"You're doing fantastic!"

Hugging Yang Yang on the sidelines, and when he was about to enter the field, Fermaren smiled and patted Yang Yang's back and praised.

For his teammate, the Belgian central defender really admires it more and more.

Whether it is for his efforts or his progress, Vermaelen admires him so much.

Sometimes he even wonders, is Yang Yang a genius?

If it doesn't count, then isn't it a talent that he works so hard, trains all the time every day, and even goes so far that he secretly practices on his toes under the table when he is in school and is in class?

But if you have the final say, anyone can pick out a lot of faults and deficiencies from Yang Yang's body, for example, his stopping the ball is really bad, not to mention others, Fermaelen feels that his stopping the ball is better than him, isn't this the basic skill of genius?

What's more, Yang Yang is completely different from the genius in everyone's impression, he rarely has that kind of imaginative improvisation, and the heel knock just now is a very big accident, which makes him not look like a genius, especially the kind of genius with excellent talent.

But no matter what, Yang Yang has been improving, and he is improving at a very fast speed.

Vermaelen is well aware that his roommate is constantly improving on his strengths, such as one-on-one breakthroughs and dribbles on the wing, but on the other hand, he is also making up for his shortcomings, such as stopping and passing.

And the way he improves is to keep training, day after day, never slacking off.

Yang Yang didn't know how many thoughts flashed in Fermaren's heart, he just knew that he was tired now.

"I've collapsed, I'll leave the rest to you, keep this score, we still have hope." Yang Yang encouraged.

Fermaren nodded heavily, this was a promise he made to Yang Yang.

Sending the Belgian central defender onto the field, Yang Yang gasped and walked to the home team's coach's box, and head coach Ronald Koeman walked over and hugged him vigorously despite Yang Yang's wet sweat.

"Tonight, I and all the Ajax fans are proud of you." Ronald Coman said in Yang Yang's ear.

"Thank you, Boss." Yang Yang smiled contentedly.

Luther Carroll also couldn't believe it, because he still clearly remembered that when he saw Yang Yang more than half a year ago, he was still a fledgling kid, and he was already very sharp on the right side at that time, but no one dared to believe that he could become a sharp knife on the right side of Ajax so quickly.

Yang Yang played a great role in eliminating Brugge before, and tonight's game against Arsenal, regardless of whether the team can win in the end, Yang Yang is the team's number one hero, even surpassing Ibrahimovic, who scored twice.

The fans at the scene were also very aware of this, so when Yang Yang hugged Ronald Coman and Luther Carroll and was about to walk back to the bench, they broke out in thunderous applause again.

Yang Yang also raised his hands and applauded above his head, while bowing to the fans around him to thank them for their love for him.

The teammates on the bench also stood up to shake hands with Yang Yang, among which Victor Scola reacted the most awkwardly, because he was the team's main right winger, but in the past few games, Ronald Koeman has arranged for him to start, and then Yang Yang has been arranged to substitute him, and Yang Yang has played better than one game.

Tonight, Yang Yang even took his place in the starting line-up and delivered a Champions League-breaking goal, a brilliant assist, and an indirect assist, and he was definitely the best player for Ajax in this game.

Even more unbelievable is that he was only seventeen years old.

Victor Scola suddenly felt that maybe everyone in the team, from the head coach to the fans in the stands, and even to the management, everyone was waiting for Yang Yang's growth and maturity, and he was just a transition before Yang Yang matured.

Realizing this, Scola was embarrassed, but still praised Yang Yang from the bottom of his heart.

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In front of the visitors' dugout, Arsene Wenger watched Ibrahimovic leave with a cold eye.

He remembers the Swedish centre-forward because he has always been so unruly and so unscrupulous.

When he was still young, he dared to refuse Wenger's trial invitation in front of Highbury Stadium, such a young man, Wenger could not forget, but at that time he felt more that this young man would be buried by his own conceit, but he did not think that today the Swedish center forward proved his strength and value with two goals.

But Arsene Wenger is more interested in the youngster wearing the number 99 shirt.

Yang Yang, 17 years old, debuted in the Almere academy in the summer of '03, entered the Ajax academy through the Talent Day selection, played under Van Basten for four months, entered the first team in December, and participated in Ajax's final group game in the first game, away to Club Brugge, Belgium.

Afterwards, many people looked back on this game and felt that the Ajax coaching staff was full of confidence in Yang Yang at that time, especially the technical director Van Gaal, according to outside rumors, it is said that he tried his best to make the coaching staff must be ranked Yang Yang, and as a result, Yang Yang came on as a substitute and completely reversed the game.

After this battle, Yang Yang became famous in one fell swoop.

He then came off the bench to score his first goal in the Eredivisie, setting a record for the youngest goalscorer in Eredivisie history, and tonight he made his first Champions League start, setting a record for the youngest goalscorer in Champions League history.

There is no doubt that after tonight, Yang Yang will become famous, and he will become a rookie who will be praised by the media all over Europe and even around the world.

But what Wenger values most is Yang Yang's performance on the pitch.

According to the statistics of Arsenal's technical team, Yang Yang's running distance on the right side is second only to the back De Jong and the left-back Maxwell, he runs even more than Sneijder and Van der Vaart, and the time he faced Klich and Pire just now, he even had a very fast breakthrough and sprint, which shows that his physical fitness is quite good.

But what caught Wenger's eye even more was his ability to run off the ball, with almost every move to get to the open spots of Arsenal's defence, which required an excellent ability to read and analyse the game.

According to Arsene Wenger's pre-game arrangement, Klich should be more active this game, supporting Thierry Henry and Pire more in attack, which Ashley Kerr often does, but it is clear that he has to give up attacking in order to defend Yang Yang.

But even so, Yang Yangyou caught a chance in the second half and assisted a goal.

Arsene Wenger has always been a very rational and calm person, he has never believed in the so-called luck, he believes that there are only two reasons for conceding a goal, either his own team makes a mistake on his own initiative, or the opponent forces his team to make a mistake.

Obviously, the time when Yang Yang assisted Ibrahimovic's goal belonged to the latter.

"Pat, go back and let our scouts keep an eye on this guy." Wenger commanded with a frown.

Assistant coach Pat Rice is an old partner and knows exactly who Wenger is referring to.

"The old thing from Alex Ferguson poached Ronaldo from the Portuguese Super League, but I think this one in the Eredivisie is more like Ronaldo."

Wenger recalled the whole process of Yang Yang's breakthrough to the penalty area just now, and couldn't help but smile, "Whether it is the heel knock on the side or the sudden pendulum in the penalty area, it is very similar, and what is even more surprising is that his left foot ability is not bad, and the quality of that cross is quite high." ”

Pat Rice knew that Arsene Wenger really had a crush on the kid.

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After the substitution, Ajax adopted a defensive counter-attacking style of five defenders.

Arsene Wenger made no substitutions, and the Gunners still attacked the Ajax defence in a 442 formation.

Yang Yang sat on the bench and watched the Gunners attack wave after wave, attacking into the Ajax penalty area again and again, and even creating offensive opportunities, he was shocked.

It wasn't obvious on the pitch just now, but now sitting on the sidelines, he could clearly feel the difference in quality between the two teams, especially when Arsenal started to die.

Ronald Koeman was quick to make one final substitution.

In the 78th minute, he replaced the Swedish centre-forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who had scored a brace, with American O'Brien replacing the brace of Swedish centre-forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who was clearly out of fitness and unable to run on the pitch.

Once again, the Amsterdam Arena crowd applauded the substitutions, with the Swedish centre-forward netting twice to give his side a third lead over Arsenal after being twice levellered.

After the game, Ibrahimovic sat directly next to Yang Yang, laughing non-stop, with a radiant look on his face, where is the depression he was a few days ago?

He's such a guy with such a real temperament!

On the pitch, Ajax retreated thoroughly and did not leave the slightest space for Arsenal.

Vermaelen came on and was very positive, especially in defending Kanu.

The Belgian centre-back is not tall in size, but he has been often ravaged by Ibrahimovic in training, so he has a lot of experience in dealing with high school forwards, and when he came off the bench to face Kanu tonight, he played well around the front and cleared the ball several times.

After retreating from all fronts, Wesley Sonk was alone in the front to play a counter-attack, and Arsenal could not do anything about Ajax's defensive position for a while.

Arsene Wenger didn't make any substitutions until the 87th minute, and he made two substitutions in one go, using up the final substitutions, but the situation on the pitch was still Ajax firmly in front of goal.

In the end, the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 knockout round ended with Ajax narrowly defeating Arsenal 3-2.

But that wasn't the first upset in this season's Champions League knockout ties, as just before Ajax, Porto beat Alex Ferguson's Manchester United 2-1 at home, Deportivo La Coruna beat Juventus 1-0 at home and Lokomotiv Moscow beat Monaco 2-1 at home.

In the remaining three games, Lyon beat Real Sociedad 1-0 away, Chelsea beat Stuttgart 1-0 away, Milan drew 0-0 at Sparta Prague and Bayern Munich drew 1-1 at home to Real Madrid.