The Young Lion

After Larsson's goal, Aldridge made a gesture to the players before Barcelona's kick-off, and the players on the field understood immediately.

After the re-kick-off, Millwall's offense began to lean to the left, and Pirlo's offensive scheduling began to tilt to Larsson's side, and Larsson also became the key figure in Barcelona's defense.

Until the end of the first half, Barcelona did not recover from the blow after conceding the ball. Millwall has been suppressing the situation on the field. Throughout the first half, they hardly controlled the midfield for a minute!

During the intermission, the two teams walked into the locker room. Robson had a serious face, but he was still a little thankful that he didn't concede a second goal in the first half.

Aldridge went back to the locker room and closed the door, and asked loudly, Is anyone feeling tired?

Although the players' jerseys were wet with sweat, they collectively shouted: No!

The main force has been preparing for nearly half a month, just for today's 9 minutes. They worked harder and more actively than Barcelona in the first half, and they ran more distance, but they were not tired at all. Their physical advantage is not just lip service. All are clearly reflected in the game.

Aldridge nodded with relief and continued: Give us 4 minutes, we can score a goal in Barcelona, ​​give us 9 minutes, we can completely destroy Barcelona! In the second half, we can't relax, we can't make stupid low-level mistakes! We are not Popular, but we just want to tell the world openly: Barcelona, ​​not our opponent! We are the stronger team, I believe you are not afraid of them, we have more chances in the first half, they have almost no power to fight back, in the second half, We have only one enemy: ourselves! Don't be distracted, don't think about how to celebrate after winning the championship, and don't adjust yourself according to the opponent's state, just show your best state and face the game with the most serious attitude. No matter What happened, remember our tactics, stick to it, we will win, I don’t want to see anyone slacking off and making mistakes, in that case, you will make yourself regret. It will also disappoint the efforts of your teammates, but I Surely you won't, because we are?

Lion!

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Aldridge did not make tactical adjustments in the midfield, and their tactical changes were adjusted in the game with ease. Aldridge made a gesture, and the players knew what to do.

Barcelona was suppressed in the first half. Aldridge didn't want to make any adjustments by messing around.

If he starts to keep the one-goal advantage now, then he is tantamount to returning the initiative to Barcelona. He can't do this. He motivates the players, makes them think in unity, don't care about the score, and concentrate on defending every opponent attack. Do your best to score more goals!

This will be a landmark battle,

What Aldridge wants to take away from the Netherlands is not only a dazzling championship trophy, but also to show Millwall football to Europe and the world!

At the beginning of the second half, Barcelona's frontcourt players retreated and received the ball more and more. Millwall's offense continued to the end of the first half, still playing Larson's side.

Enrique's suppression on the right was not strong enough. This allowed Capdevila to have space to step forward and assist when attacking, and the fight between the two teams also entered a fever pitch.

Larson received the ball on the left wing, and Freire was close to marking. After taking the ball, Larson took a step horizontally and then passed the ball to the left baseline.

Capdevila quickly plugged in, Enrique desperately chased back, the former made a cross to meet the ball, Trezeguet failed to grab the point. The ball was cleared by Cotto at the front point, and the ball popped out of the penalty area and fell to Popescu's feet. He was a step slower in handling the ball. The latter took a long shot and the ball slid out of the goal.

Larson shook his head regretfully, then turned around and ran to the backcourt to defend.

Seeing the movement of the Millwall players on the field, the person who was most shocked on the sidelines was Mourinho.

Millwall's striker who scored goals in all competitions that season, what was the first reaction after shooting? Run back and defend!

How can such a team not be strong?

And he also saw that because Millwall's forwards went back to defend, they had more room to attack forward in the counterattack. When advancing quickly, the defenders could intercept from the front without making mistakes in judgment, and in terms of speed, A forward running at high speed from the front rushed over. Once the defender was hit by the ball behind him, he had to turn around and accelerate again. It was only logical that he would be easily thrown off.

The crux of Barcelona is not too difficult to see, the front line is too long, the three lines cannot be connected, and Millwall uses active defense to cut it layer by layer.

The striker is in front and the midfield is frozen. If the defenders stay at the back, the success rate of organizing the attack will be very low. This requires the striker to retreat, the midfielder to run more to open the gap, and the backline to participate in support as well. , and this seems to be in the arms of Millwall.

How to crack Millwall's set, Mourinho racked his brains and finally found that maybe it was the opponent running so fast that the advantage was so obvious.

And the blurring of roles is also thought-provoking.

Not only Nedved, the striker's responsibility to return to the defense, the backcourt players to participate in the support, the multi-point blooming of the offense, etc., in Millwall's entire tactical system, it is difficult to put a fixed responsibility on the head of a certain player. In fact, even Makelele, with his short pass accuracy, is also sharing Pirlo's organizational tasks. Pirlo is an important commander, but he is not the only organizational player. Deved can do the same.

How should Barcelona play?

As an assistant coach Mourinho had a headache, but Barcelona scored a goal!

Figo retreated to catch the ball and did not choose to go to the bottom, because he retreated very deep, and Schneider did not stick it up. After all, if he pressed forward, there would be a large space behind him. Protecting space is more important than close marking.

Figo unexpectedly dribbled the ball in and went in the middle. De La Pena attracted Makelele's attention. Pirlo reflexively ran to intercept Figo, but Figo easily passed by.

Makelele retreated to the penalty area and began to press towards Figo, but saw Figo's earth-shattering long shot from 30 yards outside the penalty area!

The ball was hit hard and hit the crossbar with a bang. Bout had already rushed out, but because of the tricky angle, the ball came again suddenly, and he didn't touch the ball. Fortunately, the ball bounced out.

De La Pena got the ball in the penalty area, and Makelele quickly made it up. But de la Pena passed the ball to the right rib of the penalty area with a straight pass.

Enrique rushed to cross the ball, and Ronaldo stopped the ball near the penalty spot in the penalty area!

Southgate and Elguera happened to be tandem with Ronaldo one after the other. The alien swung his leg and made a shot. Elguera immediately raised his leg to block it. If you dare to make moves, you can only squeeze the opponent with your body.

Elguera felt that his body could block the opponent's shooting angle, but the next second. Ronaldo flicked the ball sideways.

Fake action!

El Guerra lost his center of gravity, Southgate was helpless, and when he slid his tackle to block Ronaldo's real shot, the ball was already flying towards the goal.

The football rolled against the inside of the post and into the dead corner of the goal.

Barcelona equalized the score in the 67th minute of the second half!

Ronaldo shoots, no, he doesn't shoot. He rolls past El Guerra and shoots! Goes in! Ronaldo scores the equaliser, he's fooling everyone in the Millwall defence! He's going to be A great shooter, he will, although Larson has scored more goals than him, but Ronaldo is so old!

After Ronaldo's goal, the Barcelona bench erupted with joy. Seeing the goal, the pensive Mourinho immediately rushed out and waved his arms to celebrate. Although the coach Robson was happy, he still stepped forward to calm Mourinho down.

It was just an equalizer!

But the Barcelona players are very excited, they are direct participants in the game, they know better than anyone how difficult this goal is!

Millwall has always had the advantage, but failed to expand the score. The players looked at Aldridge involuntarily.

But. Aldrich clenched his right fist and gestured in front of him, then pointed to the gate of Barcelona with his thumb.

The players quickly put away the frustration after losing the ball.

When the game resumed, Barcelona seemed to want to pursue the victory, and they rushed on Millwall as soon as the kick-off.

The ball rolled back and forth at the feet of the Millwall players, the players were calm and precise.

Trezeguet - Shevchenko - Pirlo - Makelele - Southgate - Capdevila - Southgate - Schneider - Pirlo - Larsson - Nedved.

All 11 passes after the re-kick-off were successful, and the ball went from midfield to the backcourt. Then back to midfield, and then came to the feet of Larsson.

Barcelona rushed too hard, and at this time the ball came to the feet of Larsson, who was the most threatening in their eyes, which made their defense line feel like a formidable enemy. Pressing up in a panic, Larson passed the ball back to Nedved, who kept the ball straight. Larson was running, but the ball did not pass to his side.

All the Barcelona defenders thought that it would be Larsson who went forward to complete the final blow, but they did not expect that Nedved's through ball was given to Shevchenko on the other side.

The Ukrainian nuclear warhead sped off Sergi and went straight into the penalty area. Seeing that the situation was not good, Baia rushed to grab the ball, but Shevchenko was half a step faster. He poked the ball away first, and Baia was shocked by the direction the ball rolled. : In front of the door!

The goal is empty!

Abelardo shoveled out to clear the siege, but he failed to touch the ball. Trezeguet also flew out of the body at the back point before Cotto. At the gates of Barcelona.

When this goal was scored, the audience fell into a brief period of peace.

The audience were all dumbfounded.

what happened?

The narrator was even more excited and unbearable.

Larson passed back to Nedved, Nedved kept the ball straight to the right of the penalty area, and Shevchenko appeared there! He rushed the ball to the center before Baia, and Trezeguet fell to the ground Goal in! Goal in! Millwall took the lead quickly after being equalized, Barcelona didn't even touch the ball after kick-off! We count, we count, Millwall the whole It took Trezeguet the end of the attack after 13 passes, and he turned the efforts of his teammates into a golden goal! The first kick was passed by him in the middle circle, and the last kick The shot was done by him too! What can we say? This is a model of team football!

Trezeguet roared and rushed to the sidelines, took off his jersey and celebrated.

With minutes left in the game, Aldridge started to make substitutions.

Ballack, Zambrotta, and Glenshire have already been on standby in front of the bench.

Benitez, Jenson, and Craig told the three players about their roles and responsibilities after playing.

Barcelona had just leveled before falling behind within a minute, which dealt a huge blow to them.

Robson also immediately dispatched troops, the old man was going to fight for his life!

Rarely, both teams make substitutions at the same time, and all of them change three players at once!

Millwall replaced Capdevila with Zambrotta, Glenciel replaced Trezeguet, and Ballack replaced Pirlo.

The formation changed to 431, with Shevchenko at the top, Larsson and Glenshire on the wings, and Ballack and Makelele as double midfielders.

Barcelona replaced Popescu with Pizzi, Stoichkov replaced Freire and Giovanni replaced Abelardo.

What formation did Barcelona play after the substitution?

God knows!

The pure defensive players on the field are not counted as goalkeepers, only Sergi and Cotto are left! Even with the midfielder Guardiola, there are only three! (m)