Chelsea and Millwall players lined up in the tunnel to get ready to play.

The players on both sides looked ahead and did not greet anyone they knew, whether it was a former Millwall team-mate or a national team team-mate like Cristiano Ronaldo and Carvalho.

In the Lion King Stadium, Mourinho was shouting and booing behind him, and the home fans certainly did not welcome him, and he has always used all kinds of mockery and humiliation to the coach of his sworn enemy.

Aldridge did not shake hands with Mourinho before the game, he came to the home team's coach's box, standing still and in a natural state of mind.

Chelsea's day started off unexpectedly, with the gloom of Mutu's drug abuse looming over the Blues like a dark cloud that would distract them, while Millwall were fully prepared for the game, and Aldridge was naturally confident with the home advantage.

"In the tenth round of the 2004-2005 Premier League, a key battle was first started at the Lion King Stadium, which was a derby between London's sworn enemies, Millwall at home against Chelsea, after 9 rounds, Millwall started with a 9-game winning streak in excellent form, Chelsea 6 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, which was a very ideal start, but looking at the standings, they were 7 points behind the leaders, a not small gap. The London blue duo clash in this game is a six-point battle, so let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides.

Millwall started 433.

Goalkeeper: Bout.

Defenders: Schneider, Nesta, Silva, Lahm.

Midfielders: De Rossi, Alonso, Nedved.

Forwards: Cristiano Ronaldo, Villa. Ronaldinho.

Chelsea started 433.

Goalkeeper: Cech.

Defender: Patrick Ferreira. Carvalho. Terry, Ashley Cole.

Midfielders: Essien, Makelele, Lampard.

Forwards: Robben, Drogba, Duff.

The encounter is set to begin soon, with Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho saying when he took charge that Chelsea's goal was to turn Millwall's domination upside down, and his mouth was full of ambitious goals. But when it comes to it, today's game will be the first test! ”

At the start of the game, Chelsea's posture was clear: defend against the counter.

Chelsea's defense in this period is actually very monotonous, with four defenders not assisting, two backs strangling, and basically attacking by four people when switching from defense to attack, with a central bridgehead, a winger advancing quickly, and central midfielder Frank Lampard inserting in the back row.

After the opening, they played in this way.

Millwall, on the other hand, pressed up to play the attack from the start.

The first minute of the game. Claude Makelele sparked a counter-attack as soon as he cut off Ronaldo's through ball for Villa, with Lampard sending a through ball into Didier Drogba up front. De Rossi slipped and failed to intercept the ball while blocking the passing lane, an accident that made the hearts of the Wild Lions fans in the stands tighten.

Drogba got the ball and turned around to impact the penalty area, but as soon as he took a step, someone quickly cut the ball off in front of him, and Chelsea's counterattack dissipated!

Drogba immediately counter-attacked, went to hit the man but did not knock away, the man gave the ball to Lahm and turned his head to look at Drogba, his eyes were indifferent.

As if silently saying: This is my territory, don't you want to go wild!

'The best centre-back in the world, the 28-year-old Nesta, who has been successful in defending Drogba, is not particularly good at combining the ball and the ball, but Nesta is a master tackle and the timing of his interception is textbook, and Chelsea could have a lot of resistance if they figured out a ground pass or a personal break to penetrate the middle of Millwall's back line.

Golden age, healthy Nesta, the best in the world, without any controversy!

After Gareth Southgate disappeared from Millwall's first team, Nesta was the leader of the backline, and the former Roma monarch stepped into the role automatically and quickly took on more responsibilities, and in the final link of the backline, Nesta was a cool and outrageous defender for Millwall to play attacking football.

If Chelsea's attack is rich and varied, Aldridge may still be worried, but if it is only by defense, Aldridge does not think that Chelsea's poor attacking firepower will be so fearful.

Chelsea relied on counter-attacking goals and then stabilizing the situation, avoiding attacks and strengthening the defence.

Their offensive firepower is therefore not very remarkable.

Without waiting for his teammates to ask, De Rossi made an apologetic gesture to his teammates, he really didn't expect Chelsea to counterattack so quickly, there was a little panic before slipping, and now he was warned by a wave of Chelsea counterattacks.

In the first 20 minutes of the game, the court looked like it was evenly matched.

Millwall, despite dominating possession in midfield, did not do too well in penetration, or rather did not have much of an unexpected attack.

The key is in the middle of the penalty area, with the coverage of Essien, Makelele and Frank Lampard, who are very effective in sweeping wide support.

But Chelsea's counter-attack didn't threaten much either.

Thiago Silva did not have a marking task today, Drogba handed over to Nesta, who is mainly responsible for the help of the wing, that is, if Robben breaks through the lateral inward cut line after Lahm, it is not possible to rely on the back to fill the position, because Lampard's back insertion will be empty, this job has to be done boldly by Silva, after all, it is a frontal tackle, which is more certain than moving parallel or chasing back from behind.

At the same time, Rodro Rossi squeezed Drogba behind him and kept an eye on Frank Lampard in front of him, and Alonso will also take on such a task.

As for Duff on the other side, Schneider alone was enough to deal with it.

In the 23rd minute of the game, something happened on the field.

Robben cut inside after breaking through with the ball on the right flank, Silva rushed up and fought bravely, he used a sliding tackle to shovel Robben's slightly large ball away, and then Robben couldn't stop his foot and tripped in front of Silva because of the sudden acceleration.

Mourinho protested from the sidelines, angrily complaining to the fourth official that it was a foul.

But the referee didn't say anything and signaled the game to continue.

"Judging from the replays of the footage from other camera positions, Silva's tackle was very clean. Robben himself was too fast. It was more like he couldn't hold back and kicked at Silva's feet. And then, he fell, huh? Robben hadn't gotten up yet, he was lying on the pitch and slapping the turf, looking very painful, and it looked like he should have been injured. ”

Mourinho waited for the protest to find that Robben did not get up, and his face was instantly a little ugly.

When the game was interrupted, the Chelsea team doctor came in. After a preliminary diagnosis of Robben's injury, he made a substitution gesture towards Mourinho.

'Oops, it's only halfway through the first half, Chelsea have to make a passive substitution, Arjen Robben is out injured!'

Mourinho asked Joe Cole to warm up, and then he went to the fourth official to theorize.

Aldridge also walked over and spread his hands towards Mourinho and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? My players' defensive movements are very clean, it's your players' own body that can't be good, don't be verbose, take 10,000 steps back, Chelsea's group of defensive players are all gentlemen? ”

The fourth official turned to look at Mourinho. Turning his head to look at Aldridge again, Mourinho turned away without arguing with Aldridge.

Aldridge looks at the game time. It's almost 30 minutes!

He gestured to the players on the field.

Chelsea had already learned how to defend Millwall's attack, but they soon felt the pressure!

Ronaldo and Nedved were nearly parallel to the front line, with Cristiano Ronaldo running down the left and Villa moving freely in the centre-forward area.

In the back row, Alonso, Lahm who assisted, and Schneider were the foundation of control, and Millwall's offense was extremely left-leaning!

Ronaldo, Nedved, and Ronaldo took turns to break through Chelsea's right wing-back Ferreira!

They don't look like they're attacking on the right side, they're concentrating on the left!

In the 31st minute, Xiao Luo was blocked by Frank Lampard and Essien at the same time after cutting inside on the side, he immediately passed the ball back to Ram on the same side, Ram kept the ball straight ahead, Ronaldo ran behind Ferreira in an offside position, and then Ferreira used the rhythm difference to kick back the ball when he chased back, and Ronaldo broke out again and went inside to enter the penalty area!

Essien and Carvalho pounced on Ronaldo at the same time, before they met, Ronaldo passed the ball in a small area and handed it to Ronaldo, who was less than 4 meters away from him, who kept the ball and passed a hidden through ball to Carvalho and Terry in the middle of the space, Nedved stepped forward and formed a half-single chance to form, and a powerful shot was blocked by Cech in the near corner of the goal!

'Chelsea escaped! Millwall have clearly changed their style of play, concentrating all their firepower on the centre and left of the attacking end! ”

Ashley Cole was at a loss.

He didn't know if it was because he was too strong, so Millwall didn't dare to come to his side, or because Millwall underestimated him and wasn't afraid that he would move forward!

Millwall concentrates on the left flank, and the danger is that if Ashley Kerr boldly assists the attacking area, or plays in the "forward" role he used by Aldridge in the past at Millwall and the England national team, then Millwall's defense on Schneider's side could be easily blown up.

However, Mourinho is not Aldridge, he asks defenders not to attack, and defenders to defend full-time.

So now there are also fans who laugh at Ashley Cole: After going to Chelsea for 2 months, his value has dropped by 20 million!

He now looks like a first-class full-back, nothing more, and the attacking side has no trace of what was impressive or even shocking in the past.

This attacking change is a test of Aldridge's desire and ambition to see Mourinho's approach to the game.

If there is a desperate desire to win and the goal is to come to the Lion King Stadium to take away the three points, then Mourinho will definitely take advantage of this change and let Ashley Cole boldly assist!

If that's the case, Millwall are not waiting to be blown up, the defenders are in the box, Alonso and De Rossi protect the back line, as long as Chelsea do not rule out more follow-up players other than Lampard, Millwall can also ensure that the absolute defensive gap is not exposed after delaying the opponent's attacking time.

Ashley Cole's side was unrivaled on the front, and two minutes later, Aldridge saw him flexuring into the box and compressing the space.

Aldridge smiled dismissively on the sidelines.

It seems that Mourinho only dares to fight back at this stage, and does not dare to play real fighting with him!

Millwall, then, is thoroughly establishing its superiority locally.

On the field, Xiao Luo expressed his dissatisfaction with Ronaldo for the first time, thinking that Ronaldo was a little cautious.

After a Chelsea counter-attack ended with Frank Lampard's long-range shot deflecting off target, Ronaldo pointed in front of Ronaldo in the direction of Pacos Ferreira and said in a nutshell: "him! Explode him! Don't hide from him! I'm going to break him down today! ”

Ronaldo nodded, his expression was ruthless, in the next 5 minutes, Ronaldo broke through Ferreira twice, in the 39th minute of the game, Ronaldo killed this side, Ronaldo cut and run, Ferreira took care of the loss of the other, and pulled down Xiao Luo with his hand when he was getting rid of the ball horizontally by Xiao Luo.

The referee blew the whistle for a foul on Ferreira and came over to give Ferreira a yellow card!

Xiao Luo got up from the ground, and after the referee finished taking out the cards, he suddenly made a cross, a cross with a big arc.

And it's an unexpected arc of the outside instep, he is on the left side, the arc of the outside instep of the right foot, that ball, isn't it flying outward?

The Chelsea crowd turned their heads to look at the spot where the ball had landed, and were shocked.

Ashley Cole's closing in the box did strengthen the defence in the box, but there was no threat on his side for a long time, and Schneider quietly ran up to surprise Chelsea.

Xiao Luo's quick free kick is to kick the ball out of a big arc, the first time let the Chelsea generals think that Xiao Luo is shooting, the second reaction is to cross to the teammate in the penalty area to head the ball, and finally understand that the ball is passed to Schneider on the other side!

The Brazilian Magician's global vision and passing concealment are vividly displayed! (To be continued......)