The Young Lion

Except when the controversial Italian pure chain defensive football style was popular, there is no team in contemporary European football that really suppresses the opponent so that it must be passively placed on the bus when the strong confront each other.

On the one hand, it is constantly modifying the rules to encourage offense.

On the other hand, there is the need for the marketization of football. If you want to expand the fan base, which can mainly bring income and benefits to the club, then the negative football concept will definitely not achieve this goal for the club, such as around 90s Arsenal, Graham's Arsenal record is very brilliant, but their game is so boring as called library, even Highbury's attendance rate is extremely dismal, because even diehard fans It's hard to tolerate lethargic competition, let alone spend money on it.

Millwall's philosophy of football has always been ahead of its time.

The philosophy of football leads to the same goal by different routes, and there has never been a unique school that is transcendent in the absolute sense.

Millwall is now promoting pass control, but this is only a foundation, the basis for shaping the game situation, which is absolutely beneficial to itself. It can be said that it has brought offense to defense to the extreme.

While maintaining stable and effective possession of the ball, the frontcourt players look for openings, capture openings, get ready to go, and then unleash more threatening attacks.

There are similarities to Barcelona in the Guardiola era, but not quite the same.

Barcelona claim to be unchanged for 20 years and make their fans proud. This pride is hypocritical, because a 433 formation cannot represent any inheritance.

If Barcelona fans think Cruyff's Barcelona, ​​Van Gaal's Barcelona, ​​Rijkaard's Barcelona. It's the same with Guardiola's Barcelona. Or in the same vein. Well, this is absolutely nonsense.

Guardiola's Barcelona will pass the control to the peak!

Fans who don't like Barcelona are slamming them for too many inverted passes, which is lethargic.

However, from a tactical point of view, many of Barcelona's seemingly meaningless passes are actually replacing defense with offense. They clearly pushed the offense to a dangerous zone, but they passed the ball back. To reorganize again, is it simply to control the ball? Are you pursuing ball possession data?

No, every time there was a provocative and provocative attack that entered the dangerous zone and then passed back, the overall situation was undergoing subtle changes, which forced all the opponents to be nervous! Must return to defense! Because there have been signs of danger!

When the opponent is back on defense,

If Barcelona attack again, they will not be very embarrassed when they are counterattacked. They can counterattack calmly and set up a defensive line. Even if the opponent's skills and tactics are not outstanding, they themselves don't know how to fight back. Because his own formation was already chaotic when all members returned to defense and had to rush wildly.

But as far as the pure pass and control tactics are concerned, at their peak they were not considered extremely detached. The Spanish national team reached an unprecedented brilliance, but they did not bring a destructive momentum of madness. The importance of Messi is emphasized, because at many critical moments, unexpected variables are still needed to decide the game.

Messi's individual ability is the key catalyst for Barcelona's pass control peak. It can be said that without Messi, even if Barcelona has an absolute advantage on the field with pass control, there will still be many, many games that cannot be won!

This is the traditional power of football in some mainstream concepts!

Many people are disgusted with this kind of pass control, such as Beckenbauer. He thinks that when there is a chance to break through the city gate, you have to try boldly instead of passing the ball back.

It is undeniable that this kind of pass control can bring innumerable advantages such as oppressing the scene, consuming the opponent, and ensuring the safety of one's own side. Therefore, many teams that are not afraid of death are unwilling to put on the bus, unwilling to shrink back, and then, die It was miserable, and the loss was extremely heroic.

It's like when Millwall slaughtered Chelsea and Monaco on the way to the Champions League final, it was because they refused to park the bus and tried to disrupt Millwall's organization by rushing in the midfield. Instead of getting the ball down, Millwall easily pierced through the defense.

Millwall does not have Messi in the first team now, but the traditional mainstream individual strength that Messi can provide, Millwall is stronger than Barcelona at its peak!

Ronaldinho and Henry are the most prominent.

If you quantify this energy, you can simply compare it with the state of the pair.

To defend Ronaldinho, one player is not enough, at least two.

To prevent Henry, one is not enough, and at least two are needed.

Only world-class defensive players, such as Nesta and Maldini, can completely freeze Ronaldinho and Henry one-on-one within 90 minutes, and there is still a specific environment, that is, Ronaldinho and Henry must take the initiative to cooperate Challenge each other one-on-one!

Why bother with you one-on-one if there's room to pass the ball, if there's a receiving point? Speed ​​up the pass, change direction, the world-class defender is not a god, and he will be attacked!

And Nedved and Larson, corresponding to Porto's defensive players today, can't defend one-on-one. At least one and a half, that is, three people in partial defense, may be able to limit the two in the case of perfect cooperation. .

In this way, in theory, to freeze Millwall's front four, at least 6 people are needed, and 6 people build a perfect defense system.

The reality is that Millwall's offensive routines have no rules to follow. They have a wide range of activities and frequent position changes, which makes it more difficult for defensive players to mark them.

If you take into account the sudden insertion of Alonso and the two full-backs.

Opponents, besides placing a bus, is there any way out?

Of course, the construction of such a system cannot be achieved simply by quantifying the player's ability. Otherwise, the Galaxy Battleship will not start to perish. First of all, they do not have the advantage of Millwall's midfield pass control to create a stable scene. , Secondly, the offensive team in the frontcourt does not have the tacit understanding of the Millwall team. The luxurious Galaxy battleship has now come to sacrifice Raul, so that Raul spends most of his energy participating in the team's defense. A season is only lost in 38 rounds of the league. 54 balls. The quality of defense ranks in the middle and lower reaches of the league. No solid defense. The offense will be weakened by the same period. The football concept of scoring one more goal than the opponent in the past is completely outdated! The mutual influence between offense and defense is becoming closer and deeper than ever before.

Aldridge's work in the past year can be seen as summarizing the essence of the Mad Lions' ten years, and sublimating the team's combat effectiveness in specific implementation. Chelsea is using money to carry out a football revolution. Aldridge's Milwaukee Well, it is using the vitality of pure competition to promote the development of modern football as a whole!

Millwall, headed for a place beyond the top. Towards the true sense of unsolvable!

Opponents cannot crack their technical and tactical systems, and cannot form a powerful sniper attack.

You can only place a bus, compress the space, and use human flesh to reduce the size of the goal. Then, resigned to fate, Millwall may lose to luck, lose to his own state, lose to future time, and may lose to the referee. However, they will never lose to any opponent on this planet!

I am fine with myself. No one can beat me!

Because, I am the strongest! none of them!

During the half-time break of the Champions League final, the score was 2:0, and Millwall led by two goals. After watching the first half of the game, Mourinho fully understood the real strength comparison of this game.

Millwall can destroy Porto, but Aldridge cannot shatter Mourinho's confidence.

Can be defeated, but not knocked down!

People with persistent beliefs will get up again and again, hold their heads high and continue to move forward.

Porto began to set up the bus in the second half. In the absolute sense, only the striker Dellei was looking for an opportunity in the center circle. The other players almost retreated to the 35-yard danger zone in front of the goal.

Mourinho figured out how to limit Millwall, even if the score is 0:0, Porto wants to win, the probability is less than 10%.

In his opinion, Millwall's pass control is extremely shameless, like a kind of seduction. If you dare to invest in troops and scramble for me in the midfield, I dare to pass the ball up, and let those superstars on the offensive end have a flash of inspiration. regret but too late!

Where is this shameless seduction?

If there are only two or three players in Porto rushing to rush, Millwall is not in a hurry, passing the ball to each other to tease you.

But if there are four or five players, Millwall will immediately push the offensive to the forefront, because on the back line, Porto will only have five or six defensive players. Even if Millwall has no teammates who come in behind, 4vs6 , can still play a threatening offensive.

Mourinho changed his mind to comfort himself. Millwall is strong on paper. If Porto can have a few world-class defensive players, or if Porto is really a team with the same strength as Millwall on paper, Mu Rinho firmly believes that he will not lose!

Aldridge won, but he won because of better resources.

It is not impossible for the weak to defeat the strong in front of the tactical master Aldrich, the ultra-luxurious Millwall, and their magnificent new technical and tactical system. They have redefined the height and concept of the strong .

In the second half, Aldridge adjusted the team's offense, the opponent placed the bus, and Millwall's change of front could play a role.

Ashley Cole and Schneider quickly shuttled and cut inside on the two wings, still turning Porto's defense upside down!

Further compress their defensive formation back.

The tearing of the two wings means that the width of the opponent's defensive formation is widened, which makes Porto's midfielder frequently fill in the back line of defense, and the chain reaction leads to a decrease in the protection in front of the penalty area.

When Alonso also came up, Millwall did not attack and infiltrate the penalty area. Outside the penalty area, he used long shots to deter opponents.

In the 64th minute, Costinha and Mendes were missed by Ronaldinho, Nedved, and Alonso who assisted in consecutive triangles.

They really can't keep up with the speed of the ball, and the defenders dare not go forward, because Schneider and Ashley Cole are both watching from the top corner outside the penalty area.

And Henry and Larson's running positions were also erratic, which made their scalps tingle even more.

The Millwall team has an amazing tacit understanding, and they will not make mistakes in consecutive kicks. The deep, horizontal, and all-round passes are tearing apart the opponent's defensive formation.

After a side-to-side pass transfer, Ronaldinho and Nedved, Larsson made another pass, the Porto defense was disoriented, and when the ball was at Nedved's feet, Costinha and the goalkeeper. Des collapsed when he kept switching defensive targets!

They both pounced on Nedved at the same time, and the latter lightly passed the ball horizontally to the top of the penalty area. Ronaldinho shook off Deco, stepped forward to meet the ball and rubbed his instep!

A wonderful arcing over-the-head shot was played, the ball bypassed Carvalho's head and went straight to the dead corner of the upper right corner of the goal, very close to the position of his first goal.

Baia is also constantly moving on the goal line, because Millwall's offensive transfer ball is outside the penalty area, and it is possible to shoot from a long distance. He has to pass through to compress the angle. That is to say, the straight-line distance from the ball to the center of the three-dimensional area presented by the goal is basically the defensive position on the goal line that the goalkeeper must be in. Therefore, in the constant movement, Baier also seemed caught off guard. Ronaldinho's ball itself The play was extremely tricky and sudden, it was too late for Baier to make a save, and he could only watch the ball lie quietly in the goal.

After scoring the goal, Ronaldinho spread his hands with a relaxed smile to greet the audience in the stands, as if to say that the goal was scored easily. (to be continued..) ()