The Young Lion

Fulham recognized the reality and put on the bus, but this team is only the top of the League One in terms of strength, experience, temperament and other aspects, and the level of the bottom of the Premier League. Millwall only used 65 in the opening game of the new season. The battle was resolved in minutes.

In the first minute, Henry opened the scoring.

In the thirteenth minute, Pirlo scored another victory with a long shot.

In the 39th minute, Henry scored twice.

In the fifty-eighth minute, Larson added the icing on the cake and scored the fourth goal.

In the 65th minute, Aldridge made a substitution, and Larsson and Southgate went off to rest.

Millwall scored another goal in the 81st minute, Ronaldinho scored from a free kick.

5:0

Millwall got off to a good start in the London derby with Fulham.

After the game, Fleet Street joked: Tigana did become the second Wenger, but he was not Wenger. When Wenger faced Millwall for the first time, he lost 4 and he lost 5.

Aldridge thinks that there are more London teams in the Premier League in the new season. It is a good thing, which reduces the team's travel and traveling. Of the 38 rounds of the league, 12 games are played in London, which helps the team maintain their energy.

Just sent away the farmer Fulham, and ushered in the blue team Chelsea.

There are more London teams, and there are more London derbies.

For a mortal enemy like Chelsea, although Millwall's hostility has not been reduced by half, it is enough to despise the opponent in terms of posture.

This season Ranieri promoted the rejuvenation of the team, sent away a group of veterans, and promoted young people. It is worth mentioning that Bosnich, who was sent to Stamford Bridge by Ferguson for free in the middle of last season, did not change his inferiority. Bridge is still full of scandals. In the new season, his position in the Blues has been replaced by Cudicini.

Being young has its advantages, being full of vigor and vigor. This is all exciting, but youth also has a price, that is instability.

Especially some young people, even though they are capable, have no history of cooperation. It all takes grinding. Coach to blend, time. The record must pay such a price.

Millwall built the team with young people back then, and the starting stage was one level lower than the top arena, starting from League One. If you start from the Premier League, you will definitely not be able to produce decent results in the first season, and it is not bad to be able to avoid relegation.

With a one-year run-in period,

In addition, Aldridge pays more attention to professionalism in selecting players, which has the foundation for Millwall's long-term development. Later, young people have entered the first team from the youth echelon, which is also essential to Chelsea's direct construction of young people's lineup. the difference. Millwall's young players have been instilled with Millwall's football philosophy. They have time to digest, and they also started from the bench and grew up with the support of their predecessors. Unlike Chelsea's introduction of Gallas, who came directly to an unfamiliar environment and quickly provoked the leader.

One is a master of the king who is in full swing, and the other is a young star in the process of rebuilding. In addition, Millwall sits at home and has an overwhelming psychological advantage in previous matches. This ensuing London derby is not expected. In the midst of the heat, Chelsea lost again at the Lion King Stadium with a score of 0:2 after tenacious resistance for 90 minutes.

In the third round, Millwall played against the Premier League powerhouse Leeds United.

Leeds United continued to invest heavily in the summer. The arrival of Fowler and Robbie Keane cost the club more than 20 million pounds. The goal of the new season is to qualify for the Champions League. This season, there is no doubt that Leeds will It was a season of life and death for Leeds United. If they fail to qualify for the Champions League, Leeds United will be unable to repay their high debts. The banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions that lent them huge sums of money will definitely come to their door to collect debts immediately. Team, the financial report is estimated to be very ugly.

Leeds United had a great start to the new season. They defeated the Saints at home and captured the Gunners away. Their two consecutive victories equaled Millwall's points. In the third round, Leeds United visited the Lion King Stadium. O'Reilly's team, again To stand the test of hell.

Aldridge said before the game that the team will not have emotions other than competition because of the grievances of last season. A game is a game.

Everyone believed it.

Millwall abused Leeds United last season, and Leeds United was fined a huge sum of money. Bowyer may also be abandoned because of his long-term inability to play.

Besides, bear the grudge, is it Millwall's turn?

It should be that Leeds United cursed the eighteenth generation of Millwall ancestors every day!

O'Reilly wanted to swear.

He criticized the FA before the game, believing that the FA was favoring Millwall.

This third round of the league is actually the advance of the seventeenth round of the league.

Millwall will go to Monaco for the European Super Cup on the weekend, and will participate in the Club World Cup at the end of the year. Millwall applied to adjust the schedule at the beginning of the season. By the end of August, in this way, Millwall will have the same number of rounds as other teams, and after this game, they will go to the Super Cup, and the next day will be the game day, which will allow Millwall players to fully rest in the summer , so as not to be overly relaxed, and at the end of the year, you will be overly exhausted because of the make-up match.

Because of this, Millwall, who was supposed to play away in the third round, played at home again.

O'Reilly feels Leeds are being persecuted by the FA!

Killing the saints and defeating the gunners, Leeds United is in a strong momentum. This is the momentum of the team's morale. Honestly go to the third round of the game against Sunderland. Before the game day comes, Leeds United is likely to win Three consecutive victories to start the new season!

But Goddamn Millwall is going to play in the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup at the end of the year. Regarding the matter of Leeds United and adjusting the schedule, they chose Leeds United!

The FA of grass mud horses.

O'Reilly's attack brought him a fine of 5,000 pounds, and the FA also issued a warning that if he continued to speak badly, he would be banned from the game.

At the Lion King Stadium, before the game started, people knew that Aldridge's words before the game were absolutely against his will.

He sat quietly on the coach's bench waiting for the game to start, not even planning to take a look at O'Reilly.

If the game is a game, if there are no emotions other than competition, as Aldrich has done in the past, he will definitely say hello to his opponent, whether the relationship is iron or not is not important. At home, it's a way of hospitality.

How could Millwall have no emotions? !

It's only been three months since the racism turmoil.

Since before the game, the Lion King Stadium has been echoing songs mocking Leeds United, and the fans have used everything to attack Leeds United. when their players enter the field. Some fans in the nearby stands pointed at them and shouted warnings, and some directly humiliated them with the middle finger.

The pressure on the Leeds United players to come to this hellish stadium is immense.

The whole Millwall team is gearing up. Never regarded the game against Leeds United as an ordinary game.

O'Reilly sat on the coach's bench against the harsh boos and scolding from the stands behind him. He had a gloomy face, wondering whether the momentum of Leeds United in the new season can be maintained. It is very likely that it will depend on the outcome of this game.

In case of another disastrous defeat, the blow to the players' confidence is really immeasurable.

At the start of the game, Leeds United set up a tortoise formation, and Millwall tried to smash the tortoise shell.

Twenty minutes passed.

The score is still 0:0.

Andy, Millwall's style of play today is really strange. Are they in a bad state? It shouldn't be. The first two games were 5:0. One game was 2:0. The team's state is fine. Why is it almost impossible today? Can't see their players break through individually, have been tirelessly hitting long shots.

Maybe it was an attempt to create confusion with a long shot. I think it was Hall's request.

In the first 20 minutes, Millwall had 8 shots, all of which were long shots!

Ronaldinho, Nedved, Pirlo, Zambrotta, Schneider, these five players will shoot long shots as long as they are sure to hit the goal in the frontcourt.

Of the 8 shots, 5 were blocked by Leeds United players with their bodies.

And every time the ball hit the Leeds United player's body, there was a huge cheer from the stands of the Lion King Stadium, as if it was not a ball, but a human fist hitting the Leeds United player's face.

The Leeds United players played aggrievedly, were hit by the ball, and were laughed at by the fans, and gradually they couldn't stand it.

In the 29th minute, Pirlo made another long-range shot. Duckett stretched out his foot to block it. Pirlo smashed the ball and broke through the opponent deftly. The first kick forward of the game, and it was this first kick that tore apart Leeds United's defense.

After receiving the ball, Larson quickly knocked across the middle, and Henry followed up with a tiptoe shot to send the ball into the goal.

It turns out that this is Hall's purpose. To paralyze the opponent with a long shot, and then suddenly change the attacking method. Leeds United's defenders did not undergo this test in the first 30 minutes. They couldn't keep up with the rhythm all of a sudden. The defense was blown up. Mill Wall's style of play is very sophisticated.

Aldridge was not surprised by the team's success in breaking the wasteland.

It is a commonplace to say that breaking dense defense is a worldwide problem. This is a fact. Millwall was once blocked by dense defense. The failure to defend the league title in 1998 was also related to their frequent encounters with dense defense. But these years have been along the way. , They accumulated experience bit by bit, and gradually mastered the kung fu of breaking dense defenses. Although they may not be successful every game, the winning rate is still very high.

Breaking the dense defense is nothing more than the three tricks.

Long shots, breakthroughs, set balls.

Set kicks are a common item in Millwall's training system. It should be practiced, but it is not important to reach the pinnacle of set kicks. After all, in the game, except for corner kicks, other set kicks have a premise that the opponent fouls. If you deliberately emphasize the use of set kicks, you will create fouls for the opponent. Aldridge has never asked any of his disciples to make set kicks in the past. Wrong way, that is cheating fouls, the opponent does not intentionally foul, but he wants to set the ball, so he falls, pretends to be injured, rolls, screams twice, which may affect the referee's judgment, thus giving Favorable penalty.

That's not Millwall's football philosophy. Maybe some people think it's understandable, but Aldridge just doesn't agree with it. He appreciates Nedved standing up after falling and explaining to the referee that the opponent didn't foul. Is it noble? ? No, it's just being sincere and maintaining the fairness of the game. If you want to destroy the fairness of the game, then one day when others also violate the fairness, you will not have the confidence to complain or protest, otherwise you will be shameless.

Millwall focuses on breakthroughs and long-range shots. These two items are also divided into levels. The initial stage is the individual explosion of the star.

Millwall has now reached a higher level. Ronaldinho's breakthrough can attract a large number of defensive players, create opportunities for teammates, and break the opponent's dense defensive system. The effect of paralysis, and then a sudden change of rhythm, caught the opponent by surprise.

In the eighth year of Aldridge's coaching, the team he led seems to be able to compete for the strongest golden team in history, because they are not only proficient in all kinds of martial arts, but also can switch flexibly, from the perspective of strategy Tactics are highly targeted to attack different opponents. ()