The Midfield Master

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"Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the first round of the Europa League play-offs brought to you by Sky Sports. Everton will play at home against Eredivisie giants Ajax." Redknapp Jr. is as usual Appeared in front of the TV camera, but the partner next to him changed two people: "Today we invited former Everton captain Phil Neville and former Ajax star Patrick Kluivert, welcome."

As soon as the voice fell, the camera gave Phil Neville and Kluivert a close-up shot respectively.

Phil Neville played for Everton for eight years and became the captain of the team until he retired. Although he made his debut at Manchester United, he can be regarded as an Everton legend.

And Kluivert was born in the youth training of Ajax. When he first debuted, he became famous in one fell swoop by virtue of his lore against AC Milan in the Champions League final, and became the main striker of the Dutch national team. Later, he played for Barcelona and other top players. The club was once the holder of the Dutch national team scoring record.

One of these two is the former Everton captain, and the other is a famous Ajax star. It can be said that it is the most suitable partner to explain this game.

"Phil, what do you think of this game?" Redknapp Jr. took the lead in throwing the question to Phil Neville.

"Well, this game is actually very interesting. This is the first time Everton and Ajax have played against each other. There are many young players in both teams. Xia Ze and Klaassen are two players in the tenth position. The duel will become the highlight of this game." Phil Neville replied.

"Patrick, what do you think?"

"I think Phil is right. In this game, two young No. 10 players will dominate his team's offense. Both of them are passers, not breakthrough midfielders. The smell of midfield, which we haven't seen for many years," Kluivert said.

The so-called classical midfielder is a No. 10 player who, like Rui Costa and Zidane, delivers shells to the team with his extraordinary vision and excellent foot skills. Beautiful, it looks like a piece of classical music.

The No. 10 player in modern football is often a player with strong breakthrough ability, who beats the opponent with his body, technique and speed.

Such as Hazard, Messi, Neymar and so on.

It's not that their vision is not wide enough, and their playing is not good enough, but that they use their speed and technology to break through their opponents, rather than tearing apart the opponent's defense with scalpel-like passes.

Due to the development of modern football, the competition for the position of the front midfielder in the middle of the midfield is becoming more and more fierce, leaving less and less space for the front midfielder to play. Therefore, players with a wide vision and excellent passing skills often retreat. The midfielder position becomes the brain of the team's scheduling organization.

The most typical example is Pirlo.

However, Xia Ze and Klaassen, two young players, played the role of Pirlo in the midfielder position, which surprised many football stars.

Although Klaassen's performance in the national team is not good, and Xia Ze's performance in the midfielder position in recent games has also been greatly restricted by the opponent's midfielder, but the duel between the two in this game is still very good. Interesting.

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Xia Ze was sitting in the locker room, lowering his head, putting on the shin guards, re-tying the shoelaces, and changing his clothes into blue competition uniforms.

He returned to the starting lineup, listening to the assistant coach's tactical arrangements, he couldn't help but feel a little excited.

Although he was only away from a starting game, he seemed to be playing for the team for the first time, and his inner desire to fight could not be restrained at all.

For me, this game is a battle to rectify my name.

I want to show everyone that Xia Ze is not lost. Xia Ze can still help the team win and control the midfield.

"Okay, today's tactics are like this, cheer up and let them go back with zero eggs!" Assistant coach Jones loudly encouraged the players after explaining the tactics.

The Everton players in the locker room also stood up one after another, encouraging each other out of the locker room.

At this time, the Ajax players of the visiting team were already standing in the player tunnel. They were wearing red and white jerseys. Everyone looked very serious, and they didn't look short in stature.

The Netherlands is one of the countries with the highest average height in the world, and their players are naturally not short.

What Xia Ze recognized immediately was their goalkeeper Cillessen, a goalkeeper who didn't look tall, but in last year's World Cup, he made a big splash.

Being able to beat Krul to become the main goalkeeper of the Dutch team, his strength still cannot be ignored.

In addition to Klaassen, another player is also particularly eye-catching, that is, Klaassen wearing the No. 10 jersey.

The core of Ajax's attack, the future core candidate of the Dutch national team, has fair skin, blond hair, and a tall figure, a little taller than Xia Ze.

Xia Ze's stature is not considered short among midfielders, with a height of 182 centimeters, but Klaassen still looks a little taller than himself.

And it's not just the figure, the calmness exuding from Klaassen's face made Xia Ze feel even more afraid.

"This kid is not easy to mess with." Gibson, who was following behind Xia Ze, said in a low voice.

Today, he partnered with McCarthy in the defensive midfielder position and formed a three-man midfield with Xia Ze.

"He's handed over to you." Xia Ze nodded in response.

"You guys have to come back to defend!" McCarthy apparently heard the conversation between the two, jokingly said viciously.

"Haha, I won't come if I attack." After McCarthy said this, Xia Ze's mood also relaxed.

Seemingly hearing Xia Ze and the others talking, Klaassen, who had been looking outside the player tunnel, turned around and took a look this way.

After Xia Ze finished talking and laughing, he just happened to look over to Klaassen, and the eyes of the two just met.

There was no such thing as the legendary Mars touching the earth, and there was no lightning or thunder. The eyes of the two just made slight contact, and then they separated immediately.

But from this short moment, Xia Ze read a lot from it.

There is determination, determination, and challenge in Klaassen's eyes.

That's right, it's a challenge to your own team and a challenge to yourself.

No matter how this game goes, at least at this time, the duel between oneself and the opponent has already begun.

Who wins this duel depends on who can help the team win in this game.

In other words, whoever can win the duel with the opponent and dominate the midfield will win the game. c