Chapter 103: Grind to death

"A beautiful counterattack! George Wood's wonderful performance created this goal!"

In the weird atmosphere of Alpi Stadium, the players of Nottingham Forest hugged each other tightly. This was their first goal scored at Alpi Stadium, which is a good sign!

Not long after Tang En's butt was close to the chair, he jumped up again. He waved his fists hard and vented his emotions. He was so excited that he seemed to have won the whole game.

"George is getting more and more like the core of the midfield!" Chris Lark was also very excited and shouted excitedly from the side. "This is so beautiful to get rid of and pass!"

Ranieriz shook his head in disappointment, turned around and walked back. He was still chattering: "How could he pass the ball to the opponent's feet? I really don't know what he was thinking!"

The initiation of the goal conceding this time was Qiao Wenke's mistake in the frontcourt pass. I was so depressed about such a goal conceding.

When Sebastian Jovenco ran to the edge of the penalty area, the football was already quietly lying in the goal. He stopped and looked at the football in a daze.

He felt that his performance today was like a piece of shit.

After a while of silence, Alpi Stadium finally booed again. Of course, this was aimed at Nottingham Forest, but in Joe Wenke's ears, it seemed that it was coming for him.

The booing continued until the end of the first half. Nottingham Forest entered the locker room with a goal lead, while the Juventus players seemed a little confused - they thought the last five minutes should belong to them.

Ranieri left the seat and turned toward the corridor when the whistle sounded the first time. He was quite dissatisfied with this result, and he had something to say during the halftime break.

Tony Donn was not in a hurry to go back to the locker room. He stood by the side of the court and patted his head and shook hands for every forest player who ended up. He expressed his congratulations and encouragement. He turned around and left after doing this. He was the last person to enter the visiting team's locker room.

"Good job, guys!" Tang Endi was in a good mood, his voice was loud and his movements were powerful. It can be seen that he was quite satisfied with the result in the first half. "The game is within our plan. But we have to continue working hard in the second half and lead with one goal..."

"It's the most unsafe score in the world!" Eastwood helped Donne tell what he wanted to say.

Tang En pointed at him, and everyone laughed. Tang En always treated him with the most tolerant attitude towards this beloved general. It is hard to imagine things like interfering in the locker room, but Eastwood can do it and will almost never be criticized.

"Freddy, I think you can be the head coach in the future."

Everyone laughed again.

Eastwood smiled and said, "Where am I, boss."

"I bet Ranieri is very unhappy now." Donn ignored Eastwood and continued, "his plan should be the same as the last time he defeated us. He used the opening or the time before the end of the half to break through our goal. He felt that we would only relax at that time. But he didn't expect to be plotted against us." Donnn smiled happily, and was also a little thief.

"They will definitely continue to attack for a while in the second half because they are unwilling to lose to us at home. That's our chance, grab it!" Tang En clenched his hands.

Meanwhile, in the dressing room of Juventus.

Ranieri had a vaginal face. The target he was facing was now sitting in front of his locker room cabinet with his head down without saying a word, holding a sweat-wiping towel in his hand, but he didn't know where to wipe it.

Ranieri didn't say anything to scold Qiao Wenke, who had made a key mistake. He just glared hard for a while. Then he turned around and sighed.

"Let's see how we can get back this situation in the second half..."

He looked at the tactical board, with the two teams of formations drawn on it. In his eyes, the formations on the Nottingham Forest had already been retracted back to the penalty area, and he was posing as an iron barrel formation.

Since he coached Juventus, he has always emphasized not to make mistakes. He hopes to catch other people's mistakes, but does not want others to catch their braids. But now he only made an active mistake in the first half and was caught by Nottingham Forest. Tony Don is also a person who is very good at catching opponents' braids...

It's not so good now. Nottingham Forest leads, with Ranieri's understanding of Juventus. He also understands what will happen to Nottingham Forest.

Defensive counterattack!

If I want me, I will do the same...

"We must attack..." He said something weakly, "But we cannot all press on, and we must also pay attention to defending their counterattacks while attacking. In the second half, we focused our offensive forces mainly on two sides..." He pointed to the opponent's formation on the tactical board.

Judging from the formation, the middle lane of Nottingham Forest is very thick, and usually encounters strong resistance when attacking here. But it is relatively empty on the side lane. The petite resistance encountered when walking on the side lane is easier to pass quickly.

Ranieli figured it out, and Tang En must have used his superior forces to seize control of the midfield. And Ranieli would not play with him anymore. He used the method of quickly passing the wing to attack Huanglong.

"Second half. Alessandro, you go.  Substitute Joe Wenko."

Although he did not criticize Qiao Wenke's performance in the first half, his substitution had already shown everyone his attitude towards the midfield star.

Del Piero nodded.

Qiao Wenke's head was buried lower.

"I guess Ranieri will strengthen the offense in the second half, but he is not a fool. Look at our midfield configuration, it is a dream to try to score from the middle. So he will definitely focus the offense on the wing. "Tang An drew two lines on the tactical board. "Because it seems that our sidewalk is empty. So we have to make a little adjustment in the second half..."

"The two full-backs reduce the number of assists to go forward, and we adjust the formation to 442 parallel positions. George, Thiago, continue to be responsible for the defense in the middle, Mattias, go back to the left, Shahin, you rest in the second half, Lennon."

Shahin nodded and accepted Tang Endi's arrangement.

Both of them substitutions during the halftime break, Don and Ranieri have completely different goals. So the two players who were substituted also have completely different emotions.

"In the second half, we returned to the most familiar wing offensive tactics. Shocked Juventus again!"

Before the second half of the game begins, both sides are preparing to make personnel adjustments near the sideline.

Juventus replaced Joe Wenco with Del Piero in the first half with a fatal mistake. Nottingham Forest replaced Shaheen with Lennon.

"It's easy to understand to replace Joe Wenke, after all, his performance in the first half was too clumsy. But what does it mean to replace Sahin with Lennon...? Shahin's performance in the first half was remarkable..." The commentator was still puzzled by this, but Ranieri keenly noticed something was wrong.

Lennon is a pure wing player, while Shahin is a pure middle player. What does this adjustment mean?

Nottingham Forest is going back to the wing!

He just made his players pay attention to wing offense, and now he has met the Forest team head-on...

He believed that this must be Tang En's conspiracy - he thought Piao Tianwenxue in the first half. Unexpectedly, Tony Tang En played the card in the middle apart, which caught him off guard. In the end, the Forest team launched an offensive attack from the middle apart. He made his own countermeasures against this situation during the break, but he didn't expect Tang En to change again!

Don En asked the team to focus on wing offense in the second half, not only for offense, but also for defense. When Forest strengthens the wing offense, Juventus' wing offense will inevitably be affected.

Tang En's idea is to use attack to control attack on the wing.

The effect is still very significant...

After the game began, Juventus wanted to siege the Forest's goal, but was dragged into the midfield by Nottingham Forest.

Del Piero was able to control the ball after he came on the court. But George Wood's close control of him made him very difficult. He had excellent ball control skills, but his health was not as good as the former Italian Golden Boy. George Wood used his excellent physical fitness and even did not hesitate to foul. Successfully made Piero tired of dealing with it.

In the first half, Wood and Thiago also took care of the offense, but in the second half, they almost focused on defense. They were like two midfield meat grinders, dragging all Juventus' offense in and shattering. Such a midfield defense brought great trouble to Juventus' offense.

Juventus players have the feeling that no matter where they pass the ball, there will be Nottingham Forest players who have an absolute advantage in numbers, and it seems that their people are everywhere.

The players of the Forest team had no problems at all, and they were running around to break the Juventus Earth.

The game was deadlocked, and neither side had any better chances. Most of the time, both teams kept making mistakes - Nottingham Forest used its Premier League rhythm to drag Juventus, a graceful and elegant rich man, to run wildly regardless of his image.   After a long time, the old woman couldn't stand it anymore...the number of proactive mistakes began to increase.

At the same time, the Forest team's mistakes are increasing. But this is still within the area where Tony Donn can bear it. They now have the lead. As long as Juventus is dragged down, Forest team will have a lot of opportunities to seize.

Tang En returned to the coaching seat, sat down, and crossed his legs. He was not in a hurry.

As time goes by, Juventus is becoming more and more anxious.

The head coach's seat in the Juventus coach's seat seemed to have a nail board. Ranieri's butt would lift up again as soon as he put it down. Then he walked to the sidelines. He stared at everything that was happening in the court with some anxiety and helplessness.

He can only hope that Amauri can burst out his energy in the league. He has broken through the door to Nottingham Forest.

Unfortunately, Pepe used close-up control of Amauri, and the powerful center met his strong opponent. Moreover, Nottingham Forest cut off the connection between Juventus' midfield and the front line. Neither Amauri nor Aquinta received support from the midfield. Most of the time, they fought alone and needed to continuously retreat to receive the ball.

In short, Juventus' offensive system was messed up by Nottingham Forest. Ranieri was at a loss about this - he was always beaten by Don En, and the adjustments made were all aimed at Don En's previous deployments, and the players were at a loss.

The second half of the game was a hundred times more dull than the first half. It was not until the end of the game that Juventus set off a climax of counterattack. They seized the last time and told Nottingham that Ye Lin's gate opened a siege. Nottingham Forest seemed to have no intention of attacking anymore. They returned to defense at all and hurried in their own penalty area.

Tang En was very dissatisfied with this situation. He stood on the sidelines and roared and asked the team to fight back.

But his voice was drowned in the cheering storm of the home team fans of the Alpi Stadium.

"This is Juventus' last chance! If they don't seize the time, they will lose at home!"

Ranieli replaced Sissoko, who had no contribution to the offense at the last moment, and replaced Yageo, an outstanding midfielder produced by La Macia youth training camp, hoping to strengthen the offense, equalize the score at the last moment, and create miracles.

"Amauri's header!"

"Ah-Ajinfeyev! Beautiful save! So awesome!"

"Yaqunta fell in the penalty area, and the referee blew the whistle! But it was just a free kick outside the penalty area, and Kompani's foul was very timely. It would be a penalty if it was a little later!"

"Del Piero came to take this free kick... and hit the wall! Juventus players protested to the referee that the Forest's wall was too strong, but the referee just signaled them to throw the outbound ball."

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The game entered a truly exciting moment in the last ten minutes. Juventus pressed the Forest team into the field, and threatening shots appeared one after another, and the hearts of the Forest fans almost jumped out of their throats. Akinfeyev guarded the goal and swayed in the wind and rain, as if he would be captured at any time.

Tang En also became nervous. If Juventus scored the equalizer goal at the last moment and saw them hugging each other and celebrating wildly, Tang En really didn't know if his nuclear-powered heart could withstand this stimulation...

"Tony!" Tang shouted loudly from behind. He was also worried about Tang En's heart.

"I'm fine, Tang." Tang En waved his hand. He rushed to the sidelines and shouted: "What are you doing when you are huddled behind? Are you a turtle? Your head is not a glans!!"

Under Donn's crazy roar and body language prompts, Nottingham Forest finally made two counterattacks, one of which almost scored a goal.

Juventus was not disturbed by the two counterattacks of Nottingham Forest. They continued to push forward, wanting to score a goal before the end of the game. The old woman, who had always been gentle, finally put aside her veil covering her face, rolled up her sleeves, then snatched her skirt and tied it around her waist, intending to fight against Nottingham Forest.

Unfortunately, they made up their minds a little too late...

When the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game, Piero kicked the football into the stands behind the Forest goal.

As the captain of Juventus, he was not dissatisfied with anyone. He was just unhappy with losing like this - they were beaten to death by Nottingham Forest with defense...

According to post-match statistics, their number of goals was nearly one-third more than Nottingham Forest, but they just didn't score a goal.

At the end of the game, Nottingham Forest players repeated what Juventus did on the Alpi Stadium two years ago - celebrating victory crazy.

But Don Eun seemed very calm. Without even celebrating, he got up and shook hands with Ranieri.

"This is really a wonderful game..." Tang En said in English. Regardless of whether Ranieri can understand it. In fact, language barriers will not become an obstacle to Tang En's expression of his meaning. Because while saying this, his face was as bright as a flower.
To be continued...