After beating Grimsby Town in midweek and navigating the Carabao Cup, Aldridge once again apologized to the team on the second day of training, and his sudden absence did have a negative impact on the team, and the importance of a manager to a team cannot be overstated.

Aldrich is not a person who will dwell on the past, so reviewing himself and blaming him seriously will not take too long.

Millwall's tight schedule saw them return to London for two days before heading to the north-west of England, with defending champions Blackburn Rovers the highlight of the fixture, even surpassing Arsenal's home game against Nottingham Forest.

Blackburn Rovers is nominally a city, but in fact it is more like a town, because the population here is just over 100,000, following last season's thrilling victory in the club's history of the first Premier League title, this season's Blackburn Rovers still retain the main framework lineup, and there is no loss of personnel, but their manager has changed, the scheming Dalglish has retired bravely, and he has enjoyed worship in Blackburn, receiving an annual salary of up to 300,000 pounds, and then, Blackburn Rovers ushered in a new manager: Ray Halford.

The coach is over 50 years old, playing as a central defender in his career, a manager's playing experience has a great impact on his coaching career, for example, Kevin Keegan is an attacking player, his team plays smoothly in attack, but the defense is a mess, and Halford's style is more defensive, but this Blake team is not known for its defense, the reason why they were able to win the Premier League title last season was to rely on attack, crowning the offensive firepower of the Premier League, scoring 3 more goals than Manchester United, while conceding 11 more goals than Manchester United, Of course, Manchester United's goal tally is huge, and it has swiped against the sky on the weak teams, such as the 9-goal slaughter of Ipswich.

The manager and the team's style are not at suit, so it's no surprise that the team's performances have been up and down.

Blackburn started the first three rounds of the Premier League this season with a narrow one-goal win over the underdogs, and then suffered two consecutive defeats, and the outside commentary is that Blackburn have focused on the Champions League, after all, they have drawn a good signing, and the group stage opponents are Spartak Moscow, Rosenborg and Warsaw Lega.

But Aldridge, as the head coach, can see that Blackburn's problems are not the focus of the season at all, because their performance in the Champions League is extremely "amazing", the group is the favorite, and the bottom is out, and they also staged the famous roommate, which is embarrassing and thrown in front of the world.

Before arriving in this quiet, traditional town, Aldridge said in a formulaic diplomatic tone at a press conference: "Blackburn are the defending champions, Millwall are promoted and it will be a challenge for us to visit Ewood Park. ”

Challenge?

The media thought Aldrich was the usual way to keep a low profile, but Aldrich was telling the truth.

Because of this game, he rested the main squad and rotated.

It would be risky to put the bench directly under the pressure of the defending champions, but Aldridge felt he should try to make the substitutes grow quickly and adapt to the pace of the Premier League, which would help Millwall to be stronger as a whole in the future.

Halford had a hard time, with two consecutive league defeats, especially at home to Manchester United, putting him under a lot of pressure, so there is no room for error in this game against Millwall.

The old coach in the locker room painstakingly asked the players to put up a fence, defend first and then attack, and the players must more or less listen to the head coach, so as not to end up with a reputation for rebellion.

In the fourth round of the Premier League at Ewood Park, Aldridge supervised the game on the sidelines as always, and Halford did not dare to slack off, always directing the players on the sidelines to strengthen the defense.

Aldridge lined up a 433 formation in this game, Gattuso Vieira Ballack's three midfielders had the guarantee of defensive hardness, and the defender was suspended for five games because Materazzi was suspended for five games last season, plus he left the field with a red card, and he couldn't return until mid-September, so the defender was Richards partnering Elgra, the fullbacks sent Zambrotta and Mills, and the forward trident was Glen Charles Phillips Solskjaer.

Blackburn Rovers were almost the main lineup last season.

SAS Forward Combination, Hill Gasatton.

Sherwood Barty Wilcocks Ripley formed a midfield four.

Lesaux-Hendry-Coleman-Berg formed the back line and goalkeeper was Flowers.

This squad has nothing to say in terms of strength, except for being a little top-heavy, but if Aldrich Blackburn is given a transfer budget, he will not buy this batch of players, not that he has a foreknowledge of which players are good seedlings, on the contrary, Blackburn has introduced all the strength of the fighters, and they can produce results after a little polishing.

But such players are often already famous, and Aldrich can't control them at all, because the players' subjective will is too strong, and they have no sense of belonging to the club, and their identity is more like mercenaries.

Aldridge's idea is to let young players come to his team when they are penniless, and even if the players leave, then the club has nurtured them and let them leave with pride and reputation, which is conducive to his management of the team and more persuasive to retain the players.

On the opposite side of Blackburn, in the main lineup, the SAS combination needless to say, will be poached in two years, and other players have also joined Chelsea, Tottenham, Manchester United and other teams one after another, they are mercenaries, they have come here to make money, get honors, and when the team's record is not good, it is logical to transfer away.

This big battle, which was expected by the outside world, did not splash sparks, but was a little dull.

The three attacking and defensive midfielders effectively denied Blackburn's attacking position, and Elgraga Richards' centre-back combination was also at ease.

Aldridge looked around the stadium stands and thoughtfully – perhaps the atmosphere here wasn't as frenetic as at Anfield or Old Trafford, and he didn't feel much pressure.

As a result, Millwall's youngsters showed no stage fright against the defending champions, with Elgra shining in his first England game, with Sutton and Shearer each trying to break through from him head-on, but they were intercepted and handled the ball with calm and decisiveness.

Millwall's attack left Aldridge speechless.

Ballack played a ball to Phillips, who spun and slid past Sherwood before firing a long-range shot from 30 yards into the box!

The long-range shot was of great quality, but it was kept out by goalkeeper Flowers.

Aldridge reluctantly turned around and sat down in the coach's seat, turned his head and asked Jensen: "It's been a year, hasn't he changed his habit of playing football yet?" ”

Jenson shrugged and said, "Didn't he show it just now?" However, he was very lucky to score. ”

The two are talking about Kevin Phillips, Aldridge is not very happy with Phillips, but Phillips has always scored goals in his limited playing time and can even rank ahead of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in terms of time efficiency alone.

But just now, before Phillips' long-range shot, Glen Schal and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on both wings were in good positions, and he chose to shoot from distance himself.

He's a demon knife!

He is good at grabbing points and shooting from a distance, and he is good at shooting footwork.

But it's just a little unsociable, and I can't play with team football.

Aldridge needs a striker to be responsive, but he plays in a similar way to England's traditional "one high, one fast" "fast" striker, appearing in the most threatening position and taking the most difficult back strike.

However, he can still score goals, Aldridge has talked to him a few times, and he still plays the same way as he knows.

Now he is still a substitute, Aldrich can't be too him, the demon knife also has the benefits of the demon knife, which is not in tune with the mainstream, but it is infinitely powerful when it is used well, but it cannot be used to correct it.

Rubbing his head with a headache, Aldridge didn't know what to do when this demon knife asked him for the main position, the more goals he scored, the more he wanted to play the main team, this was obvious.

But he's not the type of striker Millwall will need in the future.

Substitutes are OK, the main force is out of the way.

During the time when Aldridge deserted, Blackburn played a wave of counter-attacks, completely relying on individual ability to suppress Millwall, Shearer deceived the young and somewhat frizzy Gattuso with his foot skills, and then also returned the color with a long-range shot from outside the box, Bout pounced on the ball, but Sutton, who entered the box, stabbed in front of Richards and stabbed the ball out of the net.

Blackburn lead Millwall 1-0 at home.

Aldridge got up from his seat and shouted to the players to cheer them up, and that kind of conceded goal is not unacceptable, but it is a lesson, a lesson for both goalkeepers and defenders, and they need to try not to make the same mistakes again in the process of sharpening their skills and raising their awareness.

After scoring a goal in the first half, Blackburn got a little carried away in the second half, attacking boldly and the space at the back became more and more porous.

At 73 minutes into the second half, Patrick Vieira and Ballack stepped forward to set up an effective counter-attack, which culminated in Glen Schal setting up Phillips to open the scoring.

After the equaliser, the field was a little out of control, both teams wanted to win, and the conservatism of the first half of the opening period was thrown out of the sky, and the attack battle was vigorously launched.

The game was intense and exciting, but the goal just never came again, and in the end, the two teams shook hands.

Aldridge's Millwall have won two and drawn two in the Devil's schedule for the new season, but they are four points behind the top team in the Premier League table.

To everyone's surprise, Kevin Keegan's Newcastle United won all of their first four rounds and moved well into the standings.

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