The retirement ceremony held by Millwall for Southgate was a feast. In addition to the gathering of stars, there were also celebrities supporting the event.
During the intermission, the band “the-
"darkness" appeared in the center of the green field of the Lion King Stadium and performed on the stage, arousing the passion of the fans and making the feast more colorful.
After the intermission, the second half of the game was about to begin, but a voice sounded from the scene.
"Aldrich!"
"Aldrich!"
"Aldrich!"
The audience was calling for Aldridge to continue playing, which made Aldridge a little embarrassed and felt like he was stealing Southgate's limelight.
Southgate did invite Aldridge to continue playing in the game. This was not part of Aldridge's plan. However, seeing how enthusiastic the audience was and wanting to continue to appreciate his skills, it was better to obey than to be respectful.
In the first half, he and Southgate were opponents. In the second half, Aldridge planned to be teammates with Southgate.
So he began to show his dominance again and said to Villa who was about to come on: "David, let me play for 20 minutes and you will be the substitute."
Villa smiled and walked towards the outside of the field. At this moment, Ronaldinho and De Rossi jumped out. One left and one right stopped Aldridge who was about to enter the field. Villa headed towards the field.
Shouted: "Don't listen to him! He is a trap! We can't let him play forward! Absolutely not!"
Aldridge turned to look and shouted: "I scored a goal! I scored a goal as a striker!"
"That's a penalty kick, anyone can score it!"
"Then I can play in the midfield, okay?"
"no!"
"Defender, partner with Gareth, okay?"
"Do you want to trick him to death?"
"That......"
"You go and be the goalkeeper!"
Aldrich's eyes widened and he didn't refute for a moment.
Goalkeeper?
That is a position that none of my friends would want to play when playing as an amateur activity!
De Rossi's proposal received a wide response, and Aldrich was forced to appear again, but... he stood in front of the goal line and acted as the goalkeeper!
The lineup of Southgate's friends in the second half was quite luxurious, with Southgate, Ramos, Materazzi and Gianluca Zambrotta at the back, and Vieira, Pedretti, Pires and Gianluigi in the midfield.
Lenchard's forwards are Villa and Ruud van Nistelrooy, and Solskjaer, Toni and others are on the bench.
The opponents of the England star team are mostly former national team teammates or current national team members.
Aldrich felt a little guilty.
There is Owen on the opposite side, as well as long-range shooters Gerrard and Lampard from outside the penalty area, and Scholes' feet are not weak either!
The goalkeeper, standing in this position, feels like a sad target?
To be honest, in the goalkeeper position, it is difficult for Aldridge to be a ball dominator on the court because he cannot leave the small area in front of the goal line.
So he started to play another role: leader of the defense!
Whenever the opponent attacks half-court, Aldridge immediately points in a certain direction and shouts to instruct his teammates.
But what he shouted was a bit scary.
"Marco, stop him! He can't come over, otherwise he will shoot! I may not be able to defend!"
Materazzi was so angry when he heard such a voice coming from behind him!
Is there a goalkeeper like you?
Maybe I can’t hold on?
You can't be so cowardly!
Originally, the England star team on the opposite side was just going through the motions to play a relaxed and enjoyable game, but when they came on the field, they found Aldridge on the opposite side in goal, and they suddenly became interested.
Scholes first tested Aldridge with a drop shot, which shocked Aldridge and almost raised his hands in surrender.
The hanging door was deflected, but Aldrich almost hit the doorpost while moving!
Aldridge was on the verge of tears. If Scholes was just trying his best.
Then this bastard Xiaobei is really in trouble!
In the 54th minute, Beckham hit the goal with a tricky curve ball. Aldrich moved his position and flew to save. The action was really perfect! Perfect!
It's a pity that his mother's goal was scored!
Moreover, Aldrich pounced in the wrong direction!
If you are a goalkeeper, you don't know. I feel like I will be deceived by my own eyes.
In fact, the speed of Beckham's curve ball is not very fast, but the curve is too big, and it is an external rotation, not an internal rotation, and the flight path is contrary to the ordinary Beckham's arc. Aldrich directly handed over his trump card.
, made a panicked save, and halfway through, he found the ball flying to the other side of his body.
Lost the ball, Aldrich was in a bad mood!
So he ordered his teammates to strengthen defense even more "angry"!
Materazzi's bad temper, if it were Aldridge as the goalkeeper, he would not be able to stand it long ago.
He rolled his eyes and simply told Southgate a few words. As a result, the back line changed here.
Aldrich was stunned to find that he seemed to have been abandoned!
The defenders all rushed forward to attack!
Look, Materazzi rushes forward as a forward, and Southgate is in the back position of the center line, at least 40 yards away from the goal.
Aldrich burst into tears and wanted to shout to them: The score is a draw, 3:3, there is no need for our entire army to attack! There is no need!
This is too dangerous!
We will be beaten back!
Don’t underestimate your opponent’s Owen!
That's the young man chasing the wind. You old guys can't catch up with him!
However, such a rush really has a miraculous effect.
Materazzi caused chaos in the penalty area, and Ruud van Nistelrooy seized the opportunity to break through the opponent's goal.
4:3, taking the lead again.
Aldrich breathed a sigh of relief and thought he was ahead. The defenders should have pulled back. But when the kick was re-opened, the defenders were almost all standing in the midfielder's position!
Aldrich, the polished commander, is so miserable in the eyes of the audience!
In the first half, it was him who cheated his teammates, but in the second half, it was his teammates who cheated on him!
Sure enough, in the 63rd minute of the game, Neville made a long pass from the backcourt. Irving succeeded in countering offside and went to the meeting alone!
Southgate and Materazzi had just taken two steps to catch up. When they saw that they couldn't catch up, they gave up as a matter of course, which was equivalent to completely abandoning Aldridge.
When Irving came to kill him alone, Aldridge made the entire audience burst into laughter.
"Wow, Owen scored alone! Aldrich Hall, the goalkeeper of Southgate's friends team, opened his arms and swayed up and down in front of the goal, as if doing a weird dance! Oh, he must be trying to interfere
Irving's shot, but at this time, he should be more calm and abandon the goal at the right time. Expand the defensive area and reduce Irving's shooting angle, but he did a weird dance on the goal line!
"
Aldrich's scalp was numb. He was very serious and wanted to "mislead" Irving by swinging from side to side. He was definitely not deliberately "dancing".
Not to mention, this "misleading" was quite effective. When Irving was habitually observing the goalkeeper's position, he was startled by Aldridge's move, or almost laughed, so he took a big step towards the ball!
Aldridge saw the right moment and rushed out. Irving rushed to shoot, and the ball hit Aldridge directly in the arms!
"Wow! Sir Hall successfully blocked Owen's single sword! It's incredible! His weird dance worked!"
After the successful save, Aldrich raised his head proudly, looking like a top goalkeeper swallowing mountains and rivers with anger.
Next, in order for the team to launch a fast break, he ran to the edge of the penalty area and threw the ball!
The thrown ball shocked the teammates!
He wanted to throw the ball to the center of the midfield, but he overestimated his arm strength. The ball landed in the area where the defenders were, and between the two defenders. Gerrard ran forward and stopped directly with his chest.
Ball, another single shot!
Materazzi touched his head and didn't understand the ball. Did the boss do it on purpose?
Did he intentionally give his opponent a one-on-one shot?
Southgate squatted on the ground, lowered his head and smiled to himself.
Aldridge was so dumbfounded that he threw the ball directly to his opponent!
As soon as his mind was hot, he rushed directly towards Gerrard, and Gerrard dribbled the ball horizontally to get away from the angle, and gently pushed the shot into the empty goal.
Aldridge sat on the ground and looked helpless. He even showed his hands to his teammates, probably to express: If you don't come back to respond, you are 99% responsible for my mistakes!
After losing the ball, Aldridge was about to leave the game.
When he left the field, he kept raising his hands to thank the audience and fans, and at the same time pointed at Southgate when he walked to the sidelines.
Today's Southgate's retirement game, most of the audience came to the stadium with regrets, but they found that as time passed, it was completely different from what they thought. Here, they also gained something
An unforgettable and precious memory, at least they made one thing clear: Fortunately, Aldridge did not go on to play football by himself after joining Millwall.
After leaving the field, he sat on the bench to rest for a while. Aldridge sat with Ferguson, who laughed and laughed at him.
"Your skills are really eye-opening, as well as your conduct on the court."
"Alex, what do you know? As a person with no football talent, it is a dream to be able to command a group of stars on the court and let them serve you."
Ferguson put away his smile and shook his head slightly, probably sighing that Aldridge was always different from what ordinary people thought.
Looking into the stadium, Ferguson sighed: "You are so lucky."
Aldrich knew what he was talking about, and nodded with a dazed look in his eyes: "Yeah, I'm very lucky."
For the past eleven years, Millwall has had leader Pavel Nedvěd on the field, and Southgate has maintained it in the locker room off the field. Millwall's golden decade at the top level was not achieved just by its competitive ability.
Ferguson's emotion may be related to his own situation. The spiritual leader of Manchester United is Keane. However, no one can question Keane's spiritual role on the court, but off the court and in the locker room, he has entered the late stage of his career.
Keane, however, turned into a loudmouth, blaming teammates, starting from private to public.
This is not a good sign and gives the coach a headache. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
