The day after winning the championship, Aldrich enjoyed a warm dinner at his parents' home in the evening. However, it was a bit regretful that his eldest brother did not come back from being in the United States.
After dinner, Aldrich and Melanie went to the cinema to watch a movie, then returned home and went to Wushan.
On the 17th, the morning of the FA Cup final.
Aldridge drove to the team's training ground. He was outside the training ground early in the morning. Because it was the weekend, many fans came here early to cheer for the team. Before the training started, the players would also go outside to cheer.
Fans sign autographs.
The fans were very enthusiastic and looked at the players on the training ground with great happiness.
Aldridge came to the training ground in sportswear. The coaches were all here. Before the training started, other players who were a little slower also came out of the locker room one after another.
It can be seen from their relaxed expressions that their mentality and mental state are also good. It is obvious that the main players did not indulge in yesterday's holiday.
"Hi, boss."
The players greeted Aldrich one after another, smiling at first, but when they saw the expressionless Bettnis and the thick stack of documents in his hand, most of the players evaded their eyes and walked away weirdly.
Far away.
Most of them are afraid of Benitez.
Especially Pirlo and Schneider.
Aldridge is the head coach, but when it comes to the club's first team work, he doesn't have the energy to do everything himself.
For example, his focus is on tactical layout, locker room management, and on-the-spot command.
Meulensteen is responsible for the specific technical training of the team, Babu is responsible for the physical training, and Benitez is responsible for the tactical training. Jenson coordinates all aspects while maintaining communication with the players during training.
Other first-team coaches are distributed among different group trainings.
Benitez is a perfectionist. This makes many players a little bit intolerable to him.
Even if Nedvěd won the best of the game in a game. Even if he passed the ball 70 times, succeeded 60 times, with a success rate of more than 80%, and had excellent results in other aspects, but after the game another day
During training, Benitez would praise Nedvěd: Pavel, you did a good job yesterday. Now let’s talk about your ten passing errors yesterday.
Benitez's demands for players to strive for excellence are really unbearable for some players. At this time, either Jenson or Aldrich will become the listener of the players' private complaints.
It sounds like one of the coaches of the first team is playing the bad side and the other is playing the bad side. In fact, this is exactly the case.
In the past, Benitez's role was played by Aldridge, but he would not be as "perverted" as Benitez. However, it is reasonable to have higher requirements for players, otherwise, players will meet 80% of the requirements.
Passing success rate, you will feel that this is the best version of yourself. Maybe it is okay in the short term, but in the long run, this may not be a good thing.
After the warm-up training, Benitez took his notebook and prepared to talk to the players individually. This made the players who had just jogged feel like they were facing an enemy and their expressions changed.
Aldridge took Benitez's arm, shook his head slightly and said with a smile: "Forget it for today. After the afternoon game, they will take a vacation. What you say to them now will not have any effect."
Benitez hesitated for ten seconds, and finally said with a helpless expression: "Okay, I hope they can let us have a happy holiday."
"I have confidence in them."
Seeing that Benitez did not come over, the players looked at each other and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
To be honest, after playing the last game of the season this afternoon, they are about to leave. At this time, they don’t want to discuss with the coach anything they did in the game the day before yesterday. Even if they have time to discuss it, so what? Can they still do it tomorrow?
Come back to train?
There was no intensity in the morning training, the players just came to relax.
The coaches were not supervising, and Aldridge and Mullensteen were chatting together.
"Really? What's the use of that thing?"
Mullenstine asked curiously.
Aldrich said: "There are ball servers used in tennis training. I asked the manufacturer to customize a batch of football servers. The principle is the same as that of tennis, but the mechanical structure is enlarged. I think it can train players' ability to handle the ball.
, don’t you think some aspects of player technical training are too static now?”
Mullenstine fantasized it over in his mind.
Tennis tees are nothing new, or rather, they are more intuitive in baseball training, where the tee shoots out the ball and baseball players swing the bat to practice hitting the ball.
Football ball machine?
"Is it for the goalkeeper?"
This was the first thing that came to Mullenstine's mind.
Aldridge smiled and said: "The goalkeeper can be trained to save, but if you adjust the angle of the machine, the ball will have a different trajectory. In this way, the players can be trained to stop the ball in the mid-to-long distance, especially when the players are unpredictable.
The impact point of the ball shot from the machine requires a short response time
And running and then stopping the ball tests the player's ability more, doesn't it? What I mean is that the machine will not move like a human. The player who is preparing to catch the ball will catch the ball when he sees his teammates starting to swing their legs.
It has ball awareness and can determine the path and trajectory of the ball, but the machine does not swing its legs, leaving less reaction time for the players."
Meulensteen's eyes lit up and he said: "You can also train players to shoot difficult shots! Offensive and defensive players compete for unpredictable ball placement..."
Aldrich looked stunned and said casually: "Eh? Why didn't I think of that? You really know how to draw inferences from one example."
Meulensteen laughed and asked, "How did you come up with the idea of using such a thing?"
Aldridge shrugged and said: "I'm thinking that more difficult conditions should be added to allow players to practice their skills. In the Premier League, Bergkamp's stopping of the ball is an art. High and low balls only need to be touched by the ball.
The feet seem to have the magic power to increase strength, but when we train, if the coach keeps kicking
Using the ball to train the players individually would tire us out and let the players kick the ball. It would also delay the training of the kickers. Therefore, I considered adding training equipment to replace the human training method. A few months ago, I saw a tennis ball
News, so I thought of this method. The factory will send me the machine in the summer, and I will see the effect then."
Meulensteen is obviously very happy that Aldridge can do this. What he pursues is to hone players' skills to the extreme and strive for excellence in technical training. Aldridge not only pays attention to this aspect, but also invests heavily in it, which makes him feel happy.
And joyful.
After having lunch in advance, the players rested for a while in the training hotel, and then all set off for Wembley in London in the afternoon.
It was a sunny afternoon and when Millwall's bus drove into Wembley, countless fans had gathered around England's greatest stadium.
Today's England is painted in blue. Millwall is nicknamed the Wild Lion, and its main color is blue. Chelsea is nicknamed the Blue Lion, and its main color is naturally blue.
This makes it easy for fans of the two teams to get confused outside the stadium. If you don't look at the advertisements and team logos on the chest, it may be difficult to tell whether they are friends or foes.
Because of this, Chelsea were lucky enough to draw the home jersey today, while Millwall could only wear the white away jersey.
Unfortunately, most of the fans in the stands are blue. Although there are Millwall fans wearing away jerseys to support the game, there are still many fans wearing home dark blue jerseys.
Originally, fans from both sides occupied half of the stadium. Chelsea's side was filled with a sea of blue, while Millwall's side was not so colorful. There was no shock in the mixed blue and white stands.
The stands with more than 3,000 people gathered together were completely white.
That's the Roar led by Brady and Fred.
This is the embodiment of the role of the fan organization, uniform dress, so that their cheers can show the power of the twelfth man.
Lions fans are so depressed.
Invisibly, they were outclassed by Chelsea fans.
But who's to say it was wrong for them to wear their home jersey?
The main reason to blame is that the FA gave Chelsea "home advantage".
Aldrich didn't particularly care about this.
As for the venue advantage, Millwall has played many more games at Wembley in the past two years than Chelsea. In addition to the two finals last year, this year's European home games were also played at Wembley. The degree of adaptability to the venue.
Millwall are clearly better.
I'm just used to the scene of the home team's fans cheering. At first glance, when they saw Chelsea's blue ocean cheering for their opponents, I guess Millwall's players also had the illusion that the fans had switched sides!
Aldridge did not attend the pre-match press conference. Millwall had notified the FA before participating in the European Cup Winners' Cup.
No time.
The FA doesn't mind this either. After all, Millwall went to play in the European Cup Winners' Cup final to gain face for England, and besides, they won the championship.
This blue civil war in London seems to be announcing the rise of London on the map of English football. In the past, only Arsenal carried the banner, and the remaining focus was on the two cities of Manchester and Liverpool, although Tottenham once also
It is considered a force that cannot be underestimated among the top teams in the Premier League, but in recent years it has been in decline and no one takes Tottenham seriously anymore.
Millwall's strong rise has broken the old pattern. With Bates's loan investment regardless of cost, Chelsea has also shown its ambitions. England's focus has naturally begun to turn to London.
This is not only a civil war in London, but also a derby between mortal enemies!
Before the game started, Millwall chairman Arthur walked into the box with a smile on his face. He didn't mind coming to the box to watch the game today because his favorite enemy was here: Bates.
Bates looked a little nervous in the box, his eyes were solemn and his face was solemn. He regarded this championship as extremely important.
When Arthur walked in, he didn't notice it and seemed to be thinking about something.
Arthur turned around twice behind him, looking at Bates while holding back a smile. When Bates found him, he became surprised. Arthur raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Old friend, I can sit here and watch the game with you."
?”
"Can you get away?!"
Arthur grabbed the other person's hand, shook it, and laughed: "Smile, the live broadcast outside must have captured this scene. If you drive me away, wouldn't it be too graceful? When I go out, I will say: Baby
Ci didn’t dare to watch the game with me because he was afraid Chelsea would lose the championship. How about that?”
Bates gritted his teeth and said, "Old bastard, do you have to be so shameless?"
Arthur sat down calmly, poured himself a glass of wine, and said with a casual smile: "Hey, who asked you to embarrass me in the first place? Our two families are mortal enemies, and the seeds of hatred have been planted long ago.
, The law of the jungle is that the weak prey on the strong. Chelsea is now a soft sheep and Millwall is a lion. Of course I also want to open my big mouth and bite you until you are bloody and bloody. If you were me, you would do the same thing, right?"
Bates sat down with an indignant look on his face and said in a deep voice: "Arthur, you have humiliated me countless times in the past two years. Will this make you happy?"
Arthur poured himself another glass of wine. After drinking it, he exhaled happily, turned around and grinned: "Yes, I am very happy! Humiliating you makes me happy! Maybe you still don't understand our Hall family.
Survival philosophy, if someone punches us, we will not just fight back but also punch the other person. We will hit the other person so hard that they will be in pain and never dare to attack us again. West Ham United has been stripped of its A-level by us.
It’s the first-tier league, uh, okay
The relegation of Erxi will not happen for the time being, but, like today, we will prevent you from winning the championship. When we lift the trophy and sing and dance, I will send you a photo of the championship to remember who made it happen.
Your efforts are in vain, who made your dreams shattered, who made you feel as bad as constipation for many days, and who made you unable to hold your head up in London!" (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated.
