The Godfather of Football

"...Hofland rushed to grab the ball, Yaya Toure passed the ball and passed it directly behind him..."

"Beautiful! Van der Vaart quickly entered the penalty area from the right rib!"

"Take a shot!!!"

The tens of thousands of Ajax fans in the Arena Stadium couldn't help but exclaimed, and then they cheered to celebrate the goal, but unexpectedly, Van der Vaart didn't stop the ball well for a while, and was half a beat late. Watrous was very experienced and immediately blocked Van der Vaart's left foot.

Van der Vaart's shot was finally held firmly under Watrous.

"A great save!!!"

"From Watrous, he saved Eindhoven alone and resolved Van der Vaart's one-on-one shot!"

All Ajax fans sighed. No one thought that the one-on-one shot that Ajax had worked so hard to win was actually saved by Watrous. But there was nothing they could do about it, and they couldn't blame Van der Vaart, because no one dared to guarantee that they could have a 100% success rate.

After being disappointed, Ajax fans quickly regrouped and shouted the names of Van der Vaart and Yaya Toure, affirming the outstanding performance of the two young players. At the same time, they also used the loud and high-pitched team song to tell all Ajax players that we still have hope and keep working hard!

After Van der Vaart failed to score, Yaya Toure turned back to look at head coach Ye Qiu, who gave him a thumbs up to show his affirmation and encouragement, which also made Yaya Toure feel much better, because he finally knew what the head coach wanted him to do.

Sometimes, finding your own position on the court is the basis for a player to perform well.

Although Yaya Toure's pass in the 17th minute did not help his teammates score, he began to find his position in this set of tactics, found his position on the court and in the team, and the affirmation and encouragement of the head coach greatly improved his confidence.

Therefore, after his first outstanding performance, Yaya Toure began to overcome the blindness at the beginning and became more purposeful and targeted.

When Yaya Toure came to life, Ajax's midfield attack became more dynamic and threatening. After all, if the front trident wants to perform well, there must be stable midfielders behind them to deliver ammunition for them. When Yaya Toure came to life, Ajax's midfield also came to life, and more opportunities were created.

Ye Qiu's tactics in this game were not just greedy for speed. He also expected that Eindhoven would definitely adopt targeted tactics. After all, Ajax's offensive tactics have become more and more familiar to people, because how to play their own characteristics in a slow rhythm is also what Ye Qiu has been thinking about for improvement.

After a year and a half, some players have even immersed themselves in Ye Qiu's whole set of new training methods. Everyone will not feel unfamiliar with the one-foot pass and receive in Ajax's tactical system.

Therefore, when Ye Qiu arranged the team's tactics, the focus was to maintain his speed and skillful cooperation in passing and receiving the ball. In addition, on the defensive end, Ajax's active and proactive midfield pressure and pressing tactics have basically taken shape, which has made Ajax's overall tactical framework polished.

That is to actively fight for the initiative of the game after the start, and try to get the ball as much as possible through high-intensity midfield pressure and pressing. Once I get the ball in the frontcourt, I will use a fast and skillful pass and receive to attack the opponent's weakest weakness in the shortest time and strive to score. If I can't do it, I will pass back and reorganize.

In this game, Ye Qiu arranged three midfielders, Keita, Yaya Toure and Gilberto Silva. The Brazilian midfielder is mainly responsible for positioning and protecting the defense line, covering the large area in front of the defense line. Gilberto Silva has long been familiar with this responsibility and has completed it very well.

PSV Eindhoven tried to send the ball from Gilberto Silva's area to Ajax's 32-meter area several times, but they were intercepted and destroyed by Gilberto Silva in the end. In the first 25 minutes of the first half, they did not succeed even once. With the integration of Yaya Toure, the overall defensive formation became more and more solid.

After all, with Gilberto Silva in the back and Keita and Yaya Toure in the front, who have a large running range, a wide coverage area, and strong defensive ability, pressing and pressing, PSV Eindhoven's Van Bommel and Vogel were almost firmly suppressed by Ajax.

With the defense line stable, Ajax's offensive threat is naturally getting bigger and bigger, especially the combination of Van der Vaart and Maicon on the right, which brought great trouble to PSV Eindhoven's defense. On the contrary, Hleb on the left had almost no decent performance because he was completely suppressed by Oye.

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Every time he looked into Oye's eyes, Hleb could sense a fierce light in his eyes, which made him feel cold. He always felt that this Dutchman with round eyes and a malicious face might eat him at any time.

In the 23rd minute of the game, Hleb retreated on the left to get the ball. It was not a threatening attack. He just retreated to meet Keita, but Oye rushed up from behind and made a fierce tackle without saying anything, knocking Hleb to the ground with the ball.

Hleb, who was lying on the ground at that time, had a feeling that the ferocious man would kill him, and he was a little scared.

That foul earned Oye a yellow card, which was also the first yellow card of the game.

I don’t know why, but since then, every time he saw Oye, Hleb would feel creepy. Every time he saw Oye, he couldn’t help but want to pass the ball as quickly as possible, as if he was a step slower, he would be knocked down by Oye again, and might even be injured.

Gradually, Hleb subconsciously reduced his chances of receiving the ball, and subconsciously reduced the number of times he went to meet his teammates. Gradually, Ajax’s offense lost its left wing and had to rely too much on the team’s right side, that is, Van der Vaart and Maicon’s side.

There is no doubt that with Van der Vaart and Maicon, Ajax's right-wing attack power is unquestionable, but the problem is that in the professional arena, no one can completely overwhelm the opponent in terms of personal strength. Therefore, when PSV Eindhoven realized that there was no threat on the left side, the defensive focus began to tilt towards its left side, and closely defended Ajax's right-wing attack.

In this case, no matter how strong Van der Vaart and Maicon are, they can't open the situation.

The players know the reasons for the team's unfavorable offense, and Ye Qiu also knows it.

Everything on the court depends on performance and strength, so when the players saw that Hleb did not dare to confront Oye head-on, did not dare to attack PSV Eindhoven's defense head-on, and even seemed timid when connecting with teammates to get the ball, they would not pass the ball to Hleb, which led to the Belarusian hardly appearing in the entire first half.

In the first half, Ajax made 4 shots, 2 of which were on target, but PSV only had 1 pitiful shot, which was not on target. It was a long shot by Van Bommel. In addition, whether it was the 68.7% to 79.2% pass success rate or the 73% to 87.1% interception success rate, Ajax's advantage was very obvious.

But the score was still 0:0!

With the referee's whistle, all Ajax players were a little depressed and walked off the court helplessly.

"Although Ajax had the advantage, they obviously did not find a good way to open the situation. Their left attack almost disappeared without a trace, and Van der Vaart and Maicon on the right were given special attention by PSV. In this case, Ajax's offensive momentum was very large, but the efficiency was very poor."

To use the Chinese proverb, it was thunder and rain.

"The reason for this situation is undoubtedly Hleb. This player obviously lacks confidence and form in the game. He almost didn't succeed in one-on-one in the first half, which surprised us."

"You know, Ajax's offense was always successful in the past. One of the important reasons is Robben's sharp personal breakthrough on the left, Van der Vaart's cut-in on the right, and Van der Meyde's powerful attack. The two wings are the most threatening part of Ajax's offense, but now that the left is lost, Eindhoven can focus on the right and the middle."

"Perhaps, Ye Qiu should consider replacing Hleb as soon as possible, let Van der Vaart play on the left, and let Van der Meyde play on the right. This should be a very good choice!"

"Oh, I see. We saw that before Ye Qiu walked back to the locker room, he seemed to be explaining something to Van der Meyde. It seems that he might be changing players, but I don't know if he will make adjustments in the midfield!"

Under the live camera, Ye Qiu got into the player channel and returned to the locker room.

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Sitting in a corner of the locker room, Heleb clearly felt the unfriendly look in his teammates' eyes.

In this locker room, he looked very special, even a little redundant.

When everyone else was sweating, his clothes were not completely soaked, and there was not much sweat on his face, which made him look very dazzling compared to the sweating of others.

There is a rule in Ye Qiu's locker room management that no one can attack or exclude his teammates, so no one dared to blame Heleb, but their eyes were like steel needles, piercing Heleb's body, making this shy Belarusian lower his head involuntarily, not daring to look at them.

Ye Qiu angrily kicked the door of the locker room open and walked in. He immediately looked at where Heleb was. He strode over and grabbed Heleb's jersey. He twisted the thin Belarusian man off the seat and pushed him hard, hitting the counter behind him with a deafening sound.

"Tell me, look into my eyes, tell me what the hell you are afraid of?" Ye Qiu gritted his teeth and yelled at Heleb. He had been holding back for nearly half an hour.

Everyone in the locker room was shocked by Ye Qiu's behavior. Even the staff stopped and looked at Ye Qiu in disbelief, because they had never seen Ye Qiu so angry, and he actually hit Heleb.

Heleb was pushed against the wardrobe by Ye Qiu and was shocked, but he soon lowered his head and said nothing.

“Lift your head up!” Ye Qiu stood in front of Heleb and shouted loudly. But when he saw that Heleb hadn’t raised his head yet, he reached out his hand, held his head tightly, and helped him to lift his head up. “I told you to lift your head up!”

"We at Ajax don't have players who keep their heads down, and we don't have cowards who are afraid of their opponents!"

Ye Qiu's words made Hleb no longer dare to lower his head. He raised his head, but did not dare to look at Ye Qiu. But when he turned his eyes, he saw his teammates who he did not dare to face. He turned back again, only to Can look at Ye Qiu.

Of all the people, the one he trusted the most, was most grateful to, and was Ye Qiu.

"Oye, are those softies in PSV so scary?" Ye Qiu pointed at the Ajax players beside him, "Go and ask your teammates, PSV We have always been able to pinch Wen's weaklings and beat them up whenever we wanted. Back then, we were able to defeat them with just a group of second teams, so what's so scary about them?"

Indeed, Ye Qiu and his group of players have a natural psychological advantage when facing PSV Eindhoven, which is feared by other Eredivisie teams, because they were able to defeat this team when they were in the second team. Team.

"Think about it, your teammates believe in you, the coaching staff trusts you, and the fans support you, but what about you? You have brought great success to these teammates who believe in you, to the coaches who trust you, and to the fans who support you. What?"

"In the 45 minutes of the first half, you just showed us your weakness and cowardice!"

When Hleb heard what Ye Qiu had said, his voice trembled and he whispered, "I'm sorry, my head..."

"Don't say sorry to me!" Ye Qiu interrupted him with a wave of his hand before he could finish his words. "You should go and say sorry to the fans, you should say sorry to your teammates, and you should go home and talk to you My parents said I’m sorry, because I believe they must be in front of the TV at this moment, watching your game!”

"I believe they must be very, very disappointed, because they must have originally hoped that their son would be able to perform well in this game. I dare not say how many outstanding performances he had, but at the very least, their child would be strong and brave like A man fights like that, but you..."

After a pause, Ye Qiu spoke very clearly, "... Alexander Hleb, you are like a fucking bitch, a loser, a coward, a worthless waste. !”

What Ye Qiu said before did not make Hleb angry, because he did not dare to get angry at Ye Qiu, whom he respected. But when Ye Qiu mentioned his parents, and what happened next, it was obvious that he was angry. When there were strong insulting words, Hleb's eyes flashed with strong anger.

"I'm not a waste, I'm not!" He clenched his fists and roared at Ye Qiu in anger.

"You are, you fucking are!" Ye Qiu almost poked his chest and shouted louder than him.

"I..." Hleb raised his fist and was about to hit someone.

Lucio on the side had already seen something was wrong, and immediately rushed over and grabbed Hleb's hand. Ibrahimovic also hugged Hleb, both of them yelling not to do anything.

"Want to hit me?" Ye Qiu looked directly at Hleb and seemed to be angry, "Okay, come on, hit me. What will happen if you hit me? Everyone will still say, Alexander?" Hleb is useless on the court. He can't beat PSV and only shakes his fist at the coach off the court. Are you very proud?"

After hearing Ye Qiu's words, Hleb's fist was finally pressed down by Lucio, but the panting Belarusian was obviously still angry and pointed at Ye Qiu, "I will definitely prove it to you."

"Prove that you are a waste on the court?" Ye Qiu sneered and shook his head.

Hleb couldn't help but nodded, his face turned pale with anger, "I will prove it to you, just wait!" After saying that, the Belarusian turned around and opened the door to the locker room, closed it heavily, and made a loud noise. ring.

Ye Qiu watched Hleb walk out, then turned back and glanced at the shocked players, "What are you looking at? Didn't you see that I was angry?"

Everyone was shocked when Ye Qiu yelled like this. They had never seen Ye Qiu be so cruel.

There was a deathly silence in the locker room. No one spoke, and even the sound of breathing became very soft.

Time passed minute by minute, and no one spoke. Ye Qiu looked at Hamilton on his left hand every once in a while, recording the time. He didn't speak until the intermission was about to end.

"You all did a good job in the first half. In the second half, continue to play according to the routine of the first half. The midfielders and frontcourts must firmly suppress PSV Eindhoven's midfielders and backfielders. Don't give them any chance, even a pass. , you can’t give it to them, understand?”

Facing Ye Qiu's stern question, the players nodded in unison, "Understood!"

"In the second half, we still played on both wings, with Van der Vaart and Maicon on the right, and Hleb on the left. In the first half, we obviously didn't pass enough passes to the left, which caused our offense to shift severely to the right, and the opponent's defense was also targeted. Let's fight from this side, Eric!" Ye Qiu looked at Abidal.

"You should be more proactive in the second half, and you, Seydoux, support Hleb more. We need to be more active on the left, so that we can distract PSV's defensive attention and share the defense on the right and center. Pressure, so that our entire offense can come alive!"

Hearing Ye Qiu say that Hleb was still on the left in the second half, all the players present were stunned for a moment, and then they understood a little bit.

In the past year or so, Ye Qiu's love for Heleb has been seen by everyone. It's not surprising that Heleb suddenly got angry today and lost his mind. But after they calmed down and added Ye Qiu's arrangement, they immediately understood.

In the past, the head hit Heleb with a soft hand, but now it's a hard one.

I just don't know if Heleb understands the good intentions of the head?