The Young Lion

Before September came, Millwall had won two championships. It was tasteless, and it was indeed the kind of championship that would not be too exciting to win, but would be a pity to lose.

The Millwall team returned to London. At the same time, the club went to participate in the UEFA Champions League draw ceremony for the new season.

Aldridge was absent from the draw ceremony again after last season. It is estimated that from now on, he will not be interested in going to the scene to see the results of the Millwall draw. The expansion of the Champions League, the team classification, whatever UEFA draws, for Millwall As far as Wall is concerned, the death group in the popular sense can create some troubles at best, but it will never reach the point of life and death.

The four Premier League teams participating in the Champions League, Millwall, Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool, all have good luck in signing, but to say whose group is the most difficult, it is the defending champion Millwall.

Manchester United, Deportivo, Lille, Olympiacos.

Arsenal, Panathenaicus, Mallorca, Schalke 04.

Liverpool, Dortmund, Bovista, Dynamo Kiev.

Millwall, Juventus, Porto, Celtic.

Obviously, Millwall has been classified into the group of death, and the four teams are the strongest teams in each grade.

In an interview in London, Aldridge was very satisfied with the result of the draw, and did not say anything else. As for his rematch with Lippi the Silver Fox, who entered Juventus for the second time, Aldridge did not cater to the media hype. He just said with a smile that he was looking forward to playing against Lippi again.

Before the arrival of the match day, Millwall still has a League Cup to play, and Aldridge started the team rotation. Go straight to the full bench.

Millwall thrashed Oxford United 7-1 away. Klose scored 5 goals in a single game and became the biggest focus.

However, Aldridge focused on the performance of the defense line. It is a fact that Pedretti's performance tends to be stable, and his potential is endless, but his strength has also reached the level of a wealthy substitute. Players who have a bottom in their hearts will be able to sleep well.

Metzelder and Barzagli are also beginning to be reassuring. In the past, when they played, they would give people a sense of dread, for fear that they would make mistakes, but now they can feel more at ease. Alonso got more opportunities last season, and his confidence has improved a lot. The progress is obvious to all. Larmore Although it can't reach the height of genius that was once expected to be high, the level of the giants' bench is also loved by Aldridge, especially his role as a series support in the offense. There are always unexpected performances. Villa did not quickly become a first-line star after a blockbuster as expected by the outside world.

He will be 20 years old at the end of the year and he has lost attention in the past two years, but Aldridge thinks this is a good thing. Villa is also growing up in a low-key way. After he became famous, the opponents in the Premier League targeted him. In the past two years, he has focused on honing his skills and will continue to strengthen his body in the future. Aldridge believes that after two or three years, Villa will be able to play. Will really step into the realm of first-class players.

De Rossi and Kaka, the two rookies, Aldridge does not have expectations for them this season, because they will lack stability. They have just entered the professional arena, or to feel the atmosphere, integrate into the team, familiarize themselves with the rhythm, and adapt to the environment Mainly.

Millwall has fewer personnel and more games this season. It is conservatively estimated that there will be 14 games in the Champions League to enter the quarter-finals, plus 38 league games, this is 52 games, and then count the Charity Shield, Super Cup, and Toyota Cup. , FA Cup, League Cup, if all fronts perform better this season than last season, there will be almost 70 games in one season.

Aldridge’s plan for the main players is about 40-45 games, and the rest are for the substitute players. In addition, it is impossible for the main lineup to be affected by injuries throughout the season. Millwall’s substitute players have won There will be a lot of opportunities to play, and the main substitute players like Klose and Alonso will definitely have more than 30 appearances.

Although there are fewer Millwall players, the lineup has not changed much, but the overall strength has been greatly improved in the new season, because substitute players like Metzelder and Alonso are growing every season. , just bloodbathed the opponent in the away game, even if the opponent is a big fish, but the strength shown on the field cannot be ignored.

Aldridge rested at home before the game day.

He feels a lot more relaxed in the new season. The key is that the club is stable and there is no need to worry too much. Reminiscent of the turmoil in the summer of last season and going to Asia to collect money, and comparing it with the start of the new season this year, Aldridge sighs in his heart: What you get, you have to have. lost.

It was a bright day, and Aldrich was playing football with his two sons on the lawn in the backyard of his home. Ivan was recording with a digital camera, with a smile on his face all the time.

Aldrich always thought that Earl didn't like playing football, only Bert liked to play, but he was wrong.

Now Bert and Earl can run with the ball, take simple shots, pass each other.

Burt looked like an ordinary kid, kicking the ball with his feet, and he didn't have any tricks.

But Earl's body flexibility is amazing. He is not playing football, he is playing with the ball. After practicing for a period of time, he can bounce the ball ten times at a time!

When interacting and playing with Bert, he also tried to use direction changes to surpass others. Although there was no obvious accelerated movement, he had a good sense of passing.

In this way, the older brother Bert looks a little clumsy.

Aldridge didn't care either. As a parent, how could you dislike your child and find fault with your child?

He set up a small goal in front of a wall in the backyard. When he came home from get off work, he would often play goalkeeping games with his two sons. Of course he was the one to guard the goal, and the two sons shot.

Burt always shoots with a single tendon, and kicks with strength to achieve speed, while Earl is much more cunning, and this is the case today.

Aldridge stood in front of the door, posing as a goalkeeper, and smiled at Earl, Be careful, you'll get your feet awkward.

Always playing tricks, Earle has had a sprain before.

I saw Earle take two steps back, then slowly ran towards the ball to make a shot. His feet circled in front of the ball. Aldrich naturally saw that he was faking. However, he jumped directly to the right in a coordinated manner, and Earl kicked the ball towards the empty goal.

Yeah! A goal!

Earl yelled and gave Burt a high-five in celebration, then rushed to Aldrich.

Aldrich, who had been deceived by moving his center of gravity ahead of time, lay back on the lawn, crying, You are so powerful, how did you come up with such a powerful move?

Earl laughed and rushed in front of Aldrich, and was pulled into his arms by Aldrich. Earl shouted excitedly: I beat you, Dad. I beat you! Hahaha.

You are so powerful, I am not your opponent, tell me, who taught you?

Kun taught me, he is amazing, yesterday he won the Islington team, 40 minutes of the game, he scored 6 goals.

Aldridge laughed. Islington is a district in Greater London. The 13-year-old Aguero probably went to play street football with his teammates. Play against Islington's field team, Millwall Academy. Before the players were 16 years old, there was always a tradition of advocating street football contests in their spare time. Back then, Najib personally led the street football team that swept across Greater London. Now it is not so strict, but U16 players are still required to have at least one game a week The game experience of street football.

Street football is actually a very important part of training players. The so-called art is in the folk. English football lacks creativity. , and even places like France in Europe, where Latin football is represented, many stars are played by street football.

Bert and Earl were taken by Ivan to watch the street football match yesterday, and Bert also walked over to Aldridge and told about the content of watching the game yesterday.

Aldrich didn't hear them mentioning Messi, so he understood after thinking about it.

If Aguero and Messi team up to play against other wild teams in London, it is estimated that no team is willing to play with them. Teammates of two non-offensive players should go together. Sometimes there are too many people and they have to be broken up. Only when they are divided into different teams will they be willing to play with you.

Like yesterday, Aguero went with Baines, and called one of his elder brothers, beat him 8:2, and returned happily.

Islington's big brother said that he will never play with Kun again, unless Kun is on their team.

Earl said with joy, and Aldrich also found it interesting.

Yiwen took a digital camera to record the whole process. These memories will become wonderful memories when they are old.

After spending two days of carefree rest at home, Aldridge returned to work, and the England national team went to Liverpool to prepare for the sixth round of the world preliminaries against Finland in Liverpool. The home team of the national team will be Using Anfield, in the last round against Greece, they will go to Manchester next door and use Old Trafford.

The remodeling of Wembley has also brought adverse effects to the England national team to a certain extent, that is, the home venue is not fixed. Although many European countries have always used their home courts in rotation, for England, it has always been at Wembley in the past. Li, if this habit is suddenly broken, there will definitely be some impact.

At the beginning of the new season, the international players are also full of vigor and energy, which can be regarded as a positive influence.

England ranked third in this group, because of a bye in June, Finland was originally one point less than England, but they defeated Albania in June, and now they have 12 points, 3 points more than England, but England has one game less than them In this game, as long as England wins this game, it will basically lock in the second place in the group of the world preliminaries, because after Finland's battle, there is one game left with Greece and all eight games are over, while England still has two games.

This game will be a key battle for whether England can qualify for the World Cup. If they can win, at least their qualification for the play-offs will be secured. If they fail to win, considering that they will be a guest in Germany in the next round, it is very likely that they will not even be able to qualify for the play-offs arrive!

The two world preliminaries in September and the final match of the group stage of the world preliminaries in October will be the decisive battle for England to enter the World Cup in Korea and Japan, and there is no room for loss in a game. (to be continued...) ()