104 Before the game

When you focus on one thing, the passage of time is very fast. Ten days have passed since the end of the league on May 3.

Burnley has been training nervously for the past ten days. At this time, George has no time to care about anything else. Except for 20 to 30 minutes every day, the training ground is completely closed at all other times. It is also commonly known as closed training, which has attracted many reporters to slander.

But now George doesn't have time to deal with those things. In the past ten days, all George's spirit has focused on how to deal with Arsenal. Of course, in the end, George also began to appear in front of the media.

"Everyone says that our Burnley's football is not good-looking. It's a defensive counterattack. Victory is ugly. George talked to reporters. In fact, Arsenal's game is also a typical defensive counterattack. They just rely on the speed of Ovimas and Palall to fight back. But it really makes me strange to appreciate Arsenal's Premier League champion.

Arsenal's playing style is very simple, and it doesn't have the same way of playing later. After Wenger entered Arsenal, he first exerted the unique tenacious fighting spirit and team spirit of the heavy British defender to the extreme. On the back line, he continued to use the "Five Elders" to take turns to guard. Seaman guarded the Dragon Gate, Winterburn guarded the left, Dixon on the right, and Keon and Adams were the main central defenders, and Boulder became the main substitute.

This is a set of tacit defensive line. In the past two years since Wenger joined Arsenal, all the changes are midfielders. However, there is no change to the back line. They are all the players who have followed Graham to win the League One championship. It is one of the few defensive combinations in the Premier League.

Wenger trusts this defensive line very much, and his style is also a quick counterattack on the basis of ensuring defense. The midfielder is Wenger's most powerful position. For the sake of safety, Wenger uses Vieira and Pettit to form a double midfield lineup, with Ovimas on the left and Palol on the right. This is a conservative opportunistic midfield, but the team's defensive counterattack is extremely smooth and resolute.

Arsenal's counterattacks are much better than Burnley's, and most of their counterattacks are left-leaning. Now Ovimas is at its peak, and the previous performance of Borgkamp is even more superb.

That's why George said the same defensive counterattack, why Burnley was criticized, and Arsenal was to be praised.

I saw that before the heavyweight competition, one side provoked a war of words. All the media were excited. George, a young coach, turned out to be stupid and dared to say anything. I don't know how many things have been sprayed in the past three years since my debut.

But Wenger is different. After Wenger came to England, he was elegant and wore suits and leather shoes during the competition. If George is a complete country bumpkin, and Wenger is like a knowledgeable professor.

Everyone wants to hear how Wenger, the coach who just won the Premier League championship, responded to George.

Just as people remember, Wenger only smiled at George's words. Interviewed in a very relaxed tone. I don't think Coach Levy has to complain. There are all kinds of playing methods in world football, and there are no advantages or disadvantages. But just as everyone's taste is different, some people like this way of playing, and some people like that way of playing. Maybe the fans think our defensive counterattack is more beautiful than Burnley's defensive counterattack.

Wenger didn't take George's words as a thing at all. With a soft sentence, he answered George.

Of course, although Wenger didn't do it once, George didn't think it would end like this. George said another sentence that night.

"Does Arsenal score more goals than us in the league, or do they shoot more than us? Even on the way to the FA Cup, we are also the team with the most goals. George keeps provoking Arsenal, which is not George's idleness.

Although the current Arsenal is not as mature as later, it is still a strong team for Burnley. It is more difficult to deal with Chelsea in the League Cup. At that time, Chelsea had just changed its coach, and Burnley was very despised because he was a League One team. These are all good news, and Burnley also took advantage of this contempt opportunity to give Chelsea a first blow.

But with Burnley's victory over Chelsea to win the League Cup, no team will despise Burnley as much as it does. So once Arsenal is cautious, George is really not sure to defeat Arsenal in the battle. And with Arsenal's current defensive strength, Burnley is difficult to break through.

George can only rely on Arsenal to attack, although Arsenal's defense is strong in defense. But they are all old, and they are definitely at a disadvantage in the face of speed players such as Yongberg, Camoranesi and Roby Keane. This is Burnley's chance.

Anyway, there is still some time before the World Cup, and all the media are happy.

Many media began to identify what George said. As George said, Burnley's home attack power and away attack power are the first in League One. And in both the League Cup and the FA Cup, Burnley holds a record. Burnley's goals topped the list in both cups.

With such an analysis, they found that although George's Burnley played a defensive counterattack in the cup, he scored a lot of goals.

"How many goals have been scored?" Wenger smiled and spoke slowly in front of the camera. More goals can only show that Burnley's opponent is too weak.

There are not many words of Wenger, and each of them is just a few simple sentences. George's words are like hitting cotton, but George doesn't care. George has long known that Wenger is erudite and always does not panic when answering other people's provocations.

In his previous life, George liked Wenger very much. In 2002, when Wenger and Ferguson fought most fiercely, there was such a war of words between them. When Arsenal won the double in 2002, Ferguson saw that the points were difficult to catch up. He just said, "They are just a group of people who rely on luck to win. We are the best team."

And Wenger's answer is quite beautiful. Every man thinks his wife is the most beautiful.

This is a very classic time between Ferguson and Wenger, two sympatheting opponents.

George is not talking to Wenger about Arsenal now. I want to listen to Arsenal players. There are many grumpy people in the Arsenal lineup. As long as one of them is upset and shows it in the game, then George will make money.

Recently, the media has been really happy. Although the World Cup is about to begin, the topic of the World Cup has gradually become the most important aspect of the media. The attention of all media is gradually shifting from the club to the national team.

But the war of words provoked by George can be on the front page of the newspaper like the World Cup feature.

Of course, George took advantage of Arsenal, no matter how influential Burnley and George are now. That's not as good as Wenger and Arsenal. George likes opponents like Arsenal. If the average team is the opponent in today's FA Cup final, it can't have such attention.

Time slowly passed in the war of words, and soon came to May 16th.