During halftime, Aldridge and his coaching staff smoked a cigarette in the corridor. As they smoked, their hands could not help but tremble. This was an instinctive reaction of the body caused by excitement and excitement.
Millwall has played against Real Madrid, in the Champions League finals and semi-finals, but obviously today's Real Madrid is the strongest Real Madrid in this century with five Ballon d'Or players and many first-class stars.
In a big battle, no one can help but be excited when the score leads.
After smoking, Aldridge turned and walked toward the locker room, with the coaching staff following behind him.
Arriving at the locker room door, Aldridge held the doorknob and pushed the door, but did not push it open. After patting it twice, he took two steps back and raised his leg to kick the door!
Maybe there is something wrong with the door lock, but Aldrich is in a state of extreme excitement at this time and can't care so much. Is he polite? Sorry, he always pretends to be polite. He is a barbarian at heart. He just uses violence to change the price.
, at this time, there is a bit of momentum for the true colors to be revealed.
"Whoa whoa whoa whoa, calm down, calm down."
Seeing that Aldrich was about to kick the door, Klinsmann and Janssen held him back. Aldrich seemed to come to his senses and smiled at them.
I really got carried away. This is the Bernabeu, not the Lion King Stadium.
If Real Madrid sends him a compensation bill after the game, the money is a trivial matter, but his behavior is significant.
Boas knocked on the door, and then someone opened the door from the inside. Boas tried the door lock, and sure enough, there was a problem. He shouted to the staff member who was standing in the corridor and witnessed Aldridge raising his leg to kick the door: "
Hey, there's something wrong with this lock, remember to fix it. We didn't break it."
After saying that, the Millwall coaching staff walked into the locker room one after another. Then they slammed the door with a bang, and the door lock was completely broken.
In the first half of the away game, Real Madrid beat Real Madrid 3:1. Millwall's players were also very excited. They cleaned their shoes and jerseys while talking enthusiastically about the first half.
When Aldridge walked in, he walked directly to the tactical board, bang bang bang. After reaching out and slapping the tactical board hard, he turned around and said loudly: "Forget the score, forget the first half! I have no requirements for you today.
There is only one hope, I hope you enjoy the game, I hope you can feel the passion and fun from it, no matter what happens in the second half
So, I don’t care. The only thing I care about is whether you enjoy it all. The European Champions Cup? We have already won 3, but today we met the most powerful Real Madrid in recent years. People say this
This game is the game of the century, we have to enjoy this rare game, if you can give me a gift, I will be grateful to you!"
The players all stood up, smiled and asked in unison: "What?"
Aldrich took a deep breath, showed a slightly ferocious smile, and said solemnly: "Conquer the Bernabeu!"
The players looked at each other and immediately burst into deafening roars.
"no problem!"
When he came out to the sidelines in the second half, Aldridge exuded a murderous aura and had sharp eyes. He stood on the sidelines with his arms akimbo and looked up at the court. The momentum and appeal he showed were clearly anti-Visit compared to Del Bosque.
taste.
As for his words about letting the players enjoy themselves and not caring about how the game goes, it does not mean that these players will play randomly. The overall high-level tactical settings were arranged before they came. According to their current competitive status and game awareness,
Aldridge has confidence in them. Under the right environment, such as today's game situation, Millwall has a very high fault tolerance rate.
Real Madrid trailed 1:3. In other words, even if Real Madrid scored two goals in the second half, they would definitely not be satisfied. They had to score at least 3 goals and ensure that Millwall did not score.
Under such a game situation, Aldrich gave the players a higher degree of freedom, let go and go out in the second half!
"We reviewed the first half at halftime and fate was a bit cruel to Real Madrid. If Figo's shot at the end of the first half had not hit the post but bounced into the goal, then the score would have been 2
:2, and it won’t become 1:3, but this is football, now let’s see if Real Madrid can come back from the cliff in the second half and win the hope of advancing to the Champions League final.”
At the beginning of the second half, Real Madrid wanted to launch a fierce attack, but Millwall pressed forward instead!
With Pirlo as the commander, he knew that Real Madrid would attack, but Millwall did the opposite and continued to catch their opponents off guard!
Real Madrid players are confused, what happened?
They originally wanted to equalize the score as soon as possible, but the opponent was more aggressive in attacking than they were. With that momentum, it was as if Millwall, not Real Madrid, was behind by 2 goals.
Even the home fans at the Bernabeu were stunned, thinking that both sides were wearing the wrong jerseys.
This is the Bernabeu!
How can the White Army be suppressed by the Blue Lion?
And this is even when the score is behind!
Millwall fans were very excited. The strength of the Mad Lion was very intuitive, suppressing Real Madrid and launching a wild attack!
Brady, a veteran of the fan organization and now a millionaire, still chose to stand with his buddies to watch the game. During halftime, Saul went to the bathroom and came back late. Brady was excited to see him back.
The ground roared at him: "Where have you been? Look, open your eyes and take a look, our crazy lion has done something bad today!"
In the 51st minute, Henry tried a long shot from the penalty area line but was blocked by Casillas. Larson grabbed the spot and passed the ball back to Pirlo, and Millwall reorganized the attack.
Makelele and Helguera were not only defensive midfielders today, but also always retreated to the back line. On the defensive end, the two of them were almost everywhere, and their shadows could be seen everywhere.
But their two legs still couldn't outrun the transfer speed of Millwall's organized attack.
One minute later, Ronaldinho and Nedvěd changed positions. Ronaldinho sent an exquisite through ball in front of the penalty area. Nedvěd rushed into the penalty area before Hierro turned around, but this time the angle was a bit small. His first move to handle the ball was
The first option is to cross the ball to the far end. Casillas has already left the goal wide open. Larsson on the other side also broke through Pavon's defense zone, but before Larsson shot, Makelele took the lead and took the lead.
The tackle sweeps the ball toward the sideline.
Makelele may have just cleared the ball, but by some mistake, the ball fell to Carlos' feet, and Millwall's offensive players immediately ran back to defend.
Nedvěd was the one who ran the hardest, and Carlos didn't stick to the ball. He directly passed the ball diagonally to the midfield.
Zidane moved forward after getting the ball. It can be said that Real Madrid's counterattack couldn't be more perfectly connected. Not only did they seamlessly launch a counterattack after Millwall's attack ended, the ball moved very quickly, and
Millwall was not given any chance to commit a tactical foul!
Gattuso retreated again and again, and the full-backs also moved towards the center of the penalty area. Millwall's defense tried to compress the space.
Before and after arriving in the penalty area, Gattuso was ready to block Zidane head-on. He would not press him, but would wait for Zidane to make a move. Zidane's strength is to escape from the spot, which is to strike from behind. If you go to grab him, you will
It was like a beat for him, but Zidane broke through head-on.
His ability to escape is somewhat lower than his ability. Because of his lack of speed, even if Gattuso can't grab the ball, he can always commit a foul, right? Can he entangle Zidane? If he holds him back for half a second, his teammates will come up to help.
He also buys time for his teammates who are returning to defense.
However, Zidane obviously also knew that if he broke through head-on, he would inevitably encounter resistance, and either the ball would pass by or he would be trapped in a siege, so when he was two meters away from Gattuso, he gave the ball to Figo.
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During the halftime break, Real Madrid obviously had a new tactical arrangement for forward movement.
Before Zidane scored the ball, Figo pressed on the left side of the penalty area, eyeing the defense zone of Schneider and Materazzi, while Morientes and Raul pressed on Southgate and Zambro
In the defensive zone on this side of the tower, players are actually not evenly distributed, but they have the advantage of concentrated attacks.
After Figo got the ball, he didn't play according to common sense. Instead of walking forward, he took a step back and dribbled parallelly from left to right behind Zidane. Gattuso followed Zidane closely, but found Zidane.
After Nei played the ball, he actually completed a cross-running move with Figo. Schneider and Materazzi, who were originally guarding Figo, were instantly attracted by Figo's dribbling route.
While Figo was dribbling horizontally, Materazzi took a step toward the outside center, and Schneider also took a step inward. In the flash of lightning, Southgate was suddenly shocked because he found that Raul was missing next to him.
Got it!
Nedvěd had already run to the penalty area and was about to form a steal defense against Figo, but Figo passed the ball faster and compressed the Millwall defense line in the penalty area. Perhaps, just like that
There was only a slight gap, but Figo grabbed it and passed a fatal scalpel-like pass!
The ball went forward from right to left, making a diagonal line, tearing apart Millwall's defense very penetratingly.
Looking at the direction the ball was rolling, the Millwall defense looked back. Raul appeared behind Schneider and Materazzi, led the ball, and then curled the ball with his right foot into the far corner of the goal.
His starting position was on the line of the small penalty area, and the distance was so close. Even though Butt realized that he would hit the far corner, he could only make an instinctive save. Then, he did not touch the ball, or in other words, he saved it.
By then, it was already too late.
The ball spins strongly in the goal!
After Raul scored, Millwall's defenders collectively raised their hands to indicate that he was offside, but the linesman did not indicate anything and the flag kept drooping. The referee also blew the whistle and put his finger in the circle to indicate that the goal was valid.
Even if you look at it in slow motion, when Raul passes the ball to Figo, he is indeed parallel to the Millwall backline at the moment of passing the ball.
Raul didn't celebrate, he didn't even smile. He picked up the ball from the goal with a calm look on his face and ran quickly to the backcourt.
"Real Madrid quickly pulled a goal back in the second half, 2:3. They destroyed Millwall's defense through a lightning counterattack. Figo's lateral dribbling disrupted Millwall's defense. Raul's movement was very concealed.
Figo's passing was also exquisite, and the goal was scored beautifully!"
Aldrich showed a wry smile, this is probably the inevitable risk that must be taken in the pursuit of magnificence.
Real Madrid's counterattack was as fast as the wind. Carlos passed the ball in the backcourt, Zidane advanced with the ball, Figo dribbled horizontally to disrupt the defense and then sent a fatal pass. Raul made the final decision, and there was only Figo in the middle.
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It would have been easy for Millwall to launch such a counterattack, with a 3:1 lead. As long as the defense was reduced and Real Madrid came to fight for position, then Millwall's counterattack could not be said to be accurate, but it would at least make Real Madrid's penalty area panic.
But Aldrich has no regrets, not at all.
The game of the century, not to mention the players, but for him as the coach, may only happen once in a lifetime. Maybe it will come to the Bernabeu in the future, but the players of the iron-clad Real Madrid will rarely have the opportunity to see such a match again.
It will be difficult to support Real Madrid for at least ten years. As for the Galacticos in the next two years, it is too unbalanced and the overall combat power will not increase but decrease.
Conquering the Bernabeu is more than just winning the game.
It's not just about defeating the opponent technically or tactically, but about completely defeating Real Madrid at a higher level. Maybe it's not possible, but Aldridge is willing to try and give all Millwall players a chance.
There will be no regrets, and when I look back on this game, I will just say with a very rational attitude: We seized on Real Madrid's weaknesses and defeated them.
No, conquest means that in every aspect, even if it is the advantages of Real Madrid, Millwall must completely surpass it! (To be continued...)
