The Godfather of Football

When the game reached the 52nd minute, Robben dribbled the ball from the left and passed Gattuso and Simic in succession, and then knocked it across the penalty area to Ibrahimovic in the center. The Swede did not waste the hard work from his teammates. This time he finally seized the opportunity he created and slammed the ball into AC Milan's goal, 3:0!

No one knows what happened to AC Milan in this game, and no one knows why Ancelotti didn't change or adjust the team's tactics during the halftime break, or even make substitutions.

Pirlo performed normally, which can be seen from the team's possession time. They got 58.4% of the ball possession rate, which is already much higher than Ajax's 41.6%. 6.8% of the ball possession time, so Pirlo has no problem, even Gattuso and Seedorf have no problem.

If there are problems with these three midfielders, it is impossible to get such a high ball possession rate.

What's the problem?

"It is hard for us to imagine that in such an important game, both Inzaghi and Shevchenko only had 2 shots. The two of them only had 4 shots combined, and AC Milan only got 7 shots in total. , the number of shots on target was only 2, the efficiency was very, very low!”

"And if we look at AC Milan's possession time, it seems to be very long, but the time the ball is in their own half, AC Milan is 52.3%, and Ajax is 47.7%, that is to say , Although AC Milan has the ball for a longer time, the ball is still moving more on AC Milan’s side. There is no need to say what this means.”

"Ajax successfully used AC Milan's half as their main battlefield. This is undoubtedly a very smart approach for the home team. Although AC Milan got more time to possess the ball, This is equivalent to laying more hidden dangers in their own half. Often, as long as they lose the ball, Ajax can create a counterattack threat. "

"There is also the front trident that the media and Ancelotti had high hopes for in this game. It was almost useless. Rivaldo sleepwalked the entire game, and Shevchenko and Inzaghi also failed to perform. Ajax showed the strength that a top striker should have, scoring 3 goals on 7 out of 9 shots. The efficiency was really high, very high.”

After Ajax scored the fatal third goal, Ancelotti always sat in the coaching bench and leaned back, preventing the cameras from capturing his expression, but everyone can imagine it. It must be ugly.

The AC Milan players on the court have also lost their due fighting spirit, because Ancelotti has not made substitutions even now. This has proved that the head coach has given up on this game, given up on resistance, given up on Fighting, this makes AC Milan players think, what is the meaning of the game?

Ajax's substitutions started with the third goal. Ye Qiu first replaced two players at once, replacing Arteta with Yaya Toure, and then replaced Robben with Hleb. , and in the 75th minute, Ye Qiu replaced Maicon with Heitinga.

The Brazilian right back's performance is getting better and better this season. His combination with Van der Vaart on the right also shows strong offensive power, but what's even more rare is that he actually does a good job defensively on the right. In several games, Ye Qiu asked him to take more defense, but he did it flawlessly.

AC Milan made two substitutions. In the 80th minute, Rui Costa replaced Shevchenko.

This substitution aroused some opinions of the on-site commentator. He felt that this was a silent resistance by Ancelotti, but he seemed to have no ability to fight back.

"It was revealed before the game that AC Milan's president Silvio Berlusconi has repeatedly said that Shevchenko and Inzaghi should play at the same time. He feels that the two forwards are compatible, and there is news that in this game Before, Berlusconi specifically called Ancelotti and asked for a double forward no matter what."

"Ancelotti didn't make any substitutions throughout the game, but as soon as he made a substitution, he replaced Shevchenko and replaced him with Rui Costa, returning to his 4321 tactics. This is more or less right. Berlusconi's revolt."

However, the on-site commentator also said that AC Milan was trailing 0:3, their morale had been exhausted, and it was impossible to catch up. The players had lost their fighting spirit. After all, Ancelotti did not show that he must win the whole game. A strong desire to come down.

At the end, Ancelotti made another substitution, replacing Kaladze with Costacurta, but it was already the 87th minute. This time the substitution was more of a formality, as if In order for Costacurta to say goodbye to this season's Champions League.

"According to the latest news and intelligence we have received, Deportivo La Coruna defeated Bayern Munich 2:1 at their home court. As a result, the two qualifying teams in Group G are very clear, that is Deportivo La Coruna and Ajax qualified first and second in the group, AC Milan won the right to participate in the UEFA Cup, and Bayern Munich was eliminated.”

“After this super group of death was just separated, all the media believed that Bayern Munich and AC Milan had the best chance of qualifying together, but what I didn’t expect in the end was that it was Deportivo La Coruna and Ajak who finally qualified. "Sure, it's a bit unexpected."

"Especially Ajax. Ye Qiu's team reached the semi-finals of the Champions League last season. Many people think it was accidental or luck. But judging from this season's group stage, even if this team fails With the exception of Gilberto Silva and Seydou Keita, the overall strength is still very good, and this season is even better than last season.”

“In the 6 games in Group G, Ajax beat AC Milan twice, drew twice with Bayern Munich, and also won one game against Deportivo La Coruna, but it is worth noting that including the 3 goals in this game Ajax scored 13 goals in total. Although Valencia, Manchester United, and Real Madrid all had more goals than Ajax, from the perspective of group opponents, Ajax’s goals The ball has more weight.”

"Of course, this team is not completely without problems. Ajax conceded 8 goals in 6 games. The team's defense is indeed not enough. I guess this is also related to the departure of the two midfielders. relationship, after all, Gilberto Silva and Seydou Keita are important members of the team’s defensive system.”

"But no matter what, the performance of this youngest team in the Champions League this season is as worthy of recognition as ever. Ye Qiu once again used the team's right to qualify in the group to prove his coaching ability to everyone, but it is obvious that There is still a gap in fulfilling the promise he made to the fans at the beginning of the season.”

At the beginning of the season, when the team performed well, Ye Qiu said that he would compete with all the European giants for the Champions League. This was regarded as a joke by many media. Judging from Ajax’s Champions League group stage this season , this team does have strong strength, and it deserves recognition for being able to stand out from the super death group.

But when it comes to competing for the championship, I really don’t see it coming.

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In the match at the San Siro Stadium, Ancelotti lost, but he still maintained his handsome demeanor and took the initiative to shake hands with Ye Qiu, showing his magnanimity as a host. Of course, this time Ye Qiu also No exception is possible.

As soon as the whistle sounded, he walked to the front of the visiting team's coaching bench and stretched out his hand towards Ancelotti from a distance.

In this situation, nothing he said was appropriate, so Ye Qiu just looked at Ancelotti with a smile and said nothing.

Ancelotti stretched out his hand and shook it with Ye Qiu, "Your team performed even better and it is natural to win."

The tone in which he said this made Ye Qiu somewhat reluctant. Perhaps he felt that there were other reasons for his loss.

"I have watched all the AC Milan game videos this season. I have watched some important games at least three times. My assistants and I are constantly paying attention to and studying your team. From you, we learn We got a lot of things, so no matter what, we still want to thank you for coming to Arenal Stadium!”

Ye Qiu's words were neither humble nor arrogant. He was telling Ancelotti to put away your resentful attitude. I have studied you very thoroughly. Even without your so-called off-field factors, I can still do it. beat you.

The following words were said by Ye Qiu in order not to anger Ancelotti and to show his master's magnanimity.

After Ancelotti heard this, he looked deeply at Ye Qiu and could not say anything.

Judging from the game scene, Ajax completely suppressed AC Milan. It can be said that the only thing the Rossoneri can do is the ball possession rate, but this thing is Ajax's deliberate let-down, in order to let AC Milan play more The ball control in the midfield and backcourt is given up in order to focus more on restricting AC Milan's midfield and frontcourt, which itself has no meaning at all.

Putting aside the ball possession rate, AC Milan was thoroughly studied by Ajax throughout the game.

In the first round at the San Siro Stadium, Ancelotti ranked 4321, but he failed to kill Ajax. Instead, he was killed by Ajax; in the second round, he played 4312 and lost miserably. I really want to find out. As an excuse, he really lost face and identity, so Ancelotti had to swallow this bitter pill in the end.

After Ye Qiu shook hands with Ancelotti, he didn't linger. He turned around and left. At the entrance of the players' tunnel, he hugged his players one by one, congratulated them on qualifying from the group, and encouraged them to keep up their efforts.

"After the group stage, it's another round of group stage. No matter who our opponent is, we have only one goal, to qualify!"

"No matter what game or event we are playing, we always have only one goal, the championship!"

Ye Qiu's eloquent words in the locker room allowed the winning Ajax players to find their goals again.

Last season, they reached the semi-finals, but ended up in the semi-finals, which made them very unwilling. Now that they are making a comeback, who doesn't want to avoid the humiliation of last season, and who doesn't want to be able to compete in the European Champions Cup? To become famous?

After motivating the players, Ye Qiu walked out of the locker room and headed to the press conference at Arena Stadium.

When he arrived, Ancelotti hadn't come yet, but many reporters had gathered at the scene. I'm afraid there were more than a hundred of them, including reporters from several domestic media. They had already followed Ajax reports. It has become one of the habits, and as a result, the influence of the Eredivisie in the country has also increased, even no less than the four major leagues.

After Ye Qiu greeted the host, he walked into the venue. The spotlights suddenly shone, all directed at Ye Qiu, who sat down in a carefree manner.

Just when everyone thought that Ye Qiu should wait politely for Ancelotti, he smiled at an Italian reporter opposite him. He vaguely remembered that this person had embarrassed him at San Siro, and his newspaper La Repubblica was also one of the Italian newspapers that attacked him the most fiercely, so he asked with a smile: "From Italy?"

The reporter nodded immediately, "I am a reporter from La Repubblica!"

"Oh!" Ye Qiu nodded, but immediately asked with a smile: "While Mr. Ancelotti is not here, why don't I ask you in return, what do you think of the result of this game?"

The Italian reporter was obviously stunned. When a burst of laughter sounded at the scene, he knew that he had become the target of Ye Qiu's revenge. The Ajax coach was obviously counterattacking the previous attack on him by the Italian media.

"Yeah, what do you think?"

"Tell me!"

Some colleagues at the scene were very jealous of each other, wishing that the poor reporter would become the object of everyone's ridicule, which immediately made the Italian reporter feel a little embarrassed.

The Italian reporter looked around and saw that the crowd was surging. He couldn't sit still and stood up, "You won the result, but AC Milan won the process!"

As soon as he said this, Ye Qiu laughed, and he laughed without hiding it, which made everyone present easily feel Ye Qiu's attitude towards this reporter, or the Italian media he represented behind him.

Perhaps in the past few years, as the world's first league, Serie A, which has the title of a small World Cup, has made this group of media people unable to keep up with the pace outside. They still cannot accept that La Liga and the Premier League are constantly challenging Serie A, and Serie A is no longer the small World Cup that all football people flocked to in the past.

But only this group of people are still in the past, with a kind of pride of the uncrowned king who looks down on the world from a high place.

Ye Qiu is going to tear down their pride today, trample it under his feet, and trample it wantonly!

"You should tell me how AC Milan won the process? And lost the result?" Ye Qiu asked with a smile.

He has no hatred towards AC Milan, but unfortunately, this team is his opponent, and the Italian media clearly supports the Rossoneri, so he can only do this now.

"They gained more advantages and showed control, but unfortunately lost the game." A reporter who seemed to be from Italy stood up and rescued his colleagues with a common hatred of the enemy.

After hearing this, Ye Qiu laughed out loud, "The advantage you mentioned, the control you mentioned, in the end we had 13 shots, while AC Milan only had 7. Most of the game was played in AC Milan's half. We got more opportunities and created more threats, but they couldn't organize an effective attack."

"Perhaps, in Italy, you don't use the number of goals to decide the outcome, but the ball possession rate!"

Ye Qiu's words immediately caused everyone present, except the Italian media, to burst into laughter.

Serie A is notoriously not concerned about ball possession. AC Milan is a somewhat strange team in Serie A, especially Ancelotti's set of 4 No. 10 midfielders, which is unique in Italy.

After everyone laughed, Ye Qiu stopped and looked at the reporter from La Repubblica.

"By the way, I also want to ask this reporter friend from the Republic Daily, oh, don't tell me your name, I don't want to know at all!" Ye Qiu's words immediately made everyone present laugh again, and the reporter from the Republic Daily felt a little embarrassed.

"I want to ask you again, will your newspaper's front page headline say tomorrow that losing is justified?"

This made everyone present, even some Italians, laugh, and the reporter from La Repubblica almost dug a hole in the ground and finally pointed at Ye Qiu indignantly, "You are the most ungraceful head coach I have ever seen, your words and deeds are like dog shit."

Ye Qiu also smiled and pointed at him, "You are also the most ungraceful reporter I have ever seen. I am better than you, I ask you in person, but what about you? You use a pen to scold me behind my back, who is the villain and who is the gentleman? Finally, I will say to you, next time you use your mouth to poison people, please tell us all that it is really stinky, it is stinky!"

The whole audience laughed, and some even applauded, obviously cheering for Ye Qiu's last sentence of scolding people without spitting out dirty words.

At least in comparison, this Italian reporter fell behind.

Seeing the Italian reporter turn around and leave the press conference angrily, Ye Qiu shrugged innocently, "He should have stayed!" There was another round of laughter at the scene.

However, this time many people also saw that the head coach of Ajax is really a tough guy who will not show any mercy to anyone he offends. So, if you want to offend him in the future, you must be careful, otherwise you will become the poor and unlucky reporter of La Repubblica.

Ancelotti was a little late, this was a special privilege after losing the game, and Ye Qiu was also very polite to wait for him, but after what happened just now, the atmosphere of the entire press conference changed, many Italian media and reporters left early, and those who stayed were all prepared to watch the fun.

This made Ancelotti, who walked into the venue, feel a little strange. He always felt that the atmosphere at the scene was very strange. Everyone looked at him with a kind of teasing look, as if he was watching a striptease in a bar, which made him feel hairy all over.

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