coach legend

Chapter 287 The Coach Killer

Although it was just a victory over a humble Sparta Prague, the Blackburn media didn't care about that.

The last time I went to the Champions League, I only won the last insignificant game.Six Champions League group matches, one win, one draw and four losses.Moreover, one win and one tie were the last two rounds of the group stage, and the situation of the group stage had already become clear at that time.

So disappointing to all the Blackburn fans out there.

But this time is different.Just set off, the first game was a clean [-]-[-] victory over Sparta Prague.

Steven Yellen followed George and became more and more arrogant.In the "Blackburn Evening News", the headline read "This is the first step to conquer Europe!"

It praised Blackburn's performance throughout the article, and then wrote "Europe, we Blackburn are here!" in the final concluding remarks.

Even George felt embarrassed when he saw this thing.If it is an old giant, it is qualified to shout "Europe, we are back" in the media.But Blackburn is not an onion at all in European football.

The highest achievement in European football was last season when George led Blackburn to the UEFA Cup.

However, after the first round of the group stage, the English media was very happy.Because the three teams representing England performed very well.Compared with Blackburn's three to zero, the other two group matches have attracted more attention.

The first is Group G. Manchester United is indeed the most powerful team in England at present.Facing Anderlecht from the Belgian First Division, they swept Anderlecht [-]-[-] at home.And if it weren't for Manchester United's defense being careless during the game, it would not have missed one of the goals.Of course, if it wasn't for Manchester United to accept it in the end, it may not be necessary to score two or three more goals.

Compared with Blackburn's [-]-[-], Manchester United's [-]-[-] is not far behind.

Coupled with Manchester United's reputation in British football and European football, this game has also received a lot of media coverage.

But the coverage of Manchester United and Blackburn games did not add up to Arsenal's side.Arsenal's Group E is the death group in the first round of the Champions League group stage.There are Juventus, Deportivo, Arsenal, Panathinaikos.

Panathinaikos is a recognized fish belly.Everyone is concerned about Juventus, Deportivo, and Arsenal. Which of the three teams can stand out in the group stage.

In the first game, there was a head-to-head focus game.Arsenal face Juventus at home.

In terms of the European results in recent years, of course Juventus has the upper hand.Although Juventus has not won the Champions League in the past five years.However, he has also entered the Champions League final for two consecutive years. Although he can only win the Champions League runner-up in the end, the results in the Champions League are already very good.

In contrast, Arsenal's European record is much worse.Arsenal's record in Europe at this time is not generally bad.Last season, they were eliminated in the first round of the group stage and came to the UEFA Cup.Wenger is really not good at the Champions League at this time, and has not achieved any good results in the Champions League.

Therefore, although it is an away game, the Italian media is still more optimistic about Juventus.

But after the results of the competition came out, everyone was surprised.Because Arsenal beat Juventus four to three at home.

After the game started, it turned out to be developing according to people's expectations.Trezeguet, who just transferred from Monaco for 2400 million euros this season, showed his prowess at Highbury, scoring two goals and leading the home team Arsenal [-]-[-].

But the next game did not follow people's expectations.

Henry, who has gradually integrated into Arsenal, used a hat-trick to completely disarm Juventus.Henry's outstanding performance even made Juventus executives regret it, especially Moggi, who was watching the game on the spot.Such an outstanding Henry, was it a mistake to let him go back then?

Henry can be said to have completely penetrated the defense of "Old Lady" Juventus.In the end Ljungberg received a pass from Henry and also scored a goal.

Henry's game was truly majestic, and he told everyone with a hat-trick.A super striker is about to be born.

Although Juventus pulled back a goal in the end, they still lost [-]-[-] away.

In this game that focused the attention of all European football, Arsenal finally defeated Juventus [-]-[-].However, the well-recognized Pannathinaikos drew a one-to-one draw with Deportivo at home.After the first round, Arsenal ranked first with three points, followed by Deportivo and Panathinaikos with one point, while the most powerful team, Juventus, had only zero eggs.

Arsenal's victory over Juventus made the English football world extremely happy.

The host of the BBC's coverage of the Champions League quoted George often saying something after the highlight of the Arsenal and Juventus game. "The glory of Serie A has passed, and European football will soon usher in the Premier League time."

Comments about the decline of Serie A in British football are everywhere.

Of course, the Italian media, which has always been used to being the boss, is of course dissatisfied with such comments in English football.They immediately refuted the English media, besides Manchester United's Champions League in the past ten years, what other trophies do you have to show off?
The Cup Winners Cup and the UEFA Cup, although English football has also won a few in this decade, Italy has won more.Moreover, Italian clubs have been absolutely strong in the three major cups of European football in the past ten years.

This debate definitely affects not only the English and Italian media, but even the Spanish media.They almost looked down at the scolding battle between the two media, and then came to pull the two quarreling people away.Finally tell the two.Now the best league in Europe is the Spanish La Liga, so stop arguing with the two of you.

Looking at this quarrel scene, George shook his head.

Although many reporters also want to hear the views of George, the big mouth in English football.But George didn't do what they wanted.George is so busy now that he has no time to pay attention to such quarrels.

After finishing the Champions League group stage and the Sparta Prague game, George flew to London to challenge Chelsea away.

On September 9, it rained lightly.

And the current Chelsea situation is very bad, not generally bad.Chelsea had one win, three draws and one loss in the first five rounds, accumulating six points.Of course, the most important issue is that Chelsea is currently suffering from internal and external troubles. It doesn't matter if the results are poor. The most important thing is that there are great internal conflicts.

The media is also staring at Chelsea every day, breaking the news every day about the conflict between Chelsea coach Vialli and the internal bosses.

George likes this kind of opponent best.If every team is the same as Manchester United and Arsenal, there will be no major scandals within the team, and the combat effectiveness will remain very good.How to play the game?George hopes to meet a team like Chelsea every day.

George's favorite thing is to add insult to injury, and taking advantage of your illness to kill you is George's usual method.

Because he just finished the Champions League game, George changed some players a little.Especially Deco, who has basically never missed a game this season.George placed a combination of Micoud, McAllister and Hargreaves in the midfield.

Among the two wingers, Pires and Bellamy were used.The striker continued to use Klose.

The game has entered a fast pace since the beginning, and Chelsea's current state is indeed very poor.Vialli can't command Chelsea's big-name players at all, and there seem to be many conflicts between the players.

In the [-]th minute of the first half, Blackburn cooperated in the frontcourt, and finally Pires scored the first goal.

Seeing Pires' goal, Vialli just spread his hands on the field.The expression of helplessness was beyond words.At this time, the camera of the TV broadcast was Vialli firmly locked on the sidelines.The famous Italian general, who has also done well in coaching Chelsea, is already full of helplessness at this time.

Before the end of the first half, Klose received a pass from Micoud, got rid of Desailly and scored the second goal of the game.Also scored Klose's third goal in the league this season.

Chelsea's sluggish state in the second half did not change at all, but Blackburn continued their efforts.In the second half, Klose scored another goal and Micoud added the icing on the cake, and finally Blackburn beat Chelsea very comfortably [-]-[-] at Stamford Bridge.

Although Vialli is a tough guy on the field, he also belongs to the kind of coach who is very graceful.But maybe there have been too many troubles recently, and he didn't say hello to George at all after the game, and left the court directly.

Didn't even go to the post-match press conference.

But no one cares.In the arena, they only value results. Don't think that Vialli, who was so majestic back then, can be so arrogant now.Even Pele and Maradona will be scolded if their performance is poor after coaching.

When George returned to Blackburn the next day, he heard the news.The Chelsea club announced that after discussions between the club and Vialli, it has been decided that Vialli will no longer be the head coach of Chelsea from now on.

Anyway, it sounds very nice.I thank Vialli for his contribution to the club, but it means the same thing, Chelsea fired Vialli.

In fact, at the beginning of the season, there was already news that Vialli would be fired.But Vialli still stayed at Chelsea, but he didn't expect that Vialli would never be able to settle the Chelsea dressing room.With one win, three draws and two losses in six rounds, such a result is really not worthy of Chelsea.

So Vialli can only leave.

After Vialli got out of class, no one sympathized with him, but the media and newspapers ridiculed him everywhere.

The "Sun" even gave George the nickname "Coach Killer".

"George changed Blackburn's coach twice in Burnley. Because of the loss to George's Burnley, the two head coaches of Blackburn could only resign sadly."

"When I arrived at Blackburn, I kicked Burnley out of League One last season. Burnley coach Rodell was fired by the club immediately after that game. And Vialli also got the trick this time. , a [-]-[-] home defeat to Blackburn, completely ruining his future at Chelsea."

"George really deserves to be a coach killer. I don't know how many other coaches will fall in his hands."

Looking at the newspaper, George could only shake his head helplessly.Speaking of which, only Ray Shaft, who had just taken over as the head coach of Blackburn, was truly dismissed by George.The other head coaches are already in a shaky head coach position with a bad record.It's just that George kicked the last kick that brought them down.

(End of this chapter)