The Young Lion

Thank you Thieves for your reward!

At the end of the first half of the second half of the Battle of the Century, Millwall ruthlessly expanded the total score to a shocking 8:3. The Lion King Stadium has already become a sea of ​​joy. Many Wild Lion fans took out their homemade Champions League trophies in It was a perfect day, a perfect first half for them.

The stars of Real Madrid walked into the player tunnel in a daze, it was a nightmare first half.

Offensive play was extremely difficult, and defense was full of mistakes and omissions.

Two weeks ago, he had the ambition to play against the top European team, and was about to step on Millwall's corpse to ascend to the throne. Now it seems that his ambition at that time seemed naive.

Aldridge praised the team's performance during the half-time break. He was not as excited and excited as he was during the half-time break of the previous game. The excitement brought about by the star-gathering super battle has passed, and it is calm now: Real Madrid , but mediocre.

Aldridge should have been mentally prepared. When he was studying Real Madrid, as of the end of the La Liga round, Real Madrid's performance in the league is not impressive. Their winning rate is only 52%, and the league has lost eight games. Moreover, 8 different teams have beaten them in La Liga, and all the losses were away games. There were also 8 draws. The season's Champions League champions have the same personnel composition as in history, so they deliberately ignored these and placed Real Madrid in a very high and special position.

But think about it. The grouping situation of Real Madrid's two group stages is very comfortable. Still lost two games. They also lost a knockout game against Bayern Munich. Even though they were the champions of this season in the original history, their overall strength is not the top of the giants. However, Millwall's overall strength is super-class, and they are also separated from the top giants. The distance, especially when playing a team like La Liga that pays attention to midfield control, coupled with the opponent's emphasis on offense and light defense, Millwall may be lucky to be able to open the total score so much. But the overall strength is still significantly stronger than the opponent.

Thinking of this, Aldridge has nothing to be excited about. Winning the opponent is a matter of course. If the super strong team he built in 8 years can't hold down Real Madrid's opponents who have undergone a major midfield change in the past two years Aldrich felt that it could only represent the victory of Real Madrid's gold dollar policy and superstar policy, but his own failure would be a shame.

Bosque did his best to mobilize the morale of the team at halftime, and comforted him first. After the team recovers a little bit, he will motivate the team again. Then assign tasks for the second half.

Regardless of whether the adjustment is correct or not, he has to try it instead of letting it go. If so, maybe in this terrifying stadium, Real Madrid, a natural nobleman, will encounter a historic bloodbath!

Before the second half started,

Real Madrid made a substitution adjustment, Solari was replaced, and Karanka was replaced.

Aldridge saw Real Madrid make this substitution adjustment, and he didn't have to wait for the game to roughly understand Bosque's thinking.

Solari is an important substitute in Real Madrid, as is Karanka. Due to the influence of high-level policies this season, Pavon has become the main central defender. The former substitute Karanka is still a substitute. The reason why he was afraid to use him before is definitely Affected by the number of league appearances, it is difficult to determine the status. You must know that Karanka's league appearances are less than half of Pavon's!

Karanka withdrew to play as a central defender, and he can also take care of the left back. In his defensive habits, he can expand the defense zone, unlike some central defenders who get dizzy when they pull to the side and are seriously out of position.

Elguera once again topped the midfielder position. In fact, Real Madrid's midfield configuration this season is the smoothest, which is Elguera + Makelele + Zidane. SK withdrew Elguera back in this game, and now after 45 minutes, he revised the arrangement again.

In the first half, Real Madrid's midfield was not running smoothly. The fatal reason was that the defensive line of the midfielder was weak. Millwall's offense did not require cumbersome organization and scheduling. There will not be too much space when the attack is turned. The midfield operation in the last game was much smoother than today. This is also the reason. Only when the defense is guaranteed and Millwall needs to invest more troops to attack can this change. Weakened Millwall's defence.

The total score was already 8:3, Aldridge sat on the coaching bench safely, Bosque made a substitution and adjusted, not enough to worry him too much.

But after watching the second half of the game for five minutes, Aldridge stood up, and he found that the entire offensive system of Real Madrid has changed.

Morientes retreated to support, and Zidane pulled to the side, sometimes forming a partial cooperative connection with Figo or Carlos. Unlike the first half when Zidane developed an attack from the side, the center was empty, and now Elguera came up , he can even attack unscrupulously.

Real Madrid began to shift their forces from a global balance to a local advantage and then made an explosive advance. That is to say, Millwall has Nedved + Pirlo + Gattuso in the midfield. Real Madrid will not attack the middle first, leaving a back The withdrawn Morientes was used as a support point, threatening to take the ball and play the ball, restraining Millwall's defense in the middle, and then concentrated on playing on the side.

Carlos came up regardless of the defense assists, and either cooperated with Figo or Zidane. When the offense advanced to a position parallel to the penalty area line, Raul flexibly interspersed with the central defender's defense area to form a disruptive surprise attack. At the same time, Zidane Inside, Figo and Morientes are also evenly distributed or concentrated in one area for impact!

Aldridge frowned. Real Madrid's tactics are correct in playing this way. They can use the small-scale ball-handling ability of their superstars.

But in the last game, it will definitely not work. They attack so fiercely. If the attack fails, Millwall has Ronaldinho on the left, Larson on the right, and Nedved and Henry in the middle. With Ronaldinho's ability, he only needs to cut in from the side to disrupt the opponent's defense. Larson's threat at this point will skyrocket.

But there is no Ronaldinho in Millwall today. Probably Bosque realized this when he calmed down during the intermission. Millwall actually lost a core today!

The outside world says that Millwall has a front and rear dual-core configuration, with Pirlo at the back and Ronaldinho at the front. The organizational areas of the two are divided to minimize the negative impact on each other, and reduce the probability of confusion in the offense, without Ronaldinho . In the frontcourt, Millwall's quality has declined whether it is a single-soldier raid or an organized transfer attack. Like Kaka, who can only play short passes all the way forward, with Makelele + Elguera, the second half will Kaka will fall into an unprecedented predicament.

In this game, Kaka's performance soared all the way, but the difficulties he faced were also gradually escalating. In the second half, when Real Madrid re-introduced double midfielders, Kaka lost.

Handling the ball over and over again when caught in double-teams. Attempts to break through were interrupted, and the pass was not in place.

Aldridge walked to the sidelines. Trying to find an opportunity to have a brief exchange with Kaka, his inner idea is to give Kaka more time to go through such a test, even if it fails, it doesn't matter, but it must not be knocked down by difficulties and form a demon.

But when the 58th minute of the game came, Carlos sent the ball from the front line, and he threw the ball vigorously to the back of Millwall's back line.

This is obviously a well-rehearsed tactic. Millwall's back line pressed forward in order to meet Real Madrid's partial numerical advantage, and also wanted to make Real Madrid's pass and cut cooperation fail by creating an offside method.

Carlos's sideline throw was not a high-altitude ball, but a half-high ball that bounced into the penalty area. The route was thrown from the sideline, flying through the space between full-backs Schneider and Materazzi, and the landing point would be Behind Materazzi, who is the person who responds?

Raul!

Raul starts from Southgate's side, and the running route passes through the middle of Southgate and Materazzi. The ball rolls diagonally, and Raul also runs diagonally. place, it becomes a single-handed trend!

It must be too late for Materazzi to turn around again. Carlos threw the ball not only with great power, but also with a precise route. Even if Southgate reacted and chased Raul, he was left behind by Raul.

Bout abandons the goal, but obviously Raul will touch the ball earlier, and there is still at least five meters away from Bout.

Predicting that Bout's attack would not be able to block Raul's one-handed attack in the first place, Southgate caught up while chasing Raul and was about to be thrown off. He pulled Raul's shoulder, and then let go immediately. It only slowed down Raul's speed and stopped, and then he was able to stick to Raul for a reasonable physical collision.

Raul was pulled down at full speed and his footsteps became messy, and then fell in the penalty area.

The moment Southgate overtook the fallen Raul, he heard the referee's whistle.

He sighed inwardly, then stopped and turned around, seeing the referee put his hand into his breast pocket while running towards him.

With his eyes closed, Southgate knew his fate as the uproar at the Lion King Stadium turned into boos.

Red card! The referee showed Southgate a red card without hesitation! Southgate made a pulling action on Raul, otherwise Raul would not fall. Obviously, if Raul does not fall, This must be a single-handed opportunity. We cannot defend Southgate's red card, but it is a bit cruel to Southgate. He will miss the next Champions League final, and there is still half an hour. As long as Millwall does not Conceding 5 goals, they will enter the Champions League final for the third consecutive year and the fourth time in history. What awaits Southgate will be a record-breaking glory. However, this red card changed everything and changed his life. destiny!

Of course, the fans of the home team at the Lion King Stadium quit, booing and putting pressure on the referee.

Southgate opened his eyes again and did not defend himself, even though Materazzi, Nedved, Pirlo, Schneider, Bout and other teammates all surrounded the referee, trying to make the referee give a lighter sentence, but the main The referee still showed no signs of changing the sentencing.

Real Madrid players also surrounded the referee, trying to put pressure on the referee, thinking that Real Madrid should also get a penalty.

Raul fell in the penalty area.

However, Southgate hugged the ball, walked to one meter outside the penalty area, put the ball there, walked to the referee, separated his teammates, and said to the referee: I fouled, you show me a red card, I don't argue, but I know where I made the foul. It's right there, outside the penalty area. It's not a penalty kick! More than 60,000 pairs of eyes have confirmed this from the replay on the big screen. If you dare to award a penalty kick, it is Serious mistake in your work!

After speaking, Southgate turned around and left. Halfway through, he stopped and turned around. Nedved was running over to try to comfort him. Southgate took the captain's armband from his arm. He took it off and shook his head slightly at Nedved, signaling that the other party should stop comforting himself. He personally put on the captain's armband for Nedved, patted the back of the other's head, and turned away without saying a word.

Aldridge did not expect such a huge change on the sidelines. Needless to say, the coaching staff has already asked Metzelder and Neil to warm up. On the substitute list, these two guards can be used by anyone. Anyway, get ready and see who Aldridge sends.

When Southgate walked to the sidelines, Aldrich suddenly asked with a serious expression: Did you think about the consequences when you made the move?

Southgate stood in front of Aldrich, shook his head and said, No, there is no time.

Do you regret it?

No.

Aldrich suddenly smiled and stretched out his hand. Southgate walked into the tunnel with his head held high after high-fiving him. When he left the field, the boos at the Lion King Stadium stopped and turned into applause. The stands near the tunnel All the Lions fans on the stage gave a standing ovation and watched Southgate leave the field with respect. (to be continued...) ()