Coaching legend

When you focus on one thing, time passes very quickly. Ten days have passed in the blink of an eye since the league ended on May 3rd.

Burnley has been training intensely for the past ten days. At this time, George could no longer care about anything else. Except for being open for 20 to 30 minutes every day, the training ground is completely closed at other times. It is also commonly known as closed training, which has attracted many reporters to criticize.

But now George has no time to care about those things. In the past ten days, all George's energy has been focused on how to deal with Arsenal. Of course, by the end, George also began to appear in front of the media.

"Everyone says that our Burnley football is not good-looking. It is a defensive counterattack. Victory is ugly." George talked eloquently in front of reporters. "Actually, Arsenal's game is also a typical defensive counterattack. They just rely on the speed of Overmars and Parlor to carry out counterattacks. But Arsenal's Premier League champions are praised a lot, which really surprises me."

Arsenal's style of play was very simple, not as fluid as they would later become. After Wenger entered Arsenal, he first brought into full play the tenacious fighting spirit and team spirit unique to the bulky British defender. He continued to use the "five veterans" to take turns guarding the back line. Seaman guarded the goal, Winterbourne guarded the left, Dixon was on the right, while Keown and Adams were the main central defenders, and Bould became the main substitute.

This is a defensive line that works well together. In the two years since Wenger took charge of Arsenal, all he has changed is the midfielders. There have been no changes to the defense. They are the same players who won the League One championship with Graham. It is a rare defensive combination in the Premier League.

Wenger has great trust in this defense line, and his style of play is also a quick counterattack on the basis of ensuring defense. The midfielder is the position that Wenger has most transformed. For the sake of safety, Wenger used Vieira and Petit to form a double midfielder lineup, and placed Overmars on the left and Parlor on the right. . This is a conservative and opportunistic midfield, but the team's defensive counterattack was extremely smooth and resolute.

Arsenal's counterattack is much better than Burnley's. Most of their counterattacks are left-leaning. Overmars is now at his peak, and Bergkamp's performance in front is even more superb.

That's why George said the same defensive counterattack, why Burnley was criticized and Arsenal was praised.

One side was seen sparking a war of words ahead of the heavyweight bout. All the media were excited. George, a young coach, turned out to be a fool and dared to say anything. In the three years since my debut, I have been criticized for countless things.

But Wenger is different. After Wenger came to England, he was personable and wore suits and ties during games. If you compare George, he is a complete country bumpkin, while Wenger is like a knowledgeable professor.

Everyone wants to hear how Wenger, the coach who has just won the Premier League championship, responds to George.

Just as people remember, Wenger just smiled slightly at George's words. Interviewed in a very relaxed tone. "I don't think Coach Levy needs to complain. There are various playing styles in world football, and there is no distinction between good and bad. But just like everyone's taste is different, some people like this style of play, and some people like this style of play. That kind of play. Maybe the fans think our defensive counterattack is better than Burnley's defensive counterattack."

Wenger didn't take George's words seriously at all. George was answered with a single word.

Of course, although Wenger didn't take it seriously, George never thought it would end like this. George said it again that night.

"Does Arsenal score more goals than us in the league or takes more shots than us? Even in the FA Cup, we are also the team that scores the most goals." George continued to provoke Arsenal. This is not George. Nothing to do.

Although Arsenal is not as mature as it was later, it is still an extremely powerful team for Burnley. It was more difficult to deal with than Chelsea in the League Cup. Chelsea had just changed coaches at that time, and because Burnley was a League One team, they looked down upon them very much. These are all good news, and Burnley took advantage of this slight to give Chelsea a head-on blow.

But as Burnley beat Chelsea to win the League Cup, no team will look down on Burnley like that. So once Arsenal is cautious, George is really not sure of defeating Arsenal in a positional battle. And with Arsenal's current defensive strength, it will be difficult for Burnley to break through.

George can only hope that Arsenal can attack. Although Arsenal's defense is strong defensively. But they are all older and are definitely at a disadvantage when facing speedy players such as Ljungberg, Camoranesi and Robbie Keane. This is Burnley's chance.

Anyway, it's still some time before the World Cup, and all the media are happy.

Many media began to verify what George said. As George said, Burnley ranks first in English League One not only in home attack power but also in away attack power. And in both the League Cup and the FA Cup, Burnley maintains a record. Even in both cup competitions, Burnley's goals scored the most.

After such analysis, they discovered that although George's Burnley played defensive counterattacks in the cup competition, they scored a lot of goals.

"Many goals?" Wenger smiled slightly and spoke slowly and calmly to the camera. "Too many goals only shows that Burnley's opponents are too weak."

Wenger doesn't talk much, and he only says a few simple words. George's words are like hitting cotton, but George doesn't care. George has long known that Wenger is knowledgeable and always calm when answering other people's provocations.

In his previous life, George liked Wenger very much. In 2002, when Wenger and Ferguson were fighting the most fiercely, they had such a war of words. When Arsenal won the double championship in 2002, Ferguson saw that it was difficult to catch up with the points. He said, "They are just a group of ** who rely on luck to win, and we are the best team.".

And Wenger's answer was quite beautiful. "Every man thinks his wife is the most beautiful."

This is a very classic one between Ferguson and Wenger, two pairs of rivals who appreciate each other.

George's words about Arsenal now are not to Wenger. He wants the Arsenal players to listen. There are many people with bad tempers in the Arsenal lineup. As long as one of them is in a bad mood and shows it in the game, then George will make a profit.

Recently, the media has been very happy. Although the World Cup is about to start, the topic of the World Cup has gradually become the most important aspect of the media. All media attention is gradually shifting from the club to the national team.

However, the war of words provoked by George can be on the front page of the newspaper like the World Cup special.

Of course, George still took advantage of Arsenal. Even if Burnley and George have a great influence now. It is not as good as Wenger and Arsenal. George likes opponents like Arsenal. If the opponent of today's FA Cup final is an ordinary team, it would not have such attention.

Time passed slowly in the war of words, and soon it came to May 16th.