The Young Lion

The league with Chelsea has given the outside world a strong sense of contrast. In the past few years, Millwall and Chelsea have always played very intense games, but in this game, the intensity has declined and the hostile atmosphere has also subsided. , The interpretation of the outside world is: Millwall disdains to put Chelsea on the level of competitors, and Chelsea's more attention is distracted by the dressing room problem.

Aldridge was not interested in Chelsea's chaos, and after the game he said lightly that it was time to start the next game and leave early.

Next, Aldridge will lead his team to Milan, and he announced the list before Tuesday.

This time, he neither sent all the main players nor all the substitutes. He used a mix-and-match combination, with the frontcourt players as the main lineup and the backcourt lineup as the substitute lineup. A more severe test accelerates their growth.

On the morning of the day of the expedition, Aldridge heard a phone call at home as soon as he woke up.

Hi, hello, who is it?

Aldrich, can you guess who I am?

Jessica, do you deliberately lower your voice to think I can't hear you?

Hee hee, Aldridge, my mother and I are going to Milan too, do you have time to play with us?

Aldrich thought about it. Ms. Rowling has been very busy in the past year, because the Harry Potter series has been sold well, and she will continue to create follow-up works to continue this good momentum.

It's okay to relax once in a while.

But I don't have much time, at most one day after the game, and I have to go back to London on Thursday night.

That's enough. We're only in Milan for two days. We go on Wednesday morning. We go shopping during the day and watch your game in the evening. On Thursday, if you have time, we can go shopping in other parts of Italy and then go home in the evening.

Well, it should be fine, you go to Italy, be careful on the road.

Yes. Thank you for your concern, goodbye, oh yes, I wish you win the game!

Thank you, and say hello to your mother for me.

After hanging up the phone, Aldrich had a smile on his face, and his mood suddenly became better.

He led the team to Milan City with a very relaxed mood.

However, the Italian media described this UEFA Champions League group match between Milan and Millwall at San Siro as a decisive battle of life and death!

If Milan wants to qualify, they must win!

With nine points in hand, Millwall will definitely qualify if they win another game. They are in a very comfortable position.

When Millwall arrived in Milan. The Italian media followed and paid attention to the whole process, from the ease of their preparations to the seriousness when they stepped on the field. Reporting everything about Millwall bit by bit, it seems that the media in Milan City want to help Milan, expecting the Rossoneri to stage a Jedi counterattack and defeat this mighty team.

On Wednesday night, Aldridge stepped into the San Siro, wearing a slim coat, in the fashion capital, he is a football coach, and he is not out of date.

He stands on the sidelines and looks around the field, which is his habit, especially when he first steps into a stadium.

In fact, this is the second time he has come here. The last time he came here was last year. He had a hearty battle with Inter Milan here, and Millwall staged a big reversal.

The last time I came here, it was called San Siro. Today, the name here is San Siro. The stadium has not changed, but the atmosphere has changed, the color has changed, from blue and black to red and black.

Before coming to Milan, Aldrich called Galliani and asked the other party to ask for two VIP tickets for Rowling and her daughter. The stands overlooked the stadium, and the seats had a good view, but they couldn't see the details of the stadium at all. However, they still saw Aldridge standing motionless on the sidelines, and the surrounding cameras or reporters' cameras were all aimed at him.

A man who is bound to be the center of attention whenever he steps into the football field.

Aldridge put his hands in the pockets of his coat, and after observing the court calmly, he went to stand in front of the coach's bench.

The Rossoneri fans made a huge splash in the stands, cheering on their beloved team.

The fourth round of the UEFA Champions League Group H group stage is about to begin. Milan, which ranks bottom in three games with one point, will face Millwall, which has won all three games. Two weeks ago, the two teams had a big battle at Wembley. Millwall Wall won completely and Milan lost completely. As a result of that game, if Milan can’t win today, it is very likely that they will be out of the group, and even the chance of qualifying in theory becomes slim or disappears. We saw that Millwall did not win today. The strongest lineup was not sent, and the combination of midfielders and frontcourt personnel did not change. Pirlo took the midfielder as the commander. Nedved, Larson, Henry, Ronaldinho attacked the front, and Pirlo The person protecting him behind him is Gattuso. Makelele, the absolute main force of Millwall's midfielder, was injured and unable to play. Today, Gattuso's pressure will be extremely huge, because he needs to protect a young back line, Ferreira, Nicolas. Mill, Barzali, Ashley Cole, these are the four backs of Millwall today, no one player is the absolute main force of Millwall, only Neal is over 20 years old, Boot guards the gate, today He has to be careful, he doesn't have Southgate and Materazzi in front of him that he can rely on.

Milan is still a strong attack today. After losing to Millwall two weeks ago, they played three league games and performed well, with two wins and one draw, especially in the Milan derby when they defeated Inter Milan as a guest.

In terms of morale, in addition to the huge pressure on Milan, at least the past three league games have allowed them to regain their confidence and state.

The Rossoneri are fighting to the death today, Millwall has no point pressure, and Aldridge chose to use offensive tactics to deter opponents.

Zaccheroni looked serious, while Aldrich looked calm.

When the game started, Zaccheroni's expression changed several times, regretting the team's missed opportunities, disappointed or annoyed by the player's mistakes, but Aldridge's expression remained unchanged from the beginning to the end, calmly observing the situation on the field , not easily reveal inner thoughts.

Galliani sat in the stands watching the game. He is also very nervous. Milan will be eliminated in the group stage. The Serie A champion would be ashamed. If it was last year's qualifying rules, it would be okay, but this year, as long as the group is second, they can enter the top 16. If they can't beat Millwall, the fans will complain at most. Being squeezed out of the top 16 by Hertha Berlin and Galatasaray, Milan fans. Who can accept it? Then Galliani, who single-handedly controlled the transfer operation, would fall into a situation of accusations and questioning. Who made him fail to help Milan add stronger players in the summer.

Milan is still playing with three backs today. Aldridge doesn't understand, really doesn't understand, whether Zaccheroni has no guts to change, or facing this Milan lineup, he doesn't know how to change.

Sometimes changing the formation is easy to say, but it is actually very difficult. First of all, there must be suitable players after changing the formation, and secondly. Can the team adapt to the tactical system after the change, finally. It is also necessary to consider the personal situation of the players after the change. Some players do not accept it, and some players are sacrificed because of the change, which leads to conflicts and other factors.

What Aldridge didn't understand was that the three backs obviously couldn't defend against Millwall's attacking group. Since it has been proved that this kind of play is a failure, what's wrong with changing? Anyway, it doesn't change, so it's reasonable to fail again.

After spending the first 10 minutes of trial and adaptation, the two teams took a serious look.

In the 16th minute, Milan's three-back system was penetrated by Millwall.

Pirlo's scalpel-like through ball not only penetrated the midfield line, but also sent the ball directly to the left side of the penalty area. Ronaldinho got the ball in front of Ronaldinho. Sala was eaten by Ronaldinho in the last game. Unfortunately, today I deliberately kept a distance from the central defender and shrunk inward.

He is defending Ronaldinho head-on. He is close to the bottom line of the penalty area. When he thinks that Ronaldinho will move out with the ball and make an open pass or shoot, Ronaldinho does the opposite, less than one meter away from the bottom line. Ronaldinho chose to go straight to the bottom. When passing Sarah, Ronaldinho left the ball in bounds, and half of his body was out of the baseline. Everyone was dumbfounded by that scene.

Ronaldinho's left half is out of bounds, and his right foot is in control of the ball. After smearing Sala, the Milan defender was shocked. After attracting defensive players to encircle him, Ronaldinho kicked the ball back to the top of the penalty area. , the forward Nedved volleyed the ball into the goal.

This is a goal with almost the same trajectory as when the two teams met in the first round. Ronaldinho entered the penalty area on the left to attract the attention of the defenders, and then passed the top of the triangle penalty area at the right time. Nedved stepped in to grab the ball before the Milan midfielder destroyed it and then kicked the ball. Milan does not seem to have learned the lesson of the last leg's disastrous defeat. This kind of conceded goal is the most disappointing. Way to beat twice, which also shows that the back three is simply the wrong choice at Millwall!

Aldridge smiled on the sidelines, then gave Ronaldinho and Nedved a thumbs up.

Since Milan still insists on using three backs, Millwall's goal is not surprising.

A more intuitive interpretation is that if Sarah is far away from central defender Costacurta, Ronaldinho can move forward into the space between the two, and Sarah shrinks to get closer to Costacurta, and there is a large space on the wing. The winger couldn't return to defend in time to follow Ronaldinho. After Ronaldinho got the ball, he only had positive defensive pressure. After killing Sala, Milan's defensive system collapsed.

If there are four defenders, the space between the central defender and the full back will become narrow. Even if the winger advances, the central defender does not need to worry.

Milan has reached the brink of despair, but the conceded goal did not hit the players too hard, because they knew before the game that if they want to reverse their fate, they must win. One of the basic conditions for winning is to score.

Aldridge watched the game from the sidelines, frowning as he watched.

Although Milan said that the defense of the three defenders is not good in his eyes, the midfielder does have a great advantage when attacking. This advantage comes from the increase in the number of points forward.

Millwall's frontcourt players return to man-marking, so they can't be man-marked. If they can really be man-marked, unless they use the full-court pressing tactics on the basketball court, but this kind of tactics is unconventional. It is impossible to play for 90 minutes They all use this kind of defensive strategy, especially man-to-man marking is very dangerous. If one-on-one fails, it may end in a collapse of the entire defense.

Milan automatically adjusted its defensive strategy on the field, strengthened its control over the midfield, and never gave Pirlo a chance to command and dispatch from a distance to penetrate the defense line calmly. If Millwall wants to attack smoothly, the frontcourt players must retreat in a wide range. And Millwall's players did the same. They played very patiently on offense. Milan almost relied on their defensive numbers and hard work to make up for their technical and tactical weaknesses. Their offensive methods seemed a bit monotonous, relying on wide players. Make a fuss about personal ability.

If it was two weeks ago, Millwall would not be afraid of this kind of offensive method, and he could only hope that the opponent would play like this, but today Millwall's two full-backs are top rookies, and they really can't stop Milan's two wings The shock was launched. (to be continued...) ()