Don values this game so much, and naturally there are reasons for him. The same goes for Notts County head coach Don.

It can even be said that since that matchup came out, Don has suddenly become very serious. Despite his usual seriousness, the Notts players still smell something unusual – judging by the fact that their boss clearly wants to win the local derby, judging by the fact that their training requirements are suddenly stricter than before.

But that's exactly what they want.

As city rivals, they have always been able to watch Nottingham Forest rise high, and they can't catch up. Don't think that because they're lower league players, they don't have higher dreams. They were just as fascinated as they watched Forest make their way in the top flight and the UEFA Champions League. Otherwise, why does the call of the Premier League team always tempt them to take batch after batch?

The water flows to the lower places, and the people go to the higher places...... Loyal? A capable person is only loyal to a capable team.

The Notts County players will be hoping to prove their mettle by beating former European champions Nottingham Forest, and if they can lead the team to the Premier League, it would be good to attract the attention of more senior teams.

For Nottingham Forest's players, this local derby must have been just an ordinary FA Cup game, as the two sides are not on the same level at all. And for the players in Nods, it was a golden opportunity. It's like a fish that desperately needs to meet the gantry has met a perfect springboard.

Tang Jing was able to discover the anxiety that her husband had shown in such a short period of time. He was always distracted, always frowning and looking impatient, and locked himself in the study alone until the second half of the night, and the children couldn't take care of it, and there was no warmth between the husband and wife...... Tang Jing felt that if this situation continued, I was afraid that her marriage with her husband would be over, right?

She wanted to find a chance to have a good chat with her husband. Her introverted and shy husband had never been so agitated.

But in fact, if Tang Jing had seen Tang before December 31, 2002, she would not have been puzzled by this.

Because Tang was exactly the same then as it is now. It's just that he was single at the time, and no one would see the anxiety he showed when he hid himself in the house. For others, he will always be the medieval antique that wraps himself in a shell of indifference.

It's the last night before the derby. My husband doesn't seem to be as agitated as he was a few days ago, and it's a good time to talk. So taking advantage of the rare leisure time after coaxing the baby to bed, Tang Jing quietly pushed open the door of the study, tiptoed behind her husband, and hugged Tang's neck from behind.

Tang Jing felt her husband struggle in her arms for a while, and when she realized that it was her, she quieted down.

"I don't think you've been right for a while, dear." Tang Jing said in a gentle tone as much as possible, she didn't want to irritate her husband. "What's wrong with you? You've been in charge of solitary for seven seasons, and it's the first time I've seen you like this......"

Tang did not directly answer his wife's inquiry, but looked up at his wife behind him: "Tomorrow is a derby." ”

Tang Jing was stunned for a moment, and then reacted - this is the first derby her husband has faced since he took charge of Notts County. The word "derby" has a very, very special meaning in the football world, and as a former reporter covering football, it is impossible for Tang Jing not to know the deep meaning contained in it. However, she still has some doubts: because the strength of Notts County and Nottingham Forest has never been on the same level, the derby between the two teams is not strong, because they can meet too little and there is a lack of some direct conflict of interest. Nods County and Nottingham Forest don't want Milan to fight for the league title, they won't be like Real Madrid and Barcelona have a century-old feud, and they won't be as intimidating as Glasgow's "time-honored" derby.

So why does her husband care so much about a derby?

Don put his hand on his shoulder and covered his wife's hand: "My opponent is Tony. ”

"Aren't you friends?" Tang Jing didn't understand it even more. If you want to say that Tang Jing has ever eaten someone's vinegar, I am afraid that she has eaten Tang En's vinegar, because sometimes she feels that her husband cares more about Tang En than her.

"It's a friend, so it's all the more important to beat him."

Don didn't explain much, just said so.

Tang Jing turned around, stared at Tang's face for a long time, and then turned to leave.

"The friendship of you men is really hard to understand."

Watching his wife close the door to the study, Don smiled bitterly.

There are some things that you can't say to others, even the closest people around you. His wife must not accept the fact that he is a strange soul who has taken up someone else's shell. The question is complex and involves profound ethical issues. He didn't want to think about it either. But the relationship between him and Don is definitely not as simple as "friends".

Looking back now, it is not clear whether he robbed Tang En's body or Tang En's body. In any case, I am still doing football-related work, but I have changed teams. If I hadn't had that change, would I have done a better job than I do now? Or be more ambitious...... Will it be better than what Don did?

This kind of problem is pointless to discuss, because it simply cannot happen. But this time haunted him like a nightmare, making him think about the possibility of "Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong" all the time, like a demon.

Tony. Donne, the man with his own body and body, but with the soul of another man, was like a mountain in front of him, casting a huge shadow in the sun over the world around him, as if in the darkness of the night.

Do you have to live in this shadow forever? If he goes to Nottingham Forest next season to take over, he will only be called "Tony. Don's successor".

In that case, why did he agree to Donn's proposal to return to Nottingham Forest?

No. I'm going to beat him!

Perhaps this is the only way to prove to myself that I am really not the panicked version of myself sixteen years ago.

Perhaps those who thought the derby was nothing more than a pre-league appetizer should let go of some disdain when they saw Donn's gloomy and rainy expression.

"Do you need me to remind everyone, is this a derby?"

It's half-time for Nottingham Forest's FA Cup tie with Nods County, and the home team is 1-0 down at the Crimson Stadium.

Chen Jian had a five-minute one-on-one meeting time before the match, and although he was not a famous figure, the fans still gave him a round of applause. He tossed the ball in front of more than 60,000 fans and then unfurled his scarf to show his loyalty to the Forest. But the whole meeting was not very harmonious, as he also heard a lot of boos from the fans of their opponents in the game, Nordes.

The Chinese media gathered on the Crimson Stadium to cover Chen Jian's first game will be disappointed. Because Chen Jian did not start, and the poor performance of the Forest team on the pitch made their England counterparts not care who Chen Jian was.

They're talking about topics like:

'Why is George lacking enough support in midfield?'

"Gago's really old......"

"It's ugly to look at the way the Forest players are playing after they're behind."

'Mitchel simply can't get a pass from the midfield, Balotelli is like a fly without a head, he only knows how to spin around, and he is obviously out of shape this game.

By half-time, the Forest team did not change the score on the field, although they had a far upper hand in the number of shots on goal.

"I suddenly thought of a story, does anyone want to hear it?" Donn said to his group of dejected players, "More than four years ago, it took us ten years to build a big kingdom. During that time, there were no people on the entire continent who dared to make us enemies, and our red flag fluttered in every corner of the continent. How wonderful that is......" He looked up at the ceiling, as if he had really seen the scene of the red flag planting all over the world through the ceiling.

"The war is over, and all is at peace. In the past, the iron horsemen unloaded their armor and returned to the field, slowly losing the last trace of blood and fighting spirit in the peaceful and leisurely days. So when the war resumes four years later, even the opponents we have not paid attention to before will be able to defeat us with ease! Donn walked up to the players, leaned down, and looked over one by one. Can your old horses still run? Can you still wear that heavy armor? Can your hands lift up their spears? Your hearts! ”

Don slammed his heart.

"Can you still beat vigorously with the drums of war!!"

He suddenly raised his voice and yelled.

His roar was so loud that it raised the heads of many people in shock.

Looking at the stunned faces, Don suddenly remembered a sentence:

Lian is quite old, can he still eat?

Lian is quite old.

Can you still eat?

※※※ "We're ahead, and that's a good thing." But I don't want to see a look of pride on your face......" While Don was trying to motivate his players in the dressing room, Don was thinking about how to suppress the overly ostentatious momentum of the players. 'You have to know that we have a Premier League side in front of them, they have won the Champions League five times......

Someone interrupted him: "Boss, but that was four years ago, and the Forest team was very different from now, they changed a lot of people......"

Don looked at the man who stood up to challenge his authority, and it was the main core of the team, No. 10 Paul. Johnson. The 20-year-old is a regular in England's under-21 squad and has already caught the eye of a number of Premier League clubs, and if nothing else, he should not be playing in Nods County again at the end of the season.

"You're right, Paul. Their last title was won four years ago, and they have changed a lot of players. But the man who led them in this game was Tony. Dawn. ”

The name is a household name in England, that Paul . Johnson also had to restrain a little of his arrogance. But apparently he was not convinced, because in his opinion, it was the players, not the coaches, who decided the outcome of the game.

Don didn't want to waste saliva on this topic to explain to him that for Nottingham Forest, Tony. How important Don is. Even if it is explained, Johnson may not accept it.

He focused on tactical arrangements.

'In the second half Forest will come back but we don't defend better. Unlike Don, Don is not a defensive-first coach and is definitely not a "one-to-zero". "Tony. Done will never allow his team to lose to us at home because it's a derby. ”

And because it was the only fight between him and me. This sentence Tang stayed in his heart.

"If we shrink back, it's over. So I'm asking you to keep going on the offensive under pressure and push back the Nottingham Forest attack. ”

Johnson was right about one thing. This team is not the same team it was four years ago. No matter how good Tony is, he can't play for the players, so tactics are one thing, and the players on the field are another. Now these Foresters lack the belief and fighting spirit to win, they are used to being in the quagmire and think that this is not bad, so as long as they continue to create difficulties for them in the second half, then the initiative of the game is still in their own hands.

Therefore, defending is not going to work, and blindly giving in and defending will only restore the confidence of the Forest players, and with Toney's roar on the sidelines, the mentality will change and the situation will be reversed. Tang did everything possible to prevent this from happening.

Don knows very well what kind of guy his opponent is, and once he is given the slightest chance, he will seize it and save the situation. Those opponents who have lost to Don have proven this countless times: against Don En, if there is an advantage, then you have to make the most of it, chase him hard, knock him to the ground, and then go up to make up for it a few times, and then cut off his head before you can sit down and breathe a sigh of relief.

'We did a really good job of limiting Wood and Gago, in the first half, and we continued in the second half. Cut off the ties between them and isolate Wood. Gago's alone is not to be feared, he is already old. ”

'Balotelli is the nexus between Forest's midfield and midfield, and he's very good at his feet, so don't pounce too hard against him, get stuck in position. As long as you hold your defensive position, he doesn't do anything. He was in poor form from set-pieces in this game, don't be afraid of fouls. ”

'We're going to keep taking advantage of set-pieces, remember those positioning tactics that we used to train on a regular basis? Johnson is the penalty taker from set-pieces and he will choose the right tactics according to the situation on the pitch, everything is up to him. ”

"Cut down on your dribbling and use your passing cuts to tear apart the opposition's defence. George. No matter how good Wood is, he is only one person, and if he passes the ball faster, he can only run for his life. Everyone pushes forward after passing the ball, pulling the opponent's defense......"

One order after another was issued, and Tang was bound to push his good friend into the abyss completely.

You have to deal with Don like this, take advantage of his illness to kill him.

In the face of Tang's tactical arrangements one after another, the players slowly put away the playful expressions on their faces. After the ecstasy of taking the lead, they suddenly understood what kind of game it was.

The boss has never been so serious and desperate as he is today.

It's a city derby!

(To be continued)