Coaching legend

The game started to tilt a bit.

Manchester United's attack was much more fierce. However, Blackburn was still calm and played step by step. It's just that Blackburn's defense was much stronger.

Especially among the three people at the back of the midfield, Deco's defensive ability was the worst. Even so, Deco's frontal defense ability was still good. In addition, Makelele, who played with his head, and Hargreaves, who was a dog-skin plaster, swept across.

The defensive combination of these three made Manchester United's offense very difficult.

Especially for Beckham, George sent Hargreaves. Hargreaves is only 21 years old now, but he has played in the Premier League for so many years in Blackburn for four seasons. Although he has never been a main player, once George needs to rotate or come on as a substitute, the first person he thinks of is often Hargreaves.

Because Hargreaves has good physical strength, strong running ability, and most importantly, fierce defense.

Hargreaves is very strong. If there is no Makelele, George will definitely let Hargreaves be the main player. Hargreaves' strength is definitely not worse than Italy's Gattuso. If we talk about the defensive coverage area, he may be stronger than Gattuso.

Therefore, when George asked Hargreaves to follow Beckham, Beckham could not get rid of Hargreaves at all.

Beckham could not beat Hargreaves in terms of speed, physical strength and technology. As long as Hargreaves sticks to Beckham, he will not let Beckham go.

Without the help of Beckham on the right, Manchester United's offensive threat has decreased a lot. Fortunately, Giggs's breakthrough on the left is still sharp, supporting their other wing. However, facing the increasingly sophisticated Sagnol, Giggs did not get many good opportunities.

Therefore, Manchester United's offense relies more on the middle.

Scholes's threading in the frontcourt, and Roy Keane's attack from behind.

Although Blackburn's defense in the backcourt is very solid, once there is a problem with the defense, even Miku and Kaka in front will come to help.

After ten minutes of the game, the situation on the field is still stalemate.

Manchester United couldn't attack, and Blackburn couldn't attack. This made Ferguson on the sidelines very dissatisfied. He also looked at George, who was also standing on the sidelines, and couldn't figure out George's thoughts. Unless he had a huge advantage, George was definitely not the kind of coach who played passively.

But from the game, Blackburn did have the suspicion of playing passively. Just like being satisfied with the current score of 0-0.

Of course, playing away games, 0-0 is definitely not an unacceptable outcome. But isn't it better to have an away goal than now.

George put seven people in the midfield and backcourt, and the three people in front came to support at any time. Such a defensive intensity made Manchester United's attack end in vain every time.

If playing against any other team, Manchester United would not have this problem. Although dense defense is a headache for all strong teams, many strong teams still have certain ways. Manchester United has played against teams with dense defense in the Premier League.

But today they played Blackburn.

The players in all positions of Blackburn are world-class players. When they start playing this kind of defense, any strong team in the world will have a headache.

The game passed by minute by minute in this situation.

At the 22nd minute of the game, Scholes' long shot was saved by Van der Sar because of Blackburn's defensive compression. After Van der Sar got the ball, he kicked it directly.

Van der Sar is a very strong goalkeeper.

In addition to all the conditions that a goalkeeper has, Van der Sar has many strengths that other goalkeepers do not have. One is that his hand throws are very far, often a hand throw can be thrown more than 30 meters. When the offense and defense are switched, a hand throw can be directly passed to the player who counterattacks in the middle.

Another is his long foot. Van der Sar's long pass is very accurate, the same level as those midfielders who control the rhythm of the game.

This time is no exception. Van der Sar directly kicked it to the front.

Van der Sar is looking for Drogba.

Drogba's current footwork is indeed a bit rough, and he always kicks the single-handed ball away or kicks it to the goalkeeper. But Drogba has a little strength that even Klose can't compare to. It's his monster-like body.

The biggest skill Drogba has learned in the past few years in the Premier League is how to use his body reasonably.

Therefore, Drogba was completely rampaging in the frontcourt. He knocked Woodgate dizzy. Woodgate is quite strong, and he is good at aerial balls and frontal defense. But his body is really not as good as that of central defenders like Campbell and Terry.

So in the competition with Drogba, he is at a disadvantage physically.

Van der Sar kicked the ball with his big foot, and Drogba quickly occupied a position. Then he leaned against Woodgate to prevent him from grabbing the position. Then he looked at the flying ball, stopped the ball with his chest, and passed it directly to Miku who ran up from the right.

Miku was just near the center line, and when he saw Van der Sar's big foot kick, he ran up directly.

"Van der Sar... Drogba, pass... Miku!"

After Miku got the ball, Keane next to him did not rush to it quickly. But it had already blocked Miku's running route, and even blocked the two-pass route between Miku and Drogba. Unfortunately, Keane was just one person, and it was impossible to block all directions.

Miku still passed the ball.

Miku passed the ball to Kaka who was running on the right.

"Miku... This ball was a mistake, the pass was too big. Miku shouldn't have done that!"

After Miku passed the ball, Martin Taylor was very surprised. Because Miku's pass was obviously intended for Kaka, and the ball was passed into Kaka's running route. But the commentator thought the ball was too big, because the ball was closer to the central defender in the backcourt.

Especially closer to Brown.

Martin Taylor has commented on Blackburn's games many times. He knows Miku very well. Miku shouldn't have such a low-level pass error. So it's a pity that a good counterattack opportunity is gone.

But just after he finished speaking, Martin Taylor was stunned.

Because he just said that Miku passed the ball too big, he didn't expect Kaka's speed to be like the wind. Obviously, Brown was closer to the ball at the beginning, but in the blink of an eye, Kaka was already in front of the ball, while Brown was still more than a meter away from the ball.

Martin Taylor was stunned, and Brown was even more surprised.

Brown had seen speed players before, and had played against Henry and Owen. But he didn't expect Kaka to be so fast, and he was completely on par with Henry and Owen. This time Brown was a step late, but Brown would never let Kaka go so easily.

Because after passing Brown, he would face the goalkeeper directly.

So Brown made a tackle directly, trying to poke the ball out before Kaka controlled it.

But Kaka saw Brown's tackle, lightly lifted the ball, and jumped over. Kaka was so big, and this time he was very light.

"Kaka, too fast... Kaka, lift the ball... Kaka, jumped over Brown. Kaka is going to face the goalkeeper. Barthes... Kaka, shoot!"

Yes, after Kaka passed Brown so easily, he faced Barthes directly.

Woodgate next to him had been entangled with Drogba, and he couldn't catch up to defend Kaka. In desperation, Barthes could only abandon the goal and attack. Kaka may be young, but he is not like Drogba, who always shoots hard when he has a one-on-one chance.

Drogba shoots hard no matter what position he is in, as long as there is a shooting angle. Therefore, he always hits the goalkeeper when he has a one-on-one chance.

But Kaka is different. Although Kaka is a Europeanized Brazilian player, he is still a Brazilian player after all. Facing the attacking Barthes, he pushed the ball very calmly, and the ball slowly rolled into the goal.

"GOOOOOOOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Kaka, it's Kaka. The player George introduced last summer with the "special talent clause". He didn't perform much in the league, but this is his second goal in the Champions League. The last goal was scored away against Roma."

"Away goal, Blackburn got an away goal. The game is in favor of Blackburn."

After seeing the goal, Kaka pointed his index fingers to the sky with both hands. He made his most classic celebration. Drogba and Miku, who were closest to him, came to celebrate.

After seeing Kaka score, George couldn't help but kneel on the sidelines and clench his fists.

It's already the semi-finals, George really wants to enter the finals. Champions League champion, that's George's biggest dream since he became a head coach. Or in other words, who doesn't want to live as a head coach in Europe.

Blackburn is in a good situation now.

Because they have already got an away goal. Away goals are very important in the Champions League knockout stage.

George looked at Ferguson who was very angry next to him and smiled, "Hehe".

Ferguson couldn't guess his starting lineup no matter how much he calculated. And he valued everyone, but he couldn't guess that Kaka was the killer. George admitted that his starting lineup was secretly learned from Ancelotti's Christmas tree style that swept across Europe later.

However, the personnel are different, so his is at most a small one.

But the small Christmas tree alone is already quite powerful.

George didn't choose Anelka, but Drogba to maximize Kaka's power. Anelka, this guy will go up by himself when he gets the ball, and never wants to cooperate with others. This is Anelka's character, and George has no ability to change it.

But Drogba is different.

Drogba is a bridgehead when he is in front. And he can put enough pressure on the opponent's defense line, and give Kaka enough room to play.

So George chose to let Drogba play. And with players like Miku helping Kaka next to him, how can Kaka not have enough room to play.

"Kaka, this season is just a substitute player for Blackburn. But look at Kaka's breakthrough and shot just now, this is indeed a genius. I believe Kaka will definitely be Blackburn's midfield general in the future." Martin Taylor praised Kaka.

This is in the Champions League semi-final.

It is a game that has attracted attention from all of Europe and even the world. Kaka's goal can be said to be a world-shaking one.

I'm very sorry. I've been too busy at work during the day recently, so I'm going to adjust the update time tomorrow.

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