The Young Lion

He hadn't been sick for many years, but he suddenly caught a cold. Aldrich didn't worry about it at all. He felt that he was in good health, and it was more likely that he would recover without medicine, but he still took the medicine under Evan's urging.

The team was preparing for the weekend league. He went to the training ground in the morning and found that the cold was getting worse, so he handed over the training work to Klinsmann.

Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case, Aldridge knows that he may be catching a cold, but if he wins the lottery because of the flu, it will be troublesome.

Once a player or staff member of the team has the flu, he must be isolated, saying that the isolation is too serious, that is, let him go home to rest and recuperate, and come back when he recovers.

Football players suffer from various illnesses, but the most feared is the flu.

Influenza has an incubation period. Once the outbreak occurs during a game, it is easy to cause various serious diseases when players are exercising vigorously. Even if the players have no confrontation, it may cause serious injuries.

Aldridge was on sick leave. Klinsmann presided over the training, and using Aldrich as a cover, he declared to the players sadly and passionately: Your boss, who works day and night, has fallen ill and is on the front line of work. If you don't train seriously, will you be worthy of the leader who has worked so hard for you?

After Klinsmann said this in front of the whole team on the training ground, the players were all dumbfounded.

When warming up and jogging, everyone talked about it.

The boss is sick? Really?

I don't know. I saw a tabloid published a photo of the boss this morning.

What photo? Is it explosive?.

Hey, what are you thinking? The boss and his family were photographed by the paparazzi while shopping outside.

Then why are you sick?

That's not clear.

Nedved and Larsson don't know how to read tabloids. To care about the endless scandal. but. Larson still put on the airs of an old player and scolded his teammates, saying: Don't talk nonsense, the boss must be sick. This is the first time he has missed team training in almost seven years.

Joe Cole immediately shut his mouth.

Discussing whether the leader is really sick is a topic that the team will definitely pick up on its own. If it gets bigger, it is questioning the leader's professionalism.

And precisely those players who followed Aldridge in the first place,

Having witnessed Aldridge's work attitude for almost seven years, no teammate is allowed to question this.

The head coach is away. The big guys on the team have to take the lead.

The coaching staff was very satisfied with the results of these two days of training. Aldridge was recuperating at home, but the players were more serious.

But the coaching staff also knows that this is what will happen in a special period. If there is no head coach in the team's training in the past, the quality of training will plummet in less than two months.

Aldridge asked for leave, and the British tabloids who heard the news dug deep into the reasons behind the scenes. Now his every move is news, after all. He is also the manager of the England national team.

Before the start of the weekend league, Aldridge appeared in public. Probably, about 20 seconds.

Choo, choo, choo, choo

In the press conference hall of the Millwall Club, Aldridge sneezed four times after sitting down on the stage, and then covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief.

The reporters in the audience were so fucking inhuman, they didn't understand Aldridge at all, and they kept taking pictures with great interest at this time!

Aldrich originally felt that he was almost recovered from his illness today. Anyway, Bert and Earl both recovered from the cold, and today they were taken by their grandparents to the countryside for an outing.

But as soon as he sat down, for some reason, his nose was itchy and he kept sneezing, and then he was embarrassed to continue showing up, for fear that he would sneeze a few times from time to time.

Standing up and waving his hands, Aldridge left without saying a word.

Get Klinsmann to represent him at the press conference.

The reporters didn't stay either. Today is just a routine. Millwall's opponent at the weekend is Derby County, and there is a huge gap between strength and weakness.

Aldridge quickly left the club and went home to sleep and rest.

Klinsmann sat on the stage, solemnly waiting for questions from reporters.

Sir Ferguson declared after Manchester United was eliminated from the Champions League that although Manchester United regretted being out, now Manchester United can concentrate on fighting for the league title, while Millwall will definitely make mistakes due to the heavy task of the game. Manchester United will smash Millwall's defense of the Premier League this season. Realize the dream of three consecutive championships. What do the Millwall club think about this?

Klinsmann has never experienced this kind of scene. He usually goes to the theater, but now he is the protagonist, and he is under a lot of pressure.

Apart from anything else, Ferguson is definitely a master of psychological warfare.

Manchester United's exit from the Champions League was an absolute negative impact and dealt a heavy blow to the team.

And a team is most taboo to be immersed in the shadow of attack and cannot extricate itself.

He used regret to be out to cover up the embarrassment of being double-killed, and also played a role in comforting the team. Then, he used one-sided words that sounded reasonable to boost the team's morale.

Yes, Millwall has entered the semi-finals of the Champions League, and the two-line battle has come to the most critical juncture. Will it not make mistakes under tremendous pressure? Playing one more game will increase the room for making mistakes in terms of probability. In addition, it is a key battle, and this probability will increase!

It sounds so reasonable, Ferguson used the impact of the league title to divert the attention of the Manchester United team, came out of the negative shadow, and then threw the pressure on Millwall.

After all, Klinsmann is not the head coach. In the battlefield of psychological warfare, he obviously lacks experience.

In the face of reporters' questions, he analyzed the team strength of Manchester United and Millwall at length, the league situation, the opponents he will meet in the next round, and so on, and he came to a conclusion suddenly: Millwall will not make mistakes , Manchester United want to win? dream!

The reporters in the audience lost their interest, and suddenly felt that Ferguson would be depressed if he watched Klinsmann's live answer.

It's not a level at all.

If Aldridge is replaced, how can he seriously analyze the league situation.

Psychological warfare is the momentum card!

Aldridge would only say: It turns out that Manchester United's exit from the Champions League was premeditated, and it was to hit the league championship! Sorry, but Millwall has reached the semi-finals of the Champions League for four consecutive years. Won two league titles in the past three years. We are used to sprinting the Champions League and the league in April and May at the same time. As for the team that has only won the league runner-up for four consecutive seasons, I don't know where the four consecutive runners-up come from. The confidence that the championship team will make mistakes.

You have to expose the opponent's shortcomings, attack the opponent's momentum, and instill confidence in your team.

As for the specific situation, it doesn't make much sense for the head coach to analyze it. There are so many football columns on Fleet Street, and someone always analyzes it like a scientist decrypts it.

On game day, Aldridge woke up refreshed. Obviously he got rid of the entanglement of illness, but Yiwen was exhausted these two days and got up late in the morning. Aldridge cooked breakfast himself, and left a note before going downstairs to go to work.

Over the years, I have developed the habit of being a workaholic. During the season, I feel like I am going crazy after taking a little extra two days off. This is probably the root cause of my previous life: hard work.

When the players came to the training base in the morning and saw Aldridge, they all greeted him with care, and it seemed that most of them were jokes.

The unscrupulous British tabloids almost sent out detectives. The cause of Aldrich's illness was found out.

I was swimming in the open-air swimming pool in my backyard in April, and I was born with this disease. Not wronged.

What made Aldridge dumbfounded was that the whole team collectively gave him condolences during lunch.

Each person put an apple on his table, and after a while, the apples piled up in front of Aldrich into a small pyramid

Apple, I accepted it, and I will take it home and eat it one by one. But if you can't win the game this afternoon, hehe, I guarantee that you will hate that there is something called an apple in the world in the future.

After Aldridge finished speaking, he picked up an apple and bit it down, and the players laughed loudly.

In the afternoon, Lion King Stadium.

Aldrich is in a heroic posture, wearing a new suit, recovering from a minor illness, and full of energy.

Playing Derby County at home, although the opponent is a relegation team, it is not a situation of a good hand is broken like Everton. The hard power is indeed the bottom of the league, and Millwall did not send all players The main force, it is appropriate to give some young people a chance.

Aldridge looked up to the second floor of the south stand of the stadium, where a new banner was hung. The banner was painted with a blue lion symbolizing Millwall, with a magnified heart and Nedved's name in the center. .

This is another appeal made by foreign fan organizations after the second round with Valencia.

There was already a promotional banner with Nedved's color in the stadium, which marked the mad lion and war god.

In the overseas section of Millwall's official website, foreign fan organizations applied for the banner they made to be hung in the stadium half a year ago. Millwall Club did not agree, after all, there is already a similar one.

But Nedved's performance after his comeback conquered the fans as always. In the UEFA Champions League game that just came to an end, Nedved blew the horn of the team's counterattack. Pirlo and Ronaldinho are all talented players. The talent to play, and Nedved is the soul of Millwall on the court, the source of never-ending fighting spirit.

The club pressed again and again, causing overseas fan organizations to complain, and finally compromised and hung this promotional banner on the stands.

Nedved symbolizes the heart of the wild lion, which is not an exaggeration.

In today's game, Nedved dominated the lineup. With him on the court, the young players also have a bottom line in their hearts, and they will not be restrained in their performance.

Derby County had no power to fight back in the whole game, and was defeated by Millwall 4:0. Nedved continued his good performance with two assists.

In the same round, Manchester United beat Coventry City 4:1, clinging to Millwall in the standings.

A week later, Millwall struggled to win 1-0 away from Newcastle United, and Manchester United also beat Southampton 2-1 in an away game. Millwall still leads the standings by 1 point.

There are 4 rounds left in the league.

After this game, Aldridge ignored any news from the outside world or from Manchester.

The semi-finals of the Champions League are about to start, and the schedule of the Premier League is also quite dramatic.

Millwall will play two away games and one at home.

Champions League, League, Champions League.

The opponents are the same.

Leeds United!

The White Rose of Yorkshire seems to be walking on the road to revival step by step after Ritsdale's crazy investment regardless of cost the previous summer.

He qualified for the Champions League last season, and the league is also fighting for the Champions League qualification this season, but considering the two-line battle in the Champions League, the Champions League has reached the semi-finals all the way, and the white rose of Yorkshire seems to be really blooming.

Young Marshal O'Reilly and Aldridge had no deep hatred, nor selfless friendship, but they were given the title of Second Young Marshal by Fleet Street.

Although the outside world is not optimistic that Leeds United can defeat Millwall and advance to the final, anything can happen on the football field.

People began to assume that if O'Reilly could beat Aldridge on the stage of the Champions League, and then boldly assume that O'Reilly led the dark horse of Leeds United to win the championship.

Then, O'Reilly is almost copying Aldridge's coaching trajectory. After all, this season is only the third year of O'Reilly's coaching career!

The Battle of the Young Marshals will be staged in the semi-finals of the Champions League. (to be continued...) ()