Chapter 294: World War One

Since Millwall made a rotation strategy adjustment in the middle of the season, Aldridge has transformed. In the past, the high posture that only appeared in front of the rival Chelsea and West Ham United became his commonplace.
It also has a "poison tongue" attribute.
When he wants to train young players, he will provoke his opponents in all directions, which makes him spend a lot of effort, such as studying the historical glory part of the opponent club, talking about it in public media.
It roughly means: how brilliant the team was once, how freehand and passionate the game was, but now, I really can't see the shadow of a star.
There is only one purpose of his psychological warfare: to irritate his opponent!
Let those opponents dare to play against Millwall's bench.
This has advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that the opponent's anger was provoked by Millwall. People really showed their prestige, and Millwall could not win. It seems that Millwall blamed himself.
The good news is that this can better train young players.
Like the first half of the schedule, young players are going to attack and fight hard, not to mention how weak the offensive players perform. On the defensive end, Ferdinand, Materazzi and other players have nothing to do for most of the time. Attack, always be counterattacked by the opponent, don’t attack. And they just got a draw steadily. They can’t stand the test. How can they improve their level?
Aldrich didn’t care that Millwall became a public enemy of the Premier League. They succeeded. It’s normal for other teams to be jealous. Anyway, the opponent’s bus attack on Millwall is essentially aimed at Millwall. The game becomes more beautiful, and young players can get a better exercise environment, and grow as quickly as possible in more stressful and more complex and changeable games. This is very important for Millwall's future in the next three to five years.
In this context, Millwall has entered a tense rhythm since January. Every game, regardless of whether it is the main game or not, is sparking, although not all games have won, but the team as a whole The performance is still worthy of the championship status, at least no horse losing the game happened, sometimes lost the ball or tied, that is, the opponent played better, with hard power to fight to win or draw.
In the second round of the League Cup semi-finals, Aldridge still used the bench. At Lion’s Cave, Middlesbrough and Millwall played 1:1 in 90 minutes. Due to the strange rules of the League Cup semi-finals, After entering overtime, Millwall had to break through!
If the 180-minute match in the two rounds is tied, the away goal advantage is invalid, but if the game is over 30 minutes in overtime and the score is still a tie, the guest goal advantage is valid.
In the first round, Millwall visited the Riverside Stadium and his opponent stood at 0:0. In the second round, they returned to the home court at 1:1. In overtime, if Millwall cannot score, there is no penalty shootout, Middles. Fort will go straight to the League Cup final.
Aldridge replaced three players in one breath before the start of overtime, and the three young players with plenty of physical energy had an immediate effect.
Ronaldinho, Klose, Van der Med.
Middlesbrough is not familiar with Ronaldinho. When they are exhausted, Ronaldinho's personal play has a huge advantage on the field, plus on the other side, the defender gives two forwards Klose and Fanny. Van der Mede, who transported the shells, Millwall scored three goals in overtime, and finally advanced to the final with a total score of 4:1.
When the game finally came to an end, Fleet Street shouted: Mad Lion Dynasty!
Because Millwall’s road to the League Cup hardly sees the main players. Other strong teams do not value the League Cup and use it for training. Millwall is also the same, but the result is obvious. Millwall’s young team is even more Dazzling.
Millwall is no longer satisfied with showing the advantages of their talent reserve in the Youth League, the Reserve League, and the Youth FA Cup, and it has directly set off a youth storm on the League Cup stage!
Ronaldinho has become the leader of his group of young Millwall players under 21!
Millwall made the kid the head of the domestic cup. The league, as the foundation for club survival, is the main force to carry the banner, while fighting for honor in the European arena.
After the winter breaks of other European leagues passed, the flames reignited.
In late February, Millwall traveled to the Ruhr area of ​​Germany with great attention and expedition to Westphalia!
Aiming to win the European Super Cup last season qualifier!
This year's European Super Cup is different from the future restructured events.
The future European Super Cup will be held around September, which can be regarded as a championship contest before the opening of the new season in Europe.
The current European Super Cup is not only performed after the winter break, but also the two-round system of host and guest.
As the continuation and end of the European Wars last season, Millwall, as the European Cup Winners Cup, will compete with the European Champions Cup champion Dortmund last season for the honor of "King of Europe"!
Dortmund, who defeated Juventus in the final last year, was eye-catching in the Champions League in the new season. In the context of the departure of the meritorious coach Heathfield, he still overwhelmed the strong enemy in the group with absolute advantage.
However, their situation in the league is getting worse. Last season, they only won the third place in the Bundesliga. If they are not in the Champions League, they can only move to the UEFA Cup.
The performance of the new season in the league is even more terrible. Bayern Munich is still strong, Kaiserslautern is suddenly emerging, where is Dortmund? The middle and lower reaches of the standings.
The two Super Cup games will be a prelude to Millwall's return to the European War in the second half of the league. Next, they will usher in a very frequent schedule. In addition to the League Cup finals, there will be the FA Cup and the league, the Champions League knockout.
The league hopes to maintain its title. The Champions League knockout will be played as a decisive battle. The FA Cup will definitely be handed over to young players, but if it goes further, it will certainly affect the rotation of other games.
In view of this, Aldrich made it very clear to the players before he left Germany: the battle is set!
We are going to put an end to the European Super Cup championship suspense on the road!
Although Dortmund was badly beaten by Waterloo in the league, the Champions League performance in the first half of the season was exceptionally good, and they did not attach importance to Millwall who performed better than them in another group.
First of all, they are Champions League champions. Millwall is blown up by the outside world again. In terms of real honor, the two are different.
Secondly, they are fighting at home, and they deserve to show their vigor.
Aldrich took Dortmund's preparations very seriously and studied their performance in the Bundesliga this season. The opponent's weaknesses were not hidden. After all, they performed badly in the Bundesliga and were bullied by many teams that are not as strong as their team.
In the past three seasons, Dortmund's performance over the same period has a trend that is very obvious: the attacking power has declined and the defense has weakened.
This directly led them from the championship to the third place, and then to the middle and lower points of the current standings.
Seizing the question of the opponent's defense, Millwall played very targeted at Westphalia Stadium. Speaking of the old routine, he was low-profile, defended and then attacked, and caught the opponent's seven inches to death during the attack. hit!
Since Larson won the Golden Globe and the personal honor of the second place in the World Footballer, his scoring efficiency has dropped significantly!
So much so that the media began to attack him for his lack of initiative.
In this regard, Aldridge has been defending Larson, and even hesitated to fight against the media reporters. In the weekly fixed column of the official website coach, and in articles published on some media platforms, he spared no effort to defend his disciples and despise those slander. Larson's people.
Larson's state, mentality, ability, etc. are no problem.
There is only one problem: he is too famous!
As a result, all opponents' defensive focus is concentrated on him, so whenever he runs on the field and has the threat of threatening the goal, he will encounter the opponent's full stranglehold.
His scoring rate declined because of this.
While Aldridge defends him and still appreciates his reasons, Larson is smarter in playing. He knows that he is the target of the attack and the number one threat in the eyes of his opponents, so he starts to serve his teammates more in the game. , Use yourself to attract the opponent's defense, cover other teammates offense.
Milwall’s firepower is still fierce, except that the protagonist of the rifle has turned into Trezeguet, Shevchenko, and Nedved.
In the first round of the European Super Cup at Westphalia Stadium, Larson staged an assist hat trick to help the team achieve a huge 4:1 away advantage.
Nedved scored twice, Trezeguet and Shevchenko scored one goal each.
With the victory on the road as the basis, they can save a lot of physical energy in the second round of the game. Aldridge even boldly decided to let young players play the second game to enhance their sense of honor and belonging.
After returning to London, Mill Wal-Mart continued to go to Wembley immediately, ushered in the first championship of the season.
League Cup final.
The opponents are old acquaintances, old neighbors, endless Chelsea!
Chelsea's performance this season is polarized. The League Cup broke into the finals and ranked high in the standings. It was their best performance in the same period of the Premier League. At the same time, the European Cup of Winners has not yet been out, but the European Cup of Winners was originally for For the teams in the five major leagues, the real tough battle is only two or three games. Like Millwall last year, people only remember that Millwall defeated Barcelona in the final and even forgot the battle with Paris Saint-Germain in the semifinals. .
Gullit's romantic and beautiful football made Chelsea start to succeed, but the disadvantages are also very obvious. It can be seen in the league that Chelsea is the team with the least number of draws in the Premier League.
After playing well, they are invincible and unrelenting. For example, in the semi-finals of the League Cup, they advanced to Arsenal in the five-ball killing of Highbury, but faced with adversity, they seemed to have no way, either they were beaten a thousand miles, or were powerless. Turn over.
The Blues Chelsea lacked a unique spiritual temperament and soul, and today they are no different from the mercenary Blackburn.
For many consecutive years of strong recruitment, Chelsea has a luxurious lineup and has become a new force in England.
However, Gullit was not blessed to withstand it. He has been fired by the club, and now the player and coach is in charge of the team.
Viali's first coaching debut was the League Cup final against Millwall.
He did his best to bring Chelsea the championship, before the game issued a bold statement to encourage the team.
The new coach took office, Chelsea's three forces served, and Millwall seemed a lot low-key.
Do you need to mobilize to play Chelsea?
Aldridge just made some changes in the starting list.
Let some of the main force beat the battle and lead half of the bench players to impact the championship trophy.
This is different from the semi-final. The semi-final fell. Aldridge really didn't feel any pity. The League Cup, all the giants did not work, and Millwall's schedule is dense. .
But since he came to the finals, he won a trophy, won a trophy, and lost to be laughed at as a background, he must take enough attention, the stimulation of winning and the blow of losing are too strong, no Not important.
Moreover, the opponent is Chelsea!