The Young Lion

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In 2005, on the evening of April 6th.

Stamford Bridge, full of stars!

The first and second place in the Premier League standings will stage a duo in the Champions League.

Just like when Chelsea was a guest at the Lion King Stadium, Millwall came here and also suffered from the huge pressure of the atmosphere in the stands from Chelsea's home fans!

When Aldridge walked into the arena, the noise was deafening, and the Wild Lions fans who came to the away game tried their best to create momentum to compete with the home team's momentum.

He looked calm and calm while sitting on the coach's bench, and still did not shake hands with Mourinho before the game.

Since Mourinho landed in the Premier League, all the communications between the two have been on the media platform. The last league match at the Lion King Stadium, Mourinho was expelled by the referee ahead of time. Naturally, the two had no chance after the game shake hands.

Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich appeared in the stands.

Mourinho's work is generally satisfactory to him, and there must be flaws. The first is that he is still behind in the league to Millwall, which also includes a disastrous away defeat. The second is that although Chelsea are in a strong position in the league, the team's technical and tactical style is quite different from what he imagined.

No fans in the world would say that Chelsea are playing beautiful football.

But beauty is the highest pursuit after survival, and Abramovich is not demanding perfection at this stage. It is a wonderful start to bring honor to this heavily built team.

Mourinho has a certain aggressive posture on the field. To put it bluntly, he is a big show, which brings a certain amount of pressure to the opponent, or provocation, which makes the opponent lose their psychological balance, and then brings Chelsea opportunities on the scene, which cannot be seen intuitively. , but these will affect the game bit by bit.

The starting players of both sides lined up to appear on the field. The Champions League theme song echoed in Stamford Bridge.

The much-anticipated first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals is about to begin. Unexpectedly, in this year's Champions League quarter-finals, there are two pairs of derby opponents fighting each other in the other half. Milan and Inter Milan staged the Champions League Milan Derby, In this half area, Millwall and Chelsea staged a London derby! If you only look at the past records of Millwall and Chelsea, it seems that there is no suspense for Millwall to win and advance, but this season, Mourinho coached After Chelsea. He made this team a qualitative leap,

Although Chelsea are still behind Millwall in the league, they have left their competitors far behind. Their performance in the Champions League is also extremely eye-catching. We have reason to believe in today's game. As well as the move to the Lion King Stadium in the next round, some unexpected things will happen. Today Millwall and Chelsea are the main players.

Chelsea starting: 433.

Goalkeeper: Cech.

Defenders: Ferreira, Carvalho, Terry, Ashley Cole.

Midfield: Essien, Makelele, Lampard.

Forward: Duff. Drogba, Ribery.

Millwall started 433.

Goalkeeper: Bout.

Defenders: Schneider, Nesta. Silva, Ram.

Midfielders: De Rossi, Nedved, Kaka.

Forwards: c Ronaldo, Henry, Ronaldinho.

Because Alonso is slightly injured. There was a change in Millwall's midfield starting today, before that. When Alonso was suspended due to a red card, Nedved played the position of central midfielder. Played well, with more than ten years of experience in the team, and the tacit understanding of working with Aldridge, he can do his best in almost any position in the midfield, just like he played as a midfielder in the Czech national team It’s okay to take a step back and play midfielder. Villa’s burning energy in the second half of the season made the state fluctuate a lot in the second half. With Henry’s comeback and the season entering the sprint stage, Aldridge’s requirements for the striker Higher, he will choose the starting candidate according to the player's status, even Ronaldo may be withdrawn from the starting list due to his ups and downs.

Aldridge, who was sitting on the coach's bench, bent over and rested his chin, staring at the field calmly.

His posture well reflects Millwall's posture after the opening game!

The Champions League is not a league.

In fact, even if they lose a game to Chelsea in the league, or even get double-killed, it will not make people despair.

However, in the two rounds of the cup match, if something goes wrong and mistakes are made, there is no room to make up for it. Aldrich figured out this truth a long time ago, and the prudence of playing cup knockout matches has always been a policy that has been implemented all the time. Never wavered.

After the opening, Millwall controlled the ball stably in the midfield and ensured that Chelsea's formation was compressed and retreated before attacking. In the away game, they were not in a hurry, there was no need to worry at all!

Moreover, the Champions League has an away goal advantage rule, as long as they don't concede a goal, look for opportunities patiently, and score goals, they can advance.

The truth is that simple.

Millwall has a newcomer at the beginning of the season. After half a season of running-in and improvement, regardless of the technical ability, game experience, or team understanding of the young players, they have been promoted to a new level very quickly.

This makes their team's technical and tactical performance more powerful!

Chelsea is very uncomfortable.

Sitting at home, because their core concept is to defend against counterattacks, they cannot take the initiative to attack!

Drogba's crazy press in the midfield is just a waste of energy and is consumed by the opponent.

Franck Ribery himself was ranked behind Joe Cole, but unexpectedly, when Robben had just recovered from his injury and was afraid to be used, Joe Cole lost to Ribery in the winger competition. The upper position is also due to his obedience, like Joe Cole and Robben have always needed Mourinho to yell at them crazily on the sidelines and let them participate in the defense. , So under the premise of investing a lot of energy in defense, Mourinho raised Ribery's team pick.

However, when facing Millwall, Ribery and Duff on the other side did not dare to go up easily for fear of losing the space behind him, especially Lampard, who knew what Millwall was playing. idea.

20 minutes into the game, Millwall had a very high ball possession rate, but did not create a good chance.

Chelsea's formation was compressed to the extreme, but they couldn't make a better counterattack. Because their counterattack starts too far back, and Millwall's midfield interception ability is also top-notch. How can Nedved and De Rossi let their monotonous counterattack tactics penetrate the middle? Not to mention Nesta, who beat Drogba to death in the back line, is even more invincible!

Silva has improved significantly this season. The defense is getting stronger.

There is only one problem that plagues Aldridge on the back line: when Silva becomes a world-class player, Nesta probably won't be able to last the whole season.

This question is about whether it is far or near, and it is not unfounded worry. I have a game of chess in my heart and know when to make a plan. When is it time to end, when is it time to explode and kill the Quartet, when there is no external force involved, Aldridge has always taken one step and three steps in the construction of the team.

Aldridge, who sat on the coach's bench and watched the game with his chin resting, did not show the slightest aggressiveness. This happened in the London derby in the Champions League. He wanted to win the first game, and he also firmly believed that Chelsea was definitely not so strong as to be as cold as ice!

What would shake them? make them panic?

time!

Mourinho stood on the sidelines directing the team's game, and now the scene on the court seems familiar.

In last year's Champions League final, Millwall used this routine to exhaust Porto.

Although Mourinho himself did not admit that he lost to Aldridge, insisting that Millwall used the rules to score the first goal, he actually knew it in his heart. Millwall will break through Porto, the only question is when.

Now, he has a team that is one level stronger than Porto. He firmly believes that Chelsea can compete against Millwall, but the comparison of the situation on the field makes him feel confused.

The main defense relies on four defenders, double midfielders, and the investment of the all-round midfielder Lampard on the defensive end. The main force is 7 people. In addition, the winger has to participate in the defense, but if the winger retreats to a deep area in the second half. The threat of counterattack will be greatly reduced in the same period!

Because Millwall's defense is much stronger than that of the second-generation Wild Lion!

The key point is the main player Alonso, now playing Nedved in this position. Compared with the second-generation Wild Lions main player Pirlo, he has stronger defensive ability and awareness, especially in terms of interception, and the consistency of the team's defense makes it too difficult for Chelsea's counterattack to penetrate the opponent. Drogba Drogba is not the strongest yet. He can abuse 70% of the Premier League defenders with his physical advantage, but he is less than half of the advantage in front of Nesta. However, the new leader of the Wild Lions defender calmly looks like a god , the season has entered the countdown, but there is almost no picture of Nesta making mistakes or making mistakes on the field!

The game time came to 35 minutes, and the Chelsea players were extremely depressed!

This is Stamford Bridge!

is their home field.

But they were beaten by Millwall on the scene!

The half-court offense will be terminated soon. In the defense, their wingers don't seem to have an obvious advantage in one-on-one. Ribery is on Schneider's side today, and Duff is on Tulam. This pair of German full-backs are intercepting with defensive awareness and skills, rather than relying on their bodies to rush and crush their opponents, so there is a high probability that Ribery and Duff's change of direction breakthrough will be predicted by Schneider and Lahm Correct, even if the prediction is wrong, they will not expose absolute space to the opponent. The main line of blocking is still the inside line, and the inside is more important than the outside.

Chelsea want to step on Millwall's corpse to advance to the Champions League semi-finals, they must score!

And must score at Stamford Bridge!

This is the consensus within their team.

Those players who played for Millwall actually played a negative psychological role at this moment.

In their subconscious mind, they don't think that running to the Lion King Stadium can take away the victory!

That is not a small probability thing, it is absolutely impossible in cognition!

Millwall has never lost at home in European games!

Even when Klinsmann was in charge, he never lost to an opponent at home in a European war!

Let alone Aldridge?

How could the king who is in charge of everything in Millwall capsize in the gutter at home?

To defeat Millwall and advance to the semi-finals, the only chance is at home!

Defeat the opponent at home, go to the away game and tenaciously stop Millwall from crushing them!

It was under the influence of such psychological hints that Chelsea's generals had other ideas after seeing the team's unfavorable situation on the court.

There are less than 10 minutes left in the first half of the game. Taking advantage of this time period, quickly press up and play Millwall?

In fact, Mourinho also thought the same way on the sidelines.

Millwall has occupied the ball for too long and has not withstood too severe a test. Can it be a gamble? Taking advantage of the end of the first half, the players may be less vigilant, so as to catch the opponent by surprise?

Mourinho, who knows his team well, knows that his disciples can't hold back through the players' movement on the field and activity trends.

So, he became ruthless, gestured to the players, and stormed Millwall!

At that moment, his expression showed a ferocious color!

In the last defeat, he didn't gamble and missed the best opportunity. This time, he gambled!

After seeing Chelsea's midfield line and full-backs start to press forward, Aldridge changed his posture, still bent over, with his hands on his thighs, and his head lowered. No one could see his expression at the moment.

A sneer came to the corner of his mouth. (to be continued)

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