Coaching legend

The Champions League quarter-finals are finally over.

In addition to Blackburn and Porto in the upper half, two teams have also appeared in the lower half.

Arsenal easily defeated Stuttgart with a total score of 3-1 and entered the Champions League semi-finals.

The other game was the second big upset in the Champions League this season.

Real Madrid, which eliminated Bayern and entered the Champions League quarter-finals, was eliminated by Deschamps' Monaco.

And the elimination process was also very dramatic.

Real Madrid first defeated Monaco at home with a score of 4-2. At that time, all of Europe believed that Real Madrid's entry into the Champions League semi-finals was no longer a suspense. With a score of 4-2, can you still turn the tables?

If the opponent is a European giant, it may be possible. But you are a French Ligue 1 team Monaco?

No one thinks Monaco can eliminate Real Madrid.

On the away field, Real Madrid also had a great start. Raul's goal gave Real Madrid a 1-0 lead away from home. The total score was 5-2.

Everyone thought the game was over.

Even the commentator at the time had announced that Real Madrid had entered the Champions League semi-finals. Although the first half had not even ended at that time.

But the dramatic scene finally began.

First, Giuly scored a goal to tie the score at the 45th minute, when the first half was about to end. Then, just three minutes into the second half, Morientes scored a goal to overtake. He dealt a heavy blow to his old club.

This goal made the Real Madrid superstar confused.

Queiroz, who was directing the game, was also confused. When the game was in the 66th minute, Giuly scored another goal. The game became 3-1.

This score remained until the end.

Monaco actually eliminated Real Madrid with the advantage of away goals. After Porto eliminated Manchester United, it created the second big upset in the Champions League this season.

The list of the top four teams in the 03-04 Champions League has come out. Blackburn, Arsenal, Monaco, Porto.

Unlike last season when all the Premier League teams were defeated in the Champions League, this time there are two Premier League teams in the top four of the Champions League. In the semifinals, Blackburn Rovers will play Porto and Arsenal will play Monaco.

Many English media are already looking forward to it.

Blackburn Rovers and Arsenal will meet in the Champions League final.

The Champions League final will be between two clubs from the same league. La Liga has done this before, when Real Madrid defeated Valencia in the final. Serie A has also done this, when Milan defeated Juventus to become the Champions League champion last season.

But the English league has never done this.

The previous Champions League was because only the league champions could participate. So there was no chance. Later, the Champions League was expanded, but there were not many Premier League teams that could reach the Champions League final.

Premier League clubs have only won the Champions League twice so far.

Manchester United defeated Bayern Munich in 1999, and Blackburn defeated Real Madrid in 2002.

In fact, 2002 was the best opportunity. There were three Premier League teams in the top four at that time, but unfortunately Blackburn eliminated Manchester United and Real Madrid eliminated Arsenal, so in the end Blackburn played Real Madrid.

Now the best opportunity has come again.

Monaco and Porto were able to upset because their opponents ignored them. Now it is the game to enter the Champions League final. Once they pay attention to them, can they still upset?

Although Blackburn's state has been ups and downs this season, George himself started out playing cup games. George has always been very experienced in playing cup games. Therefore, they are not worried about Blackburn.

As for Arsenal, it is the hottest club in Europe this season. Some people have even started to build momentum for Henry, believing that Henry should win the Footballer of the Year this season. In particular, the London media and the French media all support Henry to win the Footballer of the Year.

So no one thinks Monaco can beat Arsenal.

Arsenal and Blackburn entered the Champions League final, which can be said to be what everyone expected.

Therefore, the British media has already booked the Champions League champion this season in advance. The Champions League champion this season must be the Premier League.

On April 8, the quarter-finals were played.

The semi-finals will be played on April 22. There is nearly half a month in between.

During this half month, Blackburn still has two Premier League games to play. If it was a few seasons ago, these two games would be games that George attaches great importance to. Because in order to compete for the Premier League championship, at this time, there is absolutely no room for error.

At this time, facing a strong dialogue, George must be very headache.

Because the two opponents George will face are Liverpool and Arsenal.

However, Arsenal has already won the Premier League championship this season. Therefore, for George, it is not a burden. George can rotate as much as he wants and does not care about the Premier League results.

Although George is reluctant to give up the second place to Chelsea, the Champions League is more important than the little idea in his heart.

In the game against Liverpool, George used most of the substitutes and some main players. After all, Liverpool is a strong team in the Premier League, and there are many world-class players in the team. Blackburn was beaten three goals by Liverpool away from home.

Lost to Liverpool 0-3.

Since George took over Blackburn, he has definitely not experienced many 0-3 losses. But George is very calm.

Then we face Arsenal.

Same for Wenger. Now Wenger is also focusing on the Champions League. In the 33rd round of the Premier League, Wenger also put on a substitute lineup. The substitute lineups of both sides played really well, even better than the main lineup.

In the end, both sides played attacking football at Ewood Park. In the end, the score was two to two.

With just one point from two games, Chelsea are back above Blackburn Rovers and in second place in the Premier League. This made George a little unhappy.

Arsenal are only one step away from the league title.

As long as Arsenal score two points in the remaining five rounds, Arsenal will win the Premier League championship this season. With two points and five rounds left, Arsenal has no problem even playing with their eyes closed.

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"George points his finger at the champion!"

"The Champions League champions, Blackburn are here!"

The championship declaration that George shouted after the game immediately became the headlines of all media and newspapers. After the Champions League quarter-finals, all winning coaches were interviewed by the media.

But George was the only one who made the championship declaration.

Especially what George said, "No one can stop us, not Juventus, not Milan, not even Porto!" was greatly amplified and very eye-catching in the newspaper layout.

This sentence can be said to have angered Porto.

Especially Porto's head coach Mourinho. Mourinho is a madman, he is not a good guy.

When they met Manchester United in the Champions League this season, Mourinho and Ferguson had a good fight. Ferguson said that Porto players dived. Mourinho responded to Ferguson, saying that Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ronaldinho dived more.

So seeing George disdain Porto so much, Mourinho also fought back against George.

"Under normal circumstances, only those with a guilty conscience will raise their voices to cover up their inner weakness. Obviously, Coach Levi falls into this situation."

George smiled in the face of Mourinho's counterattack.

"Yes, Coach Mourinho is right. But he also said that under normal circumstances, it does not include me and my team. Because I am George Levy, who has won the Champions League. Coach. We are Blackburn, a team that has won the Champions League.”

After George finished speaking, he continued.

"Actually, Coach Mourinho is very good. I have watched Porto's performance in the past two seasons, and I think Coach Mourinho has great potential. In the next few years, he is likely to become a pivotal coach in European football. ”

"Seeing Coach Mourinho reminds me of who I was back then."

George's old-fashioned evaluation of Mourinho made the reporters who interviewed George burst into laughter. George is only thirty-five years old this year, while Mourinho is now forty-one. It’s funny no matter how you look at it when a thirty-five-year-old person says to a forty-one-year-old person that he remembers me back then.

But although it was funny, the reporters present nodded.

Because George is indeed qualified to evaluate Mourinho like this.

Mourinho started his coaching career at Amadora in 1990. He was just an assistant coach. After passing through Porto and Barcelona, ​​he was still an assistant coach. It took ten years to do this.

It wasn't until 2000 that he started independent coaching. It's only been four years now.

But George is different.

George received his coaching certificate in 1990 and started his head coaching career in 1995. Completed three-year double jump at Burnley. Then we arrived at Blackburn and began a glorious journey. This season, George is already in his ninth season of coaching.

Whether it is in terms of coaching time or honors, George is the one who stabilizes Mourinho.

Therefore, George is young, but in the coaching world he is Mourinho's predecessor.

Sure enough, after George said these words, the Sun even printed a big headline "George is second!"

There is an analysis of George and Mourinho. Both of them have good results and are both young coaches. More importantly, neither of them have very good tempers. They are both well-known character coaches in European football. After such a comparison, they said Mourinho was second to George.

George couldn't help laughing while looking at the newspaper.

Many old coaches have spoken to George in a reprimanding tone before. At that time, George hated those old coaches so much. But now George suddenly feels that there is a reason why seniority has been able to last for so long in British football.

It's also very satisfying to use seniority to suppress juniors.

Thinking that I had teased Mourinho, the most prosperous head coach since entering the 21st century, I felt quite proud.

Why, now George is more famous than Mourinho and has more honors. I just looked down and evaluated Mourinho, geez!

Mourinho was very angry after seeing the news.

Who is Mourinho? He is a very proud person.

Not to mention George, even Clough, who has retired from football, Manchester United's head coach Ferguson, and Robson, whom Mourinho respects very much, none of them are qualified to say that Mourinho is their successor.

Therefore, seeing "George second", how could Mourinho not grit his teeth.

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