Chapter 86 Wait from the beginning and clean up the old mountains and rivers

Chelsea failed to score a penalty and Nottingham Forest did not take advantage of the ensuing counter-attack. The two sides are even, although everyone is unwilling, but there is nothing they can do.

The Chelsea players began to have problems with their stamina and the experienced players slowed down. Instead of pressing the whole court, they recycled the defensive line, compressed their backcourt space, and did not give the Forest a chance to play a quick counterattack. In this way, I slowly regained my strength.

Nottingham Forest thought Chelsea would have a double blow in morale and fitness after 70 minutes. Unexpectedly, a foul by Carvalho seemed to have aroused their fighting spirit, and the whole court was gone, but the retreating defense was well organized, so that the Forest team could not find much way to attack their hinterland.

Off-pitch, Donn didn't expect the game to turn out like this, with the Chelsea players seemingly unaffected by the penalty conceded and still in high spirits wanting to fight Forest to the end.

Tang En, who was sitting in the coach's seat, smacked his lips: "Circumstance? Okay, I'll spend it with you. Let's see who can afford it! ”

He's not in a hurry. Anyway, now that the Forest team is leading on aggregate, if Chelsea is not in a hurry to attack, when the time comes, they will be eliminated, and Nottingham Forest will be happy to win the opponent bloodlessly. If Chelsea are going to fight back frantically at the last minute, Forest will play a quick counter-attack from behind the opposition according to a predetermined strategy, and if they can score a single goal, they can completely crush the opponent, and even if they can't score, they can use the constant sneak attacks to harass the opponent and prevent them from fully committing to the attack.

"Watch defensive!!" Don, who had made up his mind to play with the other party to the end, stood up, walked to the sidelines, and shouted loudly inside. Remind the team to pay attention to the formation when defending, and not to be attacked by sneak attacks. "Steady, don't rush! Play slowly with them! He pressed his hands down so that the rest of the Forest team knew what he meant.

Nottingham Forest, who had just wanted to ask Chelsea about playing in the 30-metre zone, was also full of attacking rhythm, and there were fewer passes forward. There has been a noticeable increase in lateral and backward passing. Everyone is not stupid, now that they are ahead in aggregate, it should not be them who are in a hurry to attack.

Five minutes passed without the slightest change in the score and the situation. Mourinho couldn't sit still, he looked at his watch and got up from the dugout.

If you need to rest, it's time to rest. Fifteen minutes remained, and Chelsea still failed to qualify. How is it possible to relax?

Can't run? That's not going to work. Now is the critical moment, even if you are desperate, you have to run and grab!

Seeing Jose Mourinho standing on the sidelines with a serious face, the Chelsea players knew what they had to do.

That's right, now is not the time to rest, and as the laggards, they are not qualified to rest, even if it is only for five minutes.

'Fifteen minutes to go, Chelsea are back alive. They pressed all over the court again, which was very physically demanding. ”

Done smiled when he saw Chelsea pressing again.

It looks like Chelsea have no way out, and the defence can't do anything to score goals. He decided to put one last straw on Chelsea's back.

Seventy-sixth minute. Forest substitutions. Anelka replaces Eastwood, who are physically weak and unable to run.

Now, with the exception of Ruud van Nistelrooy and Van der Vaart, Forest's attacking duo up front is all individual with excellent skills and incredible speed. Any one of them is qualified to act as an arrow in a quick counter-attack.

Nottingham Forest are determined to carry out the defensive counter-attack to the end.

Anelka came on and was very active. He certainly wouldn't do it for Don En. He's just for himself. His two agents have repeatedly reminded him that due to his lack of appearances this season, the teams that were previously interested in him have said that they need to re-examine whether they will bring in Anelka, after all, it is too difficult to say what the state of a player who cannot even participate in the game consistently.

If he wants to leave Nottingham Forest this summer and find a team that he is happy with, he will need to show his quality in the limited number of appearances he has and tell the hesitant buyers that Anelka is all right. It doesn't matter if it's physical or state.

With that in mind, Anelka has been a bit of a lone player every time he comes on the pitch. He's trying his best to perform himself, but he's also slowly pushing himself away from Nottingham Forest's more holistic team.

When he first arrived at Nottingham Forest, no one welcomed him except the manager. He and Don had a very nice "honeymoon period", but unfortunately the honeymoon was always short. Now that he and Donn's football are drifting apart, the good memories of the beginning have long been thrown away in Java.

Perhaps his move to Nottingham Forest was a "beautiful mistake......

Anelka desperately wants to prove himself in the limited opportunities he has. The football was at his feet. Basically, don't expect it to come out. Van Nistelrooy was a little unhappy about this. He is a centre-forward, but he can even run from the opposition box back to his own box to tackle the opposition's attacks when the team needs them. He needs to be a wall up front and pass the ball to his teammates, and he won't frown.

In the Dutchman's mind, serving the team as a whole is a normal thing to do, and he can sacrifice his own shots to create space for other team-mates to cut in whenever needed. He and Anelka play two completely different footballs.

The two of them can't talk about any cooperation at all together.

Both Don and Chrillak saw this situation off the field, Don was silent and didn't ask any questions about it, but Chris Lak couldn't help it, he asked Don bluntly: "Tony, you let Anelka go up because you want to hit the opponent's quick counterattack, right?" But he disrupted the whole attack...... Are there some inappropriate substitutions? ”

Don looked at Anelka's back and shook his head, "No, it's a gamble in itself. We were the only ones up front who wanted him, so we had to let him play. As for the fact that there is a problem with our other offensive lines...... The pros and cons are half and half, and there are definitely risks. You can't expect us to take Chelsea with a smooth ride, David. Most of the time, people are faced with choices of one kind or another, and I like to describe them as gambling. ”

Chrislak shook his head: "You're such an avid gambler. Tony! ”

Don laughed, said no more, and continued to stare at the game.

Nottingham Forest's players have a good mentality, and even if one Nicolas Anelka is outside the team's tactical system, it doesn't affect their interest in dealing with an increasingly agitated Chelsea man.

Time is poison. As it wears, Forest's mentality will get better and better, while Chelsea's restlessness will become more pronounced and manifest through a constant stream of unsolicited errors.

Donn sat back in the dugout. Jose Mourinho, on the other hand, has long been on the sidelines and is no longer moving.

It's not that Donne is necessarily better than Jose Mourinho, the two managers performed very differently in the closing stages of this game, and the root cause of this was the result of the first leg.

If that game had been Chelsea's 2-1 home win over Nottingham Forest, it would have been Donne, not Jose Mourinho, who was in a hurry at this scoreline.

Why did Sima Yi let Zhuge Liang be helpless and finally die in a foreign country. The star fell into the five zhang plain. It's not that Sima Yi's ability is better than Zhuge Liang's, it's because the two have different exits and different mentalities.

Zhuge Liang must break through Sima Yi's defense line and take the Wei State, he must take the initiative. Must be attacked.

Sima Yi only needs to hold on steadily, and letting the other party provoke outside the battle is to ignore it, not to fight, and not to give Zhuge Liang a chance to fight to the death. It's like a turtle with a shrunken head. Although it was a little embarrassed and a little embarrassing, the actual effect was very good - Sima Yi won the game.

Just like this game, Mourinho is Zhuge Liang, and in order to qualify for the final, he has no other way but to attack. Donne, on the other hand, won the first leg, giving him the option to follow Mourinho's adjustments. dragged Chelsea alive, and he was Sima Yi at this time.

The game on the big screen entered the final ten minutes.

The score next to the time is still 1:1, and it hasn't changed for a long time.

Chelsea were almost all under pressure, completely oblivious to the fact that nearly half of the empty space on the pitch behind them would be exploited by Forest's fast-moving attacking players.

In the last ten minutes, if you don't work hard, you won't have a chance.

It's a game that you have to fight hard to win......

Chelsea were awarded a corner and John Terry and Carvalho burst into the box. From the corner, Carvalho fought for the ball but was not met by Kompany. Instead, he let the ball leak to Terry behind him.

Terry and Piqué battle it out in the air. Eventually, the more experienced Terry got past Piqué and headed the ball towards goal.

Piquet hasn't been a complete failure, either. The battle with Terry forced Terry to choose an angle in the air and could only win the ball...... The football was thrown directly into Van der Sar's arms by him.

Van der Sar kicked the ball away, but soon the ball fell to the feet of the Chelsea players and another frenzied attack came towards the Forest goal.

This time Drogba's long-range shot from outside the box went straight to the anti-aircraft gun. Don laughed happily at the sight of this shot, this kind of shot was too demoralizing for his teammates - you worked so hard to pass the ball to you, and when there is not much time and every offensive opportunity is extremely precious, you actually came to the anti-aircraft gun so hastily!

"If we can make the cut, I'll have to go and have a hug with that big black guy. Donn said with a grin to the two assistant coaches around him.

Chris Rac doesn't have Donn's mood, he has been frowning and paying attention to the situation on the field. I am afraid that in the case of being besieged by the other side, my side will make undue mistakes, and all the efforts of more than 80 minutes will be in vain.

He is not a defensive coach and is always wary of seeing his team's doors under siege, although he has seen the overall defensive quality of the Forest team many times in training......

No matter how strong the defense is, there will be a day when the ground will be breached, and Chris Lak has a bad premonition in his heart.

Mourinho has used up all three substitutions and has been replaced by attacking players: Kalou, Ballack and Sean. Wright-Phillips.

Aside from that brilliant pass to Robben, Shepchenko has never been integrated into Chelsea. In the end, Mourinho, who couldn't bear it anymore, finally replaced the Earth Star that his boss valued very much - at this critical moment, he no longer believed in the "nuclear warhead" that once shocked all directions.

Abramovich, who was in the box, saw Shepchenko being substituted, but he still got up politely, smiled and applauded his favorite star. Farewell to the former Soviet Union and leave the court. I don't know if he thinks in his heart that Shepchenko's farewell to the pitch is also a scene that Chelsea is about to show.

After Shepchenko left the pitch and went to the bench, the man in the box could no longer be seen, and the Russian billionaire had a grim look on his face. Four years on, his team has not been able to take another step forward in the Champions Cup, with their best result being reaching the semi-finals. Three years ago, because of Ranieri's stupid performance in the Champions Cup, he sacked the Italian tinkerer and brought in the amazing coach Jose Mourinho, who had just won the European Cup. Hopefully he will bring the glory that Chelsea have always dreamed of.

He looked coldly at Mourinho, who was standing on the sidelines waving his arms to direct the game, with no expression on his face, as if he was monolithic. No one knew what was going on in his mind at the moment.

With just five minutes to go, Chelsea will be knocked out of the tournament barring a miracle.

Don didn't want to give Chelsea a chance to do a miracle and immediately used up his last substitution.

Unlike Mourinho, who is all about attacking adjustments, Don is making defensive adjustments this time. He replaced Ruud van Nistelrooy with Albertini. In this way, Anelka became a single arrow. Albertini, on the other hand, and Georges. Wood partnered in the middle of midfield, with both men playing the defensive role as a pair of pincers to cut off Chelsea's attacking path.

Albertini took the charge and put the manager's latest tactics up to speed.

"We defend! Don't give Chelsea any chance! ”

Chelsea are in the swing. There is a kind of tragedy of "generosity to death". It was a slightly chilly night in Nottingham that left tens of thousands of Chelsea fans unable to bite their lips and remain speechless.

The Forest's defense erected a thick wall in front of them, a wall of sighs. In the face of this tight overall defense. What else can Chelsea fans do but sigh?

Mourinho stopped waving his arms because it didn't make sense. He let the whole team press without thinking about defence, and now everyone except goalkeeper Petr Cech is pressing down the halfway line. And when there was a corner, he had no doubt that Cech would rush up as well.

The Chelsea radio commentator was shouting hoarsely: "Goal! Goal! We only need one goal to change this damn everything! ”

Inside a pub in London, in the stands at City Stadium. Some of the blue-clad Chelsea fans had closed their eyes in agony, unable to bear to look at them anymore.

But the game is not over yet, the Chelsea players are still fighting, and how much they want to hear cheers from the stands? However, the sky was filled with only the indulgent cheers of the Nottingham Forest fans and the red fireworks set off in advance.

The fourth official held up an electronic sign on the sidelines, with the numbers showing stoppage time for the game, which would also be Chelsea's last hope of qualifying.

5。

'There were five minutes of stoppage time. It's not over yet. Chelsea still have a chance. Five minutes, just one more goal. It would be possible to equalize the aggregate score and cancel out the away goals of both teams. At that time, the game will be dragged into extra time...... You can see that the players are exhausted, but I must say that even if they go into extra time with exhaustion, they will lose here if they fight for another 30 minutes! ”

As he spoke, Chelsea were awarded another corner. It was their 10th corner of the game. Sure enough, Cech ran out of the net and ran wildly. Frank Lampard, who was in charge of taking the corner, also stopped to wait for Cech after seeing him running towards him.

'The 1.97m Cech is in the Forest box, he's the tallest in the team right now, maybe ......'

Frank Lampard whipped the corner over Petr Cech's head. He bet on Cech, who was very tall.

"Pete. Cech! Head to the goal - Zim Bonda! Standing at the near post, Zim Bonda blocked Cech's header on the goal line! Once again, the Forest escaped ......"

Cech didn't turn around and run back to the goal, anyway, it doesn't make a difference if you lose 1:2 or 1:3 at this time, it's better to stay in front and look for a better opportunity, and finally come to be a hero.

Football is at the feet of Chelsea and the Chelsea players are passing it back and forth.

On Forest's side, the substitutes and coaches stood shoulder to shoulder on the sidelines, waiting to rush onto the pitch to celebrate.

Chris Rac yelled from the sidelines: "Grab their ball!" They are empty doors! Grab it...... Damn it! ”

George. Wood's tackle on Frank Lampard was flicked past and just as Lampard was about to shoot, Albertini slotted out a diagonal stab and crossed Lampard's path.

He stabbed the ball out of Frank Lampard's feet first and then stabbed it again to pass the ball to Van der Vaart.

There was a deafening cheer at the City Stadium, and the on-site commentator, even with sound-isolating headphones, could barely hear what he was saying, and he could only keep up the volume and shout as if arguing: "Chelsea have conceded the goal!" Petr Cech hasn't gone back yet...... Nottingham Forest are facing an empty door! Van der Vaart opted for a direct shot - "

The ball drew a parabola in the air and crashed into the Chelsea goal 75 metres away!

Halfway through the run, Cech looked up at the football that had already flown in front of him, slowed down and stopped running...... It's useless to run, can people catch up with flying footballs no matter how fast they are? There was only one thing he could do now, and that was to pray to God for the ball to miss.

Everyone's eyes were drawn to the ball, and everyone looked up and followed the ball flying in the air. Behind these eyes is surprise, excitement, anticipation, or panic.

With these emotions, football dragged its tail like a comet and fell from the highest point.

"Van der Vaart! Van der Vaart! Van der Vaart – Oh! ”

The commentator screamed as he saw the ball fall to the ground in the penalty area in front of goal, then bounce high and bounce off the crossbar and land above the net......

"Didn't enter! What a shame! If it scores, it will be the best goal in the Champions League this season! ”

Nottingham Forest were unable to find the back of the net against Chelsea again in the end.

Van der Vaart held his head in annoyance, and there were many Forest fans who acted like him.

Don on the sidelines didn't care about this, and now the score and time were enough to ensure that he advanced to the final.

With half a minute of stoppage time remaining, Chelsea are out of action.

He pulled his arm back from the shoulders of Chrislak and Don, raised it high, and clenched it into a fist in the tsunami-like cheers.

He remained in this position until the referee blew the final whistle.

"It's over! Nottingham Forest eliminated Chelsea 3-2 on aggregate! Reached the Champions Cup final for the second year in a row! It's amazing...... The red storm in Nottingham Forest is again over Europe! The air raid sirens have sounded – Nottingham Forest is back!! ”