The Young Lion

Three days before the Champions League final, Millwall and Bayern Munich arrived in Milan, Italy on the same day to prepare for the pinnacle battle.

Compared with Bayern Munich who escaped and reversed to win the championship at the last moment, Millwall won the league championship trophy with a hearty victory. Regardless of morale, confidence, or state, the outside world believes that Millwall is better. This is true. The truth came out.

Will Millwall underestimate the enemy?

Aldridge responded at the pre-match press conference: Successful defending can make history, who would underestimate the enemy? What's more, Bayern Munich beat Manchester United and Arsenal in a row. Although Millwall will not associate itself with Manchester United and Arsenal, it is necessary to fight back against the outside world's evaluation of the insufficient weight of the Premier League champion!

The Serie A championship is rich in gold, but Serie A teams have suffered dismal results in the Champions League for two consecutive years. Of course, one of the reasons for the defense of the Italian media is: because of the fierce competition in the league and serious internal friction, Serie A teams appear to be reluctant to go to the European war. Insufficient strength.

This kind of argument sounds difficult to refute, but it has some truth.

But if we simply say that the Premier League is not competitive, then we have underestimated Manchester United, which has definitely entered the top five in Europe's strength rankings in recent seasons.

At the same time, Aldridge said solemnly at the press conference: Millwall came to Milan to make history at San Siro and leave with the Champions League trophy. The opponents are very strong, but we will beat them in the game. Because we are stronger!

The outside world found that the young marshal's external remarks began to change.

He used to have a humble attitude. Even if Millwall is listed as a favorite, he will still be cautious.

But now, he will always tell everyone categorically about Millwall's ambitions.

Changed, Aldridge changed.

Because Millwall is not what it used to be.

Now, Aldridge wants to shape Millwall's kingly image and the team's kingly temperament.

This is far higher than the temperament of the strong, and it is more difficult to shape.

A true king, no matter who the opponent is, must have the confidence and determination to defeat the opponent, and will not allow the outside world to have any doubts.

It is necessary to go further on the basis of pursuing victory in the past.

To them,

It's not that you fail if you don't win the championship, but you fail if you don't win!

Of course, no team can guarantee victory in every battle, but when this belief is instilled in the players, when the game cannot be won, it will make them have a stronger sense of crisis and awareness of defending honor. A means by which the spirit cannot slack off.

They must always maintain the competitive ability to be worthy of Millwall's king status.

Professional football is very cruel. A player may only have a professional career of 20 years, and the peak period will only last about 5 years. To make the peak period longer and the competitive state not to decline greatly, the players themselves need to maintain their focus on work Spend.

Bayern Munich coach Heathfield has kept a low profile. After all, Bayern Munich was double-killed by Millwall last year. Although Millwall is not as eye-catching in the league this year as last year, and it cannot replicate the glory of the Triple Crown last season, Millwall The further improvement of Wall's strength is irrefutable.

Millwall's domestic cup was double-killed by Liverpool. The outside world has not criticized Millwall. Liverpool finally won the three cups, the League Cup, the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup.

Millwall's second team lost to Liverpool. It can be said that Millwall sacrificed their domestic cup honors to continue their youth training tradition.

If you have to strive for all the championship trophies you can get, this will inevitably reduce the space for young players to play and exercise. This runs counter to Millwall's youth training philosophy. In order to ensure the quality of youth training, young players are given opportunities to play every season. Let them grow up, the price, of course, is the stadium record.

Want to continuously train young talents, and want to win all the champions, how can there be such a good thing in the world?

When luck is good, such as last season, for example, the cup champions won in the past few years, the young people's spirit, or the knockout opponents encountered due to the schedule are not too strong and do not pay attention to other factors, and finally aspire to the domestic cup champion, can only say It was Millwall who made the money. They really want to use their main force to hit the domestic cup championship, so the sacrifice of the youth training tradition will obviously do more harm than good in the long run.

In this way, the opportunities for young people to play are still obviously not enough this season. Lampard and Ashley Cole left the team on loan in the middle of the season.

Since Aldridge came to Milan, the top three in northern Italy, and some clubs with a little financial strength, have sent managers to meet and talk with him in private.

Serie A has ended, and the signing of the Italian team is naturally on the table. Many people want to play the idea of ​​Millwall players.

Aldridge declined all appointments. Regardless of the transfer representative or Adam, the club also abided by the club's rules: the season is not over, and there is no transfer talk!

If the picture of Adam with a certain club representative is photographed, the outside world will naturally have imaginations. Once the news comes out, it will definitely disturb the morale of the army.

On the day of the game, the San Siro was packed. In addition to fans from Millwall and Bayern Munich rushing in to cheer for their respective teams, there were also many neutral fans, especially local Italian fans.

According to external analysis, Millwall still had the advantage in the final in a neutral position!

There are no Italian players in Bayern Munich's team, but there are Italian players in Millwall's team, and there are four players in the starting lineup alone!

Materazzi, Zambrotta, Gattuso, Pirlo!

Therefore, part of the neutral fans came to San Siro with a mentality of pure appreciation without a position, and part of them came with support for Italian players.

San Siro is still performing theatrical performances, appetizers for the audience before the game.

Aldridge sat in the locker room, looked around at all the players, and said calmly, Do you need me to say something to stimulate your fighting spirit?

All the players, with wild eyes like wild animals, said in unison: No need!

Ambitious, not only Aldridge has.

Most of these players have followed Aldridge for many years and played in the Champions League final for the third time. If they can win the championship, the record of winning the Champions League three times is enough to be recorded in history!

This honor is actually very great, but if you really compare history, there is a mountain that makes all active players very helpless.

From the first year to the fifth year of the Champions League, Real Madrid won five consecutive championships. Among them, Gento won five times with the team, and later won one more time, becoming the player who won the most Champions League titles.

Six Champions League champions, Gento dominates the throne, and Di Stefano only has five. If we really want to count the rankings, Real Madrid accounted for one vote during the five consecutive championships.

However, honor is not a boring statistic. The difficulty of the Champions League today is much more difficult than it was in the past. A player who can win two Champions Leagues is already very remarkable. Now, there are many players in the Millwall team who hope to win it for the third time. Starting from the European Champions Cup, as long as it is achieved, it will be a peerless glory that no one can match in the past twenty years!

In the face of such glory, Millwall's players are full of fighting spirit. In a more common way, if this battle is successful, they can almost become gods!

No matter who comes to block, come one, destroy one!

Aldridge is no longer long-winded. His main purpose of his pre-match training is to mobilize the players' fighting spirit. It is obviously not necessary for him to deliberately emphasize this point today.

The players walked out of the locker room heroically, gearing up for a big fight.

Aldridge entered the field and first shook hands with Heathfield. This was the fifth time the two had played against each other in three years. They could not talk privately, but they should greet each other. As for the game, both of them also tacitly kept silent. Talking is just a kind of meeting and chatting similar to friends.

San Siro stands today are divided into red and blue colors of the two camps.

Fans of Millwall and Bayern Munich were wondering.

In the league, Bayern Munich competes with Schalke 04 for the championship. Schalke 04 is blue and Bayern Munich is red. Today, in the Champions League final, they will meet the blue Millwall again.

Millwall fans also find it weird that in the Premier League, there is a red-blue war with Manchester United, and when it comes to the Champions League final, it is still a red-blue confrontation.

But after thinking about it, the fans of the two teams comforted themselves, thinking that this was a good sign.

Well, the blue of Schalke 04, lost.

Ha, Manchester United's red, also lost.

The strange and similar psychological activities of the fans of the two teams are quite interesting.

The final of the 2000-2001 UEFA Champions League was staged today at the San Siro Stadium in Italy. The opponents were Millwall, the last Champions League winner from England. As the defending champions, their opponent was Bayern Munich from Germany. He won the league championship a few days ago, and the championship was decided in the last round. In the past two seasons, Millwall and Bayern Munich have fought four times, with a record of 3 wins and 1 loss. Millwall has an obvious advantage, but The defeat in Munich in 1999 made them lose the chance to defend the UEFA Champions League. Last season, the host and guest double-killed Bayern Munich to get revenge, and finally won the UEFA Champions League trophy for the second time. This season, the two teams met again. As UEFA It is not surprising that the two top teams recognized by the world in recent years, Millwall and Bayern Munich will meet in the final. They have such strength to come here, but there is only one champion. We keep our eyes open to see who can finally win the championship trophy Bar!

Players from both sides appeared on the field, each with high morale. In terms of pure momentum, Millwall is actually slightly inferior to Bayern Munich. The German team has been strong during this period, and the spiritual bonus is very significant. This is not illusory. It reflects On the court, there are various aspects such as fighting spirit, fighting spirit, unity and cooperation. To put it simply, football games are very important. But sometimes, a team with a strong spirit can often show terrifying combat effectiveness.

The following introduces the starting players and starting formations of both sides.

The defending champion Millwall lacks the absolute main force Ronaldinho. He sat on the bench today, replaced by Glenshire, and Bout, who was injured in the middle of the season, also sat on the bench. at the table.

Millwall started 433.

Goalkeeper: Pagliuca.

Defenders: Schneider, Materazzi, Southgate, Zambrotta.

Midfield: Gattuso, Pirlo, Nedved.

Forwards: Larsson, Henry, Glenshire.

Bayern Munich also has a main player absent. Jeremiah's inability to play may affect the trend of the game. He is a key defensive midfielder for Bayern Munich. Today Heathfield started with the teenager Hargreaves, but May this young man withstand the pressure.

Bayern Munich starting 541.

Goalkeeper: Kahn.

Guards: Sagnol, Kufuor, Anderson, Link, Lizarazu.

Midfield: Salihamidzic, Effenberg, Hargreaves, Sauer.

Forward: Elber.

Well, the two sides have completed the toss, and the game will start immediately. Millwall kicks off first. Let us witness the birth of the European king this season! rs()