When the Millwall fans in the stands saw the Forest players who were running out in a hurry, and were still a little embarrassed, they let out a burst of laughter. This set the tone for the game - it was definitely not going to be a friendly match of hello, hello, hello, everyone, but a real knockout match!

Moreover...... Relations between Forest fans and Millwall fans have been tense since the Gavin incident. So Millwall fans were happy to laugh at the almost late Forest.

Don walked out of the hallway, stopped on the sidelines, and looked up at the stands. Large expanses of blue with interspersed white. Red is squeezed into a corner, jumping tenaciously in the blue-white encirclement...... It was the waving arms of the Forest fans.

Away games? Laugh? You'll be laughing later...... Donn hummed inwardly and walked to the dugout. On the field, Dawson, as the captain, was guessing the side with the opposing captain in front of the referee.

Millwall's captain is Dennis, who has previously played at Wimbledon and Chelsea. Wise, the little man.

Wise is an English player who has impressed Donn very much. Because a long time ago, about ninety-nine years ago, Donn was a Chelsea fan for a few years, when Chelsea were not known as the Ruble Army, with Zola, Vialli, Ruud Gullit, Poyet, Wise, De Huye, Flo...... and many other stars, they played what Gullit called "surname football", and competed for several seasons in the Premier League on behalf of the blue forces and Arsenal and Manchester United, which represent the red forces.

The first shirt Donn bought was also a blue Chelsea shirt, and he particularly liked the lion on the Chelsea crest. Later, with the departure of Ruudett, Vialli, Flo and others, and as Zola grew older, Don gradually turned into a "fraternity" fan who did not have the most favorite team. But that blue memory has remained in Donn's memory ever since.

Wise, who was the captain of Chelsea back then, was a player that Donn liked very much, liked his fierce style, and liked his courage to fight Keane and Vieira.

When he cheered on the little man in front of the TV with his fists clenched, he never imagined that one day he would lead the team to become his rival and enemy.

If his players are tackled down by him fiercely, he is afraid that he will have to scold his mother, and he doesn't even think about cheering.

Don shook his head, tossing the old memories out of his head. I'm Tony. Donne, I'm the manager of Nottingham Forest, I'm Millwall's enemy and adversary! Today is either you die or I die!

Winning the Carabao Cup and qualifying for next season's UEFA Cup is the most feasible of Donne's plans to boost the team's reputation and rebuild the team in a short period of time.

The FA Cup is too long, and the possibility of meeting a strong team is also the highest, and this path was abandoned by Donn in the first place. The Carabao Cup is the least important of the three major cups for Premier League teams, and many teams even use the Carabao Cup as a place for their youth teams and reserve teams to warm up and find form. And the League Cup has a short schedule, with two semi-finals in January and the final in February. In other words, Donn can concentrate on keeping the team in shape for the next three months and fighting for the championship. Then go all out to qualify for the Premier League.

Don has a team building plan in mind, a list of players to buy, and since he has traveled into this world, he has advantages that no one else can match - for example, he will know some players who will become talents later, but are still unknown. Another example is that he knows the right time to buy people in the future, when to spend the least money and make the highest profits.

If Forest continue to compete in the First Division, they will have little chance of getting those players, at least to have their team finish on the 20 teams in the Premier League or qualify for European competitions.

When he was a fan, Donn didn't take the League Cup very seriously, thinking that he was just a vassal of the Champions Cup. But now he understands the power of the League Cup.

That's the first coordinate for Nottingham Forest to get back on the road!

So this game, no matter how bad the situation is - traffic jams, subway encounters with opposing fans, games against teams with strong styles...... None of this could stop Donn's belief in victory.

A crisp whistle sounded, followed by a huge uproar, waking up Don from his mind.

Look around the stadium and look at the crazy fans in the stands. He knows that the league against Crystal Palace is just a warm-up, and the real game starts now!

Rebrov had wanted to show off his skills in front of Millwall's players, but he had just pushed the ball out of the way when Wise crashed it out. The referee's whistle sounded, causing a burst of disgruntled boos from the stands.

Looking at the gnashing tooth-gritted and hideous-looking Wise, listening to the endless stream of boos and insults from the stands, Rebrov knew that today's game was far more difficult than he had imagined.

Donn, who saw this scene from the sidelines of the dugout, said to himself: "Wise with a strong style, Millwall team with a strong style, Millwall fans with a strong style...... He now feels more and more how bad it is to meet opposing fans on the subway and not be able to assign specific tactics to the team.

If football could be suspended like basketball, he would change accordingly now. Unfortunately, he had to wait until half-time and then hope that the first half didn't concede a goal.

Defensive counter-attack...... The two defensive midfielders are key and hope for Eugen. Pope and Gunnarson were able to hold up.

※※※ "Fifteen minutes have passed! The game was going at a speed of 100 miles per hour, and the football whizzed over the players' heads. Millwall's players were captained by their captain 'Roaring Mouse' Dennis. Under the leadership of Wise, the Forest team launched a frenzied rush and attack, and any idea of playing with footwork was wiped out in the wolf-like pressure of the 'Double Lions'! "Mortenson summed up the 15-minute game with a good and very graphic one.

In the first half of the season, Forest, under the leadership of a new striker-turned-head coach Cleymour, returned to the tradition of controlling the game and liking to play delicately linked. Although the tactical reasons for Collymore's failed coaching career are only a small and small part, they cannot be ignored.

He asked his players to play more on the ground, even in front of the penalty area, to try to pass the ball into the goal area before shooting. The commentator at the time said of Forest's football - "Collymore wants his striker to get past the opposition goalkeeper and then shoot again in the face of an empty goal. ”

It's a nice way to play, but it's too cumbersome to win the ball.

Millwall's head coach Alain. Alan'Mcleary has specifically developed a strategy to make the team press all over the court in response to this characteristic of the Forest team. So far, he's been quite successful.

The momentum of the Millwall players at the main venue completely deterred the exhausted Nottingham Forest players who had switched to the subway because of a traffic jam and then ran into a group of vicious-looking fans who were witful and nervous, and then ran hundreds of meters in a hurry to change their equipment and showed up on the pitch three minutes before the start of the game.

Yes, that's how the game is now, the Forest team is gradually falling behind. It's almost impossible to say that the bad things that happened before the game didn't affect the team, but what can Don do? That's luck. He just wants the team to get through this period and by half-time he has plenty of time to adjust his squad and believes there will be no problem with a win over Millwall.

The key is that the Forest must hold on to Millwall's current wave of attack.

It's not so good, Gunelson and Eugen. Pop is going crazy. Michael. Dawson and Wes. Mogan was also under a lot of pressure.

Millwall, with the exception of Dennis. In addition to Wise, there was another person that Donn knew before the crossing - the Australian who wore the No. 4 jersey and appeared in the attacking forward position, 23-year-old Tim. Tim'Cahill.

Donn also met him through the 2006 World Cup in Germany, when Australia made a brilliant last-minute comeback against the team, and Cahill scored two goals alone and became a hero. It was also from that game that Donn became an Australian fan during the World Cup. Unfortunately, they lost to Italy in the end.

Cahill isn't as mature as he was at the World Cup, but his attacking ability is enough to give Donn a headache.

Nottingham Forest managed to get a chance to counter-attack, and the ball just got to David in front. At the feet of Johansen, Millwall's Australian centre-back Kevin Brown. Kevin Muscat was broken with a vicious tackle.

"Foul!" Donn, who was sitting in the dugout, jumped up sharply, it was a back tackle!

But the referee ignored his shouts. Johansen fell to the ground in agony, and Muscat kicked the football to captain Wise, who came back to pick him up, and then Wise led the attack.

"Bastard! The shovel behind the back doesn't blow anyone! Don cursed with a wave of his fist. But except for the fourth official, who had paid a little attention to him, no one paid any attention to his complaints.

(To be continued)