Chapter 48: Infiltrating the Middle Lane

Although the sales and popularity of The Sun are very high, intellectuals have criticized that the Sun's methods of reporting news are crude, unprofessional, and non-neutral, and often use sensationalism to stimulate sales and satisfy people's low-level needs.

The famous "Three Editions of the Girl" is one of the selling points.

However, on the sports sector, there was news of Pixie Lott in the entertainment industry.

"Popular female singer, meeting her boyfriend in the hotel late at night? 》

In the picture, it can be seen that in the middle of the night, Pixie sees off a man wearing a peaked cap and gets into the car, behaving affectionately.

It also states that Pixie was present at Bournemouth's game, which led to the conclusion that the mysterious man was a football player.

But this speculation was quickly dismissed.

First of all, Pixie is the hottest female singer-songwriter at the moment, and Bournemouth is only a Championship team, and there are no well-known players in the team, so it is impossible to be identical.

Also, Pixie was at Bournemouth, just working, probably going to watch a game on a break, which doesn't mean anything.

As for the mysterious man with the hat, there was not much information, and in the end, it was not resolved.

"Gossip Boyfriend" is a player of the Bournemouth team, and in the face of such entertainment news, it has caused a lot of discussion in the team.

Everyone is investigating, who is this god man?

Soon, this rhetoric was suppressed by Eddie Howe.

At the training ground, everything is about football, it's not a place to talk.

Next up is against Nottingham Forest, an established powerhouse with a good historical record.

Two pre-restructuring Champions League titles, one UEFA Super Cup winner, one pre-Premier League restructured champions, and two FA Cup winners.

Although it is now mixed in the Championship, it is maintained at the mid-level level, and it is a relatively powerful team among the surpassing teams.

After the training session, Eddie Howe gathered his players in the tactics room to analyse the opponent's formation and play.

Nottingham Forest is a team that is stronger in attack than in defense, and its strength lies in the pressing style of play in the midfield, which is aggressive, and like Bournemouth, it is good at attacking from the wings.

In response to this, Eddie Howe did not choose to defend steadily with Richie, but let Wilson come to the right and play a pinpoint against Maimang.

Up front, Rossi partnered Comogante for the first time the two had worked together.

If the first three victories are a good performance of the team, then the game against Nottingham Forest is a battle that really tests the strength of the team.

As it turned out, Bournemouth faced stubborn resistance at home in Saturday afternoon's game.

Last season, Nottingham Forest lost 4-1 to Bournemouth on this grass, and they went all out and vowed to make a comeback.

In the 25 minutes of the first half, players from both sides strangled in the midfield, and the confrontation was fierce, and the most direct response to the hot scene at that time was that two players from each team received yellow cards.

The referee doesn't want to be torn apart and doesn't want to be a good player.

He called the captains of both sides over and told them to go back and tell their teammates to keep their movements as small as possible and not to get hurt.

This is in the English league, you teach, how to call it smaller.

In the 37th minute, full-back Fox tackled Wilson near the touchline, and the referee told him with a yellow card that such a move would be a card.

With the two sides battling possession in midfield, Rossi and Comogant up front didn't have many chances to get the ball.

The ability of both sides to defend the ball in the air was not bad, and the hasty crosses from the wing did not pose a threat to the goal.

The fiery scene lasted for 40 minutes, and the players on both sides lost a bit of energy a bit before stopping.

After no longer relying on the tactics of flying on the wings, it will be necessary to test the quality of the midfielders of both sides.

Both teams are in a 4-4-2 formation, with two players in midfield, both attacking and defending.

As in the case of Bournemouth, it is Harry Ater who is responsible for pushing the ball forward, and the core of Nottingham Forest's midfield is the veteran Reid.

In terms of passing, the two are evenly matched, but Reid's ability to control the ball can bring a wealth of changes to Nottingham Forest's frontcourt attack.

The Irish veteran can pass beautiful long balls at the back, and in midfield, he can connect well with the team's offensive and defensive transformations, and is the team's speed-up machine.

Once he was given the ball outside the box, his subtle through balls and powerful long-range shots often scared the goalkeeper.

In defense of the veteran, Eddie Howe had O'Kane mark him one-on-one.

O'Kane, who is calm and not risky, uses his excellent judgment to use defense to delay or limit Reed's passes.

He never grabs, although he does not have efficient ball breaking data, but he can also make the opponent very uncomfortable when he gets the ball.

In the 43rd minute of the game, Reed took the ball on the left side of the front of the penalty area, faced O'Kane's defense, flicked the ball to the right with his right foot, followed with his body, and hit the goal with his right foot.

O'Kane reached out with his left foot in time to block the shot, but Reid only faked the shot, paused on tiptoe with his right foot, and then flicked the ball over.

The successive lateral dials failed to shake off the defense, and O'Kane's follow-up kept the pressure on the attacking players.

When Reed touched the ball for the third time, he flicked the ball diagonally with the outside instep.

O'Kane is powerless to defend against this pass, he can prevent a frontal shot, but he can't prevent a pass to the side.

Just then, a dark shadow burst out diagonally and slid the ball between the two Bournemouth centre-backs.

It's Nottingham Forest's youngster Assunbalonga.

The Congolese youngster used his speed to dribble into the box, while centre-backs Cook and Elfik rushed to close the net.

But after all, it was a step too late, and was dodged in by Asambaronga, facing the attacking goalkeeper, and fired a powerful volley straight to the top left corner of the goal.

Goalkeeper Kemp was fast enough, his legs slightly open, his center of gravity lowered, and he fell to the ground at any time to save the ball.

Unexpectedly, this youngster did not talk about martial arts, and hit the top corner of the goal with a confident volley.

When Kemp saw the ball clearly, it was too late to save, his body stood in place, his right hand only made a symbolic gesture of reaching out, and the ball had already flown into the net.

0:1!!

Ooh!

The home fans exclaimed, the goal was too violent.

[Beautiful goal, Nottingham takes the lead.] 】

[The youngster is suddenly decisive and shoots beautifully, he can't be seen at all, he is only 22 years old, and his ability to handle one-on-one balls in the penalty area is very confident. 】

[Here, the veteran Reid must be praised. He used a lateral dribble at the edge of the box to disrupt the Bournemouth defence before delivering a high-quality behind-the-back ball. This is the passing vision and wisdom that only a master can have. 】

Towards the end of the first half, Bournemouth conceded a goal, which also showed that they were at a disadvantage in the battle for midfield.

The opponent's penetration in the middle is quite methodical.

Eddie Howe's face turned blue in an instant, and he would never allow his opponent to score goals in the way he was good at it.