The second game after entering the new year was the third round of the FA Cup. Millwall went to an away game to challenge the underdog Port Vale. With goals from Ruud van Nistelrooy and Grunschal, Millwall took the victory without any blood and advanced to the next round.
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The day after returning to London, Phillips and Andrew came to Aldridge's office together.
Seeing these two people arriving together, Aldrich understood what was going on.
Phillips has been a substitute since the first day he came to the team. Two and a half years later, he is still a substitute, but he will be 24 years old in half a year.
On other teams, it might not be a big deal, but his strength has improved by leaps and bounds, and he is older than many forwards on the team, but his forward ranking has always been at the bottom.
It's not that Aldridge didn't give him a chance, it's that his performance on the court was unsatisfactory. In the first season, Millwall played 442, and he performed well as one of the two forwards. Last season, Millwall's tactics
Switching between 442 and 4231, he can still only play one of the two forwards.
Let him play as a single arrow, then the team's tactical system must revolve around him and create opportunities for him. Other teammates will attract defense through movement, and after he gets the ball, he will shoot whenever he has a chance.
Playing 433 this season, Aldridge asked him to try out as a winger, but the effect was very bad. Unlike Larsson and Shevchenko, who saw the right time to insert into the penalty area after completing the support, he would instinctively lean towards the center on the court.
, squeezing the center’s activity area.
As a forward, is Phillips good? Excellent. Can he score goals? Can he score goals?
But he became increasingly out of place at Millwall.
This is probably a typical conflict between team tactics and player characteristics.
It has nothing to do with Phillips' personal ability.
Because playing opportunities became increasingly scarce, he maintained his form in the reserve team in the first half of the season. He scored 23 goals in 12 games. Such performance made the media marvel: Phillips is such a waste in Millwall!
Phillips himself also felt that his time at Millwall was relatively difficult because the gap between him and his teammates was getting wider and wider, and they couldn't play together on the football field. It seemed that everyone was not thinking in the same world.
When his teammates worked hard to create opportunities and were waiting for him to play a linking or covering role, he directly chose to end the offense by himself. Other positions were better. Teammates with better opportunities were helpless because of their seniority in the team.
Because of this, I can only keep my complaints in my stomach.
After discussing it with Andrew, Phillips decided to have a showdown with Aldrich.
The atmosphere in the office is relatively harmonious. Phillips was brought back by Aldridge from the regional league team. Phillips also admires the young coach. If the young coach still has the magic power to make him flourish in Millwall, then
He definitely won't leave.
But Aldridge is not a god. Probably because of Phillips' age when he came to the team, it is difficult to change his playing habits. It is very difficult to change, and if he does not change well, he may be useless. Aldridge has always been
Use him as a surprise player, or when training a young lineup, let the team focus on defense, and Phillips rushes in front, and the effect has always been decent.
Faced with the dissatisfied Phillips, the two parties did not break up, but communicated calmly.
Aldrich patiently analyzed for him his playing characteristics, his position on the field, the most threatening areas, what kind of tactical environment he needs to be based in, etc.
Phillips is more like a pure shooter, like Irving, but this kind of pure shooter is not the mainstream of the future football forward template. Therefore, in the British 442, Phillips is more suitable for one tall, one short, one clumsy and one clever.
As one of the forwards, he needs a partner to cover him while he plays the role of killer.
After Aldridge patiently analyzed it, he said to him earnestly: "Kevin, I can understand that you want to leave. I also think that with your strength, you can serve as the main shooter in other clubs and stay at Millwall.
, will delay your future, but I hope that in terms of transfer
If you can follow my arrangements, what I can promise you is that I will not try to sell you to the club with the highest bid, but will send you to the club that is most suitable for your career development. I don’t want you to go to a club with the highest bid.
A team that is not suitable for your characteristics will cause you to sink there."
Phillips was greatly moved and solemnly nodded in agreement.
No matter what, Aldridge's actions are for his own good. As for personal treatment after the transfer, that is what Andrew should help him fight for, and the transfer fee has nothing to do with him.
Aldrich's behavior seems to be a matter of care and concern.
If a player transfers, he just leaves. What does it have to do with you?
Furthermore, don’t ask for a high transfer fee. Isn’t this crazy?
On the contrary, Aldridge believes that every player's transfer and departure has a lot to do with him and Millwall, and it is not just as simple as the transfer fee.
Like the four players who transferred and left last summer, except for Pires, who was in a bad situation at Arsenal, the other three players all performed well. This directly affects Millwall's signature. They all came from Millwall.
Wall walks out on players.
Thuram may have already become famous in Ligue 1, but it is nothing.
But the excellence of Solskjaer and Vieira all have the color of Millwall training.
Aldridge needs Millwall to cultivate an elite image, and he also needs a good reputation. Just like Ajax, when people hear the name, they not only think of this as a top Dutch club, but also think of it.
:This is the breeding ground for geniuses.
Therefore, for every transfer, he cannot just focus on the transfer fee. He should also worry about the continuation of the career of the players who leave here.
If Phillips does not perform well after leaving, he will definitely be labeled as a parallel import. If he performs well, it will be good for Millwall's reputation.
Phillips will not leave in the winter because of the thickness of the lineup. At the same time, he also wants to leave with the championship title, even if he is not the main force. This season Millwall is fighting on four lines, and the game intensity is greater than last season. In the second half of the season,
Rotations will be more frequent. When the time comes to deal with injuries and suspensions, he will have more opportunities than in the first half of the season.
Compared to Phillips, Tony was in a dazed state, and Aldridge hoped that he would be calm and calm.
At the training ground preparing for the weekend league, Tony and Aldridge were communicating on the sidelines.
He told Aldrich all the problems he encountered.
He also scored a lot of goals in the youth team and the reserve team, but in his several appearances in the first team, he was far less impressive than Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Because he has a fatal shortcoming: speed.
Millwall's offense is very fast, with three passes and two downs. The ball is rolling around. As a center forward, if he pulls out of the penalty area to provide support, he will often be a beat too slow when he rushes into the penalty area.
He can't keep up with the rhythm of his teammates, like Larsson and Shevchenko, they are all characters who enter the penalty area as fast as lightning, and the threatening ball of the fatal pass appears on the court in the blink of an eye. Tony
I couldn't keep up with the speed and couldn't outflank them. I kept missing good opportunities.
He works hard, and his coach and teammates can see that. But speed is not something that can be significantly improved by training hard.
Fortunately, Tony was not yet twenty years old, and Aldrich patiently told him: When your talent restricts your performance, then you need to work harder with your brain than others to play football.
Are you calling him stupid?
Of course not, Aldridge explained to him in detail, asking him to calmly observe the situation on the court and use more reasonable running positions to make up for his shortcomings in speed.
Players who play football with their brains are more promising. Some players are in good health, but they are like headless flies on the court, running a lot of distance, but most of their efforts are in vain.
What's more, Tony's physical advantage allows him to become a powerful center in the penalty area. When Millwall plays a tough battle, Tony will play a huge role, but this is also his limitation. You expect him to retreat in a wide range to interfere with the opponent's offense or mobile games.
It would be unrealistic for Zhong to advance all the way from outside the penalty area and cooperate with his teammates. He just has to be at the front, either to complete the final blow or to serve as a bridgehead.
Tony accepted Aldrich's advice: first, play with your brain, and second, hone your skills with your feet.
He has the ability to get the ball in the penalty area, but whether it is shooting or making plays, he needs to further improve his ability to handle the ball.
On the weekend, sitting at the Lion's Den Stadium, Millwall ushered in an old rival and a point-delivery boy in the eyes of fans: Liverpool.
In one and a half years, Aldridge led his team to face Liverpool four times, three times in the league and one in the FA Cup final. It left very good memories for Millwall fans and certainly left a mark in Liverpool's history.
Millwall's name.
The 0:8 defeat was still fresh in my memory. At the beginning of the new season, Millwall defeated their determination for revenge with a 4:2 victory at Anfield.
The outside world didn't understand very much, and even privately speculated that Aldridge had a grudge against Liverpool. Millwall was particularly enthusiastic about beating Liverpool, but they still couldn't find the answer.
In fact, it is mostly due to tactical reasons. Aldridge is not afraid of encountering teams that want to attack him. Millwall shrinks its formation when defending. When it switches from defense to offense, it releases huge forward pressure. A wave of offense often
With devastating power, Liverpool attacked, it didn't matter, after attacking, the space in the backcourt was Millwall's avenue of victory.
When the players from both sides entered the field, there was a little commotion.
Players from both sides stood at the exit of the tunnel and were about to take the stage, but in front of them, more than a dozen "sex toys" fell from the sky, which were imitation female vaginas used by men.
The referee's face turned green, and the stadium staff immediately ran to pick it up and warned the fans in the nearby stands. Of course, they couldn't find who dropped it.
Southgate, who was wearing the captain's armband at the front, closed his eyes and smiled helplessly when he saw this, while other players stuck their heads out and looked curiously.
At the same time, loud slogans rang out from the stands on this side.
"Collymore! Can you still cum today?"
The faces of the Liverpool players collectively became extremely ugly.
Little Redknapp, who had a verbal confrontation with Aldridge at Anfield the year before, no longer dared to raise his head. Liverpool was beaten black and blue by Millwall, and his father, Ray, could not raise his head in East London.
The protagonist of the whirlpool, Collymore, a striker who was once hailed as a genius, although he has become increasingly depressed at Anfield, off the field, he is still a unique man.
I fucked a nun in a convent, had a lot of sex, was not married, but played the game of "swapping partners", and fought with porn stars on TV shows with real swords and guns.
The most bizarre thing is that he publicly published these himself and sold them to newspapers.
The outside world is discussing whether he is mentally ill, or to put it simply, he is a pervert.
The hot Liverpool buddies with corrupt personal lives can no longer stand this teammate. There is news that Collymore will leave Anfield soon and switch to another club.
As the person involved, Collymore had a bad temper. He even beat his own girlfriend. He couldn't bear the arrogance. He immediately rushed out and roared into the stands, but he only attracted wild and loud ridicule from the fans in the stands. (Not finished yet.
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