Mark. Hughes was still struggling with his wide tactics being contained by Donn's-for-tat, but the goal gave him inspiration.

Taking advantage of the frenzied celebration of the goal, he called Elano off the pitch and told him that the future attack would be based on his own observations to decide whether to play wide or go in the middle.

The one who should have a headache now is Tony. Don is gone.

Bendtner was even more active after the goal, and his teammates consciously passed the ball to him for the final shot. It looked like the whole Manchester City team was hoping that Bendtner would win that game.

The boos of the Nottingham Forest fans grew frenzied as Bendtner was active. Suffice it to say, when Bendtner was on the ball, no other sound could be heard in the City Stadium at that moment, and even across the Trent River, shrill boos could be heard clearly.

"I've never seen Nottingham Forest fans go so crazy with a person...... "Andy Forest. Gray was also frightened, and he muttered.

"Maybe it was stimulated by the goal conceded, and it was stimulated by Bendtner's action of celebrating the goal. So I said, it's going to be a very good game! Haha, just four minutes into the game, Nottingham Forest are behind! How is Donn going to play in this next game? ”

※※※ Don did feel a headache. The problem now is that Elano is in the middle and he can decide whether to play in the middle or on the wing. If he also insists on the full-backs inserting assists, then George. Wood and Thiago will have to work very hard – they have to complement the defence and take care of the middle. Forest will also concede goals.

Donn thought about it and decided to give up on the full-back's assist plan for the time being. It's more important to defend solidly during this time.

He walked to the sidelines, whistled into the pitch, and waved his hand to signal the two full-backs who were still in front of him to withdraw to defend.

Bale and Raphinha looked at the empty side behind them, and ran away with some reluctance.

George. Wood and Thiago returned to the middle and completely choked Elano's lane. Now that the full-backs don't assist, Nottingham Forest's attack on the flanks is all about two wing-backs.

However, Donn felt that this effect was not good enough, after all, without full-back assists, the team's attack lacked layers and variety, and it was too easy to get caught up in the opponent's dense defense.

He also motioned to the two midfielders on the sidelines to take turns assisting.

George. Wood began to come alive.

Nottingham Forest fielded a 451 formation in this game. There are five people in the midfield, the distance between the forward van der Vaart and the back is a little far, and the striker Van Nistelrooy is alone in the front, how to connect the back and the front?

One way to do this is to go on the wings, Franck Ribery and Lennon, but they are mainly on the wings. The tandem in the middle is inserted by the back of the back.

George. Wood is now very skilled at getting involved in the attack, and he is no longer the stunned guy who doesn't know what to do.

Asking for the ball from Thiago, Wood dribbled forward. Elano came up to interfere, and he passed the ball to the adducted Ribery, ran forward, played a wall collision with Ribery, and then passed the ball to Van der Vaart. He didn't go back there, but continued to run forward, with a great deal of momentum to get into the box.

forced City to disperse their forces to defend him again. Van der Vaart's defensive pressure eased a little and he shot straight over the crossbar.

That's when Wood turned around and ran back, back to his defensive position.

※※※ Bendtner saw that after the Forest team changed tactics, he had a lot less chance of getting the ball in front. He started to drop back to get the ball.

Kompany tried to follow, but Wood gestured to stop him.

Bendtner has entered him George. Wood's Field.

Bendtner raised his hand in midfield for the ball. Robinho passed Lennon past him and passed the football to him. No sooner had the football reached his feet than Bendtner felt a huge rush from behind his body.

He hurriedly leaned back to protect the football, but in doing so, he also lost the opportunity to turn around.

He knew who had given it just now.

The corners of his mouth curled, such a confrontation is really rare...... He knew he couldn't turn around now, and Ribery was returning at high speed, and once he was trapped, it was over. He could only pass the football to Robinho, who ran up to pick it up.

Thiago pestered Robinho while Wood stood by and waited. Bendtner runs forward while continuing to raise his hand for the ball.

Robinho, as he tangled with Thiago, picked up the ball on his toes, crossed Thiago and flew towards Bendtner, who was cutting forward.

Bendtner turned sideways to catch the ball, but it was George who was waiting for him. Wood's upturned toe - he scrambled to kick the soccer ball away from the air.

"It's not easy to get rid of Wood!" Gray shouted. I don't know if he felt sorry for Bendtner or praised George. Wood's flexibility and boldness.

※※※ When Bendtner pulled back to the midfield again to get the ball, this time George. Wood didn't even give him a chance to protect the ball, and directly pushed Bendtner down with the ball from behind.

Bendtner jumped up from the ground and signaled to the running referee that he should give Wood a card, which was a foul in the back!

Seeing his action, the boos at the scene became even more enthusiastic...... Even Pepe couldn't look at it and rushed up to question Bendtner. Fortunately, Thiago stopped him halfway, otherwise the two sides might have clashed on this ground.

Van der Vaart was so close that he didn't question Bendtner directly. Just applauded him from the side, and the meaning of sarcastic disdain couldn't be more obvious.

Bendtner didn't care what the fans and former teammates thought of him, he was still pestering the referee, desperately trying to get a card for Wood - even better if it was a red card!

Wood didn't come forward to argue, he slowly got up from the ground. waved everyone to disperse, there is no excitement here.

He then stood still and waited for the referee's final decision.

The referee came over and showed Wood a yellow card.

The boos were even louder...... While Donn was still in his seat, Chris Rac couldn't help himself, and he rushed to the sidelines cursing Bendtner, the "traitor": "Think about who raised you, bastard!" ”

Don looked at his colleague's excited back, shrugged his shoulders and said to Don next to him, "From another point of view...... At the very least, Bendtner has a work ethic ......"

※※※ "Bendtner's wish was granted, George. Wood was saddled with a yellow card. The next game was not going to be a good game for Wood. ”

"Not necessarily. For George. Wood said that as long as he wasn't sent off, he would play how he wanted. ”

Martin. Taylor was right, after the game restarted, George. Wood defensively remains ferocious. As if he didn't care about the yellow card he was carrying.

However, Donn couldn't help but care, and he instructed Thiago to share more defensive duties. Wood was involved in a bit of attacking and put his experience on how to equalise.

Yes, equalizer. Nottingham Forest had to equalise before half-time. Otherwise, the Forest team that enters the dressing room will be a team that is downcast, or impetuous – not what Donn wants to see anyway. Manchester City, on the other hand, will be in high spirits, thinking that Forest will not be able to do anything about them.

Donn looked at the watch on his wrist, the first half had been twenty-seven minutes long.

The game was now in a stalemate, and City's attack was forced to stop by Forest's iron wall, and Forest's attack was also met with stubborn resistance from Manchester City. Everyone had some opportunities, but no one took them again.

Ruud van Nistelrooy was alone in the front and looked a little isolated in the opposition's penalty area. Actually, he wasn't the scorer, and with only one striker in the game, he was more of a chance to score for those behind. Unfortunately, the two full-backs had their assists cancelled out by Donn, and Forest's attacking routine was somewhat simple – Ribery and Lennon either went down or cut inside, and whenever he saw Van der Vaart close to the box, he only had to shoot from distance or pass through to Van Nistelrooy. George. Wood came up more often to pass the ball. City's defensive formation is fairly intact and no matter how much Forest moves, their backline will not be chaotic. It can be seen that Mark. Hughes put a lot of effort into how to prevent the Forest's sneak attack - although it was used to prevent sneak attacks, but this dense defense also caused the Forest team's positional warfare to run into problems.

Hughes's idea for this game is very simple, solid defense at the back, and use a dense defensive formation to compress the space and time for the Forest team to counterattack. Up front, Bendtner was a powerful center forward and an excellent breakaway on the flanks to score. It's just that I didn't expect the side to fight, but to blossom in the middle.

Although Don quickly readjusted his arrangement, it didn't help. Now that Manchester City are on a one-goal lead, as long as they continue to defend solidly, it is not impossible for the away team to take three points with this goal.

As City's manager, he knows the bet his players made. But between winning and gambling, he would not hesitate to choose to win.

Seeing that the first half was about to end, Hughes decided to let the team drop back as a whole, shrink the formation, and decided to play Nottingham Forest's counterattack.

Don knew what Hughes was up to, of course, but now he had to press out and attack because time was running out. He was reluctant to walk into the dressing room with a point behind.

With a wave of their hand, Bale and Raphinha, who had been suppressed for more than thirty minutes, attacked again.

With 10 minutes to go until the end of the first half, Forest launched their first attacking frenzy of the game.

※※※"Get out your energy! Fat John yelled at his fellow friends in the stands from the stands, "Don't always think about booing the Danish boy!" Now what our team needs is not to boo their opponents, but to cheer them on! Who of you would like to see us go into half-time from a goal down? I don't want to anyway! Then I don't even have an appetite for wine! Guys, sing our songs—"

"Oooo Nottingham Forest! ”

“…… Forest Forest! Nottingham Forest! We are invincible, we are invincible! We are the best team in the world...... We make our opponents afraid, we make them tremble! Because the whole world is in the palm of our hand—"

"Oooh oh - Woodwood, grow into a forest! Woodwood, grow into a forest! ”

※※※ George. Wood is getting the ball.

Still dribbling forward from a back position. Elano's block was easily shaken off by him, and the Brazilian's defense was purely symbolic...... It wasn't until he got to Ireland that he met resistance. However, he also passed the football to Van der Vaart. Van der Vaart couldn't turn and passed the ball to Wood, who played it to Lennon on the wing.

Lennon crosses with his feet and Ruud van Nistelrooy leaps to the top!

The ball was pushed out by Dunn.

Again falls to George. Wood's feet.

He was on the verge of shooting, but no one was fooled – everyone knows how bad Wood's shooting skills are.

Wood didn't really shoot from 35 yards out. He passed the ball to Thiago, who had caught up from behind, and withdrew himself to defend. He and Thiago had a handover. Now Thiago is in charge of the attack and he is in charge of the defence.

Forest's attack was soon put to an end by City's big foot.

Ashley. Yang ran wildly with the ball on the side. Gareth Bale's assist went up and it was empty, and it was a great opportunity for City to extend their lead before half-time!

But his dribbling was decorated by George. Wood aborted. Wood used a nice tackle to keep the ball on Ashley. The ball at Young's feet was broken. Then he got up and strode with the ball to shake off Ashley, who had just gotten up. Poplar.

Thiago saw Wood coming up and didn't go back to defend. With little time left in the first half, he wanted to stay up front and be involved in the attack.

Elano was the first to stop Wood again, and this time he almost succeeded, but unfortunately lost in a physical duel and was unable to stop Wood's forced breakthrough.

After shaking off Elano with his body and speed, Wood made a gesture to pass to Van der Vaart, who redirected the ball and ran towards Van der Vaart.

While Ireland turned their attention to the Dutch midfielders, he gave the ball to Thiago next to him.

Then he ran to the edge of the box.

Thiago took a long-range shot, and this time someone believed it. Ireland turned and pounced again. Thiago, for his part, played the ball to Van der Vaart.

Van der Vaart didn't stop the ball and pushed the ball straight into the crowd in the box.

"George. Wood! ”

Wood received the ball sideways, and in the face of Dunn's defense, he rushed forward without fear.

The two men bumped into each other, the football jumped out, Dunn fell to the ground, and George. Wood looked like he was going to dive down and fall on the hand.

At this time, his strong body came into play again, and he got up from the ground in an instant when he saw his hands and feet together!

"Wood fouled?"

"No, it's a reasonable collision!"

Manchester City's goalkeeper Joe. Hart saw that the opponent had brought the ball to the penalty area, and hurriedly attacked.

Wood has adjusted his body position and centre of gravity and is now behind all the City defenders, facing Hart and the goal behind him. He picked up his right leg.

Hart pounced with his arms outstretched, trying to stop Wood's powerful volley!

Richards didn't care if a behind-tackle in the box would be awarded a penalty, and slid a flying tackle diagonally towards Wood.

When they saw Wood's right thigh, everyone assumed it must have been a powerful volley – because it matched the impression Wood had always made.

Hart and Richards did the same thing when they went to defend the ball – they both went down three ways – and if Wood shot the ball up three, there was only one result: a shot.

No one will believe Wood's shooting footwork.

The picked up right foot quickly pulls down and hits the football like a whip.

And then...... The ball leaped high and went around Richards' feet and Hart's body, drawing a parabola that landed directly into the goal...... At that moment, time seemed to stand still. Everyone opened their mouths wide and stared at the football that was still bouncing around in the goal.

What happened?

Andy. Gray's hysterical scream broke the silence: "Ahh What do I see? Spoon? Pick-and-shoot? Curveball?! My God! Who told me it must be an illusion! The George who would shoot in the face of an empty goal. Wood kicked such a wonderful work of art goal! Something must be wrong with the world......"

Bendtner scored a goal and sat in the dugout. Don also rushed out of his seat with his head in his hands at this moment, and he looked at George in the distance with the eyes of an alien. Wood, with the words in his mouth: "Diego. Maradona, Bruno. Conte, Francisco. Totti, in this moment the soul possesses ......"

The three names he recited were all experts in world football.

"I can't believe it...... "Hold your head as surprised as he is, there is Chris Rac. …… own eyes. ”

Only Don calmed down: "When I was giving him extra practice, he tried. But I didn't succeed once......"

※※※ George. Wood was tackled to the ground by Richards, who couldn't hold his feet, after he had a football shot into goal. As soon as he stood up, he was yelled at by the swarming players and pushed down again. Bell lay on top of him, holding his head, his nose against each other, and opened his mouth to ask loudly, "How did you do that?!" ”

"I ...... I don't know, I just think if you pick up the football, you might score more goals......"

Ribery slid in from the other side, and after hearing Wood say this, he put his arms around his neck hard: "So you did it on purpose!" You kid...... Stealing the limelight from all of us! ”

"What else are you going to shoot? How about the next time you come to the 'Scorpio', George! Van der Vaart grinned and patted him on the head.

Everyone in the stands stood up from their seats, raised their hands and waved their scarves, and jumped around the stands and sang in unison.

The people on the Manchester City side were all dumbfounded. They know what Wood's marksmanship is, and it's almost everyone in England who knows him – and they all know that he's not good at shooting.

I didn't expect Wood to use such a difficult shot to break Joe. Hart's goal made the score 1:1 draw!

Even Bendtner and Ashley, who used to play with him. Yang Du looked surprised. Has that wood been hormonized? Why did you suddenly spoon shoot the goal?

"Well, no matter where in the world something goes wrong, no matter what George. How exactly did Wood do it? The truth is that he scored the equaliser. Before the end of the first half, Nottingham Forest brought the game back to the starting point! ”

"It's this season George. Wood was the first to score, so beautiful...... Enough to be the best goal of the round! 'Wooden spoon', hahahaha! ”

(To be continued)