Aldridge's December was a very fulfilling and happy month, with the celebration of the first birthday of his baby daughter Bonnie, the presentation of some annual awards in European football, and at the end of the month, it was Christmas.

Aldrich had no concept of holidays in his previous life, because he was an orphan, and in this life he really searched for "himself" in China, only to find that there was no longer a "him" in this world.

Christmas has become a habitual holiday for him, and he does not pay attention to its meaning, but as a fixed day for family reunion, which makes him feel satisfied and happy.

The Premier League has come to an end at the halfway point, and Millwall summed up the team table for the first half of the season, and compared to previous years, the team has made steady progress, but there are no surprises.

The Champions League is in the round of 16, the league is in second place for the time being, and the table of specific games is not pursued, and the results of the stage are just behind them, and the defending champions are behind them, and Chelsea, who spent a lot of money in the summer, are also behind them.

Aldridge was pleased with the team's performance in the first half of the season, as in the past, the mature Millwall would have built up an advantage from the start of the league and created as much of a relaxed environment as possible for the second half of the season, allowing for distractions on multiple fronts.

This season, we have to run in the team and develop new talents, both of which have achieved some results, but they have not yet reached the peak.

Alonso and De Rossi's cooperation is getting better and better, but the two players are not working well with other teammates, which is their limitation at this stage, and they still need experience to improve.

Ronaldo, Kaka, Robben, Villa, four young people in the first half, some of them stand out, and some still have zài problems, especially Robben, the Dutch Peter Pan who is dedicated to meritorious service. Always the goal of making Aldridge shine on the sidelines. Either his defensive attitude is not resolute enough. The contribution to defense is low, or he is outside the team system and always wants to put on an individual heroic performance when it comes to key moments.

If Millwall is a mid-table team and not a thorn in the side of all opponents, Robben has no problem doing this, but Millwall's current height is destined to be unable to rely on the individual ability of the star alone, such a problem. Spain's Real Madrid is warning the world with real actions.

Millwall is getting stronger and stronger day by day, in addition to the positive effects of the steady growth of young players, there is also the credit of the veteran players, who have helped the team quickly adapt to the new tactical system, complement each other, sacrifice, contribute, and their savings are Millwall's most valuable assets.

Larsson set a record. The player who was substituted the most times in the first half of the league, but whenever he started the game. Replacing him in 60-70 minutes is almost the rule, and he has no complaints, and if Aldridge puts him on the bench and lets him play in the final 20-odd minutes, the veteran can always make a surprise contribution to the team.

Nedved's number of contemporaries has dropped a bit compared to the past few years, he has been the midfielder with the highest goal rate in Europe in the past few years, and the number of assists is also very good, but this season, as time goes by, his position has been constantly retreating, and he has been frequently involved in the defense, also to make up for the weakness of the team's early defense in the middle, which is his sacrifice, and he has not complained a word, but takes it for granted.

Aldridge is confident about the second half of the season, the Champions League, the league, he is full of ambition.

Another point is Xiao Luo, Xiao Luo was in good form in the first half, but Aldridge thinks Xiao Luo is still not at his best.

In addition to minor injuries, Xiao Luo was distracted by trivial matters in the second half of the year, because he wanted to bring his mother to England to settle down, and deliberately spent a lot of money to buy a manor.

When he immigrated to England, his mother accompanied him, as well as his sister, but at that time the living conditions of the family were very ordinary, and they were not used to living here, and after Xiao Luo Neng lived independently, his family returned to Brazil.

Now, Ronaldo is bringing his family to London again, not simply to be reunited, but because his mother has been repeatedly threatened with death in Brazil.

Mo said that in South America, in remote places in Europe, kidnapping the family members of football stars has long been a common practice, and Kaladze's brother has not been torn up?

Xiao Luo brought his mother to London out of safety considerations.

And his brother has completely retired from playing football, and has become a "prince of one party" in Andrew's agent company, which is to run the South American business on behalf of Andrew in South America with his partners there.

Xiao Luo's sister also works in Andrew's company, but she is not involved in player transfers and other work, but as a life assistant in the agent team, a star like Xiao Luo, it will be a team that manages his money behind the scenes, and it will be a team that arranges his daily life, and his sister personally controls Xiao Luo's daily life arrangements, and is also the first gatekeeper of Xiao Luo's pao niu, turning away some girls with ill intentions, conducting background checks, and even dating schedules, etc.

Before Christmas, when Aldrich was invited to dinner by Ronaldo's family, Ronaldo's mother repeatedly told Ronald to listen to Aldrich, feeling that Aldrich was an old man, which made Aldrich cry and laugh.

In Aldrich's view, Millwall's vision is on the right track, and his vision for the future and what he has now also makes his pattern and vision higher.

It was only on the last day of the year, at night, that Millwall CEO Adam had a secret meeting with someone in a London hotel

There is no winter break in the Premier League, and Aldridge gave the players who were not used to the rhythm of the work a holiday, and in the second week of the new year, the team was all together again, but they were out of the Carabao Cup.

In the 8-4 game, Millwall relied on the young squad and did not crush Middlesbrough, and was finally eliminated by the opponent on penalties.

Moutinho has not shown the potential to be a blockbuster, but Aldridge still has faith in him, after all, Moutinho is nothing more than a replacement for Alonso in the long-term planning of the team.

Wearing a warm coat to the training ground, Aldridge looked at the players standing in front of him in warm sportswear, and suddenly asked: "Do you know what day it is?" ”

The players looked at each other and noticed Aldridge smiling. I think it's a light topic. They asked each other.

But many people have no clue.

In the middle of the month. What day will it be?

It's certainly not the player's birthday as the answer.

De Rossi bumped Alonso beside him with his elbow and whispered: "You read a lot, what are the recent holidays?" ”

Alonso frowned in contemplation, and suddenly whispered to De Rossi: "Last Sunday, it was Black Day. ”

De Rossi was about to answer Aldrich's question aloud, when he suddenly closed his mouth again, turned to Alon, and said, "The boss will definitely not care about such a day." ”

Alonso pondered for a moment and said, "Two more weeks." It's the International Leprosy Festival."

De Rossi rolled his eyes.

Seeing the appearance of all the team members in the clouds, Aldrich laughed, opened his arms and said loudly: "Today is the day when Millwall will be stronger!" ”

The whole team felt like they had been tricked and burst into boos!

They thought Aldrich was going to give a motivational speech to encourage them to beat the cold and train.

Aldrich ignored the boos and laughed: "Listen to me slowly, and then you will shush after listening." ”

The players closed their mouths and focused their eyes on Aldridge to see what the boss had to say.

Aldrich said incomprehensibly: "Why would I say such a statement today? And how did Millwall get stronger? Football is about two sides, offense and defense, and what I'm going to say today is that our offense will get stronger. Origin. It was in September of last year. ”

The players looked at each other again.

Last September?

It doesn't seem like anything earth-shattering is happening within the team.

Aldridge paced with his hands in his hands, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and said leisurely: "FIFA revised the offside rules in September last year. Passive offside is officially included in the rule and after a while of putting it in place, I think it's time for us to use that rule and when we can use it better, we can come out stronger, thanks to FIFA, they're right to encourage attack. ”

Of course, if Aldridge is mainly defensive and counter-oriented, he will scold FIFA.

Since it is to encourage attack, and Millwall is a representative of offensive football, then this revision of the offside rule will naturally be beneficial to Millwall.

As for why it was not brought up before, it is because Millwall needs to stabilize its own new tactical system first, and only by stabilizing itself can more changes be derived.

No player booed Aldridge anymore, but most of them showed a thoughtful expression.

The revision of the offside rule has caused a lot of controversy in the whole European football world, because the definition of passive offside is ambiguous.

And for Millwall, there are two kinds of benefits.

One is passively beneficial.

In an unintentional state, a favorable result was formed for Millwall.

The other is active profit-taking.

In intentional cases, Millwall took advantage of the rules.

As a top striker who often survives on the offside line, Henry asked loudly: "Boss, how do we use this rule?" I think it's just a little less miscalculated than before. ”

Many teammates nodded in agreement with Henry's statement.

In the past, offsides were mainly based on numbers and offensive involvement.

For example, Henry and Larsson were in an offside position at the same time, and Nedved passed a through ball that both could catch.

However, Henry ran a step ahead of him, he was offside, but Larsson was not offside.

In this state, the linesman can directly raise the flag to signal Millwall to attack offside, the attack is finished, and the opponent wins a free kick.

Directly stifled the successful anti-offside Larsson's subsequent chance to shoot one-on-one against the goalkeeper.

And now, as long as Henry doesn't touch the ball, doesn't block, and doesn't interfere with the opposing goalkeeper in his run, which is the new definition of FIFA to "get involved" in the game, then Larsson still has a chance to continue this attack.

Of course, whether it's the new rules or the old rules, Henry is definitely offside.

However, after passive offside is included in the rules, the game will not be terminated as long as the player who is offside himself does not "get involved" in the game.

This offside modification is between 94 and 05 years of two modifications, 94 years, not involved in the attack at all, can not be counted offside, for example, the offside position of the player standing still or walking back, ignoring the development direction of the ball, can be regarded as not participating in the attack at all, but if you have the intention to rush to the ball and in the offside position, you will definitely be judged offside.

And the offside after 05 years, is "blown after offside", simply put, not touching the ball is not offside, but it can't be completely said like this, because if you obviously interfere with the opponent's goalkeeper in the offside position, you will definitely be blown offside, but in small details, such as later, you will often see offside players to chase the ball, chase half of the abandonment, and give it to the teammates who are not offside to get the ball, continue to continue the attack, this is typical, and according to the previous judgment, as long as you chase the ball, you will be blown off, And will not wait until the moment you touch the ball to blow the penalty, which has also caused a lot of offensive players to express dissatisfaction, some obvious offside, the linesman does not raise the flag, and has to wait until the player is tired to chase the ball before raising the flag to signal offside.

The offside modification in 03 was very ambiguous, which made the "passive offside" cause widespread controversy, which led to the later Blatter simply cut a "no touch the ball and no offside" offside post-blow change.

Aldridge can't wait for the change in '05 to transform the team's offense in a targeted manner, and use it if he can.

For this offside rule modification, he also has to take advantage of the trend and let the team profit as much as possible! (To be continued......)