The Young Lion

Unexpectedly, the sales volume of big newspapers such as The Times the next day was not as high as that of some tabloids.

Although these big newspapers focused on depicting Millwall's championship celebrations, and Liverpool stumbled and fell at the feet of Bradford, who was fourth from the bottom of the league, Leeds United won fourth in the league in an away draw and won Champions League qualification for next season.

However, their contented battle reports and comments, including comments on the Premier League season and other articles, are no match for a photo in a tabloid.

Aldridge has never had a photo shoot, and his topless photos in the Lion's Den Stadium were published after special effects processing, and what the words describe is no longer important. In short, the sales of the tabloid have increased significantly.

Aldridge was also helpless, this is not a violation of **, especially since most of the tabloids wrote their articles in a serious manner, quoting his photos to earn sales, and the effect was surprisingly good. Mostly female readers.

Millwall began to prepare fully for the FA Cup final.

Aldridge reminded the players in training that they must first forget the Champions League final, so that they can play well in the FA Cup final.

If the whole team is thinking about the Champions League final, it is likely to lose sight of the other, and because the FA Cup is played first, once the FA Cup final is lost, its impact will affect the Champions League final four days later.

FA Cup final opponents Chelsea began to disturb Millwall, Vialli said that Aldridge's coaching level is admirable, but this season has not been fair to the players.

I don't know what Millwall is going to play, Hall can't be trusted even if he says it himself, everybody knows that. He'll lie to confuse opponents. But if he's playing a main team for the FA Cup. I think it's It's not fair to other Millwall players, Miroslav Klose, Glenciel, Lamour, Lampard, they are the biggest contributors to Millwall reaching the FA Cup final, Larsson Nedved Yes, they are stronger. But they didn't play a minute in the game before the FA Cup, not a minute, but they played in the final, they won the hero, people don't remember the real hero, I'm talking about Lampard, Glenshire and the others.

If Vialli's remarks were uttered by a neutral person, they would certainly sound reasonable.

But when he said it, everyone understood what it meant.

Disturb the enemy, maybe. And a little timid.

Five years have passed since Millwall stepped into the Premier League. Undefeated against Chelsea for five years, and has achieved an overwhelming match rate.

Vialli's remarks caused a furore in Fleet Street,

Got a lot of voices of support.

This is commonplace. Fleet Street is not absolutely in favor of Millwall. Once the time is right and they can create a greater public opinion effect, they will stand on the opposite side of Millwall without hesitation.

This wave of public opinion will inevitably affect Millwall, but Aldridge chose to remain silent.

He's not the team's nanny, he's the boss, the coach.

Thinking is what the players themselves should do.

In essence, Aldridge is protecting the interests of the collective, not a certain player, and he is not insisting on giving honor to Pirlo, Larson and the others, playing in the finals and being on the strongest lineup, is there something wrong?

If the substitute players feel unbalanced in their minds, then their own mentality is not correct.

They were the ones who were eliminated from the League Cup, and they were also the ones who advanced to the FA Cup final, but it is undeniable that Millwall did not encounter too many challenges on the way to the FA Cup. The biggest opponent they encountered was Arsenal. The main force knocked them out of the Carabao Cup, the substitute played as a substitute, and Millwall passed the FA Cup.

Only playing against Aston Villa in the semi-finals was considered a particularly exciting performance for them. There were still problems with the others, and they won in the end, but they should pay more attention to their own improved training value.

Besides, if the eyes are only fixed on one trophy, hehe, what can such a player expect.

Being so lucky on the road to defending the FA Cup this year is inseparable from Manchester United's withdrawal. Manchester United's league this year is stronger than in the past few years. The league points will not lie, and if they participate in the FA Cup, they are likely to compete with Mill Wall met, either in the final, or on the road before.

It is a pity that Manchester United was pointed at the head with a gun by the FA in January, forcing Manchester United to abandon the FA Cup and fly to Brazil to participate in the first FIFA Club World Cup.

Manchester United have already played in the Toyota Cup, but they are still forced to participate in the Club World Cup, so they must withdraw from the FA Cup.

At that time, FIFA also invited Millwall, but Aldridge directly refused.

The teacher came out of no name!

The champion of the Champions League is Manchester United. Millwall was only the champion of domestic competitions last season. Why should they join in the fun?

The reason why the FA secretly threatened Manchester United to go to Brazil to participate in the Club World Cup is that the FA believes that England must have a team to participate in this kind of tournament organized by FIFA, so as to please FIFA and bid for England to host the 2006 World Cup Increase the stakes.

According to what Andrew told Aldridge afterwards, the reason why the FA did not put pressure on Millwall was that the England national team did not have a coach at that time. The FA was afraid that they would not find a coach before the European Cup started. He is the best candidate for emergency, so I don't want to get into a deadlock with Millwall, and as long as England has a team to participate, it will be fine.

Being a Millwall player requires both intelligence and ambition.

Aldridge didn't talk to the players. It's better not to say something than to say it. Being open and honest will only embarrass the unspoken things and change the atmosphere in the locker room.

This is a competitive environment, it is important to recognize yourself and measure yourself.

The point is not whether you can play in the finals, but whether you are qualified enough to be better than your teammates in the same position and get the starting lineup based on your strength.

Perhaps Fleet Street hoped to see Millwall's substitute players revolt, but the rebellion did not happen. Perhaps there were also factors that occurred not long after the Van der Meyde incident, and Millwall was calm.

May 20.

The FA Cup final is played at Wembley.

Coincidentally, today. It's Aldridge's 24th birthday.

Two years ago today. They won the first Champions League trophy in club history. Today, Millwall's players are united in their desire to reward themselves with trophies, and at the same time use them as gifts for the leaders who made them famous.

At Wembley, Chelsea wore the traditional dark blue, while Millwall wore the away white.

Aldridge has been standing on the sidelines supervising the battle, playing against Chelsea, he does not need to adjust his tactics too much, because he knows the opponent well. It was also difficult for Vialli to create problems for Aldridge at the tactical level, and the headaches like Bosque's change of formation did not appear.

By controlling the midfield, Millwall has the advantages of the players' ability to pass and control, and firmly dominates the situation on the field. When defending, they mainly focus on high-pressure pressing. In this way, they are almost reaching the point of perfection.

The only shortcoming is the center forward. Klose still can't replace Henry. It seems a bit difficult for him to keep up with the dazzling rhythm of the main lineup's offensive pass and cut coordination. After the opening, he got a lot of opportunities, or he ran slowly. Or the timing is not right.

Henry is sitting on the bench. He has won the Premier League Golden Boot and the European Golden Boot. If there is no accident today, Aldridge is not going to let him play. In the last two rounds of the league, the main players have a rest time. Only he insisted on playing in order to score goals.

Vialli watched the team's formation getting deeper and deeper, and the counterattack became weaker and weaker. He was familiar with this scene. In the past two years of confrontation with Millwall, his team could not take any advantage in the midfield.

For example, Chelsea often sniped Manchester United, but they always stumbled on Arsenal and Millwall, because Manchester United's midfield is sometimes empty, and Arsenal and Millwall, the midfielder will not give the opponent any chance to pass and penetrate. At this point, Chelsea has no advantage, and their personal ability can make a difference. Apart from striker Zola, their players can make a difference. For other points, the chances of winning one-on-one are not high.

In the 34th minute of the first half, Schneider crossed the edge and made a half-high pass from the baseline, creating chaos in Chelsea's penalty area. Desailly made a clearance and hit his own player. Larsson missed the ball and sent it into the goal.

Millwall scored the first goal as expected! Chelsea's overall strength is far from Millwall's. Talking about tactics at this time is a bit pale. After all, comparing the players of the two teams in the same position will naturally tell everyone who is stronger. The Premier League champions, the creators of the unbeaten record of 48 league games, their skills, tactics, mentality, game experience, etc., are stronger than Chelsea. Although this goal does not seem convincing, it is an absolute advantage. Leading the score, it seems to be taken for granted.

The fans of the Wild Lions in the Wembley stands shouted loudly, waving Millwall flags and shouting wildly.

Blues Chelsea fans are about to collapse.

Being suppressed by the mortal enemy, suppressed to death!

This situation has been going on for five years!

five years!

Who will save them?

Especially in the past five years, this is the third time they have met Millwall in the final of the championship trophy. It seems that today will be their third runner-up in front of Millwall.

This really broke the Blues fans.

The Wild Lions fans don't think so much, just like they have been suppressed by West Ham United for most of the past hundred years. When the great West Ham captain became an England legend, who thought about what the Wild Lions fans thought?

The weak, who cares?

Aldridge turned his head and glanced at Vialli after the goal appeared, and the opponent put his head in his hands and closed his eyes, and he seemed to heave a long sigh.

In the 44th minute of the game, Ronaldinho dribbled horizontally in front of the penalty area, and just passed a Chelsea defensive player, and was suddenly tackled to the ground from the side and rear.

Aldridge saw this scene on the sidelines, especially after seeing the jersey number of Chelsea's tackler, he immediately shouted to Schneider, who was closest to him on the field: Go! Put Ronaldinho and the other side. Separate! Don't let him conflict with the other party!

Schneider ran to the scene of the incident immediately after taking the order.

Aldridge was expressionless. He saw that the bad boy Wise was the player who put in the shovel. Ronaldinho stood up after falling, but he didn't know what Wise said when he got up at the same time. Ronaldinho really told the opponent They began to scold each other, but Ronaldinho did not touch each other physically.

Ronaldinho thought that Lao Tzu was going to play in the Champions League final. Fortunately, he was not injured by the shovel. He naturally paid more attention to protecting himself. When Wise put the shovel, he jumped to hide and fell to the ground by himself. This was not diving, but his own self. Protect.

Diving is to win fouls when the opponent does not commit a foul. Ronaldinho's action is to avoid injury to himself. Does he just wait for the opponent to actually kick his leg?

But Wise satirized that he was performing just now.

Ronaldinho blew up his hair now, and he also knew that the other party was not a good bird, theory? It's useless to be reasonable!

So, the two simply sweared at each other, face to face, the tip of their noses was less than 5 centimeters away from each other, and the scene became tense. (To be continued..)