The Young Lion

Thank you Yue Yin Farewell for the reward!

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Branstadion in Bergen, Norway on Thursday night.

Having experienced the luxury of the Theater of Dreams in England, as well as the exquisiteness of Anfield and St. James' Park, Millwall players look at this Bran Stadium and feel that it is obviously not worthy of the status of the European war. The capacity is even smaller than that of the Lions Den. Small, at a glance, the attendance rate is very high, there are not many vacant seats, but in fact the number of seats is less than 15,000, including nearly 2,000 Wild Lions fans who came from afar.

Most of the Nordic countries are sparsely populated, and the population base is there. Compared with Bergen's population of about 200,000, the number of people who come to watch the football is actually a very impressive number, which is also caused by Bran. Thanks to the football frenzy.

Millwall sent out the strongest team today. Aldridge only let Ballack replace Pirlo in the midfield. The tactical requirement is to play defensive counterattacks based on defense. The conservative 433 has become 4231.

Bran came up with a set of 433, three forwards, three parallel midfielders and four defenders. Northern Europe often has speedy wingers. a feature.

When the game started, Aldridge was sitting on the coach’s bench, and the fans in the stands cheered and cheered. There was no friction between the host and the guest. Originally, Bran fans felt that Millwall’s reputation was unworthy. Millwall fans On the other hand, I feel that Bran fans are all lower-level people, and they don't understand real football at all.

If it's a wealthy opponent, let's use our momentum to compete with you, which matches the strength of the team, can Bran? Competing with them is still a bit of an identity.

Aldridge has been thinking about why the opposing coach Calvinis would look down on Millwall.

Is it a smoke bomb?

But it seems that I have never seen smoke bombs with an extremely contemptuous attitude. Most smoke bombs are to belittle themselves and put on a low profile.

Perhaps this has something to do with Millwall's promotion in the previous rounds. Millwall sent all the substitutes to play in the cup before. In the previous round, the host and guest faced the Swiss powerhouse Sion in the two rounds. They only won a small victory by one goal, and the scene was relatively dull.

Now Aldridge has the space to let the main lineup charge forward. He also deliberately brought the whole team, other players who could not play. It's just a way to get used to the rhythm of long-distance travel in the middle of the week. It is not necessary to play football, but the body must adapt and learn to regulate its own state.

Although the European Cup Winners' Cup is the second most influential club cup in Europe,

But in fact, the gold content is not enough. It is known as the king of the cup, but think about it, there is only one cup champion participating in each country. Unless there is a defending champion who cannot obtain a seat in the Champions League, he will continue to compete in the European Cup Winners' Cup in the second season. The domestic cup competition is full of chance, and the pressure of competition in the mainstream league is high. It is not uncommon for cup champions to appear in the middle and lower reaches of the team. Assuming that in the five major leagues, as long as two or three cup championships are won by mid-range teams in a season, then the team composition of the European Cup Winners Cup next season may not be seen. Several well-known traditional strong teams.

This is not like the Champions League, where the traditional giants have a stronger dominance over the league. Although the UEFA Champions League is also played by one team in each league, the annual league championship will not be won by non-rich clubs on a large scale, so the gold content of the UEFA Champions League is very high. Balance, after the poverty alleviation was carried out, the gold content of the Champions League declined.

so. Millwall made it all the way to the quarter-finals, and faced the unknown Bran. Of course, the opponent probably thought so too. It was the first time in the history of Millwall's team building that it was going to fight in Europe, and the name was naturally not loud enough.

After the opening, Millwall played a little conservatively and the rhythm was slow. The players kept in mind Aldridge's advice, defend first and then attack!

On Bran's side, the attack was more fierce, and the players seemed to trust their skills at their feet. The wide players repeatedly tried to break through with the ball after taking the ball, and they didn't pay attention to Millwall at all.

Aldridge saw his opponent boldly pressing forward and playing extremely unrestrainedly, and he put aside the speculation in his mind.

It doesn't look like a smoke bomb.

Is really despised!

The player on Bran's left side strode the ball to pass Schneider. The intention is very obvious. Although Schneider will be overwhelmed by McManaman, but McManaman's dribbling is very good. The style is indeed not easy to mark, because once the defensive player makes a move, it is easy to be passed by the opponent. Schneider is not as strong as Thuram and can directly block the position to ensure the success of the defense. Even if the ball cannot be broken, Don't even think about the past.

However, Schneider was not afraid when facing Bran's player when the distance between the ball and the ball was clearly flawed. He predicted that the opponent would go to the bottom, turned around to get stuck in the first step, and then turned halfway around to protect the ball. He left the opponent behind, and then he took the ball two steps forward, observed the situation ahead, and made a long pass in a straight line.

Bran's formation was a bit high. Before Schneider passed the ball, Shevchenko started from the center line. When the ball crossed the center line, Shevchenko had already rushed from the gap between the full back and the center back. In the past, Shevchenko had caught up to the ball after it had bounced off the ground, and this time he took another step forward, completely leaving Bran's entire defense behind.

Instead of continuing to dribble, he grounded the ball across the middle.

The ball rolled in front of the chasing central defender, in the middle near the penalty area line, Trezeguet rushed between the two central defenders, pushed the ball without stopping, and the ball rolled towards the far corner of the goal go.

The goalkeeper Feipu stretched out his hand to block it, but the angle of the shot was tricky, and he was still powerless when he flew to the end. He could only watch the ball rubbing against the goal post and rolling into the goal.

After Trezeguet scored a goal, he pointed at Shevchenko and ran over, and the Millwall fans in the stands jumped up and down excitedly.

see it? This is the power of our mad lion!

Millwall scored... well, they only had two passes and one shot past Bran. Right-back Schneider with a long pass and right-winger Andriy Shevchenko up front. After catching the ball on the right side of the field, he crossed the center, and striker Trezeguet scored directly. It seems that Millwall is indeed very good, but is this style of play a bit conservative? This is the British long pass.

The Norwegian commentator was a little embarrassed. Ten minutes before the game, he had been praising Bran's offensive. Belittling Millwall's conservatism, the sudden goal not only made the Bran fans at the scene struck by lightning, but also the commentator was at a loss for a while.

Bran started a strong counterattack after losing the ball at home. Millwall took the lead, and the mentality of the players suddenly became calm. Played more calmly, and the players on the field quickly entered the state.

Bran's penetrating ball in the middle of the attack was accurately intercepted by Makelele, and then the ball was passed to Ballack who was running. The latter made a direct pass to the frontcourt. Passed the ball to Nedved who was plugging in at high speed in the middle.

After the iron-willed Czech started at full speed, the Bran midfielder simply couldn't catch up. When Nedved received the ball, he moved forward without slowing down, took advantage of the opportunity to break through Bran's defense, and went to the meeting alone.

A powerful volley sent the ball into Bran's goal. In the twenty-seventh minute of the game, Millwall led by two goals!

The Bran players were all dumbfounded, Millwall's offensive and defensive transitions were too fast!

This made their thinking unable to keep up. From defensive success to counter-attack scoring, Millwall's teamwork was unbelievable. Especially the frequency of the ball transfer will not stay at the feet of a certain player.

Bran coach Calvinis roared angrily on the sidelines, venting his dissatisfaction with his disciples. He scored two goals at home, if he couldn't score. It almost declared that their European tour was over.

Aldridge has always been sitting on the coaching bench. To be honest, he has never studied Bran's game video before. It is not to say that he underestimates the opponent, but he thinks it is unnecessary. The strength of his own team is absolutely superior to the opponent's. In fact, as long as he is more cautious in tactics, he should not encounter Waterloo.

If he lets the players attack aggressively from the start, there may be problems. In any case, when playing away games in European games, it is natural to defend first and then attack.

The more Bran's players attacked, the bigger the loopholes in their defense line. Often their offense came to an end around the periphery of Millwall's penalty area. When they turned around, Millwall's counterattack made their defense line crumbling.

Larson didn't seem to be wearing shooting boots today. He hit a single-handed ball on the side net, and a long shot from the left side of the penalty area was also ridiculously high.

Is he releasing water on purpose?

Aldridge turned his head and joked with Benitez.

Benitez also had a rare moment of humor, saying: It is possible that Sweden is next door to Norway. A hundred years ago, they were still the same family.

Perhaps the number of goals scored in the league is too high. Although Millwall's league has always won a mediocre rhythm recently, Larson has scored an average of one goal per game because he starts every game. It has something to do with handing over penalty kicks to him. The number of goals scored in the league has reached 27. The Premier League Golden Boot should have stopped running. The rest depends on whether it can hit the European Golden Boot. The scorers in the mainstream leagues are a little better than before. After all, when the scoring criteria were not used in the past, some small European leagues scored an incredible number of goals, leaving mainstream league shooters in the dust.

Compared with the Bran players running back and forth on both ends of the offense and defense, Millwall seemed more calm, and the control of the game gradually fell into Millwall's hands.

In the second half of the first half, the Millwall soldiers found that the opponent was unable to attack, so the two full-backs also began to insert assists in turn. Schneider took the ball from the right and broke through easily. The opponent's full-back did not cross the goal, but passed back to the top of the penalty area. Nedved lightly padded the ball with the arch of his foot. It was easily unloaded and passed to the side. Ballack, who ran up, faced the comfortable ball and took a long shot.

The quality of this long-range shot is very high. In addition to the speed, the angle is also very tricky.

Make a sound.

The ball bounced inside the goal post and into the goal.

Ballack raised his fists high and swung up and down. This was his first European goal, so he was naturally excited.

Millwall scored the third goal, the first half is not over yet, but the suspense of promotion should have disappeared, Bran and Millwall are not at the same level at all, what is going on with this team from England Appeared? I have never heard of such a powerful team in England before! Their players all look top-notch, and Bran is not their opponent at all...

The Norwegian commentator was helpless and frustrated. If it wasn't for his respect for his hometown team, he might really add a sentence to the commentary.

Coach Calvinis, half of your rhetoric before the game has been realized. Yes, in the first round of the European Cup Winners Cup quarter-finals, Bran did make the suspense disappear at home, but the next round goes to London, no The comeback is your team.

Bran's coach Calvinis has already sat down dejectedly. The team is behind by three goals. He has no choice but to attack or defend. Surrender? But he-mother still has the second half!

***Millwall, you played against Sion in the last round, it wasn't the fierce people on the court now! (m)