coach legend

Chapter 423 Who Says The First Time Is Beautiful?

Blackburn has always been strong in the Premier League.

But in the Champions League group stage, George had almost given up.Anyway, No.1 has already qualified, so why bother so much?It is better to practice more young players.

So this season, he returned to Blackburn with full hopes, but he could only play some garbage time. Parker, who was extremely depressed, also got the chance to play.

Of course, Henning Berg and Dave Suker, who will soon retire, all played.Even Blanco, who was already George's right-hand man, got a chance to play.Blanco is very happy, although he is now an important coach in George's coaching staff.

But Blanco hasn't fully retired yet.Played nearly ten games so far.

It is also very fun to be able to play in such an important Champions League game this time.

Looking at the lineup Blackburn sent out, the opponent was not angry at all.If it is normal, it must feel that George is looking down on them.But no one thinks so now.Valencia and Roma even hope that George will send youth team players.

Because regardless of the current lineup, the old ones are old and the young ones are few, but they still cannot be completely ignored.

But the most angry than Ajax.

Now Valencia, Roma, and Ajax all have hopes of appearing.Ajax four, Valencia four, Roma three.

Ajax has already played two games against Blackburn, and they lost to Blackburn.But Roma and Valencia will both play a game against Blackburn.In this way, Ajax has suffered a lot.

Sure enough, when Blackburn played Rome at home, they were beaten [-]-[-] by Rome.

The players sent by George are really not strong enough.Roma is very strong, and now it is a last stand, so from the start of the game, they stormed Blackburn.Finally, with a wonderful pass from Totti, Cassano scored the only goal.

In this way, the fifth game of the group stage ended, and Roma's points reached six points, surpassing the other two opponents.Because Ajax and Valencia are tied, Ajax and Valencia both have five points.

And on March 3, the last match of the Champions League group stage began.

Blackburn away to Valencia.Ajax and Roma clubs both expressed their belief that Blackburn will abide by sportsmanship before the game.Speaking of George, it seems that there are few moral models in football.

George knew it was their two clubs putting pressure on Blackburn.

The two of them certainly do not want Blackburn to release water.Because Valencia has already accumulated five points, if they easily beat Blackburn, it will be eight points.This is very bad news for Roma and Ajax.

But George didn't care about them.

What kind of shit are they?I still have to listen to them, it's a joke.In the current situation, it is entirely their own fault.It is the most ridiculous thing to pin your hopes on others without your own strength.

Therefore, George still went his own way and sent a lot of substitute players.Even van der Sar rested off the pitch.

But sometimes, the game is just so fun.

George sent a lot of substitutes, and they naturally played dense defense.In order to perform in front of George, they did not spare any physical strength.The young teenagers even galloped all over the court.Essien is at home, facing Aimar and Baraja to show his inhuman physical strength.

Aimar, hit you.Baraja, I shovel!I shovel!I shovel shovel!
Essien, the animal waist that even van der Vaart feared, at this time made Aimar and Baraja understand what it means to be abnormal.Valencia is in a hurry now, because Valencia is only five points.Ajax and Roma are still one to one, and if this ends, Roma will appear with seven points.

So Valencia is completely insane.

Bombed Blackburn.Defense, you are going to be out, what do you want to defend?
But at this time, Defoe, who had been cruising in front, received the clearing ball, rode through the barrier alone, and went straight to Huanglong.In the end, he passed Canizares directly and scored an empty goal.

One to zero, Blackburn scored a goal against Valencia with a counterattack even when the audience was passive.Sometimes the game is like this, it is not because you have a high ball possession rate and a lot of shots, you can win it.

The Valencia players were completely dumbfounded.Because Valencia can only accept the fate of being eliminated in the group stage.

Because regardless of the score on the other venue, Valencia will be eliminated.

So for the rest of the time, Valencia attacked like crazy.But on the contrary, there is no way to attack, and in the end they can only accept the fate of being eliminated.

The game between Blackburn and Valencia makes another venue quite happy.

Ajax attacked Roma like crazy, because any team that wins this game can qualify from this group stage.

In the end, the young talents of Ajax, who played at home, came out on top.Or rather the young man's passion, Van der Vaart passed the ball to Van der Meyde with an almost acrobatic backheel pass.Facing a completely empty goal, Van der Meyde turned the score into two to one with just a slight push.

Van der Vaart is truly a genius.

In the encirclement of four people, he passed the ball very calmly.

It immediately created a chance for Van der Meyde to hit an empty goal.It also broke the balance and defeated Rome [-]-[-].

Leaping past the two strong teams of Roma and Valencia, it became the second team to appear.

Although it was qualified in the group stage, there was not much media attention.

If it is another club, it is still possible, but after all, Blackburn has already locked a qualifying place early.So now not many people pay attention to the emergence of Blackburn.

This time the performance of Premier League clubs in the Champions League can only be unsatisfactory.

Four teams came to the Champions League, although they all entered the second round of the Champions League group stage.But among these four teams, only two teams succeeded in breaking through.Manchester United and Blackburn.

Because of the second round of the Champions League group stage, it was very difficult for the four groups to break through.

Group A is Liverpool, Inter Milan, Leverkusen, Barcelona, ​​which is also a group of death.In the end, Liverpool fell into the sand and failed to break through this group.Breakout is Inter Milan and Barcelona.

Group B is Blackburn's group.Although it is also a death group, Blackburn has five wins and one loss, easily appearing from the group.

Group C is where Arsenal are.Lokomotiv Moscow, AC Milan, Real Madrid, plus Arsenal.Although Arsenal tried their best in the last two games.But Arsenal still failed to break through.

Real Madrid and AC Milan successfully broke through this group.

Group D is the group that Manchester United is in.This group is not simple either.It's Basel, Deportivo, Manchester United, Juventus.Fortunately, Manchester United has good skills and was finally able to break through this group with difficulty.Breaking through with Manchester United is Juventus.

With such a tyrannical grouping, it can be said that no one who can qualify from the second round of the group stage will be an underdog.

When the list of the top eight comes out, everyone will be able to know the gold content of the top eight.Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Juventus, Inter Milan, AC Milan, Manchester United, Blackburn, Ajax.

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After qualifying in the group stage and entering the quarter-finals of the Champions League, I don't feel much about George.Isn't it normal for Blackburn to enter the quarter-finals of the Champions League?

So now George's attention is back to the league.

In the No.30 round of the Premier League, Blackburn challenged Tottenham Hotspur away.

Tottenham owner Joe Lewis is indeed a rich man.Although it will not be as bold as Abramovich, throwing hundreds of millions of pounds in one summer.But he's not a cheapskate either, he doesn't hesitate to pay a transfer fee of two to three million pounds a season.

After entering Tottenham, Joe Lewis did not make many big moves.

But also bought some heavyweight players.Including Daniel Morrison, Bellamy, Robbie Keane and other powerful players were still taken by Tottenham.It is a pity that Hoddle, the head coach of the England national team, was already behind.

The results of leading Tottenham are getting worse and worse.

He was even bombarded by many of his own players.

What is more unfortunate for Tottenham is that after Campbell left, the central defender Ledley King who carried the banner of Tottenham was a glass man.Just performed well and was even picked up by the England national team.But before going to the national team game, he lay on the bed first.

A few minor injuries are fine, but Ledley King will be out for eight months.This makes Tottenham can only cry without tears.

In this way, Tottenham's defense has once again become transparent.

The same goes for this game.Facing World Cup top scorer Miroslav Klose, Tottenham's defense was completely defenseless.

Although Klose's goals are stable, he lacks shocking scenes such as hat-tricks and big fours.Even scoring twice, Klose is actually not a lot.In other words, Klose is not the kind of player who scores a lot in one game.But the distribution of goals is very even.This is different from Henry and Fanny.

Henry and Van Nistelrooy scored a lot, not only because the distribution of goals is very even.More importantly, not only did they score twice, but they were also able to accomplish surprising things like hat-tricks and big fours from time to time.Klose does not belong to this category of strikers.

But facing a weak Tottenham defense in this game, Klose completed a hat-trick in the first half.At White Hart Lane, they lead Tottenham [-]-[-].George almost threw his head back and laughed.As long as this game is won, there are only seven rounds left in the league.

Now Blackburn is still six points ahead of Manchester United, that is the gap between two goals.

Blackburn currently not only has the advantage in goal difference, but also has one win and one tie in direct dialogue.In addition, among the remaining opponents of Blackburn, there is only one such strong enemy as Newcastle.

And Manchester United also has strong enemies such as Liverpool, Arsenal, and Newcastle.

On the schedule, Blackburn also has a complete advantage.

(End of this chapter)