Coaching legend

Chapter 425 What is Control

In the 31st round of the Premier League, Blackburn easily defeated Tottenham 4-0 away.

Blackburn's opponent, Manchester United, was stumbling. It was unexpectedly tied by a team like Fulham at home, which was completely unlike Manchester United's style. The impact of Ferguson and Beckham's falling out on Manchester United will definitely not disappear in a short time.

Especially now that some media have begun to report that Real Madrid is chasing Beckham.

Of course, with Beckham's current status in the world football, few clubs are qualified to invite him. And Real Madrid is definitely the most powerful and most likely club among them.

Since Florentino became the chairman of Real Madrid, as long as he wants a player, he will get it. Now Florentino's eyes are on Beckham again. All media believe that Beckham's next club will definitely be Real Madrid

Although Real Madrid chairman Florentino denied the rumor that he never had a plan to introduce Beckham.

But who would believe it?

The "flying boot gate" incident just happened, which has caused Manchester United club a headache. Now the season is not over yet, and some media say that Beckham is going to Real Madrid. It really adds fuel to the fire.

If other players, including Ruud van Nistelrooy, Veron, and Fran, were to leave Manchester United, although there would be some impact, it would not be such a big impact. The main reason is that Beckham's status in Manchester United is too high. Moreover, he is an important player of the 92 generation, and has a very good relationship with many players in the team. He is a real childhood friend.

Therefore, the influence on Manchester United is getting bigger and bigger.

Now all Manchester United's opponents are eager for things to never end. There are even many people who deliberately add fuel to the flames and make things bigger.

But the effect is good.

Now Manchester United is eight points behind Blackburn, and there are only seven rounds left in the league. After seven rounds, the lead has reached eight points. The Blackburn media has begun to build momentum, saying that this season's Premier League champion must be Blackburn.

Many people have said that as long as the 32nd round of the Premier League is over, maybe this season's Premier League will end.

Because in the 32nd round of the Premier League, Blackburn will challenge Fulham away. Although Fulham tied Manchester United in the last game, no one thinks Fulham is strong. The reason why they were able to tie Manchester United was that Manchester United performed too poorly.

In this round, Manchester United challenged Liverpool at home.

Manchester United and Liverpool are old rivals. The conflict between the two teams is no less than the derby in the same city. Although Liverpool's performance this season is very poor, everyone knows that Liverpool is crazy. Facing weak teams, they performed very poorly.

But facing strong teams, Liverpool has never been afraid.

Especially facing old rival Manchester United, Liverpool's performance has always been very good. Even when Manchester United dominated the Premier League, Liverpool was not afraid of Manchester United.

With Manchester United's current state, it is definitely a bad omen to meet Liverpool.

As long as this game is over, the battle for the Premier League championship will be completely over. This is the unanimous analysis of all critics.

Unfortunately, the game is often unexpected.

Blackburn was tied 0-0 by the weak Fulham away from home. And Manchester United, who was in poor form, actually beat its old rival Liverpool 4-0 at home. Four to zero is a great shame for Liverpool, which has been fighting with Manchester United for many years.

Houllier's position as Liverpool's head coach is also shaky.

After the 32nd round of the Premier League, Blackburn is still six points ahead of Manchester United.

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George's recent mood is okay. He continues to suppress Manchester United in the Premier League. Although Manchester United caught up with two points in the last game. But with the remaining six rounds of games, as long as Blackburn plays steadily, the Premier League championship is definitely in the bag. George will never spit out the meat in his mouth again.

But at this time, George's eyes returned to the Champions League.

Blackburn appeared as the first in the group. But unfortunately, they met Milan from Italy.

In fact, no matter which one is drawn, it is a strong European team. After all, none of the teams that broke through the second stage of the group stage are weak teams. But Milan, George really doesn't want to play against them.

But George doesn't want to face Milan, and Milan is also unwilling to face Blackburn. After all, Blackburn is the defending champion of the Champions League. It is currently the top team in the Premier League. Blackburn's strength is obvious to all.

If possible, Milan certainly hopes to avoid Blackburn. If Milan becomes the first in the group, it can avoid Blackburn. Maybe it can play Ajax.

Unfortunately, Milan itself is not up to the mark. In the first four games of the group stage, it topped the list with three wins and one draw. If it continues this performance, they can certainly avoid Blackburn. But in the remaining two games, Real Madrid won two games in a row, while Milan drew one and lost one, and finally gave up the top spot.

This is the first time George has played against Milan. It is also the first time he has played against Ancelotti.

Ancelotti is very famous.

Of course not now. Ancelotti is very famous now, but compared with George, he is just the same. George is famous because of his good results, especially two Premier League titles and one Champions League title, which pushed George's fame up.

And Ancelotti is famous not only because of his good results. More importantly, Ancelotti has coached two Italian giants. Now he is the head coach of Milan.

Don't underestimate the head coach of a top club. The head coach of a top club receives more attention than the head coaches of other teams.

So although George has won the Champions League, in terms of fame, Ancelotti and George are completely on par.

Ancelotti is now considered a young coach among coaches, but unfortunately, compared with George, he is not young anymore.

The knockout rounds this time are all highlights. Except for Inter Milan, which has the best luck, they drew Ajax. It is the easiest.

The other matches are strong dialogues.

Real Madrid met Manchester United, Juventus met Barcelona, ​​and Blackburn met AC Milan.

"The Champions League quarterfinals have begun. This time the opponents are Milan from Italy and Blackburn Rovers from the Premier League. This is the first time that Milan and Blackburn Rovers have met in history."

"Let me first introduce the starting lineups of both teams in this game. Milan's starting lineup is goalkeeper Dida, defenders are Kaladze, Nesta, Maldini, Simic, midfielders are Seedorf, Gattuso, Pirlo, Rui Costa, and forwards are Shevchenko and Inzaghi."

"Blackburn's starting lineup is goalkeeper Van der Sar, defenders are Hargreaves, Lucio, Campbell, Sagnol, midfielders are Pires, Alonso, Essien, Kaka, Miku, and the front is a single striker Klose."

For Milan, George attaches great importance to it.

He dare not be careless at all. However, George also found Milan's weaknesses. The first is the right side guarded by Simic, who is currently the weakest link in Milan's back line. So George chose Pires, hoping that Pires would tear open this weak defense line.

The second weakness is that Milan's defense against high-altitude balls is problematic.

Especially Milan's goalkeeper Dida, although he is a world-class goalkeeper. But he has obvious weaknesses in high-altitude balls. Blackburn's forwards, whether it is Klose or Drogba, are good headers.

Playing high-altitude balls is also one of Blackburn's outstanding playing styles.

So this is how George deals with Milan. George found these two weaknesses of Milan and wanted to beat them to death.

Unfortunately, Blackburn has not yet exerted its strength, but has already fallen into Milan's rhythm. George put players with good skills such as Pires, Kaka, Miku and Alonso in the midfield in this game, but after the game started, he was unable to control the ball in his home court.

Instead, Milan was defeated step by step.

Milan controls the ball very well, and controls the rhythm even better. In front of Milan's control of rhythm, Alonso is like a child.

Milan's rhythm control is the responsibility of Pirlo.

Pirlo, he will be 24 years old soon. This season, for the first time, he had a stable playing time in a giant club. Unlike those absolute geniuses, such as Raul, Maldini, and Totti, who started out as the main force in a strong team.

But this does not mean that Pirlo is less famous.

Who is Pirlo? When he first started out, he played as a front midfielder and was considered by the Italian football world to be the "successor to Baggio". Before he was 20 years old, he was already famous in the Italian football world. He was bought by Inter Milan.

However, Inter Milan was a famous "black hole of stars" at that time, and there were also many superstars in the team. So Pirlo did not get any chance in Inter Milan and could only be loaned out continuously. During this process, Pirlo's fame did not decrease at all, but became bigger and bigger.

He was bought by Milan for $12 million last season.

But now Milan has four number 10s. Seedorf, Rui Costa, Rivaldo, and Pirlo. What to do?

Ancelotti is very powerful and actually thought of transforming Pirlo into an organizing midfielder. This is a very bold change, which turned the most outstanding young attacking midfielder in Italian football into an alternative defensive midfielder.

However, this transformation was successful.

Pirlo became a defensive midfielder and began to become a midfield commander.

Now Pirlo controls the rhythm of Milan, while Alonso controls the rhythm of Blackburn. Alonso has performed very well this season. Alonso, who is only 20 years old, can adapt to the rhythm of the Premier League so quickly. And he has become the midfield commander of a strong team like Blackburn.

But compared with Pirlo, he is much younger.

A commander needs to know when to be fast and when to be slow. Alonso still needs to continue to accumulate experience in this regard. But Pirlo is different.

Pirlo was transformed from an attacking midfielder to a defensive midfielder. Therefore, his keenness in the game and control of the rhythm are not comparable to Alonso now. So after the game started, the rhythm of the game quickly fell into the hands of Milan.

Many of George's ideas are completely impossible to achieve.

This made George on the sidelines frown deeply.

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