coach legend

Chapter 25 Great strides forward
The victory over Blackburn has boosted the morale of Burnley up and down.Back home three days later with a score of 7:0, a big victory over Blackpool, also from Lancashire.Blackpool has also been in the low-level leagues for so many years, and he is not as entangled as Blackburn and Burnley.So although it can be regarded as one of the Lancashire Derby, the smell of gunpowder is not so strong.

Daniel, who performed well in the last game, once again showed an amazing state in this game, scoring one goal and assisting one goal.And Ballack completed the first career hat-trick, Poborski also scored two goals, Darren Huckabee scored a goal.

Burnley, led by George, has won ten consecutive league victories and topped the list with 2 points.It is nine points higher than No.3 Swindon, and No.[-] has already been dropped by Burnley by [-] points.

Such an excellent state of Burnley has convinced all critics that in the Second Division this season, Burnley has already confirmed a place for promotion.

But in the next two games, George started a big rotation.The current Burnley main lineup is very strong. In the past two months, George has not had much rotation in order to run the main lineup.

Now the results are so good, and the running-in of the main lineup is also very good.So George started to rotate some players. The Second Division has a lot more games than the Premier League.Not only is there also the League Cup, the FA Cup and even the Qualifying Cup.Even the league has 46 games, which is eight games more than the Premier League.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to finish the league with a lineup, and a good substitute must be needed in the long league.Now Burnley's main lineup is very strong, but the substitute lineup has not been tested.

However, after the rotation started, the disadvantages of George's first coaching began to appear soon.

George had big problems in driving performance and main substitute replacement. First, he was tied 1:1 by Bournemouth at home, and then lost 0:1 away.

If it was in the past, there must have been many newspapers making irresponsible remarks about George, but now even the "Blackburn Evening News" has no time to pay attention to Burnley's results.George happened to be reading The Sun in his office.

Although he hates the "Sun", George also recognizes the influence of "The Sun" in England.

"Troublesome Blackburn!"

"Just received the news that Ray Shaft, who has just become the head coach of Blackburn this season, has decided to resign. Dalglish, who was promoted to director of football this season, will take over temporarily."

This news made George stunned for a moment. George was a fan in his previous life, but he clearly remembered that Blackburn fell into the First Division after the 98-99 season.That is, they were relegated four years after winning the championship.

As the first team other than Manchester United to win the Premier League title, the rate of decline is absolutely astonishing.So I took a brief look at the history of Blackburn at that time, and knew that although Ray Shaft had mediocre results, he had also been the head coach for a year and a half.How did you resign so soon.

But after thinking about it, George still understood.This also has a lot to do with myself. I led Burnley to beat Blackburn 3-0 at Ewood Park.The blow to Blackburn was not small, and Blackburn lost all of the next two Premier League games.

This directly led to the resignation of Ray Shaft, and it seems that the butterfly effect has begun.But George didn't feel at all what happened to Ray Shaft, the world was just like that.You have good grades, and some people praise you specially.But once the grades are poor, disappearing is the only option.

But it also happens that Blackburn changed coaches. Blackburn, who was the Premier League champion last season, is really troubled this season.All the media are staring at this matter, and no media will disturb the Burnley team's preparation plan.

After two games, George began to carefully choose the rotation lineup.There will not be too many rotations in a game, and the rotation will be carried out gradually.

Until Christmas, Burnley have a total of [-] games, including [-] league games and a League Cup fourth round match, FA Cup first round.

Burnley drew Aston Villa in the fourth round of the League Cup. George sent all the substitutes and lost to Aston Villa.However, they defeated Blackburn in the third round of the League Cup, and Burnley's trip to the League Cup this year has been perfect.

Burnley's luck in the first round of the FA Cup was not very good. Instead of encountering an amateur league team, they ran into Gillingham in the English third division.George sent a substitute and the youth team lineup again, and was eliminated by Gillingham in the third division.

Burnley has already been eliminated in the two major domestic cups, although there is still a qualifying cup.But this kind of garbage cup game, George doesn't like it at all.Although Burnley is a bit down, it is also a team that has won the top league championship.Something like a qualifying cup is simply not worth it.

In the league, Burnley is the best.Eight wins, three draws and one loss in twelve games.Eighteen wins, four draws and two losses in the 24 games of the second division league, and scored 58 points, ranking first. No.2 Swindon scored 51 points, seven points behind Burnley.

No. 3 in the second division is Oxford United, with only 46 points, a full [-] points behind Burnley.

The game before Christmas is completely over.The English league is different from other national leagues in that there is no winter break.But how to say it is Christmas, there are still a few days of rest before and after.

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"Merry Christmas, brother George. This is my gift to you." George is not alone at all, because every year George spends holidays with York's family.After the celebration was over, Miranda gave George a well-prepared gift.

"Thank you, little York. This is my gift for you." George himself is not interested in Christmas, but he does as the Romans do, the British celebrate Christmas, and George cannot be unique. "Uncle York, I'm sorry to trouble you today."

Basically everyone has returned to their homes, but Ballack, Klose, and Poborski stayed in the club.So George invites the three to spend Christmas together.

"It's all right, I'm not sure how happy I am to be able to invite Ballack and Poborski. You go and get busy." Old York was very straightforward, but he ignored that there was another Klose.

George nodded and went to see the three boys.Among the three of them, the most beautiful one is Bobowski.Poborski has become the brightest star in the English Second Division. In half a year, he has scored [-] goals and [-] assists.Even high-level league teams have found Burnley, but George has been gritting his teeth.

George knows that once next year's European Cup passes, it will be difficult for Burnley to keep Poborski.But then Poborski's worth will be very different.

However, Ballack is the most important and favorite of George in the entire team. Under the light of Poboski, Ballack is not obvious.But Ballack, who is only 19 years old, is the absolute core of George's team.There have been seven goals and six assists.

Only Klose is the most lonely.Among the eight people introduced by George in the summer, only Klose is a substitute, and the others are all main players.Klose has only scored one goal so far, and has only started once in the FA Cup.

"Merry Christmas, although I have already said it just now, but I think it is necessary to tell you again." George walked in with a smile. "This is my first Christmas as the head coach of the club. I am very happy. Our club will play in League One next Christmas. In the year after next, we will be in the Premier League."

"Yes, head. I think so too. Our club shouldn't be in the second division." Poboski is also introverted, but once he gets to know him well, he can speak more freely.

"Yes, that's it. We can even beat a Premier League champion like Blackburn, and the Premier League is where we should stay." George said boldly.

"Michael, Karel, don't act wild. If you let me know, you can only stay on the bench." After drinking and eating, Ballack and Bobowski left first.

"Milo, have you been a little depressed lately?" George patted Klose on the shoulder. Klose lost a lot of weight compared to a year ago.

Klose shook his head and said firmly: "No, head. I feel that I have improved a lot recently."

"Miro, you have to go through such days to be successful. Stay as you are, and your future is limitless." Looking at Klose, George seems to have seen the main striker of the German team who has killed all sides in the World Cup.

George suddenly felt that Klose believed in him so much, if Klose could not surpass the achievements of his previous life in the future, he would be committing a crime.

(End of this chapter)