The Young Lion

run, watch, think, steal, get rid of

This seems to be more like the first game of Ronaldo's career. Not only is his attitude more serious than before, he has less desire to show off and more persistence in the overall situation.

In the words he communicated with Kaka, in addition to Aldridge's tactical instructions, there are also some of his personal thoughts as a teammate.

The 17-year-old Kaka and the 19-year-old Kaka are now approximately parallel on the field. Millwall's offensive attack group is an asymmetrical dislocation with 22 parallel positions.

Blackburn was still playing a long pass, and Souness frequently looked at his watch on the sidelines.

As Aldridge said, the success rate of Blackburn's tactics is not high. Against ordinary opponents, 30 or 40 attacks can score a goal. Against Millwall, the average data must exceed 50. Second-rate.

But this is just probability statistics. In fact, every attack is a random event. That is to say, assuming that Blackburn needs 55 such attacks, and one of them can be scored, then when did this successful 1 appear? ? No one can predict, it may be the first time, it may be the 55th time, or it may be the 21st time. In short, the overall average offensive efficiency is roughly the same, but when it will appear is unpredictable.

Millwall has a higher ball possession rate and more attacks. In contrast, Blackburn's attacks have decreased, especially the number of threatening attacks. Blind big-foot clearances will not be counted as an attack.

This kind of statistics may not be particularly conspicuous in contemporary times, but it will be a few years later. Cosmos game in Barcelona. Its core meaning can be clearly seen. Barcelona's extremely high ball possession rate guarantees the number of attacks, and at the same time greatly limits the number of opponents' attacks, and its offensive efficiency is higher than that of the opponent. Therefore, it seems logical to defeat the opponent in theory, which triggers the later discussion about ball possession. Efficiency, passing efficiency debate.

The reason Souness watched the time was because he knew Blackburn would continue playing like this. In case the 1 success in offensive efficiency cannot occur within 90 minutes, then the game is over, the winner takes everything, and the loser has nothing.

Therefore, he is waiting for the time, and at 80 minutes, he will order the whole team to press forward, and in the last 10 minutes, the tactical success rate will be greatly improved. Correspondingly, the risk of conceding the ball will also be greatly increased. But it must be risked.

Just as Souness frequently looked at his watch to pay attention to the time, the situation on the court quietly changed in a development invisible to the naked eye.

After Ronaldo came on the field, he did not assume the role of series support on the left side of the striker like Lamore. His position was further back, close to parallel with Kaka.

In this way,

In a short period of time, the pressure on Blackburn's defense on the right suddenly eased, and they did not suffer any impact for more than 10 minutes.

After all, Lamore and Ronaldo have different characteristics. Lamore is good at threading needles and breaking into the penalty area to play the role of killer. He rarely sticks to the ball, and the average number of breakthroughs per game is less than 1 time.

Originally, this kind of configuration played pretty well in the opening game. Larmor was a go-between, Kaka focused on breakthroughs, Klose was a center forward, and Villa had a hidden threat of cutting in. The frontcourt attack group configuration was relatively comprehensive. All kinds of elements are available.

This balanced situation was broken after Ronaldo played, and now they are more prominent in the advantages of a certain offensive method.

For example, Kaka and Ronaldo's dribbling breakthrough threat.

After more than ten minutes of playing, Ronaldo has entered the state and has also figured out the specific situation on the court. For example, if he stands on the front line and is stared at by the opponent's defender, then he will become in a difficult situation and suffer from physical confrontation. , After all, he is only 17 years old, no matter how hard they temper their bodies, they still can't gain the upper hand in the confrontation with strong and strong defenders over 25 years old.

His position retreats, parallel to Kaka, and he runs without the ball on the opponent's back waistline, which is to create space for himself, and at the same time maintain close contact with Kaka.

In the 78th minute, Souness was ready to order the team to counterattack and staged a last-ditch effort.

However, at this moment, Millwall's positional battle was initiated by Alonso. He took the ball forward and came to the opponent's midfielder. After attracting the attention of a central midfielder of the opponent, he immediately passed the ball. Gave it to Ronaldo.

C Luo got the ball and dribbled forward firmly. He was only 3 meters away from the opponent's right back waist. Not a first-class player, the first move was to grab. After Ronaldo's fake move came out, his body reacted hesitantly. When he recovered, Ronaldo had successfully broken through, but he did not completely shake off the opponent. In an instant, Ronaldo made a gap, and then made a diagonal pass to the front right.

Behind Kaka is the opponent's midfielder, the one who was going to defend Alonso, at this time, he got rid of this man, and the midfielder on the left side quickly came to cover the defense. Kaka saw Ronaldo passing the ball, and it was I gave him the amount of advance to go forward, and I secretly praised him. Ronaldo's breakthrough made the pass open, and at the same time gave Kaka the time to accelerate and start. Maybe this is 1 second to 2 seconds, but it is extremely critical .

After the activation, Kaka rushed forward at a high speed, and the opponent's assisted left midfielder would meet the spot where Kaka touched the ball, and the two would collide, but Kaka was still accelerating. Afterwards, the ball moved forward slightly, and Blackburn's left back rushed over, passing Kaka just in time, and Kaka dribbled the ball through Blackburn's back waistline!

While Kaka was moving forward with the ball, a white figure not far from the left side quickly chased him up and went head to head with him.

Kaka, who was dribbling at high speed, glanced at that side. Not surprisingly, it was Ronaldo with a cold face and legs galloping as if he was about to spread his wings. Millwall was drawn to the away game today, wearing a white away game jersey.

Cristiano Ronaldo got the ball and broke through a defender to pass the ball to Kaka, who also broke through and got rid of a defender. Now, these two young players are rushing forward. In front of them, there is Blackburn. Can you break through this last line of defense? This is really an exciting scene! The cheering and cheering from the Millwall fans at the scene is even louder!

When about to enter the restricted area. Blackburn's back line quickly adjusted. The two centre-backs are clear-headed. This time the defense was very reasonable. One player went out to block Kaka, while the other stood behind Klose and stared at him closely, and also made small movements in his hands, entangled Klose. .

Kaka's speed did not decrease, Ronaldo was still rushing forward, at the last moment, Kaka was about to confront the opponent's central defender head-on. It's time for Kaka to make a decision, shall he continue to break through? Then he had to change direction, but he didn't choose to take risks, and he didn't pass the ball to Ronaldo. Instead, he passed the ball quickly, and the ball rolled diagonally to the right side of the penalty area.

The central defender started to move inward, and Villa began to cut inward, and the space came out!

Kaka passed the ball out, and Villa's side was obviously empty, and the opponent's goalkeeper immediately abandoned the goal and went out to block Villa.

Behind Villa is the opponent's full-back. He can't stop the ball, never!

Otherwise, the probability of losing the ball is very high.

The goalkeeper came out to block. The angle couldn't be smaller, but Villa never thought about shooting from the very beginning. As a product of Millwall's youth training, Millwall's tactical philosophy has long been imprinted in his mind.

In this kind of positional warfare, he is on the front line, and there is very little room to rush forward, so his responsibilities will change, and the core role switching, he has now just begun to understand, and naturally he is not as mature as Larson. Fine, but won't drop the chain at critical moments.

Cross! Villa didn't shoot, cross! Blackburn is empty!

Klose was entangled by the opponent's central defender in the middle. In turn, Klose was able to drag the opponent's central defender. Both of them were two meters away from the ball passing by the sliding goal. In the state, one couldn't shoot, and the other couldn't clear the siege, watching the ball roll one meter from the goal line.

After Villa passed the ball, his eyes kept looking at that side. He knew that this ball was not passed to Klose, because Klose was dragged in place by the opponent's concealed hand movements, unable to use his strength. .

But, point behind the goal, someone should be able to get there!

That brat who pretends to be cool every day!

When the ball had already rolled past the goal post on the other side of the goal, a figure flew towards the ground and swept the ball into the goal!

After completing the shooting action, following the strong inertia, the goal scorer stood up outside the baseline with one hand on the ground, and his cold face showed an extraordinarily wild and excited color.

Cristiano Ronaldo! At 17 years old, Cristiano Ronaldo played in the Carabao Cup final and scored a goal in less than 20 minutes! It may be a record, we don't know, we have to wait for the match. Check it out again, now it is 3:1, 3:1, Millwall has almost sealed the victory! What a strong Millwall, what a passionate Millwall! 17-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo, 19-year-old Kaka, 21-year-old Villa, 23-year-old Klose, this is an attack group with an average age of only 20 years old. Millwall is known as the Young Guards. You can win the first championship of the new year in 11 minutes!

Ronaldo raised his arms, grabbed each other's palms with Kaka who was running over, and smiled at each other. Then, they were quickly surrounded by teammates, and even Southgate and other players in the backcourt rushed over to celebrate the goal.

Schneider was the last one to run over, rushed up and jumped up, lying on top of everyone's heads, laughing unscrupulously.

On the bench, Larson and the others stood up and applauded. Larson turned to Henry and said with a smile, It seems that you will add another competitor soon.

Henry smiled and said nothing. Although he saw that the juniors in the team began to make a difference, his biggest threat in the team came from Klose, not the 17-year-old Ronaldo. All the young geniuses in the world can be ignored.

Aldrich nodded secretly, training soldiers, when the training reaches a certain level and begins to reap the rewards, the sense of satisfaction and accomplishment is indescribable. Ronaldo and Kaka are just in their infancy, but Villa, Klose, Aaron He is very proud of the maturity of these players.

At the end of the celebration, Ronaldo still clenched his fists and waved in front of him. Kaka turned his head and smiled and asked, It's not enough, is it?

Ronaldo's eyes were full of ambition, and he said as a matter of course: It's definitely not enough! Kaka, we can shock the world!

Kaka stared deeply at Ronaldo. He never felt that the superstars in the first team were so special, because everyone was very easy-going. However, in front of his eyes, this 17-year-old player who was younger than him made him feel a little She has an alternative temperament, as if born with an undisguised ambition to dominate everything. (to be continued...) ()