The Young Lion

On the eve of the Anglo-Arab war, the media did not just look back at the history of the Anglo-Arab grievances. Regarding the two teams that are about to meet now, the offensive football of Argentina 3313 seems to be chilling, and the top scorer in England: Owen .

Fleet Street made a worrying voice, feeling that although England won Sweden in the last game, Owen's condition was clearly bad, and England's backup striker was not available!

Alan Smith?

He didn't play much as a striker in Leeds United last season.

Rooney?

Sorry, the outside world automatically ignored this person.

In the face of the media's doubts about Owen's status, as well as concerns about hidden dangers in the England striker.

Aldridge wrote lightly: You only saw that Owen missed a few opportunities, but you didn't see England's three goals in the last game. Owen made important contributions. Of course, I have no intention of discussing these with you. What do you say, I have only one answer: Owen is the best striker in England, as long as he is not injured, he will definitely start.

Reporters from all over the world have different ideas. Some people think that Aldridge is a dead duck, and some people think that Aldridge is motivating Owen. However, some people are worried whether this will bring psychological pressure to Owen.

After finishing the pre-match press conference, Aldridge and Beckham returned to the hotel where they stayed. They walked into the business meeting room of the hotel together to formally hold the pre-match preparation meeting for tomorrow's game.

All England players and the coaching staff sat on both sides of the long table in the conference room. On the large projection screen, assistant coach Jenson began to play the slideshow.

I know what tomorrow's game means to us. England vs Argentina. It's definitely not going to be a special game. But, my job is in the arena, politics, I don't think about it, regardless of what the fans expect. What, for me there is nothing but victory. So we have to put all our minds in the arena and only then can we beat Argentina.

Aldridge took off his suit while talking. His tone was not heavy, but he attracted everyone's attention. The players listened attentively.

Aldridge walked to the big projection screen and continued to speak while walking: I will not say that we can win if we work hard. During my eight years of coaching, I have encountered countless opponents. They They are all fighting with me and my team. But there is no team that can win through desperately. Maybe I forgot. Because I always firmly believe that mental strength is just an auxiliary, just like, you Eager to beat Argentina, full of fighting spirit,

Will Argentina be half a point weaker than yours? Therefore, it is by no means momentum and will that determine the outcome, but the confrontation of team skills and tactics. I am very fortunate that we have an inherent advantage in this regard.

The players looked at each other in blank dismay, beating their hearts.

Tomorrow they will play against Argentina, and in front of their eyes, Argentina is a very strong team. Not to mention dominating South America in the qualifiers, the magnificent offensive just looks at the number of goals that make people's scalp tingle, plus the first game Argentina They also won Nigeria 1-0. It seems that the Pampas Eagles are strong and stable, as well as the mysterious and crazy 3313 offensive formation that has been infinitely magnified by the media, all of which make people involuntarily fearful.

Aldridge stood in front of the projection screen, facing the players, and said calmly: I will not use the remarks in the British newspapers to cheer you up, making you blindly think that Argentina's 3313 is really a transformation from the Netherlands. 343 is outdated with the times, or what kind of relationship it has with wm earlier, despising the Argentine coach Bielsa is just picking up people's teeth, it is all nonsense, and it will not help tomorrow's game.

Some of the English generals nodded, such as Southgate, who was fascinated by Aldrich, Fleet Street mocking Argentina is very blind, such as why Bielsa picked up the 343 in the Netherlands ten years ago to play tricks, or Back then, Chapman's wm tactical revolution came from the ancestors of Ju Bielsa's current tactical formation. This is a kind of Ah Q spirit, blind, hypocritical, and unrealistic. If you take these seriously as confidence, it will be ridiculous and generous.

Aldrich turned around and patted the big projection screen with one hand, and said lightly: Look here, this is the tactical formation that Argentina won the World Cup in 1978. The coach who led the team to win the championship was Menotti. He is great. The Menotti doctrine has been passed down to this day. And it will continue forever. In a sense, Bielsa is the successor and developer of Menottiism. The football philosophy of pressing and possession, in that year, defeated the Netherlands, and the two teams that advocated offense came to the end, and the curtain was drawn by Argentina winning the title.

The graphics on the big screen changed, and Aldridge continued: This is the tactical formation that Argentina won the championship for the second time after 8 years. People remember Maradona, and also remember another football philosophy of Argentina, Bila This is a conservative, rigid, and utilitarian football philosophy. These two football philosophies are sharply opposed. Argentina in 1978 was more like a team, while Argentina in 1986 revolved around a player. So Maradona can become almost the only memory in the summer of 1986, and Argentina, which also won the championship in 1978, and it was the first time in history, but no one can reach the height of Maradona.

After a pause at this point, Aldrich said: I tell you this to let you have a clear understanding. What we are facing, don't simply understand it as having Batty, Veron, Ortega, Simon Wait a minute, whoever’s team, what we met was not an Argentine that bombarded 3313 or something. What we met was gradually talking about the Bielsa doctrine, which is actually a continuation of the Menotti doctrine. Argentina, an Argentina that won the championship in the era of attacking football through this philosophy.

After saying these words, all the players suddenly became enlightened, and their thinking jumped out of the small pattern and rose to a higher level.

This is the so-called confrontation and duel of skills and tactics, not the details of who will restrict who and who will crush whom.

Accomplished coach. But it may not be able to establish a football philosophy. at this point. Aldridge is no good either. He is touted as a master by the outside world, but he is far away from the formation and creation of a football philosophy. There is no such character in the contemporary era, neither Ferguson nor Wenger. Lippi is not, and neither is Capello. The top coaches of the contemporary era are all standing on the shoulders of giants. Even if it is Van Gaal's offensive football concept, twenty years ago, Cruyff and Michels were no better than him. more authoritative?

Of course, modern football has been developed for hundreds of years, and this time is no longer the prehistoric era. It is more difficult to establish a sect than it was thirty years ago. It was more than a hundred times higher fifty years ago.

Even in the future of the original history, Guardiola and Mourinho, who are extremely opposed in European football, can almost be said to be a confrontation between Menottiism and Bilardoism, although they have nothing to do with Argentine football philosophy The teacher-student relationship, but in the bones, the kind of ball control, oppression, beautiful offensive, conservative and rigid details to win the confrontation, the sharpness is exactly the same as the war in Argentine football.

Argentine football itself is also vacillating between these two football philosophies. Why? Because both of these two football philosophies have won the world championship for Argentina, just like England's 442 brought the historic championship trophy, it will have such a profound impact. It is necessary to reopen the glorious road of the sages.

Some Argentine fans will always say that Argentina abandoned its own style at a certain time and did not insist on offensive football and passionate football. As everyone knows, Argentina itself has a conservative and utilitarian football philosophy. Therefore, in the 1990 World Cup, you can see that Argentina spared no effort to block Putting a bus in the penalty area to stop the crushing of the German tanks, if it weren't for Wöller's flop, maybe the Bilardoism would usher in another victory.

After that, Argentina sometimes tends to Menottiism and sometimes chooses Bilardoism. In the World Cup, there are wonderful teams with more than 20 passes and cuts to score, and there are boring games that are full of big names but difficult to win. Not Argentina What was abandoned was that they had these two contradictory football genes themselves.

Taking the 2010 World Cup in South Africa as an example, the responsibility for Argentina's collapse does not lie with the players, but with the coach Maradona, it is not how bad Maradona's coaching level is, it is Maradona, the combination of angels and devils , In the end, I couldn't restrain my own nature.

What made him brilliant and made him ascend to the altar was Pilardoism. Therefore, when he coached Argentina, he wanted to use the core philosophy of 1986 to seek hegemony in the world, because Argentina has a Messi. The closest successor to him, however, Maradona's adventurous and aggressive character made him unable to achieve absolute utilitarianism. The two extremely opposing philosophies eventually collapsed completely in the vacillation, and they died together. And Argentina's World Cup trip to South Africa.

And many Argentine players took up the pointer after retiring, and their styles are also very different, with very distinctive characteristics, because if they are not followers of Menottiism, they are believers of Bilardoism. There is Simeone who has suffered a huge shock, subversion and shock. Simeone has a great relationship with Bielsa. He is now a follower of Bielsa. Bielsa has instilled in him a majestic football concept. However, after experiencing the World Cup in Korea and Japan, Simeone Realizing that what Bielsa described was just a fantasy, ten years later, when he shocked the European football at Atletico Madrid, he became a complete Bilardoist. After all, beauty is no match for practicality.

The projected image finally turned into the Argentina they will meet tomorrow, 3313, or simply 343.

The full house players raised their necks and their eyes became serious.

Aldrich said solemnly: Menottiism pursues a kind of grand creativity, while Pilardo pays careful attention to every detail. Why do I say that we have inherent advantages? Because Bielsa, who continues the Menotti A tactician of Nottieism, he is too idealistic and romantic. What he pursues is not that others dare not pursue it, but that others have bowed to reality. I, England, have also bowed. You should be able to understand that we are walking in a pragmatic way. On the road, and Argentina, what are they pursuing? In pursuit of dominating an era, setting off a storm that will go down in history and surpass their names engraved on the championship trophy! Unfortunately, I think this is too ideal. Now it is not twenty years ago, it is not Thirty years ago, it was an era when there were almost no secrets in tactics, not an era when you could make creativity appear out of thin air with hard work, such a pursuit made Argentina lose its realistic mentality, and this is our advantage.

What Aldrich said was categorical, without any shame.

Yes, he bowed his head, he had to make England shrink back to defend against counterattacks, he had to make England look like a strong team sometimes, without the atmosphere of a strong team, without the dominance of a strong team, but, reality It is that England has no confidence to pursue that too illusory strength.

Dreaming, who wouldn't do it?

But when you open your eyes, reality is still in front of you.

How difficult is it for attacking football to conquer the world?

Menottiism only led Argentina to win the championship once, but when thinking of offensive football, the Netherlands must be inseparable from the tulips. They are just uncrowned kings!

Aldridge is just a layman, he wants the championship, he believes that his players are also laymen, it is more realistic to create a new philosophy and go down in history, or the championship trophy.

As for Brazil's victory in 2002 in the original history, is it a victory in offensive football? It's hard to say, have they ever encountered the test of the top European teams? Does the German team that has lost its soul Ballack count? (to be continued..) ()