Chapter 16 The Head Coach Sitting in the Stand (Part 1)
Tang En sat in the stands with his two "MI6 bodyguards" and found that the host was really "considered" him and arranged his position in the worst view. He was thousands of miles away from the bench of the Forest Team. It seemed that Coventry was more worried about him than the FA and directly cut off his most primitive communication routes.
Tang En sat among a group of fans wearing Coventry jerseys and had to keep a low profile. England's football hooligan is famous. If a man around him drinks too much when he comes, it will be unimaginable. Tang En is not afraid of fighting with others. He is afraid that he will be recorded by the two plague gods around him and report it. Maybe his professional coaching career will really end...
He doesn't want to be the first football coach to ruin his career due to a fight with fans.
The game opened on time at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. When the whistle sounded, the Hayfield Road Stadium became a pot on the Heat, and the stands seemed to be boiling water, and the bubbling was rumbled. Don't hear anything except the shouts of the home team fans in his ears.
Tang En opened his mouth and said something, but he found that he hadn't heard it himself... It was much crazy than the atmosphere he felt on the coach's seat of the Forest Team.
The fans of Coventry stood up to cheer for their players, and Tang En also stood up and raised his hands, but he did not cheer for his opponent, but cursed loudly.
"Damn Old Trafford security system! Can such fans be considered B-level security?" He was not worried about causing any riots, because the people around him must not hear what he was saying at this moment. "Damn it! Coventry fans are not friendly at all!"
After complaining, Don Eun sat down honestly to watch the game. The people around him must think that this is a loyal Coventry fan.
Perhaps the two words he said before the start of the game aroused the fighting spirit and ambition of the Forest players, or perhaps the crazy performance of Coventry fans stimulated the self-esteem of the Forest team. In short, when the game began, the Forest team turned away and pressed Coventry to play offensive football at the Heyfield Road Stadium.
In this game, Donn specifically let Gareth Williams start. He was an important contributor to the victory against Coventry in the first half of the season. He scored the only goal in the game to help the team win at home. Today, Donn hopes to bring good luck to the team with Williams' fortune.
Seeing his team playing against the home team away, Tang En only laughed. The coaching staff was indeed not a good meal, and the tactics formulated were very right. Seeing Coventry's assistant coach walking anxiously on the sidelines, Tang En felt that maybe winning this game was not a problem.
His work these days is not in vain. Compared to when he just learned that their next opponent was Coventry, he is now confident that he has a good understanding of this team.
Judging from the 28th round of league data, Coventry's attack power is not very satisfactory. In the 28th round of league, they only scored 35 goals but lost 30 goals. In contrast, although Nottingham Forest had poor results, they scored 44 goals and conceded 31 goals with one less game.
Tang En found something that could be used from this data, and of course he still needed to observe the game before he could finally confirm it. But... this damn seat is very unsuitable for watching the ball on the spot, at least not suitable for watching the ball with clear and calm mind.
Coventry finally found a chance to counterattack, but their shot finally hit the billboard behind the goal. A huge sigh rang out of the stands, and everyone around Tang En hugged their heads with their hands, looking regretful. Tang En and the two people around him were like black reefs in a blue ocean, a bit alternative. Fortunately, the fans were all paying attention to the game, otherwise he, the recent news figure, would have been recognized soon. Tang En was already thinking in his mind that the two guys around him would negotiate with Coventry during the halftime break, change their seats, and at least they had to sit in the stands near the Forest fans - he was really afraid that he would be recognized by these unfriendly guys.
Three years ago, when Coventry was still in the Premier League, there was a young talent in the team, Irish young player Robbie Keane. He debuted in Wolves and performed well in three seasons. He was then bought by Coventry for 6 million pounds, but he only played for one season. He scored twelve goals in thirty-one games, and he was just twenty. A season later, Coventry threw against Inter Milan.
The 13 million pound check that came was unable to resist and sold Keane to the Italian giants. However, he did not have a very pleasant life in the black hole of the Italian star. He only played six games in the league and did not score a goal. One season later, he was brought back to the UK by the newly-rise young guard Leeds United by renting and then buying. Now he is in Tottenham Hotspur in North London, and has long parted ways with the team he had played for a season.
Now the fans of Coventry must miss the passionate Irish boy at the time. Why? Because their forwards cannot score. Most of the team's scoring depends on the set-piece of the head coach and player McCaulist, who is already 38 years old, which has to be said to be very sad.
After watching more than twenty minutes of the game, Don En firmly believed that the conclusion he analyzed from the data was correct. The reasons for the poor attack were divided into two parts. First, Coventry's players were not capable, and secondly, their coach was not capable. McCaulist was an excellent player, but he could not be considered an excellent coach, not to mention that this was his first season as head coach. Not everyone can be born as a leader like Roy Keane. He was just kicked out of the house by the Red Devils and was able to lead Sunderland to the Premier League.
Coventry's starting striker in this game was Julian`Joachim, a 27-year-old black man. He was only 1.68 meters tall, which was a very classic height, but Joachim did not have the ability of Maradona, Zora, Carlos and others. According to Don't's observation, this man's speed was pretty good, but his shooting skills were not quite satisfactory. He had a chance to beat the fly at a close distance. It was an opportunity to beat the fly more than to score. At that time, the huge cheers burst out from the stands of the Hayfield Road Stadium almost stopped Don't beating his heart for a second.
Jokeem played nine times in the first twenty-eight rounds of the league, with only two goals being scored. Such a result can only be described as "dismal" for a shooter.
The partner with this black man is David Pipe, who is only eighteen years old. He has only been promoted from the youth team to the first team this season. He has made eleven appearances so far, with no goals.
Let’s take a look at this poor forward combination. Let’s look at the Forest’s forward line: David Johnson played twenty times and scored ten goals. Malone Halewood played nineteen times and scored eleven goals. This is the forward line combination that forced the super team West Ham to get busy fourteen days ago. Don En felt that it was also effective against Class A teams.
Behind these two people are four parallel midfielders, from left to right, Andy Reed, Riccardo Scimeca, Gareth Williams, and Ian Jace. Among these four people, Smeca is mainly responsible for defense, while Williams is responsible for organizing the offense. Reed and Jace assist him one on the left and one on the right. Most of the Forest's offense comes from the midfield combination of these four people, and it is also the midfield configuration that the Forest uses the most in the early stage.
Apart from putting the older Jace on the bench to rest in the FA Cup, he has never moved a single place in this lineup. This is the wealth left to him by Paul Hart, who believes that his teacher did not fail because of tactical configuration.
Don't have received a reward soon. After Pipe also wasted an opportunity, Forest quickly launched a counterattack. Goalkeeper Darren`Ward drove the ball to the frontcourt with big feet. Coventry's defensive midfielder Moroccan Shafari successfully fought for the top, pushing the ball forward, Dawson, who was pressing the midfield, robbing the ball halfway and pushing the ball back.
With his outstanding physical fitness, Halewood controlled the ball and waited for his teammates to come up to pick him up.
McCaulist saw his plan, shouted to his teammates to return to defense, and came up to rob, hoping to interfere with or delay the Forest's offensive. 38-year-old McCaulist lost in a physical conversation with 22-year-old Halewood. Helewood easily fought the opponent behind him, and then passed the ball with a beautiful diagonal pass to Andy Reed, who was killed from the left.
When Reid was in the youth team, his long shots and long passes made him stand out. Although this was just his second League One game, he had already shown exciting qualities. He used all he had in the youth team's field. Seeing Coventry's defense line urgently deviated from the right, but his right was unmarked, which was a vacuum zone. He passed the ball to the right, and the football spanned the court and hit directly behind the Coventry's defense line!
The one here is David Johnson, who suffered a lot from West Ham's strange speed. He knocked Reed's ball forward and accelerated, leaving Coventry's defender behind!
Coventry's right back turned around and saw only Johnson's back. His first reaction was not to start chasing people, but to raise his right arm and signal to the linebacker that Johnson was offside foul!
"Your mother!" Tang En stood up from the seat and cursed in a vague manner. He didn't have to worry about becoming the target of Coventry fans, because he was surrounded by Sky Blue fans who were startled from the seat.
Johnson ran on the sidelines and just a few steps closer to Coventry's penalty area. He looked up at the lineman and was running with him, which meant he was not offside. He took another step and looked up. Coventry's people rushed towards him like crazy, and both central defenders ran towards him...
In the stands, Don En couldn't help but make a cross gesture. This is the offensive routine that he has practiced in training these days: the forwards attract the attention of the opponent's defenders, but the real killer move is the midfielder who is inserted in the back. Among the four midfielders, except for Smeka, who focuses on defense, they all have good scoring abilities.
Johnson pushed the ball to the center of the penalty area with his right foot. No matter how he looked, he seemed to be dribbling horizontally and then shot. Coventry's attention from the defender to the goalkeeper was attracted by his every move, and he completely forgot about the Forest midfielder who was being inserted at the high speed.
Johnson had arrived in the middle of the penalty area, and there were three Coventry defenders beside him. He kicked up... but did not shoot, but instead pushed the football behind him! There was a blank space!
All the players in Coventry were deceived by him, and when a red figure ran past him, Coventry's Danish goalkeeper Morten`Hyldgaard was still standing in the middle of the goal.
"Garreth Williams!"
The Forest team's No. 8 received a wonderful pass from Johnson on the corner of the small penalty area, and then without hesitation, he shot! The football rolled into the goal quickly against the turf!
"Goal!! 1:0! The Forest team, who was away in the first half, was ahead of Coventry! It seems that the Forest team has already emerged from the shadow of their sluggish state in the first half of the season. They were proactive in playing away games and took the lead in the away game!"
The Coventry fans in the stands were booing, and Tang En could not express his excitement in this booing, so he could only clench his hands into fists and put them on his head to celebrate the goal in a pretended regret. He looked at the coaching seat of the Forest Team in the distance and was joking, and he was really a little jealous.
This is the first time that Don En watched the game from the perspective of a fan. Seeing his players gathered in a group to celebrate the goal on the court, he felt a little confident about the team's future. Bowyer's concern for leaving was also diluted.
The Coventry fans who had scolded the visiting team quickly sat down and continued to watch the game, and kept cursing. Tang En sat down and continued to watch the game in silence. He forgot that there were two "bodyguards" around him, so when he heard the man next to him say to him, "Congratulations, Mr. Tang En", he was surprised.
"Ah, you guys..."
“…We are from the FA England Discipline Committee…”
“Is there such an institution?”
"Mr. Tang En, stop making such jokes."
Chapter completed!