champion godfather

Chapter 362 Volume [-] Red Forest Race

After the end of the league with Bolton, the team only stayed in the UK for one day before flying to Spain collectively.

On August 25, at Villarreal's home stadium, the Forest team will challenge their Champions League qualifier opponents.This is a crucial game. Even if the Forest team beat Villarreal 2-0 at home in the first round, there is no guarantee that nothing will happen in this game.

Twain could imagine that this game would be difficult, so he reminded his players more than once to think more difficult about the game, and don't think that 2:0 will be enough to sit back and relax.

Twain showed this kind of caution in terms of tactical arrangements and lineup arrangements.The strongest lineup, defensive counterattack.

Anelka is still starting, and his speed is the weapon Dunn relies on most in this game.

Anelka in the centre, Franck Ribery on the left and Ashley Young on the right.This is the trident in the Forest team's counterattack.Twain had only one requirement for them—to send the football into the opponent's penalty area as quickly as possible.

Although Riquelme's performance in this game was much better than in the first round, although Pellegrini did not make another wavering error, although Villarreal's overall performance was very good, they scored in the game. hit two balls.

But in the second half, the Forest team still firmly held their fate in their own hands.

Anelka's shot was blocked after a beautiful breakthrough, the Villarreal goalkeeper dropped the ball, Arteta followed up with a supplementary shot, and the ball went into the net!
This goal happened 4 minutes before the end of the game. The Spaniards were looking forward to playing overtime. Unexpectedly, Arteta, who is also a Spaniard, sent his compatriots out of the Champions League.

An away goal, with a score of 3:2, means that if Villarreal wants to drag the game into overtime, they have to score two goals in the remaining 4 minutes!

But this is an impossible task for the yellow submarine whose morale has been hit hard.

The fourth official held up the stoppage time sign on the sidelines, and the time was 3 minutes.But from one and a half minutes on, Forest's substitute players gathered on the sidelines, waiting for the referee to blow his whistle, and rushed into the stadium to celebrate.Now every Nottingham Forester feels that the 3-minute stoppage time is too long, every second seems to be as long as a day, and some people are afraid that at this last moment, there will be no side effects.Didn't you say football is round?Can anything happen?

at last……

"The game is over! After 24 years, Nottingham Forest has returned to the European Champions Cup!"

Of course, in fact, it can no longer be called the "Champions Cup", and now it has to be called the "Champions League".

All members of the ecstatic Forest team didn't stay on the court for too long. After all, it's not good to be too ostentatious on other people's territory. Their celebration was moved to the locker room.

Club chairman Evan Dalgety and marketing manager Alan Adams also attended the game. After the game, they all came to the locker room to congratulate the team on their achievements.

Of course, the most important thing in the locker room is the head coach.Tang En waved his hand to calm everyone down, and then announced loudly: "You guys have done a good job, now... let's go to the Champions Cup and have a big fight!"

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The team returned to the UK with glory. In addition to the die-hard Forest fans singing songs, there were also many media who greeted them at London's Heathrow Airport.

Because before the Forest team expedition to Spain, good news came from Liverpool.

As the defending champion of the Champions League, the "Red Army" Liverpool, which was beaten by UEFA from the first round of the qualifying round, finally defeated CSKA Sofia of Bulgaria with a total score of 3:2 in the third round. Advance to the UEFA Champions League.

Then after the Forest team eliminated the Spanish team Villarreal, it set a record-as many as five English teams appeared in the UEFA Champions League this season!

Although this is a special situation due to special reasons, because as the champion of the European Champions Cup, he cannot participate in the new season of the Champions League because of his league ranking. This is seen as a mockery of the Champions League-the defending champion cannot Participating in the Champions League next season is the first time in the 50-year history of the Champions League.Because in the previous Champions Cup, only the champions of each league could participate in the cup competition, and at the same time, the champions of the previous Champions Cup were automatically shortlisted. This is why Nottingham Forest can participate in the Champions Cup and successfully defend the title even though they did not win the league championship. I was the last champion and automatically participated.

Later, after the Champions League was restructured and turned into the Champions League, the number of teams that could participate in the Champions League increased, and the setting of automatic entry for the defending champion was also cancelled.

Liverpool's situation is special. At that time, UEFA discussed for a long time, and even involved whether to sacrifice Nottingham Forest in exchange for Liverpool's qualification to participate in the Champions League.If this resolution is passed, then the Forest team will be out of luck.Fortunately, this seemingly absurd decision was rejected.UEFA licenses Liverpool to participate in the new season's Champions League, but they have to start from the first qualifying round.And said that this is a special case and will not appear again in the future.

But what happens next, who cares?

The Liverpool people got a benefit, and the English also got a benefit.From the moment the news was announced, English people were looking forward to this day: five English teams gathered in Europe's highest level club league - the UEFA Champions League.

Now the day has finally arrived and it can be seen as a major victory for English football.It is only natural that the returning Forest team received such attention from the media.

"It would be even better if they could bring flowers..." Tang En said nonchalantly while watching this scene.What does success in English football have to do with him?He only cares about his team.

"No matter what you think, you're going down for an interview," Chris Lack said with a laugh as he waited to get off the plane.

"Once again, I think Anelka's two brothers are too smart. I should set myself a price of [-] pounds for an interview, so that I don't have to deal with this kind of scene."

"Then you might as well say one hundred thousand pounds a word." George Wood walked past Tang En and said suddenly, and the laughter of other players suddenly rang out.

"Hey!" Tang En rolled up his sleeves as a gesture, and laughed even louder.

Then amidst the laughter, Wood walked past Tang En, leaving a sentence: "My mother will treat you to dinner tonight."

Tang En was stunned.

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