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Today's Pride to Schalke Stadium, the Millwall fans cheered in a very monotonous way.

More than 30,000 Millwall fans occupy nearly two-thirds of the seats in the stands.

They were never accustomed to sitting and watching the game, even when England's stadiums were ordered to be seated after the Taylor Report.

From before the start of the game, all Millwall fans stood up, blue jerseys painted the stands in a blue ocean, and even many Porto fans wore home jerseys, blue and white, and also reflected Millwall fans in color embellishments, but unfortunately, Porto was wearing away jerseys today.

Millwall fans stood in the stands, holding up scarves for the club's 10th anniversary of the "Hall Era" and chanting the team anthem in unison.

Although the method is monotonous, the scene is extremely shocking.

It's England fan culture, a feat that fan groups around the world are vying to emulate.

The Champions League theme song echoed in the stadium as players from both sides entered, but it seemed that it could not compete with the singing of Millwall fans.

"The exciting Champions League final is about to begin, and Millwall, who have passed the group stage smoothly this season, have skyrocketed after entering the knockout round, just as they achieved the momentum of the final round of the league against Arsenal to win the title, they eliminated Bayern Munich twice, slaughtered Monaco and Chelsea, and reached the Champions League final with a tiger! Their opponents, Porto, have made rapid progress under the leadership of young coach Jose Mourinho. Successfully defended their title in the Portuguese Super League. And achieved a huge breakthrough in this season's Champions League. Impressively, despite a 3-1 defeat at home to Real Madrid in the group stage, they went from strength to strength, unbeaten in 10 games, beating Manchester United at Old Trafford, and Mourinho's wild celebration did make sense in the media right now, comparing him to Sir Hall, Mourinho may have lacked some luck. After returning from last year's UEFA Cup, Sir Hall has been in European football for 10 years, and if Jose Mourinho celebrates his 10th anniversary in charge, will his achievements be able to compete with Sir Hall? 99% of fans think it's impossible, because Sir Hall has already won four Champions Leagues, and Mourinho can only lead his team to win this final today, maybe it will be possible to compete with Sir Hall on his 10th anniversary in charge. Porto overall table xiàn good, eliminated Manchester United, Lyon. Deportivo La Coruna, these are opponents with relatively high gold content. Can this dark horse from Portugal be blacked out? This is the biggest suspense of today's game! ”

"The pre-kick-off ceremony for the Champions League final has been carried out and we take a look at the starting line-ups for both sides.

Millwall, 433.

Goalkeeper: Bout.

Defenders: Schneider, Nesta, Southgate, Ashley Cole.

Midfielders: De Rossi, Alonso, Nedved.

Forwards: Larsson, Thierry Henry, Ronaldinho.

Porto 433.

Goalkeeper: Baia.

Defenders: Ferreira, Costa, Carvalho, Valente.

Midfielders: Mendes, Costina, Deco.

Forwards: Alenichev, Delle, Maniche. ”

Although the commentator said that Porto played a 433.

In Aldrich's eyes, Porto played a 451.

Because compared with Porto last year, there has been a key change in the technical and tactical formation.

That's one less striker and one more midfielder.

Mendes is a defensive-leaning midfielder, partnering with fierce Costina to escort Deco in the middle.

Maniche and Alenichev are naturally not wingers, and if the full-backs may be a little more accurate, at least today, they will certainly be the main wingers.

Up front, Mourinho did not choose centre-forward McCarthy, but instead used Brazilian Delle, a striker who runs erratically up front, similar to an opportunistic striker, and is best suited to counter-attack.

After last year's fiasco, if Mourinho still has a tug-of-war with Millwall today, then Aldridge can really ignore Mourinho.

In fact, Aldridge's starting line-up for Porto today had already been foreseen.

In the past 6 knockout games, he has continued to use small means to gain the benefits of the game, playing Porto with a very utilitarian defense, and coming to the final will only be more utilitarian.

It can be said that Mourinho's tactical idea of going to Chelsea to build a hard-blooded Blues was naturally laid during this period, and he could not still be an ideal aspirator now, and a week later he went to Chelsea and became a representative of utilitarianism.

When the game began, the Porto formation quickly retreated to compress the space at the back and form a tight protection of the penalty area, and Aldridge looked down and smiled.

As expected.

Jose Mourinho is here to fight back.

As for how to fight back, it should be clear at a glance.

Deco is the core of the offensive and defensive transition, dealing cards forward.

Maniche, Alenichev, Delle, these three are the points of contact, and whenever there is a huge opening, Porto's deadly counterattack will come suddenly.

Aldridge never ignores Deco, and will not despise Deco because in the original history Deco was covered up by Ronaldo even if he went to Barcelona, because the contrast in the mouth of the fans is incorrect.

Little Rob Deco is strong and indisputable.

But Ronaldo doesn't defend Deco, and when Deco attacks, he needs to break through the defensive line built by Millwall's defenders.

What is the sign that Millwall's third generation of the Wild Lion is beginning to mature?

That's control!

So that the opponent can't play the threat of counterattack.

How can this be done?

Squeeze your opponent's formation!

Today is the final, Millwall did not chase and play hard as soon as they came up, but passed steadily to enter the game, and then passed the ball through the midfield, and the formation gradually pressed forward, in this process, Alonso was the most crucial.

He is a key figure in the midfield transmission command. When to take the risk of instigating a wave of forward threatening attacks. He is needed to observe the shape of the field.

A good commander will find the opponent's openings. Then quickly instigate an offensive in the opponent's weak defence.

However, a more mature, master-level playmaker, a commander with the ability to control the field, will look at the overall situation, will take one step at a time, see three steps, anticipate the defensive danger that this offensive failure may bring, and weigh the pros and cons for a moment.

If Porto's formation is not compressed to the extreme. If Millwall's pressing attack doesn't work out, they may be able to tear through Millwall's defence with a quick counter-attack to form a threat.

But if the overall formation is compressed in the center and back, the counterattack distance will become longer, whether it is a pass or a personal breakthrough with the ball, this counter-attacking process will create more time for Millwall to lay out the defensive line, adjust the defensive center of gravity and so on.

Pirlo is a master commander who can not only control the whole situation, but also directly instigate the most threatening offensives.

Alonso is inferior to Andrea Pirlo in this regard, with Aldridge developing Alonso this season. It focuses on the overall situation and instigates the offensive. Alonso only needs to play the role of an "indirect assist", the starting point of the attack, that is, he may have considered the overall situation and found that he can ensure that the opponent's counter-attacking threat is minimized, but it is difficult to find a vacancy, then his task is only to hand the ball to the area with less pressure on the defense, choose one of the three directions of left, center and right, and then, when the attack breaks out, give it to Ronaldo, Nedved, or Larsson to instigate, or even two full-backs.

Alonso's main contribution from the midfield commander is to stabilize the overall situation!

Even if Millwall can't attack, they don't worry about being counterattacked by the opponent, because when Alonso controls the tempo, he is already gradually wearing down the opponent and compressing the opponent's formation into the second half, ensuring that Millwall will not be caught off guard, and the defenders will turn their heads and quickly chase back but can't catch up.

Although Mourinho stood calmly next to the dugout, he was not at all calm inside.

Match, 10 minutes passed.

Porto, only launched 3 attacks and then died!

The overall formation was completely compressed in the second half.

Millwall's defensive strategy is much the same as last year, the middle is mainly aimed at Deco, when being counterattacked, Ronaldo and Larsson harassed Porto's two full-backs on the inside, because the ball did not leave the danger zone, the full-backs could not find a receiver in the middle, they could only take it forward, only to the half, which really fell into a lonely situation, Ashley Cole and Schneider did not make mistakes in the defense, plus Porto weakened the front, De Rossi boldly assisted in the defense of the wing, Alonso and Nedved contained the midfield before and after, Porto's counterattack, when the forward attack broke out, seemed to kick an iron plate, looking at a very wide attacking space, but Millwall will not give them much time to choose, before they wait for the players who run up from the back to be in place, they must make a choice, pass, be broken, break through, fail, protect the ball and control the ball, be destroyed.

Mourinho couldn't help but glance at Aldridge, there was no trace of movement, and he didn't even twist his neck, just squinted at the observation of the afterglow, subconsciously.

The young marshal who has been coaching the Crazy Lions for 10 years has created an impressive super-first-class team!

He had expected Millwall to play very fast today and use the poor tempo to crush Porto.

But he guessed wrong.

If it's really a devastating blitzkrieg rhythm, Porto's counter-attack will have a lot of room to play.

Always fast, which means a high error rate.

This is the same as a short pass than a long pass.

Millwall will be fast, but slow in the first place!

Slowness is their foundation, their fence wall, the guarantee against the enemy's invasion.

The midfield system, led by Alonso, is the main core of the slow, and they use guò to pass and control to make the overall shape of the field change that lays the foundation for change.

Shaped the situation that Millwall could accelerate.

Then it is handed over to the frontcourt players or wing players to accelerate, it is not difficult to change the rhythm of a slow and a fast, the difficult thing is slow and fast, which can maximize the benefits of the team's game!

Aldrich seems to have fused the icy sea water with the scorching flames of the third generation of the wild lion.

Defending in the middle and back is the sea, to extinguish the flames of the opposition's attack.

The offensive flame in the front court is to melt the opponent's defensive wall!

Mourinho thought about it for a long time, he didn't know how to make the team attack better, and if he dared to pursue the attack, he might expose a huge gap in the defensive line.

Longitudinal comparison, is the current Porto stronger than Arsenal in terms of overall strength?

Of course not!

Whether it's team chemistry or individual player comparisons.

Can their backline compare to that of Patrick Vieira and Silva?

Can their attacking duo compare to Ibrahimovic and Bergkamp?

Hopefully, the back line can be compared to Arsenal's back line, including goalkeeper Baia.

But they have to defend more extremely than Arsenal, compress the space at the back more utilitarianly, and at the same time, there are small moves when they hinder Millwall's forward acceleration attack, and they use all kinds of hidden means to bring them a certain improvement in defensive quality.

This makes it look like Millwall, while dominating the situation, is struggling to open a gap in their defence.

Millwall seems to be in a hand-to-hand fight!

And the battlefield, in the half of Porto.

Nedved accelerated diagonally with the ball, and Deco would raise his arm behind him to grab the hem of Nedved's shirt for two seconds before letting go.

Xiao Luo just changed direction when he received the ball on the side, Alenichev went directly to the gap between Xiao Luo's combination of man and ball, not rushing to the ball, he was not as fast as Xiao Luo's feet, not rushing people, he would definitely save the air, he was the point between the combination of the ball and the man, so that as soon as Xiao Luo moved, he would collide with Alenichev, and then Xiao Luo would fall into physical entanglement with him.

As long as Larsson can't completely shake him off, Valente will definitely block Larsson in front of him with a slightly raised arm at an angle that the referee can't see, so that Larsson's acceleration is blocked.

Henry was even called for a foul after a run to catch the ball by Carvalho, and the referee signaled for Henry to hit Carvalho with the arm.

It was Carvalho who was defending Henry with an almost half-hug move, and Henry broke free of his entanglement, his arm seemed to break free of his opponent's hands, but Carvalho fell to the ground after Henry got rid of it

Aldridge looked at it, suddenly walked to the side of the fourth official, and said: "Hey, hasn't UEFA received complaints from Manchester United, Lyon, Deportivo La Coruna?" Or is UEFA's official press conference a no-brainer and doesn't care what the manager says? If that's the case, I'll ask not to attend the UEFA press conference in the future, it's a waste of time, Porto is playing you guys, you can't see it? I need to remind you that Millwall have been the most disciplined team in European competition in the last three seasons, with the fewest fouls per game and the lowest percentage of cards per game, which means that we play fairly and strictly in the spirit of competitive sports, and don't let us down, even, angry. ”

The fourth officer turned his head to look at Aldrich, and saw that the young marshal was smiling at him, which was already quite stressed, but he was much more relaxed after taking a deep breath.

At this time, Mourinho also walked over. (To be continued......)