Chapter 90 The Only Giant
When the game reached the 86th minute, Hunterlaer, who was substituting Ibrahimovic, received a cross from Robben on the left and shot in front of the goal, but was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Westved. Van der Fate, who followed closely behind, was like a ghost in the penalty area, peering at the right time, making a shot, and rewrites the score to 2:0.
At this time, Ye Qiu had no suspense about the game, but he was thinking and summarizing the game more, because he felt that this game was always played in his own grasp.
The strategy Ye Qiu adopted in this game was actually the understanding he gained from the essence of some famous masters and seniors in the learning house, that is, never let your opponent play football at the rhythm they are best at.
When Irving was there, Liverpool was best at defensive counterattacks. They liked to face the kind of teams that were under attack, and they didn't like to meet the teams that were both defending to the end, so Ye Qiu chose the latter without hesitation.
Many people find it difficult to operate in the two defensive systems of high position and ordinary position. This is not because it cannot be done, but because it often takes time for their players to adapt to these two defensive systems at the same time.
Ye Qiu led the second team to play a defensive counterattack last season, transforming the overall defensive system from Rehagel. Now, this system has been brought from the second team to the first team. Although it has some impact on joining players such as Lucio and Macon, at least the players will not be uncomfortable.
Not to mention the high-level defense adopted in the Eredivisie this season, which is Ajax's home-cooked dish.
Therefore, when Irving is there, he uses defensive counterattack. When Irving becomes Fowler, Ye Qiu chooses to defend at a high position.
At this time, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Hollier made a mistake in substitution. He chose to substitution instead of strengthening the offense. If he kept Irving on the court and joined Fowler and Smitchell, Ye Qiu would have a headache.
But at that time, Hollier should be thinking that if Ajax, who had been guarding for so long, would he still be suppressed?
Ye Qiu has never been brave enough to think about ideas that others dare not think about, and dare to do things that others dare not do!
After leading 2:0, Liverpool obviously lost its fighting spirit. Although there are still some players rushing and fighting, overall defeat is inevitable.
So, even when the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game, all Liverpool fans were silent.
They didn't attack their opponents because they felt that their opponents won the game by relying on strength and tactics, and they did not blame their teams, because that was never something that Reds fans would do.
When the whistle rang at the end of the game, Hollier took the initiative to walk to the visiting team coach's seat and shook hands politely with Ye Qiu.
From his tightly clasped hands, Ye Qiu could clearly sense the sweat in Hollier's palm.
Ye Qiu has a good impression of the French head coach. The strength and tactics on the football field can determine the outcome, but under the football field, people have to rely on their personality and style to win the respect of their opponents, and Hollier has always been good in this regard.
After seeing off the frustrated Hollier, Ye Qiu welcomed Fowler who was walking down the court.
He will not forget the Liverpool striker described in the elementary school textbook in his previous life [Give Up Strike]. Moreover, Fowler's strength is undoubtedly, but his opportunities are indeed a little worse. But Ye Qiu, from the perspective of a simple football enthusiast, admires Fowler and respects such an opponent.
After seeing Fowler away, Ye Qiu and Gerald met. Ye Qiu had longed for this future Red Army captain.
Afterwards, Ye Qiu returned to the front of the player passage and sent his players back to the locker room one by one.
A 2-0 away victory at Anfield Stadium was undoubtedly a result of Ajax's good results, and Ye Qiu was also full of confidence in the team's promotion.
He raised his head and found Eliza in the stands at Anfield Stadium. Sitting beside Eliza was Huang Chu who flew from home to Liverpool to watch his game.
"It was you who gave me strength and won the game!" Ye Qiu pointed at Huang Chu in the stands and pointed at the mouth.
Because he spoke in Chinese and did not speak, no one here knew what he was saying. However, the camera quickly moved from Ye Qiu to Eliza and Huang Chu in the stands.
"Wow, what a beautiful girl, so beautiful!" The commentator noticed at this time that there were two such beautiful and refined girls in the stands of Anfield Stadium.
"It looks like they are friends of Ajax head coach Ye Qiu, and one of them may be his girlfriend. Who is it? All the viewers in front of the TV will come and guess. I think that brunette woman may be his family!"
Ye Qiu just saw Huang Chu and greeted her excitedly, but she didn't expect it to attract other people's guesses.
"What is he talking to you?" Eliza asked in the stands, watching Ye Qiu walk into the player passage, and a strange smile.
She can understand Chinese and speak, but it would be a bit difficult for her to speak lips.
Huang Chu's pink face was red, but she understood a little, her heart was sweet and her whole heart was intoxicated.
Seeing her appearance, Eliza was tactful and knew that this must be something that Ye Qiu said to Huang Chu, damn guy, to flirt with Huang Chu, so she stopped asking questions, but she thought in her heart that the relationship between the two seemed to have been confirmed. Did Huang Chu's parents agree?
要说叶秋和黄楚的关系,阿贾克斯上下都知道,只是大家都故意不说,可谁都知道黄楚和叶秋相爱,所以当初胡伊津格打黄楚的主意,被叶秋狠狠的揍了一顿,所有人都不觉得奇怪,反而对叶秋保护自己女朋友的举动给予了体谅.
But only Eliza, who is best friend, knows that Huang Chu and Ye Qiu are still separated by Huang Chu's parents.
As a good friend, Eliza also hopes to see Ye Qiu walking with Huang Chu, because in her opinion, Ye Qiu is really an excellent man. Although his biggest problem is that his life is a bit sloppy, isn’t this Huang Chu’s strength?
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Ajax defeated Liverpool 2-0 away, and this game completely shocked the whole of Europe by the strength of this Dutch giant, because Liverpool's strength this season is not bad.
When Ye Qiu's team defeated Capello's Roma, many people put more luck on Ajax's victory, and more because they felt that it was caused by Roma's own problems. But now, Ajax defeated Hollier's Liverpool, which is worthy of attention from all teams.
In the first leg of the League Cup round of 16 knockout match this season, the performance of the two teams was shocking.
One team was Ajax, who defeated Rome and Liverpool one after another. Many people even began to shout the slogan of Ajax revival, believing that the Ajax youth guards led by Ye Qiu will inherit the fine traditions from the periods of Michels, Cruyff and Van Gaal, and once again made the whole of Europe feel the charm of Dutch football.
Another team is Alaves from La Liga.
Mane's team performed well in La Liga last season, and the La Liga team encountered the star-studded Inter Milan in the round of 16 knockout round, but they played a wonderful offensive game with the opponent 3:3 at home. This is very difficult for Alaves, who has no star flavor.
Whether it is Ye Qiu's Ajax or Mane's Alaves, these two teams have one interesting thing in common, that is, there are no big-name stars in the team, and they don't even have first-class stars. What they rely more on is the overall team and the players' tactical execution.
The difference is that Ajax defeated Liverpool 2-0 away, Ye Qiu became Amsterdam's hero, Alaves tied Inter Milan 3-3 at home, and Mane's team is likely to stop in the round of 16 knockout stage.
As Ye Qiu gradually made a name for himself in European football, domestic media have also noticed the Netherlands.
As early as when Ajax appointed Ye Qiu, domestic professional football newspapers published this news, but more people have read it. After all, it is hard to believe that a Chinese man can lead the Dutch football giants to succeed. Many people even think that Ye Qiu is likely to lead Ajax to a formality and will be terminated soon.
But what was unexpected was that Ye Qiu's Ajax became more and more outstanding and performed better in the League Cup. This not only attracted the attention of European media, but even domestic media reported on it.
The Central Party Newspaper reported this game on the second day of the game and quoted some comments and reports from European football media, which pushed Ye Qiu's reputation in China to a new peak, so some fans began to look for Ye Qiu's past.
I don't know if I look for it. After searching, those who thought Ye Qiu had to get into Ajax by luck and relationship were shocked. After seeing it, they realized that the reason why their compatriots were able to take charge of a wealthy family like Ajax was because they led the second team of Ajax to create history and won the Dutch Cup championship.
People who don’t know may not feel it, but fans and football practitioners who are more familiar with European football have a clear understanding of the difficulty of this feat. Because they know how difficult it is, they know how valuable Ye Qiu’s feat is. This has almost set off a wave of praising Ye Qiu in China.
For Ye Qiu, who is far away in Europe, the affirmation and praise of domestic fans will not affect everything he has in Europe. If he can't win the league championship, he will still be dismissed. If his grades are bad, he will still have to leave, so he acts very rationally.
But it is not that there is no impact at all. At least when Ye Qiu's parents ran Ye Ji snack bar next to Xiamen Railway Station and were revealed by the media, many reporters and fans came to the news, which directly led to the hot spot business.
Returning to the Netherlands from England, Ajax soon welcomed Fortuna Sitade. The team was slaughtered by Ye Qiu's Ajax in the first round. Now playing away, Ajax still showed no mercy to them. With the goals of Hleb, Hunteral and De Jong, Ajax defeated Fortuna Sitade 3:0 away.
He performed well last season, but lost star players such as Hofland this season. Fortuna Sitade's strength has declined very strongly and is now on the verge of relegation.
In this game against Fortuna Sitade, Ye Qiu also held back for the League Cup, which allowed him to take the Arena Stadium in the middle of the week and face Liverpool in the second leg of the League Cup. He also defeated Liverpool 1:0 with Robben's goal and eliminated Liverpool from the League Cup with a total score of 3:0.
The League Cup is still very heavy these days, and its momentum is not much inferior to the Champions League, at least it is not the kind of uselessness in the previous life.
You should know that Ronaldo, who was empty-handed in Inter Milan in 1998, won the European Golden Ball Award for the League Cup. In Ye Qiu's previous life, Liverpool's Michael Irving was able to win the European Golden Ball Award in 2001 because of a very large League Cup champion.
As for the other cup championships Liverpool won, the League Cup and the FA Cup are England's own cup matches. The former is a bit of a piece of cake, while the latter is a bit of cake, but not heavy. As for the Community Shield and the European Super Cup, these are even more warm-up cups, so among the five Liverpool champions, the most important is this League Cup.
Because the League Cup is full of weight now, the competition is also very fierce. Not only the giant teams pay enough attention, but even non-wealth teams have regarded the League Cup as a stage to show their own strength.
After the two rounds of the League Cup, the team that reached the quarterfinals were newly released.
With his strength as a leader, Eindhoven, who is superior to the Dutch Liverpool, has now surpassed Feyenoord. Eindhoven, who is the leader, defeated Parma in Serie A; Ajax defeated Liverpool 3:0; Alaves eliminated the star-shining Inter Milan 2:0 away in the first leg with 3:3 at home.
In addition, the teams that also entered the quarterfinals include Barcelona, which is determined to win against the League Cup, Bundesliga powerhouse Kesslauten, La Liga powerhouse Celta and Vallecano, and Portugal's giants Porto.
La Liga performed extremely well in the League Cup this season. A total of 4 teams from the top 8 teams came from La Liga. Among these teams, Barcelona has the highest reputation for winning the championship because they are also the team with the most strength and stars among these eight teams. They are considered to be the only giants in the League Cup arena where the heroes compete.
Ajax encountered Porto in the quarterfinals elimination match, and the winners of these two teams will face the winners of Alaves and Kesslauten.
Barcelona will encounter Vallecano, and the winner between them will encounter the winner between Eindhoven and Celta.
Relatively speaking, Ye Qiu felt that he had drawn a good draw, because Ajax's overall football matched teams like Portugal, and his advantages were even more obvious.
Sure enough, Fernando Santos's Porto could not stop the unstoppable Ajax.
In the first leg of away challenge to Porto, Ye Qiu still adopted a more aggressive 433 high-position defensive tactic, but only one Gilberto Silva was left in the midfield, and Keita and Sneider were arranged to push forward at the same time. In addition, the combination of Macon and Van der Mede on the right, Ajax pushed the attack on the away game.
Porto's tactic is the 4231 double midfielder tactic. Deco, who will be in full swing in the future, will sit on the bench in this game, and the future Portugal's core defensive Carvalho will be loaned out this season, which made Ye Qiu sigh.
In the end, Porto lost 1:2 to Ajax at his home court. Because Robben was absent, Van der Fate, who was ranked on the left winger by Ye Qiu, scored two beautiful goals, becoming a great contributor to Ajax's victory.
A week after returning to Amsterdam, Ajax beat Porto 4-0 at Arena Stadium.
In this game of Arena, Ajax fully demonstrated his advantage in high-level defense. Ibrahimovic used his physical and technical advantages to fully suppress the two central defenders of Porto in this game, and also fully demonstrated his own advantages and strength. In addition, the threat of two Ajax wingers to the opponent's wing, Ajax's offense blossomed in full swing.
The total score was 6:1 and Ajax successfully entered the semi-finals of the League Cup.
This time, Ajax met Alaves, a La Liga team led by Jose Mane, who is also known for his overall football.
Two teams, which claim to be the dark horses of the League Cup this season, met in the semi-finals, which undoubtedly became a highlight of the League Cup, and the other matchup was that Barcelona met Celta who eliminated Eindhoven.
Although it is a joy to advance on the League Cup, the team's performance in the Eredivisie are worrying.
It’s not that Ye Qiu’s team did not perform well enough in the Eredivisie. Ajax played 3 Eredivisie games from February 25 to March 12, achieving a record of 2 wins and 1 draw, 2:0 defeating Udrecht at home, 3:1 away defeat Rosendal, and 3:3 away away.
Logically speaking, Ajax's performance was excellent and had reversed his successors. Feyenoord, who has performed poorly recently, became the second place behind Eindhoven in the Eredivisie standings with only 8 points behind Eindhoven.
But the problem is that Eindhoven's performance was too eye-catching, with two wins and one draw, they still maintained an 8-point advantage with Ajax and did not make any mistakes in the process of winning the championship.
As the game progresses one after another, the pressure on Ajax is also increasing, because everyone knows that once head coach Ye Qiu is unable to win the Eredivisie championship, the agreement with the board of directors will automatically work.
Unless, he can reverse Eindhoven by 8 points in the remaining 12 rounds.
But is this possible?
Eindhoven is currently the Dutch Cup and the Eredivisie, but Ajax is moving forward in the three fronts of the Dutch Cup, the Dutch Cup and the League Cup. No matter how you look at it, Ajax is at a disadvantage in the momentum of competing for the championship.
But Ye Qiu was still confident when he was interviewed, because in the remaining leagues, there was still a home game against Eindhoven.
Chapter completed!