The Young Lion

Ferguson himself denied the attempted transformation of Manchester United this season. No matter how he explained it, he replaced Belon. This fact can not be changed. Four domestic league matches plus a cup and five consecutive losses. Then count as the middle of the Champions League. In the draw, Manchester United was unbeaten in 6 rounds of various events. After the 1:7 massacre at home, what was left to Manchester United was a flood.

When Aldridge was interviewed after the game, the BBC reporter said something like this.

"No one was optimistic about Manchester United's victory before the game. Millwall had an expected victory, but can you think of a 7:1 big score victory?"

Aldrich did not answer the question: "Since Millwall meets Manchester United, and is at Manchester United's home game, the outside world is generally optimistic about Millwall, then, how far is Manchester United from Millwall?"

"This, Millwall is recognized as the strongest team in Europe, Manchester United, now in trouble."

"I'll answer your previous question. In the past, Millwall played against Manchester United. It would be the top contest. Now, as most people think subconsciously, Manchester United is not Millwall's opponent. So, we win Manchester United, Of course, it is not very important to win a few. Of course, no one can predict the 7:1 score. The specific game will be resumed and left to the ball critics."

Aldrich turned around and left. The reporter quickly asked aloud: "Mr. Hall, what do you think caused the gap between Millwall and Manchester United to be so huge?"

"Because Millwall has tapped all the potential of the main lineup, we have been improving and improving over the past few years, while Manchester United, they are just standing still or even going backwards."

"Then do you think Millwall is perfect?"

"Of course not, there is no perfect team, but the biggest question we have now is: why is there no team that can challenge us in England? If traditional giant teams like Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool can't put their strength back Moving up, Millwall may decline because of a lack of matching opponents. If that happens, I can only say that this is a big conspiracy."

"conspiracy?"

"Yes, they did not use the correct and positive challenger posture to stimulate the king. On the contrary, they used a negative and weak way to kill our fighting spirit, and then waited for our mental fatigue to affect the strength state, and became with them. At the same level, we will try to challenge our hegemony again."

Aldrich turned away.

The next day, the "Sun" intercepted the picture of the game, and Aldridge and Ferguson were not far away from the moment of a conversation.

The picture with text is a sentence in front of Aldridge.

"Why? Why can no one challenge Millwall's dominance? Is this your conspiracy?"

David Miller wrote in the column: As Hall said after the game, if the Premier League team cannot improve its strength and put pressure on Millwall, the strongest Millwall in Europe may indeed be because of the decline in the will. Affecting the strength, this is not a worry for the Hall Qi people. A super strong team needs to challenge. It is necessary to maintain combat effectiveness and combat desire through difficult battles. But looking at the current standings, Millwall has 13 wins and 3 draws, with 42 points Manchester United are 18 points behind them. Arsenal will be visiting the Lion King Stadium in the next round. They have achieved 8 wins, 5 draws and 3 losses in the 16 rounds, only 29 points, 13 points from Millwall, so huge Millwall, the leading player, doesn't feel the pressure from competitors at all, or does Millwall have competitors? According to their current score-taking momentum, Millwall is likely to refresh the Premier League points record again this season. If all this comes true, I can boldly predict that even if Millwall retains the main lineup next summer, they are in the league. There will definitely be a significant decline in their performance, because they don’t need to win 100 points to win the championship. As long as they score 90 points and 85 points, they may be able to firmly win the league title, but in this case, Millwall will still be Is it so powerful now?

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In the final round of the first stage of the Champions League group stage, Millwall sat at home against Porto.

Before the game, there was pressure from the Italian media, fearing that Millwall would release Juventus, and Aldridge was furious at the pre-match press conference.

Faced with the difficulties of Italian journalists, Aldridge got angry and took the case.

"If you don't know how to respect a team, don't come to London and be disgraceful! You don't need you to remind me what kind of team Millwall is, it's time to maintain the dignity of the giants at home! My job is not up to you Fingers! The whole world knows what kind of tricks you are playing. If Juventus is finally out, it’s their blame, the Champions League, the stage for the strong, not a place to pray for pity and sympathy. Is Juventus out or promoted? Has nothing to do with us, don’t you feel ashamed? Serie A giants have fallen to the point where the Premier League giants control their destiny?"

Aldridge said with a cold face, and the Italian reporter dared not to speak, and the Fleet Street reporter laughed ridiculously.

Millwall won in 5 games and was the first team to qualify early in all groups. It was also the first team to lock in the top of the group. In the final round of routine, they naturally would not be the main force. The Italian media This is the reason to pressure Millwall.

It's ridiculous. In the last round of playing Juventus, Millwall was on the bench. The Italian media did not say anything before the game. Instead, this round in turn accused Millwall of not respecting Porto.

Porto may wish that Millwall wouldn't even go to the bench, let's forget about the youth team!

In the Lion King Stadium, Aldridge sent a full bench lineup, the formation is 4231, Porto is eager to score and advance to the top 16. If Juventus is a draw, Porto can get a draw and can also be promoted, so after the game starts, Porto faced Millwall defensively.

Aldrich stood on the sidelines to direct the game. He didn’t know that today, in the stands of the game, sat a future Porto coach, the Magic Bird Mourinho.

Mourinho came here to watch the battle with the Porto manager.

After Benfica was sacked, Mourinho coached in the middle and lower reaches of the Portuguese Super League team Liana in the past six months. His record is almost the same as that of Benfica, but because he is coaching a small team, the coaching performance is good. A lot, in addition to Porto's phase, he also has Mourinho agent Mendes behind the bridge.

Mourinho carefully observed Millwall's technical and tactical play on the court, as well as Audric's every move on the sidelines.

Starting from his time as an assistant in Barcelona, ​​he studied football tactics outside of work. A large number of work research cases were from Millwall, especially the adjustment of the scene when Aldridge changed when the game situation changed. The key content of the research.

Aldridge is now a well-recognized tactical master in football, with a 433 offensive offense, 4231 based on anti-anti, and 4321 built in England, making Aldridge famous in the coaching circle.

He is not a staunch seeker of a tactical style. External analysis, and it is his style that is flexible and adaptable according to the situation, only ensures that Millwall can be successful in dealing with different game environments, unexpected difficulties, and other adverse situations. Luckily.

After all, football tactics are hard to say, there is absolute restraint, but there are targeted restrictions that will happen. Perseverance in a style sounds commendable, but it may not be able to create a brilliant glory.

The Porto lineup is not bad, the first-class downstream level, especially their players have potential, only to grow up can increase the team's strength by half.

In today's game, Porto seemed to look forward and backwards, while conservatively treating the game, while worrying about the situation on the side of Juventus.

Their calculations are more pragmatic, Juventus does not lead, they do not take the initiative to attack.

This is a bit risky, what if Juventus scored in 90 minutes?

They can’t manage that much. Don’t look at Millwall as the substitute. Now they are playing away. Isn’t Juventus the same as the backup lineup against Millwall in the last round? The results of it?

I think so, but the game did not develop according to the script they envisioned.

In the 31st minute, Ramall moved to the middle from the left, took the ball and sent a straight plug under the cover of Kaka, penetrated the back waistline and cut the other side. The ribs of the center defender and the full back were empty. , Villa rushed behind the opponent's central defender, after the ball got kicked and hit the far corner of the goal to succeed.

"Millwall leads 1-0 at home, and it is the younger Villa who made the contribution. Ramor's excellent pass is amazing. His reading ability in the game is the best among the bench players."

Aldridge was so moved when he saw Ramor's pass.

The biggest advantage of this Liverpool abandoner is the ability to read the game, coupled with the technical skills developed in the Liverpool youth training system, the confrontation is indeed weak, so Aldridge has not used Ramor’s current forward. Instead, let him play a role like Ronaldinho, and deliver shells to the forward.

Just that wonderful pass just now, Kaka can't pass it now, and it is also related to the degree of understanding. After all, Ramor has played with Klose and Villa together for a short time.

It is with such powerful substitute roles as Ramor, Pedretti, Neal, etc. that Millwall's overall strength is particularly strong.

Oporto saw the ball lost, and he didn't care about what happened on Juventus' side. He directly pulled away and fought desperately with Millwall.

Aldridge allowed the formation to close after the team scored.

In the next game, Millwall repeatedly staged a whirlwind fight.

Villa, Klose, Kaka, Ramall, these are players who want speed, speed, and start bursts.

Porto conceded another goal before the end of the first half, and it was Ramor, who suddenly shifted the offense after dribbling the ball on the left. Villa had no greed after entering the penalty area and sent Klose an assist.

Porto kicked more and more irritably, and his movements became bigger.

After problems with the opponent’s mentality, Millwall scored one goal after another. In the second half, Kaka and Klose scored another goal. Millwall beat Porto 4:0 and blocked Porto from the top 16. , Juventus won the Celtics at home and scored 9 points with Millwall to qualify.

But the victory in this game made Aldridge unhappy.

Porto's extremely aggressive foul in the second half resulted in injuries to Ramall and Villa.

If the technical and tactical approach is not changed, only Klose will be the backup striker available to Millwall's first team.