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165. The Underworld of Lord Ferguson

The original owners of Blackburn were the Walker family, a local businessman in Lancashire. The family was engaged in the steel industry. After taking over Blackburn, it was quite successful in the early days. In the 1990s, they spent a huge sum of money to bring in Alan Shearer. At that time,

Alan Shearer's transfer fee also set a Premier League record, and then they hired Red Army legend Dalglish as coach, and finally won the Premier League trophy in the mid-1990s.

But with the death of Jack Walker, the head of the Walker family, the Walker family's support for the team is no longer what it used to be. More than ten years later, the Walker family finally lost patience and sold the team this year.

Indian Venky Group, this group is engaged in poultry business.

This group didn’t know what their ideas were. They were a bit stingy about buying the team and were not very willing to invest. However, they declared in public that “we have ideas and we will restore the club’s glory.”

Allardyce did not receive much support. This summer, Blackburn did not spend much money. The lineup changes were not too big. They only loaned striker Diouf from Manchester United and introduced expired contract player from Manchester City.

Benjani.

According to the original trajectory of the world, Allardyce later became the head coach of England, but unfortunately he was fished out by reporters and became the shortest-lived head coach in the history of England. For a time, he became the number one scandal in world football.

However, he is capable, and his ability is not small. Not to mention leading Bolton, even the current Blackburn Rovers are playing well under his leadership.

Blackburn is not strong enough and is a relegation team. However, he led Blackburn to tenth place in the Premier League last season.

Wen Sheng also sounded a warning to the team before the game, "Don't think that just because you defeated Chelsea, you will be in a fog and get carried away."

The players were not confused, but the team lost the game 0:1.

When Crystal Palace faces strong teams, they often like to show weakness, set up their own game, and fight back.

Allardyce really didn't cover today, and he was very defensive at Selhurst. Wen Sheng felt that the biggest problem with Allardyce was that he didn't care much about the ball. Crystal Palace pressed too hard, and Blackburn immediately

When Crystal Palace's pressure is not serious, they will immediately take the opportunity to knock the ball down in the backcourt and waste a little time.

Wen Sheng was really helpless against a team that treated Crystal Palace too much. In the first half, he tried to press high, and the opponent's Diouf immediately seized the opportunity to help the team win in the away game.

After taking the lead, it was still up to Wen Sheng to make adjustments in the second half. Crystal Palace still couldn't seize the opportunity. For a while, he even adjusted the formation to 424, but there was still nothing he could do against Blackburn.

Blackburn conceded goals in almost every game in the new season, but you thought their defense was poor. No, in fact, their defense was better than Crystal Palace. Facing two powerful teams, they both lost by one goal. There were two

In each draw, the score was 1:1, and in the win, no goals were conceded.

The well-prepared Allardyce and the tenacious defensive Blackburn have become a nightmare for Crystal Palace this weekend.

"We weren't sharp enough on offense!" Wen Sheng told reporters after the game. "Their defense gave us very little space, and we still need to improve on our running positions!"

In this game, Crystal Palace completed 21 shots, but only 4 were on target.

Blackburn did not stop Crystal Palace's shot from the 30-meter area outside the penalty area, but it restricted Crystal Palace's shot in the penalty area, and Vardy was once again lost in the sea of ​​​​the opponent's defense zone.

In the first six rounds and one Europa League game, Vardy failed to score a goal. In some games, his performance was good, but he was just unlucky. In other games, he performed poorly, unable to get out of the space and was defended by his opponents.

No temper.

In this game, he was in poor condition and was guarded to death.

After the game, he will naturally become a focus and the focus of discussion.

"He's not in good form during the game. He should be smarter about his movements." After losing, Wen Sheng inevitably felt a little resentful about Vardy's state. Even Mertens scored a goal, but Vardy didn't even have a match with Mao.

No, where is the super striker we promised?!

Why don't you shine?

Wen Sheng recorded these three points against Blackburn in his "points due" book, but now he doesn't have any points, and it has something to do with Vardy.

"But I believe he will score a goal soon!" Perhaps feeling his resentment leaking out, Wen Sheng quickly added, this time he didn't say that we should look at Vardy's tactical role in the team.

Reporters are almost immune to Wen Sheng saying "I believe he will score goals soon!" Brother, tell me how many times have you said this?! Has your prediction come true? No!

"Wen, will Vardy start the next Europa League game?" reporters asked.

"Now is not the right time to discuss the next game!" Wen Sheng's head is still somewhat clear.

Wen Sheng is not convinced. He is not convinced because he feels that his tactics have not been adjusted well and the players have not fully adapted to this league. For example, Vardy and Mertens need to adapt.

The team's offensive advancement and running were good, but their off-the-ball movement in positional battles was poor. Vardy did not do as well as he did in the 0:2 loss to Newcastle.

The players were also in a bad mood. Captain Derry also admitted after the game that the team did not do a good job in positional warfare.

Delhi feels that it was a huge mistake not to add a center forward in the summer. At present, it seems that both Vardy and Alan Lee are unable to take on important tasks and are not capable of attacking tough situations.

He really couldn't understand Wen Sheng's stubborn performance, poor performance and limited level of Vardy.

He didn't know that Vardy was very popular later on. How could Wen Sheng use him like this if he wasn't superstitious that Vardy was a super forward? He was closer than his own brother. Even a center was reluctant to buy him for fear of squeezing Vardy's living space.

As usual, Wen Sheng invited Allardyce for a drink after the game. Wen Sheng pretended to praise Big Sam for his awesomeness, but Big Sam laughed ghostly and said: "I also got inspiration from you!"

This is nonsense! Wen Sheng despised Big Sam in his heart. Do you really think that your victory was due to your psychological warfare?!

In theory, Wen Sheng felt that he might have made some mistakes in this game. For example, he was eager to get three points at home because he believed that Blackburn was a potential opponent of Crystal Palace on the road to relegation.

The style of play made him angry, and there may have been some mistakes in decision-making, which fell into Allardyce's calculations, but Wen Sheng would not think that this was a "contribution" to the pre-game psychological warfare, but at most it was the game environment and game goals.

miscalculation caused.

"Then I don't dare take it! Sam, I'm a freshman and you're a seasoned one!" Wen Sheng immediately responded. This was the first time the two of us had a drink together, but neither party meant to be polite, and seemed familiar.

The two of them didn't talk much about the game. Instead, they talked about romance, mainly stories in the coaching circle.

At the end of the day, Allardyce and Wen Sheng said goodbye happily, "Next time I invite you, we will go to Sir Alex's place as a guest. He has hidden a lot of good wine!"

"That's great! I'm waiting for your call!" Wen Sheng said immediately. He had never had any contact with Ferguson, but with such a big figure, it was like visiting a saint. It was always good to get to know him.

Big Sam and Ferguson were good friends, and they had a close relationship. Later, Allardyce was considered to be the head coach of the England national team. Rumors said that Ferguson supported him, which allowed Big Sam to become the head coach of the national team.

It's just that Big Sam was so unreliable that he was caught by reporters when he went up there, leaving him disgraced.

The year before last, last season, Chelsea had failed, Arsenal were fighting for fourth place, and Manchester City's oil dad hadn't come yet. At that time, the protagonists in the Premier League were Manchester United and Liverpool, a pair of old enemies. At that time, Beni was the coach of Liverpool.

Tes and Ferguson are good at verbal sparring and psychological warfare. Unfortunately, Benitez fell into the trap and accused Ferguson of having too much power in the Premier League and being too easy to escape punishment from the Football Association.

Martinez, the head coach of his hometown Wigan last season, said: "Among the coaches in the Premier League, Ferguson has a small group loyal to him, Bruce (Sunderland coach), his former players, Arsenal

Ledais (Blackburn coach) thinks he can be Ferguson's successor."
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