After the FIFA international break, Aldridge was thankful that all the players returned to the team intact.
With only three days left before the weekend league game, Aldridge and his coaching staff were waiting for the players on the training field early.
Benitez, Jenson, and Barb stood next to Aldridge, and the four of them formed a circle and discussed something with serious expressions.
The players who came out of the locker room after changing their jerseys gathered together to talk about the Champions League grouping situation.
They are full of yearning for the Champions League, and you can hear it from their words.
When the players gathered together, Aldridge scolded them with a straight face.
"You seem to have forgotten that we have an important league game to be played in three days! I understand your mood very well. Life is about to usher in the highest level of the club's intercontinental competition. I am also very excited, but you cannot forget your identity. You are
The defending champion of the Premier League, we are now ranked tenth in the league! A shocking tenth place
Bit! Liverpool has successfully left scars on us, and Wimbledon and Leicester City are also content to get the results they want from us. This weekend, we are visiting Stamford Bridge, do you still want to give it to your mortal enemy?
Do you want to give me a big gift for the weekend? Forget about the Champions League and go all out to prepare for the weekend league!"
After hearing Aldridge's stern warning, the players unanimously put away their relaxed expressions and faced the next training seriously.
When the players were doing warm-up exercises, the coaches did not participate. Aldridge was still discussing with the coaching staff the focus of tactical training in the coming period.
Originally, there would be the first round of the Champions League group stage in a week, and the main players had all returned from the national team. Aldridge should implement a rotation plan to face the weekend league.
However, the situation in the Premier League standings forced him to send his strongest lineup to face the derby with Chelsea.
The league has been winless for three rounds before. This decline must be stopped immediately. Especially since Chelsea's momentum after the start of the league is very fierce. It is also necessary to suppress the upward trend of the archenemy.
The only positive factor is probably that Millwall plays at home in the first round of the Champions League and the game is held in London, which minimizes the negative factors caused by consecutive games.
After the players had finished warming up, Aldrich called six players to his side, and Benitez called eight players to his side.
Ballack, Schneider, Nedved, Larson Trezeguet, and Shevchenko stood in front of Aldridge in a fan shape.
Aldrich took the tactical book and said to them: "Listen carefully to what I am going to say next. If you cannot understand what I am asking of you, then our team will not be able to continue to improve."
The six people nodded solemnly.
Millwall is in trouble and everyone in the Premier League knows it.
No matter how many people watch the excitement or secretly laugh at them, there are still many people who are looking forward to how Millwall can break the difficulties in the new season.
How to break through dense defense?
Liverpool, Wimbledon, and Leicester City have successfully tasted the sweetness of Millwall, but this is not the mainstream of the Premier League.
In addition to playing a very thorough defensive counterattack against Millwall, Liverpool still used a fierce offensive against other teams, as did other teams.
Therefore, Fleet Street is not worried that this "evil trend" of defensive counterattack will become the main theme of the Premier League.
It is precisely because Millwall is so ridiculously strong that it went on a killing spree in the Premier League last season. This bloody storm made other Premier League teams shudder. Therefore, only when facing Millwall, most teams in order to avoid losing.
, just put on a negative attitude of not wanting to win.
This is a critical period for Millwall. Once it is unable to reverse the current decline and is helpless in the face of intensive defense, it is likely that other teams will continue to implement this tactical thinking, and then Millwall will become the Premier League's top choice.
The laughingstock: Even if you play well, you can’t win the ball!
Aldrich knew in his heart that he could only get rid of the current situation by defeating the teams that used extreme counter-attack tactics once, twice, and three times in a row.
When the opponent feels that passive defense can't even get a draw, the tactical thinking will return to the original point: let's play in your own style and fight hard. You can't get points just by being beaten. What's the point of playing football!
Aldrich showed his tactical board to the six players, which had the offensive players' running routes, passing routes, dotted lines and solid lines to indicate very clearly.
"This is the team tactic we have built over the past three years. It was a great success last season. From the perspective of passing and movement, we advance layer by layer. The simplest description is: the backcourt players hand the ball to
The midfielder passes the ball to the frontcourt player, and after the players in other positions move up, they use the width of the court and the lateral transfer of the ball to tear up the opponent's space, and then the scorer seizes the opportunity to use every opportunity to threaten the opponent's goal."
The six players listened very carefully. Even though they did not have a deep understanding of the tactics when they first came to the team, they may not be able to describe in words the essence of the tactics they implemented after training and competing day after day.
, but he knows how to play football with his eyes closed.
"In the past, our offensive players in the midfield and frontcourt moved laterally to open up space. David, for example, ran laterally in front of the defender to attract the defensive attention, which gave Andre and Henrik the threat of suddenly cutting inside.
There are opportunities for goal, but now, our opponents often deploy heavy troops within the first forty yards of the penalty area, and they use defensive
To make up for the defensive gaps that may be exposed by the number of defenders, this requires our offensive players to change their movement coordination and become more tacit. It also requires higher game reading ability. Maybe in the past, one or two players moved to create opportunities.
Now we require three, four, or five players to move together to create scoring opportunities for their teammates."
After Aldrich finished speaking, he turned to the next page of the tactical board and showed them the new tactical training starting today.
Player movement is complicated, and simply relying on fixed and rigid routes to move will not be very effective. Aldridge often creates various environments for players to try, and then gives some tips from the side.
Today's tactical board and running route diagram are also very simple. But the real difficulty is forming a tacit understanding in actual combat.
"We need to strengthen the depth of the frontcourt. The opponent uses two or three layers of defensive lines to strengthen lateral interception, but I don't think their midfielders can form a perfect cooperation with the defenders. They will have the flaw to change positions instantly when marking.
, the loopholes in man-marking will also be exposed between role changes."
Aldrich explained key tactical points to the players and allowed them to communicate with each other.
There is no change in the general direction of tactics, but changes in details require a deeper understanding from the players and require higher levels of cooperation from them.
When practice began, Aldridge asked them to play half-court offense and defense.
The offensive team is the six-man team he has been telling us about.
Benitez asked eight other players to form a two-tiered defensive line.
In addition to the goalkeeper, defenders Mills, Helguera, Southgate, Gianluca Zambrotta, plus four midfielders: Gattuso, Makelele, Grenjaer, Duff.
When practice began, Aldridge stood on the sidelines observing the performance of the offensive team.
At the beginning, they still used the same old tactics of horizontal tearing. Under Aldrich's constant reminders, the offensive team gradually found their form. The performance got better little by little. They had played together for more than two years.
, the tacit understanding of cooperation between two or three people has long been formed, but now they are required to have four, five, or five or six people to form a team tacit understanding in an attack.
And this is not the best tactic Aldridge imagined. Millwall is still missing one element.
A super player who can tear apart the opponent's defense with points and points!
Larsson is the perfect terminator, Shevchenko can pass and shoot, and Trezeguet is top-notch in terms of involvement and impact. However, none of the three on the front line has the ability to change the situation of the battle on their own.
In Aldridge's plan, the team will have the last element of a world-class team only after two seasons at the earliest, and the contributor of that element is a Brazilian who is working hard to improve the goals and assists data in the reserve team: Ronald
Dinho.
This is still the fastest time, because the team has to wait for Ronaldinho to grow up, wait for him to establish a foothold in the Premier League, wait for him to be like a fish in water, wait for him to transform into a green magician.
Even if the previous opponents were afraid of Millwall, they would only defend with eight people in the backcourt, and then two people would look for opportunities in the front. But this season, the opponents we encountered for three consecutive rounds had nine people defending in the second half, and one
If someone is harassing you from the front, fighting back is almost a gamble on luck.
Under such circumstances, Millwall's lack of personal breakthrough ability was clearly exposed.
Aldridge has no complaints. Under the current conditions, he will strive to do his best and maximize the integrity of Millwall team football.
Three days later, the London derby came.
Aldridge was suspended and did not even go to the pre-match press conference. Benitez stepped in for him. As a result, the scene was deserted. Fleet Street did not want to waste time on this fat Spanish man.
The East London Derby has definitely disappeared from the league this season, and it is still unknown when West Ham United will climb back to the Premier League. However, the war between Millwall and Chelsea is not only still hot, but also because Chelsea has stepped up step by step in recent years.
The accumulated strength has made the Blues a force that cannot be underestimated in London and even the Premier League.
Millwall has already proven itself with championships, and the Blues have a lot to gain and only need a trophy to announce their rise.
This is not only a derby between rivals in London, but also a focus battle between two upstarts in the Premier League.
Chelsea has played many beautiful tough battles in the past two seasons, causing teams such as Manchester United and Liverpool to overturn their ship. They have been praised as giant killers. Although they are not the favorites to win the league championship in the new season, they have no problem acting as spoilers.
Aldridge appeared in the box at Stamford Bridge, and beside him was Yiwen. The handsome man and the beautiful woman appeared in the live broadcast camera with indifferent expressions. The two of them looked down at the stadium like solemn gods.
In the stands at Stamford Bridge, fans of the Blues and Chelsea held up an arrogant banner.
"Millwall, who is the leader now? Where is the Lion?"
Since Millwall entered the Premier League, it has never been ranked behind the London team after five rounds of the new season. However, after five rounds this season, Millwall is ranked tenth in the league. Unexpectedly, Chelsea is at the top of the list!
Millwall fans stood in the visiting team's stand with their arms folded, scorning the arrogant taunts of Chelsea fans.
Brady directly commanded the Roar members to take action immediately. Today's Roar fans organization is the most influential fan group in Millwall. Especially their behavior in the stands can not only inspire the players, but also cheer and cheer with the opposing fans.
Never fall behind.
Soon, the Roar members in the stands spontaneously adjusted their positions, and then Brady waved his hand, and five rows of members turned around. The eye-catching English letters on their backs formed a declaration in response to Chelsea.
champion
Chelsea:4
Millwall:5
Someone has been waiting for twenty-six years
Someone just had a party four months ago
The protest slogan, which consisted of a word, number or punctuation mark behind each fan, quickly attracted the attention of live broadcast cameras.
At the same time, Brady gathered a large number of comrades to sing in unison: "Hey Chelsea, look over, look over, and answer our question: Who waited for twenty-six years, who watched the Lions win the FA at Wembley
Cup, who lost all their Premier League records to the Lions? Chelsea, Chelsea, answer me, answer me, or just cry, cry, cry, cry..."
Chelsea's most die-hard fans looked at the counterattack of the Lions fans, some gritted their teeth, and some thought of the disastrous defeat at Wembley a few months ago, which was the closest they came to the trophy in recent years. However, reliving the old dream
His hopes were severely shattered by the mad lion.
The hateful Millwall is clearly winless for three consecutive games, and Chelsea is clearly at the top of the league standings with four wins and one loss.
Why are you so crazy?
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