The Young Lion

After losing the ball, Arsenal involuntarily began to play their old tactics, defensive counterattack.

This is understandable. They were actually the first time they faced the Millwall players. When they played against the FA Cup last season, Arsenal played against Millwall’s bench. Now they start with 11 players on the court. None of them were on the court at the time.

Millwall controlled the pace of the game without any hassle. Arsenal contracted and Millwall also contracted. The local teamwork was extremely smooth and the opponents were crowded in the penalty area. Then Millwall's striker withdrew from long range The attack ends.

Aldridge has a good sense of battlefield supervision, he is not familiar with Graham, but he knows Arsenal over the past few years, wishful thinking that Arsenal is just copying the trend, in Italy at this time the famous chain defensive foundation Adding some elements in line with the English League, it did make Arsenal create a short-term glory.

In the 100 years of football, only Italy can sublimate defense to art on the green field. When broadcasting technology and football culture promotion are not yet developed, Italy has had a shocking effect at least in Europe.

Let the people in the football circle suddenly realize: How did football become like this?

From 85 to 1989, the five league champions of the Italian league, the season with the lowest number of goals lost 14 and the most is 19, and the number of goals, in addition to the 89 "high yield" goals in Inter Milan in 1989, the other four The number of goals scored by the championship is 41, 42, 43, 43.

At that stage, Graham joined Arsenal and started to build a 1:1 football with the same defense as Italian football.

Italy's chain defense is still improving. In the summer of 1994, AC Milan won the league title, but the number of goals scored was 36 and 15.

After ten years, twenty years later, such data will scare people!

Whether Italy's tactics are the most advanced and representative of the trend, it is not Aldridge's evaluation because the Italian league with the reputation of the small World Cup is on the cusp of the storm, and the wood show is bound to be destroyed by the wind, which has a mixed reputation for Italy's football style. For a long time, quite a few voices believed that Italian football philosophy was anti-football, and it was an ugly football that destroyed beautiful football.

But it is undeniable that the heads of the Italian academies are frantically studying defensive tactics, constantly improving the chain defense, and upgrading the defense to art, and jointly creating the most prosperous Italian league!

Italian teams began to dominate the European arena. They are not regular Champions League visitors, but regular Champions League finalists. They have cast the strongest shields in the world, waiting for countless strikers who want to prove themselves. Blade Ideal came to Italy to try.

Such defensive tactics can survive, develop, and eventually reach their peak in Italy, and have a long duration.

However, in England, Arsenal's glory is difficult to continue, because this does not meet the football culture of this country. After Graham's Arsenal tasted the taste of the championship, the talents of the players are still suppressed, and then lose their motivation and passion, lame Youth.

Now, Arsenal are seeking change and need a suitable mentor. Wenger did not return to Europe this summer. Audridge believes that this choice is correct. Although Leoqi is not well-known in the football coaching industry, he But it is an important person in Arsenal's transition and transition. At least he gave players and teams a transitional adaptation period in style transition, which made the subsequent transformation of Wenger less difficult.

The situation on the court well reflected the pain of Arsenal at this stage. In the more than twenty minutes after Millwall led, they defended conservatively. Only four people attacked in the frontcourt, the offense did not improve, so they suppressed. Live, the fullback voluntarily rushed up again.

Otherwise, what else?

What they are good at is 1:0.

But now they are 0:1 behind.

Aldridge calmly looked at the glued situation on the field and thought: another ball, another one, will completely defeat Arsenal!

Winterbourne's pass was successfully blocked by Makelele's foot. Nedvide received the pass and passed to the right. Schneider took the ball and drove forward.

With the previous experience of conceding the ball, Arsenal's overall speed of defense was extremely fast, not anxious to rush, but first set the defensive position before slowing down the opponent's rhythm, and even ran back to the penalty area to compensate for the disadvantage of the number of defenders .

Schneider took the ball up and down to pass the ball to the middle. Nedvide ran all the way forward and left unmarked. After taking the ball, he did not choose a long-range shot. Instead, he entered the penalty area and planned to pass Adams with speed.

Just as the two passed by, Adams chose to shovel. He is a first-class tackle defender. Nedvide slipped while accelerating and fell directly into the penalty area.

Between the electro-optical flint, neither the audience nor the coach on the side could see clearly what was going on. Only from afar saw Nedved fell into the penalty area, and Adams dropped the shovel naturally into the penalty area. Kick away.

The referee Boll stopped the game and reached for the penalty spot in the penalty area of ​​Arsenal.

"Tony Adams put the shovel, Pavel Nedved fell in the penalty area. Through slow-motion playback, we clearly saw that Adams shoveled the ball first, and Nedved did not seem to fall because of physical contact. He lost his balance one second before Adams tackled the ball, and referee Boer decisively awarded a penalty. This penalty is debatable."

"Anyway, this is a good opportunity for Millwall. If you expand your lead before the end of the first half, then Arsenal's hopes of a comeback will be very slim."

Adams saw the referee awarded a penalty, he climbed up angrily, shouting at Nedved: "Liar! I didn't touch you at all! I went for the ball!"

In 1994, FIFA promulgated the stipulations for strict punishment, but it has not been implemented yet. The actual implementation is in the 98 World Cup. It is now a process of warming up and ideological preparation for the New Deal.

The basis of Ball's punishment is definitely not the dangerous action of shoveling, only that he thinks that Adams first knocked down Nedved.

Faced with several players from Arsenal, Nedved climbed up and waved his head calmly to the referee Boll for the first time and shook his head: that was not a penalty!

Seeing his action, Arsenal's players were stunned.

Adams' eyes widened, and his mouth that wanted to continue to scold could not be closed slightly.

The referee Boll was surrounded by several Arsenal players. Winterburn pointed to Nedved and said: "He all admitted that it was not a penalty!"

Nedved came over at this time, he told the referee in the simplest words: "I just slipped by myself, he didn't foul, there was no penalty."

The scene is very strange.

The Lion’s Cave Stadium is silent, and less than 20,000 fans in the stands are staring at the Arsenal penalty area. There, Arsenal players surround the referee, and the referee communicates with Nedved.

In England where modern football originated, football was originally a tenacious head-to-head battle between fighters, and even the first official football rules stipulated that even the ball behind him could not be passed, either a cross back or a breakthrough, this is the real man The contest is very similar to the contest between ancient Chinese knights.

The master has passed the trick to abide by the gentleman. If a brother of the Shimen attacked or helped by the side, he would be despised by his martial arts.

Therefore, the favorite of England fans is authentic British tough guys, and players like Nedved who are tough and not afraid of confrontation, even if he falls and climbs, he can win cheers, because in him, he can Seeing the qualities most appreciated and admired by British fans, rather than the fancy and cunning "European players", if Nedved falls, even Millwall fans who can't be proud of them will reject him!

Even wars have rules, how can football tolerate trivial means to deceive victory?

But now, they obviously see Nedved communicating with the referee, asking the referee to revoke the penalty, otherwise why not tell the referee? Just go to kick a penalty.

Millwall players akimbo and looked at Aldridge on the sidelines.

Boss, what should I do?

We have a penalty, but the deputy captain seems to be "betrayed".

The players on the court actually admire Nedved's move, but they need to look at Aldridge's reaction. In any case, now this scene, the will of the head coach is very important.

Seeing that scene, Aldridge stayed in place.

He was greatly shocked!

Millwall Club, he is the boss and the head coach. It can be said that the emperor here is not like a sword of Damocles hanging on the head of his peers, but he has always had an inexpressible weight in his heart. Falling, let him bear huge pressure.

He can introduce star seedlings for the team, but he is afraid that he has no ability to cultivate these good seedlings into talents. If any star really "dies" in his hands, he will regret for life, because it directly changed the fate of a star, It will give him a "sinner" shadow.

But when he saw Nedved's action at this moment, he seemed to see Nedved's body shining brightly.

That's the light of the superstar!

Superstars not only need ball skills, but also personality charm and spiritual temperament.

Aldrich's eyes were a little wet, and the heart said silently: Thank you, Pavel, you shocked my soul.

Aldridge turned around, raised his hands, and applauded above his head. He encouraged all the fans in the stands to applaud Nedved's performance at this moment.

Fans at the Lion’s Cave Stadium stood up and clapped their palms as Aldridge moved.

Many fans nodded while clapping their hands!

Even though Millwall was once criticized for being rough and brutal, they never lost the bottom line.

Nobody will feel glorious like the swindler thief!

If you can't win in an upright manner, just lose in an upright manner!

Football games and the like have always been intolerable.

The Lion's Cave Stadium echoed applause for Nedved, and even Arsenal fans stood up and applauded. The sound of chaos continued for a long time. This scene became a classic picture of Millwall.