Chapter 73: The Throne Changes

"...The semi-finals of the Champions League are about to begin. This season, England has three more teams to enter the semi-finals, which is a great revival of English football. Although our national team was eliminated in the European Cup qualifiers, the Premier League teams are still strong in clubs, which shows that our league is still the world's number one league..." The Sun was doing the preview of the Champions League and a meaningless tout, the topic returned to the right track. "Manchester United and Chelsea will stage the English derby in the semi-finals of the Champions League, and Nottingham Forest is not easy. Their opponent is Barcelona!"

"Chelsea's dream of winning the league this season must be hopeless. They can put all their thoughts into the Champions League, which is bad news for Manchester United. In the league, Nottingham Forest bites them very tightly, and the two teams are only one point apart, and Manchester United is temporarily leading."

"After eliminating Real Madrid, Nottingham Forest ushered in another big club in the La Liga. Barcelona was suppressed by Real Madrid in the domestic league, and Rijcard's only chance to save himself is the Champions League. What's more... Nottingham Forest and Barcelona still have old grudges?"

In the end, the Sun did not let Tony Donne's team go.

Although there are still a few days before the start of the Champions League semi-finals, for three English teams that have entered the semi-finals, their focus has obviously shifted to the Champions League. Although the competition in the league is fierce, there are still four rounds. The Champions League is a home and away elimination system. It is very likely that a mistake made in one game is fatal.

Against this backdrop, the 35th round of the Premier League started in full swing.

In the game that has ended, although facing the Champions League, Chelsea, who used a rotational lineup to play against Everton, still won, and they defeated Moyes' team 1-0 away.

The Arsenal match against Reading was concluded, and Arsenal won 2:0 at home.

At Nottingham Forest, Liverpool and Manchester United have not yet played. The league standings are like this:

Manchester United is still the first, 80 points. Nottingham Forest is still the second, 79 points. Arsenal is third, 73 points. Liverpool is still the fourth, 72 points. Chelsea is fifth, 67 points. With this victory against Everton, the points gap between Everton is sixth in the same league.

The ranking has not changed at all. Because except Nottingham Forest and Manchester United, the score difference between other teams is not one or two points. Arsenal won the ball, and there is a minimum gap between the top two in one extra game, and their hopes of winning the championship are very small.

With Henry's departure, club senior executives change, and players renewal, it is not easy to achieve this result in the first season.

In the game between Arsenal and Reading, Forest vs. players watched the first half in the car. They watched the second half in the locker room of the city stadium.

The victory against Reading was not surprising at all, and the players did not amaze them. After watching the game, Chris Lark urged them to go out to warm up and prepare for their own game.

Tottenham is not a weak team, and the more favorable thing for the Forest team is that they are at home this time.

Today is April 19th. Nottingham Forest's away challenge to Barcelona is on the evening of April 23rd. Logically, Don should use the rotation system like Chelsea, but he does not.

He didn't know how Ferguson arranged the place. Manchester United's game time was later than Nottingham Forest. It happened that the game was over and the kick-off was there. He has not yet obtained Manchester United's starting list for that game, but the Forest team has sent someone to the scene. If there is any news, they will tell Chris Lack through their phones, and then Chris Lack will tell him.

With this in the league, the enemy's intelligence collection becomes more and more important.

Back to this game at the City Stadium, Tony Donne sent all the main lineups at his home court, and if nothing unexpected happens, this lineup will be the starting lineup at the Camp Nou Stadium.

Goalkeeper Van der Sar, central defender Pepe and Pique partnered, left back is Gareth Bale, right back also focuses on offense Lafinia, midfielder is parallel, George Wood and Van der Fate are in the middle, one focuses on defense and the other focuses on offense, and the left forward is Ribery. The right forward is Beckham. The forward is Van Nystruei and Eastwood.

The rotation is to give players better rest, but it does not mean that it is time to fight. Now it is time to fight. Don't want to lose either the league or the Champions League.

He believes that the same is true for his players. Who doesn’t want honor and money?

Tottenham Hotspur head coach Joel did not expect that Tony Don would send all his main players to the home league when he was about to face the semi-finals of the Champions League... He was caught off guard by Nottingham Forest.

Twenty-five minutes into the game, Nottingham Forest scored two goals. The players of the Forest team were full of fighting spirit. Chen Sheng chased after the tsunami cheers of home fans and led 3:0 before the end of the first half.

This was the second time that was beyond Yoel's expectations. After seeing Tang En sending the main lineup, he was stunned for a while, but soon laughed again. Because he felt that Tang En's rotation lineup was actually more unfavorable to him. At least that group of players would use 200% of their strength to show themselves in front of the head coach. If they were all the main players... it would inevitably be that some people would worry that they would not work hard before the Champions League semi-finals and that would give them a chance.

But how did he know, how did the villain Tony Donne tell his players before the game?

"...Ah, I know you will be worried about getting injured before important games, and I am also worried. But I don't want to lose the league championship, what should I do? In fact, it's very simple. When you start, you actively look for opportunities and strive to end the game in the first half, so that the opponent will lose the idea of ​​dying struggle. We are naturally safe. The longer the game time, the more we cannot score goals as soon as possible to establish an advantage, the more the opponent will be ready to move. At the same time, the greater the resistance they will resist, which is very unfavorable to us. So... facing a fierce opponent, what is the safest thing to do? It's not to hide, but to kill them completely with the thunder! The only person in the world who will not pose a threat to us is the dead."

So, the poor Tottenham were beaten by the Forest in the first half and had no power to fight back. After a storm, they realized that they were already three goals behind!

Dutchman Martin Joel's face turned pale on the sidelines, Tottenham is considered a traditional powerhouse. But he performed like a newly promoted team who had never seen the world before. The club's senior management has invested a lot of money this season, but his team-leading performance is inversely proportional to this investment - the 34th round of the league has passed, ranking 12th, and it is still 21% away from the goal of the League Cup. This season is destined to end miserably - this fact makes the club's senior management very dissatisfied. He knows that the superiors have the intention to fire him, and those people are actively contacting the head coach of Serbia, Serbia, and plan to replace him after the end of the season. But he just refuses to resign, and he still wants to prove himself...how to prove it? At least win in the last few rounds of games. Should we go and go to the glory?

During the intermission, he scolded everyone in the locker room. He wanted to imitate Ferguson or Donn's hair dryer to arouse the players' fighting spirit and shame. But it was too unprofessional for him to do this. He was not this type of head coach at all... It made the atmosphere in the locker room even more awkward - some people knew that Joel was not in Tottenham for long, so they didn't listen to the coach at all.

After the second half of the game began, Tottenham Hotspur still did not show anything that could reverse the game, such as morale, skills and tactics... nothing. Apart from keeping up from the coach's seat and walking to the sidelines to roar, Yole had no choice but to get up from the coach's seat and walk to the sidelines to roar. Because he knew that he had lost control of the team - this was very sad, and what was even more sad was that he could only accept such facts.

Don Eun began to make plans to substitutions, let important players take a break from the court, avoid injuries, and then let the more thirsty rotation players go on stage and continue to destroy Tottenham.

The players are full of fighting spirit, but since Tang En replaced all the core players, the offense seemed a bit messy. They fought each other. George Wood took over the task of organizing the offense after Van der Fate got off the court. He had a few flashes, but it was just a flash point. For him, he had long been a defensive midfielder, he still lacked a set of tactical ideas. His offensive organization method itself was very casual and had no rules.

The Forest did not score another goal in the second half, but Tottenham scored a goal to save face at the last moment, which had no effect on the result of the game. The Forest easily won the home victory.

Another game played at the same time as this game. Liverpool defeated Fulham 2-0 away, scoring 72 points. He caught up with Arsenal and also left Chelsea. Although there is no hope of winning the championship, considering that Liverpool could only play in the League Cup in the past few seasons, the fourth place in the league is enough to make Benitez's coaching position stable.

Benitez is known as the "King of Cups". Liverpool's performance in the past twenty years has proved that they are better at playing Cups. The team and head coach are quite compatible. No wonder Benitez helped Liverpool win the Champions League in his first season at Liverpool, establishing his position in Anfield.

After the game, Tang En praised the team hard. Just like he had cursed people because of losing, he was also very energetic when he praised people. The tone of the verb was extremely exaggerated, which made everyone feel happy when they heard it. The only difference was the degree of excitement.

After saying goodbye to the players, Don, Don and Chris Lack continued to stay in the locker room on the stadium. They want to watch the live broadcast of the game that will start soon - Manchester United challenge Blackburn away.

I rush back to the hotel or watch it at home and waste time, so I just watch it in the locker room. Anyway, there is TV in the locker room, not to mention that this is the stadium of my own club. As the team's head coach and assistant coach, it is legitimate to watch TV here.

So, when the game started there, the crowds of the city court gradually dissipated, the lights went out one after another, and the noise went away with the fans leaving, and the stadium returned to tranquility. Victory was already a topic of conversation among others. For these three people in the locker room, that was the past, and now they were more concerned about the winners and losses of others.

One hundred and fifteen minutes later, the door of the locker room was knocked open.

Before the person came out, Tang En's excited voice had arrived first: "I'll invite you to drink! Haha, it's so good!"

The voice of the TV was mixed with his laughter: "...The game ended... Ferguson's face looked very ugly, and his players were about to suffer again... In the away game, Blackburn was tied by Blackburn, who was not threatened, and in the absence of threat, nottingham Forest had already beat Tottenham Hotspur. Manchester United retreated to second place!...82 and 81 were still a point difference, but the first and second places were changed in sequence... At this moment, the happiest person in the world is probably Tony Donne..."

The singing of the celebrations of the home fans of Ewood Park Stadium from the TV is the best contrast to this commentary.

Chris Lark smiled red. Although he was not as straightforward as Donn, he was also happy. It was something that no one expected from Manchester United's capsizing on Black itself. This draw could be regarded as an "unexpected gift" for the Forests. The coaching staff originally thought that as long as they kept winning streaks, the final should be in the last round of the league, when Nottingham Forest challenged Manchester United away.

Unexpectedly, Manchester United could not withstand the pressure of leading the way, and had big problems in Blackburn, which was the least likely to have problems. A draw was enough to make Ferguson furious.

While the three of them were watching live TV, the TV station gave Ferguson a close-up of roaring on the sidelines many times. Whenever this was the case, Don Eun would laugh.

Although Tang was not as exaggerated as these two people, he still had a smile on his face.

After working hard for a season, no matter what kind of opponents and situations we face in the final stage, we will firmly bite Manchester United. These efforts were finally not in vain. Finally, the leader Manchester United staggered, allowing our team to overtake!

In this way, as long as you maintain a complete victory in the remaining three rounds of competition, the league championship will be won!

The opponents of the next two rounds of the league, Reading and Aston Villa, are not strong teams. As long as the Forest team is dedicated and handle them carefully. There is no problem with six points. Then there is the last round to challenge Manchester United away. At that time, it will be a very fierce game, like Mars hitting the earth. However, Don has the confidence to win in his heart. This Nottingham Forest was born for victory and the championship. The stronger the opponent and the more dangerous the situation, the more amazing the energy they burst out.

This is indeed a game worth celebrating.

Half an hour later, at Kenny Burns' Forest Bar, a large number of fans who were so excited that they couldn't fall asleep after watching Manchester United and Blackburn's match. Tony Donn and his two assistants were also among them.

Tang En climbed onto the table with a glass full of wine, standing where everyone looked up. Below was a group of fans who were also looking forward to it.

Chris Lack also held the wine, and Tang was holding soda in his hand - he still didn't drink, and Tang En didn't persuade him.

Tang En, who was blushing, raised his glass. The person below watched his movements and made a "whimper" sound.

"Guys, this cup... to Blackburn--cheer!"

"Cheers to Blackburn-!!" The people who were as red as him responded in unison.   The same people, who were still scolding Blackburn who had won Nottingham Forest here a month ago...

The sound of clinking glasses sounded, and the golden wine spread all over the room.

In the last Premier League game of this day, Manchester United was tied by Blackburn, the "Season-End Giant Killer" away without anyone expecting it. They will be given up from the 29th round of the league on March 9th. Nottingham Forest led by Tony Donn.

With only three rounds left before the end of the league, the Premier League's throne changed to its master.
Chapter completed!