The Young Lion

Although Millwall scored an early goal to equalize the total score in this game, the scene also has an advantage, but the offense fluency is far worse than the previous one!

The most obvious change is that the attack was damaged by Valencia with a foul.

In the first 25 minutes, Millwall had a five-foot free kick that directly attacked the goal. Pirlo's three-foot shot was blocked by the wall and his two feet flew to the stands.

Aldrich has been watching the situation on the sidelines and has written down every detail of the game.

Valencia's counterattack strategy today, gradually, he also figured it out.

Unlike the last game of excessive pursuit of two wings, the side attack finally fell into isolation.

Valencia has changed in the counterattack today.

The key point is Aimar and the other side of the non-initiated offense.

Taking Gonzalez as an example, when he launched an attack on the left and rushed forward, Aimar took the initiative to approach the left to form contact with him, and at the same time, Mendieta on the other side leaned toward the center to form a contact point.

At this level of the game against Millwall, Valencia's counterattack counts on the monotonous offensive means to open up the situation, which is a fool's dream.

For them to fight against other opponents, even some first-class teams, it is possible to directly blow the opponents unilaterally to form the threat of the last blow or the last pass, but playing Millwall, determined to go to the black side, then It will really hit the south wall with one head.

Therefore, Valencia actually converted from two wings to a single-winged counterattack, focusing on one side in the counterattack, forming an advantage locally and creating opportunities.

Valencia still has its own advantages under specific circumstances, such as their counterattack and large frontcourt space, which is the advantage.

When Aimar squeezed on the same side with Gonzalez or Mendieta, Gattuso faced a choice whether to follow Aimar and also ran to the side, forming a defense with the full-backs teammate 2VS2, and even returned to the winger In the case of withdrawal, a bag is formed.

Gattuso hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to guard the middle. As long as the opponent did not enter the danger zone inwardly, he only had to follow the opponent's foremost point to advance and retreat, compressing the defensive space.

Gattuso still has some fears. Players on the other side of the opponent will lean towards the center. If he loses position, the center will open wide and the defender will lose the barrier protection.

Valencia played this way, testing the back defense ability of Millwall's midfield players. They really can push the offense on the wing. Millwall alone can't defend the other two players by relying on a full-back. The impact of the match, but this is only an offensive means. To end, Valencia obviously lacks a way to score.

The offensive advances to the side of the big penalty area line, and then cooperates or breaks through the middle. Millwall's full-back and central defender form a joint defense. Pirlo's return may be a bit worrying, but Nedved retreats. , Absolutely reassuring.

Aldrich had to look at Cooper after seeing Valencia's counterattack routine.

It can only be said that Valencia is out of luck. If Nedved does not return to his best condition or is still recovering from injury, then according to Millwall’s tactical approach using Klose in the first half of the season, Valencia played like this Counterattack, the quality of Millwall's midfield defense will drop by a grade. If Valencia puts more effort, Albelda and Baraja will assist each other. This flexible unilateral flying wing counterattack may be Can really penetrate Millwall's defense. Of course, if Nedved cannot play, Aldridge will definitely add a defensive midfielder to strengthen protection.

In the 34th minute, after Valencia counterattacked the pass and the ball was cleared by Materazzi, Gattuso controlled the outer landing, just after the ball was stopped, Aimar fouled, the referee greeted the lion king stadium to Ai Mal showed a yellow card.

This is already the third foul of Aimar in the first half. Even in the front court, the tactical foul is not obvious. The referee still warned the opponent with a yellow card.

Two minutes later, Henry was shot by Canizares into his arms, Valencia continued to counterattack, this time Gonzalez was cut off by Schneider on the side pass, Schneider led the ball forward, Gonzalez Reis tripped Schneider from behind and he was also shown a yellow card by the referee.

Although Valencia's counterattack is much better than the last game, at least the advancement area is closer to Millwall's penalty area, but the chance of the last blow is still not created.

This made their offensive players begin to become a little irritable.

Millwall's offense basically formed a shot from three dangerous offenses, but Valencia did not even have a shot.

In the 42nd minute of the first half, Gonzalez and Aimar went all the way to the bottom, and then did not pass. Sanchez in front of the goal was completely stared. Aimar controlled the ball on the wing and put The ball kicked back and Gonzalez knocked across to Mendieta who moved to the middle.

Mendieta saw that Millwall had a tight defense, there was really no room for passing, and he dared not control the ball too much, otherwise he would definitely be hit back if he lost the ball, and he simply took a long shot.

The poor quality of this long shot makes people unable to look straight.

He didn't fly towards the goal at all, hit Materazzi's leg at close range, and then popped the bottom line.

"Valencia’s attack today is exactly the same as the last time the two teams confronted each other. The counterattack that relied on survival could not pose any threat in front of Millwall. This gives us the illusion that it is only a matter of time before Millwall scores a goal. If you can’t score, then Valencia must have gods."

Valencia took a corner kick and they attacked with a corner kick. There were three people inside and outside the penalty area, Sanchez, Mendieta, and Baraja.

Gonzalez played a tactical corner with Aimar, Schneider stepped forward to mark Gonzalez, Aimar ran out of back, and received a pass from Gonzalez to hang in the penalty area.

The quality of the pass from his internal rotation is not high. The landing point is in front of the penalty spot, where only Baraha goes to grab a point.

Palyuka moved his position and there were a lot of Millwall players in front of him. Even if Baraja had a header, there was not much angle.

The fans in the stands of Lion King Stadium witnessed an incredible scene.

Baraja didn't touch the ball, the top shot was made, but it seemed that the neck was short, and the ball was passing in front of him. Then, the ball hit, um, it hit Gattuso's head. , The flight path changes.

Palyuka's pupils shrunk, almost screaming: Without such a pit!

The ball became a hanging goal and flew towards the dead end of the goal.

Paljuka moved to save again, obviously late.

Including Gattuso himself, all players in the Millwall restricted area turned to look at their gates in horror or blankly turned their heads.

Wow!

There was an uproar in the Lion King Stadium.

"The goal has been scored! Valencia equalized the game's score, 1:1, 1:1, they now lead Millwall with a total score of 2:1, and because of the guest goal advantage, unless Millwall can score two The ball wins, otherwise, Valencia will step on the defending champion and advance to the UEFA Champions League! This ball, this ball, should be regarded as an own goal. If no one touches Aimar’s cross, he will definitely not score the goal and the ball will be Gattuso flew into his door, poor Gattuso, he might want to ask Baraja, why didn't he get the ball?"

Gattuso didn't just want to question Baraja, he just wanted to beat him up!

He and Baraja's summit position is less than one meter, he is ready to turn his head and look at his door to see the result of Baraja's summit, but the ball accidentally hit his head and became an impeccable Hang the door, hang Palyuka to death!

This own goal not only made Valencia's players seem to be set for two seconds, but even Cooper on the sidelines rubbed his eyes, wanting to make sure that he had no dazzling or hallucinations!

Afterwards, Valencia's players competed to celebrate. If they could not hug Gattuso, they would definitely go around and kiss him crazy one by one, and finally, they surrounded Aimar to celebrate.

Cooper waved his arms excitedly, too **** surprised!

How should the team attack, how to solve the opportunity to create the last blow, he racked his brain to think about the collapse of thinking!

Well now, someone helped him solve this problem, it is their opponent, Millwall!

With this away goal, as long as Valencia keeps the remaining time and is not scored by Millwall, then they will advance to the semifinals!

The cheering that has been resounding throughout the stadium has stopped suddenly since the game, and the entire stadium has fallen into silence. The fans of Valencia cannot make much noise. Compared with before, it is now mostly mosquitoes.

The crazy lion fan was stunned by this oolong ball.

Everyone knows that the following situation is not optimistic, and the sudden blow made everyone feel like they were being poured into cold water.

The Millwall team itself behaved as usual after losing the ball. Southgate said nothing, just walked behind Gattuso and patted his head, then pushed him forward as if to give him power .

Aldridge suddenly raised his arms on the sidelines, his expression did not show loss or hit, and he walked back and forth indifferently, using limb movements to rejuvenate the court.

The fans in the stands saw that their king was inspiring the atmosphere of the stadium and, without a word, they continued to shout and cheer for the team.

Nothing else, cheer for the team, put pressure on opponents, never be stingy!

Within half a minute, the Lion King Stadium returned to a hot atmosphere.

Aldridge stopped moving and stood on the sidelines thinking.

He suddenly felt that Valencia was a wicked team.

What is wrong with Millwall's defense? Basically no problem.

The ball just now, Baraja’s distance to the top is not a distance where the header is an absolute threat. In addition to the defender’s blocking angle in front, even if he hits the top, the probability of scoring is very low.

But just like the "false stop" cover of Caru in the first round, Balaha didn't touch the ball and caused confusion, eliminating the task of teammates attacking, and simply let Millwall help them. The archer presented an oolong gift.

The situation has become worse.

1:1 to 1:1, this is a very different transformation.

On the basis of 1:1, Millwall not only wants to win, but also wins at least 2!

And Valencia's situation is completely reversed, they will defend more firmly, before taking the risk to fight back, after 1:1, the offensive enthusiasm and investment should be further adjusted and decreased.

It can be seen from Millwall's re-kick-off that Valencia did not even have a half-time player, and striker Sanchez ran back to actively participate in the defense, draining the outside of the penalty area.

The first half of the game soon came to an end, in response to Valencia's strategy to further strengthen the defense, in the last few minutes, Millwall did not play a threat offensive.

When the halftime whistle sounded, Aldridge wryly walked into the player's tunnel.

Conventional offensive methods will be difficult to play an excellent opportunity in the second half. Is it luck to watch players improvise?

Aldridge recalled the details of the first half of the observation game, combed through each link, trying to find Valencia's weaknesses or places that could be used.

Before walking into the locker room, he suddenly stopped and raised his head without saying anything, "Will this work wonders?"