The Young Lion

The 2001-2002 Premier League season kicked off, and Fleet Street joked that this season is the London Little League!

London is very lively this season. Among the 20 Premier League teams, London teams occupy seven places.

millwall.

Arsenal.

Tottenham.

Chelsea.

Charlton.

West Ham United.

fulham.

West Ham United and Fulham were promoted to the Premier League last season, and both teams are inextricably linked with Aldridge or Millwall.

With West Ham United is the sworn enemy.

The current coach of Fulham is also an old friend of Aldridge, especially with Henry in the Millwall team.

Jean Tigana.

Before Abramovich, who is a combination of angel and devil, came to London, there were actually foreign bosses who were practicing the same dream as Abramovich.

The Egyptian tycoon Fayed spent 30 million pounds in 1997 to buy Fulham, which was still in the second division at the time, and dreamed of building Fulham into Manchester United in the south, or the second Millwall in London. The annual investment is at the highest level in Fulham's competitive environment, but the team did not get what it wanted until last year when it hired Tigana, returning to England's top league after a lapse of 33 years.

Tigana has the financial support of Fayed and his successful experience in coaching in France. In addition, he advocates technical flow. Fleet Street hailed him as the second Wenger. He is expected to lead Fulham to London and even the British football. .

Tigana himself also has high ambitions. In an interview before the start of the season, he stated that he dreamed of leading Fulham to glory, and then he retired to enjoy life.

In addition to Tigana's success in Monaco, another factor is that he has become the focus of the media. That is. After Gullit. Tigana is the second black coach in the Premier League era. As the saying goes, rare things are more expensive, and under the influence of social values, the rarity of black coaches in the Premier League has given Tigana a very high degree of attention.

Premier League opener.

The defending champion sits at the Lion King Stadium,

Welcome to the London derby.

Wild Lion vs Farmer.

Following the 97/98 UEFA Champions League semi-finals, Aldridge and Tigana played against each other again, but the teams led by the two were far behind in strength. There is already a world of difference.

Millwall has no grievances with Fulham. Fulham's mortal enemy is Chelsea, and they have nothing to do with the teams in East London. In today's game, the hostility of the fans outside the field is not strong, and they enter the field step by step Watching the game, Wild Lions fans now have a sense of superiority. They can ignore the words Derby and Fulham, they are not on the same level at all.

Aldridge complimented Tigana before the game. Then waited early for Tigana's arrival at the Lion King Stadium, showing the host's demeanor. Quite a taste of being greeted by shoes.

For Tigana, it was like meeting an old friend in a foreign country. After walking out of the player tunnel, he saw Aldridge standing on the sidelines and greeted him with a smile.

When Tigana held Aldridge's hand, he looked around the majestic scene inside the Lion King Stadium, and the deafening cheers forced him to speak close to Aldridge's ear.

The atmosphere at Millwall is even hotter now than it was at Wembley, Aldridge, what an achievement.

Tigana sighed from the bottom of his heart.

The last time I came to challenge Millwall was at Wembley. Time flies. Four years later, Millwall has a magnificent new stadium, and the atmosphere of the hot stands is unprecedented.

This is the credit of Aldridge, and Tigana admires it. Although his backstage boss Fayez is rich, he can't spend all his money to bring a new stadium to Fulham. Rich can't afford it either.

Ordinary people with a net worth of 5 million RMB will certainly not buy a Ferrari sports car, and a wealthy man with a net worth of 5 billion US dollars will not be willing to build a new stadium that costs more than 500 million.

Aldridge made an appointment with Tigana to go to the office after the game to reminisce about the old days. The other party came to London a year ago, but he has never contacted Aldridge, even though Fulham had a purchase request last year and wanted to buy from Millwall. Going to the youth team is not a particularly outstanding young seedling. Tigana never called Aldridge to ask for accommodation, and Millwall also agreed to Fulham's offer for business. Unfortunately, the youth team players have high vision. Look down on Fulham in League One.

After exchanging pleasantries, Aldrich returned to his seat and sat down.

The opening game of the new Premier League season is about to begin. The defending champion Millwall will face the Premier League newcomer Fulham. This is a London derby without gunpowder. In the past seven years, Millwall has not played against Fulham. Wall coach Aldrich Hall has played against the Fulham coach. It was in the season when Hall really became the top coach in European football. Millwall was eliminated in the Champions League semi-finals. Monaco, the interesting thing is that the number one player in the Monaco team at the time is now Millwall's number one killer, Thierry Henry.

There have been a lot of topics surrounding Tigana recently. It is generally believed that he may become the second Wenger in the Premier League. He also coached Monaco. He also advocates European-style football philosophy. He is also good at promoting and motivating young players. He is also French. , Haha, Tigana brought Saha from France last season. This young player scored 27 goals in 43 games in League One. It was a big explosion. In the new season, Tigana brought Saha from France. Malblanc, he will continue to play his ability to train young people, just like he trained Henry, Barthez, Giuly, Sagnol, Riise and other stars who are now playing at the top level in Monaco.

Andy, although Tigana has the ability, I think Fulham is definitely not Millwall's opponent today.

I think it's unfair to Tigana and Fulham if we want to discuss such a topic. Fulham has only returned to the top level after 33 years. The defending champions in the Premier League debut, making the whole Millwall is terrified in Europe.

Didn't Millwall make their Premier League debut back then and challenge the invincible Red Devils Manchester United? The final result? I still remember it vividly. They were tied by Manchester United at the last minute at Old Trafford. It was Manchester United who drew them. .”

Okay. What you said made me have higher expectations for the game. If Fulham can cause trouble for Millwall today. I think the outside world will re-evaluate Fulham.

Much anticipated, the new season of the Premier League has finally started!

Millwall took the lead and the ball was passed back to Pirlo's feet. Pirlo controlled the rhythm and looked at the opponent's posture first.

Seeing the opponent's number one striker, Saha, who was very popular in the League One last season, rushed forward. Pirlo crossed the ball to Gattuso, and Saha pounced on Gattuso again. The latter passed the ball back to Pirlo.

Fulham played away, and they looked very cautious at the beginning. Only Saha harassed back and forth in front, and everyone else stood obediently in the second half.

Seeing the opponent's position, Pirlo had a bottom line in his heart.

Although Fulham's static position is very reasonable, excluding the goalkeeper and Saha who harassed the frontcourt, the other 9 players seem to divide the backcourt area and position reasonably, but this seemingly reasonable position is actually very dangerous.

Experience, the opponent came to the Premier League from League One after all. Although there are some veteran players who have been eliminated from the Premier League, Fulham always seems to be trembling inside.

Pirlo doesn't need any complicated organizational offense. He handed the ball to Ronaldinho.

Ronaldinho took the ball from the wing at the center line and dribbled the ball diagonally to the center.

Fulham's original formation with a very reasonable position was broken one by one during Ronaldinho's impact.

One, two, three, Ronaldinho was like an obstacle run with the ball, and the Fulham players who chased and intercepted him failed one by one.

Fulham's mistake is that they did not directly compress the most dangerous space, blocking Millwall layer by layer, but there are players like Ronaldinho who can break through one by one as long as they give him a certain amount of space. Fulham players It's more like fighting on their own in their respective territories, and then being defeated one by one by Ronaldinho.

Whoa, Ronaldinho made consecutive passes, he completely disrupted Fulham's defense! God, in front of the penalty area, Fulham had 5 people rushing towards Ronaldinho together !

Ronaldinho knew that he couldn't go any further. The two people in front were about to close the door, the two on the left and right came to double-team, and there was another chasing behind.

Even if the ball can pass, he will definitely be brought down by the opponent, and he will never be in the penalty area.

Ronaldinho stepped on the ball and kicked the ball out of the gap with scissors in a fancy way.

Henry, unmarked, took two steps forward slowly after receiving the ball in the penalty area, and then when the goalkeeper moved a step, he pushed his foot to the dead corner of the far post and scored easily.

Henry's goal was too easy. Ronaldinho did 99% of the work. Henry just needs to shoot as easily as he did in practice. Fulham declared the goal in 29 seconds. We The pre-match expectations are shattering and Fulham are probably only now realizing the gap between them and the best teams in Europe.

After Henry scored the goal, he turned his head and pointed at Ronaldinho. He didn't celebrate. Most of the credit for the goal was Ronaldinho's, and he didn't celebrate because Fulham's coach was Tigana.

Without Tigana promoting him in Monaco and reusing him, and performing well in that crucial season, it would be difficult for him to board the last train of the French national team and eventually become the world champion.

Tigana saw that Henry scored at the beginning of the game. Indeed, as the commentator said, in less than a minute, he really realized the gap between Fulham and Millwall.

Ronaldinho, I can't help it!

Especially when one player goes up to intercept one player after another, it's like a circus being played by Ronaldinho one after another.

Tigana is still a little proud and confident. He doesn't want Fulham to be like other teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League. When they play against Millwall, they put up the bus ugly and use the human wall to block the goal. But the reality is that they don't put the bus. , Millwall's frontcourt attacking four-person team, one-on-one, with enough space, who in Fulham can play one-on-one without falling behind? And for a player like Ronaldinho, not to mention one-on-one, even if two people are defending, they must stick to him, not giving him room to activate and display his skills. Once he has room to activate and explode, the scene will be just like that , a small compass belt, a sharp turn, followed by a group of Fulham players, like a small train speeding on the field.

Tigana shook his head, walked to the sidelines, and made adjustments. The bus must be placed. If it is not, it may be bloodbathed today. Millwall always has a few games every season that make the opponent cry. Not alive (to be continued...) ()