The Young Lion

Players from Chelsea and Millwall lined up in the tunnel to get ready to play.

The players on both sides looked ahead and did not greet anyone they knew, whether it was Millwall's former teammates or national team teammates like Ronaldo and Carvalho.

In the Lion King Stadium, Mourinho was shouted and booed behind him. Of course, the home fans did not welcome him. He has always ridiculed and humiliated the coach of the sworn enemy.

Aldridge did not shake hands with Mourinho before the game. He came to the coach of the home team and stood still with a natural attitude.

Chelsea started today with an unexpected start. The haze created by Mutu's drug use turmoil hangs over the Blues, like a dark cloud, which will distract them. Millwall is fully prepared for this game. Aldrich was naturally full of confidence.

In the tenth round of the Premier League in 2004-2005, a focused battle took the lead at the Lion King Stadium. This was a derby match between rivals in London. Millwall at home played against Chelsea as a guest. After 9 rounds, Millwall Starting with an excellent 9-game winning streak, Chelsea has 6 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. This is a very ideal start, but looking at the standings, they are 7 points behind the leaders, which is not a small gap. This game In the game, the London blue duo faced each other directly, which can be called a 6-point battle. Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides.

Millwall started 433.

Goalkeeper: Bout.

Defenders: Schneider, Nesta, Silva, Ram.

Midfield: De Rossi, Alonso, Nedved.

Forwards: c Ronaldo, Villa. Ronaldinho.

Chelsea start 433.

Goalkeeper: Cech.

Defender: Ferreira. Carvalho. Terry, Ashley Cole.

Midfield: Essien, Makelele, Lampard.

Forwards: Robben, Drogba, Duff.

This confrontation will soon begin. Chelsea coach Mourinho said when he took office that Chelsea's goal is to subvert Millwall's rule, and his mouth has spoken out about the grand goal. But in practice, today's game will be the first test!

At the beginning of the game, Chelsea's posture was very clear: anti-reverse.

Chelsea's defense during this period was actually very monotonous.

The four defenders do not assist, the double midfielder strangles, and basically the offense relies on four people when switching from defense to offense.

After the opening, they played with this routine.

Millwall pressed up to attack after the opening.

The first minute of the game. After Makelele cut off Ronaldinho's through ball to Villa, he immediately instigated a counterattack. Lampard sent a through ball in midfield to Drogba on the striker. De Rossi accidentally slipped and failed to intercept the ball when blocking the passing line. This accident made the Wild Lions fans in the stands nervous.

Drogba successfully got the ball, turned around and was about to charge into the penalty area, but just as he took the ball a step, someone quickly intercepted the ball in front of him, and Chelsea's counterattack dissipated!

Drogba immediately counterattacked, went to hit the man but failed to break away, the man gave the ball to Lahm and then turned his head to look at Drogba with indifferent eyes.

It seems to be saying silently: This is my territory, don't try to act wild!

The world's best central defender, 28-year-old Nesta successfully defended Drogba, Drogba's combination of man and ball is not particularly outstanding, but Nesta is a master of steals, grasp the timing of the interception It can be called a textbook, if Chelsea want to break through Millwall's back line defense through the ground pass or personal breakthrough, they may encounter great resistance.

Golden age, healthy Nesta, best in the world, no disputes!

After Southgate disappeared into the Millwall first team, Nesta was the leader of the defensive line, and the former king of Rome automatically stepped into the role and quickly shouldered more responsibilities. In the last link of the defense, Nesta's calmness is outrageous, and he is an important guarantee for Millwall's defense to play offensive football.

If Chelsea's offense is rich and changeable, maybe Aldridge will still be worried, but if it is only relying on defense, Aldridge does not think that Chelsea's poor offensive firepower will be so daunting.

Chelsea relied on counterattack goals, and then stabilized the situation to avoid opponents from attacking and strengthen defense.

Their offensive firepower is therefore not that outstanding.

Without waiting for his teammates to ask, De Rossi made an apologetic gesture to his teammates. He really didn't expect Chelsea to counterattack so fast. There was a little panic before he slipped. Now he is fine. It can be regarded as being counterattacked by Chelsea. Be warned.

In the first 20 minutes of the game, the situation on the field looked evenly matched.

Although Millwall has the advantage of possession in the midfield, it does not do very well in the penetration link, or there are not many unexpected offensives.

The key lies in the middle area in front of the penalty area. Essien, Makelele, and Lampard's coverage area is very efficient in sweeping the side support.

But Chelsea's counterattack did not play too many threats.

Thiago Silva has no marking task today. Drogba handed it over to Nesta. He is mainly responsible for assisting the defense on the side. That is, if Robben breaks through Lahm’s horizontal inward line, he will be at the back. It is not possible to fill in parallel with the waist, because Lampard's back will be empty. This work must be done boldly by Silva. confident.

At the same time, De Rossi squeezes Drogba behind him and marks Lampard in front of him. Alonso will also undertake such tasks.

As for Duff on the other side, Schneider can handle it alone.

In the 23rd minute of the game, something happened on the field.

Robben dribbled the ball from the right side and then cut inside. Silva rushed up to fight bravely at the first time. He used a sliding tackle to shovel Robben's slightly larger ball. Acceleration, he couldn't hold his feet and tripped in front of Silva.

Mourinho protested from the sidelines, angrily complaining to the fourth official that it was a foul.

But the referee did not say anything and signaled the game to continue.

Judging from the replays of other cameras, Silva's tackle was very clean. Robben himself was too fast. It was more like he couldn't hold his foot and kicked Silva's foot. Then, he fell down. Yeah, huh? Robben hasn't got up yet, he's lying on the pitch and beating the turf, looking very painful, it looks like he should be injured.

Mourinho waited for the protest to find that Robben hadn't got up, and his face was a little ugly for a moment.

When the game was interrupted, the Chelsea team doctor entered the field. After a preliminary diagnosis of Robben's injury, he made a substitution gesture towards Mourinho.

Oops, the first half is only halfway through, Chelsea have to make a passive substitution, and Robben leaves the field due to injury!

Mourinho told Joe Cole to warm up, then he went to talk to the fourth official.

Aldridge also walked over, spread his hands towards Mourinho and said, What are you talking about? My players' defensive movements are very clean. It's because your players are not physically fit. Stop talking, take ten thousand steps back, Chelsea. A bunch of defensive players are gentlemen?

The fourth official turned to look at Mourinho. Then turned to look at Aldridge, Mourinho turned away without arguing with Aldridge.

Aldridge looked at the game time. It's almost 30 minutes!

He gestured to the players on the field.

Chelsea already had experience in defending Millwall's offense, but soon, they felt tremendous pressure!

The positions of Ronaldinho and Nedved are close to parallel on the front waistline, Ronaldo ran to the left, and Villa moved freely in the center area.

With Alonso in the back row, Rahm who came up with assists, and Schneider as the basis for controlling the field, Millwall's offense is extremely left-leaning!

Ronaldinho, Nedved, and Ronaldo took turns breaking through Chelsea right back Ferreira!

They don't seem to want to attack from the right, but focus on the left!

In the 31st minute, Ronaldinho was blocked by Lampard and Essien after cutting in from the wing. He immediately passed the ball back to Ram on the same wing. Ram kept the ball straight ahead, and Ronaldo ran offside After getting behind Ferreira, Ferreira used the rhythm difference to kick back the ball when Ferreira chased back, and Ronaldo broke out and went inside to enter the penalty area!

Essien and Carvalho pounced on Ronaldo at the same time. Before they met, Ronaldo passed the ball in a small area and handed it to Ronaldinho, who was less than 4 meters away from him. The latter did not stop the ball and made a concealed through ball The ball was passed between Carvalho and Terry, and Nedved had a single-handed chance in the second half, and a strong shot was blocked by Cech in the near corner of the goal!

Chelsea escaped! Millwall obviously changed their style of play, and they focused all their firepower on the offensive center and left!

Ashley Cole was dazed.

He didn't know whether it was because he was too strong, so Millwall didn't dare to come to his side, or because Millwall underestimated him and was not afraid of him going forward to assist!

Millwall concentrates on the left. The hidden danger is that if Ashley Cole boldly assists to the forward area, or he will play in the role of changing front used by Aldridge when he was in Millwall and the England national team. , then Millwall's defense on Schneider's side may be easily blown away.

However, Mourinho is not Aldridge, he asked the defender not to attack, and the defender to defend full-time.

So now some fans laugh at Ashley Cole: After going to Chelsea for 2 months, his worth has dropped by 20 million!

He now looks like a first-class defensive full-back, that's all, and he doesn't see the amazing or even shocking shadow of the past in terms of offense.

This offensive adjustment is a test of Aldridge to Mourinho, to see Mourinho's desire and ambition for the game.

If you are extremely eager for victory, and the goal is to come to the Lion King Stadium to take away 3 points, then Mourinho will definitely use this change to let Ashley Cole make a bold assist!

If that is the case, Millwall is not waiting to be blasted by the opponent. The defender is in the penalty area, and Alonso and De Rossi protect the back line. As long as Chelsea does not rule out more follow-up players besides Lampard, After Millwall delays the opponent's attack time, he can also ensure that absolute defensive gaps will not be exposed.

Ashley Cole had no opponents in frontal defense on this side. After 2 minutes, Aldridge saw him actively shrinking into the penalty area, compressing the space in the penalty area.

Aldridge smiled dismissively from the sidelines.

It seems that Mourinho is only daring to fight back at this stage, and he dare not play real fighting with him!

Then, Millwall will completely establish an advantage locally.

On the field, Ronaldinho expressed dissatisfaction with Ronaldo for the first time, thinking that Ronaldo was a little cautious.

After a Chelsea counterattack ended with Lampard's long-range shot deflecting from the goal, Ronaldinho pointed in the direction of Ferreira in front of Ronaldo, and said simply and bluntly: Fuck him! Blast him! Don't hide from him! Today We must defeat him first!

Ronaldo nodded, his expression became ruthless. In the next 5 minutes, Ronaldo broke through Ferreira twice. In the 39th minute of the game, Ronaldinho came here. The mentality was out of balance, and when he was thrown away by Ronaldinho's horizontal ball, he pulled Ronaldinho down with his hands.

The referee whistled for a foul on Ferreira and came over and gave Ferreira a yellow card!

Ronaldinho got up from the ground, and after the referee finished drawing out the cards, he suddenly made a cross with a wide arc.

And it was an unexpected arc from the outside of the instep. He was on the left, and the arc from the outside of the right foot, didn't the ball fly outward?

The Chelsea generals turned their heads and looked towards the point where the ball landed, and they were suddenly shocked.

Ashley Cole's inner penalty area did strengthen the defense in the penalty area, but he was not threatened for a long time on his side, and Schneider ran up quietly to shock Chelsea.

Ronaldinho's quick free kick is to kick the ball in a big arc. At first, the Chelsea generals thought that Ronaldinho was shooting, and at the second reaction, they thought it was a cross to a teammate in the penalty area. The ball was passed to Schneider who came up from the other side!

The Brazilian magician's global vision and pass concealment are fully displayed! (To be continued..)

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