72 Derby's Battle of Mouth

"Mitchell, how's it going? How's the recovery going?" George looked at Mitchell and was very happy.

George has just met Professor Cook at Burnley University Hospital. Professor Cook told George that Mitchell's injury was recovering very well. Mitchell is already fully able to do ball training, which makes George very happy.

In the face of Blackburn, George is not careless at all. Derby, Derby has always been a place of unpopular.

It is not uncommon for Manchester City to defeat Manchester United, Atletico Madrid to defeat the powerful Real Madrid, and the Spaniard to defeat Barcelona.

What's more, Blackburn is a Premier League team, and Burnley is a League One team. Although Burnley is dominant in terms of the situation of their respective leagues. Burnley is currently sweeping in the League One, while Blackburn's performance in the Premier League is not satisfactory, but Burnley is still in a weak position.

So George was very cautious about Blackburn.

At this time, Burnley's old captain Mitchell returned from his injury, which was definitely a tranquilizer for Burnley's defensive line.

Mitchell stepped on it hard and smiled very happily. George, take a look. My feet are almost ready to catch up with Blackburn in the fourth round of the League Cup.

Mitchell is a native of Burnley and has been hostile to Blackburn since he was a child. The last victory over Blackburn in the League Cup was a lifelong memory for Mitchell. This time he met Blackburn again, and Mitchell was only happy in his heart.

After all, Blackburn is in the Premier League and Burnley is in the Premier League. It's not easy to meet.

"Mitchell, don't worry. There is still half a month left. You have to recover well.

"Ye-huh." Mitchell nodded. In the past, many clubs in England did not have regular team doctors, and those players would become team doctors when they retired. Maybe it's because I've been a doctor for a long time. You can almost know how my injury is.

George laughed, but he was very emotional about Mitchell's words.

The English club has always paid little attention to team doctors. As Mitchell said, after many players retired, they became the team doctors of the club. These unqualified team doctors will make many players lose the best moment of treatment.

And some big clubs, although the team doctor is very formal. But those coaches don't care about the team doctor's opinion at all, which will affect the careers of many players.

This kind of thing is known to everyone in English football, that is, there are still some English club team doctors who are not qualified as doctors.

"Mitchell, we are all waiting for you."

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For good reason, the fourth round of the League Cup will not start until the end of the 15th round of League One. That is to say, Burnley has to play five league games before playing Blackburn.

Although George and Burnley fans are looking forward to playing against Blackburn, the league is fundamental. The biggest task this season is still to upgrade, so George attaches great importance to these five games.

Continuing the strength of the first ten games, Burnley's performance in these five games is still extremely brave. Burnley had three wins and two draws in five games.

Especially in the fifteenth round of League One, Burnley let almost all the main players rest. Even the main goalkeeper Jas Kleinen sat on the bench and watched the game. George really carried forward his shamelessness in this game. After the forward line left Roby Keane on the field, everyone on the scene returned to half-time defense.

Fully carry forward George's words, "Even if you can't win the football game, don't lose." Fortunately, George faced the Reading team with the weakest attack in League One in this game, and was lucky to keep the draw.

But no one cares about the game, including Burnley fans and the media who don't pay attention to it. People's eyes gathered three days later in the fourth round of Burnley and Blackburn's League Cup.

In the League Cup two years ago, Burnley and Blackburn were a good fight. The war of words before and after the game also made many media happy. At that time, Burnley was just a League Two team. But now Burnley has become a popular upgrade in the League One, and George is much more famous than at that time.

Therefore, as soon as the draw came out, many media have paid attention to the game.

"Blackburn, I like this opponent. And I also beat Blackburn. I'm familiar with Blackburn. George replied very easily in front of the reporter.

George just said casually that he really didn't want to talk to Blackburn. But Blackburn is different, especially Blackburn's head coach Roy Hodgson, who is under more pressure now.

Less than a day after George said, Roy Hodgson was also interviewed. In the interview, Roy Hodgson rudely criticized George. As a young coach, I think he needs to learn a lot. At this stage, what Coach Levy should do is not to play there. Instead, it should be an open-minded study. It is not so easy for a coach to do. It's not enough to be a coach.

Roy Hodgson persuaded George with the same attitude as standing in the air and looking down. But Hodgson really has such a qualification.

Hodgson has achieved excellent results in Sweden and Switzerland. From 1985 to 1990, Hodgson coached Sweden's Malmö team, winning two league championships and two cup championships. After that, he led the Swiss national team, which had never reached the final stage of the competition since the 1960s, to the quarter-finals of the 1994 World Cup in the United States and a quarter of the 1996 European Cup. The final.

Before coaching Blackburn, he also coached Serie A giant Inter Milan. Hodgson is also one of the candidates for the head coach of the England national team, including the German national team, who have been interested in him. Such a coach is certainly qualified to say George.

However, Hodgson's coaching Blackburn is not so wise, and Blackburn has been obviously turbulent in the past two years. After Hodgson came to Blackburn, Blackburn's performance this season was also very bad. It has been hovering in the downgrade area.

But Hodgson is like this, and George is very unhappy. Don't say you're Hodgson, even Ferguson can't do that. So George immediately refuted Hodgson. I am a coach with a coach certificate. There is no need for someone to tell me how to coach. I think he should pray first not to lead the team to relegation this season.

The game has not yet started, and the quarrel between George and Hodgson has excited many media.

There are not many things that can be hyped in this game, it's just a derby. But because of George, the youngest coach in the English professional club at present, and also a coach with a clear surname. So the game is particularly interesting.

Blackburn is the only team so far that has won the Premier League title except Manchester United. But from the Premier League champion to now hovering in the relegation zone, Blackburn's decline is the most surprising. Less than three years since the Premier League championship in 1995, Blackburn's coach has changed one after another. First, Dalglish gave up the position of head coach, Ray Sharpord was a short-term coach, Dalglish temporarily took over, Kidd took over for a year, and now Roy Hodgson. The turbulent Blackburn, speaking of the current young Burnley coach George, also has a certain credit. Ray Sherford's Blackburn had just come out of trouble and was hit three goals by Burnley at home. In the end, Ray Sherford's resignation also caused turbulence in Blackburn in recent years.

"In the fifteen rounds of the league, Burnley has ten wins, four draws and one loss, with 34 points, ranking first in the League One. The road to promotion is smooth, and the young Levy coach became the most unwelcome coach for Blackburn fans because of his provocative behavior in Ewood Park last time.

Speaking of which, Blackburn and Burnley turned out to be a pair of sworn in pairs, and their games are usually full of fire. And this time, it's because of Coach Levy, who has attracted more attention. I believe that as long as George is still in Burnley, every collision between Burnley and Blackburn will attract as much attention as it is now.