Chapter 99: Fairy Sword

Reversing Greensby in the middle of the week, the League Cup successfully passed, Audric once again apologized to the team on the training ground the next day. His sudden absence did indeed have a negative impact on the team. The head coach has a negative impact on the team. Needless to say about the importance of.
Aldridge is not a person who will indulge in the past, so the review blames him for taking it seriously, but it will not take too long.
Millwall's tight schedule made them just return to London for two days, and then went to the northwest of England. The main feature of visiting defending champion Blackburn became the focus of this round of the game. The boos even exceeded Arsenal's home battle against Nottingham Forest. .
Blackburn is nominally a city, in fact it is more like a town, because the population here is just over 100,000. Following the thrilling win of the club’s first Premier League title in the history of the club last season, Blackburn still retains the main frame lineup this season. There was no loss of staff, but their head coach was changed. The wily Daglish retired quickly, hung up in Blackburn to enjoy worship, and received an annual salary of up to 300,000 pounds. Then, Blackburn ushered in New coach: Ray Halford.
The coach has been over 50 years old and played as a center defender in his career. The coaching experience of a coach has a great influence on his coaching career. For example, Kevin Keegan is an offensive player. Playing well, the defense is a mess, and Halford's style is defensive, but this Black is not known for defense. The reason why they were able to win the Premier League last season, relying on offensive, the top offensive firepower in the Premier League , 3 goals more than Manchester United, but 11 goals more than Manchester United, of course, Manchester United's number of goals is a lot of water, brushing the weak team against the sky data, such as 9 ball slaughter Ipswich.
The coach doesn't match the team's style, so it's no surprise that the team's performance fluctuates.
Black's first three rounds of the Premier League this season, a small victory over the weaker to get a starter, and then suffered a two-game losing streak, the external comment is that Blackburn will focus on the Champions League, after all, they won a good sign, the group The opponents of the match are Moscow Sparta, Rosenborg and Warsaw Lega.
But Aldridge as the head coach, he can see that Blackburn’s problem is not the focus of the season at all, because they are extremely
amazing
in the UEFA Champions League. In the same room, he was humiliated before the world.
Before coming to this quiet and traditional town, Aldridge used a formal diplomatic tone at the press conference: "Blackburn is the defending champion, Millwall is the newly promoted horse, and being a guest at Ewood Park is a challenge for us. "
Challenge?
The media believe that Aldridge is a low-key way of idiomatic, but Aldridge is telling the truth.
Because of this game, he rested the main lineup and made a rotation.
It’s risky to let the bench lineup directly face the pressure from the defending champion, but Aldrich feels he should try to let the bench players grow quickly and adapt to the pace of the Premier League, which will help Millwall’s future overall Is more powerful.
Halford had a hard time. The league lost two games in a row, especially the last game was lost to Manchester United at home, which caused him great pressure, so this game with Millwall can not be lost.
The coach in the locker room painstakingly asked the players to build a fence, defend first, and then attack. The players must listen to the head coach more or less to avoid a reputation for rebellion.
In the fourth round of the Premier League played at Ewood Park Stadium, Aldridge was on the sidelines as always, and Halford did not dare to neglect. He always directed the players to strengthen the defense on the sidelines.
Aldridge has a 433 formation in this game. Gattuso, Vieira and Barak have three defensive hardness guarantees. The defender was suspended for five games because of Materazzi last season, plus the original red card. He will leave until mid-September to come back, so the guard is Richards partner Elgra, the full-backs sent Zambrotta and Mills, and the striker tridents are Glenshire, Phillips, and Sol. Scya.
Blackburn was almost the main lineup last season.
SAS striker combination, Hille Gaston.
Sherwood, Batty, Wilcox and Ripley formed four midfielders.
Le Saux, Hendry Coleman, Berg formed the back line, the goalkeeper is Flores.
This lineup has nothing to say in terms of strength, except that it is a bit top-heavy, but if the transfer budget is given to Aldridge Blackburn, he will not buy these players. It is not his prophet who knows which players are good seedlings. On the contrary Blackburn introduces all capable players who can fight, and after a little polishing, they can achieve results.
But such players are often already well-known, Aldridge can't control it at all, because the players' subjective will is too strong, plus they have no sense of belonging to the club, and the status is more like a mercenary.
Aldrich's team building idea is to let young players come to his team when they are unknown, even if the players leave, then the club has trained them to let them leave with pride and reputation, which is conducive to his management of the team, And the persuasion to retain players is stronger.
Opposite this Blackburn, the main lineup, SAS combination needless to say, will be poached in two years, other players have joined Chelsea, Tottenham, Manchester United and other teams afterwards, they are mercenaries, come here to earn With the money and the honor, when the team's record is not good, it is logical to transfer and leave.
This battle, which was expected by the outside world, did not hit Mars, but it was a bit dull.
Three capable midfielders effectively blocked Blackburn's positional offense, and El Gragar Richards' center-back combination also performed well.
Aldrich looked around the stadium stands, thoughtfully: maybe the atmosphere here is not as fanatical as Anfield or Old Trafford, and I don’t feel much pressure.
As a result, Millwall’s young players have no fright against the defending champions. Elgra’s first game in England is even more eye-catching. Sutton and Shearer each once wanted to make a breakthrough from him. Was successfully intercepted, even calmer and decisive when handling the ball.
Millwall's offense made Odridge speechless.
Barak passed a ball to Phillips. Phillips took the ball and turned it over Sherwood, then shot a long distance in the first 30 yards of the penalty area!
This long shot was of very high quality, but was still blocked by goalkeeper Flores.
Aldridge turned back a little helplessly and sat down on the coach seat. He turned around and asked Jenson: "It's been a year. Hasn't his habit of playing football changed?"
Jenson shrugged: "Don't he just show it just now? However, he is very lucky."
The two were talking about Kevin Phillips. Aldridge was not very satisfied with Phillips, but Phillips always scored in limited playing time. In terms of time efficiency, he even ranked in Solskjaer. front.
But just now, before Phillips had a long shot, both the wings of Glenchar and Solskjaer ran out of good positions, and he chose to shoot himself.
He is a demon knife!
He is good at rushing to shoot long shots, cold arrows and other skills, and his shooting skills are very good.
But it's just a little out of gang, and can't play with team football.
Aldridge needs the striker to play a role, but he plays the same way as England's traditional "one high and one fast" "fast" forward. He appears in the most threatening position and takes the final blow.
He just managed to score. Aldrich asked him to talk about it a few times. He still played as many times as he knew.
He is still a substitute. Aldrich can't demand too much from him. The demon sword also has the benefits of the demon sword, which is not in line with the mainstream, but the power is infinite, but it can't be used to support it.
Rubbing his head in a headache, Aldridge didn't know what choice he had to make when the monster knife asked him for the main position. The more goals he scored, the more he wanted to play the main role. This is obvious.
But he is not the type of striker Millwall needs in the future.
Substitutes are possible, the main force has no way.
During the period when Aldridge was on a small trip, Blackburn hit a counterattack and completely relied on his personal ability to suppress Millwall. Shearer tricked young and still frizzy Gattuso with his foot skills and then was outside the penalty area. Also using a long shot to return the color, Bout threw the ball, but Sutton, who entered the penalty area, grabbed a shot in front of Richards and the ball will pop up.
Blackburn led Millwall 1-0 at home.
Seeing the ball lost, Aldridge stood up from the seat and shouted to the players to cheer them up. That kind of ball loss was not unacceptable, but it was a lesson, a lesson for goalkeepers and defenders, and needed They try to avoid making the same mistakes in the process of sharpening technology and raising awareness.
A goal was scored in the first half, and Blackburn was a bit smug in the second half. They boldly attacked, and the gap in the back defense became larger and larger.
In the seventy-three minutes of the second half, Vieira and Barak advanced forward and organized an effective counterattack. Glennall assisted Phillips to complete the goal.
After equalizing the score, the scene was a bit out of control. Both teams wanted to win. The conservative first half of the opening was thrown out of the sky, and the battle was launched vigorously.
The game was intense and exciting, but the goal never appeared again. In the end, the two teams shook hands and made peace.
Aldridge’s Millwall achieved two wins and two draws in the Devil schedule in the new season, and achieved excellent results. However, they were 4 points behind the top team in the Premier League rankings.
To everyone's surprise, Newcastle United led by Kevin Keegan won the first four rounds of the game and led the league.