In the 31st round of the Premier League, Burnley faced Arsene Wenger's Arsenal away from home. Although George used the most brutal method to deal with Arsenal's technical flow. But the difference in strength is too big.
Many teams are not used to Burnley's movement.
Arsenal¡¯s technical style of play should be even more like this. Unexpectedly, Wenger's Arsenal performed very well. Use passing to let Burnley's young players understand what the gap is. So delicate.
In the away game, Burnley was beaten by Arsenal without any backhand.
?? 1 to 3, Burnley lost this game.
George shook his head.
Burnley¡¯s young team will take a long time to mature.
Wilshere and Gareth Gray looked like children in front of the midfield composed of Fabregas, Song and Nasri. Of course, Xiaofa, Song, and Nasri are not very old either. But they are far more experienced than Burnley's midfielder, and their cooperation is quite tacit.
Gareth Gray showed a gap at this time.
Not enough awareness.
Unable to stabilize his position, he can only follow the ball.
This is why there are too many young players. If there is a player of Vieira's level beside him at this time, it will definitely help Gareth Gray a lot. Pity.
George sometimes wonders.
Keane was an all-powerful midfielder back then. He was originally hailed as one of the best midfielders in world football. I don¡¯t know if it¡¯s because the coaching time is too short, and I haven¡¯t been able to successfully carve out Gareth Gray.
¡°As long as Keane¡¯s original ability is given to Gareth Gray, Gareth Gray will definitely become a world-class defensive midfielder.
Pity.
However, the loss to Arsenal did not stop Burnley from relegation at all.
After all, there are several Arsenals in the Premier League.
On March 27, 2010, in the 32nd round of the Premier League, Burnley challenged Manchester City, the current number one upstart in the Premier League, at home.
Speaking of which, Manchester City¡¯s current playing style is very confusing.
In the first half of the season, Mark Hughes was the head coach. But the results were not good, so Italian coach Mancini took over. In a hurry, Mancini had no choice. The current players are all players bought by Mark Hughes.
Many of Mancini¡¯s ideas are impossible to realize.
So Manchester City played very awkwardly.
Facing the first upstart, George¡¯s idea was simple. It was a fierce attack and disrupted Manchester City's rhythm.
What is Mancini¡¯s biggest shortcoming?
keep.
Mourinho¡¯s tough character is also reflected in his team. His team looks conservative, but being conservative is just tactics. But Mancini is conservative at heart and character.
It can often be seen during competitions.
??Mancini often makes some incomprehensible substitutions during strong dialogues. Take out the most threatening player and replace him with a defensive player.
The conservative character is clearly visible.
Therefore, a strong dialogue will only go smoothly. Otherwise, his character will be completely exposed when he encounters a tough battle.
Although Burnley is not a strong team. But this game put great pressure on Manchester City. As expected, Mancini, who had not yet completely controlled the team, was confused. In order to maintain the one-point advantage in the away game, they did not hesitate to replace attacking players.
George was even happier.
There are indeed many good players in Manchester City. Even the players on the bench are stronger than Burnley's first team. But precisely because they formed the team too hastily, their combat effectiveness dropped a lot.
Cooperation between everyone is very poor.
George took advantage of this opportunity.
In the 82nd minute of the game, high center Thomason Locke scored a goal.
By this time, Mancini began to panic. Restarted forward, but it was too late.
Burnley successfully won a victory at home.
George shook his head.
Mancini! Speaking of which, he is also one of the best young coaches in European football in recent years. But he still lacks some decisiveness in his character. Still need to keep sharpening.
After defeating Manchester City, Burnley's points reached 34 points, and relegation is already a certainty.
At the end of the 32nd round, Burnley is already ranked fourteenth in the Premier League. They are just one step away from Sunderland, who are 13th in the Premier League.?There was only a two-point difference.
On April 3, the thirty-third round of the Premier League began.
Burnley faces Hull City away from home.
Hull City has basically secured a place for relegation. The other spot is, of course, booked by Portsmouth.
When George first took charge of Burnley, Burnley was still below Portsmouth and Hull City, but Burnley had already left the relegation zone early. This time I saw Hull City again.
Although Burnley's relegation is already a certainty.
But George knows that the sooner relegation is confirmed, the better for the team.
Although it was an away game, Hull City really had no decent resistance. Hull City has completely lost their will to play. They are now five points behind the 18th place in the Premier League. In other words, even if there are five more points, they will be downgraded.
??And it still needs seven points to leave the 17th place in the Premier League, that is, to leave the relegation circle.
With only six games now, no one believes that Hull City can surpass 17th-placed Wigan Athletic. Even Hull City themselves don¡¯t believe it.
Facing such a team with no fighting spirit, Burnley, with high morale, played the most exciting game of the season. A 4-0 scoreline made Hull City's path to relegation even clearer.
After defeating Hull City, Burnley has completely established its position.
Thirty-seven points.
In the past ten years, there have been only two times when the team failed to avoid relegation with 37 points.
The first time was West Ham United in the 2002-03 season, which scored 42 points and was relegated. This is the highest relegation score since the establishment of the Premier League. The other time was in 2006-07, when Sheffield United was relegated with 38 points. However, at that time, Sheffield United was relegated due to a pile of 38 points and a goal difference disadvantage.
On April 10, in the 34th round of the Premier League, Burnley faced Sunderland at home.
Sunderland now have two points more than Burnley, and Fulham above has three more points than Burnley.
Sunderland now has no worries about relegation, and there is no place for him in the European League. The motivation for competition is to get a little reward. The current Premier League bonus is more than 700,000 pounds for a ranking difference.
For a small club, seven to eight million pounds is not a small amount.
But compared with Sunderland, who are playing for a little bit of ranking, Burnley is now really full of morale.
This season Burnley has been on a roller coaster.
In the first half of the season, the results were too poor and the media unanimously believed that the team would definitely be relegated. But in the second half of the season, Burnley's results were among the best. Even the points in the second half of the season can rank among the top six in the Premier League.
So now, the morale of Burnley players has been greatly boosted.
Don¡¯t look at Sunderland currently ranking higher than Burnley. For these young players at Burnley, they are truly fearless now.
? One has high morale, the other just wants to play the game.
And the gap between the two sides is not big. Therefore, the game showed a one-sided trend, and Burnley was very positive at home.
At the end of the first half, Burnley was already leading 2-0.
"Under George's transformation, Burnley has exploded with amazing combat effectiveness. Since George took over, we have played fourteen games now. Burnley scored 26 points. Almost an average of two points. I am very I'm just curious, if George is coaching Burnley at the beginning of this season, will Burnley be able to enter the European League next season. I don't expect the Champions League, and there should be no problem with the UEFA Cup quota."
During the halftime break, Mortensen admired George.
"George shouldn't be at Burnley. George should be on a higher stage."
Like others, Mortensen is opposed to George staying at Burnley. George, as a leader in England's local coaches and a representative figure of England's local coaches, should go to a bigger and broader stage.
At the beginning of the second half, Sunderland still failed to organize any decent offense.
Even the director felt bored. Start capturing other information on the court.
"Oh, what is this?"
Mortensen was also bored. There was no suspense in the game, and the play was not good-looking at all. Both Burnley and Sunderland played in a typical English style, and Burnley was overwhelming Sunderland, so there was really nothing to watch.
Not only Mortensen discovered it, but the director also discovered it.
The camera quickly returned to the scene just now.
¡°George, don¡¯t go!¡±
In a stadium with tens of thousands of people, the banner is very small. Just a few fans??Small banners made by myself.
It is completely incomparable to the large banners of the past.
"Compared with the large banners made by Blackburn fans when George returned to Blackburn, it is completely incomparable. The fans who held up this small banner are all young fans. He looks like he is only in his teens.
This banner is alone.
"Haha, I finally saw such a slogan at Turf Moor Stadium. It's not easy, it's really not easy."
Mortensen sighed.
yes. It has been almost half a year since George took charge of Burnley. But at Turf Moor, George never got the cheers from the fans. Fans seem to have always been resentful about George's arrival at Blackburn Rovers.
It was still a few young fans who publicly wrote this kind of slogan to retain George for the first time.
Of course this is just an episode.
Burnley defeated Sunderland 3-1 at home. The score reached forty-one points.
At the end of the 34th round of the Premier League, Burnley successfully surpassed Sunderland and ranked thirteenth in the Premier League. The same points as the twelfth place in the Premier League, only due to the disadvantage of goal difference and ranking in 13th place.
¡°Everyone regards the behavior of a few small fans as an episode.
But by the 35th round of the Premier League, Turf Moor suddenly had a lot more slogans like this.