1167 Fatal Mistakes
Inside the Stade de France, the Lions fans in the stands watched Chelsea shrink into their own half after the kick-off, and immediately showed merciless mockery.
Here we go again!
Swing the bus!
Is there an end?
Perhaps this kind of situation, Millwall players also have it, and once again facing Chelsea, the opponent put on a big bus formation, which in itself is easy to make the players fall into a state of madness: as if the opponent is completely treating football as a kind of work!
Putting on your sneakers, changing into your jersey, and coming out on the pitch just to meet your performance standards, you can't experience the fun.
If every team in the world was in this position, would football still be the number one sport in the world?
But where Millwall's players mature is that they can be undisturbed, fully focused on the game, and do their best instead of paying attention to their opponents.
At least they firmly believe that utilitarian football like Chelsea will be punished!
Aldridge looked slightly solemn on the sidelines.
In the past two years, he has indeed had an absolute advantage in the face of Mourinho, not tasting a single defeat, only a draw.
However, in the continuous encounter, in a sense, it is to give Mourinho the study of how to correct and improve the team, especially how to deal with Millwall, and Mourinho's personal experience is the best source of experience.
Chelsea have strengthened their midfield, and in the Premier League themselves, their midfield is very strong, with 433's three midfielders being hard, hiding attacking points, and Frank Lampard is particularly good at scoring.
Now, from 3 to 4. This is not a simple incremental number. This is accompanied by a further compression of space on the pitch. The chain reaction of the defensive connection between teammates, the density of joint defense, may be increased in terms of doubling the efficiency!
In the past, Chelsea have played counter-attacks, with the wings flying together and the centre-forward and Frank Lampard coming in behind, with at least four players in attack.
Today, Frank Lampard and Ballack should only have one person on the front line, which also improves the efficiency and unpredictability of the back insertion. But the number of people who attack, the absolute attack, should be reduced by one, that is, the defense of the stable dìng will be composed of at least 7 people!
This makes Millwall even if they stifle Chelsea's counterattack, fast attack or counterattack can not capture better opportunities, maybe the whole game is attacking, attacking, attacking!
After the opening. Because of the final, Millwall played extremely steadily. At their familiar pace, the whole team went into the same orbit and then started to put attacking pressure on Chelsea.
But they didn't expect Chelsea to play such a muscular midfield today.
Ballack, Lampard, Essien, Makelele.
And these four midfielders are not in a frenzied posture, outside the 40-yard area in front of goal, let Millwall pass the ball with their feet at will, and when they step into the 40-yard area, they will fight frantically on the basis of joint defense.
Millwall tried to seduce their opponents with a passing play, and Ronaldo twice touched the ball in danger zone before passing it back to get the Chelsea players chasing the ball as they scrambled to get their brains hot, but to no avail.
If Millwall is rational to the cold, then Chelsea's defensive posture today is as cold as steel!
When there is no possession, Chelsea retreat to the 40-yard area to defend with eight men!
Didier Drogba and Arjen Robben stood on the perimeter in the rib area of the middle, harassing when the ball came over, but they did not waste their energy to chase the ball blindly.
In the dense defensive area, Chelsea's side is really overcrowded.
Millwall only talks about the front three and the forward Kaka, and it is difficult to match in front of the Chelsea penalty area.
It is conceivable that the number of opponents is twice as large as their own, how narrow the passing line will be, and the running space and ball control space will be relatively narrower.
Even if Alonso comes up, it doesn't improve much, because you have to maintain the layering of the attack.
Ronaldo and Cristiano Ronaldo began to try individual breakthroughs, they were on the wing, relatively easy to play, but Chelsea also learned to be smart and would not rush to help defend the wing.
On the side of the outside of the penalty area, how do they break through, whatever!
But if you want to cut inside or fight in the middle, don't think about it!
Xiao Luo cut inside twice to try to disrupt the opponent's defensive system, but was finally caught by the opponent and successfully intercepted the ball!
There are too many defenders at the edge of the Chelsea penalty area, and this encirclement is very three-dimensional.
In the 19th minute of the game, Xiao Luo tried to break through to the middle again from the left wing, his form today felt very average, just got rid of Essien, but the ball was not controlled by him anymore, Ballack saw the opportunity to cut back to Xiao Luo to cut the ball off, and then immediately split the ball to the side.
Pacos Ferreira stepped forward to control the ball, and Chelsea's two full-backs today still won't take the initiative to attack, but only take on the task of playing wide on the counter-attack.
Ferreira dribbled two steps forward and Robben ran forward to find space, and Ferreira passed the ball to Robben in front.
Peter Pan turned with the ball, deftly flicked the ball past Alonso's pressing, and continued to stride forward with the ball.
De Rossi did not intend to go out to grab the ball at Robben's feet, but steadily slowed down the opponent's tempo.
But Robben also unconventionally did not dribble forward, but dribbled laterally, which is one of Millwall's most common tactics this season to disrupt opposition defences with the individual ability of their players.
Robben shook off the angle, Drogba ran forward, Nesta and Silva guarded Drogba, Schneider entered the box and waited for Robben to attack.
Robben, who has long been criticized by the media for playing football too lonely, found that there was an angle of shooting, so he got up and shot from a distance!
To be honest, the angle of the shot is not huge!
But the ball flew from the area between Schneider and Nesta to the center of the goal!
It doesn't look like it's a shot that will worry Lions fans, it's a lot of power, but the angle is a bit right.
The visual inspection is slightly above the left side of Bout's body.
However, at the moment when Bout received the ball, Aldridge's pupils on the sidelines shrank.
Bang!
Bout reacted as if the ball flew in front of him, and raised his hand to just block the ball!
The ball, bouncing in the box!
A second later, the ball flew towards the goal again!
Straight into the net!
Chelsea striker Didier Drogba roared and ran along the sidelines!
There was a ripple of blue in the stands, which belonged to Chelsea, not Millwall.
"Wow! Millwall goalkeeper Bout made a heavy mistake! This ball, this ball, Robben's long-range shot is full of power, the ball speed is very fast, it is a shot that is not too big an arc, but Bout made a mistake in judgment, it can be clearly seen that when the ball flies, his body is tilting in the wrong direction, and then realizing that his judgment is wrong before blocking the ball in a hurry, only to be followed by Drogba before Nesta and Silva to shoot the ball into the goal! Chelsea lead Millwall 1-0! ”
The madman Mourinho may have been in London since he arrived in London, until today, until this moment, he has completely released the suppressed passion in his heart!
With a hideous face, he clenched his right hand into a fist and waved it heavily, and the sharpness of his eyes seemed to devour a qiē!
Aldridge's chin was still high, his expression unchanged, although there was actually a hint of anger in his eyes.
Bout!
Maybe he really can't stick to the starting goalkeeper position of Millwall's supergiants anymore.
Perhaps it was the big game against Liverpool a few days ago that caused him to overconcentrate and today he can't recover.
It is no exaggeration to say that the role that tests concentration and patience the most is the goalkeeper.
Mental tension and high concentration for long periods of time are also a huge drain.
But at this moment, Aldrich couldn't reveal half of his complaints about Bout.
That will only make Bout's next play even worse!
And on the Millwall bench, there is only one Pagliuca who will officially retire after today's game!
It wasn't that Bout wasn't infocused, he just made a mistake in his prediction, and he knew what was going on at that moment.
First of all, Robben's sudden long-range shot was an accident and unexpected.
Secondly, the area where Robben shoots from distance, Robben dribbles sideways from the right position in the front court to the left, and then shoots from distance with his best left foot.
In this area, you should deal with long-range shots, but whenever you hit an arc, it should be an in-spin ball that spins to the left side of the goal, because most players are right-footed players.
But Robben is a left-footed player, and the in-rotation ball he plays is spinning to the right side of the goal!
Bout's first move was that he did not judge the exact direction of the ball's rotation, and the ball was fast, so he could only reach out to block it when he reacted, but could not catch it.
Thankfully, there was plenty of time left for Millwall, and despite conceding the first goal, Millwall's players were unaffected and they set up for kick-off while the whole Chelsea squad was still celebrating.
Aldridge gestured from the sidelines, allowing the two full-backs to step forward a little more to support them.
Millwall must add a midfield playmaker!
Jose Mourinho bent down on the sidelines to applaud and shout at the team, telling them to wake up and not let their guard down because they were ahead!
At this moment, the Chelsea crowd are united in their determination to execute Mourinho's tactics and they are convinced that today is the day to break with tradition!
That's right, in the eyes of Chelsea people, losing to Millwall, Millwall ruling England, dominating Europe, sitting high on the throne, is already a tradition!
The scrappy Chelsea players have resolute eyes and are poised to create a new European football landscape!
First of all, it is the killing of kings!
Will Millwall sit idly by?
They were just as scrappy, and after the restart, the players stepped up their running, and they were even more reluctant to show off when they were physically due, like a male lion starting to run wild, letting out an earth-shattering roar!
In terms of grit, Millwall certainly won't lose to Chelsea.
But Aldridge's brow on the sidelines was furrowing deeper and deeper.
To break down Chelsea's defensive barriers, to break down their bus formation.
Courage is not enough! (To be continued......)