Coaching legend

The game started with the deafening cheers of Turkish fans.

Galatasaray was really crazy in their home stadium. This season, Galatasaray's strength has declined a lot. First, their meritorious coach Terim left Turkey and went to Florence in Serie A.

Terim has a great influence in Galatasaray. The current Galatasaray is a team built entirely by Terim. His departure is a big loss for Galatasaray.

It was not only Terim who left Galatasaray last summer, but also their top scorer Hakan Sukur. Although Sukur was rejected by George, he had no shortage of buyers. Inter Milan bought Hakan Sukur at a high price.

Not only Sukur left Galatasaray, but Hasan Şaš also left Galatasaray.

In addition, several players also transferred to other places.

Even so, Galatasaray launched rounds of offensives against the powerful Blackburn.

With the crazy support of 20,000 home fans and the terrifying atmosphere of the hellish home stadium, Galatasaray was very bold. George knew that Galatasaray hoped to take the initiative when Blackburn players were not used to the away game.

Once the game was ahead, the game would be easy to play.

But their idea was correct. Although Blackburn players had seen the world, Galatasaray's devilish home stadium was definitely not a joke. For a while, many players did not adapt to this atmosphere and kept making various mistakes.

Galatasaray completely ignored defense. Galatasaray's style of play was very simple, that is, attack, attack, and attack again. Their offense was completely unsystematic, but it put a lot of pressure on Blackburn.

Blackburn is a representative team of ball control in the Premier League.

In the Premier League, Blackburn's average ball possession time is 62%, which is currently the best team in the Premier League. But today facing Galatasaray, they only lost the ball.

George was sitting on the bench at the beginning. But after five minutes, Blackburn players were still being beaten by Galatasaray, and George had already frowned. Unexpectedly, after ten minutes, the situation still did not change.

Galatasaray fans were very happy.

They were very sad after losing to Blackburn in the last UEFA Cup final. After Trim came out to accuse Blackburn of winning the game in a despicable way, all Galatasaray fans believed that if Blackburn had not used despicable means, they would not have been able to defeat Galatasaray.

Therefore, seeing Galatasaray firmly suppress Blackburn in the game, they were very excited to cheer for their team.

George could no longer sit still.

If it is said that the passiveness of Galatasaray last year can be forgiven. Galatasaray was really strong at that time, and no one noticed their strength. But Galatasaray's strength this season has been greatly damaged, and it has no strength to compete with Blackburn.

George let Deco play again in this game. It was not because of physical reasons, but after Deco went to Brazil, although he was not able to be the main player. But he was still a substitute in the second half, which made Deco very satisfied.

After returning to the club this time, George discovered that Deco's self-confidence has soared, and his enthusiasm has increased a lot. He has also become very active in attack and defense.

George believes that with the stimulation of the national team, Deco's performance will get better and better. But now Blackburn's entire midfield is frightened by the terrifying atmosphere of Galatasaray's home stadium. They are firmly suppressed by Galatasaray.

George is very angry.

Blackburn now is no longer a country bumpkin who has never seen the world. Even if it can't be compared with those European giants, it has also gone through many important games. What kind of stadium has not been to.

But this group of people are actually scared! Or they are stunned by the terrifying home stadium!

George didn't care whether they could hear it or not, and he stood on the sidelines and started to curse.

Some people even named and cursed one by one. Then roared!

Although the stadium was very noisy, the players couldn't hear what George said. But George stood there for so long and cursed so much, they still found it. They knew George was very dissatisfied.

At this time, they were already getting familiar with the atmosphere of the stadium.

Galatasaray's idea was correct. It was to take advantage of the opening stage to catch Blackburn off guard. However, they did not break through Blackburn's goal in the first 20 minutes of the first half, and they actually lost the most important opportunity.

Because after 20 minutes of the first half, Blackburn began to adapt to the game.

In terms of the strength of the two teams, Galatasaray, which had lost many main players, was not Blackburn's opponent at all.

Soon, Deco, who joined the Brazilian national team for the first time, stole Emre's ball. Then he made a long pass, and Klose in front successfully countered the offside. Galatasaray attacked too fiercely and forgot to defend. The entire defense line moved forward, and Klose, relying on his explosive power, left all the Galatasaray defenders behind.

Then facing the goalkeeper, he easily scored the first goal of the game.

After scoring, Klose put his finger to his mouth and turned around facing the Galatasaray fans.

Seeing Klose's action, the boos from the audience became louder and louder.

"Klose, this is Blackburn's most stable scoring point at present. With this goal, Klose has equaled the number of goals scored last season. Klose has scored 20 goals for Blackburn this season. Four goals. With one third of the season left, it’s hard to say how many goals Klose will score.”

"Klose has become a world-class forward, there is no doubt about it. Klose has now become one of the most comprehensive forwards in the world. He can carry, pass and shoot. Such an all-round forward is in the current world football. Definitely rare.”

After scoring a goal, Blackburn completely stabilized the situation.

After Blackburn stabilized, Galatasaray was completely unable to compare with Blackburn.

Just six minutes after Klose's goal, Duff received a pass from Miku and scored his second goal of the game.

"Blackburn used this performance to tell Galatasaray that winning the UEFA Cup last season is a manifestation of strength. Coach Terim said that Blackburn stole their championship, which is simply nonsense. Blackburn's strength "Higher than Galatasaray."

"Galatasaray lost the UEFA Cup. Instead of looking for reasons within themselves, they looked for reasons from outside. How can such a club develop?"

Mortensen looked at Duff's second ball and made a conclusion about the media comments in the past few days.

Among English football commentators, Mortensen is a person with a clear distinction between love and hate. Although the commentators are very professional, they are never stingy in praising the teams they support. So a lot of praise for Blackburn.

And Duff’s goal wasn’t the last.

In the second half, Deco, who performed well in this game, scored a goal and made the game 3-0.

"Three to zero, Blackburn has taken the initiative in the Champions League group stage. In another game, Bayern won another victory. They have nine points and are the most popular team. And Blackburn has three games Two wins and one loss in the game, and six points, the probability of occurrence is greatly increased. "

"As long as they beat Galatasaray at home in the next game, Blackburn will basically have a qualifying spot."

Indeed, although Blackburn currently has fewer points than Bayern, it has already taken the initiative.

After the game, George faced Turkish reporters and said with great disdain: "'Hell', I guess I won't be able to go to heaven after death, I can only go to hell. Come here today to experience it, and find that hell is nothing more than this."

When Blackburn returned to England, the headline of the Blackburn Evening News read "Conquer Hell!"

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By February, the schedule was much easier.

In February, Blackburn had just two Champions League games, three Premier League games and one League Cup final. If Blackburn hadn't reached the League Cup final, there would have been only five games in February. Compared to December and January, having eight or nine games in a month is much easier.

George had to scold the people who arranged the schedule.

In February, arrange one more game. It would be nice to have fewer games in December and January.

On February 22, Galatasaray came to Blackburn.

This is already the fourth game of the second round of the Champions League group stage. George has no burden in this game because there have been very few games in the past half month. Therefore, players can take advantage of this opportunity to take a good rest.

This game is very important, and it is related to whether the Champions League can appear.

But George did not send all the main players, because there is still an important game waiting for Blackburn.

That is February 25, when the English League Cup final will begin.

We have already entered the finals, and it would be an excuse not to pay attention to it. After entering the finals, there is only one goal, and that is the championship. Therefore, George still made a lot of rotations in this game. It's not that George looks down on Galatasaray, but that Galatasaray's current strength has indeed dropped a lot.

At Blackburn's home court, Blackburn did not give Galatasaray the slightest chance.

With David Dunn's header and Bellamy's goal, Blackburn defeated Galatasaray 2-0 at home.

So far in the second round of the Champions League group stage, Blackburn have gained nine points with three wins and one loss in four games. Bayern has won four of four games and gained 12 points. The other two teams, they both only got one point. Since then, Blackburn has already obtained a spot in advance.

"For the first time in the Champions League, George has already led the team to the quarter-finals of the Champions League. George is the youngest head coach among all the teams in the Champions League. But he led Blackburn through two group stages. Congratulations to George for reaching the quarterfinals of the Champions League!”