coach legend

Chapter 420 As long as you can win, it is a good tactic
Valencia, is a good opponent.

In other words, Valencia's current strength is very strong.Especially the midfielders, Albelda, Baraja, Aimar, Vicente.

Among them, Vicente is the best winger that Spain has emerged in recent years.Now Vicente is at his peak.

Vicente is currently one of the best left wingers in European football and is known as the "Supreme Left".Vicente, who is only 21 years old, already squeezed out Kiley Gonzalez last season.Became Valencia's main left winger.

Vicente has fast speed, good technique and even better shooting ability.And his crosses are quite accurate.Gave Mist countless strikes.

Now Vicente is very famous, not even lower than Robben's reputation in Chelsea later.It is the nightmare of all right-backs in Europe.Coupled with the fact that Valencia has talented players like Aimar and Baraja, George is somewhat afraid of the creativity of Valencia's midfield.

George was unwilling to fight Valencia in midfield.

Facing the menacing Valencia, George chose a very traditional 4-4-2.

There are Pires, Alonso, Hargreaves, Duff in the midfield, Klose and Drogba in the forward line.

Benitez thought that George would choose a technical style of play.After all, even if Blackburn is a defensive counterattack, the midfielders are all skilled players.If we say in English football, which club's style of play is closest to the European style of play, and which head coach's thinking is not traditional in English football.

Then it must be Arsenal's Arsene Wenger and Blackburn's George.

Needless to say, Wenger is a head coach from France.

But George is a head coach born and bred in England.And the coaching career started in England, but George's thinking is completely contrary to the traditional style of play in England.Whether it was at Burnley or at Blackburn.

And whether it is a defensive counterattack or a midfield control style of play, George's style of play is different from the traditional style of English football.

And when playing La Liga teams, George has always used technology to defeat La Liga teams.Benitez is also a coach who pays great attention to details.

Now Valencia's situation in the group stage is not good.So Benitez attaches great importance to this game.There was also a careful study of Blackburn, of George.This made him discover a little bit.

George's use of troops is not limited to the situation.Facing strong teams, George doesn't care about defensive counterattacks.Facing the Serie A team, George will use his fast pace to defeat the Serie A team.And every time he encounters a La Liga team, George uses the team's technology to defeat the La Liga team.

Valencia is still a defensive counterattack team.Blackburn will definitely not play defensive counterattack at home, so Benitez believes that George will definitely use the combination of Micoud, Alonso and Hargreaves.

But it was unexpected.

George did not arrange a single forward, but directly used a double forward.

George was not polite to Benitez either.After the game started, the midfielder was simply ignored.Alonso's burden is very heavy, because as long as there is the ball, it is directly handed over to the two wingers, or directly passed to the striker with a long pass.

Blackburn's attack is simple.

Bigfoot drove out and handed it over to Drogba or Klose in front.In the high-altitude ball competition between two people, no one can compare.So they can control every high-altitude ball in the frontcourt.If they can break through, they will break through themselves.

If you can't break through, cooperate with the person next to you.

The cooperation between Drogba, Klose, Pires and Duff can complete the attack.

With a pass between two or three feet, Blackburn can take a shot.After a bad offense, immediately come back to defend.

George's style of play made Benitez completely unexpected.This is a very unskilled style of play, and the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League all play this style of football.In particular, many of their forwards are a combination of one high and one fast.

Their football is, the big foot kicks out, and the tall one grabs the first point.Then head the ball to another person, and finally an attack can be formed.

Blackburn has a little more coordination than them, but the overall number of ways is still the same.

Blackburn's style of play immediately stunned Valencia.When did their defenders see this style of play? They competed with others in Spain.Blackburn now has two forwards with good headers.

The first landing point is almost always controlled by Klose and Drogba.

The two have often been together for four years now.For four years, the cooperation between the two was very tacit.

As long as anyone grabs the first point and heads the ball, the other person can immediately know where the ball will fall.

This quick and easy style of play made Valencia's defense very uncomfortable.

In the 9th and [-]th minute of the first half, Alonso in the Blackburn midfielder got the ball.In the same way, the long pass was passed to Drogba in front.

"Alonso... Drogba, overhead... Klose, a dunk, a shot!"

Alonso's long balls are gifted.Although only 20 years old, but the long pass is very accurate.

Drogba saw the ball and jumped high.Ayala at the back looked at Drogba with a wry smile, although he jumped hard and interfered with Drogba.But Drogba is now more and more like a monster. Compared with Drogba, Ayala is completely out of proportion.

So although there are some disturbances.But Drogba didn't pay attention to Ayala at all, and a header was directly handed over to Ayala's back.

At this time, Klose, who was cruising in front, quickly came to Drogba's passing route.There was no hesitation at all. Seeing Pellegrini simply dunk, he shot directly with his right foot.

"GOOOOOOOAL!!!!!!!!!!" The live commentator cheered loudly. "Klose, Milo Klose! Our hero, Klose. One to zero, we lead one to zero. Cheers, for our Milo Klose!"

"Milo Klose!"

"Klose! Klose!"

All the fans at Ewood Park cheered the name of "Klose".

And Klose and Drogba embraced excitedly.

George clapped his hands excitedly on the sidelines.Benitez, so what if you are a master tactician?Now you are nothing more than a rookie coach.Only a La Liga champion, still young in front of us?
Although George is a local coach born and bred in England, what George has always looked down on the most is the arrogance of English football.Especially English football is unwilling to accept changes and stands still.Moreover, she is self-admired and has no desire to change at all.

If it weren't for the arrival of mainland coaches like Wenger and Gullit, how could English football have the current changes.

Because of this, even England's traditional formation of 4-4-2 is somewhat looked down upon.He is even more dismissive of long passes.

But as the head coach over the years, George's thinking has slowly changed.There is no perfect formation or perfect tactics in this world.There is no best formation, nor the best tactics.

Italy's chain defense, Holland's total defense, Germany's free man tactics, Brazil's samba football, you can say which of these tactics is the best and which one is lagging behind.cannot.

What kind of enemy should be faced and what kind of tactics should be used.

This is normal.

George is not willing to stick to the rules now.Once you stick to those rules, your vision will be blinded.

Because of this game, George arranged for Klose and Drogba to play as two centers.

It worked really well.

Benitez was annoyed.George's style of play is too bachelor, especially if Klose and Drogba are placed in front, they are a huge threat.In terms of high-altitude balls, both of them are rare in the world.

Now both of them are placed in front, and the high-altitude ball is completely controlled by the two of them.

However, the high-altitude bombing of Blackburn did not end.In the 33rd minute of the game, Pires from the left made a cross at a 45-degree angle, and Drogba inserted a favorable head shake from behind to attack the goal.Let Canizares have no reaction at all.

And it was even more shocking to defend Ayala all the time.

why?
When Drogba rushed up and shook his head to attack the goal, Ayala was fighting for the ball beside him.

Ayala's body is among the central defenders, although it is not the toughest.But it's not something that can be bullied casually.In the face of those strong strikers, Ayala will not fall behind.But this time Ayala was really dumbfounded.

Because Drogba and Ayala collided, Ayala flew out.And Drogba had nothing to do, and he was able to shake his head and score the goal.

"Drogba, we always say that Drogba's body is the best in the Premier League. Now everyone can see that Ayala was hit by Drogba and flew over. Drogba is worthy of being the king of Warcraft. If Drogba can improve his shooting accuracy a little bit, then Drogba will definitely be able to become a world-class striker."

"Two to zero, two to zero. The opponents in the so-called death group are completely vulnerable to Blackburn. With this game won, Blackburn has accumulated nine points. With nine points, Blackburn will enter the Champions League for three consecutive years It's knockout."

The game really made Valencia very depressed.

When have you seen this kind of high-altitude tactics?Blackburn played the high-altitude ball completely, and Valencia was a little dizzy.

In midfield, Benitez made some adjustments to the team.The biggest change is to allow Albelda and Baraja to control the ball, but George will not give Valencia this opportunity.

Blackburn is still rushing and fighting.

The middle was completely empty, Alonso and Hargreaves didn't come up at all.The ball is either taken from the side or directly handed over to the striker.And it's still the same high-altitude ball tactic.

Blackburn just told Valencia directly, we are just playing golf, can you still do this?

In the 76th minute of the game, Blackburn scored another goal.It was Drogba's header again, and Duff shot from the wing, rewriting the score to [-]-[-].

Blackburn's performance in the Champions League is extremely strong.

How strong is it.Even in the death group, the three games were easily won.They all had an advantage of more than three goals and scored nine points.

Nine points, Blackburn is about to emerge from this group.

　Sorry, there is only one update today.After watching the Russian game last night, my head still hurts.The European Cup is really too difficult for us.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)