The Young Lion

Stepping into April, the atmosphere in the fan groups of each team in East London is different.

Charlton fans are leisurely and relaxed, the team has no worries about relegation, and keneng has won tickets to the European war. They are not demanding. Right now they are enjoying every game and concentrating on cheering for the team.

The Hammer fans have witnessed the team's relegation from the Premier League to the League One for many years. This season is good. As long as West Ham United does not collapse at the end of the league, they will definitely return to the Premier League next season!

It is estimated that many Hammer fans are looking forward to the next restart of the popular East London derby with Millwall in the Premier League. Fiction novel chapters are updated the fastest

Wild Lions fans are a little nervous now.

In the league, they are neck and neck with Manchester United. There are only 7 rounds left in the Premier League, and the results will be announced soon. It is too early to think about whether the team can perform a miraculous defense in the Champions League. Considering the difficulty of this feat, Wild Lions fans are afraid that the scene on the road to defending the title will happen again.

There is also pressure within the Millwall team, and this pressure has actually been with them since before the season.

Because they are the public enemy of the Premier League and the most watched team in Europe, with the pressure brought by the unbeaten league games at the beginning of the season.

But the top teams must have a strong ability to resist pressure. At the end of the season, Aldridge did not decompress the team as he did in the past. the end of the month!

After the match day, Millwall ushered in Everton, who was aiming to relegation, in the league.

Three days later there will be the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Aldridge will give the main players who have returned from the national team a rest. This is his coaching style.

After 90 minutes of the game. The Lion King Stadium fell into a brief silence. Then, the singing of the wild lion sounded again in the stands.

The score on the score board is 1:1.

Millwall scored a draw.

Manchester United was a guest at Anfield in this round, swallowing two bombs and returning home. The situation where they were on the same score with Millwall turned into a 1-point lead for Millwall.

Millwall climbed to the top of the league table, but Aldridge was not happy.

Not taking all three points on Everton, this is an upset result.

at the same time,

Due to the first half of the season. Millwall's undefeated golden stature was broken at Goodison Park. Everton has really become Millwall's sufferer this season.

Aldrich should not be angry.

Everton, when looking forward to each season, they are in the middle of the Premier League, but every year they are dangerously relegated until the end of the season. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are relegation madmen, but it is far from enough to think of their lineup. Far from being a level that can be relegated, it can only arouse a feeling of hatred for iron and steel.

At this stage, the relegation team is really difficult to play, even if it is a home game. The opponent must win every point, almost like a tiger's mouth!

Momentum is running high inside the Millwall team. Every player is extremely serious in training and meticulous in preparing for the game.

Aldrich is now supervising the team's training as a hands-off shopkeeper, and he often puts on the posture of patrolling with his hands behind his back like a dignified old man.

The improvement of the overall age of the team means that the mentality of the players has come to a mature and stable period. They have seen the sea. At this time, the urgent pressure of the two-line attack of the league and the Champions League is just a small wave in the eyes of many veteran players, and they want to panic them. It is very difficult, there is quite a sense of wind from east to west, from north to south, and I am naturally motionless.

When Schneider came back from the national team, he specially gave Aldrich a bottle of good wine from their winery, and Aldrich readily accepted it.

During the training break, Ronaldinho and Villa sat in front of Aldridge. The sun is shining today, making people lazy. Training in this kind of weather is good or bad, and it is easy to make people sleepy. The weather is the most Cool climate, invigorating.

Boss, is it difficult to defend the Champions League?

Villa raised his head and asked curiously.

This year's Champions League situation is different from previous years. Although Millwall has entered the quarter-finals, it is only one of the four Premier League teams. Fleet Street represents England. I hope to see other teams in the Premier League go further. It is best if all the top four are occupied by the Premier League teams. As for whether Millwall can create new history, they don't really care.

Therefore, Millwall's voice for defending the title is not high, and the outside world has deliberately created an argument that defending is difficult, intending to put pressure on Millwall, and the media outside of England must be the purpose of disturbing the morale of the army.

Just like Aldridge's psychological warfare when he put pressure on Manchester United, the league, the Champions League, which one do you want? It's time to make a choice, be careful!

Aldridge sat on the grass, put his hands on his knees and smiled: Only 5 teams in history have completed the Champions League defense, Real Madrid, Benfica, Milan, and England's Nottingham Forest and Liverpool. Difficult, it must be difficult, but Because of the unexpected difficulty, when you do it, you will have an unparalleled sense of accomplishment.”

In the context of the current time point, the so-called no success in defending the Champions League after the restructuring has not been raised.

It was only restructured in 1998, and now it is only 2001. After the reorganization, there are many reasons why the difficulty of defending the title has increased sharply. One is that there are more participating teams and their competitiveness has improved a lot. The strength of the champions of those second-rate leagues cannot shake the champions of the first-rate leagues. After the restructuring, the runners-up of the mainstream leagues, the third and fourth places, are far superior to the champions of the second-rate leagues. One can imagine how strong their competitiveness is, and the defending situation has become cruel. The second is the era after the Bosman rule. The stronger the strong team, the easier it is to attract stars, and the strength limit of the strong team is also being raised year by year.

Only five teams have successfully defended the title. If we can also successfully defend the title, it will be the sixth team.

Villa propped his hands on the grass behind him, looking at the sky with misty eyes.

Although this is not one of the few sixth places, it is also a shocking honor.

Ronaldinho lowered his head and said nothing.

He has worked hard this season, especially when it comes to the end of the season, the road to defending the Champions League has already gone half way.

Defending the Champions League, Millwall had a chance, the last time. fell in Munich.

Even though Ronaldinho has let go. But it doesn't mean his ambition is starting to disappear. Becoming the sixth team that can successfully defend the Champions League, Millwall's name will become special among the giants!

Don't think too much, we haven't made it to the top 8 yet. We want to defend the title, and others want to win too. At the level of the top 8, no one will give away the victory easily.

Aldridge smiled after finishing speaking.

Can you not want to?

Even he himself is extremely eager to successfully defend the Champions League. In this way, his three Champions Leagues in four years not only make Millwall's dynasty more convincing, but also his own coaching performance has reached a new height. Three Champions Leagues will make him equal to Paisley Liverpool. With a record of winning 3 Champions Leagues in 5 years, he is even better in terms of time.

But if he really can't do it, he won't criticize too much, whether he is proud of victory or discouraged by defeat. Lose, fail. There's nothing to panic about, but you can't lose yourself.

The atmosphere of the team's active preparations is good, and everyone is working hard with actions, trying to get their names into the new history books.

Millwall's major fan organizations are also in action, buying a large number of away game tickets, and rush to the away game to cheer for the team at close range.

When having dinner with Brady and his wife before, Brady even joked about it, and many members of the fan organization have already made up their minds to skip work.

The Champions League match is in the middle of the week, and most of the fans have to go to work the next day, but when they go to watch the match abroad, if the team can achieve a result they are satisfied with, the fans will naturally celebrate, and no one will spoil the scenery after watching it Immediately after the game, I went to catch a flight back to my country and prepare for work the next day. After the celebration, the work of the next day was suspended.

After preparing for the battle, the whole Millwall team set off, boarded their special plane, and arrived in Valencia, Spain, as a guest to challenge the Bat Corps.

Mestalla, the old den of the Bat Legion, the burial ground of many strong teams in the past two years!

In the first round of the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League in 2001, Valencia ushered in the defending champion Millwall at home. It was like a fateful reunion. No matter the fans, the coach or the players, the two teams must not be at peace! In the Champions League final of the season, Millwall beat Valencia to win the Champions League trophy for the second time. This season Renmen believed that Valencia's strength had plummeted and could not take a seat in the feast of the giants. It is admirable that Valencia made it all the way to the quarter-finals, just as it was unbelievable that Millwall sold half of the team's main lineup in the summer of the previous season, but it was still possible to reach the quarter-finals. Although Valencia has the advantage at home, the gap in strength cannot be ignored when they meet Millwall.

Aldridge walked into the stadium and stood on the sidelines, looking around the stadium. This is not the first time he has been here. He was here when he led the England national team to play an away friendly match in Spain.

However, today, there is still a sense of sight that looks like things and people are not.

The large number of fans of the Bat Legion in the stands are still different from the fans of the Spanish national team, and the momentum created is also very different from that of the friendly match.

The fans of Valencia must feel aggrieved and want revenge. They want to let the wild lion bleed here to repay the pain of losing in the Champions League final last season.

The fans of the Wild Lions came to the away game, and they also excitedly created a huge cheer in the stands, which was comparable to the fans of the home team.

Before they enter the field, they will find the hostility of the Valencia fans in the streets around the stadium. It is a gesture that Wild Lions fans are very used to. Meet early to complete revenge.

Wild Lions fans don't care now, and even joked: They should be glad that they are a Spanish team, not an English team. The more they think about revenge in the Premier League for two or three years, the more painful it will be for themselves .

The teams in the Premier League who dare to talk about revenge before playing against Millwall, 1, 2, 3, definitely less than 4.

Valencia coach Cooper appeared on the court with a dignified expression. He took the initiative to shake hands with Aldridge before the game. .

Looking forward to this game, he has been saying that Millwall is the favorite to advance, and Valencia must show the courage to fight everything to win against Millwall.

Aldridge respects Cooper from the bottom of his heart. Valencia was poached of many main players last summer, but he performed very bravely this season. Being able to reach the top 8 is a good proof. It is not possible to get here by luck. .

But from respect to respect, Aldrich's expression changed, and there was a fierce murderous look in his eyes.

Cruel shaded arena, someone must fall!

Defending the Champions League, whether it is for my disciples or myself, is a supreme honor. Those who stand in my way will never be destroyed! (to be continued...) ()