The Young Lion

Monday night is a beer night where coaches can't move.

Aldrich enjoyed early in the hotel, because today the team was resting, he accompanied Melanie to go shopping in the afternoon, the weather turned cold, bought a lot of autumn and winter clothes, from a woman's unique perspective, Melanie did everything she could Able to dress up Aldridge as a fashionable man.

Snooker lost all two sets in a row with Craig. Aldridge walked down to the bar in Craig's smug triumph. Jenson and Mullenstein watched the Premier League highlights on TV Discussing the technical characteristics of players in the game, Mullenstin is an expert in this regard. He continually commented on the characteristics of the players' performance during the goal process, some of which are second to second, but some can be better.

Moniz drank beer and discussed the tactics with Babutorop. The backgrounds of the two are very different. In the Netherlands, there is a football concept confrontation, so the latter can always refute the former with various theories higher than technology. Moni But I like to use good players to prove the defense, the scene is very lively.

Aldridge opened a bottle of beer and drank, and found Benitez sitting alone in the distance of the bar, writing and drawing on a small book, occasionally picking up the wine bottle at hand and pouring a sip of wine, and then continued to focus on tactical books on.

Aldridge walked around and smiled, "What are you doing?"

In Benitez's tactical book, he wrote a page and wrote a page, each page is Millwall's most recent offensive goal routines, it seems that the ever-changing seems to have no rules at all.

Benitez frowned, saying, "I want to sort out Millwall's midfield configuration."

Aldridge grabbed the opponent's tactical book, turned to a new page, and wrote three names and some numbers in the midfield.

Makelele: 65 defense, 25 organization, 10 offense.

Pirlo: 15 defense, 55 organization, 20 offense.

Nedved: 20 defense, 20 organization, 65 offense.

Returning the book to the other party, Aldridge smiled: "This is a static general data, which can change elastically with the situation during the game, but one thing is balance, the role of the three people condensed together, will be in Organization, defense, and offense reach full value. Unlike the current midfield organization tactics, the organization and offense of the front waist must be very strong, but the defense is weak. The midfielder is too defensive and puts responsibility on organization All are handed over to the midfielder. The midfielder who has a good pass ability has already begun to play a more important role, like Albertini, Paul Sosa. The outside world is saying that Millwall is making history, in fact all Nonsense, our only creative approach is to allow players to play more roles on the basis of large-scale running, but it is by no means a decathlon, and it must be prioritized."

Benitez thought thoughtfully: "However, Nedvide withdrew a wide range of defenses to compensate for Pirlo's defensive weakness, which reduced his threat when he was transferred from defense to offense."

Aldridge shrugged: "Not necessarily, let's say that, if Nedved's starting position in the attack is close to the opponent's penalty area, then he is easy to be stared to death, it is his speed and physical advantage that makes There are more changes when he advances from back to front. His forward running position will make the defensive player elusive. This also reflects his uniqueness. He has changed others. Even if he is allowed to do so, he will have the heart Powerless. Pirlo's organization in the midfield, indeed the defense is a short board, but his creativity and overall situation, insight into the situation on the court, I think no one on the team can match him, the skilled players are not There are few players who may choose the best route for the offense. There may be some players whose pass success rate is steadily at 85%, but the pass route may not be the team’s most needed attack. It was time to pass forward. He passed to both sides. Obviously it was a diagonal pass. He passed straight to the middle. The pass was successful, but the threat after the pass fell straight."

Benitez nodded in agreement, Aldridge touched the wine bottle with him, and fell asleep.

In the middle of the week, the team will play a League Cup, the opponent is Sunderland trapped in the relegation zone.

Aldridge sent a large number of young players to play, the team easily passed 2-1 at home, after which the players began to rush to the international arena, and will return to the team after ten days.

During this period, Aldridge invited the players who stayed in London to dinner, watch a movie, and then let the remaining first team players go to the Leo Youth Training Base to play a few teaching games with the youth team.

The ten-game winning streak in the team's league is fast. The large area of ​​East London on the south bank of the Thames has become the world of Millwall. The fans are enthusiastic. Even if the first team has not played, they will come to the youth training base to watch the youth team. Training and competition.

Najib is still meticulous. Last season, a few of the youth team's seedlings were sent to the first team, and the seamless connection with the first team did very well. This is closely related to the tactical philosophy of the team from top to bottom.

Many clubs have well-known youth training camps, but there are many rookie players who have made their own blood, but they can’t make it in the first team or can only go far away. In addition to the fierce competition in the big teams, there are also youth teams and first team There are contradictory factors in the tactical system, so in this regard, the reason why Ajax and later Barcelona became the youth training leaders is all related to this. Ajax is fully attacked and defended. Barcelona’s Tiki-Taka, whenever he is young When the training and the first team tactics fit best, geniuses continue to emerge.

Now the player who picks the girders in the youth team is Ronaldinho. At the age of 16, he is omnipotent on the court and is the most shining star of Leo's youth training base.

Najib always had a headache for Ronaldinho. He repeatedly found Aldridge and consulted Ronaldinho for suggestions.

Ronaldinho's versatility prevented him from being fixed in one position.

Playing as a winger, Ronaldinho breaks through the sharpness and is so good.

In the front waist position, Ronaldinho also created good organizational skills.

According to the tactics of the first team, if Ronaldinho is to focus on the organization in the future, Ronaldinho will compete with Pirlo. Putting Ronaldinho in the midfield position will waste his talent for scoring, because Organizing an offensive in this position must suppress his talent, otherwise, once he loses the ball, the defense against Millwall's backcourt will be fatal.

Let him go to the midfielder or winger, the ability is no problem, but it will reduce his holding time accordingly, because the focus of the offensive is on the area behind him.

Aldrich’s advice to Najib is: Don’t limit Ronaldinho’s area of ​​movement, but roughly, let him play freely in the left-wing and front midfield area.

At the same time, he told Najib a player's tactical changes: transposition.

No player on the court is absolutely fixed in a certain area, only the ability to limit the problem exists.

Millwall's current tactics have become stable, which has allowed their power to explode, but there is no peak in Aldridge's ideal tactics. On this endless pursuit path, player ability and team understanding will make The fighting power is completely sublimated.

Larson and Shevchenko have already begun to try to change left and right wingers in training, but due to Trezeguet’s ability, he can only be fixed at the center position. If he pulls him, the offensive effect will be very low. Ideally, the threat has plummeted. At the same time, although Nedved began to release his offensive ability when Pirlo focused on organizational responsibility, he is still far from reaching the limit. When the next tactical "change period" of the offensive comes, It will be a more elaborate pursuit. Ronaldinho is a very important member of Aldrich's plan.

After the FIFA game day, the players returned to the team. Before Aldridge came to the training ground, everyone was already doing stretching and warming-up exercises, and their mentality was very relaxed.

After the arrival of Aldridge, the players stood together, waiting for a routine exercise by a fitness coach.

"Bernde, after the training, go to the reception room on the first floor of the hotel. After two days of your birthday, the fans sent a lot of gifts, which are all there, you remember to take it away. In addition, say a birthday in advance. happy."

The players heard that each of them wished Schneider ahead of time, and Schneider smiled slightly shyly.

The club will receive a lot of gifts every three to five, most of them are birthday gifts sent by the fans collectively. Even if some players celebrate their birthdays during the June and July holidays, the fans will either give them in advance or make up for them in the new season. Will pull out a banner to write blessing words in the game.

Because I have just experienced FIFA match day, the team's training is relatively easy, mainly focusing on recovery.

The weekend league is going to challenge Blackburn away. The Premier League champions more than a year ago are now declining. Hiller’s departure to St. James’ Park is just a prelude. The mercenary corps that was built by the heavy money was in a state of disintegration.

Millwall is in good shape. The most important thing is that the players have a better mentality. They are confident and calm. After losing their last season's defeat, they have gained valuable experience and their mentality has gradually matured and stabilized.

And this season, Aldridge is also comfortable with the rhythm of the rotation of the team. In addition to the fact that some young players are too nervous at the opening of the new season to show fear, they are also becoming more mature and at least not frightened.

After winning Blackburn 3-1, Millwall came to 11 games in a row, and Manchester United won the victory at the home with Arsenal defender Winterborn’s oolong gift 1:0. It cannot be said that the momentum of recovery Obviously, but at least stabilized the downward trend, and the gap with Millwall has not been continued to widen.

As in the previous two months, throughout November, Millwall ended with a victory record. Newcastle United, Leeds United, Everton were successively cut down, and Millwall had already led the points when it entered December Liverpool, second on the list, has 15 points, and Liverpool is only one point ahead of Manchester United.

December is a month that Aldridge doesn’t like, because the Premier League is going to drive fast. Before Christmas, Millwall has two important London derby games to fight. The first game is at Stamford Bridge, and the second game is in The Lion's Cave Stadium meets the Hammer Gang

In the new season, Glenn Hoddle is the coach of the New England national team. Gullit took off his jersey and put on his sportswear. Then he took over as the blues Chelsea. This summer, Chelsea invested a lot and strengthened the third line. The core of Di Matteo, the siege of Viali and Zola.

From this season, Chelsea officially entered a period of rapid development to fully catch up with the gap between the giants. Gullit's coaching style is biased towards **** football. This has also caused Stamford Bridge to attract attention from the outside world. At least their record is more obvious than the previous seasons. The rising trend of the outside world is very optimistic that Chelsea has become a new powerful force in London under the leadership of Gullit.

In this context, Millwall, who has set a record of 14 consecutive victories, is like a proud lion stepping into Stamford Bridge.