Chapter Thirty-Five: Soaring
After the previous few games, Zhang Qing and Kaka have gradually become part of the main lineup, compared to the two veterans Inzaghi and Rui Costa, the advantage of the two newcomers is that they can keep running, quickly interspersed with runs, and create opportunities.
Zhang Qing is more comprehensive, he can run, pass the ball and shoot, although the spirituality in front of the goal is not as good as Inzaghi, after all, Inzaghi has played in the league for many years and has a lot of experience, but in other aspects, he is indeed better.
And the same is true of Kaka, his flexible running, fast dribbling, signature stride and dribble, in many cases, can pull out gaps for teammates, although the passing threat is far worse than Rui Costa, but modern football, the role of this classical forward is slowly becoming limited, although it is also very threatening, but now what is more needed is to run, so Kaka slowly got the opportunity to start.
In fact, the two people are rotated with each other, and there is no situation where anyone is the main force and who is the substitute, Zhang Qing and Inzaghi are too, the double match a week is a test for the physical strength of the veteran, these two people are not young, and they need to rotate alone, which is a good thing for the team, and a good thing for both young and veterans.
There was no suspense on the Ajax side, as they did use an all-attacking 3-4-3 formation, with some of them being the main players of the World Youth Championship in the Netherlands, and some of them being new faces.
This team is actually relatively strong, after all, many young players will be seen by the major giants after performing here for a year, and when they are recruited to their command, they will soar at once, so this has become a springboard for some people.
Although the loss of players is serious, Ajax's academy is also well-known in Europe and even the world, and they have cultivated generations of young people, whether domestic or foreign, and they are very efficient.
So this game has become very suspenseful.
At the beginning of the game, Zhang Qing also greeted Li Yuda, after all, they have been playing together since elementary school, and they have been playing until now, and they know each other, remembering the scene of the first time they met, Li Yuda was a little shy, embarrassed to say it directly, because at that time he was still known as a lone wolf, and he was the only one in the team to attack, but he was finally defeated by the stronger Zhang Qingsuo.
But he was not discouraged, slowly strengthened his strength, strengthened his cooperation with his teammates, and slowly occupied a place in the high-level national youth team, many games were substitutes, and the performance was not bad, which was favored by some teams in Europe, and finally he chose the Ajax club, which was regarded as a springboard to prepare to enter Europe.
As soon as the ball was released, the Ajax team started to control the ball.
Their attack is also basically around two wings, with Sneijder in the middle to play long passes from the middle to the two wings.
On the right is Li Yuda.
And defending him was captain Maldini.
This is a great challenge for him. After all, in the face of today's world's No. 1 left-back, how Li Yuda performs has also become an important point to watch.
The ball was soon at his feet.
Li Yuda was in danger, and with his change of pace, he was ready to start passing Maldini.
One stroke, then smash, pass, the whole action was done in one go, and the ball penetrated Maldini's defense and into the box.
The ball was cleared by Nesta.
Although the ball was cleared, Li Yuda's movements were very consistent before, and he was not afraid of such a defender, which can be said to be more difficult to deal with than the lone wolf back then.
Zhang Qing secretly thought that this game should not be so simple.
After the opening kick-off, Ajax went on a rampage for 15 minutes, constantly pressuring AC Milan's side to use their home power to try to steal a goal.
At this time, the AC Milan team was obviously contained by the opponent's attack, and the front court could not play out, so they stayed in the back field to defend.
Fortunately, the backfield is relatively solid, several defenders have rich defensive experience, frequently disrupt the opponent's attack, and goalkeeper Dida is extremely solid to ensure that the goal is not lost.
It wasn't until 15 minutes later that Ajax's attack slowed down and AC Milan started to fight back with Andrea Pirlo and Kaka.
Pirlo passed the ball to Kaka, who took it on and ran to the side to make the break.
At this time, Seedorf and Maldini also came up and came to the left to prepare for the attack.
This creates a local advantage, with three people facing one of the opposing defenders.
After the three made a simple pass, Seedorf went down to the baseline to make a pass.
The ball passed directly to Shevchenko, Shevchenko hit the goal with a header, the action was very stretched, and the angle of the top ball was also tricky, and it passed the goal.
The opposing goalkeeper jumped up, dragged the ball a little, and actually stopped the ball.
The ball landed at the feet of the opposing scavenger, Heitinga, who passed the ball directly to Li Yuda with a big foot.
By this time, Maldini had already stepped forward to attack, and there was no one to defend on the left wing.
Li Yuda was extremely fast, and after he got the ball, he went straight up.
His entire body had already flown out and glided over the field.
At this time, AC Milan's backline has a huge gap on the left, with Andrea Pirlo and Gattuso on the right flank, while only Stam is left on the left.
Stam is also experienced in defense, and he knows that Li Yuda's speed is very fast, so he is ready to retreat before he plays the ball, and when he starts to chase the ball as soon as he kicks it.
Sure enough, as he expected, Li Yuda didn't think much about it, led the autumn come, and directly took a big stride to the ball.
Although Stam saw his intentions and ran ahead of time, and his body had gradually leaned over, hoping to occupy a position, he still lowered Li Yuda's speed.
So he forced an overtake, turned a big corner, and threw Stam behind him.
You must know that this Li Yuda only relied on his own attack before, and he couldn't do it without an absolute speed advantage.
To say that Stam is definitely an experienced veteran, seeing his intentions, he has to have no other defenders behind him except Nesta, if he is broken, it is likely to cause a single knife, and he is still outside the penalty area, so a vertical, fighting the risk of possibly carrying cards, directly a sliding tackle, to break the ball.
His entire body had already flown out and glided over the field.