Coaching legend

A 5-0 victory cleared the gloom for Blackburn.

The European Super Cup is not very useful, or it is not a very important match. But it is also a European king-of-kings match, and a score of 5-0 is still a big score difference.

Everyone is praising Blackburn's strength.

These media are like this. Two days ago, they said that George messed up and caused a good championship team to become like this. After a beautiful victory, they immediately turned around and praised Blackburn. These media have no backbone at all.

They can completely swallow what they said yesterday, and say the exact opposite today. Of course, if the situation changes tomorrow, they can still overturn what they said today. The media are so shameless.

If they were thin-skinned, those reporters would not be able to make a living.

Mark Lawrenson, who mocked George the most, immediately shrank back when he saw the score of 5-0.

Mark Lawrenson shrank back, but George would not let him go. George borrowed the Blackburn Evening News and hit back at Mark Lawrenson there. In the column, he ridiculed and criticized some people for their short-sightedness and their mediocre views.

Although George did not name any names, everyone in the English football world knew that George and Mark Lawrenson had a war of words before the game. Therefore, everyone understood that George was referring to Mark Lawrenson.

Fortunately, Mark Lawrenson was thick-skinned enough.

Although he was criticized by George, he did not intend to fight George. He continued to be a coward.

Mark Lawrenson did not like George. But he always followed a principle.

That is, when George had a lot of achievements, he would come out to ridicule him and laugh at him. When George had good results, he would never come out to annoy people. It would be embarrassing to laugh at people when the results were good.

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In addition to hitting back at the media that had laughed at him before the game, George calmed down and began to analyze the development direction of the team.

After the European Super Cup, George gradually understood.

Deco is different from Alonso, or Alonso at this stage cannot compare with Deco. And the technical styles of the two are also different. As the midfield commanders of the team, their different technical styles will of course lead to different team playing styles.

George had fallen into a misunderstanding before.

He always thought that Alonso was bought to fill Deco's position. Therefore, he always asked Alonso to follow Deco's model. The playing style was always based on the team's tactical requirements when Deco was there. This kind of hard-wearing, of course, is impossible to have good results.

After more than a month of games, George gradually understood. Alonso is Alonso, Deco is Deco. Alonso is not Deco, and the two of them cannot be exactly the same.

Although Alonso is a little weaker than Deco now, he already has his own style. Alonso is strong in defense, and his long pass is very good. He is better than Deco in long passes.

But he lacks Deco's delicate skills. In terms of ball control, he is slightly weaker than Deco.

If Deco is more delicate, then Alonso is more open and close.

However, at the beginning of the season, George asked Alonso to get closer to Deco, which was really a whimsical idea. With these few games, George gradually reacted.

Now Deco is gone.

Blackburn is about to enter the time when Alonso is in charge, so it should be to create tactics for Alonso. Instead of reminiscing about the past.

Maybe Blackburn has been too successful in the past four seasons. Two Premier League titles, one League Cup title, one European Super Cup title, one League Cup title, and a heavyweight Champions League title.

As a result, even George is a little obsessed with the original Blackburn. Unwilling to change.

So although a lot of people have changed this season, George still wants to make his team closer to the original team. He always wants to copy the previous Blackburn style of play.

Maybe this is the reason why many people are complacent.

Too successful, you will indulge in success. Think this is a model, a successful model. Later, anything will be successful as long as it is carried out according to this successful model. George is like this.

But after more than a month, George finally figured it out.

Previous successful experience can only be an experience. You can't let all the things later be fitted with previous experience.

A good coach should not let his players adapt to the tactics after determining the tactics. Instead, he should formulate tactics according to the characteristics of the players.

George changed Blackburn's previous midfield control style. Instead, he formulated another set of tactics specifically for Alonso. It is no longer to compress the opponent's formation. Instead, he used Alonso and Hargreaves' strong defensive ability to intercept from the midfield.

Once the interception is made, he will quickly pass through the midfield. Use Alonso's long pass ability to immediately launch a counterattack.

But after this tactic was formulated, one person was sacrificed.

That person is Miku.

In the past, although Deco was the midfield metronome of Blackburn, because Blackburn played the midfield control style, Miku in the frontcourt was very important. Especially Blackburn's original style of play, it is easy for the opponent to conduct dense defense.

There are two people in Blackburn who do the best in breaking dense defense. They are Miku and Pires. These two are in the midfield and have many ways to break dense defense.

Miku plays a very important role.

Miku has excellent skills, excellent passing and good shooting. Therefore, in the previous Blackburn system, Miku was the core of the frontcourt attack. It is a very important position.

Although Deco is the midfield metronome, if you look at it from another angle, he is actually assisting Miku.

But now George has changed his style of play and actually handed over the control of the midfield to Alonso.

In this way, Miku's position is very awkward.

Because according to the style of play designed by George, Kaka's impact is very suitable for George's style of play. Kaka is growing and will squeeze Miku's space.

And Miku is a talented front midfielder. Only when there is a ball can he exert his greatest power. Now George has handed the ball to the back midfielder, to Alonso. The attack started directly from Alonso, which actually ignored Miku.

George felt a little sorry for Miku.

But for the sake of results, George can only do this. If Miku wants to continue to perform, he must adapt to this change. In fact, although Miku is not fast, his passing ability and shooting ability, as long as he adapts to this change, there is still a lot to do.

It's just that George is worried about Miku, he is introverted. Somewhat arrogant, but also a little inferior. There is a combination of contradictions in his heart.

George doesn't want Miku to affect his career because of this kind of thing.

Fortunately, Miku didn't express any dissatisfaction with George's tactical play. And he tried very hard to adapt to the team.

But the so-called new tactics can't be adapted to in a short time.

Alonso's strength is not enough to fully carry the rhythm of Blackburn. In the fast pace of the Premier League, Alonso is not allowed to have more time to consider when switching between offense and defense. Therefore, his long pass requires more solid strength.

In addition, although he has been in Blackburn for more than a month. But he can't say that he is completely familiar with the technical characteristics of Blackburn players. If you are not familiar with them, it is not so easy to dominate them.

Now George has completely handed over the offense to Alonso. Alonso can't get into the state, so that the whole team can't cooperate smoothly.

Not only Alonso, but Miku is also not used to it. Because Miku is used to getting the ball in the frontcourt, suddenly Miku becomes similar to Lampard's role, which makes Miku not very familiar.

However, George's reliance on Miku has not decreased at all.

Although the rhythm of the whole team is given to Alonso, Miku is still the strongest in passing in a small range at Blackburn.

George is adjusting his tactics to adapt the team to the new tactics.

It takes time to adapt to the new tactics.

However, even if it takes time to adapt to the new tactics, Blackburn's foundation is there. Blackburn is just a little confused, and the strength is still there. Therefore, although it is not like the previous seasons, it has been leading all the way since the beginning of the season.

But Blackburn is not far behind.

Manchester United has been in a bad state since last season, and the state this season is also average. Arsenal is changing the dynasty of the back line, so it is also adapting to the new defensive system. It can be said that the three strongest teams in the Premier League have their own problems.

Therefore, the three teams are no longer as strong as before.

Although they are not caught up by Chelsea, Liverpool, and Newcastle. But the leading advantage is not much.

After the start of the season, Arsenal had the best momentum. Manchester United and Blackburn were both behind Arsenal, but the points were always close to Arsenal.

Time soon came to mid-November, Arsenal ranked first, Manchester United ranked second, and Blackburn ranked third. Arsenal was in the best situation, leading Blackburn by seven points and Manchester United by four points.

In the first round of the Champions League group stage, Blackburn met Dortmund, Auxerre, and Eindhoven. Although it was Blackburn in the reconstruction period, Blackburn still easily passed in this group stage.

Although the second place result appeared in the end, there was no big wave.

However, the draw for the second round of the Champions League group stage was over, and it was time for the real test.

Blackburn entered the only group of death. There were also Ajax, Roma, and Valencia in the same group. This group was called the group of death, not because there were any super strong teams in this group. But because the strength of all the teams in this group was not much different. In particular, there was no weak team, and the strength of all the teams was very strong.

That’s why it’s called the group of death.

Two updates today.

My head is a mess. Although I have good ideas, it’s hard to write the story of this season. I want to just briefly mention it, but I’m afraid that readers will say I’m perfunctory. If I look more carefully, I feel like I’m filling it with water.

So I’ve been thinking about it these days, and now I’m slowly sorting out a little bit of clues. So I’m writing very carefully.