Chapter 99: Capture Calderon

"Welcome to Calderon! You are now watching a game in Group C of the UEFA Champions League group stage in the 10-11 season, against both sides, Atletico Madrid and Nottingham Forest.  The two sides have never had a record of confrontation before, and for each other, they are a blank piece of paper.   Nottingham Forest beat the Celtics 1-0 at home in the first group stage, while Atletico Madrid shook hands with Juventus away.    In terms of points, Nottingham Forest is temporarily leading.    But this is at Calderon, at Atletico Madrid's home court, Nottingham Forest cannot be taken lightly!”

At night, Calderon Stadium was brightly lit, and towering lights shot from all directions, making the stadium look snow-white.   The city of night is sunken, which is a place where light gathers. Fans walked through the narrow streets and alleys and poured into the stadium continuously.   The noise was like water droplets transported into the ocean by the river, and the stadium slowly became bustling.  The entire south of Madrid was in a fanatical atmosphere.

People here don’t care about buying a ticket for a whole day’s income, just to rush in and roar and vent for 90 minutes, then leave satisfied or unfulfilled, and go home to sleep. Football is not a pastime for them, it is almost the goal of life.

This is a fanatical stadium where any visiting team will be under tremendous pressure.

"But we grew up under pressure! There is no pressure to play away? I don't believe such nonsense." Donn was in Calderon's visiting team locker room to make his team last pre-war agitation. "As professional players and professional coaches, we all face all kinds of pressures. I don't take it seriously just Calderon. Atletico Madrid wants to use their home advantage to make us feel scared. Tell me, are you scared?"

"How is this possible, boss?" Eastwood stood up and spread his hands. "Who do they think they are? King Kong? Godzilla? or Jurassic dinosaurs..."

Tang En quickly made a gesture to tell him not to continue, otherwise the protagonist would have to be replaced during this period before the game.

"Okay, Freddy. I know you're determined. This game is related to whether we can qualify in the group... In fact, every game is related to. So I ask you to do your best! Aguero is the key figure, and the entire defense line cheers me up, strictly guards, and completely freezes him. If I think Aguero hasn't grown up after the game, you will win! His speed is very fast, so I ask the defense line not to be easily pressed. The full-back assists should also be minimized. Don't give Atletico Madrid a chance to attack quickly. Pay attention to protecting each other's space behind each other. George. "

Wood stood up.

"If Aguero retreats to the midfield to support you, you go up and defend. If you want to make a foul, you will be far away from the penalty area."

Wood nodded.

After explaining Wood's affairs, Done said to the whole team: "When attacking, insisting on walking on the wing, and having Camacho in the middle is a problem. Bypass him and wait for him to be attracted to the wing to assist in defense, George and Thiago are waiting for an opportunity to get in."

Don En lined up a double midfielder lineup in the away game, and he almost gave up the tactics of attacking the middle. He mainly took the wing, on the one hand, to play the wing that the Forest is best at; on the other hand, to prevent Madrid from attacking. He deliberately compressed the distance between the two players in the middle of the midfield and the back line very close, and did not give Aguero and others the opportunity to make trouble in the frontcourt.

When attacking next, it depends on how much role Mathias Fernandez and Lennon can play on the wing.

Donn glanced at Fernandez. His translator was not allowed to enter the team's most private place - the locker room. So he could only rely half on the players' experience and intuition, while the other half was guessing.

Donen doesn't speak Spanish, he speaks Chinese fluently. Unfortunately, the Chilean man, Fernandez, cannot understand...

But Fernandez is the key in this game, and he must be clearly told what he should do.

He called Fernandez's name.

Fernandez raised his head while his name was still understandable.

Donn drew his position on the tactical board, and then he used a black marker to draw a straight line in the circle representing Fernandez, drawing it all the way to the opponent's penalty area. He looked at Fernandez with his eyes.

The Chilean nodded to show that he understood.

Tang En then divided two lines at this point, one continued to walk near the bottom line, pulling a dotted line near the bottom line and reaching the goal. The other one suddenly turned from that point to the penalty area, and then pulled out a dotted line to point to the goal.

Don Eun always looked at Fernandez during the painting process. He saw him nodding before continuing to draw.

After drawing these, Fernandez already basically understood what he was going to do. Then Don said to him in very simple English: "Don't defend."

Fernandez still understands the two simple English words "no" and "defend". He nodded and said, "yes.

Tang En raised his volume and said to him: "attack!attack!" (Occurrence!)

Fernandez was taken by Donn and raised the volume of his answer: "yes!yes!"

"Ok!" Don gave Fernandez a thumbs up.

After doing all this, Don clapped his hands: "Okay, guys. Remember one thing in this game - I don't need a draw or a defeat, I just need to win! Capture Calderon for me away and take Atletico Madrid!"

At the beginning of the game, Atletico Madrid relied on their home court. A fierce attack was launched on the heart of Nottingham Forest. The offensive wave after wave, and it seemed that it would never stop.

Tang En stood on the sidelines. He wrapped his hands around his chest and watched the changes in the field coldly. He was not in a hurry. He was quite at ease with Nottingham Forest's defense - as long as he was dedicated to defending, there were very few teams in this world that could break through the Forest team goal.

Maybe Barcelona can?

But it's just a guess, it's only necessary to make it clear after the two sides meet.

Five minutes later, Atletico Madrid returned in vain and they slowed down a little. They were on guard against the Forest team's rapid counterattack while brewing the next wave of offensive climax.

Nottingham Forest fought back.

The offense started from the midfield. The football was directly passed to the wing and handed over to Mattias Fernandez.

Atletico Madrid players expressed some attention to Fernandez. But more often they still focused on George Wood.

The latest information tells Atletico Madrid coach Pellegrini that George Wood is in very good shape recently, and what makes Forest's opponents feel a headache is that this player in the midfielder position now has a unique skill in attacking. The so-called "open guns are easy to avoid, but hidden arrows are hard to defend." With such a good defense as Fernandez, George Wood, who is so annoying when he rushed up to rush cold jersey to kick the world wave...

Fernandez started his performance on the sidelines.

His speed is not too fast. But his skills are very outstanding. He is also outstanding in the field of La Liga where technology emphasizes it.

In this game, Donn gave him the greatest freedom, allowing him to play at will on the premise of bottom or cutting in. And he was not required to defend, this is Fernandez's favorite place.

He first used his start to quickly dodge Simao, then suddenly passed the ball when facing Greek right-back Setaridis, and then went downstairs. Abanglaho passed the ball out as soon as possible, two by one!

Next, Fernandez did not wait for the central defender Ze Castro to come up, and he passed the ball in. The goal was to reach a height of 2.02 meters and 2 high center forward Rikic!

In this game, Donn did not play technical scorer Eastwood, nor did he let Ibisek in the good form start, but went to two extremes - one was the extremely fast Abonlaho, and the other was the extremely tall Rikic.

Pablo, the highest altitude of Atletico Madrid centre-back, is 1.92 meters tall. But he was injured a month ago and has not healed yet. He has not even made the roster in this game.

The two centre-backs who started at Atletico Madrid are 1.83 Ze Castro and 1.80 Heatinga.

Donn decided to make a big fuss about the height of the opponent's central defender, using Zakic's bounce and header to cause trouble for Atletico Madrid.

He succeeded!

"Zikic jumped high...headed the ball!!"

“gooooooooooooooooooo——”

When Zakic jumped up, no one could compete with him at altitude, and Fernandez's cross was also very comfortable. He didn't even need to adjust his posture, he just needed to tilt his head slightly in the air and then swung his force!

Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Leo Frank was very good to react at such a close distance. He rushed out and took a step late, so he could only watch the football enter the goal...

"Nottingham Forest scored a goal in the sixth minute! This was their first attack since the start of the game, the first shot! They were ahead! Atletico Madrid suffered a heavy blow!"

They were indeed shocked. They lost the ball so quickly at the beginning, and it was definitely not in their tactical arrangements. How to play next?

Atletico Madrid suddenly lost his mind.

Attack?

After hesitating for a few minutes, Atletico Madrid launched a fierce offensive again. Amid the voices of the home fans, their offensive waves almost flooded Akinfeyev's guarding the goal.

Tang En was watching on the sidelines. He liked others to beat him, while being beaten, while looking at the other party with a slight eye, and then giving him a cold hand.

Why did he arrange two back midfielders just to wait for this moment to arrive? But this moment came much earlier than he expected...

The following game completely entered the track of Nottingham Forest. Atletico Madrid, who conceded a goal, attacked quite fiercely, and they were lost in the fanatic atmosphere at home.

Even Pellegrini didn't think there was anything wrong with doing this - he was telling the players. He insisted on attacking at home. He tried to use his home advantage to win Nottingham Forest and pave the way for the group qualifying.

Fernandez, who was circling near the midfield, watched the lively backcourt. He chose to continue cruising. The boss did not seem to make gestures off the court to let him return to defense. Of course, he knew that the team was facing the current situation, so he was also very clear that his personal skills would be the key to the team's counterattack.

So he continued to cruise in the midfield with peace of mind.

The opportunity reappeared at the end of the first half.

Fernandez received the ball from Barnes. He dribbled along the sideline and ran wildly. This time he successfully attracted the attention of two Atletico Madrid players. Hetinga and Camacho came from one behind. He did not choose to go down blindly or force the inward cut, but found the route of passing the ball in the gap between the two people and poked the football out of Hetinga's legs...

Fast horse Abanglaho arrives!

Since it was a back plug, it was not offside at all.  When Atletico Madrid was pressing heavily and the defense was empty, let's do it again!

After Abang Lajo received the ball, he accelerated and relied on his own speed to shake off his butt. Aguero, who chased him all the way back, then faced goalkeeper Frank, and tricked him into the ground with a fake move.

What else can I hesitate about when facing the empty gate? Push!

"goooooooal - the second goal!! In the 41st minute of the first half, Nottingham Forest had a classic quick counterattack! It can be written into the textbook! Fernandez, who assisted two goals, was the best player of the Forest in the first half. His two passes brought two goals to the team! Perfect performance!"

Donn and his colleagues applauded the goal off the court. He was far from happy to see the best condition of Fernandez.

During the halftime, Donne praised Fernandez's performance and made his face look like it was blooming. Although there were too many English words, he still couldn't understand them very well, but he could still know what "good" and "very_good" meant. He finally began to have such an idea - it might not be a failed adventure that he chose to transfer to Nottingham Forest.

In the second half, Atletico Madrid strengthened its defense against Fernandez. As a player who was still playing in La Liga last season, Atletico Madrid is not unfamiliar with him. This somewhat restricts Fernandez's performance. Even Camacho has paid attention to interfering with Fernandez's goal many times.

In such a situation, Done instructed Wood on the sidelines to actively intervene and participate in the offense. He doesn't have to defend from behind.

This move disrupted Pellegrini's arrangement during the midfield break. If Camacho stops Wood, then Fernandez must be handed over to the full-back and the front-line defender to defend, which is equivalent to sacrificing the team's attack on the right. How can you equalize the score with one leg? The attack in the middle was stuck by Thiago, Wood, and Pepe and others.

At the beginning of the first half, Aguero was still waiting for support from the midfield. Later, he found that all the passes in the midfield were cut off by Wood and Thiago. After he tried to retreat and catch the ball, he fell into Wood's close watch and defense.

George Wood was rated as someone who could defend Messi one-on-one. Aguero had no choice but to silence the entire first half. Although Atletico Madrid had many offensive opportunities, Aguero never got the kind of particularly threatening shooting opportunity.

In the second half, Wood was going to attack, and his chances increased slightly, but he was entangled by Pepe and Thiago. Even without Thiago, with Pepe's ability, Aguero would not be at a disadvantage.

Aguero met a strong enemy today...

In the past two years, due to Aguero's outstanding performance, Atletico Madrid is almost Aguero's team alone. The benefits and disadvantages of this are obvious. When Aguero is in good condition, Atletico Madrid can almost see whoever destroys whom, but once Aguero is frozen, Atletico Madrid will immediately become a second-rate team.

In this game, Donn freezes Aguero, the core of Atletico Madrid.

Coupled with Fernandez's big explosion, the victory was not surprising at all.

Aguero only ushered in the last five minutes of the game. His two consecutive shots almost broke through the city guarded by Akinfeyev, but unfortunately this kind of performance was too late to boost morale.   It is useless to change the score.

In the end, relying on Fernandez's two assists. And the steady counterattack tactics of the double midfielder, Nottingham Forest won the third-level team of Atletico Madrid 2:0 away. Two wins in two games. He already showed a lead in the competition with Juventus for the group qualifying. If he can continue to win like this, then this group will really become the death group of the other three teams, as Don En said.

Pellegrini seemed a little frustrated at the post-match press conference, admitting that Nottingham Forest's goal in the sixth minute disrupted the team's deployment.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

And what about Tony Don?

"It was just a wonderful night and we won. Fernandez found the state and I had no other requests."

A reporter asked him what he thought after finishing the game against Atletico Madrid and would soon face Juventus.

"It always makes people excited to see old friends." Tang En smiled very charmingly. It seemed that his opponent was really his old friends.
Chapter completed!