The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 134

Long before Barcelona ushered in Ajax, some media had compared the two teams, and believed that as long as one Rivaldo was discharged from the Barcelona team, it would be worth as much as Ajax in terms of value. Team.

In 97, Rivaldo switched from Deportivo to Barcelona and spent a total of 1600 million euros on Barcelona, ​​while Ye Qiu's Ajax brought in so many players from the beginning to the end, and the sum of all of them was almost the same price. It can be said that a Rivaldo is worth the Ajax team.

Ye Qiu was not at all angry at this kind of ridicule from the media. On the contrary, he used the media's remarks to stimulate the players' fighting spirit, telling his players how the group of media outside humiliated them and looked down on them. To make a name for yourself, there is only one way to go, beat Barcelona at the Nou Camp!

This game is related to the final ranking of Group F, whether the star-studded Barcelona can qualify for the next round of the group stage, and also related to the financial income of tens of millions of euros, or even tens of millions of potential benefits. Will you not take it seriously?

Because it is so important, not only the media and fans in Spain and the Netherlands are paying close attention to this game, but even fans all over the world are paying attention to this game. This game will be promoted and broadcast live to the whole world. It is not an exaggeration to say that it has attracted worldwide attention.

Some people support Ajax, and some support Barcelona, ​​but the result of the game will definitely disappoint most people, because the final result of this game is 1:1, and no one has won the opponent.

Ye Qiu's team played an astonishing attack from the very beginning. In the first 20 minutes, they caused a lot of trouble for Barcelona, ​​and also won many scoring opportunities for themselves, including 3 excellent scoring opportunities. But both Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Robben were wasted one after another. Only van der Vaart scored the leading goal for Ajax after cutting in from the right.

Afterwards, Ajax encountered an almost crazy counterattack from Barcelona. At the Nou Camp, Barcelona would never allow their dignity and pride to be provoked by their opponents, especially this opponent who was only in the Eredivisie League. Can score.

Finally, before the end of the second half of the game, Rivaldo used his personal ability to get the ball from the left and passed two Ajax players in a row. Desa's helpless corner.

No one is satisfied with the score of 1:1.

Ajax led for more than an hour, only to be leveled by Barcelona in the end, and they were not satisfied.

But Barcelona is even more dissatisfied, because they will be forced to go to the UEFA Cup because of this draw, which is definitely an unacceptable shame for the proud Catalans.

The league, the league was not played well, the Champions League, the Champions League was eliminated, and the entire Camp Nou stadium was blown up!
…………

…………

"get out of class is over! get out of class is over! get out of class is over!!!"

Ye Qiu was sitting in the coach's bench of the visiting team at Camp Nou. All he could hear were boos and shouts from the Barcelona fans. They were venting their dissatisfaction with the current situation of the club.

Because the relationship between Ajax and Barcelona is very special, many staff members in the Ajax team, including Bobby Hames, are pessimistic and disappointed with Barcelona's current situation.

"Who would have thought that after the glorious peak of the Dream Team, Barcelona would fall so quickly. They haven't won a championship for many years!" Bobby Harms shook his head and sighed.

These days, a giant team without a championship for a season already needs to reflect deeply. Without a championship for two consecutive seasons, it almost represents a big turmoil in the management. But like Barcelona, ​​​​without a championship for many years, everyone is worried , Will this team lose its aura of a wealthy family and completely become a civilian team?

This is not alarmist talk, there are few such examples?
Not much else to say, Athletic Bilbao was so awesome back then. In terms of history, this team does not know how brilliant it is, but what about now?This team can only be regarded as a barely mid-range team in La Liga, and it is difficult to have the strength to compete for the championship.

"Don't worry, every team with historical background is not so easy to fall, Barcelona itself has a very complete set of hematopoietic functions, and these years, Barcelona has always adhered to the youth team established by Cruyff. Based on the training concept, I believe that in a few years, the effect should be produced soon!"

If Ye Qiu remembers correctly, the current La Masia has Messi, Fabregas, Iniesta, Busquets and many other stars who will be outstanding in the next few years. They will also be the stars of Barcelona in the future The key star of transformation.

Although many people will be dissatisfied with some of the style of Barcelona on the field in the future, causing great controversy, but there is one thing Ye Qiu will always insist on, that is, Barcelona's adherence to the concept of youth training, and the Barcelona Dream Team three. Football is enough for this team to be recorded in football history.

"Youth training?" After hearing this, Rick Link smiled bitterly and even laughed a little, "De La Pena, Gerard, Celades, Harvey Moreno... the players who have come out of Barcelona's youth training over the years are still Is it less? But have they used it?"

Speaking of this, Rick Link shook his head vigorously, "In these giant teams, the youth training and the first team are separated. No matter how many players come out of the youth training, what's the effect if the first team doesn't use it? "

De La Pena left Barcelona this season and went to Lazio, but his performance was very bad; after Gerald switched to Valencia, he immediately played a very good state and strength, but after returning to Camp Nou with a lot of money, what awaited him It is a cold bench; as for Celades, after leaving Barcelona, ​​he formed a double midfielder with Makelele in Celta, and his performance was very eye-catching. The two joined the Galacticos at the same time when Florentino was in charge of Real Madrid. Lades overwhelmed Makelele to occupy the main force, but now, how many people still remember him?

As for Harvey Moreno, Ye Qiu and the others are very familiar with him. He was the main striker of last year's Alaves team and was also the top scorer in La Liga last season. said!

Ye Qiu didn't think about it, it turns out that Rick Link is still a veteran Barcelona fan, why do these words sound so resentful?But it's not surprising if you think about it again, because of the relationship between Cruyff and Van Gaal, it's not uncommon for Ajax fans to be Barcelona fans.

Rick Link's remarks sounded like the complaints of those Real Madrid fans in the previous life, and they all hated iron and steel.

But the current Ye Qiu can't convince Rick Link, because he can't tell him how glorious and brilliant Barcelona will be in the next few years, and even become the so-called cosmic team.

There is no doubt that Barcelona's success depends on the foundation accumulated over the years. If there is no persistent youth training concept from Cruyff to the present, I believe they will not be able to usher in the pinnacle of the dream team.

Some people say that Barcelona's success is due to their ball control system conforming to the football trend at that time. Ye Qiu thinks this is true or not, because ball control is the pursuit of everyone no matter in any period of football history. Want to keep the ball under your feet for 90 minutes?

But has there ever been one in history who can really achieve the level of Barcelona?
Ye Qiu felt that Barcelona's success was due to their study of controlling the ball to an extreme.

In other words, in football tactics, as long as any of the elements that affect the factors of the game can be achieved to the extreme, then this team can achieve the achievements of the Barcelona Dream Team [-], but the key is, who knows this truth? I understand, but who can do it like Barcelona?

Or, the reason why Barcelona has been able to persevere for so many years is actually due to a certain amount of accident and luck.

Therefore, Ye Qiu has always adhered to one principle. It doesn't matter if tactics are good or bad. As long as it is good for him and can help him improve, he doesn't care about offense or defense. He will learn and learn from his opponents.

That's why Bobby Harms said that he was like a sponge, frantically absorbing the essence accumulated by others over the years.

…………

…………

Ajax drew 1:1 with Barcelona, ​​and Leverkusen defeated Lyon 4:2. In this way, the ranking of Group F came out.

Ajax and Bayer Leverkusen are the top two teams in the second round of the European Champions Cup. Barcelona is third in the group and forced to play in the UEFA Cup, while Lyon has not even a point. Didn't catch it, and directly qualified from the Champions League group.

Although Santini's team performed poorly in the Champions League, they are very good in Ligue [-]. This probably has something to do with Santini's own strategy. They focus on the Ligue [-], so Give up the Champions League.

In addition, Eindhoven and Feyenoord were also eliminated from the Champions League. These two teams can only participate in the UEFA Cup in the end, so Ajax has become the only one in the Eredivisie in the Champions League.

After the group stage, UEFA immediately announced the team divisions for the second round of the group stage draw.

According to the results of the group stage, plus the team's previous Champions League points and other factors, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Juventus and Liverpool became the first seed team in the second round of the group stage.

In other words, these four teams will definitely be in different groups.

Ajax, Deportivo, Nantes and Panathinaikos make up Pot [-]; Man Utd, Arsenal, Porto and Galatasaray go into Pot [-] and they are the best-performing groups The second; the fourth gear is Roma, Sparta Prague, Bayer Leverkusen and Boavista.

The intensity of competition in the Champions League can be seen from the tiers. Almost every tier of teams is very good. Needless to say, the teams in the second tier, Manchester United and Arsenal can only go to the third tier, Porto, Galatasaray, Roma, Leverkusen... These teams are not easy-going, and it is a headache to meet anyone.

According to the lottery rules, in the same country, teams in the same group in the first round of the group stage will not be grouped together again, so in fact some teams are destined to meet together.

This time the draw ceremony was held at the Hilton Hotel in Geneva. Ye Qiu was busy preparing for the competition and did not participate. Ajax arranged for the technical director and the team leader to represent the team to Geneva, but in the end Leo Benha What Ke brought back was bad news.

Bayern Munich, Ajax, Manchester United, Boavista, these four teams became Group A of the second round of the group stage.

It's not that Ajax's draw is bad, it can only be said that luck is relatively bad, and the Champions League is too strong to blame.

Liverpool, Roma, Nantes, Sparta Prague; Juventus, Deportivo, Arsenal and Leverkusen; Relatively speaking, Real Madrid has the best luck, and the three opponents drawn are Pana Sinaikos, Galatasaray and Sparta Prague, the overall strength of these three opponents is not very strong, and it is difficult to shake Real Madrid's right to qualify.

Looking at the other three groups, almost every one of them is in a deadlock situation. Among them, the competition in Group D is definitely the most intense. Juventus, Deportivo, Arsenal and Leverkusen are together, which can be called death The group, and Ajax encountered Bayern Munich and Manchester United, the qualifying situation is also not optimistic.

According to the schedule of the second round of the Champions League group stage, two rounds will be played before the winter break. Ajax will first go to an away game to challenge Boavista, and then face Bayern Munich at home. The remaining four rounds will be Save it until after the winter break, and the top two in the group will advance to the top 8.

I don't know if it was affected by the results of the second round group stage draw of the Champions League. Ajax players performed very sluggishly in the 12th round of the Eredivisie in the away game against Graf Sharp. Without the vigor of the past, he became lifeless and his physical fitness was poor.

In this game, Ajax was almost contained by Graf Sharp throughout the game, and the attack power was not too much of a threat. Instead, Graf Sharp took advantage of Ajax in the 36th minute of the first half. Ajax's defense line Kolo? Toure and Kiev's mistakes took the lead in breaking through Ajax's goal.

This conceded goal made Ajax more impetuous and passive. The referee was also very dissatisfied with the frequent fouls of Ajax players. And almost got sent off with a red card.

During the intermission, Ye Qiu immediately replaced Zlatan Ibrahimovic with Huntelaar, who was not performing well, but his condition was obviously poor and his emotions were a little out of control. He hoped that Huntelaar would face his old team time, able to perform.

But after the start of the second half, Ajax's state has not improved much. Robben on the left seems to be out of shape. On the contrary, Van der Meyde on the right has become the most threatening side of the team. Ajax's attack really picked up when Hleb replaced Robben.

In the final stage, Ajax relied on Hleb's wide-ranging oblique pass to the penalty area. Van der Meyde hit the goal after entering the penalty area, but was saved by the goalkeeper. Huntelaar followed up and pierced Graf Sharp's goal. Evened the score for Ajax.

But after that, no matter how Ajax attacked, they were still unable to break through Graf Sharp's goal, and could only accept the 1:1 draw with regret. This also disappointed Ye Qiu, because Graf Sharp's game Originally, in his opinion, it should be won, but if it is not won now, the team will lose two points.

Although Eindhoven lost 1:2 away to Sparta Rotterdam in the same round, and Feyenoord also lost 1:2 away to Breda, Ajax's lead did not decrease at all. His 3 points increased to 4 points, but for Ye Qiu, Ajax lost 2 points in this game.

Sometimes the advantage of the standings can be deceiving. There are so many opponents in the league, and they will meet sooner or later. When they meet a strong team and a weak team, they are both 3 points, but the value is completely different. That's why Ye Qiu Will be disappointed with the draw against Graf Sharp.

This may be a bit harsh, because if you insist on this calculation, PSV lost to relegation favorite Sparta Rotterdam, which will undoubtedly make PSV fans even more disappointed.

In Ye Qiu's strategy to win the championship, the points that should be obtained must be obtained. Only in this way can the team be guaranteed to lose points when necessary. The reason why Ajax failed to win the championship last season is very important. The reason is that the team failed to win or even score points in some games with obvious advantages, which eventually led to a disadvantageous situation for the team to win the championship.

Also because of this, Ye Qiu held an internal meeting of the coaching staff in De Tokmoorster when the national team played against Graf Sharp in the away game for two weeks, and even club chairman Van Prager and Technical Director Leo Benhak participated in this meeting.

At the meeting, Ye Qiu emphasized that the coaching staff and the first team, and even everyone in every department of the club must have a unified thinking, one idea and one heart, external unity and a single voice, and the same is true within the team.

"I have a hunch that the situation will become more and more unfavorable to us before the winter break!" Ye Qiu said solemnly.

Eindhoven and Feyenoord's UEFA Cup opponents have come out, namely Greece's Thessaloniki and Bundesliga's Freiburg. The strength of the former does not need to be said. Eindhoven is sure to win, and Freiburg is currently It also performed poorly in the Bundesliga and is already on the verge of the relegation zone.

Freiburg performed well last season and qualified for the UEFA Cup in the Bundesliga. However, after a summer, the players suffered heavy losses, and Freiburg's competitiveness declined sharply, which eventually led to the team's lack of combat effectiveness. Feyenoord defeated Opponents don't have much of a problem either.

In this case, they will devote more energy to the league, but Ajax has encountered a strong enemy in the Champions League.

Although Ajax's lineup looks huge, but that is a few years later, the current batch of Ajax is too young, especially some substitute players, which leads to the fact that if the team fights on a single line, Ye Qiu is very sure, but if it is a multi-line battle, there will inevitably be some problems.

This is also the sadness of some small teams, just like Moyes' Everton in his previous life, one season was amazing, and the other season was sluggish. The decisive factor is the European competition.

(End of this chapter)