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The new Premier League season that all Premier League fans are looking forward to is about to kick off, and the defending champions Millwall have a tough battle in the first round of the league.

London derby between sworn enemies.

Chelsea vs Millwall.

Aldridge had a lackluster pre-match interview before heading to Stamford Bridge, and at his current level, he was not guilty of shouting at Chelsea, but instead he was susceptible to irritating opponents.

"Chelsea first have to stabilize the internal morale, I don't know what happened in their dressing room, but judging from the information disclosed by the media, their troubles last season have not been resolved, well, I have always thought that if a team is not stable internally, then it is not possible to talk about how strong the overall fighting power will be, as for the strength of the individual abilities of the players, it is very hypocritical."

Vialli responded, warning Aldridge to keep his mouth shut: Chelsea, it's not your turn to worry!

Aldridge led the team to visit Stamford Bridge, although Chelsea has been bringing in reinforcements for many years, and some of the players who have been brought in can directly enter the main lineup, which comes with a problem: running-in.

Every season for the new lineup to run-in, if it is a role player in a non-core position, this run-in may not have much impact, but the main forward, the organization of the midfield, such a run-in is extremely important, the degree of impact on the game is very large.

This year they sold Sutton, Hasselbaink replaced, Wise, Poyet and others are older.

Playing such a Chelsea. Aldridge thinks that the opponent's strength has decreased a lot.

Vialli wondered if the pressure was too much. Playing Millwall at home. Dare to go up to three strikers!

Zola, Hasselbaink, Gudjohnsen!

Aldridge smiled and gave a big gift, and the midfielders won the world, Millwall led by two goals in the first half, and there were many strikers on Chelsea, but they were basically invisible.

In the second half, Vialli changed his formation to 451. Remove two strikers, replace two midfielders, and strangle wildly in the midfield.

Aldridge had been complacent and elated to get the new season off to a good start, but at the end of the game, he left Stamford Bridge with a black face and Vialli without even missing the post-match interview.

Nedved is hurt!

Seriously injured!

Xiao Luo also suffered a minor injury, the former team doctor did not give a preliminary diagnosis, obviously the injury is not optimistic, Xiao Luo will have a month off.

Chelsea had 10 sappers sweeping the pitch in the second half. It's obviously a loss.

After receiving a symbolic penalty from the FA the next day, Aldridge opened up to the media.

'This is Chelsea. I'm not surprised. ”

A simple sentence, full of Aldrich's contempt for the mad lion against his mortal enemy.

Nedved, who has been on high attendance for six years and has rarely been plagued by injuries, is away from the field for up to five months!

The soonest, and the return will not be until January next year, and the blow to Millwall is obvious.

Meanwhile, there was another breaking news from Chelsea.

Three days after Chelsea's 2-0 defeat to Millwall, Chelsea officially announced that Vialli had been sacked!

Bates can't stand it, and Chelsea fans probably can't stand it either, last season plus the new season, one end and the other, Chelsea lost two consecutive official matches to the same opponent, the former losing the FA Cup, the latter at home to lose the opening game of the new season.

In five years of Premier League meetings between Hoddle, Ruud Gullit, Maker Vialli, Chelsea and Millwall, none of the three managers have been able to pull off one of the most desired outcomes of fans: a win over Aldridge!

If there is no bitter rival, Chelsea fans will be relieved and will not be difficult to accept, after all, Millwall have now extended their unbeaten league run to 49!

Chelsea are not the only ones who are definitely the underdogs in the head-to-head record.

Just after Vialli got out of class, Bates invited Ranieri to replace him, this good old man will shoulder the responsibility of reorganizing Chelsea and rebuilding, after all, Chelsea's squad is indeed older, who let them bring in the past to recruit mainly famous players, when the famous players of the year, who wants to come to Chelsea? When he came, he was not young, and after two or three years of service, replacement was inevitable.

Injuries to Nedved and Ronaldo have left Millwall in a state of gloom at the start of the new season, with speculation about who will replace them.

In the second round of the Premier League, Millwall hosted Leicester City, Aldridge unexpectedly used Klose to play in the midfield, and it was not surprising that Glen Charles came in to replace Ronaldo.

At the Lion King Stadium, Leicester City, which had changed coaches and lost two strikers in the new season, was beaten by Millwall.

After 90 minutes, all the Lions fans were convinced that even if Ronaldo and Nedved were away from the game due to injury, their team would still be able to dominate the game.

6:0.

A slaughtering scoreline seemed to dispel all doubts, and Thierry Henry's hat-trick also announced that he was in good form for the new season.

Larsson, Klose and Materazzi each scored a goal, and everything seemed to be better than expected.

Millwall, who won two in a row in the new season, panicked Fleet Street.

According to this trend, the Premier League may be halfway through and there will be no suspense!

Professional football commentators have been pumping out Premier League teams, and everyone is studying Millwall's tactics and discussing countermeasures to restrain them.

In the end, a set of methods that seem to make sense have been summed up.

Liverpool legend Aaron Hansen published in his column titled: How to improve your chances of winning against Millwall. Such an article.

Football games are unpredictable, sometimes irregular, different players, different teams, naturally it is impossible to apply a tactical design, so Hansen only makes targeted suggestions on the big picture.

First, you can only have a maximum of one striker!

The simple reason is that if you have two or more strikers, you will be understaffed in the midfield. The formation of the British 442. Completely unable to compete with Millwall in midfield. Is Manchester United strong in midfield? The result?

Second, in midfield, you need at least two full-time defensive players.

While the number of midfielders is not falling behind, the defensive strategy must arrange a defensive player to flexibly follow Millwall's hidden attacking point and insert it behind, especially when your frontcourt players cannot return to the defense in time to limit Millwall's core Pirlo, a defensive midfielder is in the opposite position to mark Millwall's forward midfield, and a defensive midfielder reacts quickly to defuse the impact of the opponent's back insertion of attacking players.

Third, the defensive discipline and tacit understanding of the backline.

We've seen Millwall's attacks penetrate opposition defences like nothing but a seldom. Most of this is when the defenders are out of position when dealing with fast breaks, or too far away from teammates and there are gaps in defense, Millwall's ability to penetrate and cut is one of the best in the world, so your four or five defenders must have defensive tacit understanding and discipline, calmly judge the situation on the field, and don't lose their position because the opponent's attack advances into danger zone

Aldridge also read this article, and after the most shock, he found that in fact, the advice of various celebrities was actually a subtle telling to other Premier League teams: put a big bus and a midfielder to go crazy and scramble.

A group of sappers will at least increase your chances of not losing!

As for how to win, sorry, for the vast majority of teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League. That's just an extravagant hope, and only a strong team has the strength to realize the idea of how to win.

It doesn't work for other people to come up with ideas. Millwall's madness last season, combined with the momentum of a 50-game unbeaten streak still on the way, has scared most teams in the Premier League.

Not daring to attack is one of the manifestations, even if it is 442, once the midfielders are beaten back and counterattacked, they are completely unable to withstand Millwall's onslaught.

There is no need to talk about any tactics, don't say Xiao Luo, Nedved, Henry, even if it is Glen Shire, who replaces Xiao Luo, he is not a ruthless character who can be completely frozen, and it is natural that one point cannot be prevented, and the whole line collapses.

In the new season, Millwall's inevitability is triggering tactical changes for strong teams, and weak teams are also changing at the same time.

In the third round of the Premier League, Millwall was a guest at the Riverside Stadium.

Middlesbrough looked like a 442 in the starting line-up, but in reality, they didn't have a full-fledged striker.

No Front!

Two players in the forward position, one in midfield and one in midfield, the static formation is completely deceptive.

It's actually a 451 formation, and it's still a defensive midfielder at the forefront.

Double midfielder, bilateral forward, midfielder, forward midfielder.

Middlesbrough are at home and are such a dense midfield formation.

This is really a bit different from the swing bus encountered in the past, the swing bus encountered by Millwall in the past, which blocked the dangerous area of the penalty area, and now Middlesbrough, is to compress the midfield area, they sacrifice the forward line, there is a numerical advantage in the midfield, crazy to block Millwall's offensive.

Surprisingly, it was a very exciting game.

Because both teams can't control the midfield, Millwall has no space, less time to handle the ball, can't quickly and smoothly reverse the foot, there are many opponents, and it is extremely difficult to walk the monkey, while Middlesbrough does not hesitate to hit the ball behind him after interception, and succeeds, and does not continue to defend if he does not pull down.

The pace of the game was very fast, and the dangers were constantly staged.

The final score was 1-1, and Middlesbrough was like a blind cat catching a dead mouse.

After 16 successful counter-robberies, he succeeded once, just once, but scored a goal.

Millwall's 23-shot shot came to naught, culminating in a corner to equalise.

Aldridge had realised before the season that the new season was going to be extremely difficult, and he could console himself with the fact that Ronaldo and Nedved were not there.

Whether it is Glen Schal or Klose, the ability to handle the ball in a small area is obviously not as good as the original main force, and in the case of the opponent's arrangement, the team's ability to handle the ball in a small area and judge the situation have higher requirements.

Fleet Street cheered on Middlesbrough, and although they came close to putting Millwall's unbeaten record in check, at least they didn't lose and the game wasn't the ugly bus-barring of the past, with the ball more often in the midfield scrambling.

If the scene is Millwall pressing Tottenham and the result is that Tottenham hold on to a draw, then this is a shame, but like Middlesbrough's brave and tenacious struggle for the ball in the midfield, even if it sacrifices the striker, the outside world thinks Middlesbrough is good.

Before the start of the fourth round of the Premier League, Millwall sent substitutes to play in the Carabao Cup, and Villa, Ramour and Joe Cole shone in the game, helping Millwall beat the underdogs by four goals to advance to the next round.

Aldridge was absent from the Champions League group draw for the new season, and he asked Adam to represent the club on the spot, which he didn't want to go to.

After the expansion of the Champions League, no matter how the group draw lots, the probability of the group of death is not large, and Aldridge is not afraid of the group of death. (To be continued......)