coach legend

Chapter 232 Cold Moscow
Seeing the players with tired faces, George remembered the situation when he played Manchester United.

At that time, Manchester United was like it is now. After the national team game, everyone was exhausted.When George led Blackburn to Manchester United for the first time, it was just after the national team match day.

George also took this opportunity to draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford in one fell swoop.In the end, George also relied on that game to get rid of the downturn at the beginning of the season.At that time, George was so grateful for the national team game.

If there was no interference from the national team game at that time, George would have absolutely no chance of being able to draw with Manchester United.It can even be said that it is possible to be humiliated by Manchester United.

But it was his turn. George hated the national team game.The current arrangement of national team games is much more reasonable.In the past few years, the national team games were not even regular.The national team games are inserted into the league casually.

However, the club at that time belonged to the weak side. Although they were full of complaints, they could not change that situation.

With the establishment of G14, the resistance of several giants is becoming more and more fierce.In order to suppress this giant league, UEFA can be said to have tried everything.But at the same time, in order not to persecute them, they will also appease them in other ways.

The expansion of the Champions League and the regularization of national team competitions are all FIFA and UEFA beginning to make concessions to these giant clubs.

However, there are still many unreasonable things in the current arrangement of the national team's games.But this cannot be changed.

Just after returning, George faced Tottenham Hotspur from London.

There are also many international players in the Tottenham team, but they are not as good as Blackburn.Although many of Blackburn's international players are substitute players, what George did not expect was that the ideas of European coaches were indeed different from those of the Chinese national team coaches.

After Sun Jihai returned to the national team, he played two games as the main force.

But the European national team, in the two friendly matches, instead played more substitute players.The original main players played, and they only played half of the game.Instead, the substitute players played more minutes than the main players.

This made George feel like crying.At the beginning, George was still complacent, and many Blackburn players were marginal internationals.Never expected the final result to be like this.

George is very afraid that these players who have just returned from the national team may be injured if they continue to play.Therefore, try to arrange some players who have not played in the national team to play, but unfortunately they failed to win against Tottenham.

Although Tottenham's performance this season is still poor, their performance in offense and defense is already very good compared to last season.

Blackburn failed to score a goal, but Tottenham scored a goal by relying on a mistake on Blackburn's back line.In the end, Blackburn lost [-]-[-] at home.

After the No.15 round of the Premier League, Leeds United has become No.2 in the Premier League.Four points behind Blackburn, only one point less than Manchester United.

The strength of Leeds United has made everyone in English football sigh.This is really a "youth storm".

Just five days after playing Tottenham, Blackburn traveled to Watford.Watford this season is currently ranked No.1 from the bottom of the Premier League.It is the first favorite team to be relegated this season.

Watford is a team that has just been promoted this season, and Watford can be considered a strong team in League One.But after arriving in the Premier League, Watford has become a deceptive team.

Facing Watford, George will not hold back at all.Because of the recent ups and downs in Blackburn's performance, although it is still ranked No.3 in the Premier League.But George was not very satisfied.Facing a belly like Watford, there is simply no other way to go.

Blackburn's main player had a good rest in the last game.After playing this game, Watford played three goals in the away game.In the end, the score was three to zero, and the victory was won.

At the same time, Manchester United had a bye for the No.16 Premier League round, while Leeds United lost to Aston Villa [-]-[-] in this round.

Except for these three teams, Arsenal's performance this season is getting worse and worse.Already lost four games and tied three.Therefore, the Premier League championship has become a matter for Manchester United, Leeds United, and Blackburn.

Although George thought that his team was not weak, but after the end of the 3th round of the Premier League, it still ranked No. [-] in the Premier League.And being able to overwhelm Arsenal, only two points with Manchester United is something George never thought about.

George sometimes laughs when he thinks about the current results.What about Manchester United?What about Arsenal?
As for Leeds United, it is not in George's eyes at all.

It's not that George underestimated the strength of Leeds United.With the strength of Leeds United, as long as their young players mature.Even if they face any strong team in Europe, they will not panic.But being strong is one thing, and being able to achieve good results is another.

Leeds United's current strength looks fierce.In fact, George is not afraid at all, just like they collapsed at the end of last season.With Leeds United's current ability to withstand pressure, they simply don't have the strength to compete for the championship.

Even if Arsenal's performance is poor now, their threat is much stronger than Leeds United.

So now in George's eyes, Manchester United is the only opponent.

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After playing Wimbledon, Blackburn will go to Moscow just five days later.

The UEFA Cup round of 32 opponents are out.Blackburn's opponent is Spartak Moscow, also from Moscow.

Compared with the last rival Locomotive Moscow, Spartak Moscow is a real Russian powerhouse.In the former Soviet Union, Spartak Moscow was the second largest Soviet club after Dynamo Kiev.

It's just because of the disintegration of the former Soviet Union and the decline of the Russian economy that the strength of this Soviet giant has plummeted.But even so, Spartak Moscow's performance in recent years is still good.

It was December 12 when George arrived in Moscow.

England is also relatively cold during this time period, but it is indeed nothing compared to Moscow.There is already snow in Moscow.Although not very big, but also a little snow.As soon as he arrived in Moscow, George felt the cold.

At this time, the temperature in Moscow during the day is a few degrees, and at night the temperature is below zero.In the early hours of the morning, the temperature was around minus ten degrees.This temperature makes Blackburn players very uncomfortable.

George frowned.

George is not afraid of this temperature.George grew up in the north in his previous life, and later went to school in Dalian.In the coldest winter, the temperature is more than 12 degrees below zero.But in December, the temperature still made George click his tongue.

When the weather is cold, it is very problematic to play the game.

No wonder many people are unwilling to play against the Russian team. [-]% of the skill in such cold weather can only be [-]%.However, those Russian players played vigorously in the game.

Blackburn played in England and has always had a high possession rate.

But today in Moscow, the ball possession rate is not as good as that of Spartak Moscow.

George was anxious off the court, this game was terrible.Blackburn would have fallen behind if Ferdinand hadn't been everywhere at the back.

"...Duff, he got the ball...Duff, he got hit."

Russian players are strong, typical Nordic players play.The rhythm of football in England is not much different.There are a lot of fouls like this, and I didn't feel it before.But there are many problems in such a cold place.

Duff, a player who became famous in the Premier League, failed to get up after being bumped by a Russian player.

This made George stomp his feet fiercely off the court.But don't worry, Duff is a very important offensive player in George's hands.

But George was disappointed.After the team doctor checked Duff, he gestured to George for a substitution.

"Damien, what's up?"

George was in a hurry, the collision just now was not very serious.This kind of injury is even more frightening.

"I sprained my foot, and it will take at least a month of recovery time."

After listening to the team doctor's words, George frowned.It is really a great tragedy to go to Russia to play games in the winter.Now it is even more a tragedy, the sharp weapon in his hand, Duff, is injured.

This season has not been very smooth.Since George became the head coach, although some players have been injured from time to time.But never before has two important players been injured in a row like this season.Sagnol's injury has made George very angry, and now Duff is also injured.

George replaced Duff with Romedal.

George used Romedal because he liked Romedal's good health and impact resistance.Hope there can be some changes.

But unexpectedly, Blackburn is still at a disadvantage.Blackburn players are really not used to such cold weather.

"Ball control, ball control!"

Under the onslaught of the Russian team, Blackburn's offense did not improve at all.In desperation, George stood on the sidelines and told the players.Don't rush to pass the ball, possession of the ball, possession of the ball is the best way.

The strength of Spartak Moscow is so-so. George believes that as long as this game is defended, he will be able to come back at home.

At this time, George already didn't care about losing face.Let the Blackburn players spread out a little bit, then use excellent ball control and passing ability to control the game.Don't be intimidated by this attack from Spartak Moscow.

Blackburn players are just not used to the cold weather, their passing ability is still good.

Keep passing the ball to kill Moscow's fighting spirit.The game started off well, but quickly turned into a boring game.In the end, Blackburn relied on good defense and possession of the ball to finally draw with Spartak Moscow.

Although in such a difficult environment, they drew with Spartak Moscow.But George was not at all happy.In this broken place, one of his generals, Duff, was killed.

(End of this chapter)