Coaching legend

Valencia is a good opponent.

Or Valencia is very strong at present. Especially in the midfield, Albelda, Baraja, Aimar, Vicente.

Among them, Vicente is the best winger that has emerged in Spain in recent years. Vicente is at his peak now.

Vicente is one of the best left wingers in European football and is known as the "Left Supreme". Vicente, who is only 21 years old, squeezed out Kili Gonzalez last season. He became the main left winger of Valencia.

Vicente is fast, has good skills, and has better shooting ability. And his cross is also quite accurate. He gave Mist countless good balls.

Vicente is now very famous, even not less than Robben's fame in Chelsea later. He is the nightmare of all right backs in Europe. In addition, Valencia has talented players such as Aimar and Baraja, and George is a little afraid of the creativity of Valencia's midfield.

George is unwilling to fight with Valencia in the midfield.

Facing the aggressive Valencia, George chose a very traditional 4-4-2.

The midfield had Pires, Alonso, Hargreaves, and Duff, and the forward line was Klose and Drogba.

Benítez thought George would choose a technical style of play. After all, even if Blackburn was a defensive counterattack, the midfielders were all technical players. If we were to ask which club in English football has the style closest to the European style of play, and which head coach's thinking is not traditional in English football.

Then it must be Arsenal's Wenger and Blackburn's George.

Needless to say, Wenger is a head coach from France.

But George is a head coach born and raised in England. And his coaching career started in England, but George's thinking is completely contrary to the traditional English style of play. Whether it was when he was at Burnley or when he went to Blackburn.

And whether it was a defensive counterattack or a midfield control style of play, George's style of play was different from the traditional style of play in English football.

And when playing against La Liga teams, George always used technology to defeat La Liga teams. Benítez is also a coach who pays great attention to details.

Valencia is in a bad situation in the group stage now. So Benítez attaches great importance to this game. He also studied Blackburn and George carefully. This made him discover something.

George's use of troops is not limited to the situation. Facing strong teams, George does not care about defensive counterattacks. Facing Serie A teams, George will use his fast pace to defeat Serie A teams. And every time he encounters La Liga teams, George uses the team's technology to defeat La Liga teams.

Valencia is still a defensive counterattack team. Blackburn will definitely not play defensive counterattacks at home, so Benítez believes that George will definitely use the combination of Miku, Alonso and Hargreaves.

But it was unexpected.

George did not arrange a single striker, but directly used two strikers.

George did not be polite to Benítez. After the game started, the midfield was ignored. Alonso's burden is heavy, because as long as there is a ball, it will be directly handed over to the two wingers, or directly passed to the striker.

Blackburn's offense is very simple.

The ball was kicked out and passed to Drogba or Klose in front. No one can compare with the two in the competition for high-altitude balls. So every time they reach the high-altitude ball in the front court, they can control it. If they can break through, they will break through by themselves.

If they can't break through, they will cooperate with the people next to them.

The cooperation between Drogba, Klose, Pires, and Duff can complete the attack.

Blackburn can make a shot after two or three passes. After the attack is unfavorable, they will immediately come back to defend.

George's style of play was completely unexpected by Benitez. This is a very unskilled style of play. The middle and lower teams in the Premier League all play this style of football. In particular, many of their forwards are a combination of one tall and one fast.

Their football is to kick out with a long foot, and the tall one will grab the first point. Then head the ball to another person, and finally form an attack.

Blackburn has a little more cooperation than them, but the overall approach is still the same.

Blackburn's style of play immediately confused Valencia. When have their defenders ever seen this kind of play? They competed with others in Spain. Now Blackburn has two forwards who are good at heading.

The first landing point is almost always controlled by Klose and Drogba.

The two are often together, and it has been four years now. In four years, the cooperation between the two is very tacit.

As long as one of them grabs the first point and heads the ball, the other person can immediately know where the ball will land.

This fast and simple play makes Valencia's defense very uncomfortable.

In the 19th minute of the first half, Alonso, the midfielder of Blackburn, got the ball. In the same way, the long pass was given to Drogba in front.

"Alonso... Drogba, head... Klose, one dunk, shoot!"

Alonso is very talented in long passes. Although he is only 20 years old, his long passes are very accurate.

Drogba saw the ball coming and jumped high. Ayala behind him smiled bitterly at Drogba, although he jumped hard to interfere with Drogba. But Drogba is getting more and more like a monster now. Ayala is totally out of proportion to Drogba.

So although there was some interference, Drogba didn't take Ayala seriously at all and headed the ball directly behind Ayala.

At this time, Klose, who was cruising in front, quickly came to the route of Drogba's pass. There was no hesitation at all. Seeing Pellegrini's simple dribble, he shot directly with his right foot.

"GOOOOOOOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The commentator cheered loudly. "Klose, Miro Klose! Our hero, Klose. One to zero, we are leading by one to zero. Cheer for our Miro Klose!"

"Miro Klose!"

"Klose! Klose!"

All the fans at Ewood Park cheered the name "Klose" loudly.

And Klose and Drogba hugged each other excitedly.

George clapped his hands excitedly on the sidelines. Benitez, you are a tactical master, so what? Now you are just a rookie coach. Only one La Liga champion, you are still young in front of us?

Although George is a native coach born and raised in England, what George has always despised the most is the arrogance of the English football world. Especially the English football world is unwilling to accept change and is complacent. Moreover, it is self-admiring and has no intention to change.

If it weren't for the arrival of continental coaches such as Wenger and Gullit, how could the English football world have the current changes.

Therefore, even the traditional English formation 4-4-2 is somewhat looked down upon. Long passes are even more disdainful.

However, as George has been the head coach for these years, this idea has gradually changed. There is no perfect formation or perfect tactics in this world. There is no best formation or best tactics.

Italy's catenaccio, the Netherlands' all-out attack and defense, Germany's free man tactics, Brazil's samba football, can you say which of these tactics is the best and which is backward? No.

What kind of enemy should be faced with what kind of tactics.

This is normal.

George is now unwilling to stick to the rules and regulations. Once you stick to those rules and regulations, your vision will be blinded.

Therefore, in this game, George arranged the play of two center forwards, Klose and Drogba.

Sure enough, the effect is very good.

Benítez was annoyed. George's style of play was too simple, especially when Klose and Drogba were in front, they were a huge threat. In terms of high-altitude balls, both of them were rare in the world.

Now both of them were in front, and the high-altitude balls were completely controlled by the two of them.

However, Blackburn's high-altitude bombing was not over. In the 33rd minute of the game, Pires on the left made a 45-degree cross, and Drogba inserted a favorable header from behind. Cañizares had no reaction at all.

And Ayala, who had been defending, was even more shocked.

Why?

When Drogba rushed up and headed for the goal, Ayala was fighting for the ball next to him.

Ayala's body was not the toughest among the central defenders. But he was not easily bullied. Facing those strong forwards, Ayala would not be at a disadvantage. But this time Ayala was really confused.

Because Drogba collided with Ayala, Ayala flew out. Drogba was fine, and he was able to head the ball and score the goal.

"Drogba, we always say that Drogba has the best physique in the Premier League. Now you can see that Ayala was hit by Drogba and flew over. Drogba is worthy of the name of Warcraft. If Drogba can slightly improve his shooting accuracy, then Drogba will definitely become a world-class striker."

"Two to zero, two to zero. The opponents in the so-called death group are completely vulnerable in front of Blackburn. With this victory, Blackburn has accumulated nine points. With nine points, Blackburn will enter the Champions League knockout stage for three consecutive years."

The game really made Valencia very depressed.

When have you seen this kind of high-altitude tactics? Blackburn is completely dead in the air, which makes Valencia a little dizzy.

In the midfield, Benitez made some adjustments to the team. The biggest change is to let Albelda and Baraja control the ball, but George will not give Valencia this opportunity.

Blackburn still rushed and attacked.

The middle was completely empty, Alonso and Hargreaves did not come up at all. When they got the ball, they either went to the wing or passed it directly to the forward. And it was still the same high-altitude ball tactics.

Blackburn directly told Valencia, we just play high balls, what else can you do?

In the 76th minute of the game, Blackburn scored another goal. It was Drogba's header again, and Duff, who came in from the wing, shot and changed the score to 3-0.

Blackburn's performance in the Champions League is extremely strong.

How strong is it. In the death group, all three games were easily won. All of them were more than three goals ahead, and they got nine points.

Nine points, Blackburn will soon emerge from this group.

Sorry, there is only one update today. I watched the Russian game last night and my head still hurts. The European Cup is too tiring for us.