I don't need to describe Nottingham Forest's away game against Arsenal because it's on the sports news. Nottingham Forest, which lacks major generals, lost to Arsenal away from home without suspense, 1:3, which can be regarded as a complete defeat.

Donn followed the team to London, but was unable to direct the game in the dugout due to the ban, he and the assistant coach Crislak, who was also sent off with a red card, sat in the stands, helplessly watching his team being surrounded by Arsenal, and the momentum that should have been shown by the Forest team did not show at all.

Don performs the duties of acting head coach in the game, but just as Don once thought. Don is a great assistant coach, but he's not a good head coach. He can do the auxiliary work perfectly, but he can't make up his own ideas.

Without the backbone, I don't know what to do. That's true for the coaches, and even more so for the players.

Without George Wood, Sun Jihai was pushed into a central midfield position, and despite the hard work and hard work of the Chinese player, he was still a little powerless in the face of Arsenal's attacking cluster. The position of the back is too important, if the field is compared to the combat field, the midfield is a battleground, the back is equivalent to a fortress, good back players can defend here as solid, bad ......

It's not that Sun Jihai is bad, but that there is still a distance between his level and his opponent's level.

With midfield down, don't expect the Forest penalty area to get better.

There was no problem with conceding three goals at all.

The only thing worth mentioning is that Nottingham Forest also scored a goal in a very unfavourable situation. Eastwood scored a last-minute face-saving goal for the team, but finally did not let Arsenal "shave their heads".

After the game, when Wenger went to shake hands with Don, he glanced at the stands, intentionally or unintentionally. Of course, he wanted to find Don in the crowd, but by then Don had already left the field early with Chrislak.

None of the post-match commentaries were surprised by the result. Arsenal's strength is not weak, not to mention that the Forest team is now short of major generals, and there is also a lack of soul figure Tony Towne. Even if they have a full lineup, at the Emirates Stadium. Against Arsenal, there is not necessarily a chance of victory.

Nottingham's media are bemoaning their bad luck against such a strong opponent after a massive ban. If you run against a weak team, you might even win.

Don doesn't see it that way, he's happy to see Arsenal at this time. Anyway, the house is already leaking, and I don't mind a rainy day. It's best to squeeze all the bad luck together, and when all the bad luck is used up, it's naturally the turn of good luck to come in.

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After returning from London with a loss. Don didn't have the leisure to be frustrated by this defeat. He wants to take the team into the Champions League group stage preparations immediately.

Time is running out, and on 27 September, Nottingham Forest will host their other opponents in the group stage, Turkish side Galatasaray.

Since that earth-shattering "big war", everyone has been waiting to see. They want to see where Tony Downe's side will go.

Of course, Donn knows what these media think, and there are many media in England who are enemies of him, and they can't let Tony Donn be unlucky, and they want the Forest team to lose back-to-back games. Just lost to Arsenal in the league and if they can continue to lose to Galatasaray. That couldn't be better.

But what...... It's just that Don En is an awkward person, so he likes to work against everyone.

So, in this group stage, Don won.

The ban in the league is only applicable to the league, and the Forest team can still field the strongest team in the Champions League. And the team does not seem to have been hit by a large ban, and it can even be said that they have been stimulated by the ban, and the frustration in the league has been vented into the group stage of the Champions League.

In the game, Donn did not use the "defensive tactics" that Forest relied on to rise last season. Instead, it was bold and surprising to attack at home, completely ignoring Galatasaray's attack.

As a result, the game was played 3:2. Five goals were scored by both sides, and in the end, Nottingham Forest relied on scoring one more goal than their opponents to win.

That's what the commentator thinks: ̄ ̄ In this game, the Forest team, from the coach to the players, must have held their breath in their hearts, and continued to implement the defense-oriented tactics. Being pressed by their opponents on their home turf obviously doesn't help them get out of the way, so it's reasonable to rush to the ball at all costs. Anyway, Tony Downe is an unstable person, and the team under him will naturally not be stable, and it is normal to suddenly change tactics.

Don didn't care about the voices of these evaluations. He had a plan in mind.

After a home win at Galatasaray, Nottingham Forest are provisionally top of the group with two wins.

The scene that the spectators wanted to see the most was not alive, and Tony Downe's team was still alive and well.

"It was so embarrassing in the league, but I didn't expect us to have a smooth ride in the Champions Cup," after ......the game, the coaching staff of the two sides shook hands in a friendly manner. After shaking hands, Don said to Don.

"That's good." Donn nodded, "Our goal this season was the Champions Cup. League matches...... Guaranteed to be in the top four is fine. ”

Don wasn't lying, and he wasn't modest. This season he hasn't even thought about the league title. Let's not talk about Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and other strong men, just talk about the Forest team itself.

Now that you have decided to regain what you have lost in the Champions Cup, it is natural to focus more on the Champions Cup. The league is a long format, unlike the knockout tournament for the Champions Cup. One of the great features of the cup is that you get what you give in the end. In other words, as long as the effort is rewarded, there are fewer uncertainties.

In the league, because of the long schedule, as the saying goes, "the night is long and there are many dreams", and there are many uncertainties. It is likely that he worked hard and gave his all his efforts, leading for thirty-seven rounds, and was overturned by his opponent in the final round. Don didn't want such a tragedy to happen to him.

Other than that. Even if there are a lot of quality players added in the summer, he doesn't think Nottingham Forest have the quality to win titles on both fronts. Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich...... These world giants dare not say that they have the absolute strength to win the double and treble, let alone Nottingham Forest.

Instead of sitting at home and fantasizing about your team winning all the championships, it is better to play the most sure cup game well in a down-to-earth manner. Fundamentally, Donn is a very pragmatic coach, a practical man who is only interested in what he is sure he can catch.

The league champion, now he has no score in his heart. But the Champions Cup, he is determined to win! ※※※

Victory over Galatasaray in the Champions Cup. Nottingham Forest, which won the first place in the group and looks like spring, is about to experience the experience of going from heaven to hell again. On November 1, in the seventh round of the league, Nottingham Forest hosted Middlesbrough.

Having just enjoyed a game with a full lineup, Donn is back in the stands to be a spectator.

Don continues to be acting head coach in this game, but he's really just putting on a show. Before the game, Donn and the coaching staff had all the tactical arrangements and just let the team play as planned.

Facing Middlesbrough, where McClaren is gone, Forest drew with their opponents on their home turf. It was a good game. A total of four goals were scored by both sides. Forest's second squad had no problem dealing with opponents like Middlesbrough, and the failure to win the game was entirely due to the lack of a central figure ̄ ̄ Tony Downe. A manager with a distinctive personality who is not afraid of heaven and earth is the real soul of this team.

The good news for Donn is that he has one game to go before his suspension expires, when he can back in front of the dugout and direct the team. He had enough of being a spectator in the stands, he had been a spectator for more than ten years, and now he didn't want to live like that again.

During the match, the TV camera kept watching Donne's performance. It doesn't matter if Forest scores or concedes. The camera will quickly point at Donn in the stands to see how he reacts.

BBc football commentator John Mortson, who knows Donn well, laughs: "...... Of the FA's scathing fines, the only one that really corrected was the fifth clause that gave Donn a three-match ban. For Tony Towne. Not letting him command the team to fight is like killing him! ”

Thankfully, these bad days are coming to an end.

October 14, because of the national team competition. After a week-long break to restart the league after Nottingham Forest lost 2-1 away to Manchester City. The defeat was negligible for Donne, who even tried to get on the sidelines after the game to shake hands with Manchester City manager Stuart Pearce, only to be stopped by a sharp-eyed fourth official at the exit of the road.

"Mr. Donn. It's not going to work, you can't go over. ”

"I just want to say hi to an old friend, can't I?" Don pointed to Pierce, who was shaking hands with Don, and asked the fourth official next to him.

"Wait for the second half of the league, Mr. Donn. If you hadn't been banned again for anything at that time...... "Donn has become the referee's number one public enemy since he publicly slammed the entire English refereeing community for their low standards after the game. In these league games, Forest have been subjected to some inexplicable penalties on several occasions, and it cannot be said that it has nothing to do with it.

Seeing that the fourth official spoke so ugly, he didn't give any face, and Don's good mood disappeared. He looked at Don and Pierce, who were not far ahead, and then at the fourth official standing next to him, who was smiling, and knew that if he wanted to break through, then he must not know how many bans he was waiting for.

He snorted, turned and walked away.

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Tang shook hands with Pierce and didn't chat, but walked straight to the corridor, he wasn't in a good mood after losing the game, so he didn't want to linger in front of people for long.

When passing through the mixing zone. He was stopped by a Chinese voice: "Mr. Tang, Mr. Tang!" ”

Tang, who didn't want to pay attention to the media, heard that it was the Chinese he was familiar with, and involuntarily stopped.

It is not a stranger to call other people, it is Tang Jing who I once met on the plane ̄ ̄Speaking of which, they are all surnamed Tang, and maybe they were still a family five hundred years ago.

"Can you say a few words?" Tang Jing squeezed in front of the crowd, and stood out in the sports that were mostly male.

Since she is an acquaintance, Tang can't refute her face. He walked over, intending to say a few words. But before the mouth opened, I didn't know what to say.

Tang Jing obviously also saw that this kind of problem still had to take the initiative herself. So she asked, "What is the biggest feeling from an assistant coach to an acting head coach, Mr. Tang?" ”

"It's two professions entirely." Tang Yan replied succinctly.

Tang Jing was fully prepared for this, she nodded, and wrote down Tang's words, as for how to further wave this sentence after going back, it was her own business......

"It's a shame. Didn't win three games......" Reacting, saying this would definitely make the other party unhappy, Tang Jing hurriedly changed the topic, "What do you think of the FA's large-scale punishment?" ”

"It's been a few weeks, and I don't have much of an opinion."

"Alas......" Even if she is fully prepared, Tang Jing is still very depressed about this uncooperative attitude, and she waited here for a long time to get such a result? She was a little frustrated. Don's non-cooperation is deliberate, and this Don's non-cooperation is completely natural ̄ ̄ This is what makes her most depressed.

Maybe it's because I feel like a woman is squeezing around in such a large crowd of men looking for an interview opportunity. It's just not easy. Tang also felt that it was not good to face the other party with this attitude, so he hesitated for a moment and said, "I didn't win a single game, and I am still a little unwilling." ”

Suddenly, I heard Don take the initiative to speak. Tang Jing looked up sharply and looked at Tang with anticipation. She only saw Tang shake her head: "I'm sorry, I'm leaving." ”

"Ah, okay. We'll see you later. Mr. Tang. Tang Jing took the initiative to wave goodbye. Although it is not too much to say, it is enough to have a last sentence.

I don't want to win a single victory......

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Don ran into Don on the way back to the locker room.

"Why don't you just go to the press conference?" Don asked, leaning against the wall.

"It's still early." Don replied.

"Then you have nothing to do when you come back, right?"

"It's okay to go over there. I'm used to coming back here first. ”

Tang En smiled: "You are a lifelong assistant coach!" ”

"I met Tang Jing in the mixed area just now." Don changed the subject.

"Oh? What did she ask? ”

"Chinese fans care."

Don nodded and said he knew, it was nothing more than the news that Don suddenly became the acting head coach.

"I'm so sorry. Let them down. Don said with a shrug. Or...... Keep it up, Don? ”

Don shook his head and waved his hand, "I don't like it." Head coach and assistant coach are completely two concepts of profession. It's good that you're coming back soon, and I can breathe a sigh of relief. ”

"Stressful, huh?" Don asked with a smile.

Tang nodded: "Great." ”

"But I like it." Don winked at his partner. "More pressure means better rewards. I wasn't interested in assistant coaching at all, I liked to be a head coach from the beginning. The personalities of the two of us are really far apart. ”

Don smiled silently and pushed the door in. Don stayed outside, watching the players 66 continue to walk down the pitch before he raised his hand to greet them.

"Hey guys, good job!"

"Don't be discouraged, little monkey! Just lost an inconsequential league game. Have you forgotten what our goals are for this season? ”

"No big deal, I'm back."

That's right, he's the master of this team.