Coaching legend

This summer, because of the European Cup, the Premier League games started relatively late.

The first round of the Premier League will start on August 19, 2000.

When George came to England, it was the 1980s. In a blink of an eye, George has been in England for more than 15 years, and George has also welcomed the new millennium.

The new millennium is an era of opportunities and risks. Strong teams are getting stronger and weak teams are getting weaker. The power of money is getting stronger and stronger, and the survival of small teams is unprecedentedly difficult. Only by seizing the opportunity can many giants and money teams compete.

Before the start of the season, the media is looking forward to the new season of the Premier League.

Among them, Manchester United and Arsenal are always ranked first. Because in the five seasons since Blackburn won the Premier League title, Manchester United has won three Premier League titles and Arsenal has won two Premier League titles.

And since Wenger took over Arsenal, Manchester United has won two Premier League titles and Arsenal has won two Premier League titles. It can be said that the two teams are evenly matched in the Premier League.

Manchester United did not make much moves this summer, but after Schmeichel retired, Ferguson has not found a good replacement. This summer, they introduced the main goalkeeper of the French national team, Barthes, from Monaco.

Arsenal's moves this summer were very big.

First, Arsenal's two absolute main players, Overmars and Petit, both went to Barcelona. Barcelona also felt a little panic. Figo's transfer made Barcelona very passive.

Barcelona fans' suspicion of the club is one wave after another. In order to calm the anger of the fans. Barcelona's moves are very big. More than 21 million euros were bought for Gerard, and 25 million pounds, which is more than 36 million euros in euros.

Anyway, Barcelona used up all of Figo's transfer fees.

Of course, history has proved that this transfer made Barcelona lose everything. The three people bought did not match their own value.

After Overmars and Petit left Arsenal, Wenger began to recruit players frantically. Wiltord transferred from Bordeaux for 13 million pounds, Jeffers transferred from Everton for 8 million pounds, Edu transferred from Corinthians for 6 million pounds, and Stephen Dalma transferred from Paris Saint-Germain for 5 million pounds.

In addition to these transfers of several million pounds, Stepanovs transferred from Riga for 1 million pounds. There are also some transfers of hundreds of thousands of pounds and free players.

Anyway, Arsenal has made a lot of moves this season.

After introducing Manchester United and Arsenal, the third club introduced is Blackburn.

Although some people question George's transfer this summer, Blackburn is described as a strong team in the comments. It also means that Blackburn is one of the strong contenders for the Premier League title this season. Even in the newspaper, it is believed that Blackburn's probability of winning the Premier League title is no less than Arsenal.

The next is Leeds United, although Leeds United failed to enter the Champions League last season. But the Leeds United boss's ambition remains. He first introduced Australian striker Mark Viduka, and then Olivier Dacourt.

The fifth one to be introduced is England's top giant Liverpool. Houllier began a real transformation in Liverpool. Sami Hyypia, Marcus Babel, Christian Zieger, Nicky Barmby, Bernard Diomede, Gregory Wignall, all came to Liverpool in the summer.

Liverpool's original strength was not weak. With these players, Liverpool's strength has greatly increased.

However, the media's analysis is that Liverpool has to see the effect of buying so many players. Although Houllier is a famous coach, Liverpool's performance has not improved significantly in the two years since he came to Liverpool.

Fortunately, the Liverpool boss is still a relatively patient chairman. Not only did he give Houllier enough transfer fees, but he also supported Houllier very much.

However, Newcastle and Chelsea, which were very strong in the past few years, are ranked very backward. In the eyes of the media, with the strength of these two clubs, it is very good to be able to strive to get a ticket to a European game.

Especially Chelsea coach Vialli, who is now the most popular coach to be fired in the Premier League.

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Because the Premier League starts relatively late. So the schedule is very tight.

On August 19, the first round of the Premier League will be held. August 24 is the second round of the Premier League, and August 26 is the third round of the Premier League. Three games will be played in just seven days. Blackburn has more games because they will play the European Super Cup on August 25.

Therefore, Blackburn applied to the English Football Association, hoping to change the schedule.

The English Football Association considered Blackburn's situation and changed Blackburn's second round of the Premier League to August 23, and the third round of the Premier League to August 27.

This made Blackburn's opponents very dissatisfied. And George was not satisfied either. Either postpone the game and make up for it later. Why bother to make Blackburn run back and forth.

In the first round of the game, Blackburn faced Derby County away.

In this game, except for replacing Hyypia with Blanco and Riise with Van Bronckhorst, all other players were the original main players.

Although two main players were replaced, Blackburn showed the strength of a strong team as the media analyzed.

"Deco... passed to Sagnol, Sagnol passed... Klose, header!"

"It's Klose again! Klose scored Blackburn's first Premier League goal last season. I didn't expect that Blackburn's first Premier League goal this season is still Klose! Blackburn leads Derby County 1-0 away."

"Since Klose's big breakout last season, Klose has become Blackburn's most threatening player."

Only 23 minutes into the game, Klose received a cross from Sagnol and scored Blackburn's first Premier League goal this season.

But this is not the end.

"Penalty! This is a penalty! This is a penalty for tripping Pires, this is undoubtedly a penalty!"

"Miku stood in front of the ball, Miku did not run up. Shoot!"

"Two to zero, two to zero! Just 34 minutes into the first half, Blackburn is already leading Derby County two to zero."

"This game is too smooth. Derby County did not resist at all, or it can be said that they have no resistance at all. Blackburn scored two goals with a little attack. Blackburn is a strong team, a real strong team. In the odds list of the league championship this season, Blackburn is only slightly behind Manchester United."

"Blackburn tells everyone. Blackburn is qualified and capable of winning the Premier League championship."

Martin Taylor watched Blackburn's dominant performance in the first half and praised Blackburn's current strength.

After leading two to zero, George did not continue to attack. There are too many games in August, but it can't be said to be too many. There were so many games in August in the past, even more than this season. But the Premier League at that time started in early August.

This season's Premier League starts late and the task is heavy. So the schedule can only be very dense. Including this game, George has to play four games in eight days. So George hopes to save his energy.

Blackburn was originally a team with very strong control. When Blackburn controlled the rhythm, Derby County had no chance. Of course, Derby County was also very honest. Knowing that they couldn't beat Blackburn, they didn't bother to play.

Even so, in the 33rd minute of the second half, Bellamy, who came on as a substitute for Pires, scored the third goal with his amazing speed.

In the first round of the Premier League, Blackburn defeated Derby County 3-0 without any suspense.

Just four days later, Blackburn faced Coventry at home.

Coventry has also had a very hard time in recent years. Or since the Bosman Act, these small teams have had a hard time. Small Premier League clubs with good youth training can still do well. Just like West Ham United, they are currently living a good life in the Premier League.

But those clubs that don't have much self-generating ability are in a bad situation.

And Coventry is one of the teams in a very bad situation.

In order to prepare for the European Super Cup, George rested many main players in this game. Drogba, Davor Suker and Bellamy were sent to the forward line, Hargreaves, McAllister and David Dunn were used in the midfield, and Sun Jihai, Henning Berg, Panucci and William Gallas were used in the back line.

It can be said that George completely changed the starting lineup.

The play style has also become very simple. Drogba is at the front, while Davor Suker is on the left and Bellamy is on the right. Hargreaves in the midfield is sweeping in the midfield, and David Dunn is near the penalty area, ready to control the second landing point at any time. The rhythm of the whole team's game is handed over to veteran McAllister.

McAllister's play in the midfield is completely different from the control of the combination of Deco and Miku. Deco and Miku both make short passes rather than long passes, and control the game more delicately. McAllister is different. He controls the game directly and uses medium and long passes to control the game.

With Drogba, Blackburn's long passes are extremely powerful.

After a season of training in Blackburn, Drogba's body is stronger. And after the confrontation with the Premier League defenders, Drogba knows how to use his body better.

At the beginning, Drogba relied more on his strong body to attack blindly. But after a season, Drogba knows how to confront the defenders, so that he can take advantage of the opponent's defenders and make them more uncomfortable.

As the core of Blackburn's midfield, McAllister doesn't look like a 35-year-old veteran. Throughout the game, the running distance exceeded 10,000 meters. Even the commentator was amazed.

Under McAllister's dispatch, although a set of lineups was changed when playing against Coventry. But Blackburn still defeated Coventry 2-0 away with goals from Davor Suker and David Dunn.

After two rounds of matches, Blackburn topped the Premier League standings with six points. Leeds United ranked second, and they also won two games in a row. However, their goal difference was less than Blackburn. Manchester United had one win and one draw, and Arsenal had one win and one loss.

Although it was only two games, the strength shown by Blackburn was indeed worthy of the title of a strong team.