Chapter 17: Enemies meet

Perhaps some teams will regard the European Super Cup as the last important warm-up match before the season, but Don will not do that.  It is different from participating in the Railway Cup and the Amsterdam Invitational. Don't value this championship very much, otherwise he would not have had such a big verbal battle with Liverpool before the game.

Liverpool's Benitez would not think that this is just a slightly more important warm-up match. He made the most detailed arrangements for this game.

UEFA says that this is "the opening drama of the new European League season".

However, it was somewhat boring to turn into a civil war in England. Sevilla failed in the League Cup final and was reversed by Gerald at the last moment and scored a key goal.

Benitez's team seems particularly good at reversing.

In the 2005 European Champions League final, Liverpool reversed three goals and led their AC Milan and won the championship. It created the most classic reversal in the history of the 50-year final of the European Champions League. In the 2006 FA Cup final, Gerrard used a shocking long shot to penetrate the goal of West Ham United, tied the score, dragged the game into a penalty kick, and finally defeated the opponent in the penalty kick, staged a shocking reversal again, winning the FA Cup championship for the seventh time in history. In 2007, in the 2007 League Cup final, Liverpool also reversed and defeated the defending champion Sevilla without taking the advantage of the entire game.

Once or twice is a coincidence, but the third time cannot be used as a reason.

Donn has studied these games. Liverpool seems to be particularly good at playing against the wind. The more unfavorable the situation is to them, the greater the energy they will rebound. This is something that must be paid attention to. He does not want his team to become the target of the opponent's reversal in the game to create miracles. For him, that is a great shame.

The game is held at the Louis II Stadium. This stadium, which can accommodate 18,500 people, will witness who will become the king of European football in the new season.

The stands of 18,500 people were already full, all of them were fans from England. Since the traditional color of Liverpool is red and the representative color of Nottingham Forest is also red, the stands of this stadium have become a sea of ​​red. Looking around, it is impossible to tell which are Forest fans and which are Liverpool fans.

It can only be distinguished from the song which team they support.

The person who sang "You Never Walk Alone" must be a Liverpool fan, while the person who sang "The World is in Our Hands" was undoubtedly a Nottingham Forest fan.

Louis II Stadium was transformed into the golden hall of Vienna by fans from England.

The teams of both sides have finished warming up and entered the locker room to make the final preparations before the game. At this moment, the protagonist of this stadium is the fans of the two teams.

The players were sitting in the locker room and listening to the head coach making the final arrangements. This is the scene whether it is the Forests' locker room or the Liverpool's locker room.

This is the first champion of the new season. No one wants to give up someone.

Especially when it comes to grudges between these two teams.

Who made Liverpool only participate in the League Cup this season? Who made Liverpool only participate in the UEFA Cup for three consecutive seasons? Just to compete for the second in a league, he kicked Liverpool mercilessly out of the abyss. Is there any difference between the second and third in the league? If Liverpool wins fourth in the league and is allowed to participate in the Champions League, do you have to die? There is no more boring excuse in this world than "because we want to win the second in the league, so I'm sorry". You might as well say directly "for the sake of sports and the spirit of fair competition."

OK. Let’s go back a little further. Thirty years ago, who snatched the Liverpool league championship? Who eliminated them in the first round when Liverpool ambitions were planning to win the Champions League for the third time in a row? Or who? Who snatched the League Cup from the Liverpool people and defeated the arrogant "Red Army" Liverpool in a year?

Nottingham Forest! Our two families are so big!

To defeat you, even if we can only participate in the League Cup this season, it is worth it! We want the whole world to know that you can win the Champions League, just because we can't participate!

Don Eun has been thinking about it for a long time in the past few days, and finally decided to stick to the defensive counterattack that Forests is good at.  If Liverpool is successfully angered by his psychological warfare, they will bombard him at all costs.   I hope to use more goals to fight back his previous humiliation.   In this case, defensive counterattack is undoubtedly the best weapon to deal with them.

But if the old fox Benitez is not fooled and continues to work hard with the Forest team, then there will be no fatal loopholes in the defensive counterattack that lead to conceding the goal. No matter what the situation is, it is always right to stabilize the defense.

When Tang En couldn't guess the other party's intention, he planned to respond to changes with the same change. Do you want to draw a circle for me so that I can't jump out? I won't enter the circle and play with you at all!

Arsenal head coach Wenger's coaching philosophy is to no matter who the opponent is, strength, and no matter what the current situation is. Arsenal only plays his own football. He will never be led by his opponent. So, although sometimes Arsenal's failure is "Arsenal" - meaning that he has the upper hand in the game. He cannot win the ball - they are still a powerful force in the English football world.

Don En also decided to deal with Benitez in this way. Regardless of whether the opponent is affected by his own psychological warfare, he asked the Forests to stick to their best playing style.

"First stabilize the defense, then wait for an opportunity to attack." Tang En's words could be recited by many people from the Forest Team. When he saw him raising an index finger at this time, he knew what he was going to say.

But no one expressed impatientness or hippie smiley expression. Tang En has absolute authority in this locker room. Beckham is the biggest star in the team now. On the first day he came to the team, Tang En could punish him to run the circle because he was late. It can be seen that there is no such person in this world who dare not care about the land.

Anelka's example is still alive before everyone. If anyone dares to go against Don En, it will be more than just being sold off - you will sit on the bench for a season first and sit until your popularity drops sharply. The competitive state and level cannot be guaranteed, and then sell it at a low price when you are forgotten.

"If Liverpool attacks hard, this is the situation we want to see the most. But I don't think it's possible. Benitez will definitely not choose such a risky approach. He will slowly deal with us in the midfield. If that's the case, let him deal with it. Settings are the key to the key, and I hope you can seize every set-piece to create a threat to your opponent." Done stood in front of the players. He analyzed his own analysis of what might happen in the game, and there was a blank space on the tactical board. What he said did not require the whiteboard to be drawn in a mess. Such a work was completed as early as last night's tactical meeting.

"In addition, don't close too far from the back and midfielder, don't cut the gear in the middle, don't give your opponent too many opportunities to shoot long shots."

Everyone nodded to show that they understood.

Liverpool is a team with great long-range shooting skills, and their captain Gerrard has excellent long-range shooting skills. In the FA Cup final, in the League Cup final, his long-range shooting has made great achievements for the team. Another long-range shooting expert is Liverpool's full-back Liverpool. Chelsea lost to Liverpool in the Charity Shield Cup last season. It was lost to Liverpool's long-range shooting player after a long-distance raid.

If he sets his defensive formation, Benitez will definitely make his players more long-range shots. Maybe they will also increase long-range shot practice in training a few days before the game.

Therefore, you cannot give the other party room to shoot long shots.

On the other side, Benitez has already arranged the specific tactics of the game. He looked at the players of this team. Suddenly, there were some things beyond the tactics to say.

He has been to Liverpool for three seasons. Except for his first season, he won the Champions League championship, and he was not satisfied with the next two seasons. He was not satisfied with the league, so he had to switch to the Cup, won one in the FA Cup and one in the League Cup. Although there is a championship every year, for Liverpool fans, this is far from enough. The "Red Army" is the number one giant in England. Their goal is not to have a FA Cup or a League Cup every year.

Either the league champion or the Champions League champion, at least you have to qualify for the Champions League next season?

This season, the new American boss increased his investment and bought people everywhere. He himself took advantage of his Spanish coach to attract many Spanish players to join and continue to transform Liverpool. The transfer he was most proud of was to convince Torres to join the team.

In fact, Liverpool didn't even get the qualification for the Champions League and wanted to buy Torres. It was a bit difficult. But Benitez, the identity of Spanish coach, played a key role. He flew to Madrid in person. He found Torres, had a long talk with him, and told the other party about his grand plan, so that he knew that joining Liverpool was still very promising.

At the same time, Torres was deeply disappointed with Atletico Madrid this season, and he had long wanted to leave this team with no future. Especially in order to prevent Real Madrid from winning the championship, Atletico Madrid actually lost to Barcelona at home. The person who worked hardest in that game was Torres, but he couldn't beat him alone. It was this game that made him realize that there was no future in a team like Atletico Madrid.

Benitez's appearance made him decide to take a gamble. Many Spanish players did not do well after going abroad. The most famous example is former Valencia midfielder Side Dietta. This is related to the fact that Spanish players are not very adapted to the football style of other national leagues.

Liverpool is different. First of all, the head coach of this team is Espanyol, so there are many Spanish players in the team. Torres can save the trouble of adapting to the team and language barriers. Playing under the head coach who knows about Spanish players is obviously better than going to a team that is completely unfamiliar with the head coach from the head coach to the teammates.

So Torres chose Liverpool, which did not even have the qualification to be a Champions League, rather than Serie A giants like AC Milan and Juventus.

With Torres joining, Benitez is confident that he will set off a red storm in the Premier League this season, allowing Liverpool to return to the top ranks of English football.

Of course, Benitez must have never heard of the Chinese proverb "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step", but he also knows how important a good start is for Liverpool today.

He came back from his thoughts and saw that the players were preparing for the game, and the locker room was not always filled with music and laughter as before. It seemed that the players, like themselves, knew what the meaning of this game was.

He is not good at being Tony Tang En's inspiration like that. Every home alliance has its own good and bad at. I have heard that Tang En is very bad at training, and his assistant coach is responsible for this. But Tang En's emotional mobilization methods are definitely first-class.

Benitez looked at his players, fortunately he didn't need any passionate speeches in this game.

"Remember the last game of last season?" Benitez asked with a calm expression, "For me, that's a shame."

He doesn't want to represent the entire Liverpool team because he is not qualified to represent, and no one is qualified to represent anyone. But he knows that Liverpool players have the same idea as him. In the last minute of the last game of last season, the qualification for the Champions League was gone. Can Nottingham Forest, who is the enemy, experience that huge gap in mood?

No, they can't. So we let them experience the feeling of loss in today's game.

Didn't Tony Don't, the arrogant maniac, claiming before the game that Nottingham Forest would definitely win? Since he boasted about such a Haikou, he would be embarrassed in front of all Europeans.

"I don't want any other result except victory." He accidentally said the famous saying of Tang En, who often appears in the newspaper.

"I don't accept any other result except victory!" Tang En waved his arm and said the "unharmonious" version of this sentence.

"I believe you all remember the last game of last season, right? We deprived Liverpool of the qualification to participate in the Champions League this season in order to win. They were very disappointed and angry. Of course, I understand their anger and disappointment, and their thoughts of taking revenge. I bet that Liverpool players nowadays are full of the idea of ​​defeating us in the Super Cup and completing revenge. Anyone can be dissatisfied with this. If we lose the qualification to participate in the Champions League, I will teach the people on the other side a lesson with such an opportunity." Don Eun put his hand in front of his neck and made the players laugh.

"Actually, there is nothing we can do about it. We are professional teams, not philanthropists. If we want to win, our opponents can only accept failure. No one wants to be losers, I don't want to, you definitely don't want to. For example, Liverpool wants to make us losers in this game, but we can't let them do what they want. I know there are people in the team who have only joined the team this summer, so you have to understand and accept my football philosophy. Nottingham Forest has many enemies in England and European football.

The enemy only appeared after I became the head coach of this team. Since you chose to join the Forest team, you must have this awareness - we are not popular in many places. Listen to the booing outside, it will only be bigger if you go to Anfield. George has a full voice in this regard. "Donn pointed at Wood, and everyone laughed happier. That's right, every time Wood goes to the away game, he will be booed by the opponent's fans from beginning to end. If his psychological quality is not strong enough, his legs will become weak, let alone the game.

"I said so much, but I just want you to understand. Liverpool certainly has reason to seek revenge from us, but whether we can get what we want is not up to them to decide. There are countless teams who want to seek revenge on us, but they have never succeeded, and this time is no exception."

Don Eun said it very confidently. He didn't mean to reassure the players. Don Eun is not the first to be the first to be a rookie, and Nottingham Forest is not the Nottingham Forest that could allow Liverpool to sweep 4:1.
Chapter completed!