The Godfather of Football

I don’t know since when, Ye Qiu has become a thorn in Gretz’s heart.

Not only him, but Eindhoven general manager Frank Arnesen also regards Ye Qiu as Eindhoven's most powerful competitor, because Ajax led by him has been very successful in the past year. , achieved surprising progress.

Personal grudges aside, Gretz believes that Ye Qiu was the most surprising opponent in the Eredivisie last season.

With the lowest average age in the Eredivisie, it is now firmly occupying the second place in the league, reaching the semi-finals of the Dutch Cup and the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. With such a report list, only Ajax has Only directors like fools would think it was a failed season, and only those who don't understand football would think Ye Qiu should be responsible for not being able to win the championship.

Is this Ye Qiu's fault?

Even Gretz, a competitor, couldn't help but want to defend him!

He was able to win the league championship in his first season in charge of PSV, but that was based on the foundation created by PSV's continuous accumulation in the past few years. If nothing else, it was directed at that time. With PSV's powerful lineup, which team in the entire Eredivisie can compete with it?

If PSV at that time was a team similar to Ajax this season, which had just completed its reorganization and had been in turmoil for many years, who would dare to say that they could win the championship in the first season? Who can guarantee that they can do better than Ye Qiu?

Of course, Gretz took these words to heart because he didn't like Ye Qiu. On the contrary, he hated this person!

From last season's Dutch Cup knockout round, when he met Ye Qiu and his second team for the first time, to this season's Super Cup and the league game at Philips Stadium, he had almost nothing to gain from Ye Qiu. Even if it's a little bit cheaper.

In the past two years, Gretz and his PSV were invincible in the entire Eredivisie. However, they lost to Ye Qiu again and again. This made Gretz's two games against Arena Stadium He attaches great importance to the game, especially the first league game, which he is determined to win.

The first league game involves 3 points. If PSV loses, it will definitely give Ajax hope of reversal. This is a situation that Gretz and all PSV people do not want to see, so This game must be won.

At the same time, the first game will also have a profound impact on the Dutch Cup semi-finals three days later. It is a single knockout system. Whoever loses will be eliminated from the Dutch Cup. Therefore, Gretz must also win to advance to the Netherlands. cup final.

Fortunately, things have been bad for Ajax recently.

There was a disagreement on the board of directors. A group of people led by Koerner announced with great fanfare that if Ye Qiu failed to win the league championship, he would leave the Arena Stadium after class. However, a group of people led by Chairman Van Praag argued with reason. , guaranteeing that even if Ye Qiu fails to win the championship, he will definitely stay in Ajax.

The differences between the board of directors have been aroused in the media, causing Ajax fans to be divided into two groups, and the media is also divided into two groups to discuss and argue, which is bound to bring consequences to Ajax. big influence.

This game against PSV was so important, so important that it could almost be said to be Ye Qiu’s life-and-death battle in Ajax!

How will he fight?

Gretz and his coaching staff had been guessing for a long time, but it was obvious that they still didn't know Ye Qiu well enough.

Because, just when they thought Ye Qiu would adopt a more steady and steady approach, Ye Qiu surprised them all. From the first minute of the game, he pressed forward aggressively and adopted an almost crazy attack, completely suppressing PSV. .

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"...Gilberto Silva passed the ball to the left and gave it to Abidal..."

"...Abidal passed the ball to Robben, who faced Oyer alone in front, one-on-one, a good opportunity!"

"After that, Robben deceived Oyer with a realistic fake move and passed PSV's right back. With a beautiful personal breakthrough, Ajax once again penetrated PSV's defense! "

"Robben brought the ball to the left side of the penalty area. Nikiforov came to block it, but Robben passed the ball in advance and it was a low ball!"

"Ibrahimovic came in from outside the penalty area, he was competing with Hovland, got the point, and headed the goal!"

"Oops... the Swedish center should really practice his header. If he had hit the ball a little lower, Ajax would have broken the deadlock. What a pity!"

Not only the on-site commentators were regretting it, but all the Ajax fans in the audience were also regretting it.

After the start of the game, Ajax played very actively from both sides, especially Robben on the left. Against Oyer, he repeatedly got one-on-one opportunities, which allowed Robben to maximize his performance. personal ability.

"Ajax's tactics in this game are indeed quite bold. Ye Qiu's 433 pushed the defense very high from the beginning. This is a high-position defensive strategy that he is good at. Using this high-position defense, he can maximize It ensures that the midfield and backfield provide continuous offensive support to the frontcourt offensive players.”

"But PSV's strongest defense in the Eredivisie cannot be broken easily. Although Ajax's offense is very good, PSV's defense is also very good, but it is a little embarrassed. ”

That is why the Ajax fans in the stands kept shouting humiliatingly, asking the PSV players, "Do you dare to leave your penalty area like a man?"

But it is obvious that PSV did not want to, but could not do it.

After a season of running-in and adjustment, although Ajax's midfield seems to have only three players, the control is very good, because Ajax no longer has obvious boundaries between the front, middle and back lines.

The two full-backs Abidal and Maicon can press forward when the team attacks. At this time, Ajax's midfield looks like there are 5 players. Even when necessary, Lucio's forward insertion will pile up the number of Ajax midfielders to 6 at a specific time.

This is the case when attacking, and the same fluidity is also very strong when defending. The two full-backs retreat, the back line is in place, the two wingers also retreat to support the midfield, and the center forward interferes with the opponent's central defender in front. Ajax's midfield still has an advantage in numbers.

The so-called high-position defense, the pressure and pressing in the front court are very important. Without this, the high-position defense will no longer be the team's advantage, but will become the team's fatal disadvantage.

In the past season, Ye Qiu has been constantly adjusting and running-in, just to ensure that the team can always maintain high-intensity pressure and pressing in the front court in any game and under any circumstances, and ensure that the high-position defense puts pressure on the opponent.

Playing against Roma, Liverpool, and Ajax did well, and this game against Eindhoven was also unambiguous.

Sitting in the coaching seat of the home team at the Arena Stadium, Ye Qiu turned his wrist and glanced at Hamilton on his wrist. The stunning figure of Huang Chu immediately emerged in his mind, and his heart was warmed. Looking at the time again, 15 minutes have passed, and the score is still 0:0, which made him sigh for no reason.

Eindhoven is indeed very strong, whether it is offense or defense, it is very good.

With Ajax's current lineup, if all the stars are mature, it would be as easy to beat PSV Eindhoven, but the problem is that these guys are still young and need more training and growth.

Walking to the sidelines, Ye Qiu waved to the players and gestured, "Slow down first, retreat appropriately!"

PSV Eindhoven has a Kezman in this game. Although the performance of this striker this season is far inferior to that of Van Nistelrooy before, his strength is unquestionable, but he still needs to further integrate into PSV Eindhoven and adapt to the Dutch League.

Ye Qiu knows very well that it is easy to be counterattacked if the attack fails for a long time, and Kezman's speed is the biggest threat.

But Ajax's retreat is not to retreat to their own penalty area, how can that be possible, but more to start arranging interceptions in the middle circle.

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As soon as Ajax retreated, the middle circle became the focus of the struggle between the two sides.

Sneijder's position is on the right, which is convenient for him to support Van der Meyde on the right at any time.

With Van der Meyde and Maicon, Ajax's right side showed a certain threat in the second half of the season. When the left side relied more on Robben's single-player combat, the threat on the right side was even greater, especially Van der Meyde. His performance this season really surprised everyone. His limelight even overshadowed Ajax's rising star Van der Vaart.

Because of this, PSV's left side is the focus of defense.

Now, when Ye Qiu said he wanted to retreat, PSV's players immediately pressed out like wolves and tigers.

When Van der Meyde got the ball, he immediately felt that there were two players around him, and Ibrahimovic followed Hovland at any time. Nikiforov was close to Hovland, ready to assist at any time. PSV's defense was seriously tilted to this side.

This is no wonder. Both Van der Meyde and Ibrahimovic are players who are very troublesome in one-on-one situations. The former is fast and has strong breakthrough ability. In one-on-one situations, Bouma is under great pressure. In addition, Maicon is very close to him, and Sneijder is always ready to assist. The pressure on the right is too great.

Ibrahimovic, a Swede, is an atypical center forward. He has the body of a traditional center forward, but he has very delicate footwork, fast speed, and flexible body. Such a player, let alone Hovland, will be a headache for any central defender.

Van der Meyde failed to pass the ball in the end. After being intercepted by Eindhoven, he launched a counterattack, but in the end Ajax's defense intercepted Eindhoven's counterattack. Lucio promptly intercepted the ball at Brukink's feet and cleared it.

Just as Ajax returned to defense as a whole and prepared to welcome Eindhoven's out-of-bounds ball, Keita approached Sneijder.

"The boss said, find Robben!" Keita whispered as he and Sneijder passed by.

This was a simple statement, but Sneijder understood it.

Then Ajax and PSV Eindhoven had several more attacks and defenses, and neither side was able to break the situation, especially Ajax, who began to consciously slow down the pace after the first 15 minutes of active attack, and the defense line was no longer pressed forward, and more troops were gathered in the midfield.

"It seems that Ajax is not arrogant, and is a little afraid of PSV Eindhoven's counterattack ability!"

Van Bommel's pass and Kezman's speed are very threatening offensive means, especially when defending at a high position, and Ye Qiu couldn't attack for a long time, so he chose to slow down first, which was also a rational choice.

If they keep the strong and fast-paced offensive, it is estimated that in the second half, all Ajax players will be exhausted.

Ajax's attack starts from the right side. Gilberto Silva and Lucio's passes are all from the right side. This is also a conscious move by Ajax, that is, to focus PSV's defensive attention on the right side as much as possible.

Then, slowly wait for the opportunity!

This wait lasted for nearly ten minutes.

Facing the high ball passed by Van Bommel to Kezman, Kifu steadily positioned himself in advance and headed the ball to Gilberto Silva. The Brazilian midfielder kicked the ball back to the right side as usual. Maicon got the ball halfway when he was inserting forward and moved forward.

Van der Meyde is always followed by Bouma, who is like a dog's shit plaster, so Maicon did not look for Van der Meyde this time, but passed the ball diagonally to Ibrahimovic who was retreating.

The Swede retreated to get the ball, stopped it steadily at his feet, and leaned on Hovland with his body. The latter could not reach the ball at all, so he could only choose to hold Ibrahimovic with his body, not letting him turn around easily, and then wait for his teammates' support.

Ibrahimovic certainly knew Hovland's choice. He exerted force from his shoulders, suppressed Hovland, and then retreated diagonally to the center circle with the ball, which immediately allowed him to get rid of the encirclement formed by Hovland, Van Bommel and Nikiforov before they could form it.

Van Bommel had no choice but to move forward immediately to plug the loophole and restrict Ibrahimovic.

The Swede knocked the ball back in advance and passed it to Sneijder, who was unguarded behind Van Bommel.

Sneijder faced Ibrahimovic, and he clearly saw that the moment Ibrahimovic passed the ball, Van Bommel realized the problem and immediately turned back to chase, and he must not be stuck to this difficult opponent, Van Bommel would eat him up!

So after Sneijder stopped the ball, he immediately turned sideways, controlled the ball with his left foot, and used his shoulder and body to block between the ball and Van Bommel. The latter immediately stopped and stood in position, because he knew that he had lost the opportunity to steal the ball in the first time.

But at this moment, Sneijder's left foot hit the ball with a fast and sharp arc.

The ball passed everyone and fell directly into the middle position behind the PSV Eindhoven defense line.

At this moment, the experienced Nikiforov was the first to react and was shocked, and Van Bommel was also stunned because he finally realized that he and his teammates had made a fatal mistake.

On the left, Robben was free from the attack. In the past ten minutes, he hardly participated in the attack, which gave the PSV Eindhoven players some false consciousness, as if the player's physical strength had dropped a lot after the excellent performance at the beginning, coupled with Oye's solid defense and restrictions, he was a little out of heat.

But is it really like this?

Ajax's attack was seriously tilted to the right, which was actually a move to paralyze the opponent, making PSV Eindhoven habitually think again and again that Ajax would continue to go to the right, because Robben on the left did not look in good condition.

In this case, PSV Eindhoven's defense would always naturally pay attention to Ajax's right side and ignore the left side.

At the moment Sneijder passed the ball, there were only Robben and Oye in the entire left half of PSV Eindhoven's half, and Oye was a little far away from Robben in order to keep a certain distance from Nikiforov.

Of course, in contrast, Robben also paid attention to his position behind PSV Eindhoven's defense line in order to avoid offside.

But for Robben, his speed firmly defeated Oye.

At this moment, everyone, including the Ajax fans in the stands, was shocked and had an indescribable excitement.

Because Ajax, which was slow just now, suddenly accelerated its offensive, especially the speed when Robben broke through Oye, which brought everyone an indescribable pleasure!

The rhythm of the game was completely broken at the moment when Sneijder passed the ball and Robben sprinted forward!

In the books that Ye Qiu had read, there were a few words to describe the rhythm of the game.

"If the means of attack is likened to a fist that is swung out, then the fist that is retracted and then punched out is more powerful."

"The fist is retracted, it is slow, slow is to adjust your arm and fist to the most comfortable angle and posture, this is to allow yourself to punch faster and more powerful punches anytime and anywhere, and while retracting the fist, you can also better observe the opponent's loopholes and disadvantages. Once you find a loophole, the fist will be swung out without hesitation. At this time, you must be fast, as fast as thunder, and fast without hesitation, to cause the most fatal blow to the opponent!"

"Slow is a kind of adjustment, a kind of brewing, which serves the next fast, and fast is the explosion after the slow accumulation reaches a certain level."

Ye Qiu admires this fist theory of controlling rhythm very much, and he is also very clear that the so-called control of rhythm is often not dependent on a certain person, but requires the whole team to unify the pace to achieve it.

Just like the Barcelona team in Ye Qiu's previous life, many people said that Xavi and Busquets controlled the tempo of Barcelona. Is that true? If they were really in control, then once the ball left them and was passed to other players, and other players increased the tempo, would their previous control still be useful?

Controlling the tempo is the job of all 11 players on the team, it is a collective, not an individual job!

So, if they are not in control, what role do they play in controlling the rhythm?

Busquets' role is to organize the midfield and distribute the ball, while Xavi's role is to find the opponent's loopholes and take on the transition from slow to fast, which is his most deadly pass.

Xabi Alonso and Pirlo have dual responsibilities, both to distribute players and to pass the ball.

In the Ajax team, Gilberto Silva is responsible for distributing the ball, while Sneijder is in charge of organizing the midfield and the attack and defense conversion. If Van der Vaart is there, he can also cut inside to the middle to help Sneijder complete the attack and defense conversion.

Controlling the rhythm is equal to controlling the game!

In this attack of Ajax, Robben got rid of Oye and entered the penalty area to form a single knife, and finally dribbled past the opponent's goalkeeper Watrous and pushed the empty goal, which undoubtedly confirmed the correctness of Ye Qiu's fist theory!