218 First Battle League Cup

Clozes suddenly had a hot barrel and scored six goals in five rounds of the league. Everyone wants to see how long Klose's state can last.

In the seventh round of the league, Blackburn played away against Middlesbrough. The two teams played offensive football, and the final score was fixed at 2-0. Klose didn't score a goal.

But it's not because Klose's condition has declined, but because Klose did not play at all in this game. Not only Klose, but also the main players such as Miku, Deko and Pires basically did not play.

The main players are only Cudicini and Ferdinand, and the rest of the main players are off the court.

George's lineup is the defender line from left to right is Gala and Henning. Berg, Ferdinand, Sun Jihai, and the midfielder is Bellamy, Hargreaves and David from left to right. Dunn, Romedar, and the striker is Davao. Sooke and Kevin. Two people from Gallagher.

This is definitely not George's alternative, but because the game was played on September 11. Three days later, on September 14, Blackburn will play a UEFA Cup match.

Blackburn won the fourth place in the Premier League, so he can directly enter the UEFA Cup. The first round of the UEFA Cup was on September 14. After all, the UEFA Cup is George's first European match. So George attaches great importance to it.

Therefore, in the seventh round, George made a big rotation for the main lineup.

But fortunately, Blackburn's substitute is very good. Davao. Sooke and Kevin. The two Gallagher are indeed old and strong, Kevin in the game. Gallagher received Davao. Suke's assist scored a goal.

The other ball is David. Deng En then inserted the ball into Sun Jihai's cross.

Let Blackburn get a point on the road.

Of course, the Chinese media do not think so. As the first player to land in the Premier League, Sun Jihai has attracted great attention in China. Unfortunately, in the previous few games, Sun Jihai only had one substitute appearance. This made the Chinese media very disappointed.

However, it is not that George is unwilling to give Sun Jihai a chance, but because Blackburn has been in an amazing state since the beginning of this season. And after Saniol got the captain's armband, he was very excited. Therefore, this season's performance is many times better than last season.

There have only been five games, and Saniol has had three assists. As a full-back, such performance is already world-class. George had no reason to withdraw Sanior and give Sun Jihai a chance.

Therefore, it was not until this game that Sun Jihai entered the main lineup. However, Sun Jihai was very calm. Although he had never had a chance to appear, he did not make trouble. George likes Sun Jihai, not only because of his strength. This kind of humble surname is also my favorite.

Recently, George has been quite upset because of the rotation problem.

George is unwilling to let Blackburn, who is now in excellent condition, rotate personnel. However, players with surnames such as Bellamy and Gala are very popular for not being able to enter the main lineup. Although Bellamy was not satisfied, he was still able to be honest for a while under the strength of Pires and Duff.

But Gala was very dissatisfied. After Hendry's semi-retirement, Gala thought that the main position should be his own. In the second half of last season, Gala's performance was good. But I didn't expect that George would spend a lot of money to buy Ferdinand, and Gala went back to be a substitute.

These need to be leveled out. It hurts George's head. So looking at a player with a good surname like Sun Jihai, I am in a good mood.

The Chinese media is very happy. What "Sun Jihai saved George!", "Sun Jihai got a point for Blackburn!", "Sun Jihai's world-class performance!" This kind of comments are everywhere.

Even CCTV interrupted the one in the news of Sun Jihai's assist. You can know the influence of Sun Jihai and the influence of football in China in the late 1990s.

Blackburn, a team unfamiliar to Chinese fans, soon became the support team of Chinese fans. Because the Premier League has not yet been fully popularized, many fans can only know Blackburn's news from newspapers such as Sports Weekly and Football.

But they are happy about it. This issue of Sports Weekly is even better to sell. Because there is a lot of news about Sun Jihai.

The number of Chinese journalists who want to interview Blackburn has suddenly increased a lot. Let Williams smile. Williams is even thinking that if Blackburn goes to China to play a business game next summer, the profit will be very high.

However, George did not have time to control the reaction of the Chinese media. Because by this time, George was already leading Blackburn on an expedition to Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

The opponent of the first round of the Blackburn League is the Belgrade guerrillas from Serbia. If this team is placed ten years ago, or even further forward, it is also a strong European team.

In terms of the glory of history, the Belgrade guerrillas can't catch up with Blackburn.

The Belgrade guerrillas have been one of the football hegemons of Yugoslavia since the Yugoslav era. He has won 11 Yugoslav football league championships. Less than ten years after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the Belgrade guerrillas have won five league championships.

And he also won the Yugoslavia Cup five times. After the dissolution of Yugoslavia, Serbia also won the Cup three times.

This is one of the football hegemons in the history of Yugoslav football. Together with the Red Star Belgrade, which is also in Belgrade, these two rivals are the top teams in Yugoslavia.

And this team is not very bad in international competitions. In international arena, the guerrillas won the runner-up in the 1965-66 UEFA Champions League, the 1978 China-Europe Cup, the top eight of the European Winners' Cup in 1989-90, and the top 16 of the four UEFA Cups.

However, history is history after all, and history cannot be eaten as a meal.

No matter how glorious the history is, it cannot hide the fact of the decline of the Belgrade guerrillas.

The Yugoslav team was a world strong team, but since Tito's death, the situation in Yugoslavia has been turbulent. Later, Yugoslavia disintegrated, and this year's Kosovo War. Over the years, the situation in Serbia has become more and more unstable, and many talented Serbian players have fled Serbia at a young age.

Therefore, the previous strong Yugoslav football has also declined year by year. Even the strong European team, Red Star Belgrade has become a dish among the strong European teams. Not to mention the current Belgrade guerrillas.

In fact, Blackburn has already declared to UEFA. In view of the unstable situation in Serbia, can we change to a neutral venue?

How can it be said that more than three months ago, NATO planes bombed Serbia indiscriminately. Although it has been more than three months, George is still worried. Although there is no popular talk of so-called terrorist attacks, who knows if Belgrade will be safe.

However, UEFA rejected Blackburn's application. UEFA officials said that Serbia is now free from the shadow of war and there is no danger. This made George very angry.

Of course, George knew that peacekeepers from various countries had entered Serbia. But who doesn't know that Serbia now has not only NATO troops, but also Russian troops. When they seized Serbia, some conflicts broke out.

Although it is just some simple conflicts, it has not escalated to war. But the hatred between them is still very strong.

George is unwilling to go to Serbia at this time.

But there is no other way. UEFA, you bastards, my life is not my life. George was slandered in his heart, but he still came to Serbia obediently.

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Belgrade, the current capital of Serbia.

Belgrade has a very long history, and Serbia has been the capital since 600 years ago. This city with a long history, when George and the others arrived, found that there were ruins everywhere. In the ruins, you can also see groups of homeless children.

George doesn't know politics and doesn't want to get involved in politics.

But seeing this group of orphans and old people, George could only shake his head.

The country has become like this. The first problem that fans are considering now is survival. How can they still have the energy to think about football? And those players are even more so. After more than two months of bombing, how can they still be interested in the game?

The decline of football in Yugoslavia, and war is definitely the first factor.

If there is no war and Yugoslavia has not disintegrated, then the Yugoslav Football Association will be as powerful as France, Germany and Italy. What a pity.

On the first day, Blackburn was just taking a break. After all, the ruins of Belgrade have a great impact on everyone.

The next day, Blackburn went to the court for training to adapt to the surname. Fortunately, NATO bombs did not blow up the stadium. But it hasn't been repaired for a long time. The lawn here is very bad. Compared with the lawn of the Premier League club, the lawn here can only be regarded as the lawn of middle school.

No matter how bad the stadium is in the Premier League, the lawn is several times better than here.

George frowned. This kind of lawn is the worst for a technical team like Blackburn. George even stepped on it. It was really bad.

"George, this lawn..." Carl came up and talked to George with a wry smile.

George nodded.

"Forget it, this may be a better stadium in Serbia. Serbia has been fighting every day these years, and there is no money to repair the lawn. George sighed. However, the power gap cannot be made up. Think about it, where are they free to train during this period? As long as we play well by ourselves, there will be no problem in the game.

"Ye-huh, Serbian football has fallen."

George doesn't even have any specific information about the current Belgrade guerrillas. Because the situation in Serbia is too turbulent this year. But George is not very worried. The gap in strength is there.

(To be continued)