Chelsea broke the deadlock with a sudden stroke from Claude Makelele as Nottingham Forest fell behind on their home turf. This left the Forest players a little unacceptable, and they quickly launched a comeback after conceding a goal. However, this counterattack is the product of impulsiveness and is not carefully planned. Chelsea were a bit scrambled at first due to the ferocity of Forest's attack, but when they got through the first few minutes, they were able to cope with Forest's disorganized attack.

It wasn't the fact that Forest felt unacceptable at home to Chelsea, as they often do. The real reason for their upset is that the goal was scored by Makelele!

They were in the same mood as Donn – we did our best defensive set-up, everybody worked hard to make sure every point of attack was under their control, and their attacking players really didn't get any decent chances. It shows that we're doing very, very well defensively. But......

But! Who would have thought that Claude Makelele would hit such a brilliant long-range shot? Who would have thought? Nobody! The one who is least likely to score the most beautiful goal scores...... Does this not make people lose their cool?

Chelsea faced such a Forest team, and simply played defensive counter-attacks, allowing them to attack, pressing, and then relying on quick and concise passes through the midfield to counter-attack.

In Van der Sar and George. After a while of busy work by Wood and others, coupled with Donn's yelling on the sidelines, the Forest team finally regained their composure and began to gradually regain their overly high formation, grinding the midfield with Chelsea's unhurried grinding.

The game is back to dissatisfying the commentators.

Just now, when the Forest team suddenly went crazy and pressed up and bombarded Chelsea's penalty area, and Chelsea coped with it with ease and played a quick counterattack to make the Forest team's back line jump for a while, the commentator was excited, he waited for a long time, he wanted to see such a game, he wanted to explain such a confrontation.

So Don doesn't have much popularity in the commentator circle, commentating on the Forest team's games except for John. Most people don't like Mortenson's guy, because looking at Forest's game from a neutral and objective point is nothing short of torture - the win-only mentality makes the game dull most of the time.

Seeing that the team's defense was organized again, Don finally stopped and stopped chattering and dancing like a monkey on the sidelines.

He walked back to the coach's box, and then shook his head at Tang on the side: "It's not okay to ignore the midfielder's direct long pass, especially in the face of an opponent who is one goal ahead and intends to defend, Tang." ”

Don nodded, but didn't speak.

In fact, every game, he, as an assistant coach, will carefully observe the situation on the field here, and then conduct "simulation calculations" in his mind - if it is himself, what should he do, what will be the consequences of doing so, whether it is good or bad...... Then compare it to the adjustments that Donn made at the end.

This time he just said it, and it turned out that his simulation calculations were wrong again.

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By halftime, the score on the field had not changed again, 0:1, and the home team Nottingham Forest was temporarily behind.

The mood of the players who returned to the dressing room has gradually calmed down, and there are many scenes like this, so that they will not be discouraged. Donn also had the heart to joke with them: "Well, I'll admit it, after Makelele's goal, I finally got to the taste of George in the first leg of last year's Champions Cup semi-finals. Mourinho's mood was ...... after Wood's goal.

He spread his hands, and a burst of laughter erupted in the dressing room.

Someone else looked to George, who was sitting in the corner. Wood blinked.

'We should actually see that apart from that goal, they didn't have too many good chances. However, due to the goal conceded, the advantage was no longer on our side, and we started to counterattack in the second half, on the premise of solid defense...... Counterattack! But this time...... We don't go to the sidelines. ”

To say that Nottingham Forest's wide strength is ranked first in the Premier League, I am afraid that there are not many people who have an opinion. Although gone assist king Ashley. Young, but Frank. Ribery, Martin. Petrov, David. David Beckham, and Allen. Lennon and the other four are still the flanks that will strike fear into the hearts of their opponents, with different characteristics and excellent skills.

Donn also focuses on the wide flanks in attack, with a lot of Forest's attacks coming from the flanks. Opponents study the Forest and also focus on their flanks, both offensively and defensively.

The current Forest team can already feel the trouble brought to them by the opponent's research in the game.

"We're not going to go to the side this time, we're going to go in the middle." Don looked at George, who was sitting in the corner. Wood smiled. "George!"

Wood obediently stood up and looked at Don in silence.

"Remember what Demy said to you before he left?"

Wood nodded.

"I'll leave it to you."

Donn drew an arrow from the second half of the pitch to the opponent's penalty area on the football pitch plan on the tactical board. Turning to Wood, he said, "When we attack, I ask you...... Like this, forward. Van der Vaart is in charge of organising the attack and he will pick the right time to pass the ball to you – if you run into the air. If you're targeted, help him tear apart Makelele and Essien, as well as the other messy defenders. And you guys. Donn threw away his pen and pointed at the others, "Don't think you won't run if you don't have a chance, Nottingham Forest's football opportunities are all runs, and they have pulled a big gap in their well-organized defense line for me!" Now we're behind, they're ahead and I'm betting that Mourinho guy will make the team play defensively and counter-attack in the second half like we do against everybody else. So we can't wait for opportunities to come along as we normally do, we have to create our own opportunities and run ...... Keep running for me, the two full-backs cross the position, the striker cross-switch, the striker and the forward cross-switch, in short, we can't let the opponent guess our intentions, and the two full-backs should be a little more resolute when they should be plugged in. ”

Gareth Bale and Raphinha nodded, they started the game and it was the words that the two full-backs, who both love to attack, want to hear the most.

"Niklas." Donn looked at Bendtner again.

Bendtner and Zim Bonda were called back from the reserve before the second leg of their match with Besiktas, and he needed Bendtner's height and header, as well as power. The tactic he arranged to use against the Turks was to play high balls, because the opponent's main central defender Zan was injured in the league, so Besiktas lacked air defense, and Donn seized on this to start Bendtner and put Van Nistelrooy on the bench. Bendtner, who was holding back his energy, did not disappoint Donn, and the final score of the game was 8:0, Bendtner scored four goals alone, three headers, and one tackle, which shattered Besiktas's defense. Not only that, but he also used his height and header to make the ball for his teammates, providing one direct assist and two indirect assists. When he was substituted in the 83rd minute, the fans gave him a standing ovation.

Donn knows how to use "carrots and sticks" so he praised Bendtner by name in his post-match press conference and gave him a start in the league. As for Zim Bonda...... Coming off the bench in the second half against Besiktas, he was still on the bench for this game.

"Niklas, your task is not to score goals. If we attack, you run forward, you go up and the opposition defence will follow you back, and you just press their defence back and create chances for the other people who are behind us to score. Donn wrote and scratched on the tactics board to make Bendtner understand what his mission was for this game.

Bendtner didn't say a word, nor did he nod his head to indicate that he had heard clearly. The expression on his face seemed to be a little unwilling. He has not yet recovered from the form of scoring four goals alone in the Champions League, and let him do the job of covering is a bit reluctant. Don could see it, but he didn't have the time to care about this kind of thing, and winning now was the most important thing. He didn't want to lose to Jose Mourinho.

He just added, "You're a tactical center, get it?" ”

This time, Bendtner nodded.

In this game, Ribery continued to miss due to injury, starting on the left side with Petrov and Lennon on the right, both of whom are fast and good at breaking through. But instead of asking them to go down to cross, Donn cut inside the box from the ribs at the right time, and even broke through with the ball if he had the chance, disrupting the opposition's defence.

In this arrangement, Bendtner, as a high school striker, can indeed only do covering work in front of goal...... Forest's point of attack is not with him at all, but with the midfielder who cuts in at the back, and the Russian Arshavin, who is a bit like a shadow striker, a bit like a winger, and a bit like a midfielder.

After laying out the specific tactics, Donn told the players to rest and prepare for the game. He himself walked out of the locker room.

There is an intersection diagonally opposite the home team's dressing room, turn right and there is a corridor, and then turn right and you will find the door to the away team's dressing room. When it comes to the pitch, players from both sides come out of the doors of their respective locker rooms and walk through a corridor to a spacious hall where they meet a little and wait for the referee. Then go out with the referee and there is a road leading to the stadium.

This is where the entrance ceremony that cheers the fans begins.

Don walked to the hall, at this time the hall was very deserted except for a few court staff, and the noise of the court outside was still clearly audible, but it was a little messy without a unified organization. Most fans choose to go outside at this time to buy some drinks and fast food, or go to the bathroom for convenience, plus it is still raining today, there are not many fans in the stands.

Donn wants to smoke, but he doesn't smoke in a place like the pitch, and he doesn't want to send any bad signals to the players and others. He turned and walked towards the coach's bathroom.

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Jose Mourinho stood in front of the large mirror on the bathroom sink and looked at himself in the mirror. He had just washed his face with cold water, and now there were droplets of water on the tip of his nose and eyebrows.

The atmosphere in the dressing room made him uncomfortable, and the team that had been united in fighting for the championship was falling apart.

They took the lead, but the atmosphere was not lively in the dressing room at half-time. This rumor has obviously interfered with Chelsea's internal affairs, and the pro-Mourinho Rudrogba Rudrogba's antipathy towards Abramovich is not a day or two, and the piggyback on Shepchenko, who was bought by Abramovich, is a little unconcerned.

He also has proud capital - when Shepchenko first came to Chelsea, because of the aura of the world's top striker, some media once speculated that Mourinho would make Shepchenko the main force at the expense of Drogba. So some people asked Drogba what he thought of the competition with Shepchenko. Drogba was very proud at the time and said: "Shepchenko is a good striker, but I am not afraid to compete with him. I will prove my ability. ”

Later, Shepchenko's first season at Chelsea was very unsatisfactory, and he was called a "parallel import" by the English media, and he also made a list of the top 50 parallel goods in the Premier League. And Drogba, the center forward who was not favored before and thought that his skills were rough, still maintained his high scoring rate, saved the team at many key moments, and his form was as stable as ever.

The pre-season speculation of "Shepchenko squeezing out Drogba" did not happen, but these people were worried about whether Shepchenko would return to AC Milan after a dark season in England......

Didier Drogba was brought to Chelsea from Ligue 1 by Jose Mourinho and developed into a world-renowned centre-forward, and his most brilliant results so far have come at Chelsea under Jose Mourinho, whose affection for Jose Mourinho may be compared to Forest's Ribery and Donne.

Basically, most of the people who bought Chelsea after Mourinho took office stood behind the manager, and Ballack and Shepchenko were not liked by Mourinho and could not be reused, so it is impossible to have any good feelings with Mourinho. And the Grant who always stands behind Mourinho, as if it was Abramovich who has inserted himself into the dressing room to keep a watch, and the relationship in this dressing room is really complicated.

Jose Mourinho is not a naïve child, believing that team-mates should be friends. He likes the feeling of being in a position of power. Now there are people in the dressing room who don't listen to him, which makes him angry and helpless.

Anger is because he has been deprived of power, and helplessness is because he can only accept the result.

After arranging the tactics for the second half, he ran out to breathe. I washed my face in the bathroom and cleared my mind.

He can't control the locker room anymore, and some people listen to him on the surface, but behind the scenes, they can't control what they think.

A white tissue appeared in front of Mourinho's eyes, and he came back to his senses to see an extra person in the mirror.

"Why cry when you're ahead, Mr. Mourinho." Donn's caustic voice rang out.

"Have you ever seen tears running up to your eyebrows?" Mourinho sneered, "Maybe your physiology is different from ours, Mr. Donne?" ”

Don didn't fight back, but smiled happily.

"So happy to be behind?" Mourinho continued to sneer.

"No, it has nothing to do with the score." Donn smiled, then pulled out his cigarette and handed it to Mourinho.

"No, thanks, I don't smoke." Mourinho refused with a straight face.

Donn shrugged and gave himself a point.

Mourinho looked in the mirror, wiped the water on his face with the tissue that Don handed him, and wiped his hands before throwing the used tissue into the trash.

"Thank you for the tissues, goodbye."

Mourinho didn't want to be in the same room as Donn, and he said goodbye to Donn before turning away.

"Mr. Mourinho......"

"Huh?" Mourinho stopped and looked back at Donne.

“…… Good bye. Don waved his hand and added, "See you on the court in a moment." ”

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The second half restarted, the rain did not stop, and Mourinho was still standing on the sidelines, letting the rain blow and the wind blow. Don also changed the way he paced back and forth in the first half and stood on the sidelines in the rain.

Forest began to counter-attack, and with the home fans cheering them on, the momentum of their comeback forced Chelsea to abandon their counter-attacking intentions for the time being and focus on defending.

Based on knowledge and analysis of the Forest pair, Chelsea have focused their defence on two flanks. They saw that Bale and Raphinha, who did not assist much in the first half, pressed frequently after the start of the second half, and strengthened their determination to defend the wings.

The Forest team concentrated their superior forces on the right flank for a while, intending to attack, and then moved to the left flank to seek a vacancy, which was no different from usual.

Just when everyone thought that Forest's wide attack would be smashed in front of Chelsea's iron wall, George. Wood interjected.

He was not watched!

"Pass the ball to George!" Someone in the stands couldn't wait to scream.

Van der Vaart didn't look up to his team-mate, the intention of the pass was too obvious, he just glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw Wood plugging in from behind, and there wasn't a single Chelsea player around.

He didn't hesitate to pass the ball out. Then he ran forward, intending to make a beautiful one-two with Wood...... If only he could have realized.

The ball rolled towards Wood, and just as Wood raised his foot to catch it, he suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground with a bang!

The referee's whistle followed, but faster than his whistle was the overwhelming boos of the home fans in the stands.

"Foul!" The narrators shouted.

George. Before Wood could catch the ball, he was tackled from behind. He rolled over and found that the person who had put him down turned out to be a skinny Makelele. It didn't actually hurt him, so he was going to get up from the ground. But before he could do so, he was pushed to the ground by Van der Vaart, who was rushing towards him, and looked at his legs anxiously.

"I didn't ......," he said, trying to reassure his teammates who were worried about him.

"Shut up!" Van der Vaart lowered his head and whispered, "Lying on the ground and pretending to be painful!" Fast! ”

Before Wood could say anything more, more teammates came running from all directions, surrounding him, and some were even gesturing to take the stretcher on the field. Others were responsible for protesting to the referee and shouting at the Chelsea players that their actions were too rude.

"It's a big move...... George. Wood fell to the ground in pain, apparently wounded, and not lightly...... Since his debut, George. Wood has never missed a Forest game due to injury, so could this be the first time he will remember? The commentator gushed endlessly, and the TV screen was very cooperative with the slow-motion replay of Makelele's foul just now, but judging from the action, it was really ruthless, George. Wood's whole body was overturned.

The "perpetrator" Makelele stood outside, as if nothing had happened, with a relaxed expression, and he shouted in French through the layers of the crowd.

"What's that bastard shouting?" Gareth. Bale doesn't care if Makelele is a senior on the pitch or something, and if he hurts his brother, he is not in the mood to respect the old and love the young.

Ribery and Zim Bonda are not on the pitch, and Forest are now French-free, but Kompany, as a Belgian, can still understand French. Both he and Bell were the ones who "protected" Wood in the inner circle, and he translated: "It seems like ...... 'get up, boy." I didn't hurt you, you ...... Clear. 'Huh? ”

The two men looked down at Wood, who was lying on the ground.

"I'm not hurt." He said. "He tackled the ball first and then flipped me over ......"

Van der Vaart interrupted him again: "If you don't lie on the ground a little longer, how can we get him a card?" ”

There was a small scuffle on the pitch, which is almost every time Forest and Chelsea matches, and on more than one occasion, the fans in the stands booed and heckled with excitement.

The referee eventually showed Makelele a yellow card. The Forest players next to them are still "angry protests":

"Such a foul should be a red card!"

Fleming, the team doctor, led people to squeeze into the crowd with stretchers. He knelt down and pinched Wood's ankle: "Didn't hurt the bones......"

"I'm not hurt......," Wood said helplessly.

"Shut up!" Fleming took the spray from his bag and squirted it into Wood's legs. Then he said to the two people behind him, "Carry him down." ”

Wood didn't do it, he wasn't hurt, but he was going to be carried off the field. In his mind, being carried off the field can only be the treatment of his opponents, and if he does this, it will be a shame. He strongly objected and rejected the idea. "I said I wasn't hurt!"

Fleming also knew that Wood was indeed not injured, and he knew Wood's temper better, so he waved his hand and waved off the two staff members: "Okay, then don't lift it." Go down with me, but be careful to walk with a slight limp, not too obvious...... Don't go too fast. Alright......" He reached out and took Wood's hand, making a hard stance. “…… Get up! ”

Wood stood up.

"Remember what I said and go slow!" Fleming whispered next to Wood. It seemed to the audience as if they were asking about the injury.

Seeing their captain get back on his feet, the stands at the City Stadium erupted in loud applause.

"George. Wood walked off the field, and it didn't look like he was seriously injured......"

Wood stood on the sidelines and made a gesture to the referee asking to enter, and with a wave of his hand, the referee slammed the ground and jumped back. Look at this explosive force, how can there be a trace of injury?

When he saw Wood lying on the ground for a long time and didn't get up, Don was still a little nervous, and he was relieved to see Wood walk off the field by himself, and then he saw Wood rush back to the court quickly, and the corners of his mouth pulled up.

Fleming was also a little surprised and annoyed that Wood would run back in such a healthy way, and he glared at the back fiercely and walked back.

Don held out his hand to him, "Is that kid okay?" ”

"Healthier than a bull in heat." Fleming gave Donn a high-five, then walked back to his seat.

Donne looked back at Chelsea's Claude Makelle on the pitch and smacked his lips: "It's a pity it's just a yellow card......"

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In addition to the yellow card, Nottingham Forest's other bonus was a direct free-kick on the edge of the box, which was taken by Gareth Bale.

Bale set up the football and asked Wood, who was standing next to him, "Did he really tackle you?" ”

Wood answered the question with a straight face: "No. ”

'Uh-huh...... Bale turned to look at the Chelsea goal, where Cech was nervously directing his team-mates to line up the wall and block the area in front of goal near the near corner. Everyone knows the quality of Bale's free-kicks, and this position is the favorite of left-footed players. But, the anger is gone, and there is some emptiness......

The referee blew the whistle, and Wood, who was standing next to him as if covering for Bale, didn't even move, and Bale started to shoot.

The ball arced beautifully over the wall and flew towards the near corner of the goal.

Cech struggled to get past the far corner, but he didn't touch the football.

Gareth. Bale's free kicks are not very high, always flying over the head of the wall, so the speed is faster than the average free kick, and the arc is unpredictable, making it difficult for the goalkeeper to judge.

Seeing that the football was about to drill into the net, it slammed into the crossbar and popped off the bottom line.

A loud sigh rang out over the city stadium. Everyone couldn't help but hold their heads and sigh for the beautiful free kick that didn't go in.

Tang on the sidelines, like them, squatted on the ground with his head in his hands. This time he shouted, "What a pity! ”

Compared to Donn, who is as active as a monkey, Mourinho is still in that position, and Bale's free-kick crossbar did not surprise him too much.

"The score is still 0:0! Chelsea escaped! Maybe Mourinho can really beat Toney in this game. Donne, luck is on the side of Chelsea away from home......"

(To be continued)