The most basic competition within a team is nothing more than the main position, and further up, the complex competition may revolve around the core position.

The stronger the team, the core, the soul, the flag, etc., are more clearly divided.

Frank Lampard and Klose have been at the bottom of the Millwall squad for the lowest tier: the main position.

It's just that this season, due to Nedved's serious injury before the season, and Frank Lampard's role as one of England's main players to win the World Cup, Lampard has secured the main position under Klinsmann.

And Klose is also due to Larsson's unsatisfactory appearance in the new season after the World Cup, and Larsson's advanced age, Klinsmann can't wait to support Klose to the position, and before Aldridge's return, Klose is also the best choice to start.

Before the top, there was competition.

If you are on top and then pulled down, it is equivalent to a disguised failure.

So, emotionally, mentally, there will be more or less frustration, unwillingness, or negative feelings, which is normal.

However, this kind of love will not explode in front of outsiders, this is determined by professionalism, unless, self-defeating!

Aldridge replaced Alonso in the 75th minute and Frank Lampard came on to signal the team to take it away.

This is a signal for Mingjin to withdraw his troops, but it does not mean that he will give up the attack and will play smarter according to Porto's posture.

Porto don't press like crazy, they slow down the tempo and have more time to keep the ball.

If the whole Porto army presses, they will catch the counterattack of the other side. Anyway, the attacking players in the front court. Hurry up and have a lot of it.

Porto wanted to attack. However, their own system is already a little chaotic, their own offense and defense are unbalanced, and the offensive effect is not ideal.

In the 83rd minute, Aldridge replaced Larsson, brought on Klose, and let Nedved drop back to further strengthen the defense.

Jose Mourinho sees that the tide is turning. didn't struggle much, like his future desperate retreat of defenders to strikers and other on-the-spot substitutions, it also depends on the situation, these are the cards in his hand, in the case of not being able to control the midfield, weaken the defense to put into the attack, do you think you were beaten badly enough?

Time passed, minute by minute, the shape on the field was not prosperous, and Millwall still held the initiative. However, the offense was mediocre, and most of it was a formulaic and hasty end. The quality is so-so.

As the full-time whistle blew, Millwall's players smiled and hugged each other in celebration of the club's Grand Slam of honour.

Three major European cups.

European Champions Cup, European Cup Winners' Cup, UEFA Cup.

Domestic League, Double Cup.

There is also the Community Shield, the Toyota Cup, the European Super Cup.

Millwall, who had not won a championship for a hundred years, had completed the sweep of all accolades in less than a decade after Aldridge took over, and at the end of the ninth year.

The game was over, the Millwall players were celebrating in the stadium, and Aldridge was about to walk into the stadium when he suddenly found Mourinho walking towards him with a solemn face.

There is generally no handshake after the championship battle, after all, the mentality is very contrasting, everyone held their strength before the game to maintain a demeanor and shake hands, after the game, one side of heaven, one side of hell, shake hands?

Aldridge's old villainous heart has made a mistake, for fear that Mourinho will come to revenge for his jokes.

The other party is a future handsome, but a handsome man does not mean that he must be a decent gentleman, just like he poked people's eyes, the whole world saw that Ferguson is a handsome, and he will also make a flying boot door when he is angry.

Aldridge was on guard against Mourinho's rough moves, but the other party came over and took the initiative to stretch out his hand, Aldridge was stunned for a second, and then stretched out his hand to shake with the other party, Mourinho didn't say a word, and after shaking hands solemnly, he turned around and walked into the stadium to comfort his disciple.

Aldrich pondered for a moment, then burst into laughter.

Does this mean to lose openly?

He didn't know, and he didn't bother to think about it.

After Sevilla led the team to win the UEFA Cup, all Millwall games this season have come to an end.

And a League Cup, it's not worth Millwall's big carnival, Aldridge let the whole team disband on the spot, and many people have to go to the national team, and the recent schedule is quite tight.

Aldridge and the coaching staff's Jensen and Stramaccioni did not leave Seville, but spent the night in a local hotel before flying directly from Spain to Africa.

The England national team is not low-famous, strength and fame have never been equal, in essence, it is propaganda influence, Fleet Street is indispensable, plus England won the World Cup last year, and with the help of the media, it is even more famous all over the world.

With popularity, fame and fortune are naturally indispensable.

First of all, the Japanese team came to London to play a friendly match, and this summer, just after the end of the European season, the FA arranged for England to play a friendly match in Africa.

With this friendly in mind, they will return to England at the start of June to play at home to Slovakia in the fifth round of European Championship qualifying.

I have to say that the schedule arranged by the FA is very frustrating, there is no way, it is a matter of interest.

Aldridge was clearly in the limelight when he arrived in Africa, and he and Becky met with South Africa's founding father, Nelson Mandela, and the photo of the three of them made headlines not only in sports circles, but also in international news.

England's arrival in South Africa was warmly welcomed by the African fans, and after a modest friendly match, the England team rushed home non-stop to prepare for the fifth round of European Championship qualifying.

England, who had won all four of their previous games, beat visiting Slovakia 4-1 at Old Trafford without suspense.

Winning all five matches in the European Championship qualifiers, as long as you win one more game, you can qualify for Euro 04 two rounds in advance.

It was only in the dressing room at Old Trafford that Lampard took the initiative to talk to Aldridge after the game.

Aldridge was very unhappy with Frank Lampard's cousin in this game, because he appeared careless and noticeably inattentive in the game, and he was substituted after only 15 minutes in the second half, even if the score was 3-1.

In the dressing room at Manchester United. The other players have already left. Aldridge said a few words to the court staff. Closing the door of the dressing room, he turned around and looked at Frank Lampard who took off his shirt and sat on the bench, and before he could speak, Lampard, who looked calm, lowered his head and whispered: "Boss, I want to transfer and leave." ”

Aldrich was immediately furious and shouted at him, "Frank! Are you afraid of competition? ”

In fact, the two have tacitly agreed that there is no need to discuss why Lampard has not been able to get a regular place in Aldridge's new squad.

The facts are clear: even Nedved, who is about to turn 31. Still better than him.

And Frank Lampard couldn't pick up the place left by Andrea Pirlo.

Even though he was good and capable, he had the same problems as Steven Gerrard, or many of England's midfielders of that period.

In the devastation of the Premier League's fast-paced frequencies, they have lost the notion of controlling the tempo of the game, which can be avoided when they develop him, although Millwall did not demand much of this in the early days. They're just chasing to be faster than others, so fast that others can't keep up!

And when Millwall began to control the tempo of the game. While instilling a 'metronome' or 'rhythm master' in midfielders, particularly playmakers, Frank Lampard went out on loan and he missed out on his best mindset.

Why did Millwall have such a conceptual requirement for a playmaker in midfield?

Because their opponents are all on the bus!

Because they have come from obscurity to the position of a wealthy family!

No matter how fast you are, what's the use?

The opponent uses dense defense, negative football to contain you, what is the use of you just relying on speed?

The control of the pace of the game has naturally improved, and it has been improving.

Frank Lampard, on the other hand, has grown up in a different path, in general terms, as an attacking midfielder, but if you paint it concretely, he is a B2B all-round midfielder, who can switch to a shadow striker when attacking, and can act as a central midfielder when defending, but he can't match a full-time defensive midfielder.

His ability to discover, find, and use the void is very good.

The problem is that Millwall is not England before the World Cup.

Millwall no longer rely on counter-attacks as their primary means of attack.

If the main tactics are counter-attacking, Frank Lampard plays well, almost perfectly, just like when he played in England at the World Cup, when he played on the counter-attack, he was unstoppable, because he always found the best open zone and showed up there to create a threat.

But in Millwall, most of their work on the field is to create opportunities, create opportunities, almost all opponents face Millwall, and the first point to stifle Millwall's offensive threat is to compress space!

As a result, Lampard can only compete with Nedved, but he has no advantage over the technical skill of his feet and the skill of his team.

In other words, in the current system formed by Millwall, in the offensive combination, who would Ronaldo, Henry, and Larsson prefer to cooperate with? Who is the most efficient to work together?

Nedved is undoubtedly the one.

But Nedved is 31 years old after all.

Aldridge's idea is that in two years' time, Lampard could compete with Kaka.

Survival of the fittest, the criterion for the development of the club.

Now, Frank Lampard has offered a move, with Aldridge believing Lampard has backed down and is afraid of competing with others.

However, Lampard looked up, showed a bitter smile, and asked: "Boss, I am the main player of the World Cup winners, why should I compete?" Why can't I get the main force in the team? How many of the top teams in Europe will not give me the main team? ”

Frank Lampard.

In nine days, his 25th birthday will come.

And he has won the World Cup as the main player, the highest achievement in the world.

The bitterness in his heart, perhaps Aldrich did not understand.

He believes that Aldridge's lack of determination to help him up to the top is by no means a competitive reason.

Because, he thinks he is stronger than Nedved now!

It's nothing more than Aldridge's inability to snub the old minister, and to put Nedved, the club's hero of the past nine years, and even the hero of the team's history in the top three, on the bench!

He thinks Aldrich has been blinded by emotion.

But he couldn't blame anything.

Because, because Aldridge is a man of temperament, he has returned to the job of head coach of the club from a comfortable life.

As for the competition, Lampard doesn't want to discuss it with Aldridge.

What is there to explore?

He is a World Cup winner.

And the one in the same position in the team, Kaka? He also played in last year's World Cup, but who ever cared that Brazil had a player named Kaka?

In Frank Lampard's mind, there is no competition.

He just had to wait, wait, Nedved aged, wait, Nedved slipped to the point where Aldridge had to make a decision, and he could get into the position.

And he, unwilling to wait.

Aldridge took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down, after all, Frank Lampard has been at Millwall for a long time and is his right-hand man in the national team, and he is still counting on Lampard to show his talents in the future, he said in a deep voice: "Frank, we need to discuss this calmly and patiently. ”

"Boss, I don't want to discuss, I just want to leave, because you can't let me play the main team next season, Pavel is your first choice, and Xavi's position, I don't meet your requirements."

After Lampard said this, Aldridge's expression changed suddenly, and he snarled at him viciously: "You're just running away from the competition!" F！ What do you think Millwall is? What does it mean to be successful here? Do you understand? You go somewhere else, you have the main force, but what can you get? Stay at Millwall, try to compete for the top position, even if you can only play for 3 or 4 years, you can get far more glory than if you played for another team for 10 or 20 years! ”

Frank Lampard didn't dare to look at Aldridge's roar, looked away and whispered: "I'll try to succeed if I go to another team." ”

Dead silence, dead silence.

Aldrich closed his eyes.

He heard the saddest words that made him the most.

"Success? Hehehe, Manchester United, Arsenal, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, AC Milan, Juventus in the past five years, some of them may have achieved certain achievements, but, compared to Millwall, in the whole of Europe, which club dares to say that he is successful in front of Millwall, in front of me, Aldridge Hall? Frank Lampard, if you want to go, let's go! You can look out there, look at Millwall from afar, and I'll tell you once again what success really is! (To be continued......)