Time enters October, due to the large number of national team games, the Premier League schedule also seems a little chaotic. On October 3, Forest host Bolton. After a 13-day break, on October 16, they played Norwich away. Then the schedule suddenly became dense, October 21, the first game of the League Cup group stage, October 24 Forest away to Crystal Palace, October 30 they went north to face Newcastle.

The results of the UEFA Cup group draw have also just been announced, with Nottingham Forest in Group E alongside Greece's Igalio (as_egaleo_aigaleo_athens), Italy's Lazio, Spain's Villarreal and Serbia and Montenegro's Partizan Belgrade (partizan_belgrade).

Considering that the following games are relatively intensive, Don decided that the team's training plan in the first half of the month is mainly physical reserves. Now that the team's tactics are basically in shape and the run-in is almost complete, he no longer needs to worry about anything.

Nottingham Forest host Bolton Wanderers on October 3, an opponent who will be no stranger to Donne, having met them in the Carabao Cup last season. That time, Donn's side knocked Bolton out of the final, and this time, at Forest's home stadium, it made more sense for Forest, who had risen more than a notch, to win.

2:1, the Forest team won two in a row.

After eight rounds of the league, promoted Nottingham Forest accumulated 13 points and ranked sixth in the league with their results of three wins, four draws and one loss! That's a great thing for a team that has just been promoted, and although the league has only just started and it's hard to say what the final result will be, it is impressive enough for Forest to finish in the top six.

Looking at the current results of the Forest team, and then going back to the "as titled" column that Donn published in the Nottingham Evening Post a few days ago, some people think that this young man is crazy, and it seems that it is not crazy at all...... So the media praised Donn again, and praised the Forest team to the sky.

Thirteen days later, the well-prepared Forest team had no way to get Norwich at home, and finally the two sides played a depressed 0:0, after the game the two managers did not mean to "shake hands" at all, the home coach complained that they did not get a home victory, for the team to accumulate more points for the team to be relegated. Donne, on the other hand, was very unhappy because of a draw with such an opponent.

Nottingham Forest is now ...... When you don't expect much from it, it will surely surprise you and make you excitedly want to throw the best compliments at them. But when you do, you'll soon regret it, because Forest's performance makes you angry.

Take this game as an example, Norwich's quality is definitely lower than Nottingham Forest. But the performance in the game was the complete opposite, with the Forest players seeming to be uninterested in the game, and most of them were looking sluggish, unable to get into the game at all, no matter what Donn did at half-time.

In the second half of the second half, he simply sat in the coach's seat, stilted Erlang's legs, and looked at the court without saying a word.

It's the Forest's luck not to lose in this form.

But there was no time for Donn to work on that, and four days later, the team flew en masse to Greece for their opening UEFA Cup group game.

Of course, this game is to be won, because the weakest team in this group is this Greek team. Nottingham Forest will need to pick up all six points from their home and away games if they are to qualify from the group to gain more room for manoeuvre in the games ahead.

But looking at the players on the plane who were full of longing for the League Cup, Donn's brow was always furrowed.

Will there be any terrible results if you are too optimistic about the future? His arrogance seems to have started to affect the young players.

But as the head coach of the team, of course, he can't always claim how tough the opponent is in order to get the attention of the players, which will affect the confidence of the team and make the players feel that you, the manager, are not sure of victory.

In his seat, he flipped out the schedule, carefully looked at the schedule for the next period of time, and then decided to wait and see.

Competition, what can be won wins. Thinking about things in the future, thinking too much now will make you hesitate and stop. They are promoted horses, and they are not qualified to plan what opponents can lose and what opponents cannot lose, and the task for them is simple: to do everything possible to grab points. Grab enough points to get to base before they're exhausted and thoroughly studied by their opponents. In the second half of the league, you don't have to worry about relegation, and you can focus more on planning for next season.

As the league progresses, there are a lot of problems for the team. The mentality of the players, the fitness of the players, the injuries of the players, the personnel problems of the team, the scouting recruitment assessment...... In addition, after a few months of use, the player data system that Allen asked the Yankees to do still could not meet Donn's requirements, and he decided to completely abandon the company's program, but he had no clue which company to find for the new program, and these things naturally needed to be considered by him, because he knew more about professional issues than Allen. But now he can't take care of it, the team's first Premier League season, and his first personal Premier League season, everything needs to be explored slowly.

Thinking about these troubles, he felt a headache. Reality is not a game after all, there are things that can be ignored, and any point he ignores here may bring him terrible consequences.

Don rested his head on the back of his chair and closed his eyes to rest.

But you have to seize all the time and get some rest. A few days ago, when she was in a video with Shania, a little girl, on the Internet, she shouted that Uncle Tony was pale, his health must be very poor, and his spirit was not good...... Donn told her that it was the camera's own lighting effect, and that the camera was showing that everyone was white. In fact, he knows in his heart that the pressure has been with him since he became the head coach of the Forest team, and will continue to be there, unless he leaves the position and is no longer the head coach of any team.

It is said that those star players such as David Beckham have bought insurance and insured their body parts. Why isn't there a coach who insures your heart?

Thinking about these messy and unreliable things, Don slowly fell asleep.

※※※ Nottingham Forest's performance was exactly what Donn had in mind, and there was no special change in tactics, and there was no special arrangement for the surname because this was their first opponent in the League Cup. However, Forest's performance was the exact opposite of their last game, where they almost lost at home to Norwich City, before winning their first group game of the UEFA Cup 3-1 in the more unfamiliar side of Greece.

Don stood outside the away team's dugout at Dimitikon, looking inside the stadium with his hands in his pockets. With five minutes to go, Forest had already sealed the win.

Unlike the game against Norwich, the whole Nottingham Forest team today was very active, running, passing, attacking efficiency, and shooting accuracy were more than a notch higher than a few days ago.

Maybe it's because it's a European event, so it's exciting.

Tsk, there's no way to always get them excited. **Can't last, what lasts isn't called**...... Don scratched his head and turned to see David's bright smile. The assistant coach has no complaints about this result, and for a team that struggled to relegate from the First Division a year ago, it is indeed a bit of a difference in height to win the UEFA Cup a year later.

"Congratulations, Tony. We won again. ”

"What's there to congratulate on this...... Don waved his hand, "wait for us to get a bigger win, like ......"

He's stuck here, and he doesn't know what to say. A winner of the League Cup? It seems a bit harder...... Or did we win Lazio in the group stage? That's too useless.

"Like a Champions Cup winner?" Unexpectedly, Chris Rac was bolder than Donn, and directly stated his ultimate goal.

Don tilted his head to look at the assistant coach who was more confident than him, could it all be because of his "like the title" column?

"Ah...... Of course, it doesn't matter how you congratulate and celebrate to win that championship. But...... We still have a long way to go. ”

He twisted his head back and looked at the unmotivated home team.

With such an opponent, there is no pleasure in winning.

Or to win a coach like Mourinho, the pleasure is like a rising tide, surging...... ※※※ Forest returned to England with three points, there was no time to breathe for Don and his players, after getting off the plane from London's Heathrow Airport, they didn't even go back to Nottingham, went straight to Crystal Palace in the south of London, to prepare for the league in two days.

The journey is tiring, and it is still playing away, considering that the next round of the league will be away to Newcastle, it is a difficult team to play against. Donn decided to field more substitutes in this game to give the main players a chance to rest.

As a result, the result of this match was not what Donn expected......

(To be continued)