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Ajax defeated PSV Eindhoven 1-0 away and won nine rounds of unbeaten league games!
Genius killer fatal blow, Hiddink: Yang Yang is my nemesis!
Yang Yang completed an astonishing transformation, and the wonderful blow was like Bergkamp possessed!
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After Ajax's narrow 1-0 win away to PSV Eindhoven, the entire Dutch football scene once again set off a heated discussion.
Yang Yang's goal was indeed quite exciting, and countless media reporters and fans were amazed.
Michel van der Masma, a well-known journalist for the Dutch Telegraph, said in his own opinion piece that it was a flash of genius and that this goal would prove Yang Yang's natural talent.
Yang Yang also relied on this goal to lead the Eredivisie scorer list with thirteen league goals.
As for the second place, it is still Alkmaar's Aviladze.
The striker seems to have been in a goal drought of late, and his performances have been rather average.
Huntelaar was followed by an injury and was also unable to make any gains.
In the ninth round of the league, AZ Alkmaar beat Willem II 5-1 at home, and Feyenoord lost 1-2 away to Waalwijk, which allowed Ajax to continue to lead the Eredivisie scorers, and the lead became more and more obvious.
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A week later, in the 10th round of the Eredivisie, Ajax welcomed Heerenveen at home.
The two sides battled hard for 30 minutes, and Ajax scored in the 37th minute, assisted by Yaya Toure and Yang Yang.
Just four minutes later, Sneijder added a goal to extend Ajax's lead.
After the rematch in the second half, Heerenveen pulled one back and played a wave of attack.
But soon, Yang Yang took advantage of a corner kick opportunity to assist Vermaelen to another city, completely breaking Heerenveen's determination to fight back.
Ajax then made a big substitution, and in the 83rd minute, Ryan Babel came off the bench to score a goal.
Ajax beat Heerenveen 4-1 at home.
PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord and AZ Alkmaar also won back-to-back.
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In midweek, Ajax welcomed the fourth round of Group B of the Champions League.
The team travels to Switzerland to take on Thun.
The game was very intense, and Thun also set up a bucket formation on his home turf in order to qualify for the UEFA Cup.
Ajax struggled hard in the first half until the 27th minute when Sneijder scored a goal to break the deadlock, but then Thun unleashed a wave of counter-attacks that threatened the Ajax goal in quick succession.
In the first minute of stoppage time in the first half, Yang Yang burst into the penalty area and scored again to further expand the score for Ajax.
Although he was two goals behind, Thun still did not give up.
The Swiss team showed their tenacity on their home turf and proved that they are not underdogs.
In the 56th minute, striker Mauro Lustrineri took advantage of a counter-attack to score a goal for Thun.
But just five minutes later, Yang Yang broke through on the right flank, with a precise cross into the penalty area, and Charlie Steas headed home the goal to exceed the score again.
The two sides continued to be inseparable, and Thun showed admirable tenacity, but in the 74th minute, substitute Brazilian midfielder Adriano Pimenta scored again to cut the score to 2-3.
Ajax's defensive problems were also laid bare in this game.
The two sides had a hard-fought battle, and the game was quite difficult.
It wasn't until the 86th minute that De Jong assisted with a long pass, and Yang Yang scored a cushion in the penalty area to expand the score again.
But even if he leads by two goals again, Ajax still doesn't dare to be careless.
In the final minutes of the game, Thun was still looking for an opportunity.
Obviously, they are all too aware that the top two in the group are out of the picture, but as long as they try to pick up points from Arsenal and Ajax, it will go a long way in their race for the top three in the league.
The Swiss team fought until the final whistle.
Everyone at Ajax breathed a sigh of relief.
It is also at this moment that they truly understand the meaning of the phrase that there is no weak team in the Champions League.
Even though they are known as the weakest team in the group, Thun still shows full competitiveness, and if Ajax is not careful, they may be reversed by the Swiss team.
Compared to Ajax's difficult away win, Arsenal beat Sparta Prague cleanly 3-0 at home.
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Before the news of Ajax's narrow 4-2 away win over Switzerland's Thun with Yang Yang's brace and an assist spread, the world's major media began to scramble to report another news.
That is, on the night of the Champions League group stage, FIFA officially announced the top 10 candidates for the World Footballer of the Year selection.
As early as the World Youth Championship award ceremony, Yang Yang already knew that he had entered the final list of 30 candidates, and then Yang Yang was indeed on the list of 30 people announced by FIFA.
Everyone is no stranger to this, because this is what Yang Yang deserves.
He is the winner of the European Golden Boy Award in 04, and even the number one favorite in the European Golden Boy Award in 05, but unfortunately, there is no way to win this event, only once, so after winning it last year, Yang Yang is likely to be second this year.
And the biggest favorite in first place is Barcelona's Messi.
But everyone knows that Messi can win the award, more because the European Golden Boy Award is not allowed to be re-won, otherwise, with Yang Yang's achievements in the past year, there will definitely be no suspense in winning the award.
Eredivisie winner and best player, breaking Ronaldo's ten-year legendary record, UEFA Cup winner and best player, world junior champion and Golden Boot and Ballon d'Or......
Yang Yang has achieved too many honors in the past season, and every one of them is heavy.
This made it no surprise to everyone that he was on the shortlist of 30 people for the World Footballer of the Year selection.
The only suspense is how high Yang Yang can be in the front.
After Ajax's 4-2 defeat to Thun away, Yang Yang's name appeared again in the list of top 10 candidates released by FIFA, which made all fans around the world fry.
Especially when the news came back to China, the whole country rejoiced.
Countless media and fans have sung praises to Yang Yang, believing that he can enter the top 10 of this list, which is definitely to win glory for the country, which is an honor that Chinese football and Asian football have never had.
The other nine players in this list are Kaka, Maldini and Shevchenko at AC Milan, Adriano at Inter Milan, Steven Gerrard at Liverpool, Frank Lampard at Chelsea, Ronaldinho and Samuel Eto'o at Barcelona and Thierry Henry at Arsenal.
All of them are the stars of the giant teams, and only Yang Yang is from outside the four major leagues.
This made all media reporters and fans once again set off a new round of hype and attention to Yang Yang.
This is a top 10 Footballer of the Year in the world, which is definitely a proud achievement.
There is basically no suspense about the World Footballer of the Year winner, and Ronaldinho, who plays for Barcelona, will win the award, unless FIFA makes a big upset at the last minute, otherwise it must be the Brazilian superstar.
The real suspense is who can enter the top three.
Shevchenko, Samuel Eto'o, Thierry Henry, Frank Lampard and other superstars are all possible.
Among them, AC Milan's Kaka and Maldini, as well as Liverpool's Steven Gerrard, although they have performed quite well in the Champions League, but unfortunately, FIFA's World Footballer of the Year selection is not only based on performance on the field, popularity is also a very important basis.
Many media have analyzed that Yang Yang was able to enter the top ten this time, which is indeed quite surprising, because even Ronaldo himself failed to enter the top ten, let alone Yang Yang, Ronaldo II.
Media reporters believe that Yang Yang has benefited from the hype caused by Ronaldo's legendary record of breaking Ronaldo's dusty ten years last season, especially in the transfer market this summer, Yang Yang has repeatedly appeared in the newspapers and has been chased by major giant teams, which makes him constantly appear in media newspapers around the world.
The popularity has risen, and Yang Yang is naturally becoming more and more favored.
In Asia, on the one hand, the South Korean media sourly praised Yang Yang for entering the top ten list, but on the other hand, they secretly speculated that FIFA "arranged" Yang Yang to enter the top ten of the shortlist, the purpose of which was to deliberately enhance the influence of the award and develop the Chinese market, after all, China is now a major power in the world.
But for whatever purpose, Yang Yang was finally shortlisted in the top 10 of the World Footballer of the Year shortlist.
This surprised Yang Yang himself.
Ibrahimovic, who was far away in Turin, sent a congratulatory message to Yang Yang as soon as possible and asked for a meal.
"As a genius, I also feel a lot of pressure to meet teammates like you."
"If you relax a little, you will overtake me in a rub, this is not good."
The Swedish center narcissistically complained about Yang Yang's counterattack on him, because although he was shortlisted for 30 people, he did not make it to the top 10.
Not only him, but also Real Madrid superstars such as Zidane, Ronaldo, Raul, and Beckham, as well as Robinho who just joined Real Madrid, Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo who played for Manchester United, and Arjen Robben who played for Chelsea, were all shortlisted for 30 people, but they were all rejected outside the top 10.
It can be said that those who can enter the top ten are all the hottest and most powerful players in world football today.
It is precisely because of this that many media reporters have questioned that Yang Yang, who plays in the Eredivisie, does not have the qualifications to enter the top ten.
There was a lot of discussion outside, support, agreement, opposition, criticism, and all kinds of voices were noisy.
Yang Yang didn't have the heart to pay attention to the speculation of the outside world.
For him, it doesn't make much difference whether he is in the top 10 or not.
In the final analysis, it is to accompany the prince to study.
As for who the crown prince is, do you need to say?