Benitez, who was sitting in the away team's coach's box at the Lion King Stadium, was still unsmiling.

He returned to England and came to the Premier League to coach Liverpool, which did not qualify for the Champions League, and was not described by the media as a regression.

Aldrich is a great stepping stone!

If you can end Aldridge's reign and overthrow the Lion dynasty here, this great achievement is enough to make a manager's status rise to the pinnacle of modern football!

But Benitez also understands that it is impossible to finish Millwall in the short term.

However, he wants to rebuild Liverpool's temperament, confidence, and inner supreme in key battles!

Coming to the Lion King Stadium, it is difficult to say that this is a simple competition between him and Aldrich, and more importantly, the polishing of the posture.

Liverpool can't tremble in the majesty of the lions like in the past, they must hold their backs up and dare to talk directly to Millwall head-on, so that the heart beats stronger!

When the Red Army came here, it was not a compromise to seek perfection, and it would be satisfied if it took away a penny.

Benitez doesn't even care about scores!

In the long-distance run of the league, Liverpool's "stamina" and "bench thickness" are not enough to support them to compete with Millwall and Chelsea in the short term.

Benitez wants the spirit, the quality of the game, the score, that's just the result, something that is not the first important thing in relation to this period.

Today's Liverpool squad structure is very similar to Millwall.

Leaving aside the back line, it has long been concluded that the 4 back will become the international mainstream. The midfield line is configured. Defensive midfielder. Playing midfield, attacking midfielders, Sissoko, Carrick, Gerrard, and De Rossi, Alonso, and Nedved on Millwall's side are almost identical in terms of role configuration.

It's just at the very front of the formation. Millwall uses 3 strikers, Liverpool can't do the most extreme attack, and the wingers have to take care of defense more, so the position is retreated, which can also be said to be a winger or a full-back.

This game between the Wild Lions and the Red Army has shown a big opening and closing style from the first minute!

At the beginning of the game, Ronaldo cut inside and passed the ball to the middle of the goal after breaking through Liser on the side, and Hyypia turned back to block the ball from rolling to Villa's feet, almost setting himself up for an own goal. The ball grazed the outside of the post and rolled out of the baseline!

There was an exclamation from the stands.

Hyypia did not change his color after getting up, and his mentality did not affect him in the slightest. It was as if he was very confident in his tackles.

Two minutes later, Liverpool counterattacked, Carrick and Gerrard made an excessive return pass in the middle, and then Carrick distributed the ball to the right side, Garcia cut inside, Rahm thought he was going to come hard, but he didn't expect it to be an illusion, Garcia passed the ball to Gerrard in the middle, and then quickly ran behind Lahm, Gerrard did not dare to control the ball when De Rossi came up to defend, and directly kicked the ball, straight to the gap between Ram and Silva.

Garcia crosses directly from the bottom line on the right side of the penalty area.

Owen didn't jump in front of goal, and Nesta was very good at marking him, but the ball was not passed to the middle of the goal, but at the back post!

Colwill almost outflanked him at the back post, but fortunately, the experienced Schneider followed him inch by inch, and he was stunned to block Colwill with his body and jump back to clear the ball with a header!

Millwall also quickly counter-attacked, Alonso passed the ball to Ronaldo, who played a long ball directly over the top!

There is not much space left for Villa to rush forward, Xiao Luo's pass needs to be very accurate, although Xiao Luo's pass has been almost perfect, but there are still some errors, Villa rushed into the penalty area in the anti-offside position to touch the ball, Reina has rushed out!

Villa couldn't stop the ball and could only barely shoot the ball towards the goal with his toes, but Reina was almost in front of him, opened his arms to expand the defensive area, the ball hit Reina's shoulder and bounced into the air, Reina was not surprised, turned around and waited for the ball to fall, and easily took the ball into his arms.

Villa turned his head and gave a thumbs up in the direction where Ronaldo was, and if Reyna had been slower to react and not decisive enough to abandon the goal, perhaps Villa would have had a one-on-one chance very easily.

Perhaps, Renner has also improved himself in recent years.

When he was abandoned by Barcelona, it was the era of Van Gaal, and Van Gaal's reason for abandoning him was that Valdés had a bigger range of activities than Reina!

Aldridge looked thoughtful on the sidelines.

In terms of strength, Millwall is definitely a lot stronger than Liverpool.

However, it can be seen from the details of the scene that Liverpool is using reasonable tactics to compress the difference in strength between the two teams.

The overall pace of the Premier League has become more and more rapid in recent years, and the team's physical advantage has gradually become a major feature in European football.

Many teams play Premier League teams, don't care whether the tactics are reasonable, what the state of the players is, just being devastated by the Premier League's terrifying rhythm rate of shuttling back and forth is stupid!

This is also the foundation of the Premier League's ability to become a top group in European football during this period!

However, a few years later, when the top teams in other leagues also strengthened their fitness, or adapted to the rhythm, or controlled in other ways, after that, the disadvantages of the Premier League's tactical rigidity and excessive pursuit of speed were once again exposed, which became an important reason for the decline of the Premier League's status in Europe.

Rafael Benitez took over the team last season and has been paying off in real terms, both in terms of fitness and sensitivity to the pace of the game.

Although the roles of the two teams are similar, there is still a big difference in use, just like Millwall's wing, the wingers and fullbacks attack more obviously, while Liverpool is the full-backs and full-backs are mostly put into defense, especially the full-backs, who dare not attack the front.

That's why it's common to see such a picture in games.

When Millwall attacked Liverpool's half, Millwall was at least 5 players to play Liverpool's at least 7 players, and the space was small.

And when Liverpool played a counter-attacking fast attack, their attack was pushed through the half, and it was three or four players playing Millwall and a defensive system of about four players, with relatively large space.

This is the biggest difference between the main attack and the counterattack, and the advantages and disadvantages of the space conditions are reflected.

Therefore, the two teams played passionately, fast attack and fast defense, which was dizzying.

The test for Liverpool is the ability of their individual players, and their attacking style of wide opening and closing is often the ability of wingers or strikers Gerrard to break through and the attacking situation is extremely beneficial to them.

The test for Millwall is the delicate skill and small team cooperation, after all, the space is relatively small, the opposition defenders are more, and the offensive requirements are more refined.

Liverpool was the first to play a threatening attack, in the 17th minute, Colwill took advantage of Schneider's assist to attack and did not succeed, in turn he moved forward at a rapid pace, it can be said that in the transition of attack and defense to grasp the most favorable direction of attack, Benitez was deployed before the game, Carrick or Gerrard, in the game to carry out offensive planning, offensive transfer, that is "knife blood"!

Colwill quickly advanced the attack along the wing to the side of Millwall's penalty area, his cross was very well timed, and he kept adjusting the ball, so that Nesta and Silva suddenly crossed when their bodies were still retreating, and it was passed to the back of the middle, and the two central defenders braked and rushed out, it was definitely too late!

De Rossi was right in predicting the landing point, but he also had to adjust the center of gravity of his body, but Gerrard stepped on the rhythm of the step point when he rushed up at the back, and jumped directly to meet the ball and rush to the top!

This header from the back of the penalty spot was more like a volley!

And the angle of the goal where the ball flies is also a little tricky!

Aldridge almost closed his eyes to listen to the Liverpool players celebrate, because as time went on, he became more and more uneasy about Bout, and Pagliuca was about to retire and will be 39 next month.

This time, however, Bout made a stunning save as he pounced on the right side of the goal and touched the ball with the tip of his right finger at the limit of the save distance!

There was a slight refraction of the ball, and then, bam!

Hit the outside of the goal post and pop up the bottom line!

Gerrard knelt in the Millwall penalty area looking incredulous!

It was Liverpool's best chance since the opening!

“OMG！ Bout made a world-class save! He turned out Gerrard's must-have goal! Look, Benitez, who has been motionless like a sculpture in the coach's seat, has changed his expression, and it is difficult to describe his expression at the moment, not like anger, loss, and regret! ”

Yes, Benitez should be sorry and disappointed, but he thought about it, he should be happy that the team can have such a performance, after all, he wants the quality of the game, and he needs Liverpool to play the momentum that belongs to the Reds!

Can't ask too much!

If it was against an ordinary opponent, of course he would have other feelings, but against Millwall, he should be satisfied with such an attack, although he would still be restrained and would not write his mental expression on his face.

Bout saved Gerrard's very dangerous shot, which caused the atmosphere at the Lion King Stadium to rise sharply, and the audience applauded.

Others may think it's nothing.

Aldridge is in a state of flux, which can be regarded as a false alarm.

In fact, the goal just now is considered to be Bout's super level performance, which is a big challenge for the top goalkeeper, but Bout made such a save.

In the past, Aldridge would not be worried, he would enter if he was in, and he would not blame the goalkeeper, but if Bout saved, it would be a small surprise.

This is Bout's occasional good table on the basis of stable dìng.

But now, with the hidden danger of his instability, subconsciously, it seems that it is impossible for him to perform a super-level performance, which is a wrong psychological reaction, but there is no way, and he can't control it.

It would be nice if he didn't have the appearance of occasional low-level mistakes, Aldrich didn't always have to think about a goalkeeper position in his heart, he had a headache from time to time, and he had to dispel his thoughts from time to time, like ants crawling around in his heart, itchy and uncomfortable (to be continued......