Entering October, the schedule of the English Premier League appeared a little messy due to there being more matches for the national team. On October 3rd, the Forest team faced Bolton Wanderers at home. After 13 days of rest, on October 16th, they faced Norwich City in an away game. Then the schedule suddenly became more intense. On October 21st, the first match of the UEFA Europa League group stage. On October 24th, the Forest team faced Crystal Palace in an away game. On October 30th, they headed north to face Newcastle.
The results of the group draw for the UEFA Europa League had just been announced. Nottingham Forest was grouped with Greece's AS _ Egaleo _ Athens, Italy's Lazio, Spain's Villarreal, and Serbia and Montenegro's Partizan Belgrade in Group E.
Considering that the later matches would be more intense, Tang En decided that the team's training plan for the first half of the month would mainly focus on physical fitness. Now that the team's tactics had basically taken shape and they were more or less in sync, he no longer needed to worry about anything.
On October 3rd, Nottingham Forest faced Bolton Wanderers at home. For Tang En, this opponent was not unfamiliar at all, as they had met in the EFL Cup last season. That time, Tang En's team kicked Bolton Wanderers out of the finals. This time, at the Forest team's home ground, it was more reasonable for the Forest team, whose strength had risen by more than a level, to win.
2: 1. The Forest team won two consecutive games.
After eight rounds of the league tournament, the newly promoted Nottingham Forest, with their three wins, four draws, and one loss, accumulated 13 points and ranked sixth in the league tournament! This was considered excellent for a newly promoted team. Even though the league tournament had just begun and the final results were hard to say, it was already amazing enough for the Forest team to rush into the top six.
Looking at the Forest team's current results, and then going back to the "As the title" column that Tang En had published in the Nottingham Evening Post a few days ago, some people felt that this young man's arrogance did not seem to be completely unreasonable …
As a result, the media flattered Tang En again and praised the Forest team to the skies.
Thirteen days later, the well-prepared Forest team had no way to deal with Norwich City, whose strength was inferior to their own, at home. In the end, the two sides played a depressing 0: 0. After the game, both managers had no intention of "shaking hands and making peace." The home team's manager complained that they did not get a home victory to accumulate more points for the team to avoid relegation. On the other hand, Tang En was very unhappy because he had a draw with such an opponent.
The current Nottingham Forest is … When you don't have much hope for it, it will definitely surprise you and make you want to throw the best praise at them. But when you really did that, you would soon regret it because the Forest team's performance would make you itch with anger.
Taking this game as an example, Norwich City was definitely weaker than Nottingham Forest. However, their performance in the match was the complete opposite. Forest's players seemed to lack interest in the match. Most of them appeared dispirited and dispirited. They were completely unable to enter the match state. No matter what Tang En did during the halftime interval, it was to no avail.
In the second half of the second half, he simply sat in the coach's seat, crossed his legs, and looked at the field without saying a word.
The Forest team was lucky not to lose in such a state.
However, there was no time for Tang En to work on that now. Four days later, the team would fly to Greece to play their first match in the UEFA Europa League group stage.
Of course, they had to win this match because the weakest team in the group was the Greek team. If Nottingham Forest wanted to advance from the group stage, they had to take all six points in the two rounds of the home and away games to win more room for maneuver in the following matches.
However, looking at the players on the plane who were full of expectations for the UEFA Europa League, Tang En's brows were tightly knitted.
Would being too optimistic about the future bring about terrible results? His arrogance seemed to have begun to affect these young players.
However, as the team's manager, he certainly could not always declare how strong the opponent was in order to attract the attention of the players. That would affect the team's confidence and make the players feel that he, the manager, had no confidence in winning.
In his seat, he flipped through the competition schedule and carefully looked at the arrangements for the upcoming period of time. Then, he decided to wait and see.
In the competition, he would win if he could. He would think about the future in the future. Thinking too much now would only make him hesitate and stop moving forward. They were a newly promoted team and had no right to plan which opponents they could lose to and which opponents they could not lose to. For them, the task was simple: Do everything possible to grab points. Before they were exhausted and thoroughly studied by their opponents, they had to grab enough runs to safely reach the base. In the second half of the league tournament, they did not have to worry about avoiding relegation. They could put more energy into planning for the next season.
As the league progressed, the team had a lot of various problems. The players' mentality, the players' stamina, the players' injuries, the team's personnel issues, the scout recruitment and assessment … In addition, the player data system that Allan had asked the Americans to make still did not meet Tang En's requirements after a few months of use. He decided to completely abandon the company's program. However, he had no idea which company to look for for the new program. These things naturally needed him to consider, because he knew more about professional issues than Allan. However, he could not care about all that now. The team's first Premier League season was also his first Premier League season. Everything needed to be slowly explored.
Thinking of these troublesome matters gave him a headache. After all, reality was not a game. Some things could be ignored. If he neglected any point here, it might bring him terrible consequences.
Tang En rested his head on the back of the chair and closed his eyes to rest.
However, he had to seize every moment to rest well. A few days ago, when he was video-chatting with Shania online, she made a big fuss and said that Uncle Tony looked pale, his health must be very poor, and his spirit was not good, etc … Tang En told her that it was the camera's built-in lighting effect, which made people look pale. In fact, he knew in his heart that from the moment he became the Forest manager, the pressure had always been with him and would continue to be with him, unless he left this post and no longer served as the manager of any team.
Speaking of which, those star players such as Beckham had bought insurance and insured their body parts. Why did no manager insure his heart?
Thinking about these messy and unreliable things, Tang En slowly fell asleep.
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Nottingham Forest's performance was completely in line with what Tang En had in mind. There were no special changes to their tactics. They did not specifically make any targeted arrangements just because this was their first opponent in the UEFA Europa League. However, the Forest team's performance was the complete opposite of the last game. They almost lost the last game at Norwich City's home ground. Today, they won the first group stage game of the UEFA Europa League with a 3: 1 in the unfamiliar Greece.
Tang En stood outside the visiting team's technical area at Stadio Dimittikon, his hands in his pockets as he looked into the field. With five minutes to go, the Forest team had already secured the victory.
It was completely different from the game against Norwich City. Today's Nottingham Forest team was very active from top to bottom. Their running, passing, offensive efficiency, and shooting accuracy were all more than a level higher than a few days ago.
Maybe it was because this was a European competition that made them excited.
Tsk, there was no way to always make them excited. The climax could not be sustained. If it was sustained, it would not be called a climax …
Tang En scratched his head and turned to see David's bright smile. The assistant manager had no complaints about such a result. For a team that could only struggle to avoid relegation in League One a year ago, to be able to win in the UEFA Europa League a year later, the gap in height was indeed a little big.
"Congratulations, Tony. We've won again. "
"What's there to congratulate?" Tang En waved his hands. "Wait until we get a bigger victory, such as …"
He was stuck here and did not know what to say. The UEFA Europa League champion? It seemed a little difficult … Or did we beat Lazio in the group stage? That would be too unpromising.
"For example, the Champions League champion?" He did not expect Kerslake to be even bolder than Tang En, directly stating his ultimate goal.
Tang En tilted his head and looked at the assistant manager who was more confident than him. Was this all because of his "As the title" column?
"Ah … Of course, it doesn't matter how we celebrate and congratulate if we can get that championship title. But … we still have a long way to go. "
He turned his head back again and looked at the home team that had no fighting spirit.
There was no joy in winning against such an opponent.
Moreover, the joy of winning against a manager like Mourinho was like a rising tide, surging and turbulent …
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The Forest team returned to England with three points. There was no time for Tang En and his players to catch their breath. After getting off the plane from London's Heathrow Airport, they did not even return to Nottingham. Instead, they went straight to Crystal Palace in the south of London to prepare for the league tournament two days later.
The journey was tiring, and it was an away game. Considering that they would be challenging Newcastle in the next round of the league tournament, it was a team that was not easy to deal with. Tang En decided to send more substitute players in this game to give the main players a chance to rest.
In the end, the result of this game was once again beyond Tang En's expectations …
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