Thanks for the reward of "Death of the Thief"! ――

Cardiff Millennium Stadium.

The new season of Community Shield matches is about to begin.

Premier League champions Millwall take on FA Cup winners Manchester United.

The red and blue confrontation in the stands was distinctly colored, and on the field, Aldridge walked into the back of the pitch and shook hands with Ferguson before the game, and the two did not exchange words.

Fleet Street did not list Manchester United as favourites for the new Premier League campaign, as the Reds were so far away from Arsenal and Millwall last season.

Millwall are also the first favourites to win the Premier League, followed by Chelsea, third, Manchester United and fourth, Arsenal.

Arsenal's decline stemmed from the departure of Patrick Vieira, Ibrahimovic and Van Bronckhorst, who fell into the same predicament as Millwall, except that the expectations for Arsene Wenger were not high.

Ferguson also understands that the huge gap between the league championship and the league championship last season is not enough to close in a summer of reinforcement construction, although last season's results are affected by Ferdinand's 8-month ban on accidents, but, with the arrival of the new season, Manchester United's squad, the aging of players in key positions cannot be ignored, such as Keane in the midfield position, 33 years old.

In terms of the team's goal positioning for the new season, Manchester United and Millwall are no longer in the same grade.

In this game, the starters of both sides marched into the field with their heads held high.

"Welcome to the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, where we will enjoy last season's Premier League champions Millwall and last season's FA Cup winners Manchester United, despite the semi-warm-up nature of the Community Shield. But both sides will surely hope for a win to build the confidence and momentum to start the new season.

Millwall have made Glen Shire, who returns from summer transfer, in their starting line-up for today. According to Millwall star Ronaldinho, he spoke about Glen Schal in an interview. He praised Glen Schal's quality and the synchronisation with their rhythmic thinking, and they had no problem working together.

Manchester United sent new signing Wayne Rooney today, as well as defender Heinze, and it seems that both managers will want to use today's game to see the form of the team and use new signings boldly.

Millwall started 433.

Goalkeeper: Bout.

Defenders: Ramos, Nesta, Thiago Silva. Ramsay.

Midfielders: De Rossi, Alonso, Nedved.

Forwards: Glen Char, Villa, Ronaldinho.

Manchester United started 442.

Goalkeeper: Howard.

Defenders: Gary Neville, Ferdinand, Silvestre, Heinze.

Midfielders: Joaquin, Phil Neville, Fletcher. Ryan Giggs.

Forwards: Wayne Rooney, Ruud van Nistelrooy.

All right. As the two sides prepared to kick off, Millwall, wearing their traditional navy jerseys, took the lead from left to right. ”

Aldridge stood in front of the coach's bench on the sidelines, and on the bench, there were Ronaldo, Kaka, Schneider and other players, most of them had heavy summer tasks, running back and forth, like Ronaldo returned from the Olympic men's football team, and Kaka played the entire Copa America and ended late, so the Community Shield let them sit on the bench first.

Aldridge had a long conversation with Nedved after yesterday's full family photoshoot, and the veteran Nedved understands the righteousness and hopes to promote the younger generation at the end of his career, so that Millwall can make a perfect transition in the construction of the new generation.

He started today and when the Premier League really starts, he will have to be on the bench and if Kaka, Alonso, Ronaldo and others are not in good form or have injuries, he has to step up immediately.

United's thinking today was clear, Ferguson did not want the likes of Keane and Paul Scholes to be over-drained in the Community Shield as they travel to Stamford Bridge in their Premier League opener.

Therefore, Phil Neville and Fletcher play double midfield, defending in the middle, and the attack is still dominated by the traditional wings.

At the beginning of the game, Millwall controlled the rhythm of the field and slowly entered the game.

In the 11th minute, Giggs broke through the youngster Ramos on the side, crossed the shadow striker and inserted Rooney, Nesta grabbed the ball before Rooney, and behind Giggs, Glenschal won the ball on the side of the midfield, he was more skilled than when he left Millwall, accumulated more experience, and his technical ability has reached the level of his own ability.

The familiar figure of the fast horse on the wing once again came into the eyes of the Lions fans.

Countless Lions fans in the stands shouted passionately, and seeing Glen Charles start to erupt and ride the ball forward, as if driving the whole stadium forward, this is the ultimate speed feeling on the court, which is unparalleled.

The frizzy Heinze rushed over and the sliding tackle was easily dodged by Glen Charles because he was faster!

Ferguson was furious on the sidelines over Heinze's brainless defensive choices.

After the lack of full-backs, Glen Charles was not in a hurry to get out of the ball, cut inside with the ball on the right side, played an offensive depth in the penalty area, and then controlled the ball, forcing Silvester to come over to defend him head-on, and when the time came, he knocked the ball back to the top of the arc of the penalty area, Nedved came up to touch the ball before Phil Neville, the old and strong Nedved keenly observed Ferdinand's intention to make up for the space in front of him, and Nedved sent a behind-the-back ball, Almost at the same time as Ferdinand, Villa's anti-offside position was successful, and the ball in the right side of the box did not stop the ball and pushed it directly, and the ball rolled into the door of Manchester United without incident, Howard was obviously slow to react, and the American goalkeeper did not look in good shape, slightly sluggish.

"The ball is in! Just ten minutes into the game, Millwall scored! Glen Charles instigated the attack on the right side, moved to the middle and handed it to Nedved to send a lethal through ball, Manchester United's new signing Heinze made an unforgivable mistake, he rashly left the defense area to make a tackle, once the defender made a tackle, it was really a moment of success or failure! Judging by Ferguson's expression, he was very unhappy with Heinze's expression. ”

Ferguson also thinks he's really seen!

The German football community has disclosed the deal between Millwall and Bayern Munich, and Lahm is actually in a very awkward position at Bayern Munich, and Bayern's top management was hesitant to give Lahm a new contract. I thought it was an opportunity to use Ram to knock Millwall in cash. As a result, one of the main full-backs of the German national team was released

And Heinze's transfer fee is not low. £7 million, this fucking mistake was made first and foremost, and Ferguson had to wonder if he had entered the age of old and dizzy.

Villa didn't particularly celebrate with excitement after the goal, but the community shield was just a warm-up, and he walked to hug Nedved after the goal, who pointed to Glen Shire, who laughed and ran over to high-five his team-mates.

Manchester United today is the same as it was in the past. They all rely on the wing attack as the main means, but there is less link in the middle than in the past.

The combination of the wings and the center is a necessary offensive means for both wings to fly together, and the days of relying only on crosses from the wing to go to the penalty area to find a high striker are long gone.

Scholes was not on, Fletcher wanted to pick up in the middle, but it was blocked and it was difficult to do anything, Rooney had just gone to Manchester United, and he had not fully integrated into the team's rhythm, and the passing and running were not tacit.

Even so, United's attacking threat from the flanks is still there.

Almost every time Ryan Giggs breaks down the left flank, he is trying to temper the young Spaniard Ramos, who will also have defensive flirtatious shortcomings. Ryan Giggs has beaten him five times and succeeded four times. This is simply an unimaginable number, because it means that Ramos defends Giggs point-to-point, and the effect is nothing!

Aldridge is not angry, Ramos is still young, young people make mistakes on the field, lack of ability is exposed, it is normal, the key is not to bow your head and accept your fate, just have a negative mentality.

On the other side, Joaquin is five or five in the offensive and defensive confrontation with Ram, Ram has no innate physical advantage, so his defense pays more attention to awareness and team distance, that is, let the team cover up his shortcomings as much as possible, and let teammates complement him, but Silva is still tender, on this side, if it is the original main Southgate, it can be said that the cooperation with Ram is absolutely seamless.

Manchester United lack a support point in the middle to combine the side and the center, and only rely on wide crosses, which is a bit like hitting the luck, but this is the style of Manchester United.

Simplicity at its best.

There is probably no other coach in the world who has been able to play the wide attack as simply and efficiently as Alex Ferguson.

When one looks at United's wide attack, it's rare to marvel at how pleasing the combination they have been.

The wings tear apart the defensive width of the opponent's defence, cross, receive, shoot, score.

The routine always seems simple, but it always makes the opponent taste the bitter fruit of conceding the ball.

It reminded Aldridge of a conversation he had with Alex Ferguson in the office after their first encounter.

In that conversation, Aldridge said that his philosophy of building the team was to follow the Laconian mentality.

Simplicity is the greatest space for conception and imagination.

Looking at European football after 10 years in charge, Aldridge found that many successful teams are following this principle.

This is true for Manchester United, this is true for Millwall, even for Muhammad Chelsea and Arsene Wenger's Arsenal who have not yet made their debut.

Like the simple ultimate of anti-reversal, there is no need to repeat it, the future of Barcelona's TIKI-TAKA is not just a very simple foundation, ball control, passing, the simplest, 10-year-old children's football training on the basis of practice to the extreme, naturally can give birth to incomparably rich content.

Ramos was a little overwhelmed by Ryan Giggs at the beginning, so Aldridge asked the team to develop the attack from the left side, let the left side create heavy pressure on Manchester United, let Ramos slow down first, and then give Ramos a gesture to let him go up to participate in the attack.

Ramos himself was worried, he was afraid that he would not be able to get the assist, but under Aldrich's encouraging eyes, he rushed forward without hesitation.

No matter how Manchester United plays, the attack must develop back to the middle, and when Fletcher and Phil Neville lack support up front, De Rossi automatically retreats into the box to fill the gap in the number of full-backs who assist in the number of defenders.

So at any time, unless Millwall is suppressed by the opponent, the defense is basically a single midfielder, either De Rossi drops back to fill the back line, or he is still a midfielder, Alonso is acting as a central midfielder, and not completely standing in the back position.

Gary Neville couldn't withstand the pressure from Ronaldo, and when Lahm came up with an assist, he was blown up worse than Ramos.

One of the strengths of Lahm that Aldridge appreciates the most is the calmness of handling the ball and never blindly playing the ball, like many wide players will send meaningless crosses from the wing, which is basically not seen in Lahm.

Lahm, Ronaldo, Nedved, Villa, these four made a series of kicks in the left half of the attacking end, and the pass made the Manchester United defenders dizzy, and the defensive gap was inadvertently exposed.

The ball came to Ronaldo's feet, and he made the choice to attack faster.

First stopped the ball when receiving Nedved's pass, then went straight forward to make a Marseille maneuver past Phil Neville, and when Fletcher rushed diagonally to make a steal, he gently picked the ball forward, and then dodged Fletcher's pressing and then regained control of the ball, a series of pleasing movements in one go, came to the back line, and then made a one-two with Villa, he went directly into the penalty area, forming a one-on-one ball, and when Howard abandoned the goal and rushed, Ronaldo calmly pushed the ball and smashed the ball from between Howard's legs into the Manchester United goal.

The big and small doors were blown up together! (To be continued......)