The Young Lion

After the team led by one goal, Aldridge withdrew his right hand from his coat pocket and slapped the backcourt in a sophisticated and steady manner.

He made this action for the field captain Materazzi.

Seeing the young marshal's move, Materazzi yelled at his teammates as he stepped back towards the backcourt: Now we are leading, as the boss said before the game, now shrink back to me, especially the big players. Wei, you need to help Phil defend more!

Predicting the situation on the court is one of the homework for the head coach to arrange tactics before the game. Aldridge usually arranges the tactics of the game in stages. As for the tactics after falling behind, he never arranges them before the game, which will damage morale. When falling behind, he tends to improvise and adjust.

Seeing that Materazzi conveyed his intention, Aldridge put his right hand into the warm pocket again.

After the goal just now, he just applauded, and there was no extra celebration.

Now, he lowered his head and seemed to be casually looking at the grass under his feet, occasionally taking two steps back and forth.

Although Arsenal have played their best, it does not mean how dominant they are in the game.

This is an Arsenal with distinctive features and clear long and short.

Last season, they finished fourth in the Premier League. However, their number of goals was not even in the upper reaches. They only scored 53 goals in 42 rounds, almost 30 goals behind Manchester United, which won the championship.

More distinctively, Arsenal have scored more away goals than home goals.

Is it because they are more effective away from home?

of course not.

They are traditional giants, and most of the teams that challenge them at Highbury are mainly defensive. This makes it difficult for Arsenal, who are not good at scoring goals, to score goals. In the away game, their defensive counterattack is even stronger. play space.

Now Aldridge will let the team recover, let Arsenal attack, and Millwall will fight back!

The tactical contest of a football game is actually similar to Tian Ji's horse racing, with different good and bad tactics used at different stages.

After Arsenal kicked off, the Millwall players, except for Solskjaer who harassed near the center circle, the other players recovered the half court, and there were players like Gattuso Vieira Ballack in front of the defense With the steel barrier, Glenshire and Beckham assisted Neville and Zambrotta on the wing, which greatly compressed the space for positional warfare, which allowed Arsenal to make one kick after several passes and cuts. No shots.

The first half ended quickly, and Millwall returned to the dressing room with a one-goal advantage.

During the intermission, Aldridge said simply in the locker room: What we are good at is simple and fast passing. What Arsenal are not good at is advancing in positional battles. It can be said that they are not good at tough battles. Therefore, the second half continued like It was the same after leading in the first half. However, when the opponent presses heavily, we must be faster, simpler, and more direct in the counterattack. We don’t need to dribble and break through, and use running positions to tear apart the opponent’s defense. Now this An Arsenal is just sheep in wolf's clothing, we don't have to be afraid of them, they are old and dead, you are young, run hard and we can beat them for granted.

This group of young players was very encouraged, and through the first half of the game, they built a strong confidence.

The opponent is the champion of last year's European Cup Winners' Cup!

Before the game, the players in this substitute lineup were still worried because the opponent was Arsenal,

Aldridge will use the main lineup, but Aldridge kept his promise and insisted on playing them in the cup, which made them feel that although Aldridge is young, he is a full-fledged man.

Trust is two-way. Aldridge gives them trust, and they will also repay Aldridge with trust and hard work.

After the start of the second half, Aldridge was still standing on the sidelines. Today, he appeared very calm, did not shout, and even made very little body movement.

In contrast, Graham, who was not far away, waved his arms back and forth to let the players press on, but the team played worse and worse. This is simply a silent irony.

Perhaps as the televised commentator put it in his half-time commentary:

The current Arsenal is like Graham, already a crumbling dangerous building, while the young Millwall is more like the rising sun. No matter from the technical and tactical point of view or the temperament and spirit of the players on the field, we have Reason to look forward to Millwall, but can't expect Graham to make a qualitative change for Arsenal, but Arsenal is still declining too fast. In the Premier League, their number of goals in the same period is less than last season, but the number of goals conceded is almost the top. Twice the season, the distance from the relegation zone has never been more than 10 points in the standings.

In the second half of the game, Arsenal gradually began to press up as a whole. There was no way, their frontcourt offensive combination was too small, and it was difficult to break through Millwall's double-team defense based on personal ability alone.

With the pressure of the formation, the space in the backcourt is getting bigger and bigger.

After cutting off the ball at the foot of Paul Mason from the wing, Neville sent the ball to Beckham, who was only five meters away from him. A wonderful arc hoisted towards Arsenal's half.

Solskjaer fired ahead of Beckham's pass, bursting from the halfway line, brushing directly past Bould, successfully breaking past Arsenal's backline and about to score a one-handed goal.

Tony Adams, who is not slow, chased back from behind. After the ball bounced on the ground once, Solskjaer stopped the ball steadily. At this time, Tony Adams was already one meter behind him. Stopping the ball, the speed has slowed down a lot, so he protected the ball sideways, made an emergency stop, and then moved the ball forward again. This instantaneous change of rhythm also slowed down Tony Adams' speed.

Solskjaer's movements were coherent, he stopped sideways to protect the ball and then made another move, then started again, cheated Tony Adams, and continued to single-handedly.

But just as he took a step forward, there was tremendous pressure from behind him, and he fell heavily to the ground.

It's ugly! Tony Adams directly overwhelmed Solskjaer from behind. There is no doubt that this is a foul!

The referee decisively stopped the game, walked over and showed a dazzling red card to Tony Adams who got up from the ground!

If he didn't foul, Solskjaer would obviously go to the meeting alone.

The lion's den stadium was full of cheers, and they strongly agreed with the referee's penalty, and gave the applause to the referee and Solskjaer.

Tony - Adams did not justify and protest, sullenly exited, and even the captain's armband was not handed over to other teammates.

On the sidelines, Graham yelled at Adams in a rage: What are you doing stupid?

Tony Adams turned his head and replied with two words: Shut up!

Then he walked into the tunnel without looking back.

Aldrich watched the scene of master and apprentice turning against each other, feeling a little sad in his heart.

Now Graham is the coach caught in the black gold scandal, and Tony Adams has also fallen into the bottom of his life. Off the court, he is a troublesome alcoholic.

This has created a gap between the master and apprentice last year.

Graham did not revive Adams, and Adams did not publicly support Graham when he was now in crisis.

While the master-student relationship between the two had dropped to freezing point, their fate also came to an end.

With 30 minutes left in the game, while Arsenal fell behind by one goal in the away game, they also lost one player.

Materazzi took advantage of the dead ball and ran to the sidelines and asked Aldridge: Boss, are you still playing as before?

Now they fight one more person, they have an advantage!

Aldridge put one hand on his shoulder, covered his mouth with the other and said softly: Our tactics will remain the same, we will win in thirty minutes, and next, it will be Arsenal who will jump over the wall. Think about it, as long as they If we are in a mess, we have many opportunities.

Materazzi nodded and ran back, yelling loudly again, cheering up his teammates, and implementing the tactical requirements again, so as not to make his teammates inconsistent and confused.

There was no turning point in the game that affected the trend. At the Lion's Den Stadium, a team that was once the king fell to the bottom.

In the 79th minute of the game, Millwall's substitute lineup played a whirlwind counterattack on the court.

Gattuso cut off the ball at Campbell's feet and crossed it to Vieira. Vieira crossed Beckham from the side. Beckham passed directly to Solskjaer. This time Solskjaer did not take the ball. , and lightly distributed the ball to the left again, the fast horse Glenn Shire entered the opponent's half, dribbled at the front of the penalty area at high speed and returned the ball to Ballack's feet in the middle, Ballack flicked the ball to the right, followed by Vieira, who jumped in at high speed at the beginning of the counterattack, made a beautiful volley to expand the score to 2:0!

During the whole counterattack process, Arsenal’s defensive line that hastily returned to the defense due to pressure was full of loopholes. Even Martin Keown, who was like a sea god, wanted to stop suddenly when Glenshire hit the middle, but his feet slipped and fell embarrassingly. .

After Vieira scored the goal, he was so excited that he ran wildly and roared to the sky.

Just half a season ago, he was a clown who was sent off with a red card after one minute off the bench, but in more than half a season, his sweat has paid off, and he ran to the coach's bench after scoring a goal, with Coach Bob hugs.

Although Aldridge is the head coach, Barb has the closest relationship with Vieira in training. This is normal, and Aldridge is not jealous at all.

Arsenal were pierced by Millwall with two goals, which made them completely lose their fighting spirit, and the final result of the game was fixed at 2:0.

Faced with such a result, Aldridge is not satisfied. Even though Arsenal have a good name, they are just a team with a dispirited army.

After the game, Aldridge did not shake hands with Graham, and walked into the player channel calmly.

Before the weekend game comes, the biggest news in English football is: Graham, who has coached the Gunners for eight years, was fired by the Arsenal board!