456 Grinding Juventus (Part II)
However, George didn't have much time to think about Juventus' Alp Stadium because the game started.
The purpose of this game George is simple. It's about keeping the two-ball advantage. Just look at Blackburn's starting line-up and you can see it all.
The goalkeeper is, of course, Van der Sar.
There have been few changes at the back either. The biggest change is in the midfield.
George removed Pire and Miku in the middle and used a back three of Alonso, Parker and Essien. In front are Kaka, Klose and Drogba.
After the start of the game, Drogba and Klose were involved in the defense. They started to harass the opposition's passes in midfield in the first line. And then there is the midfield of Alonso, Essien and Parker, and their task is even simpler.
It's just to keep intercepting in the midfield.
Marcos Alonso, Essien and Parker are all midfielders with a lot of defensive coverage. Using their running ability, George covered almost everything in Blackburn's 30 to 40 metre zone.
The game was played dullly.
In midfield, Blackburn Rovers and Juventus are constantly entangled. I'll shovel you, you shovel me.
Lippi found out.
George is a coach who claims to only care about results. After the last game, Lippi thought it was made up by the media. In the last game, Blackburn played much better than Juventus. Let Lippi have a delusion.
Is Blackburn clearly a representative of art football?
But this game completely turned Lippi's thinking on its head. I felt deeply ridiculous that I had that kind of thought.
Bullshit art football?
Take a look at Blackburn's monster Drogba where the striker is. Totally a defensive player, almost crazy to grab the ball up front. If the Juventus defenders move a little slowly, Drogba will rush up like crazy.
Not only Drogba, but Klose as well.
Klose is a little bit more than Sven. His defence is mostly scrambling, not like Drogba. Drogba is no different from a defender, he is slow to touch the ball and does not hesitate to tackle.
Imagine what it would be like for a striker to tackle in the front court.
Lippi has watched a lot of teams play defensive counter-attacks. But I've never seen George defend like this with even the forwards. At this time, where is there a striker like Drogba who spares no physical strength to defend.
Lippi was an eye-opener today.
In the whole of Blackburn, there was only one man who was not so crazy about defending. That's Kaka.
George also had to keep Kaka's stamina and fight back. Kaka's speed is a must. Kaka is a very important player on the counter-attack.
Ugly game!
That's what all Juventus fans think, and that's what all the media are thinking about this powerful conversation.
The game was too ugly.
Over the years, there have been many ugly games in the knockout rounds of the Champions League. But it's really rare to see something as ugly as this one. They felt helpless about George's shamelessness.
You Blackburn play Juventus with dignity and have a good chance of winning.
In the last game, Blackburn won 2-0 against Juventus, and if it wasn't for Buffon's wonderful performance, it would not have been impossible for Blackburn to be 3-0 or 4-0.
If you, Blackburn, are so powerful, why bother playing such shameless tactics?
This made them despise George more and more in their hearts.
But George didn't care what they thought. George had only one goal. That is to reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
In order to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League, playing some tricks, George didn't care at all.
That's how stiff the game is.
The game passed minute by minute, and soon the first half was over.
In the second half, George didn't change his tactics at all. I'm willing to be a "shrinking turtle", what can you do to me?
Lippi was helpless. Even if a weak team plays a dense defense, it is not so easy to break. What's more, a strong European team like Blackburn Rovers plays such shameless tactics, Juventus really doesn't have many ways.
The Juventus players are getting more and more anxious.
Because they played for 60 minutes, but the score on the scoreboard still didn't change. They begin to despair, really despair.
Trailing by two goals, attacking for so long, and still haven't rewritten the score. On the contrary, Blackburn's counterattack made the Juventus backline tremble. Kaka, who was named the best player in the first game, was also a frequent threat to Juventus in this game.
Speed, absolute speed.
There is a saying that martial arts in the world are only fast and unbreakable.
This sentence is absolutely a little bit though. But it's not without reason. It's like Owen, Bellamy, Henry, Carlos, and later Walcott, Bale, and Lennon all have amazing speed.
Once running, there are few people in the backline who can keep up with their speed.
With their incredible speed, it will be very difficult to defend them.
And Kaka just has that amazing speed. And more importantly, the combination of Kaka technology and speed makes the impact amazing.
Because Juventus' midfield attacked with all their might. So once Kaka counterattacks, it is directly facing the Juventus backline. At this time, Kaka's speed is deadly.
As time went on, Juventus' players were getting more and more impatient.
If you're only one goal behind, it's possible to get it back. But now it's two goals behind, and there's no way to think about it. Under this gap, even the Juventus players began to despair. It's real despair.
You can see it from the way they play on the pitch.
They have lost the momentum of the opening stage. Now they are more and more blind in attack, less and less weak in passing, and less and less running.
When George saw this, he already understood.
In the quarterfinals of the Champions League, Blake was supposed to be.
The game entered the last ten minutes, and soon there were various dramatic scenes. The players who were alive and kicking in the first 80 minutes, Drogba and Essien, they suddenly became weak. If you are touched by a Juventus player, you will fall to the ground and roll in pain.
Otherwise, it's all kinds of cramps.
Even George off the field was a little overwhelmed.
If you let Piret and Miku cramp or be knocked to the ground in eighty minutes, it will be forgivable. If it's Hleb and Arshavin, it's even more of a problem.
But look at the players Blackburn have on the pitch right now.
It's all big guys. Alonso, Parker, Essien, Drogba, Lucio, Reese, Sagnol, Campbell, none of these people are players with great physical fitness in the Premier League, and they are super physical players.
Drogba, in particular, is already famous in European football.
Drogba's name of Warcraft is also spreading. European football knows that Blackburn has a monster with a perverted body. Who would believe such a player, you are hit by a Juventus player and fall to the ground.
The fans at the Alp Stadium booed.
They were unhappy with the blatant delay of the Blackburn players. You should have some strong team demeanor, too. It's already a two-goal lead, and even if you don't play this little trick, there should be no problem with appearing.
But to play such a low-level, dirty way.
However, the boos of the Juventus fans were not enough to shake the determination of the Blackburn players to perform. They still kept falling and cramping, and they used any way to delay time anyway.
At first, the Juventus players also complained to the referee.
But in the end, the Juventus players were numb. If you love to perform, keep performing. We don't care anymore.
Although there were a lot of performances, the referee saw the situation on the field and only made three minutes of stoppage time. It was a pretty decent stoppage time. In fact, it stands to reason that even if you make up five or six minutes, there is no problem.
But the referee looked at the situation on the field, whether it was Blackburn Rovers or Juventus, and wanted the game to end quickly.
So the referee was very humane and only made up three minutes.
"Doodoo-"
When the time came, the referee's whistle sounded.
"Congratulations George, congratulations Blackburn. They beat Juventus 2-0 over two legs and have already reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League. This is the fourth consecutive season that Blackburn have reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League. ”
"There were no bright spots in this game. Blackburn Rovers beat Juventus in the Juventus way, and the whole game was dull. However, Blackburn used such a dull game to draw 0-0 away to Juventus and also entered the quarterfinals. ”
"Just as George commented on Juventus, Juventus's strength has dropped too much now. If they are to become a European powerhouse again, then reinforcements are a must. At the same time, abandon their sense of superiority and start from scratch. ”
Martin. Taylor congratulates Blackburn Rovers on reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
At the same time Martin. Taylor also admonished Juventus. It's just a warning, but there's still a hint of sarcasm in it.
Don't look at Martin. Taylor is a well-known football commentator in Europe. He has a significant place in European football as a whole, but he is a commentator on English football in his own right. So it's definitely the maintenance of the English club.
At the same time, the Blackburn players were also celebrating. They didn't care if it was Juventus' home stadium or not, and they celebrated to their heart's content.
George didn't care at all about Lippi's feelings next to him.
Rush into the field and celebrate with the players.
Juventus fans, who had not yet left the stadium, booed Blackburn Rovers when they saw such an unbridled celebration.
"Coach Levy ......"
"Coach Levy, do you have any thoughts on the quarter-finals?"
"Coach Levy, get to the quarterfinals, is there anything you have to say?"
A group of reporters also didn't care if it was Juventus' home stadium or not, and revolved around George. As for Lippi, who do you care? Since they have all failed, they are not qualified to be touted by everyone.
At this time, there were only a few Italian journalists who asked Lippi some questions.
And most of the Italian journalists are now next to George.
"The quarterfinals are just the first step. It's nothing. George was in a good mood, so he replied with a smile. As for the quarter-finals, I don't care. Of course, if it's a weaker team, I'm even happier. But entering the quarterfinals, there are no weak teams. It's all strong teams, so whoever draws it has the same effect. ”
George's words didn't mean anything.
But in the eyes of reporters, George completely does not pay attention to those strong teams in Europe.
George's image was too bad in the eyes of their reporters.
Even if George didn't mean that, they would have thought otherwise. If George knew, he would have shouted innocently, "I'm not a gray wolf!" ”
(To be continued)