The Young Lion

The **** Christmas express came again.

Compared with the intensive schedule of the 46th league of the previous year and the rhythm of the main cup last year, since the new season, from August to December, the main players in the team have got a good shift, and their energy is mainly placed in the league, maintaining an average The game density of a Monday game.

The League Cup stopped the quarter-finals, the European Cup Winners' Cup entered the quarter-finals, Millwall will then usher in the FA Cup.

Aldridge is worried that players will get bored with the game psychologically, so he intends to give the main players a good rest during Christmas.

Now he is also adjusting the game plan. The league advantage in the new season is huge. He wants to take a look at the European Cup Winners’ Cup and the FA Cup. The former is the second most influential cup in the European War, and the latter is the most traditional in England. The most important cup game is that Millwall is still the defending champion.

The players also know that at this stage, Millwall's rotation plan will be adjusted.

This is not due to competitive factors, but psychological factors, when exactly can adapt, Aldridge does not know.

However, the players told him this time.

Thursday’s training ended early. Aldrich processed documents in the office. Before the winter transfer window opened, many clubs sent quotations. Although he made up his mind not to sell people, he still had to take a look at the quotation conditions. OK, in case there is really a good offer, it is necessary for him to adjust the conditions for the player renewal plan.

Nedved knocked on the door for the first time and came in. The other party opened the door straight away: "Boss, I don't need a holiday. In the past two years, I have fully adapted to the pace of the game here."

Larson, Trezeguet, Schneider, Makelele and other players also came in one after another to say that they did not need a holiday.

Especially for forward players, they are in a fierce state of goal. Although the number of goals is not concentrated on a player, they are enjoying the game, scoring their own goals, helping their teammates to score, and letting them enjoy every minute of the game.

Players are fighting, Aldridge doesn't like to win, but some players still take the initiative to give the holiday, such as Pirlo and Capdevila.

As Christmas fell, the East London Derby battle resumed.

When Millwall re-emerged as a newly promoted in East London, no one thought that just a year later, the hammer club that had suppressed the mad lion for more than half a century had fallen into such an awkward situation: the top of the Millwall points list , The hammer group lasts fifth.

The first game of the derby this season started at the Lion's Cave Stadium.

In view of the impact of the frequent riots last season, the FA and the police vigorously rectified. This year's East London Derby was much quieter outside the venue. There were fewer fans fighting for the time and place, and there would not be frequent scenes of fans on the streets. .

But in the stadium, the hot atmosphere has not changed at all.

Fans of the crazy lion held a variety of slogans to humiliate the Hammer Gang. Fans of the two teams sang their slogans and screamed.

In the bleached stands, the fanatic fans waved their arms with grimace. Aldrich was standing on the sidelines and could not understand what was arguing in the stands. Anyway, it was words such as insulting and mocking each other.

Redknapp put his hands in his jacket pockets and stared blankly at the situation on the field. It wasn't that he was stupid, but he was just like that, his small eyes made people look unrecognizable.

The Hammer Gang struggled with the relegation corps at the beginning of the new season. The record was good and bad, and occasionally left the relegation zone and fell back after two days.

Coming to the Lion's Cave Stadium today, the Hammer Gang is fighting fiercely on the field, and the tactical intention is also very clear: keep it! Swing the bus!

Millwall replaced Pirlo with Barak, and Zambrotta replaced Capdevila.

Although the personnel change is not large, Millwall's offensive is generally dominant, but it always seems to feel that something is missing.

creativity!

That's right, it's creativity.

Both Barak and Lampard are able to sort out the midfield, and the short and long passes are also satisfactory, but they are always more than tough, lack of dexterity, and organizational ability, but with Pirlo silently heard thunder There are still gaps in the performance.

Crazy Lion fans laughed at the Hammer Gang: You are a group of turtles, only know the defense, not even a player dare to walk through the half!

The narrators felt that they were in a state of disappointment. This game was more like a melee fight in the restricted area of ​​West Ham United. Most of the players were gathered in the restricted area.

"Maybe Redknapp can stop Millwall's winning streak. Although this way makes people feel nothing to be proud of, from a spiritual level, it may be a victory for West Ham United."

"According to West Ham United's play, I don't want to win or lose. If football develops like this, it will be over."

"What can Redknapp do? He doesn't use this team-wide back defense intensive defense strategy, then he will most likely go home with failure. This is a derby between rivals, whether it is the standings or Face, Lao Lei can't afford to lose."

"Alas, at the end of the first half, the score was 0:0. Millwall's 17-foot shot in the first half failed to return. Except for the 8-foot shot that was directly blocked by the opponent's body, only Barack was one foot away. Shooting on the goalpost is quite threatening."

When the midfielder walked into the locker room, Aldridge saw the players sitting there complaining about their opponents.

"They don't want to win at all!"

Trezeguet said angrily that he had been guarded by back-and-forth shots. He got a shot in the first half and hit him, making him very angry.

"There is no room for inward cutting, there are people everywhere."

"Grass, it was disgusting not to know who pinched my **** when he kicked the corner just now."

Barak's words made everyone stunned for a moment, and then they were all amused.

After laughing, Nedved looked up at Aldridge and asked, "Boss, how long do you shoot in the second half?"

In the first half, they also shot a lot of long-range shots, and the effect was unsatisfactory. The opponent did a good job in the penalty area today.

Aldridge wrote and painted on the tactical board, then pointed to the bottom line and said: "The full-backs strengthen the deep attack, the two left and right wingers do not blindly cut in, maintain a sense of distance and hierarchy, and involve the opponent's formation. I will play in the second half Change to Luther, you replace Yap, and David is in front of each other."

He explained some tactics, relying on two wings to stretch the offensive in the attack, maximizing the opponent's defensive formation, and adding a center inside the penalty area. Behind them, the top corner of the penalty area is two wingers. Outside the penalty area are Barak and the inside. Dewey, let the offensive players use the level to cut the opponent's defense. Once the opponent misses a certain link, there are Millwall players at every point.

"You can make more moves on the wing to break through the opponent, but in the penalty area, if you don't have the chance to shoot, you can also try to control the ball first and change the rhythm suddenly to make the opponent make mistakes."

The players listened attentively, remembering where they should appear in the second half of the offense. Although this is not a dead requirement and players can be flexible, the general tactical requirements must be kept in mind.

Sometimes a goal is not produced solely by the initiator, assistor, and goalkeeper. The teammates who have not encountered the ball play a vital role in how to position and involve, and these are The audience watching the ball doesn't care.

The players returned to the field in the second half, and Aldridge sat down directly on the coach seat after the substitution.

"Hall decided to make a substitution at halftime. He replaced vanny Stroud with center defender Stam. There is nothing to discuss about this substitution. Stam and Southgate stay in the second half. The field is a waste, Stam rushed to the forward in the first half, but unfortunately he can't provide more help besides grabbing the header. Now we are replaced with a Zhengyin center to strengthen the attack, let us look at Hall Will the substitutions be effective."

At the beginning of the second half, West Ham United shrunk in the backcourt. On Millwall's side, almost only Southgate stayed in the second half. Makelele wandered around the middle circle to guard against opponents' counterattacks. Two full-backs Zambro Both Tower and Schneider crossed the center line, taking turns to look forward to assists.

If Millwall's offensive formation in the frontcourt is meticulously described, he will become a double-center forward in the penalty area. The bilateral forward on the side of the big penalty area will be centered, and the double center in the penalty area will form a siege.

Aldrich sits calmly. It is a worldwide problem for a strong team to break through intensive defense. He is not afraid of attacking. A counterattack like Chelsea will do. It will give Millwall an offensive space, but he is afraid of this ironic defense. Opponents, because the opponent's defense is mostly static and dense, the penetration space is compressed to the limit, the striker's impact advantage is reduced to a minimum, especially the speed advantage is also stifled.

The stalemate of the game continues, but Millwall's advantage is getting bigger and bigger. Although the players of the Hammer Gang are defensive, their defense is not impenetrable. Occasional mistakes require a partner to assist. tension.

Twenty minutes later, Aldridge replaced Marklele with Lampard again.

Makelele's replacement was also quite understandable. He had nothing to do with it. He rushed up. The crowd was too crowded. Nedved returned to him and made a ball. As a result, he kicked and flew to the stands.

Although Lampard is still young, at least his long-range ability is better than that of Makelele. However, when Oddridge sent Lampard, he still told him not to attack too much. There are enough people in front of him. Good thing, players should always maintain a reasonable position distance and formation system, otherwise it is really retro to play 127 tactics.

Millwall frequently used the full-backs to pull West Ham's defensive formation. This pull-and-play strategy is similar to Manchester United's wings, except that the pendulum swings sideways. , Allowing the opponent's defense line to move back and forth and back and forth to create an empty space.

Passing from time to time and knocking back in front of the penalty area stimulated the nerves of the fans in the stands.

Fanny's threat of grabbing points suddenly increased after he went on the court. He even missed a close shot and was blocked by the opponent's defender on the goal line.

In the seventy-ninth minute of the game, Millwall's chance finally came.

Nedvide responded to the back-passing pass and kept the ball directly to Larson on the left. The latter took the ball and made a fake move forward. In fact, the ball did not move in place, but West Han The defensive players of the United team are highly nervous, confused by his movements, and also moved backwards. After being cheated, the entire defensive line is pushed forward again. It is the rhythm change between this movement and their defense. There was a flaw in the line, Larsson passed the ball between the defender's legs in front of him, Zambrotta countered offside and immediately made a cross, with Fannie in the middle of the road in Trezeguet to reduce the cover In order to overcome the pressure, he shoveled the ball forward and sent the ball into the goal.

The ball rolled into the gate against the inside of the goal post, the scene was boiling, and the players ran wild and celebrated like a long time.

Aldridge couldn't see how the ball got in from the coach's seat. He could only see the general process.

But when he saw the goal was effective, he rushed out immediately, his fists clenched and waved a smile.

Redknapp was flushed with rage and kicked the billboard on the sidelines.

And Aldridge made adjustments soon, using Elgra to replace goalkeeper Trezeguet, so that the team's formation returned to balance.

Before he kept changing into offensive players, he was actually attracting snakes out of the hole, but Lao Lei was not fooled. Now, no matter what Lai Lei thinks, he is not afraid of the other party attacking anyway, at least the defensive system will not have problems.