This year’s Christmas War is not on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, but on the 27th.
As the last league match in the first half of the league, Millwall will go away to challenge the newly promoted team, while also struggling in the relegation vortex Milton Keynes.
Due to the obvious gap between strength and weakness, at the pre-match press conference, Fleet Street paid more attention to the Golden Globe Awards just passed. If not unexpected, Mr. World Football will also be included in Nedved.
When Aldridge was asked about Nedved’s awards, he smiled and replied: “In the past few years, some people have been picking faults, saying that Nedved is no better than a player, and it seems to be a little worse. , I have been saying that such a comparison makes no sense, because no player is absolutely perfect, no player is a decathlon, but Nedved has become a phenomenal player, and at the same time, it will also become the next fifteen years For the template of the midfielder, the club will use Nedved as a standard to require players in the same position, physical fitness, defensive awareness, interspersed running in a large range of activities, tandem offense, and the threat of breaking the door after the right time. I am very happy that his efforts have paid off and I am honored to have a professional player like him. I hope every Millwall player, especially young players, can follow Nedved as an example. Seoul will become stronger and stronger.”
Now that Audridge has said this, the media can’t refute it.
But for a long time in the past, people always liked to criticize Nedved for his lack of talent.
This is an ignorant prejudice. Indeed, on the court, there are too many front waist players who play football and look aura, and the style of the game is pleasing to the eyes.
But that’s about it. Playing well doesn’t mean playing practically. It doesn’t mean that it has a positive effect on the entire team. This is not a fancy performance. Doing a few actions to win applause won’t make the score rewrite.
For this reason, Aldridge often responds in only one way: you can find me a player who can replace Nedved!
Then this battle of words will end without ill.
On the one hand, someone is saying who is better than Nedved, but on the one hand, it is impossible to find a candidate who can actually replace Nedved in Millwall. This situation makes the media very crazy, the situation is so subtle, it seems obvious A common star, but just can’t find a suitable candidate who can be absolutely replaced.
When Nedved began to score, all the media closed their mouths, and after a period of silence, the tone changed and began to sing praises for Nedved.
On the day of Game 27, several players who participated in the Golden Globe Awards returned to the team on time. They just missed the two days of training during Christmas, but they returned to the team and still did not enter the game roster.
On the road, the lively substitute team was very motivated, and Milton Keynes was killed 3-1 on the road.
Millwall ended his first half of the league with a 19-game victory.
This is no longer news, and Manchester United have also won in the last two rounds. The gap between the two teams is still 15 points. The hope of reversal is extremely slim.
Two days later, the Premier League drove a fast train and Millwall returned to London to play away, and played a London Derby with Graham’s Tottenham.
Graham used the old tactics of the dead, successfully sniping Millwall in White Hart Lane, 0-0 closed.
Millwall’s winning streak was set at 19 consecutive wins in a single season and 23 consecutive wins across the season.
In response, Aldridge said with a smile after the game: “Well, we stopped the record-setting pace, maybe it is a good thing, which can reduce the pressure on the players and help our next performance.”
It’s bound to be an exciting process to set a record and create a new history, but in this process, pressure will gradually accumulate. The new record has been rewritten. At this time, the pressure should be removed. The timing should be pretty good. In a few league games, it was almost time for the start of the European War in February. At that time, the psychological condition was not as easy as it is now.
Nedved won the Golden Globe Award, which has a positive stimulation on the spirit of his teammates.
Players like Henry, Larson, and Ronaldinho will fight immediately after the arrival of January.
For them, to get more personal honor, there is no doubt that they need to rely on the field data to support.
The striker does not have a beautiful number of goals for the capital, why compete for personal honor?
Their desire to fight is strong, but Aldridge still needs to adjust the team.
Therefore, in the league, he began to use the main force of the offensive group, and the strategy of using the substitute in the midfield and backcourt.
In the newly opened FA Cup, the offensive team is used as a substitute, and the main defense strategy is used.
January 4th.
Nedved presented the Golden Globe to the fans at the Lion’s Cave Stadium. The team took a group photo. The fans also applauded the steel giant. The fans of the Lions believe that Nedved won the award. It’s like the club’s declaration every summer that it refuses to buy Nedved from another club: even if it’s £100 million, we won’t sell it!
The visiting Liverpool players watched Millwall starters take a group photo, especially in the middle of the Golden Globe in the hands of Nedved, saying that they are not envious, it is definitely deceiving, but what about it? Can only envy.
Aldridge chatted with Holliday, and the other congratulated Aldridge on cultivating a Mr. Golden Ball. The famous name of “King Builder” is now awesome.
Aldridge had no choice but to be humble.
When the game started, the two’s positions instantly became hostile.
Millwall made six absolute main players today.
The striker Trident Ganedved, Southgate and goalkeeper Bout in the backcourt.
Pirlo rested on the bench, with Lampard as the midfielder.
It seems that Millwall’s starting strength has declined, but this situation has left Holier a problem.
Millwall is obviously attacking the strong and defending the weak, of course, this is based on their comparison of starting the main force as the standard.
What about Liverpool?
Is it offense or defense?
Shou’s words, isn’t that letting the other party’s gorgeous attack group wreak havoc?
What should I do if I get attacked?
Offensive and defensive is a whole, no matter what choices are made, risks cannot be avoided.
This game really exploded Hollier’s heart attack. He did have a heart attack…
Liverpool played a defensive counterattack at the start.
However, the counterattack did not dare to invest too much force, so relying on two or three players to counterattack had little effect.
So Liverpool increased its investment in counterattacks.
In the fast pace, Liverpool’s counterattack did not hit, turned around and was counterattacked. Carragher, who was serving as a full-back, was stunned by Ronaldinho. He was not a full-back material, plus lack of top-level Ronaldinho’s playing experience collapsed quickly.
Carragher hardly ever made a defensive prediction correctly.
He cut inside, Ronaldinho came to the bottom, he blocked the bottom line, Ronaldinho easily broke past him.
If it were not for the 3H defensive combination that had a better tacit understanding than the beginning of the season, Liverpool estimated that they would be screened in the first half.
At the end of the first half, the score was 2:1.
Ronaldinho and Henry scored one goal each.
In the second half, it turned into Millwall playing a defensive counterattack. Liverpool were not willing to score a point away from the road, and they must attack. This attack, the 3H back defense combination also couldn’t stop Millwall’s sharp counterattack.
Larson scored twice in the second half to help the team defeat Liverpool 4-1.
The league with Manchester United and the league with Liverpool became the two case matches after Fleet Street.
Football commentators unanimously believe that if you face Millwall like Liverpool, fear of the tail, and choose conservatively from the beginning of the tactics, then the result will inevitably be the bitter fruit of the defeat. The reason is simple. Can resist the super strong attack group of Millwall!
Although Manchester United lost, they have seen hope of victory! If luck is better, such as Lampard’s last long-range miss, or Vanderbilt’s successful save to save the ball, even if it is out of bounds, Millwall may not win in the end.
Public opinion believes that to get points from Millwall, you must attack boldly and vigorously and targetedly.
As for whether the iron bucket array can be set up like Tottenham to run away from the end, the risks and benefits are not proportional.
This is an arithmetic problem.
Draw a draw, and get 1 or 0 points.
Attacking boldly, 3, 1, 0 points are possible.
And Tottenham got a tie?
Instead, fans’ support for Graham fell, and White Hart Lane fans calling for him to get out are everywhere. Why? Because such a draw makes the fans look down even more than failure!
In the following month, Millwall scored two wins and two draws in four league games, scored a lot of goals, and the number of goals conceded also increased, because in addition to their own starting strength decline, they did not send the full main force to fight, and also compete with opponents Indeed started to actively attack related.
In the same period, Manchester United only scored 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in the second half of the six league games. In February, Manchester United lost to Robson-led Newcastle United. The score was an embarrassing 3:0, which led Manchester United to Millwall instead. The gap has been widened again.
The gap from 15 points to 16 points.
There are 13 rounds left in the Premier League, major European bookmakers have made adjustments, Premier League betting, Millwall’s option to close the championship, Manchester United’s winning odds have soared to 60 times, followed by Arsenal’s winning odds of 150 Times.
It is three months before the end of the Premier League season. It is a long time. There seems to be room for miracles in the 13th round of the league, but now only fools will bet on Manchester United or Arsenal to win.
Don’t look at Millwall’s shift of focus, and slightly underestimate the league, but Aldrich is empathetic. The league can not be Ronaldinho, Nedved, or Pirlo, but Henry, Larson are Inevitably, the two men are scoring goals against the League!
Even Phillips’ league goals were behind Larsson and Henry, and Phillips opened a gap of 7 goals with the fourth-ranked player in the shooter list. There is no doubt that the Premier League golden boots, Even comparing with other European League shooter list data, this season’s European Golden Boot winner, a large probability is born between these three.
Henry scored two more goals than Larsen, and his evaluation this season was rising all the way, starting to surpass Larson, because most of Henry’s goals were scored by sports, and a few of them were set balls. Correspondingly, Larson had five penalty kicks.
In mid-February, the Champions League battle was rekindled, much earlier than in previous years. After all, there were more matches.
After winning two consecutive matches in the FA Cup, Millwall began to attack the Champions League with all his strength.
But just as the Champions League was about to start, Aldridge was caught in the whirlpool of public opinion outside the court.
Just after attending the press conference before the Champions League, Aldridge drove away from the club in the evening, and a high-end car stopped in front of the door, which just blocked Aldridge’s path.
When Aldridge sounded his horn, the window of the opposite car fell, and the face of an old man who had not seen him for a long time came into view.
“Aldrich, get in my car, let’s talk about something important.”