The Young Lion

It's not just Aldridge who is depressed, but also the players on both sides who played today. Oh, the Tottenham players felt useless. After the game, they hurriedly left the stadium avoiding the camera and avoided the interview.

Only Rio Ferdinand and Les Ferdinand seemed to have experienced such a fierce battle. After the game, the two exchanged shoulder to shoulder and formally exchanged jerseys.

Leo did not face a test today, and Rice also had reason to leave the court with his head held high today.

That's right, he was walking almost the whole court, but this was arranged by the coach. His teammates didn't even give him a chance. The backcourt cleared the ball very blindly. Rice wanted to grab it, but he had more than enough energy.

The Millwall players left the stadium in a state of disappointment. In the player tunnel, facing the interview camera, most of the passing players were not in the mood to say anything, but the reporter caught the local teenager Lampard and insisted on asking him about his thoughts on the game.

Lampard was unlucky in the new season. He scored a goal in the Community Shield but was shoveled by Keane. He returned to the game after recovering from the injury for more than a month, but encountered an arduous battle. He shot, but none of them hit the target, and they all hit the opponent's players or flew into the stands.

I don't know what the Tottenham players are thinking, I don't know how they understand football. I don't want to play against each other anymore. It doesn't make any sense. If it is a knockout game, give us stoppage time and we will definitely win. They But there is no chance of winning. This is White Hart Lane. As the host, Tottenham didn't take a shot. I can't believe that this is the team I have seen Lineker and Gascoigne play together. Tottenham back then, the game was pleasing to the eye, now? Are they also worthy of the Premier League?

Other Millwall players also complained in a few words about the opponent's unwinnable approach.

After Aldridge returned to the club, he did not criticize the performance of the players. They showed a strong desire to win and fighting spirit. In the end, they failed to win the game because of hard power factors. It reflected the deep-seated problems because of Millwall's lineup. Thickness, strictly speaking, Millwall only has 1.5 strong lineups. The first team does not count the third goalkeeper. There are 27 people in total, and there are almost seven or eight players. The practical significance of sending them to the game is to train and improve, to accumulate game experience, and to digest the knowledge they have learned in training. At the same time, their age is about equal to Physical fitness, in the competition environment where the Premier League pays attention to physical confrontation, if you can't give full play to your technical advantages and team cooperation advantages. Fight your body. Millwall's substitute lineup may not be able to compete with many teams without falling behind. All of this takes time to accumulate, and the effect will only be shown by the players' daily training and strengthening.

The next day, Fleet Street sparked a heated debate throughout England based on the final result of the match.

To put it nicely: Tottenham's tenacious draw with the defending champions at home.

But Millwall was mostly on the bench,

As a result, Tottenham were beaten for 90 minutes. He didn't even fight back at all, and the zero shot data in the audience is the best proof.

Tottenham star Lineker, who has only retired for three years, criticized the team's performance, thinking that Tottenham's performance is not as good as shit...

Celebrities from all walks of life also joined the debate, and for a while, public opinion against the bus tactics was rampant.

Each club will pursue a better result in each game for the practical significance of the standings, but fans, spectators, and commentators. The media and other spectators only want to watch wonderful offensive football.

What's more, the wail of English football is on the verge of death was issued.

But there are also sensible people who analyze such situations in depth.

For example, Liverpool legend Alan Hansen.

He published a column of comments, titled: The difference between laying the bus and defensive counterattack.

The subtitle reads: The defending champions are three points behind Leicester City.

Hansen replayed the first seven league games played by Leicester City this season. Martin O'Neill's team is unforgettable. Although his tactical play is also very conservative, it is definitely not a bus. But very pragmatic.

In addition to drawing against Millwall in the new season, Leicester City won Aston Villa and Tottenham at home, won Liverpool at Anfield, tied Manchester United and Arsenal at home, and scored again at away this round. Elland Road beat Leeds United.

Manchester United, which has four wins and three draws in seven rounds and five wins and two draws, also maintains an unbeaten momentum.

Judging from the results, O'Neill's team lost three dialogues with the recognized strong teams. They were the weaker side, but they drew their opponents in an upset, because facing these top teams, a tie is a small upset. Especially for a team like Leicester City.

However, in the face of teams like Tottenham and Liverpool whose players are definitely stronger than them, Leicester City still tenaciously scored three points, especially the victory at Anfield was even more shocking.

Alan Hansen believes that O'Neill's tactics are reasonable, and the weak put up a defensive posture. What's wrong? But on the basis of defensive posture, the goal is to win. If Arsenal hadn't pulled two goals at the last moment to freeze the score at 3:3, Leicester City's defeated team would have another Add the name of the armory.

In the final summary, Alan Hansen believes that the Premier League broadcast contract in the new season has soared, and the economic benefits of the expansion of the Champions League have directly stimulated all Premier League teams to be less pure when facing the game.

In the past, only the champions could play in the Champions League. Once the other teams were separated by the leaders, only one or two teams would catch up.

But now that the runner-up can also play in the Champions League, the competition in the first group will be more intense, but they will also become more concerned about gains and losses, especially in strong confrontations, for fear of losing to their opponents and losing the 6-point battle to widen the gap.

Although the mid-lower teams can't get their hands on the European war, the temptation to stay in the Premier League is too great, and it also forces them to fight for every point. Staying in the Premier League means that the broadcast fee alone will exceed 6 million pounds per season. It has more than doubled in the past few seasons. In this case, if you can score a point against a strong team, what is it but a victory? Maybe at the end of the season, when relegation is avoided, it will be only one or two points away.

Aldridge ignored the discussions outside. Although most people are praising Millwall, what's the point of that? !

Can Millwall get a little more points?

Millwall has become the target of the Premier League, which is directly cheaper than Manchester United. Manchester United is not on the cusp of the storm. They are unbeaten in seven rounds in the new season, and they have opened a 5-point gap with Millwall. Even Leicester City is better than Millwall 3 more points.

This directly led to the topic of Tony being pushed to the foreground again. Some people also thought that it was during the tough battle. If Millwall had Toni, why would Aldridge use a full-back to play as a centre-forward?

Aldrich was angry and didn't want to pay attention to these reporters who watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal.

Millwall's 38 rounds of the league didn't involve tough battles every game. Coaches like Arsene Wenger and Dalglish all have self-respect. Let them take the bus? What a joke! This is especially true for Ferguson. Some other teams either can't stop Millwall with the bus, or they don't bother to park the bus. At worst, they lose. It's not the end of the world. Why bother making the team look like a wimp?

The key is the thickness of Millwall's lineup. If you give him the peak Duff, Glenshire, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Lampard and other players. Playing Tottenham away, it is estimated that the problem has been solved long ago.

Before the second round of the Champions League, Millwall has three league games and a League Cup.

The club was full of anger as a guest at newly promoted Barnsley.

Aldridge let all the main players who rested on the weekend go into battle.

The newly promoted horses also came to drive the bus, and also wanted to get the Premier League points gift from the defending champion, but they overestimated their own strength.

Even with all players retreating, Millwall led by three goals in the first half.

Nedved scored a hat-trick with a head kick in the first half.

Aldridge was pacing back and forth on the sidelines, muttering to himself.

A bus is a bus, but Barnsley does not have the players of Liverpool and Tottenham. Nor does he have the tactical command ability of Martin O'Neill of Leicester City.

In terms of hierarchy, it seems that there are three layers inside and three layers outside. The guard, the forward line, plus a forward, from front to back, one layer is more stable than the first layer of barriers.

But their defenders only know how to mark the man. The defenders focused on the opponent's striker. Millwall's striker trident used running positions and passes to provide firepower for Nedved who was in the back. Barnsley's bus was smashed by the goal. .

In the second half, Aldridge directly replaced Nedved, and Ballack went up to continue to exert pressure.

Barnsley, who conceded three goals in a row, began to counterattack, which made Millwall play more vigorously. In the second half, under Aldridge's instructions, he stopped playing and scored three more goals. Larson scored two points. The ball, Trezeguet also scored a goal.

Millwall away bloodbath newly promoted.

The next match against Everton was another draw. The Millwall players were probably confused by the bus-breaking tactics one after another. They thought they were an opponent and they would definitely set up the bus. As a result, they were attacked by Everton as soon as they came up at home. Hit two balls, then pulled it back in a tough tackle.

Aldridge is not disappointed, even if the main attack, can not guarantee absolute victory in every game, this is the law of football games.

What's more, although Everton is going from bad to worse, before Joe Royal left the team, he still spent a lot of money on the club to introduce many good players to the team. The poor record of the team is the problem of the head coach. It doesn't matter, such a team leads by two goals in the away game and then defends but has not yet won the victory. It is no wonder that Everton has begun to enter the rhythm of relegation every year.

In early October, Millwall challenged Southampton in an away game. After the bloody victory over Tottenham at White Hart Lane last season, Southampton has been more aggressive in tactics this season. They probably feel that they must survive in the Premier League. You have to dare to fight and fight, the more unrestrained and passionate you are, the more opportunities you have, which makes them at least not fall into the predicament of relegation at the beginning of the new season standings.

As a result, in a fierce confrontation, Millwall beat Southampton 4:1 away.

In the three rounds of the Premier League after being tied by Tottenham in the away game, Millwall scored two wins and one tie. At the same time, the leader Manchester United had three rounds of wins and losses, which narrowed the point gap between the two teams to two points. This made Aldridge a little relieved, at least biting Manchester United, and did not let the new season fall into the situation of weak chasers.

In the new season, the Millwall League Cup draws are good. The first game is against Lincoln City, and the second game is against Notts County at home.

Due to the need to face the second round of the Champions League group stage, and it will be an absolute bitter battle, Aldridge of course chose to train newcomers in the League Cup.

He doesn’t care much about the domestic cups anymore. Millwall has so many young rookies who need to be trained. The main players are mainly in the league and the Champions League. The domestic cups are left to the young players. Consider choosing the main force to go for the trophy.

Although Notts County played conservative away games, they also had the courage to attack. This kind of game can exercise the abilities of Millwall's newcomers.

It is more difficult to direct the substitute game than to direct the main force. Aldridge has been reminding the young players on the sidelines to let them move on the field and change their tactical play according to the opponent's situation. In the end, it relied on Duff's brace and Van Nistelrooy's goal. , Millwall defeated Notts County with three goals at home to advance to the next round. ()