coach legend

Chapter 437 Intense Premier League
English football started the 03-04 season of the Premier League under Abrahimovic's strong entry.

Chelsea received the most attention.

It's not because English football thinks Chelsea have a chance to win the Premier League.It's that people want to see what kind of performance Chelsea will perform after such a crazy acquisition.Chelsea's performance also lived up to expectations.

In the first round of the Premier League, they faced the English giants Liverpool.Although Liverpool's Owen scored a goal for Liverpool, Chelsea beat Liverpool [-]-[-] away with goals from Veron and Hasselbaink.

As soon as this game appeared, everyone was amazed at Chelsea's strength.

During the game, Chelsea turned out to be completely overwhelming Liverpool.Moreover, Owen's goals depended on Owen's personal ability.And throughout the game, if Liverpool hadn't played well with the goalkeeper, I don't know how many goals were poured by Chelsea.

This is a reorganized team?

Veron is a scum at Manchester United!I didn't expect to play so freely in Chelsea's first game.Ball control, passing, shooting, all so good.

Everyone was shocked by the strength of Chelsea.

Watching the game, the only thing they thought of was this sentence: If you have money, it's better to fuck?

After that, Chelsea beat Leicester City [-]-[-], Birmingham drew [-]-[-] and Tottenham Hotspur [-]-[-].

Especially in the victory over Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea fired full fire.The newly joined Mutu scored twice in the game.Tottenham's defense has no defensive ability at all against Mutu.

Tottenham Hotspur's defense is defenseless against Mutu.

The striker, who became famous in Parma, did not feel uncomfortable at all after arriving in the Premier League.Come and fight.

Three wins and one tie in four games, the results are even better than Manchester United.

This performance surprised everyone.

Four games, three wins and one tie, accumulated ten points.Ranked No.2 in the Premier League.

Three wins and one draw are really good results, but it is a pity that there is an even more perverted club in the Premier League this season.That's Arsenal.

Arsenal have won four out of four games in August.

They beat Everton [-]-[-] at home, Middlesbrough [-]-[-] away, Aston Villa [-]-[-] at home, and Manchester City [-]-[-] away.

Henry, this season's state is completely invincible.

Although only three goals were scored in four games, the three goals were evenly distributed in the first three games.The most important thing is that Henry is not just a Terminator now.Henry is even more of an organizer in the frontcourt, able to score goals and assists.

Wenger tried his best for four seasons, and Arsenal gradually became perfect.The current Arsenal not only has a strong main lineup, but even the substitute lineup that has always troubled Arsenal has a certain thickness.

In addition to Arsenal's four wins and Chelsea's three wins and one draw, Manchester United has three wins and one loss.

This is completely different from the previous Premier League.

In the previous Premier League, it was already a very good result to score seven or eight points in the games at the beginning of the season.Because at the beginning of the season, many clubs were not prepared enough.They need to use the game to adjust their status.

In the past few seasons, due to the strong rise of George's Blackburn, this situation has gradually changed.

Everyone began to pay attention to the games at the beginning of the season.But it is still far behind Blackburn.

But this season is completely different.It turned out that since the beginning of the season, these teams have been working hard.Not only because of the example of Blackburn in the past few seasons, but also because of the emergence of Chelsea.

The pressure that Chelsea brings to the major clubs in the Premier League is definitely not small.

Although the old clubs in England verbally disdain Chelsea.And many celebrities also believe that Chelsea has no possibility of winning this season.But this can't reduce the fear of these clubs about Chelsea.

What they fear is not Chelsea's strength.

What they fear is Abrahimovic behind.Will this enigmatic Russian billionaire continue his crazy investment this summer?If there are two more such transfer periods, not to mention the Premier League teams, even the European giants will not be able to bear it.

Of course, Blackburn, who always likes to work hard at the beginning of the season, also performed well.

In the first round of the Premier League, they defeated the newly promoted Wolves by a big score of [-] to [-], then lost [-] to [-] away to Bolton, defeated Manchester City [-] to [-] at home, and defeated Fulham [-] to [-] at home.It is also three wins and one loss in four games, which is the same as Manchester United's points.

The four strong teams in the Premier League performed very well at the beginning of the season.

With the entry of Abrahimovic, the Premier League began to compete for hegemony.Manchester United, Arsenal, Blackburn, Chelsea, Liverpool, these strong teams started a scuffle.

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After finishing the fourth round of the Premier League, George went to participate in the draw for the Champions League group stage.

The Champions League has once again undergone major reforms.

In the previous UEFA Champions League, there were two group stages, and the clubs that broke through the second group stage all entered the Champions League quarter-finals directly.If a club wants to enter the Champions League final, it must play at least [-] games.

Of course, if it starts from the UEFA Champions League qualifying round, it will exceed [-] games.Seventeen games are counted from the first round of the Champions League group stage.

It's just because there are too many Champions League games.

Many European giants are quite critical of the Champions League schedule.Just like Blackburn, when they won the Champions League in 01-02, they played more than [-] games throughout the season.If some international players play in the national team, they will play more games in a season.

Even if it is a rotation, those core players will rarely play [-] games in a season.

With more games, these players are prone to injuries.All of these made the European giants very dissatisfied.Therefore, after long-term negotiations with UEFA, the Champions League has finally undergone another reform this season.

This time the Champions League reform, the biggest change is to remove one of the two rounds of the group stage.

From then on, there is only one Champions League group stage left.As long as you break through the group stage, you will be in the top sixteen of the Champions League.It is directly the Champions League knockout round.

Such a change is very beneficial to the major European giants.

First of all, because there is only one group stage.So the probability of a death group is very low.

In the previous two rounds of the group stage, the probability of a group of death in the second round of the group stage was very high.Just like last year, there were strong teams in the four group matches.It's an out-and-out group of death.

But now there is only one round of group matches, and there are very few death groups.

Even if there is a death group, among the eight groups, there will only be one or two death groups.

This ensures that the European giants can easily enter the Champions League knockout rounds.very much in their interest.

Another advantage is that there are fewer games.In the past, to enter the Champions League final, at least [-] games had to be played.But with the reform of the Champions League, there are only [-] games from the main match to the final.Don't underestimate these four games. For the European giants, the loss of four games is very important.

The reform of the Champions League this time can be regarded as the result of a game between UEFA and European giants.

Although Blackburn is still a small team, it is a club that has become famous in European football in recent years.So when George, the youngest head coach in the Champions League, came to the lottery scene, many head coaches still came to say hello.

George nodded to each of them.

Suddenly, I saw Ancelotti talking and laughing happily over there.Ancelotti is proud of himself now.He has always been said to be the "second child of the millennium", and he led Milan to the Champions League last season.

Ancelotti was at the peak of his career.

But George looked very upset at Ancelotti.It's not that he has any opinions on Ancelotti himself, but that he is very dissatisfied with Milan's elimination of him last season.In the two games, there was no counterattack.This has always made George feel uncomfortable.

George looked at Ancelotti, who was so beautiful, and hoped that he could share with Milan.

It is best to meet in the group stage.

I feel uneasy if I don't report the hatred of last season.

It may be that Ancelotti felt a pair of eyes watching him from behind.So I looked back and saw George looking at me, so I smiled and nodded.

George nodded reluctantly.Then immediately turn around and talk to other coaches.

George hoped to draw with Milan, but unfortunately he didn't follow his wishes.

The UEFA Champions League group stage draw is over, and among the eight groups, there is no so-called death group.Even if those experts managed to find the group of death, it was only a relative group of death.There is no way to compare with the death group in the previous two rounds of the group stage.

Blackburn are placed in Group C.In the eyes of others, this group is a very good draw result, but George doesn't think so.

In this group, in addition to Blackburn, there are PSV, Monaco, and AEK Athens.

AEK Athens is recognized as a fish belly, after all, it is a Greek team.The strength is very poor.

As for Eindhoven and Monaco, many analysts think it is fish belly.Especially compared with Blackburn, the strength is too poor.But George dared not underestimate them.

Eindhoven, who is the head coach?Is the famous magic coach Guus Hiddink.And among the current Eindhoven, there are Robben, Kezhiman, and Korean international Park Ji-sung.In the next few seasons, Eindhoven will perform extremely well in the Champions League.

As for Monaco, it should not be underestimated.

Monaco even reached the Champions League final this season.Although there are some other reasons, Monaco's strength is very strong.Morientes, Giuly, Evra, Adebayor, Pursau.

It's just that Eindhoven and Monaco are unknown now.That's why the media thought that Blackburn had drawn a good lottery.

Of course, George attaches a little importance to PSV and Monaco, but he is far from being afraid.So what if Monaco can reach the Champions League final?That's because no one pays attention.As long as George pays attention to it, George believes that Monaco cannot escape from his palm.

(End of this chapter)