Godfather Of Champions

When the Nottingham Forest team flew back to London from Lisbon, the smiles on the faces of the players had not yet appeared. It is also an away defeat, which is completely different from an away loss to Villarreal. Losing to Villarreal, no matter what, they knew that this did not prevent the team from qualifying from the group stage, so after one night, the players quickly regained their former anger, chatting and laughing on the plane. .

This time is different.

Losing to Sporting Lisbon means completely losing the UEFA Cup this season. A championship this season... hopeless. So no one can laugh on the plane.

Today there are many young people in this forest team. Some of them are participating in the top league for the first time and participating in European competitions for the first time. Such a team has an advantage-they will be impressed with a failure. They will not be joking about impropriety, and such failure will continue to affect them in the future.

Dunn also remained stern. He is different from the players, not entirely because he lost a game, or a UEFA Cup, but because he feels stupid. A little tailwind made myself float, I don't know why. Want to win the UEFA Cup... don't look at the current team and their own strength. Thinking about it now, I felt how ridiculous I was bragging in front of Tang at that time, I don't know if Tang also thought so.

In his opinion, it's not that the players didn't do a good job, but that he, as the head coach, was looking for the wrong direction.

Dunn was in a bad mood, so no one was willing to talk. Chris Lak next to him looked at him several times, but he stopped talking, and in the end he could only sigh, and said nothing.

The team flew back to England in this silence, back to Nottingham.

Their European competitions this season are all over.

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When the team arrived in Nottingham, Dunn announced that it would be dissolved on the spot. The team had a half-day holiday, and then resumed training the next morning. Although it was a league game after three days, Dunn did not rush to gather the team for training immediately. After a big fight, he wanted to let the players rest and regain their strength.

Of course, this is one reason, and another reason is... Dunn himself needs to think about it. In the rest of this season, where the Forest team will go...

In the past, Dunn went back to the bar when thinking about this kind of thing and thought while drinking. Later, after Tang came and had someone to talk to, Dunn was more willing to discuss with Tang at home.

This time is no exception.

Tang Jingjing listened to Dun En's doubts, and then asked: "How many points does the Forest Team have now?"

"Forty-seven, Liverpool forty-four." Dunn remembers these data clearly. "But they missed one game."

Tang nodded, now he has a lot more words than when he first arrived in England. Dunn was very pleased that he could change a person, even if it was just a little bit. "Where is Everton?"

"Fifty-one points, there is a four-point gap with us. Arsenal is third in the league, with 61 points, and there is also a big gap with Everton."

"The top four in the league can qualify for the Champions League." Tang said, "The four-point gap is not too much for you, right?"

Dunn looked down for a while and nodded: "I understand. The next nine rounds of the league will be a contest between us and Liverpool and Everton."

"Don't forget Charlton, Middlesbrough..." Tang reminded

Dunn waved his hand: "They...I haven't paid attention to it yet."

Tang pursed his lips and smiled.

Dunn stared at him strangely: "What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing." Tang shook his head, the smile on his face disappeared. But Dun En reluctantly continued to stare at his face, and finally Tang raised his hand to surrender, "I just thought that you just lost an important game, now you are so confident..."

Hearing Tang saying this, Dunn scratched his head: "I thought about it for a long time on the plane...no, to be precise, I thought about it for a long time in the hotel bed after losing the game. You were right at the beginning, Tang. But. You didn't continue to persuade me, do you want me to fall into this trouble?"

Tang's lips squirmed, but he didn't say anything.

"I think I was very stupid at the time. Fortunately, we lost early. If I lose in the semifinals, I will be empty-handed this season." Dunn sat at the table and looked at the knife in his hand. Fork, the silver metal shimmered in the light. Then he looked up and found that Tang had been looking at him, laughing at himself, "How do you say something? It's not too late to make up for it."

Tang nodded to show that he knew, and then shook his head: "There is a saying that you are right. Football cannot be planned."

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Dunn tried his best to show confidence, but in the next 30th round of the league, the exhausted Forest team was completely out of shape and lost to Tottenham Hotspur 0:2. He lost a great opportunity to reap the benefits of fishermen...

In this round, Tony Dunn’s two competitors had a direct conversation. Liverpool Derby, started at Anfield Stadium.

Regardless of the results and rankings of these two teams in the league, those things have no reference value for the Liverpool Derby.

After 90 minutes of fierce fighting, Benitez's Red Army defeated Everton led by Moyes.

After selling Gravesson, Everton, who hadn't had much tonic in the winter, was not Liverpool's opponent at all, and was beaten 0:2 in the first half. Everton launched a crazy counterattack in the second half. Perhaps they didn't care if the game was so fierce that it would affect the entire season. For Derby opponents, this game is much higher than a season of league.

Red and blue are the two most traditional colors in English football. These two colors can be regarded as deadly enemies in almost any city, such as red Manchester United and blue Manchester City, such as red Arsenal and blue Chelsea, such as Red Liverpool and Blue Everton.

Regardless of the brilliant achievements of the Liverpool club, in the city of Liverpool, Everton's history can be earlier than that of the Liverpool club. Everton is naturally unwilling to lose to Liverpool, even if it is away, they are not willing.

In the second half, Everton launched a crazy counterattack that everyone in Liverpool felt was overwhelming. He scored a goal in the middle, but his luck was slightly worse, and at the last moment a shot hit the crossbar and bounced out.

When the referee blew the final whistle, the score on the electronic big screen was fixed at 2:1, and Liverpool won at home.

In this way, the points gap between the Forest team and Everton has not changed. Liverpool caught up instead, and scored 47 points with the Forest team, and then relied on a weak goal difference to overwhelm the Forest team, ranking fifth. The Forest team fell to sixth.

Charlton ranked seventh with 43 points, four points away from the Forest.

This is really a situation where three teams are fighting for a Champions League spot.

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The match against Tottenham was a bit earlier than Liverpool's Derby. When the results of the Liverpool Derby came out, Dunn felt very depressed. Because he knew he had missed an excellent opportunity. If Forest can beat Tottenham at home, the gap between Everton and Everton is only one point, and they still maintain their three-point advantage over Liverpool. Even if Liverpool wins the make-up match, they still have the same point. This may be crucial for the final sprint phase.

Now it's too late to say anything, and let go of another opportunity. Besides, the team's state is indeed not good, and there is no way to fight with Tottenham Hotspur who is waiting for work...

The failure of this game has caused the media to hype the theme of "the end of young coaches" again. Sports media may be the most ruthless and utilitarian of all media in the world. Because sports games themselves are heroes based on victory or defeat. You behave well, everyone praises you, and they can catch you no matter what the fleshy words are. But once you lose, no matter how well you performed before, there will surely be a large number of people who will come forward to accuse you and devalue you.

The world is so cruel-winning is winning, losing is losing. A draw is the most inconspicuous result, and it is also the most meaningless.

Such things have been seen in the media more than two years ago. The winner is king and the loser is Kou. When he became the head coach and experienced these things personally, he would no longer be aggrieved by it. Instead, he can use the media to achieve some of his goals.

For example, this time...

The Forest team was eliminated in the UEFA Cup, lost two consecutive league matches, and lost three rounds. These achievements were described as the end of the forest team in the life of the media reporters.

Unexpectedly, Dunn did not respond to these "shit" remarks in his column.

There are twelve days before the next round of the league, during which national team matches are held. For those big clubs, this is the time when the FIFA virus spreads and spreads, but for small clubs like Nottingham Forest, it is a good time to recuperate and rejuvenate.

Compared with Liverpool and even Everton, the forest team has very few international players. Van der Sar is still the main goalkeeper of the Dutch national team. He will play with the Dutch team in next year's World Cup qualifiers. Four main defenses in the back line, Hierro has long retired from the national team, Matthew Epson and Leighton Barnes were not selected for the England national team, not to mention Zimbanda, the French national team has not had him yet. s position.

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