The new Premier League season, which all Premier League fans have been eagerly awaiting, is about to kick off. Defending champion Millwall faced a tough battle in the first round of the league, which was full of boos.
A London derby between bitter rivals.
Chelsea vs Millwall.
Before going to Stamford Bridge, Aldridge had a dull reaction in the pre-match interview. At his current level, he did not need to shout and kill Chelsea. On the contrary, it was enough for him to lightly stimulate his opponents.
"Chelsea must first stabilize its internal morale. I don't know what happened in their locker room, but judging from the information disclosed by the media, their troubles last season have not been resolved. Well, I always think that if a team cannot be stable internally,
, then we can’t talk about how strong the overall combat effectiveness will be. As for the superposition of the players’ individual abilities, it is very hypocritical.”
Vialli responded, warning Aldridge to keep his mouth shut: Chelsea, it’s not your turn to worry!
Aldridge led the team to visit Stamford Bridge. Although Chelsea has signed players year after year, and some of the players they signed can directly enter the main lineup, this comes with a problem: running-in.
Every season, the new lineup must be run-in. If it is a role player in a non-core position, this run-in may not have much impact. But for positions such as the main forward and the organizational midfielder, such a run-in is extremely important and affects the degree of the game.
Very big.
This year they sold Sutton, replaced Hasselbaink, and Wise, Poyet and others are also older.
Playing against such a Chelsea team, Aldrich felt that the opponent's strength was actually reduced a lot.
Vialli didn't know if he was under too much pressure. Playing Millwall at home, he dared to play three forwards!
Zola, Hasselbaink, Gudjohnsen!
Aldridge accepted the gift and turned the tables at Stamford Bridge. The midfielder won the game. Millwall took a two-goal lead in the first half. Chelsea had many forwards, but they were basically invisible.
In the second half, Vialli changed his formation again. He withdrew the two forwards and replaced them with two midfielders. They strangled madly in the midfield.
Aldridge was originally very proud and excited to welcome a good start to the new season. However, at the end of the game, he left Stamford Bridge with a stern face without leaving Vialli behind, and even missed the post-match interview.
Nedved is injured!
Seriously injured!
Ronaldinho also suffered a minor injury. The former team doctor did not give a preliminary diagnosis. Obviously the injury is not optimistic, and Ronaldinho will be out for a month.
In the second half, Chelsea had 10 engineers sweeping the field. It was obvious that they were desperate to lose.
After receiving a token penalty from the FA the next day, Aldridge spoke to the media.
"This is Chelsea. It doesn't surprise me."
A simple sentence, full of Aldrich's contempt for the sworn enemy on behalf of the mad lion.
Nedvěd, who has had a very high attendance rate in the past six years and has rarely been troubled by injuries, will be away from the game for 5 months this time!
At the earliest, he will not be able to return until January next year, which will be an obvious blow to Millwall.
At the same time, another breaking news came out of Chelsea.
On the third day after Chelsea lost to Millwall 0:2, Chelsea officially announced that Vialli was fired!
Bates can't stand it anymore, and Chelsea fans probably can't stand it either. Last season plus the new season, Chelsea lost two official games in a row to the same opponent. They lost the FA Cup in the previous game.
The latter game was lost in the first game of the new season at home.
Hoddle, Gullit, Vialli, Chelsea and Millwall have played against each other in the Premier League for five years. The three coaches have failed to achieve the result that fans want most: defeat Aldridge!
If there was no bitter rivalry, Chelsea fans would be relieved and would not find it difficult to accept. After all, Millwall has now extended its unbeaten run in the league to 49 games!
In the match record, Chelsea is not the only one who is absolutely at a disadvantage.
Just after Vialli dismissed get out of class, Bates invited the tinker Ranieri to take over. This good old man will shoulder the important task of reorganizing and rebuilding Chelsea. After all, Chelsea's lineup is indeed too old. Who let them
In the past, recruitment was mainly based on famous players. Who would want to come to Chelsea when a famous player was in his playing years? He was already quite young when he came and would serve for two or three years, so replacement is inevitable.
The injuries to Pavel Nedvěd and Ronaldinho have plunged Millwall into a state of gloom and gloom since the start of the new season, with people speculating on who will replace them.
In the second round of the Premier League, when Millwall faced Leicester City at home, Aldridge unexpectedly used Miroslav Klose to play as an attacking midfielder, and it was not surprising that Glenjar was substituted for Ronaldinho.
At the Lion King Stadium, Leicester City, which had a new coach for the new season and was missing two forwards, was defeated by Millwall.
After 90 minutes, all Lions fans firmly believed that even if Ronaldinho and Nedvěd were injured and left the field, their team would still be invincible on the field.
6:0.
A massacre score seemed to dispel everyone's doubts, and Henry's hat trick also announced that he has quickly entered the state in the new season.
Larsson, Klose and Materazzi each scored a goal. Everything seemed better than expected.
Millwall, which has won two consecutive games in the new season, has made Fleet Street panic.
According to this trend, the Premier League may end at the end of the season and there will be no suspense!
Major professional football commentators have given advice to Premier League teams, and everyone is studying Millwall's tactics and discussing countermeasures to restrain them.
In the end, I really came up with a set of methods that seemed to make sense.
Liverpool star Alan Hansen published an article in his column titled: How to improve your odds of winning against Millwall.
Football matches are unpredictable, and sometimes there are no rules to be found. Different players and different teams naturally cannot apply the same tactical design. Therefore, Hansen only makes targeted suggestions on a broad framework.
First, you can only arrange at most one forward!
The reason is simple. If you arrange two or more forwards, then your midfielder and backfielder will be short of manpower. The British 442 formation is completely unable to compete with Millwall in the midfield. Is Manchester United's midfield strong?
?The result?
Second, in the midfield, you need at least two full-time defensive players.
While the number of midfielders is not falling behind, the defensive strategy must be to arrange for a defensive player to flexibly follow Millwall's hidden attack points, especially when your frontcourt players cannot return to defense in time to limit Millwall.
In the case of Pirlo, the core organizer of the game, a defensive midfielder was marking Millwall's attacking midfielder, and a defensive midfielder reacted quickly to resolve the impact of the opponent's attacking player.
Third, the defensive discipline and tacit understanding of the back line.
We have seen Millwall's offense pierce through the opponent's defense countless times. Most of these are due to defensive players being out of position when responding to fast breaks, or being too far away from their teammates and creating defensive gaps. Millwall penetrates
The team coordination ability in passing and cutting is the best in the world. Therefore, your four or five defenders must have defensive understanding and discipline, calmly judge the situation on the field, and don't rush in and lose the ball just because the opponent's offense advances into the dangerous zone.
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Aldridge also read this article, and in the end he discovered that the suggestions from various famous players were actually implicitly telling other Premier League teams: set up a big bag and gather around the midfield like crazy.
A group of engineers can at least increase your probability of not losing!
As for how to win, sorry, for the vast majority of the mid- and lower-tier teams in the Premier League, that is simply a luxury, and only strong teams have the strength to realize the idea of how to win.
In fact, there is no need for anyone else to come up with ideas. Millwall's madness last season, coupled with the momentum of a 50-game unbeaten record that is still on the way, most teams in the Premier League are already afraid of it.
Not daring to attack is one of the manifestations. Even if it is 442, once the midfield attack is counterattacked, they are completely unable to withstand Millwall's impact.
There is no need to talk about tactics, not to mention Ronaldinho, Nedvěd, Thierry Henry, even Ronaldinho's substitute Grenjaer, they are not ruthless characters who can be completely frozen. If they cannot guard against one point, it is natural that the entire team will collapse.
In the new season, Millwall's arrogance is causing strong teams to make tactical changes, and weak teams are also making changes at the same time.
In the third round of the Premier League, Millwall visited the Riverside Stadium.
Middlesbrough's starting lineup seemed to be 442, but in fact, they did not field a full-time forward.
No front line!
Two players appear in the forward position, one is an attacking midfielder and the other is a midfielder. The static formation is completely deceptive.
It is actually a 451 formation, and there is a defensive midfielder at the forefront.
Double defensive midfielders, double midfielders, midfielders, and attacking midfielders.
Middlesbrough has such a dense midfield formation at home.
This is really a bit different from the swing buses that we encountered in the past. The swing buses that Millwall encountered in the past blocked the dangerous areas of the penalty area. Now, Middlesbrough compresses the midfield area.
They sacrificed their forward line and had a numerical advantage in the midfield, frantically blocking Millwall's attack.
Unexpectedly, this match was extremely exciting.
Because neither team can control the midfield, Millwall has no space, and has less time to handle the ball. It cannot turn the ball quickly and smoothly. There are many opponents, and it is extremely difficult to walk the monkey. Middlesbrough successfully intercepted the ball.
Then he hit the ball behind him without hesitation and succeeded. If he couldn't pull him down, he continued to defend.
The pace of the game is very fast, and dangerous situations are constantly happening.
The final score was 1:1, Middlesbrough was like a blind cat catching a dead mouse.
Of the 16 successful counter-attacks in the game, the through ball succeeded only once, just once, and scored a goal.
Millwall's 23 sports shots in the game were all in vain, and finally they equalized the score through a corner kick.
Aldridge had this realization before the season. The new season will be extremely difficult. What he can comfort himself is that Ronaldinho and Nedved are not here.
Whether it is Grenjaer or Klose, their ability to handle the ball in a small area is obviously not as good as the original main force. When the opponent arranges their troops in this way, the team's ability to handle the ball in a small area and judgment of the situation will be higher.
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Fleet Street cheered for Middlesbrough. Although they almost ended Millwall's unbeaten record and failed, at least they did not lose and the game was not as ugly as the past. Ball, more
It's a back-and-forth battle in midfield.
If the scene was like Millwall's beating of Tottenham and Tottenham held on to a draw, then this would be a shame, but like Middlesbrough's brave and tenacious fight for the ball in the midfield, even if
Although the striker was sacrificed, the outside world also thought that Middlesbrough was good.
Before the start of the fourth round of the Premier League, Millwall sent substitutes to play in the League Cup. Villa, Larmour, and Joe Cole shined in the game, helping Millwall beat the underdogs with four goals and advance to the next round.
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At the Champions League new season group draw ceremony, Aldridge was absent. He asked Adam to go there on behalf of the club, but he didn't want to go.
After the expansion of the Champions League, how to draw lots in the group, the probability of a group of death is not high, and Aldrich is not afraid of a group of death, whatever the draw is, it will be correct. (To be continued...)
