The 2001-2002 Premier League season has begun, and Fleet Street jokingly calls this season the London Minor League!
London is very lively this season. Among the 20 Premier League teams, London teams occupy seven places.
Millwall.
Arsenal.
Tottenham.
Chelsea.
Charlton.
West Ham United.
Fulham.
West Ham United and Fulham were the teams promoted to the Premier League last season, and both teams are inextricably linked to Aldridge or Millwall.
They are mortal enemies with West Ham United.
The current Fulham coach is an old friend of Aldridge, and he also has a mentoring relationship with Henry at Millwall.
Jean-Tigana.
Before Abu, a combination of angel and devil, came to London, there were actually foreign bosses who were realizing the same dream as Abu.
Egyptian tycoon Fayed spent 30 million pounds in 1997 to buy Fulham, which was still struggling in League Two at the time. He dreamed of building Fulham into the Manchester United of the South, or the second Millwall in London.
Fulham's investment every year is the highest in the competitive environment, but it was not until the team hired Tigana last year that they got what they wanted and returned to England's top league after 33 years.
Tigana has the financial support of Fayed and a successful resume of coaching in France. In addition, he advocates technical flow. Fleet Street hails him as the second Wenger and is expected to lead Fulham to make great achievements in London and even British football.
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Tigana himself also has high ambitions. In an interview before the start of the season, he expressed his dream to lead Fulham to glory, and then he would retire and enjoy life.
In addition to Tigana's success in Monaco, there is another factor that makes him the focus of the media, that is, after Gullit. Tigana is the second black coach in the Premier League era. As the saying goes, rare things are valuable, and society
Under the influence of values, the rarity of black coaches in the Premier League has attracted a lot of attention to Tigana.
Premier League opening game.
The defending champion sits at the Lion King Stadium and welcomes the London Derby.
Crazy Lion VS Farmer.
Following the UEFA Champions League semi-finals in the 1997/98 season, Aldridge and Tigana played against each other again, but the difference in strength between the teams led by the two was already huge.
Millwall has no enmity with Fulham. Fulham's mortal enemy is Chelsea, and they are on equal terms with the East London team. In today's game, the hostility of the fans outside the stadium was not strong, and they entered the venue step by step.
Watching football, Lions fans now have a sense of superiority. They can ignore the words "Derby" when playing Fulham. They are not on the same level at all.
Aldridge complimented Tigana before the game, and then waited early for Tigana's arrival at the Lion King Stadium, showing off his master's demeanor, quite like a step-by-step greeting.
For Tigana, it was like meeting an old friend in a foreign land. After walking out of the tunnel, he saw Aldridge standing on the sidelines to greet him with a smile on his face.
Tigana looked around the interior of the majestic Lions King Stadium as he held Aldridge's hand. The deafening cheers made him have to be close to Aldridge's ear to speak.
"The atmosphere in Millwall now is even more exciting than when we played at Wembley. Aldridge, what an incredible achievement."
Tigana sighed from the bottom of his heart.
The last time I came to challenge Millwall was at Wembley. Time flies. Four years later, Millwall has a magnificent new stadium, and the atmosphere in the stands is unprecedented.
This is Aldridge's contribution, and Tigana admires him endlessly. Although his backstage boss Fayed is rich, he cannot spend a lot of money to bring Fulham a new stadium. Such an investment is really astonishing, even if it is huge
The rich can't afford it.
Ordinary people with a net worth of 5 million yuan will definitely not buy a Ferrari sports car. Even a wealthy person with a net worth of 5 billion U.S. dollars cannot bear to build a new stadium that costs more than 500 million yuan.
Aldridge and Tigana made an appointment to go to the office after the game to catch up on old times. The other party came to London a year ago, but has never contacted Aldridge, even though Fulham made a purchase request last year and wanted to buy from Millwall.
There were a few young prospects from the youth team who were not particularly outstanding, and Tigana never called Aldrich to ask for accommodation. Millwall was doing business and agreed to Fulham's offer. Unfortunately, the players in the youth team have high vision.
Look down on Fulham in League One.
After exchanging pleasantries, Aldrich returned to his seat and sat down.
"The opening game of the new Premier League season is about to begin. The defending champion Millwall will face the new Premier League team Fulham. This is a London derby without the smell of gunpowder. In the past seven years, Millwall has not played against Fulham, but Millwall has not played against Fulham.
Wall coach Aldrich Hall has had issues with Fulham coach
Hand, that was in the season when Hall truly became the top coach in European football. Millwall eliminated Monaco led by Tigana in the Champions League semi-finals. Interestingly, the number one star in Monaco's team at that time is now
It’s Millwall’s number one killer, Thierry Henry.”
"There have been a lot of topics surrounding Tigana recently. It is generally believed that he may become the second Wenger in the Premier League. He has also coached Monaco, he also advocates European-style football philosophy, he is also good at promoting and motivating young players, and he is also French.
, Haha, Tigana brought Saha from France last season. This young player
The player scored 27 goals in 43 games in English League One, which was a huge explosion. In the new season, Tigana brought Malblanque from France. He will continue to use his ability to train young people, just like
In Monaco, he trained Henry, Barthez, Giuly, Sagnol, Riise and other stars who are now competing in top competitions."
"Andy, although Tigana has the ability, I think Fulham will definitely not be Millwall's opponent today."
"I think it would be unfair to Tigana and Fulham if we want to discuss such a topic. Fulham only returned to the top level after 33 years, and they met the defending champion in their first Premier League match, which shocked the whole world.
Millwall is feared across Europe."
"In Millwall's Premier League debut that year, wasn't it also a challenge to the invincible Red Devils Manchester United? What was the final result? I still remember it fresh in my mind. They were tied by Manchester United at the last moment at Old Trafford. It was Manchester United who tied them.
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"Well, what you said makes me have higher expectations for the game. If Fulham can cause trouble for Millwall today, I think the outside world will have to re-evaluate Fulham."
The much-anticipated game of the new Premier League season has finally started!
Millwall took the lead and the ball was passed back to Pirlo's feet. Pirlo controlled the rhythm and looked at the opponent's posture first.
He saw the opponent's number one forward. Saha, who was very popular in the English League last season, pounced on him. Pirlo passed the ball across to Gattuso. Saha pounced on Gattuso again, and the latter passed the ball back to Pirlo.
Luo.
Fulham played away from home, and they started very cautiously. Only Saha was harassing him from the front. Everyone else stayed in their positions in the second half.
Pirlo saw the opponent's position and felt confident.
Although Fulham's static position is very reasonable, excluding the goalkeeper and Saha who is harassing the frontcourt, the other 9 players seem to divide the backcourt area and position themselves reasonably, but this seemingly reasonable position is actually very dangerous.
Experience. After all, the opponent came to the Premier League from the English League. Although there are some veterans in the team who have been eliminated from the Premier League, Fulham always seems to be trembling inside.
Pirlo didn't need to organize the attack in such a complicated way, he handed the ball to Ronaldinho.
Ronaldinho took the ball from the wing after crossing the midline and dribbled diagonally toward the center.
Fulham's originally well-positioned formation was broken down one by one during Ronaldinho's attack.
One, two, three. Ronaldinho was like running an obstacle course with the ball, and the Fulham players who chased and intercepted him failed one by one.
Fulham's mistake was that they did not directly compress the most dangerous space and tried to intercept Millwall layer by layer. However, there are players like Ronaldinho who can break through one by one as long as he is given a certain amount of space. Fulham player
It was more like they were fighting on their own in their respective territories, and then were defeated one by one by Ronaldinho.
"Wow, Ronaldinho made continuous dribbles. He completely disrupted Fulham's defense! Oh my god, in front of the penalty area. Five people from Fulham rushed towards Ronaldinho.
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Ronaldinho knew he couldn't charge any further. The two people in front had to close the door, and the two people on the left and right came to double-team him. There was also someone chasing after him.
Even if the ball can pass, he will definitely be knocked down by the opponent. And it will definitely not be in the penalty area.
Ronaldinho stepped on the ball and knocked the ball out of the gap with his scissor kick in a fancy way.
Henry, unmarked, received the ball in the penalty area and took two slow steps forward. Then when the goalkeeper took a step, he pushed the ball with the arch of his foot into the dead center of the far post and scored easily.
"Henry scored the goal so easily. Ronaldinho has done 99% of the work. Henry just needs to shoot as easily as he did in practice. Fulham declared that the goal was lost in the first 29 seconds. We
The expectations before the game are being shattered and Fulham may only now truly understand the gap between themselves and the best teams in Europe."
After Henry scored, he turned back and pointed at Ronaldinho. He did not celebrate. Most of the credit for this goal belongs to Ronaldinho, and he did not celebrate because Fulham's coach is Tigana.
Without Tigana who promoted him and reused him in Monaco and performed well in that crucial season, it would have been difficult for him to get on the last train of the French national team and eventually become the world champion.
Tigana saw Henry score right at the start, and it was exactly what the commentator said. In less than a minute, he truly realized the gap between Fulham and Millwall.
Ronaldinho, I can't help it!
Especially when one player after another goes up to intercept, it's like a circus being played by Ronaldinho one after another.
Tigana is still a bit proud and confident. He doesn't want Fulham to be like other middle and lower-tier teams in the Premier League. They uglyly set up a bus against Millwall and used a human wall to block the goal. But the reality is that there is no bus.
, Millwall's frontcourt attacking four, one-on-one, with enough space, who in Fulham can do it one-on-one?
The one who lags behind? And a player like Ronaldinho, not to mention one-on-one, even if two people are defending, they must stick to him and not give him space to start and display his skills. Once he has space to start an explosion, that scene will
Just like before, the little compass turned sharply, followed by a group of Fulham players, like a small train speeding on the field.
Tigana shook his head, walked to the sidelines, and made adjustments. The bus must be moved. If it is not moved, it may be bloodbathed today. There are always a few games in Millwall every season where the opponent will burst into tears and would rather die.
