English football started the 03-04 Premier League season with the strong entry of Roman Abramovich.

Chelsea received the most attention.

It's not because the football world thinks Chelsea have a chance to win the Premier League. It's about people wanting to see what Chelsea will do after such a frenzied takeover. And Chelsea's performance lived up to expectations.

In the first round of the Premier League, he faced the English giants Liverpool. Although Liverpool's Michael Owen scored a goal for Liverpool, Chelsea won 2-1 away at Liverpool thanks to goals from Veron and Jurvana Hasselbaink.

As soon as the game came out, everyone was amazed at the quality of Chelsea.

In the game, Chelsea turned out to be completely overpowering Liverpool. And Owen's goal relied on Owen's personal ability. And throughout the game, if Liverpool hadn't played well with the goalkeeper, I don't know how many goals were poured by Chelsea.

Is this a restructured team?

Veron is a scum at Manchester United! I didn't expect to be so comfortable in my first game at Chelsea. Possession, passing, shooting, it's all so good.

Everyone was shocked by the strength of Chelsea.

Watching the game, all they remembered was this sentence: If you have money, what the is good?

Chelsea then beat Leicester City 2-1, drew 0-0 with Birmingham City and beat Tottenham Hotspur 4-2.

In particular, in the win over Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea were on fire. The new signing Mutu scored twice in the game. Tottenham's backline has no defensive ability at all against Mutu.

Tottenham Hotspur's defence is undefended against Mutu.

The striker, who made a name for himself at Parma, was not uncomfortable at all after arriving in the Premier League. Comes to fight.

Three wins and one draw in four games, the results are even better than Manchester United.

Such a performance surprised everyone.

Four games, three wins and one draw, accumulating ten points. In second place in the Premier League.

Three wins and one draw are really good results, but it's a pity that there is a more perverted club in the Premier League this season. That's Arsenal.

Arsenal have won four of their four games in August.

2-1 win at home to Everton, 4-0 away to Middlesbrough, 2-0 at home to Aston Villa and 2-1 away to Manchester City.

Thierry Henry, who has been in complete form this season, has been completely invincible.

Although only three goals were scored in four games, the three goals were evenly distributed across the first three games. The main thing is that Henry is not just a terminator now. Thierry Henry is the playmaker up front, scoring goals and assisting.

Arsene Wenger has been on the back foot for four seasons as Arsenal gradually become perfect. The current Arsenal is not only a strong main lineup, but even the substitute lineup that has always troubled Arsenal has a certain thickness.

In addition to Arsenal winning all four games and Chelsea winning three and drawing one, Manchester United have three wins and one defeat.

It's completely different from the previous Premier League.

In the previous Premier League, in the early games of the season, it was already a very good result to be able to get seven or eight points. Because at the beginning of the season, many clubs were not prepared enough. They need to use the game to adjust their form.

In recent seasons, the strong rise of George's Blackburn has gradually changed this situation.

People are starting to pay attention to the start of the season. But it's still a lot behind compared to Blackburn.

But this season is completely different. Since the beginning of the season, these teams have been working hard. Not only because of Blackburn's role model in recent seasons, but also because of Chelsea's appearance.

The pressure on Chelsea is definitely not small for the major clubs in the Premier League.

Although England's old clubs are disdainful of Chelsea in words. And many celebrities also believe that Chelsea have no chance of winning the title this season. But that doesn't diminish the clubs' fear of Chelsea.

It is not Chelsea's quality that they fear.

What they feared was Abramovich behind him. Will this enigmatic Russian tycoon continue his investment spree this summer. If there are two more transfer periods like this, not to mention the Premier League powerhouses, even the European giants can't stand it.

Of course, Blackburn, who have always liked to make a difference at the start of the season, did just as well.

In the first round of the Premier League, they won 5-1 against promoted Wolves, then lost 1-2 away to Bolton, won 3-1 at home to Manchester City and won 1-0 at home to Fulham. It is also three wins and one loss in four games, which is the same as Manchester United.

The four strong teams in the Premier League have all performed very well at the beginning of the season.

With the arrival of Roman Abramovich, the Premier League began to compete for supremacy. Manchester United, Arsenal, Blackburn, Chelsea, Liverpool, these strong teams started the scuffle.

………… After playing the fourth round of the Premier League, George went to the draw for the Champions League group stage.

The Champions League has once again undergone a major overhaul.

In the past, the Champions League was played in two group stages, and the clubs that broke through from the second round of the group stage went directly to the quarter-finals of the Champions League. If a club is to reach the Champions League final, they need to play at least seventeen games.

Of course, if it starts with the Champions League qualification, it will be more than 17 games. Seventeen matches are played from the first round of the Champions League group stage.

It's just that there are so many Champions League games.

Many European giants have a lot of complaints about the Champions League schedule. It's like Blackburn, when they won the Champions League in 01-02, they played more than 60 games all season. If you add in the international players playing in the national team, they play more games in a season.

Even if it's a rotation, those core players have fewer than 50 games in a season.

The more games there are, the more prone these players are to injury. All of this has made the European giants very dissatisfied. So after a long period of negotiation with UEFA, the Champions League has finally undergone another reform at the beginning of this season.

The biggest change in this Champions League reform is the removal of one of the two rounds of group stage.

Since then, there is only one left in the Champions League group stage. As long as you break through from the group stage, then it is the last 16 of the Champions League. It's the knockout rounds of the Champions League.

Such a change is very beneficial to the major European giants.

First of all, because there is only one group stage. So the probability of a dead group is very low.

In the previous two rounds of the group stage, the chances of a group of death in the second round of the group stage were very high. Just like last year, the four group stages were all strong teams. It's a group of deaths in the truest sense of the word.

But now it's just one round of the group stage, and it's rare to see a group of death.

Even if there is a dead group, there will only be one or two dead groups out of eight groups.

This ensures that the European giants can easily reach the knockout stages of the Champions League. Very much in their interest.

Another benefit is that there are fewer games. In the past, to reach the Champions League final, you had to play at least 17 games. But with the reform of the Champions League, there are only thirteen matches from the main match to the final. Don't underestimate these four games, for the European giants, it is very important to have four games missing.

This Champions League reform can be regarded as the result of a game between UEFA and European giants.

Blackburn Rovers are still a small team, but they are the club that has made a name for itself in European football in recent years. So when George, the youngest manager in the Champions League, came to the draw site, many managers still came to say hello.

George nodded to them.

Suddenly, I saw Ancelotti talking and laughing over there. Carlo Ancelotti is now proud. He has always been known as the "second of the millennium", and led Milan to the Champions League last season.

Carlo Ancelotti was at the peak of his career.

However, George looked at Ancelotti very upset. It's not that he has any opinion about Ancelotti himself, but he is very dissatisfied with Milan's elimination of himself last season. In the two games, there was no power to fight back. This made George have a pimple in his heart all the time.

George looked at Ancelotti in the infinite scenery, and hoped to be separated from Milan.

It's best to be able to meet in the group stage.

If you don't report the hatred of last season, your heart is uneasy.

It may have been that Ancelotti felt a pair of eyes watching him from behind. So I looked back and saw George looking at me, so I smiled and nodded.

George nodded reluctantly. Then immediately turn around and talk to the other managers.

George wanted to be drawn with Milan, but unfortunately he didn't.

The draw for the Champions League group stage is over, and there is no so-called group of death in any of the eight groups. Even if those experts managed to find the group of death, it was only some relative group of death. There is no way to compare it to the group of death in the previous two rounds of the group stage.

Blackburn Rovers have been drawn in Group C. The group was considered a very good draw result, but George didn't think so.

In addition to Blackburn, there are also Eindhoven, Monaco and Athens AEK in this group.

Athens AEK is recognized as a fish belly, after all, it is a Greek team. The strength is very poor.

As for Eindhoven and Monaco, many analysts believe that it is a fish belly. Especially compared to Blackburn, the strength is too poor. But George didn't dare to underestimate them.

PSV Eindhoven, who is the manager? is the famous wonder coach Hiddink. And among the current Eindhoven, there are Robben, Kai Yueman, and South Korean international Park Ji-sung. PSV Eindhoven have been in the Champions League in the best of the season to come.

As for Monaco, that is not to be underestimated.

Monaco even reached the Champions League final this season. Although there are other reasons, Monaco is very strong. Morientes, Gyuli, Evra, Adebayo, Poolau.

It's just that now Eindhoven and Monaco are unknown. That's why the media thought Blackburn had drawn a good draw.

Of course, George has a little bit of emphasis on Eindhoven and Monaco, but nowhere near the point of being afraid. What if Monaco can reach the Champions League final? That's because no one takes it seriously. As long as George pays attention, George believes that Monaco will not escape the palm of his hand.

(To be continued)