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The draw for the first round of the group stage of the UEFA Champions League in the 00-01 season is over. Blackburn was very lucky to draw in Group B, and the same group was full of champion teams. Lazio, the champion of Serie A, Sparta Prague, the champion of the Czech Serie A, and the Donetsk miners of the Ukrainian Serie A.

If it was placed a few years ago, Sparta Prague is very strong. Because it was the time when the Czech golden generation played for Sparta Prague.

If you meet Sparta Prague at that time, if you underestimate them, you may be defeated. But now Sparta Prague has long been robbed of good players by European teams. The strength has declined a lot.

As for the Shakhtar Donetsk, his reputation is far worse than that of Dynamo Kiev.

In those years, Dynamo Kiev had the strength to run rampant in European football, because Dynamo Kiev happened to have a large number of talented players. Including nuclear warheads Shevchenko and Reblov.

But Shakhtar Donetsk... is just a club in the Ukrainian First Division.

As the champion of the last League Cup, Blackburn is still widely favored as the top team in the Premier League. The biggest problem is that Blackburn is a new team in the Champions League. And Blackburn's head coach is a rookie in the UEFA Champions League, which is the first time to lead the team to the Champions League. In addition, George is only 31 years old, and he is now the youngest head coach of all Champions League teams.

Therefore, after the lottery, George still received a lot of questions from reporters.

George is in a good mood. The reporter's questions are almost all answered.

"My age?" George shook his head. Young talented players are everywhere. Why can't the head coach do it until he is 70 or 80 years old?

George is used to the media always asking about his age.

And George disdained George's doubts about playing in the Champions League for the first time. I also played the League Cup for the first time last season, and I also won the League Cup. Everyone should take this step. I have never been afraid of challenges. There is no first time, where did the second time come from.

George is full of confidence in front of reporters.

Even many players who have returned from the national team are very satisfied with this grouping.

But after returning to England, George frowned. Because the current Champions League schedule is too fucking an asshole.

Blackburn had five games in the Premier League in September. But the damn Champions League also scheduled three games in September. And in the first round of the group stage, all six games will basically be played within two months. That is, it will be finished at the beginning of November.

After the first round of group matches, there are still two second rounds of group matches to be played before the end of this year.

UEFA is simply a big bastard. No wonder the number of Champions League matches decreased a lot later. Otherwise, which club can stand it if it goes on like this.

Blackburn will play a total of eight games in September. It's almost a game every four days. This game is really hard to play.

However, when he saw the players back, George felt even more helpless.

With the rise of Blackburn's performance, there are more and more international players in Blackburn's team. And most of them have become the main force.

Needless to say, some weak football countries, including Sun Jihai, Bellamy, Duff and Riese are the main players of the national team. And it is also the main force of iron. Several of them are even the biggest star players in the national team. Every time the national team is called up, they are all vanguard generals.

After the German team returned from the European Cup, Ribeck was dismissed, and Waller became the new coach of the German chariot. He began to carry out drastic reforms in the German team, and many young players began to enter the German team.

He also began to play as the main player in the German team.

The two most dazzling players are Ballack in Leverkusen and Klose in Blackburn.

Although Barak became a member of the national team very early, he did not become the main player until this European Cup. This time, with the entry of Waller, Ballack finally became the main midfielder of the German national team.

was set up as the core of the midfield by Waller. At the age of 24, Barak finally became the core of the German national team.

And Klose is another rising star.

Klose, who is only 22 years old, has become one of the most famous strikers in the Premier League. He scored more than 20 goals in Blackburn last season. He is even the best player in the UEFA Cup final. Therefore, Klose also became the striker who was promoted after Waller joined the German national team.

Klose was very excited when he came back.

Klose was so envious when he saw Barak selected to the German national team. But two years later, Klose also became the striker of the German national team. And this time when he went to the German national team, Klose could feel the importance of Waller.

But George has a bitter face.

Klose is George's most reliable striker. Damn Waller, it turned out that Klose played for the German national team for 90 minutes.

And Ferdinand, who went to the England national team this time, partnered with Campbell to become the main player of England's central defender.

In addition to these people, it is Blackburn's French gang. Blackburn has a lot of French players, occupying almost half of the country.

The current French national team can be said to be composed of the French gang of the three major clubs. Juventus of Serie A, Arsenal of the Premier League and Blackburn of the Premier League. Speaking of Blackburn, Blackburn has the most French players, but the French national team has the least influence.

Zidane, Thuram and Trezeguet of Juventus are all famous French generals. Arsenal's Henry, Vieira and Wiltod also have their own positions in France.

Only Blackburn, the French team is very embarrassed.

It should be Miku and Pires, who carry the banner of the Blackburn French Gang, who are not valued by the national team for various reasons. Miku's feelings are all reprehensible. After all, there is also Zidane, a heavenly master on it.

But Pires is purely because of his surname. Pires and the head coach are not at odds with each other, so they are not valued by the national team.

The two players who should carry the flag are embarrassed in the French team, so the whole Blackburn French team is very embarrassed in the French national team. In front of Sanior, there is Thuram, Blanco has withdrawn from the national team, and Gala is not strong enough.

Only Maclelele began to replace Petit and become the main force of the national team.

Therefore, the large number of Blackburn French Gang can't find the main players of the national team.

After Pires returned to the club, he was obviously very depressed. Now Pires is at its peak and he really hopes to play for the national team. At present, Pires is performing better and better in the club. He also wants to play well for the national team, but his situation in the national team has always been very embarrassing.

This made Pires very frustrated.

George shook his head. Klose was so excited that George was not satisfied. Because Klose will be the main player of the German national team in the future, the task of the national team will become heavier and heavier. Now that Pires is depressed, George is still not satisfied. Because George is afraid that Pires's emotions will affect his performance in the club.

So far, there is no news about the national team, but Deko.

Deco is a big tragedy. The current Blackburn results can only be said to be okay, but they are not enough to attract the attention of the Brazilian team. Now Deko has not thought about using Portuguese nationality to join the Portuguese national team.

Deco is now dedicated to entering the Brazilian national team.

In a national team game, each player has different ideas. When Blackburn's grades were not good, he didn't have this kind of trouble. But now there are more and more troubles.

............On September 7, Blackburn faced Charlton on the road.

Charlton is the club that was just promoted last season. The first three rounds are one win and two losses. He just defeated Manchester City, which was upgraded together, and then was beaten 4-0 by Everton and 3-0 by Arsenal. Charlton's performance was extremely poor.

Charlton's biggest problem is their defense.

Their defense is like paper. However, influenced by the national team, George replaced most of the players.

The goalkeeper is still Kudicini. Because Kudicini is an Italian goalkeeper, it is very tragic. Now there are a lot of good Italian goalkeepers, and Cudicini has not been called by the national team.

George sent a group of veterans in the guard line. The right back is Panucci, the left back is Gala, and the central defender is Blanco and Henning. Berg.

The midfielders are Hargreaves, McAllister, Deco and Hereb. The forward line is Drogba and Davao. Sooke.

George basically put the players affected by the national team on the bench. And the lineup looks like 4-4-2. In fact, George's lineup in this game is 4-2-3-1. Hargreaves and McLeister are back in the midfield, while Dirk and Davao. Sooke and Heleb are in front. And Drogba is a single striker.

Davao. Suk is a little to the left, and Hleb is some to the right.

utilitarian football has gradually begun to penetrate into British football, and George doesn't know if he has his own influence. Anyway, Charlton retreated against Blackburn in this game, leaving only the first two strikers.

Even if the main lineup wants to break through the dense defense, it is very difficult. With the substitute lineup, it is even more difficult to break through the intensive defense.

However, although Blackburn had few main players in this game, he still played the football that George hoped for.

Davao. The two sides of Suk and Heleb really couldn't open the opponent's defense. Davao. Suke is old and not fast. Hleb is still young and a little immature in the face of the English defender. But both of them are good at skills and can create a lot of free kicks in the front court.

And Blackburn seized one of the opportunities.

In the 79th minute of the second half, Blackburn got a free kick in the front court.

Gala received a cross from Deco in the penalty area and scored his first league goal of the season. It was very difficult to get three points.

So much so that the media said after the game that Blackburn was lucky.

Charlton, who has a poor defense, has done a very good defense in this game. But it was a free kick that Blackburn caught it. Blackburn rotated most of the players because of the national team's game.

"George should have smiled secretly. In this case, you can also get three points.

(To be continued)