The Young Lion

Nine hundred and ninety fifth combination of double virtue

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Aldridge privately praised Stella Maggioni's work after the meeting, much to the Italian's delight.

Aldridge also has a solid idea of the strategic deployment of the England national team's first game. How to arrange it needs to be carefully thought out.

Compared with two years ago, England could fight back indecently against their opponents. Now the situation is reversed. They are the World Cup champions, and they are the target of public criticism. Will sneak up on them conservatively.

In the new phase of the national team transformation in the past two years, Aldridge revised it through the practical process of ideal technical and tactical design. freely.

Aldridge, who has ten years of coaching experience, is still not a very experienced coach on the world stage. For example, the French coach Santini has 21 years of coaching experience.

At the end of the 1980s, Santini led Toulouse to eliminate Naples with Maradona in the UEFA Cup. The French team was disgracefully eliminated in the last World Cup and the national team changed coaches. Santini won the domestic championship by coaching Lyon He was promoted to coach of the national team.

In the pre-match press conference, Aldridge expressed his respect and attention to the French team.

The French team has the world's top-level stars. They are a super team and they are also the defending champions of the European Cup. They encountered them in the first game. It is a very serious challenge for England. Although we are younger and richer in the outside world Impact, but I think at this time, the side with a more stable mentality will have the advantage in the game. I look forward to the first game of the European Cup, and the England team can play the momentum that the World Cup champion should have.

Santini is not good at communicating with the media. He only made some formulaic remarks at the press conference. He is not humble when the outside world positions France as the number one favorite in the European Cup. I think the French team has the strength to successfully defend the title.

The curtain of the European Cup kicked off.

On the first match day, the host Portugal and the Greek team staged the opening match.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, the Portuguese team fell behind 0:2 to the Greek team at the end of 90 minutes of regular time. It was only in the second minute of stoppage time that Ronaldo scored a face-saving goal.

With Spain's 1-0 win over Russia later in the game, the host Portugal's way to qualify is hanging.

On the second day of the match, Switzerland and Croatia, who were in the same group as England and France, took the lead. The two teams drew a goalless draw within 90 minutes and ended 0:0.

This is very favorable news for both France and England!

Lisbon Stadium of Light.

The fans of the Gallic Rooster and the Three Lions filled the stands, and the atmosphere was extremely enthusiastic.

When players from both teams line up to enter the field. The most watched game after the European Cup kicked off has officially entered the eyes of fans around the world.

The 2004 Euro Cup Group B battle is about to start! This is a battle of the kings! The defending European Cup champion France and the new World Cup champion England are in the same group. This is a disgrace to the FA. The results of the light grouping. The host Portugal and the defending champion France occupy the two first-seeded teams, and because the points of the division will comprehensively consider the results of the qualifiers of the past two major competitions, even if the England team won the 2002 World Cup The champion, but fell behind in points due to unsatisfactory performance in the last two qualifiers, and failed to get the other two places in the first seeded team. This is the phenomenon of being assigned to the same group with France.

The division of the team has little to do with Aldridge. Even if he led the team to play in the last World Cup qualifiers, when he took over the team, the team had already had three winless results. As for the 2000 European Cup qualifiers, It has nothing to do with him.

Furthermore, the European Cup has 16 teams divided into 4 groups, and England's signing is not bad.

Compared with Germany, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic, which are three-to-two death groups, England's group has Switzerland and Croatia, which are not too strong opponents at this time.

The French team and the England team are strong and have many stars who are familiar to fans all over the world. This focus match has naturally become the most anticipated game since the start of the European Cup! Let's take a look at the starting lists of both sides.

French team 442.

Goalkeeper: Barthez.

Defenders: Gallas, Thuram, Sylvester, Lizarazu.

Midfield: Makelele, Vieira, Zidane, Pires.

Forwards: Trezeguet, Henry.

England 442.

Goalkeeper: Robinson.

Defenders: Gary Neville, Campbell, Southgate, Ashley Cole.

Midfield: Beckham, Hargreaves, Scholes, Lampard.

Forwards: Owen, Gerrard.

For the French team's starting lineup, we are surprised that the veteran Desailly was not arranged in the first draft, but the most surprising starting player for the England team is Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard on the front line. A midfielder, England coach Sir Hall let him play forward, I don't know if this change will have a huge impact on the game.

Since the end of last year, Gerrard replaced Hyypia as the captain of the Red Army, officially carrying the king banner of Liverpool.

His own technical ability and sense of experience are also more mature. He is 24 years old. If he is immature, he cannot be the captain.

England's striker, in addition to Owen, there is also an 18-year-old Rooney, other contemporaries are difficult to entrust important tasks.

Rooney is Aldridge's surprise soldier, he will not play this card directly.

In terms of Owen's partner selection, Aldridge chose Gerrard in the starting lineup.

World Cup two years ago.

Behind Owen are McManaman and Scholes.

Two years later, Aldridge put Gerrard in the shadow striker position, which was a change that no one expected.

Gerrard can play this position because the best season of his career was played in this position at Liverpool. Especially in the league. a full season. For a sustained period of performance, Aldridge will not act sloppily just because of the performance of a certain player in his memory, such as the miracle of Liverpool's Champions League title.

Both virtues can't play a defensive midfielder, especially Gerrard. Aldridge will not forget when Jie's return pass started.

Neither Shuangde can play the role of midfield commander. In terms of creative talent, neither of them can compare with Scholes, and the creativity of positional warfare. Scholes' organizational role is even more prominent.

Therefore, under the aura of almost omnipotence, if the two virtues appear in the midfield, the area itself is small, and if the coordination is not tacit, there will be serious confusion. Even in the past British parallel 442, two players in the middle of the midfield, one 6 and 8, one is defensive and the other is offensive. The combination of the two cannot achieve a theoretically balanced effect. Since there is no balance, it is even more impossible to achieve the positive effects of chemical reactions.

There was a shortage of personnel. If Aldrich wanted to use dual virtues, he began to change his thinking, separating the areas of the two, clearly assigning roles, and completely delineating the boundaries of responsibilities.

Lampard playing midfield, Gerrard playing shadow forward!

Take the running position in sports warfare as an example. When defending, if Lampard retreats to the waistline, Gerrard's defensive position will be around the center circle. If Lampard retreats, Gerrard will retreat again. When attacking, Lampard will If Germany rushes up to create a deterrent in front of the penalty area, Gerrard, as a striker, must press into the penalty area!

All in all, neither of them plays the role of organizer. When defending, one retreats deeper, and the other is a crazy counterattack in the midfield.

The two will not have conflicts in the same area. Regardless of offense and defense, the positions must not be parallel. Set-piece offense and defense are another matter.

Wing attack, with Ashley Cole on the left and Beckham on the right.

After the European Cup, Aldridge will step down, regardless of success or failure, he has decided to go.

At this moment, he no longer has that kind of timidity. If he continues to work, he firmly believes that he will lead the England team to achieve good results in 2006, 2008, 10 years or even in the future. He may not be a champion, but experience With the improvement of accumulation ability, his confidence in himself is very strong.

But too tired, club, national team, family, his own life, he can't cover everything.

Two years ago, the legacy he planned to leave to England was a group of three lions who were promoted and positioned, and formed into a united team.

Two years later, regardless of the results of this competition, he hopes to leave a new legacy to his successor, that is, in the next 5-8 years, the England team will be able to provoke the double virtue combination according to their age and status .

Avoid letting latecomers mistakenly use the dual-virtue combination, and try to allow the dual-virtue to coexist in the national team and exert their strength and make contributions.

Looking at the players lined up on the sidelines for a pre-match photo, who would have guessed that Gary Neville has the longest hair in the starting lineup among England's players with small cuts? Beckham has also shaved a rather energetic and capable cut. England came to the European Cup as the new World Cup champion. The spirit and appearance showed a good sense of sight.

Aldridge holds his head high. He has achieved success in England. More or less, he has been honored by England, such as the reform of the Premier League, the development trend of the Premier League, etc. The reason why he did not resign two years ago is that It is also a desire to repay England.

To this day, he has no regrets for England in his heart. Even when he leaves one day, he can turn around and walk freely.

Santini was sitting next door on the coach bench, his face sinking like water, but there was a fire burning in his heart.

Not far away, that is the World Cup champion coach!

The current active coach, the only coach who has won five Champions League titles!

beat him!

smash him!

crush him!

England is not Millwall.

The French team is not among the top clubs in Europe.

In terms of strength on paper, the French team is slightly stronger than the England team!

Santini firmly believes that he can beat Aldridge.

Strip off the young marshal's champion coat and take everything from him!