Chapter 30 Goal: Super League (Part 2)
"The game is about to enter the last ten minutes, and Nottingham Forest is now tied with the opponent 3:3. The score is due to the own goal of Ipswich's centre-back Richard Naylor in the 33rd minute. The two teams played crazy today, and they scored a total of five goals in the first half! Ipswich scored the score back in 66 minutes."
"There was a very bad news for the Forest. The goal was from Rotherham United. The goal was the visiting Wolves. The dull game finally showed signs of a victory or defeat. But this was definitely bad news for Donn. If the score remained until the end, the Forest would be widened by the fifth-placed Wolves in the league.
"...Let's see what happened... Oh! The ball was scored! Malone Halewood! This is his first goal in this game and his 21st goal this season! This goal must have made Tony Donn breathe a sigh of relief! In the 79th minute, his team once again led the home team Ipswich!"
"The game is over! Nottingham Forest won their fourth consecutive victory away as he wished! Donne and his team are on the right path!"
On April 5, the 41st round of the league. Donn led the team to a difficult victory over their most direct competitor Ipswich, who made the Premier League 4-3 away. Hailewood's goal brought the team three-pointers worth a thousand gold.
On April 9, the 40th round of the league was added. Nottingham Forest lost a small away goal in the away game, ranked second in Leicester. This was a planned defeat. Donn had some reservations, so he was happy that the team lost only one goal and performed more like a winner in the game. Leicester City has 80 points, leading the third place Sheffield United. With five rounds left in the league, they and Portsmouth, who has 83 points, have basically locked in two places to directly advance to the Premier League, and the remaining teams can only compete for the third place decided by the playoffs.
Since Ipswich, who ranked seventh, lost consecutively and was getting further and further away from the sixth place, Don Eun was not worried about being overtaken. So he simply retained his strength to deal with his next opponent, Wolverhampton Wanderers.
This is a direct dialogue between the sixth and fifth in the league. If Donn wins, Forest will be the same as Wolves, and then rely on the goal difference advantage to put Wolves under him and replace him. If he fails, the gap will be further widened.
Although the third to sixth in the league are eligible to participate in the playoffs, according to the rules of the FA, the playoffs adopt a two-round knockout system, the semi-finals are home and away, and the finals are determined in a gravity field. The matchups are from the third to sixth in the league, and the fourth to fifth in the fourth. Therefore, the higher the ranking, the weaker the opponents you can meet. This is also why Tang En tried every means to defeat the Wolves and get the fifth in the league.
Because this is a game that concerns the opponents of the playoffs, Tang En considers this way, and the head coach of the Wolves will naturally consider it. Both sides sent out their main players and made the best tactical arrangements. This was a head-on collision without any tricks. Both head coaches used up the three substitutions and made all the targeted adjustments they could make.
Just nine minutes into the game, the Wolves were led by their striker Nathan Blake.
Then in the 26th minute, Wolves midfielder Colin Cameron sprinkled a handful of salt on the wound of the Forest, 0:2! The city court fell into a dead silence.
The one who stood up to save the team at a critical moment was David Johnson. His goal in the 40th minute gave Forest fans hope.
In the second half, both sides deployed troops, and the two head coaches used the Green Field as a chessboard and played a high-level chess game.
Finally, in the 73rd minute, Don Eun's desperate tactics achieved results. Captain Michael Dawson, who was pushed to the front for the second time, scored his third goal of the season. The city stadium was instantly detonated, and a huge cheer burst out from the stands, so loud that Don Eun could not hear his own applause.
In the next game, although Don En tried his best and the Forest players ran to cramps, they could not bring a victory to the fans. They had no choice but to shake hands with the Wolves at home.
The draw in this game did not change the pattern of the standings, and the top six were still the names before, and even the order did not change.
Tang En's bad mood disappeared when he woke up the next morning. Because that night was Yang Yan's time to give him class. He felt that there were two things worth looking forward to in life today, one was the victory of each game, and the other was the Chinese class with Yang Yan.
Every time Yang Yan sees Tang En again, he has to be used to amazed, because he is the fastest Chinese and Chinese language learner and Chinese culture in foreign countries that he has ever seen!
Every time he heard Yang Yan's serious praise, he added: "I'm definitely not complimenting you." Tang En would nod hard and agree. Because he could speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, he was born and raised in China for 26 years.
What kind of Chinese class is just an excuse to get close to Yang Yan.
He just hoped to hear Yang Yan's voice, see her smile, and be in the same room as her, breathing the same air and talking about the same topics.
Basically, the first half of a class was Yang Yan giving lectures to Tang En, and the second half became Tang En giving lectures to Yang Yan on football.
But neither of them felt that there was anything wrong with doing this. Yang Yan gradually became a fan of the Forest team, and Tang En... His Chinese level has become "a thousand miles a day", which makes Yang Yan feel very accomplished.
Every time he sees his old classmates' achievements, Tang En finds it funny. But he can't tell this out, he can't tell others his true identity - on the one hand, he has realized that he may never be able to return to the kind of life he used to; on the other hand, he likes the feeling of being a coach, and even if he is a substitute, he doesn't want to return this body.
As for Yang Yan... that was the only person who could keep him in touch with his previous life. In fact, there were not many things in his past life that Tang En was worth missing, except for this girl. He could occasionally remember that he had studied in China and met some people...
In a sense, Yang Yan is his first love. However, first love mostly means no result. Tang En doesn't plan to tell the old past, just let them rot in his heart. Maintain the original state. I didn't know you before, and you didn't know me before. Now we know you, but there is no more story.
When Tang En saw Yang Yan, the excitement was more about the contrast between the present and the past, and the side effects of the intersection of reality and dream...
Now that the effect is gradually dissipating, he can also look at each other with a more peaceful attitude.
Chapter completed!