Once again, there was a haze over Stamford Bridge.

Abu is furious that the foundation laid by the team at the start of the league is gone after three months!

The rift between him and Mourinho has also surfaced!

The reason is that Shevchenko, which was introduced by Abuli, has not been reused!

And Shevchenko, who played in a limited time, did not have the strength that his value represented.

When Millwall reversed Chelsea to reach the top of the table, the focus of Fleet Street was still on Chelsea, and it seemed that the outside world was not surprised by Millwall's reversal, even if there were many media outlets who supported Chelsea before, claiming that Chelsea could rule Europe and open up a Blues dynasty after the Lions!

The media always sees the wind and steers the rudder.

In terms of news focus, Stamford Bridge also has a bit more news than Millwall, despite the fact that it contains a lot of negative news.

Including the conflict between the generals, doubts about Mourinho's coaching ability stemmed from his inability to use Shevchenko, a top striker who made a name for himself in the Premier League and made a name for himself in Serie A.

There is also the contradiction between Abu and Mourinho, which is naturally a topic of interest to the outside world.

Especially when the topic heated up, many players in the Chelsea dressing room stood up for Mourinho and firmly supported Mourinho, which raised the attention of the news to another level.

After all, there are still some players who have been left out in the cold who will try to "overthrow" Mourinho's internal rule at this time, and then get the opportunity to turn the career around.

In the face of such a complex set of public opinion, the Times did not join in the fun, and they more expertly pointed out the key factors in Chelsea's reversal!

Jose Mourinho's Chelsea did not win the league title last season. However, they have the highest points in the history of the Premier League and the top flight. It's fair to say that Chelsea have had a successful but not brilliant season. In the second season, the resistance they encounter will naturally rise, which is the most common situation in the top league, for example, some teams can only play well for one season, and the second season does not seem to have changed much, but the results have fluctuated dramatically, and a common rule in the Premier League is that most promoted horses do not survive the second season.

Millwall have been able to defend their league title over the years, and it is impossible to ignore the positive changes they have made each season. The sense of distress is very strong, but Chelsea are inexperienced, are they not good enough? At least in a competitive environment, it wasn't good enough, especially when the league started with a sweep, which made the other teams panic even more, so in the middle of the season, most teams started fighting for the point after getting through the comfortable form of the early season. Chelsea's biggest problem came to the fore: they were lackluster in tough games!

Once upon a time, at least half of the Premier League's teams faced Millwall with Sir Hall's 4321 counter-attacking formation. This created difficulties for Millwall for a while, but Millwall survived and they reacted very quickly, which may have something to do with their failure to defend the Premier League title for the first time in the summer of '98, and in the following season, Sir Hall took the team very seriously for the second year after the team won the title, and made a lot of changes and changes that we could see, so that those who thought they knew Millwall suffered when trying to snipe Millwall to defend their title.

Chelsea probably thought they didn't win a major trophy to prove themselves, so they didn't attract too much attention, in fact, looking at what they have done in the transfer market over the years, they have even caused panic among many big clubs in Europe!

Jose Mourinho's preparation for the season is not adequate at this point, at least, what should Chelsea do if they are not ready to deal with the mid-table teams facing them with a bucket formation?

Chelsea need positive change, it's not the time to talk about who's right and who's wrong, who is more important, the owner and the manager, who's the boss of the team, they still have a chance to prove themselves, but first of all, they can't mess with themselves! ”

The Premier League is full of twists and turns, and the season has not yet reached the final sprint, and even the first half of the season has not been completed!

But most of the outside officials know that the most critical moment for the competition in the Premier League this season has arrived!

If Chelsea had been catching up with Millwall from the start, as they did last season, even if they were falling behind, there would be a wait-and-see or optimistic outlook on Chelsea's future.

But in this season's competition, the key confrontation is that Millwall is 9 points behind the big disadvantage to catch up!

Even if it's a tie, goal difference is ahead!

However, the psychological gap for Chelsea is too big, the impact is too strong, once they continue to fall behind, there is a possibility of discouragement in the league, it is difficult to change roles, from the leader to the chaser, and then maintain the tenacity and tenacity of last season!

Aldridge ignores the outside news, of course he knows that Chelsea has been making headlines recently, whether positive or negative, Millwall is behind the scenes, and many Gunners writers in the media are publishing some articles and reports that are making Chelsea a team on the cusp.

Don't they want to be number one in the world?

I will give you the world's first public opinion treatment!

And standing in this position, it is true to be illustrious and glorious, but once there is a fall, the heavy pressure brought by countless people falling into the well is also overwhelming!

Standing on the pinnacle, isn't it walking a tightrope on a high altitude?

Millwall are heading for the final round of the Champions League group stage.

Given Millwall's tight schedule for the coming period, Aldridge has made the decision to field a squad of semi-substitutes and semi-reserves in the final round of the Champions League group stage!

Take a look at their December schedule.

Just finished playing the Premier League at the beginning of the month.

No. 6, a guest in Porto.

On the 10th, he returned to the Premier League to continue playing away league against Crystal Palace.

On the 11th, the whole Millwall team went to Asia, aiming for Tokyo, Japan, to participate in the Club World Cup!

Number 15. The first match of the Club World Cup.

Regardless of the first game.

Number 18. Or three or four finalists. Or the finals!

On the 23rd, the make-up match of the 17th round of the Premier League!

On the 26th, the Christmas Express opens! The first scene.

No. 29, the second session of the Christmas Express!

No. 31, the third scene of the Christmas Express!

If you look at the next month, then

On January 2nd, the fourth game of the Christmas Express battle will continue, and the Christmas Express will end after the battle!

After that, the league was suspended for nearly half a month. But after the seven-day recovery period, there will be an FA Cup fire in the middle!

It can be said that from December to January 2, Millwall will play 10 games in 33 days!

Excluding match days, Millwall simply don't have an average three-day interval of recovery!

This is also the reason why Aldridge was reluctant to apply for a league reschedule when he participated in the UEFA Super Cup at the beginning of the season, and because the team did not prepare well in the summer, but the team was not in good form at the beginning of the season.

The Premier League has a brutal schedule, and it has always been the same.

FIFA also came to join in the fun, changing the chicken rib Toyota Cup to the Club World Cup. It's just for business gain, but it overwhelms Millwall!

Suppose they don't have experience. There is no strong team lineup, I am afraid that this month's terrifying schedule will drag Millwall down!

So when Aldridge went to the Dragons Stadium after the Champions League group had already qualified, he sent a squad of half team substitutes and half team reserve players.

It can be called a child soldier!

Almost all of the players in the reserve team have Millwall academy accounts, and as long as they are under the age of 21, they do not need to sign up to represent Millwall in the Champions League!

This Champions League group stage finale is to deal with errands.

Aldridge didn't want to lose face, and on the road, let a group of players who were very unfamiliar with the outside world make their debut, and then played a solid counterattack away from home.

Porto are also looking to qualify for the UEFA Cup, beating Millwall at home and then hoping Inter Milan can beat Rangers to finish third in their group and challenge them in the UEFA Cup.

However, at the Stadio de Dragons, Porto paid the price first for their aggressiveness.

Perhaps they really underestimated the enemy, and saw Millwall send a group of unknown players to attack recklessly.

Although Millwall's group of players is unknown, there are still people in key positions, such as Neil in the back, Ramour in the midfield, Moutinho and Veloso on the field, Messi on the front line, and Aguero, a young player who played as a center forward today.

The little-known academy players in other positions have nothing to say in terms of tactical execution, they are full of hard work, and they put up a tight formation to resist Porto's indiscriminate bombardment, and seized an opportunity in the first half, with Messi assisting Aguero to open the scoring!

The picture of Aguero and Messi running on the sidelines with their backs shook Aldridge's spirits, and in a routine game, seeing the Argentine twin stars running with youthful enthusiasm, that picture really made people can't help but be excited!

Porto bounced back after conceding the goal, focused on defending and patiently tackled Millwall's defence.

In terms of comprehensive strength and home advantage, Porto is completely stronger than Millwall's starting lineup today, but Millwall used tactics to narrow the gap between the two teams as much as possible, but unfortunately, after 80 minutes, they still failed to hold.

In the end, the score was tied by Porto in the 81st minute!

The score of 1:1 remained until the end of the game.

The Porto fans left with a sense of disappointment.

Because in another game in the same group, Inter Milan also qualified early, and the fighting spirit was not strong, and they shook hands with Glasgow Rangers.

To Inter's surprise, they actually won the group in this group!

They have 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.

Millwall have 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.

Inter Milan may be happy to avoid a lot of strong teams in the knockout draw.

Millwall felt that it was insignificant, the first and second in the group, and who to avoid in the draw, it was all groundless and redundant.

It's just that Millwall's draw caused an uproar after the game! (To be continued......)