coach legend

Chapter 329

While busy with the funeral, the Champions League game continued.

In the first quarter of the Champions League, Blackburn and Manchester United played ahead of Arsenal.

But in the second round, Arsenal played a day earlier than Blackburn and Manchester United.Arsenal lost [-]-[-] to Deportivo in the away game, but this has not affected Arsenal's qualifying situation at all.Arsenal still entered the semi-finals of the Champions League with a score of [-]-[-].

This is Arsenal's best Champions League result since Wenger took charge of Arsenal.

Arsenal this season is indeed not easy.The two death groups actually broke through.And he was able to beat Deportivo by such a large score, George admired Wenger a little bit.

On April 4, at Ewood Park, Blackburn faced Valencia.

Speaking of which, Blackburn beat Valencia [-]-[-] in the first leg.There is great hope of advancement.It should be a very happy time.But the current atmosphere at Ewood Park is very solemn.All Blackburn fans are wearing black cloth, in memory of the deceased Jack. Walker.

The various singing voices in the stadium before the game also disappeared.

Many fans held flowers in their hands and silently blessed the dead Jack Walker.

Standing on the field, George remembered what the newspaper had said about Jack Walker.

Many owners of English clubs are fans, as has been the case throughout history.But as money has more and more influence on football, there are fewer and fewer pure fan presidents.Many of them can't stand the influence of money on football.

Now there are fewer and fewer complete fan owners like Jack Walker in English football.

Blackburn, which Jack Walker took over, was an English First Division club.After Jack Walker took over Blackburn, he did a lot of things.Expand the stadium, buy big-name players, and invite Dalglish to become the club's head coach.

Among them, the purchase of Shearer at the record price of 350 million pounds in England, and the purchase of Chris Sutton at the record-breaking transfer price of 500 million pounds, all caused a sensation in the British football world.Jack Walker spent a lot of money and made Blackburn a Premier League powerhouse.

After George took over, Jack Walker was not stingy with money.

There have been big transfers like Ferdinand for £200m.

Although Jack Walker is a rich man, he is definitely not the kind of rich man who casually throws out tens of millions of pounds without blinking an eye.Rich people like Abramovich with tens of billions of pounds in assets throw hundreds of millions of pounds just for fun.

But Jack Walker can't.

In the early 90s, he invested £1000 million per season, which was the most invested by any Premier League club.But since the Bosman Act, there are not a few clubs in the Premier League that have invested more than 2000 million pounds and 3000 million pounds a season.

For the development of the club, Jack Walker had to step up investment.After George took over, the annual investment is not small.This is already the best that Jack Walker can do.

Therefore, the media are sure that Jack Walker has done everything for Blackburn.

And the Blackburn fans are thankful to Jack Walker for everything he has done.

Now Jack Walker is dead.All Blackburn fans are remembering the old man.

UEFA also agreed that Blackburn fans would observe a moment of silence for the beloved chairman before the game.

George didn't know Paul Walker's thoughts, how he would face the Blackburn team left by his father.For the future, George is a little confused.George does not regret renewing his contract with Blackburn, although he has long known that Jack Walker is likely to not survive this season.But George has no regrets.

The first is that George is reluctant to bear Blackburn.Blackburn is completely a team built by George, and all the players in it are carefully selected by George.Now after three years of running-in, they have begun to show their strength.

George really didn't want to leave at this time.

Another point is that George is not a ruthless person.George knew very well how Jack Walker treated him.Without the support of the original Jack Walker, George would most likely leave Blackburn in despair.

Coaching a Premier League club for the first time has completely become a stain on his coaching career.

Based on George's situation at the time, if this happened, all the reputation he had just accumulated would disappear completely.George can only return to League One to coach again.When will we be able to return to the Premier League, it is really uncertain.

But it was precisely because of Jack Walker's unreserved support that George was able to survive.Also achieved the current results.

Therefore, George's gratitude to Jack Walker is definitely from the heart.George is unwilling to switch to other clubs immediately because of Jack Walker's departure.

Even if the relationship with Paul is not good in the future, they can only leave in the end.But at least I didn't live up to Jack Walker's expectations this time.

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The referee's whistle also woke up George, who was in deep thought.

It turned out that the game was about to start.George cheered up and watched the game. Reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League is the best consolation for Jack Walker.

Because of the [-]-[-] away victory over Valencia, George did not take the same risky style of play as the previous game.Instead, take a slight retreat and let Valencia play out.

Valencia must be very anxious for this game.

Two goals will ensure that they enter the Champions League semi-finals.And the premise is that Blackburn does not score.

Such a request is indeed very difficult for Valencia.

But Cooper doesn't want to see people playing conservatively, but he is a tough person.Although they lost [-]-[-] at home and usually played defensive counterattacks, they were not conservative at all here.

Facing Blackburn, they attacked violently.

Fortunately, Blackburn's defense is very solid, without any problems.Valencia attacked for ten minutes, but Blackburn remained motionless.And every time an attack is organized, Valencia's defense will have a red light.

Blackburn's counterattack is one word, fast.

Both Deco and Micoud are good at passing the ball. After getting the ball, they don't follow you at all.Three feet and two feet passed to the front, especially to the two sides, and then the two sides attacked.This kind of counterattack is no worse than Valencia's counterattack, and even better than them.

Because Valencia's two full-backs are too old.The explosive power is seriously lacking, and it is very difficult to face Pires and Duff.

If the defense does not move forward, it will be out of touch with the midfielder.But the defense moved forward and was attacked by two wide players, so it couldn't be defended at all.

Cooper is now thinking about it too.Should it be a big attack, regardless of Blackburn's counterattack.Or go back to the old way and play defensive counterattack.But looking at Blackburn, if Valencia doesn't attack, they can definitely ink a game.

George sat firmly on the bench.

In this game, George is already sure.Valencia, don't look at you reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League last season, we at Blackburn are not afraid of you at all.George squinted at Cooper, who was walking anxiously on the sidelines.

You really think that Blackburn can only play an oppressive midfield style of play, and Blackburn's players are also able to counterattack with ease.Especially Deco, since he went to Brazil, he is much more active than before.Especially in defense.

Although Deco also assisted in the defense before, his defensive skills were too poor and he was reluctant to defend, so his help to Makelele was limited.

But since his trip to Brazil, Deco has become more active.He also learned how to defend from Makelele.

George was very wronged at the time.

That must have been what Luxenberg had said to Deco.Perhaps it was to tell him that the Brazilian national team has no shortage of offensive players, and if they want to enter the main lineup, they must learn to defend.That's what George thought.Anyway, Deco's defense is now much more active.

George could only sigh.I have said it to Deco so many times before, it is better to say something to Luxenberg.

Could it be that his own influence is only a little bit?

But anyway, George likes Deco's change very much.With active Deco, Blackburn's defense is more solid.And Deco's physical strength is good, even if he is on the shoulders of defense and offense, there is no problem at all.

Valencia's Mendieta and Aimar took turns attacking Blackburn, but they failed to open Blackburn's defense.

The game passed for 15 minutes in this state.

George is very satisfied with the current situation.

Blackburn's wide cross was pushed out by Ayala, and Baraja immediately passed it to Mendieta in front.Mendieta played very depressed, but he was not depressed at all.He believes that there will be omissions in Blackburn.

At this time, Aimar suddenly inserted, and Mendieta passed the ball very cleverly to Aimar.

Aimar is very fast. After taking the ball, because of Deco's defense, he can only go a little to the right.But still passed Deco with speed, and Blanco immediately came to help defend.
Aimar saw that Blanco's position was stable, so he made another trip to the right.After all, Blanco didn't have enough speed, so he didn't keep up.Instead, retreat in a straight line to prevent Aimar from entering the penalty area.In fact, when Aimar passed Blanco, it was already a bit long.

Cudicini saw that Aimar was going big, and immediately stepped forward to take the ball.

But Aimar is faster.Before Cudicini pounced the ball, he passed the ball, and then faced Cudicini alone.

What I saw at this time was that Cudicini rushed over, and Aimar fell to the ground.

"beep--"

The referee's whistle sounded.Then the referee pointed to the penalty spot and told it was a penalty.

Cudicini immediately stood up and said that he had not fouled, but the referee did not listen to Cudicini's explanation.Instead, he raised a red card high from his pocket, pointed to the sidelines, and let Cudicini end.

George was also dumbfounded on the sidelines.

This momentary movement is really too fast.George couldn't tell if Cudicini fouled or didn't.

However, seeing the red card raised high by the referee, he still couldn't help kicking the field hard.

(End of this chapter)