Highbury was filled with smoke and the military songs were loud in the stands.
As the game progressed, Wenger's frown deepened.
Millwall's attack restriction on Arsenal was very successful!
What is the main basis for studying your opponents?
Formation? Players?
How does a technical and tactical system work?
One thing is the most crucial.
That is the player's movement without the ball, not what position the player plays.
Just like the outside world can only say that Henry is a forward, but cannot clearly define what type of forward Henry is. His range of activities is too large, and his activity trajectory seems to be irregular. However, his number of goals and assists in each season in the past
They are all in double figures, and it is easy to score 20+ goals on average. There is only one season where the number of assists has not exceeded 20, and that was last season.
Although Nedved's performance is not as good as Henry's in terms of statistics, in terms of tactical role, Nedved is still indispensable and cannot be replaced, because Nedved's "indirect assists" are second only to Ronaldinho in the team.
In the Arsenal team, such a figure is Bergkamp.
What is the biggest difference between today and half a season ago?
Millwall made breakthrough progress in targeting Bergkamp in a targeted manner.
Coming from Alonso's maturity.
No matter how Arsenal attacks, Alonso's main task is to read the opponent's offensive development trajectory, and then cut off the connection between the Arsenal players and Bergkamp. Bergkamp instigates the offensive and makes the frontcourt attack clear. This is
His biggest threat.
Whether it's Ljungberg on the right, Vieira assisting from behind, or Pires on the left. Even Van Bronckhorst assists. Alonso has to block Arsenal players and Bergkamp.
straight lines between them.
Vieira assisted in the middle. Nedvěd countered the pressing.
When attacking from the wing, the full-backs follow closely.
If Ibrahimovic retreats to support him, De Rossi will follow him closely.
In the first half of the season, the opponent's defensive midfielder was overwhelmed. In fact, Alonso was unable to limit Bergkamp's role.
What happened in more than four months?
What specific changes occurred between Alonso and Bergkamp?
Alonso is growing rapidly in all aspects, including body, experience, technology, and consciousness. His body may be the slowest among them, but it is also on the rise.
During the same period, even if Bergkamp did not improve or regress, the gap between the two in the one-on-one, or cat-and-mouse game was shortened.
In particular, this is the final game. This is a season of intense competition. A player's physical fitness has been restored before the season and continues to compete in the middle of the season. At the end of the season, the fuel is almost exhausted and the energy is exhausted. The critical point.
In this regard, Alonso's advantage is obvious, and it is by no means comparable to the 35-year-old Bergkamp.
The stadium is very big, Millwall takes the initiative to attack and gives the opponent a lot of space.
Bergkamp does not drop deep like Zidane. He seems to have a desire to control football and organizes the midfield and then inserts himself for further organizational support.
Bergkamp will find a gap in the frontcourt, then appear in the gap, wait for the pass from his teammate to arrive as expected, and then he will initiate the next attack.
Of course, Alonso's task cannot be to chase Bergkamp. That is the stupidest defensive method. If the defensive player chases the offensive player, can he catch up?
If you stop or turn suddenly at random, if your rhythm is poor, you will lose the target you are chasing.
What Alonso did was to look at Arsenal's offensive direction and pay attention to Bergkamp's position. Even if Bergkamp appeared in the space, it didn't matter. Alonso only needed to be on the straight line between the ball and Bergkamp.
Just create an obstruction.
With his defensive position blocking Bergkamp from getting the ball, even though Bergkamp's defensive position was not deep after the start of the game, Bergkamp still needed a lot of excessive movement without the ball to get out of the blockade.
Wire!
This is a kind of defense and also a kind of consumption.
Millwall's offensive strategy also changed after 10 minutes.
Since the opponent's home advantage has been partially eliminated after the start of the game, and everyone is in game mode, Millwall has to control the rhythm of the game.
When Millwall attacked, they formed a huge possession advantage in the midfield.
Ronaldinho never stays on the front line, he attacks from the back to the front.
Therefore, Ronaldinho's offensive starting position is often just past the midfield to the left.
Ronaldinho, Nedved, plus Alonso, and two full-backs, their passing and control in the midfield will tear Arsenal's formation apart from the beginning!
Forcing Ljungberg and Pires to participate in the defense in the backcourt, and not being able to chase the ball back and forth in the midfield in an disorderly manner, is just being treated like a monkey.
Immediately afterwards, Arsenal still needs someone in the middle to retreat to defend, but they cannot have both forwards come back to defend. Why?
If they are all withdrawn, so what if the ball is grabbed?
They were unable to gain depth in the first place and instead pushed forward layer by layer. Millwall's huge midfield advantage meant that Millwall would definitely be faster than them when they retreated, so they had no threat. After all, Ibrahimovic and Borg
Kemp currently does not have the individual ability to directly break through Millwall's backline and backline defense with the ball.
Under such pressure, Bergkamp must retreat to participate in defense, which will further consume his physical energy!
In the 19th minute, after the Millwall midfielder cooperated with the pass and control, they suddenly launched a threatening attack. They feinted to the left and then quickly transferred the attack to the right. Cristiano Ronaldo dribbled the ball in and completed a high-quality long shot from the edge of the penalty area. Unfortunately,
Saved by Lehmann.
In the 21st minute, Arsenal counterattacked. Bergkamp did not step forward in the midfield and directly instigated Pires' counterattack from the left. Unfortunately, after Ibrahimovic, the fulcrum in the middle, passed the ball back to Pires, they were too
In pursuit of speed, when Pires rushed to the front line, the player who crossed behind did not catch up. He cut inside alone and was successfully defended by Schneider and Nesta.
Millwall, who switched from defense to attack, immediately launched an offensive. They quickly passed the ball through the midfield. Ronaldinho cooperated with Nedvěd on the left and then went straight to Henry on the front line. Henry carried Campbell in the penalty area and reluctantly
The shot missed the goal.
After 30 minutes, Millwall had a clear advantage but could not create a great scoring opportunity.
Arsenal's three armies were at their service in this game. In addition, the research on Millwall did not take a day or two, and the targeted restrictions were extremely in place. Another point is that Ronaldo is immature. His performance at this point cannot achieve an intuitive effect. He has
Four shots, two of which might have been scored if given to Henry or Larsson.
Wenger stood on the sidelines with a worried look on his face.
He has seen Millwall's tricks.
In positional battles, use Ronaldo's speed to create depth. Arsenal's overall formation is extremely compressed in the second half. In this way, Arsenal's counterattack threat is greatly reduced!
After Arsenal finally made an attack into Millwall's penalty area, if the attack was ended and Millwall launched a counterattack, Millwall would shift the focus of the attack to Ronaldinho's side.
Obviously, when counterattacking, there is more space, more options, and creativity is needed to generate a stronger offensive threat. Millwall will take advantage of Ronaldinho, but when there is no space, it will be handed over to C for a strong attack.
Ronaldo is using Ronaldo to consume Arsenal, allowing Ronaldinho to use every energy in the most threatening environment.
But just like Millwall's targeted restrictions on Bergkamp, Arsenal are well prepared for Millwall's player activity trajectories and changes in offensive routines.
Wenger believes that as long as they don't make mistakes themselves, such as personal errors in stopping the ball, errors in passing, or slips, and suddenly the brain makes a sudden move to give the opponent a dangerous set piece, Arsenal's defense will not have any problems.
The entire defensive line, four backs and two defensive midfielders, have also been playing together for at least two years.
Things like Henry pulling out, Ronaldinho cutting inside, Nedvěd driving forward, etc. They were beaten so frightened before that they had no ability to resist, but today they are fully focused and will sound the alarm at the slightest sign of trouble.
Can perform better!
However, Wenger still underestimated Millwall.
The Millwall that Aldridge is now building, the third generation of Mad Lions, will have a more magical offensive effect on the offensive end than the second generation of Mad Lions.
In the 36th minute, Ljungberg sought a passing connection with Ibrahimović on the right wing, but was blocked by Southgate boldly. Southgate passed the ball to De Rossi, who calmly
Observing Bergkamp's movements, Alonso's position is obviously easier to get open to catch the ball, and Bergkamp is quite far away from Alonso at this time.
When the ball reached Alonso's feet, he looked ahead and handed the ball to Nedvěd.
Nedved dribbled the ball to the left, trying to tear up the defensive space between Vieira and Silva, paving the way for Ronaldinho's attack.
Because Ronaldinho was running from the left to the center at this time, neither of them needed to make eye contact. They knew how to cooperate in the next step through the direction of the other's legs.
Ronaldinho, Nedved, switch positions!
Nedvěd took the ball two steps and suddenly stopped the ball in place, and then ran nonstop towards the left rib of the penalty area!
His movement attracted the attention of Vieira and Campbell. Vieira was on the right side of the midfielder, and the focus was to limit the impact of Ronaldinho and Nedvěd's habitual movement on this side.
But this time, Ronaldinho dribbled the ball toward the center, instead of passing the ball straight to Henry, or cutting back and passing directly to Nedvěd.
He distributed the ball to the right wing.
It looks like a formulaic pass, which is not surprising.
However, Ronaldinho's next move after passing the ball made all Arsenal defensive players and Wenger on the sidelines feel numb!
Under Wenger's stunned gaze, Ronaldinho rushed from the left side of Silva towards the ribs of Arsenal's defense. In other words, the direction of Millwall's attack should have been the end of Ronaldo's inward route!
After Ronaldinho passed the ball, he pointed to the front of his running position and ordered Ronaldo with a cold face to pass the ball there immediately.
Ronaldo stopped the ball and passed the ball without any delay.
Ronaldinho got away from Silva in the impact of his movement, because Silva did not expect Ronaldinho to move like this!
At the same time, Nedved attracted Vieira and Campbell from the other side, and Henry also started at the same time. He knew what he should do, and he also moved closer to Nedved. Toure subconsciously followed Henry. Unconsciously exposed the space in the ribs!
Ronaldinho is coming!
After receiving the pass from Cristiano Ronaldo, he took a step forward, faced the goal diagonally, and blasted the shot without any interference!
The ball hit the inside of the near post and hit the top corner of the goal.
Lyman was stunned.
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Arsenal fans' enthusiasm was dampened by the cold sea water!
Crazy Lions fans are burning like fire! (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
