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Millwall attacked, Aston Villa defended, and the situation was clear at a glance.

The cheers from the stands were deafening, and the final at Wembley Stadium looked a bit one-sided.

However, Aldridge was not optimistic, Millwall's attack only blossomed and did not bear fruit, allowing the two full-backs to come back first to ensure the stability of the defence, Aldridge wanted to lure the snake out of the hole to see if Aston Villa would put more attacking forces in the case of reduced defensive pressure.

However, Brian Little's tactical set-up for the team today disappointed Aldridge, and Aston Villa were united in a concerted move, even if the three midfielders were free to organise the attack, they still played long balls, the midfielders were at most around the centre circle, and the full-backs almost always remained parallel to the back line.

In this way, it is Millwall who can't bear it, and only relies on five people in the front court VS eight people to attack, so you can imagine how powerless it will be.

Players are always pressed by the pack and cannot form a threatening attack.

Thuram and Neil assisted again, but they couldn't make a big deal on the wings.

Aldridge was a little anxious, Aston Villa's targeted defense has the feeling of meeting the opponent, even if the full-back defends, let go of the wing and let Millwall's attacking players set the edge to the bottom, but it will definitely block the line of cutting inside.

Schneider teamed up with Thuram and then took the ball to the baseline, and used his foot skills to get past Staunton, but as soon as he passed Staunton, the ball was cleared by Wright's prepared big foot.

Three minutes later, after Pire cooperated with Neil on the other side, Neil took Nelson away, Pire cut inside with the ball, just took a step with the ball, Draper pressed up, Pire feinted to pass and passed to Nedved in the middle, but Nedved took the initiative to get the ball, but Taylor fell to the ground and shoveled the ball away.

A minute and a half later, Pire repeated his old trick, but he passed the ball to Neil, who didn't choose to pass and instead crossed a cross that Nelson blocked with his body.

Schneider picked up a cross into the box, and Larsson turned around and wiped out Wright with a beautiful stoppage, but the ball was directly destroyed by trailing centre-back Simeka.

Attack, sabotage, attack, sabotage

The leitmotif of the game was too obvious, Millwall stopped trying to penetrate, Larsson withdrew, Pire, Schneider, plus Nedved, they started to try long-range shots on the perimeter, breaking the dense defensive attacking style, and they played with ease.

But a few long-range shots were too hard to look at, either blocked by Aston Villa with their bodies, or barely got off the beaten angle.

Thirty-seven minutes into the first half, Millwall had just one shot on target.

Aston Villa, on the other hand, didn't even have a shot on goal.

Aldridge paced back and forth on the sidelines, he did everything he could, studied Aston Villa's tactics for half a month, but he didn't expect Brian Little to play such a hand.

In fact, if he can walk into Aston Villa's tactical room, he will know that Brian Little is a reference to the game when Millwall played Newcastle United in the first half of the season, the three midfielders horizontally strengthen the front protection of the penalty area, the back line has a layered front and rear joint defense, and the division of labor between the central defenders interception and destruction is reasonable, and Little did it more thoroughly, he did not change the task of the double central defender, especially added a dragging central defender to destroy the opponent's penetration attack.

Newcastle United had an indestructible first half of the season, but were disgraced at the Lions' Den, which gave Little an idea, as Millwall's attacking firepower was no less impressive than Newcastle United's.

Aldridge miscalculated, his 442 was for the sake of offensive and defensive balance, and judging from the effect of the pair on the field, Aston Villa looked comfortable defending.

He can see that the core of the problem is the central defender Simeka in the penalty area, Larsson and Trezeguet are defended by two central defenders, even if the individual ability is outstanding or the play is penetrated forward, the role of Simeka is immediately reflected, stifling the attack at the most critical moment.

Aston Villa's counter-attacks were denied by Millwall on a couple of counter-attacks, but that didn't bode well.

As Aldridge was thinking about a change, Kosic cut off the ball at Pire's feet, and Pire tried to break through on his own, but in the limited space, he deceived Nelson and Kosic was able to cut the ball.

Kosic looked up at the field in front of him and rolled the ball to the right wing.

Neil had just run up and was chasing back at this point, while when Millwall attacked, the biggest openings at the back were the two wings.

Milosevic pressed the backline of Gareth Southgate and Stam up front, with Yorke wandering back and forth like a free man, this time waiting on the right flank to receive the ball.

Instead of rushing up, Makelele retreated first, and then observed the situation on the field, and found that there was no one at the back of Aston Villa to participate in the attack at high speed, so Makelele purposefully assisted the defense on the wing, compressing York's space with the ball.

Milosevic first rushed forward, then suddenly braked back sharply, and York, who had a good understanding with him, did not intend to break through Makelele from the front, he waited for his partner to run out of the space, and then it was the opportunity to roll the ball over.

Almost 40 yards out of the box, Milosevic received the ball and flicked sideways, adjusted the angle and foot, did not give Southgate a chance to come up and press, and shot angrily.

Seeing this long-range shot, Aldrich was stunned and shocked in his heart: it! Did Aston Villa and Lady Luck roll the sheets?

The long-range shot was so beautiful, looking at the trajectory, it was going to the top right corner of the goal, and the speed was fast.

Keller has made a meritorious service!

With his distance and wide vision, he had plenty of time to prepare, and his impeccable long-range shot didn't cost him any more weight, and he jumped up and saved the ball with both palms as it flew into the top right corner of the net.

“WOW！ Milosevic's long-range strike came close to opening the scoring for Aston Villa, their first shot on goal since the start of the campaign, and it hit the target with a world-class save from Keller, but if Milosevic had been in the 25-30 yards range, Keller would have been powerless. Aston Villa were awarded a corner. ”

When the opportunity came for a corner, Aldridge found that Aston Villa's midfielders were finally starting to move forward, and at high speed, with a sprint.

This startled Aldrich, and he immediately yelled on the field: "Go back to defense!" ”

Millwall's players also ran back at full speed, the scene was very strange, obviously a corner kick, according to the usual rhythm of the game, at this time the two teams should be one side to defend well, the other side to do a good job of attacking the momentum, but this opportunity is the opponent's counterattack, York is running to the corner flag at full speed, it seems to be to take a corner kick quickly.

Dresser Taylor Kosic also rushed forward as soon as the ball went off the line, leaving the Millwall players unfazed.

There are too many loopholes between hasty arming.

Aldridge couldn't help but yell: "Foul! Delay them with a foul! ”

But the players didn't react correctly for a while, they were more like good boys on the field, when others came to hit me, I would protect the key points first, so the players rushed back only to know that the road first stood in the defensive position, but gave Aston Villa a golden opportunity.

After York put the ball in the corner position, he bent down and kicked the ball to Draper who came over the side, Neil hurried back to defend Draper, York smartly retreated and ran to the front of the defensive line, and then Draper kicked the ball back to York, York dribbled the ball to the bottom, leading the entire Millwall defense in position.

He kicked the ball quickly towards goal with a near-volley cross, the Millwall defender tried to block the cross with his body, Southgate put it in the tackle and didn't touch the ball, Stam was entangled by Milosevic's physical confrontation, neither of them touched the ball, Makelele dragged Taylor down with his hands outside the box, but someone still killed him at the back of the box.

Kosic!

He raced up from the back before the corner kicked, and in the box, Thuram bumped into him, Kosic stumbled and looked like he was about to fall, Thuram immediately raised his hand to signal that he had not committed a foul, but opened the distance between him and Kosic.

Stumbling almost in a falling position, Kosic hit the ball with his head at the back of the net, which was only half a metre above the ground.

It was too late for Keller to pounce.

The ball flew into Millwall's goal, and Kosic seemed to score and celebrate, sliding straight to his chest and stopping on Millwall's goal line.

The hustle and bustle at Wembley Stadium immediately took a notch, and the Millwall fans watched in disbelief as they watched the scene on the pitch in disbelief.

Are we lagging behind?

The Aston Villa fans erupted in enthusiastic cheers.

This goal made them feel like they had touched the championship trophy.

"The ball is in! Aston Villa tore through Millwall's defence with a jaw-dropping, quick counter-attack. And this counterattack is not an attack, York took the ball on the side and passed it to Milosevic, who shot from a distance to create a corner, and then, Aston Villa's corner kick attack is also a counterattack fast attack, it can be clearly seen from the replay that two of their three midfielders plugged in at high speed to the penalty area, Draper was to receive York's quick corner kick, with a simple two-by-one, York took the ball to the bottom line in an offside position, and then crossed it vigorously, the rolling trajectory of the ball was between the goalkeeper and the defender, It was the most frustrating cross, Aston Villa had three men in the box and Kosic got on at the back post to finish the ball and I thought if Kosic hadn't found the back of the net maybe the referee would have awarded them a penalty because we saw the referee put the whistle in his mouth when Thuram collided with Kosic. Now that Aston Villa are in the lead, the next game is sure to be even more exciting! ”

The goal left Millwall's players a little confused.

Aldridge, who was previously excited, stood on the sidelines with a calm face, waving lightly for the players to kick off in the center circle.