Football: My coaches are all world-class stars

2018年8月18日，2018-2019赛季英超第二轮。

Millwall hosts city rivals Tottenham Hotspur.

Before the start of the game, when the players from both sides stepped on the pitch, when the bus passed by the gate of the stadium, Zhang Bo had already found that there were dense crowds outside the stadium, surrounded by Millwall people on the inner three floors and the outer three floors.

It's just that in addition to holding Millwall scarves and tifo puzzles in their hands, many people are holding black and white photos.

Among them, there are either gray-haired old people, young people in their prime, or even young children.

Seeing Millwall's bus passing by, they raised their photos one after another, but they didn't open their mouths to shout loudly, but remained solemnly silent.

Zhang Bo understands that these are probably fans who failed to wait for Millwall to be promoted to the Premier League.

As mentioned above, since the restructuring of the Premier League, Millwall has never entered this highest level of league.

It has been 26 years since today.

In the long history of Millwall's team building, there has been one and only one time in the top league.

That was in the 89-90 season, which was still far away, but Millwall ranked last in that season and returned to the sub-division league.

Now that nearly 30 years have passed, there are indeed many people who cannot survive the erosion of time.

And today, on this historic day, their family and friends finally brought them to the stands of the Neil Stadium to witness the glorious moment of Millwall.

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"I believe, all of you have seen the scene outside the stadium."

"Perhaps some of you are children who came out of Volvo's youth training camp, and you have more feelings, while some of you are transfers, and you don't have so many feelings."

"But I don't care where you are from, as long as you put on this white jersey, no matter who you are facing today, we have only one goal, to win with all our strength!"

In his first home game, with the blessing of the right time and place, the old coach Ranieri also made a rare pre-match mobilization in the locker room.

But although Zhang Bo is the Millwall child that Ranieri said, he really doesn't feel too much.

Rather than sighing because it came from Miwowo, it is better to say that this kind of scene will be touched by anyone who comes to it.

Especially after the opening, looking at the photos held in the stands and the old team song playing, Zhang Bo seemed to have been injected with adrenaline.

This damn sense of responsibility!

Like boiling blood rushing on the frozen soil of football, Zhang Bo's whole body became hot.

But the opponent they faced today seems a bit too difficult to deal with.

In the last season, Tottenham Hotspur achieved 23 wins, 8 draws and 7 losses, ranking third in the league.

In the first round of this season, Tottenham Hotspur continued their excellent competitive state and defeated the Magpies Newcastle United 2-1 at home.

The lineup is neat and the offense and defense are balanced.

Goalkeeper Hugo Lloris sits on the goal line, and Danny Rose, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, and Trippier line up in the defense.

The midfield is led by Danish international Eriksson, and Dell, Moussa Dembele and Ali have formed a midfield combination.

On the forward line, British international Harry Kane and Korean international Sun Xingmin stood at the forefront.

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Millwall kicked off first at home.

Just before the opening, Zhang Bo could see Sun Xingmin staring at him closely.This guy looked curious and didn't know what to see.

But when the game started, those who were curious or not were all forgotten.

Before this game, both the local media in London and the English media were generally not optimistic about the prospect of Millwall being able to play at home at the Neal Stadium.

In terms of strength, Tottenham's strength is more than one grade higher than Millwall.

On the front line, Kane and Sun Xingmin are in excellent form, the Danish international Eriksson is talented in the midfield, and Lloris handles the goal on the goal line. The two Belgian internationals Alderweireld and Vertonghen cooperate tacitly.

That is, there are generals sitting on the three lines, and the central axis is one of the best in the world.

As for Millwall, although they drew away with Crystal Palace in the first round of the league, except for Zhang Bo and Shaqiri, the performance of the other players seems to have not fully kept up with the rhythm of the Premier League game.

Especially the former German international Schurrle, who is completely out of shape.

Although he continued to start in this game, no one was optimistic about him.

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Sure enough, at the beginning of the game, Tottenham successfully forced Schurrle to make a pass error through the midfield press.

Ali took the ball and passed it to Sun Xingmin who was in front.

Abdu quickly came up to defend against him. Sun Xingmin didn't panic. He took a big stride, squeezed Abdu, and pushed forward.

The central defender Agger immediately came up and followed the new Korean football champion cautiously.

After the baptism of the first Premier League game, the young central defender has grown up rapidly, without the panic when he first entered the stadium.

Sun Xingmin saw that there was an interception in front and pursuers behind him, and he knew that he could not do it alone.

After pulling the ball, it was passed to Eriksson who came up to respond.

Eriksson glanced at Kane's movement long before responding.

After receiving Sun Xingmin's request, he kicked the ball without stopping, and walked into the penalty area with a straight kick.

Fortunately, Cahill was fully focused and didn't slip away. Seeing that he was going to be unable to catch up, he directly came with a decisive shovel.

Kane fell to the ground!

"Penalty?"

With the shout of the commentator, in an instant, the hearts of everyone in the Neil Stadium were lifted!

Countless pairs of eyes stared at the referee, fearing that the whistle would sound, and pointed directly at the penalty spot.

Fortunately, the referee just shook his hand, indicating that there was no foul.

Naturally, Kane got up and complained for a while, chasing the referee to say that it was a penalty.

However, these referees in the Premier League have never seen any scenes. They simply ignored Kane, turned around and left with a cold face.

Kane saw that complaining was useless, so he could only rejoin the game.

From this point of view, basically all players in the Premier League still consciously obey the referee.

Of course, except for the outrageous penalty accident.

Soon, the broadcast screen gave a close-up screen of the replay of the previous ball.

From all angles, Cahill scooped the ball first, and then took Kane down inevitably.

"It is very clear in slow motion, it is indeed the first step to shovel the ball!"

"However, although the attack was saved this time, it can be seen that Eriksson's ball is very threatening!"

"Millwall must pay attention to the defense against Eriksson, and he must not let him take the ball so comfortably to attack!"

Although the first attack on Tottenham did not succeed, it was also very dangerous.

Tottenham's attack line is indeed too strong, and the commentator can't help being a little excited.