Chapter 1010: Hot and Dark Horse

Simon Barnes's column article made Aldridge look completely oblivious. He didn't even notice that he maintained a posture for nearly 10 minutes!
Quentin Crisp is who Aldridge was not interested in knowing, but what he said, the rules, the words written by Barnes, seemed to enchant Aldridge.
"Never chase the people next to you, hold them down, and let them level with you."
This sentence kept echoing in Aldridge's mind.
Even with a look back at Barnes's analysis, Aldridge's thinking also went on at the same time.
He can also understand why Barnes said that the early construction of the national team was placed in the role of "weaker" and achieved success.
Because the gap between the two sides should be narrowed on the football field, the mainstream means is utilitarian and defensive!
In those games where the gap between strengths and weaknesses is wide, more than 90% of the weak teams rely on defensive counterattacks to destroy the strong, but it is not possible that the full-court offensive suppresses the strong and devastates the strong. It's bigger and it doesn't live up to its name.
England's early utilitarian, self-regarding the weak, the team can do so, because of the defeat of the European Cup, the World Cup qualifiers have a poor record, and there is the danger of missing the World Cup. How can they be proud? No amount of confidence and arrogance has been crushed.
Use utilitarianism, pragmatism, and defensive counterattack to allow yourself to hold down opponents who are stronger than them. The gap between the two is narrowed, and then seize the opportunity to give the opponent a fatal blow. This is the survival philosophy of the weak and is widely used. use.
What makes Aldridge think deeply is that Barnes said that he is good at applying this rule because of Millwall's success.
The strong will definitely not take the initiative to narrow the gap with the weak.
But Barnes used a very commendable term.
"England must go to a leisurely victory game"
laid back?
On the football field, leisure is not a testimonial!
In the traditional concept of the English, what exists on the football field is fighting, fighting life and death.
Aldridge can understand that Barnes does not want to express the leisurely players walking on the court.
It's a kind of control over the game!
This is also a key factor in Millwall's success, ruling the game.
England did not have the technical and tactical style of "controlling the game" before. Even now, there are few teams in the English football team that can use the "controlling game" to the fullest. On the one hand, the competition is fierce and it is too difficult to do it. On the other hand is the influence of traditional English style.
Aldrich thinks more and Lenovo is more abundant. When the Premier League catches up and is popular in the world, how can the Premier League brand successfully promote overseas?
At first, it must have been a crazy game rhythm, and this rhythm is beyond the control of both teams in the game, which is similar to the "out of control"!
It is also because the dramatic progress of the game is even more fascinating when it is out of control. If everyone has the consciousness of "controlling the game" and put it into practice, it will be difficult for the overall pace of the game to accelerate for a long time.
In the future, many fans who do not like Barcelona and Spain are also because the control of these two teams is too strong, and they are so powerful that they do not accelerate to a critical moment, so the game becomes a long-tempo lullaby.
Aldrich’s eyes gradually brightened, and Barnes’s masterpiece made his thinking very clear. He could roughly understand the style and technical and tactical system of Greece. However, the core philosophy was not fully understood. Barnes gave With his revelation, he was able to position himself to anticipate the changing trend of the situation between the two armies on the field.
Rehagel's Greek team didn't just hold all the strong teams, so that they reached the same level in the abstract sense at a certain moment of the game, and then won the sneak attack? !
There must be luck in it, but the core strength is the foundation, because luck will not always appear on the same team, and it will appear continuously!
Stella Maggioni stared at Aldridge with strange eyes, his breakfast had been eaten, and Aldridge remained immobile for ten minutes, it seemed to be thinking about something, the expression only changed slightly, frowning at first, and finally Yuyu opened Then, after taking action, he took a sip of coffee and showed an uncomfortable expression, apparently because the coffee was cold, which made him unexpected.
Aldridge put down the newspaper, and then asked the waiter to give him a cup of coffee, then continued his breakfast easily.
Stella Maggioni took the newspaper he had just laid down and browsed it, and he read Barnes' article without any particular feeling.
To be honest, columns like Barnes and David Miller look lively at the layman and watch the door at the layman.
Those standing on the threshold are confused.
I can't understand what it means to "have to win leisurely", and I can't really understand what bullying and bullying in quotes are expressing.
Stramagioni didn't understand what attracted Audridge in this article.
He asked curiously: "This column report is very connotative?"
Aldridge finished a cup of coffee, took a napkin and wiped his mouth, smiling: "This article, uh, um, can help England increase the probability of defeating Greece, about 20% increase rate, hehehe."
"what?"
Stramagioni exclaimed, he looked down at the article again, as if he wanted to see the mystery from inside.
After having breakfast, Aldridge immediately went to the training ground to wait for the players.
How to deal with Greece, he has a substantial countermeasure!
He will not give ideological education lessons to the national team members and explain Barnes's article to them. That doesn't make any sense. He just needs to tell the players what to do in the game to win. That's enough!
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The European Cup group stage came to an end when the entire English team was focused on preparing for the quarter-finals against Greece in Aldridge.
The Netherlands defeated Latvia with 3 goals and scored 4 points.
The fate of the Dutch team is not in their hands, because before the last round of the start, the Dutch team had only 1 point, and the Czech team in the same group made 6 points ahead of the match. The German team is even in both games. As long as the Czech team is won, the German team will Will get the team's second qualifying.
The situation in this group is the same as the situation before the start of the final round of Group B of the England team in Group 99%. The difference of 1% is only in the number of goals and losses.
Unlike the final loss of the England group stage game to Croatia, although the Czech team has also released water, such as the absolute main force like Nedved, and the young rookie Rosicky did not play, but the German team in the advanced ball situation, It was actually reversed by the Czech team!
The Czech team advanced to the top 8 with a record of three wins!
The Dutch team also reached the quarterfinals with the group second.
After the German team returned home in the last European Cup group stage, this European Cup group was also eliminated after the same group stage!
The reform of the German team is imperative. The local World Cup still has two years to go. For the national team, it is a time constraint. The German Football Association immediately started to change coaches after the German team defeated the European Cup. Smann was recalled to the country, and Beckenbauer supported the lovers to lead the German team into the era of the new era!
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After the end of the group stage, the European Cup battles are still staged continuously, without a day off.
Host Portugal and Croatia's quarter-finals are about to start at the Lisbon Bright Stadium.
Aldrich has focused on preparing for Greece in the English training camp for two consecutive days. He will not overthrow the established tactical policy of the England team. On this basis, adjustments will be made to respond to the first battle with Greece.
At the pre-match press conference, Aldridge expressed his fear of Greece.
"Being able to break through in the group with Portugal and Spain, the Greek team has proved its strength. At the end of the group stage of the European Cup, there have been four traditional strong teams left. This phenomenon is worthy of vigilance in England, Spain, France and Germany. , Italy, these teams have very strong strength, England and they are at a level where there is no obvious gap, they have been eliminated, why not England? We must pay attention to the Greek team, can not go to the fantasy semi-finals and In the final, if we are a little distracted, maybe the quarter-finals will be the end of the European Cup for England."
Speaking of Rehagel, the man who once played against Aldridge in the World Preliminaries, England also defeated Greece, but Aldridge shook his head.
"Historical record is meaningless, absolutely not! You only said half right, your defeat? Yes, I did lead England to defeat Greece led by Rehagel, but that was only a game more than two years ago, 90 minutes A game of no significance to tomorrow’s game. England is about to face a brand-new Greece, Rehagel will definitely cause trouble for England, just as they beat Portugal and draw Spain, he has This ability, the Greek team also has this ability. England? I certainly hope to advance to the semi-finals, but the football world is not a fairy tale world."
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On this day, the host Portugal, with Deco and Figo and Ronaldo's excellent play 2: 0, sent Croatia home and became the first team to advance to the semi-finals.
The next day, Aldridge led his team to leave the hotel and took a bus to the Alvara Stadium.
In Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, there are two top Portuguese domestic teams, Atletico Lisbon and Benfica Club.
Lisbon Light Stadium is the home stadium of Benfica Club.
The Alvadra Stadium belongs to the Atletico Lisbon Club.
On the way to the Alvara Stadium, the players on the English bus looked serious. For three consecutive days, Aldridge used practical actions to remind them that they must pay great attention to Greece, which can be said to have reached the level of three orders.
According to Aldrich's authority on the team, if he does so, it will inevitably make nobody in the team dare to take it lightly.
This is very different from playing the French team.
Just like in the past against Germany, against Argentina, against Brazil, and now against France in the European Cup, Aldridge does not need to remind the players.
Everyone in the world knows that their opponents are strong!
England is not sure to win!
Of course, he will be alert to his opponents and lower his posture to play.
However, unlike Greece, their weak image will reduce the vigilance of their opponents. In their posture, the strong will of course stand in contempt for their opponents.
If Aldrich does not deliberately aggravate this warning, relying on serious training to prepare for war is difficult to have a big effect on the competition.
Two hours before the game, the England team arrived at the Alvara Stadium, which is slightly smaller than the Lisbon Bright Stadium and is also a five-star stadium reviewed and evaluated by UEFA.
After the warm-up training, Aldridge once again reiterated the tactical requirements of today's game in the locker room.
The players didn't know how many times they listened, but before the game, no one dared to express impatience.
In the past seven years, Aldridge has never been overturned by a ditch. At a critical moment, his role as coach will be very prominent and important. If the players dare to question or despise Aldridge’s words and deeds at this time, the coach is nervous and nervous. , Then, they are foolish and hopelessly hopeless, because Aldridge has experienced more big scenes than them, no one is giving the championship trophy to Aldridge, all of them are cruel and fierce. Looted mercilessly!
Especially in this competition, the European Cup.
No one will question Aldridge's ambitions.
If you get the European Cup, Aldridge will become the legendary coach of the football world!