The Young Lion

Martin O’Neill and Audridge are not business partners, because they have never worked together and are not good friends in life, but if they meet, they will be opposites during the game, before or after the game. , Get together and always talk about some positive topics related to football, the development trend of football tactics, the changes in the roles of some players on the field, express their opinions on a focus game, express their opinions from different perspectives, and often both can get Benefits.

Although Leicester City is not the hardship of Millwall, but the two teams meet, O'Neill's team will always make Millwall into a hard fight.

Don’t look at O’Neal’s conservative anti-anti tactics every time he plays against Aldridge. Even Leicester City is almost a year of defensive counterattacks going to black. There are not many teams in the Premier League that play anti-anti Relegated, some ranking behind O’Neal’s team, richer than Leicester City, there are more teams with better squads, but the record is not better than Leicester City, which also reflects O’Neal’s Coaching ability.

When the two met again at the Lion's Cave Stadium, Audridge smiled at O'Neill: "Do you want to snipe me again today?"

O'Neill pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and calmly said: "I feel that it will be dangerous today."

"Winger, Ferguson, Vialli will come here, just like you said, shouldn't you come here, shouldn't you feel a sense of crisis?"

O'Neal looked depressed, shook hands with Audridge and then turned around and walked back to the coach's seat.

Aldridge teased the opponent and then gave up. He also walked back to the coach and stood to direct the game.

After the game started, Aldridge saw the situation in Leicester City and raised his eyebrows unexpectedly.

In the past few years, Leicester City played Millwall, and the defensive formation has been difficult to interpret with conventional 442, 4141 and the like.

It's exactly like a 631.

The four guards compress the penalty area, the bilateral forwards can defend the bottom, or they can defend the area at the top corner of the penalty area. There must be three people intercepting in front of the penalty area, leaving an offensive fulcrum Tony in front, as long as he fights back, Tony controls the ball first Then, the opponent counterattacked with a unilateral flying wing. Tony scored the ball and continued to develop the offense.

The reason for this stable defensive posture is that even if it is a counterattack, the defensive formation in the backcourt is still static. Only one of the full-backs has stepped forward to participate in the attack. In addition, Good Johnson also followed up. The counterattack relies on three people to fight back. Success, failure to pull down, at least the back line will not be exposed because of the premise of the formation or the number of defensive players is reduced, but Millwall is caught and torn off the line of defense.

In the past, Millwall's individual ability was still under fire. In the face of Leicester City with super tactical discipline, the success rate of one-on-one was good, but one-on-two was completely unable to withstand. If you invest more offensive force, Come over and be counterattacked by the opponent, the chance of losing the ball increases instead.

But today Millwall has a strong ability to stand alone, and the offensive players in the frontcourt are one-on-one, as long as there is enough space on the defense line to continuously get rid of the opponent within a small range.

Leicester City's player abilities are really limited, even if tactics are used to make up for it, they were beaten in front of the goal 20 minutes before the first half.

Pirlo's long shot was blocked by the defender and almost flew into the goal.

Henry took the ball away from the spot and turned away. Then he shot and was shot by the goalkeeper with one hand out of the crossbar.

Nedvěd made a header and hit the crossbar in the penalty area.

Larson was tripped inside the penalty area, the referee signaled that there was no foul.

After playing for 20 minutes, Leicester City failed to make a counterattack. Today Millwall’s marking on Tony was very successful. Materazzi held Tony and did not let the opponent catch a high-altitude ball. Makelele was in his The area in front of you blocks the ground pass.

Twenty minutes later, Aldridge touched his nose and inadvertently gritted his teeth, as if to open a large mouth of the blood basin.

Millwall continuously hit the ball into the restricted area of ​​Leicester City, compressing the opponent's defense line and then compressing it. Almost the opponent's defender almost blocked the goal in parallel with the goalkeeper.

On the court, Nedved did not move forward after taking the ball in the frontcourt. Instead, he turned back and knocked on the left. Zambrotta had a large area in front of him. He shot the horse and stopped the ball and dialed forward. Adjust the step point, long shot!

Martin O'Neill smashed a mineral water bottle on the sidelines and shouted to the players on the court: "In front of the top corner of the restricted area, they are putting back players to cover the long shot!"

Slam.

Zambrotta, who had plenty of time to choose the angle and force, this long shot was blocked before entering the penalty area, directly smashing a Leicester City defender, the ball bounced out and landed at Pirlo's feet , The opponent immediately someone came up and rushed, Pirlo scored the ball to the front right, Schneider killed unexpectedly, almost the same as Zambrotta, stopped the ball, dialed, and selected a long shot from a good angle.

He didn't deliberately choose to exert force on this ball, the strength was moderate, but the angle was extremely tricky, and the banana ball flew towards the goal with a strong rotation from right to left.

Looking from the front, I felt that the goalkeeper could definitely hit the ball the first time, but when the ball flew to the goal, the goalkeeper rushed out, the hand seemed to be farther and farther away from the ball, and then I saw Schneider's long shot actually On the sideline, of course, the goal is scored! Hit the side net inside the goal!

"Schneider's super-world wave! How did this goal get in the end? That arc is so beautiful, this is definitely the best goal of the round, absolutely!"

Schneider didn’t celebrate after scoring a goal, but like Zambrotta, he trot to the Leicester City player who was Zambrotta’s long shot and fell on his chest. Not getting up makes people very worried.

Zambrotta knew how strong he had been in the long-range shot just now, and the loud sound made by the opponent was enough to show the force generated during the collision.

Leicester City conceded a goal, but Millwall did not celebrate. They and the Leicester City player were surrounded by the downfall player.

The team doctor quickly entered the field, and not only called the stretcher, but also let the ambulance wait outside. After the team doctor's preliminary diagnosis, this player may have broken ribs...

Zambrotta patted the man's shoulder and whispered apologetically, while the other Millwall players wished him well.

Aldridge and O'Neill exchanged two words on the sidelines, and people with clear eyes can see that it was an accident just now. If Zambrotta really shoots towards that player, he will not necessarily hit it.

O'Neill was a little frustrated and said to Audridge: "You just arranged the tactics before the game today? You pressed the penalty area in the first 20 minutes. When the penalty area was left empty, the two fullbacks plugged in for a long shot."

"Well, it can be said."

"What if you can't score from long range?"

"Then you can't always watch my players take long shots?"

"Alas, hard power."

O'Neill doesn't ask anymore. In fact, O'Dridge's tactics are nothing strange.

Personal breakthrough, positioning ball, long shot.

O'Neill has allowed players to compress their defenses without giving the opponent a space to break through. The opponent can pass a player, but may not be able to make continuous breakthroughs. He also pays attention to actions during defense and tries not to position the ball for the opponent.

Before the change, when the difference in strength was not that great, especially when Millwall's offensive player's personal ability was not as strong as it is now, it rarely gave the opponent such a loose long-range space.

It just means that the opponent's personal ability is now stronger, so more people are needed to defend, and the lateral protection before the penalty area is naturally weakened.

This is the gap in hard power, but O’Neill doesn’t think that changing whoever leads this Millwall can beat himself. Just by combining the offensive players in the frontcourt to form a stronger fighting power than expected, it’s not Anyone can do it.

Although Aldridge holds a good card, even if he wins O'Neill, he will not feel the victory is invincible. If the attitude of the two teams is the same, he can't win, he would rather resign instead. However, the opponent was defensive, and now less than 25 minutes, Millwall fully suppressed the opponent and successfully tackled the problem. He can enjoy the joy of this moment.

The team fell behind and O'Neal changed people, and then let the players try to take the initiative and increase their enthusiasm for the offense.

However, this batch of Leicester City players has been anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti.

Especially in the face of Millwall's enormous offensive pressure, they involuntarily just go back to defend, and the offense is still the old routine.

Defensive rely on us, attack to find Tony!

After 13 minutes, Ronaldinho dribbled the opponent's defender in the penalty area and was dragged to the ground. This time, the referee took a penalty.

The Leicester City players did not protest, O'Neal sighed and sat back on the coach's seat, his eyes filled with helplessness looking towards the court.

Millwall is so strong that he feels overwhelmed.

He also does not blame the players, the strength is that level, almost the level of the top three in the Premier League, in other words, the value is not far from the value of the Premier League relegation team players.

Ronaldinho can't help it, so he can only get started.

Larsson stood in front of the penalty kick, without any pressure, Millwall took a 2-0 lead in the first half, and this score remained until the end of the midfield.

In the second half, Aldridge still made substitutions in 60 minutes, replacing Larson and Ronaldinho, and let Glenshire and Ramall play.

In the leading position, Aldrich signaled to let Pirlo master the rhythm and hone the "metronome" skills. This improvement in technical level not only depends on himself, but also on the cooperation of his teammates. He is slow, his teammates are slow, he Quick, teammates also need to be fast, especially when speeding up or slowing down suddenly. If a teammate cannot understand his intentions, he will not be able to cooperate.

Ramor, who has scored two consecutive goals, was very excited after playing, but today this game, he did not allow Audridge to continue to see his flash side. On the contrary, Audridge saw his flaws.

In the 80th minute of the game, Aldridge called Ramall to the front and said lightly: "If you find that you and your teammates are not in the same game rhythm, then you have to find your own problem, remember I change you up Your tactical requirements!"

Ramall wanted to score, so he was very excited, but when the team’s rhythm was controlled by Pirlo, he was out of this rhythm. When he touched the ball, he would speed up the rhythm, regardless of whether his teammates were Slow is fast, he is like a bull, thinking of breaking through the opponent's door.

Before changing him up, Aldridge specifically reminded him, but he did not do it, which means that his tactical discipline still needs to be improved.

After being taught by Aldridge, Ramall returned to the field to calm down and his performance became better and better. At least he was at a rhythm with his teammates. Finally, before the end of the game, Glennall shot from outside the penalty area. Saved by the goalkeeper, Henry followed up to make up the shot and locked the score at 3:0.

Millwall led the league table with four straight wins in the new season.