Although he wants to compress the defense, Deco and Miku, including Pire and Duff, are not real defensive players. Their characteristics can only be brought into full play in attack.

Looking at Deco and Miku's defense after they retreated, George shook his head.

In these days, let them practice how to attack, if they cooperate, and forget to let them practice how to defend.

If he faces Manchester United and Arsenal now, George doesn't believe he can completely suppress them in midfield. They can also be pressed against them, after all, the midfield quality of both teams is superior. The last time I was at Old Trafford, it was all about suddenness and the physical problems of the Manchester United players that we were able to get out of the way.

Facing those strong teams again, you have to find a way to attack them. Even in defense, there can be no problems.

Rebuild Blackburn and forget what you do. He is a coach who is born on the defensive counter-attack, and he has forgotten everything, and he should not forget to defend.

Although the space is compressed, Owen's performance is still quite active. George shook his head when he saw that Makelle had lost all confidence in front of Owen.

"Owen, come here." George beckoned to Hargreaves.

"You saw Owen or not, and I think you should know about him too." George grabbed Hargreaves. Owen is too active to let it go. "When you get on the court, you follow Irving. If he enters the box, I don't care about him, but once he's outside the box, I'll stare him to death. Don't let him turn around casually and push your body against him. If it doesn't work, use a foul, anyway, no matter what method is used, stopping Irving is a victory. ”

Hargreaves listened to George's words and nodded. I was also quite proud in my heart.

Speaking of which, there is actually a midfielder on the bench now. It is David who was trained in the Blackburn Academy. Dunn, after being promoted to the first team this season, is still quite valued by George. He played far more games than Hargreaves, who mostly went up in garbage time and the last few minutes to warm up.

David. Dunn played more games than Hargreeff, but he also played in garbage time. It's when the team has a lead of more than two goals that they can get playing time.

Now that the team is on a downward trend, George's first thought is not David. Dunn, but himself. Hargreaves was very happy about this alone. Isn't this just to show that he has a higher status in George's heart than Dunn.

In the first 36 minutes of the first half, George replaced No. 24 Makelele with No. 13 Hargreaves. It was also the first time Makelele had been substituted in a game, and even before the end of the first half.

"George replaced Claude Makelele, and Makelele's performance in this game was really poor. The Liverpool midfielder barely put any pressure on him, but only one Owen made him miserable. I lost my place several times. Fortunately, Liverpool's midfield gave less pressure in this game, otherwise Blackburn's defense would have collapsed long ago. ”

"George's replacement is Hargreaves, who is just over two months old and turns 18. He was originally a player for Bayern Munich's youth team, and George was poached from Bayern Munich's youth team this season. This season's playing time adds up to less than thirty minutes. I don't know what George means by replacing him? ”

Hargreaves is a nobody, originally nothing more than a youth team at Bayern. When I got to Blackburn, I didn't go on it a few times. They were all on the pitch at the end of the game. Therefore, even the senior narrator does not know Hargreaves. Except for those cold sets of information and data.

"Owen. Hargreaves? A midfielder? 17 years old? Houllier looked at Hargreaves' profile and muttered to himself.

Houllier knows a lot about Blackburn Rovers and a lot of their players have been specifically studied. But this Hargreaves? Where did it come from? I don't know anything about his technical style, his characteristics.

"Claude, sit here. You just sit here and watch the game, think about where you are, how you should defend. George nodded at Makelele.

Changing someone in the first half is very uncomfortable for the players who have been taken off. But George didn't comfort Makelle because his performance was so bad.

"Claude, do you know why I asked you to play in the back?" George looked at the frustrated Makelle and asked coldly. Makelle looked up at George, which was also what Makelle wondered. "Because the back is not just about the body. I want you to play at the back to let you play with your brain, the smartest defender, you don't run with the ball. Instead, they will stand still and not let the ball pass by. That's what people call consciousness. ”

"Watch the game down there and think about where the midfielders should stand."

Hargreaves cherished the opportunity very much. He spent a year and a half in Bayern's youth team, and the Bayern Munich youth team coach still has a lot of respect for Hargreaves. If it weren't for the first-team game, Hargreaves certainly wouldn't have left the already familiar Bayern youth team.

Hargreaves was promised by George. But in the six months since coming to Blackburn, there have been few opportunities to play. Although there is some resentment in his heart, Hargreaves has always been meticulous in training, he is waiting, waiting for the time to make a blockbuster.

"Toot-"

"It looks like Hargreaves came up specifically to defend Irving."

Hargreaves was thrilled to see Owen pull outside the box and receive the ball again. After going up, he directly knocked people over. Hargreaves wasn't physically strong, but he was already very strong compared to Irving.

The referee quickly blew the whistle to indicate that Hargreaves had committed a foul.

But Hargreaves shrugged, didn't pay any attention to Owen who was lying on the ground, and ran straight back.

"Beautiful, that's it." George watched Hargreaves' foul and slapped his thigh off the court.

Compared to Makelele, Hargreaves is much better physically. It's fast, strong, and hard-kicked. Therefore, when defending Irving, it is like a dogskin plaster. As soon as Irving showed signs of a pass, he was outright fouled.

"It seems that Hargreaves came on with George's assignment. Within ten minutes of playing, he had already committed three fouls on Irving. Fouls committed at a young age but were measured, and the referee was not easy to play. ”

Hargreaves' stalking style of play made Irving very uncomfortable. Irving, who had broken through in the middle, avoided Hargreaves in desperation and came to the left. Wanted to work with McManaman, but Hargreaves got George's orders. Unless Owen enters the box, as long as he is outside the box, he is in Hargreaves' care.

Hargreaves went to look after Owen specifically, and Deco came in to fill in at the back. Deco's individual defensive ability is not as good as those defensive midfielders. But the one-on-one defense is still very good.

Anfield saw his golden boy being bullied like this by Hargreaves, and the whole stadium booed.

Owen's dumb fire reduced Liverpool's attack power by half. It also gave Blackburn a chance to fight back.

However, the first half is nearing the end, and because of Deco's retreat, Miku can only retreat to organize the attack. This has been a problem offensively.

Blackburn's attacking power is concentrated on the right side of Liverpool, and Carragher is defending the right side. Pire and Duff switched positions and took turns attacking this.

"Pire, he's got past Carragher...... Cross...... The ball was passed too deep and was given directly to James. ”

Towards the end of the first half, Pire's cross to the middle was made again. But the ball floated and went straight to James.

Klose, who was about to grab the point, and Miku, who was plugged in behind, both shook their heads.

"Hey, what is this?"

It was an easy ball, and James did take it off with ease. But the accident happened at this time, James probably wanted to serve quickly with the ball, but he didn't expect to hit his knees with both hands.

A blunder, a huge blunder. James used his knee to push the ball out of his hand.

Miku, who was still sighing just now, was surprised to see the ball come to his feet. And there was no one next to him. All the Liverpool defenders are forward and ready to attack.

Miku looked at the empty goal and unceremoniously pushed it.

"What an amateurish mistake, James! Such an amateur mistake actually happened to James. It shouldn't, it really shouldn't. "The commentators were surprised, the players on the field were surprised, even George was surprised.

Miku smiled at James' gift. James' big gift allowed Blackburn to equalize before half-time.

Houllier angrily shook the mineral water in his hand on the sidelines, and seeing James' low-level mistake performance, Houllier's determination to sell James was strengthened again. Houllier was not used to seeing several Liverpool players, including Redknapp and James.

"This is the England international of the future? Hehehe! ”

George shook his head, after Seaman, England will face a 10-year goalkeeper shortage. Whether it is James in front of him or Carson and Green later, they have just added a lot of jokes to world football. All the way up to Joe. With Hart's appearance, England's international goal stabilized.

This is the butter hand, the goalkeeper's low-level mistake, which George has encountered for the first time since he became the manager.

Although George is now English, he does not have any sense of belonging to England. There is no concern about how England's international performance will be, what the results of the England national team will be. The best goalkeepers for Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool are all this kind of big colander.

If it weren't for James' low-level mistake, Blackburn would have equalised before half-time.

(To be continued)