Chapter 25 Victory or Death!(1/2)
"Is this the home court of Ajax II?"
When Van Nistruei walked off the bus with the luxurious, colored Eindhoven and team logo printed on the body, he looked up at the sky. It was a little gloomy and could not see a trace of sunshine, giving people a chilly feeling.
They played at Arena Stadium, but they never played on the Ajax II field.
"Look, that's their stands, there are only a few rows of seats, my god!"
"You count, how many fans are there? Are there more than a thousand?"
"Poor Ajax, poor second team, there is no need to play this game!"
"Yunas, you have to save some effort when you wait. Don't knock them down in one go, that's not fun!"
"We should not play this kind of game, Dennis!" Yunas Korca looked depressed and swept towards his teammate Romedal. In his opinion, playing against Ajax team 2 was simply an insult to them.
For them, this kind of game should give the second team young players and the first team some opportunities to substitute. Why do you have to play all the main players?
"Okay, okay, don't complain so much, be ready to enter the field!" Van Bomel got off the bus and reminded his teammates that although he only joined Eindhoven this season, he has become a big shot in the locker room with his strong strength and strong personality.
A group of Eindhoven players got off the bus and were immediately taken by the staff toward the locker room behind the simple stands.
"Oh my god, is this their locker room?"
“There is not even a place to take a shower?”
"The benches are still wood, so hard, how can you sit on them?"
Head coach Gretz also felt that the hardware here was indeed a little simpler, but Ajax's youth training was notorious.
"Just make it a moment, and leave after the game!"
They set off from Eindhoven at noon today. After a two-hour drive, they arrived in Amsterdam just before the start of the game. Gretz's original plan was not to stay and go back after the game.
"Then you have to hurry up. You will leave immediately after the game. There is no place to take a shower, and you feel uncomfortable all over!"
"As soon as I hear that I can't take a shower, I will try my best to avoid getting dirty all over. Look at their court, they are full of dead grass branches, which makes it uncomfortable to stick to their bodies!"
"Yes, yes, you can't use sliding shovels!"
When he heard the players say everything, Gretz smiled helplessly, but the conditions of Ajax II team were indeed a little worse, which was a bit inconsistent with their reputation for youth training. Not to mention players, he himself was a little disgusted with this extremely simple so-called locker room.
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Compared to the visiting team's locker room, the home team's locker room, which was far away, seemed very quiet.
Ye Qiu did not arrange pre-match tactics because for Ajax team 2, there was no need for other tactics at all. They had only one choice, that is, defend and wait for an opportunity to counterattack.
As for what Ye Qiu had called for the appearance of the attack before, what he wanted to do, those were smoke bombs.
The players didn't say anything, and they sat down one by one, looking a little nervous.
No wonder, just now, they looked at the group of big-name stars in Eindhoven and walked off the bus one by one. The well-known names were enough to make each of them inevitably feel pressure and heavy pressure.
In such a game where strength is very different, even in a very different way, no one can guess or grasp how much role the tactics can play.
"Are you scared?" Ye Qiu suddenly smiled and asked his players.
Several of them raised their heads and looked at Ye Qiu, but none of them answered. However, from their flashing eyes, Ye Qiu could tell that they were afraid, really scared!
The opponents are too strong and they are too weak, so they are afraid that they will lose miserably and lose without dignity.
Even, if possible, some of them may take the initiative to ask not to participate in this game and choose to escape.
"I'm very scared!" Ye Qiu said something that surprised everyone, then raised his right hand and shivered. "Look, he was trembling, and I was also scared. I was really scared. There is nothing to be ashamed of, it's normal to be afraid."
The players all lowered their heads, which proved that they were also afraid.
"Four days ago, I watched the first team and Eindhoven game in the stands at Arena Stadium. We lost a lot of miserable loss. When I was sitting in the stands, I suddenly asked myself, what should I do if my team lost so badly after four days, even worse than them?"
"I thought about escaping!" Ye Qiu's words surprised many people present again, and they all looked up at him, "Really, I really thought about escaping, but in the end I felt that this wouldn't work, because I escaped this game, and there was another game, I quit football, I had to find other jobs, and I still have to live!"
After a smile, Ye Qiu smiled bitterly and sighed deeply, shook his head, "In the end, I realized how involuntary people are in this world. No matter what we do or wherever we go, we will encounter a powerful enemy like Eindhoven. Do we have to escape every time? Can we escape?"
The locker room was quiet, no one spoke, and the players all lowered their heads and kept silent.
"More than three months ago, I bet with Westhoff that they said I would definitely lose, but two months later, I won!"
"More than a month ago, we met the Eagles in the Dutch Cup. They also said we would definitely lose, but in the end, we won again!"
"Now, we have encountered Eindhoven, and the whole world thinks we must lose. Does that mean that we are willing to lose like this? We are willing to do nothing to resist or fight back, and we are just losing like this?"
Taking a deep breath, Ye Qiu smiled, "I have no choice. For me, this game is a life-and-death battle. If I win, I will still be your head coach. If I lose, I can only leave Ajax!"
When all the players of the second team heard this, they immediately raised their heads and looked at Ye Qiu in surprise. They had never heard of this news before, why did they leave if they lost? Since this game is so important, why didn’t he say it before?
"This is the rule of the game. The strong prey on the weak. Survival of the fittest. If I lose, it means that I am the weak at the mercy of others. If you lose, it also means that you will become the weak who is looked down upon. This is fair and very fair!"
"The unfair thing is that they are Eindhoven, the leader of the Eredivisie, and we are the second team of Ajax, as if we were born insignificant and were only trampled by them and allowed to slaughter them, but does this mean that we cannot resist?"
"No!" Ye Qiu shouted loudly.
"You have the ability to resist, and your weapon of resistance is on you. It depends on whether you dare to resist? It depends on whether you have the courage to take the first step of resistance? It depends on whether you have enough determination to walk to the football field and prove it to everyone, and bravely tell them that you are wrong!"
"Do you dare?" Ye Qiu asked.
There was still no answer in the locker room, and they all just raised their heads and looked at their head coach.
"Who said they should be born winners? Who told you that they will definitely be able to dominate our life and death? Who told you that we should be born under their feet? Today, here I will tell everyone that I am not convinced, but I am not convinced!"
"I want to prove it to everyone, we want to resist!"
"Whoever despises us, let him taste our power!"
"Whoever dares to look down on us will teach them an extremely painful lesson!"
"Whoever wants to step on us and stool on our heads will swear on us, then we will overthrow him. Even if they are the kings who are high above us, we will pull them off the throne, step on them under our feet, let them tremble under our feet, and let the whole world know our name!"
"If you don't win, you'd rather die!"
"If you don't win, you'd rather die!" The first person to stand up to respond to Ye Qiu was Abidal.
"If you don't win, you'd rather die!" Then Kifu stood up.
"If you don't win, you'd rather die!" Van der Fate also clenched his fists and shouted.
Sneider, De Jong, Maduro, Hunteral...
The players from the second team stood up one after another and shouted in unison, "If you don't win, you'd rather die!"
"If you don't win, you'd rather die!!"
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Gretz attached great importance to this game, and he ranked Eindhoven's strongest lineup.
The goalkeepers are Watrus, the defenses are Heintze, Nikiforov, Faber and Van der Widen, the midfields are Korka, Van Bomel, Voger and Romedal, respectively, and the double strikers are Van Nistruei and Nelis.
This set can be said to be the strongest lineup that Eindhoven can currently line up, but Brookinger, who has recently cooperated with Fanny on the front line, was placed on the bench by him.
Also sitting on the bench were Dutch famous players such as Bowma, Oye, Stinga, Van der Doron.
The current team of Eindhoven is full of talents, but the corresponding one is that the team has a very high desire for championships. The goal of this season is to win the double championship, so in the next game, they not only have to win, but also win the momentum of Eindhoven.
Gretz has extraordinary confidence in this because his team has not yet lost on this Dutch land this season!
Opposite the stadium, Ajax arranged the traditional 433 tactical formation as always.
The goalkeeper is Stekrenberg, with the defense being Abidal, Kivo, Heatinga and Van Drew respectively. The three midfielders are De Jong, Sneider and Maduro, Van der Fate, Hunterlaer and Kuruel forming the frontcourt trident.
Compared with Eindhoven's star lineup that is strong enough to scatter the Netherlands, Ye Qiu's lineup is incredibly shabby. I believe that even the fans who came to the scene may not be able to recognize all the players.
Seeing the players on both sides lined up on the court, I believe that all the Ajax fans present had such a question in their hearts. How long can they resist?
With the referee's whistle, Eindhoven took the lead.
The ball was passed back from Van Nie to Voger, and then to Faber's feet. The latter passed a diagonally and directly found Romedal. As soon as the latter stopped the ball, he turned around and quickly drove forward along the right side, and soon entered the 30-meter area of Ajax.
De Jong posted it immediately, he was the first firewall in front of Abidal.
But just when De Jong thought he could keep Romedal, he didn't expect that the player suddenly accelerated and drove the ball forward, and then caught up quickly, using his speed to pass De Jong's defense circle.
This time, everyone's heart was raised.
Abidal's attention was always in front of him. When he saw Romedal crossing Dejong's defense line, he immediately complained in his heart that something was wrong. At this time, he saw Romedal's kick was a bit big, and his first reaction was to rush forward.
But he wondered if he would commit a foul?
In the past few games, he has won cards one after another, yellow and red cards one after another, leaving a shadow on him.
But he immediately remembered Bobby Hams' words and went to the ball!
I saw that Abidal was also very fast and had excellent explosive power. He was like a cheetah who had seen his prey. He rushed out of his garrison area without any effort and aimed at the ball with a fierce shovel.
The next scene happened in an instant, and Abidal's tackle kicked the ball out of bounds, but Romedal also had physical contact with him, and he fell on the court, and the referee quickly approached.
When Ye Qiu saw this scene, he felt a chill in his heart, and he felt a little cold in his heart. If he got the cards at the beginning, it would be over.
Not only Ye Qiu, almost all the players in the second team were worried, and even Abidal himself was afraid.
But at this moment, the referee blew a whistle and pointed it out that this was Eindhoven's outbound ball.
To be continued...