The Young Lion

In the Parc des Princes, the visiting Millwall conceded the ball first, which did not surprise the audience at all. Even Aldridge didn't think there was any problem.

Losing the ball is a common thing, so there is no need to get angry.

Before kick-off, he made two gestures to the field, one that Southgate could understand and one that the offensive players could understand.

Southgate turned his head and looked at the other three defenders, making sure everyone nodded in understanding before signaling to Trezeguet in front of him to kick-off.

Millwall did not quickly counterattack after conceding the ball. The overall formation is still a bit late. The two full-backs did not press up during the attack. Instead, their wingers pulled the side and created opportunities through one-on-one. Sen and Shevchenko, doing what classical wingers like to do, dribble down and cross.

Aldridge stood on the sidelines with his hands in his pockets, his brain running fast.

Paris Saint-Germain is not unbreakable, especially if their weaknesses are obvious.

That is, the age of the midfielders is either too old or too young.

Not counting the 34-year-old goalkeeper Rama, the right back Fournier is 33 years old, the back center back Le Guin is 33 years old, and the other front center back N’Gotti is 26 years old, but his attack is also to make up for the decline in the running ability of the back midfielder The 31-year-old Gailan, the left back Domi is only 18 years old.

The right forward Leroy is 20 years old, and the focus is to make up for the 33-year-old Fournier's side in defense, and the 28-year-old Coe on the other side is obviously making up for Domi's young and inexperienced weakness.

Although the front midfielder Ray is 32 years old, he is old and mature. What's more, Leonardo on the front line sometimes takes the initiative to withdraw to be a support organization. Leonardo and forward Loko are both 27 years old, but this pair of strikers His performance in Ligue 1 was so-so. As the main striker of the French national team last summer, his performance began to decline after he transferred to Paris Saint-Germain. However, the opening goal still showed his strength.

Aldridge's admiration for Fernandez did not come out of thin air. Just looking at this lineup of Paris Saint-Germain, the opponent has played the value of the head coach. It is not just the superposition of players' talents on the field, but the sublimation of players and players that complement each other's strengths and weaknesses. This is the team. meaning.

Although Millwall did not make an overall push, it still achieved good results in offensive changes.

Shevchenko took the ball on the right and faced the 18-year-old Domi. Although his skills were not fancy enough, it was more than enough to dribble with speed and explosive power to overwhelm the opponent. Larson took the ball on the left and faced the 33-year-old veteran Fournier, although not every breakthrough can be successful.

But his speed and skill still prevailed.

Whenever two wingers break through on one side and successfully hit the bottom. Always bring the ball close to the baseline and then cross. At this time, there will be three outflanking points in the middle of the penalty area. Trezeguet grabs the front point, Nedved inserts directly in front of the goal, and the winger on the other side also enters the penalty area to outflank the back point. Therefore, Millwall's offense was fairly impressive. Although the routine was monotonous, it threatened frequently.

Is this Millwall? To be honest, I haven't watched a full Millwall game, but I have watched a lot of highlights of their Premier League games. Their offense shouldn't be like this on the field. Where is the organization in the middle? Where is the cooperation on the side? Where is the through ball that threatens the ribs? It's so strange. Could it be that Hall is afraid of Paris Saint-Germain's counterattack, so he dare not invest troops?

Not just commentators. Even Luis Fernandez frowned.

He had carefully studied Millwall's opponent, and he was really taken aback. In terms of defense, he deliberately used the central defender's front and rear positions, similar to the Italian chain defense strategy, but he did not expect that the opponent would not play in the middle at all. The two wingers really played the old-fashioned bottom pass tactics.

But what made him speechless the most was that he arranged the full-back defense to stare at the opponent's full-back for assists. The defender made a cross from the bottom, which forced his wide midfielders to also drop back to the bottom line to support the defense.

Although the team has not yet tied the score, Aldridge is full of confidence, and the situation on the court is as he expected.

Because the opponent's full-back can't freeze Shevchenko and Larsson, forcing the full-back to return to the defense, and his winger goes down to the deepest, pulling the offensive line to the deepest, which means that the opponent's full-back also has to return. Withdraw to the deepest point, and attack again when attacking. The running distance between this round and round, just in one's own half, is 100 meters back and forth.

There are so many veterans in Paris Saint-Germain, let you run for a while!

Millwall's two-wing offense gradually flourished, which caused Paris Saint-Germain to lack offensive support in the counterattack. After switching from defense to offense, they lacked a point of departure. The full-backs were all near the baseline. Larsson and Shevchenko's speed from offense to defense is also fast enough, so Paris Saint-Germain can only directly look for Rai or Leonardo in the frontcourt, but the distance between the offensive and defensive ends is too large, which gives the defensive side With more preparation time, Makelele got closer to Rai, and there was no room for the opponent to easily get the ball. Southgate also faced Leonardo.

Paris Saint-Germain tried several times to break through from the side with the ball and was destroyed, so they also began to try long passes in the counterattack.

After Coe got the ball from the left, he realized that Shevchenko behind him was about to catch up with him, so he sent the ball to the frontcourt with a long diagonal pass on the spot. Leonardo leaned against Southgate with his back, and then At this moment, Elguera, who was marking Loko, took a quick step forward, and Schneider and Capdevila, who were on the horizontal line, also took a step forward tacitly.

Leonardo didn't have many choices, he couldn't complete the stop and turn, because Ballack had already charged from the front, so he chose to head the ball, and he consciously pushed the ball towards Loko's side.

After he finished his header and looked down, he saw Loko stop the ball in the chest and then faced the goalkeeper Butt single-handedly.

The audience at the Parc des Princes held their breath and were about to appreciate Loko's goal when the referee suddenly stopped the game.

The linesman signaled Loko offside!

Loko still shot the ball, but Bout didn't make a save, turned around and returned to the goal to check out the ball.

Locco protested angrily to the linesman, but his rant was ignored.

Southgate nodded to Elguera, the tacit understanding between the defense partners is very important.

In addition to allowing the winger to pull and play deep to consume the opponent's physical strength, Aldridge is also a strategy to suppress the opponent's offensive starting point. In addition, he also allows the defense to use offside tactics.

Because of Ray, Brazilian stars like Leonardo like to stick the ball under their feet and make more moves. Then they will spend a lot of time organizing the offense. As long as they make good judgments when pressing, then when the opponent passes a threatening ball, the opponent's striker will fall into an offside trap.

Time passed by, Paris Saint-Germain was still in the lead, but they felt more and more pressure, and the audience in the stands also saw that something was wrong.

The two wingers were completely blown away.

Domi, Fournier is no match for Shevchenko and Larsson.

Fortunately, the quality of these two crosses is not very good, otherwise they would have scored a goal.

But it's not an option to keep playing like this, the situation on the court is changing rapidly. Who can guarantee that the next cross will not hit the head of a Millwall attacking player by accident and become a goal?

And Paris Saint-Germain's offense also fell into a quagmire. Lai lost his magic under the double-teaming of Makelele and Ballack. The full-backs couldn't attack, which allowed Millwall's full-backs to compress the central defense. Paris Saint-Germain's offense was cut to pieces by Millwall, and they could only fight alone. Obviously unable to pose a threat, in the second half of the first half, Paris Saint-Germain's striker frequently fell into the offside trap.

Thankfully, the first half is over.

Fans will hope Fernandes can make some adjustments in the second half to improve their defense and attack.

There were less than 3,000 Wild Lions fans who came all the way from London. They were drowned in the stands of the Parc des Princes, with anxious faces on their faces.

The team fell behind, which made them feel uneasy.

Intermission, in the locker room. Aldridge specially arranged tactics for Nedved in the second half.

Pavel, according to our offensive direction, you have to move more on the corresponding side, no matter the left or right, you should go to respond to Henrik and Andre. By interspersed with running positions to respond to the offense, this will reduce the We are threatening directly in front of the goal, it doesn't matter, I will give you the signal when the game reaches 60 minutes, and then, it is the time for us to dominate this stadium!

The team was behind, but the players were not discouraged. They were still full of energy and fighting spirit. Nedved nodded firmly and said loudly: I know!

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. Millwall's offensive routine remained unchanged. Paris Saint-Germain was calm and did not make any significant changes. After all, Fernandez didn't change much. He also defended against the opponent's attack at halftime, and he didn't want to mess himself up.

In the second half, Nedved shifted from directly threatening the opponent's goal to attacking support when attacking.

He ran in a wide range of the frontcourt and cooperated with Larson and Shevchenko on the opposite side, which made Millwall's offense very smooth, but the threat in front of the goal was reduced, which caused Millwall's offense to lose momentum point.

Aldridge stood on the sidelines, and his focus was not on his own players, but on every Paris Saint-Germain player.

Those veterans in their thirties were out of breath at the beginning of the second half. Even if they were defending in the backcourt, they could not keep up with the rhythm.

Most of the old and strong players know how to allocate their physical energy reasonably, especially when the game is changing flexibly. When their own team is attacking, the defensive players can rest for a while without assisting. The players could only run back and forth exhaustedly, and often within 20 seconds of a clearance, Millwall's attack came to the fore again, which left them with no time to breathe.

Aldridge is most concerned about the two opposing players, right forward Leroy and left back Domi. These two players are 20 and 18 years old, and they are about to collapse!

Leroy assisted Fournier in defending Larsson, but he was completely helpless under Nedved's support, especially the speed of Larsson or Nedved after taking the ball, he didn't even have a chance to foul No, Domi was even worse. He was shattered by Shevchenko. He got a yellow card for a bad foul, and his expression looked a little helpless.

When the game reached the 60th minute, Aldridge watched the veterans of Paris Saint-Germain panting and the young players sluggish. He thought the time had come.

Pirlo, who was warming up on the sidelines after the start of the second half, was called in front of Aldridge, and then assigned him tasks after playing, focusing on defense, and Pirlo didn't need to remind him on offense.

In the 63rd minute, Millwall made a substitution.

Pirlo on, Ballack off.

This is Aldrich's signal.

The players on the field were shocked, and everyone knew what to do next.

Aldridge greeted Ballack off the field, patted him on the shoulder to praise him, then turned his head to look up at the stadium stands, his eyes became sharp and energetic.

Parisians, the game is just beginning now.

Millwall came here to be the protagonist! (m)