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After lunch, Aldridge took a short rest, and then in the afternoon he went to the hotel where the team was staying for training, where he changed into swimming trunks and went swimming.

He was the only one in the huge indoor pool, swimming back and forth in the lanes at a constant speed.

At some point, he saw someone standing on the edge of the pool while wearing swimming goggles, Aldrich saw that it was Najib from a distance, and he couldn't see the other party's expression clearly, knowing that the other party must have something to find him, but he still shouted: "Wait a minute, there are still two laps." ”

After swimming two laps, Aldridge left the pool and walked over to Najib's side to take a closer look, and was immediately startled, Najib's eyes were bloodshot and he looked worried.

"What's wrong?"

"I have something very important to talk to you about!"

"About the players?"

"No, it's the team, it's the future of Millwall!"

Aldrich's face instantly became solemn, Najib is an academic person, his personality determines that he will not joke, and what he says has always been just right, neither exaggerated nor conservative.

After a brief rinse and change, Aldridge was led by Najib to the hotel's conference room, where their coaches usually meet.

Aldrich sat down and said, "Say it." ”

Najib first turned on the large TV in the conference room, put an edited videotape into the recorder and started playing.

He turned around and said, "You take a look first." ”

Aldridge sat up straight and kept his eyes fixed on the TV to spot clips of the Carabao Cup final and Millwall playing Aston Villa.

The angles of the video are multifaceted, and the combination footage played in the picture shows Millwall players attacking, Aston Villa players defending, and attacking players and defenders one-on-one.

Larson, Trezeguet, Pire, Schneider, Nedved, most of them in the shot.

After reading it, Aldrich spread his hands and said that he did not understand Najib's intentions.

Nagy replayed the video again, then pressed the remote control to freeze the frame, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Larsson who was holding the ball in the frame, and said: "Henrik has the ball in this position, how many options does he have?" ”

Aldridge's expression was shocked, his mind began to run rapidly, and he said in a deep voice: "There is not much room for passing, and breaking through is the best choice, because the benefits are higher." ”

In the picture, Larsson faced Taylor's defense, he had room to break through, and at that moment, the dragging central defender Simeka did not come closer, as long as Larsson broke through, not to mention 100% shooting, but at least he had a good chance to start, and this is also what Millwall is pursuing, a direct scoring opportunity!

Nagy continued to play the video, in which Larsson opted for a pass and, although not conceding the ball, gave Aston Villa more time to set up their defence.

In the next frame, Trezeguet has the ball with his back and Nagy presses the pause button again, asking: "What should he do?" ”

Aldridge observes that his teammate is being stared at and that the player who is plugged in is not in place, and Trezeguet either passes back or on his own, and because Eschiogu doesn't stick up, Trezeguet has room to turn.

Aldridge said: "Turning around and shooting straight at goal is the best option. ”

Nagy played the rest of the clip, where Trezeguet took the ball and turned to try to break head-on, but the ball was broken.

Najib said in a deep voice: "David made the right choice, but he didn't do his best, he just had to take a step laterally, adjust the shooting action and shoot space in one step, and he could shoot straight at the goal, instead of continuing to break forward with the ball. From the angle of the picture, it is clear that there is space around him for him to make the best movements. ”

Najib moves on to the rest of the clips, and although the characters are different, the question Najib wants to illustrate is the same.

The players' thinking on the ball is generally fine, but the choice of details on the ball is not top-notch.

After turning off the TV, Aldrich said solemnly: "Najib, let's get to the point." ”

Instead of celebrating, Najib returned to the club and asked the staff to send footage of the various shots to his office, and he stayed up all night studying it, and he has not closed his eyes until now.

He sat down and stared into Aldridge's eyes and said in a deep voice: "Aldrich, yesterday's victory was not about how well the players played a decisive role, but about how well your tactics worked. Millwall's outstanding performance in the Premier League this season is not because of the top players, but for three reasons, first, team chemistry, second, tactics, and third, physical fitness. ”

Aldridge asked rhetorically: "Isn't it a testament to the quality of the players to be able to work well with their teammates and execute the tactics arranged by the coach, coupled with the physical advantage of serious training and strengthening?" ”

Najib slapped the table with a little excitement and said loudly, "No! In this way, Millwall's integrity will indeed be strong, but it will have great limitations, because these players are just the product of Millwall's team tactics, they can only adapt to this kind of football, and they will not appear to be particularly outstanding, in other words, they are good players, but they can never become top stars! When our opponents adapt to our tactics and our physical strength is no longer superior, then we will be immediately caught up by the opponents, we need to strengthen the rational use of the talents of the players, so that they can turn their talents into strength, so that the players can make the most correct decisions in the split-second handling of the ball, and have the ability to do the best! ”

Aldridge was shocked when he heard this, and Nagy said bitterly: "Does Larsson score fewer goals than Shearer?" No, but what was the source of most of Larsson's goals? It comes from the team's overall cooperation, but what about Shearer's goal? There are a lot of things that he can do with the ball in the most reasonable way when it's not an absolute chance. ”

Aldrich was a little confused and asked, "Doesn't this make us stronger?" We don't emphasize the individual, we emphasize the whole. ”

"You are wrong, Aldrich! This is not an individual-team argument. Rather, if you were given a Shearer, if you were given a Shearer who fused into Millwall team football, would he be better or worse than Larsson? ”

Najib's voice was getting louder and louder, Aldrich didn't usually like that, but today, his head was clear.

yes, give him an Shearer who can score every chance, so, how many goals can Shearer score?

Although this is an impossible fantasy, Aldridge is intellectually inclined to Shearer's indisputable victory over Larsson.

This is not a judgment of ability, but a hypothetical substitution of subjective impressions.

Because there is a feeling in the bottom of my heart, Shearer's threat is even greater.

What went wrong?

Aldrich took out a cigarette and lit one, took a few puffs and said softly, "Najib, whatever you have to say, calm down first, and then we will have a good talk, I will listen to anything you want to say." You tell me first what the essence of the problem you found to be. ”

Naji sighed, lit a cigarette, and said with a sad face, "It's the Brazilian boy you sent." ”

"Ronaldinho? What happened to him? ”

"He's so talented, I can't teach him."

"What do you mean? He doesn't listen to you? ”

Aldridge frowned, from a coach's point of view, players who disobey discipline are always rejected in their hearts, no matter how famous the player is, and even if it is Xiao Luo, who is not yet an adult.

Najib waved his hand and said: "No, it's not him, it's me, it's the problem of the youth coach, we instilled in him team thinking, the concept of football as a whole, he is learning, and he is doing well, but he can do more, you know, he has incredible thinking and skills, but the problem is that when he starts to pass people on the pitch, we don't have a coach who can tell him how to pass people, the choice of angles in different environments, And what kind of foot skills to connect after the most reasonable passing movements to serve the team. This does not conflict with our tactical philosophy, players don't have to just pass and run, and passing is a skill requirement that will never go away on the football field. ”

Aldridge rubbed his temples to make sense of what Najib was saying.

"Aldridge, let's say the player takes the ball in attack, the options are nothing more than three, shooting, passing, passing. When not in the shooting area, there are naturally the last two left, and our tactics emphasize the whole, when there are teammates running and a reasonable passing route, the player's choice should be passing, but when the player has no passing space and can't shoot, then it can only pass through, Millwall is now playing smoothly in the league, because our tactics are advanced, fullbacks and midfielders take turns to insert assists, in the local we can always penetrate the opponent through a short period of numerical advantage, but, when the opponents keep up with our pace, When we don't have the advantage of numbers, will our players still be able to change the game with their foot skills? Do you still have this ability? Yesterday's game, we won, but it also exposed our biggest problem, which player has the absolute upper hand in individual one-on-one? Larsson relied on speed on the counter-attack, Nedved also relied on speed to break through, and the only players who barely had the advantage with their foot skills were Pire and Schneider. ”

Najib's words made Aldridge's face a little ugly.

Perhaps, the person who needs a basin of cold water is himself.

Reflecting back on yesterday's game, it was true that Millwall had no player who could step up and change the tide of the game with equal numbers, and it was he who broke the deadlock by attacking the middle to create a numerical advantage.

Aston Villa are not a top team after all, and the two full-backs at the back are overwhelmed after being left to the side, but if they change to other top teams, I am afraid they can easily cope with it.

Aldridge looked up at Najib and asked, "Why have you been here for so many months, and you only realized this problem today?" ”

Najib smiled bitterly and said: "When I took over the youth team, the players in the team were like that, and Ronaldinho's arrival surprised me for a while, probably because his talent is so outstanding, so I suddenly realized this problem, and you also know that I used to work in the national team, and the focus of the team is not to teach players skills." I looked at the training footage of several players in the first team and compared them and found a fact that you would be unhappy to say. ”

Aldridge nodded understandingly, the national team coach is not responsible for developing players, but adjusting the state of players, grinding existing players together, and the focus of work and the club are two concepts.

"Let's say, if there is a hidden danger in the construction of the team, you bring it up to help me correct it, I will be happy, if the problem is completely exposed in the future, I will not be happy."

"Take Glen Charles as an example, for more than a year, his physical indicators are growing, team awareness is growing, and the passing and running position is becoming more and more mature, but his foot skills have hardly improved, especially the passing skills, a year ago he would only smash the ball on the inside of the foot to accelerate people, a year later, he will still only do this trick, fortunately he is still young, if he is now twenty-four or five years old, then he will be eliminated, or stay in Millwall to play a specific position of the substitute, and the limitations are very large. Aldridge, skills are practiced, not born, the players in our team can pass a good ball, Pirlo is not only a short pass is good, long passes are more and more accurate, this is all practiced, however, in our training program, there is no targeted training, it sounds like a fantasy, yes, other clubs will not spend time every week to arrange special training sessions, passing skills seem to be the patent of dexterous skills players, however, passing skills are connected to stop the ball, dribbling, Shooting is a big part! ”