champion godfather

Chapter 604 Juan Wuhong Strength Gap
Of course, although Tang En said that he wanted to win, football games cannot be won just by talking about them.If there is no careful preparation and meticulous arrangement, coupled with the opponent's tactics, winning is just empty talk.

Sunderland's strength is not strong, and they behave like newly promoted horses - the team's performance fluctuates.The first round of the league started, and they played against Tottenham Hotspur at home.The game was dull, but Sunderland continued their performance in the Championship last season. On the basis of tenacious defense, they actively launched a counterattack, and finally knocked on the door of Tottenham in the last minute. Got off to a flying start.

Keane's debut of the new season also looks very successful and amazing.

Some experts can't wait to announce that this season's Sunderland is likely to become Wigan Athletic in the previous two seasons.

But Keane really didn't give the expert face.In the second round of the league, Sunderland drew 2:2 away with Birmingham, lost 0:3 away to Middlesbrough in the third round, and lost 0:2 at home to Liverpool in the fourth round.

Then, on September [-], Keane returned to Old Trafford, saying goodbye to former Manchester United team-mate "The Legend" Solskjaer before the game - Solskjaer, who had been plagued by injuries before, officially announced his retirement .Although the atmosphere of both sides was very good before the game, the Manchester United fans also gave warm applause to Roy Keane who led the team back to Old Trafford. Keane even hugged Ferguson in front of many media. There is no smell of gunpowder to fight.

But after the game started, these warm sides were no longer visible.The final score was 1:0. Sunderland played very tenaciously, but the Portuguese youngster Nani, who joined Manchester United this season, pierced the gate with a world-class long-range shot.On the surface it looked like bad luck for Sunderland, Manchester United scored the goal in the worst possible way.In fact, there are many opportunities for Manchester United in normal games, but after Rooney was injured and missed, Manchester United's striker suddenly couldn't find the direction of attack.

After Carlos Tevez came on the field, his cooperation with his teammates was not tacit enough to form an effective offensive cooperation.

As for Cristiano Ronaldo, he even sat in the audience with Rooney to recover from his injuries.

The "King Dong" Dong Fangzhuo, who is very concerned about by Chinese fans, has entered the squad and sat on the bench.But no matter how hindered Manchester United's attack, he just didn't get the chance to play.He sat on the bench for 10 minutes, which also made Chinese fans look forward to 10 minutes.

At the end of that game, Manchester United relied on Nani's goal to defeat Sunderland led by Keane.

Sunderland's three-game losing streak shut up all the experts who were optimistic about them before.Although Wigan Athletic lost to Nottingham Forest in the first game of the new season, they performed quite well afterwards, otherwise they would not be regarded as big dark horses.Sunderland's performance is far from the image of "Dark Horse". Just like their nickname, "Black Cat" is a cat after all, not a horse.

In the sixth round of the league, Sunderland finally ushered in their second league victory of the season. They defeated Fulham 2:1 at home.

Sunderland fans think that the previous three-game losing streak is just a small accident. The team always loses because they are not as lucky as their opponents, and the team is slowly adapting to the rhythm of the Premier League. It can be seen from the changes in their losing scores come out.In the beginning, they lost to Middlesbrough by three goals, then they lost to Liverpool by two goals, and then they lost only one goal when they came to Manchester United. Up to now, in the game against Fulham, Sunderland is even worse. Victory has been achieved!What does this mean?It shows that the team's condition is improving game by game. We won one goal against Fulham in this round, and we will win Nottingham Forest in the next round...two goals?

These words sound a little funny, with the strength gap between Sunderland and Forest is almost impossible.But who is Sunderland's manager?It's Roy Keane who is fearless and fearless. With him, there will be miracles.Thinking about our miserable situation in the British Championship last season, who can believe that we can finally be promoted?Even we can't believe it, Roy Keane is here.He said at the inaugural press conference: "I am not here to lead the team to avoid relegation." In the end, he did what he said.

It is not impossible to beat Nottingham Forest in an away game. There is no invincible team in this world.

But unfortunately, Twain does not intend to let the Sunderland fans get their wish.

Facing newly promoted Sunderland, Twain deployed the strongest lineup he could.Goalkeeper Van der Sar, central defenders Ayala and Pepe, left back Gareth Bale, right back Rafinha.Central midfielders George Wood and Van der Vaart, left midfielder Franck Ribery, right midfielder Beckham, forward Van Nistelrooy and Arshavin.

Because of Eastwood's minor injuries, continuous fighting was not good for his recovery, so after the Champions League group match against Porto, he was excluded from the squad by Twain, allowing him to recuperate at home.

This lineup is different from the one against Porto four days ago. Twain has rotated several positions: Gareth Bale replaced Grosso, Ayala replaced Piqué, Al Chauvin replaced Eastwood.Even so, this lineup is still considered to be superior in England.

Dunn didn't want others to think that he deliberately let his good friend Roy Keane go, that would be the greatest insult to his professional ethics.

Roy Keane would not be willing to release his opponent.In the away game he sent the strongest lineup, hoping to get three points.

Sunderland adopted a counterattack tactic when facing the Forest team.Twain was familiar with this set of tactics, and he was not surprised.Because now as the Forest team is getting more and more famous, more and more teams are using defensive counterattacks to deal with them.

Sunderland is just one of them.

Nottingham Forest's unbeaten record of five wins and one draw in the first six rounds of the league this season is not due to luck. Many of the teams hope to defend and counterattack when facing Forest, but what is the final result?It's not a result of losing.

Today's Nottingham Forest is not a team that is helpless and does not know what to do when facing the opponent's iron barrel formation.Set-pieces, long-range shots, short pass penetration in the middle, flying on both wings...they have many ways to open up the opponent's defense.Van der Vaart's ability to organize an offense at the front of the opponent's penalty area is much better than Albertini and Arte. With him, Forest's frontcourt organization will have the backbone.Coupled with Ruud van Nistelrooy and Bendtner, who are not afraid of physical confrontation and are also smart centers, even if the opponent deploys heavy troops in front of the goal, Tang En will not have as much headache as before.

Now the Forest team has not only insisted on defensive and counterattack drills in training, but also focuses on practicing how to break the opponent's iron barrel formation and how to deal with the opponent in positional warfare.One of their advantages is that they are experts in defensive counterattacks. They know the weaknesses of defensive counterattacks, understand the psychology of defensive counterattacks, and know how to deal with them.

When attacking, Ruud van Nistelrooy stepped forward immediately to attract the opponent's defensive attention and push the opponent's defense back.

But it is often not the center forward who really completes the fatal blow, but Eastwood, or Arshavin, or even van der Vaart who plugs in from behind.

Now the more role of the center is not to score goals, but to perform tactical tasks.As long as the center forward goes up, the opponent's defense will have to retreat, and they dare not ignore it.Because no matter what the tactic is, the center forward is the opponent player closest to the goal, and they are the arrow figures with the most ability to score goals.As for whether there are other offensive players who want to plug in behind the opponent, it depends on the coordination between the midfield defense and the defenders.

Attacking from the back row is one of the mainstream tactics in world football. The reason why it has been tried and tested is its diversity and uncertainty.No one knows when the opponent will come in from the back row, and no one knows who will come in from the back row, let alone whether the opponent will come in from the back row. This gives the offensive team the basis for implementing this tactic.Soldiers who, deception also.To put it bluntly, football tactics are the same, that is, deception and anti-deception.

Seeing Ruud van Nistelrooy aggressively squeezed into the penalty area, Sunderland's defenders dared not ignore it.One ebbs and another, they put the defensive force inside the penalty area, and the defense against the front of the penalty area is weak.Van der Vaart took the ball at the front of the penalty area. For a while, Sunderland's defensive players did not go up to press, but worried that they would leave space behind them after going up, allowing the opponent to seize the opportunity to pass through...

The Dutch seized this opportunity to take a powerful long-range shot.

The football hit the goal frame and was saved by Sunderland's main goalkeeper Craig Gordon.Gordon was the main Scottish goalkeeper that Keane spent 900 million pounds on before the season. In the first game, Sunderland scored a goal against Tottenham, and his performance received unanimous praise.Then he went up and down with Sunderland... conceding six goals in a three-game losing streak.Only in the last game against Manchester United, he was well received, and the opinion of the experts was "if it wasn't for Gordon, Sunderland would have lost five goals".

Tang En had never been optimistic about Gordon, because this goalkeeper lacked the most important element - stability.This person may be able to perform like a god in one game, but if he scores three goals in more games, it is useless to the team as a whole.

Well, now the question is, how will Gordon help in this game?Or swallow three eggs?
Bell from the Forest team took a corner kick. He was a left-footed player and took a corner kick from the right.At this moment, Beckham, who was originally at the far end, suddenly ran over. Is he going to kick?

No, Bell pulled the football out, and Beckham swung his foot without stopping the ball and it was a cross!
What was originally an inward-spinning football turned into an outward-spinning curve ball, and all of Sunderland's previous defensive arrangements fell through.Pepe and Ruud van Nistelrooy have also been proved to be just a cover, their role is to attract the opponent's defensive attention, and then create opportunities for teammates who plug in behind.

Ayala, who was wandering on the perimeter, suddenly came out, and he headed the ball ahead of everyone...

"The goal was scored!! No one thought! Ayala was the target of this header...Look at the corner kick from Beckham, it was aimed at the Argentine defender! 1:0! Nottingham Forest won at home Lead!"

Set kicks are the best way to break through the opponent's dense defense.

Seeing the conceded goal, Keane rushed from the coach's bench to the sidelines with some dissatisfaction, expressing his anger at the defender's missed defense just now.

And Tang En sat on the coach's bench with his annoying Erlang legs up, leisurely.

After having Bell and Beckham, the two masters of set kicks, the Forest team usually puts various tactical drills of set kicks in a very important position.This sudden change from long corners to short corners is just one of them.

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Next, after taking the lead, the Forest team changed their posture into a strong team and gave up the practice of besieging the opponent in positional warfare. Instead, they recovered in a planned way and dealt with Sunderland in the midfield.Twain knew that with Keane's character, if he fell behind by one goal, he would definitely ask the team to score a goal to make it back.The Forest team did not take back the backcourt, but waited for Sunderland to come up in the midfield. In terms of midfield strength, Sunderland was not as good as Nottingham Forest.

George Wood is now the hottest defensive midfielder in the Premier League and even in European football. I don't know how Keane feels when he sees the kid he pointed out at the beginning, and now the player who is actively blocking him on the field...

Sunderland's offense was too monotonous when facing the Forest team, and their personal skills were completely at a disadvantage.It can be said that the current Sunderland is a very typical English football-not referring to the "long pass" tactics, but referring to their emphasis on body and will, but lack of technical characteristics.Under the transformation of Twain and the Foreign Legion, the Forest team is already at a relatively good level in the Premier League in terms of technology.At least they rarely stop the ball for more than five meters.This is not a joke. Sunderland players frequently made such low-level stoppages under the pressure of the Forest team. If they can't even stop the ball well, how can they talk about organizing offense?
Tang En was not worried about Sunderland's counterattack at all, because he had carefully studied Keane's team long ago.Keane's time in charge of this team is too short, no matter how many grand plans he has in mind, there is no time for him to implement them one by one.Today's Sunderland still retains the style of playing in the British Championship, with body and will first, technology second.This set is very popular in the British Championship, but it is not easy to use in the higher level Premier League.If you want to have a big development, the technical route is essential, whether it is the artistic flow like Arsenal, or the comprehensive flow like Manchester United, or the "pseudo-technical flow" of other Premier League teams...Technology must be obtained. Pay attention to.

The accumulation of individual technical gaps has become a huge gap between the two teams.This gap caused the Forest team to control the rhythm of the game in front of the field. Sunderland's attempt to equalize the score was just a thought, and it felt a bit "powerless".

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. Keane was unwilling to adjust his offense and wanted to forcibly tear apart the overall defense of the Forest team by strengthening the offense.Helpless, or because the individual gaps have accumulated into the gap between the team as a whole, he is powerless to recover.

After the Forest team firmly controlled the rhythm of the game, they dealt with Sunderland slowly, found an opportunity...and then made a fatal blow.

In the No. 17 and 39 minutes of the second half, the Forest team scored two more goals.

In the end, the score of the game was 3:0, and Nottingham Forest won.Poor Craig Gordon once again swallowed three eggs.The goalkeeper Keane was optimistic about was a little downcast after the game.

After the final whistle sounded, Dunn took the initiative to go up to Roy Keane to shake hands: "I want to say I'm really sorry, Roy."

Keane curled his lips: "Come on, Tony. Put away your hypocritical smile, we lost, you won, there is nothing to say."

Tang En spread his hands and looked innocent: "But we always have to put on a show in front of the media, don't we?"

Keane, who lost the game, was not in a good mood, but seeing Tang En like this, he couldn't help laughing: "Let's have a drink together tonight." He stretched out his hand, and the two of them held hands together.

(End of this chapter)