Coaching legend

"…Miku, Miku shoots!"

"Beautiful, Miku's shot was very sudden. 2-0, Blackburn leads 2-0 away from home."

"Keane's absence has a great impact on Manchester United. If Keane is here, he will never let Miku shoot so easily in this area."

"Blackburn, already leading 2-0 away from home. If the game ends with this score, Blackburn will lead Manchester United by seven points again. There are more than 20 minutes left in the game, what will Ferguson choose?"

Miku's goal was scored in the 72nd minute of the game.

Ferguson chewed gum and stood up slowly. Then he started to replace Philip Neville with Shelingham. Although there was no expression, this substitution alone showed Ferguson's attitude. He was going to fight hard.

Now Manchester United has three midfielders and three forwards.

Manchester United's style of play has completely changed. Beckham and Butt retreated to become defensive midfielders, while Scholes pushed forward. Then in front of him were Cole, Solskjaer and Sheringham.

At this time, George certainly would not fight against Manchester United. Manchester United fought hard, and the fighting power that broke out was not exaggerated. This is not simply expressed by strength.

Therefore, George immediately replaced Deco with McAllister and Pires with Hargreaves.

You attack, I defend. In addition to leaving Drogba in the frontcourt, George left Miku and Hleb slightly forward, and then Makelele, McAllister and Hargreaves kept a short distance from the back line.

George looked like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water.

I just want to defend and see if you can break our team's goal.

Facing George's substitution, Ferguson waved his hand, and Manchester United attacked all the way. Beckham, who was just with Butt, immediately joined the attack. However, George's instructions to the players were very simple.

You can let the ball pass into the penalty area, but you must never let Manchester United get any long-range shooting opportunities. You must firmly guard the front generation of the penalty area.

Although Manchester United put three forwards, it is impossible for them to enter the penalty area. Even if they enter, Blackburn is not afraid of high-altitude ball defense. Ferdinand and Panucci are both good headers.

Although Blackburn did not practice defense like Burnley, George never relaxed his defense during training.

Therefore, when the three lines are kept tight, it is difficult for Manchester United's offense to penetrate. The dense defense is difficult to break even for Barcelona, ​​which is known as the "Universe Team" in the future, let alone Manchester United, which is short of soldiers now.

In the end, even Drogba came back to defend as a central defender.

"George, it's really incomprehensible. Blackburn is obviously very strong and can go head-to-head with Manchester United. But in order to keep the advantage of two goals, George even pulled the forward back to the penalty area to use the central defender."

"Look at Miku's defense. Let a talented player like Miku do this kind of dirty work, hey..."

Martin Taylor saw George's actions and explained with a wry smile.

"Martin, have you forgotten? When George was still the head coach of Burnley, he said that he would rather choose an ugly championship than lose. For victory, George will definitely do whatever it takes." Andy Gray looked at Martin Taylor and said with a smile.

Seeing Blackburn's negative game, Manchester United fans booed loudly.

In their view, Blackburn is at least a strong team in the Premier League. Now they are shameless and use such shameless tactics.

But George did not waver at all. As long as he can get three points, let alone this, even if he uses all the players to block the goal, George is willing.

As the game passed by, Manchester United's attack became more and more fierce. Unfortunately, facing the stubborn Blackburn, they were unable to break the goal in the end.

"I won't be polite for this year's league championship." George smiled and blinked when he shook hands with Ferguson.

Ferguson was not angry, but said lightly: "George, it's still early before the end of the season. It's too early to say this."

"No, no, no, Coach Ferguson. I am determined to win the Premier League championship."

George was of course very happy. After winning Manchester United, Blackburn is already seven points ahead of Manchester United. However, in this round, Arsenal went on a killing spree against Manchester City and defeated Manchester City 5-0. So the gap with Arsenal has not widened, and it is still two points.

But George doesn't care.

Arsenal, they will definitely not be able to hold on to the end.

In George's mind, the main competitor is Manchester United.

At Manchester United's home, they defeated Manchester United by two goals. Blackburn swept away the previous slump and became the front-page news of newspapers and media again.

The Blackburn Evening News even called this game a "milestone victory!"

"Defeating Manchester United is the most important victory for Blackburn this season. This victory makes Blackburn more clear about the goal of the league championship. We believe that after this game, Blackburn will no longer be afraid of any opponent."

Of course, the Blackburn Evening News may be a bit exaggerated.

But it is not just the Blackburn Evening News that praises Blackburn's victory. More than half of the media in the British football world praised Blackburn's victory.

But Manchester United was not happy. Manchester newspapers, in particular, were not convinced.

"Coach Levy may be from a small place and a small club. He is petty all over. It is difficult for him to achieve great things."

What they criticized most was that George made Blackburn defend in the final stage. Moreover, he gave up the attack and played a complete intensive defense. This made them feel that Blackburn had no ambition. They kept criticizing George with this matter.

George smiled slightly at the Manchester newspaper's dissatisfaction.

"You can't eat grapes, sour grapes. No matter how I play, I won the game."

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On October 28, after playing the highlight with Manchester United, Blackburn immediately faced the third round of the League Cup.

Blackburn is now a strong team in the Premier League. But it is a team representing the Premier League in the Champions League, so the first and second rounds of the League Cup are completely insulated from Blackburn. If Blackburn wants to play in the League Cup, it will go directly to the third round of the League Cup.

In the third round of the League Cup, Blackburn will face Tranmere away.

Tranmere is a team from the English League Two. It was a blessing to be able to make it to the third round of the League Cup.

George didn't think about what results he would achieve in the League Cup. He had already won the League Cup and the FA Cup at Burnley. Now the most important thing for Blackburn is the Premier League and the Champions League.

So in this game, George rotated a lot of players.

Three players were transferred from the youth team, plus the substitutes of the first team. However, the substitutes of the Blackburn first team were not bad either, Henning Berg, Sun Jihai, David Dunn, Bellamy, Kevin Gallagher and other players played.

In fact, George just thought, anyway, play casually. It's okay to pass or lose.

I just didn't expect that Blackburn's substitutes were also strong.

They actually scored three goals away from home, and David Dunn scored two goals. In the end, they defeated Tranmere 3-1 and entered the fourth round of the League Cup.

Next was the twelfth round of the Premier League, and Blackburn faced Newcastle at home. Although Robson's strength has increased a lot since he took over Newcastle. But George is willing to play against a pseudo-technical team like Newcastle.

At home, they beat Newcastle 2-1 with goals from Klose and Deco. Unfortunately, Manchester United and Arsenal also won.

Then came the last game of the Champions League group stage. Blackburn went to Ukraine to face Shakhtar Donetsk. Blackburn has already broken through the group stage, and George no longer cares whether it is the first or second place.

If it is the future Champions League group stage, George will care very much. After all, after breaking through, they will draw lots according to the ranking and play the knockout stage.

But now, in addition to the first round of group stage, there is still a second round of group stage in the Champions League.

Therefore, George still played as a substitute in this game and let the main players rest. Unfortunately, Shakhtar Donetsk was too weak, and Blackburn defeated Shakhtar Donetsk 1-0. In the end, in this group, with fourteen points, they won the first place.

After that, Blackburn returned to England and prepared for the 13th round of the Premier League.

Blackburn challenged Sunderland away. Blackburn, who has been killing in the league recently, did not give Sunderland any chance at all. They defeated Sunderland with a score of 3 to 2.

After the game, George also got the best news.

Arsenal was tied 0 to 0 by Derby County at home. After the 13th round, Blackburn led Arsenal by four points and Manchester United by seven points, still ranking first in the Premier League standings.

And as the fourth round of the League Cup approaches, the draw results for the fourth round of the League Cup are also out.

Blackburn will meet Crystal Palace from the League One in the fourth round of the League Cup.

Crystal Palace? This is a team that is not ranked high in the League One. Even if the substitutes are allowed to play, there should be no problem. Once the fourth round of the League Cup is passed, it will enter the quarterfinals.

By then, there will be four games away from the League Cup championship.

George was a little worried at this time. Although George cares more about the Premier League and the Champions League. But how can the League Cup be a trophy, isn't it? Now they have met a weak team like Crystal Palace again.

Should we continue to fight at that time?

It is easy to say that we will fight on three fronts. In fact, it is very difficult to fight. What should we do at that time?

Blackburn has never won the League Cup so far. If we win the League Cup, it will be a new history for Blackburn.

But...

Forget it, we will take it one step at a time. We don't need to pay too much attention to Crystal Palace. It won't be too late to pay attention to the League Cup if we beat Crystal Palace.