The Young Lion

In the first round of the UEFA Champions League 1/8 finals, Millwall took away a 1:0 victory in Munich, laying a good foundation for advancing to the top 8. **

In this game, Millwall seems to be suspected of changing its appearance.

They no longer attack almost irrationally, and on the basis of pursuing scoring one more goal than their opponents, they are closer to returning to the dominance of the past based on controlling the game.

The outside world has no way of knowing that starting from the Champions League knockout round, this game will be a watershed in the transformation of Millwall's third-generation Lions.

The running-in and transformation of most of the season has achieved phased results, and Aldridge began to refine and sublimate the overall strength of the team.

First, instead of slowing down the pace.

On the basis of fast, fast, faster in the past, the team's skills and tactics have returned to a kind of cold and extreme silence when they are static.

Alonso will not become Pirlo, because both he and Pirlo are special and unique.

But in the pursuit of control and dominance, Aldridge has created a new philosophy of control in European football at Millwall!

Southgate, Schneider, De Rossi, Alonso.

With these four people as the focus, carry out dangerous group cooperation in the midfield and backcourt, and skillfully control the ball.

Alonso is still the brain, but when attacking, he has many helpers, and the distribution range is reasonable.

There is De Rossi behind, Nedved in front, Southgate on the left and back, and Schneider, who is in the right position when attacking, on the right.

When European football gradually entered the era of team defense, Millwall began to create a self-style of team attack, backcourt organization, frontcourt raid.

on offense. Every player has an important role to play. The division of responsibilities is clear and the thinking is clear.

The dual-core still exists, but the responsibilities are more thorough and clear than ever.

The core of the backcourt organization is headed by Alonso, which brings stability to the team!

Nedved is the lubricant of the team's offense and defense. Most of the time, Ronaldinho has more space to cut in, and the creativity brought by Ronaldinho as the core of the frontcourt!

weakened Nedved's threat to goal,

Because Millwall has other offensive points that become variables.

Ashley Cole is mainly a surprise attack on the left, and he is one of the variables.

Ronaldinho's activities in front of the opponent's penalty area. They all focus on creation to provide change, and Henry, Larson or Ronaldo Robben also have variables, and when there are players in the middle who cannot play, this system still has unexpected variables after fine-tuning, that is Ronaldo For the left winger, Kaka as attacking midfielder and so on.

An excellent tactical system must have factors that make the opponent unpredictable, and the third generation of Wild Lions will take this to the extreme.

Establish the backcourt organization system. Controlling the game is the idea of ​​dominating the ball. It is also a last resort. The opponent puts a bus and wants to break the dense defense. Aldridge must lure the enemy. As long as the opponent does not ignore all the outside world and taunt the 11 players to hide in the second half, Millwall's possession of the ball in the midfield will be strong. The role of luring the enemy to tear the opponent's defense space, and when there is a flaw in the front field, Millwall has an offensive hidden point with impact from the front line, midfield line, back line, and three lines. This is the third generation of madness. Lions use offensive football as the main means of breaking through dense defenses.

When Millwall completely destroyed Bayern Munich at home two weeks later at the Lion King Stadium, the entire European football world was re-examining Millwall's positioning.

Are they really weaker than before?

In the Lion King Stadium, Alonso waved his fist with determination after the game, and De Rossi hugged him behind him. The Millwall crowd will be proud and proud of this overwhelming victory.

The fans in the stands were also reluctant to leave for a long time, celebrating like a party in the stands.

3:0, the total score is 4:0, Millwall double-killed Bayern Munich and advanced to the quarter-finals. Compared with the last round in Munich, Millwall won a small goal, which makes people mistakenly think that the strength of the two teams is between the two teams. , but after watching today's game, we must overturn that idea. Bayern Munich is known as a team team, but in front of Millwall, they seem to be a bit tricky. Sometimes there will be thrilling scenes, but when Bout also participates in the pass and cooperates to tear Bayern Munich's formation vertically, they give their frontcourt teammates enough space to attack forward. The picture that is often seen is Millwall on the offensive end There is space for group cooperation, but Bayern Munich can't cooperate with the combination of side and center after halftime. Sir Hall has improved for most of the season, and he has established Alonso's ability to lead the midfield organization and lay a stable offensive foundation. environment, while Ronaldinho is the core of the frontcourt attack, Nedved performed quite well most of the time today, but when the opponent relaxes and ignores him, he will become an unpredictable firepower in the attack, and finally For a ball, Millwall passed a triangle pass in front of the penalty area and then suddenly passed through. Nedved, who inserted behind, was completely unmarked, and single-handedly sent the ball into Bayern Munich's goal. This is a typical example. It can be said that Millwall Hall has made a new development on the basis of the past organization. They have strengthened the offensive support ability of the entire midfield! It seems that Sir Hall is full of ambitions for the future. He hopes to use a new technical and tactical system to lead Millwall Back to the height of the dynasty!

Sending away Bayern Munich and Heathfield is crucial to the morale improvement of Millwall. This is a proof, especially for young players such as Alonso De Rossi, and Ronaldo who played the starting lineup today.

Aldridge is satisfied with everything about the team. On the road to return to the top, the players in the team are ambitious and have not been distracted by affairs outside the court.

The team's full sprint began.

As for the FA Cup also losing in the 8-to-4 game, Aldridge thinks this is a good thing, to put it bluntly, it is a burden.

In the season when the team is so fierce in the championship and the Champions League is also ambitious, the FA Cup is for training. If the league conditions are easy, it can distract him from time. It's okay to focus on training. But at the last moment of this season, there is another front for training. Definitely a burden.

At the end of March, Millwall ushered in the first round of the Champions League quarter-finals at home.

The opponent is Monaco!

The evening of March 25.

It was raining lightly in London.

In the drizzle, Aldrich ushered in an old friend in the majestic Lion King Stadium.

The coach of Monaco, Didier Deschamps.

He talked with the young coach Didier Deschamps on the sidelines for a long time, which made him sigh that he seemed really old.

Deschamps, when he played for Juventus, Aldridge had already coached Millwall.

When he played for Chelsea, Aldridge was still in charge.

Wait until Deschamps starts coaching himself. And when they came to the Champions League stage to compete with Aldridge, no one could ignore the passage of time and wanted to ask: where did the time go?

Monaco seems to be a famous and handsome place. In the past ten years, there was Wenger in the front, Tigana in the middle, and Deschamps now!

Deschamps is now in high spirits, because the opponent he eliminated before leading Monaco was Real Madrid!

The three most popular teams in European football. Real Madrid, Milan. millwall.

Monaco dropped one, while defending champions Milan looked unstoppable, thrashing Deportivo 4-1 at the San Siro yesterday.

Today, Monaco is facing another of the three super teams. Although the pressure is high, the expectations of the outside world for Didier Deschamps are also high.

As a coach, ambition is essential, ideals should always be set higher, what if they accidentally come true?

If Deschamps can reverse the Galacticos first, and then kill the Lion, the dark horse of Monaco will be too dazzling.

Deschamps is no stranger to England. After all, he played for Chelsea for a short time, and he is no stranger to Millwall. Whether he played for Juventus or Chelsea, Millwall brought him memories that he would not look back on.

As for Aldridge's friendly greetings with him, Deschamps is now the coach, and he used to have no grievances with Aldridge as a player. Now, it is to establish a friendly relationship. There are only so many faces, and it is better to be kind than to be evil.

It's just that Aldridge's words lamenting the passage of time still make Deschamps feel weird.

No matter how you look at it, it's not Aldrich's turn to sigh. Young commander, are you thirty years old?

In European football this season, the wing flow is obviously stronger than the middle flow!

Among the top teams are Millwall, and among the first-class teams are Monaco, Porto, Deportivo and other teams active in the Champions League.

Monaco's reversal of Real Madrid's two-round match was a classic in which the winger exploded the middle. Deportivo's unilateral iron triangle's winger cooperation is also a classic. Arsenal's winger counterattack, Milwaukee Seoul's wing storm, these representative teams are quietly changing the overall technical and tactical style of European football, and only successful teams can play a role in promoting history.

When the players from both sides entered the field, Deschamps held his head high. For him and Monaco, every step in the Champions League was creating a miracle. This has changed drastically from the European football pattern ten years ago. The team is declining day by day, and it is no small achievement to be able to enter the top 8. If it can advance to the top four, it will definitely be a success.

Aldridge went through Monaco's lineup. Monaco is a typical 433, the center is Morientes, and the two wingers Giuly and Roten, the impact of wing speed is particularly obvious.

Monaco is a dark horse, and Aldridge is not afraid of it. On the contrary, he thinks that Monaco is not difficult to deal with.

What Millwall is least afraid of is opponents who dare to attack. Only opponents who are pragmatic and utilitarian can cause them trouble.

This Champions League showdown returned to the most essential competition: who scored more goals!

Monaco conceded 1 goal per game in the group stage, and conceded 5 goals in the two rounds against Real Madrid.

This kind of defense, the opponent dared to play three strikers when they came to the away game. Aldridge didn't care what Didier Deschamps was thinking. Maybe he overthrew Real Madrid and made him think he was invincible.

Right in the middle of my arms.

Millwall has to fight Arsenal in the league.

Aldridge wants to win the battle, kill the opponent in 90 minutes of 180 minutes of the game, and save his strength to catch up with Arsenal in the league. (to be continued..) ()