Chapter 437: Managers Help Managers

On March 2, in the 28th round of the Premier League, Chelsea challenged Norwich away. Norwich have been a bit of a slump since the last time they were beaten by Chelsea by one of the biggest defeats in Premier League history.

After 27 rounds, they are deep in the relegation zone, with Sunderland and Aston Villa both considered favourites to be relegated.

Even though Norwich were determined to fight for relegation, there was a huge gap in quality between Norwich and Chelsea, which made them lose quickly.

In the 15th minute of the first half, Chelsea unleashed a wave of attacking attacks, Marcos Alonso won the ball on the left and suddenly cut down the middle, then crossed to Goretzka, who opened the scoring in the box.

Just 10 minutes later, this time it was Yovanovic on the right who stepped in to attack, crossed from the side, Lukaku headed the goal, the opposition goalkeeper flew to save it, Goretzka cut in and picked it up, and then scored a brace.

With a two-goal lead, Chelsea played more easily. In the second half, after the rematch, Lingada went to the right to provide an assist, and Harry Kane cut into the middle and curled a long-range shot with his right foot, breaking through Norwich's goal again and rewriting the score to 0:3.

After that, Pan Yi replaced three players in one go, not only to give the main team a rotation, but also to train the newcomers. It wasn't until the 88th minute that Norwich scored a goal from Redmond, but it could only save some face.

In the end, Chelsea won 3-1 away at Norwich. Three days later, on 5 March, Chelsea took on Stoke City at Stamford Bridge.

Playing at home, Chelsea played more easily. Despite the rotation of the line-up, the young Chelsea players put up a beautiful attacking storm to win 5-0!

Mbappe, Abraham, Zouma, Loftus-Cheek and others scored one after another, and Abraham completed the two-goal show.

After six points from two rounds, Chelsea are still at the top of the Premier League standings, with 24 wins, 5 draws, 0 defeats and 77 points!

In second place is still Lyicester City, who beat Watford 1-0 in this round, with 17 wins, 9 draws and 3 losses and 60 points, and the distance between them and Chelsea remains at 17 points.

It also shows that their form is still very consistent, and they have the same number of points as Chelsea in the same period!

One of the highlights of this round was the north London derby, which resulted in a 2-2 draw at home to Arsenal, with Aldeveld and Son Heung-min contributing to Tottenham, while Arsenal's side scored goals from Alexis Sanchez and Ramsey.

The draw saw the north London duo further stretch their points to Lyicester City, with the duo also sitting third and fourth in the table with 55 and 52 points respectively.

Next up in the queue are Manchester City, West Ham United, Liverpool and Manchester United, the lowest of them with 47 points, so the race for the top four is still fierce!

Of course, this has nothing to do with Chelsea, who are so far ahead. Their eyes have already been set on the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 to be held in midweek.

----------------- on the evening of March 10, Stamford Bridge.

Because of the departure turmoil two weeks ago, this game has attracted the attention of fans around the world from the beginning.

However, everyone pays attention to this match, not that they think that Paris Saint-Germain can make any waves in the second leg

"The Stamford Bridge Miracle" or something. After all, this is Stamford Bridge, the place where Chelsea have been on a winning streak this season!

And Paris Saint-Germain's 0:3 defeat in the first leg at their home stadium has already announced their fate in the Champions League.

In fact, the major media and fans all watched this game with a joke mentality, wanting to see what kind of ugliness Paris Saint-Germain could have today!

That's because, after firing Blank, the Paris Saint-Germain coaching staff ran out in an instant, and the office was empty all of a sudden.

For a while, Nasser couldn't find any qualified coach to take over. In desperation, he could only find a famous midfielder who had played for the team and had just retired in 2015 - Roten to temporarily act as the head coach!

As for this Roten, when he played, he could only be said to be of average level, a marginal player of the French national team, who only made 13 appearances for the national team, and did not play in major competitions such as the European Cup and the World Cup.

And after retiring, he is also a big mouth, and he considers himself a famous man of Paris Saint-Germain all day long, criticizing this and criticizing that, it is difficult not to suspect that he is all for the sake of traffic.

Including this change of manager, he is also on the side of the club, thinking that it is right to sack Blank quickly, and he also feels that there is nothing wrong with the fans' booing of Motta, including setting off fireworks in front of the Chelsea hotel.

Here's what he said: "The coach is fired, the players are booed, they have to think about whether it is their own problem, it must be because they haven't given 100% effort! ”

'Motta is responsible for the goals the team conceded, does he really respect the club?'

"As for setting off fireworks in front of the hotel, I don't think there's any problem with doing anything for the sake of winning the game."

"The Parisian fans were right, and the Parisian hierarchy made the right decision!" Perhaps it was because of his remarks that he licked Paris that caught Nasser's attention.

So when Roten didn't have any coaching experience, or even a coaching certificate, Nasser decided to let him be the acting head coach!

It's a big deal to pay a little fine, Paris is not short of this money! Mainly, now that this is on the cusp, there is really no coach willing to take over, so let this Luo Teng, who looks quite reliable, go on!

But it's a pity that when you really get on the field, it's useless to just rely on your mouth or lick the boss.

Away to Chelsea, it was a hellish test of Roten's Champions League debut in charge!

Before the game, there were rumours from some Chelsea fans that they would also ask PSG to get up and see London at 4am.

But Pan Yi put a stop to it.

"I'd rather teach them a hard lesson on the field." Hearing Pan Yi say this, the Blues fans, who had long regarded Pan Yi as a god, naturally complied and did not make any moves.

And when Pan Yi said this, it was obvious that he did not intend to save face for Paris Saint-Germain, let alone let Roten have any chances

"Prove yourself". Therefore, despite having a three-goal lead away from home, and despite the fact that early promotion is almost certain, Chelsea have made a significant rotation in the last round of the Premier League, thus retaining all the main players to play against Paris Saint-Germain and attacking with all the team!

Chelsea launched an attack on PSG from the first minute. Chelsea's aggressive attack frustrated PSG, while Roten was helpless on the sidelines.

What can he do? Being a coach is really not just a matter of lip service. He's not even as good as Gary Neville!

Neville is also a first-class star in his career, how can he also be the absolute main force of Manchester United and England, the kind that can be inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame; After retiring from the sport, Gary Neville also entered the England national team and served as an assistant coach on Hodgson's coaching staff for a while.

And even so, Gary Neville, who criticizes this and that all day in Sky Sports, has been secretly out of class in less than four months after taking office in Valencia.

Yes, just in the past few days, Valencia has already announced the decision to fire Gary Neville. During his tenure, Valencia led the team to just three wins in 16 rounds of La Liga, picking up 14 points and moving further and further away from the European places.

In addition, the team has also been eliminated in the Champions League and the Copa del Rey in succession, and it can be said that Gary Neville's attempt at coaching has failed.

So he was back in the UK and went on to Sky Sports as his commentator...... And Roten is even worse.

He doesn't even have as much experience as a game commentator, let alone coaching experience.

It's zero! Today's starting lineup was even made up in consultation with team veterans like Yoon Bu and Thiago Silva.

And in the face of Chelsea's stormy attack, can he come up with a hairy response? He could only stand there in a daze, praying in his heart that his players would be able to play bravely to cover up his lack of tactical ability...... But the problem is that the Chelsea players are playing harder.

The opponent's tactics are more advanced and the players are of a higher level, and Paris Saint-Germain will certainly not be able to resist at all.

From the 10th minute onwards, PSG's goal was repeatedly confronted. First, Lukaku received an assist from Eden Hazard and took the lead in scoring the goal of Paris Saint-Germain; It was N'Golo Kane who set up Harry Kane's goal to extend the lead further and end the first half at 2-0.

In the second half, Chelsea continued to attack on the back of the game. Seat B assisted Lukaku to another goal to extend the score to 3-0; In the 70th minute, it was Eden Hazard's corner that allowed Virgil van Dijk to head a comfortable header past Paris Saint-Germain.

It's 4:0! Pan Yi replaced three substitute players in one breath at this time, and continued to maintain a suppressed situation.

And it is clear that Paris Saint-Germain has suffered a demoralization blow after the previous turmoil; Coupled with the foolishness of the high-level, let a layman like Roten blindly command, and the whole team has long lost its heart.

At the last moment, Mbappe broke through Paris Saint-Germain's goal again and completed the slaughter with a final score of 5:0.

----------------- this game, Pan Yi has been sitting quietly in the coach's seat to eat.

Except for standing up when he made a substitution, he sat there the rest of the time, and didn't stand up and cheer even when the team scored.

Since Paris Saint-Germain appointed a clown like Roten as their head coach, there has been no suspense in this game.

For such a one

"Abuse vegetables" competition, how could Pan Yi be excited? At the end of the game, Pan Yi also looked up in the direction of the rostrum.

Did Al-Nassr come to Stamford Bridge to watch the game today? It's best to come. This fiasco may show him how important it is to respect the laws of football development.

If he insists on going his own way, PSG may still be able to run rampant in the weak competition of Ligue 1, but in a competition like the Champions League, they will not be able to go any further.

"The squad in Paris was actually good, but we played like this, like playing a Premier League relegation team." On the side, Arteta also said with a sigh.

If you look at the lineup and the cards, Paris Saint-Germain is actually really not weak. The large investment of the Qatari consortium in the past few years is actually valuable.

Yoon Blahimovic, Cavani, Thiago Silva, Di Maria, these are all world-class stars, including Verratti, Matusindi, Motta, are also the backbone of their respective national teams.

Although they have always had problems with recruitment, that is, they have not been able to achieve a balanced squad; But even if the strength of some positions is not enough, at least it is better than the average team.

It can't be said that players like Sirigu, Maxwell, and Kurzava can't play in teams like Norwich and Sunderland, right?

The fact that it was playing like this today was definitely caused by the messing up of PSG's top management, that is, there was a management problem.

From ruthlessly firing Blank to lifting up a cannon cannon Roten, the current club can only be described as chicken feathers.

When a team has no backbone, no morale, no cohesion, no matter how strong the players are, they can't be combined to form a real force.

The team needs a soul! Take Chelsea and Manchester City, which are also local tycoons, as examples, they are also gradually building teams, establishing team cores like Terry and Kompany, and then slowly getting rid of them

The label of "mercenary", and finally became a real tycoon. And this Paris Saint-Germain team seems to be difficult to feel reborn in a short period of time...... The main thing is that for a team to really grow, the manager is very important.

Like Chelsea brought in Jose Mourinho

The creation of "Mu Phase I", including Manchester City's invitation to Pep Guardiola, played a decisive role in the formation of the team's giant temperament.

And what about Paris Saint-Germain? After they treated Blank like this, there was still a famous coach willing to take over the position?

But all famous handsomes often cherish their feathers, and no one will easily go to the troubled waters of Paris Saint-Germain.

You can't really rely on a bastard like Roten who isn't even a half-ass......

"By the way, don't you really have any friendship with Blank?" Arteta asked abruptly.

This is actually a question that many people have been thinking about recently. That's right, Paris's dismissal of Blank was not very authentic, but Pan Yi was the first to stand up for him, and his rhetoric was also fierce.

Why not Mourinho, why not Pep Guardiola? So many people speculate that Pan Yi and Blank actually have a personal relationship in private.

But Pan Yi shook his head and denied this conjecture. His biggest impression of Blanc was when he was a player at the '98 World Cup.

Blank still has a lot of famous scenes in that cup. It was when he scored his first golden goal in the World Cup final in Paraguay to help France qualify.

In the semi-finals, he was later a Croatian defender

"Rock Coach" Bilic was framed and received a red card and missed the final. And the scene where he kissed goalkeeper Butters' bald head before the game was even more impressive.

After Blank became a coach, it can only be said that he is tepid, and Pan Yi really didn't pay much attention to him, and of course he didn't have any friendship.

"This is mainly because we coaches are actually a real disadvantaged group! ManagersHelpManagers, got it! Pan Yi explained with a smile.

Indeed, head coaching is a high-risk profession. It's really normal to drop out of class due to poor grades.

The first is to take the blame, the second is that the cost is relatively low, and the third is to hope to change luck by changing the coach.

Like in the most brutally competitive Premier League, it's not uncommon to get a dozen managers fired in a season.

There are even teams that can change three or four coaches in a season! In addition to the results factor, sometimes it is because of the discord within the team, and there are dressing room conflicts.

Many times, a team, from the management to the coaching staff to the players, is not of the same mind, and everyone has their own interests.

Even in the dressing room, the interests of the players and the players are very different. In the event of a conflict between the management and the player, the club will often make the decision to dismiss the head coach due to cost considerations.

Like the classic Pogba

"You're messing with the wrong person...... In short, compared to the top management and players, coaches are really a weak group in a team.

"If no one stands up to speak for him at this time, then if you and I are in the future, who will speak for us? Status is earned on your own! ”

"When they came to arrest the union organizers, I didn't stand up against it, I don't think I'm a union guy anyway."

"When they came to arrest the Jews, I didn't stand up against them, I don't think I'm a Jew anyway."

"When they came to arrest Catholics, I didn't stand up against it, I don't think I'm a Catholic anyway."

"Later, when they came to arrest me, there was no one left to stand up for me." When Arteta heard Pan Yi speak of the famous words written by German Father Martin on the Holocaust Memorial in Boston, he raised his head and looked at Pan Yi with a look of adoration.

Pattern! That's what it's like to be the number one coach in the world! Not just thinking for yourself and your team, but standing on the top of the mountain of the entire industry!

Pan Yi will be the first to start a war with Paris Saint-Germain because he is a representative of football coaches, and he needs to speak for the interests of the entire professional coaching industry and fight for the rights and interests of coaches!

Thinking about this layer, in Arteta's mind, Pan Yi's image suddenly became a little taller.

----------------- 3:0 away, 5:0 at home, Chelsea swept Paris Saint-Germain with an aggregate score of 8:0 and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

It was a scoreline that brought shame to PSG from the top to the fans, and Chelsea's terrifying prowess was unanimously recognized by fans all over Europe.

After all, although Paris Saint-Germain has some problems up and down, it is a strong team composed of many superstars, but it has no temper at all by Chelsea.

Such a result can really only be used

"Horror" to describe it! Soon, the other seven matchups in the knockout round of 16 of the Champions League have also ended.

The other Premier League team to make it past is Manchester City. Although they were held to a 0-0 draw by Gent in the first leg, they still played their own level in the second leg, beating their opponents 3-1 and successfully advancing to the quarter-finals.

Otherwise, they finally got one after drawing a strong team for several years in a row

The "gift package" was blown up as a result, which is too embarrassing! But the other two Premier League teams were not so lucky.

Arsenal is 0:2 at home and 1:3 away by Barcelona! The MSN duo continued to shine in those two games, with Messi scoring three of them, while Neymar and Luis Suarez also scored one each.

Manchester United lost to Wolfsburg 2-4 on aggregate. They were also double-killed, just not as embarrassed as Arsenal, with the scores of 2:3 and 0:1 respectively.

And Wolfsburg also made history by reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League. In addition to Chelsea's 8-0 Paris Saint-Germain, the same two-legged eight-legged match in the round of 16 took place between Juventus and Bayern Munich.

They played 2-2 over both legs, with the final aggregate score being 4-4. In particular, the second round was extremely exciting.

Juventus led 2-1 until the 90th minute, only for Bayern to level in the first minute of stoppage time.

Vidal steals Evra's pass in front, Coman crosses from the bottom line on the right, and Muller goes into the near corner 5 meters from the goal, 2:2!

With this goal, Thomas Müller also surpassed his predecessor Gerd Müller and set a new record for goals scored in the German Players' Champions Cup.

The two teams scored 4-4 on aggregate and had to go to extra time. And in extra time, Thiago and Coman scored consecutive goals to finally eliminate Juventus and advance to the quarterfinals!

Compared with this up-and-down game, the matchup between PSV Eindhoven and Atletico Madrid is ...... It's quite Atletico Madrid.

The aggregate score of the two legs between their two teams is ...... 0:0, that is, 210 minutes without a single goal.

In the end, Atletico Madrid won on penalties. The remaining two games,

The "two-horse" duel was a 4-0 aggregate win over Roma by the dominant Real Madrid, while Benfica 3-1 Zenit St. Petersburg, they also entered the quarterfinals.

At this point, the list of the top eight is all released! They are Chelsea, Manchester City, Real Madrid, Wolfsburg, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Benfica.

There are traditional giants here, there are dark horses and new talents, but in general, there are eight teams that have been in the best form this season.

And on March 18, a week later, representatives of the teams that had reached the quarter-finals would once again gather at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

They will be there, with the quarter-finals draw to decide the fate of each team!