The Young Lion

The 2001-2002 season Premier League battle curtain opened, Fleet Street joked that this season is the London small league!

London is very lively this season, of the 20 Premier League teams, the London team occupies seven places.

Millwall.

Arsenal.

Tottenham.

Chelsea.

Charlton.

West Ham United.

Fulham.

West Ham United and Fulham were the Premier League promotion team last season, and both teams are inextricably linked to Aldridge or Millwall.

It is a deadly enemy with West Ham United.

Fulham's current coach is also an old friend of Aldridge, especially with Henry in the Millwall formation.

Jean Tijana.

Before Abu, who is a combination of angel and devil, arrived in London, there were actually foreign bosses who were practicing the same dream as Abu.

Egyptian giant Jafayez spent 30 million pounds in 1997 to buy Fulham, who was still in the British second, and dreamed of building Fulham into a Manchester United in the south, or the second Millwall in London. Every year's investment is the highest in Fulham's competitive environment, but the team didn't get it until it hired Tigana last year. After 33 years, it returned to the English Premier League.

Tigana has the financial support of Fayez, and his successful experience in coaching in France. In addition to his admiration for technical flow, Fleet Street hailed him as the second Wenger, and is expected to lead Fulham to make contributions in London and even the football world. .

Tigana himself is also ambitious. In an interview before the start of the season, he expressed his dream to lead Fulham to glory, and then he retired to enjoy life.

In addition to Tigana’s success in Monaco, another factor is that he has become the focus of the media. That is, after Gullit, Tigana is the second black coach in the Premier League era. As the saying goes, things are rare and expensive, and social Under the influence of values, the rareness of black coaches in the Premier League has made Tigana have a very high degree of attention.

Premier League opener.

The defending champion sat at the Lion King Stadium and ushered in the London Derby.

Crazy Lion vs Farmer.

After the Champions League semi-finals in the 97/98 season, Aldridge and Tigana played against each other again, but the difference in the strength of the team led by the two has already made a difference.

Millwall has no injustice with Fulham. Fulham’s enemy is Chelsea. He does not violate the river with the East London team. Today’s game, the off-site fans’ hostility is not strong, and they enter the stadium step by step. Watching the ball, the fans of the crazy lions now also have a sense of superiority, playing Fulham and Derby can be ignored, not at all in a grade.

Aldrich complimented Tigana before the game, and then waited for Tigana to arrive early at the Lion King Stadium. He showed his mastery and was quite a match.

For Tigana, it seemed like a scene known to others in his hometown. After walking out of the player's tunnel, he saw Audridge standing on the side of the court and greeted him with a smile.

When Tigana took Aldridge's hand, he looked around the interior scene of the majestic Lion King Stadium. Deafening cheers made him speak close to Aldridge's ear.

"The atmosphere in Millwall is now warmer than when we played at Wembley, Aldridge, a great achievement."

Tigana sighed heartily.

The last time I challenged Millwall was at Wembley. Time flies. Four years later, Millwall has a magnificent new stadium and the atmosphere of the hot stands is unprecedented.

This is Audric’s credit. Tigana admires it. Although his back-end boss Fayez is rich, he can’t afford to bring a new stadium to Fulham. Such investment is really amazing, even if it is huge. Rich can't afford it either.

Ordinary people with a net worth of 5 million yuan will inevitably not buy a Ferrari sports car, and a huge net worth of 5 billion US dollars, they are also hard at heart to build a new stadium that costs more than 500 million yuan.

Aldrich and Tigana made an appointment to go to the office and enjoy the old after the game, the other came to London a year ago, but has not contacted Aldridge, even if Fulham had a purchase request last year, want to buy from Millwall Walking a few youth teams is not a particularly good young seedling, Tigana did not call Aldridge to ask for accommodation, and Millwall did business and agreed to Fulham's offer. Unfortunately, the youth players have a good vision. Look down on Fulham in the League One.

After greeting, Aldridge returned to his seat and sat down.

"The new season Premier League opener is about to start, defending champion Millwall meets the new Premier League Fulham. This is a London derby without gunpowder. In the past seven years, Millwall has not played against Fulham, but Mill Wall coach Aldridge Hall has played against Fulham coach. It was during the season when Hall really became the top coach in European football. Millwall was eliminated in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals. Monaco, what’s interesting is that the number one star in the Monaco team at that time is now Millwall’s first killer, Thierry Henry."

"Recently, there are many topics surrounding Tigana. The outside world generally believes that he may become the second Wenger on the Premier League. He has also coached Monaco, and he also advocates European-style football philosophy. He is also good at promoting and inspiring young players, and he is also a French. , Haha, Tigana brought Saha from France last season, this young player scored 27 goals in 43 games in the Premier League, it was a big explosion, and in the new season, Tigana brought from France Marblank, he will continue to use his skills to train young people, just like he is training Monaco Henry, Bartez, Giuly, Sagnol, Risser and so on, who are now playing in the top arena."

"Andy, although Tigana is capable, I think Fulham is definitely not Millwall's opponent today."

"I think that if we want to discuss such a topic, it is too unfair to Tigana and Fulham. Fulham did not return to the top stage after 33 years. The Premier League debut met the defending champion and made the whole Millwall, who is frightened by fear in Europe."

"Isn't Millwall's Premier League Premiere the first time, wasn't it also a challenge to the unstoppable Red Devils Manchester United? The final result? I still remember it now, they were tied by Manchester United at the last moment at Old Trafford, Manchester United tied them ."

"Well, you say that I have higher expectations for the game. If Fulham can cause trouble to Millwall today, I think the outside world will have to re-evaluate Fulham."

In the long-awaited, the new season of the Premier League finally whistled!

Millwall took the lead and the ball returned to Pirlo's feet. Pirlo controlled the rhythm and first looked at the opponent's posture.

Seeing the opponent's number one striker, last season's Saha in the Bundesliga, Pirlo threw the ball to Gattuso, and Saha threw Gattuso again, the latter passed the ball back to Pear Lowe.

Fulham attacked away, very cautious at the beginning, only Saha harassed back and forth in front, and everyone else stood honestly in the second half.

Pirlo's heart was clear when he saw the other's position.

Although Fulham's static position is very reasonable, excluding Saha who harassed the goalkeeper and the frontcourt, the other nine players seem to divide the backcourt area into a reasonable position, but this seemingly reasonable position is actually very dangerous.

Experience, after all, the opponent came from the Premier League to the Premier League. Although some of them are veterans of the Premier League eliminated, Fulham always feels trembling in the heart.

Pirlo didn't need much complicated organization to attack, he gave the ball to Ronaldinho.

Ronaldinho took the ball from the sideline after crossing the centerline and then took the ball diagonally towards the middle.

Fulham's original position was very reasonable, and Ronaldinho was crushed one by one during the impact of Ronaldinho.

One, two, three, Ronaldinho seems to be running the obstacles with the ball, and the Fulham players who chase and block him one by one declare failure.

Fulham’s mistake is not directly compressing the most dangerous space, blocking Millwall layer by layer, but there is a player like Ronaldinho who only gives him a certain space, one by one breakthrough, Fulham player It is more like fighting in their own territory, and then defeated by Ronaldinho.

"Wow, Ronaldinho passed by consecutively, he completely disrupted Fulham's line of defense! God, before the penalty area, five people from Fulham rushed to Ronaldinho !"

Ronaldinho knew that he couldn't rush down anymore. The two in front had to close the door, and the two left and right came to wrap up. There was a chase behind him.

Even if the ball can pass, he will certainly be knocked down by the opponent, and will definitely not be in the penalty area.

Ronaldinho stepped on the ball and used a pair of scissors feet to knock the ball out of the seam.

Henry, unmarked, took two steps forward slowly after catching the ball in the penalty area, and then when the goalkeeper moved a step, his arch shot at the far corner of the far post and easily broke the goal.

"Henry scored this goal too easily. Ronaldinho finished 99% of the work. Henry only needed to shoot as easily as he did in practice. Fulham declared that the city gate was lost in 29 seconds. We The expectations before the game are being shattered, and Fulham may now only really understand the gap between them and the strongest team in Europe."

Henry scored and pointed back to Ronaldinho after scoring a goal. He did not celebrate. Most of the credit was Ronaldinho. He did not celebrate because Fulham's coach was Tigana.

Without Tigana promoting him to reuse him in Monaco, and performing well in that critical season, he was difficult to board the last train of the French national team and eventually became the world champion.

Tigana saw Henry broke the door as soon as he opened. Indeed, as the commentator said, in less than a minute, he really felt the gap between Fulham and Millwall.

Ronaldinho, can't help it!

Especially, one player after another went up to intercept, just like the circus was played by Ronaldinho one by one.

Tigana is still a little proud and confident. He doesn’t want Fulham to ugly swing the bus against Millwall like other mid- and lower-level Premier League teams, and use human walls to block the goal, but the reality is that he does not swing the bus , Millwall attacked the four in the frontcourt, one-on-one. With enough space, who can be one-on-one in Fulham? And players like Ronaldinho, Mo said one-on-one, even if the two are defending, they must stick to him, don’t give him space to start, play space, once he has room to start bursting, that scene is just like it was just now. , A small compass belt, a sudden change of direction, followed by a group of Fulham players, like a small train flying on the court.

Tigana shook his head, walked to the sidelines and made adjustments. The bus must swing, not swing, maybe it will be blood washed today. Millwall has so many games every season that kills his opponents Not alive...