Chapter 272 The First Battle

March 10, Lille Morroy Stadium, France.

UEFA Cup round of 16 knockout first leg.

Ajax away to Ligue 1 Lille.

The Ligue 1 powerhouse is currently ranked third in Ligue 1, behind Lyon and Marseille, and higher than Monaco and Auxerre.

Defense is the capital of Lille's outstanding performance in the Ligue 1, but the offensive ability is weak, so that in the 28 rounds of the Ligue 1, Lille has won only a mere 12 games, even more than the fifth-placed team. Auxerre is less.

Defending the strong and attacking the weak is also the biggest problem for Lille this season.

As a result, Lille's home results are not ideal. After all, they often face more cautious and even conservative away teams at home. Without excellent offensive power, it is difficult to score three points.

Like the Ajax that Lille faced tonight.

Ronald Koeman still has the double midfielder combination of Galasek and De Jong in order to consolidate the defense of the midfield and backfield despite his overall strength.

Lille also maintained a high degree of vigilance against Yang Yang, a new player in the Eredivisie this season, and deployed heavy troops to restrain him, which made it difficult for Yang Yang to get opportunities throughout the first half.

But in the stoppage time of the first half, when everyone thought the game would end at zero to zero, Yang Yang suddenly exerted his strength.

Sneijder made a straight pass over the top and accurately sent the ball into the penalty area.

Yang Yang threw off the defending player, slanted into the penalty area from the right rib at the fastest speed, and shot directly before the attacking Lille goalkeeper. The ball crossed the goalkeeper's side and crashed into the goal behind him. .

Yang Yang was thrown to the ground by the attacking goalkeeper. After rolling in a circle, when he knelt up, he saw the football beating in the goal line. He raised his hands high and celebrated another goal of his own.

In the end, Ajax beat Lille 1-0 away with Yang Yang's goal in the 45th minute.

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At the weekend, back to the Eredivisie League, ushered in the twenty-fifth round.

Ajax away to Nijmegen.

Since February, the continuous multi-line battle has finally had problems at this time, especially the recent consecutive away games, the players are very tired, coupled with Nijmegen's strict defense, making Ajax's performance in the game. Very depressed.

Yang Yang is in good condition and still works very hard. Although his teammates are not in ideal condition, Yang Yang still relies on his own personal ability to create several good scoring opportunities in the game.

Especially in the 51st minute, Yang Yang crossed to the front of the penalty area after continuously dribbling the ball from the right and cutting inside.

In this game, Maduro, who replaced Galasek's starter, plugged in and shot directly, scoring the winning goal for Ajax.

In the end, with Yang Yang assisting Maduro's goal, Ajax narrowly beat Nijmegen 1-0 away.

After the game, Yang Yang became the only Ajax offensive player who was not blamed. Not only that, the media and fans still gave a high evaluation of Yang Yang's performance, thinking that he was the only bright spot of Ajax. .

Not being able to score, Yang Yang is not without regrets, but football games are like that.

Fortunately, Feyenoord beat Roda JC 4-1 at home this round, but Kuyt also failed to score.

The number of goals scored by the two sides is still 20 to 22, and Yang Yang continues to trail by two goals.

Eindhoven won 4-0 at home in The Hague this round, and Alkmaar 3-2 at home Mr. Graf Sharp, the top four rankings in the league have not changed at all.

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Three days later, the second leg of the UEFA Cup round of 16 knockout.

Ajax vs Lille.

Feeling the recent ups and downs of the team's state, especially among the several offensive players in the team, except for Yang Yang, other players are in relatively average state. Ronald Koeman made a large rotation and even intentionally gave up this game. Focus on playing the league.

There is really no way to do this. Ajax's personnel reserve is simply not enough to support the team's continuous multi-line operations. Babel, Maduro and other young players do not have the level of independence for the time being. The coaching staff can only make trade-offs.

Although the UEFA Cup is a European event, the income is very low, and the input is not proportional to the output.

In contrast, doing your best to keep the league and qualifying for the Champions League next season can bring huge benefits to Ajax, at least over 10 million euros. may be given.

This is why all the strong teams are basically reluctant to make great efforts to play the UEFA Cup.

Moreover, in the twenty-sixth round of the Eredivisie, Ajax will welcome PSV Eindhoven at home. This is another focus battle that determines the ownership of the league title, and Ronald Koeman cannot afford to ignore it.

After the big rotation, Ajax's performance was affected, but Lille also failed to break Ajax's defense.

In the end, the two sides played 0-0 at the Amsterdam Arena, a draw.

With a 1-0 away game, Ajax beat Lille 1-0 on aggregate and entered the UEFA Cup quarter-finals.

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March 19, Amsterdam Arena.

In the twenty-sixth round of the Eredivisie, Ajax hosts PSV Eindhoven.

When the game went to the fifty-seventh minute, the two sides were still 0-0.

But at this time, PSV suddenly made a surprising substitution.

Hiddink replaced on-field captain Mark van Bommel with Vogel.

When he saw this substitution, Yang Yang was also surprised, because Van Bommel was one of the most dominant players in PSV Eindhoven. Hiddink replaced him at this time and replaced him with Vogel. To strengthen the attack?

This is not surprising, since before Van Bommel, Eindhoven had already made a substitution, replacing Farfan with Gerard Sibon, a 1.96-foot high center forward. .

After Xibang played, he and Hesselink formed the two giant towers of Eindhoven's frontcourt. At this time, it was a bit of a waste to continue to pile up the two players of Cocu and Van Bommel in the midfield.

Moreover, there were rumors before the game that Van Bommel was injured, and it is possible that Hiddink was protecting him.

But no matter what, Van Bommel came off, Vogel came on, and PSV Eindhoven has brought a very clear offensive signal.

In the case of a 0-0 in the first half, Hiddink wanted to end the fight in the second half, and wanted to use this game to completely lose the suspense of the title of the Eredivisie this season.

After the substitution, Eindhoven began to press heavily, giving full play to the threat of the two towering centers in the frontcourt and actively playing two flanks.

Ajax's overall strength is inferior to Eindhoven, and they continue to play steadily and adopt defensive counterattack tactics.

Without Van Bommel, Eindhoven began to press the attack again, and Yang Yang gained more freedom in the frontcourt.

Just five minutes before Van Bommel came off the pitch, Ajax had a chance to fight back.

Center Charl Styas pulled out of the penalty area, retreated to receive the pass from the center and backcourt, and then passed the ball to the right rib.

Yang Yang took the ball and faced Li Rongpyo one-on-one.

Although the South Korean left back was already mentally prepared, he was extremely cautious when facing Yang Yang and did not dare to be careless.

But before Yang Yang started, there was a very secret little movement that caught Li Rongpyo's attention, and then he started suddenly at a very fast speed. Li Rongpyo felt like a figure in front of his eyes, and Yang Yang had already dribbled the ball away from him. past.

When he turned around to chase, Yang Yang had already rushed into the penalty area and hit the door with his right foot.

The ball is in! ! ! !

The whole Amsterdam Arena was cheering and shouting Yang Yang!

Li Rongpyo shook his head helplessly. Over the past two seasons, almost every time he faced Yang Yang, it made him feel nightmares.

The speed of this Chinese is too fast! The body is so flexible!

And he has a lot of fake moves, as long as he is a little inattentive and his attention is a little distracted, he may seize the opportunity to form a breakthrough.

One to zero, Ajax temporarily took the lead with Yang Yang's goal.

This is also Yang Yang's 21st goal this season!

After conceding the goal, Eindhoven did not flinch, but pressed forward more resolutely.

In fact, everyone in the entire Eredivisie League knows that Ajax's biggest defensive weakness is the high ball.

This is determined by Ajax's tactics. It is almost impossible to find two central defenders who are excellent at defending the ball and have a strong ability to play the ball at the same time.

Ronald Koeman arranged for Flar to start this game, and he played well. Hesselink was frozen in the first half, but in the second half, Hiddink was replaced by a more terrifying, nearly two-meter Xibang. .

With just five minutes to go before Ajax scored, PSV finally seized the opportunity.

When Li Rongpyo made an attack on the left, he made up for it and made a cross from the left to the penalty area.

The Korean players also showed full resilience, and their emotions and performance were not affected by Yang Yang's forcible breakthrough just now, which made Yang Yang quite admired.

In terms of player strength, Park Ji-sung, Lee Young-pyo, and even Feyenoord's Nobuji Ono are indeed slightly better than Chinese players. Yang Yang must admit the gap.

Just two minutes later, Ajax fought back again.

Behind the long pass from Maicon on the right, Yang Yang threw off Li Rongpyo at the fastest speed, and when he got behind Eindhoven to catch the ball, he had already rushed to the right side of the penalty area. In front, a low pass crossed the ball directly to the back point.

Ryan Babel, who had just started as a substitute for Pinar, quickly followed, and he easily pushed and scored from the back, and the score was exceeded again.

Two to one!

The Ajax fans at the Amsterdam Arena were like riding a roller coaster, and their mood was ups and downs.

The overall strength of Eindhoven this season is indeed too strong, and it is indeed difficult for Ajax to cope.

Especially the back line, whether it is Fermaelen or Flaral, although they have performed very well, but if they want to replace Qiu and Escud, they still need to work harder.

And Wesley Songk, who was expected by everyone before the season, has now been put into the cold palace by Ronald Koeman. He would rather use Ryan Babel than let him come off the bench. After the season Basically sure to leave.

Yang Yang is also very sorry for this, after all, he and Wesley Songk once won the Champions League together.

In the 86th minute of the second half, Eindhoven got a corner kick, Sibon headed the ball and Hesselink scored a goal to equalize the score for PSV.

In the end, the first game of the Eredivisie was tied 2-2.

The championship suspense continues.

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