Coaching legend - Chapter 554 Don’t Go
The Premier League continues.
Burnley’s steps are very solid.
In the 31st round of the Premier League, Burnley faced Wenger’s Arsenal away. Although George used the most brutal method to deal with Arsenal’s technical flow. But the strength gap is too big.
Many teams are not used to Burnley’s running.
Arsenal’s technical flow should be even more so. Unexpectedly, Wenger’s Arsenal performed very well. Used the pass to let Burnley’s young players understand what the gap is. Too delicate.
Burnley was beaten by Arsenal away and had no power to fight back.
1:3, Burnley lost the game.
George shook his head.
It will take a long time for Burnley, a young team, to mature.
Wilshere and Gareth Gray, facing the midfield composed of Fabregas, Song and Nasri, were just like children. Of course, Fabregas, Song and Nasri are not very old. But they are much more mature than Burnley’s midfield, and their cooperation is quite tacit.
Gareth Gray showed his gap at this time.
Lack of awareness.
Unable to keep his position steady, he could only run with the ball.
This is because there are too many young players. If there were players of Vieira’s level beside him at this time, it would definitely help Gareth Gray a lot. What a pity.
George sometimes wondered.
Keane was a powerful defensive midfielder back then. He was hailed as one of the best defensive midfielders in the world of football. I don’t know if it was because of the short coaching time that Gareth Gray was not successfully sculpted.
As long as half of Keane’s skills were given to Gareth Gray, Gareth Gray would definitely become a world-class defensive midfielder.
What a pity.
However, losing to Arsenal did not stop Burnley’s relegation at all.
After all, there are several Arsenals in the Premier League.
On March 27, 2010, in the 32nd round of the Premier League, Burnley challenged Manchester City, the current top upstart in the Premier League, at home.
Speaking of which, Manchester City’s current playing style is very chaotic.
Mark Hughes was the head coach in the first half of the season. However, the results were not good, so Italian coach Mancini took over. In a hurry, Mancini had no choice. The current players are all players bought by Mark Hughes.
Many of Mancini’s ideas are impossible to realize.
So Manchester City played very awkwardly.
Facing the first upstart, George’s idea is very simple. It is to attack fiercely and disrupt Manchester City’s rhythm.
What is Mancini’s biggest weakness.
Conservative.
Mourinho’s tough character is also reflected in his team. His team looks conservative, but conservatism is only tactical. But Mancini is conservative in his bones, conservative in character.
It can often be seen in the game.
In the strong dialogue, Mancini often makes some incomprehensible substitutions. Replace the most threatening players and then replace them with defensive players.
The conservative character is obvious.
Therefore, in the strong dialogue, unless the game is going smoothly. Otherwise, once encountering a tough battle, his character will be completely exposed.
Although Burnley is not a strong team. But this game put a lot of pressure on Manchester City. As expected, Mancini, who had not yet completely controlled the team, made many stupid moves. In order to maintain the one-point advantage at home, he did not hesitate to replace the attacking players.
George was even happier.
Manchester City does have a lot of good players. Even the players on the bench are stronger than Burnley’s first team. But it is precisely because they formed the team too hastily that their combat effectiveness has dropped a lot.
The cooperation between everyone is very poor.
George took advantage of this opportunity.
In the 82nd minute when the game was about to end, center forward Thomason Locke headed a goal.
At this time, Mancini began to panic. He started to play forward again, but it was too late.
Burnley won a victory at home smoothly.
George shook his head.
Mancini! Speaking of it, he is also one of the best young coaches in European football in recent years. But he still lacks some decisiveness in character. He still needs to continue to hone his skills.
After defeating Manchester City, Burnley’s points reached 34 points, and relegation is a foregone conclusion.
At the end of the 32nd round, Burnley is already ranked 14th in the Premier League. There is only a two-point gap from Sunderland, which is 13th in the Premier League.
On April 3, the 33rd round of the Premier League began.
Burnley challenged Hull City away.
Hull City has basically secured a relegation spot. The other spot, of course, was taken by Portsmouth.
When George just took over Burnley, Burnley was still below Portsmouth and Hull City, but Burnley had already left the relegation zone early. This time I met Hull City again.
Although Burnley’s relegation is a foregone conclusion.
But George knows that the sooner the relegation is confirmed, the better for the team.
Although it is an away game, Hull City really has no decent resistance. Hull City has completely lost the will to play. They are now five points less than the 18th place in the Premier League. In other words, even if there are five more points, they will be relegated.
And to be 17th in the Premier League, that is, to leave the relegation circle, it still needs seven points.
With only six games left, no one believed Hull City could surpass 17th-placed Wigan Athletic. Not even Hull City themselves believed it.
Facing such a team with no fighting spirit, Burnley, with high morale, played the most exciting game of the season. A 4-0 scoreline made Hull City’s path to relegation even clearer.
After defeating Hull City, Burnley has completely established its position.
Thirty-seven points.
In the past ten years, there have been only two times when the team failed to avoid relegation with 37 points.
One time was West Ham United in the 2002-03 season, which scored 42 points and was relegated. This is the highest relegation score since the establishment of the Premier League. The other time was in 2006-07, when Sheffield United was relegated with 38 points. However, at that time, Sheffield United was relegated due to a pile of 38 points and a goal difference disadvantage.
On April 10, in the 34th round of the Premier League, Burnley faced Sunderland at home.
Sunderland now have two points more than Burnley, and Fulham, above, have three more than Burnley.
Sunderland now has no worries about relegation, and there is no place for him in the European League. The motivation for competition is to get a little reward. The current Premier League bonus is more than 700,000 pounds for a ranking difference.
For a small club, seven to eight million pounds is not a small amount.
But compared with Sunderland, who are playing for a little bit of ranking, Burnley is now really full of morale.
Burnley has been on a rollercoaster this season.
In the first half of the season, the results were too poor and the media unanimously believed that the team would definitely be relegated. But in the second half of the season, Burnley’s results were among the best. Even the points in the second half of the season can rank among the top six in the Premier League.
Therefore, the morale of Burnley players is now greatly boosted.
Don’t look at Sunderland currently ranking higher than Burnley. For these young players at Burnley, they are truly fearless now.
One has high morale and the other just plays the game.
And the gap between the two sides is not big. Therefore, the game showed a one-sided trend, and Burnley was very positive at home.
At the end of the first half, Burnley already led 2-0.
“Under George’s transformation, Burnley has exploded with amazing combat effectiveness. Since George took over, we have played fourteen games now. Burnley scored 26 points. Almost an average of two points. I am very I’m just curious, if George is coaching Burnley at the beginning of this season, whether Burnley can enter the European League next season, there should be no problem with the UEFA Cup place.”
Mortensen admired George during halftime.
“George shouldn’t be at Burnley. George should be at a higher level.”
Like others, Mortensen is opposed to George staying at Burnley. George, as a leader in England’s local coaches and a representative figure of England’s local coaches, should go to a bigger and broader stage.
At the beginning of the second half, Sunderland still failed to organize any decent offense.
Even the director felt bored. Start capturing other information on the court.
“Oh, what is this?”
Mortensen was also bored. There was no suspense in the game, and the play was not good-looking at all. Both Burnley and Sunderland played in a typical English style, and Burnley was overwhelming Sunderland, so there was really nothing to watch.
Not only did Mortensen find out, but the director also found out.
The camera quickly returned to the scene just now.
“George, don’t go!”
In a stadium with tens of thousands of people, the banner is small. It’s just a small banner made by a few fans.
It is completely incomparable to the large banners of the past.
Compared with the large banners made by Blackburn fans when George returned to Blackburn, it is completely incomparable. The fans who held up this small banner are all young fans. He looks like he is only in his teens.
This banner just stands alone.
“Haha, I finally saw such a slogan at Turf Moor Stadium. It’s not easy, it’s really not easy.”
Mortensen sighed.
yes. It has been almost half a year since George took charge of Burnley. But at Turf Moor, George never got the cheers from the fans. Fans seem to have always been resentful about George’s arrival at Blackburn Rovers.
It was still a few young fans who publicly wrote this kind of slogan to retain George for the first time.
Of course this is just an episode.
Burnley defeated Sunderland 3-1 at home. The score reached forty-one points.
At the end of the 34th round of the Premier League, Burnley successfully surpassed Sunderland and ranked 13th in the Premier League. The same points as the twelfth place in the Premier League, only due to the disadvantage of goal difference and ranking in 13th place.
Everyone regarded the behavior of a few small fans as a sideshow.
But by the 35th round of the Premier League, Turf Moor suddenly had a lot more slogans like this.
“George, don’t go!”
