Coaching legend

"How is it?"

The next day, Yang Feng came to Blackburn under the leadership of his father. George didn't say much during the whole process, but left everything to Carl.

Carl is not actually needed for the assessment of a young player. It's just because of George's attention and the young players George personally introduced, so Carl appeared in person at the assessment site. Next to Carl is Adrian Gray, the coach of the youth team.

Adrian Gray is currently the director of the Blackburn Youth Training Camp.

After Yang Feng came to the training ground, he had to do some assessments. Carl had just received the assessment data when George and Evan came to Carl.

"The speed is very fast, not much worse than Owen when he was young." Carl handed the data of the 100-meter, 60-meter, and 30-meter speed tests to George, while praising him.

George looked at the data and it was indeed very good. George smiled. He was indeed not wrong at the time. Yang Feng's speed is indeed very fast, and it is not ordinary fast.

Since Owen came out of nowhere, the favorite thing that English coaches like to say about fast players is that this person's speed is similar to Owen. Some English media even named Klose "German Owen" after seeing his explosiveness and speed.

George just laughed at the arrogance of the English media.

The narcissism of the English media is exactly the same as that of the Chinese media.

"What about the others?"

"The skills are excellent. I guess there are no players with such excellent skills in England at this age." Carl looked at Yang Feng who was preparing to play the game and whispered to George.

After Yang Feng just took the test, Adrian immediately arranged for Yang Feng to play.

"Not only his age group, but also the current English adult team has no one who can surpass him in technology."

George nodded. The Premier League was later nicknamed "English Rough" by many Chinese fans. Although it is mixed with many prejudices of fans from other leagues, there are also many fans who laugh at the England national team. The skills of those English players are too rough.

"But in terms of skills, those who play street football all have skills. There are many players who play football on the beaches of Brazil who are better than Pele and Maradona. After all, football is not just about skills."

"Is Denilson good or not? He is the biggest fake player in the world now."

Seeing George's bright smile, Carl poured cold water on George.

George shrugged. Of course, what Carl said was right. Those who play fancy football have more dazzling and dazzling skills than anyone else. But if they play in regular matches, they are not as good as the players in the third and fourth leagues in England.

The Denilson that Carl said is the biggest joke in the history of world football.

Denilson was once the most expensive player in the world, but after coming to Betis, his performance can't even be described as garbage. Denilson may be a genius, a genius that no one can understand. He only lives in his own world and he only plays his own football. Others will never understand him.

But from the perspective of modern football, he is an absolute fake player.

"He is thin and weak, and his passing awareness needs to be improved." After watching the court for a few minutes, Evan expressed his opinion to George and Karl.

After Yang Feng came on the court, he didn't get the ball many times. Moreover, his body was thinner than other young players, and he would fall down if he was hit. And his passing was not in sync with other players.

"Left-footed players, let him go to the left side. Then tell them to give him more balls."

George also found out after watching for a while. Yang Feng was thin, and it was his first time to play such a formal game, so he was very uncomfortable. Moreover, Yang Feng was placed in the middle, and he could not pose much threat to the regular defense.

So George asked them to put Yang Feng on the left. First avoid the middle with a stronger defense.

After going to the left side, Yang Feng's performance improved. Of course, it was still not satisfactory. But Yang Feng was on the wing, but he was able to show his excellent speed and skills. In these children's games, the lightning speed plus skills made it difficult to defend one-on-one.

"Because he has not received formal training, he is a little uncomfortable. But it is not a big problem. As long as he trains well, he will definitely get better." Carl nodded after seeing Yang Feng's activeness on the wing.

"Being thin is not a problem. As long as the nutrition is good, his body can still grow. He is only thirteen years old now, and there is still a long period of development."

Carl wrote his thoughts in the report, and then signed his name with a big stroke.

"I suggest that he be trained as a winger." After writing his thoughts, Carl suggested to George.

George nodded.

"First train him as a winger."

In fact, in George's mind, Yang Feng should be a front midfielder like Kaka. Once he attacks, no one can stop him in the middle. And in terms of skills in small spaces, Yang Feng is better than Kaka.

Yang Feng's matter actually caused a sensation among the three coaches of the first team. This shocked many young players.

These three first-team coaches are the three giants of the first-team coaching staff. A head coach, an assistant coach, and a coach who supervises training. The three of them came to the youth training camp together for a thirteen-year-old player. The way they looked at Yang Feng changed.

Actually, they were all wrong. Today, only George was going to come and see. But Carl and Evan were a little curious about what the difference was between the young players George personally introduced.

They were just curious. Yang Feng is only thirteen years old now, and it is still too early for him to play.

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This incident is just a small episode in the boring league.

Blackburn will continue their league journey.

On December 18, Blackburn will challenge Sunderland away.

Sunderland is a team that has just been promoted this season. When looking forward to this season, many football commentators believe that Sunderland is a favorite for relegation. Their strength is just a scum in the Premier League. But I didn't expect that the Premier League has been halfway through, and Sunderland is still ranked seventh in the Premier League.

Sunderland's head coach is Peter Reid.

When this coach was a player, he achieved remarkable results at Everton. He is only forty-three years old this year and is one of the young coaches in English football. But he led Sunderland to achieve very good results.

Sunderland now has almost no good players who can be named.

Historically, Sunderland had Kevin Phillips, and the forward line composed of him and Quinn was a very famous combination in the Premier League. Kevin Phillips even scored 30 goals this season.

But now there is no Kevin Phillips, but Peter Reid still led Sunderland to achieve very good results.

This made George admire Peter Reid's coaching ability. I just don't understand why Peter Reid in the future has no fame. He even fell to the point of going to Thailand to be the head coach.

However, although Sunderland is strong, its playing style is single.

They are a traditional English team, playing with two wingers and high center forward Quinn.

George actually doesn't like to play against such a team. Because they will have a lot of crosses or passes from the backcourt into Blackburn's penalty area in a game. As long as the Blackburn defender relaxes a little, they are likely to be scored.

George prefers to play against those continental teams. Especially teams like Leeds United.

They never cross or pass blindly, and patiently advance through the midfield.

Fortunately, Sunderland is not strong.

Until now, it is only because of the contempt and misunderstanding of other teams, plus their anger, that they have been able to get to where they are now. A center forward like Quinn has no problem playing against other teams. But it is not so easy to play against Hyypia and Ferdinand.

Hyypia's ability to control the air is definitely one of the best in the Premier League.

Therefore, George's style of play is to let go of the high ball in the middle and control their two flanks. Then use Blackburn's flanks to tear apart their offense.

Sunderland's overall style of play is excellent, or the tacit understanding between their players is very high. If you play in a conventional way, you need some patience to break their defense.

However, George is unwilling to play step by step, so George chose Bellamy. Use Bellamy's abnormal speed to constantly attack their right side. This is very effective. Although no goal was scored, it made Sunderland's right side nervous.

It is too difficult for one person to defend Bellamy. Bellamy never plays technology with the players defending him. There is only one word. That is to run and use speed to pass.

"... Bellamy, Bellamy... I can't keep up with Bellamy's speed. I often say that Bellamy has already walked sideways in the Premier League with just his speed. Bellamy's speed, plus the fact that Blackburn midfielders can always give Bellamy some comfortable balls, makes Bellamy's advantage play to the extreme."

The Sunderland defender left the foul site very depressed. He didn't even look at the yellow card shown by the referee.

"Miku and Pires are both standing in front of the ball. Who could it be? Both of them have a free kick skill, Miku ran... It's not Miku, Miku is just covering, Pires!"

On the right side, Pires' free kick is very distinctive.

Miku covered on the side, and then Pires went up and gently pinched it. The ball passed the wall in a perfect arc.

"A beautiful free kick. Blackburn's free kicks were mostly from Miku, but Pires also had one."

"Only 31 minutes into the first half, Sunderland was already 0-1 behind at home. And the two players on the right who defended Bellamy both had yellow cards. The game was going to be difficult."

In fact, even if Bellamy broke through, he would usually choose to force a shot. So as long as the inside line was defended, the threat of Bellamy would be greatly reduced. But Sunderland always thought that Bellamy's breakthrough would be dangerous, so they wanted to block Bellamy on the outside.

The final result was that no one on the outside could defend Bellamy from running at high speed. They could only get two yellow cards in vain.

Bellamy is not mature at all now. After entering the penalty area, he only had the goal in his eyes, not his companions. Compared with the equally young Duff, Bellamy simply didn't listen to the advice. George actually told Bellamy many times, but Bellamy still did his own thing.

But Bellamy's speed made George unable to give up anyway.

Although Bellamy has shortcomings, it depends on how the coach uses him.

After scoring a goal, George still did not change his attack method. He continued to attack the opponent with Bellamy. Sunderland's right back was timid in front of Bellamy, after all, he had a yellow card. This made Bellamy even more unscrupulous.

George stepped forward and gestured, asking Bellamy and Pires to change positions.

Although they changed positions, Blackburn's attack was still concentrated on Bellamy's side. This time it was Sunderland's turn to start to feel uncomfortable on the left. However, they learned from the mistakes in the right defense. As long as Bellamy was not ready to get into the inside, they would not care. They just stood firmly in their position.

"... Miku, Bellamy started again."

This was like a fixed pattern. As long as he saw Miku get the ball, Bellamy was ready to run.

"Miku, he didn't give it to Bellamy... He passed it to the left, Pires, Pires got the ball."

Pires is not a player who only uses speed, his skills are even better. The right back who had been ravaged by Bellamy was again shaken by Pires's technique when facing him this time.

Because Sunderland's defense was all on Bellamy's side, Miku's sudden transfer caught everyone in Sunderland off guard.

And Pires didn't give them a chance to react. The moment he got the ball, he directly shook past the opponent's right back. Then he went straight into Sunderland's penalty area. There were open areas in front of Pires. When Pires entered Sunderland's penalty area, there was no one in front of him.

Facing the goalkeeper, a low shot hit Sunderland's left goal post and bounced into the goal.

"Pires, shoot! This is Pires' second goal. Two to zero, Blackburn locked the victory."

After the second goal, George knew that the game was won. Recently, Manchester United and Leeds United have won consecutive games, which put a lot of pressure on George. George doesn't want to be left behind by them, so he must not lose points to the weak team.

After the two-goal advantage, George began to shrink back and play.

With a speed player like Bellamy in front, Sunderland couldn't press on.

In the end, with two goals from Pires, Blackburn beat Sunderland 2-0 away.

But it still ranks third in the Premier League. Because in the last five games, Manchester United has won five games in a row, and Leeds United has also won five games in a row. These two teams are crazy this year. In the last eight games, Manchester United has six wins and two losses, and Leeds United has six wins, one draw and one loss.

The momentum is so fierce that George shudders.

And more importantly, Manchester United is now playing in the Champions League and has already qualified in the group stage. And Leeds United is now playing in the League Cup and has already entered the round of 16.

The Premier League has begun to be strong in European football. Although it is just a sign, it will be the golden age of the Premier League in a few years.