The Godfather of Football

"Is this the home of Ajax II?"

When Van Nistelrooy got off the luxurious bus with the colors and logo of PSV Eindhoven printed on the body, he looked up at the sky. It was a bit gloomy, without a ray of sunshine, giving people a chilly feeling.

They had played football at the Arena Stadium, but they had never played at the stadium of Ajax II.

"Look, that's their stand, with only a few rows of seats, my God!"

"Count how many fans there are? Are there more than a thousand?"

"Poor Ajax, poor II, this game doesn't even need to be played!"

"Junas, save your energy later, don't knock them down all at once, that would be no fun!"

"We shouldn't even play this kind of game, Dennis!" Jonas Korka looked depressed and glanced at his teammate Romedal. In his opinion, playing against Ajax II was simply an insult to them.

For them, this kind of game should give some opportunities to the second team and the first team substitutes. Why should all the main players play?

"Okay, okay, stop complaining and get ready to go!" Van Bommel got off the bus and reminded his teammates. Although he joined PSV this season, he has become a big boss in the locker room with his strong strength and strong personality.

A group of PSV players got off the bus and were immediately led by the staff to the locker room behind the simple stands.

"Oh my God, this is their locker room?"

"There is not even a place to take a shower?"

"The benches are still made of wood, so hard, how can you sit on them?"

Head coach Gretz also felt that the hardware here was indeed a bit simple, but Ajax's youth training was famous.

"Make do with it, leave after the game!"

They set off from PSV near noon today. After a two-hour drive, they arrived in Amsterdam just before the game started, and Gretz's original plan was not to stay and go back after the game.

"Then we have to hurry up. We have to leave right after the game. There is no place to take a shower. I feel uncomfortable all over!"

"When I heard that I couldn't take a shower, I tried to avoid getting dirty. Look at their stadium. It's full of dead grass and branches. It's uncomfortable to stick to my body!"

"Yes, yes, and the sliding tackle is rarely used!"

Hearing the players talking, Gretz also smiled helplessly. However, the conditions of Ajax II are indeed a little worse, which is a bit inconsistent with their reputation for youth training. Not to mention the players, he himself can't stand this extremely simple so-called locker room.

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Compared to the noisy complaints in the visiting team's locker room, the home team's locker room, which is far away, is very quiet.

Ye Qiu did not arrange the tactics before the game, because for Ajax II, there is no need for other tactics. They have only one choice, that is, to defend and wait for the opportunity to counterattack.

As for Ye Qiu's previous shouting that he wanted to take the initiative to attack and do whatever he wanted, those were all smokescreens.

The players didn't say anything either, they all sat there, looking a little nervous.

No wonder, just now outside, they watched the big-name stars of Eindhoven get off the bus one by one, and those well-known names were enough to make everyone feel pressured, heavy pressure.

In such a game where the strength gap is so huge, or even so different, no one can guess how much effect tactics can play, and no one is sure.

"Are you afraid?" Ye Qiu suddenly smiled and asked his players.

Several of them raised their heads and looked at Ye Qiu, but none of them answered, but from their flickering eyes, Ye Qiu could see that they were afraid, really afraid!

The opponent was too strong and they were too weak, so they were afraid that they would lose miserably and lose without dignity.

Even if they could, some of them might take the initiative to ask not to participate in this game and choose to escape.

"I'm scared!" Ye Qiu said something that shocked everyone, then raised his right hand and trembled, "Look, he's trembling, I'm scared too, really scared, there's nothing to be ashamed of, being scared is normal."

The players all lowered their heads, proving that they were also scared.

"Four days ago, I was in the stands of the Arena Stadium, watching the first team's match against PSV Eindhoven, we lost miserably, I was sitting in the stands at the time, and I suddenly asked myself, if four days later, my team also lost so miserably, or even more miserably than them, what should I do?"

"I thought about escaping!" Ye Qiu's words shocked many people present, and they all looked up at him, "Really, I really thought about escaping, but in the end I felt that it wouldn't work, because if I escaped this game, there would be another game, I would quit football, I would have to find another job, I would have to live!"

After smiling, Ye Qiu sighed deeply with a wry smile and shook his head, "In the end, I discovered that people are so helpless in this world. No matter what we do, no matter where we go, we will always encounter Eindhoven." Do we have to escape from such a powerful enemy every time? "Can we escape?"

The locker room was quiet, no one spoke, and the players all lowered their heads and remained silent.

"More than three months ago, I made a bet with Westerhoff. They said I would lose, but two months later, I won!"

"More than a month ago, we met the Forward Eagles in the Dutch Cup. They also said that we would lose, but in the end, we won again!"

"Now, we encounter PSV, and the whole world thinks that we must lose. Does that mean that we are willing to lose like this? We are willing to just be like this without any resistance or counterattack, and just be cowardly. Did you lose?"

Taking another deep breath, Ye Qiu smiled, "I have no choice. This game is a life and death battle for me. If I win, I will still be your head coach. If I lose, I will just Can leave Ajax!”

After hearing this, all the players from the second team immediately raised their heads and looked at Ye Qiu in surprise. They had never heard of this news before. Why did they leave after losing? Since this game is so important, why didn't he say it before?

"This is the rule of the game. The weak eat the strong, and the fittest survive. If I lose, it means that I am a weakling who can be slaughtered by others. If you lose, it also means that you will become a weakling who is looked down upon by others. This is fair, very fair!"

"What's unfair is that they are PSV, the leader of the Eredivisie, and we are the second team of Ajax, as if we were born to be insignificant and can only be trampled under their feet and allowed to be slaughtered by them. Poor thing, but does this mean we can’t resist?”

"No!" Ye Qiu shouted loudly.

"You have the ability to resist. The weapon of your resistance is within 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 go to the end. On the football field, go prove it to everyone and tell them bravely that you are wrong!”

"Do you dare?" Ye Qiu asked.

There was still no answer in the locker room. Everyone just raised their heads and looked at their head coach.

"Who said they were born to be winners? Who told you that they will definitely be able to control our life and death? Who told you that we were born to be trampled under their feet? I am here today to tell everyone, I don’t accept it, I just don’t accept it!”

"I want to prove to everyone that we have to resist!"

"Whoever despises us, we will give him a taste of our power!"

"Whoever dares to look down on us will be taught a painful lesson!"

"Whoever wants to trample us under our feet and poop and piss on our heads, then we will overthrow him. Even if they are a high-ranking king, we will pull them down from the throne and trample them on the soles of our feet. Come down, let them tremble under our feet, and let the whole world know our names!”

"Victory or death!"

"Victory or death!" The first person to stand up and respond to Ye Qiu turned out to be Abidal.

"Victory or death!" Then Jifu also stood up.

"Victory or death!" Van der Vaart also clenched his fists and shouted.

Sneijder, De Jong, Maduro, Huntelaar...

Players from the second team all stood up and shouted in unison, "Victory or death!"

"Victory or death!!"

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Gretz attached great importance to this game and he lined up PSV's strongest lineup.

The goalkeeper is Watrous, the defense is Heintze, Nikiforov, Faber and Van der Weyden, and the midfielder from left to right is Kolka, Van Bommel, Vogel and Romedal. , the double forwards are Ruud van Nistelrooy and Nelis.

This set can be said to be the strongest lineup that Eindhoven can currently put together, but Brookink, who has been working well with Ruud van Nistelrooy on the front line recently, was placed on the bench.

Also sitting on the bench are famous Dutch players such as Bouma, Oyer, Stinga, and Van der Doren.

The current Eindhoven team is full of talents, but correspondingly, the team's desire for the championship is also very high. The goal this season is to win the double championship. Therefore, in the next game, they not only need To win, we must win with the momentum of PSV.

In this regard, Gretz has extraordinary confidence, because his team has not lost in the Netherlands this season!

On the opposite side of the court, Ajax deployed the traditional 433 tactical formation as always.

The goalkeeper is Stekelenberg, the defense is Abidal, Kivu, Heitinga and Van Drew. The three midfielders are De Jong, Sneijder and Maduro, Van der Vaart and Huntelaar. Form a frontcourt trident with Kurul.

Compared with Eindhoven's lineup, which is powerful enough to dominate the Netherlands, Ye Qiu's lineup is unbelievably shabby. I believe that even the fans who came to the scene may not be able to combine all the players. All admitted.

Seeing the players from both sides lining up on the court, I believe all the Ajax fans present had this question in their hearts: How long can they resist?

With the referee's whistle, PSV Eindhoven took the lead.

The ball was passed from Van Nistelrooy to Vogel, and then to Faber, who made a diagonal pass and found Romedal directly. The latter stopped the ball, turned around, and quickly dribbled forward along the right road, and soon entered the 30-meter area of ​​​​Ajax.

De Jong came over at the first time. He was the first firewall in front of Abidal.

But just when De Jong thought he could keep up with Romedal, he didn't expect that the player suddenly accelerated, pushed the ball forward, and then quickly caught up, and used his speed to pass De Jong's defense circle.

At this time, everyone in the audience was lifted up.

Abidal's attention was always in front of him. When he saw Romedal crossing De Jong's defense line, he immediately cried out in his heart that it was not good. At this time, he saw that Romedal's kick was a little big, and his first reaction was to rush up.

But he thought again, will it be a foul?

In the past few games, he had been repeatedly given yellow and red cards, which left a shadow on him.

But he immediately remembered what Bobby Harms said, and went for the ball!

He saw that Abidal was also very fast and had excellent explosive power. Like a cheetah that had set its sights on its prey, he rushed out of his stationed area at lightning speed and aimed at the ball with a fierce shovel.

The next scene happened in an instant. Abidal's shovel kicked the ball out of bounds, but Romedal also had physical contact with him and fell to the ground. The referee quickly approached.

When Ye Qiu saw this scene, his heart was hanging up, and he felt a chill in his heart. If he got a card at the beginning of the game, 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 the whistle and pointed outside the field, indicating that it was an out-of-bounds ball for Eindhoven.

"Hey, sir, he tackled me!" Romedal got up from the ground and protested loudly.

"Don't try to deceive me, I saw clearly that he tackled the ball, and you deliberately didn't stop and bumped into him. I was already polite not to warn you about diving. Do you still want to argue with me?" The referee was very fair and did not show any favoritism because the opponent was a big star of PSV Eindhoven.

After hearing this, Abidal couldn't help but feel relieved. Then he looked at the sidelines and found that Ye Qiu gave him a thumbs up. Obviously, he was very satisfied with his tackle just now. He grinned and showed his white teeth.

"Hey, French boy, good job!" Kivu also praised him behind him.

Before Abidal could speak, Kivu reminded, "Hurry up, go up and keep an eye on that bastard, they are going to kick the ball out of bounds!"

Upon hearing this, Abidal immediately rushed up and defended Romedal closely.

Romedal changed his position on the sidelines, waiting for the throw-in from Van der Weyden. He had planned to bypass Abidal and cross the ball as soon as he got the ball. With the strength of Van Nistelrooy and Nilis, they would definitely be able to create a threat in the penalty area.

But while he was waiting for his teammates to kick off, he felt a wet mass sticking to his back, and he felt uncomfortable all over. When he looked back, he saw Abidal sticking to him. The wet stuff was his sweat.

"Hey, can you stay away from me? Don't get so close, okay?" Romedal felt uncomfortable all over.

Abidal said in a stinky and hard way, "If I don't get close to you, I can't defend you!"

Romedal was angry when he heard it, thinking to himself, you are a stinky boy from the second team, you are so aggressive, so he wanted to compete with Abidal. When he thought that he was older, he must be better than these second-team players in physical strength, so he wanted to suppress Abidal with his body and teach this stinky boy a lesson.

But when he started to push, he found that his body seemed to be squeezed against a wall. Abidal was unmoved. When Van der Weiden's throw-in came out, Abidal pushed hard and Romedal was knocked away.

Abidal headed the ball to clear Van der Weiden's throw-in again. After landing, he turned around and saw Romedal with an angry face. He grinned again and sneered disdainfully, "Damn it, it's as soft as a piece of tofu!"

This immediately made Romedal unhappy. When Van der Weiden was about to kick the throw-in again, Romedal rushed forward and tried to squeeze Abidal with his body, even hitting him.

Beep~

The referee blew the whistle for a foul, walked over, called Romedal over, warned him for his previous behavior, and said that this was the last warning. If there was a next time, he would directly pull out a card.

Romedal walked back angrily, looking at Abidal, his heart was raging, but he didn't dare to touch him for the time being. After all, he was blacklisted by the referee, and he would get a card if he was not careful.

After the ball was kicked out of bounds, it was quickly taken by Ajax again, but this time the ball was passed to the midfield and handed to Van der Vaart. Van Bommel chased back and poked the ball away from Van der Vaart in time and decisively.

This is the difference!

Perhaps Van der Vaart's personal ability is very, very good in the eyes of his peers, but in Van Bommel's eyes, there are loopholes everywhere, and the rhythm and pace of his dribbling are also slow, so it is not difficult to intercept his ball.

After PSV Eindhoven intercepted the ball, it passed it to Romedal again, after all, it was on the same side.

But when Romedal was about to break through with the ball, De Jong was close to him and Abidal sneaked up, and the two formed a double team, directly intercepting the ball at Romedal's feet, and cleared it out of Ajax's half with a big foot, but the ball fell into PSV Eindhoven's feet again.

However, Ajax did not seem to be ready to start a head-on battle with PSV Eindhoven. All the players always maintained a compact formation and firmly protected their own goal.