Even when he played for Nottingham Forest for the first time in the league, Aaron. Mitchel didn't feel so valued.

In this week, the tactical training, technical training, set-piece training, off-field strength training and physiotherapy have attracted much attention. This kind of attention is not the kind of childish question that the coaches come up to him amiably and ask him if he is happy. It's about training intensity, and the slightest mistake will be reprimanded by the coaches.

In the case of strength training, from the day he was transferred to the first team, he was told that he needed to step up his strength training to enhance his confrontation ability. But this week the coaching staff is more demanding. Fortunately, the physiotherapy after each day was also added, otherwise he really doubted that he would be able to persevere.

The situation suddenly improved two days before the Champions Cup in midweek. When he was about to go to the gym to continue his strength training after training, he was stopped by Don.

"There's no need to train your strength today, Mitchel."

"But I'm fine, I want to ......" Mitchel was a little surprised, he hadn't reacted yet.

"I don't have to practice anymore tomorrow." Don smiled at him and said, "You have to rest well these two days. ”

Mitchel was confused, and he realized that although the Chinese teaching assistant was speaking English, he did not understand the meaning at all.

Don looked at Mitchel's confused look, a little embarrassed. It stands to reason that he can't reveal the starting line-up to the players in advance without Toney's approval. But this kid is really cute, and he has worked hard to complete the hard training these days. Perhaps as an added bonus...... Nothing?

"Well, Mitchel. You'll start the game the day after tomorrow. ”

Mitchel nodded, looking unsurprised. But then he reacted, he almost jumped up and stared at the assistant coach in front of him with wide eyes. "What do you say, Mr. Tang?"

Don stopped talking, just looked at him and smiled.

"I'm not dreaming, am I, Mr. Tang?"

Tang shook his head: "Let's have a good rest these two days." And don't tell anyone. ”

Mitchell immediately made a gesture of covering his mouth and nodding. After thanking Tang, he ran away happily.

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Aron. Mitchel's father was an ordinary worker and a big Nottingham Forest fan. That's why he sent his son to the Forest Football Academy. When his son was selected for the first team by Donn, he was happy for many days, and when he met people, he said that his son was a football star. However, his son himself was not so excited, he saw the competition in the team very clearly, and he always poured cold water on his father to tell him not to expect too much. At this time, the father will show the majesty of the elders and raise his slap to scare his son: "You give me some breath!" A player who doesn't want to be a star isn't a good player, which French bastard said that? ”

Compared with the excited father, the son seems to be more mature. Today, however, that has changed.

From the moment he entered the door, his son had a deliberately hidden smile on his face.

"Good afternoon, Dad!"

"It's almost evening, good afternoon?" My father was doing carpentry work in the garden, and he didn't look up. "Is training hard?"

"Not bad!"

"Don't keep saying that, I thought you didn't train at all." With a nail in his mouth, it's a little inconvenient to speak, but he can understand it as a son.

"Good!"

"That's right......"

"Where's Mom?"

"Cooking dinner."

"Hey, hey." Mitchel suddenly laughed, so frightened that his father's hand shook, and the hammer almost hurt his fingers.

"Hey! You kid! "The father was about to show his father's majesty, only to find that his son had disappeared. He stood there stunned for a moment, "Has this kid been stimulated by anything today?" ”

At dinner, both father and mother did not focus on dinner, but stared at their son in a daze.

Eventually, the father's opening broke the strange silence.

"Aaron, do you have a girl you like?"

Mitchel wondered why his father suddenly wanted to ask such a question. He shook his head: "It hasn't been, don't you know, Dad?" I'm not very tall to find ......."

It's really hard to find a normal girlfriend with a height of two meters and two. When his girlfriend wants to kiss him, but finds that it is more convenient to [***], what an embarrassing thing...... So I used to be a father and joked about my son, saying that if he really wanted to find a girlfriend, he would probably have to go to the women's basketball team, but the captains of the women's basketball team were a little ...... Not as good as it could be.

"That's weird. You don't have a girlfriend, so what are you giggling at? ”

"Ahh That's because ......Mitchel almost told his parents that he was going to start in the Champions Cup, but it occurred to him that Don had told him to keep it a secret when he told him the news. So he temporarily changed his words, "It's nothing, it's just happy." By the way, Dad, will you go to the Champions Cup game live? ”

"When did your dad not go to the City Stadium to watch the Forest play? Are you questioning my loyalty to Forest? Brat. ”

"Hey, hey." Mitchel let out the kind of laugh that made his dad uncomfortable again. "That's good, that's good."

"Mitchel! Don't laugh like that, you're not a girl! You're laughing so much that I don't have the appetite to eat! The father keenly felt that his son was hiding something from him, but he could not force his son to say that the father's majesty did not serve at this point. It's so unpleasant......

"Okay, okay, let's eat." Mom came out to lighten the mood.

Michael didn't care what his dad was glaring at him, his mind wasn't on how his dad would react. He's all about Champions Cup Champions Cup Champions Cup now!

The music of the Champions Cup seemed to sound in his ears, and he only felt his blood boiling, and he got goosebumps with excitement. Tens of thousands of people chanted their names and played against the best teams in Europe, not just in the middle of a chicken game. As a child, he dreamed of reaching the top of Europe in the red jersey of Nottingham Forest, and now he is not far from being realized.

The mother was also a little worried when she saw her son's performance. In recent times, the team seems to have increased the amount of training. A few days ago, my son always said he was tired when he came back. She was afraid that Aaron was too tired.

"You'd better get some rest, Aron."

"Okay, Mom. I'll go to rest after dinner. ”

Aaron, who had finished dinner, pushed the tableware, got up to say goodbye to his parents, and went upstairs.

Leave two adults for you to look at me, and I'll look at you, I can't figure out what's going on.

The father felt a little frustrated and didn't know what the child was thinking, which made him frustrated in front of his son.

When his wife saw him like that, she laughed out loud: "My son is older, and he has a little secret." ”

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Mitchel lay in bed and forced himself to sleep, even though it was barely nine o'clock in the evening. He couldn't sleep because he was so excited. Even if it was twelve o'clock, it was estimated that he would not be able to sleep.

To this day, he occasionally wonders if he had a dream or if he had hallucinations at that time...... If it weren't for Coach Don and Chrislak, he might have thought that the other party was joking with him.

Playing Champions Cup matches...... What does that feel like?

He has watched the Champions League on TV and live countless times, but has never played in person. Watching and playing are definitely two completely different feelings, what will you do when you are going to play at that time? Too nervous leads to half of the original strength not being able to play; Or too excited to make half of the original strength unable to play...... Heck, don't think about this kind of bad possibility!

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“…… The fourth official held up a sign on the sidelines for stoppage time, and there were three minutes of stoppage time! There was a huge boo at the City Stadium, and the second half was interrupted by fouls and substitutions, and there were only three minutes of stoppage time! It's really incomprehensible. ”

"Now the score is 0-0 and if the score is maintained until the end, then Barcelona will successfully qualify. This is clearly not Tony. What Coach Donn wanted to see, he was standing on the sidelines, gesturing to the team. With only three minutes left for him, can his team pull off miracles? ”

"Nottingham Forest won a corner and even goalkeeper Akinfeev rushed to Barcelona's goal, which may be the last time Forest attack! Aron. Mitchel was closely marked by three defenders and as the tallest on the pitch, his height and header were an important part of Nottingham Forest's set-piece tactics. ”

"Corner...... Aron. Mitchel jumped! No one could stop him, and the energy that had been holding back a game exploded at this moment, and he was taller than everyone else! Taller than Valdés' hands! Header! ”

“goooooal——gooooooooooooal——gooooooooooooooooooooooooooal！！ goal！！！ ”

Mitchel jumped up from the bed and ran around the room with his arms outstretched, still bouncing up and down a few times and stomping his feet hard while his mouth was "goooooal" in his mouth.

"Aaron. Mitchel ——!! "There was a sharp knock on the door and the angry shouting of my father outside." What are you doing! The dust on the ceiling makes you shake into the soup! Do you need me to call you to the hospital?! ”

Mitchel turned a deaf ear to his father's slapping and scolding, and he is now at the City Stadium. In the final moments of the game, he pulled his team back from the abyss of hell with a powerful header and kicked Barcelona off to fill the void for Forest. Now he hugs his teammates around him, hugs Assistant Coach Tang who brought him the good news, hugs everyone around him, and vents his emotions to the fullest. At this moment, he became famous with a goal!

With a "bang", seeing that there was no sign of stopping inside, the unbearable father slammed open the bedroom door and appeared in front of Mitchel. He was about to scold, but his son pounced on him, hugged him tightly, and shouted in his ear: "Death to Barcelona!" We're in the cut! We're in the cut! I am a hero!! ”

"You're going to die for me!" The father, who was furious with his son, slapped him on the back of the head.

Mitchel, who was awakened by this slap, looked at his father who was holding him in his arms in some surprise: "Huh? ”

"Do you think you're hugging a big-breasted beauty?" The dad in his arms showed a smile that made him shudder, and he knew that he was going to be unlucky......

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The next day of training, Don spotted Aaron. Mitchel was not in good spirits and didn't have a lot of concentration on the training ground. He thought it was strange. Mitchel's previous performance was not like this, he always worked hard and seriously in training, and he was fully focused. Otherwise, Donn would not have scheduled him to play in the second leg against Barcelona. The person who can be favored by him, at least the attitude must be fine.

Now Mitchel's attitude has gone wrong, and it has been overnight...... He felt the need to talk to him alone. Another important reason is that if Mitchel is allowed to continue training on that field in this form, it will not be long before he will sprain his ankle, and Donn's plan will be in vain.

So he went to the sideline and called Mitchell down alone, intending to ask what was going on.

"Mitchel, didn't you sleep well last night?" Don noticed that Mitchel's eye socket was bloodshot more than usual.

"Uh, yes, sir." When confronted by Donn, Mitchel did not dare to lie.

"Can you tell me why?"

Mitchel glanced at Don, who was standing next to the leader with an expressionless face, wondering whether to tell the truth or not. Although Coach Don told him not to tell anyone. But the boss is the boss of the coaching staff, and the news that Coach Tang told him must have heard from the leader...... No, maybe the boss told Coach Tang. So it should be okay to tell the leader, right?

"Hmm...... Coach Don told me yesterday that I would start against Barcelona......"

Don glanced back at Don, and the guy was still expressionless, as if the matter had nothing to do with him.

He decided to make things clear to Mitchell first, and then settle accounts with Don.

"That's right, you did get me in the starting lineup." He then made a downward motion, "But don't be too happy. Looking at your performance, do you think you're going to be able to start with this kind of thing? It's a day and a half before the start of the game, and I can change the starting lineup at any time. ”

Mitchel's excited smile disappeared from his face again.

"I don't care what you're looking forward to tomorrow night, but now you'd better get me back on the training pitch and get back into training and give me 100 per cent of my commit!" The expression on Donn's face was serious and terrifying. "If you are still so absent-minded, once you break your foot, you will also be completely dead to this heart."

This sentence woke Mitchel up. I was still distracted when I was training on a field like that...... That's a dangerous thing to do.

"Did you tell anyone about this?" Finally, Don asked.

Mitchel quickly shook his head. Yesterday, in the face of his father's "torture to extract a confession", he was stunned that he didn't tell the truth, even his closest family members, not to mention that he was not a person who liked to publicize in the first place.

Don smiled and slapped his face: "It's good that you have avoided the possibility of losing face in front of your friends now." ”

Mitchel only felt the chill chill on his spine, and he knew the boss wasn't joking. If you don't do well in training, you will definitely be taken off the starting lineup.

So he ran back to training again, not daring to have any messy thoughts anymore.

After dealing with Mitchel, Don turned to look at Don again.

"I thought of it as a reward for so many days of hard training...... Don knew what he was going to ask himself, so he simply said it first.

"But you almost killed him." Donn's expression continued the seriousness he had just felt towards Mitchel.

"I'm sorry, I don't know......" Don also felt justified. Mitchel's performance is there for all to see, and it's true that his words have taken such a turn.

For his partner, Don is not easy to criticize anything. After all, most of the time Don always did a good job and never made a mistake. It's just that sometimes the heart is a little soft...... What a.

He reassured: "But it's a good thing, it's a valuable experience for him. He's in a much better state of mind than he was before, which will be a good help for our game. He looked at Mitchel, who was working the training ground, and said.

(To be continued)