972 Overcome yourself
The finale is just around the corner.
More than any other season, the suspense is gone.
There will be no further changes to the three relegated teams.
There will also be no changes to the four teams that have qualified for the Champions League.
Arsenal lead by one point, with Millwall close behind.
Manchester United have one point above Chelsea, but Chelsea have seven points above fifth-placed Liverpool.
If you want to say what the small suspense is, that is, Manchester United and Chelsea, who will end up playing in the Champions League play-offs, and which teams will occupy the places in the League Cup, at least, Liverpool will definitely qualify for the League Cup.
Leeds United's relegation was sensational, not only because the White Rose said goodbye to the top flight stage for 14 years, but also because Leeds United fell from the top to the bottom too quickly and too quickly to imagine.
Aldridge and Millwall's declaration of war on the camera at Elland Road Stadium is simply a single sentence: Arsenal, Millwall is coming!
It has become a recent buzzword in the UK.
At the same time, Millwall visited Highbury in the final game, and the odds to win the title are the same as Arsenal!
In the eyes of the outside world, Arsenal, who are unbeaten in 37 rounds, plus home advantage, can be on the same level as Millwall!
Because, Millwall is too domineering!
It's crazy!
It's suffocating, and it is impossible to question their determination and strength to reverse Arsenal!
Fleet Street lists a comparison of the two teams' records in the first and second halves.
The first half of the league.
Arsenal won 13 and drawn 6, accumulating 45 points.
Millwall 11 wins, 7 draws, 1 loss, total 40 points.
The second half of the league is before the final game.
Arsenal won 12 and drew 6, accumulating 42 points.
Millwall won 14 and drew four. Earn 46 points.
Overall Record:
Arsenal 87 points.
Millwall 86 points.
It can be seen that the upper and lower halves of Arsenal are consistent. Millwall, on the other hand, was better in the second half than in the first. They have only conceded a total of 8 points in 18 games in the second half of the league!
Although they did not have a winning streak of more than 6 games, they did not have a winless streak either.
When it comes to stable form and strength, it is obvious that Millwall beat Arsenal in the second half, and if you look at the number of goals, Millwall is even more complete with Arsenal, not to mention that they reached the final of the Champions League!
It's that momentum. In the second half of this season, the impact of the third-generation Wild Lions really shaping and starting to explode made it impossible for the outside world to underestimate the probability of Millwall winning the championship.
That's right, Arsenal have home advantage.
However, Arsenal's last league title was in '98, and Millwall are clearly more champions than Arsenal.
And in a match-winning game, the outside world is more optimistic about Aldridge than Wenger.
Don't think of the game as a league!
Think of it as a 90-minute final at Arsenal's home stadium!
In 90 minutes, Arsenal was undefeated, and Arsenal staged an unbeaten season to win the championship!
Within 90 minutes, Millwall had won against Arsenal. Millwall staged a miracle reversal!
Such a miracle will surpass the last-minute countdown.
Because. Since the end of the second round of the league, Arsenal have been the league leaders!
Such an advantage was maintained for 35 rounds and more than 8 months!
In Serie A, AC Milan has won the championship in advance, and Ancelotti was embarrassed to be relegated by Deportivo La Coruna in the Champions League.
In the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich has a long way to go, and Bremen unexpectedly came out and won the championship ahead of schedule!
In La Liga, Benitez has completed two league championships in three years, and the Bat Army is in the post-Cooper era, no one expected to complete a big leap in Benitez's hands and trample the La Liga duo under their feet! And the La Liga champion was also born before the finale!
In Ligue 1, Lyon has won three consecutive championships, but the overall strength of the Ligue 1 team is getting bigger and bigger with the top in Europe and gradually marginalizing.
Of the five major European leagues, only the Premier League championship is still undecided, and it will be decided in the final game!
In 5 days it will be Aldrich's 28th birthday.
This birthday is very memorable.
At least that's what it looks like to the people around him, and the fans who love him.
Because, it also represents that his coaching career has gone through a "decade"!
Despite the hiccups of his departure last season, he has not left football.
In the modern era of advanced information, Aldridge has received birthday gifts from many fans who like him from all over the world.
One of his favourite gifts, a fan from China, collected photographs of his classic on-field conductors for each season of the past decade, and a combination of ten close-ups of his faces.
It was '94, '95, '96 until '04, and he had a particularly clear photo of each of the ten seasons, and the change in his appearance felt like a young man to a handsome young man, and then to a mature man after starting a family.
Aldrich put this elaborate album on the shelf, reminding himself that if he became a middle-aged uncle in a few years, he could take it out and enjoy it, and proudly told him that when he was in his prime, he had also swept the hearts of thousands of girls, yes, this gift was sent by a beautiful girl in China, and there was a photo of her
In the past, Bert and Earl rarely went to watch games away from home, unless they sat in the VIP box with their grandfather Arthur, but today, they invited a lot of friends to north London under the organization of a group of relatives and friends, and Arsenal's stadium order is guaranteed, after all, Arsenal's home stadium is known as the "quietest" stadium in the Premier League.
Millwall's bus drove to North London, gathering in the sea of people in Highbury from all directions, blue and red and white gradually formed the mainstream, and finally formed two opposing hues, surround Highbury!
Is the Premier League the number one league in the world?
Hell knows.
Aldrich didn't care either.
Isn't it the First League, and he's on strike? Doesn't he want a champion?
What first and second, he doesn't care at all. In England anyway. Millwall is going to be the boss. Go to the European arena, Millwall still has to be the boss, no matter where you are the bull ghost snake god in Europa, stop me from being crowned king and destroy it!
And today's game, the final game of the Premier League, under the publicity of Fleet Street, will surely become the most watched game in world football!
Expectation. It will even be far more than the Champions League final.
After arriving in the away dressing room at Highbury, Aldridge waited for the players to warm up and return.
Looking at the whole team members who had sorted out their jerseys and shoes equipment, they looked heroic and murderous!
Aldridge said lightly with one hand in the pocket: "Unfortunately, our season is coming to an end. â
Regretful?
No player found it strange, and many even nodded subconsciously.
They are very different from Arsenal.
Arsenal can be said to have reached a near-peak state since last season, but it has not been fully continued.
That's how this season has been steady from start to finish to outrageous Arsenal.
However, if you want to say how strong they are, it must be advocated by the media, but the league is undefeated. Moreover, 12 draws and 24 points were conceded. This makes them even if they complete the myth of undefeated championships, they cannot compare with Millwall, who have won the championship twice in a single season in the past, and in terms of points, goals, including the same period comparison of other fronts, they are not comparable to the second generation of Wild Lions.
It can be said that Arsenal has tapped at least 90 points of potential value of 100 points, and it may be difficult to rise again, even if there is real improvement, it is almost imperceptible to the naked eye.
And they persevered for nearly 9 months and a season, and the state was stable, but they also had fatigue and psychological boredom.
But Millwall is different.
Millwall have been grinding and tempering in the first half of the season, and it is from the second half of the season that they really broke out, they will feel that the first half of the season is preparation, and the second half of the season is really strong, and now they are enjoying the game on the field, they are still not tired, and they hope to play more, trample the opponent under their feet, and enjoy more brilliant victories.
At least mentally, Millwall should be more aggressive than Arsenal.
'From the very beginning, I never told you who we were chasing, Arsenal were always ahead of us, yes, the outside world has been describing Millwall as chasing Arsenal, which is not true, I said before the season that Millwall have only one enemy! That's who we are, and now that we've overcome ourselves, you should be able to understand what I'm talking about. â
Aldrich's words made the whole team nod in agreement.
In the Millwall dressing room, Aldridge never talked about Arsenal, never used Arsenal to win again, or use the gap in the table as a reason to whip the team, stimulate the team, and motivate the players.
No, Arsenal don't have a zĂ i in the Millwall dressing room.
On the contrary, Aldridge has constantly pointed the finger at Arsenal in front of the media, putting pressure on Arsenal so that Arsenal cannot ignore Millwall's existence.
This is his psychological warfare.
Decompress internally and put pressure on the opponent externally.
"The enemy is only himself?"
That's just a false empty phrase.
What do you call yourself?
How to overcome yourself?
Specifically, I can't say it at all, but it's this kind of empty talk, which sounds like an atmosphere, as if it sublimates the goal, improves the pursuit, and at the same time makes the team's temperament invisibly become detached.
Such specious empty words sometimes work wonders.
Like now.
The players are nodding.
Aldrich's nervous feelings were immediately dispersed.
He wanted to ask everyone: Why are you nodding?
In this process, what kind of self did you overcome?
Maybe the players feel that they are not lazy and have become super self-disciplined, which is a victory.
Or a breakthrough in the stadium is also a victory.
Or the improvement of the reading ability of the competition, like an epiphany, is to defeat the ethereal things such as "heart demons" and "bottlenecks".
Especially young players such as Alonso, De Rossi, and Ronaldo are deeply convinced by Aldridge's words.
However, Aldridge can't really describe these words vividly, because he has only worked hard for one season, and it is much easier than in many years past, at least, after work, he never works overtime. (To be continued......)