The Young Lion

The skies above Stamford Bridge are once again in a haze. \\.\\

Abramovich is outraged that the excellent situation foundation laid by the team at the beginning of the league has disappeared after three months!

The rift between him and Mourinho also surfaced in the newspapers!

The reason is that Shevchenko, whom Abuli advocated to introduce, has not been reused!

And Shevchenko, who played in a limited time, did not play the strength represented by his worth.

When Millwall reversed Chelsea to the top of the standings, the focus of Fleet Street was still on Chelsea. It seemed that the outside world was not surprised by Millwall’s reversal, even though many media supported Chelsea before, preaching that Chelsea can rule In Europe, after the Wild Lions, open up a blue army dynasty!

The media always plays with the wind.

In terms of news focus, there are relatively more news about the existence of Stamford Bridge than Millwall, although it contains a lot of negative news.

Including the contradictions between the generals, the doubts about Mourinho's coaching ability stem from his inability to use Shevchenko, a top striker who is famous in the Premier League and famous in Serie A.

There is also the conflict between Abramovich and Mourinho, which is naturally a topic of interest to the outside world.

Especially when the topic became heated, many players in the Chelsea dressing room stood up to defend Mourinho and firmly supported Mourinho, which raised the attention of the news to another level.

After all, there are still some players who have been left out. At this time, they will try to overthrow Mourinho's internal rule, and then gain the opportunity to turn their careers.

In the complicated situation created by such public opinion, the Times did not join in the fun. They pointed out the key factors for Chelsea's reversal more professionally!

Although Chelsea led by Mourinho did not win the league title last season, they scored the highest points in the history of the Premier League and even the top league. It can be said that Chelsea had a successful but not brilliant season. In the second season, the resistance they encounter will naturally increase. This is the most common situation in the top league. For example, some teams can only play well for one season. In addition to violent fluctuations, a common law that exists in the Premier League is that most newly promoted horses will not survive the second season.

Millwall has been able to successfully defend the league title in recent years, and the positive changes they have made every season cannot be ignored. The sense of urgency is very strong, but Chelsea lack experience, are they not performing well enough? At least in a competitive environment,

It's not good enough, especially when the league starts with sweeping momentum, which makes other teams panic, so, in the middle of the season, most teams have spent every point after the comfortable state of the beginning of the season. hour. Chelsea's biggest problem also surfaced: their lackluster performance in the tough game!

Once upon a time, at least half of the Premier League teams would adopt the 4321 defensive counterattack formation created by Sir Hall when facing Millwall. This created difficulties for Millwall for a period of time, but Millwall survived and they responded very quickly. This may be related to their failure to successfully defend the Premier League for the first time in the summer of 1998. In the following seasons, Huo Sir Sir attached great importance to the second year after the team won the championship, and made many team adjustments and changes that we can see, so that those teams that thought they had figured out Millwall tried to snipe Millwall to defend the title. I have suffered so much.

Chelsea probably thought that they did not win important trophies to prove themselves, so they did not attract too much attention. In fact, looking at what they have done in the transfer market over the years, they have even panicked many European clubs!

Mourinho's preparations for this season are not sufficient at present. At least, Chelsea has not made up their minds to deal with the middle and lower reaches of the team. What should Chelsea do when they use iron barrels to deal with them?

Chelsea needs positive changes. Now is not the time to discuss who is right or wrong, which player is more important, the boss and the coach, who is the boss of the team, they still have a chance to prove themselves, but first of all, they can't be messed up!

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The Premier League is turbulent, and the season has not yet reached the final sprint stage, and even the first half has not been finished!

But most outside observers know that the most critical moment of the competition in the Premier League this season has arrived!

If Chelsea has been chasing Millwall from the beginning like last season, even if they are behind now, people still have a wait-and-see or optimistic attitude towards Chelsea's future.

But in this season's competition, the key confrontation is that Millwall is 9 points behind and has caught up!

Even if it is a tie, the goal difference leads!

But the psychological gap for Chelsea is too great, and the impact is too strong. Once they continue to fall behind, they may be discouraged in the league. tenacious!

Aldridge ignored the news from the outside world. Of course he knew that Chelsea had become the headlines of public opinion recently. Regardless of whether it was positive or negative, there was Millwall behind the scenes. Let Chelsea be the team on the cusp.

Don't they want to be number one in the world?

Give you the world's first public opinion treatment!

Standing in this position, it is true to be distinguished and honored, but once there is a fall, the heavy pressure brought by countless people falling down is also overwhelming!

Standing on the peak, isn't it walking a tightrope in the sky?

Millwall will usher in the final round of the Champions League group stage.

In view of the tightness of Millwall's schedule in the future, Aldridge made a decision to send a half-substitute and half-reserve lineup in the final round of the Champions League group stage!

Take a look at their December schedule.

Just finished the Premier League at the beginning of the month.

On the 6th, a guest in Porto.

On the 10th, return to the Premier League and continue to play away games against Crystal Palace.

On the 11th, the Millwall team headed to Asia, aiming at Tokyo, Japan, to participate in the Club World Cup!

15th. The first game of the Club World Cup.

Regardless of the outcome of the first game.

No. 18. Either three or four finalists. Either final!

On the 23rd, the 17th round of the Premier League make-up match!

On the 26th, the Christmas Express opens! First round.

On the 29th, the second session of Christmas Express!

On the 31st, the third game of Christmas Express!

If you look at the next month, then...

On January 2nd, the fourth round of the Christmas Express battle will continue, and the Christmas Express will end after the fight!

After that, the league was suspended for nearly half a month. But after the 7-day recovery period, there will be an FA Cup battle in the middle!

It can be said that from December to January 2, in 33 days, Millwall will play 10 games!

If you exclude the match day, Millwall does not have an average recovery period of three days!

This is why at the beginning of the season, Aldridge was unwilling to apply for rescheduling the league when he participated in the UEFA Super Cup, and the reason why the team's record was not satisfactory due to insufficient preparations in the summer and poor continuous combat conditions at the beginning.

The Premier League schedule is cruel, as it has always been.

Also came to join in the fun and changed the tasteless Toyota Cup into the Club World Cup. It's just for business interests, but Millwall is overwhelmed!

If they have no experience. There is also no strong team lineup. I am afraid that this month's terrifying schedule will drag Millwall down!

Therefore, when Aldridge went to the Dragon Stadium after qualifying for the Champions League group, he sent a lineup consisting of half-team substitutes and half-team reserve players.

It can be called a baby soldier!

Almost all players in the reserve team have Millwall youth training accounts. As long as they are under 21 years old, they can represent Millwall in the Champions League without signing up!

This final game of the Champions League group stage is to deal with errands.

Aldridge also didn't want to lose face. In the away game, he let a group of players who were very strange to the outside world make their debut, and then played a solid counterattack in the away game.

Porto also have hopes of qualifying for the UEFA Cup. They want to beat Millwall at home, and then hope that Inter Milan can beat Rangers, which will allow them to finish third in the group and enter the UEFA Cup.

However, at the Dragon Stadium, Porto first paid the price for their aggressiveness.

Perhaps they really underestimated the enemy, seeing Millwall dispatching a group of unknown players and attacking regardless.

Although this group of Millwall players is unknown, there are still people in key positions. For example, there is Neal in the back, Lamour in the midfield, Moutinho and Veloso who have experienced experience on the field, and May in the striker. West, there is also a teenager Aguero who played center today.

The little-known youth training players in other positions have nothing to say in terms of tactical execution, and they are full of energy. They put up a tight formation to resist Porto's indiscriminate bombing, and seized an opportunity in the first half , Messi assisted Aguero to open the scoring!

The scene of Aguero and Messi running shoulder-to-shoulder on the sidelines shocked Aldrich. It was a routine game, but seeing the pair of Argentine twin stars running with youth and enthusiasm, the scene was really exciting. ah!

Porto cheered up after losing the ball, focused on defense, and patiently went to overcome Millwall's defensive barriers.

In terms of comprehensive strength and home court advantage, Porto is completely stronger than Millwall's starting lineup today, but Millwall used tactics to narrow the gap in strength between the two teams as much as possible, but unfortunately, after 80 minutes of resistance, they still failed. can hold on.

In the end, Porto tied the score in 81 minutes!

The score of 1:1 was maintained until the end of the game.

The Porto fans left disappointed.

Because in another game in the same group, Inter Milan also qualified ahead of schedule, and their fighting spirit was not strong, and they shook hands with Glasgow Rangers.

To the surprise of Inter Milan, they actually won the first place in this group!

They have 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.

Millwall has 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.

Inter Milan may be happy to avoid many strong teams in the knockout draw.

Millwall thinks it doesn't matter. The first and second in the group, who to avoid in the draw, are all unfounded worries and superfluous.

However, the draw at Millwall caused an uproar after the game! (To be continued..)

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