The Young Lion

Thanks to Thieves and Tianxuan for their rewards! ——

No matter how strong Mourinho's ability to resist pressure is, he must be very unhappy when he is pointed at his nose and scolded for being utilitarian, negative, and repeatedly criticized for being too conservative.

If the opponent who lost to him criticizes him like this, he will naturally dismiss it, and he can fight back with one sentence, leaving the critic speechless: I beat you!

But he lost to Aldridge, and Chelsea lost to Millwall. In addition to finding other reasons to quibble, he can only choose to avoid the core issue.

This criticism is unreasonable!

Indeed, if Aldridge is not the coach of Millwall, or if Millwall and Chelsea are not in a competitive relationship, then he will appreciate what Mourinho has done in leading Chelsea, just as he would in the past To praise Valencia's anti-reverse tactics played very well.

After all, football is not rugby. In more than 80% of the game time of rugby, the offensive and defensive teams have a clear situation. One side is the offensive team and the other side is the defensive team. The situation arises.

On the football field, counterattacks will always exist!

Because no matter how powerful the side is, it is impossible not to defend!

No matter how weak the party is, it is impossible to completely abandon the attack!

If there is offense, there will naturally be defense. When the offense and defense switch, counterattacks will inevitably appear.

The only difference is whether counter-defense is the core offensive tactic of a team.

After a team determines the core tactics, it must create an environment for tactics to play. For example, Chelsea play defense. Then secure the line of defense. Take the initiative to retreat, wait for the opponent to attack, and strike later.

Aldridge led the England team to build tactics with this idea in the World Cup. Although the counter-defense routines are different, the core concept is the same.

Mourinho didn't care about the praise and criticism from the outside media, but Aldridge also mocked Chelsea on this issue, which made him think Aldridge's hypocrisy even more!

Everyone understood what was going on. But you want to open your eyes and talk nonsense!

That's right, it's to fight the deadly enemy.

People, it’s always like this, you can’t treat yourself and your enemies with the same standard,

Otherwise, it is a saint.

Aldridge believes that it is in his own position to change Mourinho, and he will make the same remarks.

Just like he mocked Tottenham for setting the bus, did Chelsea really play aggressively against strong teams?

There are still 45 minutes in the second round of the Champions League quarter-finals, but these 45 minutes have become garbage time because the total score gap between the two sides is too large.

Mourinho in order to prevent the team from being slaughtered. Choose to retreat, at the same time. He also held a bad breath in his heart, wanting to see with his own eyes how Aldridge would deal with the current situation.

In the first half, the defense had already been resorted to. In the second half, Chelsea did not take the initiative to attack and maintained a tight defensive formation. Millwall had no room for counterattack. How should they deal with these 45 minutes?

Mourinho's ideas are idealistic.

He overlooked one thing.

He made Chelsea's overall formation retreat and no longer boldly invest in offense. This subtext is actually telling Chelsea's generals: We give up!

As a result, Chelsea's heart was completely vented.

In the second half, Aldridge did not let the game become boring. He saw that Chelsea retreated and re-anti-countered. In theory, Millwall could advance to the semi-finals without bloodshed as long as he killed the opponent. But the reality is that even if Millwall took the initiative to attack Going out, it will be difficult for Chelsea to cause damage to Millwall.

After the team's breath is exhausted, it is difficult to improve.

It's just that Millwall will make the scene more exciting, but it will not attack unscrupulously and frantically.

They frequently shoot long shots from the outside, and their penetrating offensive is not afraid of an increase in the turnover rate. In short, in terms of the situation, they are suppressing Chelsea's offense.

Mourinho also sat back on the coach's bench. In the 80th minute of the game, he lowered his head and closed his eyes with a look of unwillingness.

Aldridge wins again!

Even though there were only a handful of Millwall's truly threatening offensives in the second half, they did not score the third goal of the game.

The score is still 2:0, the total score is 5:1.

However, on the scene, Millwall won!

In the eyes of the outside world, Millwall is still the mad lion who carries the banner of offensive football and leads the trend of football!

Chelsea lost a crushing defeat.

When the full-time whistle blew, Aldridge stood up from the coach's bench, held out his hand as he walked toward the tunnel, and high-fived his fellow coaching staff as he walked.

The defending champion Millwall defeated their city rival Chelsea 5:1 in the quarter-finals of the Champions League and successfully advanced to the semi-finals of the Champions League. Their opponent will be Juventus from Serie A! The first round of the semi-finals will be It will be held at the end of the month, and if we can get past Juventus, Millwall will have the opportunity to defend the Champions League again!

Mourinho said with a serious face in an interview after the game: People are saying that Millwall is the representative of offensive football. Disdainful defense beat my team and Chelsea could walk away with their heads held high, we were genuine, not hypocritical like some teams are.”

In an interview, Aldridge was conveyed by reporters to Mourinho's post-match speech. He said as usual: I have said many times that I am not interested in listening to the complaints or excuses of losers. When others blame Chelsea, some people are emphasizing Result, now that the result is out, someone is emphasizing the process, well, football is not a debate, what's the point of saying that? Millwall won at Stamford Bridge, won at the Lion King, that's all, goodbye.

Mourinho is not a popular media darling, but a topical and controversial figure.

So when he suffered a disastrous defeat in the Champions League, the voices of getting worse came one after another.

Aldridge did use anti-reverse, however. But it was praised by Fleet Street!

I think this is the rich tactical concept of the young marshal. The perfect embodiment of flexible use in actual combat.

Chelsea countered. lost.

Chelsea fought a tough battle and lost.

In turn, Millwall won both.

The strength gap between the two teams and the coach's on-the-spot command ability are judged.

The exit from the Champions League made Chelsea slightly lower in the assessment of European strength. After all, the expectations of the outside world were a bit high before, which originated from Chelsea's shocking signings, which created a sensation and the illusion of superior strength.

On the second day after the Champions League game, Aldridge was working in the office, browsing the medical department's report on the recovery of Kaka and Alonso's injuries. There are also physical fitness tracking and evaluation reports of main players such as Ronaldinho.

The devil's schedule of the Premier League will kick off on the weekend. They will play 4 Premier League games, 1 Champions League game and 1 FA Cup game in the second half of the month, 3 days a game, absolutely 3 days a game!

This kind of situation has happened in previous years, but the schedule is almost never as dense as this season. All fronts collide together. At the same time, the opponents are all European giants or former giants!

The most important point is actually the competitive environment of the league.

Chelsea are just 3 points behind them.

If the devil's schedule collapses, Millwall is likely to be reversed by Chelsea!

It is necessary to maintain the leading position before the league visit to Stamford Bridge. Only in this way can we take the lead when visiting Stamford Bridge and occupy the strategic commanding heights in the formation.

bang bang

There was a knock on the door.

Please come in.

Aldrich put down his hands and reported. He raised his head and looked towards the person coming.

Carter walked in and smiled at Aldrich: Have you read today's newspaper? Hehehe, Chelsea seems to have been beaten back to its original shape.

Aldridge curled his lips and said, I wish it were that easy. I'm still thinking about how to make a strategic plan for the second half of the month to face the league game at Stamford Bridge at the end of the month.

Haha, that's your job. I came to you because I have something to talk about.

Oh? Well, I'll save a bottle of good wine too.

You gave me the wine directly. I've always been curious about where the wine here comes from. You don't seem like someone who wants to go out and search for good wine.

Well, they were all sent by others. Schneider and the others have a winery, and they give me some good wine every year, and some are sent by Andrew or Barnett. They have more time to study this than I do. I just sit back and enjoy it.”

Carter laughed, put away his smile after sitting down, and said: One thing I just noticed now is why there is only one authentic Champions League trophy in the trophy exhibition room in the Lion King Stadium? According to UEFA regulations, Shouldn’t we be given two authentic Champions League trophies? From 2000 to 2002, we won three consecutive championships, so we should be given a genuine Champions League trophy. Last season, we won the fifth Champions League trophy and won five times. Give us a genuine Champions League trophy.

Genuine and replica are very easy to distinguish.

Because the replica is only no more than 4/5 model size of the real one.

Originally, Carter didn't pay much attention to this matter before. He thought that when he inspected everything in the club when he took office, there were indeed two genuine Champions League trophy in the Millwall Trophy Exhibition Room for tourists to visit at the Lion King Stadium!

One, the genuine one kept permanently at Millwall.

The other is the genuine championship trophy that Millwall brought back after winning the Champions League last season.

However, Carter realized that he had made a common-sense mistake before the quarter-finals started.

Or maybe he ignored it.

Because Millwall's second, the Champions League trophy brought back after winning the championship last season, represented by him and player Southgate, returned the trophy to UEFA in the handover ceremony.

The current rule is that the team that wins the UEFA Champions League can keep the original trophy for 10 months. After 10 months, it must return the trophy to UEFA, and then keep a replica. The size of the replica model should not exceed the original. 4/5.

After this incident, Carter realized his previous mistakes, so he deliberately turned over the UEFA rules. He believed that Millwall should have two genuine Champions League trophies that can be kept forever, but now there is only one left Because it was the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League, he didn't come to Aldridge to discuss this matter. He had a good grasp of the priorities. Now that he has time, he is not afraid of disturbing Aldridge, so he came to ask ask. (to be continued...)

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