Godfather Of Champions

The gloom in the locker room in Barcelona was bleak, and Guardiola desperately tried to cheer everyone up. In the dressing room of Nottingham Forest, it was a different scene.

"Good job, guys!" Chris Lak took on Tony Dunn's task in the locker room, and he had to use words to continue to motivate the players. Tang is only responsible for explaining tactical arrangements.

The players were as happy as the coaches, and they were satisfied with their performance in the first half. Almost completely blocked Barcelona's offense, taking advantage of the court, and even had a chance to score another goal in the last five minutes.

Everyone sat down to discuss the embarrassment of Barcelona in the first half, and they had a very happy chat.

Seeing them discussing more and more enthusiastically, Chris Lak had to use the majesty of an assistant coach to quiet them, because Tang had something to say: "We did a good job in the first half. But in the second half we can't relax. I am now worried about you in the second half. There will be a feeling of arrogance and underestimation of the enemy. You still have to pay attention to what kind of opponent Barcelona is. If you give them too much space, once they adapt to the playing field, the situation will not be so good..."

The players' faces became serious. They knew that what Tang said was correct.

As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. A team like Barcelona, ​​no matter how strong it is, is there. If you take it lightly, you might be unlucky.

"So in the second half, we continued to press on them in full court, forcing them to make mistakes and can't organize an effective offense. Forcing them to attack can only rely on long shots and wide passes. Once they play high-altitude ball with us , Their threat is much smaller."

"On our offense...just pay more attention to increasing the success rate. We got a lot of opportunities at the end of the first half, but we didn't score a goal. We can't do this in the second half. Tony always said that wasting opportunities will be retribution. A goal lead is also the most insecure score in the world. I don’t think he would like to see you in the stands satisfied with 1-0 in the second half, right?"

In the end, Tang still wanted to borrow the image of Tony Dunn to add a little persuasiveness to his speech. He couldn't control these players, which was proved when Dunn temporarily left his job due to a heart attack. When things are good, everyone listens to him, and when things are bad, no one cares about him. At this time, lifting Tony Dun Enlai was like Shang Fang's sword. Sometimes Don thinks that he may have been an assistant coach all his life in Nottingham Forest, because Tony's influence on this team is so profound...

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Dunn returned to the stand with a disposable cup filled with juice and his companions. The second half was about to begin. The players from both sides who had warmed up on the court had left. The fourth official and three referees appeared on the sidelines and they gathered to chat. what. Maybe talking about this stadium?

When Dunn appeared in the stands, there was a small commotion. Other fans who recognized him rushed up and asked loudly: "We will win, won't we, Tony?"

Dunn also replied loudly: "Of course!"

Then a group of people raised their wine and shouted: "Forest forest! Nottingham Forest!"

They kept shouting until the players from both sides entered the field.

The Nottingham Forest players received cheers from the fans when they entered the field, and when the Barcelona players followed closely, they were much quieter...

Perhaps the situation of the two teams can be seen from the expressions of the players of the two teams. The players of Nottingham Forest talked and laughed, but the Barcelona players were solemn and frowned, from players to coaches.

Messi, who was previously called the "New World King" by the media, also pursed his lips with a stern expression. He almost completely disappeared in the first half and made no contribution at all. The awe-inspiring and unstoppable Argentine football leader and the ace of Barcelona's ace on the court seem to be sleepwalking.

He was thinking about how to save the situation in the second half and regain his state.

But this is a bit difficult. The venue is one reason, and Wood and the others' strict guarding is another reason. In this game, Dunn did not only allow full-backs to defend Messi like the last round. George Wood would often come to Messi to "talk about life ideals" when he was free.

The uneven ground is already difficult to control the ball, and with Wood's personal interference, he can hardly really get the ball.

Maybe his running in the second half should be more active, and his range of activities should be larger...

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After the start of the second half, Puyol and Pikwe went all-out to defend Mitchell, and the situation slightly changed. Mitchell's height, header, and jumping are really good, but he is completely at a disadvantage in terms of experience. When Pique and Puyol joined forces to deal with him, he didn't know what to do.

During this period of time, with Mitchell being targeted, Barcelona gradually regained the situation on the field. They began to try to organize the offense.

Unlike the first half, Barcelona's offense began to rely more on the individual skills of the stars than on cooperation. Because the failure of the first half proved that their cooperation can not be played on such a venue.

Almost any team with multiple stars will consider relying on personal skills to determine the game in this situation. Barcelona has Messi, Silva, Boyan, Iniesta, Xavi, Alves...and many other stars in the Barcelona team. These people have the ability to determine the result of the game alone. It would be too wasteful if not used.

After receiving the ball, Silva chose to do it alone on the wing. He successfully broke through Nkulu, who was too tall and had a high center of gravity, but his cross was easily pushed out by Kompany.

Then it was Harvey who came up to try. He shot directly from a long distance and deliberately hit a grounder, just to make use of the uneven ground to cause trouble for Akinfeev.

But the Russians who have been training on this kind of venue for a week have long been used to this kind of ball, but Dunn has done similar training in training. He fell to the ground and firmly pressed the football under him, without causing a chance to let Bo Yang make up his shot.

Followed by Messi.

He pulled to the wing to catch the ball and faced Joe Matoke's defense. He made a false shot to the bottom, but suddenly smashed the ball in and cut Matoke away.

If it is at the Nou Camp, Messi is more confident. Now he can only choose to cut in early. Unsurprisingly, George Wood forced him up.

The football was bouncing on the uneven turf and Messi was trying to control the ball. His technique is really good, and he still keeps the football under his feet under such circumstances and has not lost it.

Seeing that he was holding the ball very steadily, Wood didn't rush to kick the ball, but leaned his body up.

Messi also knew that once Wood came up, he would have no chance to break through. So he stopped abruptly, stepped away from Wood, and then turned to the side.

He intends to make a **** road in the gap between Wood and Matoke and go straight into the restricted area!

Left foot, right foot buckle!

He successfully avoided Joe Matoke's steal, intending to rush out of this gap. But Wood's explosive power is amazing! When he dialed the ball with his left foot, he had seen through his intentions and took the lead in a big step, crossing Messi's route. Messi buckled the football forward with his right foot, and Wood just separated him from the ball, and successfully got stuck!

Messi couldn't stop the car and hit George Wood head-on. He felt as if he had hit a wall. Fortunately, he has just started, if he is running at high speed, he might be dizzy right away...

Messi slumped to the ground, and the Barcelona fans and Nottingham Forest fans in the stands booed harshly. Barcelona fans think that George Wood should give a free kick or a penalty kick to block the foul-the place where Messi fell to the ground is very ambiguous, it seems to be outside the penalty area, and it seems to be in the penalty area...

The Nottingham Forest fans booed because they thought Messi had thrown. Then a collision at close range was too exaggerated to fall to the ground.

The referee did not call Wood a foul, nor did he signal Messi to dive. He did nothing and the game continued.

Although Wood stopped Messi's attack, Nottingham Forest was not out of danger because Bo Yang came up.

At the same time that Messi failed, Boyan jumped in from behind, trying to grab the ball. He thinks that Wood was all focused on Messi at the time, and he must have no time to pay attention to himself. But he was wrong.

After blocking Messi, Wood twisted his body again, shutting Bo Yang behind.

Bo Yang and Messi ran into it like that, although they did not fall to the ground, they also lost the opportunity to grab the ball.

Defending the two major offensive masters of Barcelona alone fully demonstrates George Wood's ability. After protecting the football, he did not choose to blindly open his feet, but passed it to Joe Matoke, who had been pulled to the side, and asked him to pass the football out to organize the attack.

Several consecutive attacks have not received any results. It seems that Barcelona intends to rely on the personal skills of the stars to score goals...

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At the 60th minute, the game was interrupted.

Someone is injured!

But this time it was not the Barcelona player or the Nottingham Forest player who was injured. The injured person had some accidents.

At that time, Barcelona's frontcourt was cut off, Nottingham Forest launched a quick counterattack, and both sides were moving at high speed. The referee naturally also quickly ran from the Nottingham Forest half to the Barcelona half, but when he just started, he sat on the ground!

It wasn't until Nottingham Forest completed the attack that people noticed that the referee was still sitting in the middle circle with one hand over his ankle...

"Ha! What did we see? The referee is injured!" The commentator laughed, his voice sounding a little gloating.

There was also a burst of laughter over the city court. This scene is really funny.

"We have been guessing who will be injured by a bad venue, maybe Messi, maybe Iniesta, maybe Boyan, maybe even Nottingham Forest himself... But we just didn't expect the first person to be injured. It's the referee... he seems to have sprained his ankle? Let's see what happened then..."

The playback picture appeared on the TV screen. At the time of starting, the referee’s kicking foot just stepped on a bump, so...

"Well, I think it is impossible for the referee to enforce the law in this game..."

As he was talking, the TV gave a shot of the fourth official warming up on the sidelines.

"We wish the fourth official good luck, and hope that he won't lose his foot as soon as he plays. Ha!"

Dunn also saw a scene in the stands, he laughed happily like other fans. Due to the things that happened at the end of the first round of the game, Nottingham Forest fans have a bad impression of UEFA referees.

Even the players from both sides who were still fighting fiercely on the court just now put aside their antagonism and watched the excitement next to the referee, with a playful smile on their faces.

Kompany even took the opportunity to talk to Pique.

"Hey, man, how are you doing?"

"Hi, that's it, what else..."

The head referee's injury added some comedy to the tense game and eased the atmosphere a bit.

Then the injured referee stood with the support of the staff, and the fourth official went into battle. When the two people handed over work, the referee also specifically instructed him: "Be careful of the turf near the middle circle..."

A fan shouted at the fourth official in the stands: "Hey buddy! Are you sure you are warming up! Be careful, don't slap your feet!"

"Ahahahaha—" his shout was greeted with a gleeful laugh.

After the original referee came down, he still asked the people around him to describe how bad the turf of the city stadium was. He spread his hands, shook his head and shrugged, with a helpless look.

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When the game restarted, the ease shown by the players on both sides immediately disappeared. Kompany and Pikwe also lost the warmth of smiling and chatting together, and the tense atmosphere returned to everyone.

After all, this is the final round of the quarter-finals that concerns who can advance and who is eliminated. Not sloppy.

Messi suffered a lot from Wood, but he didn't give up. He didn't even go around Wood to find another breakthrough point. It seems that he must be better than Wood today.

This time he successfully shook Wood away, but he still couldn't easily break into the penalty area and could only shoot long shots from the periphery.

Akinfeev saved the football from the baseline and gave Barcelona a corner kick. Maybe this is a victory for Messi?

Pikwe rushed forward to fight for the header, and Kompany was ordered to guard him. When the two leaned up, Kompany smiled beside him: "Don't even think about scoring goals, you kid!"

"You're so much nonsense..." Piquet glanced back at Kompany. "Don't pull my clothes!"

"I didn't pull it!" Kompany raised his hands.

Crowded in front of the door, Pikwe kept changing positions, he was hiding from Kompany.

Harvey ran to take a corner kick. He was waiting for the situation in the penalty area to become more chaotic...

Pique is still wrestling with Kompany. Although in Nottingham Forest, his central defender partner is more Pepe, but he also cooperates with Kompany in the market because Tony Dunn is always in rotation. After training and playing together for so many years, he is familiar with Kompany and knows how Kompany is used to defending corner kicks. And Kompany is also familiar with him, knows his habit of fighting for the top and his position. Pikui knew that it would be bad for him to continue to struggle. He winked at Puyol next to him. Puyol understood it, and suddenly inserted into the battle group, separating the two people. Pi Kui took the opportunity to get out and withdrew to the outside.

At the same time, Harvey kicked the football to the goal!

Kompany knew that this was Barcelona's tactics, but he had nothing to do. He desperately wanted to get rid of Puyol's defense, and he was still one step too late.

The football drew an arc, turned slightly outward, and Pique, who had gotten rid of Kompany's mark, sprinted inward, and made a powerful header!

The distance was too close, Akinfeev had no time to react, he just raised his hand, and the football flew into the goal from his side!

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL——" the Catalan commentator shouted for a full minute before stopping. Whenever you think he will be exhausted, he will immediately raise his voice again and continue to roar.

"Pikwe's powerful header! He blasted the door of his former club!"

After the goal, Pikwe did not celebrate. The teammates rushed to hug him, but he didn't say anything, like a wooden stake, allowing them to hug and beat.

The goal was because he is now a Barcelona player, so naturally he will play for the main. But he grew up in Nottingham Forest and he likes everything here, even the fans who boo him in the stands. There were only sporadic boos from the stands, and most of the Forest team players still couldn't have a bad feeling towards Pikwe. The treatment he received back to the city stadium was completely different from Bendtner.

But if Barcelona eliminated Nottingham Forest because of their own goal, how would they feel?

"Barcelona leads now! And more importantly, they also scored an away goal! How can Nottingham Forest fight back? Tony Dunn is not on the coach's bench. He is always best at this kind of temporary work..." (To be continued, if you want to know what's going on, please visit www.qidian.com, there are more chapters, authors are supported, and genuine reading is supported!)

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