PS: The Champions League draw is going on, it feels like there’s really nothing to watch...
Thanks to "Thief Death" for the reward!
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Aldridge's coaching style has never been about being iron-fisted. When the players he currently coaches or the players who have left talk about him, they will say that he is strict and severe, but this is a completely different concept from being ruthless.
On the training ground, during the break, the national players sat in a circle. Aldridge walked to the middle and sat down cross-legged, talking candidly to the players.
"I know everyone is tired. Except for Hargreaves, everyone here plays or has played in the Premier League. I know there is no pain during the winter break. I know that starting from March, all fronts enter the sprint phase and bring about
The pressure, public opinion, cameras, fans, head coaches, etc., will use expectations, demands, orders, etc. to make you not have a moment of respite. I will not say that for the honor of the national team, I will make you grit your teeth.
Persistence, I think that will not have obvious effects, let's be realistic. You are tired and need to rest. Just spend these two days here relaxed and happy, relax and recover as much as possible, and then we will go to Greece, the national team's
Main players, you will all play in the next away game against Greece. If we win, then in the fifth away game against Albania, you can rest again and let the substitutes play."
The national players sitting in a circle looked at each other, and many of them looked relieved.
When I came to the national team, I was really afraid of going through the regular intensity training of the club. The intensity and rhythm sounded the same, but I had to play two away games in a row!
And it's not an away game for a club that takes a short domestic trip, but a flight to a foreign country. Can you not be tired after this long journey?
Aldrich's words have made it very clear.
If we play Greece away from home, the main team will win. If we play Albania away from home, the main team will just go on vacation.
Although it is an honor to play for the national team, it also depends on the situation.
If it was in the second half of last year, when they were lively and energetic, everyone would naturally be eager to compete. But now, they are almost exhausted in the club. It would be great to have two more days of rest.
Besides, fighting Greece is a key battle.
Attacking Albania sounds like a cruelty.
Aldrich informed them of the arrangement in advance in order to stimulate the main players' desire to fight. They only performed for 90 minutes. If it was a tie or a loss, one more game would be insignificant. In the away game against Greece, there was no room for failure, or in other words.
England itself has no room to lose points without winning. Negative public opinion after the game will surround them again.
"You are tired, let me give you a rest. This is not my sympathy or simple understanding of you, but I think this can better help us win the game. You have not played together for 4 months. Now it is just easy to gather together."
You have to train here, so during the competition, you should use this place more to compete."
Aldrich said and pointed to his temple, which means: mind.
"Focus, thinking, and the desire to win. I don't want to emphasize that we must defeat Greece. What I want to emphasize is: we should defeat Greece! With your strength, defeating Greece is what you should do. Even if you win,
Don't expect to be praised, because you just did what you were supposed to do. Of course, if you can beat Greece beautifully and perfectly in the away game, then I take back what I said before and I will praise you."
In this circle, with Aldrich as the center, the international players sitting on the grass with their hands behind them suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed.
Aldrich looked puzzled and asked: "What? I said it was a joke?"
Beckham, Lampard, Southgate and others are still laughing.
Hargreaves, the most junior person, said truthfully: "Coach, the British media say your praise is poison."
Aldrich slapped his forehead and laughed himself.
Shooting yourself in the foot.
Over the years, psychological warfare has been used too much, and his praise has almost become a curse.
In fact, you can't blame him. There are basically only two options for using the media to engage in psychological warfare.
The first is to praise the opponent, and the second is to despise the opponent. The former is what Aldrich calls praise. He will praise a team, making that team the focus, putting pressure on the opponent, and may also cause
The outside world speculated that Aldridge had taken a liking to a certain player of the opponent's team to disrupt the opponent's military morale.
The latter is to irritate the opponent. Contempt and ignorance may cause the opponent to become overly competitive and lose his composure during the game.
He used psychological warfare too much, and his words sounded half-true and half-false as long as they involved his opponents.
"Hall's praise is poison, Hall's disparagement is liquor."
That's the conclusion to Fleet Street.
Although many of the players were laughing, they all understood what Aldridge was trying to express.
If you stay with him for a long time, you will gradually understand his coaching style.
As long as there is no problem with the player's professional attitude, Aldridge will not stick to the rules and treat the team. The specific situation will be analyzed in detail.
This is even more true when leading the national team now. Training and game arrangements are adjusted based on the player's situation. There is a lot of flexibility or flexibility, but the purpose is the same, which is to help the team win, especially to enable the players to perform to their best ability in the game.
The best state achieved.
In the current situation, at least Aldridge doesn't think that having the team conduct regular training step by step can achieve better training results. Everything is ultimately for the 90-minute game, and training is no exception. When it's time to relax
He must be relaxed, relaxed and flexible, which is a major characteristic of his coaching.
Since there is no need to strengthen training, in such a relaxed atmosphere, Aldrich must instill in them more self-confidence, especially to calmly face the outside world.
Even though England is not ranked among the top three or five of the world's top teams, it can still barely make it into the top ten. Therefore, as long as it does not encounter a world-class opponent, winning should be a matter of course.
Don't be happy. Don't be complacent. You should digest the competition, discover the shortcomings, and do better.
In terms of tactics, the prototype has been formed, and it is still in the rising stage of maturity, but no major adjustments will occur.
Now Aldridge has to start polishing the inner spirit of this team.
England can't talk about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but those who can make it to the national team are all players with guaranteed strength. They have experienced big storms, and they can understand Aldridge's intentions. They cannot rise to the level of admiration, but they also sincerely
Acceptance, in particular, can resonate deep in the hearts of many players. What Aldrich emphasized is also what their team needs most.
Don’t be arrogant when you win, don’t be discouraged when you lose, it’s the heart of a strong person!
The training content is relaxed and there is plenty of rest time, but you can’t let the players chat and spank around, right?
Aldridge and the coaching staff watched the opponent's video with the players in the conference room. This was compiled and summarized by the coaching staff. It was not for the players to watch 90 minutes of a game. That would obviously be very boring.
The coaching staff will sort out the typical few times of the opponent's offensive routines, point out the opponent's threats to the players, the focus of the attack, and the attack method, so that the players can understand the opponent in the shortest possible time and be mentally prepared.
After two days of training at the Leo training base, the England national team set out in uniform for the trip to Greece.
In 2004, Greece's home stadium will be moved to Piraeus. This time England is visiting Greece, and the city they are going to is Athens.
This time England is a guest in Greece. From the day before the game to the start of the game, it can be seen from the local street atmosphere in Greece: Greeks are not afraid of England!
Even Finland can draw with England at home, and Greece theoretically also has a chance!
Although Greece's performance in the first three rounds was relatively poor, as Aldrich said, the most critical thing is in the fourth, fifth, and sixth rounds. Their destiny is still in their own hands.
In the hands of the team, there is no need to think about the group top spot advancing directly, the qualification for the play-offs can still be competed for.
At the beginning of the lights, the sky was dark, the stadium was full of lights, and the enthusiastic cheers of the Greeks could be heard in the packed stands.
In a sense, such a game is a matter of life and death. Neither team can afford to lose. If England loses, the hope of qualifying for the top spot in the group will be almost destroyed. The reality is that they will fight for the last four rounds to qualify for the play-offs. If Greece loses
, there is little hope of qualifying for the play-offs, but in fact, there is no chance of qualifying for the next World Cup. After all, Germany, England, and Finland are all ahead of Greece.
But in this context, the fans in the stands do not look at England as enemies, even if England has moved countless cultural relics and buildings that they are proud of from Greece...
When Aldridge walked into the stadium, he could even hear the cheers of the Greek beauties in the nearby stands, calling his name, but not cheering for him.
When he walked to the coach's bench and stood still, Aldrich's face was as heavy as water. He couldn't relax in such a life-and-death battle, and even he didn't know why!
Even when leading Millwall to the Champions League final, Aldridge was able to decompress himself appropriately and face it calmly and calmly.
However, when England challenged Greece away from home, Aldridge could not relax completely at all.
Deep down in my heart I found countless reasons to explain.
Are you tired too?
Or is there any hidden danger because the team hasn't played together for 4 months?
Or is the team just tired?
Aldrich could not convince himself of these reasons.
In the end, he felt that it might be that England's habit of falling off the chain is like a yoke on the shoulders of those who care about this team.
In the past, Aldridge did not have this shackles. He was a bystander in England's victory, defeat, honor and disgrace.
Now, as the coach of the national team, he has changed from a spectator to an authority. Involuntarily and subconsciously, he is worried that England will fall off the chain without warning.
Players from both sides lined up to enter the field. England's starting players all had serious expressions. They rested for three days. Their competitive state will not be affected because they had all played in the club before, and because they got a reasonable rest, even though their physical condition was not up to par.
It's in peak condition, but at least it won't make you tired from the beginning. Now, it can only be said that it is in a relatively optimistic state.
"The fourth round of Group I of the World Cup European Qualifiers is about to begin. Greece is sitting in Athens at home against England, the favorite team to qualify for the group. After 3 games, Greece has only 1 point and England has 4 points. Greece unexpectedly lost to Albania
Their situation became very dire less than halfway through the group stage. They were in the same boat as England. England also only scored 1 point in the first two rounds of the group stage. However, after losing to Germany, England immediately changed coaches and led the Premier League.
Milwa
Aldrich Hall, who has achieved brilliant results in recent years, took office and immediately achieved a good record of winning three games. There are two friendly matches that are worthy of praise, an away victory over Spain, a home victory over Brazil, and one more.
After defeating Albania at home in the last round of the group stage, England now has 4 points. If Greece and England want to advance to the World Cup, this game will be their life and death battle. A draw will be the last thing for both teams.
See the results!”
Players from both sides dispersed into their respective half-courts and set up formations, and a life-and-death battle was about to begin.
