Chapter 1598 This Is Really Crazy!

"Ninety minutes?"

In the office at the Cruyff Stadium in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Wei Zheng, Van Gaal, Van der Sar and others were watching the live broadcast of the game. Seeing that Ajax led Barcelona by two goals, everyone was overjoyed.

But regarding the remarks of the on-site commentator, Van Gaal, Van der Sar and others smiled wryly and shook their heads.

"How is this possible?" Bergkamp also smiled wryly.

"We are not supermen!" Davis was also very speechless. You know, his career is known for his running and stealing ability. Even after he was old, he was able to help Rijkaard win the championship in Barcelona. With these two skills.

But even so, he was still shocked by the running ability of Yang Yang's Ajax team.

Times have changed!

Many people only see that what Yang Yang brought to Ajax is the improvement in performance, but they have not noticed that in the past one year, Ajax has undergone earth-shaking changes. is the result of a series of changes.

Not to mention anything else, just physical training.

In the past few years, European football has paid more and more attention to the use of high technology. Many teams are investing in research and development in this area, trying to build their own moat, especially the rich teams.

In the past few years, the scientific level of football training has far surpassed that of ten years ago, and the entire training system created by Yang Yang for Ajax has even made Van Gaal, van der Sar and Davis, etc. Everyone inside feels unbelievable.

Not only technology is advancing, but concepts are also evolving.

The final result is presented on the court. This young Ajax team was able to make 25 steals in less than 20 minutes. What an astonishing number is this?

This means that in the past 20 minutes, Ajax have made 25 attempts to break through the Barcelona defense.

Many people saw a two-to-zero lead, but behind these two goals, Ajax tried again and again.

Is Barcelona's defense not doing well?

No, it's because Ajax has made too many offensive attempts!

As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves thinking about you.

As long as the hoe dances well, there is no city wall that cannot be dug down.

No matter how solid the defense is, it can't hold back the opponent's repeated attempts and attempts.

But no matter how scientific and advanced the training is, no matter how much preparation time before the game, Ajax still can't stand it.

Yang Yang's concepts and ideas are very good, very advanced, but it requires a lot of physical fitness.

Even for a young team like Ajax, it is impossible to maintain a fast-paced offensive and defensive battle for 90 minutes.

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"Leading by two goals, we should take a break." Van Gaal said with a sigh.

Van der Sar nodded and said: "Yes, if you don't take a break, the players' physical fitness will be too much. Barcelona will counterattack soon, and that will be dangerous."

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and a rotten boat still has three catties of nails.

Barcelona's strength lies there. Although they were stunned by Ajax at the beginning, it is definitely overthinking to suppress Barcelona.

Ajax's best choice is to grab a wave at the beginning of the game, and after taking the lead, allocate their physical energy reasonably.

Next, we will see Yang Yang's on-the-spot command.

This is an art, but also a metaphysics.

I have to slow down appropriately to take a break and maintain the combat ability for 90 minutes, but I can't give up the rhythm to Barcelona. This requires him to be able to control the situation on the field in time, and when Barcelona counterattacks, suppress them immediately. Hold the opponent.

This is the art of improvisation!

"However, judging from the current situation, we may be in bad luck this summer." Overmars said with a wry smile.

Everyone laughed wryly after hearing this, who said it wasn't?

Ajax reached the Europa League final that year. Although they lost to Manchester United, they were poached by other teams. The lineup was poached, including Klaassen, Dolberg, Davidson Sanchez and other main players. Empty, causing Ajax's subsequent performance to plummet.

The same is true for Ajax today.

The results in the Champions League are indeed amazing, but there are also many giants coveting Ajax players. At this time, the test for the club's management lies in how to operate the transfer.

It is impossible to sell none of them, and it is even more impossible to sell them all.

How to sell to sell a higher price?

These are quite a test of the skills of the Ajax management team.

Fortunately, in the past few years, especially in the recent year, a group of people headed by Wei Zheng, Van der Sar, and Menno Heron have quickly grasped various departments, and the entire management of Ajax The system has also introduced modern management concepts, and I believe it will be easier to deal with than before.

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Sure enough, after leading by two goals, the game entered a stalemate.

Ajax slowed down the tempo of pressing and pressing to buy themselves more time to recover.

Barcelona was a little confused at first, but quickly reacted and tried to counterattack, but was robbed by Ajax again, and then pressed back. Twenty-five minutes later, Barcelona controlled the ball, but it was difficult. Create a threatening attack.

The only threat is Messi.

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"Yang Yang knows Barcelona too well!"

In the Real Madrid administrative office in Valdebebas, President Florentino watched the game with Butragueno and others.

They were all terrified watching it, but at the same time they felt delighted.

This is how Ajax football hit them.

Even Florentino can see that Yang Yang knows Barcelona very well and is very experienced in dealing with it.

"Yeah, he's been with us for nine years, he's been at Liverpool for three more years, even at Ajax, he's been around Barcelona a lot, he knows how they play in passing and possession. , and in recent years, Barcelona has indeed been too obsessed with their so-called quick pass ball control system." Butragueno sighed.

This set of pass control system led Barcelona to the top and won a Champions League in 2013, but after that, all the teams that adopted this set of play have never won another. honor.

Even the Spanish national team has not won another honor after the World Cup in 2010 and the European Cup in 2012.

This is absolutely no accident.

"The characteristic of this pass and control style of play is stability. It does have certain advantages in the league, but in the Champions League where tactics are more targeted, the risk is great. Yang Yang is the most familiar among them. How to restrain Barcelona's set A person who plays tricks."

Butragueno sighed, "The high-intensity pressing and oppression brought about by running and covering without hesitation, targeting the full-backs and midfielders, cutting off the key nodes of the opponent's pass and control system, Yang Yang has done both in these two aspects tonight Almost extreme."

Needless to say, running coverage and pressurization, the data read out by the commentator just now will definitely blow up the media all over the world tomorrow. This is really crazy!

Who would have believed that a team could make such a start if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes?

The full-backs and midfielders who oppress the opponent are also very clear, and the focus is on Busquets.

Yang Yang looks like he replaced Jovic in the starting lineup, but in fact, he is different from Jovic. He has no sign of being at the forefront at all, and is more retreating, joining forces with Van der Beek to restrain Busquets and Rakitic.

The three old Barcelona midfielders, Busquets and Rakitic, have weak running ability and poor escape ability. They are prone to mistakes when they are pressed and oppressed. Vidal is both offensive and defensive, but he can't handle the ball.

Therefore, Ajax's push directly suppressed Barcelona's midfielder.

In the opening stage, the reason why Barcelona made so many mistakes in passing and receiving the ball was precisely because the midfield was out of control.

Valverde realized the problem after 20 minutes, so he let Coutinho drop back. At this time, Barcelona looked a bit like a four-four-two.

Coutinho is not suitable for playing as a left winger, and he is not the type of winger like Neymar, which makes his tactical positioning in Barcelona very vague. There is a Messi presence in Barcelona's frontcourt.

Not only Coutinho, but also Dembele.

Ajax's focus on grabbing the left is really not aimless.

Yang Yang knew very well that he wanted to hit Barcelona's left and midfielder, so even if Coutinho retreated and changed to 442, the offense still didn't improve, because Valverde found out with regret that Rakitic , Busquets and Coutinho can't play the midfielder, and the full-back Alba seems to be active in the back, but the threat is not great.

On the contrary, Vidal, the player with the roughest footwork in Barcelona's midfield, got the most opportunities to get the ball, but this is completely inconsistent with Barcelona's concept of passing and controlling the ball.

Obviously, Yang Yang is catching the big and letting go of the small, letting Vidal and Roberto take the ball.

So it can be seen that Messi and Dembele frequently retreat, but in this way, there is no one in Barcelona's frontcourt.

Every time Messi takes the ball, he has to face interception from at least two lines of defense, which is terrible!

The Argentine is no longer young. He can break through one line of defense, but if he wants to break through two lines of defense, isn't it a challenge?

In the end, the result of the evolution is that when Barcelona is behind by two goals, Barcelona has to control the ball, but they can't attack anyway. Occasionally, they can rely on the personal flashes of Messi and other stars to create some threats, but the overall tactical level There is no bright spot.

Valverde has nothing to do about it.

"If Cristiano Ronaldo is here, at least there is still a point ahead, but now..." Butragueno seemed to have seen Barcelona's defeat.

Unless Valverde can make adjustments during the intermission.

Florentino's focus is different. He values ​​​​the group of Ajax players more.

"Yang Yang has trained an amazing team and a group of amazing players." Florentino laughed with his eyes shining, "We are short of such a head coach and such players now!"

Everyone also nodded.

Looking at European football, which giant team does not covet this group of Ajax players?

As early as before the winter break, Barcelona almost took the lead.

Now, the better Ajax's performance is, the more European giants can't hold back their eagerness to move.