Monday night was a thunderous beer night for the coaches at work.

Aldrich enjoyed himself in the hotel early, because the team was resting today, he accompanied Melanie to go shopping in the afternoon, the weather turned cold, and he bought a lot of autumn and winter clothes, in the unique perspective of a woman, Melanie did her best to dress Aldrich as a fashionable man.

Playing two sets of snooker in a row with Craig, Aldridge walked to the bar and sat down in front of Craig's triumphant teasing, Jensen and Mulensteen watched the Premier League highlights on TV, discussing with each other the characteristics of the players' skills in the game, Mulensteen is an expert in this area, and he gushed about the ability characteristics of the players in the process of scoring goals, some of them are secondary, and some of them can be improved.

Moniz drank beer and discussed tactics with Barbatorop, the two come from completely different backgrounds, and there is a football concept collision in the Netherlands, so the latter can always refute the former with various theories that tactics are higher than skills, but Moniz likes to use excellent players to give evidence to defend, and the scene is very lively.

Aldridge opened a beer and drank a beer and found Benitez sitting alone at the far end of the bar, writing and drawing in a small notebook, occasionally picking up the bottle at hand and taking a sip before continuing to focus on the tactics.

Aldrich walked over and smiled, "What are you doing here?" ”

In Benitez's tactical book, page after page is written, each page is the routine of Millwall's recent offensive goals, which is really ever-changing, as if there is no pattern to follow.

Benitez frowned and said: "I want to sort out Millwall's midfield configuration. ”

Aldridge snatched the opponent's playbook and turned to a new page. Write down three names and some numbers in the midfield.

Makellele: Defence -65. Organization - 25. Offense - 10.

Pirlo: -15 defensively, -55 playmaking, -20 offensively.

Nedved: -20 defensively, -20 playmaking, -65 offensively.

Returning the notebook to the other party, Aldrich smiled: "This is a static approximate data, which can be elastic and change according to the situation in the game, but one thing is balance." The role of the three is condensed together, and it will reach full value in the three of organization, defense, and offense. Unlike the current midfield organization tactics, the organization and attack of the forward midfield must be strong, but the defense is weak, and the midfielders are too defensive and give the responsibility of organization to the front midfielder. Defenders with good passing ability have started to play a more important role, like Albertini and Paulo Sousa. The outside world is saying that Millwall is making history, but in fact it is all nonsense. The only creative thing we can do is to have players play more roles than they can run widely, but not decathlon. There must be a distinction between priority and priority. ”

Benitez thoughtfully said: "But Nedved made up for Pirlo's defensive weakness with a wide range of retreats, which reduced his threat when switching from defense to attack. ”

Aldridge shrugged: "Not necessarily, let's put it this way, if Nedved starts close to the opposition penalty area, then he is easy to be targeted, it is his speed and physical advantage that allows him to change more when he pushes forward from the back, and his forward movement will make the defenders elusive, which also reflects his uniqueness, and if you change someone else, even if you let him do it, it will be weak." Pirlo is organized in the midfield, and it is true that the defense is a shortcoming, but his creativity and overall situation, insight into the situation on the field, I think no one in the team can compare to him, there are many players with superb passing skills, there are only a handful of players who may choose the best way to play the ball in the attack, maybe some players have a pass success rate of 85%, but the passing route may not be what the team needs most to attack, obviously should pass forward, he passed to both sides, obviously should have passed diagonally to the side, he passed straight to the middle, the pass was successful, But the threat after the pass plummeted. ”

Benitez nodded in agreement, and Aldrich touched the bottle with him, getting drunk.

The team have a Carabao Cup game in midweek against Sunderland, who are in the relegation zone.

Aldridge sent a large number of young players on the pitch, and the team won 2-1 at home, after which the players began to rush to the international stage, and the team will return in a dozen days.

During this time, Aldridge invited the players who stayed in London to have dinner and watch a movie, and then sent the rest of the first-team squad to Leo's youth base to play a few coaching games against the youth team.

With a ten-game winning streak in the league, a large area of East London on the south bank of the River Thames has become the home of Millwall, and the fans are so enthusiastic that they come to the Academy to watch the youth team train and play even when the first team is not playing.

Nagy is still meticulous, and several seedlings of the youth team were sent to the first team last season, and the seamless integration with the first team has been very good, which is closely related to the team's tactical philosophy from top to bottom.

In addition to the fierce competition in the big teams, there are also elements of contradiction between the youth team and the tactical system of the first team, so in this regard, the reason why Ajax and later Barcelona became the leader of youth training are all related to this, Ajax is full of attack and defense, Barcelona's Tiki-taka, whenever the youth training and the first team tactics are most appropriate, Geniuses keep emerging.

The current leader in the youth team is Ronaldinho, who at the age of 16 can do anything on the pitch and is the brightest rising star in Leo's academy.

Najib always had a headache for Ronaldo, and he repeatedly approached Aldrich for advice on how to train Ronaldo.

Because of Xiao Luo's multifaceted nature, he cannot be fixed in one position.

Playing as a winger, Xiao Luo broke through sharply and passed like numbness.

Playing in the forward position, Xiao Luo also creates good organizational skills.

According to the tactics of the first team, if Xiao Luo wants to focus on organizing in the future, then Xiao Luo will have to compete with Pirlo, but putting Xiao Luo in the midfield position will waste his goalscoring talent, because organizing an attack in this position will definitely suppress his extraordinary talent. Otherwise. Once he conceded the ball. It would be lethal against Millwall's backfield defence.

Let him play as a midfielder or as a winger, and his ability will be fine, but it will reduce his time on the ball, because the focus of the attack is on the area behind him.

Aldridge's advice to Nagy is not to limit Ronaldo's area of movement, but to give him free rein in the left winger and midfield area.

At the same time, he told Najib about a player's change in tactics: a change of position.

No player on the field is absolutely fixed in a certain area, only the question of whether there is a limit to ability.

Millwall's tactics have now become stable. This has allowed them to burst into power, but they are not yet at the peak of Aldrich's ideal tactics, and on this endless pursuit of the road, the ability of the players and the tacit understanding of the team will completely sublimate the combat effectiveness.

Larsson and Shevchenko have begun to try to switch left and right wingers in training, but due to Trezeguet's ability, he can only be fixed in the center forward position, and if he is allowed to pull the side, the offensive effect is very unsatisfactory, the threat plummets, and at the same time. While Nedved is now starting to unleash his attacking prowess when Pirlo is focused on playmaking, he's nowhere near his limits. When the next tactical "change period" of the frontcourt attack arrives, it will be a more refined pursuit, and Xiao Luo is a very important member of Aldrich's plan.

After the FIFA match day, the players all returned to the team, and before Aldridge arrived at the training ground, everyone was already doing body stretching and warm-up exercises, and the mentality was very relaxed.

After Aldridge's arrival, the players stood together and waited for the routine fitness coach to lead the team to do the stretching exercise.

"Bernd, go to the reception room on the first floor of the hotel after training, you have a birthday in two days, the fans have sent a lot of gifts, they are all there, you remember to take them, in addition, say happy birthday in advance."

When the players heard this, they all wished Schneider in advance, and Schneider smiled a little shyly.

Every once in a while, the club will receive a lot of gifts, most of which are birthday gifts sent by fan organizations, even if some players have birthdays during the vacation in June and July, the fans will either send them in advance, or they will make up for them when they come back in the new season, and they will also pull out banners to write blessings during the game.

Because they have just experienced a FIFA match day, the team's training is relatively relaxed, mainly focusing on recovery.

The weekend was an away trip to Blackburn, and the Premier League title of more than a year ago was now in decline, and Shearer's departure from St James' Park was just a prelude, and the mercenary army that had been built heavily was falling apart.

Millwall are in good form and most importantly the players have a better mentality, they are confident and composed, and they have gained valuable experience from the fall of last season's finale, and their mentality has matured day by day.

Aldridge has also mastered the rhythm of the team's rotation this season, except for some young players who were too nervous and timid at the start of the new season, and now they are becoming more mature, at least without stage fright.

After winning Blackburn Rovers 3:1, Millwall's winning streak came to 11 games, and Manchester United won 1:0 at home with Arsenal defender Winterburn's own goal, which cannot be said to have a significant recovery momentum, but at least stabilized the downward trend, and at the same time, the gap with Millwall has not been further widened.

As in the previous two months, Millwall finished the month with a winning record throughout November, with Newcastle United, Leeds United and Everton being knocked out one after another, with Millwall already 15 points ahead of second-placed Liverpool in December, while Liverpool were only one point ahead of Manchester United.

December is a month that Aldridge doesn't like because the Premier League is on a fast track, with two major London derbies to be played before Christmas, the first at Stamford Bridge and the second against the Hammers at the Lions' Den.

Glenn Hoddle took over as the new England national team manager, Ruud Gullit took off his shirt and put on sportswear to take charge of the Blues, and this summer, Chelsea invested heavily in strengthening the third line, French scavenger Leboeuf, central midfield Di Matteo, attacking Vialli and Zola.

Chelsea from this season, officially into the high-speed development of the big gap to catch up with the big clubs, Ruud Gullit's coaching style is biased towards sexy football, which also makes Stamford Bridge begin to attract attention from the outside world, at least their record has a clear upward trend compared to previous seasons, the outside world is very optimistic that Chelsea under Gullit's management will become a new strong force in London.

Against this backdrop, Millwall, who have won a record fourteen consecutive victories, stepped into Stamford Bridge like a proud lion. (To be continued......)