The Young Lion

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. The team's lead did not let Aldrich's spirit relax in the slightest. He stood on the sidelines with his hands in his pockets and continued to supervise the battle with a serious face.

Eindhoven is only one goal behind, of course some chase, some time.

After the game restarted, Eindhoven accelerated the counterattack when switching from defense to offense, which directly led to a decline in their passing success rate, especially the success rate of penetrating through balls forward.

Zambrotta won applause after successfully intercepting the opponent's through pass from the left twice in a row. Maybe his team's offensive ability is not as good as Capdevila's, but his defensive ability seems to be a general.

Advocaat saw that the opponent's defense was perfect, and immediately frowned. Eindhoven's strongest winger Zenden was completely frozen today, and there was no bright spot in the offense. Cocu was also tightly restricted by Makelele in the midfield Let's face it, the Millwall players may really be unknown in terms of their reputation.

Schneider and Ballack were only called up by the national team for a friendly match, and they also sat on the bench. Makelele had no chance to play in the French national team, and Zambrotta couldn't even get into the national team. It is such a group of people who have gathered together to form a strong combat effectiveness.

At 70 minutes into the game, Advocaat couldn't sit still. Anyway, if he loses, he will get zero points. If he really wants to compete for the ranking in the home and away games, let alone how low the probability is, if there is a tie in Eindhoven Or losing the game after scoring a goal is better than finishing 1-0 now.

So under the coach's on-the-spot adjustment, PSV began to invest more troops in the offense. The three midfielders took turns to plug in, when the offense and defense transitioned. Complete role transitions based on location.

At this time, Aldridge saw a little bit of Holland Football Total Defense.

The center forward turns into a winger, the winger cuts in front of the goal and becomes a center forward, the midfielder is inserted into the front midfielder, and the counterattack midfielder retreats to become a midfielder...

There must be a tacit understanding between players in a small range of single-line players. It is not difficult for the Dutch team to play such a dazzling exchange of roles between several players.

And Millwall is no stranger to these, because they have this set in their training, and the players' thinking is no longer staring at a certain player to be loyal.

To deal with Eindhoven's surprise offensive that relies on transpositions. Millwall is like a big mountain, let the wind from east to west, north and south, I stand still.

Just after Eindhoven's another attack was terminated by Southgate in front of the penalty area, Millwall launched a wave of devastating counterattacks.

In this defense, except for Trezeguet cruising in the front center circle,

The other players shrank back to the second half, and Southgate passed the ball directly to the left winger Larsson after successfully defending.

Larsson takes the ball and crosses Nedved in the middle, and then Larsson starts to run forward. Attracts the attention of the PSV full-backs.

Nedved didn't stop the ball and then passed the ball straight to the left. Seeing that the pass was too big, it was impossible for Larson and the opponent's full-back to catch up, but when the ball was about to go out of the sideline, the explosive speed was amazing. Brotta poked the ball forward and ran forward at full speed.

The ball stunned the Eindhoven defense. A simple through kick was counterattacked, and the defense was completely blown out.

Gianluca Zambrotta sprinted on the left, seemingly walking straight, with no intention of cutting inside, and rushed to the baseline with the ball.

The distance between the PSV defenders and Millwall's two forwards widened as they returned. Although Trezeguet was in the highest position when counterattacking, he attracted the attention of the central defender. And he was harassed when he rushed forward, but he also slowed down the speed of the opponent's central defender. Instead, Larson and Shevchenko on the other side rushed towards the opponent's penalty area like wild horses.

When he was 40 yards away from the goal, Zambrotta was already two meters ahead of the opponent's entire defense line. When they reached the 30-yard area, the audience stood up and watched this attack attentively.

Millwall, including Gianluca Zambrotta, had three players going straight to the opponent's goal, and there were no defensive players around them!

This scene is even more exciting than a one-handed ball.

Gianluca Zambrotta made a powerful ground pass from a position parallel to the penalty area line.

Larson flew out at the front point, trying to poke the ball into the goal with his toes, but he was a step too late, because before Zambrotta passed the ball, he had a pause, because he was afraid that he would be offside. After all, without the ball, he runs faster than Zambrotta with the ball.

There was a sigh from the audience, but the sigh was not over, Larsson's missed ball rolled in front of Shevchenko, who was on the other side, farther away, and the cross came with just the right pace and pace.

The Ukrainian nuclear warhead chose to hit the goal directly without hesitation. In order to ensure accuracy, he chose to push with the arch of his foot.

Even with the arch of the foot, the speed of the ball is still too fast. It is almost as good as hitting the goal on the spot. I saw the ball rushing into the goal like a meteor, and the goalkeeper of Eindhoven was tackled by Larson. His movements are confusing, and there seems to be no interference with the angle of Shevchenko's shot.

2:0! Millwall leads by two goals! Shevchenko, Shevchenko, Shevchenko! The Ukrainian scored his first goal in the Champions League. This wave of counterattack Millwall completely destroyed the opponent. The audience must also be excited to see it, simple and efficient, with a fatal blow. Dutch football is good at playing fast, but they encountered a faster opponent today. From the start to the end of this attack, it may take about 10 seconds. They played impressively today, fast when they should be fast, slow when they should be slow, did not give PSV any chance at all, and they dominated the game!

After Shevchenko scored a goal, he stood there with a smile on his face. He still looked like the young and shy young man. If he was at the Lion’s Den Stadium, he must have celebrated wildly, but in this game watched by more than 80,000 people, He was getting shy again.

After getting up from the ground, Larson was the first to rush to Shevchenko to congratulate him on his goal. Otherwise, Larson would definitely blame himself for missing the first point and wasting such a good opportunity.

The Wild Lions fans in the stands were determined.

Two goals up, we won.

This will lay a very good foundation for qualifying from the group.

Aldridge was excited. But after the celebration, he still made a signal to the players, and there were still 20 minutes of stoppage time in the game. Never give your opponent a chance to comeback because of your carelessness.

This game is too important!

The result will directly affect the next five games, Aldridge must win.

If the expansion of the UEFA Champions League becomes 32 teams to play in the group stage, then the top two in the group stage qualify, theoretically as long as they score 12 points, they can qualify. In the 15 years after the expansion, only Naples is the only one that is out of the group stage with 12 points. of.

But under the current group qualifying rules, is it certain that 12 points will qualify? The suspense is great!

In other words, getting 4 victories is not enough to ensure qualifying.

If Millwall loses this game or just gets a draw. Then the more you play back, the greater the pressure, and the opponents will not play conservatively because Millwall is striving to qualify, and the tactical layout will be more targeted.

On the contrary, Millwall won the first game, and the other teams in the same group were passive, so the next game. Millwall is more favorable in terms of mentality and tactical choices.

When Advocaat saw the team lose the second goal, he suddenly felt powerless.

Eindhoven has no chance at all. Millwall's calm and steady control of the rhythm of the game makes people feel chills!

The PSV Eindhoven soldiers on the field were unwilling. They also understood that every point must be counted in order to qualify for the group. There is still time in the game, and the gap between two goals is not enough to make people despair!

PSV continued on the offensive after the restart. And more and more fierce, for a few minutes, Millwall's overall formation was compressed in the second half. Even if Millwall switched from defense to offense and launched a counterattack, they used the most fierce and precise interception to regain the ball.

Aldridge looked a little anxious from the sidelines, and the players were a little rigid if they were too calm. To counterattack, you need to pass a few kicks, and use the pass and cut transition to penetrate the opponent's defense.

Brainless! Brainless!

Aldridge kept gesturing to the players on the sidelines. Let them look farther when passing the ball.

After the players came to their senses, Eindhoven once again approached the city. Zenden cut in from the wing and swayed from an angle, but Elguera blocked it with his body. The ball bounced to Ballack's feet, and he dribbled the ball horizontally One step, and then a big foot that seems to be a clearance kicks the ball into the opponent's half.

But the audience looked at the area where the ball landed, and immediately burst into cheers.

Shevchenko tried his best to get rid of the opponent's entire defense line. The opponent's defender had been pressing close to him before, just to break the ball at the foot of Millwall's counterattack.

But this time, Ballack hit the ball directly behind him, no longer playing pass and cut transitions, and Shevchenko unreasonably threw off his opponent, and rushed forward with speed to go to the meeting alone!

Eindhoven's goalkeeper immediately abandoned the goal and Shevchenko dribbled the ball to the side in order to pass the opponent's goalkeeper. This time, the ball was a bit too big, and the opponent's goalkeeper lost his center of gravity and immediately chased it back. .

When Shevchenko caught up with the ball, he had almost reached the bottom line. He didn't have much shooting angle, so he directly kicked the ball across the goal.

The Swede rushed to the ground, and this time he chose to tackle the ground under the interference of the opponent's defender, and rushed into the goal with the ball.

Larson scored twice! Millwall won the opponent! They will usher in the first Champions League victory in the club's history. Eindhoven was beaten helplessly. They shouldn't give their opponent too much. There is space behind them, but if they do not pile up the number of offensive players in the frontcourt and keep the three lines closely connected, they will not be able to get a decent chance to attack. There is no doubt that this reflects the gap in strength between the two teams!

Larsson stood up from the goal and jogged to find Shevchenko, pointing at him with a big smile on his face.

Aldridge breathed a sigh of relief.

That's right, in that case, simple and rude can solve the problem, so don't play with softness to overcome strength.

He was really afraid that these players would forget Millwall's self-made counterattack style.

The so-called Millwall Athletics sprint attack has been tried and tested in the right environment.

We are forwards who can run faster than your defenders, and we can take a breath before passing the ball after running 30 meters, who is not convinced? I can't believe you run faster than me!

Aldrich laughed straight, thinking that Millwall had played positional warfare in the past season, and the opponents probably would not give Millwall more than 30 meters of sprint space in the second Premier League season, so This group of players probably forgot: as long as there is a large space in the frontcourt, the offense can actually be the simplest and most violent. With a long pass, the striker catches the ball first, the attack is over, and Millwall celebrates and scores.

Advocaat quietly sat back on the bench amidst the boisterous cheers at Wembley.

Eindhoven lost the game. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m. to read.) ()