Chapter 63 Thirty-two seconds, Hell and Heaven

The situation in this game is very simple, both for Rijkaard and Tony Donn.

Without too many calculations and complex and changeable tactics, the situation is very clear - Barcelona needs to attack, need to score goals on the away game, and must win this game. Only in this way can they qualify for promotion.

Logically speaking, Nottingham Forest lost 0:1 to Barcelona, ​​which can guarantee that they will enter the quarterfinals, but this obviously does not conform to Don En's character.

Teams with this mentality must have died miserably in the end. He was once a Chinese fan. Such things happened too many times in the Chinese team, and they all became clichés that could not be more clichés.

So the task of Nottingham Forest is also very simple - win the game at all costs and advance to the quarterfinals.

This is Barcelona's away game, but Rijcard did not choose to defend and counterattack. He knew that Donne would definitely be conservative at his home court, using his best defensive counterattack to deal with him, luring Barcelona to push out the attack, and then wait for an opportunity to attack.

The Dutch coach was very clear in his mind, but what else could he do? Now the choice is not in his hands. The failure of home in the first round has forced him to a desperate situation - the offense may die, but if he does not attack, he will die.

Amid the endless booing and insults of the city stadium, Barcelona launched a crazy attack on the Forest goal in a tragic manner.

The initiative is in the hands of Nottingham Forest, Done keeps the team calmly defending and then waits for an opportunity to counterattack.

In recent years, no matter when, he has not given up on the requirement of establishing the "defensive first" in the team. At many critical moments, the indoctrination of this demand saved his team and also saved him.

Of course he likes to watch offensive football and attack. Watch Mars hitting the Earth-like game. But that's because he is a fan. Now he is the head coach, and he needs to be responsible for his team and for those fans who support him.

He did not teach Wenger's talent, so he allowed the players to cooperate beautifully and win, so he chose the most utilitarian way to win. He didn't care what kind of infatuation he was carrying, and he was never a person who cared about what others said.

Defensive counterattack, first stabilize the defense.

Defense is the basis of offense, just like building a house to lay the foundation, without defense and talking about offense? This principle is actually very simple, but why are there so many people in the world who don’t understand? It’s fine if fans don’t understand, but the head coach can’t ignore it, right?

After Barcelona has risen again through offense in recent years, Rijcard seems to have forgotten to defend.

Most of the time we see that Barcelona's midfield does not have a defensive player. When they play, they always rely on their strong offense to score a few goals first, which will quickly lose their fighting spirit. The next game falls into their track.

Their powerful offense and gorgeous star lineup can make most teams lose their fighting spirit and surrender when facing them.

But when Rijkald's set was well-known and studied by more and more opponents, he found that the more he played this season, the harder it was. Why? Because his tactics lacked changes.

Once they are thoroughly studied by their opponents, they face huge dangers. Everyone found that Barcelona is not the incarnation of the God of War who is invincible and invincible. Although they have many stars, they cannot guarantee to be the ever-winning general. They also have weaknesses.

There are also things that cannot be done, and the more fatal thing is that their defense is not much better than Real Madrid, and as long as they have the right tactics, they can defeat Barcelona.

After La Liga entered the second half of this season, Barcelona encountered greater and greater resistance. Their once tried and tested offensive tactics are becoming increasingly useless when facing old opponents.

Rijcard did not realize that the crisis was slowly approaching him and his team. He also believed that Barcelona was currently moving forward at high speed on the right track. Not only him, but Barcelona players.

Fans and the high-ranking directors all think so.

Born in distress, die in happiness. This is very compatible with Barcelona in the future... No, it should be said that this is true for all successful teams in the world.

Tang En doesn’t have to worry about this, it’s just that the environment of the Forest Team is not quite “happy” now.

As mentioned earlier, Barcelona's biggest weakness is defense, and Done must make full use of this in this game.

Compared with offense, Nottingham Forest is the most powerful defense. This kind of defense does not work on a defense line composed of one person or four defenders. The Forest’s defense is overall defense.

On the contrary, Barcelona's defense is only about four defenders and one goalkeeper, and others are not responsible for defensive tasks.

Now at his home court, Donn let the team shrink the defense, draw out the Barcelona offensive players, and then wait for an opportunity to fight back, which is the disadvantage of Barcelona's weak defense.

Turam is already old. Although Zambrota is omnipotent, he has not adapted to Barcelona and Spanish football since he came to Barcelona. Valdes' performance has been greatly ups and downs. Sometimes some inexplicably low-level mistakes will easily ruin the team's efforts of 90 minutes. The only one who can take action on the defense line is Puyol, who is helpless and unable to support himself.

Donn aimed at this point and unexpectedly sent Arnelka, the speed counterattack forward, and Van Nistrui, to use his speed and personal ability to give Barcelona a fatal blow in the counterattack.

In this game, Van der Fate replaced Arteta as the starter, and Don also needed his long-range shooting and organizational ability in the offense. Frank Ribery was still on the left, and Aaron Lennon replaced Ashley Young on the right.

In terms of defense, left-back Gareth Bale was replaced by Leiden Barnes, who is better at defense, and the candidates for other positions remain unchanged.

Barcelona launched fierce offensives against the Forest's hinterland again and again, and Nottingham Forest held on with the support of overall defensive tactics.

Most of the time Barcelona have the advantage in the scene, but the thunder is loud and the rain is small. They have very few shots that threaten.

However, the Forest team is at a disadvantage in all technical statistics - except for fouls - the few counterattacks are quite threatening, and each time it can make the Barcelona man sweat in a cold sweat.

Of course, Rijcard knew that it would be dangerous to play his goal like this, but what would he do? Learn from the Forests to stabilize defense and wait for an opportunity to attack? That way, Tony Don will definitely be very happy because he can play negative games without any worries and spend time. The draw will be a failure for Barcelona.

The initiative is not in the hands of Rijkaard. Now he has no other way except to attack hard and hope to score a goal sooner and break the deadlock. Not good defense? Well, let's concede a few goals, and we will score one more than this number in front!

Before coming to Nottingham, Rijcard and Barcelona team carefully studied how to deal with George Wood's defense. They envisioned several plans to deal with what they should do if someone was completely frozen by George Wood.

But this time, Done did not ask George Wood to specifically guard someone, and his mission was...free activities.

He will go wherever he is needed. Go wherever the situation is dangerous.

Anyway, Wood is physically strong and runs fast, so he runs back and forth in the backcourt, and he is not afraid that he will fall to the ground and cramp.

Rijcard originally wanted to let the frontcourt trident get rid of George Wood through frequent shifts, but unexpectedly, Donn asked Wood to be a defensive libero in the backcourt, which completely failed Rijcard's strategy.

Barcelona faces a solid defense, and there is no difference between them frequently changing positions. The defensive power faced on the wing and in the middle is the same. This is really depressing.

To put it bluntly, the offense is to use your own running position to find the opponent's defense loopholes, and then use these loopholes to create murderous intent.

The current situation is that no matter how Barcelona passes and cuts, the forest team's defense stands there like a mountain, unmoved.

In this situation, the first half came to the finish line. The 0:0 score would not satisfy neutral fans. But it would make the Forest fans happy.

During the halftime break, Don En highly praised the team's defense, but he also asked the team to increase its offense and not let it go if there is another chance to counterattack. It can kill Barcelona in just one time!

On the side of Barcelona, ​​Rijcard was not very satisfied with the team's offense. In the forty-five minutes, there were no goals in so many opportunities. I am really sorry for the name Barcelona. We must strengthen our offense in the second half, and we must never relax in the offense.

The reason why Forests has not scored at the moment is because Barcelona's offense has put a huge pressure on them, leaving them with no time to take care of the offense. Once Barcelona cannot continue to maintain this pressure on the offense.

It will give the Forest team an opportunity to take advantage of.

Anyway, Barcelona is now in a difficult situation.

After the second half began, Forest team still showed a persistent posture to welcome Barcelona. Barcelona had no intention of changing at all and continued to attack.

As time went by, Rijkald stood up from his seat again and walked to the sidelines. In the noisy court, the players could hardly hear what he called. He had tried to remind the players to continue pressing.

As a result, he was immediately overwhelmed by booing. He opened his mouth and couldn't even hear anything he said, let alone those players.

Now he can only take advantage of the dead ball and pull players close to the coaching seat to give him an opportunity in person.

If we bombard Barcelona and the Forest team can't stand this situation as a balanced statement. Then in the 68th minute of the game, this balance was finally broken.

Barcelona organized a very high-quality attack. Through a continuous pass, they finally pulled open the forest team's indestructible defense, leaving it with a big hole.

Ronaldinho took out his "speaking the east and the west" again, pretending to break through, but unexpectedly passed the football out of the crack. Etoo quickly started and he received the ball behind the Forest's defense line. Forest players thought Etoo was offside, but the lineman had no intention of raising the flag.

"No offside, bastard!" Tang En jumped up from below in a hurry.

George Wood tried his best to chase back, trying to stop the goal.

He was still a step slower after all, and Etoo shot before he tackled!

At that moment, Tang Endi's heart almost stopped beating. Not only him, but at that moment, the booing of the city court seemed to stop, and everyone held their breath and stared at the football flying in the air.

Even the fans of Barcelona, ​​whether on the scene or in Barcelona, ​​dare not talk about their sights and leave football at this moment.

The football flew up from Etoo's feet, passed over George Wood's foot, and then over Van der Sar's palm. It flew straight to the goal behind him.

Goals are going to be scored?

With a "clang", the football hit the bottom of the beam, hit the ground, and bounced back. Van der Sar reacted very quickly in the second reaction, jumped up and took off the football in the air with both hands!

This goal is still not?

Barcelona players immediately raised their arms and jumped up to celebrate the goal. Even Etoo opened his arms and ran towards the corner flag, followed by Ronaldinho, Messi and others.

The Catalan narrator couldn't wait to yell: "goooooooooooal--!"

The subtitles of Barcelona's 1:0 Nottingham Forest were all played on the TV broadcast, and it seems that the ball has indeed been scored.

But...but!

The ecstatic expression on Etoo's face in the TV camera suddenly frozen. He pushed Ronaldinho away and looked at the sidelines standing beside them with a puzzled look.

After scoring the goal, the linebacker should run to the center line, and the referee will whistle and point his hand in the center circle to show that the goal is valid.

And this time, the lineman didn't run away, so what about the referee... The Barcelona man turned his head and looked at the referee. But he saw a scene that made their hearts stop beating-

Nottingham Forest players have brought football to the middle circle and are clearly playing their tradition of quick counterattacks…

The referee did not stop this behavior, but ran with him... What does this mean? It means that the Forest does not foul this, and Barcelona did not score the ball just now!

Puyol just wanted to run up to celebrate. But halfway through the run, he suddenly saw Van der Sar throwing the football in his hand forward. After receiving the ball, Van der Fate immediately launched a quick counterattack.

The Barcelona captain ran halfway and hurriedly retreated, and at the same time he shouted to his teammates to return to defense. Unfortunately, the stadium was too noisy at the time, and the teammates far away at the corner flag in the frontcourt could not hear it.

The Barcelona players who reacted faster began to throw away Etoo, who looked confused, turned back to defend.

Of course, Van der Fate knew that he was slow to drive the ball, which was very unfavorable at this time. So he did not bring too much, but immediately passed the football to Anelka, who ran faster.

"Ah... This is really an unexpected situation. Etoo's shot did not result in a goal, but gave Nottingham Forest a chance to counterattack! Because the football did not go out of bounds. This is not a dead ball... Barcelona is in trouble!"

The commentator said nothing, Barcelona is in trouble now.

Because I was busy celebrating the goal just now, most Barcelona players are not in their respective positions. Forest's counterattack is very fast and does not give Barcelona a chance to reorganize the offense. It was passed two or three times to Anelka's feet. After the French striker got the ball, the motor opened and ran towards Barcelona's goal.

After forcibly breaking through Puyor by speed, Anelka has already followed the penalty area. Valdes can only abandon the goal and attack. The next thing will be easier.

Anelka made a move to pass the ball and tricked Valdes away. After shaking the angle, he shot without hesitation, and the football flew into the net without any suspense.

This time, the city court finally stopped the boos and changed it to cheer.
To be continued...