663 On the eve of Armageddon
Before September arrived, Millwall won two championships, chicken ribs are chicken ribs, it is indeed the kind of championship that will not be much excited to win, and it is a pity to give up.
The Millwall squad returned to London while the club's chief executive, Ya, was on his way to attend the UEFA Champions League draw for the new season.
Aldridge was once again absent from the draw ceremony after last season, it is estimated that from now on, he will not be interested in going to the scene to see the results of Millwall's draw, the Champions League expansion, the team is divided, no matter how UEFA draws, for Millwall, the group of death in the public sense can cause some trouble at best, but it will never reach the point of life and death.
The four teams in the Champions League in England, Millwall, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, have good luck, but if you want to say who has the most difficult group, it is the defending champion Millwall.
Manchester United, Deportivo La Coruna, Lille, Olympiacos.
Arsenal, Pennadian, Naigos, Mallorca, Schalke O4.
Liverpool, Bortmund, Bovista, Dynamo Kyiv.
Millwall, Juventus, Porto, Celtic.
Clearly, Millwall have been placed in the 'Group of Death', with all four teams being the strongest in each bracket.
Aldridge said in an interview in London that he was very satisfied with the draw results, and did not say anything else, as for the fact that he will meet Lippi, the silver fox of Juventus in the second palace, Aldridge does not cater to the media hype, but smiles and looks forward to playing Lippi again.
Millwall have a Carabao Cup game to play ahead of the FIFA breakday, with Aldridge turning on the full squad rotation. Directly on the full bench.
Millwall thrashed Oxford United 7-1 on the road. Klose scored five goals in a single game and became the biggest focus.
Aldridge, however, focused on praising the table at the back. It is a fact that Pedretti tends to be stable and has great potential, but his strength has also reached the level of a giant substitute, which belongs to the kind of player who lets him play the main team, you think he is almost there, but let him sit on the bench, you will have the bottom in your heart, and you can sleep well.
Metzelder and Barzagli are also beginning to be reassured. In the past, when they played, they would give people a sense of fear, for fear that they would make mistakes, but now they can feel much more at ease, Alonso got more opportunities last season, his confidence has increased a lot, and the improvement is obvious to all, although Ramour has not reached the height of talent that was once expected to be high, but the level of the giants' bench is also what Aldridge loves, especially his role in attacking play. There are always surprises, and Villa didn't become a first-line star after a blockbuster as expected by the outside world. He will turn 2o at the end of the year and has lost attention in the past two years, but Aldridge thinks this is a good thing, Villa is also growing up in a low-key manner, he does not belong to the kind of player like Piero, Raul has steadily entered the first-class player after he became famous, after he became famous, the opponents in the English field have targeted him to limit him, these two years focus on honing his skills, and continue to strengthen his body in the future, Aldridge believes that in two or three years, Villa will really step into the realm of first-class players.
De Rossi and Kaka, the two newcomers, Aldridge has not had high expectations for them this season, because they will lack stability, and they have just entered the professional arena, but they are still mainly about feeling the atmosphere, integrating into the team, getting familiar with the rhythm and adapting to the environment.
Millwall has fewer personnel and more games this season, just a conservative estimate of the Champions League to enter the quarterfinals of 14 games, plus 38 league games, this is 52 games, and then counting the Charity Shield, the Cup, the Toyota Cup, the FA Cup, the League Cup, this season if all fronts are better than last season, a season down, there will be almost 7o games.
Aldridge's plan for the main players is 4o-45 games or so, and the rest are substitute players, and the main squad cannot be free of injuries throughout the season, Millwall's substitute players will get a lot of opportunities to play this season, like Klose, Alonso, the main substitute players, the number of appearances more than 3o times is absolutely no problem.
Don't look at Millwall, there are fewer people, the squad has not changed much, but the overall strength has been greatly improved in the new season, because substitutes like Metzelder and Alonso are growing every season, and as soon as they appeared this season, they bloodied their opponents away from home, even if the opponent is a fish belly, but the strength of the table on the field cannot be ignored.
Aldridge rests at home ahead of the FIFA matchday.
He feels a lot more relaxed in the new season, the key is that the club is stable, there is no need to worry too much, thinking of the turmoil last season summer and going to Asia to make money, and then compared with the beginning of the new season this year, Aldridge sighed in his heart: There are gains and losses.
On a bright day, Aldrich was playing football with his two sons on the lawn in the backyard of his home, while Evan was recording with a digital camera, with a smile on his face.
Aldridge always thought that Earl didn't like to play football, and only Bert liked to play, but he was wrong.
Now Bert and Earl can run with the ball, shoot simply and pass the ball to each other.
Bert looks like an ordinary child, kicking the ball with his feet, and he doesn't have any tricks.
But Earl's physical flexibility is amazing, he is not kicking the ball, he is playing with the ball, he has practiced juggling the ball for a while, and now he can bounce the ball ten times at one time!
When interacting with Bert, he will also try to pass people with a change of direction, although he can't see any obvious movements, but he has a good sense of passing.
In this way, it makes the older brother Bert look slightly clumsy.
Aldrich doesn't care, as a parent, how can he dislike his children and find fault with them?
He set up a small goal in front of a wall in the backyard, and when he came home from work, he would often play a game of shooting and goalkeeping with his two sons.
Bert always shoots with force, kicks out with power, Earl is a lot more cunning, and that was the case today.
Aldrich stood in front of the door and struck at Earl and smiled, "Be careful, don't get your foot awkward." β
Earl has always liked to play tricks and has had sprains before.
Earl took two steps back, then slowly ran towards the ball and made a shot. His foot circled in front of the ball. Aldrich naturally saw that he was faking it. However, he pounced directly to the right in a good way, and Earl only then kicked the ball into the empty net.
"Yay! Scored! β
Earl shouted and high-fived Bert in celebration before rushing towards Aldrich.
Aldrich, who had moved the center of gravity in advance, lay on his back on the lawn and wailed: "You are so powerful, how did you come up with such a powerful trick?" β
Earl laughed and rushed to Aldridge, and was dragged into Aldrich's arms, Earl excitedly shouted, "I beat you, Dad." I beat you! Hahaha. β
"You are so powerful, I am not your opponent, sue me, who taught you?"
'It was the pants who taught me, he was amazing, yesterday he won against Islington's team, in 4o minutes of play he scored six goals.
Aldridge laughed, Islington is a borough of Greater London, and the 13-year-old is presumably playing street football with his teammates. Play against Islington's wild team, Millwall Academy. Before the age of 16, there was a tradition of street football in his spare time, and Najib himself led the street football team that swept through Greater London, but now it is not so strict, but the Under-16s are still required to have at least one street football game every week.
Street football is actually a very important part of the training of players, the so-called art in the folk, England football lacks creativity, a major root is that professional players have entered a fixed model of youth training system since childhood, and have been bound by inspiration and freedom, and South American football, and even Latin football like France in Europe, where Latin football is representative, many stars are played by street football.
Bert and Earl were taken by Evan to watch the street soccer game yesterday, and Bert also came over to Aldridge to talk about the game yesterday.
Aldridge didn't hear them mention Messi, and they understood it when they thought about it.
If Aguero and Messi team up to play against other wild teams in London, it is estimated that no team wants to play with them, it is simply looking for abuse, so they go out to play wild football, they all act alone, at most pull one or two teammates of non-offensive players to go together, sometimes there are many people and they have to break up, and people are willing to play with you in different teams.
Like yesterday, Aguero went with Baines, and called one of his brothers, abused someone 8:2, and went home happy.
"Islington's big brother said he would never play with Pants N again, unless Pants N was on the same team as them."
Earl's eyebrows fluttered, and Aldrich also found it amusing.
Evan holds a digital camera to record the whole process, and these memories will become wonderful memories when they are old.
After a carefree two-day rest day at home, Aldridge returned to work as England travelled to Liverpool to prepare for the sixth round of the World Cup against Finland, with Anfield at home and Old Trafford in the final round against Greece.
Wembley's reconstruction, a certain number of dΓΉ also had an adverse impact on the England national team, that is, the home game venue is not fixed, although many European countries have been using the home stadium in turn, but for England, the past has been at Wembley, this habit is suddenly broken, there will definitely be a slight impact.
At the beginning of the new season, the international players are also full of energy, which can be regarded as a positive influence.
England are third in the group, because of the bye in June, Finland was originally one point less than England, as a result they beat Albania in June, now have 12 points, three more than England, but England have one less game than them, as long as England wins this game, it will basically lock up the second place in the group of the world preliminary round, because after this game, Finland has one game with Greece left to end all eight games, and England has two games left.
This game will be a key battle for England to qualify for the World Cup, if it can win, at least the play-off qualification will be stable, if not, considering that the next round will be a guest in Germany, it is very likely that you will not even be able to qualify for the play-offs!
The two World Preliminary Tournaments in September and the final match of the group stage of the World Preliminary Tournament in January will be the decisive battle for England to enter the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, and there is no room for loss. (To be continued......)
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