The Young Lion

Thank you Thieves for your reward!

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Cardiff Millennium Stadium. ,

The new season of Community Shield is about to start.

Premier League champions Millwall take on FA Cup winners Manchester United.

In the stands, the confrontation between red and blue was distinct. On the court, Aldridge walked into the back of the court and shook hands with Ferguson warmly before the game. The two did not communicate with each other.

Fleet Street did not list Manchester United as the favorite for the Premier League bid in the new season, because the distance between Manchester United and Arsenal and Millwall last season was too far.

Millwall is still the top favorite to win the Premier League, followed by Chelsea in second, Manchester United in third and Arsenal in fourth.

Arsenal's decline stemmed from the departure of Vieira, Ibrahimovic and Van Bronckhorst's three main players. They fell into the same predicament as Millwall that year. The difference is that the outside world's expectations for Wenger are not high.

Ferguson also understands that the huge gap between the standings and the league championship last season is not enough to close the signings in one summer. Although last season's record is affected, there is an unexpected factor of Ferdinand's eight-month suspension. However, with the With the arrival of the new season, Manchester United's lineup and the aging of players in key positions cannot be ignored. For example, Keane in the midfielder position is 33 years old.

In terms of the team's goal positioning for the new season, Manchester United and Millwall are no longer at the same level.

In this game, the starting players of both sides lined up and entered the field with their heads held high.

Welcome to the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Today we will enjoy the battle between last season's Premier League champion Millwall and last season's FA Cup champion Manchester United. Although the Community Shield is a semi-warm-up match. But both sides definitely Will hope to get a victory to establish the confidence and momentum to kick off the new season.

Millwall has played Glenshire, who has returned from a summer transfer, in today's starting lineup. According to Millwall star Ronaldinho in an interview about Glenshire. He praised Glenshire's strength and the synchronization of their rhythm and thinking with them. They have no problem cooperating with each other.

Manchester United sent new aid Rooney and defender Heinze today. It seems that the coaches of both sides hope to use today's game to see the state of the team and boldly use new aid.

Millwall started 433.

Goalkeeper: Bout.

Defenders: Ramos, Nesta, Thiago Silva. Ram.

Midfield: De Rossi, Alonso, Nedved.

Forwards: Glenshire, Villa, Ronaldinho.

Manchester United starting 442.

Goalkeeper: Howard.

Defenders: Gary Neville, Ferdinand, Sylvester, Heinze.

Midfield: Joaquin, Phil Neville, Fletcher. Giggs.

Forwards: Rooney, Ruud van Nistelrooy.

alright. The two sides were ready to kick off, and Millwall, wearing a traditional dark blue jersey, took the lead in attacking from left to right.

Aldridge stood in front of the sideline coaching bench, and on the bench, sat Ronaldo, Kaka, Schneider and other players. Most of them had heavy summer tasks and were running back and forth, like Ronaldo returning from the Olympic men's football team , Kaka played the entire Copa America, and the end time was late, so the Community Shield let them sit on the bench first.

After taking a complete family portrait yesterday, Aldridge had a long talk with Nedved. The veteran Nedved understands the righteousness and hopes to support the younger generation at the end of his career so that Millwall can be perfect in the new generation. transition.

He started today, and when the Premier League starts, he will be on the bench. If Kaka, Alonso, Ronaldinho and others are not in good condition or have injuries, he must immediately step up.

Manchester United's thinking today is very clear. Ferguson does not want Keane and Scholes, the mainstay of the midfield, to be over-consumed in the Community Shield, because they will be a guest at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League opener.

Therefore, Phil Neville and Fletcher play double midfielders, defending in the middle, and attacking with the traditional two wings flying together.

At the beginning of the game, Millwall controlled the rhythm of the field and slowly entered the game state.

In the 11th minute, Giggs broke through the teenager Ramos from the wing, crossed the shadow striker and then inserted Rooney. Nesta rushed to clear the ball before Rooney. Behind Giggs, Glenn Schall was on the sidelines of the midfield Lutherball, he is more skilled than when he left Millwall, has accumulated more experience, and his technical ability has reached the peak of his own ability.

The familiar figure of the fast horse on the wing once again caught the eyes of the Wild Lions fans.

Countless Wild Lions fans in the stands shouted passionately. Seeing that Glenn Shire started to explode and dribbled the ball forward, it seemed to drive the whole stadium forward. This is the ultimate feeling of speed on the court, which is unparalleled.

The frizzy Heinze rushed over with the slider and was easily dodged by Glenshire because he was faster!

Ferguson raged from the sidelines at Heinze's mindless defensive choices.

Without the defense of the full-backs, Glenshire was not in a hurry to play the ball. He dribbled the ball in from the right side, played the offensive depth in the penalty area, and then controlled the ball, forcing Sylvester to come over to defend him. After arriving, he knocked the ball back to the top of the penalty area. Nedved came up and grabbed the ball before Phil Neville. In the forward space, Nedved sent a kick behind the ball. Villa, who started up and down almost at the same time as Ferdinand, succeeded in anti-offside. He pushed the ball without stopping on the right side of the penalty area. After entering the gate of Manchester United, Howard's reaction was obviously slow. The American goalkeeper didn't seem to be in good condition and was a little slow.

The goal was scored! Just ten minutes into the game, Millwall scored a goal! Glenn Shire instigated the frontcourt offensive from the right, shifted to the center and handed over to Nedved to send a deadly through ball. Manchester United's new aid Heine Ce made an unforgivable mistake. He rashly left the defensive zone to make a tackle. Once the defender made a tackle, it was a moment of success or failure! Judging from Ferguson's expression, he was very dissatisfied with Heinze's performance.

Ferguson also felt that he had seen a ghost!

German football has disclosed the deal between Millwall and Bayern Munich. In fact, Lahm's position in Bayern Munich is very embarrassing. Bayern executives were hesitant to give Lahm a new contract. I thought it was an opportunity to use Ram to cash to knock Millwall. As a result, one of the main full-backs of the German national team was released...

And Heinze transfer fee is not low. 7 million pounds, this damn mistake made such a huge mistake at the beginning, Ferguson wondered if he had entered the age group with old eyes and dim eyesight.

Villa didn't celebrate with great excitement after scoring a goal. It was just a community shield, mainly warming up. After scoring, he walked to hug Nedved. He ran over with a smile and high fived his teammates.

Manchester United is the same today as it was in the past. They all rely on the side attack as the main means, but there is less link in the middle than in the past.

The combination of side and center is a necessary offensive method for both wings to fly together. The era of only relying on crosses from the side to find high center forwards in the penalty area is long gone.

Scholes didn't play, Fletcher wanted to respond in the middle, but was blocked to do anything. Rooney just went to Manchester United and has not yet fully integrated into the team's rhythm. Passing and running are not tacit.

Even so, Manchester United's wing attack threat is still there.

Almost every time Giggs makes a breakthrough on the left, he is tempering the young Spanish teenager Ramos, and Ramos will also have the disadvantage of defensive frizz. Giggs passed him 5 times and succeeded 4 times. This is an unimaginable statistic, because it means that Ramos defended Giggs point-to-point, and the effect is useless!

Aldridge is not angry. Ramos is still young. It is normal for young people to make mistakes on the court and be exposed for their lack of ability. The key is not to bow your head and accept your fate with a negative attitude.

On the other hand, Joaquin's offense and defense against Lahm are 50-50. Lahm has no physical advantage, so he pays more attention to awareness and team distance in defense, that is to say, let the team cover up his own strength as much as possible. The shortcoming is to let his teammates complement him, but Silva is still young. On this side, if it is the original main force Southgate, it can be said that the cooperation with Ram is absolutely seamless.

Manchester United lacks a support point in the middle to combine the side and the center, and only relies on crosses from the side, which is a bit like a big luck, but this is Manchester United's style.

Extremely simple.

There is probably no second coach in the world who can play the wing attack so simply and efficiently like Ferguson.

People look at Manchester United's wing attack and rarely marvel at how pleasing they are.

The winger tears the defensive width of the opponent's defense line, crosses, responds, shoots, and scores.

The routine always looks very simple, but it always makes the opponent taste the bitter fruit of conceding the ball.

It reminded Aldridge of a conversation he had with Ferguson in the opponent's office after their first encounter.

In that conversation, Aldridge said that his philosophy in building the team was to follow the Laconian mindset.

Only when it is simple, it has the greatest fertility and imagination.

Looking at European football after ten years of coaching, Aldrich found that many successful teams are actually following this principle.

Manchester United is like this, Millwall is like this, even M's Chelsea and Arsene Wenger's Arsenal, who have not yet made their debut, are like this.

There is no need to repeat the simple and extreme anti-counterfeiting. The -taka of Barcelona in the future will still be a very simple foundation, ball control, passing, and the simplest, 10-year-old children receive football training on the basis of practice to the extreme , can naturally give birth to extremely rich content.

Ramos was overwhelmed by Giggs in the opening game, so Aldridge asked the team to develop the attack from the left side, let the left side put great pressure on Manchester United, let Ramos slow down first, and wait. After slowing down, give Ramos a gesture to let him go up to participate in the attack.

Ramos himself had concerns, he was afraid that he would not be able to come back after assisting, but under Aldridge's encouraging eyes, he rushed forward without hesitation.

No matter how Manchester United plays, the offense must be developed back to the center. When Fletcher and Phil Neville lack support in the frontcourt, De Rossi will automatically retreat into the penalty area to fill in the assists of the full-backs and the lack of defenders. flaws.

So at any time, unless Millwall is suppressed by the opponent, the defense is basically a single midfielder. Either De Rossi retreats to fill the back line, or he is still a midfielder. Alonso acts as a central midfielder, not completely dead. Stand in the lower back position.

Gary Neville couldn't withstand Ronaldinho's pressure. When Ram made an assist, he was even worse than Ramos at this point.

Lahm has one advantage that Aldridge appreciates the most, that is his calmness when handling the ball, and he never takes the ball blindly. Like many wide players who will send meaningless crosses on the side, Lahm basically Can't see anything like this.

Lahm, Ronaldinho, Nedved, and Villa, these four made continuous kicks in the left half of the offensive end, passing the ball to Manchester United's defensive players, and inadvertently exposed the defensive gap.

The ball came to Ronaldinho's feet, and he made the choice to speed up the attack.

First stopped the ball in response to Nedved's pass and then went straight forward to make a Marseille roundabout to pass Phil Neville. When Fletcher rushed over and made a steal, he gently lifted the ball forward. Then he dodged Fletcher's press and regained control of the ball. A series of pleasing moves were completed in one go. He came to the back line, and then cooperated with Villa in a two-for-one. When Howard abandoned the goal and rushed out, Ronaldinho calmly pushed the ball from between Howard's legs into Manchester United's goal.

The big and small doors were blasted together! (to be continued..) ()