Stay up late to prepare to watch the Champions League, this week's recommended votes are a bit few, but I just saw that 4,000 votes have arrived, and now I will release it and add more, tonight's Champions League will have two top eight teams, and it is estimated that the suspense is not big.

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After conceding the goal, Arsenal involuntarily began to play their old tactics again, defending and counter-attacking.

It was understandable that they were actually facing Millwall's squad for the first time, having played against Millwall's substitutes in the FA Cup last season, and none of them were on the pitch with 11 men in the starting line-up.

Millwall controlled the pace of the game unhurriedly, Arsenal contracted, Millwall also contracted, the local small combination played extremely fluently, the opponent's penalty area was densely crowded, then Millwall's strikers withdrew to end the attack with long-range shots.

Aldridge is confident of playing from the sidelines, he is not familiar with Graham, but his knowledge of Arsenal over the past few years suggests that Arsenal are simply copying the trend and adding elements of the English league to Italy's famous chain defence, which did allow Arsenal to create a brief period of success.

In the 100 years of football, only Italy has been able to elevate defense to art on the green field, and at least in Europe has had a shocking effect when broadcasting skills and football culture promotion are not yet developed.

Let people in the football circle suddenly realize: how did football become like this?

From 85 to 89, the Italian league won five times, with the fewest goals conceded in the season of 14 and the most at 19, while the number of goals, except for Inter Milan in 89, who had 67 "prolific" goals, the other four champions scored 41,42,43,43.

It was at that stage that Graham took charge of Arsenal and began to build a 1:0 football that was defensively the same as that of Italian football.

Italy's chain defense is still improving, and in the summer of '94, AC Milan won the league title, but the goals scored and conceded figures were a staggering 36 and 15.

Ten years later, twenty years later, such data will simply scare people to death!

Whether Italy's tactics are the most advanced and represent the trend is not Aldridge's turn to evaluate, because the Italian league, which has the reputation of the Little World Cup, is on the cusp, and the wood show is bound to destroy it by the forest wind, and the Italian football style has been mixed for a long time, and a considerable number of voices believe that Italy's football philosophy is anti-football, and it is an ugly football that destroys beautiful football.

But it is undeniable that the Italian academy coaches are crazy about studying defensive tactics, constantly improving chain defense, sublimating defense into art, and jointly creating the most prosperous Italian league!

Italian teams began to dominate the European arena, they were not regulars in the Champions Cup, but in the Champions Cup final, forging the strongest shield in the world, waiting for countless strikers who wanted to prove themselves, with the dream of becoming the sharpest shield-breaking blade to come to Italy to test.

Such defensive tactics can survive, develop, and eventually reach their peak in Italy, and for a long time.

However, in England, Arsenal's glory is difficult to continue, because it is not in line with the football culture of the country, Graham's Arsenal tasted the championship, the talent of the players is still suppressed, and then lose motivation and passion, and waste youth.

Now, Arsenal are looking for a change and need a suitable mentor, Wenger did not return to Europe this summer, Aldridge believes that this choice is correct, although Leoch is not well-known in the football coaching industry, but he is an important person in Arsenal's transformation, at least he has given the players and the team a transitional period in the style change, so that Wenger's transformation is less difficult.

The situation on the pitch is very good to reflect the pain of Arsenal at this stage, Millwall led for more than 20 minutes, they defended conservatively, only four people in front, and the attack did not improve, so they couldn't hold back, and the full-backs took the initiative to rush forward.

What else could it be?

What they are good at is 1:0.

But now they are 0:1 behind.

Aldridge calmly looked at the stalemate on the field, and said in his heart: One more ball, one more, and Arsenal will be completely defeated!

Winterburn's pass was blocked by Makelelele's outstretched foot, Nedved received the ball and passed to the right flank, where Schneider dribbled up to the ground.

With the experience of conceding goals before, Arsenal is extremely fast in defending as a whole, and is not in a hurry to grab, but first sets up a defensive position and then slows down the opponent's tempo, and even the back runs back to the penalty area to make up for the disadvantage in the number of defenders.

Schneider dribbled the ball back and forth to the middle, and Nedved, who ran forward all the way, was unmarked, and after taking the ball, he did not choose to shoot from a distance, but went into the penalty area, intending to use his speed to pass Adams.

Just as the two passed each other, Adams opted to let go of the tackle, a defender with first-class tackling skills, and Nedved slipped his foot as he accelerated and fell straight into the box.

Between the flashes of lightning, the spectators and the coaches on the sidelines couldn't see what was going on, only to see Nedved fall in the box from a distance, and Adams naturally fell in the box with a tackle, and the ball was kicked away by him.

Referee Bol stopped the game and pointed to the penalty spot in the Arsenal penalty area.

"Tony Adams put a tackle, Pavel Nedved fell in the box, through the slow motion replay, we can clearly see that Adams tackled the ball first, and Nedved's fall didn't seem to be due to physical contact, he lost his body balance a second before Adams tackled, referee Bol decisively awarded a penalty, this decision is debatable."

'Either way, it's a good opportunity for Millwall, and if they extend their lead before half-time, then Arsenal's hopes of a comeback will be slim.'

When Adams saw the referee award a penalty, he got up in a rage and yelled at Nedved, "Liar! I didn't touch you at all! I'm rushing to the ball! ”

FIFA issued a strict penalty in the back shovel in 94, but now it has not been implemented, and the real implementation is in the 98 World Cup, which is now a process of warm-up and ideological preparation for the new policy.

Bol's decision was certainly not based on a dangerous tackle, but on the fact that he thought it was Adams who knocked down Nedved first.

Facing several Arsenal players surrounding him, Nedved got up and immediately waved his hand and shook his head at referee Bol with a calm face: It wasn't a penalty!

Seeing his move, the Arsenal players were stunned.

Adams' eyes widened, and his mouth was slightly open and couldn't close as he wanted to continue scolding.

Referee Bol was surrounded by a few Arsenal players, and Winterburn pointed at Nedved and said: "He admitted it wasn't a penalty!" ”

Nedved came over at this point, and he told the referee in the simplest words: "I slipped just now, he didn't foul, there was no penalty." ”

It's a strange scene.

The Lion's Den Stadium was silent, with fewer than 20,000 fans in the stands staring at the Arsenal penalty area, where Arsenal players gathered around the referee and the referee was communicating with Nedved.

In England, where modern football originated, football was originally a tenacious head-to-head contest between fighters, and even the first official football rules stipulated that even the ball behind him could not be passed, either horizontally and back, or head-on breakthrough, which was a real man's contest, which was very similar to the contest between ancient Chinese knights.

The master abides by the way of a gentleman, and if there are brothers from the master who sneak attack or help, he will be despised by fellow martial artists.

Therefore, the favorite of England fans in their bones is an authentic English-style tough guy player, and a player like Nedved who is tough on the field and is not afraid of confrontation, even if he falls and gets up, he can win cheers, because in him, you can see the qualities that British fans appreciate and worship the most, rather than playing fancy and cunning "European players", if Nedved fakes a fall, even Millwall fans who have nothing to be proud of will spit on him!

Even war has rules, how can football tolerate indiscriminate means to cheat victory?

But now, they clearly see that Nedved is talking to the referee and asking the referee to revoke the penalty, otherwise, why bother with the referee? Just go for the penalty kick.

The Millwall players crossed their waists and looked at Aldridge on the sidelines.

Boss, what should I do?

We had a penalty, but the vice-captain seemed to have defected.

The players on the pitch actually admired Nedved's move, but they needed to see Aldridge's reaction, and in any case, the manager's will was important in this situation.

Aldrich saw that scene and froze in place.

He was greatly shaken!

Millwall Club, he is the owner and the head coach, can be described as the emperor of the soil here, unlike his peers with a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads, but he has always had an indescribable jack pendant in his heart, which puts him under great pressure.

He can introduce star seedlings for the team, but he is afraid that he is not capable of cultivating these good seedlings, if there is really a star in his hands "premature", he will regret it for life, because that directly changes the fate of a star, will make him have the shadow of a "sinner" in his heart.

But when he saw Nedved's movements at this moment, he seemed to see Nedved blooming with a thousand rays of light.

That's the glow of a superstar!

Superstars not only need skills, but also personality and spirit.

The corners of Aldrich's eyes were a little moist, and he said silently in his heart: Xie Lu Xie, Pavel, you have shocked my soul.

Aldridge turned around, raised his hands and began to applaud above his head, cheering on all the fans in the stands to applaud Nedved's performance at the moment.

The fans at the Lion's Den Stadium stood up and clapped their hands as Aldridge moved.

Many fans clapped their hands and nodded at the same time!

Although Millwall was criticized for being rude and brutal in the past, they never lost their bottom line.

The kind of obscene methods of swindlers and thieves, no one will find it glorious!

If you can't win with dignity, you will lose with dignity!

Fake fall performances and the like have always been intolerable in football.

The applause for Nedved echoed at the Lion's Den Stadium, and even the Arsenal fans stood up and applauded, and the noise was endless, and this scene became a classic picture of Millwall.