The Godfather of Greenery

chapter 151

When the game progressed to the 18th minute, after receiving a pass from Sneijder on the right, van der Vaart suddenly dribbled the ball inside from the right, and in the case of Pavon's reckless grab, went straight behind, Ibra Simovic quickly inserted into the penalty area from behind, and after getting the ball, he volleyed vigorously, but turned the shot that was close at hand high.

When the Swede finished the shot, his body was also knocked down by Hierro in the Real Madrid penalty area because of his loss of balance.

He didn't need to stand up to know that the ball was gone!

Because he didn't hear the deafening cheers from tens of thousands of Ajax fans at the scene, what he heard was sighs instead, which made him extremely frustrated and very annoyed.

Just now he should have chosen a more confident push instead of blindly pursuing a hearty volley.

Since the beginning of the game, he has had at least two excellent chances, but both of them were wasted. This made the Swedish center feel extremely annoyed and guilty. He lay on the grass and yelled loudly, He kept beating the turf of the Arenal Stadium with clenched fists in order to vent his depression of repeatedly missing good scoring opportunities.

Ye Qiu, who was standing on the sidelines, saw it. He knew the reason very well, because they were facing Real Madrid in this match.

Playing against Bayern and Manchester United, they were under a lot of pressure, but it was the group stage at that time, and Ajax's group stage was very good from the schedule, at least they did not encounter a strong team at the beginning, but played Boavi first Sta, took a stab at the Portuguese team, and then also played two consecutive home games.

But now it is a knockout round, and Ajax is playing host first and then away, a typical unfavorable schedule.

Coupled with the prestige accumulated by Real Madrid in the Champions League over the past year, Ajax has been under tremendous pressure, so the players have worked very hard on the court, but once like Ibrahim Like Movic, if he misses good opportunities repeatedly, the pressure will swarm out.

Seeing Ye Qiu's eyes, Van der Vaart walked into Real Madrid's penalty area before kick-off and came to Ibrahimovic's side. Frankly speaking, his performance against the Swede in this game was very impressive. Dissatisfied, because he did not achieve the efficiency that a minimum scorer should have.

He missed two good chances to score, especially this time just now, as long as he pushes with his right foot, the ball can be scored, but he volleyed vigorously. As a result, he couldn't hold down the spinning ball and turned into an anti-aircraft gun. This is no wonder Who is he to blame?

But Van der Vaart also understands that nothing is important now, the game is the most important!

"Don't take it to heart, we still have a chance!" Van der Vaart stretched out his hand.

Ibrahimovic glanced at Van der Vaart with a slightly guilty look, stretched out his hand, and grabbed him together. As soon as Van der Vaart exerted force, Ibrahimovic stood up from the ground stand up.

"Give me one more chance, and I will definitely score!" The Swedes dislike being owed favors.

When he first came to Amsterdam, he already owed Ye Qiu a lot of favors, and even now, he is still grateful, but he just doesn't say it, but it doesn't mean that he likes to owe others favors , especially Van der Vaart.

Many people say that the most talented person in the Ajax team is the new Cruyff, but there are also many people who like to use Van der Vaart as the new Cruyff, Robben as the new Overmars, and Iraq Brahimovic, the new Van Basten, will form an iron triangle and even compare each other.

Inside Ajax, the three players are very harmonious on the surface, but in fact, they inevitably compete with each other secretly.

Ye Qiu seems to be intentionally or unintentionally arranging such a competition, but he always controls the competition to be benign, that is, everyone strives for performance on the court, but the interests of the team should always come first.

"Then you just wait in front!" Van der Vaart said confidently after hearing Ibrahimovic's words.

Soon, Real Madrid took a goal kick. Cesar's ball failed to fall to the feet of Raul or other Real Madrid offensive players, but was given to Sneijder by Lucio, who directly returned. Kivu knocked to Kivu, and Kivu kicked the ball to Gilberto Silva.

Real Madrid has a typical distorted balance of offensive and defensive splits. The offensive players in the frontcourt hardly participate in pressing and defending, except for one Raul, so the defense relies more on the two midfielders, Makelele and Eyre. Erguera, both players are good defensive players.

Ye Qiu kept pointing to the players on the sidelines that they should work hard to grasp the rhythm and not blindly rush forward and pass forward, but it has to be said that with the improvement of Ajax's strength, the opponents they are facing are getting more and more The stronger the team, the more serious the problems Ajax exposed in terms of grasping the rhythm.

Why is it always anticlimactic? It's because the front rushes too hard, and the back has no strength, so naturally the performance is bad.

Originally, Ye Qiu thought that Sneijder could do it, but after repeated experiments, it proved that Sneijder was not good either. What he is best at is to quickly throw the ball forward at the moment of transition from offense to defense, but he needs to control it. The rhythm is too strong.

Gilberto Silva can pass the ball left and right, but he can't control the rhythm. As for Keita, a typical penalty area to penalty area, it doesn't look like a player who can control the team's rhythm.

This is a very obvious problem that Ajax has exposed this season, and it is becoming more and more acute. Even many teams have seized this problem of Ajax to arrange their team's tactics, but Ye But Qiu had no choice, because he looked at the entire interior of Ajax and couldn't single out a single person to control the rhythm.

A wise man must have a loss if he is worried.

Although Ye Qiu thought of countless possibilities when he formed the team, and the Ajax team he formed was indeed very impactful and aggressive, and the defense was also quite good, but it was precisely in the There was a big problem in the rhythm conversion link, which completely became the bottleneck for the team's further improvement.

Therefore, Ye Qiu stood on the sidelines and watched the team pass the ball forward again and again, and sprint forward again and again. He could only shout again and again to remind the players to pay attention and slow down appropriately.

This time, Real Madrid, which has always given the impression of focusing more on offense than defense, performed very steadily at the Arenal Stadium, with a well-organized and orderly defense, and the distance between players was kept in place. Especially the distance between the double defensive midfielders and the defensive line has always been kept very tight.

Ajax passed the ball into the 30-meter area again and again, but they all failed. They could only take long shots again and again to create threats, but such hurried long shots were often difficult to produce results. .

But in the 27th minute, when Ajax, who had been unable to attack for a long time, began to feel impetuous, Robben passed back from the left, Keita moved to the right, and gave it to Sneijder, who directly kicked the ball It was given to Van der Vaart's feet.

Van der Vaart was one-on-one with Roberto Carlos on the right, but this time he did not choose to bottom, but continued to choose to cut inside, because after cutting inside, he can make more choices, if he can continue to pull out Pavon , then it can create a threat again, so Van der Vaart cuts in from the right with the ball.

But this time Pavon obviously couldn't come out. Makelele quickly returned to the front of the penalty area to protect, and when Van der Vaart hurriedly kicked a long shot, seeing that he had lost his chance, he stretched out his right foot and pushed Van der Vaart His shot was blocked and bounced towards the middle.

Ibrahimovic, who pulled out of the penalty area, just rushed forward. As soon as he saw that Van der Vaart's shot was blocked, he immediately ran over and grabbed the ball before Elguera. A fake move pretending to get rid of it to the left, After deceiving Elguera to lose his center of gravity, Ibrahimovic deftly used his long legs to dunk and successfully dunked Elguera.

The moment Hierro dunked over Elgla, Hierro realized that there was trouble, and immediately left his position to grab it, but the Swedish center was very skilled at his feet. When he saw Hierro rushing up, he took the ball Go to your right side, turn sideways, lean on Hierro with your body, and quickly pass the ball into Real Madrid's penalty area.

Most of the Ajax fans in the Arena stadium jumped up from their seats. At this moment, they seemed to want to turn themselves into Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

The Swede had two chances before, and his performance was not satisfactory. But this time, he used it himself. It was obviously not a chance, but he insisted on relying on his strong body and excellent foot skills. real opportunity.

But at this moment, he didn't think so much. He just stared at Cesar in front of him with all his heart. Hierro's struggling and running force could be heard from the left shoulder of his body, but he couldn't shake his body, and then his right foot didn't move. With no fancy moves, he used the simplest and most down-to-earth push to the lower right corner and sent the ball into the goal guarded by Cesar.

The moment the ball rolled into the goal line and hit the side net, there was a monstrous cheer.

"OMG!!!!!!!!"

"A very very very very great goal!!!"

"A powerful center from Sweden, Zlatan Ibrahimovic!!"

The on-site commentator was extremely excited to introduce the Swedish high center forward, and the entire Arena stadium has already sounded overwhelming cheers, and the fans shouted Ibrahimovic's name loudly.

After the Swede scored a goal, he froze in ecstasy. He didn't realize that he had scored a goal until he was caught by van der Vaart from behind. Opened his arms, clenched his fists, opened his mouth wide, and let out a roar, "Ah~~~~~~"

Ye Qiu on the sidelines was also very excited after seeing Zlatan Ibrahimovic's goal. He raised his arms high and cheered non-stop on the sidelines, especially when he saw the players rushing to the sidelines to celebrate the goal. When it was time, he rushed over directly and hugged this group of players tightly.

1: 0!

They actually scored ahead of Real Madrid at the Arenal Stadium!

"Very, very surprising goal, in the 28th minute, Van der Vaart's long shot from the front of the box was blocked by Makelele, but it was followed by Zlatan Ibrahimovic. After dunking El Guerra, he leaned against Hierro with his body, waded into the penalty area, and hit a low shot, opening the scoring for Ajax!"

"This goal is bound to completely break the current stalemate on the field. We believe that Real Madrid must no longer be complacent and continue to adopt this almost defensive counterattack strategy. They should become more proactive."

Ye Qiu also realized this, so after a dizzy celebration, he hugged the players and formed a circle.

"Leading, very, very good, but remember, don't retreat, 1:0 is not safe, Real Madrid will definitely want to counterattack, continue to suppress me, continue to suppress them!"

"The offense has to be more lively, don't shoot long-range blindly, and the midfielder, pay attention to controlling the rhythm, don't be so fast, pay attention to slowing down when it should be slow, pass the ball more often, and ensure our possession time!"

Ye Qiu cracklingly explained a series of tasks. After listening to the players, they immediately dispersed and returned to the court.

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1 goal completely changed the situation of the entire game.

When Real Madrid realized that they had made a mistake and Ajax scored a goal, they began to want to save and fight. Bosque wanted to change this strategy of calmly defending and grinding away Ajax's spirit.

After all, he still underestimated Ajax's offensive ability a bit.

But obviously, Ajax will not make their opponents feel comfortable, especially Ye Qiu's constant reminders and adjustments on the sidelines, and after the goal, the morale of the Ajax players is like a rainbow, and they performed well on the court. He was full of energy, and every player worked very hard to suppress the opponent on the court and counterattack on the spot.

This made it difficult for Real Madrid to play a threatening offense, and the smell of gunpowder on the court gradually became stronger.

In a direct conversation, Roberto Carlos scrambled for the ball with Keita. The Brazilian left back complained to the referee that Keita showed signs of handball, but the referee believed that the ball touched Keita's shoulder, not his arm. , and Keita's arm at the time was close to the body rather than open, so it was not considered a handball.

This made the Real Madrid players very dissatisfied. Salgado is a famous tough guy, and he was even more against Keita on the left. When the two were fighting for a header, Salgado saw Seeing that Keita had already judged the landing point in advance, he still rushed forward fiercely. As a result, two equally brave players directly bumped their heads together, and both fell to the ground bleeding.

Both players were taken out of the court by their respective team doctors, and after the bleeding was stopped and bandaged, they continued to play and returned to the court.

But everyone can feel the intensity of the game from the fierceness of the players on the court.

The referee also didn't want the game to go out of control, so he drew cards when he saw some big moves. For this reason, Real Madrid got two yellow cards in a row, while Ajax got another one. Received two yellow cards each.

But in the end, Real Madrid couldn't even equalize the score in the first half.

Returning to the locker room with a score of 1:0, the Ajax players looked very excited. They were very satisfied with the trend of the game. If they can keep this score, their away game at the Bernabeu will undoubtedly become more exciting. Advantage.

Ye Qiu didn't dare to be careless at all, because the second half has always been Ajax's weakness, especially in the last half hour when the physical energy is almost exhausted. Ajax has suffered a lot during this period of time. , so he knew very well that the real decision of the game would be in the second half.

To put it bluntly, Ajax is only leading by 1 goal, and Real Madrid can tie the score as long as any star has a flash of inspiration. By then, Real Madrid, with an away goal in hand, will become have more advantages.

The head coach's analysis of the game situation calmed down the excited Ajax players. After thinking about it seriously, it was true that as Ye Qiu was worried, Ajax had nothing to be happy about.

"We can't be complacent in the second half. Believe me, as long as we relax our vigilance against Real Madrid, they may kill us anytime, anywhere, so we must remain absolutely calm and focused. No one can do that." Lax, especially Zidane's defense!"

After the sluggish performance in the first half of the season, the Frenchman is playing better and hotter in the second half of the season. He has now become the absolute core of Real Madrid's offense. Once Zidane finds an opportunity, Ajax must have died an ugly death.

Today's Ajax is like a runaway wild horse, no one can stop it unless it wants to stop, and as the head coach, Ye Qiu has to remind his players again , During the game, we must pay attention to slowing down the rhythm appropriately, so as to preserve our energy.

Sometimes, it's not that the players don't understand. After all, after playing for a season, the team's problems have been mentioned countless times. Can they not know?

But the problem is, the field is changing rapidly, and they can only rely on instinct to play football. Now they understand when they are calm, but when their heads get hot, they forget everything. Who can remember?

This is the importance of a metronome, because this type of player can always keep calm on the court. With their high analysis and high reading of the overall situation of the game, they can adjust the rhythm of the team well at any time. When it's time to be fast, when it's time to be slow, it's slow.

The players in the Ajax team know how to pass the ball when they are fast and how to cooperate when they are slow. scale between slow and slow.

The higher the level of competition, the higher the requirements for this grasping ability.

Ye Qiu knew very well in his heart that the strength and thickness of the midfield composed of Gilberto Silva, Sneijder, Keita, Yaya Toure, De Jong and others were sufficient, but it was still There are big gaps, not the least of which is a metronome.

This is already Ajax's biggest weakness!
And Ye Qiu's greatest hope is that this hidden danger will not erupt at the last moment of this season, otherwise, Leverkusen's Sanya king may be a lesson for Ajax!
(End of this chapter)