Speaking of Blackburn's coach, at the beginning of the 21st century, not many fans may remember him or understand him. Even the new generation of local fans, if they don't have Red Army DNA, they may know very little about him and just think of him.
This is an unknown Scottish coach.
However, 24 years ago, he set a new transfer fee record for an English club. He joined Liverpool as a player, formed Liverpool's golden midfield at the time, and served as the core, creating the Red Army that dominated the domestic arena in England and established a dynasty in Europe.
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His name is Souness, Graeme Souness. In his first season with the Red Army, he assisted Dalglish in the Champions League final and scored the winning goal for the Red Army to win the European title!
In that era, he was a shining star.
It is conceivable that he and Dalglish are from the same era. No matter how glorious the player era is, coaching is two different things. As a player, he can despise Aldridge, but as a head coach, just like his former teammate Dalglish
In that way, there is no need to be dissatisfied after losing to Aldridge. Many veterans have been defeated by Aldridge. In the field of coaching, he only led Liverpool in the last English League in the five major leagues.
Just get an FA Cup.
The advantage of the older generation of coaches is experience, but their shortcomings are also very obvious, that is, they have outdated ideas, cannot keep up with the changes of the times, and lack innovation.
And the longer you are immersed in the past era, the easier it is to be restrained.
For example, influenced by the British high-flying style, Dalglish returned to the arena ten years later, and the Liverpool skills and tactics he led obviously could not keep up with the times. Instead, there were signs of retrogression. This is considered a norm for old coaches.
The reason why Ferguson is successful also comes from the fact that he still maintains his position among the old coaches.
With the innovative thinking of young people, Manchester United failed to transform this season and ended miserably. However, the determination and will from Ferguson to change, just this courage and thinking, can be seen as extraordinary. If it were anyone else, let alone whether they have the courage to try.
, I am afraid that I would not think of breaking through the innovation revolution.
Is Souness afraid of Millwall's war of attrition? Or is he unwilling to sit back and be beaten passively?
Only he himself knows the answer.
Perhaps what influenced his change of thinking was the experience accumulated during his playing career plus his coaching career.
Aldridge originally had the opportunity to compete with Souness in his first year in the Premier League. Unfortunately, at that time, Souness had a falling out with Liverpool's senior management and left immediately. He did not return to the Premier League to coach Blackburn Rovers until 2000.
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In the league match, Millwall vs. Blackburn, this was obviously an insignificant confrontation between strong and weak. Not surprisingly, Millwall had a winning streak against Blackburn.
Due to repeated defeats against Millwall in the league, Souness had to arrange anti-counterattack tactics in this final. But when the game was going on, he overturned this arrangement himself, and then Blackburn still conceded the goal.
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Souness stood on the sidelines with mixed feelings. During a private gathering of their old friends, Dalglish said: I am luckier than you, because when I coached Newcastle United, Millwall was not as strong as it is now.
The mad lion makes the opponent despair.
Souness listened at that time, but he dismissed it in his heart.
Dalglish is outdated. He was powerful at Blackburn but was in decline at Newcastle United. A few years ago, he went to Celtic to serve as technical director, and he also teamed up with his former favorite coach Barnes.
It was called a perfect combination, but what was the result? The Celtics’ performance could be called
Disaster, Barnes was fired, Dalglish personally coached Celtic, but at the end of the season they were beaten by the arch-rivals Glasgow Rangers by more than 20 points to win the championship, and latecomer O'Neill only needed one season to reverse the Rangers.
, bringing the Celtics back to the throne.
This is the reality gap. The reason why Souness thinks so is because he has wonderful memories in Scotland. In the early days of his coaching career, a lot of championships were won in Scotland, and the team he led was Celtic's arch-rival Glasgow.
Wanderer.
It wasn't until he stood in the final that Souness knew the gap between him and Dalglish.
This gap has nothing to do with coaching ability, but with realm.
Dalglish has always viewed Millwall with a king's mentality.
When Souness led Blackburn to face Millwall in the past season and a half, they belonged to two different worlds. Blackburn lost, and no one would take it seriously, just like Crystal Palace lost to Manchester United. Could it be that the fans and the club's senior management are not the same as the football team?
Will there be so much resentment within the team? Will there be extreme anger?
No, we are not a team of the same level. As the weaker side, there is no sense of crisis. Losing seems to be a matter of course.
But in the final, the meaning was completely different. The sense of crisis, desire to win, and the meaning and pressure brought by the championship caused Souness's mentality towards the game to undergo earth-shaking changes.
He had to think deeply, had to look at Millwall and Aldridge again, and had to do many things that he would not have done or thought about when playing against each other in the league.
But it was under this change of mentality that he realized that Dalgliesh was telling the truth!
It's a pity that he woke up too late. Now, Blackburn is one goal behind, and there is only one thing he can do, try his best to let the team attack!
In the 43rd minute of the first half, Southgate led the defense, with Gattuso Alonso at the forefront. The entire defense pressed forward and frantically pressed Blackburn in the midfield. After a successful interception, he quickly
Launch a quick attack.
Blackburn didn't expect that when he was supposed to attack, Millwall didn't pull back to counterattack, but directly stifled their midfield attack, and then turned the gun around, catching them off guard!
It's Larmore again!
He observed the ball for one second after getting the ball on the left, and then sent a long diagonal pass from the wing to the back of the penalty area.
Villa cut inside and went straight to the back of the goal. The opponent's defender turned around and could no longer keep up.
At a very small angle, Villa bravely jumped forward and headed towards the falling ball. The ball flew into the goal from between the arms of the goalkeeper who was blocking the near corner of the goal.
Villa, who fell off the baseline after heading the ball, didn't care about anything else and turned directly to look at the linesman. The linesman did not raise a flag to indicate that he was offside. The referee also blew the whistle and put his finger in the circle, indicating that the goal was valid.
Villa stood up and rushed to the sideline, sliding to his knees to celebrate.
"Well done! Villa helped Millwall lead Blackburn 2:0. His brave and fearless diving to shake his head was really wonderful. I believe he was frozen in mid-air at a small angle and shook his head to attack the goal. He must be very appreciative.
A few years ago, the outside world believed that Villa would be another excellent youth training product of Millwall, but it was not until this season that he reached the height of people's expectations. However, for him now, it is just the beginning, just
It’s the beginning.”
Aldridge excitedly rushed to the sidelines and waved his arms to celebrate. Larmore, who assisted and scored twice, and Villa, who scored with a header, made him very excited. This further proves the strength of the Mad Lions, not only
Those names that shine in football, as well as these players who cannot share the glory of big-name stars, their growth and progress represent the future of the team and are a good complement to the present.
At the end of the first half, Millwall led by two goals.
Souness was awakened by the second goal he conceded. He walked into the tunnel with a sullen face. Now the team is going through a difficult situation. He knows that just relying on attacking blindly will not be able to help the team reverse. He needs to think calmly.
Countermeasures.
The team was leading by two goals, so Aldridge naturally had nothing to adjust. The key was that, probably because of the obvious strength gap, he couldn't see any tricks Blackburn had to deal with Millwall.
Before the start of the second half, Aldridge returned to the coaching bench and sat with a calm expression. This was his usual demeanor. He would not show his victory gesture in advance until the game was over.
Souness also returned to the stadium calmly. He stood on the sidelines. He couldn't tell what he was feeling now, but he was probably a little anxious and expectant.
I am worried that my tactical changes will not be effective, but I am also looking forward to bringing victory to the team.
After the second half started, Aldrich watched the game for 5 minutes and suddenly let out a sigh.
There's change at Blackburn Rovers!
Long pass!
This tactic may be outdated in modern times, but it will never, ever go out of style!
Because there will always be a phenomenon on the court where "a long ball is thrown to the opponent's dangerous area, and the forward seizes the opportunity to make the final decision."
Formations will become obsolete, but tactics will not. No matter how old the tactics are, perhaps the tactics from a hundred years ago are no longer used today. That is just because the tactics in the past were too simple, but now they are richer. The core tactical system in the past is now just a
The introduction of new techniques and tactics does not mean that the tactics of the past have disappeared.
Blackburn play long passes and hit the ball, which can take advantage of their players' strength, which is their physical strength!
When the Premier League became popular in Asia, Chinese fans would call Blackburn Rovers the Violent Rovers. This was first of all not named because of their style of play, but when the team name was translated into Cantonese.
Blackburn's technical and tactical style during the championship campaign was very pleasing to the eye.
It’s just that I had the experience of being relegated later. In the English League where survival depends on physical confrontation, whether Blackburn recruits or rebuilds the team’s skills and tactics, it must conform to the living environment. After returning to the Premier League, in order to avoid relegation, the players in the hands of
The cards are not good, so in order to
To survive in the Premier League, it is not uncommon for the style of play to be a bit rough and tough. Among the relegation teams in leagues in various countries, there are always some teams that can only rely on physical confrontation and aggression. The name "violent" is also due to their current living conditions.
It's even more impressive, but the root cause is not here.
In this season, Blackburn has no worries about relegation, so there is no need to fight to the death with other opponents on the field and form endless hatred, especially the tough and rough style of play, which is most likely to cause disputes on the field, so now Blackburn, with
There is a big gap in terms of "violence", but the physical fitness of their player team is indeed good. This is a strength, and it still needs to be used to its advantage.
"The opponent really put in a lot of effort during halftime."
Aldrich let out a sigh.
Klinsmann smiled and said: "Souness finally figured out some factors that should have been understood or thought of before the game during the halftime break."
"If we play like this now, Blackburn may not have a chance."
As Aldrich was talking, the situation on the field suddenly changed.
A high ball was passed from the backcourt of Blackburn. In the midfield area, Gattuso failed to grab the landing point immediately, but there were no Blackburn players there, so the ball bounced back and continued to bounce back.
The point will be in the area between the large penalty area line and the small penalty area line.
Materazzi and the opponent's forward turned around at the same time to chase the spot. Materazzi was one step ahead, but the opponent fell down due to physical contact.
The referee blew his whistle to stop the game and pointed at the penalty spot.
Materazzi went to grab the second spot, naturally not paying attention to what was going on behind him. At that time, he had no time to look back. He controlled the ball, but saw that Schneider was not in position, but facing this way.
He jogged over, but the direction was not right. He looked back and found that the referee had stopped the game. He realized that he had been awarded a foul and gave his opponent a penalty kick.
Materazzi picked up the ball with an innocent smile on his face. He had a bad temper, but this time he was really confused. He had no idea what he had done to get a foul. In fact, his first thought was that his teammates were guilty.
Whoever committed a foul only realized that it was him who had committed the foul when he realized that other teammates seemed to be not involved and went to the referee to protest.
