Coaching legend

George clapped his hands on the sidelines, making the somewhat frustrated players look at him. "It's just a ball, there's still time. It's no big deal, cheer me up."

However, the stadium was too noisy, and except for Camoranesi, who was very close to George, everyone else could not hear George clearly. But the gestures that George pressed there were all clearly understood.

"Steve, go up and replace Grant. Your main task is to keep an eye on Duff, and ask Neil to help guard Duff. You have also seen Duff's characteristics. Keep an eye on him and don't make random moves. Just keep an eye on him. Don’t worry about anything else, just keep an eye on Duff, just follow what I arranged before the game.”

In the 32nd minute, Steve Finnan came on and Grant came off.

"Grant, I'm sorry." This kind of substitution of players in the first half is very rare except for unexpected factors such as injuries and red cards. Grant is an old friend of Burnley, and George doesn't want Grant to have any other ideas.

Although replacing Grant now would indeed make Grant lose face.

Grant's expression was indeed very bad now, but after hearing George's words, he shook his head. "I'm sorry, George. It seems that I'm really old, so it may have messed up your plans." Grant said with a very apologetic smile.

Hearing Grant's words, George breathed a sigh of relief. George patted Grant on the shoulder. "Thank you, Grant."

Burnley took the restart unhurriedly, and their morale was not affected at all.

Although he scored a goal, Hodgson kept making pressing gestures on the sidelines. George squinted at Hodgson's action and understood that Hodgson was really anxious. Blackburn's current performance is very poor, and Hodgson is indeed under great pressure.

Before taking charge of Blackburn Rovers, Hodgson had a brilliant coaching resume. He was also one of the candidates for the head coach of the England national team, but after arriving at Blackburn Rovers, Hodgson seemed to have encountered Waterloo. Blackburn have only two wins in the Premier League so far.

Therefore, Hodgson very much hopes to defeat Burnley and improve Blackburn's morale.

However, Blackburn's center was still firmly suppressed by Burnley, and they could only continue to play on the wing. But Ripley on the right was never able to regain his style when he won the Premier League in front of Daniel. Daniel is an extraordinary left back in terms of body, speed and technology.

After Finnan came up, he was nominally a right back, but he almost didn't care about his defensive position. Instead, he clung to Duff, even though Duff was a genius. But Finnan has been training in the lower leagues for a long time. All kinds of small moves and defenses are constantly making Duff very uncomfortable.

However, Blackburn's offense was still focused on Duff, but this time Duff did not complete a dragon. Under Finnan's constant interference, Duff staggered a little. Neil Lennon, who was being flanked, was intercepted, and Neil Lennon passed to Ballack very quickly.

The moment Ballack took the ball, Ljungberg and Camoranesi on the left and right wings immediately spread out along the wings. Pulled Blackburn's defense away. For Blackburn, Ljungberg and Camoranesi are the opponents that Burnley needs to pay attention to at the moment.

Before the game, Hodgson pointed out the three people Burnley needed to pay attention to, namely Ljungberg, Camoranesi and Ballack. In fact, among the people Hodgson named before the game was Robbie Keane, but it was a pity that George did not let Robbie Keane play. As for Klose, in their opinion, he is useless except for headers.

After Ballack got the ball, he didn't pass it to the wing like before. Suddenly a pick pass was passed to the front.

Klose, who didn't do much in this game except for a few headers, suddenly made an offside move and made a diagonal pass. No one thought, including many Burnley fans, that Klose would be so fast.

The moment he saw Klose rushing through the defense, Hodgson stood up. Then I cursed Burnley in my heart, Burnley, you big liar, there is definitely something wrong with the player data they provided. It says that Klose's 100-meter data is 11.8 seconds.

In fact, Hodgson wronged Burnley. Klose's 100-meter speed is definitely not fast. The data is definitely not very good compared to many forwards, but this is just written data. But when it comes to starting speed and 30-meter sprint speed, Klose can be described as lightning fast in this regard.

Klose's explosive power in a moment was astonishing, and it was Blackburn's old captain Hendry who reacted quickly and immediately returned to defense. It's a pity that Hendry is not only old, but his explosive power is no longer what it used to be.

Ballack's pass immediately penetrated Blackburn's defensive line. After Klose got the ball, he was already facing Blackburn's goalkeeper.

Flowers saw that Klose was already alone, so he decisively abandoned the goal and attacked.

"Miro, I will not bring in a player casually. I brought you in because you have enough training value. As long as you work hard, you can become a world-class forward. Miro, do you believe me?"

"Miro, I never speak big words. Especially about my players, are you willing to believe me and listen to me?"

Klose remembers everything George said clearly. If I can become a world-class forward, then let's start from this moment. Klose was very determined. He did not pass the goalkeeper or shoot like other forwards, but shot furiously.

"Balak passes the ball... Klose. Wow, Klose has a strong explosive power and knocked over all the Blackburn defenders at once."

"This is Burnley's best chance, Klose is on a one-on-one basis! He has entered the penalty area and Flowers has rushed out!"

"Shoot! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!!!!!!!! Beautiful, this is a classic offside."

Flowers actually made the right judgment, but Klose's shot was fast and tricky, and it was a ground ball. It made Flowers unable to do it.

When the goal was scored, Klose was very excited and played his signature celebration action, a front flip. In fact, George had warned Klose a long time ago that unless it was an important goal in an important game, he was not allowed to use such a celebration action.

With Klose's front flip, Burnley fans at Ewood Park were boiling. The atmosphere of the red team was completely ignited by this goal, while the Blackburn fans of the blue team next to it were much quieter.

George, who had been standing on the sidelines watching the game, raised his hands and ran more than ten meters at the moment Klose scored, and then waved his hands fiercely. At this time, Blackburn's assistant coach came to George and pushed him.

Because George came to the Blackburn bench and raised his hands to celebrate, Hodgson next to him frowned tightly. This young coach is too uneducated.

Evan Sawyer saw the Blackburn assistant coach pushing George, and hurried up to push the Blackburn coach away.

The fourth referee saw the situation here and hurried over to pull them apart.

"Coach Levi, you can celebrate over there." All referees are now headaches for George.

George was very happy, but he would not quarrel with the referee. So he quickly apologized to the fourth referee. "Sorry, I was just too excited. I just ran in the wrong direction."

"It's better this way, Coach Levi."

George came to his bench under the advice of the fourth referee.

"Hahaha, Coach Levy can always be the focus of the game in any game." Mortensen laughed when he saw the conflict between George and the Blackburn assistant coach.

"It was a stroke of genius to let Klose start in this game. Blackburn defenders obviously didn't pay much attention to Klose. They didn't expect Klose to have such strong explosive power. Klose's feet are a bit rough, but he is good at heading and fast, and he still has a bright future." Alan Hansen still admires Klose.

Mortensen also nodded. "Alan, everyone says that Klose is the worst player among the players selected by George. But who knows, maybe Klose has something that George values ​​most."