One Hundred and Twenty One Miracles

After entering February, the Millwall players have recovered from the high-pressure rhythm of the Christmas Express. Although many players in the team have occasional injuries and young players cannot play too much, fortunately, Aldridge There are many people in hand, and the rotation is not too difficult.

Millwall has two more matches, a league and an FA Cup, before the national team is called up in mid-February.

Both games are tough.

The league opponents are North London neighbours, Tottenham Hotspur.

White Hart Lane, perhaps the most poetic stadium name in the Premier League.

And Tottenham does have a taste of fairy tales.

In the past many years, Tottenham was not the strongest team in the Premier League, not even a strong contender for the championship, nor the most watched team in the Premier League, but Tottenham is the most gorgeous and freehand style of play in England, which makes The fans of Tottenham are very proud, what they enjoy is the best football, and the standard of judging the team is not based on victory, so they lose, they watch Arsenal win the cup, but they still sneer at Arsenal. This situation did not change completely until another shrewd Jewish businessman took charge of Tottenham: Danny Levy. His requirements for managing the team were simple: I just want trophies and money.

But Tottenham has begun to sink in recent years. Thinking back a few years ago, Tottenham still had Lineker and Gascoigne in the team, plus the black and gold coach Venables who was good at training offense. At that time, Tottenham was comparable to today's Newcastle United, no matter what the result is in the Premier League, their offense must be extremely gorgeous.

Aldridge led the team to White Hart Lane. At the Lions Den Stadium at the beginning of the season, Tottenham took away a draw away, which made the Millwall team extremely dissatisfied. Now the boys have strong self-confidence. Not afraid of any opponent, they should be able to defeat any enemy that stands in their way.

White Hart Lane was full of enthusiasm, and the two teams played sparks on the court.

In this game, Aldridge let Trezeguet sit on the bench to rest, saving his strength to play against the FA Cup opponents.

Instead of replacing him with another striker, he started preparing for next season.

The team set up a 433 formation. The 17-year-old Pirlo started today, with Makelele behind him to protect him. Aldridge did not give him many tasks. He stayed in the backcourt to ensure the success rate of the pass. There is no need for him to attack forward, just stay in the area near the center circle to his own penalty area, and he can play a pivotal role in connecting the front and rear courts.

So Millwall's frontcourt attack group became four people, Nedved in the front midfielder area, and the trident: Pires-Larson-Schneider.

It seems that the number of offensive players in the frontcourt is less than before, but when the two full-backs assist, Millwall's offensive number in the frontcourt becomes six people, and two wingers enter the penalty area obliquely, which will form a three-pointer. forward.

Tottenham coach Gary Francis stood on the sidelines and frowned, as if he could hear the melody of his heart beating. He watched the team's unfavorable situation on the field becoming more and more tense. He felt the crisis, but he couldn't think of a way to deal with it. method.

In the first round of the league match, the main reason why Tottenham were able to take away a point at the Lion's Den was that they successfully froze Pavel Nedved. Greatly restricting the space for Nedved to hold the ball.

However, the Tottenham players found that they seemed to be targeting the wrong person!

After the absence of Klinsmann who went to Bayern and Pabiscu who went to Barcelona, ​​Tottenham's strength plummeted.

Sheringham is alone on the front line, and Tottenham's offense cannot run smoothly. After they are often blocked by Millwall, their first defensive task is to stare at Nedved. However, the ball starts to be dispatched at Pirlo's feet. Luo is like a sleeping rabbit. He feels careless when running, and he is not particularly fierce when fighting. Even when he holds the ball to organize an attack, he does not seem to have any threat.

The ball is elegantly and calmly passed the ball to the most reasonable safe zone. With Nedved being marked to death, Pirlo's direction of the ball is the two sides, and then slowly runs from the front of his own penalty area to the center circle Nearby, he played a two-on-one with the winger, and then he stopped going forward.

Whenever he finished these inconspicuous tasks, Millwall's side attack threat showed its power. A bottom pass or a direct pass to the winger who cuts in, the offensive wave is higher than the wave.

Millwall turned away from the guest, and the offense played in front of Tottenham's goal.

Schneider's shots after cutting in with both feet were outrageous. Pires made a wonderful pass to Larsson. Larsson, who has scored 17 goals in the league, faced the goalkeeper one-on-one. The body blocked it.

Nedved headed into the penalty area and bounced off the post.

Aldridge watched the offensive from the sidelines, his mood was like a roller coaster with ups and downs.

He walked back to the coach bench with dry mouth, picked up a bottle of mineral water, unscrewed the bottle cap and took two gulps, then he asked Jansen helplessly: "When you were playing football and coaching at Ajax, was it Haven't you seen many players like Schneider?"

Jansen understood Aldrich's subtext.

Schneider's characteristics are very distinctive, with outstanding skills at his feet and first-class team awareness. Although there is no unique skill in crossing, in the Premier League, his crossing success rate is also second to none, but it is such a footwork Nice player with an unbelievable shooting percentage from open play.

The two excellent opportunities just now were almost half-single-handed cuts and shots, and the ball went too far.

It scared the opponent's goalkeeper into a cold sweat, and also made Aldridge's mood fall from the clouds to the abyss.

Jansen smiled wryly and said: "The problem of position sense, you can't simply look at this matter with your skills. There are many such players, just like Peter Pan who is very popular now. If you put him in the middle or go to the penalty area, he may not You can pass like a ball and kick the ball into the goal.”

The current Peter Pan is called Overmars.

Aldridge just complained about the wasted opportunity just now. As the head coach, he certainly knows that the characteristics of the players should be judged comprehensively based on the position on the field.

For example, wide players only need to observe one side and the front after taking the ball, while midfielders must focus on the overall situation before taking the ball, and they must be aware of the environment in all directions.

Schneider plays on the right, he only needs to observe his left and front, but when he cuts into the penalty area, it becomes a situation of being double-teamed. There is a difference between good and bad.

Aldridge decided to talk to Schneider after the game.

As he sat, Millwall played a climactic attack.

Thuram made an assist, and Schneider cooperated with him repeatedly before. Tottenham's defense line was a little bit regular, and the full-back was directly led away by Schneider who cut inside.

Although Thuram is black and tough, he is not stupid. Schneider attracted the defensive players for him. He made a slight adjustment and volleyed vigorously from a forty-five-degree angle outside the penalty area.

It was a damn good shot!

The ball didn't spin, and went straight to the upper right corner of the goal.

Tottenham goalkeeper Ian Walker has always been highly concentrated. He was more and more brave after being bombed by Millwall before. This time, he flew out and punched the ball without letting the ball fly into the goal. Door.

Shouts of relief came from the audience in White Hart Lane.

Walker's shot was a bit off, and the ball bounced to the other side outside the penalty area.

Tottenham's defense line retreated near the small penalty area line, and Pires also shot a long-range shot just in front of the falling ball, and it was a volley with a handsome posture!

boom!

Aldridge was going crazy on the sidelines.

Fuck!

The goal post of White Hart Lane is indeed labeled as Tottenham.

The ball actually hit the goal post, and there was another exclamation from the stands.

It's not over yet!

The ball hit the goalpost and bounced obliquely towards the small penalty area. The Tottenham small penalty area was full of excitement. Defender Caudlewood wanted to turn around and make a clearance, but he kicked the ball hastily. He fell to the ground and tripped. Companion Keslake, the ball bounced twice on the small penalty area line, and Larson fell to the ground and shot!

Walker has done it again!

He lunges across, missing the ball with his hands because he was only lucky, but his thigh blocks Larsson's must-goal.

The Tottenham fans at White Hart Lane are almost suffocating, their hearts can't take it!

The ball popped out of the penalty area, and fell in a parabola, like a rainbow, beautiful and unpredictable.

The Tottenham players were rushing out, but they saw someone coming head-on. Facing the falling ball, they swung their legs and volleyed vigorously.

Nedved!

This time, the ball hit the net and hit the upper left corner of the goal!

"One kick, two kicks, three kicks, four kicks! Nedved scored! Andy, Millwall's fifteenth shot in the first half finally scored! This game is so strange."

"Yeah, Martin, it was weird, we saw how smooth Millwall's attack was, it was pleasing to watch, they created a lot of dangerous chances, but they were wasted by the players, and in the end, they used a kind of The unreasonable and rude way knocked on the door of Tottenham, the contrast is jaw-dropping."

"Anyway, Millwall took the lead. The score is not surprising. Combined with the situation on the field, they deserved this goal."

After Nedved's goal, he waved his fists and ran towards the corner flag. The Millwall players all rushed over. They had so much fun playing this game.

But they didn't score a goal after repeated shots, which made them a little anxious. Fortunately, they scored a goal now, and they were naturally rejoicing.

Aldridge rubbed his forehead and chuckled on the sidelines.

Played Tai Chi for a long time, playing with softness to overcome rigidity.

In the end, I found out that the reliable one still works miracles vigorously!

PS: Thanks to "Wildfire Burning the Sun" for the reward!