The Young Lion

On the second day after winning the championship, Aldridge enjoyed a warm dinner at his parents' house in the evening, but it was a pity that his eldest brother did not come back from the United States.

After dinner, Aldrich and Melanie went to the cinema to watch a movie together, and then went home to go to Wushan.

On the 17th, the morning of the FA Cup final.

Aldridge drove to the team's training ground. He was outside the training ground early in the morning. Because it was the weekend, many fans came here early to cheer for the team. Before the training started, the players would also go outside to cheer Fans sign.

The fans were full of enthusiasm, looking at the players on the training ground with happiness.

Aldridge came to the sidelines of the training field in sportswear. The coaches were all present. Before the training started, other players who were a little slower came out of the locker room one after another.

Their mental state can be seen from their relaxed expressions, and their mental state is also good. Obviously, the main players did not indulge in yesterday's holiday.

Hi, boss.

The players greeted Aldrich one after another. At first, they were still smiling, but when they saw the expressionless Bethany and the thick stack of documents in the other party's hands, most of the players turned their eyes away and walked away strangely. far away.

Most of them are a little afraid of Benitez.

Especially Pirlo and Schneider.

Aldridge is the head coach, but he doesn't have the energy to do everything by himself in all aspects of the club's first-team work.

For example, his focus is on tactical layout, locker room management, and on-the-spot command.

The specific technical training of the team is in charge of Mullenstin, the physical training is in charge of Babu, and the tactical training is in charge of Benitez. Jansen coordinates all aspects while maintaining communication with the players during training.

Other first-team coaches are distributed among different group training sessions.

Benitez is a perfectionist. This makes many players can't stand him.

Even if Nedved won the best of the game in one game. Even though 70 passes were made, 60 were successful, the success rate was over 80%, and there were other excellent transcripts, but in the new day of training after the game, Benitez will praise Nedved: Pavel , did a good job yesterday, let's talk about your ten missed passes yesterday.

Benitez's demands for players to keep improving made some players really unbearable.

At this time, either Jenson or Aldridge will become the listener of the players' private complaints.

It sounds like one of the first team coaches is a good face and the other is a bad face, which is actually the case.

In the past, Aldridge played the role of Benitez, but he will not be as perverted as Benitez. However, it is reasonable to have higher requirements for players, otherwise, the players will meet 80% of the requirements. Pass success rate, you will feel that this is your best self. Maybe it's fine in the short term, but in the long run. This is not necessarily a good thing.

After the warm-up training, Benitez took his notebook and prepared to talk to the players individually, which made the players face the enemy after jogging, and their expressions changed.

Aldridge held Benitez's arm, shook his head slightly and smiled, Forget about it today. After the afternoon game, they will be on vacation. What you say to them now will have no effect.

Benitez hesitated for ten seconds, and finally showed a helpless expression: Well, I hope they can let us have a pleasant vacation.

I have confidence in them.

Seeing that Benitez did not come, the players looked at each other, and finally let out a sigh of relief.

To be honest, after the last game of the season this afternoon, they are about to leave. At this time, they don't want to discuss with the coach anything about what they did in the game the day before yesterday. Even if they have time to discuss it, so what? Are you coming back to practice tomorrow?

There was no intensity in the morning training, the players just came to relax.

The coaches were not watching, and Aldridge and Meulensteen were chatting together.

Really? What's the use of that thing?

Meulensteen asked curiously.

Aldrich said: There are ball servers used in tennis training. I ordered a batch of football ball servers from the manufacturer. The principle is the same as that of tennis, but the mechanical structure is enlarged. I think it can train players' ability to handle the ball. , don’t you think some aspects of player technical training are too static now?”

Meulensteen imagined it in his mind.

Tennis ball drives are nothing new, or more intuitive in baseball practice, where the ball is fired from the machine and the baseball player swings the bat to practice hitting.

Football ball machine?

Is it for the goalkeeper?

That was the first thing Mullensteen thought of.

Aldridge smiled and said: You can train goalkeepers to save, but if you adjust the angle of the machine, the balls shot will have different trajectories. In this way, players can be trained to stop the ball at medium and long distances, especially when players are unpredictable. The ball shot from the machine needs to react in a short time and run and then stop the ball. This is more a test of the player's ability, isn't it? I mean, the machine will not act like a human, ready to catch the ball Most players have the awareness of catching the ball the moment they see their teammates kicking up and swinging their legs, and can judge the path of the ball and the trajectory of the landing point, but the machine does not swing its legs, leaving less time for players to react.”

Meulenstin's eyes lit up, and he said, You can also train players to shoot with difficulty! Offensive and defensive players compete for unpredictable ball landings...

Aldrich was stunned for a moment, and said casually, Eh? Why didn't I think of that? You really know how to infer other things from one instance.

Meulensteen laughed and asked, How did you come up with such a thing?

Aldridge shrugged and said, I'm thinking that we should add some difficult conditions to allow players to practice their skills. In the Premier League, Bergkamp's only stopping the ball is an art. As long as the ball touches his high ball and low ball Feet seem to have the magic power to bring strength to life, but when we train, if the coach keeps kicking the ball to train the players individually, it will exhaust us and let the players kick. It will also delay the kicker's training. So. I thought about adding training equipment to replace the human training method. I saw a tennis news a few months ago, so I thought of this method. The factory will send me the machine in the summer. Let’s see the effect then.”

Meulensteen is obviously very happy that Aldridge can do this. What he pursues is to hone the player's skills to the extreme and strive for excellence in technical training. Aldridge can not only pay attention to this aspect. And there is a lot of investment, which makes him feel relieved and happy.

After lunch in advance, the players rested in the training hotel for a while, and then all set off for Wembley in London in the afternoon.

It was a sunny afternoon and when the Millwall bus drove into Wembley, countless fans gathered around England's greatest stadium.

Today's England is rendered in blue. Millwall is nicknamed the Wild Lion, and the main color is blue. Chelsea is nicknamed the Blue Lion, and the main color is naturally blue.

This makes it easy for fans of the two teams to be confused outside the stadium. If you don't look at the advertisements on the chest and the team logo, it may be difficult to distinguish whether you are an enemy or a friend.

And because of this. Today Chelsea are lucky to draw the home jersey, and Millwall can only wear the white away jersey.

Unfortunately, most of the fans in the stands are blue, although there are Millwall fans wearing away jerseys to help, but they still have a lot of fans wearing home dark blue jerseys.

Originally, the fans on both sides accounted for half of the stadium to fight against each other. Chelsea's side was full of blue ocean, while Millwall's side was not so extreme. There was no shock in the blue and white mixed stands.

The stands where only more than 3,000 people gathered were all white.

It was the Roar led by Brady and Fred.

This is the embodiment of the role of the fan organization, uniform dress, so that their cheering can show the strength of the twelfth person.

Wild Lions fans are really depressed.

Invisibly, they were compared by Chelsea fans.

But who's to say they were wrong to come in their home shirts?

If you want to blame, blame the FA for giving Chelsea the home court advantage.

For this, Aldrich is not particularly concerned.

In terms of venue advantage, Millwall has played much more games at Wembley in the past two years than Chelsea. In addition to the two finals last year, this year's European home games are also played at Wembley. Millwall is clearly superior.

It's just that I'm used to the scene of fans cheering for the home team. At first glance, when I encounter Chelsea Blue Ocean cheering for their opponents, it is estimated that Millwall's players will also have an illusion: the fans have turned their backs!

Aldridge did not attend the pre-match press conference, which was notified by Millwall to the FA before participating in the European Cup Winners' Cup.

Do not have time.

In this regard, the FA does not mind. After all, Millwall went to the European Cup Winners' Cup final to fight for England's face, not to mention winning the championship.

This London blue civil war seems to be announcing the rise of London on the English football map. In the past, only one team, Arsenal, carried the banner, and the rest of the focus was on the two cities of Manchester and Liverpool. It is considered to be a force to be reckoned with in the Premier League, but in recent years, the situation has declined and no one takes Tottenham seriously.

The strong rise of Millwall has broken the old pattern. Chelsea has also shown its ambitions under Betts' loan investment regardless of cost. The focus of England has naturally turned to London.

This is not only a London civil war, but also a derby between sworn enemies!

Before the game started, Millwall chairman Arthur walked into the box with a smile on his face. Today he didn't mind coming to the box to watch the game, because there was his favorite enemy here: Betts.

Bates looked a little nervous in the box, his eyes were full of solemnity, and he regarded this championship extremely important.

When Arthur walked in, he didn't even notice, he seemed to be thinking about something.

Arthur turned around twice behind him, looked at Bates with a suppressed smile, and became surprised when Bates found him, Arthur raised his eyebrows and smiled: Old friend, I can sit here and watch the game with you ?

Can you go away?!

Arthur grabbed the other party's hand and shook it, and said with a big smile, Laugh, this scene must have been captured by the live broadcast outside now. If you drive me away, it's too rude, right? When I go out, I will say: Baby Ci didn't dare to watch the game with me, he was afraid that Chelsea would lose the championship. How about it?

Bates gritted his teeth and said, Old bastard, do you have to be so shameless?

Arthur sat down bravely, poured himself a glass of wine, and smiled casually: Oh, who made you embarrass me back then? Our two families are mortal enemies, and the seeds of hatred have been planted long ago , The law of the jungle is the law of the jungle, Chelsea is now a soft sheep, Millwall is a lion, of course I also want to open my bloody mouth and bite you to bloody flesh, if you are me, I will do the same, right?

Bates sat down with a look of indignation, and said in a deep voice: Arthur, in the past two years, you have humiliated me countless times, will this make you happy?

Arthur poured himself another glass of wine, exhaled freely after drinking, turned his head and grinned: Yes, I am very happy! To humiliate you is to make me happy! Maybe you still don't understand our Hall family Philosophy of survival, when someone punches us, we will not just be content to fight back and punch the other party, we will beat the other party so hard that it is painful, and we will never dare to shoot us again. West Ham United has been beaten by us The league is over, uh, Chelsea's relegation will not happen for a while, but, like today, we will let you not win the championship, when we lift the trophy and sing and dance, I will send you a picture of winning the championship, let you Remember, who made your efforts go to waste, who made your dreams shattered, who made you feel bad like constipation for days, and who made you lose your head in London! (To be continued..) (m )