The Young Lion

In the opening season of the Premier League in the new season, there will be 20 minutes to start. The Lion’s Cave Stadium is overcrowded. The fans are waving a variety of flags on the stands with various slogans and patterns, expressing their high expectations for the team and the mountains. Support for mobile.

The small stadium is still that small stadium, but there has been a little change in the stadium.

In the past, the sidelines were directly the stands, and now there are billboards with different sponsors next to the stands. Advertisements of different colors embellish the stadium.

Aldridge is sitting in the VIP area of ​​the stadium stands, talking and laughing with Puskas.

"Really? He fell into the sea? Hehe, he always did, and he didn't know when to do things that made people laugh, and sometimes it was a false alarm."

Aldridge heard Puskas talk about their summer trip to the Mediterranean Sea, and they rarely smiled, especially when he heard that Arthur had drunk on the cruise ship and fell into the sea while dancing on the deck...

Puskas turned to Aldridge and whispered: "Let's do a good job last season. You can beat Barcelona now, which is really exciting."

"I will beat Real Madrid in the future. Don't cry at that time."

"Oh, if you can really do it, I will only be happy for you, Aldridge, I found that I like Millwall, watching your team play, it is enjoyable. And there are many elements of the game, yes I couldn’t see it in that era, but the masters of my era are now less.”

Aldridge smiled dumbly and shook his head: "It will not be less, but with the development of football, the gap between players is getting closer and closer. With the rapid spread of football, even the best tactics, its strong cycle It becomes very short. If you are idle, you can usually go to the youth training camp. There are many good young players there. Look, the ten players here are very good, although they cannot compare with you, hahaha."

Puskas leaned forward and scanned the faces of ten young players who were sitting in the front row.

Today is the home game. According to the training results of the past week, two players from each echelon can sit here and watch the ball. They are very excited to watch the ball here with the once famous emperor superstar like Puskas. Take a photo with him as a souvenir.

Ronaldinho and Lamore in the U21 echelon.

Cahill, Ferreira in the U18 gradient.

Alonso and Villa in the U16 echelon.

Jenas and De Rossi in the U14 echelon.

Aguero and Ronaldo in the U12 echelon.

Puskas would say a few words of encouragement to these young players, or talk about the superstars who appeared in their country in his time, such as Gento in Spain, Stefano in Argentina, etc.

Arthur sat aside and was straightforward. He laughed and cheered for them: try to be a new crazy lion!

Five minutes into the game, Aldridge walked down the channel to the stands, and signed the enthusiastic fans by the way. When he walked to the sidelines, he walked and shook hands with Wenger.

Last season was Wenger’s first season in coaching Arsenal, but it was not complete. Although only a few league games were played, things were not so simple. Summer training is very important for the team. Wenger failed to host the ball. The team's summer preparations cannot be changed drastically during the season.

But this summer is different.

Arsenal entered the Wenger era in a real sense.

"Check it out today?"

Aldridge smiled and reached for Wenger.

Wenger nodded: "Although it is not the best time, I think Arsenal is no worse than Millwall."

"Oh, the fans are blessed."

Aldrich shook hands with him and walked back to his place.

Wenger was right, the timing of Millwall and Arsenal was not the best.

In the opening game, there was the London Derby, and it was the defending champion against the fourth team last season. This was obviously a strong dialogue and it was exciting.

However, the FA is definitely cramped.

This kind of strong dialogue is generally for viewing purposes, and will not be carried out in the first two rounds of the season, because the team's state needs a recovery period, who can guarantee that the two strong teams can play the best state in the first official game. ?

But the FA has really arranged the schedule.

Aldridge never complained about the schedule. Even if last season's FA Cup final and the European Cup Winners' Cup were only two days apart, he did not propose to the FA to reschedule the FA Cup final.

The strong are not afraid, the schedule is already arranged, even if there is a conspiracy theory, but as long as they are strong, why fear the opponent?

Could it be that the people who scheduled the schedule would give Millwall a devil schedule and they would make them Waterloo?

Whether the schedule is easy or difficult, it is a test of the coach's ability, and Aldrich is willing to accept any challenge.

When the players from both sides walked out of the player's aisle with enthusiasm, the audience waiting at the TV at home or in the bar also ignited enthusiasm.

"Long spectators, the long-lost Premier League is back! Hello everyone, I am Martin Taylor, and my partner this season to explain the Premier League matches is still old friend Andy Gray."

"The opener is the London Derby. The new generation of champions will compete with the former king team Arsenal. It is really exciting. Martin, what do you think of the changes of the two teams in the new season?"

"In addition to leaving the main guard Stamm, Millwall has not changed much. If there is a change, then they should be more mature and stronger, because they have experienced the baptism of the championship, the young players have passed Last season's training has also grown quite a bit. Arsenal have changed a lot here. First of all, they have added two powerful players to the main lineup. French midfielder Petit and Dutch winger Ovimar Seen from the starting lineup, Arsenal Wenger discharged a 442 formation. It seems that the Arsenal of the Graham era is completely over, and the five-back formation has entered history."

"Okay, let’s introduce the starting list of the two sides. Millwall is the main force. The starting formation is 433. Goalkeeper: Bout. Guards: Schneider, Elgra, Southgate, Capdevila . Midfielders: Makelele, Pirlo, Nedved. Forwards: Larsson, Trezeguet, Shevchenko. Arsenal starting lineup is 442, goalkeeper: Seaman. Defenders: Dixon, Adams , Keon, Winterbourne. Midfielders: Pires, Vieira, Petit, Ovimas. Forwards: Anelka, Bergkamp. When Wenger visited the Lions Stadium last season With four goals defeated, whether he will be ashamed today will make Arsenal fans raise their heads in London, and whether Millwall can use the defending champion's strong posture to get a good start for the new season, let us wait and see!"

Because it is an opener, a brief ceremony will be held.

Aldridge looked at Arsenal's starting lineup from the sidelines and began to think about it.

For almost ten years since then, Arsenal’s formation has been based on 442. Many changes have been derived to switch, 4222, 4231, 451 and so on. The tactical formation has never been dead. The key is the player’s area of ​​responsibility in offense and defense. And the running position without the ball.

From the characteristics of these gunmen's personal abilities, they can roughly guess their tactical intentions.

The double-waisted Petit and Vieira are responsible for strengthening the midfield defense and pre-restricted area protection. They pass through two wingers when they are transferred from the defense, Pire or Ovimas, and Bogkamp can also withdraw from the attack. There are also midfielders who follow up from time to time, and the role is to form a connection in the attack from back to front.

Pay attention to stability when defending and fast when attacking.

In general, it is mainly defensive counterattack.

At the beginning of the game, Millwall kicked off.

Since it was the league opener, Millwall did not overpower after the kick-off, Pirlo passed the ball diagonally to Lushevchenko on the right, and the Ukrainian passed the ball back to Schneider, who was long Passing the transfer, the ball landed on Capdevila's side, and then went straight to Larson. Larson ran into position, but the ball was intercepted by Dixon.

Arsenal quickly turned from the defender and the ball landed at the foot of the Dutch Peter Pan Ovimas, who immediately ran along the sidewalk for a long distance.

Capdevila failed to pass the threat, and Arsenal hit a counterattack on his side. When he turned around, Ovimas had already thrown him away.

The fast-moving Ovimas drove the ball forward, but he did not cut inwards, but set the edge.

In the absence of defense, Ovimas sent a high-quality pass to the middle of the road, Anelka and Elgra competed, Elgra body is more dominant, the championship wins, the ball goes to the top Off the right, Schneider took the ball and Millwall reorganized the attack.

Wenger saw that the counterattack had not been achieved, and he sent him in front of the door, making him slightly lost.

Aldridge focused on observing the running position of Arsenal players after Ovimas took the ball.

Bergkamp pulled back out of the penalty zone after rushing. There was such a short two seconds that no one was defending, but Peter Pan's ball was not passed to him.

Southgate made up for Capdevila's position, Makelele returned to the restricted area, and Pirlo also stood in front of the penalty area. Vieira and Pire on the other side failed to provide effective help for this attack. , The field is constantly changing, and the chance is fleeting. Ovimas missed the empty space that Bergkamp ran out. The threat of traditional side pass is not great, it does not matter whether Anelka is good at header, but He did not have an advantage in front of Elgra, and during the adjustment process of Ovimas, in time, the Millwall defense line was quickly adjusted after being exposed, and became tightly fit.

Millwall played a few infiltration balls, and his opponents were easily resolved in the offensive battle. Arsenal, with a defensive counterattack, has the strongest defender line in the Premier League. This is beyond doubt.

Arsenal was hit under pressure, but every counterattack after a successful defense also threatened frequently. The two team formation defenses contracted quickly and unfolded quickly, and they all pursued a goal. Except for Arsenal's wing players who took the ball more The other players must be quick and accurate when passing the ball, which makes the game very good-looking.

Schneider made a diagonal pass to find Trezeguet and was cut off by Petit. The French blonde tycoon turned from the defender and planned to directly hit Schneider behind to find Piret. He bluntly passed the ball across the half , Pire has run out of space, as long as he takes the ball, he will definitely be able to launch a threatening counterattack.

However, Makelele accurately cut off the ball before Pire received the ball, and then passed the ball to Pirlo in front.

Arsenal failed to counterattack. Millwall played two consecutive attacks in a short period of time. Pirlo passed a deadly scalpel pass in the front field and sent the ball into the right rib of Arsenal's penalty area.

Winterbourne looked at the ball's trajectory and deliberately looked at Shevchenko's position, no problem.

Keon also caught Trezeguet and Vieira stared at Nedved, but, in the penalty area, Pirlo received the ball, and in the short pass of the pass, Larsson left Starting, and then diagonally inserted into the right rib of the penalty area, Adams responded a little slower, and Larsen ripped the line between Keon and Winterbourne.

Following the trajectory of the ball rolling, Larson turned to take advantage of the foot to kick the ball, Seaman attacked to block the near corner, the speed of the ball was not fast, but the angle flew to the far corner.

Dixon chased the goal far away and tried to clear the header with a header, but he jumped to the extreme but didn't touch the ball. He fell into the goal and beside him, there was a bouncing ball.