Changing the formation on the spot has always been a taboo for military strategists.

From the ancient cold weapon war to the current football tactics, the coaches are unacceptable to changing the formation on the spot, because it is full of various risks, and it is easy for players to lose their combat effectiveness due to their unfamiliarity and inadequacy with the tactics.

But there have never been few bold and courageous coaches who changed the team on the spot and successfully defeated their opponents, and eventually became a sage of sages in a generation. But that is more common in the topic of conversation. In reality, no one is willing to take such a big risk, no one is willing to bear the terrible consequences.

But sometimes, there are always people who want to take a gamble and take this risk.

Ajax's chief center Ibrahimovic was injured and absent, which has been rumored to be rumored by the media. It is no big secret. Without Ibrahimovic, Ajax had to choose Hunteral.

Before the game, everyone estimated that in this game, Ajax only adjusted and substituted some local positions on the basis of retaining the 433 tactics. Ye Qiu would not have any major changes, but unexpectedly, Ajax's starting lineup surprised everyone.

"It's really unexpected that before the key event, Ajax suddenly changed the lineup, abandoned Ajax's traditional n9433 tactics and adopted 442 tactics, which really surprised us."

Everyone was surprised to see Van der Fate and Hunterra standing in the kick-off position, and the live commentator was puzzled.

"Goal Van der Sar, the defense is Abidal, Kivo, Lucio and Mai Li, the midfield is Robben, Yaya Toure, Mascherano and Sneider, and the double strikers are Van der Fate and Hunterra. Will Ajax play 442 in this game?"

In fact, according to such tactical arrangements, we can still beat 433, but from the neatness of Ajax's three lines, it looks more like 442, and Robben's position is relatively backward. Van der Fate was pushed to the front line, which was greatly beyond the expectations of many people.

Juventus' formation in this game is still the 4312 they are good at. The goalkeeper is Buffon, the defense is Zambrota, Montero, Ferrara and Turam, the midfield is Tachinadi, Tudor and Camoranesi, the front midfield is Nedved, and the double strikers are Piero and Trezege.

"We have to say that Lippi's arrangement of troops is not very amazing, and he plays steadily. On the other hand, although Ajax and Ye Qiu's on-site change caught off guard, it also brought huge risks. Once the team is not running well, it is very likely that Ajax will fall into a disaster throughout the game."

The statement of the live commentator failed to alleviate Lippi's attention. Long before the season, Lippi's Juventus played in the Amsterdam Cup with Ye Qiu's Ajax. Juventus lost 1:2 that time, but Lippi's team had not yet fully completed the game.

But now it is different. As Nedved integrates into Juventus' tactics and as the team's overall tactics get better and better, Lippi's team is becoming more and more combat-effective. The poor performance in the group stage cannot be the basis for the knockout round, because targeted tactics are more important in the knockout round.

"What do you think he wants to do?" Silver Fox Lippi stood on the sidelines and gently held up the glasses on his nose, guessing Ye Qiu's tactical arrangements.

The same lineup can produce completely different tactical effects, so it is difficult for Lippi to tell whether Ye Qiu's lineup is really 442? Or is there another special tactical arrangement?

"Arteta is not injured or sick, and the Spanish teenager is a crucial member of Ajax midfield this season. Ye Qiu arranged him on the bench in this game and instead gave Yaya Toure the starter. I guess it is likely to be targeted at Nedved."

Standing beside Lippi is his chief assistant coach, Nachiso Pezzoti, a loyal old partner.

"Oh?" Lippi was not surprised by this. Nedved's back insertion was definitely the most deadly part of Juventus' offense. If Ye Qiu didn't know how to limit this, he would be in vain.

"I still remember that he once nailed Barak of Leverkusen with Yaya Toure," Pezzotti said with a smile.

Sometimes even Lippi has to admire his best partner's memory and his ability to analyze details. Although he is in his sixties, he is indeed getting better and better in this regard.

You target me, I target you, this is a tactical contest in the knockout round.

Lippi also targeted defense against Ajax's tactics in this game. Among them, Camoranesi and Toram were on the left side of Robben. Lippi specifically instructed Camoranesi to protect Turam on the right side of anyway to avoid Robben's too many one-on-one on the side.

Hunteral has an excellent ability to seize opportunities in the penalty area. Although the Dutch is just a substitute, he has performed well and scored a lot of goals. He is already a well-known forward rookie in the Dutch Eredivisie and Europe. In addition, Ibrahimovic was injured, so Lippi cannot ignore this center.

If Robben is given too many one-on-one opportunities, no matter how outstanding Toram is or how strong his strength, it will be difficult to organize the Dutch winger to pass the ball into the penalty area, and it may turn into a threat.

Regarding the right, Zanbrotta was responsible for watching Van der Fate, and at the same time, he also made Tachinadi pay attention to the restrictions on Van der Fate after cutting inward, in order to prevent Ajax from passing the ball to Hunterraer's feet to the maximum extent.

Both sides are making targeted arrangements, and everyone is guessing the other party’s tactics, but the game has not started, and no one knows whether their tactics can work.

Because of this, Lippi was not scared by Ajax's starting lineup and changing teams, but patiently waited for the referee to blew the whistle at the beginning of the game, and then observed Ajax's tactics through the game.

Because it was a little rain before, the field was a little slippery. When Van der Fat was training just now, he almost lost his center of gravity and slipped when he received the ball. This made him complain about the turf and think it was too slippery.

Standing opposite Hunterlaal, Van der Fate knew very clearly what he should do in this game.

Although Ye Qiu's tactical arrangement is a bit unexpected, it is actually not that difficult to understand.

Hunteral is a typical shooter. He needs someone to deliver shells around and behind him. He is not the kind of player who can chisel the opponent's defense, nor the kind of tactical center who can retreat and get the ball back. He is just a shooter.

Ibrahimovic's injury made Ajax's offense relied on Hunterlaer, so Ye Qiu needed to form a ball attack that transported shells for Hunterlaer, so Van der Fate changed to play the forward.

When the team launched an attack, Hunterlaer was nailed firmly in the opponent's penalty area to attract defensive attention. Van der Fate moved behind him and both sides, receiving passes from behind and on both sides, making a ball to Hunterlaer, and also inserting an attack by himself.

This is an important routine for Ajax's mid-lane offense in this game.

But no matter at any time or in any situation, Ajax's attack is not just the middle lane.

With the referee's whistle, Ajax took the lead in kicking off.

After Van der Fate drove the ball to Hunteral, the Dutch center immediately knocked back behind him, and Mascherano passed it to Lucio.

Juventus' entire defensive formation quickly retracted, while Ajax moved forward steadily

At this moment, everyone could clearly see Ajax's overall position during the attack.

Hunterlaer was at the front, Van der Fate was behind him, circling on his left and right sides. Robben was still playing on the left, but the position was not as high as that of the top. Instead, he was active between Camoranesi and Toulam. Sneijder's position was almost the same as Robben, while Yaya Toure and Mascherano fell at the back.

The entire midfield looks like a disc-shaped position. If you have to talk about it from the position, it will be 4222.

But it is obviously not just that. When Lucio got the ball and passed it to Yaya Toure, the latter took a few steps forward after getting the ball. After Camoranesi rushed up, he quickly passed it to the left and gave Robben a quick pass.

The Dutch was behind Camoranesi. When he saw Camoranesi coming up, he immediately ran to the neutral to receive the ball. After getting the ball, he rushed forward quickly, wanting to face Toulam one-on-one. And unlike Robben's past, he was always active on the sidelines. This time his dribbling was a bit off the ball, obviously he wanted to find Van der Fate who was active on both sides.

Tudor is a central defender with a great sense of position, and Turam can also play central defender. When he saw Robben's activities, both of them chose to protect the central defender. Tudor was on the snatch, and Turam was responsible for watching Van der Fate.

Seeing that Robben had no chance, he passed the ball quickly through the middle and came to the right. But at this moment, Sneider attracted Zanbrotta near the sideline. Who will catch the ball?

The whole process sounds long, but in fact, because the players are moving at the same time, all of these happened in just less than N40 seconds, and Ajax successfully pushed the ball into Juventus' 30-meter area.

And the moment Robben crossed, he saw Ajax's right-sideback Mai JiL sprinting forward at the speed of the extreme.

The ball was diverted in the frontcourt before, and everyone's attention was also focused on Van der Fate, Robben, Hunterlaer, or Sneid, so only Nedved noticed Mai JiL's quick insertion, but the Czech speed could not keep up with Mai JiL who was sprinting with all his might. He saw the Brazilian receiving the pass on the right side, about 25 meters away from the goal.

A loophole appeared in the entire defensive system. Juventus' defensive players immediately reacted and wanted to fill the loophole as soon as possible. Tachinadi chose to grab it as soon as possible, and wanted to join forces with Nedved to attack Mai JiL.

But what was unexpected was that after the Brazilian stopped the ball, he pulled his feet and shot with an angry shot without thinking.

The ball was like a cannonball, passing through the crowd at lightning speed, and no one had time to block it.

Buffon stood in front of the goal and was also a little surprised by Mai JiL's sudden long shot, but he reacted immediately and made a flight save, but the ball slightly deviated from the left post and the goal shot.

Although the ball did not go in, Ye Qiu applauded the players on the sidelines, obviously very satisfied with the start of the game.

This was also something he made special arrangements before the game. From the beginning, he had to suppress Juventus' momentum, smash the Zebras' spirit back, and control the overall situation and rhythm of the game and launch a scramble.

If you are slowing down with a defensive counterattacking team like Juventus, it is purely a search for death.

If you slowly grind them, you will almost never be able to break through their defense. Even if Juventus' defensive players have a lot of problems, they are experienced and deeply appreciate the essence of Italian reinforced concrete defense. When shrinking the defense line and being arranged calmly, it is almost impossible for anyone to break through.

Therefore, if you play such a team, you can only choose to be fast, give up possession of the ball, and play fast!

Therefore, Ye Qiu did not choose Arteta, but chose Yaya Toure, which was also to allow the Ivorians to defend Nedved and liberate Mascherano, so that the latter could better protect the defense line.

Relatively speaking, Juventus lacks speed on the wing, and Zambrota on the left, but he plays as the left back, and Sneider is restraining it there, so Ye Qiu boldly let Macon insert it in this game.

Just now, he got a long shot in less than a minute, but Macon didn't seem to be satisfied. Two minutes later, he got a diagonal pass from Sneider who was pulling into the middle at the front of the penalty area. However, this time he was blocked by Zanbrotta and was forced to make a cross from the bottom. Hunterlah grabbed the point in front of the goal, but in the end he could not compete with Ferrara.

Without the effect of Ibrahimovic as a fulcrum in front, Ajax's ball path advancement could no longer go through the routine of finding Ibrahimovic, holding the ball and then inserting it back to launch an offense. He could only rely on the ground penetration and propulsion routine from behind to front, but this was not ideal in the face of Juventus' three-line shrinking defense.

Lippi's arrangement was also very cautious. Among the three dragged back midfielders, Tudor and Tachinadi were both defensive players, and Camoranesi also had both offense and defense, which made them have very good protection for the defense. Ajax's offense could not effectively advance to Juventus' penalty area, and could only frequently threaten Buffon with long shots.

In the first 10 minutes, Ajax scored a total of 3 long shots, but none of them were effective

"After all, it's Juventus, defense is like a wall of iron, without any leakage." Bobby Hams sat in the coaching seat, raised his head, looked at the players on both sides of the stadium, and said helplessly.

Although Ajax quickly used the start of the game to play the scramble and successfully took the initiative, the offense was still difficult to effectively advance to Juventus' penalty area, which has a lot to do with the tight protection of Juventus' midfield.

Ye Qiu also agrees with Juventus' view that his defense is very strong, but he does not think it is unbreakable.

No matter how strong the defense is, there will be a moment of loopholes, because as long as you are a person, you will definitely make mistakes. The key is that you have to put enough pressure on him. Judging from the previous 10 minutes, Ajax has achieved certain results, but the threat on the wing is not enough. Neither Robben on the left or Sneider and Mai Li on the right have shown enough threats.

"Roland, make the two sides more active, let Van der Fate pull out more, retreat appropriately, pull out space, and then find opportunities to enter from both sides." Ye Qiu ordered to Roland.

The latter quickly conveyed Ye Qiu's latest instructions, but the scene still did not change.

Sometimes the head coach's tactics may not be implemented and implemented by all players. It seems that Ajax seems to have the initiative now, but in fact Juventus' defense against his own half-court is as if it were a solid piece of iron. As soon as the ball enters this area, he immediately comes under tremendous pressure.

This pressure will cause Ajax players to perform the head coach's tactics to greatly reduce the effect Ye Qiu wants to achieve, and Juventus' foul tactics in this game are indeed a headache.

For example, in the 21st minute, Montero took advantage of a close-fitting defense opportunity to hit Van der Fate in the calf with a black foot from behind. The latter fell to the ground and was treated outside the court by Ajax's team doctor for several minutes before returning.

Montero, a not-tall Uruguayan defender, has the title of striker killer, with fierce defense and very hurtful movements. Although this black foot gave Montero a yellow card, it also successfully shocked Van der Fate. Especially whenever he saw the fierce look of the Uruguayan central defender approaching, Van der Fate felt cold in his heart.

With this fear, the performance will naturally be greatly reduced, far less active than the beginning.

When Ajax got out of the start and gradually became dull, Juventus had already planned to organize an effective counterattack against Ajax. He first used Touram's long pass from the backcourt, and Trezege used his body to suppress Kivo and then stopped the ball, passing it to Nedved. The latter shot directly after getting the ball, making Juventus' first shot in this game.

This shot also sounded the horn of Juventus' counterattack.

In just less than N5 minutes, Juventus counterattacked again. Hunterla wanted to kick the ball after getting the pass, but Ferrara stabbed Buffon in advance, and the Italian goalkeeper directly had a big foot.

The ball flew quickly to the front of Ajax's defense line. Lucio and Trezeguet successfully competed for the top and headed the ball, but Tudor got the ball, and the Croatian headed the ball back to Nedved.

Yaya Toure's task in this game was to crucify Nedved. The two competed for the top, and the Ivorians won, but the ball fell to Camoranesi's feet, and the latter made a diagonal pass and moved to Piero on the left.

Piero faced the middle on the left, looking at Camoranesi's pass, and stopped steadily in his chest. When Macon was defending himself closely behind him, he did not choose to fight head-on, but led the ball directly to the middle. As soon as he approached the top of the penalty area, he directly rubbed a curved ball and crossed Ajax's defense line, and the landing point was behind Gifu.
Chapter completed!