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During the halftime break, neither AZ Alkmaar nor Ajax made any adjustments to their lineups.

Alkmaar has these players. Forward Toni is no better than Drogba, and there are no players in the midfield or backcourt who can control the court more. When leading, there is no need to make adjustments. At most, the substitutes can be used for exercise in the last ten minutes or so.

Ajax's strongest attacking lineup is here, and the performance in the first half is not bad. Olson does not intend to adjust the personnel. He mainly arranges according to the opponent's shortcomings, allowing the players to speed up the front of the penalty area and break through Al

Kemar's double tough defense.

After Alkmaar kicked off, they continued the tactics of the first half, attacking from the side and defensive counterattacks. A group of kids in their 20s actually had the composure of a strong team.

After being taught a lesson by Olsen in the locker room, Ajax was not as impatient as in the first half. Although they also attacked aggressively, there were many fewer loopholes left for Alkmaar to counterattack.

There are three midfielders in the midfield, Laudrup, Litmanen and Zweig, who have excellent technical awareness. The advantage of controlling the ball is undeniable. Alkmaar also recognizes their advantage in the middle and has no intention of playing with them in the middle.

In the competition, Jiang Mu took the following measures: first, to avoid the middle and play on the wing, and second, to adopt muscle tactics in the middle, instead of competing technically with Ajax.

In terms of technology, whether it is Laudrup, Litmanen or Zweig, they can leave Gattuso and Van Bommel alone, but in terms of fighting and stalking, Ajax's trio

Together they can't beat even one of them.

This is not because of the body, it is a kind of spirit. If you pass stars like Manterning and Laudrup, they will definitely be embarrassed to stick to you. When fighting, their accompanying

Small moves and dirty injurious moves cannot be made. The purpose of these players is to score goals, not to compete with others.

Under the unreasonable defense and fighting of Van Bommel and Gattuso, Ajax's midfield trio was shattered into pieces, unable to cooperate and had to fight alone.

After adapting for 45 minutes in the first half, Ismail gradually showed his ability as an excellent central defender. In one-on-one defense, he fell behind regardless of whether he faced Laudrup or Litmanning.

He often uses the help of his teammates to double-team and steal opponents.

Ismail's performance was greatly appreciated by the fans, and he was applauded from time to time in the stands.

Lucio, who was sitting on the bench, was very jealous. The two joined Alkmaar together and both arrived during a crisis. He could only watch his teammates fight on the bench, which made the aggressive Lucio very unhappy.

Comfortable.

Alkmaar did not attack much in the second half, but they mainly exploited the weakness of Ajax's three defenders' insufficient defensive coverage and made bold breakthroughs from the wing. Once the full-backs went to defend the wings, the players in the center would insert themselves from the ribs and hit hard.

Severely attacking the connection between the center back and the full back made Ajax's defense unstoppable.

It was 10 minutes into the second half. AZ Alkmaar took a throw-in from the right side of the frontcourt. Kronkamp threw it to Van Bommel. After receiving the ball, Van Bommel passed straight to Kuyt on the wing.

With the support of Kronkamp, ​​Kuyt fought his way out of the double-team of Babangida, Zweig and Litman.

At this moment, Alkmaar's central midfielder Klose also came to this side to support him. Since Ajax's Oliseh followed Klose every step of the way, Kuyt was unable to cooperate with him, but Van Bommel suddenly

Quickly coming in from behind, Kuytli passed the ball across to Van Bommel.

Ajax's Zweig had realized the danger and hurriedly stepped forward to block the ball. Van Bommel directly knocked the ball to Thomasson with his left foot without stopping the ball, and at the same time moved forward quickly.

Thomason made a short triangular pass with Van Bommel before Blind. At this moment, Oliseh rushed to tackle, but Van Bommel passed him with a flick of his left foot. Oliseh received a yellow card.

, not daring to make a mistake, could only watch Van Bommel rush into the penalty area.

At this moment, Blind could no longer care about others. He could only throw away Thomason and rush towards Van Bommel to prevent him from directly kicking the goal. From such a close distance, although Van der Sar was brave, his shot from such a close range was definitely not too much.

Method.

Van Bommel, who has always been a midfield butcher, only then did people realize that he was actually playing as a point guard. In front of Blind's defense, he did not dare to kick his foot to attack the goal, but instead dunked the ball from behind.

In the past, the call was passed to Thomason.

Facing the attack of Giraffe Van der Sar and the hot pursuit of Oliseh behind him, Thomasson lost his balance and poked the ball towards the goal.

Van der Sar fell to the ground a little late, and the ball rolled under his ribs. After being pressed by him, the ball slowed down. At this time, the extremely fast Nigerian Oliseh kicked the ball before it entered the net.

The bottom line has been crossed.

Oliseh scored an own goal in the first half because the ball hit his shoulder, and now he finally made up for it, destroying a must-goal.

After escaping disaster, Ajax launched a retaliatory offensive.

Around 15 minutes into the second half, Ajax's fierce offensive gave them a free kick opportunity in the frontcourt. Litmanen took a free kick from the left.

The ball was pushed out by Alkmaar defender Ismail. At the same time, all the defenders in the penalty area quickly pressed forward to avoid offside. However, Ismail staggered during the fight with Aviladze and fell behind.

After getting up again, he was half a beat slower, and ended up 1 meter behind the other defenders.

This is a fatal meter!

When Ajax's Litmanen passed Ismail's ball to the penalty area again, Ismail's 1-meter delay was just enough for both Aviladze and Laudrup.

Offside.

Litmanen's ball was passed to the Dane Laudrup who was holding the ball with his back to the goal. When Laudrup stopped the ball, he almost stuck the ball to his feet and turned 180 degrees, directly turning it into a face.

Facing the goal, he took a step forward, took a small arc with his right foot and hit the dead center of the goal.

2:2 flat.

AZ Alkmaar's mistakes and Ajax's genius turned the game into a draw.

The outstanding performance of Ismail's mistake came so suddenly that everyone was dumbfounded and could only watch the Danish Laudrup's ballet-like performance speechlessly.

A star is a star! Jiang Mu couldn't help but shake his head. He studied the Ajax stars very thoroughly and made a multi-layered defense to lock them in the cage, but one mistake still allowed them to catch them.

Got the chance.

After the tie was tied at 1-1, Ajax's morale was high. A minute later, Aviladze hit another goal post, but the referee ruled that he was offside.

The draw left both sides dissatisfied. Jiang Mu took the lead in changing tactics and waited until Lucio came on to replace Engel. The two rookie center backs finally came on at the same time. Ajax's Danish veteran Olsen replaced him with Kiefer.

We took off Oliseh, who was carrying a yellow card, and strengthened our defense.

Jiang Mu's substitution was surprising. Everyone questioned Jiang Mu's purpose of sending in center back Lucio when the score was equalized.

Even Alkmaar's former captain Maher, who has been speaking for Jiang Mu, said in confusion: "What does Jiang Mu mean? Does he want to keep a draw? This is not his character. Besides, Alkmaar is ahead of the second place fee."

Yeinold has already exceeded 10 points, so why don't you keep up the good work and instead be so conservative? With Ajax's experience, can strengthening defense prevent the opponent from scoring goals? "

The on-site commentator even directly said that Jiang Mu was engaging in appeasement tactics and capitulationism. It was really inexplicable that he did not become tougher at this time and instead changed his guard.

However, soon the young Brazilian central defender replaced by Jiang Mu made people crazy.

In the 20th minute of the second half, Ajax, who had equalized the score, saw hope of winning. They had been strengthening their offense and wanted to strike while the iron was hot and overtake the score.

In the second minute after Lucio came on the field, the winger Babangida quickly made a pass. When the ball flew to the middle, Aviladze retreated and then quickly moved forward. He deceived Is.

Mel wanted to head the ball towards the goal, but Lucio, who was extremely explosive, suddenly appeared in front of him. With his head, he pointed the ball towards Gattuso at the edge of the penalty area, and he quickly rushed out of the penalty area.

Gattuso was facing his own goal and it was difficult to clear the ball, so he passed the ball to Lucio, hoping that Lucio would kick it out.

Under normal circumstances, defenders will kick the ball out or pass it to their teammates. But Lucio is not normal. Not only did he not pass the ball, but he also did not make a clearance with his big feet. Instead, he took the ball and dribbled it from the front of the penalty area.

Quickly rush towards the midfield.

"Ah! What do the new Brazilians want to do?"

"What does Lucio want? Is he crazy?"

Of course Jiang Mu knows that Lucio is not crazy. This is just Lucio's style. He is a defender who likes to assist. He sent Lucio on the field just to break the deadlock and give the opponent a surprise. After half a season, Holland

Team A is more familiar with his team, and Lucio and Ismael are the real surprise players.

Litmanen rushed over to grab the ball, trying to delay Lucio's passing opportunity. He thought Lucio was definitely going to pass the ball.

But Lucio did not intend to pass the ball. He saw that Litmanen's defense was very amateurish. This is a common problem among stars. They usually defend with their eyes and mark people with their awareness.

Lucio moved the ball in the opposite direction, throwing Litmanen aside, and then continued to accelerate through the center circle.

At this time, the Ajax players were still not nervous. They were even keeping an eye on the key players assigned by the head coach before the game, but they missed Lucio who was dribbling the ball and watched him pass through the center circle.

At this time, midfielder Zweig felt something was not right, so he abandoned the player he was marking and rushed over to intercept Lucio.

Lucio paused for a moment, then accelerated violently when Zweig arrived, surpassing Zweig. When Zweig reached out to grab Lucio, he was staggered by Lucio.

Seeing Lucio reach the edge of the penalty area, Thomason didn't know what this guy wanted to do, but he flexibly ran towards the ribs to take away the defensive player for Lucio, and at the same time, he was waiting for Lucio's pass.

ball.

Lucio has only been here for a short period of time, and his tendency to like assists is not well known. Jiang Mu has not encouraged him to assist, so Drogba and Kuyt on the wing stood stupidly and watched Lucio and Thomason.

Two people performed in the middle of the penalty area.