Chapter 362 Old Question

The two-week national team game has a great impact on Ajax, which has many international players.

When the internationals returned to the club after traveling long distances to play the national team, it was impossible for Kluitenberg to pass the medical examination at all, especially many internationals who participated in all two national team competitions.

There is no way to do this, because the World Cup qualifiers on all continents are in full swing. In order to ensure the results, the national team is also very ruthless, and some players even play for two consecutive 90 minutes.

In the fourth round of the Eredivisie, Ronald Koeman had to rotate the squad.

The goalkeeper is veteran Hans Funk, the back line is Emmanuel Nursson playing on the left, Flar and Maduro are partnered in the center back, Grigella plays on the right back, and the midfielder is the veteran Garasek who is dragged behind, and Pittsburgh is behind. Gnar and Sneijder are in the center, while Ryan Babel, Nicklas Bendtner and Yang Yang are on the front line.

The strength gap between the bench lineup and the main lineup is still quite obvious.

Although this set of Ajax's lineup dispatched half of the main force, they still played relatively poorly in the away game against Willem II.

Yang Yang was very active on the right, but Grigola's attacking support for the frontcourt was not enough.

In the 35th minute of the first half, Yang Yang created a chance on the right and passed it to the penalty area. Niklas Bendtner got the ball back, and Galasek followed with a direct volley for Ajak. Sri Lanka opened the scoring.

But in the 60th minute, when Grigella was defending the opponent's offensive player, he had a foul that was not calm enough and was sent off by the referee directly, causing Ajax to lose one person.

This makes Ajax more passive on the pitch.

But the advantage is that William II saw the hope of winning and finally pressed it out.

In the 86th minute, Yang Yang dashed with the ball, drove straight in, and assisted Niklas Bendtner to score.

It was the Danish center's first league goal of the season.

In the end, Ajax defeated Willem II 2-0 away.

The score can't tell anything, but Yang Yang has experienced it himself, and the team's state is indeed quite ordinary.

This is mainly affected by the national team competition.

After this round of games, Ajax continued to lead the Eredivisie standings with four consecutive victories.

However, on the scorer list, Aviladze, who played for Alkmaar, scored a hat-trick in this round and finally reversed Yang Yang with seven goals and topped the scorer list.

Heerenveen's Huntelaar are third with four goals.

Feyenoord's Kuyt seems to be constrained by the team's tactics and has not performed well this season, scoring only three goals so far.

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Midweek, Prague, Czech Republic, Retezga Stadium.

In the first round of Group B of the Champions League, Sparta Prague hosts Ajax.

When the game reached the 87th minute, after receiving a pass from Maxwell on the left, Yang Yang quickly turned to get rid of the right back of Sparta Prague, Martin Petras, and cut in from the left with the ball. Go to the front of the penalty area and make a first cross to the right of the top of the arc.

Sneijder stepped in from the back row, faced the incoming ball, and equalized the score for Ajax!

But at this time, the Ajax players on the pitch were not at all excited and excited.

Because before this goal, Ajax had conceded a goal.

Maicon's performance in this game was also very unsatisfactory. The right wing was not active. In the second half, he was penetrated by the left wing player of Sparta Prague and conceded a ball.

But this really can't completely blame Maicon, because he did travel long distances to return to King Qin.

Even more unfortunate is that he has not played the main force in the Brazilian national team.

This is somewhat of an unpleasant feeling.

But what can be done?

In fact, it's not just Ajax, but Arsenal's situation is not much better.

In the home game against Thun, Switzerland, the Gunners sat in their own home, and were forced to be very embarrassed by Thun.

Gilberto Silva was injured before and did not play for the Brazilian national team. This game did well. He opened the scoring for Arsenal in the 51st minute, but only two minutes later, Thun equalized the score. .

Since then, Arsenal have been unable to capture Thun, and many players including Henry, Pires, and Reyes have performed very poorly. In the end, until the third minute of stoppage time, Bergkamp was absolutely critical at the critical moment. Smash the ball and score three points for Arsenal.

Thun is known as the weakest team in Group B. Arsenal are playing at home, and they are still playing so hard, which makes the British media very dissatisfied with the performance of the Gunners.

Wenger believes that the team is influenced by the national team's game, but no one would support this claim at all.

On the contrary, Ajax, which is a small team in the end, drew with Sparta Prague away, and the domestic public opinion in the Netherlands is still relatively recognized.

Yang Yang became the most active player in the team. Everyone believed that he did not get enough support from the team, but he still relied on his own ability to assist Sneijder to tie the game.

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September 18th at noon.

In the fifth round of the Eredivisie, Ajax played away to Alkmaar.

Having just brought home a draw away in the Champions League, Ajax has been non-stop to challenge Van Gaal's team away.

Like Ajax's long-distance trip to Prague, Czech Republic, Alkmaar's opponent in the UEFA Cup is Samara from the Russian Super League, but in order to prepare for the league, Van Gaal arranged a rotation on the road.

As a result, Alkmaar lost three to five on the road.

Obviously, Van Gaal is full of confidence in winning the opponent at home.

He concentrated all the main force against Ajax, and strived to win the opponent in his own home.

The first ten minutes of the game were completely dominated by Ajax.

Yang Yang scored in the opening three minutes, and an assist from Sneijder allowed him to score.

In the sixth minute, Yang Yang assisted Charlie Steas to score, extending the score.

With a two-goal lead, everyone felt that Ajax had secured the victory.

But Yang Yang still didn't dare to be careless, and kept calling on his teammates to be more vigilant.

After a stalemate for half an hour, in the 35th and 37th minutes of the first half, Alkmaar attacked twice in a row. The score is tied.

Fortunately, in the stoppage time of the first half, Vermaelen made a long pass. After Yang Yang stopped the ball in the penalty area, he turned and volleyed, once again exceeding the score for Ajax.

Then, after changing sides in the second half, Ajax chased after the victory again. In just one minute of the opening, Yang Yang planned, Pinar assisted, and Sneijder scored again from the front of the penalty area to further expand the score, 4-2.

But in the 54th and 56th minutes, Perez's two goals tied the score again.

In the end, Ajax drew 4-4 away from Alkmaar.

Yang Yang made two shots and one pass, increasing his personal league goals to eight and contributing four assists. His performance was not bad. 's personal goals rose to nine.

After Ajax drew with Alkmaar in this round, they handed over the top spot in the league.

The funny thing is that the first place in the standings is neither Feyenoord nor Eindhoven, but Warwick.

The team leads the standings with five straight wins this season.

However, everyone knows that this is related to the fact that Warwick has not yet encountered a strong team.

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Ajax and AZ Alkmaar scored eight goals in this first game, which is really exciting.

Neither side played conservatively at all, and the game was very intense and exciting.

But judging from the final result, Ajax's problems are undoubtedly exposed.

That is defense.

This is also an old question.

Last season, Ajax’s ability to win the Eredivisie and the UEFA Cup in a row had something to do with Ronald Koeman’s evolution.

He used the double midfielder composed of Galasek and De Jong to ensure the team's defense is stable, which allows Ajax to repeatedly overcome strong opponents in both domestic and European competitions.

Since the liberation of Yaya Toure this season, the team's offensive firepower has been released. It is currently the team with the strongest scoring ability in the Eredivisie League, but the problem of defense has been exposed again.

Whether it is Heitinga in the early stage, or other players on the defensive line later, it is obviously not stable enough.

Ronald Koeman's justification for this is a matter of schedule.

The two-week national team game days have a great impact on the strong teams. The Eredivisie schedule is different from other leagues. Although the home and away games are staggered as much as possible, there are often two consecutive home games and two consecutive away games.

Last season Feyenoord played away in the last two rounds, and Gullit used this to justify Kuyt, believing that he lost the top scorer because of the schedule.

After the national team game, Ajax first played Willem II away, then Sparta Prague away, and then Alkmaar away, three consecutive away games, which is indeed quite difficult.

In particular, the impact of national team competition must be considered.

It is indeed a considerable challenge to play three consecutive away games when the players have been affected by the national team competitions and their physical fitness itself has problems, and the poor physical fitness also leads to the team's inability to press and press in the midfield and frontcourt. Players pay attention The force is easy to disperse and many other problems.

On the morning of the second day after playing Alkmaar, the coaching staff called Yang Yang, Galasek and Sneijder to a meeting again. The three try to appease the players as much as possible.

"Next we will have a week of rest, everything will get better soon." Ronald Koeman is full of confidence.

Kluitenberg also said that the next week is very precious, and he is confident to adjust the players' physical fitness and state, but the premise is that the locker room must be coordinated and not chaotic.

When we win, everything goes well, and there doesn't seem to be any contradictions, but once the team is in a bad situation, all the problems will surface, which is quite dangerous.

And Yang Yang is now the captain of the team, and he also realized that he should do something.