449 Cruel Christmas Schedule

After renting two young people to Stoke City, Blackburn ushered in the Christmas schedule.

The Christmas race is a very important schedule in England. Especially for teams that aspire to win the championship, they should pay more attention to the game. Many strong teams have achieved good results in the previous games, but at Christmas, there are many people who fall behind because of the intensive schedule.

Therefore, whether it can pass the Christmas schedule is a huge test for the champion team.

Now it's the Christmas schedule. But it's a devilish schedule for Blackburn. Before and after Christmas, Blackburn met three teams that were all Premier League teams.

On December 24, in the 17th round of the Premier League, Blackburn played Aston Villa at home.

On December 26, in the 18th round of the Premier League, Blackburn challenged Manchester United away.

On December 28, in the 19th round of the Premier League, Blackburn challenged Newcastle United away.

These three teams are the absolute strongest teams in the Premier League at present. Needless to say, Manchester United has been a strong Premier League team since the establishment of the Premier League. So far, Manchester United has only appeared in the third place once, and the rest are in the top three in the Premier League.

And before Blackburn's strong rise, he did not fall out of the top two in the Premier League. Although Manchester United's results have been a little bad in the past few seasons, no one dares to ignore the old man Ferguson and Manchester United.

Newcastle United have also achieved good results in the past few seasons. Especially after Robson came in, Newcastle United often hit the top four of the Premier League.

Last season, Newcastle beat Liverpool and Chelsea to become the fourth place in the Premier League.

It's a pity that Newcastle failed to break through in this season's Champions League group stage. But Newcastle has performed well in the Premier League.

As for Aston Villa, it is also a strong team in the Premier League.

In recent seasons, Villa has not been able to follow the first group such as Blackburn, Arsenal and Manchester United. However, the results can be stable within the top eight. Generally, it is in sixth and seventh place. When you perform well, you can even rank fifth.

Aston Villa is a typical second group core team. His performance will not be too bad, but he does not have the strength to hit the position of the first group. This kind of team is a powerful team, and if you are not careful, you may be bitten out of meat by him.

When encountering this kind of devil's schedule, George can only admit his bad luck.

Two days and one game has given George a headache. Now that he plays three strong teams in a row, George's head is even bigger. How to rotate players reasonably and what tactics to play the game. All these need to be carefully thought out by George.

But before George can think about it carefully, the seventeenth rounds of the Premier League will begin.

On December 24, Blackburn faced Aston Villa at home.

Speaking of Villa now, Chinese fans are familiar with few stars. Even if there is, he is still a little player who has not become famous. There are only a few excellent players in Villa now.

Vassell and Crouch in the front line, Melberry in the back line, and Gareth. Barry. However, at this time, Crouch is still a hairy boy with average strength. It's not taken seriously in Villa, that is, playing as a substitute.

Vassell is a rising star in the Premier League. Vasel, who is fast and in excellent physical condition, is the first brother of Villa's front line at present.

Melberg is not very famous, but he is a powerful general. He is the main central defender of the Swedish national team.

Since it is the first game of the devil's schedule, George certainly hopes to make a good start.

Although Villa's strength is good, it is still much worse than Blackburn. Especially in the midfield, Villa's strength can't be compared with Blackburn at all.

At this time, Barry was not the back of the England national team. He is not the one who is valued by McClaren and Capello, and is known as the back player who can solve the double German problem.

A few years later, Barry performed extremely well in the back position. Even in history, Benitez would rather give up Alonso in order to chase Barry. In the end, Alonso left Liverpool in anger. It also began to trigger the decline of Liverpool's performance.

You can imagine how well Barry performed in Villa at that time.

But at this time, Barry is still playing the left-back position in Villa.

This is the position that was just changed last season. When Barry made his debut, he even played centre-back and full-back, and performed well in the left-back position. For a while, he even became a left-back substitute for the England national team.

Later Ashley. Cole's growth has given Ashley to England's left-back. Cole and Daniel. Two generals of Morrison. Barry can only be assigned to the U21 national team.

Last season, Barry became Villa's left-back. Good performance.

Therefore, the current Villa team, the midfield defense and organizational attack are very poor.

Blackburn led Villa 1-0 in the first half with a shot from Klose in the penalty area. In the second half, Pires scored the second goal of the game with a free kick.

But in the 76th minute of the game, Alonso was injured and fell to the ground in a fight with Barry.

George was almost out of his wits.

Now Blackburn, Alonso is George's most important midfielder. If he is really hurt, George will cry.

But the good thing is that it is a false alarm.

Alonso's injury is not serious. It's just a hard injury, and it hurts a little when my feet touch my feet. As long as the pain is over, it can still be alive.

But George didn't dare to be careless at all.

Quickly replace Alonso with Parker.

Alonso played a lot of games. Even Alonso entered the Spanish national team last season because of his excellent performance in Blackburn. And it began to hit the main positions of Baraha and Alberda.

And Blackburn relies more on Alonso.

So Alonso really can't rest. The moment George saw Alonso fall to the ground, his heart was about to jump out. Fortunately, it was a false alarm, but George still didn't dare to be careless.

He defeated Villa 2-0 and played Manchester United two days later.

In fact, George's plan is to continue to use Alonso. But playing against Villa made George too scared. So George let Alonso sit on the bench. George didn't dare to be careless. What if Alonso was really injured?

Alonso should still have a rest. If you play too many games, even the Iron Man may be injured.

Parker, your strength is good.

But the strength of supporting Blackburn's midfield is still insufficient. Or it's not a matter of strength, and there are also many problems in cooperation. Although Blackburn worked hard at Manchester United's home court, he still failed to resist Manchester United's attack.

Keane received a cross from the sideline, shook his head and scored the only goal in the game.

George can only accept a zero-to-one defeat on the road.

The devil's schedule tests substitute thickness, perseverance and so on.

It may be a breakthrough in the group stage of defeating Arsenal and the Champions League, which has run out of Blackburn's luck. After losing to Manchester United, Blackburn lost again against Newcastle.

Because Campbell had a minor injury, George asked Lescott to replace Campbell just to be on the safe.

I didn't expect that Lescott couldn't withstand Shearer's impact.

In the end, George lost comto-one again in the away game. There are two consecutive defeats in the devil's schedule.

George's eyebrows are getting tighter and tighter.

Because after December, there are more and more injuries on Blackburn's side. In the past few years, although some injuries were not serious, or not very common. George, the team doctor of Blackburn, is quite satisfied.

Over the years, Blackburn has rarely had large-scale injuries.

This is also a guarantee that Blackburn can get good grades. But at the beginning of this season, Blackburn has been injured. Don't say that Hargreaves needs to lie down for three months, and after the comeback, no one knows if it will happen again.

In addition to Hargreaves, Miku has also suffered more injuries this season. Sometimes it takes a week, and sometimes it takes two weeks. Mr. Lin's minor injuries are not less.

Although Pires is slightly better than Miku.

But Pires also suffered two injuries this season. Although they were all minor injuries, they also delayed the last game.

Campbell doesn't know why, but he will also have a lot of minor injuries.

Even Sanior, who has always been disease-free, has been plagued by some injuries.

This made George quite dissatisfied.

But there is nothing we can do. This is a natural disaster.

The Christmas schedule is a complete failure. He won one or two losses in three games and only accumulated three points.

And Blackburn's opponents are much better than Blackburn's. First of all, let's talk about Manchester United. In the Christmas schedule, Manchester United had two wins and one loss, scoring six points.

Manchester United defeated Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 away in the 17th round of the Premier League, 1-0 at home in the 18th round, and lost 1-0 to Wolves in the 19th round of the Premier League. It's a surprise.

Blackburn goes without saying that Tottenham Hotspur is also a strong team in the Premier League. But Manchester United won all of them.

And Wolves is a team in the relegation zone. Now it is still the penultimate place in the Premier League. Manchester United actually lost to such an opponent.

Chelsea, which has invested a lot of money this season, has not bad results.

He also achieved a record of two wins and one loss in the Christmas schedule.

First, he defeated Charlton 1-0 at home, and then he was beaten 4-2 by Charlton in the next away game. After returning to home, he was in good shape, defeating Portsmouth 3-0.

Only Arsenal's performance is the best.

In the fifteenth round of the Premier League, Arsenal lost 2-2 at home to Blackburn. In the next four games, Arsenal never lost.

In the 16th round of the Premier League, Arsenal defeated Leicester City 2-1 away. In the Christmas schedule, Arsenal's performance is still excellent. In the 17th round of the Premier League, the away game was tied by Bolton zero to zero. But then they beat Wolves 3-0 at home, and then 1-0 away to Southampton.

So far, the Premier League is over.

In 19 games, Arsenal had 13 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss, accumulating 44 points. At present, it is at the top of the list.

(To be continued)