The Young Lion

Before the arrival of the FIFA match day at the end of August and early September, Millwall's team for the Champions League in the new season came out.

Their signing was pretty good.

The opponents in the same group are: Porto, Inter Milan, Glasgow Rangers.

In terms of Millwall's height and position in the Champions League, in fact, in the current principle of split drawing, no matter how the group is divided, Millwall cannot be divided into the group of death.

Death is only relative to the opponent.

Even if they reached the second, third, and last gears, they were all recognized as the strongest teams. Originally, such a group was absolutely dead.

But in front of Millwall, the qualifying should be no problem.

However, this grouping situation is based on Millwall's 100% strength and no effort. In the unreserved battle, Millwall came out without any suspense.

After returning from the FIFA game day, Millwall will immediately play the fifth round of the Premier League. They will travel to Old Trafford to challenge Manchester United.

Manchester United and Chelsea led the standings with four consecutive victories.

During the summer transfer, Manchester United fell into turmoil due to the club's change of ownership, and the transfer market's actions seemed to confirm the outsiders' speculation about the Glazer family.

Manchester United only introduced a veteran goalkeeper, Van der Sar, and an Asian player who is very unfamiliar to English fans: Park Ji-sung.

Ferguson was very clear-headed and was not overwhelmed by the temporary advantage in the standings.

Before the game, he talked about both the inside and the outside, and talked about Millwall’s recent poor league record with an understanding, and insisted that Millwall should not be underestimated. Never think that Millwall has reached the end of the dust. Was kicked out.

Only when he said this, he seemed to be playing round for Millwall, talking about Millwall going to the Far East in the summer.

To put it bluntly, it is ironic that Millwall sacrificed the summer preparations, the first record of the league is bad, deserve it!

Aldrich ignored Ferguson's words and instead threw a speech.

"Millwall has not reached the best state before. This is obvious to all. I will not quibble. If I say that Millwall has done his best to do my best, then we have won three rounds of the league. This is simply self-deprecation! I can be sure The point is: Millwall will get better and better, and we are on our way back on track! And one thing I can’t be sure is, Manchester United, Chelsea, when will they be able to hold the lead?"

In the game of Old Trafford, Aldridge still did not send the strongest lineup. He let Kaka, Ronaldinho and other players from South America across the half of the earth to rest, preparing for the Champions League game.

At the same time, the veterans, Nedved, Larson, and Schneider, who are fighting for the national team, are also sitting on the bench to prepare for unexpected needs.

A relatively strong starting lineup appeared in Old Trafford.

The offensive end is not bad.

With Ronaldo, Henry and Messi as the trident, Villa ambushed behind Henry, the midfield combination remains unchanged, Alonso and De Rossi.

The guard line has some concerns, Silva and Nesta truce, Balzali and Neal starter, Ramos also replaced Schneider and Ram as two full-backs.

Manchester United is at home at home, and the Red Devils, who have won four consecutive victories in the league, are in full swing.

The whole team held a sigh of resentment. It was hard to say that they were all directed against Millwall. Even if they were suppressed by Millwall all the year round, they still had the unwillingness to lose the FA Cup last season.

In Manchester United's starting lineup, the most full-hearted fighting veteran is Keane.

However, his fighting spirit, to the outsider, has become distorted and has become irritable! out of control!

Ferguson and Aldridge shook hands before the game, and today's confrontation will certainly not be a tit-for-tat confrontation.

For a long time, Manchester United have not been a team that absolutely limits their opponents to tactical footholds, nor are they the ultimate offensive team, so that in the future when Ferguson retires, people who do not like Manchester United will defame Ferguson’s achievements. The old man of Scotland is shaped as the image of the big devil of the Premier League. It seems to be the black boss of the Premier League.

In fact, it's just that Manchester United didn't go to an extreme route. Unlike the team that crazyly attacked the offensive, it didn't hold the offensive football banner as high as it was, and unlike the utilitarians who tried to prevent it from going down to the end.

Most people don’t think that Ferguson’s coaching team’s tactics and their extensions are so remarkable. In fact, this kind of thinking is too narrow-minded. If it rises to the spirit, it can understand why Ferguson is the king of the Red Devils. He gives Manchester United injected an unusual temperament.

This temperament made Aldridge envy and expressed his shame in private.

If you want to visualize this temperament, rather than the spirit of the Red Devil's centuries-old inheritance, it is difficult to see now, and think of the future.

With the changing times, Manchester United is based on the lineup, what is the biggest feature?

That is when players come to and leave Manchester United, as if they have become two players.

This spiritual temperament will make the players who play for Manchester United, single out to observe and analyze, will feel that this player is very ordinary, as long as it is ordinary, as long as it is a big man, it will turn around in the transfer market. I dare not say that I can buy a dozen, at least. Three or five is not a problem, but it is the combination of multiple ordinary players who put on the Red Devils jersey and show the power of the team, which has a qualitative leap and improvement.

For example, Park Ji-sung, introduced this summer, said that if he is more powerful and puts on other giants, most of them are definitely not interested, but at Manchester United, he can not only have a place, but also make a significant contribution to the team.

Aldrich did not possess this kind of magic, and he wanted to, but after many years, he felt that Millwall could not shape this spirit. It can be said that Millwall worked hard, brave, tough, and never flinched, but he really wanted to rise When a second-rate player comes to the battlefield to polish for a period of time, he can play the role of a first-class player in the team.

This may be closely related to the club's heritage, era background, team traditions and so on.

This may be why Ferguson’s set of tactics does not look great, but it can keep this team from being underestimated in Europe. It has already improved the team’s combat capabilities. If you want to pursue unique technical tactics, Law, this may collapse the team.

Because anyone who can walk ahead of others on the extreme road and lead the trend of the times has very strict requirements on the composition of the team lineup.

After fighting with Aldridge for so many years, Ferguson naturally summed up the experience.

Can't really compete with Aldridge in tactical confrontation.

That will only gradually become a disadvantage in the change of competition, because the characteristics of Millwall players are too rich, speaking of flexibility and changeability, Millwall is the world’s first, fighting with them, they can not be in the areas they are good at. The length of internal strife.

Secondly, they cannot compete with Millwall. Manchester United’s offensive advancement speed has always been a magic weapon for their defeat. However, in the rapid round-trip and sawing each other’s impact, Manchester United’s success rate always seems to be inferior to Millwall, because of Millwall’s offense. The advancing speed is also very fast, and it looks faster than Manchester United!

With enough space to impact each other, Manchester United will lose to Millwall in terms of sustainability and success rate.

Ferguson, who stood on the sidelines, did not know whether he would be able to bring Manchester United back to the throne of the Premier League and even the European king in his lifetime, because he was not sure whether he could successfully reach the finish line on the road of restraining Millwall.

But he still has an ambition to defeat his opponent and return to the throne.

Manchester United, which ushered in the new boss, can be said to be still in an era in the past, because the Glazer family has no impact on the team’s competitive affairs except for the money, and Ferguson still only covers it. day.

In today's confrontation, Manchester United played a game that warned Audridge.

Manchester United's progress, mainly reflected in the field against Millwall, they are more calm, stable ball control in the midfield and backcourt, will not rush to attack, especially when changing from defense to offense, they will not blindly pursue fast as before Instead, it will ensure the success rate of the offense. Only when the teammates absolutely run out of time and can continue the offense, will the forward straight pass be sent from the backcourt.

Millwall's first element in defense is anti-robbing!

Crazy anti-robbing!

In the past, most teams will be panicked by them!

Even Manchester United is no exception. The backcourt players pass the ball in a panic when they are counter-robbed. It may not make mistakes at that time, but the pass selection may not be the best. Especially, the pass line may be in the reverse. Millwall was prejudged to be correct in advance and was in the middle!

Thus curbing the opponent's offensive.

Aldridge's vigilance is here, Manchester United is smart, at least the first of their opponents to make the most correct changes.

Stable ball control in the midfield and backcourt, the defender line must not panic, if Millwall dares to rush up and grab, they don’t mind pulling the defender line back, so that Millwall’s frontcourt players are embarrassed and come forward , The distance between the three lines will be disconnected, the pressure in the front field will be too deep, and the space will be expanded virtually. Then, the opponent will launch a forward speed shock, and the efficiency will be higher!

Manchester United has targeted this attack and achieved results in the early stages of the game.

Ronaldo, Henry, and Messi rushed too forward in the anti-robbing.

Henry is a team player, Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi are the front line of the defender.

But they didn't notice that Manchester United's defender line retreated while holding the ball, waiting for them to move forward, and then suddenly hit a wave of fast breaks when the midfield space became larger!

Keene, Scholes, Giggs, Rooney, Fanny, Joaquin and six people made a series of fast and effective passes from near the middle circle, and finally Fanny picked up Giggs from the restricted area and took a small angle. Volley shot.

Old Trafford was boiled with cheers.

There was no smile on Ferguson's face, but applause was common.

He knew that this was just a new beginning.

A prologue to his war with Aldridge.