In the first training match of the national team, the players wanted to make a good impression on the new manager, so they worked very the field.

After the training match began, Aldridge and Klinsmann stopped caring about the team, and the two stood on the sidelines, watching the game and communicating.

The situation on the field is obviously that the side of the red jersey is more dominant, after all, their players are significantly stronger than the side of the white shirt.

The white shirt side of Barry Town in the middle of the defense, Lampard and Gerrard two players who can't run on either side, Aldridge does not expect him to solve the problem of the coexistence of the two Germans, at least, during his 20-month tenure, the two will certainly not start at the same time in the national team game, the two roles are similar, only one is needed on the field, and the training match, with Barry to separate the two, at least can reduce the chaos caused by the two people's activity area after the conflict.

Although the red shirts have the advantage and control the ball most of the time, it has become a tough battle, and they don't seem to have many means, especially in the face of the white shirt team with three backs, Scholes can not organize the ability to respond in the midfield, and the penetration attack cannot be played, Xiaobei and McManaman, the latter can still break through, and the former can only rely on the golden right foot to launch some threatening crosses.

The Redshirts control the perimeter well, attacking continuously, but the positional battle can't be played, and the backcourt players have to come up to help.

Ten minutes, the Redshirts may have had more than 70% possession, but only four shots on goal.

Joe Cole couldn't hold the ball at first, Ronaldo couldn't even grab his position, and Smith was directly invisible.

Ten minutes later, they were getting used to the rhythm of the pitch and their performances were starting to pick up.

What are the strengths of the England team. Aldridge and the current group of internationals could not answer.

However, England's disadvantage is clear.

Constant offense doesn't have an intuitive effect. Holding high and fighting has little effect. They began to actively try to penetrate in a small area.

Scholes took the ball laterally to get rid of Barry's defense, and passed the ball to Heskey accurately before Gerrard's help was close, who did not turn to one-on-one with Ferdinand, and passed directly to Owen, but the two failed to form a tacit understanding, Owen stepped forward to plug through, but Heskey gave the ball at his feet, and the ball passed behind Owen. Brown stepped forward and kicked the ball to Frank Lampard in front of him.

Before Lampard could get the ball, Ashley Cole cut in at high speed on the flank close to him, and Gerrard on the other flank also ran forward quickly before Joe Cole came back to pick it up.

In an instant, Lampard had three options to choose from.

Before Paul Scholes came in defensively, Lampard played the ball to Joe Cole in front of him, who was not one-on-one with Butt behind him, and watched the situation before receiving it.

McManaman came back to keep up with Gerrard, while Beckham came back to press him. Joe Cole tipped the ball across the wing and Ashley Cole dribbled quickly forward on the wing.

Joe Cole turned and ran forward. Steven Gerrard stepped in at high speed and got close to him, with Ronaldo on Ashley Cole's side running wide to meet the ball and Ashley Cole gave him an early pass.

Ronaldo took the initiative to sprint earlier than Gary Neville, and the two chased the ball together, Neville was sealing Ronaldo's cross route, and Ronaldo chased the ball in front of the baseline, and it looked like he was going to cross directly with his left foot.

Neville expected to be able to easily deflect the hairy boy's cross, and he reached out to block it, but Ronaldo didn't cross it, but stopped sharply and dunked the ball back with his left foot.

Gary Neville's eyes widened as if he were behind his back, and he suddenly felt extremely embarrassed and aggrieved.

I was tricked by a kid who didn't grow up!

Two years ago, when he was playing in Japan, Cristiano Ronaldo, who was eager to stomp on his bicycle on the field, has simplified his style of play two years later, blending practicality and skill.

Even though he made Neville lose his center of gravity after stopping the ball, Ronaldo also stopped, to start the explosion again, he is still obviously not as good as an adult player physically, Neville was just shaken, and immediately after closing his feet, he quickly occupied a defensive position, but just when he stood in a position to defend, Ronaldo passed the ball to Ashley Cole in the back, who ran inside the line.

Neville immediately moved to block, just ran two steps, felt the wind behind him, Ronaldo and other figures staggered, the ball, rolled between Neville and Southgate, Ronaldo and Ashley Cole neatly cooperated!

Southgate allows Ronaldo to move forward or adjust the angle of the shot, he is not in a hurry to grab, if he does, it will definitely be easier to lose position.

But who knows, Ronaldo passed the ball out of the box with the first touch in the penalty area, knocking back at the top of the arc in the middle of the penalty area.

Joe Cole stabbed the ball forward before Bart and slotted it straight to Alan Smith.

Smith took advantage of the situation and volleyed, and the guy was probably lucky today, kicking a beautiful corner into the net and the ball went into the net.

Villas-Boas, who was the referee on the field, blew the whistle and pointed to the middle circle to signal that the goal was valid.

Smith walked back to high-five Joe Cole after scoring a goal, laughed a lot, was invisible for more than ten minutes, and suddenly scored a goal, which was a magical feeling.

Cristiano Ronaldo made a pretending coldness and trotted towards the middle circle, and glanced at Gary Neville intentionally or unintentionally in the process

Aldridge nodded slightly on the sidelines, Ronaldo, this kid is at least a little self-aware, knowing that with his body, he has a hard time with this group of old fritters, it is simply self-defeating, he didn't play a single raid, looking for him to top the number, and the effect was at least achieved.

Recruiting Smith, Aldridge actually likes his willpower and ability to make the ball, which is of course relative, compared to a pure shooter like Irving.

However, in this short ten minutes, Aldridge observed Smith's on-court performance and was satisfied so far.

He did what was required when he assigned the task.

Don't wait for the ball on the front line, it's an ambush in the early stage, and then hit the threat area at the critical moment.

Smith was ambushed on the other side of Campbell before opening the scoring, and when Ronaldo passed the ball to Joe Cole, he had a trajectory towards the middle. Joe Cole straight stopper. He immediately shot. There was an element of luck in that, after all, not every shot could hit the corner, especially if he didn't adjust, but if he did, Campbell and Gareth Southgate would close the door and block him.

After conceding the goal, the main team of the red shirts was obviously unwilling, while the white shirts were gaining momentum, and in the next game, the white shirts seemed to be a little carried away. I want to take advantage of the victory to chase down another goal.

As a result, McManaman crossed past Mills on the left flank, Heskey headed in but James saved, and Scholes followed up with a follow-up shot to send the ball into the back of the net.

Aldridge nodded at Scholes' goal.

In his opinion, Scholes's national team career in the original history is divided into two parts, the first part is from being selected to the national team, and the second half is when Eriksen takes over the England national team until Scholes announces his retirement from the national team at the age of 30.

In the first half of his international career, Scholes performed very well, especially the ability to score from behind, which allowed him to even become the goal hero of the England national team!

And what about the second half. Paul Scholes has had a goalscoring drought for the national team for almost three years, of course. Scoring goals is not a hard indicator for midfielders, but it is clear that Scholes' scoring ability has been weakened in the national team.

If you look at the footage of England's defeat at the European Championship, Scholes's most impressive attack is that he can always find space in the box and appear there to be a threat, although he is not the kind of player who carries a team forward alone, but his game characteristics are very much admired by his contemporaries who are also midfielders.

There is a joke that everyone who watches the game knows Zidane, and everyone who plays the game knows Scholes.

Knowing what midfield stars such as Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas, Zinedine Zidane and others have to say about Scholes, it is clear that this ginger head is an underrated low-key master.

A master does not mean that he must be a player with superb skills and delicate and elegant style, but his contribution to his own team and the threat to the opponent in the game.

Having a player like Paul Scholes can give Aldridge a certain amount of confidence in transforming the England national team, and only when the cards are good can the results be better.

The training match ended 1:1.

When the players on both sides came off the pitch, Aldridge called them together and asked them to sit on the ground in a fan shape to rest, the coaching staff pulled the tactical board, Aldridge stood in front of the players and asked as usual: "The game is over, talk about your feelings, you must be able to see that the red shirt team uses 442, and the white shirt uses the 4321 formation, there is a gap in comprehensive strength, but the score is a draw, and the threat of attack on both sides is almost the same, for what?" ”

Owen said in a slightly complaining tone: "There are too many defenders on the white shirt's side. ”

In the positional battle, they encountered two defensive lines of 4+3 with 7 people in the front court, and the range was very narrow.

Aldridge nodded and said: "The white shirt side compresses the defensive space in the backfield, and the red shirt side wants to tear apart the opponent's defense, what do you rely on?" During this period, you spent about 10 minutes patiently organizing the offensive and playing short passes to penetrate, and the result? Instead, he was beaten on a counter-attack and conceded the goal. What did the red shirts' goals come from? After breaking through on the wing, he created chaos in the opponent's defense and broke the opponent's orderly defensive system. These 30 minutes of play have taught us a reality, the England national team's positional battles, small areas of cooperation, lack of ability, essentially we lack most of the players who have the ability to get rid of the ball, the ability to possess the ball, especially in the case of comparison, who are the opponents you have faced in international competitions? Tactical defense is like an art of Italy, unity and hard style of Germany, and encounters like Spain, Argentina, Portugal, Brazil, these teams like more aggressive, sharp passing and control ability, England can invest less in the attack, small range of cooperation can not even find teammates, this is the reality, is our shortcoming. ”

Reality is the fact that you have to admit.

England's league style alone has not been able to produce a national team that can play a delicate attacking game, they are used to playing high and high, they are used to finding high points in wide crosses, which is beyond reproach, and it was indeed majestic for a while, but now, it is outdated.

The players listened intently, and most of them looked thoughtful.

Perhaps, it is precisely because they can't improve the delicate small-area passing cut, so they can only play high and play simple and rough.

Aldridge looked at Bart and asked, "What did you find in the defense that just lost the ball?" If you keep an eye on Joe Cole, you're sure to be able to keep an eye on him, but what causes him to be able to tandem up and get assists at the least? ”

Nicky Butt spread his hands helplessly: "The whole midfield is basically empty, how can I follow him without leaving an inch?" ”

Aldrich nodded, "Space." Small-scale coordination is not what we are good at, so we have to create the space we need in the attack, and the space becomes larger, and there will be more gaps, and it will be easier for teammates to run to form a contact point. David, what did you chase Joe Cole for when you switched from offense to defense? ”

Beckham recalled: 'He was close to my zone and I stepped back to help Nicky and also keep an eye on Frank Lampard. ”

Aldrich asked rhetorically: "What is the result?" ”

'It didn't come in, it was Cole who came up closer to the wing, and I went over to defend and he was too fast and he was too fast to link up with the Portuguese lad, they were so fast, like you said, they have a lot of room to do that and you can reduce the error rate.

Aldrich snapped his fingers and said, "Please remember the key points I want to say, we have to play to our strengths and avoid our weaknesses, the two most critical points, first, space, and second, to hide the point of attack." ”

The players who sat on the ground resting solemnly looked solemn, Aldridge not only instilled in them new tactical concepts, but also won their respect and longing from the heart, compared to emphasizing the so-called fighting will, spiritual quality, hard work and other ethereal things, Aldridge presented them with something, has aroused their interest, made them curious, and even more expected that this is the magic weapon of the revival of the England national team. (To be continued......)