coach legend

Chapter 212 Out of the Cocoon

Two three to zero, allowing Blackburn to rank No.1 in the Premier League after two rounds.

This is the first time that Blackburn has returned to the top of the Premier League since Blackburn won the Premier League title four years ago.Although the Premier League has just started two rounds, Blackburn fans are already inexplicably excited.

It may be because of the European Cup next year, the schedule of the Premier League this season is relatively tight.

On August 8th, the second round of the Premier League had just been played.On August 11th, Blackburn ushered in the third round.

Although there are many Premier League games, as long as it is not because of interference such as the League Cup, FA Cup, and European games, it is rare to have a game every three or four days.This kind of Premier League time is very close, and almost all of them appear because of the need for make-up games.

But this season has just started with such a dense schedule.

However, George did not rotate, and now the Premier League has just started.And the last game was too easy for Leeds United's victory, and it had no impact on Blackburn's physical strength at all.

In the third round of the Premier League, Blackburn played at home against Newcastle United.

Blackburn's outstanding performance also brought the atmosphere at Ewood Park.There are no vacancies in the current Ewood Park except for the hundreds of seats that have been specially vacated.Before the game started, Ewood Park was already full.

And before the game even started, the singing of the audience had already started.

"Hello, Coach Levy." Robson looked at the young George, smiled and held out his hand.

Robson returned to English football after a tour abroad.I found that the English football world has changed a lot now. Ferguson, who was uncertain at Manchester United, has become the best coach in the Premier League.Arsene Wenger from France led Arsenal to win the Premier League title for two consecutive years, and was hailed as a "professor" by English football.

Of course, what surprised Robson the most was the appearance of a young local marshal in English football.In recent years, he has achieved dazzling results in English football.

Robson wanted to meet George very early on, to see what ability George, a young coach, can achieve such good results.

"Hello, Sir Robson." Although George was outspoken, his temper was not good.But for Robson, enough respect was given.

Robson, this is a highly respected coach in England and even in world football.

Robson is an absolute world-class coach, and his coaching career started from Fulham.But the start was not smooth, and he left Fulham ten months later to become the head coach of Ipswich Town.Also began his brilliant coaching career.He led Ipswich Town, which was of average strength at the time, not only won the FA Cup, but also the UEFA Cup.

The outstanding results made the FA fancy, and Robson also became the head coach of the England national team.In the England national team, Robson's performance is not too bad.In 1986, Robson's England team was eliminated by Maradona's "Hand of God" in the quarter-finals.But in the 1990 World Cup, the England national team only lost to West Germany on penalties in the semi-finals.

But the ranking of the semi-finals is already the best record achieved by the Three Lions since 1966, and Robson was therefore knighted by Queen Elizabeth.

After that, Robson coached various big-name teams in European football, including PSV, Sporting Lisbon, Porto and Barcelona.Among these teams, Robson has achieved good results.

Of course, what Robson is even more powerful is that he has trained many good players.Even among the coaches, there are quite a few of his apprentices.

Mourinho, who became popular in the 21st century, was Robson's translator when he coached Barcelona.Although it was a translator, Robson used him as an assistant coach.Mourinho didn't like Van Gaal later, but he admired Robson very much.

This is Robson. Among the England coaches who are alive, Robson is definitely the most respected coach.

For such a senior, George also has great respect in his heart.

The performance of Newcastle United last season was too poor, and the relationship between Gullit and the Newcastle locker room was even worse.So after the end of the season, Gullit was fired by Newcastle.It is the Robson coach who is now staying at Newcastle United.

However, after Robson took office, the current state of Newcastle United is even worse.In the first two rounds, Newcastle first lost to Aston Villa [-]-[-] at home, and then lost [-]-[-] away to Tottenham Hotspur.

Newcastle has changed coaches too frequently in the past few years. From Dalglish to Gullit and now Robson, their coaching styles are very different.This made Newcastle's players at a loss.

Newcastle played a season of short passing to cooperate with the offense last season, but after Robson took over, he gave up this too delicate style of play.Instead, on the basis of some small cooperation, Newcastle's original open and close style of play was restored.

"Andy, do you think Sheffield will regret it now?" Looking at the players on the field, Martin Taylor asked his partner with a smile.

"I will definitely, look at Blackburn's current results. If George had gone to Newcastle, Newcastle would be at the top of the list now."

At the beginning, Sheffield and George quarreled in the media, and both sides were shameless.It's completely like a fight between shrews, so almost no one in English football does not know the grievances between the two.

However, after the end of last season, all the media believed that it was a very big mistake for Sheffield to give up George and choose Gullit.

"If George writes a memoir in the future, I believe Sheffield must be one of the targets of his ridicule."

"Yes, George will never say good things about Sheffield."

The two commentators talked and laughed.

But not only the two commentators remember the grievances between George and Sheffield, but even the Blackburn fans have not forgotten the grievances between the two.

Ewood Park first remembered the cheers of "George Levy", and then they wrote and directed their own songs.

"George, I was wrong. Come to us, Newcastle, and help me! ... Whoa, who are you? ... I'm Sheffield! Wow!"

England fans are absolutely top-notch in world football in these aspects, and they satirized Sheffield in the song.It is estimated that it is the first time in British football that fans have arranged an unrelated club chairman in this way.

Listening to the singing at Ewood Park, Sheffield, who followed the team to the away game, looked livid.And Williams next to him didn't seem to see Sheffield, smiled and clapped his hands, watching the players enter the field.

In fact, Williams certainly knew of Sheffield's anger at this time, but he gloated in his heart.After Blackburn won the Premier League title, their results plummeted.At the same time, Newcastle's performance is steadily rising.

At that time, neither Williams nor Sheffield was the chairman of the club, but because Jack Walker and John Hall were both old, many ordinary affairs of the club were ignored.At that time, Sheffield would turn a corner and sarcasm every time he saw Williams.

During that time, Williams laughed off Sheffield's ridicule, but actually remembered it firmly in his heart.How can I let go of the opportunity for revenge now.

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These are the tidbits of the game, and the real thing depends on the result of the game.

Robson is much more stable than O'Reilly, and has rich experience in leading the team.Instead of speeding up the pace at Blackburn's home court like O'Reilly did, he adopted a defensive midfielder and side attack tactics.But the retreat of their midfielders is not entirely a passive retreat.

Instead, retreat to the area 40 meters away from the goal, where the defense begins.And once the ball is grabbed, not only are the two wingers attacking, but the midfielder will not be fixed in the midfielder position.

Newcastle seemed to be defensively counterattacking, but they played very proactively.

Blackburn is at home, and they are facing a team that was defeated twice last season.Therefore, the pressure is relatively high.However, because Newcastle's players fought fiercely, they have not been able to score goals.However, there were still several good opportunities to score goals, but they were not grasped.

When everyone was looking forward to when Blackburn scored a goal, Newcastle in the away game scored first.

In the 206th minute of the game, Micoud's pass was blocked by the defender.After Speed ​​got the ball, he suddenly went forward and handed it to Solano in front.Solano made a 45-degree pass before Makelele and Deco defended himself.

Shearer in the penalty area stopped with his left foot, followed by a volley with his right foot.Shearer's movements in the penalty area were all lightning and flint, without any sloppiness.Both Hyypia and Ferdinand, who guarded Shearer, stood still, but Shearer insisted on shooting the ball out of the narrow gap between them.

"Shearer! Beautiful, Shearer's shot fully showed his characteristics. There is no fancy movement, just stop the ball and shoot, but no defender can prevent it. Look at the stunned Cudicini. "

"Hypia already leaned on Shearer for this ball, but he couldn't block the goal. Shearer deserves to be the best center forward of this era."

After Shearer scored, he ran towards Solano.The two were celebrating a goal while greeting other players.

George waved his hand, Shearer is too strong a player.Under the defense of Ferdinand and Hyypia, they can still score so easily.Not simple not simple!
Hiller's movements are very simple, but very practical.Many centers can't reach Shearer's level because they are in the penalty area because they are slower than defenders.And Shearer has no extra actions in the penalty area at all, just stop the ball and shoot.

George shook his head, if only he had a center like Shearer.What tactics to play, just keep playing the ball on the two sides.It's up to Shearer to score the goal.

"At 27 minutes into the game, Blackburn was behind Newcastle [-]-[-] at home. The goal was Alan Shearer!"

(End of this chapter)