590 Expedition to Greece

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Aldridge's coaching style has never been anything short of an iron fist, and both the players he is currently coaching and those who have left will talk about him as strict and stern, but it is a very different concept from the iron face ruthlessness.

On the training ground, during the break, the internationals sat in a circle, and Aldridge walked to the middle and sat cross-legged and talked openly to the players.

"I know everybody is tired, except for Hargreaves, everyone else here has played or played in England, I know that there is no pain during the winter break, I know that from March, the pressure of the sprint on all fronts, the public opinion, the camera, the fans, the manager, and so on, will use expectations, demands, orders and so on to make you not have a moment of respite. I won't say that for the honor of the national team, let you grit your teeth and persevere, I don't think that will have an obvious effect, let's be realistic, you are tired, you need to rest, these two days, just spend here relaxed and happy, relax as much as possible, and then we go to Greece, the main force of the national team, the next away game against Greece, you will all play, if we win, then the fifth away game against Albania, you can rest again, let the substitutes play. ”

The international players sitting in a circle looked at each other, and many of them looked relieved.

When I came to the national team, I was really afraid of the regular intensity training of the club again. Intensity, rhythm. It sounds the same, but you have to play two away games in a row!

And it's not the club's kind of away from home with a short domestic journey, it's an away from home with a flight abroad, can you not be tired of this tiring journey?

Aldrich's words have been made clear.

Away to Greece, the main team wins, away to Albania, the main team should go on vacation.

It is an honor to play for the national team. But it also depends on the situation.

If it was in the second half of last year, when they were full of vitality and energy, they were naturally eager to fight, but now, they are almost tired and dead dogs in the club, and it would be nice to have two more days of rest.

Moreover. The fight against Greece was a key battle.

Playing Albania sounds like abusive dishes.

Aldridge informed them of the arrangement in advance, also to provoke the main players to fight**, they only had a 9o minute table, a draw. Lose, one more game is insignificant, away against Greece, there is no room for loss, or rather. England itself has run out of room to drop points and not win. The negative public opinion after the game will surround them again.

"You're tired, give you a rest, it's not my sympathy or my understanding of you, but I think it's better for us to win the game, you haven't played together for four months, and now it's just a matter of training lightly, so in the game, you have to use it more to play."

Aldrich said and pointed to his temple, meaning: mind.

"Concentration and thinking, and winning, I don't want to stress that we have to beat Greece, I want to emphasize that we should win against Greece! You are the best of the best to beat Greece, and even if you win, don't expect to be praised, because you have only done your part, and of course, if you can beat Greece beautifully and perfectly away from home, then I take back that sentence and I will praise you. ”

In this circle, with Aldridge as the center, the international players sitting on the grass with their hands behind them suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed.

Aldrich looked puzzled and asked, "What?" I'm talking about jokes? ”

Becky, Frank Lampard, Gareth Southgate and others are still laughing.

Hargreaves, who had the least qualifications, said truthfully: "Coach, the British media say that your praise is poison." ”

Aldrich slapped his head and laughed himself.

Shoot yourself in the foot.

Over the years, psychological warfare has been used too much, and his praise is almost becoming a curse.

In fact, he can't be blamed for this, there are basically only two options for using the media to fight psychological warfare.

The first is to praise the opponent, the second is to contempt the opponent, the former is the praise in Aldridge's mouth, he will praise how a team is, let that team become the focus, bring pressure to the opponent, and at the same time may cause the outside world to speculate, Aldridge is in love with a certain player of the opponent? Achieve the goal of disturbing the morale of the opponent's army.

The latter is to provoke the opponent, contempt and ignorance may cause the opponent to overdo the battle and lose his cool in the game.

Psychological warfare is used too much, and his words, as long as they involve the opponent, sound half-truths and half-truths.

"Hall's praise is poison, Hall's disparagement is spirit."

This is the conclusion of Fleet Street.

Although many of the players were laughing, they all understood what Aldridge was trying to say.

After a long period of contact with him, you will gradually get to know his coaching style.

As long as there is no problem with the professional attitude of the players, Aldridge will not stick to the rules and treat the team, and the specific situation will be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.

Now leading the national team is even more so, according to the situation of the players to adjust the training, the game arrangement, flexible or flexible, but the purpose is the same, that is, to help the team win, especially so that the players can achieve the best in the game.

In this situation, at least Aldridge does not think that the regular training of the team can achieve better training results, a qiē, after all, is for the 9o minutes of the game to serve, training is no exception, when it should be loose, relaxed, flexible, is a major feature of his coaching.

Since they don't train harder, in such a relaxed atmosphere, Aldridge has to instill more self-confidence in them, especially to face the outside world calmly.

Even though England is not ranked in the top three or five in the top world teams, the top 10 is still barely in the top ten, so as long as they don't meet world-class opponents, then win and win. It should be taken for granted, and don't rejoice. Don't be complacent, you should digest the game, find out what is lacking, and do better.

In terms of tactics, the prototype is here, and it is still in a mature upward period, but no major adjustment will occur.

Aldridge is now about to start polishing the inner spirit of this team.

England can't talk about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but they can make it to the national team. They are all players with strength and security, they have experienced strong winds and waves, they can understand Aldrich's intentions, and they can't rise to the level of admiration, but they also accept it sincerely, especially if it can resonate with many players in their hearts, what Aldridge emphasized. It's what they need most as a team.

Victory is not arrogant and defeat is not discouraged, the heart of the strong!

The training content is relaxed, and there is a lot of rest time, but you can't let the players talk and fart on the sidelines, right?

Aldridge and the coaching staff watched the opponent's video with the players in the conference room, which was compiled and summarized by the coaching staff, not for the players to watch a game for 9o minutes. That would obviously be very boring.

The coaching staff will sort out the representative examples of the opponent's offensive routine, point out the opponent's threat to the players, the offensive focus, and the offensive method, so that the players can understand the opponent in the shortest time. Be mentally prepared.

After two days of training at Leo's training base, the England national team set off on a trip to Greece in uniform suits.

In O4, Greece's home stadium will move to Piraeus. This time, England visited Greece and went to Athens.

From the day before the game to the start of the game, it can be seen from the local street atmosphere in Greece that the Greeks are not afraid of England!

Even Finland can draw at home to England, and Greece have a chance in theory!

Although Greece's table in the first three rounds is relatively bad, as Aldrich said, the most important thing is that in the fourth, fifth, and sixth rounds, their fate is still in their own hands, and the group leader directly qualifies without thinking, and the play-off qualification can still be contested.

At the beginning of the day, the sky was dark, the stadium was full of lights, and the full stands were already ringing with the enthusiastic cheers of the Greeks.

Such a game, in a sense, is a matter of life and death, both teams can not afford to lose, if England loses, the hope of qualifying for the top spot in the group is almost shattered, the reality is to fight for the play-off qualification after four rounds, if Greece loses, the play-off qualification hope is slim, in fact, it will completely miss the next World Cup, after all, Germany, England, Finland, are in front of Greece.

But against this backdrop, the fans in the stands did not treat England with the eyes of their enemies, even though Britain had removed countless heritage buildings of great pride from Greece

When Aldridge walked into the stadium, he could even hear the cheers of the Greek beauties in the nearby stands, calling his name but not cheering him on.

Walking to the coach's seat and standing still, Aldrich's face sank like water, such a big battle of life and death, he couldn't get up easily, and even he didn't know why!

Even if he led Millwall to the Champions League final, Aldridge could properly decompress himself and face it calmly.

However, when England challenged Greece away, Aldridge could not fully relax at all.

Deep down, I found countless reasons to explain it.

Are you tired yourself?

Or is it because the team hasn't played together for 4 months?

Or is the team tired?

Aldrich couldn't convince himself of these reasons.

Ultimately, he felt, it might be England's habit of dropping the chain like a shackle to the people who cared about the team.

In the past, Aldridge did not have this shackle, England won and lost, he was a bystander.

Now, as national team manager, he has gone from being a spectator to a policing, and involuntarily, subconsciously, fears that England will drop the chain without warning.

The players from both sides lined up to enter the field, and the English players had a stern expression and rested for three days, and the competitive state itself will not be affected, because they had game tasks in the club before, and because they got a reasonable rest, although the physical state was not at its peak, at least it would not be tired from the beginning, and now, it can only be said that it is in a more optimistic state.

"The fourth round of Group I of the World Cup European Qualifiers is about to begin, Greece sits in Athens to host the group favorite England, after 3 games, Greece only has 1 point, England has 4 points, Greece unexpectedly lost to Albania and their situation has become very bad before the group stage is more than halfway through, and they are suffering from England, England also only got 1 point in the first two rounds of the group stage, but after losing to Germany, England immediately changed coaches, Aldridge Hall, who led Millwall to achieve brilliant results in recent years, took office in England and immediately achieved a good record of winning all three games, including two friendly matches that are commendable, away victory over Spain, home victory over Brazil, and one is the last round of group stage defeat at home against Albania, England now has 4 points, Greece and England, if you want to qualify for the World Cup, this game is their life-and-death battle, if you draw, it is the most undesirable result for both teams! ”

The players of both sides were scattered in their respective halves and set up formations, and the battle of life and death was imminent.