Thiago. Silva has been a bit depressed lately. Because he found himself in the dressing room with a very serious threat. The threat is not from the team-mates who get along with him day and night, but from the returning manager.

In just two days, Donn talked to a lot of players alone, all of whom he had only joined after leaving the Forest team, but he was not called to himself. Obviously, his position in this person's heart is at the bottom...... In addition, he was disturbed by the fact that the players who had been around him were leaving him one by one. He felt like he wasn't a central figure in the locker room anymore.

As a central defender, thirty-three years old is not really old enough to play, because he has a wealth of experience and can rely on positioning, awareness, and prediction to make up for the lack of physical fitness. However, Silva can clearly sense the new manager's neglect of him, and he does not intend to start himself. In their last game when Forest lost away to Aston Villa, the focus of the media's attack on Donn was all on attack, believing that the team's loss was not due to an unqualified backline, but rather a lack of attacking strength. This gave him no excuse for wanting to attack, because it was.

Silva still has two years left on his contract with the club, and he originally planned to complete his contract at the club and retire directly, but now it seems that even if he wants to stay in the Forest team, I am afraid that no one wants to keep him...... He would love to remind Don of his place in the team, but there is no suitable excuse or reason. He decided to continue to wait and watch from the sidelines, as long as the head coach's results are not good, the voices against him will definitely rise up again and step on him again...... He just lost a game, and if he loses the next home game, the day he wants is probably not far off.

Anyway, in the past few seasons of the Forest team, I haven't seen a single champion, but the new head coach has seen too much. He doesn't mind having a new manager.

"We've been working on defense for a whole week, and some players are worried that they won't be able to solve the problem of lack of offensive strength when it comes to the weekend. "David. Chris Lak reported the concerns he had gathered about the players to Donn.

"How is that possible? We still have offensive training in our regular training. Don shrugged disappreciatively. Well, I'll admit that our offensive mode is much simpler than the previous ones...... However, in the current situation, the simpler the better. They should be able to understand this in the next game. ”

Don didn't say anything more, buried his head in the pile of data, and continued to study his future opponents.

Chris Rac shook his head at Eastwood next to him. It seems that they can really only hope for a win at home. Once they lose the game, then the overwhelming criticism will come like them. I believe Don must be very clear about this, right?

Don studied it for a while, looked up and saw that the two assistant coaches were still there, and he seemed to have something in mind. So he took off his glasses and said, "Okay, I'll explain it to them myself in the afternoon tactics class." ”

At this moment, the two assistant coaches resigned with a sigh of relief.

Don looked at the backs of the two of them and felt a little funny. It seems that the pressure on his shoulders is quite high, and everyone who cares about him wants to win, and everyone who hates him wishes that he would lose at home...... Do you feel the burden of this pressure?

Don put his hand on his left chest, where his heart was beating a little faster.

In the afternoon tactical class, Donn gathered the players together and began to explain to them the tactics to be used in the game the day after tomorrow and the purpose of these few days of training.

"Some people think we've been working on defense for a whole week, so they don't think the offensive weakness is still going to change? Is that the case? Donn asked, standing in front of the blackboard, looking at the players. But no one answered that question.

It's one thing to complain in private, it's another to question the head coach in person...... "But in fact, we also practice attacking routines." Don spread his hands. Isn't Mario fixed in the second striker position? There is also an attacking routine on the wings...... Haven't you all trained seriously? ”

"Not really, Chief!" Seeing Don frown, the old player knew that if he didn't take a stand, it would be miserable. So Bell quickly stood up and denied it.

"In that case, why do you think our offense is still weak?" Donn asked again, he looked at Bell, who made this kid stand up on his own?

Poor Bell didn't do it well, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

"It's so simple that it's easy for us to be studied by our opponents." Finally someone answered Donn's question, but it wasn't Bell, but from behind Bell.

Donn tilted his head, and Bell turned to the side to look at the person speaking.

Thiago. Silva's face came into Don's sight.

Donn wasn't surprised, and he felt the Brazilian must find another chance to challenge his authority. This time it was a good opportunity for him.

Donn looked at Silva and then asked him: "Before me, you played very complicated football, you had 70 per cent possession at your peak, you dominated the game, and your attacking routines were dizzying...... What are the results? ”

This sentence left Silva speechless. The results before that were really bad, everyone knows that.

But the question is, after Don came, did the results improve? At least from this game, no. But Silva can't continue to ask Don like this, after all, Don is now the head coach of the team, unless Silva is mentally prepared to completely fall out with Donn, then now is not the time to continue to entangle.

Silva wisely chose to keep his mouth shut and wait and see what happened. He was patiently waiting for the next opportunity.

"I'll admit that the offensive tactics you've been practicing this week seem too simple, but in the current situation, I don't think it's appropriate to kick the offense to the ground like acrobatics. What we need is to score goals, not to pass 50 shots back and forth in front of the opposition penalty area and then pass the ball to the opposing goalkeeper. Simple, straightforward, that's what I ask of you in the offensive. We have height up front, so I'm asking you to cross more from the flanks, whether it's for Mitchel to get a shot or for Balotelli and the other midfielders to get the ball back on. I don't want our forwards to always have their backs to the attack and fight for it inch by inch. There's no need for that! ”

Don waved his hand, "We have air superiority, why rub against them on the ground?" ”

"We're playing on the counter-attack, not on the offensive and defensive side of the big press. A lot of times, when we have a counter-attacking opportunity, there are probably only two or three people up front, and in that case you should be able to tear apart the opponent's defence with the fastest pass, find the gap and form a shot. ”

Few in the current Forest squad have experienced Donn's first time in charge of the Forest, when counter-attacking was the Forest's label. If it was still those old players, Don wouldn't have had a chance to stand here and talk a lot of things, because for them, it's all nonsense.

It's different now, there are too many new players, and they have to be accepted by Donne. Otherwise, when it comes to the field, he hesitates, and he can't unify his tactical thinking, and it is natural to lose...... "If we can score a goal in one pass, why do we have to pass back and forth three times?" If three passes can result in a dangerous shot, why do we have to make more than 20 passes without pause? My football is efficient football, and anything that slows down the pace of the game and delays the fighter plane doesn't work with me. So I want you to change the way you play football. I can't accommodate you, only you can adapt to me here! Don pointed to his feet.

Although he has only been back in charge for a little over a week, he has shown himself to be more of a master than the players who have been here for four years.

True to the former King of Wilford, it's like being in his backyard.

Don waited a little after saying this, he was watching the performance of the players, and no one got up to refute his words. This made him very satisfied.

"Since everyone has no different opinions, then I will talk in detail about the tactics we will use in the next game - long passes and hanging ......"

There are many people who think that Donn's side will not win the game on Crimson Stadium, at most they can get a draw. Nottingham's local media are already promoting the narrative that even a draw would be a precious win for Nottingham Forest right now.

Tony. Don's staunch ally, the Nottingham Evening Post, also seems a little uncomfortable after a four-and-a-half-year vacuum, wondering how to keep pace with Donn.

"Even a draw would be a precious win for Nottingham Forest right now" is a quote from Pierce. Hand of the Blues.

In fact, after the article he wrote was published, Bruce was anxiously waiting for Don to call and scold him. But until the game, he didn't wait for a call.

He thought that Don must have been too busy to read the article, which made him slightly disappointed...... In fact, it was not that Tang En didn't see it, on the contrary, he watched it three times repeatedly. If it had been a few years ago, he would have picked up his phone and called Bruce, and then scolded him on the phone, telling him that he had to keep pace with his team. But now Don didn't do this, on the one hand, his mentality has changed a little after going through a lot of things, on the other hand, the future of the team belongs to Don, why should he, the transitional coach, get along with the local media?

The local media at Nottingham Forest are more on Donn's side, and what he says is quite ear-catching. The foreign media didn't care about it, and threw all the unpleasant things they could think of at Don En, and then gloated one by one to see Don make a fool of himself at home.

"I can foresee what kind of cheers Donn will get when he returns to the Crimson Stadium, it must have been shocking. But when I think about what he's going to do after 90 minutes, I think it's funny...... "Carl. Spike said this on his pre-game show. "Just like most sequels to classic movies suck, a legend comes back, and this kind of plot usually doesn't end well. Yes? I just said he's a legend? Well, now that he has led the team to win the World Cup and is about to be awarded the title of "legendary", he deserves the evaluation of 'legend'...... But it doesn't matter, results are only in the past, and his reputation doesn't guarantee a win other than helping him stabilize the dressing room and bring more attention. When he loses again and again, his current reputation can only be the last straw that crushes him...... I'm definitely not alarmist, and I'm sure Mr. Donn agrees with me, right? Ha! ”

Spike is one of the more representative and spicy of the opponents of Donn.

Other doubts came before Forest hosted Middlesbrough and hit Nottingham Forest in a big way. These are all clichés, nothing more than some "Nottingham Forest today is not the Nottingham Forest of the past. Don is also no longer the Tony he used to be. "Nottingham Forest fans should not blindly worship a person, should not give too much hope" "Middlesbrough is ranked higher than Nottingham Forest, although it is a home game, the first thing the Forest team should consider should be not to lose, not to win" ...... "In the analysis of common sense, they are right. "There is still half a day before the start of the afternoon game, and the team is resting in the hotel where the team is staying. Chris Rac and Don spent time together over coffee and chatting. This is what Chris Rac said about the decline of the media.

"That's right, common sense." Don nodded, "But that's what mortals think. You know why some of them are just failed coaches, and some of them have to make a living by grinding their tongues, right? ”

Chris Lak didn't react for a moment.

Donn continued: "Before the start of the war, we thought that if we could only draw at best, we would definitely lose. Before watching the war, I thought that the people we were going to lose would lose, and there were no panties left. Mortal? Hey, unfortunately I'm not! ”

He snorted as he looked at the reporters outside who wanted to come in but couldn't.

(To be continued)