Chapter 296: Trophy Harvester

From the 70th minute of the game, Millwall fully pressed Ursi in the attack. The further the game was dragged, the more the two teams performed differently, and the gap was obvious.
Millwall played better and better, and Chelsea couldn't even fight back. The previous energy consumption began to intuitively affect their performance.
Ronaldinho's personal breakthrough and breakthrough threats in a small area are huge. Just over 80 minutes after the game, he broke through Petrescu before the penalty area and then suddenly had a pause, which made Chelsea overall. There has also been a change in rhythm.
After a pause, Ronaldinho passed the ball forward, the ball jumped lightly, crossed a parabolic trajectory and fell to the left of the penalty spot.
Duberg just turned around to grab the spot, but someone around him was faster than him.
Crazy Lion God of War, Nedved!
Elegant blonde hair, determined eyes, and brave body struck Chelsea's defense like steel!
Ronaldinho and Nedved's passing timing is just right. Nedved rushed forward, and the Chelsea defensive player turned back to chase, which was obviously slow.
Moreover, Ronaldinho’s rhythmic pause was wonderful, which made Chelsea’s defensive players pause for a while. This time, Nedvide took the lead when he entered the penalty area.
Without waiting for the ball to land, Nedved volleyed!
Dehuye made a subconscious save, and the palm hit the ball, but the direction of the ball changed after the refraction was not large, and it flew into the goal of Chelsea!
"In 81 minutes, Millwall took the lead! The most recent goal was Nedved. After puncturing the Dortmund gate twice in the last game, the Czech scored again today! Millwall is away from this season. The first champion has less than 10 minutes left."
Nedved screamed after scoring a goal, saluting the fans in the stands.
Champion, champion, we were the champion last season, and we will remain the champion this season!
This goal hit Chelsea players a lot and hit the fans even more.
They were looking forward to it for nearly thirty years, and the championship trophy was within reach, but they were destroyed by Millwall again and again, which made their hatred for Millwall even more memorable.
Viali also made a substitution and replaced Zola to strengthen the offense while encouraging players to not give up.
Aldridge stood on the sidelines with hands in his pockets, and without saying that, Nedved knew what to do.
With players like Nedved, Aldridge really feels his blessing.
An impeccable player who was arranged by him to play the midfield but could do defense!
Even in the era after ten years, in an environment where players have a higher balance between offense and defense, it is unlikely that there will be many midfielders like Nedved.
Chelsea counterattacked, but it was already the end of the crossbow and turned around. At the last moment of the game, Ronaldinho took Van Demeide's oblique long flyer knife to the meeting. After seeing Dhuye abandoned the door, he chose to shoot outside the penalty area. !
"Ronaldinho's long-range shot! Dehouye must not be able to recover, oh, it's a pity, this footshot actually hit the beam after rebounding on the ground and hit the beam again. Dehuye ran back and will Hug the ball."
Ronaldinho saw that the ball didn't advance, he was angry and smiling, shook his head and hurried back.
In the end, Chelsea failed to rewrite the score. Millwall beat Chelsea by one goal and won the first championship trophy of the season.
"The 97/98 season of the English League Cup was born, the champion was Millwall! Although Chelsea performed well in this game, on the tactical level, it was Hall’s victory over Viali. Recall that two years ago , 95/96 season League Cup final, Millwall and Aston Villa battle, today Chelsea is very similar to Millwall at that time, lack of honor, eager for success, I hope to eat the opponent from the first minute of the game, In that game, Millwall eventually won by reversal. Chelsea had bad luck. Their opponent was not Aston Villa, but Millwall."
"Yes, today Milwall is unhurried and shows a strong temperament. They do not fear the other party's offense and control the game rhythmically. They will not be anxious because the other party's offense is strong or they have not scored. They know they will score. In the first half, the opponent's physical energy was consumed. In the second half of the second half, he suddenly exerted force. The score is only 1:0, but the number of threatening offenses created by Millwall in more than 20 minutes is a threat created by Chelsea. Several times offensive. A good player may not be a good coach. Viali just took office, and we can’t demand too much from him. That’s the decision of the Chelsea club. Outsiders can’t interfere, but from an objective point of view, Viali In front of Hall, like a pupil, Hall gave him a lesson today."
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After winning the League Cup, Aldridge did not get overly excited after the game and hugged and celebrated with each player.
This season their promotion to the League Cup has been easy, without encountering serious challenges, which is the biggest factor to win the championship.
When the awards were over, Ronaldinho took a photo with Aldridge. He and Aldridge held the side of the small trophy of the League Cup together, and Ronaldinho, with a big buck, showed great pleasure in the other hand than the thumb.
Aldridge and the players thanked the fans who helped the field. For winning the championship, the trophy is important, but the mental stimulation is more important. When a series of battles is about to be ushered in, a championship can be used to boost morale. The team is an effective stimulant.
The next day, Fleet Street gave Aldridge a new title: Trophy Harvester!
Aldrich himself did not know how many nicknames he had.
Coach killer, civil war expert, derby demon...
Millwall, who has not had an important championship trophy in the past 100 years of history, has harvested two League Cups, two FA Cups, one Premier League championship, and one European Winners Cup when Aldridge has coached for less than four years. The championship trophy, six heavy trophies made Aldridge complete transformation, he is no longer just because of his youth in the English football, but has been fully affirmed, the outside world has won him the height, has As much as Manchester United coach Ferguson.
"The Sun" even exaggerated the production of a picture as the headline of the football sector.
In that picture is a Q version of Aldridge. Although he is dressed in a suit and leather, he is more like a cute child. He has three trophies, league, FA Cup and league cup in front of him.
In the Q version, Aldridge's chin frowned, and there was text on his head explaining his distress: Should I take one, two, or three?
The headline at the top is: the troubles of each season.
The unproductive newspaper also designed cartoon children sitting in two rows below, no more than two, and there are exactly 19 people in each of the two rows. Each person is wearing a different jersey, representing the other 19 clubs in the Premier League. They look up at the top. Aldridge.
The sales of The Sun on this day were staggering. Many fans could not help but see the headlines on the cover, but they also offended people, especially the fans of 19 other clubs.
Aldridge is helpless. He likes fame because it will make it easier for him to manage the club, but he does not want to be a public enemy, but Fleet Street wants him to be a public enemy.
He became a public enemy, which means that he will face a lot of wars, so that the news will roll in.
With the good momentum of winning the League Cup, Millwall ushered in Dortmund again at Wembley, the second round of the European Super Cup started.
This time Aldridge sent a large number of young players, guessing that the opponent will play more aggressive in order to make a comeback, Millwall will use a defensive counterattack tactic.
However, Aldridge overestimated the pressure resistance of young players in the big game, the defense is still reliable, and the offense is a mess.
Duff obviously played abnormally, and the ball on the wing was either a big trip or a ball control error.
Fortunately, the defensive line of the bench is not fragile. Gattuso, Materazzi, Ferdinand are all players that can be trusted.
After Ferdinand was sent to the reserve team for Christmas, he and Mills and Lampard helped the reserve team to win and win in a month. With an active and hard training attitude and a focus on the reserve team, they won Audrey seriously Strange trust.
At the same time, after returning to the first team, they took care of themselves and reintegrated into the team through their professionalism in their spare time.
Millwall fell behind by two goals in the game. After adjusting in the second half, Fanny pulled one back. When the total score reached 5:3, Dortmund was discouraged.
In the end, Millwall won the European Super Cup championship at Wembley.
As the continuation of last season, after Millwall won the championship, on the Wembley Stadium stands, the fans made the slogan: Five crowns!
League, FA Cup, European Winners Cup, European Super Cup, Community Shield.
Millwall won a total of five championship trophies in the 96/97 season!
Aldridge is known as the trophy harvester, and it is really not aimless.
But he was too late to celebrate, and he had to keep his head clear at all times, because a powerful enemy was about to come to London for a fierce fight!
Serie A giants, Juventus Zebra Legion!
When the Champions League quarter-final was about to kick off, Millwall fell to third place in the league.
It's not that they haven't performed well in the past two months. They have narrowed the points gap with Manchester United, only 7 points, but another team that was originally behind them has become more courageous and has an unstoppable sign.
Wenger's Arsenal stepped into a consecutive battle after winning in February and will win every battle!
Overtake Millwall by 2 points, only 5 points left with Manchester United.
Aldridge has no way to deal with this. This is the case with the league. You can only make yourself perform better to ensure that you win the championship.
Millwall has finished two league games with Arsenal this season, one win and one loss. If he wants to snipe Arsenal, he has no chance.
Millwall's young lineup occasionally played out two draws, and the score lost was 4 points, which is the price. The cruel Champions League knockout has also begun, and Millwall has no energy to balance the league.
In this regard, Aldridge was very hard-mouthed at the press conference: Millwall has not yet been out, the league is temporarily ranked third, the gap with Manchester United is only 7 points, there are only 10 rounds left in the league, Manchester United can win 8 games , The champion they took away, won't win 8 games, then let's wait and see.
He cannot show weakness, otherwise it will weaken the young players' aggressiveness in the game.
Fleet Street is very puzzled about this. They all feel that Millwall can reach this point this season, which is already amazing.
You want to attack the Champions League, but also to train young people, do you have to successfully defend the league?
The outside world believes that Millwall's goals in the league this season should be realistic, based on the results of the Champions League knockout.
If you are out of the game against Juventus, then you will fully impact the league's defending, and there will be chases. After all, the main energy is no problem.
But if the Juventus pass is passed, Millwall's realistic goal in the league should be the runner-up to ensure the qualification of the Champions League next season.
Anyway, it is impossible to give up the Champions League, really eliminated Juventus, that is, the semi-finals, put the knife around Aldridge's neck, he will not give up!