Not only Aldridge was depressed, but the players on both sides who played today were also depressed, oh, the Tottenham players felt that they were in a bag, and they hurriedly left the stadium after the game to avoid the camera, and directly avoided the interview.

Only Leo Ferdinand and Les Ferdinand seem to have experienced what a fierce battle they had, and after the game, the two hooked shoulders and exchanged shirts officially.

Leo didn't face a test today and Les had a reason to leave the pitch with his head held high.

That's right, he was walking almost all of the time, but this was arranged by the coach, his teammates didn't even give him a chance, and the backcourt clearance ball was very blind, and Rice wanted to grab it, but he didn't have enough strength.

The Millwall players left the pitch in extreme frustration, and in the tunnel of players, facing the camera, most of the players passing by were in no mood to say anything, but the reporter grabbed the local youngster Frank Lampard and insisted on asking him some thoughts on the game.

Frank Lampard had a more unlucky new season, scoring in the Community Shield but being tackled by Keane, and returning from injury after more than a month of injury, but he was a tough battle, he was very active in the game, repeatedly inserting long-range shots, but not hitting the target, all hitting the opposition player or flying into the stands.

"I don't know what the Tottenham players are thinking, I don't know how they understand the sport of football, I don't want to play against each other anymore, it doesn't make sense, if it's a knockout game, give us stoppage time, we can definitely win, they don't have any chance of winning, this is White Hart Lane, Tottenham as the owner didn't have a shot on goal, I can't believe this is the team I saw Lineker and Gascoigne play together, Tottenham at that time. The game is pleasing to the eye. Right now? Do they also deserve the Premier League? ”

Other Millwall players have complained in a few words about their opponents' lack of desire to win.

Aldridge returned to the club without criticising the players' performances. They showed a strong desire to win and fighting spirit, and the failure to win the game in the end was a hard power factor, reflecting the deep-seated problem is the thickness of Millwall's squad, strictly speaking, Millwall only has 1.5 strong squads, and the first team is not counting the third goalkeeper, a total of 27 people, almost seven or eight players. The actual meaning of sending them to play is to exercise and improve, accumulate game experience, and digest the knowledge they have learned in training, at the same time, age is about equal to physical fitness, in the Premier League's physical competition environment, if you can't give full play to the advantages of skills and teamwork, fight for the body, Millwall's substitute lineup is really not necessarily able to compete with many teams without falling behind, which takes time to accumulate. It is only when the players work day in and day out that they are strengthened.

The next day, Fleet Street sparked a heated debate in English football based on the final result of the match.

The better thing to say is that Tottenham stubbornly held the defending champions to a stubborn draw at home.

But Millwall came on for most of the bench. As a result, Tottenham were beaten for 90 minutes, and there was no return shot, and the zero shots on goal data in the whole game is the best proof of this.

Tottenham Hotspur legend, Lineker, who has only been retired for three years, criticized the team's performance, thinking that Tottenham's performance is not as good as shit

Celebrities from all walks of life also joined the debate, and for a while, public opinion against the "bus tactic" was very loud.

Clubs will strive for a better result in each game for the sake of the relevance of the table, but fans, spectators, commentators, media and other spectators want nothing more than to see the best attacking football.

There is even a wail that "English football is on the brink of death".

However, there are also sensible people who analyze such situations in depth.

Take Liverpool legend Alan Hansen, for example.

He published a column with the headline: The difference between swinging the bus and defending the counterattack.

The subheadline reads: The defending champions are three points behind Leicester City.

Hansen reviewed Leicester's first seven league games of the season, and Martin O'Neill's side were impressive, and although his tactical style of play was also conservative, it was definitely not a big game, but a very pragmatic one.

In addition to drawing with Millwall, Leicester City won at home to Aston Villa and Tottenham, won at Anfield away to Liverpool, drew at home to Manchester United and Arsenal, and won away to Elland Road to beat Leeds United in this round.

Manchester United, who have won four and drawn three in seven league games, are as unbeaten as those who have won five and drawn two.

Judging by the results, O'Neill's side have drawn three games against the recognised powerhouses, who are the underdogs, but they have pulled their opponents into an upset, because against these top teams, a draw is a small upset, especially for a team like Leicester City.

However, against the likes of Tottenham and Liverpool, who are also definitely stronger than them, Leicester City are still stubbornly holding the three points, especially at Anfield.

Aaron Hansen thinks O'Neal's tactical use is reasonable, and what is wrong with the underdog putting on a defensive stance? But on the basis of the defensive posture, the goal is to strive for victory, and if it were not for Arsenal to score twice in a row at the last minute to set the score at 3:3, Leicester City would have added the name of Arsenal to the strong team that has fallen.

In the final summary, Aaron Hansen believes that the surge in broadcast contracts in the Premier League in the new season, the expansion of the Champions League and other economic interests directly stimulate the whole Premier League teams to face games with less pure purpose.

In the past, only the champions could play in the Champions League, and once the other teams were pulled away by the leaders, only one or two teams would catch up, and that led them to play with an emphasis on attacking to win.

But now that the runner-up can also play the Champions League, the competition in the first group will be more intense, but it has also become a matter of gains and losses, especially in the confrontation between the strong and the strong, for fear of losing to the opponent and losing the "6-point battle" to widen the gap.

Although the middle and lower teams cannot touch the European competition, but the temptation to stay in the Premier League is too great, and it also forces them to fight for every point, staying in the Premier League means that the broadcast fee alone is more than 6 million pounds in the pocket every season, which is more than double the past few seasons. Maybe at the end of the season, when they are relegated, they will be one or two points short.

Aldridge ignored the outside discussion, even though most were praising Millwall. But what's the use of that?!

Can you give Millwall a little more points?

Millwall have become the target of the Premier League. Directly cheaper Manchester United. Manchester United is not on the cusp, unbeaten in seven games in the new season, and has opened a five-point gap with Millwall, and even Leicester City has three points more than Millwall.

This directly led to the topic of Toney being pushed to the fore again, and some people also thought that if there was Tony in the Millwall team, why should Aldridge use a defender to play center?

Aldrich was angry and didn't want to pay attention to these reporters who didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement.

Millwall's 38 league games have not been played in every game. Arsene Wenger, Dalglish, these coaches are self-respecting, let them put the bus? Are you kidding! Ferguson is even more so, some other teams, either can't stop Millwall with a bus, or they just don't care to put a bus, the big deal is just losing, and it's not the end of the world, why bother to make the team look like it's in a bag?

The key is still the depth of Millwall's squad, if he is given the peak of Duff. Glen Shire, Vanney. Frank Lampard and other players, playing Tottenham away, it is estimated that the problem has already been solved.

Before the second round of the Champions League kicks off, Millwall have three league games and one Carabao Cup.

The club was full of anger and came to promoted Barnsley.

Aldridge made all the main players who rested for the weekend play.

The promoted team also came to set up the bus and also wanted to get a Premier League gift on the defending champions, but they overestimated their own strength.

Even with all the players on the back, Millwall led by three goals in the first half.

Nedved scored a hat-trick with an overhead kick in the first half.

Aldridge paced back and forth on the sidelines, babbling on his lips.

Buses are buses, but Barnsley doesn't have the players of Liverpool, Tottenham, or the tactical command of Martin O'Neill in Leicester City.

The level seems to be three layers inside and three layers outside, the guard, the forward line, plus a striker, from front to back layer is more stable than a layer of barriers.

However, their defenders only knew how to mark against each other, and the defenders' attention was focused on the opposing forwards, and the Millwall forward trident used his movement and passing to provide fire to Nedved who was cut in behind, and Barnsley's bus was smashed by the goal.

In the second half, Aldridge replaced Nedved directly, and Ballack went up to continue the pressure.

Barnsley, who had conceded three goals in a row, began to counter-attack, which made Millwall play even more vigorously, and in the second half, Aldridge took the lead, but still scored three more goals, Larsson took two penalties and Trezeguet also scored a goal in the sports battle.

Millwall thrashed promoted side of the club away.

The next match against Everton was a draw, and the Millwall players were probably confused by the tactics of breaking the bus one after another, thinking that they would definitely put the bus if they were an opponent, but they were attacked by Everton as soon as they came up at home, and then pulled back in a difficult battle.

Aldridge is not disappointed, even if the main force attacks, it cannot ensure that every game is absolutely won, this is the law of football.

What's more, although Everton's situation is getting worse, but Joe Royal before leaving, he still spent a lot of money from the club to introduce many players who can fight well, the team's record is not good, it is the manager's problem, and it has nothing to do with hard power, such a team has not been able to win in the away two-goal lead and then stubbornly defended, and it is no wonder that Everton began to enter the rhythm of relegation every year.

At the beginning of October, Millwall challenged Southampton away, following last season's bloody victory over Tottenham Hotspur in White Hart Lane to narrow relegation, Southampton this season tactical play is more unrestrained, probably they feel that in order to survive in the Premier League, they must dare to fight, the more unrestrained passion, the more opportunities, which at least in the new season standings did not fall into the dilemma of relegation at the beginning.

As a result, in a fierce attack, Millwall won 4-1 away at Southampton.

In the three Premier League games after being held to a draw by Tottenham, Millwall won two and drew one, while the leaders Manchester United won and lost one of their three games, narrowing the gap between the two teams to two points, which made Aldridge breathe a sigh of relief, at least biting Manchester United, and did not let the new season fall into a weak catch-up situation before the halfway point.

Millwall's Carabao Cup picks for the new season are good, with the first game against Lincoln City and the second game at home to Notts County.

With the second round of the Champions League group stage ahead of us, and it will be an absolute hard-fought battle, Aldridge is of course opting to train his newcomers in the Carabao Cup.

He doesn't care much about the domestic cup competition now, Millwall has so many young rookies to work out, the main players are mainly in the league and the Champions League, and the domestic cup competition is handed over to the young players to rush, if he can reach the final, Aldridge will consider choosing the main team to fight for the trophy.

Although Notts County play conservatively away from home, they also have the courage to attack, and such a game can train the ability of Millwall's newcomers.

Commanding the substitutes was harder than directing the main team, with Aldridge constantly alerting the youngsters on the sidelines, allowing them to run on the pitch and change tactics according to the opponent's situation, and finally thanks to a brace from Duff and a goal from Ruud van Nistelrooy, Millwall beat Notts County by three goals at home to advance to the next round. (To be continued......)