The Young Lion

Thank you Thieves for your reward! ——

Martin O'Neill and Aldridge are not business partners, because they have never worked hand in hand, nor can they be called good friends in life, but if they meet, they are against each other except during the game, before or after the game When we get together, we will always talk about positive topics related to football, the development trend of football tactics, the changes of some players' roles on the field, express opinions on a certain focus game, and express their opinions from different perspectives. Often, both of them can gain Benefit a lot.

Although Leicester City can't be called the sufferer of Millwall, when the two teams meet, O'Neill's team will always make Millwall suffer.

Don't look at O'Neill's defensive counterattack tactics every time he plays against Aldridge. Even Leicester City almost always defends and counterattacks all the way to the dark. But there are not many teams in the Premier League that play counterattacks. They have been relegated, and some rank behind O'Neill's team. There are many teams that are richer than Leicester City and have better lineups, but their record is not as good as Leicester City's. This also reflects O'Neill's coaching ability.

When the two met again at the Lion's Den Stadium, Aldridge smiled at O'Neill: Do you want to snipe me again today?.

O'Neill pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said calmly, I feel like today will be dangerous.

Wenger, Ferguson, and Vialli will do what you said when they come here. Shouldn't they feel a sense of crisis when they come here?.

O'Neill looked depressed, shook hands with Aldridge and then turned around and walked back to the coach's bench.

Aldridge gave up after teasing the opponent, and he also walked back to the coach's bench, standing and directing the game.

After the game starts. Aldridge saw the formation of Leicester City. Unsurprisingly, he raised his eyebrows.

Over the past few years. When Leicester City played Millwall, the defensive formation was difficult to interpret with the conventional 442, 4141 and the like.

It looks exactly like 631.

The four defenders compress the restricted area, the bilateral avant-garde can return to the bottom, or defend in the area extending from the top corner of the restricted area. There must be three crazy interceptions in front of the restricted area. There is an offensive fulcrum in front of Tony. As long as he counterattacks, Tony will control the ball first. . Then the opponent counterattacked with a unilateral flying wing, and Tony split the ball again to continue to develop the offense.

The reason for this solid defensive posture is that even if it is a counterattack, the defensive formation in the backcourt is still static. Only one winger will step forward to participate in the attack, and Gudjohnsen will also follow up. If it is successful, if it cannot be defeated, the defense line will at least not be exposed to a large gap due to the premise of the formation or the number of defenders being reduced, but it will be caught by Millwall and tear the defense line.

In the past, Millwall's individual ability was not enough.

Facing Leicester City, which is highly disciplined in tactics, the one-on-one success rate is good. But one-on-two is completely unstoppable. If more offensive forces are invested, and the opponent counterattacks in turn, the probability of losing the ball will increase instead.

But today's Millwall has a strong individual ability, and the offensive players in the frontcourt are one-on-one. As long as the defense line shows enough space, it is possible to get rid of opponents consecutively in a small area.

Leicester City's players are really limited. Even if they rely on tactics to make up for it, they were beaten in front of the goal 20 minutes before the first half.

Pirlo's long-range shot was blocked by the defender and almost flew into the goal.

Henry got rid of the ball with his back on the spot, turned around and kicked a shot, but the goalkeeper lifted the crossbar with one hand.

Nedved's header in the penalty area hit the crossbar and bounced off.

Larson was tripped in the penalty area, and the referee signaled that there was no foul.

After playing for 20 minutes, Leicester City failed to score a single counterattack. Millwall's marking of Tony was very successful today. Materazzi resisted Tony and did not allow the opponent to catch a high-altitude ball. Blocking ground passes in the forward zone.

Twenty minutes later, Aldrich touched his nose and gritted his teeth inadvertently, as if about to open his mouth wide.

Millwall continued to play penetrating balls into Leicester City's penalty area, compressing and compressing the opponent's defense line, and almost the opponent's defender almost blocked the goal parallel to the goalkeeper.

The situation on the field changed suddenly. After Nedved got the ball in the frontcourt, he didn't move forward. Adjust the step point, long shot!

Martin O'Neill smashed the mineral water bottle on the sidelines and yelled at the players on the field: Before protecting the top corner of the penalty area, they are inserting long-range shots from behind to cover!

Bang.

Zambrotta, who had enough time to choose the angle and force, was blocked without entering the penalty area, and directly suffocated a Leicester City defender. The ball bounced out and landed at Pirlo's feet , Someone from the other side immediately came up to press wildly, Pirlo scored the ball to the front right, Schneider hit it as expected, almost exactly the same as Zambrotta, stopped the ball, dialed it, and chose a good angle for a long shot.

He didn't deliberately choose to use force with this kick, the force was moderate, but the angle was extremely tricky. The banana ball spun from right to left with a strong spin and flew towards the goal.

Looking from the front, I feel that the goalkeeper can definitely catch the ball at the first time, but when the ball flew to the goal, the goalkeeper rushed out, and the hand seemed to be getting farther and farther away from the ball, and then I saw Schneider's long shot unexpectedly. Hit the side netting and of course, the ball went in! It hit the side netting inside the goal!

Schneider's super world wave! How did this goal score? That arc is so wonderful, this is definitely the best goal of this round, absolutely!

Schneider did not celebrate after scoring the goal. Instead, like Zambrotta, he trotted towards the Leicester City player who collapsed after being stuffed in the chest by Zambrotta's long-range shot. I didn't get up, which was very worrying.

Zambrotta knew how powerful his powerful long-range shot was just now, and the loud sound of hitting the opponent was enough to show the force of the collision.

Leicester City conceded the goal, but Millwall did not celebrate, they and the Leicester City players surrounded the player who fell to the ground.

The team doctor quickly entered the field, and then not only called a stretcher, but also asked an ambulance to wait outside. After a preliminary diagnosis by the team doctor. The player may have a broken rib

Gianluca patted the man on the shoulder and apologized in a low voice. Other Millwall players wished him well in words.

Aldridge and O'Neill exchanged a few words on the sidelines, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that it was an accident just now. If Zambrotta really shot at that player, he might not be able to hit it.

O'Neill was a little frustrated, and said to Aldridge: Is this how you arranged your tactics before the game today? Press the penalty area for the first 20 minutes, and when there is an open space in front of the penalty area, two full-backs step in and shoot long shots.

Well. It can be said that it is.

What if the long shot doesn't score the goal?

Then you can't always watch my players take long shots, can you?

Oh, hard power.

O'Neill didn't ask any more. In fact, Aldridge's tactics were nothing special.

Personal breakthroughs, set balls, long shots.

O'Neill has let the players compress the defense and does not give the opponent room for personal breakthroughs. The opponent may pass a player, but may not be able to break through continuously. He also pays attention to his movements when defending, and tries not to give the opponent the ball.

Change to before. When the difference in strength is not that big, especially when the personal abilities of Millwall's offensive players are not as strong as they are now. It is rare to give the opponent such a loose long-range space.

But now that the opponent's personal ability is stronger, more people are needed to defend, and the horizontal protection in front of the penalty area is naturally weakened.

This is the gap in hard power, but O'Neill doesn't feel that anyone who changes to lead this Millwall team can beat him. It's not just that the players who attack in the frontcourt are combined to form a stronger combat power than expected. Anyone can do it.

Although Aldridge holds a good deck of cards, even if he wins against O'Neal, he will not feel invincible. If the attitudes of the two teams are the same, he cannot win, and he would rather resign and quit. , but the opponent is determined to defend. Now, in less than 25 minutes, Millwall has fully suppressed the opponent and successfully attacked. He can enjoy the joy of this moment.

The team fell behind, O'Neal changed players, and then asked the players to try to be more active and more active in offense.

However, these Leicester City players have been defending, defending, and defending to the end all year round, allowing them to take the initiative to attack, but they are all at a loss.

Especially in the face of Millwall's huge offensive pressure, they can't help but go back to defend, and the offense is still the old routine.

Defense depends on us, offense depends on Tony!

Thirteen minutes later, Ronaldinho was dragged to the ground after dribbling past the opponent's defender in the penalty area. This time, the referee whistled a penalty.

The players of Leicester City did not protest either. O'Neill sighed and sat back on the coach's bench, looking at the court with a trace of helplessness in his eyes.

Millwall has become so strong that he feels unable to compete.

He doesn't blame the players either. Their strength is at that level, almost at the same level as the top three in League One.

If you can't guard Ronaldinho, then you can only get started.

Larsson stood in front of the penalty and scored without pressure, giving Millwall a 2-0 first-half lead which they held until the end of the half.

In the second half, Aldridge still made substitutions in 60 minutes, replacing Larson and Ronaldinho, allowing Glenciel and Lamour to play.

In the leading situation, Aldridge indicated that Pirlo should master the rhythm and hone his metronome skills. The improvement of this kind of technical level depends not only on himself, but also on the cooperation of his teammates. He is slow, and his teammates are slow. Be fast, and your teammates should be fast, especially if you speed up or slow down suddenly, if your teammates can't understand his intention, then the cooperation will not be effective.

Lamour, who scored in two consecutive games, was very excited after playing, but in today's game, he failed to let Aldridge continue to see his shining side, on the contrary, let Aldridge see his flaws.

In the 80th minute of the game, Aldridge called Lamor to the front and said lightly: If you find that you and your teammates are not in the same rhythm of the game, then you have to find your own problems, remember I will replace you Now is the tactical requirement for you!

Lamour hopes to score again, so he is very excited, but when the rhythm of the team starts to be controlled by Pirlo, he is out of this rhythm. Slow is fast, he is like a bull, thinking about breaking through the opponent's gate.

Before replacing him, Aldridge specifically reminded him, but he failed to do so, which means that his tactical discipline needs to be improved.

After being taught a lesson by Aldridge, Lamour returned to the court to calm down and his performance became better and better. At least he was in the same rhythm as his teammates. Finally, before the end of the game, Glenciel took a long shot from outside the penalty area. Saved by the goalkeeper, Henry followed up with a supplementary shot and locked the score at 3:0.

Millwall leads the standings with four consecutive league victories in the new season. (to be continued...) ()