pepe were in front, while Pique dragged back to protect.

Seeing this lineup, smarter people guessed that Don En would defend away.

That's right, it's not just defense, it's also a defensive.

The Forest team let three central defenders in the middle and blocked the front of their penalty area tightly. The Forest team's offense was to drive forward with only two or three people. If it could form a threat.

Fortunately, it cannot pose a threat, and it will not be hit by Arsenal because of the team's massive pressure.

Henry's speed made Tang En very afraid.

Wenger's team tried every means to find the weaknesses of the Forest's defensive team, while the Forest tried every means to destroy Arsenal's offense.

Don't have a heart that is suffering every second, and every attack from Arsenal will make him restless. Once the ball is lost, it means that all efforts will be wiped out.

George; Wood is responsible for marking Fabregas, and the two sides are entangled in the midfield. There is a victory or defeat. Looking at this scene, Martin; Taylor sighed: "This is the age of young people..." He looked at Tony; Donn, who was paced back and forth on the sidelines.

Eighteen-year-old Fabregas, nineteen-year-old George; Wood, thirty-seven-year-old Tony; Donn. They are gradually becoming the main players of this league.

No matter what achievements Tony and Donne can achieve in the future, he has led the team to the UEFA Champions League at the age of 37. He has attracted the attention of UEFA, and his Nottingham Forest has also frequently appeared in European media.

Generally speaking, the 40-year-old head coach is called "young young coach", such as Mourinho.

For example, Deschamps, Ancelotti, Van; Basten, Rijcard, Gulit... etc., but he took over the Forest at the age of 34, led the Forest to the Premier League at the age of 35, and led the Forest to the UEFA Champions League at the age of 36, and Tony, who almost got one step a year, was the one step. What should Done be?

England has not had such an excellent head coach for many years, and almost all successful coaches active in English football are non-English.

For example, Manchester United coach Ferguson is a Scotsman, Arsenal coach Wenger is a Frenchman, Liverpool coach Benitez is a Spaniard, and Chelsea coach Mourinho is a Portuguese... None of the four major players is in charge, which makes the always arrogant Englishman very embarrassed.

The emergence of Don En satisfies the English people's "patriotic enthusiasm". The media's hype has also pushed Don En to the public.

On the surface, Tang En disliked the media's personal hype, but in fact did he use the media? Who knows...

Tang En was nervously paying attention to the game on the court on the court. He didn't know at all. How Taylor evaluated him in his heart. Even if he knew, he might not care.

The first half ended. The Forests was in a very embarrassing scene, but the score made Don Eun feel a little relieved - his team is still 0:0 with Arsenal so far.

During the halftime break, Tang En did not make any tactical adjustments, but only instilled confidence in the team, telling them not to give up no matter how unfavorable the situation they face. The victory is to defend the tie in this game.

In the second half, the Forest team's tactics of defending the game were implemented more thoroughly. As the game progressed, the Arsenal players gradually became impatient.

In the 79th minute, Arsenal scored a goal, but when they were celebrating with affection, the lineman ruthlessly raised the flag in his hand - offside!

This was indeed an offside ball, although not obvious, Henry started a little earlier and was clearly noticed by the linebacker.

Wenger seemed a little angry on the sidelines. Perhaps he thought he had been framed by the referee.

Tang En applauded the referee on the sidelines. The referee who was the law enforcement in this game was Boer, who was the fourth official in the last round of the league for the Forests' home game against Everton.

"The injury time is about to enter four minutes left, and this game is another typical 'Arsenal phenomenon'." Martin; Taylor shook his head. He has no hope for the goal.

The so-called "Arsenal phenomenon" refers to long-term ball control and multiple shots, but no points are scored. Arsenal pays attention to the style of ball control, so that they often have the advantage in the scene, play beautifully, and make people look pleasing to the eye.

Unfortunately, this habit of likes to control football at their feet has also made them miss the chance of scoring goals many times. Some opportunities that can be shot at the goal are often missed in vain because of their greed for beautiful cooperation.

Donn seized Arsenal's habit and set up heavy troops in the backcourt, making Arsenal, who likes to control the ball, seem to face a stone with nowhere to stumble. They keep controlling the ball outside, but they can't find a few opportunities to score with their feet.

He completely gave up the offense in this game, and the Forest team has only six shots so far. The result was to successfully bring the score of 0:0 into injury stoppage time.

Don En is glad that he did not coach in Real Madrid, Spain. Otherwise, no matter how good the team's performance is, he will have only one fate in the end - the get out of class is over.

In fact, this is not what Donn wants. If Anelka can participate in the competition, he doesn't mind a match between Highbury and Arsenal.

"The game ended, a dull game... Nottingham Forest tied Arsenal on the road! Tony; Coach Donn got a point that satisfies him, but the fans who watched the game probably wouldn't be satisfied with this kind of game."

"I'm very dissatisfied!" Andy; Gray next to him covered his mouth and yawned. "I don't understand, the Forest's style is not conservative. Why do sometimes the game play so ugly..."

"Because Donn's style is to pursue results." Martin Taylor replied, "If conservative can bring the results he hopes for, he will never mind playing the most conservative football."

Andy;Grey rolled his eyes and turned off the microphone. "This is the only thing I hate him... Sometimes, he is too utilitarian."

Martin and Taylor also took off their headphones. He ended his work. "This is the world football environment. So teams like Arsenal and Barcelona are particularly popular because they are not utilitarian."

"If Donn Earth can play as beautiful as Arsenal, it would be perfect..."

"You're too demanding, Andy." Martin; Taylor laughed. He stood up from the broadcast seat and saw Don Eun hugging and celebrating with the players on the sidelines. Look at his joy, it seemed like he had won the game.

"If you have a team like Arsenal, you should feel satisfied. The shortcut to success is victory, the results..."

After finishing the game with Arsenal, Forests did not return to Nottingham, but flew directly from London to France to participate in the second game of the Champions League group stage held on September 28. Forests challenged Lille away.

In France, the Forest team finally shook hands with Lille and made peace, and the two sides tied with 0:0.

If the draw with Arsenal in the last league game was something Don En would like to see, then the draw in this game was a result that Don En didn't want to see. He originally hoped that the team would defeat Lille away to win the first victory of the Champions League.

However, the Forest team, which has been playing continuously, is too tired and is completely powerless on the away game.

Starting from the first game of the Champions League group stage on September 15, the Forest team played five games in thirteen days. The schedule is indeed too intensive. Unwilling to give up. Tang En had no choice but to face this reason.

The only good news is that Real Madrid was tied by Benfica in Portugal. The points of the four teams in Group D were not pulled away.

After the two group matches, Real Madrid ranked first in the group with four points, Benfica and Lille followed closely behind with two points, Nottingham Forest only accumulated one point, ranking last, which seems to be in line with UEFA's "fourth level" division of them.

Nottingham Forest's performance is in line with the expectations of most people. Forest team, which returned to the Champions League after 24 years, did not show convincing strength, and it is reasonable to rank last. However, the strong team Real Madrid did not show strong strength.

They did not win Benfica away, and even against the Forest team, they won a thrilling victory.

The situation of qualifying in this group is not as simple as people thought.

But no matter how people analyze it, I'm afraid few people will think that with this performance in the first two group stages, Tony and Donn's Nottingham Forest can finally qualify from this group.

However, when these people made similar analysis, they all ignored a problem - the Forest team has been using the residual team to compete with their opponents again, Albertini was absent due to injury, George, and Wood was also suspended. The importance of these two people to the team cannot be explained clearly in just one or two sentences.

Returning to the UK from Lille, the league committee's research decision was also released, Stephen Johnson's penalty was misjudgment, and Anelka's red card and suspension of two games were cancelled.

At the same time, because of this serious misjudgment in law enforcement, Johnson was suspended from enforcing the law for Premier League events.

This relief was good news for Nottingham Forest and Anelka, but Don was not grateful.

When he got the final result, he shook the paper in front of the reporter and expressed his dissatisfaction in a disdainful tone: "Okay, everyone. Now the facts have proved that we have been wronged.

But what's the use? We lost an important striker in the most critical game. Who will compensate for this loss? I understand what they need to study for five days, and who knows what they are studying?"

A day later, Tony Donn was fined 15,000 pounds by the FA for expressing an "out of time" view on the work of the referee committee.

But Tang En didn't care, he was used to it. For him, spending some money can express his thoughts at will, and this transaction is very cost-effective for him.

In the next league, Forest team, which has re-owned Anelka, swept Manchester City 2:0 at home in this game. Donne used a rotation system, and most of the main players were replaced.

This made Stuart and Pierce think it was a good opportunity for Manchester City to score away, but unexpectedly, the Forest team's strength after the rotation was not affected, but instead became even better.

Chinese player Sun Jihai started in this game against his old club and played the whole game, with a moderate performance. Of course, in the Chinese media, it became "optimistic".

Gareth; Bale also got the first opportunity to start for the Forest first team. His debut was quite successful and had an assist.

In this game, Don Eun arranged for him to play on the left back at the beginning. Bale's performance was a little bit sluggish, and he pushed him to the midfield in the second half and changed to the left forward, and his performance was immediately different.

Even the commentator of this game, Motes, is very optimistic about Bale's future: "At only sixteen years old, he represents the club's first team to play in the Premier League. For Gareth and Bale, this is his happy day. For Forest fans.

It was also a happy day, because after George and Wood, their team gained a genius from the youth training camp! Look at his series of performances before assisting Viduka - calm, courageous! It is impressive!"

In addition to winning again, and gaining a good performance Gareth; Bell, Donn also has good news.

On the second day of the game against Manchester City, Albertini appeared on the side of the training ground in a training suit. All the players gathered around Albertini, and they welcomed their captain back to the team after being out of the team for more than a month due to injury.

Done smiled particularly brightly, standing in front of Albertini, joking loudly: "Look at who this is? Demi, your legs must have rusted, right?"

"You're right, boss. So I have to do more." Albertini kicked his legs.

"Welcome back!" Donn gave Albertini a hug.

The team's current record in the Champions League is not satisfactory. At this time, the return of veteran Albertini brings not only one more midfielder, but more of it is experience. As the saying goes: If you have an old family, you will have a treasure.

Albertini is the decisive needle in the team...

That's why Don En was in a surprisingly good mood. He believed that with the return of Albertini, the team's performance in the Champions League would definitely change drastically.

Oh, by the way. Wood is back, and he ends the suspension period. The next game of Nottingham Forest's home game against Benfica is the moment he returns.

It's really a double happiness.

Those who look down on us will soon find out how outrageous you are wrong!
Chapter completed!