The Young Lion

The first round of the European Champions Cup 1/8 finals started with a battle between the giants at the Lion King Stadium. The defending champion Millwall ushered in the challenge of the La Liga giants Barcelona! Today, the players from both sides have played their best. We have Reason to expect this will be a good game.

Millwall started 433.

Goalkeeper: Bout.

Defenders: Schneider, Nesta, Silva, Ram.

Midfielders: De Rossi, Nedved, Kaka.

Forwards: c Ronaldo, Henry, Ronaldinho.

Barcelona starting 433.

Goalkeeper: Valdes.

Defenders: Belletti, Marcos, Puyol, Van Bronckhorst.

Midfielders: Edmilson, Xavi, Deco.

Forwards: Giuly, Eto'o, Iniesta.

For Millwall, Alonso will come back soon due to injury, but Aldridge is not too worried about not being able to make it to this game. The experienced Nedved's appearance is very reassuring.

After the game started, Aldridge wanted to see if Rijkaard would bow to reality and come to the Lion King Stadium to play a utilitarian game.

When the game started, Aldridge showed an excited smile!

Barcelona, ​​really not cowardly at all!

They were the ones who kicked off the ball first, but they wanted to take the lead, and suddenly launched an offensive storm without any warm-up!

Well done!

Godfather Cruyff in a dream, later Van Gaal, and now Rijkaard, the impact of the concept of Dutch offensive football on Barcelona did not happen overnight, but an era, more than ten years. Even twenty years of impact!

This kind of or swallow mountains and rivers. Or the courage to burn everything together. Aldridge appreciates it!

At least, everyone can have a good fight!

Even though the combination of Harvey and Iniesta is not the dominant midfield combination in the future, at least from the perspective of player position,

There is still a Deco between them, but the talents and talents of the two have begun to show.

Harvey is a midfielder who is not fast in absolute terms but runs very high per game. That is to say, he rarely has surprising acceleration bursts. However, running on the field at a steady rate during the 90-minute game, covering the midfield, coupled with his role, made his role in the team very significant, that is, the number of supporting points seemed to increase virtually.

Using non-stop running, interspersed with space, so that teammates will not fall into the situation of passing the ball and cannot find anyone. At the same time, his excellent organizational talent allows him to ensure the team's control in the one stop and one pass that is not obvious. Possess the ball and continue the offense steadily.

Iniesta is characterized by his ability to control the ball and get rid of breakthroughs in a small area. It can be said that Barcelona's lineup configuration today is a bit similar to Arsenal's previous wing. On the left side, players with the ability to play the front midfielder play as wingers, and on the right side, players with breakthrough players play as wingers.

Iniesta, Deco and Harvey made consecutive passes in the frontcourt to disrupt Millwall's defense.

Playing against Barcelona in the first day of junior high school, the Millwall players also felt strange.

Like Nedved's defense zone, Deco will often appear, and at the same time, we must be wary of Harvey's back jumping, but Harvey and Deco, who do not seem to be fast, will always run to places where there is space to receive the pass , even if the space is small, it will not trouble them.

Deco is a familiar opponent for Millwall. In the past two years, Deco has become more mature than when he was in Porto. At the same time, his tactical system and the ability of his teammates have improved compared to when he was in Porto. Therefore, his performance has naturally improved. Boost, that's team chemistry.

Passing the ball continuously on the left, passing the ball quickly with one kick, Barcelona's offense is beautiful, and it is inseparable from their passing mode, which is weird and unpredictable.

Especially the most deadly is the last transfer.

At the beginning of the game, in the third minute, Iniesta passed the ball three times in a row. For the fourth time, he suddenly dialed the ball horizontally in front of Schneider to break away. Just as he attracted other Millwall defensive players, he suddenly The ball was returned to Harvey on the right rear.

Xavi didn't stop the ball forty yards from the goal. If he stopped the ball, Kaka would defend around him and limit his possession. Immediately turned from the left side to the depth of the right side.

Giuly, who went forward, bypassed Lahm and received the ball in front of the baseline, and then swept the ball to the goal.

The quick-witted African cheetah Eto'o started, threatening to grab a spot in front of the goal with a bloodthirsty threat. Silva turned around and tried to block the ball with a sliding tackle, but he was a step too slow and failed to touch the ball. At the critical moment , or Nesta interfered with each other in front of Eto'o and kicked the ball first.

He made a diagonal clearance and didn't want to give the opponent a corner kick. Naturally, he kicked towards the side, but he didn't expect that it was on the right. Belletti received the ball, stopped the ball, made a long pass, and passed the ball directly to Millwall. Around the edge of the middle of the penalty area, Deco took advantage of the situation and blasted a long shot to the ball!

boom!

The ball hit De Rossi firmly and bounced off!

De Rossi didn't follow Deco, and he didn't dodge when the opponent shot. The ball hit his shoulder and popped out!

The momentum after the opening of Barcelona excited their fans from afar, and also excited the players of Millwall!

Rijkaard saw that the team's offense hadn't been completed. Even though the threat had come out, there was still a clear gap to the goal. He immediately gestured on the sidelines to ask the players to return to defense!

The ball that popped out was caught by Kaka, and Kaka tricked Harvey by making a fake horizontal pass on the spot, and then directly pushed the ball forward, accelerating the start, Harvey stretched out his hand and pulled Kaka's arm, Kaka Without looking back, he threw away his arms and strode forward to kill!

When the ball came to the front waistline, Kaka made a breakthrough diagonally, and after Edmilson moved the center of gravity, he crossed the ball to the left.

Belletti has not returned to the defensive position, Ronaldinho is unmarked, and after getting the ball, Ronaldinho makes a diagonal pass!

Henry, with his back to Barcelona's back line, didn't stop the ball and knocked the ball back to Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho also didn't stop the ball, and then made a straight pass!

Looks like he's still looking for Henry!

But Henry missed the ball!

Marcos and Puyol watched in amazement as the ball rolled between them. Rolled to the back of the two. Marcos turned around immediately. But I saw a fast-moving figure rushing obliquely and forcefully!

Ronaldo!

The starting speed exploded Van Bronckhorst's Ronaldo. After Ronaldinho and Henry made consecutive passes and Ronaldinho made the last pass and Henry consciously confused his opponent and missed the ball, he succeeded in anti-offside!

Ronaldo grabs a volley!

It's a pity that Valdes immediately abandoned the goal at the moment when the back line was penetrated. Perhaps he was just like Van Gaal commented: his wide range of activities is his advantage.

Ronaldo's volley also hit the opponent's body!

Valdez took a shot from Ronaldo with his chest!

The ball that popped out was immediately kicked out of the sideline by Edmilson to make a clearance.

The two sides launched a wonderful confrontation at the beginning of the game! The offense of the two teams is simply amazing. Fans must not blink, otherwise they may miss the wonderful moment!

Aldridge tilted his head and smiled, while Rijkaard looked serious.

For Rijkaard. He knows how difficult his choice and persistence are.

Want to destroy Millwall with attack?

too difficult!

It's so difficult that almost no one in Europe would believe that this would work!

Look at Millwall's offensive players, Henry, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Ronaldo, any of these are huge threats, playing against Millwall will definitely give these players more room to play, Chelsea It was a loss to Millwall, but at least Chelsea were playing against Millwall. Their choice, no one will feel a problem. The core of the problem of losing to Millwall in the league is: Chelsea's ability to attack fortified positions does not specifically refer to the confrontation with Millwall. The league is not a cup game, but a competition system that compares who has more points.

Aldridge appreciates Barcelona's courage to play against Millwall, but as far as the game itself is concerned, his chances of winning have improved.

You must know that although Barcelona is sticking to the style of Dutch offensive football, their concept of game control has not yet achieved a qualitative change during this period. Only when the Guardiola era comes, this feature will produce explosive power. sublimation!

And what about Millwall?

In their training, the offensive team confronted the defensive team. This kind of unexpected offensive transfer is something that defensive players are used to.

You know, although players like Silva and De Rossi are teammates with Ronaldinho Henry, they will be opponents in training and confrontation!

Use Ronaldinho Henry's terrifying offensive power to hone their defensive awareness and ability!

So although Barcelona did a good job on the court, at least they overdid it in the midfield, pulled up the tempo and diverted the offense through unexpected passes.

But in the most dangerous area, it is still difficult for them to play efficiently. Millwall only makes them look like they can pull up the banner of offense, but in the duel and defense at key positions, Millwall has done a good job.

On the other hand, Barcelona is obviously inferior to Millwall in this regard.

Perhaps because players like Ronaldinho, Henry, Ronaldo, and Kaka are unique.

Even though Barcelona may be like Millwall in training, using offense to sharpen and improve their defensive ability, but the quality of offense is different, and the tests that defensive players undergo are also different.

In the 19th minute of the first half, Lahm blocked Harvey's through ball to Eto'o through a supplement in the backcourt. Immediately in the penalty area, Lahm made a bold long pass to instigate the attack. Looks more like a clearance.

But the ball landed precisely at the feet of Ronaldinho, who was on the side of the midfield.

Ronaldinho turned around with the ball and dribbled forward, showing an indomitable momentum. In the process of moving forward, Kaka pressed forward in the middle to cover Ronaldinho, allowing Ronaldinho to finish in front of Edmilson. Diagonally dribbled the ball to break through, and then disturbed the opponent's back line defense. After completing the disturbance from left to right, Ronaldinho passed the ball diagonally to the other side of the penalty area, and passed the counter-cut line!

Kaka ran forward and ran directly into the penalty area. When Ronaldinho's pass arrived, Kaka was near the back point of the far corner of the goal. Henry outflanked the goal and shot the ball into the goal! (To be continued..)

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