Chapter 497: Sword Finger Triple Crown

Manchester City, Maine Road Stadium.
The FA Cup semifinal match between Millwall and Aston Villa will be played here, Manchester City's home court.
Manchester City are still fighting in the Premier League, but they have played well in the Premier League this season and may see the blue moon in the Premier League next season.
From the environment around the Maine Road stadium, we can roughly understand why Manchester City was suppressed by Manchester United in this city. Even at the earliest, the city's owner is definitely Manchester City, and Manchester United is only an outsider.
On the way to the Maine Road stadium, you can see a large area of ​​abandoned factory buildings. The sight of the decline of the world's factories seems to have left traces at this time. This area has become a gathering place for immigrants, and the prosperity can not be talked about. It is the most appropriate description. It is not difficult to understand why Manchester City will move away from this stadium in the future and choose a place with a better geographical environment to settle down.
The same as last year, Fleet Street is advocating that Millwall will create a great cause and win the first triple crown in the history of English football.
Last year, there was only one Champions League.
This year, Millwall, the defending champion of the FA Cup, still sent all the substitutes to play in the FA Cup semi-finals in the All England focus.
After defeating Newcastle United a few days ago, Millwall won the league championship. This is a good stimulus to the morale of the whole team, especially the young players. Although their contributions are only a small part, they have witnessed the continuation of Millwall. Brilliant, it made them proud, and Aldridge's trust in them, let them play for the team in the level of the FA Cup semi-final match, which made them both moved and full of fighting spirit.
A large number of crazy lion fans came to Manchester City in droves. They sang cheerful songs in the stands before the game to celebrate the team's third championship in the club's history.
As for the Van der Mede incident, there wasn't even a single wave of waves in the fanatic crowd. The timing of the incident was also disgusted by the fans, and there was no hint of support for the Dutch. The club and fans were from top to bottom. I was looking forward to hitting the glory within a month. At this time, someone disturbed the military, and the fans didn't care who he was. Audridge's disposal even made many fans feel very happy. For this kind of black sheep, it should clean up the portal as soon as possible.
When Aldrich in suit and leather walked out of the player channel with one hand, the crazy lion fans who occupied most of the stands involuntarily made a worship gesture of bowing down with his hands in this direction. They smiled and were very happy. To express the highest respect and gratitude to His Majesty the King of the Mad Lion.
The live footage swept across the stands, and this scene became the most classic fan picture of the season.
When there are tens of thousands of fans making worship services to a coach at the same time, the scene is absolutely shocking!
Without him, Aldridge has created a new history. In the era of the Premier League, he has become the most successful coach of the Premier League!
Not counting the number of top league champions, but only comparing the Premier League champions, after Millwall's successful defending this season, their number of Premier League champions is already the same as Manchester United.
Manchester United won three Premier League titles in 93, 94 and 96.
Blackburn won the 95-year championship and Arsenal won the 98-year championship.
The remaining years, 97, 99, and 2000, were all Millwall champions.
Considering that Millwall was only on the Premier League stage in 1994, Audridge compared to Ferguson, and Millwall compared to Manchester United. Obviously, the former took less time to get three Premier League titles.
If you add the League Cup, the FA Cup, and the European Championship, Millwall is undoubtedly the most successful club in England in the past five years. No one is the most successful!
Aldridge was also calmed down by the sudden action of the fans on the sidelines. It took a long time for him to relax. Klinsmann and Jenson on the coach seat saw Aldridge's expression as "frightened". It was rare. He laughed when the game was about to start, and the players sitting on the bench were all respected.
Aldridge also paid a gesture of worship to the stands where the fans were, and then raised their hands to applaud.
The current scene made him feel very different. Millwall was different. The FA Cup semi-final was held in the middle position. They came to the stadium to cheer more fans than opponents! This is a sharp increase in the number of fans when they reached the FA Cup semi-finals four years ago.
Aston Villa coach Gregory saw that Aldridge was so admired by fans, saying that he didn’t envy that it must be a complete lie. At this point, there is no need to deceive yourself. No matter how famous the club is, a coach can convince Thousands of fans' hearts, this should be one of the pursuits of aspiring coaches, and Aldridge has already done this.
After the interaction with the fans ended, Aldridge put his mind on the upcoming game. The fans gave their full support. He also had to let the team give the record to give back to the fans.
"The 1999-2000 England FA Cup semi-final is about to start. Millwall and Aston Villa are fighting for the final tickets at the Maine Road stadium. The highly-watched Millwall sent a full bench lineup today. It is confusing to the outside world, because they are on the bench, you will think that their strength must be greatly reduced, but Millwall’s backup player has a good potential, and he has performed very well after a planned exercise, and this season is the same, voila Look at their bench lineup. Players like Glenn Charles, Klose, Lampard, etc. are fully capable of playing the main role in the Premier League midfield club."
Millwall started 433.
Goalkeeper: Keller.
Guards: Ferreira, Balzali, Metzelder, Ashley Cole.
Midfielders: Neil, Lampard, Ramall.
Forwards: Joaquin, Klose, Glennshire.
Makelele ended with a red card in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-finals. Not only did he not be able to play in the second round, Millwall’s appeal was also dismissed by UEFA, and he made a three-game suspension for Maclele due to Maclele. Suspected of insulting the head referee after receiving a red card.
Because of this change, Aldridge let Gattuso rest in this game, preparing for the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals four days later. Neal played as a defensive midfielder. It's totally trusted.
The combination of Balzali + Metzeld has hidden worries, but they must be exercised. If not, how can it be improved?
And today's opponent, Aldridge believes that it is not too dangerous for them.
Aston Villa ranked 7th in the Premier League, relying on solid defense. They only have more goals than Millwall, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal.
The factor restricting them from being able to attack the top six is ​​the offensive. Aston Villa is the lowest offensive firepower among the top 12 in the Premier League. Even Robson’s Newcastle United ranked 12th in the league and the league scored more goals. Ston Villa 15!
The brave young guys showed blood from the beginning of the game. Despite their age and Aston Villa's gap, they did not fall out of confrontation.
Neal guarded the midfield defensive gate, and the aggressiveness made Aston Villa's midfield attack completely unable to advance to the front line.
Their soft offense did not take effect within ten minutes after the game started, and Millwall gradually began to take control of the midfield.
Lampard, the captain of England of all ages except the national team, has also been stable this season. After Aldridge fixed him in the midfield position, he began to find the feeling.
This feeling is to sort out the rationality of the attack, strengthen the overall situation, and timely plug in the attack to form a threat. He has been working hard, but in the past there was a feeling that the force was not used in the right place. Now This phenomenon is disappearing.
A qualified midfielder can see him while defending, and can also see him when attacking, a good midfielder, then it is everywhere in the B2B activity area!
It can accurately predict the development of the ball and appear in the most appropriate place.
Although Lampard has not yet reached a particularly excellent height, he has developed in a good direction on the basis of qualification.
What makes Aldridge even more delighted is Ramall, who had a very stable start to the bench or played in a secondary game this season. His technical ability has matured. What he needs is game experience and enhanced confrontation. These two points are in There has been a breakthrough development this season. Now it is reasonable to watch him play on the court. He is quite capable. He does not have the excessive excitement of playing on the court like young players. I can’t wait to use all the energy accumulated in training at once.
Aston Villa's defense is solid, Millwall wants to penetrate the opponent's defense in the middle of the road is a fool's dream, Lampard and Ramall frequently shift the ball to the side.
Compared with the performance of Joaquin and Glenchard, Joaquin is even better, because he has no space, he can get rid of it in one place. In a small-scale intensive defense, he has passed continuously. Man needs space to use explosive power and speed, but Aston Villa did not give him.
Instead, it was Joaquin, who used the delicate foot technique to create a lot of threats on the right side. The quality of the passing ball is also very good. Unfortunately, Klose is difficult to make a difference under the attack.
In the game of commanding the bench lineup, Aldridge made very few adjustments. At the same time, the adjustment time is often after 30 minutes, because he needs to give these young players more time to adapt to the game, enter the state first, integrate into the game and release the pressure , And then make adjustments carefully, to avoid frequent changes that make players confused.
After playing for 25 minutes in this game, Aldridge started to adjust, the players played well, but Aston Villa focused on defense, Millwall had fewer offensive points, and was easy to be marked, especially in the penalty area. The threat is almost zero, so Aldridge needs the team to have more offensive points.
He gestured on the sidelines, allowing Ashley Cole and Ferreira to insert assists.
In the first 25 minutes, these two full-back positions have been pressed near the center line to contain Aston Villa’s side counterattack, but Aldridge observed that the opponent’s side counterattack was not a midfielder or full-back. Instead, the offensive player pulls the edge to form a side impact. In the process of going forward, the middle player runs at a high speed to respond forward. In this way, Millwall can completely allow the full back to press up and defend the side counter to Neil. If he can't contain it, there will not be a disadvantage in the number of players in the middle. After all, Aston Villa fights back and has very few players. At that time, it will only test the positive defensive ability of the two central defenders.
Aldrich’s adjustments began to take effect. Ferreira’s approaching assists weren’t particularly obvious, because Joaquin was skilled in ball control and seemed to prefer to control the ball to create threats.
And Ashley Cole and Glenchard played eloquently, Cole set the bottom, and Glencharne cut, threatening to play well.