When the Champions League semi-finals were announced, a scene that had never been seen before in the European Champions Cup was presented to the world!

Champions League semi-finals:

Millwall, England.

Real Madrid, Spain.

Barcelona, Spain.

Valencia, Spain.

Three of the top four teams are from the same league!

This is a great spectacle in European football in the new millennium and new era.

This has not been the case before, and because the Champions League has only been expanded in the past two years, it has been rare for two or more teams from the same league to participate in the Champions League.

This phenomenon has made the Spanish media happy.

Fleet Street is full of Millwall and fights its way out of the siege under the siege of the three heroes of La Liga!

Millwall faced a formidable obstacle in the semi-finals: Real Madrid!

It was another rival with Millwall, who had a rivalry with Millwall, who had beaten Real Madrid on penalties to win the club's first Champions League trophy in their club's history in the final two years ago.

In the semi-finals, Millwall is still the first away and then the home, and the first game is to go to the Bernabeu to challenge Real Madrid.

Aldrich's work is on track, and at this critical juncture across the board, composure is the number one priority.

At the weekend, Aldridge led his side to host arch-rivals Chelsea.

Chelsea's only bright spot in the league was a 5-0 thrashing of a disjointed Manchester United in the first half of the season, having suffered three defeats in a row in the first half of the season against Millwall, and after Millwall handed them four defeats in a row, until the end of the first half. They have won just one game since then. It ended in a terrible crash. Vialli shifted his focus and Chelsea began to give it their all in the cup, reaching the semi-finals of the FA Cup, the League Cup with Arsenal and the London derby in the semi-finals.

In the league, they have been oscillating in the upper middle of the season since they slipped in the first half of the season, and now it is time to sprint to the end of the season. They sit sixth in the league and are two places off qualifying for next season's Champions League.

At this stage, no matter how turbulent Chelsea may be, the whole squad will be calm, the conflict will be covered up, the anger will be extinguished for the time being, and everything will be resolved at the end of the season in a month's time.

Chelsea clearly lacked momentum, particularly in the second half of the fixture, playing almost the same number of games as Millwall, but at this time. Millwall's physical superiority is evident on the pitch.

After all, Millwall has a strong squad and is a substitute in the FA Cup. The league also gives the main players a proper rest, there is not too much pressure on the record, on the contrary, Chelsea is a must fight for every game, and there is no room for loss, and at the end of the league, the gap with Millwall is more obvious.

Vialli was at a loss on the sidelines and Millwall took it in stride to beat their opponents at home by the same score in the first half of the season.

3:0

Thierry Henry, Ronaldo and Andrea Pirlo each scored a goal.

Aldridge applauded the fans in the stands at the end of the game, and the game at the Lion's Den was one less game, and every time he thought that he might not see those familiar faces from a familiar angle, he also felt a touch of sadness in his heart.

It's a situation shaped by the traditional history of a club, and there are a lot of loyal fans who aren't fanatical, who come to see the game is an essential part of life, who don't participate in passionate celebrations, who don't participate in the rights and wrongs of the fans off the pitch, who walk in every season with a season ticket, every home game day, sit in a fixed position to watch the game, applaud the team, cheer for the team, and also grieve the team when the team loses.

It was not Aldridge's concern where Chelsea's fortunes would go this season, as he shook hands with Vialli after the game and then walked away.

Lions fans are too lazy to pay attention to Chelsea fans these days, and today they hate another team even more: Manchester United.

Damn Manchester United also won.

With five Premier League games remaining, Millwall are 12 points ahead of Manchester United and look determined to delay Millwall's title.

Aldridge was happy with the situation, and it would be good for the team to win the championship a day later.

The major European leagues have entered the final stage, Serie A is Lazio and Juventus, La Liga is in a stalemate, there are 4-6 teams still retain the hope of winning the championship, Super Laco, Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza, Real Madrid are fiercely strangling, and the Premier League is Millwall.

The eyes of European football are on Spain.

In addition to the increasingly fierce competition in the league, the two semi-finals of the European Champions League will be played here first.

Millwall's preparations were well organized, with Villas-Boas pulling out 30 pages of opposition analysis that seemed to theoretically clean up Real Madrid, with Jensen and Jurgen Klinsmann rating their players' form through training observations, with the only bad news being that Larsson could miss out on his first Champions League semi-final.

Although Millwall is known as being surrounded by the top three in La Liga, they are still the top favorites in terms of championship index.

In his pre-match press conference, Aldridge made a low-key statement that he was afraid of Real Madrid's attack

Spain's most beautiful scenery, Madrid's football temple: Santiago-Bernabéu Stadium.

Located in the bustling financial district, it is a famous landmark in the capital and throughout Spain.

On Millwall's team on their way to Spain, Aldridge sat with Villas-Boas.

Boas's heart was heavy, and his face was worried.

In the pre-match preparation meeting, Aldridge did not use his opponent's technical and tactical analysis report.

Aldrich did not take his work lightly, and the 30-page report, Aldrich read it twice and saw it at a glance.

After reading it, he also praised Villas's work efficiency, but when finalizing the team's tactical play and line-up for the first leg against Real Madrid, Boas keenly found that several key points he focused on reminding in the report were not adopted or even ignored by Aldridge.

"Aldrich. Is it because we have beaten Real Madrid before? Therefore you"

Boas was halfway there. Then he stopped talking.

After all, the man sitting next to him is still his boss.

Sometimes it's one thing to express your opinion, and challenging the authority of your boss is a move to smash your own job.

He was worried that Aldridge would become arrogant and unsightly, especially because he had won in the past, so he did not take Real Madrid seriously.

But now Real Madrid. Real Madrid has undergone huge changes from two years ago, especially in terms of the team's technical and tactical play and formation.

"You think I'm belittling Real Madrid, right?"

Aldridge smiled and said what he hadn't finished.

Boas hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"Vilas, you've done a great job, and I think the technical and tactical advice in the report is great."

"That"

"Listen to me, but this report is in a normal state, for example, you looked at Valencia. Or Inter, I think that's the perfect report. But you're looking at Real Madrid, and this report is wrong from the starting point, it's a mistake in direction, so I can't take it. ”

Boas looked stunned and asked rhetorically, "What kind of mistake?" ”

"You didn't take the history of Real Madrid into account, you didn't add the pride of Real Madrid to the analysis. Do you know Real Madrid? ”

"I don't think there are many people who don't know about Real Madrid, right?"

Aldridge smiled and shook his head: "In fact, more than 90% of fans, especially non-Spanish fans, even if they know that Real Madrid is a Spanish giant, they only regard them as giants with the same status as Manchester United, Juventus, Barcelona and other clubs, but the fact is that Real Madrid is different and should be the most special one among all the first-class clubs in the world." ”

Boas was thoughtful, in fact, the situation of Real Madrid is like the most ordinary couple relationship for the world, if you like it, you will like it infinitely, and if you don't like it, there is nothing special.

In the football circle, no matter how tall Real Madrid is, it is not a Real Madrid fan, if you evaluate it objectively, it will be like that.

As for the Champions League six-time champions, the reputation of the Champions Cup lover, sorry, the age is too old, for the entire European football world, Real Madrid has not produced much shock in contemporary times, especially their limelight in the league in the past ten years is completely inferior to the rising momentum of the dream team Barcelona.

Villas-Boas is Portuguese, even though Real Madrid is the most influential Latin American country and region, he did not put Real Madrid in a special position when he made Real Madrid's investigation report.

"Real Madrid is an aristocracy, a natural and purebred aristocracy! Even if Millwall, Manchester United, Juventus, AC Milan and other teams win more honors, they can't become the nobility of Real Madrid, Vilas, do you understand? ”

As if he had been slapped in the face, Boas woke up from his dream, and he slapped one hand on his head and understood what was the biggest factor he had overlooked.

Real Madrid is definitely the most alternative of all the strong teams in European football.

The club was born in the financial district, from the first day of the club's establishment, their supporters, fans, fans, are Madrid's aristocratic circle, the middle class, scholars and other groups in the middle and upper social status, extending in the development of the club, the source of funds, the promotion of influence, they were crowned with noble titles in their infancy.

This image was reinforced by the fact that Real Madrid was portrayed as an enemy of Catalonia when Spain was ruled by a dictator, and was favored by the dictator as a target for resolving internal class contradictions.

This is completely different from other clubs, whether it is a prestigious giant or a declining old powerhouse, their club in the birth and development process, relying on the bottom class, the working class, the blue-collar class, is the majority of the working people in the after-work entertainment or catharsis of the belief sustenance, such as the development of Juventus club and the Fiat Group that attracted a large number of workers to support the team is inseparable, forming a backbone to pass on, as for the Premier League team, not to mention, the earliest days, Most of the supporters are miners.

So the tradition of Premier League fans is to shout, it is necessary for the players to fight the field, let them vent, let them show their male side, it doesn't matter if the game looks good or not, the key is whether the players are soft or the field.

And for those businessmen, scholars, celebrities, and aristocrats in Madrid, who go to support Real Madrid, is there anything to catharsis? No, it's just to enjoy the game, to see the best game, as the highest level of enjoyment!

Over time, Real Madrid has developed a unique tradition and style.

The management of the membership system gives the fan members the most say in the fate of the club, such as who to support as president and oust the head coach.

Fans can directly argue with the club, they want to watch the best game, but the requirements are very high, there must be a champion.

As a result, the utilitarian philosophy of football cannot survive at Real Madrid, who are dressed in white and have to be both elegant and glorious.

In the Sanz era, Capello, the only meritorious coach of Real Madrid who led the team to win the league championship, still stepped down after winning the championship and left as the coach, which took this to the extreme.

Real Madrid can do without a championship coach, but they have to be elegant and gorgeous. (To be continued......)