Chapter 1520

Ajax's warm-up match arrangements are very targeted.

It is necessary to polish the team's tactics, cultivate the tacit understanding of the players, help the players understand and implement Yang Yang's tactical thinking, and at the same time avoid hitting the players' confidence and the team's morale.

This is also determined by the schedule of the new season.

That is the UEFA Champions League qualifiers and play-offs where the battle is life and death.

If Ajax blindly wants to run the team, train the team through a strong team, and discover the shortcomings of the team, then the final result will be that Ajax loses and loses their crotch, and the morale of the players is low. The team has no morale.

Young players still need to focus on encouragement.

Yang Yang has always believed in this, but he also realized the necessity of challenging strong teams, so in the arrangement of the warm-up match, the team arranged a total of five games. It will be at the level of the UEFA Champions League qualifiers, and the next two games will be the middle and upper reaches of the Premier League and Serie A, and the last game will be the Belgian team.

The result was not beyond Yang Yang's expectations. The first two games were lost due to the team's pre-season physical reserve training and the reason of just running in, and the next two games were also lost, and one of them was a zero-to-one match. Three lost to Naples, which was a complete fiasco.

Fortunately, in the last warm-up match, Ajax won 2-0.

In contrast, the middle two games against strong teams have the most training value and exposed the most problems.

And there is a particularly interesting phenomenon that Yang Yang has not played for even a minute, which also makes all the media and fans feel puzzled, and even the inside of the Ajax locker room is somewhat surprised.

Many people even speculate, does Yang Yang want to transform into a head coach?

In fact, this is not the case. The reason why Yang Yang did not play was because he was sticking to the special training plan for the past two or three years. At the same time, he also wanted to observe the team more conveniently and find out the problems exposed by the team.

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After each warm-up match, Yang Yang will hold two tactical analysis meetings to conduct research and analysis with the players on various problems exposed in the match, and give his own thoughts and ideas.

The 90-minute game changes rapidly, and no head coach can accurately control every minute. Therefore, players need to adapt to the situation and face emergencies on the court independently. This requires them to know what the head coach is thinking. What, what do you want to do.

Only by understanding these can players know what they are going to do on the court.

The challenge for Yang Yang is that he needs to crush all his thoughts and ideas into small pieces, slowly take them out, let the players accept and absorb them, and finally transform them into his own.

Indoctrination is a very difficult process, and it is also the place where the head coach's skills are most tested.

Even after four warm-up matches and half a month of running-in day and night, the Ajax players still seem very unfamiliar. They still have a half-knowledge of Yang Yang's tactical ideas and thinking, half-understanding.

It takes time, it takes patience.

Young players are like this, they are like a blank sheet of paper, whatever Yang Yang writes or draws on it, they will absorb it, but because they are young and inexperienced, they absorb it slowly.

It is useless to memorize things like football tactics by rote, the key is to understand and use them like a finger.

If it is those experienced veterans, a lot of things are obvious because they have experienced more.

But the disadvantage of veterans is that many of their own concepts and habits have already formed, and it is difficult to make changes, but young players are different.

The shaping process is slow and painstaking, but once shaped, it is rewarding.

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Xabi Alonso is a very good playmaker and he is very, very intelligent.

How smart are you?

He served as the core of the midfield under the command of the tactical master Benitez and played the role of the head coach on the field; after coming to Real Madrid, he also served as the core of the midfield under the command of the Italian tactical master Ancelotti. Even when he was old, he was dug into Bayern Munich by the Spanish tactician Pep Guardiola to serve as the core of the tactics. In these three teams, he has achieved great success .

This is absolutely no accident.

This not only reflects Xavi Alonso's outstanding football intelligence, but also his understanding of football, which makes him able to generate great value no matter which manager he is under.

Yang Yang also entrusted Harvey Alonso with important tasks. He not only handed over the two midfielders Frankie de Jong and Ndombele to him, and asked Harvey Alonso to give them a little trouble, but also Hand over Dericht and Militao to his subordinates.

In Yang Yang's tactics, or in other words, in Ajax's traditional tactics, the central defender's play has always been valued.

In the current football trend, the central defender's distribution of the ball and the control of the rhythm of the game are all crucial.

Yang Yang himself was not idle.

He is also giving some tips to the players. Jovic, Neres, Sancho, Mullen, Erdegaard, Stens, Boadu and other young first-team players are training with Yang Yang. They may be learning. How to become a winger that meets Yang Yang's requirements, or trying to make myself a more competent and comprehensive attacker.

For example, Neres and Sancho, Yang Yang asked them to practice inverted feet, and at the same time strengthen the training of defensive skills and the cultivation of defensive awareness.

One of the obvious places, they all like sticky balls.

The defensive strength of the Eredivisie league is very average, and players can get a lot of space. Therefore, over the years, the consensus in European football is that the goals of the Netherlands are really watery. Almost all scorers who have gone out of the Eredivisie, None of them succeeded.

What is the reason?

The Eredivisie team's defense is terrible.

If you go to the European arena according to the standard of dealing with the defensive strength of the Eredivisie, you are definitely looking for death.

The simplest point is that Yang Yang thinks that Neres and Sancho are too sticky.

In order to change this, in order to make them more concise, Yang Yang simply let Tagliafico, Dumfries, Feltman, and even De Ligt and Militao play the role of defenders, so that They go one-on-one.

Not only that, Yang Yang also formulated a series of rules to encourage defensive players and restrict offensive players.

This kind of unequal training makes the offensive players in the team miserable, but they have to implement it.

They dare not question it, because Yang Yang can do it.

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Once, Jovic couldn't understand Yang Yang's thoughts, and he couldn't do well in several consecutive warm-up matches, and he always felt that it was impossible to do it.

As a result, during a group confrontation training, Yang Yang directly called to stop the training, replaced Jovic, asked him to stand on the sidelines, and asked the coaching staff to pay attention to leave the training video for future use. Give Jovic to study.

In fact, what Yang Yang asked for was to add some changes on the basis of the most basic switchback run.

On the field, Yang Yang explained a few words to Neres and Sancho, and then explained to Van der Beek and others.

Soon, when the training resumed, Yang Yang quickly ran back from the front.

Van der Beek immediately passed the ball to Yang Yang's feet, and after Yang Yang got the ball, he suddenly turned around and passed behind with his left foot. Come out of the space, and take advantage of the momentum to push and shoot.

Yang Yang pointed at Jovic from a distance, and the Serbian center admired him deeply.

There is no instruction manual more intuitive than this.

Afterwards, Yang Yang rehearsed several times. The defensive players adapt to the situation, and Yang Yang can always find a way.

Can't turn around?

Yang Yang will pass the ball to Van der Beek or other people around, and they will be responsible for passing the ball to hit the space behind him.

The two ribs were blocked, so Van der Beek went straight behind him and did it.

The back line returned to the defense in time, and the ball reached the ribs and was forced to pull to the side. After Yang Yang passed the ball, he quickly turned around and jumped in quickly, responding to his teammate's cross from the side, and directly hitting the goal.

If it really doesn't work, there are still full-backs who come up to pass.

All the Ajax players, whether they were training on the field or watching from the sidelines, were dumbfounded, and their hearts were even more agitated.

Only one person was changed, from Jovic to Yang Yang, but for some reason, the team's frontcourt was revitalized.

Especially the players on the court, the feeling is even more profound.

Yang Yang seems to be casual, but in fact, every time he runs, every pass is targeted, and he is guiding his teammates to pass and attack. Many things that they could not understand before, after Yang Yang In series, they immediately started to feel the way.

This is the number one player in world football!

Jovic, who was the first to bear the brunt, was stunned when he saw it.

He is also a striker, and he played the role of serializer and supporter in Ajax before, but compared with Yang Yang, he suddenly felt like a kid who didn't know how to play football at all.

After the training was over, Yang Yang called everyone over again.

"We must always keep in mind that on the football field, every ounce of our physical strength is precious. We must understand every step and every movement, what is it for?"

"Running on the football field seems difficult, but in fact there are only two purposes, one is to create space for oneself, and the other is to create space for teammates. As long as these two goals can be achieved, then this time running is meaningful. valuable."

"And every worthwhile run, the successful run of each player, ultimately constitutes the success of the team."

The group of young Ajax players took Yang Yang's words seriously.

Ajax has always emphasized the cooperation of passing and cutting, which is very close to Yang Yang's requirements, but Yang Yang will be more meticulous in details, which has something to do with his apprenticeship with the famous Italian coach Ancelotti.

Everyone knows that Ancelotti's tactics are notoriously meticulous.

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When Yang Yang was intensively training the players, the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League finally came to an end.

And Ajax's opponents in the third qualifying round also came out.

Belgium's standard Liege!