444 Lord of Hell
Aldridge had kept a low profile at his press conference before arriving in Turkey, and even though it was perceived as a "war between good coaches", he deliberately avoided all suspicions of fanning the flames.
Turkish football has been on the rise in Europe since Euro 96, and it has been on the rise in recent years, and in the last few years, Galatasaray has achieved a series of excellent results in Turkey, among which Galatasaray's coach has attracted the attention of European football: Fatih Trim.
This is a coach who will be favored by Real Madrid, Barcelona, AC Milan and other giants in the future, and he is also one of the eight best managers in the world in a survey conducted by an authoritative organization such as IFFHS in more than 80 countries.
He is not a changemaker, nor is he a savior, but his reputation as emperor in Turkey may have something to do with his inviolable character, and anyone who challenges his authority or violates his boundaries will be met with furious rage.
Aldridge hates trouble, so in his eyes it's just a normal game, and doesn't want to cause trouble because of his words or body movements during the game.
Trim is not as calm as Aldridge and is keen to prove himself further, having been placed in the same group as AC Milan and Millwall, who may seem unlucky but see it as an opportunity for Galatasaray to further establish themselves in Europe.
He lined up a 4312 formation at home today, mainly focusing on penetrating and breaking through with short passes in the middle.
From the very beginning of the match, Trim frowned, and Galatasaray's ground attack, advancing from the middle, was completely unbeatable.
Millwall went from striker to midfield. Thierry Henry and Nedved's back. Plus the midfield defence of Andrea Pirlo and Claude Makelle. The success rate of interceptions is very high, coupled with the fact that the opponent does not have a winger, and the two full-backs Zambrotta and Schneider have shrunk, which gives Southgate the environment to play the characteristics of intercepting central defenders.
Aldrich sat calmly and watched the battle.
He has studied Galatasaray, with Villas-Boas joining the club last year and this year making the club even more efficient in their pre-match preparations.
He is not afraid of Galatasaray's tactical style of play, which focuses on penetration in the middle, and superficially speaking, this tactic is too one-dimensional.
The pitch is actually huge. The real top team can make reasonable use of the length and width of the court, so that the side and the center can be combined, not only can break through the middle, but also use the two wings to attack, expand the attacking surface and points, and play a single middle or wing, Millwall is very easy to defend.
Of course, it also depends on the individual ability of the player.
Galatasaray's advance in the middle is not ideal, but there is no winger, and the midfielders do not dare to take the initiative to pull the side for fear of being too far away from the defensive area when they are counterattacked. As a result, they can only add the ball in the middle, and the back line is also premised. In this way, the attack will put Millwall under more pressure, but the risk of being counter-attacked is also greatly increased.
Between the 10th and 25th minutes of the game, Galatasaray appeared to dominate the field and played wave after wave of pressing attacks, but they only forced Millwall's defence to retreat and did not create better chances in the dangerous area in front of goal.
In the 27th minute, when Galatasaray had another frantic attack in the midfield, Neil made a steal and passed the ball to Schneider, who made a big foot on the right flank and headed into the vacuum of the field.
Nedved certainly couldn't get the ball and was running forward from the back, but Ronaldo moved from the wing to the middle and stopped at the landing point.
Galatasaray quickly returned to the defense, but Ronaldo was not in a hurry, controlled the ball steadily, turned the ball on the spot and passed a player who grabbed it, and when Nedved rushed up, he passed the ball diagonally, and Nedved rushed forward with the ball.
Larsson and Henry's cross-run confused the opposing backline, Nedved crossed diagonally into the ribs of the penalty area, Henry successfully stopped the ball against offside and adjusted it to volley from a tight angle, and the ball flew into the goal from the goalkeeper's feet.
'Millwall opened the scoring and Thierry Henry scored! A simple but deadly counter-attack helped Millwall lead Galatasaray on the road, with Trim's side holding the edge but conceding first, and the calm Hall was not anxious about his team being pressed to attack, instead he might just be waiting for Galatasaray to give them space to counter-attack. ”
Thierry Henry didn't run to the sidelines to celebrate after scoring a goal, was that just asking for self-inflicted pain, looking for the home fans to vent?
He and his teammates hugged in front of goal in celebration, then trotted back to the half.
Aldridge sat all the time, and when he saw the goal, he smiled and chatted with Klinsmann next to him, praising Thierry Henry's improving marksmanship.
Although this Galatasaray team has excellent players such as Hakan Suker and Emre, the gap between the overall strength and Millwall is still relatively obvious.
On the football field, it is common for strong teams to be pressed and beaten, which is not necessarily a reflection of strength and weakness, and most of them are the tactical intentions of the head coach.
When the weak team attacks, attacks, attacks, attacks to the point of madness, attacks to the point of numbness, and attacks to the point of losing their minds and still not gaining anything, the counterattack of the strong team can easily defeat the opponent.
The contest between the top teams, the positional battle is almost difficult to create opportunities, and the counterattack is the first weapon to attack the city, so later you can often see the collision between the strong, the game is boring and lacks highlights, that is the mutual fear of each other's counterattack, are unwilling to give the other side the space to counterattack, defense, and can not appear to play more with less absolute disadvantage.
Galatasaray began to slow down the pace after conceding the ball, and if he wanted to play a success rate, he could pass and cut the running position densely in the middle, and the ordinary pass was no problem, but the threatening ball that penetrated forward would be stifled by Millwall at the first time.
Millwall's players weren't in great shape today, perhaps because of the away game, but in short, there were undeserved mistakes between several first-half set-ups.
'At the end of the first half, Millwall walked into the dressing room with a one-goal lead, Trim needs to think about what to do, and if Galatasaray loses this game and has one point from two games, then the prospects of qualification will be very unoptimistic.
Aldridge made tactical adjustments to the mistakes in the first half of the attack.
Sometimes players can play 95 points today, 85 points tomorrow, in the space of two halves in the first half of the game. It is impossible for a manager to make a qualitative change in the performance of his players in just a few words. Aldridge also never demanded that the players in the first half. In the second half, he became a god, that is unrealistic, and the choice he can make is to adjust the tactics according to the performance of the players, or make substitutions.
It's normal for a player to make mistakes, as long as it's not an individual who has been playing out of shape for a long time or is so bad that it's impossible to look at. Aldrich would not have used substitutions that resemble capital punishment.
He asked the team to slow down the tempo, reduce the "risk-taking" option, and also pursue the success rate, it doesn't matter if the pace is slow, the team is ahead, there is no reason to rush.
Back on the sidelines in the second half, Aldridge sat down again to the boos of the nearby stands.
When the game started, he watched it for five minutes and then turned his gaze to Triem in amazement.
The opponent is like a general who is fighting in a unified army, and frequently directs the players to fight with their body movements on the sidelines.
Galatasaray changed their formation in the second half.
From 4312 to 4132.
Looking at the position of the players on the pitch, Galatasaray went from a back three to a single midfielder.
The style of play hasn't changed. Or concentrate in the middle.
Aldrich was relieved when he thought of the ruthlessness of the Turkish emperor.
Trim led the Turkish national team to the semi-finals almost all the way to the semi-finals in '08. In the end, he almost staged the same plot against Germany, but unfortunately he was killed by Ram.
Aldrich stood up, walked to the sideline with his hands in his pockets, and said nothing.
He's standing here, and the players know that he has a new perspective on the game and what the players need to do, without words, to be able to understand.
Galatasaray changed their formation in the second half, and if they had really equalised after scoring, the game would have been completely different.
Soon, Aldrich's lads did not disappoint him.
With a solid defence, they didn't give Galatasaray a chance, and instead, in the 64th minute, Millwall scored again through Thierry Henry with a quick counter-attack.
Pirlo's pinpoint long pass found Larsson, who drove straight into the ball and crossed the goalkeeper when he got past the opponent's most detached defender, and Thierry Henry flanked the ball and scored twice.
Galatasaray approached the second half in a desperate manner, but the emptiness at the back made the defence even more vulnerable when counter-attacked.
Aldridge saw the second goal scored, turned and sat back.
'Millwall have a two-goal lead and it doesn't look like it's too much of a problem to win the game, so how will Galatasaray face the remaining 25 minutes?'
After falling behind by two goals, Galatasaray had no other choice but to attack wildly.
Ronaldo didn't play well today, and there were no more bright spots for him other than the ball that he had turned after the ball was turned in the first half, and Aldridge replaced him with Glen Charles as he approached the 70th minute, and perhaps this hellish home stadium really had a negative impact on Ronaldo's performance.
Luo sat quietly after being replaced, and Boas came to him and whispered about him, and Luo frowned and began to pour bitter water.
When he is on the wing, he always cares if there are fans attacking him on the sidelines.
It's one thing to follow Nedved's advice, it's another to be able to really not be affected, being hit by a rain of coins in the opening game has left a shadow on his play in the rest of the time, and the flash in the first half, it was also when he ran to the middle of the field and didn't have to worry about being attacked by the fans to play at a normal level.
After listening to this, Boas didn't know how to solve Xiao Luo, so he just gave up after thinking about it, after all, he didn't come to "hell" to play every week.
Although the players tried not to be disturbed by the atmosphere in the stands, Millwall did not play their best today, perhaps Aldridge met an "emperor", and the opponent was not afraid to play with him, so that Millwall seemed to win the game easily when he was not in good shape.
From the 70th minute, Millwall were in a completely defensive counter-attacking rhythm.
There are only three people left in the frontcourt, Henry, Larsson, Glen Shire.
Galatasaray's attack on all fronts could not be beaten once, and they turned around, and Millwall's counterattack came down to the city, destroying Galatasaray's defense through their individual abilities.
In the 79th minute, Thierry Henry scored a hat-trick.
Three minutes later, Glenschal scored the icing on the cake.
Galatasaray pulled one back via set-piece two minutes later.
After another four minutes, Larsson was brought down by the goalkeeper with a one-handed shot, and the referee sent the goalkeeper off with a red card, giving Millwall a penalty, and Larsson was able to do it in one fell swoop.
At 5:1, Millwall won a great victory in Turkey.
After the game, Aldrich stood up and walked over to shake Trim's hand, but without saying a word, shook hands and left.
Hell at home?
It's not about showing teeth and claws to mean being strong.
I'm sorry.
I have the strength of the world realm to subdue demons and subdue demons.
Even if it's hell, I'm the king of hell! (To be continued......)