There was a gloom in the dressing room at Barcelona and Pep Guardiola desperately tried to lift everyone's morale. In the dressing room at Nottingham Forest, it was a different story.

"Well done, guys!" Chris Rac took on Tony's role in the locker room. Donn's task, he has to use words to continue to motivate the players. Don, on the other hand, was only responsible for explaining the tactical arrangements.

The players were also as happy as the coaches, they were happy with the performance in the first half. Almost completely blocked Barcelona's attack, dominated the field, and even had another chance to score in the final five minutes.

Everyone sat down and started talking about Barcelona's woes in the first half, and they had a great time.

Seeing that the more they discussed, Chris Rac had to show the majesty of an assistant coach to calm them down, because Don had something to say: "We did a good job in the first half. But you can't relax in the second half, and I'm worried that you'll be proud of your enemies in the second half. You still have to be mindful of what kind of opponent Barcelona are and if you give them too much space, once they get used to the playing field, it's not going to be good......"

The players' faces became serious. They knew that what Don said was right.

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

"So in the second half we continued to press them all over the court, forcing them to make mistakes themselves and not being able to organise an effective attack. Forcing them to attack can only be done with long-range shots and wide crosses. Once they play high with us, they are much less of a threat. ”

"Our offense is ...... It would be nice to pay a little more attention to improving the success rate. We had a lot of chances at the end of the first half but we didn't score a single goal. It couldn't be like this in the second half, Toney always said that wasting chances would be retributed, and a one-goal lead was also the most unsafe score in the world. I don't think he wants to see you in the stands settle for 1-0 in the second half, right? ”

Don still has to borrow Tony in the end. Done's image to add a little convincing to his speech. He couldn't control the players, as was proven when Donn was away from work due to a heart attack. Everyone listens to him when the situation is good, and no one cares about him when the situation is bad. Lift out Tony at this time. Tang Enlai is like Shang Fang's sword. Sometimes Don also thinks that he may have been an assistant coach for the rest of his life at Nottingham Forest, because Toney's influence on this team is so far-reaching......

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Donn returned to the stands with his companions in a cup with juice, and the second half was about to begin, with the players from both sides who had warmed up on the field having left, and the fourth official and three referees appeared on the sidelines, where they gathered to talk about something. Maybe you're talking about the stadium?

Donn's appearance in the stands caused a small twitch, and other fans who recognized him rushed up and shouted, "We're going to win, aren't we, Tony?" ”

Don also replied loudly: "Of course! ”

Then a group of people raised their wines in their hands and shouted, "Forest forest!" Nottingham Forest! ”

They kept shouting until the players from both sides entered.

The Nottingham Forest players were cheered on by the crowd when they entered, and the Barcelona players were much quieter when they entered the stadium......

The expressions on the faces of the players on both teams may tell the situation of the two teams when they come out. The Nottingham Forest players were talking and laughing, while the Barcelona players were grim-faced and frowning, from the players to the coaches.

Messi, who was previously called the "new king of the world" by the media, also pursed his lips with a grim expression. He almost completely disappeared in the first half and did not contribute at all. The Argentine football leader, the ace of Barcelona's aces, who is majestic and unrivaled on the pitch, seems to be sleepwalking.

He was thinking about how he could salvage the situation and regain his form in the second half.

However, it is a bit difficult, the venue is a reason, and the close monitoring of Wood and others is also a reason. In this game, Don didn't just let the full-backs defend Messi, George, as he did in the previous leg. When Wood is free, he often takes the initiative to come to Messi to "talk about his life ideals".

The uneven pitch was already difficult to control, and with Wood's close interference, he could barely really get the ball to his feet.

Maybe in the second half he should have been more aggressive and had a wider range of motion......

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At the start of the second half, Puyol and Piqui went all out to defend Mitchel and the situation changed slightly. Mitchel's height and headers, as well as his bounce, are really good, but he's completely inferior in terms of experience, and he doesn't know what to do when Piquet and Puyol team up against him.

During this time, with Mitchel being targeted, Barcelona gradually regained the situation on the field. They began to try to organize an offensive.

Unlike in the first half, Barcelona's attack began to rely more on the individual skills of the stars than on the combination of combinations. Because the defeat in the first half proved that their cooperation could not play at all on such a field.

Almost any team with multiple stars on their team will consider relying on individual skill to decide the game in this situation. Barcelona have Messi, Silva, Bojan, Iniesta, Xavi, Alves and ...... and a group of stars, any of these people have the ability to decide the outcome of the game alone. It's a waste if you don't use it.

Silva picked up the ball and opted to play it alone on the flank, and he managed to break past Nkouru, who was too tall and had a high centre of gravity, but his cross was easily deflected away by Kompany.

The next one to try it was Harvey. He shot directly from distance and deliberately hit a boccia ball in order to use the uneven field to cause problems for Akinfeev.

But the Russians, who had been training on this kind of field for a week, had long since adapted to this kind of ball, and Donn had done similar training in training. He fell to the ground and pressed the ball firmly under him, without creating a chance to get off his hand and give Bojan a follow-up shot.

And then there's Messi.

He pulled to the side to receive the ball and faced Joe. Mattok's defense, dangling a shot to go down, suddenly smashed the ball and cut inside, throwing Mattok away.

If it's at Camp Nou, Messi is more sure. Now he has no choice but to cut in early. Not surprisingly, George. Wood pressed up.

The ball was bouncing on the uneven turf and Messi was trying to control the ball. His technique is really good, and he still has the football at his feet in such a situation, and he hasn't lost it yet.

Seeing that he was in good control of the ball, Wood didn't rush to kick out, but just leaned his body up.

Messi also knows that once he is leaned up by Wood, he has no chance to break through. So he suddenly stopped, dodged Wood, and then turned to the side.

He intends to fight his way through the gap between Wood and Mattok and go straight into the penalty area!

Left foot dial, right foot buckle!

He managed to dodge Joe. Mattok's steal, intending to rush out of this gap. But Wood's explosiveness is amazing! When he plucked the ball with his left foot, he had already seen through his intentions and took a big stride across Messi's route. Messi clasped the ball forward with his right foot, and Wood just separated him from the ball, and successfully stuck the position!

Messi couldn't stop the car and hit George head-on. Wood, he felt like he had hit a wall. Luckily, he's just started, and if he's running at high speed, he'll probably get dizzy right away......

Messi collapsed to the ground, and the Barcelona fans and Nottingham Forest fans in the stands booed at the same time. Barcelona fans think George. Wood blocked a foul, should have given a free-kick, or given a penalty - Messi fell to the ground in an ambiguous place, seemingly outside the box and in the box......

And Nottingham Forest fans booed because they thought Messi faked a fall. Such a close collision is too exaggerated to fall to the ground.

The referee did not blow for Wood's foul, nor did he signal Messi to fake a fall. He didn't do anything, and the game continued.

Although Wood stopped Messi's attack, Nottingham Forest were not out of danger because Bojan came up.

At the same time as Messi failed, Bojan cut in from diagonally behind, trying to grab the ball. He thinks that Wood's full attention was on Messi at the time, and he must not have had the leisure to pay attention to himself. But he was wrong.

After blocking Messi, Wood twisted again and locked Bojan behind his back.

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

Defending Barcelona's two attacking masters alone, George's full embodyment. Wood's abilities. After protecting the football, he did not choose to blindly open the way, but passed to Joe, who had already pulled to the side. Mattok, let him pass the football out and organize the attack.

Several successive attacks have failed to bear any results, and it seems that Barcelona are trying to rely on the individual skills of their stars to score goals......

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In the 60th minute of the game, it was interrupted.

Someone was hurt!

However, it was not the Barcelona player who was injured this time, nor the Nottingham Forest player, and the injured person was a bit of a surprise.

At that time, Barcelona's ball in front of the ball was broken, and Nottingham Forest launched a quick counter-attack, and both sides were in high-speed motion. Naturally, the referee had to run quickly from the Nottingham Forest half to the Barcelona half, and just as he was just starting, he sat on the ground!

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

"Hah! What do we see? The referee is injured! The narrator laughed, his voice sounding a little gloating.

There was also a burst of laughter over the city stadium. This scene is indeed too funny.

"We've been speculating a lot about who will get injured from a bad pitch, maybe Messi, maybe Andres Iniesta, maybe Bojan, maybe even Nottingham Forest's own guys...... But we just didn't expect the referee to be the first to get injured...... He seems to have sprained his ankle? Let's take a look at what happened at that time......"

A replay appears on the TV screen. At the start, the referee's kick on the ground happened to step on a bulge, so it ......

"Well, I don't think it's possible for this referee to enforce the law anymore......"

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

"We wish the fourth official the best of luck and hopefully he won't fall out of the way as soon as he gets on the pitch. Ha! ”

Donn also saw a scene from the stands, and he laughed as happily as the rest of the fans. For reasons of the final events of the first leg between the two sides, Nottingham Forest fans have little affection for the UEFA referees.

Even the players from both sides who were still fighting fiercely on the field just now put down their antagonism at this moment, and gathered around the referee to watch the excitement, with a playful smile on their faces.

Kompany even took the opportunity to catch up with Pique.

"Hey man, how's it going?"

"Hey, that's it, what else can I ......"

The referee's injury added some comedy to the tense contest and eased the mood a bit.

Then the injured referee took a stand with the support of the staff, and the fourth official came into battle. When the two handed over the work, the referee also specifically told him: "Be careful of the turf near the center circle......"

There were fans in the stands shouting at the fourth official: "Hey man! Are you sure you're warmed up? Be careful, don't stumble——! ”

"Ahahahaha-" his shout was greeted with a gloating laugh.

The original referee came down and was still describing how bad the turf at the City Stadium was to the people around him who asked him, and he spread his hands, shook his head and shrugged his shoulders with a look of helplessness.

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When the game resumed, the ease that the players on both sides had just shown disappeared without a trace, Kompany and Pique lost the warmth of smiling and chatting together, and the tension returned to everyone.

After all, this is the final leg of a quarter-final that will determine who advances and who is eliminated. No sloppiness.

Messi suffered from Wood, but he didn't give up, he didn't even bypass Wood to find another breakthrough point, and he seemed to have to compete with Wood today.

This time he managed to shake off Wood, but he still couldn't easily break into the box and could only shoot from the outside.

Akinfeev saved the ball from the bottom line and gave Barcelona a corner, which could be considered a victory for Messi?

Piquee rushed up for a header and Kompany was ordered to keep an eye on him. When the two of them leaned up, Kompany smiled next to him: "Don't think about scoring, you kid!" ”

"You talk a lot of nonsense......" Pique glanced back at Kompany. Don't pull my clothes! ”

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

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

Xavi ran for a corner and he was waiting for the situation in the box to be a little more chaotic......

Pique is still wrestling with Kompany. Although at Nottingham Forest, his centre-back partner was Pepe more, but he also played with Kompany because of Toney. The reason why Donn is always in rotation. Having trained together for so many years, he is familiar with Kompany and knows how Kompany is used to defending corners. Kompany is also familiar with him, his top fighting habits and positioning. Pique knew it would be bad for him to continue to be entangled like this. He winked at Pujol next to him. Puyol understood and suddenly stepped into the battle group, separating the two men. Pique, on the other hand, took the opportunity to get out and retreated to the outside.

At the same time, Xavi kicked the ball in front of goal!

Kompany knew this was Barcelona's tactic, but there was nothing he could do, he desperately tried to get rid of Puyol's defence, and after all, he was one step too late.

The ball arced and turned slightly outward, and Pique, who had escaped Kompany's marking, sprinted inward and leaped in, a powerful header!

It was so close that Akinfeev didn't have time to react, he just raised his hand and the ball flew past him into the goal!

"goooo Whenever you think he's going to run out of energy, he'll immediately raise his voice a little more and keep yelling.

"Pique's powerful header! He banged open the door of his former club! ”

Pique, however, did not celebrate after the goal, and his teammates hugged him, but he said nothing, like a wooden stake, allowing them to hug and slap.

The goal was scored because he is now a Barcelona player and naturally has to play for the main player. But he grew up at Nottingham Forest and he loved everything here, even the fans who booed him in the stands. There were only sporadic boos in the stands, and most of the Forest players still couldn't hold back on Pique. The way he returns to the city court is completely different from Bendtner's.

But if Barcelona knock out Nottingham Forest because of their goal, how will the two sides feel at that time?

"Now Barcelona is leading on aggregate! And more importantly, they also have an away goal! How will Nottingham Forest fight back? Tony. Don wasn't in the dugout, so he's always the best at it......"

(To be continued)