In the 23rd minute of the first half, Chelsea conceded the goal.
Ruud van Nistelrooy rushed to the corner flag to greet the fans. It was a rare opportunity to start in such an important game. He was naturally overjoyed to score.
Chelsea's players walked back calmly, waiting for the opponent to finish celebrating before kicking off the ball immediately.
The Chelsea fans in the stands were silent, as if they had been hit hard.
The Lions fans kept shouting.
"Chelsea, come and thank us crazy lions! We will give you a ticket to the European war! Hahahaha!"
In fact, this is indeed the case. Millwall won the league championship and whether Chelsea won the FA Cup or not, they would eventually get a ticket to the European Cup Winners' Cup.
Aldrich stood up from his seat after scoring the goal, smiled and applauded his disciples. After he sat down, he turned to Janson and said: "Pavel and Henrik are both smart players. Henrik has been in the past three years." The awareness of ball-playing that he has developed has reached the point where it is effective. Pavel's threat to the goal is becoming more and more obvious. It is difficult to define his role on the court. He starts in the attacking midfielder position, but his range of activities covers the entire frontcourt. , he has a strong killer ability, and we need to tap his potential in this area in the future."
Jenson smiled and replied: "He has scored a lot of goals this season, what else do you want from him?"
Aldridge shook his head and said: "Many of his goals this season were long-range shots from behind, or to capture second offensive opportunities. In the future, he will get closer to the goal and grab points directly in front of the goal!"
Jenson raised his eyebrows and said, "I really hope he can stay here forever."
Aldrich looked stunned, then smiled bitterly and said: "If we don't bring up this topic today, it will easily make people feel worse."
After conceding the goal, Chelsea regrouped and launched a half-court suppression offensive for a period of time. However, in the threatening areas inside and outside the penalty area, Millwall's defense did an excellent job.
At the end of the first half, Millwall in turn played a strong attack, but Chelsea was united and paid more attention to defense after conceding the goal. Except for Larsson's long shot near the penalty area, which almost broke the city. Apart from that, there were no other threatening shots.
At halftime, the score was 0:1. Chelsea was nominally at home, so they were in front.
Aldrich arranged some tactics during midfield, and then ordered the players to stay focused on the game.
In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again.
The stands are filled with the songs of Millwall fans. Now, they are singing more of a light self-composed song rather than a team anthem with a rock rhythm.
The song ends with "Millwall, go go go go go." is repeated three times.
So when this rhythm is reached, all Millwall fans will keep repeating this sentence: Millwall. Go, go, go!
This made their cheering in the stands very impressive, like a proud lion roaring to the earth.
Gullit is not necessarily that good as a head coach. He doesn't have many clever tricks, and when the team is going well, there is no problem, but the test of the team and the coach's ability is to see the changes in adversity.
In the first ten minutes of the second half, Chelsea's disadvantage became more obvious. They fought harder, but there was no tacit understanding among the players. Some players fought fiercely and had a fast pace, while some players were steady and had a slow pace. This made them There were frequent mistakes in cooperation.
And what about Millwall?
Like a sophisticated machine, the whole team is running at the same speed. Even if they didn't attack so fiercely today, their ability to seize opportunities by controlling the situation was fully utilized.
Chelsea's most aggressive player is their spiritual leader Wise. This bad boy is already sweating profusely. He grabs the ball whenever he sees it and runs tirelessly.
Perhaps among this group of players, he has the strongest sense of belonging to the team.
Twenty-six years!
Chelsea have not won any significant championship for 26 years!
Today was supposed to be the moment to end this record.
Can't lose.
Can't lose.
Can't lose!
When Wise saw Glenchard holding the ball with his back, he chased back. He was too eager to equalize the score for the team, so he directly chose to shovel and his feet left the ground!
The moment Glenchard took the ball, he saw Wise tackling him. He was surprised and hurriedly avoided it. In a hurry, he lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground, just in time to suppress Wise and the ball.
Wise immediately stood up and tried to grab the ball, but the ball was under Grenchar, so he kicked it with his foot...
"Fuck! Is this a football game?"
Aldrich was drinking from a mineral water bottle. When he saw this scene, he smashed the mineral water bottle out, then rushed out and roared at the fourth official.
He has witnessed Neal being seriously injured in a tackle, so he is very sensitive to this kind of tackle action. Unlike many top defenders who are masters of tackles, some players are hot-headed and irregular in order to grab the ball. They may not be trying to make the opponent intercept.
The idea of doing this action on your legs may lead to irreversible consequences!
The referee stopped the game, and Aldridge yelled at the referee directly from the sidelines: "This is the FA Cup final! This fucking represents the image of English football! If you can't control the game and make fair decisions,
, this is your disaster, and you are the sinner of English football!"
Although his words made the referee team feel uncomfortable, they made sense.
Before the establishment of the Premier League, the FA Cup had a higher influence than the English League One!
Glenchar just stood up and sat down on the grass again. He put his hands on the grass behind him and looked at his left leg helplessly.
There were three cuts on it, and blood flowed down the calf, staining the white socks red.
Judging from his expression, it was just a traumatic injury, scratched by Wise's spikes. Fortunately, he escaped quickly, otherwise I really don't know if Millwall players would have been seriously injured by shovels for two consecutive years!
Wise hurriedly explained to the referee that his behavior was not intended to hurt anyone. As soon as he took two steps, Southgate rushed up to him, pointed at him and cursed. Then he turned around and put pressure on the referee.
Before the other Chelsea players came over, the referee had already shown Wise a red card!
The key is that his second move was too bad. Grunchard fell down due to avoidance, with the ball under his body. Wise also fell, but stood up and kicked Grunchard under the stomach. This scene made
He couldn't stay on the court no matter what, and his mind was obviously out of control.
Millwall's team doctor went to bandage Grenchar's wound. Although the team doctor had the power to provide advice, Grenchar still insisted on continuing the game.
It is rare to start in the final, and Grenchar does not want to be replaced early.
Gullit and the Chelsea players protested to the referee team, while Aldridge stood outside the center circle with a cold face and hands on his hips. After seeing that Grenchar stood up and showed no signs of force, Aldridge
The wizard walked back to his seat and sat down.
In the box, Bates gritted his teeth with hatred and yelled at Arthur: "Did you bribe the referee?!"
Arthur was also furious and shouted at him: "You have kicked yourself dirty, and you still have excuses?"
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After the storm subsided, the game restarted. Gullit replaced Hughes with Vialli, and the team's formation changed to 441.
There was less than half an hour left in the game. With the team trailing by one score and one fewer man, Chelsea had no choice but to burn the boat.
The full-backs were used as wingers and the full-backs were used as full-backs. Di Matteo was completely restricted in the middle today. During Chelsea's counterattack, they could only rely on the performance of the two wingers.
Millwall is no stranger to the scene of an army pressing into the territory.
They are now experienced in many battles, especially two days ago, when Barcelona finally managed to get four forwards, plus other offensive players, almost eight of them attacked after halftime. They withstood such pressure.
, and this group of Chelsea players must have a huge gap with Barcelona in terms of personal ability and teamwork. As long as Millwall does not underestimate the enemy mentally and does not make mistakes themselves, it will not give its opponents a chance.
Zola went to the wing to get the ball and wanted to pass Zambrotta. Zambrotta got stuck in his position. Unexpectedly, Zola, who was flexible, just passed by, but he just passed Zambrotta and Southgate
The special defense intercepted the ball. Zola collided with Southgate's body and fell in the penalty area. All the Chelsea fans in the stands stood up and shouted for a penalty!
The referee ignored it and even raised his right hand towards Zola to signal him to get up.
The fans of the Wild Lions were full of disdain: The Dwarf Tiger bumped into Southgate by himself, and the ball had already been intercepted by Southgate. If this was a penalty kick, our forward would get a penalty kick every minute when he entered the penalty area.
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Southgate intercepted the ball and passed it across to Helguera. Vialli pounced on it, and Helguera calmly passed the ball to Schneider on the right.
Schneider made a long pass and sent the ball forward. Chelsea's defense was empty. Schneider originally played as a wide midfielder. This season, he took over the right back position after Thuram left the team. Although the defense and Thuram are not as good as each other.
Comparable, but in offense, especially when switching from defense to offense, his overall view is simply amazing.
After the ball passed half-court, Van Nistelrooy stopped the ball with his chest and passed the ball to Grenchar who was running up at high speed and took the inside line.
Chelsea's defense, with only Leboeuf and Sinclair left in the back, immediately sounded the alarm again.
Leboeuf retreated while consciously blocking Grenchar's path.
However, what is surprising is that after taking the ball from the right, Grenchar did not dribble forward. Instead, he walked diagonally towards the center and brought the ball all the way to the left.
Sinclair stared at Ruud van Nistelrooy retreating step by step while focusing on Larsson.
Larson ran from the original left lane to the right lane at high speed.
When Grenciar came to the left side of the penalty area, Sinclair gave up Ruud van Nistelrooy to block Grenciar, and Leboeuf replaced him to mark Ruud van Nistelrooy.
When Larsson, who had completed a cross move, entered the right side of the penalty area from behind Van Nistelrooy, Leboeuf obviously hesitated in his choice. At this moment, the ball leapt from the left and crossed the back line of defense.
Top of head.
Larsson looked at the ball coming as expected, and before the ball hit the ground, he volleyed!
The goalkeeper had no reaction and the ball hit the far corner of the goal cleanly!
"Millwall leads by two goals! Larsson, super shooter, his 52nd goal this season! Two days ago he scored twice in the Netherlands to help the team win the cup, and today he scored again,
He's a big-game player! Millwall's top goalscorer is having a fantastic season!"
After scoring the goal, Larsson did not celebrate because he slowed down after shooting and walked with a strange posture and a limp.
Ruud van Nistelrooy and Grenjaer, the two players closest to him, were running towards him, but they saw Larson smiling regretfully and making a substitution gesture towards Aldridge.
"Oh, Larsson is injured. He is the player who has played the most games at Millwall this season. It is understandable that his body could not last until the end of the game. I hope his injury is not serious."
Aldridge's expression was slightly melancholy, and he thought to himself: The goal was scored too hard...
Millwall fans all stood up and applauded Larsson, cheering for the title of Europe's top scorer.
Aldridge walked to the bench and decided to change a forward to replace Larsson.
Seeing the forward candidates on the bench, Aldridge couldn't help but feel happy.
Trezeguet was not included in the squad because he still has national team duties in the summer: the World Youth Championship.
Shevchenko was sitting on the bench, able to hit from both sides.
Neither Tony nor Phillips made the roster.
There was also a forward, and Aldridge initially put him on the bench just to let him feel the atmosphere.
However, by some strange combination of circumstances, now we are leading 2:0, and one more player has been hit. Aldrich plans to let this player go to the field to really experience it.
He walked up to the young man with a green face and big buck teeth, smiled and said: "Ronaldinho, go warm up." (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
