Coaching legend

After the 15th round of the Premier League, the situation in the Premier League is becoming clearer and clearer.

Manchester United has completely fallen behind. It is already 12 points behind the first place Blackburn, and even the third place Arsenal is 6 points behind. Moreover, Manchester United has been in poor form recently, and has now lost two games in a row.

There is no big problem in losing to Arsenal away from home. After all, Manchester United and Arsenal have been the main rivals in the Premier League in recent years, and it is not a rare thing for anyone to lose to anyone.

But losing to Chelsea at home is definitely due to Manchester United's own poor form.

This is Manchester United, and Manchester United was beaten 3-0 by its opponent at home. This is a very rare score after Ferguson's rise as Manchester United coach. In this state, everyone believes that Manchester United will continue to lose points.

The more unexpected is Liverpool.

After Houllier was hospitalized, even George concluded that Liverpool would collapse soon. But there is no trend of collapse so far. Although the state of these games is relatively poor, it is not the time for collapse.

At present, it is only biting Blackburn, only three points behind Blackburn.

Arsenal has gradually shown its strength. Although the opening stage was not very good, it has been in good shape in these few games.

In the media analysis, the biggest contenders for the championship this season are Blackburn and Arsenal.

Although Blackburn and Liverpool are the top scorers now, the media's analysis of Liverpool is the same as George's. They are not optimistic about Liverpool's performance in the future. Instead, Arsenal, which has come from behind, has become Blackburn's biggest opponent.

There is no sign of the loan of Anelka yet.

George has already led Blackburn to Rome, Italy. This is the third time George has led the team to Rome. I don't know if George has any fate with the Roman club. This is only the third season that George has been the head coach and played in European competitions.

But George can meet the Roman club every season.

In Blackburn's second season, George led Blackburn to play in the League Cup. At that time, George met Capello, who had just taken over the Roma club.

In the Champions League last season, they met another Roman team, Lazio.

This season, they met the Roma team again.

In this group, Blackburn is currently ranked first. Because in the first round of the game, Blackburn defeated Barcelona 3-1 at home, while Roma tied with Galatasaray away.

Without Klose, George sent Drogba again in this game.

But the current Roma defense is not the defense of the old car last time. Samuel, the Argentine defense backbone, came to Roma and became the mainstay of Roma's defense. In the selection last season, Samuel and Nesta were the best central defenders in Serie A.

George was not optimistic about whether Drogba could compete with Samuel. Drogba still needs to continue to train.

George shook hands with Capello with a smile on his face. But Capello still had that dead face.

But this time George didn't have any ideas.

This is a growth of self-confidence. The last time he met Capello, George said he didn't care about Capello. But he still had some fear of Capello in his heart, otherwise he wouldn't care so much about Capello's demeanor.

That was a manifestation of lack of confidence.

But George himself didn't know. Now as George led Blackburn to win the Premier League title, George's lack of confidence gradually disappeared. Facing a famous coach like Capello, he has truly treated it with a normal heart.

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George sat back in his seat and frowned at the starting lineup of the Roma team.

It wasn't a very unexpected starter. But George really wanted to fight with Batistuta, and also wanted to see how his England national team's defense would perform against Batistuta. It's a pity that Batistuta was so powerful in Roma last season, but I don't know why he is not so popular with Capello this season.

Batistuta didn't play in this game again.

The trident of Roma in this game is the Prince of Rome Totti, the little plane Montella, and Cassano who transferred at a high price this season.

There are also strong men such as Tommasi and Emerson in the midfield.

With the referee's whistle, the second round of the group stage at the Olympic Stadium in Rome began.

This is a match between the Serie A champion and the Premier League champion. Therefore, it has attracted a lot of attention.

Emerson is now in his prime and is a rare midfielder in the world of football. He can go up and down, attack and defend, and covers a large area in the midfield. In addition, there is Tomasi, a physical maniac, next to him, so the defense in the midfield is still quite strong.

George was more cautious in this game.

Capello is a typical head coach who wants results instead of scenes. As long as he wins, he is willing to do anything. In the last game against Roma in the League Cup, Roma somewhat underestimated Blackburn, a country team.

But it's different now. Blackburn is the Premier League champion, and now Blackburn has attracted attention from all over Europe. Everyone has studied Blackburn's playing style and the characteristics of the players in depth. Therefore, there will be no sudden attack like last time.

Italian football is slow, but George can only choose to be slow in this game. Or it can be said that Capello does not let Blackburn go fast.

Only two wingers on Blackburn have the ability to increase speed. However, Emerson and Tommasi in the Roma midfield interfered greatly with Deco and Miku. As a result, they could not transfer in time, and could not use the speed of the wingers.

Fortunately, Blackburn is also more used to slowness, so the attack can still be carried out step by step.

But Roma's attack is much more dangerous than Blackburn.

Especially Cassano, who is only 19 years old.

Watching Cassano play football is really enjoyable. Elegant and agile, this sentence describing light work in martial arts is not an exaggeration to give to Cassano now. Cassano is not fast, but his passing is dazzling.

It's not that Cassano's skills are so dazzling, but his passing is simply unpredictable.

Cassano went to the left, and Sagnol focused on defending him.

Compared with Cassano, Sagnol is now a well-known right back. As the captain, he won the UEFA Cup, Premier League, European Super Cup and English League Cup with Blackburn, which is a lot of titles.

But today, facing Cassano, Sagnol was very angry.

Cassano's passing is beyond your imagination. It seems that he is on the outside and suddenly pulls back. It looks like a pass, but it is a shot. The various fake moves are too realistic. Although they are all the most basic fake moves, they are done so that people can't see any flaws.

"... Cassano again, facing Sagnol. Outside... pick the ball, this is a pick, Cassano entered the penalty area!"

Cassano is really a genius. Facing Sagnol, he made an outside breakthrough. When Sagnol leaned forward, he lightly picked the ball, and then he ran from Sagnol's right. The ball went to the left, and the man passed from the right.

He passed Sagnol in one go.

"...Cassano, pass the ball, it's a back pass. Totti...shoot!"

Cassano was like really shooting, and when everyone's attention was on him, he suddenly passed the ball back. That was Totti's position.

Totti followed up and shot, but fortunately someone blocked the hole at this time.

"Makelele, the ball hit Makelele's leg."

George was nervous when he saw this ball. He didn't feel relieved until he saw Totti's shot hit Makelele's leg.

Cassano, Cassano.

Cassano is really the best nine-and-a-half in Italian football after Totti and Piero. At present, in Italian football, Cassano is definitely the most talented player in Cassano's age group. Even in world football, Cassano's talent is counted.

It's a pity that his personality is too weird.

There are many talented players and players with weird personalities in world football.

In the past ten years in England, Gascoigne, who is the most talented, needless to say, and Rooney, who will be the most talented player in the next ten years, also have a bad personality. Even in the German football world, which is known for its rigor, those talented players have very strange personalities.

Including Bayern's current tiger Effenberg and Schuster, both of whom are rare talented players in German football. But in terms of personality?

Even if the Blackburn locker room is relatively quiet, there are many players with outstanding personalities.

Pires is proud and Miku is introverted, both of whom are players with very bad personalities.

But George doesn't have so much time to think about this kind of thing. Cassano is too threatening to Blackburn. This Cassano, man-to-man marking is not enough. Because Roma is not Liverpool. If Liverpool George marks Owen to death, then half of their attack will be gone.

But Roma is different.

You mark Cassano to death, and there is also the Roman prince Totti. Don't look at Totti after the game starts, he is tepid. Once he seizes the opportunity, it is a fatal opportunity. Even if Totti is not in good condition, there are still Cafu on the wing and Emerson in the middle, who cannot be ignored.

George thought about it, and the idea of ​​defense was still driven out.

Attack, only attack can save the current situation. But now the offensive speed cannot be improved. Miku cannot pass the ball quickly under Emerson's defense. At this time, Miku needs help, but it's a pity that Pires is facing Cafu and Deco is entangled by Tommasi, and they can't provide help.

Duff, who should be the most active, turned off the fire against Zebina today. This made George very dissatisfied.

The game was stalemate, and Roma had the advantage.

Cassano's several breakthroughs created good opportunities. If it weren't for Makelele's good defense against Totti and Ferdinand's good defense against Montella. On the contrary, Blackburn's counterattack did not produce any good opportunities.

Although it was an away game, George didn't want to lose the game.