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At the Schalke Stadium today, the way Millwall fans cheered was very monotonous.
More than 30,000 Millwall fans occupied nearly 2/3 of the seats in the stands.
They have never been used to sitting down to watch games. Even though England's stadiums ordered that seating be required after the release of the "Taylor Report", they are still used to standing and watching games.
Before the game started, all Millwall fans stood up and their blue jerseys painted the stands into a blue ocean. Even many Porto fans wore home jerseys, blue and white, and interacted with Millwall fans on the color embellishments.
Ying Chenghui, unfortunately, Porto is wearing the away jersey today.
Millwall fans stood in the stands, holding high the club's "Hall Era" 10th anniversary scarf and singing the team anthem in unison.
Although the method is monotonous, the scene is extremely shocking.
This is England's fan culture, a feat that fan groups around the world strive to imitate.
As players from both sides entered the stadium, the Champions League theme song echoed in the stadium, but it seemed unable to compete with the singing of Millwall fans.
"The exciting Champions League final is about to begin. Millwall, which has smoothly passed through the group stage this season, has surged in form after entering the knockout rounds. Just as they achieved the momentum of reversing Arsenal in the last round of the league to win the championship, they eliminated them with a double play
Bayern Munich slaughtered Monaco and Chelsea with huge scores, and came to the Champions League final with a fierce attitude like a tiger! And he
Our opponent, Porto, has made rapid progress under the leadership of young coach Mourinho. It successfully defended its title in the Portuguese Super League and achieved a huge breakthrough in this season's Champions League. It is impressive, although it lost 1 at home in the group stage:
3 lost to Real Madrid, but then they got better and remained unbeaten in 10 games. They defeated Manchester United at Old Trafford. Mourinho celebrated wildly
It does make people feel that what the media is saying makes sense. Comparing him with Sir Hall, Mourinho may lack some luck. He returned from the UEFA Cup last year, but Sir Hall has already played in the top ten European football matches.
If Mourinho celebrates his tenth anniversary in coaching this year, will his achievements be able to compete with Sir Hall? 99% of fans think it is impossible, because Hall
The Jazz have already won four Champions Leagues. Only if Mourinho leads his team to win this final today may he be able to compete with Sir Hall on his tenth anniversary as coach. Porto performed well overall, eliminating Manchester United and Lyon.
. Deportivo La Coruña, these are relatively high-quality opponents. Can this dark horse from Portugal win to the end? This is the biggest suspense of today’s game!”
"The ceremony before kick-off of the Champions League final has been completed, let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides.
Because compared to Porto when they played against each other last year, there has been a key change in the technical and tactical formation.
That means there is one less forward and one more midfielder.
Mendes is a defensive midfielder, partnering with the fierce Costinha to protect Deco in the middle.
Maniche and Alenichev are naturally not wingers. It may be more accurate to say that they are wingers. At least today, they are definitely responsible for the main wing defense tasks.
On the front line, Mourinho did not choose center McCarthy, but instead used Brazilian Delle. This forward moves erratically in the frontcourt and is similar to an opportunistic striker. He is most suitable for counterattacks.
After last year's disastrous defeat, if Mourinho still has a head-to-head tug-of-war with Millwall today, then Aldridge can really ignore Mourinho.
In fact, Aldridge has already foreseen Porto's starting lineup today.
In the past 6 knockout games, Porto has continuously used small means to gain advantages in the game. Porto, who plays an extremely utilitarian and defensive game, will only become more utilitarian in the finals.
It can be said that Mourinho's tactical concept of going to Chelsea to build the Iron-Blooded Blues was naturally laid down during this period. It is impossible for him to be an ideal pursuer now and become a utilitarian after going to Chelsea a week later.
Representative figures.
When the game started, Porto's formation quickly retreated to compress the space in the backcourt, forming a tight protection for the penalty area. Aldrich lowered his head and smiled.
As expected.
Mourinho is here to fight back.
As for how to fight back, it should be clear at a glance.
Deco is the core of offense and defense transition, dealing cards forward.
Maniche, Alenichev, and Delle, these three are the offensive connection points. As long as there is a huge opening, Porto's fatal counterattack will suddenly come.
Aldridge will never ignore Deco, nor will he despise him because in the original history Deco was overshadowed by Ronaldinho even when he went to Barcelona, because the comparison made by fans is incorrect.
Robbie Jr. is better than Deco, undisputed.
But Ronaldinho is not guarding Deco. When Deco attacks, what needs to be penetrated is the defense line built by Millwall's defensive players.
What is the sign that Millwall's third-generation Lions are beginning to mature?
That’s field control!
Prevent the opponent from counterattacking.
How to do this?
Compress your opponent's formation!
Today is the final. Millwall did not chase and fight fiercely from the beginning. Instead, they steadily passed the ball to get into the game. Then they passed the ball through the midfield and the formation gradually pressed forward. In this process, Alonso was the most critical.
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He is the key figure in the conduction and command of the midfield. When taking risks to launch a threatening attack forward, he needs to observe the situation on the field.
A good commander will find the opponent's opening and then quickly launch an offensive in the opponent's weak defense area.
However, a more mature, master-level organizer, a commander with the ability to control the field, will look at the overall situation, take one step at a time, foresee the defensive dangers that a failure in this attack may bring, and weigh the pros and cons in an instant.
If Porto's formation is not extremely compressed, then if Millwall's pressing attack fails, they may use a quick counterattack to tear apart Millwall's defense and form a threatening attack.
But if the overall formation is compressed in the midfield and backfield, the counterattack distance will become longer. Whether it is passing and cutting cooperation or individual dribbling to break through, this counterattack attack process will give Millwall more time to arrange the defense line, adjust the defensive focus, etc.
wait.
Pirlo is a master-level commander, who can not only control the overall situation, but also directly instigate the most threatening offensive.
Alonso is inferior to Pirlo in this aspect. Aldridge has trained Alonso this season. He focuses on the overall situation and instigating the offensive. As long as Alonso can serve as an "indirect assist", the offensive starting point
role is enough, that is to say, he may have taken the overall situation into account and discovered that he can ensure that the opponent counterattacks.
The threat of attack has been reduced to a minimum, but it is already difficult to find an opening. Then his task is to hand the ball to an area with relatively less defensive pressure, choose one of the three directions of left, center and right, and then, when the offensive breaks out, hand it to
Ronaldinho, Nedved, or Larsson can instigate, or even two full-backs.
Alonso's main contribution as a midfield and backcourt commander is overall stability!
Even if Millwall fails to attack, there is no need to worry about being counterattacked by the opponent, because when Alonso controls the rhythm, he is gradually wearing down the opponent and compressing the opponent's formation into the second half to ensure that Millwall will not be beaten.
A situation arises where a defensive player is caught off guard and quickly turns around to catch up but cannot catch up.
Although Mourinho stood beside the coaching bench with a calm face, he was not at all calm inside.
10 minutes of the game have passed.
Porto only launched 3 attacks and then died!
The overall formation was completely compressed in the second half.
Millwall's defensive strategy was similar to last year. The center focused on targeting Deco. When being counterattacked, Ronaldinho and Larsson harassed Porto's two full midfielders in the interior because the ball did not leave the danger zone.
I couldn't find a reliever in the middle, so I had no choice but to lead forward. Once I got to halftime, I was really in a lonely situation. Ashley Cole and Schneider couldn't make any mistakes in defense, and Porto was weakened.
At the front, De Rossi boldly helped to defend the wing, Alonso and Nedvěd contained the midfielder back and forth. Porto's counterattack, when the forward attack broke out, seemed to have kicked an iron plate, looking at the very vast field.
There is space to attack, but Millwall will not give them much time to choose. Before their players running up from the backcourt are in place, they have to make a decision, pass the ball, be intercepted, break through, fail, protect and control the ball, and be destroyed.
Mourinho couldn't help but glance at Aldridge. There was no trace of his movements, and he didn't even twist his neck. He was just squinting and observing out of the corner of his eye, subconsciously.
The young coach who has been coaching the Crazy Lions for ten years has once again created an impressive and super-class team!
He originally thought that Millwall would play very fast today and use the difference in rhythm to destroy Porto.
But he guessed wrong.
If the rhythm of the blitzkrieg is really devastating, Porto's counterattack will have a lot of room for development.
Being always fast means a high error rate.
This is the same reason that short passes are more stable than long passes.
Millwall will be fast, but first they will be slow!
Slowness is their foundation, their fence, and their guarantee against enemy invasion.
The midfield and backfield system headed by Alonso is the main core of Slow. They lay the foundation for changes in the overall situation on the field through passing and controlling.
Creating a situation that Millwall can accelerate.
Then it is left to the frontcourt players or wide players to accelerate. It is not difficult to change the rhythm from slow to fast. What is difficult is that both slow and fast can maximize the team's interests in the game!
Aldrich seemed to have fused the cold sea water and the scorching flames into the body of the third-generation Crazy Lion.
The defense in the midfield and backfield is like sea water, extinguishing the opponent's offensive flames.
The offensive flames in the frontcourt melt the opponent's defensive wall!
Mourinho thought for a long time. He didn't know how to make the team attack better. If he dared to move to pursue offense, a huge gap in the defense might be exposed.
Vertical comparison, is Porto's current overall strength stronger than Arsenal?
Of course not!
Whether it's team chemistry or individual player comparisons.
Can their defensive midfielder compare with the combination of Vieira and Silva?
Can their attacking combination compare to that of Ibrahimovic and Bergkamp?
Perhaps the back line can be compared with Arsenal's back line, including goalkeeper Baia.
But they defended more extreme than Arsenal and compressed the backcourt space more effectively. At the same time, they also used their little moves to prevent Millwall from accelerating the attack in the frontcourt and used all possible concealment methods to bring them
A certain improvement in defensive quality.
This made the scene look like Millwall was in control of the situation but found it difficult to open a gap in their defense.
Millwall seems to be in a hand-to-hand battle!
The battlefield is in Porto's half.
When Nedved dribbles the ball and accelerates diagonally, Deco will raise his arm slightly behind him and grab the hem of Nedved's jersey for two seconds and then let go.
Ronaldinho received the ball on the wing and just changed direction. Alenichev went directly to the gap between Ronaldinho and the ball. He was not rushing towards the ball. He was faster than Ronaldinho's feet. If he was not rushing towards the ball, he would definitely miss him.
It's the point between the rush and the ball. In this way, as soon as Ronaldinho moves, he will collide with Alenichev, and then Ronaldinho will get into a physical entanglement with him.
When Larson cuts inside, Valente will not give up the outside line. He guards the inside line. As long as Larson cannot completely get rid of him, Valente will definitely use a small angle from an angle that the referee cannot see.
The raised arm blocked Larson in front of him, preventing Larson from starting to accelerate and explode.
Henry was even called for a foul after a run away from Carvalho to catch the ball. The referee signaled that Henry's arm hit Carvalho.
At that time, Carvalho first defended Henry with a half-hug movement. Henry got rid of his entanglement, and his arms seemed to break free of the opponent's hands. However, Carvalho fell to the ground after Henry got rid of it...
Aldrich looked at it and suddenly walked to the side of the fourth official and said: "Hey, didn't UEFA receive complaints from Manchester United, Lyon, and Deportivo? Or, UEFA's official press release
Will it be in name only and don’t care what the coach said? If this is the case, I will apply not to attend UEFA press conferences in the future. Then
It's a waste of time. Porto is playing tricks on you, can't you see? I need to remind you that Millwall is the team with the best court discipline in the European competition in the past three seasons. We average the fewest fouls per game.
The lowest card winning rate means that we are fair and serious and follow the spirit of competitive sports in the competition. Don't let us be disappointed or even angry."
The fourth official turned to look at Aldrich and found that the young marshal smiled at him. He was already under a lot of pressure, but he took a deep breath and felt much relieved.
At this time, Mourinho also came over. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
