Chapter 54: This is fate

Mourinho was unwilling to draw. With injury time in the game fifteen minutes left, he replaced the offensive player and continued to strengthen his offense. He hoped to break the Forest's goal and end the embarrassing record before Donn's last game.

Under his roar, Manchester United players also realized that this was a game that must be won - if the Forests succeeded in sneak attacking at the last moment, the efforts of the whole season would be wasted.

You should know that Arsenal has already reported 2:0 lead to the opponent in another stadium. If nothing unexpected happens, Arsenal will definitely win.

Manchester United cannot pin their hopes on others. Only by striving for goals by themselves can we ensure that their destiny is still in their own hands...

Seeing Manchester United strengthening the offensive, Done stood up from his seat, whistled and made gestures on the sidelines. Then Nottingham Forest shrank its defense line and entered a defensive posture.

It's actually a defensive counterattack.

The better Manchester United attacks, the more opportunities the Forest team will have. Donne trains this team and teaches them to be patient when their opponents have the advantage in the situation. As a hunter, nothing is more important than patience.

Therefore, even if Manchester United strengthened its offensive, the Forest's defense showed no sign of panic, as if they were ready to wait for Manchester United to attack.

During this period, Manchester United won no less than five shooting opportunities, but with the joint efforts of the Forest team, they did not threaten the Forest's goal at all. The defense line led by George Wood was across the front of Manchester United's players, making them feel desperate.

Although Manchester United has an advantage in terms of the scene, the supporters of Forests are not worried that their team will concede goals. Some people think that the two sides may have a great chance of a draw in this game...

John Mortson doesn't think so.

"I know Tony, I have explained the Forest team's game for more than ten years. The scene in front of me really makes people miss..."

The Forest team in front of us is being besieged by Manchester United, why do they feel nostalgic?

"The Nottingham Forest is like a spring. The more fierce the external force they are, the shorter they are compressed. Opponents should be wary of being injured by the rebounding spike..."

Mourinho obviously knew that he and Don En had been an opponent for more than ten years. How could he not see such a few signs?

He raised his wrist and looked at his watch. It was less than five minutes before injury time, and the score was still 0:0. Now he has to make a choice.

Should we continue to attack strongly, strive to score a goal before the end of the game, win the game, and end our fate? Or should we stop here. Strong defense, defend this draw, and win the league championship?

Mourinho didn't think about it for too long. As Manchester United's land manager, he quickly made the right choice. Compared with personal grudges, the interests of the team are more important. What's more important than fighting for a league championship?

Mourinho thought of coming here and going to the sidelines, ready to convey his latest instructions.

A step earlier than him, Don Eun had already walked to the sidelines. He rushed into the field and shouted: "Joe—————!!"

Wood heard Tang En's shout in the noisy environment. Although he was fifty years old, the head's hoarse voice had a special frequency, which could always travel through the noisy environment and clearly convey it to Wood's ears.

Seeing Wood turn his head and look over, Tang En didn't say nonsense. He just waved his hand: "Attack, man!!"

Seeing his gesture, Wood had no words yet, and Bale was already excited. He was closer to the coach's seat in the second half. So he could hear Tang En's words clearly. He simply followed the lead, waved his hand forward, shouting: "Attack, guys!!"

And at this time, it was Manchester United's attacking.

Wood and Chen Jian rushed towards Adrien who was holding the ball almost at the same time. This scene is not common. Before, when the Forest team defended, they would go up to intercept the ball, while the other person was protecting each other, waiting for an opportunity to find a bargain.

Adrien was a little fussed against the Forest team by this sudden move. He pushed the ball to the left and avoided Chen Jian's right leg, but hit Wood. In a panic, the ball under his feet was lost.

When Wood saw Adrien bumping into him, he turned sideways and separated Adrien from the football, and then cut off the opponent's ball.

Wood, who broke the ball, knocked the ball to Chen Jian behind him with his heel, and just passed by Adrien's feet. He looked at the football but was powerless.

After Chen Jian got the ball, he did not dribble the ball himself. Instead, he passed it directly to the front and gave it to Mitcher. At this time, Manchester United had just completed an offensive. Mourinho's latest instructions have not been issued yet, and the players did not know that they should retreat, so Manchester United players reacted a little slowly in the return to defense.

Mitcher stopped the football and turned around and started to dribble the ball forward. He had a big step and his feet were very good. He was not struggling to control the ball at a height of more than two meters. After taking big steps, Manchester United defender Evans was a little unable to keep up.

Mourinho changed his mind temporarily when he saw this scene. Instead of shouting "Pay attention to defense" on the sidelines, he shouted: "Foul!!!"

The foul early before entering the penalty area is the wisest choice to stop the Forest team's attack. Even if you get a red card, it doesn't matter. Anyway, just grit your teeth and persevere.

Evans seemed to hear Mourinho yelling on the sidelines, reached out to grab Mitchel and put the shovel under his feet. He successfully destroyed Mitchel's breakthrough, but failed to control the football under his feet. He tackled the ball in another direction.

Balotelli happened to receive the ball from Evans to the ground. Another central defender from Manchester United, Cascarte, did not expect that the ball from Evans to be tackled to fall at Balotelli. He was preparing to intercept Mitchel on the front before, so he had to adjust his direction and pounce on the Italian.

When Balotelli saw that Cascarte was still unable to get up for a while, he took a few steps forward, ran to the top of the penalty area, and suddenly took a long shot!

Manchester United goalkeeper Rufijang had long expected Balotelli to come back with such a move. He flew into the air and shot the ball back with both fists.

Nottingham Forest fans in the stands sighed loudly. It was a pity that there was no goal in this offense.

Many people even hugged their heads with regret.

But the next second, their hands holding their heads reached out and pointed back to the sky.

Guess what they saw?

In everyone's vision, No. 13, Nottingham Forest, a man wearing a golden armband appeared in front of the landing point of the football like a magic weapon falling from the sky, and then swung his right leg towards the football.

“george_wooooooooooooooooooo——”

Mortson stood up from his seat, and he elongated his tone and shouted in a way that did not belong to the English narrator.

He couldn't predict it. But when he saw Wood's look of swaying his legs in front of the ball, a sudden passion suddenly hit his chest and opened his mouth and blurted out.

He just wanted to yell.

The football fell, and Wood did not adjust it from his mother-in-law, but instead shot directly at the football!

At this moment, Lu Feirang had just landed and was struggling to get up, ready to save the ball again.

The football flew past the left back Fabio who came to make up for defense. The strong wind hurt the Brazilian's ears and made him grin.

Lu Fei let the ball rush hard, but he lacked motivation, so his jumping height was limited. The football flew over from above him, and there was no suspense here...

“wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!”

The football hit the net hard. The white net swung up and the arms of countless Twin Forest fans in the stands.

Those white arms were waving, as if the strong wind blew across the Sherwood Forest, making a huge sound of wind—

"boom--!!"

"George Wood! George Wood! Goal in the 88th minute! Nottingham Forest leads 1:0! 1:0! Manchester United's dream of winning is in danger... No. It can almost be said to be broken!"

"It's a really powerful blow! George Wood scored his eleventh goal this season!"

"Ahh! This is an incredible scene. Mourinho once again lost to Tony Donne. Is this fate? Can anyone still say it, right?"

The commentators expressed their opinions on the goal.

After giving Wood more than ten seconds, the TV camera immediately cut to the sidelines and focused on the performance of the two head coaches.

Mourinho angrily threw away the notebook in his hand. He always wrote and painted on it when directing the competition. Now this book is useless and he threw it to the sidelines as a tool to vent.

Tony Tangen, next door, rushed out of the coaching seat with his arms raised and hugged the people around him. It can be seen that he was very excited. He ended his coaching career with a victory. Nothing is more perfect than this.

"Congratulations to Tony Don, congratulations to him for winning the last game." In the eyes of these commentators, Mourinho's team has already lost. If Mourinho could hear the voices of these commentators, it would probably be not as simple as throwing his notebook alone. He would definitely feel that he had received a great insult - before the game was over, a group of bastards could not wait to announce his failure. How could he not be angry?

But no matter how angry he is now, he can only endure the cheers and celebrations of his opponents, so his face turned pale.

On the other side. Nottingham Foresters are celebrating wantonly.

George Wood broke free from his teammates' embrace and siege. He ran all the way, waved his hands constantly on the way. He signaled the person in front of him to dodge quickly.

Then he crashed into Tang En's arms.

He rushed so quickly that when he ran into Tang En, Tang En grinned in pain.

"George, you really..."

He felt Wood's arm holding him tightly, and he was unable to speak.

But he did not remind Wood to use too much force, he just grinned and took it. To outsiders, he seemed to be laughing like this.

Don Eun didn't know how long Wood had been holding him, but when he finally let go, he breathed a sigh of relief.

But he didn't complain, he just patted Wood's back.

Wood's actions reminded other players that after Wood and Don't hugged, the people who rushed up to hug him were Gareth Bale, then Joe Matok, Aaron Mitcher, Mario Balotelli... There were people lined up behind him. It seemed that everyone would come up to hug Don't hug. If this continues, when Manchester United can kick off the ball, the game will have already entered injury time.

The referee had to interfere.

"Gentlemen, I know your current mood, but the game will continue." The referee was actually a little embarrassed. At the home court of the Forest team, he couldn't speak too much, so he could only tactfully persuade the players to go back.

But his influence here is far from enough.

No one responded even a little to his words.

Of course, Tang En saw the referee who was in a difficult position behind the crowd. This was his last game, and he didn't want anything wrong. So he stopped the players who wanted to come up and hug: "Okay, guys, wait until you all hug it, it's dawn." Although he thought he was very humorous, no one laughed.

Everyone just looked at him.

"Go back." Tang En didn't say anything more, waved his hand, turned around and walked back to the coach's seat, and sat down.

Seeing him like this, the players also knew that they had to return to the stadium and continue the game.

When they all returned to the court reluctantly, Tang En stood up and shouted at the game: "Don't think about it! If the opponent equalized at the last moment, I will make you look good!!"

He saw that many people were not interested in fighting, so he spoke out again to remind him.

In fact, he was overthinking.

In the last few minutes, although Manchester United was determined to counterattack, their offense was incompetent and they fought on their own. Mourinho was helpless and could only spread his hands and shrugged on the sidelines. In the end, he simply sat in the coach's seat and couldn't get up, watching silently what was happening on the court.

Looking at the Manchester United player who was blindly shooting and running from a distance on the court, he suddenly felt that "the situation was hopeless".

It's really weird. I can't beat Tony Tangen in this way!

He clenched his hands tightly, his knuckles were pale and he didn't even notice it.
Chapter completed!