The Young Lion

Benitez, who sits on the coach of the visiting team of the Lion King Stadium, is still that unsmiling style.

He returned to England and came to the Premier League to coach Liverpool without the qualification for the Champions League. It has not been described as a step backward by the media. In fact, the presence of Aldridge in the Premier League makes it a matter of course for many excellent coaches to go to the Premier League.

Aldridge is a great stepping stone!

If this can end Aldridge's rule and overturn the mad lion dynasty, this great achievement is enough to make a coach's status rise to the peak of contemporary football!

But Benitez also understands the unreasonable truth and wants to end Millwall in the short term, which is unlikely.

However, he wants to reshape Liverpool's temperament, confidence, and inner quality in key battles!

Coming to the Lion King Stadium, it's hard to say that this is a simple competition between him and Aldridge, and the more important thing is the posture polish.

Liverpool can't tremble in the majestic lion's majesty like in the past, but must stand up the spine, dare to talk directly with Millwall directly, and make the heart beat more powerful!

The Red Army came here, not to seek perfection, and to take away one point would be satisfied.

Benitez doesn't even care about the score!

In the league's long-distance running, Liverpool's "endurance" and "bench thickness" are not enough to support them to compete with Millwall and Chelsea in the short term.

What Benitez wants is spiritual quality, what he wants is the quality of the game, the score, that is just the result, something that is not the first important thing relative to this period.

In Liverpool today, the lineup structure is very similar to Millwall.

The back line is not to talk about. The 4 back has become an international mainstream. It is well established that the midfield line configuration, defensive midfielder, organized midfielder, assault midfielder, Sissoko, Carrick, Gerrard, and Millwall The roles of Drossi, Alonso, and Nedved are almost the same.

But at the forefront of the formation, Millwall used 3 forwards, Liverpool could not achieve the most extreme offensive, the winger needs to take more care of the defense, so the position retreats, can also be said to be a winger, can also be said to be a winger Avant-garde.

From the first minute, the game of crazy lions and the Red Army showed a big scene of opening and closing together!

Just after the opening, Cristiano Ronaldo cut the ball to the middle of the goal after breaking through Risel on the side. Hepia turned back and put a shovel to prevent the ball from rolling to Villa's foot. Get out of the line!

There was a sound of exclamation in the stands.

Hypia didn't change color after getting up, and had no effect on his mentality, as if he was very confident in his tackle tackle.

Two minutes later, Liverpool counterattacked. Carrick and Gerrard made an excessive back-and-forth pass in the middle, and then Carrick divided the ball to the right. Garcia made an inbound pass and Ram thought he was going hard. , I did not expect this to be an illusion, Garcia passed the ball to Gerald in the middle, and then quickly ran towards behind Ram, Gerald did not dare to control the ball when De Rossi came up to defend, and went straight out. The ball, straight between Seram and Silva.

Garcia made a cross before the bottom line on the right side of the penalty area.

Irving didn't take off in front of the goal, Nesta's marking on him was in place, but the ball was not passed to the middle of the goal, but at the back point!

Kewell almost outstriped the spot at the back point. Fortunately, the experienced Schneider followed him closely, stunned to block Kewell with his body and then jumped to clear the header!

Millwall also quickly counterattacked, Alonso passed the ball to Ronaldinho, who directly passed the long pass!

There is not much room for Villa to advance forward. Ronaldinho's pass needs to be very accurate. Although Ronaldinho's pass is almost perfect, there are still some errors. Villa will rush into the penalty area in an anti-offside When touching the ball, Reina already rushed out!

Villa couldn't stop the ball, he could barely shoot the ball to the goal with his toes, but Reina was almost in front of him, spreading his arms to expand the defensive area, the ball hit Reina's shoulder and flew into the air, Reina No worries, turn around and wait for the ball to fall, easily put the ball in your arms.

Villa turned back to the direction of Ronaldinho's thumb, if Reina reacted more slowly and abandoned the goal and was not decisive enough, maybe this ball Villa will have a chance of a single-handed ball very easily.

Perhaps, Reina has also been improving himself in these years.

When he was abandoned by Barcelona, ​​it was the era of Van Gaal. Van Gaal abandoned him on the grounds that Valdes's scope of activity was greater than that of Reina!

Aldridge looked thoughtful on the sidelines.

In terms of strength, Millwall is definitely stronger than Liverpool.

However, as can be seen from the scene details, Liverpool used reasonable tactics to compress the strength of the two teams.

The overall pace of the Premier League in these years is getting faster and faster, and the team's physical strength has gradually become a major feature in European football.

Many teams play the Premier League team, regardless of whether the tactics are reasonable and the state of the players. The horror rhythm rate of the shuttle back and forth by the Premier League is scared!

This is also the foundation for the Premier League team to become a top group in UEFA during this period!

However, a few years later, when the top teams of other leagues also strengthened their physical fitness, or adapted to the rhythm, or controlled in other ways, afterwards, the Premier League team was tactically rigid, and the shortcomings of excessive pursuit of speed were exposed again, becoming the Premier League team in the An important reason for the decline of European status.

Benitez took over the team last season to this season, and the transformation effect began to have a substantial return. On the one hand, the team's physical fitness, and second, the sensitivity to the game rhythm.

Although the roles of the two teams are similar, there is still a difference in use. Like Millwall’s wing, the winger and the defender attack are more obvious, while Liverpool is the most forward and defender. The full-back is afraid to attack the frontcourt.

Therefore, such a picture is often seen in the game.

When Millwall attacked Liverpool at halftime, Millwall was at least 5 players to play Liverpool at least 7 players, space is tight.

And when Liverpool hit a counterattack fast attack, they pushed the attack through half, it is the defense system of three or four players playing Millwall is also about four players, the space is relatively large.

This is the biggest difference between the main attack and the counterattack, and the advantages and disadvantages of the space conditions are reflected.

Therefore, the two teams played passionately, attacking and defending quickly.

The test of Liverpool is the ability of individual soldiers. Their wide-open attack style is often that the winger or midfielder Gerrard can break through the past, and the offensive situation is extremely beneficial to them.

The test of Millwall is the delicate skills and cooperation of a small team. After all, the space is relatively small, and the opponents have more defensive players, so they have more elaborate offense requirements.

Liverpool first played a threatening offense. In the 17th minute, Kewell took advantage of Schneider's assist to go up and the attack was not successful. In turn, he rushed forward on this road, which can be said to be the most favorable direction for the offensive and defensive conversion to grab the attack. Benitez had undergone key deployment before the game, Carrick or Gerald, offensive mobilization and offensive transfer in the game, it was all "blazing blood"!

Kewell took the ball and quickly pushed the attack to the side of Millwall's penalty area. His timing of passing the ball was very good. He kept adjusting the ball and kept Nesta and Silva's body retreating. Suddenly cross, but also to the rear of the middle road, the two center defenders braked and rushed out again, definitely too late!

De Rossi predicted that the landing point was correct, but he also had to adjust the body's center of gravity, but Gerald stepped into the rhythm of the pace and grasped well when he rushed up after the jump, and jumped directly to the top of the ball!

This header from the penalty spot is more like a volley!

And the angle of the goal that the ball flies to is also slightly tricky!

Aldridge almost closed his eyes and was ready to listen to the celebration of Liverpool players, because as time went on, he became more and more uneasy about Bout, and Palyuka retired soon, at the age of 39 next month, indeed can not hope .

But this time, Bout made an amazing save. He rushed to the right side of the goal and touched the ball with the tip of his right finger at the extreme save distance!

The ball was slightly refracted, and then, bang!

The bottom line popped out of the goal post!

Gerald was kneeling in the Millwall restricted area with an incredible look!

This is the best opportunity since Liverpool opened!

"OMG! Bout made a world-class save! He rejected Gerald's must-go goal! Look, Bennets, who has been immobile like a sculpture on the coach's seat, has changed his expression, it is difficult Describe his expression at the moment, not like anger, loss, regret!"

Yes, Benitez should be sorry and disappointed, but he thought about it, he should be happy to have such a performance. After all, he wants the quality of the game and needs Liverpool to play the momentum of the Red Army!

Can't be too demanding!

If it is against ordinary opponents, of course, he will have other emotions, but playing Millwall, can play such an offense, he should be satisfied, although he will still be restrained, will not write psychological performance on his face.

Butt saved Gerald's very threatening shot, which made the atmosphere of the Lion King Stadium rise sharply, and there was applause at the scene.

Others may think it's nothing.

Aldridge was in a state of ups and downs, which was a false alarm.

In fact, the ball just now was considered to be super-level play by Bout, which was a big challenge for the top goalkeeper, but Bout completed such a save.

Before switching, Aldridge would not worry, he would enter if he was entered, and would not blame the goalkeeper, but if Bout saved it, it was a small surprise.

This is Bout's occasional good performance on the basis of stability.

But now, with the hidden danger of his instability, he seems to have subconsciously determined that he cannot perform super-level play. This is a wrong psychological reaction, but there is no way to control it.

It would be great if he didn’t have occasional low-level mistakes. Aldrich didn’t always have to think about the position of a goalkeeper in his heart. He had to have headaches from time to time, and he had to dispel the thoughts from time to time, as if there were ants crawling around in his heart. Itchy and uncomfortable...