Chapter 245: Fame

On the second day after the contract renewal was announced, Nottingham Forest welcomed the league's opponent at home.

The situation is very delicate for Nottingham Forest.

On one hand, he made great progress in the Champions League, while on the other hand, he was constantly narrowing the gap in points by Manchester United in the league.

Before this game, the points of the two teams had narrowed from the largest twelve points to four points.

Despite this, Donn still hid half of the main force in front of his second Champions League match with Inter Milan. Even George and Wood were on the bench.

The schedule has been very intensive recently, and Tang En has to consider the physical fitness of all players. Of course, this is also a decision made after listening to the advice of the physical coach.

Finally, at his home court, Nottingham Forest shook hands with Aston Villa 2:2.

On the other hand, Manchester United won Bolton 2:1 away, with only two points apart in the two teams.

Two points, one game of distance.

Manchester media have already shouted the slogan to surpass Nottingham Forest and return to second place in the standings.

Since being eliminated from the Champions League group stage, Manchester United's condition has been getting better and better. Is it true that Sergeant lost his game?

On one side, Nottingham Forest and Manchester United are entangled, while on the other side, Chelsea is far ahead. By the end of the 32nd round of the league, Mourinho's Chelsea had accumulated 79 points. They ranked first since the third round of the league, and have never been pulled down until now.

Chelsea today looks like the Invincible Legion, with outstanding players, excellent coaches, generous and generous rich bosses.

The English media have been discussing who can surpass Chelsea and pull them off. So far, the conclusion is that don’t count on this season...

Chelsea scored 79 points and Nottingham Forest scored 71 points. With six rounds left in the league, although eight points are not an insurmountable barrier, theoretically, it may be of no use to Don En.

He knew that if he wanted to win this season, not only would his team win consecutively in the last six rounds, but he would also expect Chelsea to continue to lose. At the same time, considering that Forests also had to participate in the Champions League, it might be too difficult to achieve the above.

Don't want to go as far as possible in the Champions League, and hold on to second place in the league. In this way, he can continue to participate in the Champions League next season and make money.

The difference between the two points and Manchester United now makes him smell dangerous. For the first time in the whole league, he felt that the pursuers were so close to him, two points... With six rounds left in the league, too many things can happen.

But what makes Tang En even more trouble is that he has no time to care about Manchester United, who is chasing him relentlessly.

In his mind, Manchester United's crisis of catching up now needs to be ranked second for the time being, and the first urgently needed to be solved is the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals with Inter Milan.

The day after the match against Aston Villa, Inter Milan had already arrived in London.

Don En originally planned to counterattack on defense away. He returned to home and then used offense to eliminate Inter Milan.

But when he scored two away goals at Meacha Stadium, he changed his mind.

He conceded two goals at home. If he wanted to appear, Mancini must let Inter Milan choose to attack away, and not mention the goals he scored above these two away games. Inter Milan needs to break the balance of scores at least 2:2.

So you have to attack. If you choose to defend away, Inter Milan will be eliminated only ninety minutes later.

As long as Inter Milan attacks, they are not afraid of not finding their defensive loopholes. Don En is determined to insist on defending and counterattacking at home. He is quietly waiting for Inter Milan.

When going to Italy, two thousand Nottingham fans deeply felt the "enterprise" of Inter Milan fans in the stands of the Meazza Stadium. Now it is their turn to show their "more enthusiastic" side to Italian fans.

The deafening singing on the city court, which can only accommodate 27,000 people, made Italian fans unable to speak.

"This group of English madmen..." Some Italian fans complained. But this is not an exaggeration at all. Nottingham Forest fans are indeed crazy enough.

Before the competition began, the Englishman's singing started and never stopped again.

Their voices never seem to be hoarse enough to speak, in other countries' leagues.

In order to liven up the atmosphere and make the game look more exciting, there may be live broadcasts to broadcast the shouts of fans to cheer the players on the field, making everyone sound as if the whole audience is singing and shouting loudly.

However, only England's are completely "manual" on the court. Live broadcast is only used to broadcast programmatic things such as the appearance list, goal scorers, substitutions, etc. The atmosphere on the scene depends entirely on the mouths of the fans.

When a qualified English fan goes to watch the game, he must always have throat soggage on his body.

Singing, scolding, cheering. They seem to cooperate with a tacit choir. They react to themselves as the situation of the game changes. People who don’t understand will think they are too noisy, just like noise.

People who understand think this is the most wonderful enjoyment - think about it. Tens of thousands of people shouting your name at the same time and singing spontaneously writing songs praising you. That feeling... It's so great!

Of course, for their opponents, it is a nightmare.

In this game, Inter Milan took the initiative to launch a fierce attack on Nottingham Forest's penalty area from the first minute. Nottingham Forest also retreated, just like the first round of both sides.

No matter how ugly the scene is, when the opponent is bombarded around the goal, you will never hear the unsatisfactory booing of the Nottingham Forest fans. They will cheer for the team as always. As long as you make a beautiful defense, you will get a lot of cheers in the stands.

This is the motivation to support the Forest team forward.

In the first half, Forest team tied with Inter Milan - 0:0.

This is what Tang En wants to see most because he did not lose the ball.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. The Forest team did not change their tactics and started to play a "head-reducing turtle" at their home court, threatening Inter Milan's goal with occasional counterattacks.

Inter Milan won even more opportunities in this game than in the first round, but they bombarded them together.

After the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, Inter Milan's supporters were desperate to find that the goal of Nottingham Forest was still standing and the scores on the electronic scoreboard did not change at all.

The Forest team's defensive formation is well maintained. Once Inter Milan players break into the 30-meter area, they find that there is almost no room for passing the ball.

As the game time passed, Nottingham Forest became more confident the more he defended, while Inter Milan became more impatient the more he played.

Inter Milan players know that if the score is maintained until the end of the game, they will be eliminated because they have few away goals. And they only need one goal to change the result.

Inter Milan has a tide of offensive attacks, and Mancini sent all the offensive players he could to score a goal at the last moment to save his fate and theirs.

"One goal! We only need one goal!" Inter Milan's captain Javier; Zanetti was cheering his teammates and telling them not to give up on the game.

"Hold it! You can't let them in half a ball!" Albertini shouted loudly.

The game has entered a white-hot stage. For their own victory, both sides can be said to have almost no choice but to do anything if the rules allow... In fact, it is mainly reflected in Nottingham Forest.

In order to delay the game, the Forest players paid three yellow cards in the last five minutes.

Even Van der Sar received the first yellow card in this Champions League because he played the ball for too long when he opened the goal. Moreover, the players who ate cards were very scattered. These were all specially explained by Tang En. He would not let those who had cards on himself deliberately eat cards, as that would be more than worth the loss.

In addition to some of the overly obvious delays in the game time, there are also some that cannot win cards, but objectively, it will indeed cause the game time to be delayed.

For example - in the last five minutes, three players in Nottingham Forest fell on the court due to lack of physical strength. Anelka, Frank; Ribery, Leiden; Barnes. These three people covered three positions in the front, middle and back.

When they were rolling on the ground with their calf in pain, who knew whether they had a real cramp or a fake cramp?

However, the players of the Forest team were fighting fiercely in this game. At the last moment, it makes sense that they were exhausted. If it were George, Wood suddenly fell to the ground and felt in pain, indicating that he had cramps, he would probably get only booing - it would be too fake.

George; Wood is in good physical fitness. Whenever Inter Milan players are exhausted and still see the opponent's No. 13 monster sprinting with all their might, a feeling called "despair" will surge from the depths of their hearts.

The last moment of the game was the most nervous. Don Never dared not to talk to David around him; Chris Lack talked and laughed and said something like we won this kind of nonsense. Less than the last second of the game, his heart could not be let go.

Inter Milan's last offensive opportunity, corner kick!

Even their goalkeeper Giulio and Cesar gave up guarding the goal, rushed over, crowded in the crowd to fight for the top. There is no need to guard the goal anymore. If this ball cannot be entered, the road to Inter's Champions League this season will end.

After the corner kick was taken, the Forest team's goal was in chaos. In the stands, in the commentary seat, the people in the coach's table on the sidelines could not see clearly what was happening in front of the goal.

Did the ball enter?

Who is in possession of the ball now?

Don't block my sight...bastard!

No foul?

What's going on falling to the ground!

In the chaos, Inter Milan players seemed to raise their arms. But that arm was quickly put down.

Matrachi's header was very powerful, but Van der Sar was not as good as save. But Zimbonda, who was standing by the post, blocked it, and then there was chaos.

Some people played the ball, and some people played the ball, and they were overturned, and Giulio; Cesar found the football right in front of him!

This is an opportunity to become a hero!

When he swung his thigh, he found that someone had kicked the ball faster than him, but the direction was the opposite...

George; Wood was very keen to find unmarked Giulio; Cesar, and the ball in front of him, so he risked the possibility of being awarded a penalty for tackles in the penalty area.

Before Cesar, he shoveled the football out!

Seeing the football flew out of the sideline, all Nottingham Foresters breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, the referee also blew the whistle to the end of the game.

"The competition is over!"

Tang En stood up with his hands raised, his fists clenched tightly, and his nails even pinched into his flesh. He was almost in a state of heart attack just now, so damn exciting... If Cesar scored that ball, he might not be able to get up now.

Fortunately, there is no if.

"Congratulations to Nottingham Forest! They made it to the semifinals of the Champions League! This is an amazing result for Tony and Don't!"

"In addition, I feel sorry for Inter Milan. They performed very bravely on the away game, but unfortunately... Luck is not on their side. Goodbye, Inter Milan, come again next season!"

"The Red Forest Returns to Europe!"

This is not the "boasting" of the local media in Nottingham, it is the front page title of the Italian "Sports in Milan".

The red Nottingham Forest players under the title are running wildly to celebrate, in sharp contrast with the blue and black Inter Milan players on the other side.

There is also a small photo below this large photo, which is also in red, but the jersey style is very old. This is a photo of Nottingham Forest when he first won the European Champions League glory in 1979.

The two photos are placed together. The meaning is very obvious, reminding everyone that the team that was once almost forgotten by the world is back.
To be continued...