Valencia, a good opponent.

Or that Valencia is strong at the moment. Especially the midfielders, Albelda, Baraja, Aimar, Vicente.

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

Vicente is one of the best left wingers in European football right now and is known as the "left supreme". Vicente, who is now only 21 years old, was already a 21-year-old Vicente last season. Gonzalez squeezed out. He became Valencia's main left winger.

Vicente is fast, has good technique and is even better at shooting. And his crosses are also quite accurate. Gave Mister countless good balls.

Vicente is now famous, not even less famous than Robben later at Chelsea. It's a nightmare for all right-backs across Europe. Coupled with the fact that Valencia have talented players like Aimar and Baraja, George is a little afraid of the creativity of Valencia's midfield.

George was reluctant to languish with Valencia in midfield.

Against a menacing Valencia, George opted for a traditional 4-4-2.

In midfield, Pire, Alonso, Hargreaves, Duff were present, and up front were Klose and Drogba.

Benitez thought George would opt for a technical-stream style of play. After all, Blackburn Rovers is a defensive counter-attack, and the players in the midfield are all players with technical flow. If there is a club in English football that is closest to a continental style of play, which manager has a way of thinking that is not a tradition in English football.

Then it would have been Arsenal's Arsene Wenger and Blackburn's George.

Needless to say, Arsene Wenger is the manager of France himself.

But George, a native of England, is a head coach. And coaching careers all started in England, but George's thinking is completely contrary to the traditional English style of play. Whether it's at Burnley or at Blackburn.

And whether it is defensive counter-attacking or midfield control play, George's style of play is different from the traditional style of play in English football.

And when playing La Liga teams, George has always used technique to defeat La Liga teams. Benitez is also a very detail-oriented manager.

Now Valencia is not in a good situation in the group stage. So Benitez is very serious about this game. He also studied Blackburn and George carefully. This made him discover a little.

George's use of troops was not limited to the situation. Against a strong team, George doesn't care about defensive counterattacks. Facing Serie A teams, Giorgio will use his fast pace to defeat Serie A teams. And every time he meets a La Liga team, George instead uses the team's skills to defeat the La Liga team.

Valencia are still a counter-attacking team at the moment. Blackburn Rovers will not play defensive counter-attacking at home, so Benitez believes that George will definitely use a combination of Miku, Alonso and Hargreaves.

But it was unexpected.

George didn't have a single striker, but instead went straight to the two-striker.

George was also not polite to Benitez. Once the game started, the midfield was simply ignored. Alonso's burden is heavy, because whenever he has the ball, he goes directly to the two wings, or directly to the striker.

Blackburn's offense was simple.

The big foot was kicked out and handed to Drogba or Klose in front. In the battle between the two people in the high ball, no one can compare. So every time they get to the high ball in the frontcourt, they can control it. If they can break through, they will break through themselves.

If you can't break through, cooperate with the person next to you.

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

With a pass between two or three feet, Blackburn was able to take a shot on goal. After the offense is unfavorable, he immediately comes back to defense.

George's style of play was completely unexpected. It's a very unskilled style of play, and teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League play this style of football. In particular, many of their strikers are a combination of one high and one fast.

Their football is that the big foot is driven out, and the tall one grabs the first point. Then you give the ball to another person and you can finally form an attack.

Blackburn Rovers are a little bit more coordinated than them, but the overall number of lanes is still the same.

Blackburn's style of play immediately stunned Valencia. When have their defenders ever seen this style of play, they are fighting with people in Spain. Now Blackburn have two strikers with good headers.

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

The two have been together for four years now. For four years, the cooperation between the two is very tacit.

As long as anyone grabs the first point and heads the ball, the other person will be able to immediately know where the ball lands.

This quick, easy style of play has made the Valencia backline uncomfortable.

At the nineteenth minute of the first half, Blackburn midfielder's Marcos Alonso got the ball. In the same way, the long pass was handed to Drogba in front.

Alonso...... Didier Drogba, overhead...... Klose, a button, a shot! ”

Alonso's long balls are talented. Although he is only twenty years old, his long pass is very accurate.

Drogba saw the ball and jumped high. Ayala in the back looked at Drogba with a wry smile, although he jumped hard and interfered with Drogba. But Drogba is now more and more of a Warcraft, and Ayala is completely disproportionate compared to Drogba.

So although there are some distractions. But Drogba didn't take Ayala seriously at all, and a header went straight to Ayala's back.

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 simply buckle and shoot directly with his right foot.

“goooooooal！！！！！！！！！！！” The on-site commentators cheered loudly. "Klose, Miró. Klose! Our hero, Klose. 1-0, we're 1-0 ahead. Rejoice, for our Miro. Klose! ”

"Miro. Klose! ”

"Klose! Klose! ”

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

Klose and Drogba, on the other hand, hugged excitedly.

George clapped his hands excitedly on the sidelines. Benitez, what if you're a master tactician? Now you're just a rookie coach. It's only a La Liga champion, but it's still tender in front of us?

Although George is a native coach of England, what George has always looked down on most is the arrogance of English football. English football, in particular, is reluctant to accept change and rests on its laurels. And he is lonely and self-appreciative, and has no willingness to change at all.

If it weren't for the arrival of continental coaches such as Arsene Wenger and Gullit, how could there be changes in English football.

Because of this, even England's traditional formation of 4-4-2 is a bit unfavorable. For the long pass rushing crane is even more disdainful.

But as he became a head coach over the years, George's thinking has slowly changed. There is no perfect formation in this world, and there is no perfect tactic. There is no best formation, and there is no best tactic.

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

What kind of enemy to face, what kind of tactics should be used.

This is normal.

George is now reluctant to stick to the rules. Once you stick to those rules, your vision will be clouded.

Therefore, in this game, George arranged the playing style of Klose and Drogba.

Sure enough, it worked well.

Benitez was annoyed. George's style of play is too single, especially if either Klose or Drogba are put up front, they are a huge threat. In terms of high-altitude balls, both of them are rare in the world.

Now both of them are in front, and there is a high ball that is completely controlled by the two of them.

But Blackburn's high-altitude bombardment didn't end. Thirty-three minutes later, Pire's cross from the left was met by Drogba from behind with a favourable header. So Canizares didn't react at all.

And Ayala who has been defending is even more shocking.

Why?

When Drogba rushed up and shook his head at goal, Ayala was next to him to fight for the goal.

Ayala's body is not the toughest among the centre-backs. But it's not something that can be bullied casually. Against those strong forwards, Ayala will not be left behind. But this time Ayala was really confused.

Because Drogba and Ayala collided, Ayala flew out. And Drogba didn't have anything to do, and he was able to shake his head and score this goal.

'Didier Drogba, we always say Drogba's body is the best in the Premier League. Now you can see that Ayala was hit by Drogba and flew over. Drogba, worthy of the name of Warcraft. If Drogba can improve his shooting accuracy a little, then Drogba will be able to become a world-class striker. ”

"Two to zero, two to zero. The opponents of the so-called group of death were completely vulnerable in front of Blackburn. With a win in this game, Blackburn has accumulated nine points. With nine points, Blake would have been in the knockout stages of the Champions League for the third year in a row. ”

The game really made Valencia very depressed.

When have you seen this high-altitude tactic. Blackburn Rovers were completely dead on the ball in the air, and Valencia was a little dizzy.

At half-time, Rafa Benitez made some changes to his team. The biggest change was for Albelda and Baraja to control the ball, but George didn't give Valencia that chance.

Blackburn Rovers are still slamming and punching.

The middle was completely empty, and Alonso and Hargreaves didn't come up at all. Take the ball either on the side or directly to the striker. And it's the same high-ball tactic.

Blake told Valencia directly, we're just playing golf, how else can you do that?

At the end of the 76th minute, Blackburn Rovers scored another goal. It was Drogba's header again, and Duff, who was cut in on the wing, fired a shot to make it 3-0.

Blackburn have been extremely strong in the Champions League.

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

Nine points, Blackburn is about to emerge from this group.

(To be continued)