Chapter 445: Conquest

At 3 p.m. on November 9, Ajax welcomed their opponents in the tenth round of the league, FC Groningen, at their home stadium in Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium.

The Amsterdam Olympic Stadium, the main stadium of the ninth Olympic Games in the Netherlands and later the home of Ajax, was initially limited to 30,000 people, but was later expanded by Amsterdammers to overtake Rotterdam's Feyenoord home stadium De Kup, which now has a capacity of 64,000 spectators.

The stadium has a classic oval design, and many famous stadiums in later generations, such as the Camp Nou, have borrowed from this stadium's design.

Playing in this magnificent stadium, looking at the tens of thousands of spectators cheering for the home team, Ding Hongxing couldn't help but be enthusiastic.

That's the beauty of football!

Groningen are not a tough opponent in this game, they are currently in 14th place and are not very far from the relegation zone, but Groningen are the famous Dutch star Ronald Groningen. Koeman's parent team, while his older brother Erwin. Koeman has returned to FC Groningen after a few seasons at PSV Eindhoven as a midfielder, and despite being 33 years old, he is still in good form.

Rijkaard and Erwin. Koeman, a former national team team-mate who now captains Ajax and FC Groningen respectively, greeted each other with a friendly hug before the game, a heartwarming scene that also won tens of thousands of applause from the audience.

However, after the start of the game, there was not so warmth, Ajax, who was far stronger than their opponents, launched a fierce attack on the heart of Groningen at the beginning of the game, and in every corner of the field, they were pressing the opposing players, which is also their magic weapon to sweep the Eredivisie giants this season.

Sure enough, the Groningen team, under the pressure of the Ajax team, seemed to be in a hurry and made repeated mistakes.

Today's Ding Hongxing, in Ajax's three midfielders, standing on the left, in a stand here, there is just a group of Chinese fans watching the game, they are playing a banner, the banner is written in Chinese and English "Ding Hongxing Fan Club" a few big words, with Ding Hongxing's eyesight, you can see Liao Minghua is also among them, these fans will shout Ding Hongxing's name loudly every time Ding Hongxing dribbles the ball or successfully intercepts the opponent's pass, cheering for him.

Rijkaard was in the middle of the midfield, and he passed the ball more to Ding Hongxing, so that he could be responsible for initiating the team's attack, and Ding Hongxing did not live up to his trust.

In the seventh minute of the game, after Ding Hongxing received a pass from Rijkaard, he passed the ball straight to Ovemars in front, and then sprinted at full speed.

The moment Litmanen scored, the sound over the entire Olympic Stadium suddenly increased several levels, and the cheers were deafening and made people listen to the blood in their veins.

The fans in the stands where Liao Minghua was located, waving banners and flags in their hands, shouted Ding Hongxing's name.

Although the ball was scored by Litmaning, it was scored by Ding Hongxing, and of course they had to call Ding Hongxing's name.

Litmanen rushed to Ding Hongxing and hugged him violently, usually the Finns are not so unrestrained, and the relationship with Ding Hongxing is not so good, but now it is Ding Hongxing who passes the ball to him, and in this special environment, he has also done something that is usually impossible to do, and the friendship of teammates is slowly cultivated in this way.

Litmanen's goal opened the door to victory for Ajax, and the Ajax players played more relaxed, daring to do many moves that they don't usually use often. °C≡miào°C≡bi°C≡ °C≡

In the thirteenth minute, Seedorf ran long distance and broke through to the penalty area with the ball, but he burst too deep, ran too fast, had lost the shooting angle, and the ball also fell behind him, at this time, he knocked the ball with his right heel behind him, knocking the ball back to the front of the penalty area, this passing action was full of imagination, and the players of the Groningen team couldn't think of it, no one had time to react and run to the landing point of the ball, Ding Hongxing, who followed in the middle, shot angrily at the ball, and the ball was like a cannonball. smashed straight into the net, the ball was so powerful and fast that it was like a lightning bolt in the sky, so that the goalkeeper didn't react at all, until the ball went into the net, he subconsciously waved his hand.

The match was broadcast live to the Netherlands nationwide, and the commentator shouted: "Goooooooooooal! Koeman, his shooting power is world-famous, and Ding's shot seems to be more powerful than Coeman......"

Although the commentator's voice was loud, his voice was still drowned in the sound of the scene, tens of thousands of Ajax fans at the scene, and at the same time shouted Ding Hongxing's name, at this moment, Ding Hongxing is not only the darling of Chinese fans, but also the darling of all Ajax fans, Ding Hongxing only took a little more than a game to conquer these fans.

Seedorf ran to Ding Hongxing again, wiped his shooting boots, this action made the reporters on the scene press the shutter again, after the last round of the league, Seedorf gave Ding Hongxing a photo of shining shoes, which became the front page picture of major sports newspapers in the Netherlands, and also became a classic.

After taking a 2-0 lead, FC Groningen seem to have collapsed, with a poor season and now 2-0 away to Ajax, who are understandably demoralised.

In the following game, Ding Hongxing scored two goals again, and assisted Litmanen, Seedorf and Kluivert who came on as a substitute in the second half to score a goal, and Rijkaard also gave Kluivert an assist, and Ajax had a huge 8-0 lead in the 87th minute of the game.

It was then that FC Groningen won a direct free-kick from 30 yards out from the Ajax goal. Coman silently walked to the foul site, placed the ball on the turf, took a few steps back and waited for the referee to blow the whistle.