The Young Lion

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Today's Pride went to the Schalke Stadium, the cheering methods of Millwall fans were very monotonous.

More than 30,000 Millwall fans occupied nearly two-thirds of the seats in the stands.

They have never been used to sitting and watching games. Even if England's stadiums are ordered to be seats after the Taylor Report is issued, they are still used to standing and enjoying the game.

Before the start of the game, all Millwall fans stood up, and the blue jerseys painted the stands into a blue ocean. Even many Porto fans wore home jerseys, blue and white, and they also interacted with Millwall fans in color embellishments. Ying Chenghui, unfortunately, Porto is wearing an away jersey today.

Millwall fans stood in the stands, held up the club's Hall Era 10th anniversary scarf, and sang the team anthem in unison.

Although the method is monotonous, the scene is extremely shocking.

This is England's fan culture, a feat that fan groups around the world have emulated.

Players from both sides entered the field, and the theme song of the Champions League echoed in the stadium, but it seemed unable to compete with the singing of Millwall fans.

The exciting Champions League final is about to start. Millwall, who have passed through the group stage this season, has skyrocketed after entering the knockout round, just as they achieved the last round of the league to reverse the momentum of Arsenal's championship. They double-killed and eliminated Bayern Munich has slaughtered Monaco and Chelsea successively with a big score, and has come to the Champions League final with an attitude of swallowing thousands of miles! Their opponent Porto, under the leadership of the young coach Mourinho, has made rapid progress. Successfully defended the title in the Portuguese Super League .And achieved a huge breakthrough in the Champions League this season. It is impressive. Although they lost to Real Madrid 1:3 at home in the group stage, they gradually improved and remained unbeaten in 10 games. At Old Trafford De lore Manchester United, Mourinho's wild celebration really makes people feel that what the media is saying is very reasonable. Comparing him with Sir Hall, Mourinho may lack some luck. Last year's UEFA Cup Returning from hatred, Sir Hall has been in European football for ten years. If Mourinho's tenth anniversary of coaching, can his achievements compete with Sir Hall? 99% of fans think it is impossible , because Sir Hall has already won four Champions Leagues. Only if Mourinho leads his team to win this final today, may it be possible to compete with Sir Hall on his 10th anniversary of coaching. Porto performed well overall, Eliminate Manchester United, Lyon. Deportivo, these are opponents with relatively high gold content. Can this dark horse from Portugal be blacked out to the end? This is the biggest suspense of today's game!

The ceremony before the kick-off of the Champions League final has been completed, let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides.

Millwall 433.

Goalkeeper: Bout.

Defenders: Schneider, Nesta, Southgate, Ashley Cole.

Midfield: De Rossi, Alonso, Nedved.

Forwards: Larsson, Henry, Ronaldinho.

Porto 433.

Goalkeeper: Baia.

Defenders: Ferreira, Costa, Carvalho, Valente.

Midfielders: Mendes, Costinha, Deco.

Forwards: Alenichev, Delle, Maniche.

Although the commentator said that Porto made a 433.

In the eyes of Aldridge, Porto played a 451.

Because compared with Porto when they played against each other last year, a key change has taken place in the technical and tactical formation.

That is, there is one less striker and one more midfielder.

Mendes is a defensive midfielder, and his partner, Costinha, escorts Deco in the middle.

Maniche and Alenichev are naturally not wingers. It may be a little more accurate to say that they are wingers. At least today, they must undertake the main task of wing defense.

On the front line, Mourinho did not choose the center McCarthy, but used the Brazilian Delle.

After the disastrous defeat in the past year, if Mourinho is still fighting head-to-head with Millwall today, then Aldridge can really ignore Mourinho.

In fact, Aldridge has already foreseen Porto's starting formation today.

In the past 6 knockout games, he has continued to use small means to gain game benefits, playing Porto, which is extremely utilitarian and anti-reverse, and coming to the final will only be more utilitarian.

It can be said that Mourinho's tactical concept of going to Chelsea to build the Jagged Blue Army was naturally established during this period. It is impossible for him to be an ideal pursuer now. After going to Chelsea a week later, he became utilitarian. Representatives.

When the game started, Porto's formation quickly retreated to compress the space in the backcourt and formed a tight protection for the penalty area. Aldridge bowed his head and smiled.

As expected.

Mourinho is here to fight back.

As for how to fight back, it should be clear at a glance.

Deco is the core of the offensive and defensive transition, and the card is dealt forward.

Maniche, Alenichev, and Dellei, these three are the offensive support points. As long as there is a huge space, Porto's fatal counterattack will suddenly come.

Aldridge will never ignore Deco, and will not despise Deco because Ronaldinho covered up all the light even if he went to Barcelona in the original history, because the comparison in the mouth of the fans is not correct.

Rob is better than Deco, there is no dispute.

But Ronaldinho didn't defend Deco. When Deco attacked, what he needed to penetrate was the defense line built by Millwall's defensive players.

What is the sign that Millwall's third-generation Wild Lion has begun to mature?

That is field control!

Prevent the opponent from playing counter threats.

How do i do this?

Compress the opponent's formation!

Today is the final, Millwall didn’t chase after him immediately, instead he passed the ball steadily to enter the game state, and then passed the ball through the midfield, and the formation gradually pressed forward. In this process, Alonso is the most important .

He is the key figure in the conduction and command of the midfield. When to take the risk of launching a forward threatening attack. He is needed to observe the situation on the field.

A good commander will spot openings in his opponent. Then quickly launch an offensive in the opponent's weak defensive area.

However, more mature, master-level organizers and commanders with the ability to control the field will focus on the overall situation, take one step and three steps, foresee the possible defensive dangers of this attack failure, and weigh the pros and cons in an instant.

If Porto's formation is not extremely compressed. Then, in case Millwall's attack does not succeed, they may tear Millwall's defense through a quick counterattack and form a threatening attack.

However, if the overall formation is compressed in the middle and backcourt, the counterattack distance will become longer. Whether it is passing and cutting cooperation or individual dribbling breakthroughs, this counterattack process will give Millwall more time to arrange defense lines and adjust the center of defense. wait.

Pirlo is a master-level commander, not only able to control the overall situation, but also directly instigate the most threatening offensive.

Alonso is inferior to Pirlo in this respect, and Aldridge has trained Alonso this season. It focuses on the overall situation and instigates the offensive. As long as Alonso can act as an indirect assist, the role of the offensive starting point is enough. That is to say, he may have taken the overall situation into consideration and found that he can ensure that the threat of the opponent's counterattack is minimized, but it is already difficult to find space. Then his task is to send the ball to an area with relatively less defensive pressure, choose one of the three directions from the left, middle and right, and then, when the offensive breaks out, hand it over to Ronaldinho, Nedved, or Larson to instigate, Even the two full-backs.

The main contribution brought by Alonso's midfield commander is the stability of the overall situation!

Even if Millwall fails to attack, he is not worried about being counterattacked by the opponent, because when Alonso controls the rhythm, he is already gradually consuming the opponent and compressing the opponent's formation to the second half to ensure that Millwall will not be beaten Suddenly, the defensive player turned his head and chased back quickly but couldn't catch up.

Although Mourinho stood beside the coaching bench with a calm face, he was not at peace in his heart.

The game, 10 minutes passed.

Porto, only launched 3 attacks and died!

The overall formation was completely compressed in the second half.

Millwall’s defensive strategy is similar to last year’s. The center focuses on Deco. When they are counterattacked, Ronaldinho and Larsson harass Porto’s two full-backs inside because the ball does not leave the danger zone. Can't find a responder in the middle, so they can only lead forward, but as soon as it reaches the half court, this really falls into a lonely situation. Ashley Cole and Schneider can't make any mistakes in defense, and Porto has weakened On the front line, De Rossi boldly defended the wing, Alonso and Nedved back and forth to contain the midfielder, Porto's counterattack, when the forward attack broke out, it seemed to be kicked on an iron plate, looking at a very wide field Offensive space, but Millwall will not give them much time to choose. Before the players running up from the backcourt are in place, they must make a choice, pass the ball, be intercepted, break through, fail, protect the ball and control the ball, and be destroyed.

Mourinho couldn't help but glanced at Aldridge, his movements were invisible, he didn't even twist his neck, he just squinted from the corner of his eye, subconsciously.

The young marshal who coached the Wild Lions for the tenth anniversary has created another impressive super-level team!

He thought that Millwall would play very fast today and use poor rhythm to destroy Porto.

But he guessed wrong.

If it is really the rhythm of the blitzkrieg, Porto's counterattack will have a lot of room to play.

Always fast means high error rate.

This is the same reason that short passes are more stable than long passes.

Millwall will be fast, but slow first!

Slowness is their foundation, their fence, and the guarantee against enemy invasion.

The midfield system headed by Alonso is the main core of the slow team. They use pass control to make the overall situation on the field change and lay a foundation.

Created a situation in which Millwall could accelerate.

Then it is handed over to frontcourt players or wide players to accelerate. It is not difficult to change the rhythm of one slow and one fast, but the difficulty is that slow and fast can maximize the team's game benefits!

Aldridge seems to have fused the cold sea water and scorching flames into the third generation of Wild Lion.

The midfield defense is like sea water, to extinguish the opponent's offensive flames.

The offensive flames in the front field are to melt the opponent's defensive walls!

Mourinho thought for a long time. He didn't know how to make the team attack better. If he dared to move to pursue the offense, a huge gap in the defense might be exposed.

In a vertical comparison, is Porto's overall strength stronger than Arsenal's now?

of course not!

Whether it's team chemistry or individual player comparisons.

Can their midfielder be compared with the combination of Vieira and Silva?

Can their offensive combination be compared with the combination of Ibrahimovic and Bergkamp?

Perhaps the back line can be compared with Arsenal's back line, including goalkeeper Baia.

But they have to defend more extremely than Arsenal, and compress the space in the backcourt more utilitarianly. At the same time, they also have small actions when they hinder Millwall from accelerating the attack in the frontcourt, and they use all kinds of covert methods to bring them A certain improvement in the quality of defense.

This makes the scene look like Millwall is in charge of the situation but it is difficult to open a gap in their defense.

Millwall seemed to be caught in a hand-to-hand combat!

The battlefield is in Porto's half.

Nedved dribbles the ball and accelerates diagonally. Deco will raise his arm slightly behind him and grab the hem of Nedved's jersey for two seconds and then let go.

Just as Ronaldinho received the ball from the wing and just changed direction, Alenichev went directly to the gap between Ronaldinho and the ball. He was not at the ball. It is the point between the rushing ball and the ball. In this way, when Ronaldinho moves, he will collide with Alenichev, and then Ronaldinho will get into physical entanglement with him.

When Larson cuts inside, Valente will not give way to the outside line. He defends the inside line. As long as Larson cannot completely get rid of him, Valente will definitely use a small ball from an angle that the referee cannot see. The raised arm blocked Larson's front, preventing Larson from starting to accelerate and explode.

Henry was even called for a foul after throwing off Carvalho's run to catch the ball. The referee signaled that Henry hit Carvalho with his arm.

At that time, Carvalho first defended Henry with a half-hugging movement. Henry got rid of his entanglement, and his arms seemed to break free from the opponent's hands, but Carvalho fell to the ground after Henry got rid of it...

Aldridge looked at it, then suddenly walked up to the fourth official, and said, Hey, hasn't UEFA received complaints from Manchester United, Lyon, and Deportivo? Or, UEFA's official press release Will it be nothing, don't care what the coach says? If so, I will apply not to attend UEFA press conferences in the future, it is a waste of time, Porto is playing you, you can't see it? I need to remind you One point is that Millwall is the team with the best court discipline in the European competitions in the past three seasons. We have the least number of fouls per game and the lowest rate of cards. This means that we are fair and serious in following the spirit of competitive sports. Let us down, even, angry.

The fourth official turned his head and glanced at Aldrich, and found that the young marshal smiled at him. He was under a lot of pressure, but he took a deep breath and felt relieved.

At this time, Mourinho also came over. (to be continued..) ()