The Young Lion

The stadium at the Prince Park in Paris was full, and the hustle and bustle of the stands was hot.

In the visiting team's locker room, Millwall's players are ready to go, and everyone sits on the bench with their heads high and vigorous.

Their eyes stared at Aldridge, waiting for the final encouragement before the game.

Aldridge stood by the door, hands in his pockets, and the handsome young handsome Gu Jingbo's face finally changed, becoming soft and turning into a faint smile.

"Almost three years ago, most of you came to the team at that time, David, Henrik, Pavel, Claude, Michel, Gareth, Bernd, Hans. Other People came to the team two years ago. Maybe you don’t know what I said to these predecessors. I can repeat it. I said that your opponents are Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool. Three years have passed, we have conquered England, we have had several encounters with the traditional giants of England, they are not terrible, we have proved through our efforts, we are stronger than them! But this is not our end, today, I think Let me tell you something new, where is our limit? Is it the European Cup of Winners? No, or rather, our limit is not a trophy, but history, we want to leave a glorious chapter in the history of football On the way forward, we will encounter Paris Saint-Germain, a strong team that has entered the semi-finals of the European War for five consecutive years. In the future, we may also encounter AC Milan, Real Madrid, the German giant Bayern Munich, or other strong teams, but Our goal is not just to defeat them, it is not, it will not be defeated by an opponent, it means that we can stop, we must continue to win, until you can’t play, we look back together See, how many classic moments we will create in this journey and leave it to future generations to look up, I am confident to do it, how about you?"

The three captains in the team took the lead and shouted in unison: "Yes!"

Aldridge pulled his left hand out of his trouser pocket, opened the locker room door, and smiled lightly: "Crazy lion, rush, outside is your stage, it is a game you should enjoy, let the world know you, put every A game serves as the starting point of your legend, and keep such a mentality, forever, forever, forever, don't be satisfied!"

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Every ambitious player will make a high-five with Aldridge's left hand when walking out of the locker room.

Aldridge closed his eyes and enjoyed this moment. Today, in this game, he is excited and enjoying.

His promises to players are constantly being fulfilled.

Into the Premier League, shaking the rule of the giants, now, they have come to the stage of the European War, the focus of the entire European arena!

The European Cup Winners' Cup was a little bit sloppy in the previous games, but in the semifinals it was quite different.

In the two semifinals, it was a strong match.

The other two teams to catch up with each other are La Liga giants Barcelona and Serie A Emerald Florence.

Millwall is the new Premier League champion, and against Paris Saint-Germain was last year's Ligue 1 runner-up and defending champion of the European Cup Winners' Cup.

Coming to the semi-finals, the attention of the European Cup Winners' Cup suddenly rose to countless levels.

So in fact, against Paris Saint-Germain today, it was Millwall’s first hard battle officially on the European stage. The previous knockout was just bullying small fish and shrimp, and there was nothing to show off.

When the players walked onto the field, Audrey was the last to walk out of the player’s tunnel. When he saw the scene of the flashing lights in the audience, he raised his head and stood on the sidelines to look around the court as if he were standing in Anfield for the first time. The actions are exactly the same.

The home team coach Luis Fernandez approached him. The two met in Auxerre last summer and exchanged football experiences together, but there was no personal relationship. Unlike the other and Wenger, they would sell Anelka 500,000 pounds to Wenger.

"Aldrich, I didn't expect that we would meet again here."

Fernandez held Aldridge's hand enthusiastically and smiled.

Aldridge shrugged and smiled, "I didn't expect that, I thought we would meet again in the Netherlands."

Fernandez haha ​​said with a smile: "But God only allows me and one of you to go to Rotterdam."

"Then I can't wish you good luck today."

"Wish me luck!"

"Hehehe."

After the two exchanged their greetings, Aldridge walked slowly to the coach of the visiting team to stand. His face changed, and he looked solemnly and ruthlessly at the arena, his eyes intertwined with the flames of fighting spirit.

"The first round of the 1996-1997 European Cup Winners' Cup is about to start at the Prince Park Stadium. The home champion is the last champion Paris Saint-Germain. They obviously have an advantage over Millwall, who played in Europe for the first time, but they still have to score. Heart league, now they are only ranked second in the league, but Millwall from the Premier League has been crowned the Premier League laurels five rounds in advance four days ago. Many people in this team of Millwall are probably not familiar with it. If you don’t care about England The words of football may not even have been heard a year ago, but they are indeed a strong team, setting a record of 18 consecutive victories in the Premier League and 31 unbeaten league games so far. Perhaps many people do not believe that let this It was their coach, Aldridge Hall, who was about to turn 21 years old, who went from nameless to European stage."

The narrator took a long time to introduce Aldridge. After all, Aldridge set a lot of unprecedented new records. His age alone, when he appeared on the sidelines to command the team, it was definitely a shocking record.

When the game was about to start, the narrator began to introduce the starting list of both sides.

Paris Saint-Germain played 442.

Goalkeeper: Rama.

Defenders: Fernie, Ngoti, Legan, Domi.

Midfielders: Guélan, Le Roy, Coe, Lay.

Forwards: Loco, Leonardo.

From the position of the formation, Paris Saint-Germain's midfield is a big diamond, Gailan is behind the waist, Lai is at the front, left-back Coe, and right-hand Le Roy.

The double forward is not surprising in front, but their four-back system is different from the parallel position. The central defender Ngoti is in front, Legun is dragged behind, one is intercepted in the front, and one is destroyed after the attack, obviously against Millwall Good at preparing for straight throws.

Millwall's starting lineup has only two changes.

Goalkeeper: Bute.

Guards: Schneider, Elgra, Southgate, Capdevila.

Midfielders: Makelele, Barak, Nedved.

Forwards: Larson, Trezeguet, Shevchenko.

After the showdown between Stam and Aldridge, Aldrich made it clear to him: Since you have decided to go, I must put the successor in position for the team, so the rest of the season, unless encountering people You will be excluded from the big list.

Although Stamm was dissatisfied in his heart, he took the initiative to leave. Millwall is a young team. He should understand how big a lack of a main center defender is. In order to prepare for the future, Aldridge does this. Nothing wrong.

Everyone took a step back, Aldridge did not stop him from transferring, and Stam waited for the countdown to open the transfer window.

Therefore, Aldridge chose Elgra to become the new partner of Southgate. According to his seniority, Materazzi should be on the top, but Materazzi was still a bit frantic, and Aldridge chose to calm down. The Spaniards who have entered the atmosphere in the past two years have not been small anyway. Materazzi understands that he is not the kind of man who is squandering and his strength is there. Who is taller? Everyone has a steelyard in mind, and it is not that the head coach is using people by preference. If it is really by preference, Materazzi is obviously the first choice.

As for Pirlo, in this European war away, Aldridge naturally has to defend first and then attack. It is not surprising that Barak, who has a stronger defensive ability, starts.

The referee blew the whistle at the beginning of the first half of the game, and the battle quickly opened.

Paris Saint-Germain fought a blitz as soon as he came up. The player was like a full-charged motor and started at full speed. After taking the ball in the frontcourt, Lay used his foot technology to deceive Barak. After passing the opponent, he wanted to go again. However, Makelele, who was usually watched behind by the "venomous snake", accurately broke the ball.

Barak glanced at the elder brother Thirty in his thirties, Socrates's younger brother, the Brazilian, and the technique at his feet was so delicate, he was just too easy to get off the ground.

Aldridge didn't mind Barak being passed by the sidelines.

Millwall played invincible in the Premier League. When he came to the European Championship, he finally met a team with a completely different style. The boys also need to open their eyes to adapt.

French football is one of the representatives of the Latin school in Europe. The Latin style has been laid since the generation of the national team Platini. There has also been a Latin tradition in the league. Their football style is delicate and gorgeous, and they are both fast-forward and pass-through. Overall, free-spirited and "sly".

It’s just that this style of football is still a little too dependent on the stars, and it needs a player with excellent technical skills to break the defensive flaws. As long as Millwall adapts, Aldridge firmly believes in his team. Reason is lost to opponents, what they lack is experience, the heart of the big scene, they absolutely have it!

Paris Saint-Germain had a fierce offensive but failed to score.

They are like many teams that Millwall has encountered. The offensive formation is very reasonable, but often the offensive player runs to the position in advance and stops the position. When the ball reaches the foot, it is already guarded by the defensive player. Most of the time, it depends on the player's one-to-one ability to open the gap.

Millwall's defensive formation was also in place. Trezeguet retreated to harassment near the opponent's midfielder. Larson and Shevchenko retreated to cut the attacking formation of the opposing side's halfback at halftime. Nedved tour Walking in the half and Barack formed a package against Lai. If Lai chose to break one-to-one, Makelele, who formed a joint defense, would never give him a second chance.

After playing for ten minutes, the Paris Saint-Germain offensive eased and began to slow down the pace.

It is this change in their rhythm that makes Millwall players rush forward subconsciously, which directly leads to the emergence of backcourt defense.

LeGon made a big foot in the backcourt and the ball landed at Leroy's foot. He passed the ball to Laie in a straight pass. The latter took the ball on his back but rubbed the ball with his foot, the ball changed slightly from Makelele rolled over, Leonardo, who retreated, took the ball on his back, took a step horizontally and then made a sharp change. Southgate did not rush forward in frontal defense, but lowered the center of gravity and pressed the opponent's space.

Leonardo suddenly drew the ball and stopped at the spot, just in this emptiness, he passed the ball between Southgate's legs, Loco accelerated the running position after an emergency stop, and thrown away from Elgra, just responding On Leonardo's pass, a half-turn to meet the ball was a kick.

This foot shot hit suddenly, neither stopped the ball nor turned around to take a frontal shot. Butt kept the goal at the near corner, but found that the ball was running to the far corner, he immediately fell to the ground, but his fingertips touched Without the ball, I watched the ball hit the inside of the far post and bounced into the goal.

"In the opening sixteen minutes, Paris Saint-Germain scored a goal! It was Loco who made the contribution. He and Leonardo completed an exquisite cooperation, Lay passed the ball freely, Leonardo wore a crotch assist, Loco clever What a delightful cooperation to shoot the far corner of the goal! Paris Saint-Germain took a crucial step towards defending the road!"

After losing the ball, Aldridge called Barak in front of him and said lightly to him: "Don't put pressure on yourself, just play normally. Today you have a deeper defense range, covering our restricted area, and then tell Pavel, he Know how to do it."

Barak nodded and returned to the field to talk to Nedved, who immediately understood.

Aldridge didn't count in one place.

The Latin players in the Paris Saint-Germain line-up have excellent personal abilities, and the ability to create opportunities one-on-one is stronger than the teams they have encountered before. Therefore, it is not enough to limit Lay. If you let the other two forwards make two pairs In the second round, Southgate and Elgra, Millwall may be in big trouble. Although it may not be possible to succeed every time, but to seize two or three opportunities in one game, it will be a disaster.