Although at Liverpool City, Liverpool have a bigger reputation than their city rivals Everton and have won more trophies. But in fact, the glorious Liverpool split from Everton, a bit like the AC Milan and Inter Milan duo in Milan, Italy, except that Everton and Liverpool split because of the question of whether to continue to lease the Anfield stadium......

In terms of history, Everton is much older than Liverpool, Everton is one of the seven promoters of the original English league, and it has the flavor of "seven elders". Everton won their first League One title in their club's history in 1891 before splitting the following year over the question of whether to continue on lease Anfield, with the overcrowded side moving out to Goodison Park.

Everton are not as famous as Liverpool and have no rivals overseas, but they are a traditional powerhouse in English football: nine League One (the top flight at the time), five FA Cups, and one Cup Winners' Cup.

Now, under the leadership of manager David Moyes, this Everton team can stabilize in the middle of the table every year, playing in the League Cup or something, and taking the Champions League as the biggest goal.

Unlike Nottingham Forest, Everton's results have been largely like this for more than 100 years, with little ups and downs, neither particularly brilliant moments nor dark years, just like the colour of their shirts, steady and calm.

Nottingham Forest, on the other hand, is one of the most famous shooting stars in the history of English football. Founded more than 100 years ago, it suddenly burst into dazzling light in the late 70s and early 80s of the last century, won the Champions Cup for two consecutive years, was unbeaten in 42 top league games, and defeated the then European giant Liverpool twice in one year. Aston Villa, who have also won the Champions Cup, are not as shocking as Nottingham Forest have brought to English and European football. Now they are the only team to have won the domestic league once and lifted the trophy three times.

In the early 90s of the last century, the once dazzling popularity crossed the sky and disappeared into darkness. Until Donn's appearance......

Nottingham Forest seem to be one such team, either particularly bad or particularly good. The Forest team is clearly in a 'particularly good' period of history, and they were unanimously favored before the game when they visited Goodison Park, although they played away from home.

Just look at the titles the media gave them – "European Champion", "Fierce contenders for the new season's league title", "One of the top five in the Premier League", "Terrifying Red Storm", ......

Only David Moyes refused to admit in his pre-match interview that the titles would help Forest win over his own side: "...... Forest's Champions League win has nothing to do with the first league game, the honour belongs only to the past, and who wins and loses today's game will depend on who performs better. ”

Donn agreed: "I think David Moyes is right, we are European champions, but if we lose at Goodison Park, we will be laughed at. Those titles will only take effect if you can win, and if you can't, bye-bye. ”

It seems that the managers of both sides are in their right minds, and the media transfer has not helped. They have found Arteta.

Aside from David Beckham's first game back in the Premier League, there is really nothing more to watch. So he sat down with current Everton player Mikel, who lifted the Champions Cup with Forest. Arteta has naturally become another focus of media attention.

Despite leaving Nottingham Forest, Arteta did not speak ill of the Forest. He doesn't deny that he moved to Everton to get more appearances, but he has no regrets about the two-and-a-half-year he spent at Nottingham Forest: "...... If I had to choose again, I would still choose to join Forest. I was there training and playing with some of the best players in the world, and I benefited a lot and it helped me a lot in my later career. Also, Coach Don is not like what you guys say in the media, we all think he's a good guy. ”

Then the reporters ridiculed in the lattice media: "I'm afraid Anelka and Ashley." Yang doesn't think so......"

Of course, despite the two managers and Mikel Arteta on the pitch, the biggest focus of the game was David. David Beckham.

An hour before the start of the game, Forest's starting line-up had been sent to various media reporters, David. David Beckham's name is prominently on the list.

Among the new signings, only David Beckham and Arshavin started the game. Sidwell, Raphinha and Akinfeev were all on the bench, while Grosso was not qualified to be in the squad to travel to Goodison Park.

Eastwood was sore from his muscles during yesterday's acclimatisation session and Towne put him on the bench out of an abundance of caution.

Beckham's presence in the starting line-up certainly fulfilled the wishes of the crowd, but it also caused a new round of suspicion in the media, who wondered if the aging Beckham was allowed to appear in the starting line-up because Donn was under pressure from the club's hierarchy.

When the team came to Goodison Park for a pre-game warm-up, Don got out of the car to be interviewed by reporters, and when asked this question, he replied impatiently: "! I have the final say on who to play or who not to play, what is the pressure on the club's top management? Even the Queen and the Prime Minister don't have a point of opinion about the squad in front of me! ”

He is unhappy that many media outlets are still focusing on Beckham's commercial value rather than his competitive value. But the performance of these media also made it clear to him that it seems that Beckham still has a difficult way to go to re-establish his image, and that the long-held impression cannot be changed overnight with a league title. If Beckham joins the team, the team is surrounded by all kinds of media and rumors all day long, and finally does not win a championship, there will be countless people who will jump out to accuse Toney. Donn's original option to sign Beckham. David. Beckham and himself would be the sinners of the team's defeat.

That wasn't what Don wanted to see.

He also hopes that Beckham will give him some momentum on the pitch, prove that his vision is right with a good performance, and relieve him of the pressure.

This first game must be played well, and everyone is looking forward to it, with countless pairs of eyes looking at his team, some still holding magnifying glasses, waiting for the jumping team to do something wrong in the game, and then magnifying countless times in the media and lashing out at it.

Don't think it's great to win a European Cup. Those who liked him liked him more, and those who hated him hated him even more. All kinds of verbal criticism will not be restrained at all by the number of championships he has won.

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The temperature was high on August 10, and so was the weather on August 11. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the game as the opening game kicked off with the referee's whistle under the scorching sun.

Goodison Park was packed, with Everton fans occupying half of the stadium and Nottingham Forest fans gathering in the visiting stands to cheer on their team. Perhaps before the start of the game, the people sitting in the stands were complaining that it was so hot today that they almost suffered from heat stroke.

But when the game started, no one thought about such a small thing anymore.

The singing in the stands shook the sky, and everyone was waving their arms and roaring loudly. What is heat? The enthusiasm of our fans is hotter than the weather! What is the strong sun? Running and sweating in such a strong sunlight is a man's sport!

'Ruud van Nistelrooy partnered Arshavin in this game, this is the first time he has played with Arshavin in an official match, and it is also the first appearance of the Russian striker in the Premier League......

The narrator began to speak the opening words he had come up with earlier.

On the field, the Forest team had already driven the ball out.

Arshavin kicked the ball out of the way, and Van Nistelrooy gave him a wink. He knew that he would stop caring about the ball and rush forward.

Ruud van Nistelrooy passes the ball back to Van der Vaart on the centre line. Meanwhile, Ribery on the left flank sprinted forward at full speed.

So far, everything has been normal, and it has been a well-behaved kick-off.

Arshavin was still rushing forward, and Everton's people didn't care about him, and it wouldn't be long before he was in an offside position if he continued to rush forward.

It's all about who the ball is.

Van der Vaart didn't let the ball stay at his feet for a second longer, and as soon as the ball rolled over, he split the ball to the right again.

Unlike Ribery, who had already rushed up, Beckham, the wing-back who started on the right, was still standing behind the halfway line at this time, with no intention of going up.

Ribery and Arshavin continued to run forward, as if they were not kicking a ball, but in the 100-meter race.

David Beckham stopped the ball and looked up.

The right side of the pitch is on the dugout, and Beckham is now very close to David Moyes. Seeing this scene, he suddenly felt familiar, and then his heart beat wildly inexplicably.

"Don't let him ......" Before he finished speaking, Beckham slammed his foot on the spot in front of the meeting and pumped towards the football!

Long pass!

The cheers of the Forest fans rang out from the moment Beckham received the football, and now they are getting louder and louder, completely overpowering the boos of the Everton fans.

Just as the football was taking off, Arshavin was like a bomber that appeared in view through the clouds, smashing out from behind Everton's entire backline!

One of the Everton players raised their arms to signal for linesman Arshavin to be offside. But the linesman ignored it and just followed Arshavin on his downward trajectory.

Everton's American goalkeeper Thiem. Howard reacted quicker than his team-mates at back, and when he saw Arshavin out of the backline, he decisively dropped the ball. The goalkeeper coach will never tell the goalkeeper to choose to give up when he is suspected of offside, whether he is offside or not, the goalkeeper must do his job.

But Beckham's long pass was aimed at Arshavin, not to Howard.

It was only then that Arshavin glanced back at the situation behind him, and he saw that the football had arrived as promised. Howard is still a little far from himself, is he hanging shot?

Howard saw Arshavin's intentions, and he suddenly jumped to his feet, stretched out his body in the air, and spread his arms as if a net was rushing towards Arshavin. The advantage of this is that it successfully seals the space for the opponent to shoot from the lobe. As for the following...... Generally speaking, when a football is bouncing, it is really difficult for a striker to shoot a boccia. The goalkeeper is not a god, he can only choose to block one possibility.

A black projection hung over the dwarf Arshavin's head, and because of the dazzling sunlight, he couldn't see the other party's expression when he looked up, but the hanging shot was useless.

Arshavin lifted his right leg high and almost volleyed the ball sideways in the air. Just because you can't shoot doesn't mean you can't pass the ball......

Howard is on the move, Everton's goal is empty, who is on the other side at this moment?

"Frank. Ribery! The narrator shouted.

Yes, Ribery, who sprinted at the same time as Arshavin, finally landed at the moment when he was most needed.

The 2.44-meter-high and 7.32-meter-wide goal looks like a dog hole from 50 meters away, but when viewed in the small penalty area, it is simply ...... Wide sea and sky!

The huge empty goal was just in front of Ribery, and the ball from Arshavin was a little forward, but it didn't bother Ribery. He exerted his left foot and flew forward.

"Leaping to the top - hat_goooal!!!!"

“oh_yes！ yes！ The post-80s Shaolin abbot has already entered the door......

"Ten seconds! It's the new season debut of European champions Nottingham Forest! Pretty! Wonderful! The narrator laughed. David. Beckham's precise long pass, Arshavin's cool head, and the team's fast running! That's what Nottingham Forest is all about, fast! It's fast! ”

Don led a group of coaches and substitutes to rush out excitedly. He did tell his players before the game that scoring as quickly as possible away from home can completely disrupt the opposition's deployment and give us an advantage in the rest of the game. But he didn't expect this group of players to do such a good job.

What is the previous record for the fastest goal in the Premier League?

"The results of the computer have come out, and the whole process of this goal took ten seconds. Ribery broke the previous break by Alain. Shearer and Ledley. Kim holds the record for the fastest goal in the Premier League at 10.5 seconds! After getting the latest data, the commentator excitedly announced.

New season, new records. What could be a more perfect start?

(To be continued)