Although McClaren had guessed correctly that Wood was still too inexperienced, he did not expect Tang En to make the entire team focus on defense in order to dispel this unstable factor. However, inside Nottingham Forest's walls, any mistake of letting his opponent get past him, by any player, would not be a fatal one. That was because there would always be someone beside him to fill in for him.
Think back to the match played between France, the host, and Paraguay, the weakest country among the top sixteen teams, during the 1989 World Cup quarterfinals: Paraguay had played their defense almost to perfection, but in the end, it was all for naught.
