Beep! Beep!

Luther Carroll blew the whistle for a training timeout.

The assistant coach of Ajax immediately walked into the training ground and called McCone in front of him.

"McConn, you should be more resolute when you plug it in."

Luther Carroll pointed to Yang Yang's position, "Yang has already cut to the middle, and at this time the entire wing is vacant, you should be a little more resolute, insert forward along the sideline, and play the role of a wing attacker." ”

McConn nodded his head to indicate that he understood, which was not difficult to understand.

"But ...... behind me," McCone pointed behind him, meaning obviously, if he plugged in and was counterattacked, he couldn't chase back, and then there would be a defensive gap on the right side.

'There's De Jong behind you and there are other players, you can rest assured.' Luther Carroll was sure.

'In the opening period we had to be a little bit more determined in attack and to create a threat we had to score first and AC Milan didn't give us too many chances and minutes, so we had to race against the clock, understand?'

McConn nodded vigorously.

Luther Carroll slowly pushed away again, and blew his whistle to signal training to continue.

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It's a closed training session inside Ajax.

The training sessions are the same as in the past few days, with preparations for the second leg of the upcoming Champions League quarter-finals.

The main drill still revolves around the team's opening attack.

This is not a conspiracy, but a conspiracy.

The whole world knows that Ajax will have to score first if they want to qualify.

Against AC Milan, who have excellent defensive counter-attacking ability, this is undoubtedly a very risky style of play.

Whether to be brave enough to take risks and fight, or to wait conservatively for opportunities, are two different attitudes.

Ajax opted for the former.

Maybe you will lose, but it will be a brave choice.

Targeted training is kept confidential to the outside world, mainly to practice the players' running position and tacit cooperation.

Yang Yang has a very tacit understanding with Charlie Steas, McConn, Sneijder and Yaya Toure, and there are no problems with each other, but some details need to be adjusted.

For example, when Yang Yang ran to the middle just now, McCone chose to stay on the periphery of the 30-meter area instead of going directly into the attacking area, because he was wary of the team's counterattack, but doing so would lead to insufficient support on the offensive end.

There is also a relatively large problem with the left side.

The pressure that Pienal, Yaya Toure and Maxwell are able to put on their opponents is still not enough, and it needs to be strengthened.

On Gattuso's side, the defense is certainly better.

According to AC Milan's Serie A match at the weekend, Cafu will definitely not play, because his form is only slightly better than Maldini, and it is tantamount to taking a big risk to arrange Cafu to play in such an important game.

Carlo Ancelotti is the quintessential Italian manager, and watching people serve is his forte, but taking risks is not.

Even, before the last two seasons, Ancelotti was one of the most conservative managers in the eyes of the world, especially Juventus fans, who really complained about his conservatism, even more than Capello.

From Reggina to Parma to Juventus, and even in the early stages of his tenure at AC Milan, Carlo Ancelotti was known for being conservative.

Interestingly, he has recently become an icon of Italian football, with even Barcelona's godfather Cruyff praising him, and his transformation of Andrea Pirlo has been hailed as a major innovation in European football.

Sometimes, things in the world are so weird.

There is no such thing as conformism on the football field.

Every person, every team, is improving all the time.

Staying complacent will only drive you to a dead end.

This is also the reason why Ronald Koeman and Luther Carroll are willing to listen to Yang Yang's opinion and take the risk of giving it a go.

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After the afternoon training session, the players also left.

Yang Yang picked up the ball as usual and walked to a corner of Detokmost.

Since tomorrow is the game, none of his teammates will stay to practice with him this afternoon, so he is the only one who runs to the corner, puts on a sandbag to train, and still practices some of the most basic things.

The difference is that after basic training, he will erect two poles in front of the fence, about a ball far apart, like an extremely narrow goal.

At a distance of about fifteen meters from the wall, he placed some sign plates.

He will dribble the ball around these markers in an irregular random manner before shooting the ball between the two poles.

That's one way he trains his shots.

In reality, it will be more troublesome, but in the game of whack-a-mole in the super training ground, Lao Bing can simulate any kind of complex situation on the field for him, which will be more convenient for him to train.

Sometimes, the angle of the defender's shot will be very narrow, or even close to zero.

In this case, a shooter must have absolute control over the ball that is shot, because the slightest deviation will not score the goal, so there will be those two strokes.

This kind of training is very basic and easily boring, but it is undoubtedly very effective.

Yang Yang has been holding on for a while now, and his shooting accuracy has been improving.

Many of his goals this season have come in the very tight space left to him by his opponents, and he has shot straight at goal.

With the gains, he naturally trained more energetically.

As Van Nistelrooy said, training doesn't really mean much improvement, it's more about making you more confident and believing that you're really improving.

Sometimes, on the football field, there is only such a little bit of self-confidence between genius and mediocrity.

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"I knew you were still there."

When Yang Yang's training ended, a familiar voice came from behind him.

From Marco van Basten.

"Hey, Marco, why are you here?" Yang Yang panted and turned his head and asked with a smile.

Van Basten was dressed in a crisp suit, standing in the distant light, somewhat dreamy.

"How could I not come for such an important game tomorrow?" The head coach of the Dutch national team laughed.

Saying that, Van Basten saw that Yang Yang's training was over, and walked over.

What attracted his attention the most was of course the two long poles, and he quickly figured out Yang Yang's intentions and laughed.

This made Yang Yang a little embarrassed, and hurriedly walked over to put it away.

This thing is a bit of a mess.

"Although this kind of training can't be said to be useless, I don't think it can solve your current problem." Van Basten shook his head.

Yang Yang nodded, he also knew what his problem was.

When Yang Yang packed up his things, the two chatted while walking and walked to the training building.

The topic naturally talked about the Champions League in midweek and Yang Yang's own problems.

Van Basten did not advise Yang Yang to go to Real Madrid, because this team is quite chaotic at the moment and is not suitable for Yang Yang.

This is very consistent with Yang Yang's thoughts.

"I've always felt that a lot of people have misconceptions about me." Van Basten said with a smile.

"Maybe in the eyes of everyone, the most impressive thing for me is shooting, but actually, I think what makes me stronger and what makes me where I am today is not my shooting, but because I am very well-rounded."

Yang Yang listened silently, sometimes the experiences of his predecessors are valuable experiences for him.

"In fact, football skills and tactics are to put it bluntly, it will always be those things, the ball goes to the front, someone needs to be able to hold the ball, someone can dribble the ball, someone can pass the ball to assist, someone can respond, someone can score goals, once you have these things in a team, after a reasonable division of labor, scoring goals is not a problem."

"Everything has not changed, and it has not changed since ancient times."

'In my time, it was very difficult to play in the midfield, you couldn't get the ball out, and the team used to play wingers because there was a lot of space on the wing, but after you pushed on the wing, you had to go back to the middle, so Cruyff used to tell me that you can't shoot because there are a lot of people who can score.

'If you want to play, if you want to be better than others, you have to have something that other people don't have, so I started trying to take the ball like a midfielder, to receive the ball, to pass the ball, to assist, to respond, and of course, I didn't forget to shoot.

"So at the time, a lot of people thought I was a very different kind of striker, because they hadn't seen a striker like me for many years, and I was like a combination of a flexible midfielder and a striker."

Yang Yang nodded silently, he vaguely guessed what Van Basten was going to say to him.

'To be honest, when I saw Ibrahimovic, I was really surprised because he was more talented than me, he was more technically better than me, he was almost synonymous with a perfect centre-forward, but unfortunately ......"

Speaking of this, Van Basten shook his head and sighed, feeling quite embarrassed.

Yang Yang couldn't help but remember that when he was in the youth team of Ajax, he had heard Ibrahimovic say more than once that Van Basten liked to train with him, taught him to play football in person, and even told him a lot of experience and experience in football.

But he also understands Van Basten's regrets, because Ibrahimovic is indeed harmed by his own character.

With the physical condition and talent of the Swedish centre-forward, he could have reached a very high level, but unfortunately he didn't do it.

"Yang, you have to understand one thing, there is no such thing as a static player on the football field, it changes all the time, you don't know how it will develop next, but there is one thing that will not change, and that is an all-round and excellent player, who will always be the most threatening player on the football field."

"Especially for a scorer, being well-rounded means that there are no flaws and holes, it means that it is difficult for the opponent to find a way to contain you, as if you were originally a winger, but when you transfer this ability to attack from the bottom line to the penalty area, you are a dangerous scorer."

Yang Yang understood what he meant.

The versatility of technology can lead to the richness of tactics.

He's been working in that direction himself, for example he's always ready to train his headers and other aspects.

"But you know what's your biggest problem right now?"