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173 Prelude to the rise of the Blue Army

Monday night is always beer night for the coaches during their workday.

Aldrich enjoyed himself in the hotel early because the team had a break today. He went shopping with Melanie in the afternoon. The weather turned cold and he bought a lot of autumn and winter clothes. From a woman's unique perspective, Melanie did her best.

Capable of dressing up Aldridge as a fashionable man.

He played two consecutive sets of snooker with Craig and lost both of them. Aldrich walked to the bar and sat down amidst Craig's triumphant teasing. Jensen and Mullensteen watched the Premier League highlights on TV and exchanged pleasantries.

Discussing the technical characteristics of the players in the game, Meulensteen is an expert in this aspect. He commented eloquently on the abilities and characteristics displayed by the players in the process of scoring goals. Some of them reached the top of the ball in seconds, while others were able to strive for excellence.

Moniz drank beer and discussed tactics with Barbutlop. The two came from completely different backgrounds and had conflicting football philosophies in the Netherlands, so the latter was always able to refute the former with various theories that tactics are superior to technology. Moniz

However, Zi likes to use outstanding players to prove his defense, and the scene is very lively.

Aldrich opened a bottle of beer and drank freely, and found Benitez sitting alone at the far end of the bar, writing and drawing in a small notebook. Occasionally he picked up the bottle at hand and took a sip of wine, and then continued to focus on the tactical notebook.

superior.

Aldrich walked by, took a look, and said with a smile: "What are you doing?"

In Benitez's tactical book, one page is written down and the next is written down. Each page is the routine of Millwall's offensive goals in recent games. It is really ever-changing and seems to have no rules at all.

Benitez frowned and said: "I want to sort out Millwall's midfield configuration."

Aldrich grabbed the opponent's playbook, turned to a new page, and wrote three names and some numbers in the midfield.

Makelele: Defense -65. Organization -25, Attack -10.

Pirlo: Defense -15, Organization -55, Attack -20.

Nedved: Defense -20, organization -20, offense -65.

Returning the notebook to the other party, Aldrich smiled and said: "This is a static rough data, which can be flexibly changed according to the situation during the game. But one thing is balance. The three people's roles combined will make a difference in the game."

Full value in organization, defense, and offense. Unlike the current midfielder's organizational tactics, the organization and offense of the front midfielder must be strong, but defense is a weak point. Midfielders tend to be too defensive.

The organizational responsibilities are handed over to the attacking midfielder. Midfielder players with good passing ability have begun to play a more important role, such as Albertini and Paulo Sosa. The outside world is saying that Millwall is making history.

In fact, it's all nonsense. Our only creative approach is to let players play more roles on the basis of running in a wide range, but it is by no means a decathlon. There must be priorities."

Benitez said thoughtfully: "But Nedved retreated in a wide range to make up for Pirlo's defensive weakness, which reduced his threat when switching from defense to offense."

Aldrich shrugged and said: "Not necessarily, let's put it this way, if Nedved's starting position in the offense is close to the opponent's penalty area, then he can easily be marked. It is his speed and physical advantages that make

There are more changes when he moves forward from the back. His forward movement will make it difficult for defensive players to catch, which also reflects his uniqueness. If it were anyone else, even if he was asked to do this, he would still have the intention.

Powerless. Pirlo is indeed weak in defense when organizing in the midfield, but his

I don’t think anyone in the team can match him for his creativity, overall view, and insight into the situation on the field. There are many players with superb passing skills. There are only a handful of players who may choose the best route to pass the ball in the offense.

Yes, some players may have a stable passing success rate of 85%, but the passing route may not be what the team's offense needs most. It should obviously pass forward, but he passed it to both sides, and it should obviously pass diagonally to the wing.

He passed straight to the middle and the pass was successful, but the threat after the pass plummeted."

Benitez nodded in agreement, and Aldrich clinked the bottle with him and got drunk.

The team will play a League Cup match in midweek, and their opponent is Sunderland, who is in the relegation zone.

Aldridge sent a large number of young players to play, and the team easily passed at home 2:1. After that, the players began to go to the international arena and would not return to the team more than ten days later.

During this period, Aldrich invited the players who stayed in London to have dinner and watch a movie, and then asked the remaining players of the first team to go to the Leo youth training base to play a few teaching games with the youth team.

The team's ten-game winning streak in the league is so strong that a large area of ​​East London on the south bank of the Thames River has become Millwall's domain. The fans are very enthusiastic. Even if the first team has no games, they will come to the youth training base to watch the youth team.

training and competition.

Nagy is still meticulous. Several prospects from the youth team last season were sent to the first team, and the seamless integration with the first team was done very well. This is closely related to the team's tactical philosophy from top to bottom.

The youth training camps of many clubs are well-known, but there are many rookie players who have made their own talents but cannot make it in the first team or can only go abroad. In addition to the fierce competition within the big teams, there are also youth teams and first teams.

There are conflicting factors in the tactical system, so here

In terms of aspect, the reason why Ajax and later Barcelona became the leaders in youth training is all related to this. Ajax's total offense and total defense, Barcelona's Tiki-taka, whenever the youth training and the first team's tactics are the most appropriate,

Geniuses keep emerging.

The current leading player in the youth team is Ronaldinho. At the age of 16, he is omnipotent on the court and is the brightest star of the Leo youth training base.

However, Najib always had a headache with Ronaldinho. He repeatedly approached Aldrich to ask for advice on developing Ronaldinho.

Because of Ronaldinho's versatility, he cannot be fixed in one position.

Playing as a winger, Ronaldinho has a sharp breakthrough and is excellent at passing others.

Playing as an attacking midfielder, Ronaldinho also has excellent organizational skills.

According to the tactics of the first team, if Ronaldinho is to focus on organization in the future, then Ronaldinho will have to compete with Pirlo, but placing Ronaldinho in the deep midfield position will waste his scoring talent, because

When organizing an attack from this position, his extraordinary talent must be suppressed, otherwise, once he loses the ball, it will be fatal to Millwall's backcourt defense.

Let him play as an attacking midfielder or winger, his ability is no problem, but it will correspondingly reduce his ball holding time, because the focus of organizing the offense is in the area behind him.

Aldrich's advice to Nagy is: don't restrict Ronaldinho's area of ​​activity, but generally, let him play freely in the left wing and attacking midfielder area.

At the same time, he told Najib a change in players' tactics: changing positions.

No player on the court is absolutely fixed in a certain area. There is only the question of whether ability can be limited.

Millwall's current tactics have become stable, which has allowed their power to explode, but they are not yet at the peak of Aldridge's ideal tactics. On this endless pursuit path, player ability and team chemistry will make

The combat effectiveness has been completely enhanced.

Larsson and Shevchenko have begun to try to switch positions between left and right wingers in training, but due to Trezeguet's ability and characteristics, he can only be fixed at the center position. If he is allowed to play wide, the offensive effect will be very ineffective.

ideal, the threat plummeted, and at the same time, although Nedved

Now that Pirlo is focusing on organizational responsibilities, he is beginning to release his offensive capabilities, but he is far from reaching his limit. When the next tactical "change period" in the frontcourt attack arrives, it will be a more refined pursuit of the local area. Ronaldinho is O

A very important member of the Derich plan.

After the FIFA match day, all the players returned to the team. Before Aldridge came to the training ground, everyone was already doing physical stretching and warm-up exercises, and their mentality was very relaxed.

After Aldridge arrived, the players stood together, waiting for the routine stretching exercises led by the fitness coach.

"Bernde, after training, go to the reception room on the first floor of the hotel. It will be your birthday in two days. The fans have sent many gifts and they are all placed there. Remember to take them away. Also, say a birthday in advance.

hapiness."

After the players heard this, they all sent their blessings to Schneider in advance, and Schneider smiled a little shyly.

Every now and then, the club receives a lot of gifts, most of which are birthday gifts from fan organizations. Even if some players celebrate their birthdays during their vacation in June or July, the fans will either give them in advance or make up for them when they return in the new season.

Will pull out banners and write blessings during the game.

Because they had just experienced a FIFA match day, the team's training was relatively relaxed and mainly focused on recovery.

The weekend league game is an away game against Blackburn Rovers. The Premier League champions of more than a year ago are now in decline. Shearer's departure to St. James' Park is just a prelude. The mercenary army built with a lot of money back then is falling apart.

Millwall is in good form, and the most important thing is that the players have a better mentality. They are confident and calm. After falling short at the end of last season, they have gained valuable experience and their mentality has become increasingly mature and stable.

This season, Aldrich has also become more comfortable with the rhythm of the team's rotation. Except that at the beginning of the new season, some young players were too nervous and were timid. Now they are becoming more mature, and at least they will not have stage fright.

After winning Blackburn 3:1, Millwall's winning streak reached 11 games. Manchester United won 1:0 at home with Arsenal defender Winterbourne's own goal, which cannot be said to be a recovery.

Obviously, but at least the downward trend has been stabilized, and the gap with Millwall has not continued to widen.

Like the previous two months, Millwall ended the entire month of November with a complete victory. Newcastle United, Leeds United, and Everton were defeated one after another. Millwall was already leading the points when entering December.

Liverpool, second on the list, has 15 points, while Liverpool is only 1 point ahead of Manchester United.

December is a month that Aldridge doesn't like, because the Premier League wants to move quickly at this time. Before Christmas, Millwall has two important London derbies to play. The first game is a guest at Stamford Bridge, and the second game is at Stamford Bridge.

The Lions Den takes on the Hammers.

In the new season, Glenn Hoddle took over as the head coach of the New England national team. Ruud Gullit took off his jersey and put on sportswear and took charge of Chelsea. This summer, Chelsea invested heavily and strengthened the third line. French sweeper LeBoeuf, midfielder

The core is Di Matteo, the attacking Vialli and Zola.

Starting from this season, Chelsea has officially entered a period of rapid development in which it is fully trying to catch up with the giants. Ruud Gullit's coaching style favors sexy football, which has also attracted attention from the outside world at Stamford Bridge. At least their record is significantly better than in previous seasons.

With an upward trend, the outside world is very optimistic that Chelsea will become a new strong force in London under the leadership of Ruud Gullit.

Against this background, Millwall, which has a record 14 consecutive victories, stepped into Stamford Bridge like a proud lion.


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