"The Greek team will be strong in the future!"

After Aldridge said this sentence with a stern expression in the dressing room, the England players looked puzzled.

Future?

What does the future hold for today?

Aldridge continued to say in a deep voice: "Half a year ago, the Greek team changed coaches, and you must have heard his name as the current coach, Rehhagel. ”

Xiaobei and the others nodded.

This is a well-known manager in European football, with a reputation for the European Cup Winners' Cup and a legend for Kaiser.

However, the strength of the Greek team itself is limited, so what is the use of relying on the coach alone?

If you want to quantify the strength of the Greek team, you can roughly determine the level of this team from the historical record.

The number of times they have qualified for international competitions is pitiful, and in the finals of the European Championship and the World Cup, the Greek team has not won a single victory!

In front of the top teams, the Greek team is not even a role to accompany the prince to study, at best it is a soy sauce.

Because of this, the outside world is not optimistic that the Greek team can cause trouble for England, the game was not played, and the top spot in England's group has no suspense, and the bookmaker directly closed the plate and rejected the bet on the top place of England in this group.

"We can't look at today's game the same way we looked at Greece half a year ago, as I said earlier, the same opponent, the variables of today's zài are different. In the new phase of the construction of the Greek team, Rehhagel first led Greece to draw with Germany, at this time their military morale was greatly boosted, although the technical and tactical system has not yet been fully formed, and the new national team squad also needs more time to run in, but if we take it lightly. It's going to be a big loss! I don't want to see anything else today. I don't ask you to win. The only thing I want to see is your tactical discipline, how the game should be played, I already said at the pre-match preparation meeting yesterday, there is a problem, now ask, if there is any of you on the field that I am not satisfied with, I don't care how many minutes the game starts, I will make a direct substitution. ”

The players looked solemn. They nodded in unison.

In fact, the stronger the player, the more he likes to adhere to a "self-oriented" game mentality, naively believing that as long as he swings his strength above the normal level, he will reach the standard or even score higher, and at the same time can contribute to the team.

Aldrich's previous words were to give them a psychological foreshadowing.

The manager is not a neurotic, and every game has to make some adjustments to appear to be guilty, since targeted adjustments are made, there must be a reason, as for whether the players can understand it. Vary.

Regarding Aldridge's arrangement at yesterday's pre-match preparation meeting, many players have doubts in their hearts. They have a similar attitude to the media, believing that Aldrich has been too cautious.

Or after England's five consecutive wins, the players' mentality was inevitably affected, and in the last game of the World Preliminary Tournament, there was a bit of a desire to play the majesty of the British Empire.

But in Aldrich's warning, the players suppressed the messy thoughts in their hearts, emptied their heads, and executed according to the manager's pre-game arrangement.

When Aldridge appeared in the stadium at Old Trafford, with three minutes to go, he walked to shake hands with Rehhagel and say hello, for some reason, seeing Rehhagel, Aldridge had a magic barrier in his heart.

Obviously, the number of championships he has won has established his status as a world-class coach, but in front of Rehhagel, he always subconsciously feels that he is not as good as the other party.

This kind of thought has been had before, such as the first time he played against Ferguson, Wenger, Lippi and other famous coaches, Aldridge would have such thoughts, which was normal and a fact at the time, but with Millwall's championship soft, he saw the famous coach again, from the inside out, the whole person was very calm.

Even when Jose Mourinho, who had set up his own door to be the manager, appeared in front of him, Aldridge's mood did not fluctuate.

But in the face of Rehhagel, this kind of emotional fluctuation reappeared.

He knew that Rehhagel was an insurmountable mountain in his memory.

No amount of titles he won at Millwall could make him feel confident to outperform the other side.

Because of a kind of ability, he crossed the championship.

Rehhagel's ability to create a myth with attacking football in Kaiserslautern is not enough to be jaw-dropping, although Kaiserslautern was promoted at the time, but its squad was not weak.

And Rehhagel was able to lead Greece to create the myth of the Aegean Sea, how can this simply be measured by a European Cup winner?

Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Carlo Ancelotti, Lippi, Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola and other current or future coaches, which one can be like Rehhagel, with two very different styles of football? What's more, it is a myth to create a myth with Greece, the team at the end of the second rate in Europe!

Aldridge never thinks he is different, 99% of his results are earned by hard work, and 1% is an innate advantage.

He also inevitably goes with the flow, just as many fans in the future ridicule Mourinho for needing huge money to win the championship, Guardiola only dares to coach top teams, etc., Aldridge is inevitably vulgar.

In this England national team, if there is no team of players such as Xiaobei, Scholes, Owen, Lampard, Ashley Cole, etc., or if the time is pushed back about six years, Aldridge will not dare to take over the England national team.

To put it bluntly, let the top coaches in the contemporary world make a choice in front of the coach of the Greek national team, it is estimated that seventy percent will shake their heads and turn away, and those who dare to take over may not be able to achieve the miracle created by Rehhagel.

Aldrich didn't dare in his heart first, he could admit this in his heart, and he didn't feel ashamed, or he didn't cultivate to his home.

"The final round of the European Group I of the World Preliminary Championship is about to begin, England with 16 points in hand sit at Old Trafford to face the Greek team who have no hope of qualifying from this group, as long as the England team does not lose in this game, they will be ironclad to qualify directly for next year's World Cup finals as the group winner! The FA's wise decision to bring in Hall as England manager late last year had an unintended effect, as England emerged from a possible absence from the World Cup. One year. After finishing from the bottom of the group, he went all the way to the top of the group. Last month's 6:o thrashing of Germany in Munich went down in history as a classic England game, and today the relaxed atmosphere created by the fans in the stands showed that they were not worried about the challenge of the Greek team, who were beaten by a wide margin in Athens, and today, it may have been a routine game. ”

The game begins. Aldridge stood on the sidelines to supervise the battle.

The scene left the audience confused and irritated.

The Greek team retreated in the second half, and the England team did not press, just hit a long shot on the periphery, and fought for the second attack, if not, then go back to defense.

The fans in the stands originally thought that England could make persistent efforts today and take advantage of the momentum of the 6:o slaughter of Germany to easily clean up Greece, but looking at this scene, England is really a little childish and determined to keep the equal?

Rehhagel saw England's stance. Suddenly it was tricky.

England have won five in a row in this wave, and he has studied it carefully. Aldridge treats different opponents and uses different tactics, and there is no doubt that the opponent is a master tactician!

But England is stronger than Greece, and how much courage and will it take to pull down and hold for a draw?

With courage, you can play conservatively and have the will to stick to your own philosophy in front of the 60,000 local fans!

If you are conservative, even if you win, the outside world will be criticized like a tide, which is the practice of football circles.

Aldridge's ability to withstand such pressure from public opinion and order the three armies to unswervingly implement a conservative tactical strategy also reflects his control over this England team.

Due to their strength, the Greek team can only play defensive counterattacks.

But the defensive counterattack is by no means as simple as it sounds, and to play the defensive counterattack well and achieve results, the coach needs a very strong tactical foundation.

Defending is the foundation, counter-attacking, how to play, in 9o minutes, when to force, key areas to attack, etc., all of which need to be formulated by the manager to study the opponent before the game and make changes based on on-the-spot observation.

Greece frequently fouled in midfield to limit England's positional attack, which was not very powerful.

The scene became even more boring.

Originally, the two teams didn't play well, and the game was frequently interrupted by fouls, how could the fans like it?

However, considering that today is at stake for England to qualify from the group, the local fans in the stands were still very restrained, only booing the Greek team after a foul.

Aldridge was no surprise to the Greek team's foul tactics.

In terms of defense alone, the strength of the Greek team players has no advantage in one-on-one, so they can only rely on fouls.

The Greek team relied on the 532 formation of four defenders and scavengers to limit the attacking space of the England team, coupled with foul tactics, which made the positional battle that the England team was not good at extremely ugly.

In the first 4o minutes of the first half, the pace of the game was tepid, and the players on the field also felt tortured in this game, especially the England players, the opponent did not attack, and the manager did not allow them to press too much, this game was abrasive.

As soon as the 4o minutes passed, entering the final stage of the first half, the Greek team successfully blocked Scholes's penetrating ball, and the scavenger Dellas controlled the ball and counterattacked quickly, and the Greek team's midfield formation began to press forward.

Aldridge's eyes narrowed slightly.

It seems that Greece's counter-attack is to seize the last minute, which is the period of play in which the concentration of players can normally drop.

The beginning of the kick-off and the end of the pitch are suitable for blitzkrieg, and the latter is suitable for sudden changes of pace to surprise the effect.

Aldrich couldn't help clenching his fists, and secretly said in his heart: Is it a dragon or a worm, just these 5 minutes, show it to the world!

When the Greek team's counterattack suddenly increased and the attacking players began to run flexibly, the players of the England team were shocked at first, and then their blood boiled!

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Sure enough, the coach said it right!

The Greek team came here with ambitions!

Sagrakis, Nicolandis, and Gianacopolos, after a quick and smooth pass, the fatal pass came out from the feet of Gianakopolos, looking for Charlisteas who ran diagonally from the middle of Neville and Ferdinand!

The sleepy fans in the stands were awakened by this wave of sharp counterattacks from Greece!

What are the Greeks going to do?

Everyone couldn't help but worry.

At the crucial moment, Southgate broke the ball in front of Charlesteauas!

The linesman didn't raise the flag, and if Charlie Steas got the ball, it would be a one-on-one knife!

Rehhagel's hot eyes dimmed instantly.

Aldrich, however, did not show a look of joy at the moment, on the contrary, it was his turn to become extremely sharp.

Southgate immediately passed straight to the front right and handed the ball to Becky.

Two seconds earlier, the ball was in the England penalty area.

Two seconds later, the ball is on the halfway line.

Irving, McManaman, Scholes started to run, Becky drove forward, and Ashley Kerr on the other side also flew forward.

Seeing this, Rehhagel's mouth opened slightly and his face was full of surprise.

Aldrich's chin lifted and he smiled.

Greece wants to play England's counter-attack?

Today, England is going to fight the counterattack of Greece! (To be continued......)

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