The Godfather of Football

When the game reached the 86th minute, Huntelaar, who replaced Ibrahimovic, received a cross from Robben on the left and shot in front of the goal, but was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper Westerveld. Van der Vaart, who followed closely, was like a ghost in the penalty area, and he saw the opportunity and made a supplementary shot, changing the score to 2:0.

At this time, Ye Qiu had no suspense about the game in his heart, but he was more thinking and summarizing this game, because he felt that this game was always under his control.

The strategy adopted by Ye Qiu in this game was actually the understanding he got from the essence of some famous predecessors in the study room, that is, never let your opponent play in the rhythm they are best at.

When Owen was there, Liverpool was best at defensive counterattacks. They liked to face the team that pressed forward the most, and they disliked the team that defended to the end like them, so Ye Qiu chose the latter without hesitation.

Many people find it difficult to operate in both high-position and ordinary-position defensive systems. This is not because it cannot be done, but because their players want to adapt to both defensive systems at the same time, which often takes time.

Last season, Ye Qiu led the second team to play defensive counterattacks, transforming the overall defensive system from Rehhagel. Now, this system has been brought from the second team to the first team. Although the addition of players such as Lucio and Maicon has some impact, at least the players will not be uncomfortable.

Not to mention the high-position defense adopted in the Eredivisie this season, which is Ajax's home-cooked dish.

Therefore, when there is Owen, defensive counterattacks are used. When Owen becomes Fowler, Ye Qiu chooses high-position defense.

At this time, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Houllier made a mistake in substitution. He chose to make a positional substitution instead of strengthening the offense. If he kept Owen on the court and added Fowler and Smicer, Ye Qiu would really have a headache.

But at that time, Houllier should have been thinking, Ajax, who had defended for so long, would still press out?

Ye Qiu has always been brave enough to think about ideas that others dare not think about and do things that others dare not do!

After leading 2:0, Liverpool obviously lost their fighting spirit. Although there were still some players rushing and fighting, the overall defeat was inevitable.

Therefore, even when the referee blew the whistle to end the game, all the Liverpool fans were silent.

They did not attack their opponents because they felt that their opponents won the game by strength and tactics, and they did not blame their own team because that was never what the Red Army fans would do.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Houllier took the initiative to walk to the visiting team's coaching seat and shook hands politely with Ye Qiu.

From the clenched hands, Ye Qiu could clearly feel the sweat on Houllier's palms.

Ye Qiu still had a good impression of the French head coach. Strength and tactics can determine victory or defeat on the football field, but off the football field, people have to rely on character and style to win the respect of their opponents, and Houllier has always been good in this regard.

After seeing off the frustrated Houllier, Ye Qiu went to meet Fowler who was walking off the field.

He would never forget the Liverpool striker described in the article [Giving Up the Shot] in his elementary school textbook in his previous life, and Fowler's strength was unquestionable, but his opportunities were indeed a little worse. However, Ye Qiu stood from the perspective of a simple football fan, he admired Fowler and respected such an opponent.

After seeing off Fowler, Ye Qiu met with Gerrard. Ye Qiu had longed for this future captain of the Red Army.

After that, Ye Qiu returned to the front of the player's tunnel and sent his players back to the locker room one by one.

A 2:0 away victory at Anfield Stadium was undoubtedly the best result for Ajax, and Ye Qiu was full of confidence in the team's promotion.

Looking up, he found Eliza, who was dressed pretty and charming, in the stands of Anfield Stadium, and sitting next to Eliza was Huang Chu, who flew from China to Liverpool to watch his game.

"It was you who gave me strength and helped me win the game!" Ye Qiu gestured and lip-synced to Huang Chu in the stands.

Because he spoke in Chinese and did not make any sound, no one knew what he was saying. The camera quickly shifted from Ye Qiu to Eliza and Huang Chu in the stands.

"Wow, what beautiful girls, so beautiful!" The commentator only noticed at this time that there were actually two such beautiful girls in the stands of Anfield Stadium.

"They look like friends of Ajax coach Ye Qiu, and one of them may be his girlfriend. Who is she? Why don't all the audience friends in front of the TV come together to guess? I think the black-haired woman may be his family member!"

Ye Qiu just saw Huang Chu and greeted her excitedly in his heart, but he did not expect to attract other people's guesses.

"What is he saying to you?" Eliza asked with a strange smile in the stands, watching Ye Qiu walk into the player tunnel.

She can understand and speak Chinese, but it is a bit difficult for her to lip-read.

Huang Chu's face turned red. She actually understood some of what was said. Her heart felt sweet and she was completely intoxicated.

Seeing her like this, Eliza knew that this must be Ye Qiu's damn guy saying flirtatious things to Huang Chu, so she stopped asking further questions and just secretly guessed in her heart. , their relationship seems to have been confirmed. Do Huang Chu's parents agree?

As for the relationship between Ye Qiu and Huang Chu, everyone in Ajax knew about it, but everyone deliberately didn't tell it. But everyone knew that Huang Chu and Ye Qiu were in love, so when Hu Yizinge had an idea for Huang Chu, Ye Qiu was After being beaten severely, no one found it strange. Instead, they were considerate of Ye Qiu's actions to protect his girlfriend.

But only Eliza, as her best friend, knew that Huang Chu and Ye Qiu were separated by Huang Chu's parents.

As a good friend, Eliza also hopes to see Ye Qiu and Huang Chu get together, because in her opinion, Ye Qiu is really an outstanding man, even though his biggest problem is that he is a bit sloppy in life, but this Isn’t that Huang Chu’s strong point?

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Ajax defeated Liverpool 2:0 away from home. This game completely shocked the whole of Europe at the strength of this Dutch powerhouse, because Liverpool's strength this season is not bad.

When Ye Qiu's team defeated Capello's Roma, many people attributed more luck to Ajax's victory, and more felt that it was caused by Roma's own problems. But now, Ajax defeated Houllier's Liverpool, which deserves the attention of all teams.

In the first round of the UEFA Cup round of 16 knockout this season, the performance of the two teams was surprising.

One team is Ajax, which defeated Roma and Liverpool successively. Many people have even begun to shout the slogan of Ajax's revival, believing that the Ajax Youth Guard led by Ye Qiu will inherit the fine traditions from the Michels, Cruyff and Van Gaal periods, and once again let the whole of Europe feel the charm of Dutch football.

The other team is Alaves from the La Liga.

Mane's team performed well in La Liga last season. The La Liga team encountered the star-studded Inter Milan in the round of 16, but played a wonderful offensive battle with the opponent at home with a score of 3:3. This is very difficult for Alaves, which has no star power at all.

Whether it is Ye Qiu's Ajax or Mane's Alaves, the two teams have an interesting common point, that is, there are no big stars in the team, not even first-class stars, and they rely more on the tactical execution of the team as a whole and the players.

The difference is that Ajax defeated Liverpool 2:0 away, Ye Qiu became the hero of Amsterdam, Alaves tied Inter Milan 3:3 at home, and Mane's team is likely to stop in the round of 16.

As Ye Qiu gradually became famous in European football, domestic media also paid attention to the Netherlands.

As early as when Ajax appointed Ye Qiu, a domestic professional football newspaper had already published this news, but most people just read it and let it go. After all, it is hard to believe that a Chinese man can lead a Dutch football giant to success. Many people even think that Ye Qiu's leadership of Ajax is likely to be a formality and he will be dismissed soon.

Unexpectedly, Ye Qiu's Ajax is getting better and better, and performing better and better in the League Cup. This has not only attracted the attention of European media, but also domestic media have reported it.

The Central Party Newspaper even 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.

You don't know until you look for it. Once you look for it, those who thought that Ye Qiu got into Ajax by luck and connections were shocked. They saw that the reason why their compatriots were able to take charge of a giant like Ajax was because they led Ajax's second team to create history and win the Dutch Cup.

People who don't know may not feel it, but fans and football professionals who are more familiar with European football are very clear about the difficulty of this feat. Because they know how difficult it is, they know how valuable Ye Qiu's feat is. This immediately set off a wave of praise for Ye Qiu in China.

For Ye Qiu, who is far away in Europe, the recognition and praise from domestic fans will not affect everything he has in Europe. If he can't win the league championship, he will still be dismissed. If the results are bad, he will still leave, so he behaves very rationally.

But it doesn't mean that there is no impact at all. At least when the media disclosed that Ye Qiu's parents ran the Yeji snack bar next to the Xiamen Railway Station, many reporters and fans came to hear the news, which directly led to a big boom in the snack bar business.

After returning to the Netherlands from England, Ajax soon welcomed Fortuna Sittard. This team was slaughtered by Ye Qiu's Ajax in the first round. Now playing away, Ajax still showed no mercy to them. With goals from Hleb, Huntelaar and De Jong, Ajax defeated Fortuna Sittard 3:0 away.

They performed well last season, but this season, without the star players such as Hovland, Fortuna Sittard's strength has declined greatly, and now they are on the verge of relegation.

In the match against Fortuna Sittard, Ye Qiu also reserved some for the UEFA Cup, which allowed him to continue to play with all the main players in the second round of the UEFA Cup against Liverpool at the Arena Stadium in the middle of the week. With Robben's goal, he defeated Liverpool 1:0 at the Arena Stadium and eliminated Liverpool from the UEFA Cup with a total score of 3:0.

The UEFA Cup is still very important these days, and its momentum is not much less than that of the Champions League, at least it is not the kind of tasteless thing in the previous life.

You know, Ronaldo, who won the European Golden Ball with nothing in his hands at Inter Milan in 1998, won the European Golden Ball with the UEFA Cup, and in Ye Qiu's previous life, Liverpool's Michael Owen won the European Golden Ball in 2001, relying on a very important UEFA Cup championship.

As for the other cup titles Liverpool has won, the League Cup and the FA Cup are England's own cups. The former is of little importance, while the latter is of some importance but not significant. As for the Community Shield and the European Super Cup, these are cups of warm-up nature, so among Liverpool's five crowns, the most important one is the League Cup.

Because the League Cup is now very important, the competition is also very fierce. Not only do the giants pay enough attention to it, but even the non-giant teams also regard the League Cup as a stage to show their strength.

After the two rounds of the League Cup, the teams that have reached the quarterfinals are freshly released.

Eindhoven, which is superior to the Dutch Eredivisie and has left Feyenoord behind and is the leader of the league, defeated Parma of Serie A; Ajax defeated Liverpool 3:0; Alaves eliminated the shining Inter Milan 2:0 away from home after a 3:3 draw in the first round.

Other teams that also made it to the quarterfinals include Barcelona, ​​which is determined to win the UEFA Cup, the Bundesliga powerhouse Kaiserslautern, the La Liga powerhouses Celta and Rayo Vallecano, and the Portuguese giant Porto.

La Liga performed exceptionally well in this season's UEFA Cup. A total of 4 of the 8 teams in the quarterfinals are from La Liga, and among these teams, Barcelona is the most likely to win the championship, because they are also the team with the most strength and stars among the eight teams, and are considered to be the only giant in the UEFA Cup where many heroes compete.

Ajax faced Portugal's Porto in the quarterfinals, and the winner of these two teams will face the winner of Alaves and Kaiserslautern.

Barcelona faced Rayo Vallecano, and the winner between them will face the winner between PSV and Celta.

Relatively speaking, Ye Qiu felt that he had drawn a good lot, because Ajax's overall football had a more obvious advantage when facing a team like Portugal.

Sure enough, Fernando Santos' Porto could not stop the unstoppable Ajax.

In the first round of the away game against Porto, Ye Qiu still adopted the more offensive 433 high-position defense tactics, but only left Gilberto Silva in the midfield, and arranged Keita and Sneijder to press forward at the same time. With the combination of Maicon and Van der Meyde on the right, Ajax pressed forward in the away game.

Porto's tactics are 4231 double defensive midfielder tactics. Deco, who will be in the limelight in the future, sat on the bench in this game, and Carvalho, the future core of Portugal's defense, was loaned out this season, which made Ye Qiu sigh.

In the end, Porto lost 1:2 to Ajax at home. Because Robben was absent, Van der Vaart, who was arranged by Ye Qiu as the left winger, scored two beautiful goals and became the main contributor to Ajax's victory.

A week after returning to Amsterdam, Ajax defeated Porto 4:0 at the Arena Stadium.

In the match in Arena, Ajax demonstrated the advantages of high defense to the fullest, and Ibrahimovic used his physical and technical advantages to suppress the two central defenders of Porto, which also demonstrated his own advantages and strengths. Coupled with the threat of the two wingers of Ajax to the opponent's flanks, Ajax's offense blossomed.

Ajax eliminated Porto with a total score of 6:1 and successfully entered the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup.

This time, Ajax met the La Liga team Alaves led by José Mané, who is also known for its overall football.

The two teams that are known as the dark horses of this season's UEFA Cup met in the semi-finals, which undoubtedly became a highlight of the UEFA Cup. In another match, Barcelona met Celta, which eliminated PSV Eindhoven.

The promotion in the UEFA Cup is certainly a happy thing, but the team's performance in the Eredivisie is worrying.

It's not that Ye Qiu's team didn't perform well in the Eredivisie. Ajax played a total of 3 Eredivisie games from February 25 to March 12, and achieved 2 wins and 1 draw, beating Utrecht 2:0 at home, beating Rosendal 3:1 away, and drawing with Groningen 3:3 away.

In theory, Ajax's performance is very good, and it has reversed the lack of successors and the recent poor performance of Feyenoord, becoming the second in the Eredivisie standings, only 8 points behind PSV Eindhoven.

But the problem is that PSV Eindhoven's performance is too eye-catching. With two wins and one draw, they still maintain an 8-point advantage over Ajax and did not make any mistakes in the process of winning the championship.

As the games progressed, the pressure on Ajax was increasing, because everyone knew that if head coach Ye Qiu failed to win the Eredivisie title, the agreement with the board would automatically take effect.

Unless he could reverse PSV's 8 points in the remaining 12 rounds.

But is this possible?

PSV currently only has the Dutch Cup and the Eredivisie left, but Ajax is making progress on three fronts: the Eredivisie, the Dutch Cup and the UEFA Cup. No matter how you look at it, Ajax is at a disadvantage in the momentum of competing for the championship.

But Ye Qiu still seemed confident when he was interviewed, because there was still a home game against PSV in the remaining league.