At halftime, the Millwall team was excited and proud, but Aldridge gave them a fatal order: No one can relax in the second half!
The team cannot develop a complacent mentality after taking a lead. This mentality is dangerous. Once it becomes a habit, comedy will directly turn into tragedy at critical moments.
Aldridge's request may seem unreasonable, but this is his coaching request, subtly keeping the players focused until the last minute of the game.
If anyone relaxes, he will not hesitate to take the player off the field.
After adjusting in the midfield, Liverpool suffered a huge mental blow and could not recover, but there were obvious changes in the formation and playing style. Roy Evans strengthened the defense in the middle, allowing the wide players to compress to the middle, restricting Pirlo and Ned.
Wade's performance.
Aldrich was not afraid of this move at all.
He even wanted to walk over and tell Evans: If your forwards don't track back, there will be loopholes in your defense, unless you set up a bus.
If Fowler and Collymore cannot retreat in a wide range, Aldridge will have nothing to fear even if Liverpool strengthens the defense in the middle.
If the middle lane doesn't work, there are also side lanes.
The two wing corridors have completely become Millwall's world after Liverpool's defensive focus shifted.
Thuram Zambrotta frequently assists forward, and the threatening ball passed from the baseline or 45 degrees has an immediate impact.
Trezeguet and Nedved scored with headers in the 63rd and 69th minutes respectively.
All the Liverpool fans in the stands were stunned.
Seventy minutes of game, 6:0!
There is no doubt that Liverpool will be bloodbathed, but there are only a few problems.
The giant Liverpool also began to be unable to afford flagrant fouls.
McAteer elbowed Nedvěd. Even though Nedvěd got up after falling and just stood there and rubbed his face, the referee still gave McAteer a thumbs up amidst the boos of the entire Lions fans.
Till was shown a red card.
Liverpool started kicking people randomly and shamelessly, and Aldridge used up three substitutions.
Schneider enters, Thuram exits.
Enter Capdevila and exit Tower Gianluca.
Vieira on, Pirlo off.
All are matchup substitutions.
Schneider, who played right back for the first time, was almost a full midfielder in the last 20 minutes. He had no pressure on defense and let the offense go.
In the chaos, Schneider passed a high ball in front of the goal. Trezeguet jumped high to head the ball. He hit the ball first, and then was punched in the face by James.
The referee awarded a penalty kick.
After falling to the ground, Trezeguet didn't get up for a long time. Aldrich saw this scene on the sidelines and angrily yelled at the fourth official: "What is he hesitating about? Isn't this a red card move? On another occasion, this is it.
murder!"
Trezeguet was very uncooperative with Aldrich's questioning. Halfway through the team doctor's visit, he sat up, shook his head, but looked a little dazed.
The referee did not dare to send off any more Liverpool players, so he only gave James a yellow card.
Trezeguet went to the sidelines to be examined by the team doctor. He just fell and was a little dazed, and felt no major problems. The team doctor judged that he had no signs of concussion and allowed him to return to the game.
Larsson took the penalty kick and scored it instantly. With eight minutes left in the game, Millwall had already rewritten the score to 7:0.
Finally, when Liverpool thought everything would be over, Aldridge waved his hand and let the central defender rush forward to have fun. Occasionally, he also had to cultivate the ability of the central defender to rush forward to assist. After all, sometimes the central defender can rush upfield.
Use miraculous effects, guards with swords!
Sure enough, in injury time, Helguera found a good opportunity in the crowd and used his knee to head the cross-passed ball into Liverpool's goal.
The Spanish central defender also took off his jersey. All the Liverpool fans in the stands had already left. The Millwall fans formed a line and sang happy songs. Throughout the second half, they were doing one thing in the stands: carnival.
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8:0
In the first game when Aldrich officially used the main lineup to implement new tactics, the team played a milestone battle.
The more flowers in the team, the more powerful they will be.
Thanks also to the hot guys from Liverpool, their state on the court today was almost like sleepwalking.
The moment the game whistle blew, Aldridge raised his fists toward the stands. Millwall fans collectively made a gesture of worship.
"I can't believe it, I can't believe it, I can't believe it... I feel like I must be dreaming, but everything in front of me is real. Millwall has created a series of FA Cup final records. He scored eight goals in a single game.
The record is unprecedented. The total number of eight goals also created history, as well as the record for the largest final point difference. Especially in this final, their opponent was the traditional English giant Liverpool, which made the history they created even more convincing. Liverpool’s players
They collapsed on the ground. I felt that they should be ashamed of themselves. Did they deserve it?
Wearing the jersey of the Red Army is related to the scandal they reported in the newspapers today, and they were wearing suits and joking on the sidelines before the game. What are they thinking in their minds? They have added a shameful record to Liverpool, and it is likely to remain so for a long time.
Congratulations to Millwall
, Hall's team deserves to win, this is what they deserve, double cup champion and league runner-up, this is the result of their unremitting efforts for a season, Aldrich Hall, the young coach who rewrote the history of England, we
He should be applauded and Millwall should be applauded!"
The players were running around on the field, hugging each other in celebration, high-fiving each other, clenching their fists and shouting...
Compared with the excitement of fans rushing into the stadium to celebrate two months ago, today they can restrain their emotions. Even though some people are still crying and some are kneeling and pointing to the sky, they all stay in the stands and shout for Mir at the top of their lungs.
Wall cheered, even though his palms ached, he still clapped vigorously.
Aldrich began to walk toward the court. Reporters swarmed around him, following his footsteps, and countless microphones were piled in front of him.
"Mr. Hall, how would you rate Liverpool's performance?"
"Don't compare my team to Liverpool."
"Are you looking down on Liverpool? Just because Millwall won the championship?"
"No, I think it is disrespectful to my players to compare them with a group of hot guys who only know how to live and drink. We put in sweat and hard work for the championship. In my memory, Liverpool is an iron-blooded team.
We are a well-disciplined team. Is our opponent Liverpool today? Haha. Sorry, I didn’t see even a single bit of the spirit inherited from Liverpool from my opponents. That’s it. I want to celebrate with my players.
Let’s talk about it at the post-match press conference.”
Aldridge separated from the crowd and walked towards the players and coaches. The whole team stood in a row with arms around each other. They came to each stand to thank the fans in the stands.
FA Chairman Wiseman looked at the Millwall players and coaches on the pitch and smiled sincerely.
Today's game is really exciting.
Millwall has performed so well this season and played so many classic games. These are all promotional leaflets for English football.
In the 1995-96 season, Millwall became the second player in English history to win double cups in a single season after Arsenal!
After winning the FA Cup, Millwall held some party activities. They also displayed two trophies at home. After several days of small-scale celebrations, Aldridge held a team meeting.
Some players have decided to stay in London because their national teams are coming to England to prepare for the European Championships in England, which starts on June 8.
Nedved approached Aldrich and said that the Czech national team wanted to borrow Millwall's training base and stay in the team's training hotel.
Nedved is familiar with this place and knows that Millwall's training base has complete facilities. Indoor training can also be conducted in the hotel to avoid external interference.
Even though Millwall's Lion's Den stadium is small and crude, the training base Aldridge spent so much effort to build is definitely one of the top in the Premier League. It's just not particularly large in area, but even though it's small, it has all the internal organs, and it can help the team to be better here.
Stay in game faster and more comprehensively.
Aldridge readily agreed. Anyway, Millwall had no role in the FA's plan to arrange the European Cup. As long as the Czech national team said hello to the FA, staying in East London should not be a big problem.
At the team's last meeting of the season, Aldrich looked at the casually dressed players and asked with a smile: "Have you had a good time this season?"
"Yes!"
"How does it feel to be a champion?"
"Cool!"
"Is that enough?"
"not enough!"
"Okay, the vacation has begun. See you in two and a half months. When you come back, we will conquer England together!"
"good!"
Players who are not on national team duty are all excited to go on vacation, while players who are on national team duty always have a smile on their face.
What they achieved here in the past season was enough for them to show off in front of their national team teammates.
After greeting each player, Aldridge was the last to leave the meeting room.
Most of the coaches have chosen to go on a short trip and will come back next month to watch the European Cup in England live.
Aldridge has had too many interview appointments recently. After the meeting, when he was interviewed by the BBC, he went to the training field to hold a trophy in each hand for the opponent to take pictures.
In the interview, Aldridge didn't talk too much about himself. He put all the credit on the players.
What he emphasizes is that he is just a head coach who works hard, and his players have extremely high professionalism and talent. It is the efforts of the players that make the team strong, and they deserve the honor.
As the best coach of the year, Aldridge is not complacent. On the contrary, he has a headache.
Because Andrew told him that many teams have begun to contact Andrew privately, with the purpose of bringing in Millwall players.
The most threatening teams here are from Serie A.
As for Hyypia, Andrew quickly found the corresponding person in the information database after some research, because Hyypia has already established a foothold in the Netherlands.
It would not be difficult for Aldridge to introduce Hyypia.
First, pay the transfer fee.
Second, commit to the main position.
But it just so happens that Aldrich won't be able to produce either of these things this summer.
Club CEO Adam sat in Aldrich's office and placed a financial statement in front of him.
"What's the meaning?"
"We paid a lot of bonuses because we won the championship, plus the team's high salary expenditure in the past year. To put it simply, boss, even if you don't spend a penny this summer, we won't be able to get it when winter comes.
Money has been spent to pay the players’ salaries.”
Adam's words gave Aldrich a headache.
Millwall's total salary expenditure including staff, coaches and players is the highest in England.
That's more than £20 million in the past year, and Millwall's revenue isn't enough to break even, or even half of it.
This leaves Millwall with just over £6 million on their books.
Aldrich rubbed his forehead and thought for a long time.
How wonderful it would be if this year were 1997.
In 1997, the Premier League will re-sign the broadcast contract, and the broadcast revenue will at least more than triple. Especially part of it will be paid into the club's account before the season, which will also allow Millwall to survive this year.
In fact, Aldridge also has his own account in mind. He knows that club management alone cannot make up for the income and expenditure pressure caused by high wages. Therefore, Solskjaer's departure is not purely due to competitive factors.
There will be £7 million in transfer revenue in the summer.
