Old Trafford, Theatre of Dreams.

While Aldridge was talking to Ferguson, the mild sun was still shining on the pitch, but less than ten minutes into the game, a light rain began to fall.

Aldridge stood on the sidelines, his coat already wet, and he took charge of the team seriously, with Frank Lampard and Gudjohnsen unlikely to replace Nedved and Larsson, with one playing as a midfielder and the other as a winger, both of whom were the most important roles in the attacking process.

Millwall are behind on points, and Aldridge is here as the defending champions, so naturally he will not let the team be conservative, and if it only needs to draw, it will lose to Manchester United in momentum.

He thought that Ferguson would play more conservatively, but even if Ferguson was beaten by Aldridge last season, he still let the team play unrestrained at home today.

Manchester United has changed, and the new generation of Red Devils under the tutelage of Alex Ferguson is also time to make a difference!

Not to mention the technical tactics, but in terms of the players' running, Millwall Mo said that it was an advantage, and even the most basic balance could not be maintained.

Especially the two wings in Manchester United's tactical link, Ryan Giggs and Beckham, the pair of golden wings can not only break through and pass, but also the diligent king on the field!

In the past, Millwall broke Manchester United's wings and the wing-backs couldn't return to defense, but now it's almost impossible to see.

Ten years later, it is normal for a player to run 10,000 meters in a race, and he can run 12,100,300, which is the symbol of the iron man.

However, Beckham's average distance per game is now more than 10,003, and the highest can exceed 15,000!

The same goes for Ryan Giggs on the other side, so. When two wing-backs can run all over the pitch to make up for the defence. At the same time, we will never slack off when attacking. Even if there are only two people in the midfield, Keane and Paul Scholes, they will never be at a disadvantage when it comes to defence.

Scholes, a player who switched from a shadow striker to an attacking midfielder, has also made a leap this season, and his performance last season was average, but this season's offensive and defensive ends are becoming more and more masters, and with the tough guy Keane, the combination of Manchester United's big diamond midfield four players is not inferior to any giant!

The only bad one. It's the forward combination, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is out due to injury, Andy Cole and Sheringham are really flattering, of course, they also have goals, but they don't deserve the number of strikers that the giants should have.

In the bleak wind and cold rain, Aldrich was a little helpless.

Not only was Frank Lampard unable to replace Nedved, but he also had a very different style of play from Nedved.

He is in the midfield position, and if he is a long-range shot from behind, then the position should be further back. He can't do the awareness of breaking through the opponent's defense with the ball under the cover of the striker, whether he has the ability or not. Aldridge doesn't know what to do, but Lampard has a habit of shooting from outside the box.

Andrea Pirlo struggled to form a tacit understanding with him and gave a through ball when he saw an opening, but Lampard always thought it was for the striker, not for him.

Aldridge almost pointed at Schmeichel and shouted to Lampard on the sidelines: "In attack, your opponent is the Danish goalkeeper, not Keane!"

Frank Lampard is a bit of a fixture on the pitch and perhaps Aldridge should have fixed him in either Andrea Pirlo or Claude Makelele in Millwall.

However, Frank Lampard will be behind Andrea Pirlo and Ballack in the former, and Gattuso will be in front of him in the latter.

It's a real headache for Aldridge, no way, who makes Millwall's forward midfielder more like a second striker.

Today's game was a clash of the Premier League's biggest names and the pace was extraordinarily fast, with United known for their speedy play, relying on the speed at which they advanced down the flanks to create the biggest threat more directly.

Scholes cut forward and linked up with Ryan Giggs before continuing forward, but was brought to the ground by Claude Makelele and the referee awarded a free-kick.

The light rain continued, and in front of Millwall's human wall, Beckham was standing.

With a free-kick less than thirty yards from goal, Aldridge paced back and forth on the sidelines, his face a little heavy.

Beckham's free-kicks have been scored repeatedly this season, and English football has also set off a follow-up to Beckham.

When the ball flew out from under his feet, Aldrich's heart sank.

That trajectory looks too familiar!

The curling free-kick flew over the wall and over Southgate's head, barely touching the ball.

Bout didn't make a save, the ball was originally hit on the side of the human wall, and it was an exaggerated banana ball, hanging straight into the corner of the goal, and when he reacted, it seemed that he could only rely on luck.

"David Beckham's signature free-kick score! After Erwin, a free-kick expert, stopped taking free-kicks, Manchester United finally have another free-kick master! This is their nuclear weapon! Beckham seized on the only weakness of the Millwall Line, and that was the height of air defense! The duo of Elgra and Southgate is a weakness that can be picked out only for their height, and Beckham's free-kick will go high over Southgate's head and then fly along the underside of the crossbar into the goal, Hall may be thinking to himself: if it were Stam, the ball would have been pushed out of the defender's head, but unfortunately, Stam was already the opposite man. ”

Millwall's players were a little frustrated, and being conceded a free-kick left them with no temper.

Do you really blame Southgate for not growing two centimeters taller?

The Red Devils fans at Old Trafford celebrated.

Ahead, we're finally ahead!

Since Millwall's promotion, the Red Devils have only beaten Millwall in the Community Shield, the first season in the league where the two teams drew and the Cup in which Millwall beat their opponents, and the second season they were directly beaten by Millwall, even the Community Shield.

Finally, in the third season, the Red Devils finally took the lead in the competition!

Referee, the game is over, you can blow the whistle, we will win one!

Millwall fans are more subdued.

It's only been 29 minutes in the first half, and the game hasn't even reached half of the game, so I'm in a hurry, and the Wild Lions will be able to pull it back sooner or later. Don't look at us, we are missing two main forces. Still abuse the Red Devils!

Today is Christmas. The fans who came to cheer on the away side were there to receive the Christmas gifts from the Red Devils.

In first-half stoppage time, Millwall were awarded a direct free-kick from 30 yards out of the box.

Keane didn't know if he had a feud with Lampard, he tackled the opponent in the community shield, and also injured himself, and today when defending Frank Lampard, the action was obviously too big, and the referee couldn't stand it, not only gave Millwall a free kick, but also gave Keane a yellow card.

There were three people standing in front of the free kick.

Schneider. Frank Lampard, Andrea Pirlo.

The three free-kicks all have different characteristics.

Schneider curled the ball around, Frank Lampard was fierce and straight ball, and Pirlo was still refining his fallen leaf slash.

Seeing the three of them standing in front of the ball, Schmeichel shouted at his teammates to stand, looking fearless, but in fact his heart was trembling.

Grass, who the hell are you going to fight? Which side to hit? Playing yin or hard?

Schneider ran over and Frank Lampard too, after the two crossed paths. Andrea Pirlo took the penalty after the worst and the ball didn't go over the wall. But it got through the cracks in the people, and hit the side of the human wall.

Schmeichel turned his head to see the ball spinning quietly under the net.

He yelled angrily at his teammates who lined up the wall.

"What am I talking about? Who's cowardly? Who's jumping sideways and giving the ball a hole to get through? If Lao Tzu becomes the background of losing again today, you should be careful! ”

Schmeichel also hates Millwall, in the past two years, after playing against Millwall, he has not slept well for a week, once, twice, three times, I can't count how many times, is he still a Danish goalkeeper? As long as you fight Millwall, you will soon become a plague god!

'Well, Millwall equalised from a free-kick, and although it didn't look as good as Andrea Beckham's, it had the same effect, the Lions equalised before they went into the dressing room, which was a crucial goal and going into the second half with a goal down would have been very unfavourable.

Aldridge spat in midfield and assigned tasks to his players, with a particular focus on adjusting the attacking routine up front.

Gudjohnsen and Trezeguet and Shevchenko have not been able to form a joint force, his movement is a bit dead, he will only hold on to the left, Aldridge keeps repeating that he goes to the middle, the right, and a wide range of activities to concentrate on one side to break down United's positional defence.

It also allows Lampard to observe the situation more calmly, as long as there is time in front, he can go to the position, don't always think about the front midfield, and don't rigidly block in front of the penalty area or shoot from a distance, and try to break through more boldly!

After coming out of the dressing room, Aldridge returned to the sidelines, raised his head and looked at the sky worriedly.

The Manchester sky is no different from a woman's face.

Change is what you say.

No, I saw that the rain stopped before halftime, but in less than 20 minutes, the rain started to fall again, and it was getting heavier and heavier!

Neither side expected the weather to change so quickly, but United have been playing in Manchester for many years and are used to this kind of weather change.

At the beginning of the second half, Zambrotta slipped and fell to the ground while defending on the left side, not only fell on the field, but also injured himself!

Although Beckham ran a long distance, he was not fast, and it seemed to be an ordinary stop ball moving laterally, but Zambrotta fell down while moving laterally, so Beckham took the opportunity forward and dribbled the ball down, and then a precise cross hit the goal, Sheringham headed the goal, Bout blocked the ball, Cole followed up with a follow-up shot, and Bout pounced to block the ball out of the ball.

The Lions fans were not yet amazed by Bout's courage in receiving high and low blocks, but the ball that bounced off the line of the penalty area was sent into the goal by Scholes with a heavy shot.

The ball was still refracted into Makelele's calf.

Bout stood up with his hands on his hips and looked helpless.

Manchester United fans burst into tears, it was not easy to score a goal.

Sheringham, Cole, the two strikers, can you two be reliable? So the ball can't be hit at close range, and it's up to Scholes further back to solve the battle, grass, we're about to have a heart attack!

Aldridge looked a little ugly on the sidelines, walked to the bench to get Neil up quickly, and then replaced Zambrotta, who sprained his ankle when he slipped and fell.

The Italian lad was depressed.

Capdevilla has recently returned from injury, but he firmly occupies the main position, and he can sit firmly in the main position and clarify the position of the team, but he was injured again in this rainy battle.

God won't help him!

The Wild Lions fans looked worried, they were still calm in the first half, but the second half was different, the team fell behind again, and the main team was injured, which was really unfavorable.

Neil took Zambrotta's place when he came on and this passive substitution gave the new players some time to adjust to the pace of the game, so Millwall took the initiative to shrink for five or six minutes, and when Neil was fully in the game, he broke out across the board. (To be continued......)