coach legend

Chapter 189 The Damn Winter Break
Leading by one goal, this situation is very sure for George.

As Martin Taylor said, George will always be George.In George's mind, grades come first, and George doesn't care about anything in order to win.A small defensive counterattack is nothing, if George is willing to stick ten people in the goal.

Derby County really never thought that Blackburn, who has performed well recently, would play such a shameless tactic.Therefore, after conceding a goal, they only know about blind attacks, and there are no real tactics at all.

Even their manager never imagined such a situation, and when he saw Blackburn's starting XI, he was secretly delighted.I think we should be able to beat Blackburn at home.

It's a pity that I never thought that George would be so disregarding face, even though many main players have been changed.But none of them could have imagined that Blackburn, the representative of this season's technical team, would suddenly play such a defensive counterattack tactic.

He has no choice but to increase the striker and attack.It's a pity that breaking such a dense defense is a problem for all teams in the world.Even if it is placed on the current strong teams such as Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayern, and Milan, it is a headache for intensive defense.

Not to mention Derby County, which is not prepared at all, has no other way to face Blackburn except for a long pass.

And Derby County does not have any players with good headers, and the defenders on Blackburn's side are all quite good headers.Including Hyypia and Galla's header ability are very good.Therefore, Derby County's offensive is full of thunder and rain, and there is not much threat.

But George's counterattack is different, although George has not practiced any counterattack tactics in Blackburn.Unlike at Burnley, counter-attacking is an art.A shot can be formed between three feet and four feet.However, in Blackburn, because they have always played an oppressive style of play, it is more about how to score goals in positional battles.

But it doesn't mean that Blackburn won't fight back. There is Duff, a super winger, there.

As long as Derby County's defense moves forward, once Duff takes the ball and counterattacks, no one in Derby County's back line can do anything about him.On the other side, Romedal's speed is also very good.In this game, George completely lost the midfielder. The task of the midfielder is to steal the ball and hand it over to the wing for a counterattack.

In the 23rd minute of the second half, it was another standard counterattack and scored Derby County's second goal.Blackburn also won another victory with a score of [-]-[-] in the game.

On the 28th, George led Blackburn to the Riverside Stadium without stopping to challenge Middlesbrough.

In this game, George replaced most of the main players, but the effect was not as good as the previous game.For some reason, Micoud and Pires, two players that George placed high hopes on, did not seem to wake up during the game.

The kick was muddled.Including Deco's performance in the midfield is much worse than before.

After switching to the main lineup, he played no differently from the previous game.Even the counterattack was not as good as the previous game.

Because Blackburn has always played an oppressive style of play, when Deco performed well, he could control the second point.However, Deco's performance in this game was also abnormal, and he was unable to protect the second point.

There were too many conceded goals in the frontcourt in this game, and the control of the second point was not strong.At 71 minutes into the second half, Middlesbrough made a counterattack instead.George began to replace other players on the field, but still did not save the defeat.

So far, the five games in December are all over, and Blackburn has two wins, one draw and two losses.Compared with the four-game winning streak in November, the results in December have dropped a lot.George cursed the English league in his heart, why there are so many games in England.

But Blackburn's devil's schedule is not over yet.Four days after the game against Middlesbrough, Blackburn will face an FA Cup game.Then we will face Tottenham at home soon.

The intensity of the game made George's head hurt.

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"Evan, they are in such a bad game now." George looked at the situation on the field and frowned.

The time will soon come to January [-]th.In the FA Cup, Blackburn ran into a semi-amateur team from the National League.Although George rotated most of the players, he still won the game easily.

But back at home, Blackburn face Tottenham Hotspur from London.

Tottenham Hotspur's performance is very poor. So far this season, it has only ranked No. 11 in the Premier League.However, the biggest reason for Tottenham's poor performance is that Tottenham's offensive strength is really poor.The offensive strength is only stronger than the two teams of Southampton and Nottingham Forest.

Now Nottingham Senli is the bottom team in the Premier League.And Southampton's performance is not good, ranking No. 18 in the Premier League, and is still in the relegation zone.

Tottenham, whose offensive strength is very poor, is No. 11 in the Premier League.This is all because of Tottenham's strong defensive ability.Although Tottenham's performance in recent years has not been good, and the team's strength is also limited.But Graham is definitely a capable coach, and he can make a very good defense with the existing players.

Graham's football was dull and uninteresting, and Tottenham fans did not welcome Graham at all.

If George is not seen by Blackburn, it is because of the grievances between George and Blackburn.And George's performance at Blackburn was terrible.

So Tottenham does not welcome Graham now, not at all because Graham used to be Arsenal's meritorious coach, nor is it because Graham's grades are too poor.On the contrary, it is the fans of White Hart Lane who hate Graham's team's style of play very much.

Like other England fans, White Hart Lane fans are even more so.Their favorite thing is to attack, attack, and attack.But Graham's football is a very typical defensive counterattack, and it is the kind of one-to-nil that many people hate.His football is more hated than George's.

Therefore, the fans of White Hart Lane are very unsupportive of Graham.Now Graham's life in White Hart Lane is not very easy.

Arriving at Blackburn's home court, Graham put George in a bucket formation.If the state is good, Blackburn is not afraid of their intensive defense.But Blackburn's main players in this game continued the downturn in the previous game.

"George, don't worry. Have you noticed that the newly introduced players this season have problems these days, but the status of others is fine." Evan whispered to George next to him.

"Yes, George. Since the end of December, the training status of those people has also been problematic. Including John and Robert, their status has declined to varying degrees." Carl also nodded, adding to Evan's words.

George nodded, of course he knew that the status of several people had been inexplicably underestimated recently.

"Carl, can it be said that our English league does not have a winter break, and it really has such a big impact on them." George knew that their downturn began at the end of December.This time period coincides with the time when the rest of the continent's leagues enter their winter break.

The few people George introduced from France all fell into a downturn at the same time.

"Well, George. Athletes have habits, just like a lot of our training is placed at the same time as the game time. This is a kind of inertia. Only in this way can the players adjust their state best during the game. Carl nodded and explained to George. "John and Robert have always played in Ligue [-]. They are used to the holiday now. They are used to the winter break, but there is no winter break in the Premier League. So they are not very suitable for a while. As long as they adapt later, they will not There will be problems like this.”

Hearing Carl's words, George breathed a sigh of relief.As long as there are no other problems.

Mom, being a head coach is such a hassle.Everything needs to be taken care of, if only Blackburn also had an institution like Milan Lab.

Why do other leagues have a winter break but England don't.When he was in the lower leagues, George didn't think so.Although there are many games, but because the competition is very long, there is no problem in losing two or three games.In addition, many of the players introduced by George were poached from the low-level leagues in England.They are all adapting to the fact that English football does not have a winter break.

But several players from France, they are all experiencing January games for the first time.The state is depressed.

At this time, George missed the native English players very much.They don't have such troubles.

"Carl, see if there is any good way for them to spend this time." Although there are not many Premier League games in January, there are only three games.But if the Blackburn players are in this state every game, it will not be easy.

Three games, that's nine points.

Although Blackburn has no worries about relegation at all, every game is still very important.George boasted in front of Jack Walker about his UEFA Cup spot next season, and there is still a gap of nearly ten.

George is not willing to shoot empty guns, after all, Jack Walker has supported him so much this season.It is indeed unreasonable not to repay.

"George, I can't do much about this problem. This is a problem of adaptation, just like the beginning of the season, it is a matter of time. I think their winter break will be over in about ten days. They will slowly It's recovered. By this time next year, it shouldn't be a problem."

There are still ten or so days, which means that they will have a certain impact on the next game.

Graham is really a coach without much pursuit, and he has always been passive defensive during the game.The game ended up being zero to zero.

This is already 22 rounds, Blackburn scored 32 wins, 8 draws and [-] losses with [-] points.Still ranked No.[-] in the Premier League.The points are already tied with Liverpool.

George shook his head, 32 points.If you want to enter the UEFA Cup, you still need to work hard.

(End of this chapter)