On the eve of the Anglo-Argentine war, the media is not only looking back at the history of Anglo-Argentine grievances, for the two teams that are about to meet now, Argentina's 3313 offensive football seems to be terrifying, and England's top scorer is the most concerned: Owen.

Fleet Street made a worried voice, feeling that although England won Sweden in the last game, Owen's state was obviously bad, and England's alternative striker was unavailable!

Alan Smith?

He didn't play as a striker at Leeds United last season.

Rooney?

Sorry, the outside world directly and automatically ignored this person.

In the face of media doubts about Owen's form, as well as concerns about the hidden dangers of England's forward line.

Aldridge said lightly: "You only saw Owen miss a few chances, but you didn't see England's three goals in the last game, Owen made an important contribution, of course, I have no intention of discussing this with you, no matter what you say, my answer is only one: Owen is the best striker in England, as long as he is injury-free, he is an absolute starter." ”

Journalists from all over the world have different thoughts, some think Aldridge is a dead duck, others think Aldridge is motivating Irving, but others worry about whether this will put psychological pressure on Irving.

After the pre-match press conference, Aldridge and Becky returned to the hotel, and they walked into the hotel's business conference room together to officially hold the pre-match preparation meeting for tomorrow's game.

The entire England squad and coaching staff sat on either side of the long table in the conference room, and on the large projection screen, assistant coach Jensen began to play a slideshow.

'I know what tomorrow's game means to us. England vs Argentina. It's definitely not going to be a special game. But my job is just in the arena, the political factor, I don't think about it, and whatever the fans expect, for me, it's just a win, nothing else. So, we have to keep all our minds in the arena and that's the only way we can beat Argentina. ”

Aldridge took off his suit as he spoke, his tone was not heavy, but he attracted everyone's attention, and the players listened intently.

Aldridge walked to the big projection screen and continued as he walked: "I wouldn't say we can win if we just work hard, I've had a lot of opponents in my eight years in charge. They're all fighting with me and with my team. But the team that was able to win desperately through guò is not in my memory, perhaps, I forgot. Because I have always believed that mental strength is only an auxiliary, for example, if you want to beat Argentina and are full of fighting spirit, will Argentina be half a point weaker than your fighting spirit? Therefore, it is not the momentum and will that determine the victory, but the confrontation of team skills and tactics, and I am very glad that we have an innate advantage in this regard. ”

The players looked at each other and beat drums in their hearts.

Tomorrow is going to face Argentina, and in front of them, Argentina is a very strong team, not to mention dominating South America in the qualifiers, the gorgeous offensive just looking at the number of goals makes people's scalp tingle, plus Argentina also won 1:0 in the first game Nigeria, it seems that the Pampas Eagles are strong and stable, and the 3313 offensive formation that is infinitely magnified by the media, like a mysterious and crazy one, is all involuntarily jealous.

Aldridge stood in front of the projection screen, facing the player, and said calmly: "I will not use the remarks in the British newspaper to cheer you up, so that you blindly think that Argentina's 3313 is really out of the Netherlands 343 is outdated with the times, or what kind of relationship it has with WM earlier, and despising Argentine coach Bielsa is just picking up people's teeth, that's all nonsense, and it won't help tomorrow's game." ”

Some of the generals in England nodded, such as Southgate, who was familiar with Aldridge, and Fleet Street mocked Argentina very blindly, such as what was the 343 in the Netherlands ten years ago and asked Bielsa to pick up again and pretend to be a ghost, or to use Chapman's WM tactical revolution to come from the ancestors of Jubersa's current tactical formation, this is a kind of Ah Q spirit, blind, hypocritical, unrealistic, if you take these seriously as confidence, it is really ridiculous and generous.

Aldridge turned around and slapped one hand on the projection screen, and said lightly: "Look here, this is the tactical formation of Argentina to win the World Cup in 1978, the coach who led the team to win the championship is Menotti, he is very great, Menottiism has been passed down to this day and will continue to this day, Bielsa is in a sense, it is the inheritor and developer of Menottiism, in that era when all offense and defense swept the football world, Menotti pursued offensive football, beautiful football, football philosophy that pays attention to pressing and ball control, in that year, defeated the Netherlands, Both attacking teams came to the finish and the curtain was won by Argentina. ”

Aldridge continued: "This is the tactical formation of Argentina's second championship after 8 years, people remember Maradona, and they also remember another Argentine football philosophy, Bilardoism, which is a conservative, stereotyped, utilitarian football philosophy, these two football philosophies are sharply opposed, Argentina in '78 is more like a team, and Argentina in '86 is built around a player, so Maradona can be almost the only memory in the summer of '86, And in 78, Argentina, which also won the championship and won it for the first time in history, no one could reach the heights of Maradona. ”

After a pause at this point, Aldrich said: "Sue sù of you, is to let you have a clear understanding, what we are facing, don't simply understand that there is a team with Barty, Veron, Ortega, Simeone, etc., who and who, we are not encountering an Argentina that is an auditory bombardment 3313 or something, what we are encountering is now that there are gradually voices talking about Bersaism, in fact, Argentina that is the continuation of the Menotti school of thought, a philosophy that is common to guò, Argentina, who won the championship in the era of attacking football. ”

After saying these words, the players in the audience suddenly opened up, and their thinking jumped out of the small pattern and rose to a higher level.

This is the so-called technical and tactical confrontation and duel, not the details of who restricts whom and who crushes whom.

Accomplished coaches. But it doesn't necessarily build a football philosophy. At this point. Aldridge is not good, he is touted as a master by the outside world, but there are still 108,000 miles away from the formation of a football philosophy, and there is no such figure in the contemporary era, Ferguson is not, Wenger is not. Lippi is not, neither is Capello, the top coaches of our time, all stand on the shoulders of giants, even if it is Van Gaal's attacking football philosophy, twenty years ago, Cruyff, Michels, who was not more authoritative than him?

Of course, modern football has been developed for more than 100 years, and this is no longer the "age of famine". If you want to start a sect, it is more difficult than thirty years ago. Fifty years ago, it was more than 100 times higher.

Even in the future of the original history, the extremely opposite Guardiola and Mourinho in European football can almost be said to be a confrontation between Menottiism and Vilardoism, although they have no half-teacher relationship with Argentine football philosophy, but the kind of confrontation in the bones of ball control and beautiful attack, conservative and stereotypical details to win, sharp Cheng dù is exactly the same as the "war" within Argentine football.

Argentine football itself, also oscillating between these two football philosophies, why? Because both football philosophies have won the world championship for Argentina, just like England's 442 brought the historic championship trophy, it will have such a far-reaching impact, so that future generations will admire and revere at the same time, they can't bear to give up, and always want to reopen the glorious road of the sages.

Some Argentine fans will always say that Argentina abandoned its own style at a certain time, and did not insist on offensive football and passionate football, but as everyone knows, Argentina itself has a conservative and utilitarian football philosophy, so in the 90 World Cup, you can see that Argentina did not hesitate to block the bus in the penalty area to block the crushing of the German chariot.

Since then, Argentina has sometimes tended to Menottiism, sometimes to Bilardoism, and in the World Cup, there are wonderful teams with more than 20 crosses to score goals, and there are boring games full of big names but difficult to win, not that Argentina has abandoned anything, but they themselves have these two contradictory football genes.

Taking the 10-year South Africa World Cup as an example, the responsibility for the collapse of Argentina is not on the players, but on the coach Maradona, nor how bad Maradona's coaching level is, but Maradona, a combination of angels and devils, and finally can't hold back his own nature.

What made him brilliant and made him ascend to the altar was Bilardoism, so he coached Argentina because he wanted to dominate the world with the core of 86 years of philosophy, because Argentina has a Messi, a successor closest to him in the eyes of the outside world, but Maradona's own adventurous and radical personality made him unable to do absolute utilitarianism at all, two extremely opposing philosophies, and finally completely collapsed in the wavering, and Argentina's World Cup trip to South Africa.

And many Argentine players took up the whip after retiring, and their styles are also distinct and distinctive, because they are either followers of Menottiism or believers in Biraldoism, such as Argentina's current squad international Pochettino, and Simeone, who has suffered a huge impact and subversion, Simeone has an extraordinary relationship with Bielsa, and is now a follower of Bielsa, Bielsa instilled in him a majestic football concept, but after experiencing the Korea-Japan World Cup, Simeone realized what Bielsa depicted, Ten years later, when Atletico Madrid shook up European football, he became a Vilardoist through and through, and beauty was no match for practicality.

The projected image finally changed to Argentina that they were about to run into tomorrow, 3313, or simply 343.

The full house craned their necks and their eyes became solemn.

Aldrich solemnly said: "Menottiism pursues an atmospheric creative force, while Bilardo is careful attention to every detail. Why do I say we have an innate advantage? Because Bielsa, the master tactician who continues Menottiism, he is too idealistic, too romantic, what he pursues, it is not that others dare not pursue, but that others bow to reality, I, England, also bow my head, you should be able to understand, we are on a pragmatic path, and Argentina, what are they pursuing? In the pursuit of domination of an era, set off a storm that will go down in history and surpass the name engraved on the championship trophy! It's a pity, I think it's too idealistic, it's not 20 years ago, it's not 30 years ago, it's an era when tactics are almost secret, it's not a time when you can make a creative force appear out of thin air, this kind of pursuit has made Argentina lose the mentality of looking at reality, and that's our advantage. ”

Aldrich's words are categorical and unashamed.

Yes, he bowed his head, he had to make England shrink back to play defense, he had to make England look like a strong team at times, there was no atmosphere of a strong team, there was no dominance of a strong team, but the reality was that England did not have the confidence to pursue that too illusory power.

Dreaming, who wouldn't do it?

But when you open your eyes, there is still reality in front of you.

How hard is it for offensive football to conquer the world?

Menottiism has only led Argentina to the championship once, and when you think of offensive football, you must be inseparable from the tulips of the Netherlands, they are only the uncrowned kings!

Aldridge is just a layman, he wants a championship, and he believes that his players are also laymen, and it is more realistic to have a championship trophy than to create a new philosophy that will go down in history.

As for Brazil's championship in 02 in the original history, is it a victory for offensive football? It's hard to say, have they ever been tested by Europe's top teams? Soulless Ballack's green and yellow German team counts? (To be continued......)