The Young Lion

When Aldridge ushered in Guardiola at the Lion King Stadium, he had to lament that the years are like songs.

Back then, when he led the Wild Lions to rise to Europe, Mourinho was still an assistant coach, and Guardiola was one of the famous four talents.

In the blink of an eye, the two who comforted each other in the Netherlands in the summer of 1997 have become world-class coaches, and Aldridge is not a fledgling kid.

Guardiola, who led the team to the Lion King Stadium, walked on eggshells mentally. Walking into this mega-vibrating stadium in Europe, listening to the deafening home momentum, his face was not at all relaxed.

Aldrich chatted with him for a few words, and there was no business exchange, just a normal courtesy greeting.

Before the start of the game, the two coaches stood on the sidelines. Guardiola was expressionless, thinking in his heart: This away game will be extremely difficult!

In addition to the strength of the team, the reason is also the energy distribution of the team. Millwall has a strong lineup. Madrid were locked in a fight, and Real Madrid, who were knocked out, focused on fighting for the title in the league, putting huge pressure on Barcelona.

Coupled with the fact that Millwall sits at home and waits for work, Barcelona dominates La Liga. The transcendent technical and tactical system itself does not have much advantage in front of Millwall. In the words of Fleet Street's momentum: Barcelona is just learning from Millwall.

The players of the two teams entered the field with their heads held high, and the atmosphere on the scene was suddenly detonated.

The semi-finals of the first UEFA Premier League is about to begin. Millwall, who has returned to Europe, will face the last Champions League champion Barcelona! There is no doubt that this will be a peak battle. Let's take a look at the starting lists of both sides.

Millwall started 433.

Goalkeeper: Buffon.

Defender: Ramos. Nesta. Silva. Ram.

Midfield: De Rossi, Alonso, Kaka.

Forwards: Messi, Aguero, Ronaldo.

The main striker Villa missed the game due to injury, but he will return from injury before the start of the second round, which is the information released by Millwall today.

Barcelona starting 433.

Goalkeeper: Valdes.

Defender: Alves,

Puyol. Pique, Abidal.

Midfielders: Butzkes, Yaya Toure, Xavi.

Forwards: Pedro, Ibrahimovic, Iniesta.

In order to increase the defensive hardness of the midfield, Guardiola deliberately put up a midfield combination of Butzkes and Toure, and Iniesta moved to play as a winger.

Pedro is a player who does not seem to have particularly obvious characteristics, but his performance under Guardiola is a blockbuster. The killer role played in this system is clear at a glance.

In the summer, Eto'o and Ibrahimovic carried out a transfer swap, but Ibrahimovic is currently integrated into the team. In other words, from the perspective of adapting to the system of this team, this transfer is not particularly successful.

There is no big problem for Millwall. Villa is recuperating from his injury, and Aguero plays a false center on top.

Judging from the strength of the lineups of the two teams, Millwall is slightly stronger than Barcelona, ​​but the gap will not be particularly obvious. It can even be said that the gap between the back line and the midfield line is very small, and the gap is in the front line. superior.

But the front line needs to be supported by the midfield and defense!

Without a solid defense, the offense cannot stand alone.

Without the support of the midfield, the attack is out of the question.

When the referee blew his whistle, Aldridge raised his chin slightly on the sidelines, his eyes sharp and energetic.

At the Lion King Stadium, against Barcelona, ​​he will play a battle to rectify his name!

Millwall, who has been away from the European war for two years, must kill the European champions who won the Grand Slam last season!

must!

This is the beginning of the restoration of the dynasty!

The pass control that Barcelona is proud of did not play out in this game. Here, Millwall used more active running, better physical strength, and more tacit teamwork to firmly grasp the ball!

When Barcelona got the ball and played offensively, although they also focused on passing and controlling, in front of Millwall, they seemed to be playing tricks.

Because they are only passing and controlling in the midfield, when they reach the forefront of the offensive end, they can't get in at all!

The third-generation Wild Lions have somewhat rigid defensive requirements. They use the midfield as the boundary and carry out joint defense and pressing in the midfield area. Barcelona also abandoned the high-position pressing they are good at in this game!

dare not!

Never dare to press from a high position!

Millwall can control the ball in the midfield and has a good long passer. If he dares to invest in high-position pressing, then his own backcourt will be too empty. In addition, Millwall's offensive speed is the best in the world. High-position pressing The risk is unimaginable, it is simply opening the door to let the opponent walk on the ground!

Perhaps in the eyes of the fans, Millwall and Barcelona met without a particularly passionate confrontation.

Because the two teams are in control, the roles of both sides switch back and forth between suppressing and being suppressed, back and forth for a long time, passing the ball, if it is not for the exchange of ball rights, I am afraid it will really make people drowsy.

And in this kind of control, the higher and lower skills of both parties are gradually presented to the public.

Most of Barcelona pass the control back and forth in the midfield. Once they threaten to infiltrate the attack, they cannot pass more than three feet in the dangerous zone. However, Millwall can develop the attack in the dangerous zone after the midfield pass controls and shapes the offensive situation. Create shots, threaten shots!

Guardiola was very annoyed by the team's performance on the sidelines!

Although from a technical statistical point of view, Barcelona's ball possession rate is evenly divided with Millwall!

However, most of Barcelona's ball possession is invalid ball possession!

If you can't create a possession that threatens offense, it's useless!

The acceleration point of the game is often on Millwall's side!

Messi, Ronaldo, Kaka, even Aguero.

And only when Millwall created a good offensive situation with the overall cooperation, their stars began to speed up, did the audience get excited immediately.

And there are moments like that. It makes the audience a little nervous.

Will it score?

Will the well-ordered game situation completely get out of control? Caught in the melee?

In such tense moments. A picture suddenly appeared on the court that made Aldridge laugh out loud.

Kaka made a breakthrough with the ball in the middle. Being defended by Butzkes, Butzkes' interception was obviously slow for a beat, and Kaka flew past him, and he went to pull Kaka's arm, Kaka habitually shook off his arm, and then, Butzkes immediately fell to the ground and rolled over!

While falling to the ground. He covered his face with both hands, opened a small gap between his hands covering his face after rolling, and turned his eyes to the referee, wanting to see what the referee would do?

The referee stopped the game!

He also looked at Butzkes for the first time.

However, the referee's eyes were rather helpless.

Kaka is very angry!

It is common for him to be pulled by his arm or jersey by his opponent, but his speed is too fast, the effect of pulling the jersey is not obvious, and physical contact is the most effective way to block acceleration.

So he got into the habit of pulling himself away from his opponent, but his throwing back has never been higher than his shoulders. They even got into the habit of just swinging their arms backwards.

It would make sense if Butzkes was clutching his chest or ribs.

But cover your face?

What touched his face?

Kaka thought that the referee would call him a foul if he stopped the game. I was about to protest with the referee, but saw the referee walk up to Butzkes and show a yellow card.

The position of the referee was very good just now. He saw Butzkes' pulling action. If it wasn't for Millwall's offensive advantage, he was ready to call the penalty. Then Butzkes fell to the ground covering his face, exaggerating. Rolling around, this is blatantly playing with the referee!

Butzkes stood up immediately, and just about to speak up, the referee shook his head slightly at him, meaning that he didn't want to hear what he had to say, if you continue to make trouble for no reason, don't blame me for being ruthless and giving you a red card.

After it was determined that the opponent was penalized and received a yellow card, the Millwall fans in the stands went crazy.

Probably, there is also a factor of being infected by Aldridge on the sidelines.

The young marshal really laughed out loud, applauding as if in a comedy!

When I saw Butzkes, I still couldn't remember Professor Fangbu's nickname, but now that he played such a scene suddenly, Aldridge burst out laughing.

Guardiola went to negotiate with the fourth official on the sidelines in a serious manner, as if convincing people with reasoning, negotiated well with the fourth official, and patted the fourth official on the arm when he returned to his position.

The game situation is already unfavorable, and Guardiola does not want the team to cause dissatisfaction with the referee team due to redundant actions.

where is this

Lion King Stadium!

Using unconventional means to win favorable penalties in front of Millwall, isn't this a dead end?

The referee committee of the European elite league is making repeated orders, players must remain honest in the arena! For flopping, exaggerated performances and the like, they are severely punished!

As the game time passed, Millwall's home court advantage became more and more obvious. In the 43rd minute of the first half, Millwall played exquisitely in the frontcourt. The road formed a triangle pass combination. After a round of passing cooperation, Ronaldo cut into the middle and changed positions with Aguero to interfere with the opponent's defense.

Aguero hit the ball back to Kaka who was behind Ronaldo in the middle. At this time, Kaka, Messi, and Ronaldo formed a new triangle passing combination in the right area of ​​the front field, but the position was already close The opponent's restricted area!

Kaka transferred the ball to Messi's feet. After breaking through Abidal, Messi found the passing space and sent an over-the-top pass. Ronaldo jumped high in the center of the penalty area with a header and hit the goal!

The ball flew straight to the dead corner of the upper right corner of the goal, and Valdez flew to the end but failed to touch the ball!

Millwall leads Barcelona at home!

1:0.(Want to know more exciting news about The Lion and Marshal? Open WeChat now, click the + sign on the top right, select Add friends to add a public account, search for , follow the public account, and never leave You won't miss every update!) (To be continued...)

...

... ()