Aldridge's pre-season preparation plan encountered another impact from reality.
He will compete in the European Cup Winners' Cup next season. Although he doesn't value it, he wants the team to become familiar with the football styles of different countries. Therefore, in his pre-season warm-up plan, in addition to inviting Celtic to London to play a friendly match
In addition, the team also plans to fly to France to play a game with Monaco, then go to Spain to play a game with Deportivo La Coruna, and finally return to London to play two domestic friendly matches.
Before the Olympics, Andrew finalized the transfer of Rivaldo to Europe. Rivaldo joined Deportivo La Coruna in Spain in the summer. At the same time, because of this relationship, Andrew helped connect Millwall and Deportivo La Coruna.
Let's have a friendly match. The friendly match in Monaco was decided by Aldridge and Tigana when he was in France.
Scottish football is the originator of the short-passing and cooperative style. This is due to the cultural background of the miners who are not united in Scotland. The purpose of Aldridge's invitation to Celtic is also to let Millwall experience Scotland's overall cooperative football style.
However, when August came, Aldrich had to cancel two friendly matches between Monaco and Deportivo La Coruna.
Because tests after the team training showed that his players were too tired.
Except for only a few players who participated in the European Cup, most of the other players went to the United States to participate in the Olympic Games. They returned to the club almost without rest. Aldrich was a little helpless. He missed Spain, Italy, and France.
All entered the Olympic men's football field.
However, Millwall's players are all young, so they are naturally recruiting targets for Olympic teams from various countries.
Therefore, he can no longer fly his players to France and Spain to play away friendly matches.
Benitez moved to London and immediately took over as one of Aldridge's assistant coaches.
But he was shocked on the first day of training.
Aldridge was talking and laughing with the returning players. The training was simply like getting together to play football games. It was easy, but not elegant. It was a mess.
After the training, Benitez asked in confusion: "Is this how you train your players?"
Aldridge sighed: "Of course not, but you have to understand what the players need most. They have just gone through a period of physical excitement and are very tired, so giving them high-intensity training now will not have any effect, and it will
It affects the entire season."
In the next few days, Millwall's players spent time in a relaxed and happy atmosphere.
When the first opponent, the Celtics, came to the Lion's Den, Aldridge put all the players who had participated in the European Cup and Olympic Games in the summer on the bench to piece together a dynamic lineup for the friendly match.
He did this later against newly promoted Sunderland and Everton, allowing the players to rest as much as possible.
In the three friendly matches, Millwall failed to score in all three games. It was not because the state was so bad. It was because the opponents were very serious.
In mid-August, the day before the Community Shield started, Millwall held a press conference.
Aldridge attended with ease and was asked about Millwall's preparations for the summer. He said that everything was going according to plan, and the friendly matches did not depend on winning or losing.
Millwall has been somewhat quiet this summer. In addition to the controversy over the loan agreement with the Football Association at Wembley, Millwall's new stadium plan has not yet been released, and the loan agreement has not yet been finalized.
Fleet Street has been laughing at Arsenal recently. As a neighbor of Arsenal, at a press conference, Thomson of "The Sun" asked Aldridge directly: "Mr. Hall, have you heard about Arsene Wenger?"
Who?"
In the past few days, the London media has made headlines humiliating Arsenal.
"Arsena-Who?"
The reporters in the audience snickered, and most of them were prepared to hear Aldrich say something provocative to his neighbors.
However, Aldrich disappointed them.
Wenger came to the Lion's Den Stadium twice to watch football, but it was not enough for the outside world to remember him.
Sighing, Aldrich couldn't stand the foolish arrogance of Fleet Street.
"Have you heard of Glenn Hoddle? And George Weah and, forget it, just those two."
The reporters in the audience looked at each other, and Richard frowned and said, "Mr. Hall, I don't understand what you mean."
Hoddle is the new England national team coach, and Weah was the World Football and European Football Player of the Year last year. These two are famous, how can everyone not know about them?
Even if Aldridge turns a blind eye to the outside world, he should always remember Hoddle who played against him in the Premier League!
Aldridge sighed again and said rather boringly: "Then you should ask Hoddle and Weah if they know who Wenger is."
Reporters are still confused.
"Mr. Hall, can you explain why?"
Aldridge held his head and sighed helplessly: "If I remember correctly, the only league title Hoddle won in his career was won under the coaching of Mr. Wenger. When Weah won the Ballon d'Or, he was most grateful.
Who is that person? It’s Wenger who you are constantly mocking and mocking.”
There was silence in the audience, and Aldrich stood up and left.
The British media is like this. Yelang is used to being arrogant, mocking others with pride, and using his own ignorance as a personality.
In the final analysis, it is because Wenger is still in Japan. If Wenger was still in France, the British media might not be so disrespectful.
Although Wenger only won one league title in Monaco, he also had good results in European competitions, which is already better than many local English coaches.
Fleet Street shot itself in the foot, sticking its face in there and looking for someone to slap it, but they didn't care, it was all news anyway, how much is face worth?
The next day, he went to Wembley to play the Community Shield. Aldridge still used the same lineup as in the warm-up, half main player and half substitute.
Manchester United's lineup is relatively neat. At least in terms of summer preparations, Manchester United is more prepared than Millwall.
At least England doesn't even qualify for the Olympics, and there are no Manchester United players in the main England national team, so their players can get enough time to rest.
Wembley Stadium was packed with seats. Aldridge did not stand on the sidelines to direct. Instead, he sat quietly. Even if the situation on the court was very unfavorable, he did not get up once.
At the end of the game, Manchester United, which was in average form, narrowly defeated Millwall with one goal thanks to Solskjaer's goal, and won the Community Shield.
After the game, Aldridge was criticized and ridiculed by the outside world. It was believed that he was aggressive in verbal sparring with all kinds of monsters in British football in the summer, but his team performed terribly.
And this is just the beginning.
In the opening game of the Premier League, Millwall rushed to the away game and played Southampton 0:0.
Four days later, they lost 1:2 at home to Middlesbrough.
The two-year unbeaten record at home came to an end.
In addition to the fact that Millwall's lineup is still half main force and half substitute due to poor tacit understanding, Middlesbrough is also different from what it used to be. The team has recruited many powerful players, such as Juninho, Ravanelli, E
Mawson and others gave Middlesbrough a strong momentum after the start of the league.
Millwall's poor form continued, with a difficult penalty kick victory over fourth-tier league team Bristol City in the Carabao Cup.
Millwall's performance from the friendly match in early August to the third round of the league at the end of August simply made all the football critics dumbfounded!
Isn’t this damn fall too fast?
Comet hits the earth so fast!
All parties started to add insult to injury again, and the voices of Manchester United defending their title became louder and louder.
All because in the first game of the season, Manchester United's handsome boy Beckham completed a super lob from the center circle.
Although Millwall has not fallen into the relegation zone, it is actually not too far away.
Aldridge wants to compete for the championship this season. But the championship depends on the players, so what he cares about is the status of the players.
Judging from nearly a month of training, the players who did not have enough time to rest in the summer are getting better and better.
During training, all their indicators have surpassed the best form of last season, and psychologically they have overcome the boredom and fatigue of the game, and have accumulated a sense of hunger for the game day after day!
After successfully passing the League Cup, every player on the team showed their best performance on the training ground, and Aldrich finally confirmed that their season can begin!
Aldridge attended a press conference before the weekend's home game against Coventry City.
He has been stepped on badly recently. Is it possible for anyone to poop and pee on his head? Some roadside tabloids also fabricated news to spread that Aldridge had a crisis of confidence in the locker room. Before the transfer window closed, Milvo
We may also be poaching heavyweight stars.
Reporters all over the field raised their hands to ask questions. One asked whether the conflict in the locker room was true, another asked whether the players would want to escape Millwall...
Aldrich said nothing in reply, and finally said one sentence.
"Millwall's pre-season warm-up is over."
The next day, Fleet Street collectively criticized Aldrich for his arrogance and even laughed at his childish excuse.
Before the game started that day, Aldridge entered the stadium early. The fans in the stands were still very enthusiastic. Although they suffered their first defeat in two years at their last home game, they still supported the team unswervingly.
In England, fans have a relatively clear definition. The first type is supporters. No matter whether the team's performance is good or bad, supporters will never leave. The second type is fans. They do not have a particularly firm stance. Whose football
They like whoever looks good. Before Manchester United, they might have liked Liverpool or Tottenham. When Manchester United started a youth storm, they turned to like Manchester United. The third type is just a follower. Wherever there are stars, which team is the best?
What attracts attention is where their eyes are focused.
Millwall Before Aldridge took over, neither of the latter two fans liked Millwall. Therefore, even though the stadium was small, the spectators who packed the house were all staunch supporters of the club. They didn't care what the outside world thought of Millwall.
Er, their support for the team will not be shaken because of their record. They are a solid force for the long-term survival of a club.
Although Millwall now has many fans and followers, once Millwall's record declines, they will turn around and leave without a care.
Aldrich walked up to the stands and headed toward the box step by step. On the VIP stand at the lower edge of the box, the environment was slightly better and the seats were not crowded. On the seats in the aisle behind the highest row, Arthur and Pu
Skash and Ivan.
Puskas has been recuperating in the UK for the past six months, and his condition has been well controlled. At least most of the time, he is awake and has a normal mind. At the beginning of this season, he wants to watch Aldrich command the team.
game, so we came to the Lion's Den Stadium.
But in order to prevent him from getting into trouble, Aldrich asked his friend Yiwen to help take care of him, and the stadium staff will also be on call.
Arthur felt that watching the game in the box was not enough, so he sat next to him.
And very fortunately, Arthur watched the "Game of the Century" between Hungary and England at Wembley when he was a child. For him, Puskas was the king of his generation in his memory.
"Hey, Aldrich, your team doesn't look good."
Puskas didn't give Aldrich any face and said with a smile.
Aldrich curled his lips and said: "You just sit here and watch, take a good look at how my team is doing. We will discuss it after the game is over."
"Little guy, you said this yourself, don't forget it."
After Puskas laughed, he turned back and chatted with Arthur. As a father, Arthur could naturally see how much Puskas recognized and appreciated Aldrich's attitude, and happily introduced Milvo to Puskas.
The players on our team are eloquent about what they can do on the court.
For example, Nedvěd has become what Arthur calls a superman, a tough guy who can hit the goal with a football and a ball!
Aldrich briefly chatted with Ivan for a few more words before walking down the aisle.
Players from both sides came on stage, and Millwall officially launched its strongest lineup this season to face the visiting underdog Coventry.
Goalkeeper: But.
Defenders: Schneider, Stam, Southgate, Capdevila.
Midfielder: Makelele, Pirlo, Nedved.
Forwards: Larsson, Trezeguet, Shevchenko. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
