"The first leg of the 1/8 finals of the European Champions Cup kicked off at the Lion King Stadium, and the defending champion Millwall welcomed the challenge of La Liga giants Barcelona! With the best players on both sides today, we have reason to expect it to be a good game.

Millwall started 433.

Goalkeeper: Bout.

Defenders: Schneider, Nesta, Silva, Lahm.

Midfielders: De Rossi, Nedved, Kaka.

Forwards: Cristiano Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, Ronaldinho.

Barcelona started 433.

Goalkeeper: Valdés.

Defenders: Belletti, Marcos, Puyol, Van Bronckhorst.

Midfielders: Edmilson, Xavi, Deco.

Forwards: Giuli, Eto'o, Iniesta. ”

On Millwall's side, Alonso will return in the near future due to injury, but if he can't catch up with this game, Aldridge is not too worried, and the experienced Nedved is very reassuring.

After the game began, Aldridge wanted to see if Rijkaard would bow to reality and come to the Lion King Stadium to play a utilitarian game.

When the game started, Aldrich smiled excitedly!

Barcelona, it's really not intimidating at all!

They kicked off first, but they wanted to take the lead, and they suddenly pulled up an offensive storm without any warm-up!

Attaboy!

The godfather Cruyff, and later Van Gaal, now Rijkaard, the influence of the concept of Dutch attacking football on Barcelona did not happen overnight, but in an era, more than a decade. Even twenty years of influence!

This kind of either swallows mountains and rivers. Or the spirit of burning jade. Aldrich appreciated it!

At the very least, everyone will be able to have a good time!

Even though Xavi and Andres Iniesta are not yet the dominant midfield duo of the future, at least in terms of player position, there is still a Deco between them, but their talent and talent are already beginning to show.

Xavi is a midfielder who is definitely not very fast, but has a very high average run per game, which means that he rarely has surprising acceleration bursts. However, in the 90 minutes of the game, he ran around the field at a steady pace, covering the midfield, and his role made his role in the team very significant, that is, the response points seemed to increase invisibly.

At the same time, his excellent organizational talent allows him to ensure that the team controls the ball and continues the attack steadily.

Andres Iniesta, on the other hand, is characterised by his ability to possess the ball and get away from breakaways in a tight area. It can be said that Barcelona's squad configuration today is a bit similar to Arsenal's former wing. On the left side, players with forward midfield ability play as wingers, while on the right side, breakthrough players play as wingers with acceleration and deep insertion ability.

Andres Iniesta, Deco and Xavi disrupted Millwall's defence with a series of passes in front.

Playing against Barcelona in the first year, Millwall's players also felt strange.

Like Nedved's defensive area, there will often be Deco, and at the same time, you have to be wary of Xavi's back insertion, but Xavi and Deco, who don't seem to be fast, will always run to a free place to receive passes, even if the space is small, but it will not be difficult for them.

Deco is a familiar opponent at Millwall, Deco has been more mature in the past two years than when he was in Porto, and at the same time, the tactical system he is in, and the ability of his teammates around him has also improved compared to when he was in Porto, so his performance has naturally improved, which is the team chemistry.

Passing the ball continuously on the left flank, a pass that made the ball move fast, Barcelona's attack was beautiful, and it was inseparable from their passing pattern, which was unpredictable.

The most lethal of all was the final transfer.

At the start of the game, in the third minute, Iniesta passed the ball three times in a row, and the fourth time he suddenly flicked the ball horizontally in front of Schneider to make a break away, and just as he attracted the rest of Millwall's defenders, he suddenly played the ball back to Xavi in the right back.

Xavi didn't stop the ball from 40 yards from goal, and if he stopped the ball, Kaka defended around him and limited his possession, and Xavi slid a precise diagonal through ball that immediately shifted the attack from the left to the right deep area.

Cutting forward, Gyuli got around Lahm and received the ball in front of the baseline, then swept it towards goal.

The astute African cheetah Eto'o started up and raced to the goal with a bloodthirsty threat, Silva turned back to make a sliding tackle to block the ball, but he was too slow to touch the ball, and at the crucial moment, it was Nesta who interfered in front of Eto'o and kicked the ball out first.

He cleared the siege diagonally, didn't want to give the opponent a corner, naturally kicked in the direction of the side, but he didn't expect that on the right side, Belletti received the ball, stopped the ball, made a long pass, and passed the ball directly to the edge of the middle of the penalty area at Millwall, Deco took advantage of the situation to meet the ball and shot out with a long shot!

Bang!

The ball hit De Rossi firmly and bounced out!

De Rossi didn't follow Deco, he didn't dodge when the opponent shot, the ball hit his shoulder and bounced!

Barcelona's momentum after the opening kick-off excited their fans from afar, and it also excited Millwall's players!

Rijkaard saw on the sidelines that the team's attack was not successful, even though the threat was out, but there was still a significant gap from the goal, he immediately gestured on the sidelines, allowing the players to return to the defense!

The ball that popped up was picked up by Kaka, Kaka made a fake action of a lateral pass on the spot to deceive Harvey, and then directly dialed the ball forward, accelerated to start, Harvey reached out and pulled Kaka's arm, Kaka shook off his arm without looking back, and strode forward to kill!

When he dribbled to the front line, Kaka made a diagonal break and crossed to the left side of Edmilson's center of gravity as he moved.

Belletti has not yet returned to the defense in place, Xiao Luo is unmarked, and Xiao Luo after winning the ball passes diagonally!

Henry, who had his back to the Barcelona back line, knocked the ball back to Xiao Luo without stopping the ball, and Xiao Luo also did not stop the ball, and then made a direct pass!

Looks like it's still looking for Henry!

But Henry missed the ball!

Marcos and Puyol were shocked to see the ball roll between them. Rolled behind the two. Marcos immediately turned around. But I saw a galloping figure diagonally and strongly!

Cristiano Ronaldo!

The starting speed exploded Van Bronckhorst's Cristiano Ronaldo, and after Ronaldo's and Henry's consecutive passes and Ronaldo's last pass and Henry consciously confused the opponent and missed the ball, he was directly offside!

Cristiano Ronaldo grabs a point and volleys!

Unfortunately, Valdés dropped out of the net as soon as the back line was broken, and perhaps he was just as Van Gaal commented: his range of movement is his strength.

Ronaldo's volley also hit the opponent's body!

Valdés took a shot from Cristiano Ronaldo with his chest!

The ball that bounced off was immediately kicked off the touchline by Edmilson.

"It was a great battle from the start! The offense of both teams is simply amazing, and fans must not blink, otherwise they are likely to miss the wonderful moment! ”

Aldrich tilted his head and smiled, and Rijkaard looked stern.

For Rijkaard. He knows how hard it is for him to choose and persevere.

Want to destroy Millwall with an attack?

It's so hard!

It's so hard that almost no one in Europe would believe that this would work!

Look at Millwall's attacking players, Thierry Henry, Ronaldo, Kaka, Ronaldo, any of these are huge threats, playing against Millwall, it is bound to give these players more room to play, Chelsea lost to Millwall, but at least Chelsea played Millwall. Their choice, no one will find a problem. The core of the problem with the defeat to Millwall in the league is that Chelsea's positional ability to attack the game is not specifically against Millwall, and the league is not a cup competition, but a competition with more points.

Aldridge admired Barcelona's courage to play against Millwall, but in terms of the game itself, his chances improved again.

You must know that although Barcelona is adhering to the style of Dutch attacking football, during this period, their concept of game control has not yet reached a qualitative change, and only when the Guardiola era arrives, this characteristic will be explosively sublimated!

And what about Millwall?

In their training, the offensive group is against the defensive group, and this kind of unexpected offensive transfer is used to the defensive players.

You know, although Silva and De Rossi are teammates with Henry Jr., they will be opponents when training against each other!

Use Henry Jr.'s terrifying offensive power to hone their defensive awareness and ability!

So Barcelona, despite doing a great job on the pitch, at least excessively in midfield, pulling up the tempo and passing the guò by surprise to divert the attack.

However, in the most dangerous areas, they still struggled to play efficiently, and Millwall only made it look like they could pull up the offensive banner, but in the duel and defense in key positions, Millwall did a good job.

Barcelona, on the other hand, is significantly inferior to Millwall in this regard.

Maybe it's because Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka are all unique.

Even though Barcelona may be the same as Millwall in training, using attack to sharpen and improve defensive ability, the quality of the attack is different, and the defensive players are tested differently.

In the 19th minute of the first half, Lahm cut off Xavi's through ball to Samuel Eto'o in the back of the pitch and was in the box with a bold long pass that looked more like a clearance.

However, the ball landed precisely at the feet of Ronaldo on the side of the midfield.

Xiao Luo turned forward with the ball and dribbled forward, showing an indomitable momentum, in the process of moving forward, Kaka forced forward to the middle to cut forward to cover Xiao Luo, so that Xiao Luo could complete the diagonal dribble breakthrough in front of Edmilson, and then disrupted the opponent's back line defense, after completing the disturbance from left to right, Xiao Luo then passed the ball diagonally to the other side of the penalty area, and passed the reverse cut line!

Kaka ran straight into the penalty area, and when Ronaldo's pass arrived, Kaka was in the back corner of the goal, and when he waited for the ball to bounce to the ground, he volleyed the ball across the middle with the arch of his foot, and Henry outflanked the goal and scrambled the ball into the goal! (To be continued......)