At first, the locker room in Nottingham Forest was noisy, and everyone was busy resting or listening to music to relax themselves. When Donn stood up from the corner, he quickly became quiet again.

"In the first half... I won't say anything nonsense. The problem we need to solve now is not how to defend Barcelona's attack, but how to score their goals."

He said this and turned his head to look at George Wood.

Some people followed his eyes and turned back.

"George, you have to attack and defend. Isn't it a little difficult for you?" Tang En asked with a smile.

George Wood shook his head: "It's okay."

"It's okay?" Tang En glared at him, "It's okay, what does it mean? Is it possible to force it, or is it easy to be at ease?"

"Well..." George Wood thought for a while, "When he comes back to defend, he may miss some opportunities because he is in the backcourt. Others... nothing more."

"Use passes more often, stupid." Tang En pointed at him, "You ran back and forth like a shuttle in the first half. I even doubted whether you had the extra energy and time to look up and see the situation around you. The midfield organizer is not capable of being able to do it with endless physical strength. You have to observe the situation on the field, see the running positions of teammates and opponents, and then decide how to deal with this offense... The midfield organizer does not rely on physical strength, but on his brain." Although Tang En's criticism was not severe, he let everyone know that he was indeed criticizing George Wood, not kidding.

Wood nodded, and he also felt that he was basically exhausted in the first half of the first half. How to organize the offense? This question did not stop in his mind. He would look up to find the pass route after getting the ball. If he had the chance, he would pass it and dribble the ball himself. He rarely thinks like Van der Fate. So so far, most of his passes are directly passed to the feet of his teammates, not in the empty space in front of his teammates. This kind of ball is not easy to make mistakes, but it does not create much good opportunities. You should know that basically, offenses that can form threats in the offense are all penetrating passes like this. Always pass to a fixed foot, which will force the offense to stop the rhythm. At that time, as long as the opponent's defense is well-positioned, you can easily stop an attack.

In the second half, he didn't have to run back and forth in the front and back courts so much, but he needed to devote more energy to defense, because Nottingham Forest was carrying out defensive counterattacks. How to counterattack without defense? Wood himself is the core of the midfield defense. He is really not used to watching and waiting for his teammates to grab the ball and then hand it over to himself to play football like organizing the offense...

"Also, although we are counterattacking defensively, defense is very important. But if we only defend and do not counterattack, we will become a completely defensive. "Donn had not let Wood go yet, and he made his own criticism on Wood's problems in defense. "You have been a defensive midfielder for too long, George. Active defense is a good thing. But think about your own task first. What are you here to do?" He asked at Wood.

Wood replied: "Organize the offense."

"It seems that you are not confused yet. If you keep defending, defending, defending... how can you organize the offense? After all, you are just a person, not a monster that can be cloned at any time."

"What should I do?" George Wood asked back.

Don Eun looked at the others in the locker room. Some were listening attentively to their conversation with George, some were closing their eyes and some were simply listening to music.

He coughed. Then he said to George Wood: "It's very simple. Trust your teammates."

George Wood turned his head and looked around, and he found that many of his teammates were also looking at him.

"Okay, guys!" Don Eun threw Wood down and slapped hard. Let everyone look up at him. "In the second half, we must score. This is not just a draw away. The defense cannot be relaxed. Be a little bolder in the offense... If you lose the ball, I don't want to see you turn around and run back. You can counterattack me on the spot. If you can cut the ball, you will attack directly. If you can't grab it, you will interfere with their advancement speed - you know how to do it."

"The first half of the first half is OK. We put Barcelona in the second half too little pressure, so this is not OK. Work harder in the second half. If those bastards think we don't have the strength to fight back, give them a good look!"

He punched in his palm.

On the other hand, Rijkald was writing and drawing on the tactical board. He was telling his people how to break through the dense defense of Nottingham Forest.

"George Wood obviously needs to organize the offense. If I were Tony Donn, I wouldn't let him continue to focus on defense in the second half, so that. Nottingham Forest's defense will definitely be available. Their overall defensive formation is well maintained. It's impossible to pull the ground by just passing. Sidwell is not a threat to you, Messi." He looked at Messi sitting on the side.

"Add more breakthroughs in the second half. Break in and look for opportunities to disrupt their defensive formation. What this kind of overall defense is that one or several of the opponents have excellent breakthrough skills."

He politely criticized Messi for not being excited enough in the first half.

That's true. Except for the three-man shot at the beginning, Messi's performance quickly became flat. Some people may speculate that he had just returned from injury and his condition has not been adjusted to his best condition. But in fact, Messi was just a little interested because the previous expectations were too much contrast with the reality afterwards.

After all, how can you compare to George Wood's sense of accomplishment after being in Sidwell?

Messi also knows what the problem is. He has to take it seriously in the second half. Anyway, no matter what the reason, it is a good thing for him to not defend him.

Recently, the media criticized Barcelona for having just abandoned "Ronaldinho dependence" and suffered from "Messi dependence". This problem is viewed from two aspects: on the one hand, Rijcard said that it is incompetent, and on the other hand, it praises Messi for being too powerful.

When Barcelona attacks, everyone will try to give the ball to this little man. I hope he can create miracles.

So since Nottingham Forest doesn't value me, I will make you regret it! He clenched his fists.

After the second half of the game started again, like the first half of the first half, Barcelona wanted to score, and Nottingham Forest also wanted to score. The two sides attacked each other and the scene changed.

During this period, Nottingham Forest got three good chances to score, and Barcelona also had two chances to enter the heart of the Forest team. Unfortunately, no one was sure of it. Instead, the two head coaches on the sidelines were scared to death - no matter which side got a shot, they would let the two head coaches' butts leave the seat. The difference is that Rijkald just stood up slightly, while Don Eun jumped out of the coach's seat.

After fifteen minutes of exciting matchups, Nottingham Forest and Barcelona realized that this matchup put their goal in a very dangerous position. The five opportunities that both sides directly threatened the goal were proved.

So he chose to be conservative in a very tacit way.

Nottingham Forest is in line with their usual style, which is not surprising. Barcelona is also in a stable and counterattack, and it is hard to understand.

"Barcelona wants to fight Nottingham Forest defensively counterattack?" the commentator said in surprise.

Donn laughed in his seat. He knew why Rijkald suddenly became conservative again. After a match of attack just now, he found that Nottingham Forest's offensive strength was not weak, and being more conservative in key games would help win. The head coach, who is famous for his world football and offensive football, had to succumb to reality when his coach was unstable and chose a more stable game defense.

What made him happier was not Barcelona's performance. It was George Wood's transformation.

What he likes most about Wood is that he is very obedient most of the time. After he criticized Wood's performance in the first half at halftime, Wood did make a targeted change in the second half.

He no longer let himself run around between offense and defense. From a certain perspective, he learned to "play football while standing". Don Ever always emphasizes running and playing football, but there are exceptions. As a midfielder, he hopes that his organizers can be as strong as generals and be more calm. And as a midfielder, there is really no need to charge every time. More often, they need to launch an offense directly from the backcourt. Learning how to judge the situation on the field is something George Wood must do.

Forests directly threatened Barcelona's goal attack three times, one of which was directly initiated by Wood, and the other two were indirectly initiated by George Wood. His ribs were directly passed to Ribery to break into the penalty area and shot. Although he was blocked by Valdes, Wood's thirty-meter straight pass still left a deep impression on people - he was still in the middle circle, and Forest turned from defense to offense, if he continued to lead. Barcelona's defense line would be organized quickly, so he would have no better way except crossing. At that time, he looked up at the front and found that Barcelona's defense line was still retreating and did not have time to organize a defensive formation. Although Ribery was cruising on the side, there was enough space in front of him, at his speed...

He decisively passed the ball directly from the center circle to the ribs between Barcelona central defenders Milito and Puyor.

With his strength, there is no doubt about the speed of the football rolling. Just like cutting butter by knife, it passed the football between two Barcelona defenders. In front of it was an empty penalty area. There were no Barcelona players, nor Nottingham Forest players. Just when people thought it was a mistake in the earth, Ribery appeared behind the entire defense line as a high-speed running, and he received the ball!

The next shot was to shoot without hesitation, but unfortunately he was too pursuing strength and was too straight and blocked by Valdes.

But there were still bursts of applause from the city court, namely Ribery and George Wood.

Even when Tang En saw this penetrating pass like a scalpel, he couldn't help but stand up and applaud George Wood.

If George just now sent the ball to Ribery's feet, then Barcelona's Puyol will be happy to fight Ribery one-on-one, and the Forest's offense will be forced to a dead end. The ball passed to the front of the offensive player seems to have dug a diversion channel leading to the downstream for a pool of stagnant water, and the entire offense will be alive in an instant.

"This is what Demi said to see from him!" Tang En said to the people around him in a show-off manner.

"It's a pity that there are too few." Chris Lack shook his head.

"It's okay." Tang Dao. "It only flashed occasionally at the beginning, but now it's already flashed a lot. In the end..."

Tang En took his words, "In the end, it will flash into pieces and never be extinguished!"

Wood on the court was a little upset when he saw Ribery wasting this opportunity, but he was more excited. When he saw the football rolling out from under his feet and passing through the two Barcelona defenders accurately, Ribery understood the insertion and receiving it. The feeling was completely different from his midfielder's tackle... How to say it? One is destruction and the other is construction.

But one thing must be the same - whether it is destruction or construction, he is very excited after success.

Because of Wood's sudden and enlightened activity, Rijkaard found that although there was no Van Nistruy, Eastwood, and Van der Fate, Nottingham Forest's offense was still very powerful. He was worried that if he continued to attack like this, he would be attacked by the Forest team after he continued to attack. From the result, not conceding the ball was the most important thing. So he ran to the sidelines to slow down the pace a little and take his time.

Once he conquered, the Forest team also conquered. Although Barcelona rarely counterattacks, if someone thinks they do not have the ability to counterattack, it would be a big mistake. Tang En didn't want to "bomb around the opponent for 89 minutes. He was defeated by his opponent in the 90th minute" such a stupid thing happened to him.

Messi performed well in the first half and also got a shot opportunity, but although he shot over Van der Sar's fingers, he was blocked by Pepe, who was desperately trying to do so. These were the best chances of scoring in Barcelona so far in the game.

Barcelona Recycling. The person who was really liberated was actually George Wood. He didn't have to focus more on defense in the backcourt. He began to try to move his position forward, sometimes looking more like a front midfielder than a back midfielder.

The game gradually came to the end in the stalemate between the two sides. If no one can score a goal and the score is still 0:0, then Barcelona and Nottingham Forest will have to decide the team to advance to the finals through overtime, and the winner will still be unable to decide in overtime. There is only one last move - a penalty kick decisive battle!

No one wants the game to really reach that point. Not to mention the penalty shootout, even overtime will be a huge test of both sides' physical fitness.

So within the last ten minutes of the game, both sides made another effort and launched a confrontation.

Messi is active again, and George Wood has also received more goals from his teammates, and he already looks like a "midfield commander tower".

After Messi broke through Sidwell, Etoo, who made a straight pass and inserted into the penalty area. Etoo, the shot of Etoo was saved by Van der Sar.

On the other side, George Wood suddenly broke through with speed on the side. After attracting the attention of Abidal and Yaya Toure, he passed the ball back to Beckham. Beckham made the first cross, and Bentner beat Barcelona's defense tallest Marcos, headed the ball, but was saved by Valdes and hit the crossbar and bounced out.

When he arrived at the back, George Wood found that Barcelona focused on defending his pass, he decisively made a long shot from a distance of 30 meters. Although he flew directly to the stands, Don Eun and others saw from it that George Wood was really in his heart - he was not opposed to being an offensive player.

Time passed minute by minute, and the score was still 0:0.

Rijkald had been standing on the sidelines to direct the game, and Tang En couldn't sit still and get up from his seat.

He turned his head and looked at the big screen. Time: 84:58 seconds of the whole game; score: Nottingham Forest 0:0 Barcelona.

Beckham was a little tired, and he decided to replace him. Lennon's impact might have a miraculous effect at the last moment...

Sidwell can also be replaced and Van der Fate will play. Fight at the last moment. But in this way, George Wood will return to the defensive midfielder position. In addition, I don’t know how Van der Fate is in the first appearance of the court. After all, there are not many events left for them unless they plan to play overtime.

Forget it, George's performance has already satisfied him. He can't bring a victory to the team, and he can't blame him. After all, as an organizational midfielder, he still has a long way to go.

He called Van der Fate and Lennon back from the warm-up area and prepared to tell them how to attack.

George Wood glanced at two teammates listening to Don't's instructions on the sidelines, one of whom was the team's original core organization Van der Fate. He only took a second to know what Tony Don't think:

He doesn't want to play overtime and wants to resolve the battle in the last few minutes. His offensive performance obviously cannot satisfy him, otherwise why would he have to replace Van der Fate? It's just to take over his mission.

What does this mean?

It means you have not completed the task.

Messi faced Sidwell again, intending to break through and attract Pepe to assist in defense, and then pass the football behind Pepe and let Etoo insert it.

When he easily passed Sidwell looked up to find someone, the ball under his feet was tackled by George Wood.

It's been nearly ninety minutes. George Wood has never cared about Messi's troubles near the Forest's penalty area. Messi has almost forgotten this opponent he once considered the most dangerous.

So after he passed Sidwell, his mind was full of Pepe. He didn't notice the danger at all.

George Wood looked at him and looked up. When he was neglecting to guard his feet, he suddenly broke out from the slant and tackled Messi's ball!

Nottingham Forest did not give Barcelona time to react. Pepe, who was originally planning to defend Messi, happened to receive the ball from Wood. He planned to give it to others, but he soon saw Wood, who had just gotten up from the hand, waving to him, his movements were very hidden. But he saw it and signaled him to pass the ball.

Pepe made a move to drive the ball and break forward by himself in the face of Messi. Messi's center of gravity shook, and then passed the football to George Wood running in front.

"He is the core of the organization, stop him!" Puyol shouted in the backcourt. Wood was basically organizing the offense throughout the game. Fools know who the most dangerous figures and who should be the most priority when the Forest team counterattacks.

Before Yaya Toure this time, Harvey rushed forward. He planned to take the opportunity to intercept the ball when George Wood passed by. Or force Wood to slow down and turn around. The Forests failed to make a quick attack.

George Wood had no intention of asking for Harvey, but he had no intention of turning around. He watched Harvey but passed the football to Beckham's feet on the right.

Then he by himself went around Harvey and continued to run forward.

At the same time, Nottingham Forest began their quick counterattack. Gareth Bale, who was replaced in the 25th minute of the second half, and Ribery, were in the left side together.
To be continued...