As Yang Yang said before, confidence is played by playing game after game.

After beating Arsenal 2-1 at home, Ajax has become more confident and motivated.

At the very least, everyone sees hope that the team will qualify for the Champions League group stage, or even go further.

The strongest opponent in the group is Arsenal, but the second game between Ajax and the Gunners is scheduled for the final round, and the group may have stabilized before then.

Therefore, as long as Ajax continue their current momentum, as long as there are no more mistakes, Ajax can qualify as top of the group as long as they hold on to a draw against Arsenal in the final round of away games.

According to the Champions League format, the first group and the second place in the group are two completely different treatments.

Therefore, after beating Arsenal, the Ajax players all changed their fighting spirit.

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In the first six rounds of the league, Ajax got 16 points with a record of five wins and one draw, ranking first in the Eredivisie standings.

They were followed by Feyenoord and Waalwijk with five wins and one loss, followed by AZ Alkmaar and PSV Eindhoven with 13 points, with PSV Eindhoven having been the most disadvantaged this season.

After letting Van Bommel go, Guus Hiddink's side sold two more South Korean players, Park Ji-sung, for £4 million and Tottenham Hotspur, before the transfer market closed.

The loss of three tigers in a summer, Eindhoven's competitiveness was greatly affected, coupled with the team's lack of timely introduction of strong reinforcements, this season's Eindhoven started very unfavorably, the state is relatively sluggish, if it does not improve, I am afraid it will be difficult to shake the dominance of Ajax.

In the midweek Champions League and the seventh round of the Eredivisie at the weekend, PSV Eindhoven played away to Heerenveen and conceded a goal in the opening 16 minutes, but then adjusted and scored three goals in a row.

But in the final stage of the second half, after Heerenveen pulled back a goal, he once pressed Eindhoven to play, forcing the Eredivisie team to be very embarrassed, if it were not for Heerenveen's main center Huntelaar due to injury, Eindhoven would have lost a heavy defeat.

After the game, Hiddink himself admitted that the team was indeed in crisis.

Louis van Gaal's AZ Alkmaar didn't do it well, leading twice at home to Nijmegen, twice equalising before Aviladze scored the winner to beat them 3-2 at home.

The situation at Feyenoord is even worse.

Erwin Koeman's side were on a good trajectory but lost 3-1 at Utrecht in this round, with centre-forward Nihlis scoring a hat-trick from AZ Alkmaar and Kuyt's slump.

Ajax is also not having a good time.

One of the main reasons why several strong teams have been in a slump is that they all played Champions League games in midweek.

Two matches a week, a series of hard battles, with the consumption of professional football games, is also a big challenge for athletes.

After Yang Yang experienced consecutive goals, there was finally a goal drought.

Ajax's attack was collectively muted in front, but unexpectedly, De Jong stepped up.

The midfielder, who has always been a full-time defensive player and showed himself as a macho man, proved his tactical value with a brace in this game, with Sneijder and Yang Yang each providing an assist.

And Ajax's victory also gave quite high recognition to the Dutch domestic media.

All fans know that no player or team can be in great form for a long time, there will always be ups and downs, and this is true for players and the same is true for teams.

But when evaluating a team's core competitiveness, the key point is whether anyone else in the team can step up when the team's core players are up and down.

Feyenoord obviously didn't, so they lost, AZ Alkmaar and PSV Eindhoven were not too bad, only Ajax, all the attacking players in the front field were obviously lacking in form, even Yang Yang was not excited enough.

This is understood by all.

Playing Arsenal on Wednesday and Sparta Rotterdam on Saturday, there is too little time left for the Ajax players to rest, and Yang Yang is more excited against Arsenal, and it is natural that there will be some slippage in form when playing in the league.

But just when the attacking combination up front was dumb, De Jong's brace saved the team.

After the game, all the media reporters in the Netherlands agreed that Ajax were the most title-winning team in the Eredivisie this season.

After playing in the seventh round of the Eredivisie, Ajax continues to lead the standings.

Yang Yang is a one-goal disadvantage, behind AZ Alkmaar's Aviladeze.

But the season is still so long, and the battle for the top scorer has only just begun.

What's more, Yang Yang has always been very good at making efforts in the back stage.

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Entering October, it ushered in two weeks of national team breaks.

The Chinese team specially came to Europe for training, and all foreign international players were recruited into the team to prepare for the World Cup next summer.

This time, Alihan recruited all the outstanding players in the World Youth Championship into the team, including domestic international players such as Cui Peng, Zhao Xuri and Lu Lin, as well as a number of players who performed well in the domestic league.

Yang Yang also had a rare opportunity to meet Gao Lin, Feng Xiaoting, Zheng Zhi and others, which was naturally a hot chat.

He can clearly feel the new changes that Liuyang has brought to the national team.

The first week was mainly technical and tactical drills and intensive training, followed by two warm-up matches in succession, against Germany and Spain, both of which were lost, losing 0-1 to Germany and 1-3 to Spain.

Among them, Yang Yang scored a goal in the warm-up match against Spain.

It should be said that the results of the warm-up match are not surprising, and the gap between the strength of the Chinese team and the strong team is still very obvious.

This also made many overly optimistic media and fans in China wake up that the World Youth Championships are just a youth team event in the end.

Yang Yang can carry the national youth team to play the World Youth Championship alone, but it is impossible for him to carry the national team to play the World Cup alone.

He's not a superman in his underwear!

Both warm-up matches were highly praised within the national team.

Losing is a certainty, but sometimes losing is also a reward.

Against Germany, he lost the game, but the defense was well organized, and when he played Spain, although the whole game was controlled by others, but when he was behind by one goal in the first half, he once played a wave of impressive attacks, and Yang Yang also seized the opportunity to equalize, only to concede two goals in the second half.

During the internal exchange, many international players who stayed abroad also deeply felt the huge disparity.

The strength of the players, the technical and tactical level, and even the logistics and other aspects, the gap between the Chinese team and the European team is really too big, and there are signs of getting bigger and bigger.

This is not to say that Chinese football is regressing, after all, the progress brought by so many foreign international players is visible.

It's more that the technical and tactical concepts of European football are developing too quickly.

Even Alihan himself lamented that in the past two years, the technical and tactical level of European football has really improved by leaps and bounds.

Yang Yang has a deep understanding of this.

Whether a player can play in the Champions League or not is two levels, and whether the manager can lead the team to play in the Champions League is also two levels.

The fierce competition is almost brutal, forcing all teams to study and restrain their opponents at all costs, and the technical and tactical level naturally develops and improves rapidly.

More importantly, in recent years, new blood such as Jose Mourinho, Benitez, Ronald Koeman and Manuel Pellegrini have emerged in European football, each with a completely different technical and tactical style, and through the platform of the Champions League, they blend with each other, compete with each other, learn from each other, and promote each other, and the level is naturally changing with each passing day.

In fact, China's close neighbors, Japan and South Korea, are not unaware of this.

They are actively cooperating with teams in European professional leagues, sending some outstanding fifteen or sixteen-year-old young players in China to the youth academies of European clubs for training, the purpose of which is naturally to allow these excellent players to develop better.

If you don't say anything else, let's talk about Yang Yang himself.

With the current level of Asian football, Yang Yang doesn't need to do his best to play football at all, and he can even perform very well, but it only takes half a year, and when he returns to the European League, he will find that he can't keep up.

To put it bluntly, football is all about training and playing.

Training and competition, day after day, year after year.

One day of practice, one day of exercise, one day of not practicing ten days of space.

Therefore, for the young teammates of the national youth team, Yang Yang always has only one opinion, that is, to seize all opportunities and go abroad when there is a chance.

It doesn't have to be the four most famous leagues, it can also be the French Ligue 1, the Portuguese Super League, the Eredivisie, the Belgian League, and even the leagues of Austria, Switzerland and other countries.

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Interestingly, Spain, which defeated the Chinese team 3-1 in the warm-up match, was in an awkward position in the European qualifiers.

Due to the poor performance in the previous game, Aragonés' team did not get the right to direct promotion and was forced to play in the play-offs, which caused an uproar in Spain, and countless media and fans rushed to believe that Aragonés should resign.

Captain Raul called for the postponement of the league and did his best to prepare for the play-off match.

"Now, the whole of Spain knows very well that the national team is the first, the first leg of the play-offs in November, we have no way back, in order to let the national team concentrate on preparation, the Football Association and the professional leagues should come up with a strategy as soon as possible to postpone the league!"

Raul's appeal was echoed by many Spanish internationals, professionals and fans.

Even the Football Association and the professional leagues have said that Raul's proposal will be seriously considered.

Missing the World Cup is simply an unimaginable disaster for Spain.

And Yang Yang was in the mood to read gossip, sitting at Odekerk's house, watching the news in the newspaper, and smiling quite happily.

Who made the Chinese team advance in advance?