Chapter Eighty-Nine: Giving You a Reason to Attack
Just one minute into the game, Ajax's first attack, the first shot of the game, scored a goal. At the kick-off of the first half, Koeman, who was accustomed to standing on the sidelines, turned around and waved his fists in celebration.
And Feyenoord's head coach Erwin Koeman's face changed suddenly, he could not have imagined that the guy opposite who had not played for more than three months was in such good shape. The first touch of the ball was a breakthrough for his own backline and a goal.
He Xu, who received the ball, pounced forward against Mulder, and once again played the stride used in the previous warm-up game, after a move deceived the goalkeeper, he kicked the ground with his right foot, jumped directly from the goalkeeper with the ball, and sent the ball into the empty goal. The perfect goal, He Xu's soft sense of the ball seems to be back, and the moment he gets rid of the goalkeeper with the ball, his movements are skillful and coherent, completely leaving the opponent without any way.
After the goal, He Xu broke free and tried to hug him Garrincha, and rushed to the billboard on the sidelines, it seemed that he was not satisfied, and jumped on the billboard with his feet. He raised his arms and shouted at the fans in the stadium, and although no one could understand what he was shouting, he didn't seem to know.
Chen Bo stretched out his hand and flicked the bangs in front of his forehead, tilted his head to look at He Xu, who was celebrating wildly, and looked more powerful than before.
Feyenoord also lined up the same single striker as Ajax, but their midfield was two wing midfielders plus two midfielders, and behind Chen Bo, there was only one forward midfielder.
Chen Bo stood in the middle circle, and he saw that He Xu, who had returned to the midfield, was making a gesture to shoot himself very covertly. He Xu's two fingers of his left hand pointed at him, and after a light pick, he put it to his mouth and blew it.
Although the goal in the first minute of the opening game did not knock Feyenoord to hell, but in terms of momentum, Ajax has overwhelmed Feyenoord, and it can be said that now Feyenoord's players on the field are nervous except for Chen Bo.
Chen Bo stepped on the ball and said to the front midfielder standing beside him: "Wait a minute, I run forward, when I am out of the middle circle arc, you pass the ball to me, remember, don't pass the ball too deep, and don't let him roll past my feet." If possible, it's best to be able to get the ball on my heel. ”
What kind of requirement is this, hit on the heel, so what do you do next? But he couldn't think about it, the referee had already blown the whistle for the start of the game, Chen Bo kicked the ball and ran to the front court, and before running, he didn't forget to give his front waist a look.
But just when the outside of the forward midfielder pushes the ball with the instep of his foot, ready to pass the ball forward. He Xu, who was passing by Chen Bo by mistake, seemed to have understood all this a long time ago. At the same time as the front waist stretched out their feet, the feet of the two people touched the ball almost at the same time, and the two exerted force, squeezing the ball and jumping directly. The reaction of the forward midfielder was obviously much inferior to He Xu, and when he was still waiting for the ball to fall before grabbing it, He Xu had already straightened his chest in the process of the ball rising and rushed past him with the ball.
"Oh! Oh my! The beautiful broken ball got rid of, and He Xu's front was empty. ”
After the ball was broken in the middle circle, there was indeed no one within five meters of He Xu's front. While He Xu dribbled the ball forward, he peeked at the opposite goal, huh? Mulder's Stand...... It seems to be a bit of a front!
Well, I'm going to laugh at this opportunity! Thinking so, He Xu knocked the ball, accelerated two steps, leaned over, stepped on the side of the ball with his left foot, and opened the entire right leg, and the slender right leg fell quickly like a whip and was drawn in the middle and lower part of the ball.
The ball flew up, drew a long arc in the air, and flew towards the goal.
Bergkamp exclaimed again, "Oh! Oh my God, it's so bold! Super long-distance hanging door in the midfield! ”
Mulder was up front, but he had enough time to catch up. He raised his arms high, judged the direction, and waited there for the ball to fall.
Once again, both Koeman coaches stood up, and Erwin Coman was yelling at his midfielders, "You two! Why did you give him such an easy chance to get on his feet? Go up and defend me! Don't let up, do you want to lose? Or you don't want to play in the Champions League, you want to play in the Europa League, I ......"
He was only halfway through his last sentence, and he was choked back. Because Mulder's outstretched hands did not touch the football. When you look up, the perspective will inevitably be a little off, especially if the ball is flying from a distance.
Fans at the scene witnessed a comical spectacle as the ball flew over the hands of the goalkeeper who had been waiting for three seconds, while Mulder held his arms high and did not move at all.
Erwin Coman was almost scared to pee, but luckily, it was a "bang" in his ears, not a whistle.
The ball hit the crossbar and bounced into the box. Mulder was about to pick it up, but the defender who was chasing back drove the ball out with a big kick. Because he was worried that the captain, who seemed to be stunned by He Xu, would touch the ball into his goal. In fact, Ajax did not have anyone in the box at this time, so they picked up a corner kick for nothing.
Massimo quickly whipped in a corner and Serkie de Jong's back-up header was denied by Mulder. Feyenoord's defenders don't care where the ball will land when it's out, as long as the ball lands in front of them, let's kick it out first.
The ball that made a mistake in the rush fell to the feet of Emmanuelson who pressed up from behind, this guy was ruthless enough, regardless of so many people in the penalty area, he directly volleyed the ball without stopping! Once again, the ball flew towards the goal. This guy often scored with wonderful long-range shots after his later transfer to Milan, but of course, this time it wasn't, the ball was blocked by Mulder and gave Ajax a corner.
Erwin Coman knew that it would be a matter of time before he was pressed in front of his own penalty area and scored. Thinking of this, he came to the sidelines and shouted loudly to the field: "Change formation!" Change formations! Follow the pre-game arrangement! ”
This time the corner was taken directly by Mulder, who kicked the ball straight away. In fact, the so-called change of formation is also very simple. It was a defensive counterattack, everyone retracted into the penalty area to defend, leaving only Chen Bo alone in the front court as an offensive fulcrum and interfering with Ajax's defense.
Such an arrangement naturally does not mean that Erwin Coman has given up the game, he just wants to stabilize the rhythm of the team first, after all, Ajax's offensive is too strong now, and his team is really unable to support it.
As the captain, Mulder's execution ability is naturally excellent, and the ball he drove flew straight to the front court and ran to Chen Bo, who used his not strong body to resist Alderweireld, and then unloaded the ball with his head.
Faced with his back to the goal, no one answering, and two defenders coming at him. Chen Bo ran two steps in the direction of his goal with the ball, turned around, and the moment Alderweireld caught up, because the distance was too close, Chen Bo changed direction and dodged.
Although VanderWiel chased back quickly, he didn't expect the opponent to have such a hand, and the one under his foot did not catch and collided with his teammate. Chen Bo dribbled forward without hindrance.
Bergkamp broke out in a cold sweat when he saw this scene, "Oops! Bad defense, mistakes! Let Chen directly get the single knife, it depends on the performance of Stekelenburg......"
Before the words fell, Stekelenburg had already resolutely abandoned the door. Even if you can't cut off Chen Bo's ball, you must try to compress his shooting angle and kick space, and never let him shoot so comfortably.
Chen Bo seemed to see through his thoughts, and on the way to dribble with his head down, he suddenly stopped suddenly, swung his legs on the spot, and came with an extremely sudden shot! His foot rubbed against the ball, and the ball went around Stekelenburg's hastily outstretched hand! Fly towards the goal.
The Ajax captain reacted quickly and turned to chase after him, but the ball grazed the post and flew off the line before he could catch up.
Bergkamp exclaimed in a cold sweat: "Thank God! The ball didn't go in, but Chen's performance amazed us and I think Coman needs to pay attention to this guy. ”
In fact, Ronald Koeman has paid enough attention to the defense of this yellow man, Alderweireld's marking, and the supplemental defense of several backfield players, it can only be said that Ajax's defensive ability at the back is still slightly inferior.
Scavenger-turned-Ronald Koeman has a very old eye, after Feyenoord hit back a couple of times. He sensed something from it and then he gestured from the sidelines for his players to move the defence forward and create an offside trap.
This made it difficult for Chen Bo to catch the ball, and in order not to waste offensive opportunities, Chen Bo, as the only offensive player, could only keep retreating and almost retreated to the middle circle to receive the ball. However, under the Ajax defence, the team-mates' passes were not accurate, and they lost the ball on several occasions. In this way, after practicing several switchback runs, Chen Bo was a little physically exhausted and held his knees and gasped for breath, taking advantage of a dead ball, he ran to the sidelines to ask for water.
He Xu, who had been standing in the Feyenoord penalty area, looked at Chen Bo's back, the duel has not officially started yet, are you already exhausted?
Erwin Coman looked helplessly on the field, it was his own team that was behind, and it was his own team that was not dominant, and the defensive counterattack did not seem to make their goal appear safe, should they press out and attack now? If you go on like this, it's going to be hard to win the game. Offensive? But this defense ...... He was still hesitating.
He Xu seemed to see his hesitation, so he was ready to give Erwin Koeman, who was bent on winning, a reason to attack.
Chen Bo was offside again, his jersey was already wet with sweat, and he was panting. Van der Wiel kicked off quickly and Massimo Charlie received the ball and distributed it to the wing, where Garrincha, who had not touched the ball a few times in the game. But Garrincha was clearly not prepared to be so mediocre for the whole game, and a bike shook off the defender and cut inside to the top of the box to choose to shoot straight at the goal.
The Brazilian's footwork was unmistakable, the power of the shot was not great, but the angle was tricky, Mulder was not sure that he could save the ball, and the time left for him to react was so short that he could only leap to his feet, reach out and barely block the ball.
The ball didn't fall off the pitch or outside the box, but into the box, a place where there were no players. Just when Mulder fell to the ground, just when Erwin Coman was once again congratulating the team for escaping, He Xu appeared like a ghost at the place where the ball landed! Before the defenders could catch up, a gentle push rewrote the score again......
2 to 0! In the 31st minute of the first half, He Xu scored a supplementary goal and forced Feyenoord to a desperate end. It also gave Erwin Coman a reason to attack......