The Young Lion

"Milwall sweeps everything!"

"Unstoppable mad lion!"

"Who will stop Millwall? Hall: No one!"

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Fleet Street touts the hype to the best of a series of exciting games recently played by Millwall. Aldridge beat Heathfield twice, defeating Ferguson and Wenger one after another, making him the number one public enemy in the European coaching profession.

Fleet Street is also complaining about the Champions League system.

In the two-stage group stage, the irritancy is reduced first.

In the six rounds, the top 16 is decided, which is nothing. At the beginning of the season, there is a warm-up period, which is good for the team and the enjoyment of the event.

However, 16 into 8 and need to play 6 games, which makes the excitement of the event much reduced. The two games of 180 minutes and 6 games of 360 minutes of points can bring the same stimulus.

Just like now, the final round of the UEFA Champions League second group stage is about to start. Many games have lost their utilitarian significance. Winning and losing have no effect on the promotion to the top 8. The game is more like a routine.

At this time, it was precisely at the end of the season that the major leagues were running nervously, but the Champions League staged a game of no suspense and no excitement. The fans were dissatisfied and the broadcasters were dissatisfied. Those UEFA Champions League teams were more like playing business The competition is mainly about making money.

Two days later, Millwall will go to Turkey and challenge Galatasaray away. Five-game victory. Millwall who has advanced in advance will definitely not send another main player to play, even the big list will not be ranked as the main player. .

Today, the team conducts training as usual. On a sunny afternoon, the main players who will stay in London for a break in the middle of the week have just finished a set of training. At this time, they sit on the court to rest.

"How about the castle?"

"Trouble, it will definitely be far away from the club, driving a waste of time."

Ronaldinho was lying on the grass with his legs swaying, and was exchanging opinions with Schneider.

Recently, he wanted to buy a new house. He thinks that the three-story building he lives in is too small. The ideal is to be able to accommodate more than 50 people for parties.

Schneider squeezed his biceps and poked with his fingers. He seemed to be testing the hardness. He said casually: "You can just go to the boss's brother and it will be done in three days."

Ronaldinho thought for a while and nodded. "It seems that I still have to trouble him. You say weird or not. I have been in London for so many years, but now I want to buy a house, but I have no clue."

"What's strange, if you don't play football or practice, go out every day and browse real estate news every day, you will know everything. Unfortunately, you are not doing that."

Xiao Luo smiled and said, "Yes, as the boss said, I only have one job, that is to play well. Haha."

Southgate, Henry, and Nedved were chatting not far away.

Henry put his hands on the grass behind him and looked at another training ground in the distance. Audridge carefully arranged the training tasks for the four players in front of him with a tactical book. Henry chuckled: "Sometimes I don’t understand, all Newspapers say that the next game is a game that we have walked through. Why didn't the boss sit down and rest?"

Southgate pointed to Ronaldinho, who was shaking his head, saying: "If the boss is not like this, there may not be him today, and many of our other excellent teammates."

Nedved laughed: "After three years, you will not have such a doubt, because you will get used to this kind of scene."

Henry nodded. He is now in a brilliant career, but his time to Millwall is not too long. From the summer of 98 to the present, it is only four years.

And like Nedved, they came to the team in 1994. After the team won the Champions League in 1998, they also had doubts like Henry. Aldrich didn’t need to fight like this, but it took another four years. They are accustomed to such a leader, admiring it and understanding that this is part of the reason why Millwall is so successful.

Henry suddenly said, "Do you know what I am most afraid of now?"

"Hah, are you injured?"

"No, I am most afraid of the World Cup in the summer. The French team meets the England team. It is difficult for me to imagine that I am playing on the field and then see that the person standing in front of the opponent's coach is the leader."

Henry touched his bald head. He felt that way. When he played for Monaco against Millwall, he never wanted to feel that way again. There was a terrifying strangeness that made him taboo.

Southgate smiled, and Nedved laughed a little far-fetched.

Southgate realized what was happening, and said to Nedved: "Hey, don't think about it, listen, now we have to maintain a happy mood and face each next game full of energy."

Nedved pushed Southgate and chuckled.

As the World Cup approached, Millwall talked about this topic. The most lonely thing was Nedved, which also made him a little embarrassed. In the team's main lineup, he was alone in the World Cup.

Gattuso and his good friend Pirlo sat cross-legged next to the goal, the two backed against the goal post, Pirrotto looked at the Aldridge on the other training ground with his chin, Gattuso pulled a hand. Count the grass boringly in your hand.

"Eh, you said, will the Italian coach look like this?"

Gattuso looked back at Pirlo's eyes, then turned his head back and continued to throw away the palm grass one by one, saying, "Which club do you mean? Inter Milan's Cooper Not an Italian, I heard that AC Milan’s head coach has a good private relationship with the boss. The newspaper said that when Thuram moved to Palma, the boss knew the coach who always lost the chain at the critical moment. Jupiter Lippi This should not be the case. He always looks cool. If one day sits on the coach seat and smokes a cigar while the game is in progress, it must be cool!"

In Gattuso's mouth, "the head of the chain" means Ang Fat.

Ancelotti's coaching at Juventus, both seasons, had a crucial moment of defeat. In 1999, he was reversed by Manchester United in a shocking manner and was reversed in the 2000 league. Fans familiar with Serie A must remember that Juventus lost the league title." "Perugia heavy rain", at the time Juventus coach seat, is Ancelotti.

Long time no see Pirlo responded, Gattuso turned his head and smiled and asked: "Are you reluctant to leave? Then you will stay."

Pirlo looked up, with a column on the back of his head, his eyes a little dazed.

In fact, the four Italian internationals want to leave, the initial idea is not firm, everyone has intricate factors affecting, life, family, career, even the conservative atmosphere of the Italian national team may also affect the idea, sometimes just give it to yourself I found my own reasons and convinced myself, but Pirlo knew that his belief in leaving was very firm. His family was in Italy, not as a fisherman’s family like Gattuso, he was a very rich second generation, Besides, I’m also tired of communicating with people in English as a second language. Under the background of extremely successful and brilliant career, the environment here limits their social interaction.

There are gains and losses, life will not be perfect, and the focus of the world is not him. He wants to live more freely, more chic, and more contented. If he chooses to leave, then he will also have a good sense of loss.

He knew that he would never encounter a coach like Aldridge again in his life, a man who was very impressed even when he was seen working from a distance.

But there is no way. Football is not the whole of his life, and he has already gained no more in the field of football.

Pirlo turned around and saw Gattuso pulling the grass and counting one by one, scolding: "Are you too cheap?"

"Can you manage it?"

Gattuso glared at Pirlo, then lowered his head to continue counting, but raised his head and frowned.

Damn, forgot where to count!

Before waiting for him to find Pirlo in trouble, he blamed the other party for interrupting himself, but Pirlo smashed a small grass directly on his head and ran away after he got up.

"I am grass, turn you back! Stop for Lao Tzu!"

Seeing this pair of good friends started chasing again, the other teammates laughed.

Aldridge was working in another field, and suddenly found that the attention of the players in front of him was drawn away. He looked around and saw Gattuso riding on Pirlo. The grass on the turf was constantly moving between Pirlo jerseys. He Waving his finger at the two men, he shouted to Boas: "Vilas, let them go for a lap, three laps!"

It was originally a break time, but I had the energy to play and play. I am very happy. Then run the circle to vent your energy.

Boas smirked and waved at Pirlo and Gattuso, supervising them to run the lap.

Aldridge is back in work. From the outside world, it doesn’t matter whether Millwall will play in the next game.

But for the head coach, this game is part of the job, and in Aldrich's eyes, this is a very important job: training new people!

If he does not pay attention to such games, it is difficult to imagine Ronaldinho, Gattuso, Materazzi, Alonso, Klose and other players can grow up well.

There are four players standing in front of him, Ronaldo, Kaka, Klose, Villa.

If you simply train the players and increase the game experience, Aldridge does not need to arrange tasks for them too much, but Aldridge believes that it is time to start special training for Kaka and Ronaldo.

"Where did I just say?"

Aldrich was disturbed by Pirlo and Gattuso's harassment and asked questions.

Klose said: "Boss, you said we would not depend on a certain player."

"Ah, yes, the outside world knows that Henry of Millwall is the shooter king, so he will restrict him targetedly. If our tactics absolutely use Henry as the core of the offensive, it may be restricted to die at the critical moment, so you will watch By the way, Larson, Nedved, and Ronaldinho’s goals are not low. What plays a key role here is the entire offensive team, relying on only one player, and other players creating opportunities for him, then The offense is very simple, but if you can create opportunities for each other, the power of such an offense is increasing geometrically, and it is the same for you."

Aldrich said this, Klose and Villa must understand that Kaka and Ronaldo may need a little more time to digest.

"Okay, to be more detailed, one-on-one, you all have a certain breakthrough success rate, whether it is 20% or 50%, giving you 5 opportunities, you can succeed at least once, what is the problem? The opponent does not Maybe every time you use one person to defend you, this is the focus of the defense. If we rely on Klose alone, then the opponent will invest 2 people, 3 people to defend him, limit him, and our attack will be over. But if both Klose and Villa have such a threat, the opponent will continue to swing between them when defending, if we have 3 people, 4 people can play the biggest threat, then the opponent Just can’t keep up with our rhythm, the offensive threat transfer is faster than the defensive focus shift! This is the point and essence, understand?"

Everyone except Ronaldo nodded.

Cristiano Ronaldo asked, "So how can all four be threatened?"

Aldrich said: "Read the game and observe the situation. If you face two or three defenders, the first thing you need to realize is: I have attracted 2-3 defensive players. Then, the opponent's defense in other areas is definitely There will be flaws or weaker, my teammates will have a better chance to threaten the goal. At this stage, you must first develop awareness, not just look at the eyes, see the empty when you think there is a chance, think, when this When this kind of thinking becomes inertia, your ability will be greatly improved in the game. It should be understood that we are a giant, we are a top team, and no opponent will carelessly expose you to an excellent empty space. You break the door or assist your teammates. If you don’t think about it, you can only fight back forever, because only the counterattack has a huge space to make your eyes visible."

Roth nodded fiercely for a while, as if he had an epiphany.