Coaching legend

"Burnley finally won a home game against Southend, which had not won a game so far. They won the game 1-0 and finally got out of two consecutive draws." After the end of the eighth round of the league, the media began to summarize the performance of the teams in the English League One in the past period of time.

"However, as a new team in the English League One, Burnley's performance this year is obvious to all. The young coach Levy has brought out a very combative team. Burnley is now ranked seventh in the English League One. It is fully capable of impacting the play-offs."

"If you comment on the most surprising team in the English League One, it must be the newly promoted Burnley."

As a team that has just been promoted to the First Division, Burnley has achieved four wins and four draws in eight rounds. With 16 points, it ranks seventh in the English League One.

As a new team in the English League One, Burnley's performance is still good. And Burnley is one of the three unbeaten teams in the English League One so far.

To achieve such results, the defense that George has been focusing on since the second division has played a big role. The center with Ballack and Neil Lennon as the core has completely controlled the rhythm in the English League. In particular, George is very satisfied with Ballack's growth.

Although Ballack now cannot be compared with the time when he led the German team to the finals in the Korea-Japan World Cup. But in the English League, he is already a standout. This season, George has sacrificed Ballack's offensive ability and used him as a defensive midfielder.

Ballack is a rare all-round midfielder. His defense will definitely not be worse than those full-time defensive midfielders.

Although Mitchell King in the back line is old, his defense is solid. With Gary Breen, who is not bad in headers, positioning and even speed, the defense of the back line is also very solid.

Although only eight first division games and one League Cup game have been played, all teams have realized the strength of Burnley's defense.

But now Burnley's biggest problem is still in offense. When Daniel pushed to the front, the effect was very good. Some teams were caught off guard and their defense was torn apart by Daniel's amazing speed. But when those A-level teams played iron bucket defense with Burnley, Daniel's role was reduced by many times.

Daniel's biggest advantage is his speed, the speed of the wind. In the position of left back, Daniel can choose the time to insert himself. Once the assist is up, it will be difficult for the opponent to defend.

But tearing through the opponent's dense defense is not what Daniel is good at. Daniel has all the advantages of traditional English players. But they also have their inherent shortcomings, that is, their technical ability is not very strong. In terms of changing direction and passing the ball at high speed, the combination of man and ball is good, but the ability to get rid of passing in a small space is far worse than that of Latin players.

So in recent games, Daniel's role is not as good as when he was on the back line.

On the other side, Danny Murphy and Solkamp are unable to take on the big task. Especially Solkamp, ​​George bought him to improve the substitute in the wing position, but now he is playing as a main player.

In the last game, Southend learned from other teams and set up an iron bucket formation at Burnley's home. If it weren't for Ashley Chapman, who came on as a substitute, using his skills to create a free kick for Burnley. And it was with this free kick that Richard received a pass from Ballack and scored a goal.

After the big win in the fifth round of the English League One, Burnley immediately ushered in two consecutive draws. And it was not easy to win a victory against Southend, which is now ranked at the bottom of the English League One.

However, when evaluating the teams in the English League One during this period, the major media have praised Burnley's performance.

However, no one knows that George is very anxious now, but the hateful Yongberg has not shown any expression for almost two months. If it weren't for maintaining the dignity of the head coach, George really wanted to ask Yongberg to come over.

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"Mitchell, why are you here? Aren't you on holiday today?" Wilkinson was leading a group of youth team players in training. Mitchell King was found to have come to the youth team training base. Because the game with Southend had just ended, the first team was on holiday the next day.

Mitchell and Wilkinson have a good relationship. Mitchell is a player from Burnley's youth training camp. When Mitchell was in the youth team, Wilkinson was the coach of the youth team. Of course, George's father, Levi, is also a coach of the youth team.

Mitchell King looked at the youth team players training next to him, smiled and said, "Wilkinson, let's sit over there."

Wilkinson saw that Mitchell's face was a little gloomy, so he nodded. Then he gave a few instructions to the coach next to him and sat down with Mitchell in the rest position on the sidelines.

"How is the performance of that Swedish kid?" Mitchell's eyes were fixed on Yongberg on the field.

Speaking of Yongberg, Mitchell was very dissatisfied. This kid has always been hard since he came to the club. He ignored the Burnley players and the expression he showed inadvertently was a kind of disdain.

"Genius, excellent right-sided player. His ability is definitely no less than that of Boboski who left. The most important thing is that he is still young. I am only nineteen years old this year, and I have been in the Burnley youth team for thirty years. In addition to being mentioned to the first team by George Daniel Ljungberg of the team is the second talented player I have seen." Wilkinson praised him and spoke highly of Ljungberg.

After finishing speaking, Wilkinson looked at Mitchell suspiciously. "George's eye for seeing people is definitely first-class. But is George really not ready to use Frederic? Isn't the right side of the first team a problem recently?"

Mitchell King nodded with a wry smile. Then he shook his head without knowing what he thought of.

"You don't know George's temper yet. Before that Swedish kid apologizes, George will never use him." Mitchell sighed and continued: "There are some problems with our team's offense now. George at the beginning of the season There should be comprehensive considerations, but it’s a pity that this guy is too unruly.”

"Then why are you here today..." Wilkinson almost understood what Mitchell meant.

"I very much believe in George's vision. Since George spent 800,000 pounds, I believe that Swedish kid must be outstanding." When Mitchell talked about George, he said with certainty: "Now this Both of them are stuck there, and I can only adjust them. I hope to be able to play in the Premier League as a player. In the next two years, I can't play. You didn't see George buying Finnan and Er. Young players like Posen are here to replace old guys like me and Grant.”

Wilkinson laughed at Mitchell's words. Then he patted Mitchell on the shoulder and nodded.

"Mitchell, do you know what George has planned for your future?"

"My future? George?"

"When George was discussing Burnley's future with me, he said that you, Grant, and Miller are all assets to the club. If you are willing, George hopes to give you a position in the club. And Mitchell, George I hope you can join his coaching team. He said that you know how to regulate the locker room. There has been no negative news in the Burnley locker room since you became captain, which George admires very much." Wilkinson looked at Mitchell. , discovered that George knew Mitchell too well.

Mitchell was also shocked by what George said about himself. Mitchell has always believed that the reason why George kept a few of his old guys was to stabilize Burnley fans and the club. I didn’t expect that George had even thought about the future of several of his own people.

"Mitchell, judging from your performance today, I think George's ideas about your future are too correct."