The Young Lion

I stayed up all night preparing to watch the Champions League. This week's recommendation votes are a bit low, but I just saw that 4,000 votes have arrived, and now they are released to add updates. Tonight, there will be two top eight teams in the Champions League, so there is probably not much suspense.

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After conceding the ball, Arsenal involuntarily started to play their old tactics again, defending and counterattacking.

This is understandable, they are actually facing the Millwall players for the first time. When they met in the FA Cup last season, Arsenal played against Millwall's substitute players. Now they start 11 people on the field. None of them were on the field at the time.

Millwall controlled the rhythm of the game unhurriedly. Arsenal shrank, and Millwall also shrank. Some small cooperations played extremely smoothly, and the opponent's penalty area was densely populated, so Millwall's striker withdrew and used long-range shots to serve The offense is over.

Aldridge supervised the battle on the sidelines with confidence. He was not familiar with Graham, but through his understanding of Arsenal in the past few years, he wished to think that Arsenal was just copying the trend. In Italy at this time, the chain defense foundation is famous all over the world. Adding some elements in line with the English league, this did allow Arsenal to create a short-lived brilliance.

In the century of football, only Italy can sublimate defense to art on the green field. When the broadcast technology and football culture promotion were not yet developed, Italy at least had a shocking effect in Europe.

People in the football circle suddenly realized: How did football become like this?

From 1985 to 1989, the five-time league champions of the Italian League had the least number of goals conceded in the season of 14, and the most was 19. As for the number of goals, except for Inter Milan's 67 high-yield goals in 1989, the other four The number of goals scored by the champions is 41, 42, 43, 43.

At that stage, Graham took over Arsenal and began to create a 1:0 football with the ultimate defense and the same effect as Italian football.

Italy's chain defense is still improving. In the summer of 1994, AC Milan won the league championship, but the number of goals scored and conceded was an outrageous 36 and 15.

Ten years later, twenty years later, such data would be frightening to death!

Whether Italy's tactics are the most advanced and representative of the trend is not up to Aldrich to comment, because the Italian league, which has the reputation of a small World Cup, is on the cusp of the storm, and Muxiu will be destroyed by the forest wind. There are different reasons for the Italian football style. For a long time, a considerable number of voices believe that Italian football philosophy is anti-football, ugly football that destroys beautiful football.

But it is undeniable that the Italian academic coaches frantically studied defensive tactics, constantly improved chain defense, sublimated defense into art, and jointly created the most prosperous Italian league!

The Italian team began to dominate the European arena. They are not the regulars of the Champions League, but the regulars of the Champions Cup final. They have cast the strongest shield in the world, waiting for countless forwards who want to prove themselves, and they have become the sharpest shield-breakers in their hearts. Blade Ideal came to Italy for trial.

Such defensive tactics can survive, develop, and eventually reach their peak in Italy, and have a long duration.

But in England, Arsenal's glory is difficult to continue, because it is not in line with the football culture of this country. After Graham's Arsenal tasted the championship, the talents of the players are still suppressed, and then they lose motivation and passion. lost youth.

Now, Arsenal is looking for changes and needs a suitable mentor. Wenger did not return to Europe this summer. Aldridge believes that this choice is correct.

Even though Rioch is not well-known in the field of football coaches, he is an important person in the transition of Arsenal. At least he allowed the players and the team to have a transitional adaptation period in the style change, which made Wenger's transformation Reduced difficulty.

The situation on the field well reflects the pain of Arsenal at this stage. For more than 20 minutes after Millwall took the lead, they defended conservatively. There were only four players attacking in the frontcourt, and the offense did not improve. Therefore, they could not hold back. Stopped, the full-back took the initiative to rush up again.

How else could it be?

What they are good at is 1:0.

But now they are behind 0:1.

Aldridge watched the stalemate on the field calmly, and thought: One more ball, one more, and Arsenal will be completely defeated!

Winterburn's pass was successfully blocked by Makelele. Nedved received the ball and passed it to the right. Schneider dribbled the ball forward.

With the previous experience of conceding goals, Arsenal's overall return to defense is extremely fast, and they are not in a hurry to attack. Instead, they set up a defensive position first and then slow down the opponent's rhythm. Even the midfielder ran back to the penalty area to make up for the disadvantage of the number of defenders. .

Schneider dribbled the ball back and forth and passed the ball to the middle. Nedved, who was running all the way forward, was unmarked. After getting the ball, he did not choose a long shot, but entered the penalty area, intending to pass Adams with speed.

Just when the two passed each other, Adams chose to shovel. He is a defender with first-class tackle skills. Nedved slipped and fell directly in the penalty area when accelerating.

In the blink of an eye, the audience and the coaches on the sidelines couldn't see what was going on. They could only see Nedved falling in the penalty area from a distance. Adams also fell in the penalty area with a shovel. The ball was caught by him. kick away.

The referee Ball stopped the game and pointed to the penalty spot in the Arsenal penalty area.

Tony Adams made a shovel, and Pavel Nedved fell in the penalty area. Through the slow-motion playback, we clearly saw that Adams got the ball first, and Nedved's fall did not seem to be due to physical contact. He lost his balance a second before Adams tackled the ball, and the referee Ball decisively awarded a penalty, which is questionable.

In any case, this is a good opportunity for Millwall. If the lead is expanded before the end of the first half, then Arsenal's hope of a comeback will be very slim.

When Adams saw the referee awarding a penalty kick, he got up angrily and yelled at Nedved: Liar! I didn't touch you at all! I went for the ball!

In 1994, FIFA promulgated the regulation of harsh penalties for shoveling behind the back, but it has not been implemented now, and the real implementation was in the 1998 World Cup. Now it is a process of warming up and ideological preparation for the new policy.

The basis for Boll's penalty is definitely not the dangerous action of shoveling, it can only be that he thinks that Adams knocked down Nedved first.

Facing several Arsenal players swarming up, Nedved got up and immediately waved and shook his head calmly at the referee Boll: That is not a penalty!

Seeing his action, the Arsenal players froze in place.

Adams' eyes widened, and his mouth, which wanted to continue scolding, was slightly opened and could not be closed.

The referee Paul also surrounded several Arsenal players, and Winterbourne pointed to Nedved and said: He admitted that it was not a penalty!

Nedved came over at this time, and he told the referee in the simplest words: I slipped and fell by myself just now, he did not foul, and there is no penalty.

The scene is very strange.

The Lion's Den stadium was completely silent, with less than 20,000 fans in the stands staring at the Arsenal penalty area. There, Arsenal players surrounded the referee, and the referee was communicating with Pavel Nedved.

In England, where modern football originated, football was originally a tenacious head-to-head contest between fighters. Even the first official football rules stipulated that even the ball cannot be passed behind. This is very similar to the contest between ancient Chinese knights.

The master's moves abide by the way of a gentleman. If there are brothers from the martial arts who sneak attack or help, they will be despised by fellow martial arts.

Therefore, what England fans like most is the authentic British tough guy players, and a player like Nedved who has a tough style on the court and is not afraid of confrontation, even if he falls down and gets up, he can win cheers, because in him, he can Seeing the quality that British fans admire and admire most, not the European players who play fancy and cunning football, if Nedved flops, even Millwall fans who are not proud of him will spurn him!

Even war has rules, how can football tolerate indiscriminate means to cheat victory?

But now, they clearly saw that Nedved was communicating with the referee, asking the referee to revoke the penalty kick, otherwise, why bother to tell the referee? Just go straight to the penalty kick.

The Millwall players crossed their hips and looked at Aldridge on the sidelines.

Boss, what should we do?

We had a penalty, but the vice-captain seemed to betray.

The players on the field actually admire Nedved's move, but they need to see Aldridge's reaction. In any case, the will of the head coach is very important in this scene.

Seeing that scene, Aldrich stayed where he was.

He was greatly shocked!

Millwall Club, he is the owner and the head coach. He can be called the local emperor here. Unlike his peers who have a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads, he has always had an unspeakable weight in his heart. Falling put him under tremendous pressure.

He can introduce star seedlings for the team, but he is afraid that he will not be able to cultivate these good seedlings into talents. If any star died in his hands, he will regret it for the rest of his life, because it directly changed the fate of a star. It will make him have the shadow of a sinner in his heart.

But when he saw Nedved's actions at this moment, he seemed to see a brilliant light blooming from Nedved's body.

That is, the light of a superstar!

Superstars not only need football skills, but also personality charm and spiritual temperament.

The corners of Aldrich's eyes were moist, and he said silently in his heart: Thank you, Pavel, you have touched my soul.

Aldridge turned around, raised his hands, and began to applaud above his head. He encouraged all the fans in the stands to applaud Nedved's performance at this moment.

The fans at the Lion's Den stood up and clapped their hands as Aldridge moved.

Many fans clapped their hands and nodded at the same time!

Although Millwall has been criticized for being rough and arrogant in the past, they have never lost the bottom line.

No one would feel honored by the indecent methods of liars and thieves!

If you can't win openly, you can lose openly!

Diving performances and the like have never been tolerated in football.

Applause for Pavel Nedved reverberated at the Lion's Den Stadium, and even the Arsenal fans stood up and applauded. The chaotic sound continued for a long time. This scene has become a classic picture of Millwall.