The two weeks of international matches have had a very big impact on Ajax, which has many international players.

When the internationals returned to the club after a long journey to play for their national team, they simply did not pass a medical examination on Kluittenburg's side, especially with a number of internationals who played in both international competitions.

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

In the fourth round of the Eredivisie, Ronald Koeman had to rotate the team's lineup.

The goalkeeper is veteran Hans Funk, Emanuelsson on the left, Vlar and Maduro in central defence, Grigra at right wing-back, veteran Galasek in midfield, Pinar and Sneijder in the middle, and Ryan Babel, Niklas Bendtner and Yang Yang in the attack.

The difference in the strength of the substitute lineup and the main lineup is still relatively obvious.

Although Ajax's squad dispatched half of the main team, the away game against Willem II still played poorly, and it was difficult for the team to be in the same rhythm, and the offensive and defensive organizations were relatively chaotic.

Yang Yang was very active on the right flank, but Grigra did not give enough attacking support up front.

In the 35th minute of the first half, Yang Yang created a chance on the right side and passed to the penalty area, Niklas Bendtner took the ball back, and Galasek followed up with a direct volley to open the scoring for Ajax.

However, in the 60th minute, Grigra was not calm enough to commit a foul while defending the opposing attacking player, and was sent off by the referee, resulting in Ajax missing a man.

This has made Ajax even more passive on the pitch.

But the good thing is that Wilhelm II saw the hope of victory and finally pressed it out.

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

It was the Danish centre-forward's first league goal of the season.

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

The score can't see anything, but Yang Yang has personally experienced that the team's state is indeed quite average.

This is mainly influenced by the national team competition.

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

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

Heerenveen's Huntelaar was third with four goals.

Feyenoord's Kuyt, who appear to be constrained by the team's tactics, have not been ideal this season, scoring just three goals so far.

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Midweek, Prague, Czech Republic, Retesga Stadium.

In the first round of Group B of the Champions League group stage, Sparta Prague hosted Ajax.

In the 87th minute of the game, after receiving a pass from Maxwell on the left side, Yang Yang quickly turned around and got rid of Sparta Prague's right full-back Martin Petras, cut inside from the left side to the edge of the penalty area, and crossed to the right side of the top of the arc first.

Sneijder cut in from the back row and slotted in to equalise for Ajax!

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

Because before this goal, Ajax had already conceded a goal.

McCone was also not good in this game, the right side was not active, and in the second half he was penetrated by the left wing player of Sparta Prague, and he conceded a goal.

But it really can't be blamed entirely on McConn, because he did make the long journey back to King Qin.

What's even more unfortunate is that he can't play the main team in the Brazilian national team.

It's a bit of a two-pronged feeling.

But what can be done?

In fact, it's not just Ajax, Arsenal are not in a much better situation.

In the home game against Switzerland's Thun, the Gunners sat on their home turf and were forced to be very embarrassed by Thun.

Gilberto Silva had previously been injured and had not played for Brazil, but he did well to open the scoring for Arsenal in the 51st minute, only to equalise just two minutes later.

Arsenal have been unable to win against Thun since then, and many players, including Thierry Henry, Pire, and Reyes, have been sluggish, and finally until the third minute of stoppage time, Bergkamp's decisive goal at a crucial moment gave Arsenal three points.

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

Arsene Wenger believes the team has been affected by the international game, but no one would support that claim at all.

On the contrary, Ajax, in the end, is a small team, and the away draw against Sparta Prague is still more recognized by public opinion in the Netherlands.

Yang Yang became the most active player in the team, and everyone thought that he did not have enough support from the team, but he still relied on his ability to assist Sneijder to equalize.

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September 18 at noon.

In the fifth round of the Eredivisie, Ajax challenged AZ Alkmaar away.

Fresh off a draw away from home in the Champions League, Ajax are back and forth to challenge Louis van Gaal's side.

Like Ajax's long journey to Prague in the Czech Republic, AZ Alkmaar will face Samara's opponents in the UEFA Cup, but Van Gaal has rotated away from home to prepare for the league game.

As a result, AZ Alkmaar lost 3-5 on the road.

Clearly, Louis van Gaal is confident that he will win at home.

He focused all his forces on Ajax and tried to win on his home turf.

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 smoothly.

In the sixth minute, Yang Yang assisted Charlie Steias to score and expand the score.

With a two-goal lead, everyone felt that Ajax had won the game.

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

After a half-hour stalemate, in the 35th and 37th minutes of the first half, AZ Alkmaar attacked twice in succession, and Aviladeze scored a brace to equalize the score.

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

Then in the second half, after the rematch, Ajax once again took advantage of the victory to chase, only one minute after the opening, Yang Yang planned, Pienal assisted, and Sneijder scored again at the edge of the penalty area, further expanding the score to four to two.

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

In the end, Ajax drew 4-4 away at AZ Alkmaar.

Yang Yang scored two shots and one pass to increase his personal league goals to eight and contributed four assists, which was not an outstanding performance, but Aviladeze improved his personal goals to nine with his brace in this game.

Ajax's draw with AZ Alkmaar in this round gave up the top spot in the league.

Funnily enough, the top of the standings is neither Feyenoord nor PSV Eindhoven, but Valwijk.

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

However, everyone knows that this has something to do with the fact that Valwijk has not yet faced a strong team.

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Ajax and AZ Alkmaar scored eight goals at the top of the table, which was truly spectacular.

The two sides were not conservative at all, and the game was very intense and exciting.

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

That's defense.

It's an old question.

Last season, Ajax were able to win two titles in the Eredivisie and the UEFA Cup in a row, which was related to Ronald Koeman's change of formation.

He used the double midfield of Galacek and De Jong to ensure that the team's defense was solid, which allowed Ajax to overcome strong opponents in both domestic and European competitions.

Since the beginning of the season, the team's attacking firepower has been unleashed with the liberation of Yaya Toure, and they are currently the most goalscoring team in the Eredivisie, but the defensive problems have been re-exposed.

Whether it was Heitinga in the early days, or the rest of the defensive line later, it was obviously not stable enough.

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

The two-week international break has a huge impact on the big teams, and the Eredivisie schedule is different from other leagues, although it is also a staggered home and away as much as possible, but there are often two consecutive home games and two consecutive away games.

Last season, Feyenoord's last two rounds were away from home, and Ruud Gullit used this to defend Kuyt, arguing that he lost the top scorer because of the schedule.

After the national team match, Ajax played Willem II away, then Sparta Prague in the Czech Republic, and then Alkmaar away, three consecutive away games, which is indeed quite tough.

In particular, consider the impact of national team matches.

In the case that the players are affected by the national team competitions and there are problems with their physical fitness, it is indeed quite a challenge to play three away games in a row, and the lack of physical fitness has led to many problems such as the team's midfield pressing and pressing in place, and the players' attention is easily distracted.

On the morning after AZ Alkmaar, the coaching staff called Yang Yang, Galasek and Sneijder to a meeting again, focusing on analysing the current situation of the team, worrying about the atmosphere in the dressing room, and hoping that Yang Yang could try to reassure the players.

"We'll have a week off and everything will get better very quickly." Ronald Coman is confident.

Kluitenberg also said the coming week will be invaluable and he is confident that he will be able to adjust the fitness and form of his players, but only if the dressing room is co-ordinated and not chaotic.

When you win, it's all right, it doesn't look like there's any contradiction, but when the team is in a bad position, all the problems come to the surface, which is quite dangerous.

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