So far in the game, Gravesen had not caused any trouble for the Forest team's offense.
Of course, this was also related to the Forest team's lack of offense in the first half and Gravesen's idleness.
Now it was different. The Forest team's full-court press gave Real Madrid a headache. Gradually, the mistakes of the star players began to increase. The consequence of the frequent goal conceding was that the Forest team had more opportunities to attack. Real Madrid's tattered rear defensive line was about to face a real test!
Anelka was the most active player in the Forest team's offensive lineup. After scoring a goal, he still wanted to score more goals. The perfect ending would be him scoring a hat-trick and then Nottingham Forest would defeat Real Madrid. He would complete his revenge on both the individual and the team level.
Albertini passed the football to Ribéry. Ribéry dribbled two steps and realized that Real Madrid's defense was not that easy to break through, so he passed the ball to Anelka.
Every time the Frenchman received the ball, the Bernabéu stadium would resound with deafening boos.
But Anelka was not affected in the slightest because he was not afraid of it. On the contrary, he used the boos as his motivation. The louder the opponent's fans booed, the more motivated he became!
Tang En understood Anelka's feelings very well, so he let Anelka start in the game as the core of the offense.
This time, the player who came to defend against Anelka was an opponent he had faced many times in the English Premier League — Gravesen.
Facing the clumsy Dane, he nimbly dodged past him. Reacting half a beat slower, Gravesen had no choice but to reach out and pull him down.
A free kick in the front field.
The penalty taker, Albertini, did not directly attack the goal. Instead, he passed it to Ashley Young on the flank.
Robert Carlos stood in front of Ashley Young. The young Young did not shrink back, but instead competed with the star player in speed on the flank. The final result was neither a win nor a loss. He did not break through the Brazilian defender, but he did force a corner kick. Carlos used a quick shovel to kick the football out of the end line.
"The Forest team's offense has come up. They have consecutively obtained free kicks in the second half of Real Madrid's field. For the Nottingham Forest team visiting the Bernabéu, free kicks are their chance. I don't think Manager Tang En will be satisfied with a draw with Real Madrid here because he is not that kind of person. "
ESPN's British commentator said this, and he was right.
Bale sent the ball out and Piqué headed the ball in the crowd, but his shot was met by Casillas.
Piqué, who came from Barcelona's youth team, would definitely have a special motivation to play against Real Madrid.
Seeing Casillas hold the ball, Piqué and Pepe immediately turned around and ran back. That was how they conceded a goal in the first half, and they did not want to do it again.
The more experienced Albertini chose to take the initiative to approach Casillas who held the ball and looked around. He intentionally or unintentionally swayed beside him.
Sure enough, Carlisillas noticed Albertini's actions. He clipped the ball and waved his other hand helplessly. Albertini faced him and slowly retreated out of the penalty area. He did not make any further movements, and the referee could not say anything. However, he could delay Carlisillas' kickoff and buy time for his teammates to return to defend.
This was very effective. Casillas gave up the intention of throwing the ball to launch a quick attack. After everyone went up, he kicked the ball to the front field.
Real Madrid's front field players were not good at fighting for headers, so a long kick was not suitable for Real Madrid's offensive style. Sure enough, this kick was headed back by Pepe, who returned to defend in place.
Real Madrid's offense still had to go through the ground. Aerial warfare was not their forte, or it could be said that since Morientes left, the air above the opponent's penalty area was not an area they could use.
The football was handed to Zidane's feet.
In the first leg of the two teams' match, Beckham was the most active player and was named the best player of the game after the game. Today's game, Beckham's fire was extinguished, but Zidane's sudden explosion surprised many people before the game.
Everyone thought that Zidane was old and in a slump with Real Madrid. From the time he quit the French national team, some people could see that Zidane was actually tired of football.
Because he had almost taken all the honors a professional player could take, what motivation was there to continue playing? Now that the team was so chaotic and the locker room was full of factions, if playing football was so tiring, it was better not to play.
But if someone looked down on him, they must pay the price.
Watching Zidane handsomely take the ball on the field, Tang En suddenly thought of the French number 10 legend's curtain call at the World Cup in Germany.
From the beginning of the first game, people were talking about Zidane's curtain call. Which game would be his farewell game? Unexpectedly, his curtain call went all the way to the final. The World Cup final became the stage for his farewell performance. What a brilliant stage it was …
As soon as Zidane took the ball, loud cheers rang out at the Bernabéu. Real Madrid fans revered all things artistic, and Zidane was the master of art on the football field. His welcome here was no less than that of the team's standard-bearer, Raúl González.
A person who was welcomed by the enemy was naturally a bigger enemy. George Wood now reddened when he saw Zidane's glasses. He could not forget that goal concede. He thought it was the result of his own hesitation, and he wanted to make up for it. How could he make up for it? He would not hesitate anymore!
The referee's whistle rang. Zidane sat on the ground and George Wood stood next to him. A foul.
Hearing the whistle, Tang En became nervous. He was afraid that the referee would give this hot-headed kid a yellow card. That would be the end of him.
The cheers at the Bernabéu stadium instantly turned into boos. They were putting pressure on the referee, hoping that he would show a yellow card and send this person off.
The referee did not do anything. He stood at the spot of the foul and raised his arm, indicating for the Real Madrid player to take the penalty kick. He did not say anything to Wood.
Wood went back to defend with a dark expression, but Tang En could not sit still.
He called Mikel Arteta from the substitutes' bench. "Mikel, go warm up!"
Kerslake raised his head and glanced at him.
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