Coaching legend

British football started the 2003-2004 Premier League with the strong entry of Abrahimovic.

Chelsea received the most attention.

It was not because the British football world believed that Chelsea had a chance to win the Premier League. But people wanted to see what kind of performance Chelsea would have after such a crazy acquisition. And Chelsea's performance lived up to expectations.

In the first round of the Premier League, facing the English giants Liverpool. Although Liverpool's Owen scored a goal for Liverpool, Chelsea defeated Liverpool 2-1 away with goals from Veron and Hasselbaink.

As soon as this game appeared, everyone was amazed at Chelsea's strength.

In the game, Chelsea was completely suppressing Liverpool. And Owen's goal was based on Owen's personal ability. And throughout the game, if Liverpool's goalkeeper hadn't performed well, I don't know how many goals Chelsea would have scored.

Is this a reorganized team?

Veron was a scumbag in Manchester United! I didn't expect that he would play so freely in the first game at Chelsea. Controlling the ball, passing, and shooting were all so good.

Everyone was shocked by Chelsea's strong strength.

Watching the game, they only remembered this sentence: Is it good to be rich?

After that, Chelsea defeated Leicester City 2-1, tied Birmingham 0-0, and defeated Tottenham Hotspur 4-2.

Especially in the victory over Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea was in full swing. The newly joined Mutu scored twice in the game. Tottenham's defense line had no defensive ability at all against Mutu.

Tottenham Hotspur's defense line was defenseless against Mutu.

This striker who became famous in Parma did not feel uncomfortable at all after arriving in the Premier League. He was able to fight.

Three wins and one draw in four games, and the results were even better than Manchester United.

Such performance surprised everyone.

Three wins and one draw in four games, accumulating ten points. Ranked second in the Premier League.

Three wins and one draw is really a good result, but unfortunately there is a more perverted club in the Premier League this season. That is Arsenal.

Arsenal won four games in four games in August.

2-1 victory over Everton at home, 4-0 victory over Middlesbrough away, 2-0 victory over Aston Villa at home, 2-1 victory over Manchester City away.

Henry is in an invincible state this season.

Although only three goals were scored in four games, the three goals were evenly distributed in the first three games. The most important thing is that Henry is not only a terminator now. Henry is also an organizer in the frontcourt, who can score goals and assist.

Wenger has been working hard for four seasons, and Arsenal has gradually become perfect. Now Arsenal is not only strong in the main lineup, but also has a certain thickness in the substitute lineup that has always troubled Arsenal.

In addition to Arsenal's four wins and Chelsea's three wins and one draw, Manchester United has three wins and one loss.

This is completely different from the previous Premier League.

In the previous Premier League, it was a very good result to get seven or eight points in the early season games. Because at the beginning of the season, many clubs were not well prepared. They need to use games to adjust their status.

In the past few seasons, George's Blackburn has risen strongly, gradually changing this situation.

Everyone began to pay attention to the games at the beginning of the season. But they are still far behind Blackburn.

But this season is completely different. It turned out that from the beginning of the season, these teams have been trying their best. Not only because of Blackburn's example in the past few seasons, but also because of Chelsea's sudden emergence.

Chelsea has brought a lot of pressure to the major Premier League clubs.

Although the old English clubs verbally disdain Chelsea. And many celebrities also think that Chelsea has no chance of winning the championship this season. But this can not reduce the fear of these clubs for Chelsea.

They are not afraid of Chelsea's strength.

They are afraid of Abrahimovic behind them. Will this mysterious Russian tycoon continue his crazy investment this summer? If there are two more such transfer periods, not to mention the Premier League powerhouses, even the European giants can't stand it.

Of course, Blackburn, who always likes to exert force at the beginning of the season, has also performed well.

In the first round of the Premier League, they defeated the newly promoted Wolves with a score of 5-1, then lost to Bolton 1-2 away, defeated Manchester City 3-1 at home, and defeated Fulham 1-0 at home. It is also three wins and one loss in four games, the same points as Manchester United.

The four Premier League teams all performed very well at the beginning of the season.

With Abrahimovic's entry, the Premier League began to compete for supremacy. Manchester United, Arsenal, Blackburn, Chelsea, Liverpool, these strong teams started a melee.

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After the fourth round of the Premier League, George went to participate in the draw for the Champions League group stage.

The Champions League has once again undergone a major reform.

In the past, the Champions League had two group stages, and the clubs that broke through the second round of the group stage directly entered the Champions League quarterfinals. If a club wants to enter the Champions League final, it must play at least seventeen games.

Of course, if it starts from the Champions League qualifiers, it will exceed seventeen games. Seventeen games are counted from the first round of the Champions League group stage.

It's just because there are too many Champions League games.

Many European giants have complaints about the Champions League schedule. For example, when Blackburn won the Champions League in 2001-02, they played more than 60 games throughout the season. If you add some international players playing in the national team, they played more games in a season.

Even if they rotate, 50 games in a season is not enough for those core players.

With more games, these players are prone to injuries. All these made European giants very dissatisfied. So after long-term negotiations with UEFA, the Champions League finally started another reform this season.

The biggest change in this Champions League reform is that one of the two rounds of group matches was removed.

From now on, there is only one Champions League group stage. As long as you break through the group stage, you will be in the top 16 of the Champions League. It will be directly the knockout stage of the Champions League.

Such changes are very beneficial to the major European giants.

The first point is that because there is only one group stage. So the probability of a death group is very low.

In the past two rounds of group matches, the probability of a death group in the second round of group matches was very high. Just like last year, the four group matches were full of strong teams. It was an absolute death group.

But now there is only one round of group matches, so there are rarely any death groups.

Even if there are death groups, there will only be one or two death groups in the eight groups.

This ensures that European giants can easily enter the Champions League knockout stage. It is very in their interest.

Another advantage is that there are fewer games. In the past, to enter the Champions League final, at least 17 games had to be played. But with the reform of the Champions League, there are only 13 games from the main game to the final. Don't underestimate these four games. For European giants, the reduction of four games is very important.

This Champions League reform is a game result between UEFA and European giants.

Although Blackburn is still a small team now, it is a club that has become famous in European football in recent years. So when George, the youngest head coach of the Champions League, came to the draw site, many head coaches came to say hello.

George nodded to them one by one.

Suddenly, Ancelotti, who was chatting and laughing over there, was seen. Ancelotti is now in high spirits. He has always been called the "second place for a thousand years", but he led Milan to win the Champions League last season.

Ancelotti is at the peak of his career.

However, George was very unhappy with Ancelotti. It was not that he had any opinion on Ancelotti himself, but he was very dissatisfied with Milan's elimination last season. In two games, he had no power to fight back. This made George feel uncomfortable.

George looked at the glorious Ancelotti and hoped to be drawn with Milan.

It would be best if they could meet in the group stage.

If he didn't avenge the hatred of last season, he would feel uneasy.

Maybe Ancelotti felt that there was a pair of eyes watching him from behind. So he looked back and saw George looking at him, so he smiled and nodded.

George nodded reluctantly. Then he immediately turned around and talked to other head coaches.

George hoped to be drawn with Milan, but unfortunately it was not as he wished.

The Champions League group stage draw was over, and there was no so-called death group among the eight groups. Even if those experts found the death group, it was only a relative death group. There was no way to compare it with the death group in the previous two rounds of group matches.

Blackburn was placed in Group C. This group seemed to be a very good draw result to others, but George didn't think so.

In this group, in addition to Blackburn, there are PSV Eindhoven, Monaco, and AEK Athens.

AEK Athens is recognized as a weak team, after all, it is a Greek team. The strength is very poor.

As for PSV Eindhoven and Monaco, many analysts think they are weak teams. Especially compared with Blackburn, the strength is too poor. But George dare not underestimate them.

Who is the head coach of PSV Eindhoven? It is the famous magical coach Hiddink. And currently in PSV Eindhoven, there are Robben, Kezman, and South Korean international Park Ji-sung. In the next few seasons, PSV Eindhoven will perform extremely well in the Champions League.

As for Monaco, it should not be underestimated.

This season, Monaco even reached the Champions League final. Although there are some other reasons, Monaco is very strong. Morientes, Giuly, Evra, Adebayor, Pulso.

It's just that PSV Eindhoven and Monaco are unknown now. So the media thinks Blackburn has drawn a good draw.

Of course, George pays some attention to PSV Eindhoven and Monaco, but it's far from being afraid. So what if Monaco can enter the Champions League final? That's because no one pays attention. As long as George pays attention, George believes that Monaco will not escape his palm.