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By Lin Hai Ting Tao
The situation in this game is very simple, both for Rijkaard and for Tony Twain.
Without too many calculations and complicated Tactics, the situation is very clear – Barcelona needs to attack, need to score at the away game venue, and must win this game. This way they can qualify for promotion.
It is reasonable to say that Nottingham Forest FC lost to Barcelona 0:1, they can also guarantee that they enter the quarterfinals, but this obviously does not meet Twain's character.
The team with this mentality must have died very badly. He used to be Chinese Fans. This kind of thing happened to the Chinese Team too many times, and it has become a cliché that can no longer be cliché.
So the mission of Nottingham Forest FC is also very simple – to win the game at all costs and advance to the quarterfinals.
This is Barcelona's away game venue, Rijkaard has no choice but to defensive counter.attack. He knows that Twain will be conservative at home, using his best defensive counter.attack to deal with himself, tempting Barcelona to attack. Then wait for an attack.
The coach of the Netherlands is very clear, but what can be done? Now the choice is not in his hands, the failure of the first leg home has forced him to a desperate situation – the offense may die, but not attack must die.
In the overwhelming snoring and snoring of City Ground, Barcelona has a tragic offensive against the Forest team.
In the hands of Nottingham Forest FC, Twain allowed the team to defend the team without rushing, and then waited for counter.attack.
In the past few years, no matter when he did, he did not give up the requirement of establishing "defense first" in the team. At many crucial moments, the infusion of this requirement saved his team and saved him.
Of course, he likes to watch offensive football and watch the attack. Watch the game of Mars hitting the earth. But that's because he is a fan. Now that he is Manager, he is responsible for his team and is responsible for the fans who support him.
He didn't teach Wenger's talent, let the players play a beautiful match, and win, so he chose the most utilitarian way to win. He doesn't care what kind of nickname he bears. He has never been a person who cares about what others say.
Defensive counter.attack, first solid defense.
Defence is the basis of the offense. It is like building a house to play the foundation. There is no defense and talk. This is actually very simple, but why are there so many people in the world who don't understand it? Fans don't understand it, Manager can't understand it?
After Barcelona re-emerged in the past few years, Rijkaard seems to have forgotten defense.
Most of the time we saw that Barcelona's midfielder had no defensive player. When they played, Tactics always scored a few goals on their own strong offense, causing the opponent to quickly lose their fighting spirit. Then the game fell into their tracks.
Their powerful offense, and the gorgeous Football Star lineup, will allow most teams to lose their fighting spirit when faced with them.
But when Rijkaard's set was thoroughly researched by more and more opponents, he found that the more the season played, the harder it was to kick. Why so? Because his Tactics lacks change.
Once it is studied by the opponent, it is in great danger. Everyone found that Barcelona is not an incarnation of the god of war. They have many Football Stars and cannot guarantee to be a regular victory general. They also have weaknesses.
The same thing that can't be done, even more deadly is that their defense is not much better than Real Madrid CF, as long as Tactics is right, it can beat Barcelona.
After the season La Liga entered the second half of the race, Barcelona encountered more and more resistance, and their tried and tested offensive Tactics became more and more useless in the face of old rivals.
Rijkaard didn't realize that the crisis was slowly approaching him and his team. He also thought that Barcelona is currently on the right track with high speed Walk On. Not only him, Barcelona's players.
The fans, the high-ranking directors, think so.
Born in sorrow, died of happiness. This is a great match for the future of Barcelona…No, it should be said that this applies to all successful teams in the world.
Twain doesn't have to worry about it, just because the environment of the Forest team is still not "easy".
As mentioned above, Barcelona's biggest weakness is defense. Twain will make full use of this in this game.
Compared with the offense. The most powerful of Nottingham Forest FC is defense. This kind of defense is not based on one person, or four defense lines composed of Defender. The defense of the Forest team is the overall defense.
On the contrary, Barcelona's defense is only four Defender and one Goalkeeper, others are not responsible for defensive tasks.
Now at home, Twain let the team shrink the defense, lead Barcelona to attack the players, and then wait for the counter.attack strategy, which is the shortcoming of Barcelona's weak defense.
Thuram is old, Zambrotta is all-powerful, but after he came to Barcelona, he has not adapted to Barcelona and Spain football. Valdés has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes some inexplicable low-level mistakes will easily ruin the team's 90-minute effort. The only shot taken on the back line is Puyol, but it is hard to beat.
Twain aimed at this, and the front line unexpectedly sent Arnelka, the speed counter.attack Striker and Van Nistelrooy, hoping to use his speed and personal ability to give Barcelona a critical strike in counter.attack.
In this game Van Der Vaart replaced Arteta as the starting lineup, and Twain also needed his long-range and organizational skills in the offense. The left is still Frank.Ribéry, on the right, use Allen.Lennon replaced Ashley.Yang.
On the defensive side, Left Defender Gareth Bale is better at defending Layton.Barnes replaced the other positions.
Barcelona once again launched a fierce attack on the Forest's hinterland, and Nottingham Forest FC stood by the support of the overall defensive Tactics.
Most of the time Barcelona is dominant, but thunder and rain are small. The number of shots they have threatened is countless.
However, the Forest team is at a disadvantage in terms of technical statistics – except for fouls – a few times the counter.attack is quite threatening, and every time the Barcelona people are shocked by a cold sweat.
Rijkaard certainly knows that it is dangerous to play his own goal, but what is his solution? Learning the Forest team as solid as defensive and then waiting for an attack? That way Tony Twain would be very happy, because he couldn't worry about the negative game, the time was exhausted, and the draw was a failure for Barcelona.
The initiative is not in the hands of Rijkaard. Now, in addition to desperately attacking, he hopes to score early, and there is no other way to break the deadlock. Bad defense? Ok, let's throw a few balls, and the front is more than this one!
Before coming to Nottingham, the Rijkaard and Barcelona teams studied how to deal with George Wood's defense. They envisioned several options to deal with what should be done in case someone was completely frozen by George Wood.
But this time, Twain didn't let George Wood go to defend someone. His mission was…free time.
Where to go when he needs him. Where is the danger, where to go to support.
Anyway, Wood has good physical strength and runs fast. He runs back and forth in the backcourt, and he is not afraid of his physical strength and cramps.
Rijkaard was meant to get the frontcourt Trident to get rid of George Wood by frequent shifts. I didn't expect Twain to let Wood be the backcourt defender and let Rijkaard's strategy completely fail.
Barcelona is faced with a squad-defense defensive, not because of the difference in their frequent positions, the defensive power on the side and in the middle. This is really depressing.
The offensive is to use their own running position to find the defensive loopholes of the opponent, and then use these loopholes to create murder.
The current situation is that no matter how the pass is made in Barcelona, the defense of the Forest team is like a mountain standing there, not moving.
The first half came to the end in this situation, the score of 0:0 will not satisfy the neutral fans. But it can make the fans of the Forest team happy.
At halftime, Twain highly praised the team's defense, but he also asked the team's offense to add strength, and there must be a counter.attack opportunity. You can get Barcelona's life in one go!
On the other side of Barcelona, Rijkaard was not satisfied with the team's offense. Forty-five minutes, so many opportunities did not score, it is too sorry for the name Barcelona. The second half will also strengthen the offense, and definitely can't relax on the offense.
The reason why the Forest team did not score at the moment is because Barcelona's offensive has put tremendous pressure on them, so that they have no time to take care of the offense. Once Barcelona is on the offensive, it can't sustain this pressure.
It will give the Forest team a chance.
Anyway, Barcelona is now riding a tiger.
After the start of the second half, the Forest team still put on a standing posture to welcome Barcelona, and Barcelona did not mean to change, continue to attack.
Over time, Rijkaard stood up again from the seat and walked to the side of the field, noisy in the Stadium, and he shouted that the players could hardly hear it. He has tried to loudly remind the players to continue to press.
The result was immediately overwhelmed by the buzzing noise. Open your mouth and you can't hear anything, not to mention the players.
Now he can only kill the ball. Pull the player near the coach's side to face the face.
If we bombard Barcelona, the Forest team can't stand it down as a balance. Then in the 68th minute of the game, this balance was finally broken.
Barcelona organized a high-quality offense, and through a continuous pass, they finally opened up the Forest's indestructible defense and made it a big hole.
Ronaldinho once again took out his "Sounds to the West" and pretended to break through, but unexpectedly spread the football out of the crack. Eto'o quickly started. He received the ball behind the defense line of the Forest. The players of the Forest team thought that Eto'o is offside, but the lineman doesn't mean to raise the flag.
"Not offside, bastard!"Twain was anxious to jump up.
George Wood desperately chased and wanted to stop this goal.
After all, he still took a slow step, and Eto'o took a shot before he tackled!
At that moment, Twain's heart almost stopped beating, not only him. At that moment, the sound of City Ground seemed to stop, and everyone was holding their breath. Eyes staring at the football flying in the air.
Even the fans of Barcelona, whether on the spot or in the city of Barcelona, are not afraid to leave the football at this moment.
The football flew from the foot of Eto'o, crossed the foot of George Wood and crossed the palm of Van Der Sar. Go straight to the door behind the earth.
Do you want to score?
"Beep", the football hit the lower edge of the beam, slammed to the ground, and bounced again. Fly back. Van Der Sar's second reaction was very fast, jumping up and taking off the football in the air!
Did the ball still enter?
Barceloan players jumped up their arms and celebrated their goals for the first time. Even Eto'o opened his arms to the corner flag, followed by Ronaldinho and Messi.
Catalonia narrator can't wait to scream: "gooooooooooal-!"
On the TV broadcast, the subtitles of Barcelona 1:0Nottingham Forest FC were played, and it seems that the ball has indeed entered.
But…But
The ecstasy expression on Eto'o's face in the TV camera suddenly solidified. He pushed Ronaldinho away and looked at the line next to them with a puzzled look.
After the goal. The lineman should run to the center line, and the main referee will whistle the finger to the middle circle to show that the goal is valid.
This time, the lineman did not run, then the main referee…Barcelona people turned to look at the main referee. But I saw a scene of calling them to stop –
The player of Nottingham Forest FC has brought football to the middle, apparently playing their fast counter.attack tradition…
The main referee did not stop this behavior, but was running along with it…What does this mean? It means that the Forest team does this without fouling, and Barcelona did not enter the ball just now!
Puyol just wanted to run up to celebrate. But halfway through, I suddenly saw Van Der Sar throwing the football in the handle, and Van Der Vaart immediately started the fast counter.attack after receiving the ball.
Barcelona's Captain ran halfway and quickly withdrew, and greeted the teammates back. At the time, the Stadium was too noisy, and the teammates who were far away from the corner flag could not hear it.
The faster-responding Barcelona players began to throw their confused Eto'o and turned back.
Van Der Vaart certainly knows that he is slow at the ball and is not good at this time. So he didn't take much, but he immediately passed the football to Anelka, who ran faster.
"Ahhhh……This is really not the case, Eto'o shot did not cause a goal, but gave the Nottingham Forest FC counter.attack opportunity! Because football is not out of bounds. This is not a dead ball…Barcelona is in trouble! ”
The commentator said that everything is correct, and now Barcelo is in trouble.
Because I was busy celebrating the goal, most of the Barcelona players are not in their respective positions. The Forest team's counter.attack is very fast, and does not give the Barcelona a chance to reorganize the attack. Two or three passes to the foot of Anelka. After France Striker got the ball, the motor was fully open and ran towards the gates of Barcelona.
After breaking through Puyol by speed. Anelka has already reached the penalty area. Valdés can only give up the attack. The next thing will be easier.
Anelka is going to pass the ball and swindle Valdés. After shaking the angle, he did not hesitate to shoot, and the football did not suspend flying into the net.
City Ground finally stopped the buzz and changed to cheers.
This time the main referee confirmed that the goal was effective and the whistle finally rang.
From the Barcelona people thought they scored, to Nottingham Forest FC really scored, all this conversion only happened between 32 seconds, everything came too fast, too sudden, many people have not fully reacted.
Rijkaard was already jumping out with his arms out to celebrate the goal, but now he looks incredibly at the scene.
Twain was originally annoyed, but now he is always tall and cheering.
The transition between the two Managers is a good illustration of the situation of the two teams.
"This…this…"It’s too drama…Who can think of the Barcelona people so happy for that goal, so that even if they really scored no one to confirm.
Nottingham Forest FC is also awkward, no chance to stay in Barcelona, this fast counter.attack is clean and neat, there is nothing to say…"
Barcelona's locals returned to surround the Lord Referee and protested to them. They were sure that Eto'o's shot must have been a goal.
So is it really going in? Thanks to the developed technology, we can see more clearly.
The slow motion of Eto'o's foot began to play repeatedly on the TV screen: the football hit the crossbar and bounced to the ground…This is the most critical, is the football landing in the door line?
Slowly played in slow motion, from different angles, so that everyone can see more clearly. This is not the case of the 1966 World Cup finals. It is clear in the slow motion that the football is falling outside the door line. It is not a goal.
The Barcelona team can only accept this result no matter how unwilling it is. They were deceived by their own ideas and they ate a big loss.
“Barcelona took only thirty-two seconds from heaven to hell. This huge gap is really unacceptable, look at their confused eyes…”
The impact of this goal on the Barcelona players is not as simple as a goal behind. I thought I was leading myself, and I didn't want to turn into an enemy.
Originally, the total score could be equalized, and now it is two goals behind. If you want to make a comeback at the away game venue, you will have to score two goals in the Forest team in the next game, and the total score will be equalized. The number of goals is the same, and then overtime.
But the Barcelona players are now in this state of mind…Can you really do it?
Nottingham Forest FC, this is cheaper than the Forest team, and Tony Twain is naturally "no smile".
After the lead, the Forest team Tactics remains unchanged, still insisting on defensive counter.attack, the backward Barcelona will naturally be more crazy offensive, the Forest team's defensive counter.attack can be used more easily.
The next game is really like this. The Barcelona attack, which is eager to equalize the score, has no rules. The Football Stars all intend to rely on their personal ability to recover the defeat. What is the result? In addition to wasting time, nothing was obtained.
It was the sharpness of the Forest team's counter.attack, which made Valdés busy.
In eighty-five minutes, the Forest team once again scored a goal from Barcelona by Van Nistelrooy through the fast counter.attack, completely proclaiming the end of the game.
“……Match is over! After two hundred and eighty minutes of fierce battles in two games, the Champion Barcelona of the last Champion Cup was pulled down by the last runner-up Nottingham Forest FC.
To be honest, after reading the first game, the result was not surprising, but the first goal of this game came very dramatic. ”
"Tony Twain has completed his revenge, Nottingham Forest FC not only eliminated Barcelona, but also the main away game venue!"
Twain in the TV camera is standing on the sidelines, raising his arms to the fans of the Forest team in the stands, thanking them for their support.
The bright smile seemed to bloom on his face like a flower. This time he didn't rush to shake hands with Rijkaard. Twain felt more grateful to his supporters than to pay tribute to his opponent.
George Wood came over and saw Twain, who was thanking the fans. He had intended to go straight back to the locker room, but he was stopped by Twain: "How is the feeling of George, finals?"
"Unfortunately, there is no trophy. Wood said.
Twain 嘿嘿 乐: "It's fast. He reached out his palm. "Eight into four or two games, four in two or two games, finals one." There are still five games, you can personally win the trophy. ”
Wood looked at the five fingers that Twain had stretched out. He said nothing and turned to the ramp. Twain continued to raise his hands to the fans who called the name of the Nottingham Forest FC team to continue to thank them.
He picked up his fist and waved in front of the fans.
The fans who are still unwilling to leave are shouting with Twain's gestures.
Looking at these fans excited to some distorted faces, Twain smiled very satisfied.
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