When Aldridge welcomed Pep Guardiola at the Lion King Stadium, he had to sigh that the years were like a song. ↖

Back then, when he led the Lions to rise to Europe, Mourinho was still an assistant coach, and Guardiola was still one of the four famous talents.

In a blink of an eye, the two who comforted each other in the Netherlands in the summer of '97 became world-class coaches, and Aldridge was not a fledgling kid that year.

Pep Guardiola, who led the team to the Lion King Stadium, walked on thin ice, walked into this stadium that shocked Europe, and listened to the deafening home momentum, his face was completely relaxed.

Aldrich chatted with him for a few words, and there was no business exchange, which was a normal courtesy greeting.

Before the start of the game, the two managers stood on the sidelines, and Guardiola was expressionless, thinking that this away game would be extremely difficult!

In addition to the strength of the team, there is also the distribution of team energy, Millwall has a strong squad, in order to prepare for this game, the past league game and an FA Cup have sent substitutes, and Barcelona and Real Madrid in La Liga are inseparable, and Real Madrid, who were eliminated, concentrated on competing for the league title, putting great pressure on Barcelona.

Coupled with Millwall's home stadium to wait for work, Barcelona's natural technical and tactical system of dominating La Liga itself does not have much advantage in front of Millwall, in the words of Fleet Street: Barcelona is just learning from Millwall.

The players of the two teams entered the stadium and the atmosphere was detonated at once.

"The semi-finals of the first Europa League are about to begin, and Millwall, who are returning to Europe, face the last Champions League winners, Barcelona! There's no doubt it's going to be a battle for the top, so let's take a look at the rosters for both sides.

Millwall, 433.

Goalkeeper: Gianluigi Buffon.

Defender: Ramos. Nesta. Silva. Ramsay.

Midfielders: De Rossi, Alonso, Kaka.

Forwards: Messi, Sergio Aguero, netbsp; Striker Villa missed the game with injury but will be back in time for the second leg to kick off, according to Millwall's announcement today.

Barcelona 433.

Goalkeeper: Valdés.

Defenders: Alves, Puyol. Pique, Abidal.

Midfielders: Butzks, Yaya Toure, Xavi.

Forwards: Pedro, Ibrahimovic, Iniesta. ”

In order to increase the defensive hardness of the midfield, Guardiola was afraid of Millwall's offensive firepower, and deliberately put on a midfield combination of two giants, Buzques and Toure, while Iniesta moved to play as a winger.

Pedro is a player who doesn't look like a big one, but he has been a sensation under Pep Guardiola. The killer role played in this system is clear at a glance.

Samuel Eto'o and Ibrahimovic swapped in the summer, but Ibrahimovic is now integrated into the squad. Or in terms of adapting to the team's system, the transfer was not particularly successful.

Millwall, on the other hand, did not have much of a problem, with Villa recovering from injury and Sergio Aguero playing as a false centre-forward.

Judging from the strength of the two teams, Millwall is slightly stronger, indeed stronger than Barcelona, but it will not open a particularly obvious gap, and it can even be said that the gap between the back line and the midfield line is very small, and the gap is on the front line.

But the forward line needs to be supported by the midfield and defense!

Without a solid defense, the offense is difficult to sustain alone.

Without the support of the midfield, there is no way to attack.

When the referee's whistle blew, Aldridge raised his chin slightly on the sidelines, his eyes sharp.

At the Lion King Stadium, against Barcelona, he wants to play a battle for the right name!

After two years of absence from Europe, Millwall must knock out the European kings who won the Grand Slam last season!

Have to!

This was the beginning of the restoration of the dynasty!

Barcelona's vaunted pass did not come out in this game, and here, Millwall firmly controlled the ball with more aggressive running, better physical advantage, and more tacit teamwork!

When Barcelona gets the ball to attack, although it is also mainly passing, in front of Millwall, it seems that it is getting an axe in the team.

Because they only pass and control in the midfield and backfield, and when they reach the front line of the offensive end, they can't get in at all!

The third-generation Lions have slightly rigid requirements for defense, taking the midfield as the boundary and pressing in the midfield area, and Barcelona has also abandoned the high pressing they are good at!

Can't!

Absolutely dare not rush from a high position!

Millwall's midfield can control the ball, and there are long passers, dare to invest troops in high-level pressing, then their own backcourt is too empty, plus Millwall's offensive end is the world's most offensive degree, the risk of high-level pressing is unimaginable, it is simply open the door to let the opponent walk on the ground!

Perhaps in the eyes of the fans, Millwall and Barcelona met without a particularly passionate encounter.

Because both teams are in control, the roles of both sides switch back and forth between suppressing and being suppressed, backing and forth for a long time, passing, if it is not for the exchange of balls, I am afraid it will really make people drowsy.

And in this kind of control, the skills of both sides are gradually presented in front of the public.

Barcelona mostly passes back and forth in the midfield, once they threaten to penetrate the attack, they can't carry out more than three passes in the danger zone, but Millwall can spread out the attack to the danger zone after the midfield pass control has shaped the offensive form, and can create a zào shot and threaten to shoot!

Pep Guardiola was very annoyed on the sidelines about the team's table!

Although statistically, Barcelona are on par with Millwall in terms of possession!

However, most of Barcelona's possession is invalid possession!

If you can't create a possession that threatens the attack, it's invalid!

The extra points of the game are often on Millwall's side!

Messi, Ronaldo, Kaka, and even Sergio Aguero.

And it was only when Millwall created a good attacking form with an overall combination that their stars began to add that the crowd was immediately excited.

There are moments like this. It will make the audience a little nervous.

Will it score?

Will it make the orderly game completely out of control? Caught in a scuffle?

In such tense moments. Suddenly there was a scene on the field that made Aldridge laugh.

Kaka breaks through with the ball in the middle. Defended by Butzks, Butzkes intercepted obviously slower with his feet, Kaka flew past him, he went up to pull Kaka's arm, Kaka habitually shook off his arm, and then, Buzquez immediately fell to the ground and rolled!

At the same time as falling to the ground. He covered his face with both hands, and after rolling, his hands covering his face opened a small gap, and his eyes turned to the referee, wanting to see what the referee would do?

The referee blows the game off!

I also looked at Butzkes for the first time.

It's just that the referee's eyes are a little helpless.

Kaka is angry!

It is not uncommon for him to be pulled by the opponent's arm or jersey, and he is too fast, the effect of pulling the jersey is not obvious, and physical contact is the most effective way to block the plus.

So he made it a habit to shake off his opponent and pull himself, but his backward frustration never went above his shoulder. I even developed the habit of just swinging my arms backwards.

If Butzkes was clutching his chest or ribs, that would make sense.

But cover your face?

What touched his face?

Kaka thought that the referee would give himself a foul if he blew the game off. I was about to protest with the referee, but I saw the referee walk up to Butzques and show a yellow card.

The referee's position was very good just now, he saw Buzkes's pulling action, if it weren't for Millwall's attack, he would have been ready to blow the penalty, and then Buzques covered his face and fell to the ground, and rolled exaggeratedly, this is blatantly playing with the referee!

Butzkes immediately stood up and was about to open his mouth to defend himself, but the referee shook his head at him slightly, meaning that he didn't want to hear what he said, if he was unreasonable, don't blame Lao Tzu for ruthlessly giving you a red card.

After it was determined that it was the opponent who had been awarded a penalty and received a yellow card, the Millwall fans in the stands went crazy.

Probably, there is also the factor of being infected by Aldridge on the sidelines.

The young marshal really laughed and leaned back, as if he was in a comedy!

Seeing that Butzkes still couldn't remember Professor Butzkes's nickname, and now he suddenly acted like this, Aldrich laughed directly.

Guardiola walked seriously and negotiated with the fourth official on the sidelines, as if to convince people with reason, negotiated well with the fourth official, and patted the fourth official on the arm when he returned to his position.

The game was already unfavorable, and Guardiola didn't want his team to be dissatisfied with the referee for extra actions.

Where is this?

The Lion King Stadium!

Isn't it self-defeating to use conventional means to win a favourable penalty in front of Millwall?

The referee committee of the European Elite League has repeatedly ordered players to be honest in the field! For fake falls, exaggerated performances, etc., it is to be severely cracked down!

With the passage of time in the game, Millwall's home advantage became more and more obvious, in the first half to the 43rd minute, Millwall played a delicate match in the front, Alonso, Lahm, Ronaldo formed a triangle pass combination on the left side of the midfield, after a round of passing cooperation, Ronaldo cut into the middle, and Aguero switched positions, interfering with the opponent's defense.

Aguero knocked the ball back to Kaka in the middle behind Ronaldo, at this time, Kaka, Messi, Ronaldo, and formed a new triangle passing combination in the right area of the front court, but the position was already close to the opponent's penalty area!

Kaka shifted the ball to Messi, who found space to pass the ball after breaking through Abidal and sent in an overhead cross that Ronaldo jumped high in the middle of the box to head home!

The ball flew straight into the top right corner of the goal, Valdés flew to the end but couldn't touch the ball!

Millwall lead Barcelona at home!

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