Coaching legend

Eriksson made a big change in the second half, trying to regain control of the game.

But George didn't care about that at all, and still used a fast pace to deal with him. At the beginning of the second half, George even used a faster pace to deal with Lazio than in the first half. There is a saying in later generations that the Premier League beats Serie A, Serie A beats La Liga, and La Liga beats the Premier League.

Although this is just a joke, it is not aimless. The reason involved is the style of play.

The so-called Premier League beats Serie A, in fact, the fast pace of the Premier League beats the slowness of Serie A. Just like Arsenal, every time they meet an Serie A team in the next ten years, they will be able to defeat their opponents. There is a problem of the style of play. Therefore, George will use fast to beat slow.

When Lazio still hadn't scored in the 20th minute of the second half, George began to recover.

George replaced Miku with McAllister. Let Deco go up, and use McAllister to increase defense and strengthen control.

Then Bellamy replaced Pires, letting Lazio know what counterattack and speed are. However, Lazio had no choice but to attack in a big way. In the end, Blackburn counterattacked, and Bellamy ran nearly 40 meters, and finally handed it to Duff who counterattacked on the right. Duff finally scored the third goal easily.

3-0, Blackburn defeated the powerful Lazio 3-0 in a strong dialogue.

After the game, the reporters from Italy came with high spirits and returned with disappointment. I thought that after defeating Blackburn, I would give a good scolding to the arrogant George. But I didn't expect Lazio to lose 0-3 away.

George smiled proudly in front of the Italian reporters.

"I'm really sorry to disappoint everyone." George paused, looking at the Italian reporters' frustrated look, and became more and more happy. "I have absolutely no prejudice against Italian football. On the contrary, I admire Italian football because I am a coach who started out as a defensive player. But that's how things are in the world. Serie A has been prosperous for more than a decade and is now in decline."

"You should look for your own reasons for the decline of Serie A. If there is no reform, the decline of Serie A is just the beginning."

It is an indisputable fact that Italian football is now lagging behind other leagues in many aspects. It's just that the Italian football world is unwilling to admit it.

The current development of Italian football is entirely dependent on the investment of the big bosses behind it, while the development of the clubs themselves is very poor. Just because Italy does not allow clubs to own private stadiums, the development of Italian clubs is far behind that of Premier League clubs.

Premier League clubs have their own stadiums.

Just like Manchester United, which owns the best stadium in the Premier League, Old Trafford. Old Trafford, which has 68,000 seats, is completely private property of Manchester United. Because of its ownership of Old Trafford, Manchester United's ticket revenue every season is the highest in the Premier League.

In addition to the development and operation of the areas around Old Trafford, Manchester United's annual income from Old Trafford exceeds that of many clubs in the world.

Even Blackburn bought a large amount of land next to the stadium when Jack Walker expanded Ewood Park. Those lands were used by Jack Walker to develop other purposes. Therefore, even Blackburn far exceeds the Serie A giants in terms of stadium income.

It is also because of the importance of the stadium that Arsenal tightened their belts to build the Emirates Stadium.

But Italian football is completely behind in this regard.

Another important source of income is TV broadcast fees. The Premier League has the highest TV broadcast fees in European football, far exceeding Serie A. Moreover, the Premier League is sold in bundles, while Serie A is separate. Especially the three northern powers, Juventus and Milan, these three teams monopolize half of all Serie A TV broadcast fees.

In this way, the TV broadcast fees that other Serie A teams except the three northern powers can get are even less than those of the Premier League relegated teams. This distribution system has widened the gap between the rich and the poor in Serie A. The three northern powers are getting stronger and stronger, while other teams are getting more and more in trouble.

So that the strength of the entire Serie A team cannot be greatly developed.

Now the bosses behind the Serie A clubs can still support the team. But when the economic crisis comes, once there is any problem with the bosses behind them, the whole Italian football will collapse.

At that time, including the current Serie A powerhouses Lazio, Parma, and Fiorentina will be hit hard.

To put it bluntly, the current Italian football is far behind the development of European football in every aspect.

If the above are some policy-related things, then there are still many factors that restrict the development of Italian football. Needless to say, the "phone gate" that was exposed later, black whistles are of course very harmful to the healthy development of a league.

But in addition to this, there are still big problems in Italian football.

Italian football is currently the most turbulent among the five major European leagues. In other words, there will be many fights, burning tees, throwing things on the court, etc. when watching the game on the spot. Anyway, it can be said that it is very dangerous to watch the game on the spot in Italy.

In addition to the violence on the spot, Italian football also has very serious racial discrimination.

You can hear Italian fans discriminating against black people everywhere on the spot.

Everyone says that England has the most football hooligans. But when it comes to on-site security, Serie A cannot be compared with the Premier League. The Premier League is far better than Serie A in combating racism and football hooligans. As long as there are fans making trouble on the scene and being caught by the camera, those fans will be blacklisted.

For their punishment, not only will they be prosecuted according to the size of the matter. And the most severe thing is that they will never get the opportunity to watch the game on the spot again. For those fanatical English fans, not being able to watch the game on the spot is more painful than killing them.

And there are many cameras in the stadium, and anything that happens will definitely be recorded by the camera. You will definitely not get away.

Therefore, the order on the Premier League is very good.

But Serie A is different. Fans threw Molotov cocktails at the players' buses, fans fought on the scene, fans burned the seats in the stadium, and insulted people of color. All kinds of things have emerged one after another.

These factors have seriously restricted the number of fans on the scene in Serie A. Let the already very pitiful ticket revenue become less and less.

Having said so much, it actually means the same thing. The decline of the Italian league is definitely not due to other factors. It was all because of the big problems in the management of the Italian league, and their development did not keep up with the development of European football.

This time, Italian reporters were also very frustrated.

After the third round of the Champions League group stage, all Italian media were speechless. Because except for AC Milan's 2-0 victory over Barcelona away, which defended the face of Serie A. And Juventus was beaten 1-0 by Deportivo La Coruna at home.

After three rounds of games, Arsenal has two wins and one draw and seven points, ranking first, while Deportivo La Coruna has one win and two draws and five points, ranking second, Panathinaikos has two draws and one loss and two points, ranking third, and Juventus has one draw and two losses and only one point.

This group is recognized as the group of death. After the draw, everyone thought that Juventus and Arsenal were the most likely to break through. Of course, Deportivo La Coruna is not impossible, after all, it is Super La Coruna, and it still has strength.

But I didn't expect that after half of the game, the most optimistic Juventus was like sleeping, confused. Only one of the three games was tied.

The other team, Lazio, was beaten 0-3 by Blackburn on the road.

The performance of the Italian club really made the Italian media unable to say anything.

On the contrary, the English media was very excited.

Although Manchester United's group was a bit complicated and the points were in a mess. But the British media still believed that Manchester United could easily break through. Blackburn gave the English football world a lot of face this time and defeated the Serie A champion Lazio 3-0.

However, the most exciting thing for the English football world was Arsenal. Arsenal's group was the group of death, but Arsenal's qualifying situation was the most optimistic. As long as Arsenal wins another game, they have basically locked in the qualification.

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After defeating Lazio 3-0, the British media's praise for Blackburn has reached an extremely disgusting level.

This is how competitive games are. No matter how much you hate a person, as long as his performance is good, they will praise him. George has made many media enemies in the English football world, and offended even more reporters. But now George's performance is so good, countless media are chasing George.

The media called George a famous English coach.

Even George would blush after reading these newspapers.

But Blackburn is indeed in its best form now.

The media is even analyzing when Blackburn will end its winning streak. Blackburn has not lost a game since the start of this season, and has won eleven games in a row.

Many media analyzed that it would be either in the away game against Lazio or in the eleventh round away game against Manchester United. Because Blackburn's opponents in the meantime are only Middlesbrough, Everton, and Manchester City.

Even George felt that he was going to create a ten-game winning streak in the league after reading it.

After defeating Lazio, Blackburn players were a little flattered. If Real Madrid was defeated, Real Madrid was still a little unsatisfied. Then this victory over Lazio showed Blackburn's strongest strength.

And Blackburn lived up to expectations and easily defeated Middlesbrough 2-0 in the eighth round of the Premier League. After defeating Middlesbrough, all the media believed that this season's Premier League must belong to Blackburn.

Because in the highlight of this round, Arsenal beat Manchester United 1-0 at home. Therefore, Blackburn leads Arsenal by seven points and Manchester United by nine points.

Blackburn is running at full speed, and everyone is wondering who can stop Blackburn?

George is excited and hopes to continue this performance. Blackburn players are now full of confidence.

Everyone praises Blackburn, even the opponent Everton. But when they arrived at Goodison Park, they were beaten by Everton and lost their temper. Blackburn, who went out with full confidence, was suddenly awakened.

Everton, who was low-profile, defeated Blackburn 1-0 with a defensive counterattack. It also gave George the first defeat of the new season.