159 Juggernaut
Hiddink hoped PSV Eindhoven could defeat Ajax with a lethal counter-attack, but the picture presented to him was that Ajax could dominate the game!
Ajax were more proactive than they were in the first half of the league meeting, but the team worked together as one.
When this advantage was established and the team's attack and defense were moving freely, Ajax began to burst out with a stronger attack!
In the 26th minute of the first half, Sneijder took the initiative to switch places with Pinard.
When Maxwell assisted, Qin Xiong also leaned to this side.
After he and Maxwell went neck and neck in parallel to the wall to cooperate with each other, Park Ji-sung returned to take over the midfield position, but Vogel failed to form a disturbance to Qin Xiong's impact.
Van Bommel was decisive to come to the rescue, and it looked like PSV Eindhoven had put in enough of their local defence on this flank.
But when Pienaar reversed the change from the left winger position to Qin Xiong, the PSV Eindhoven midfield defense collapsed!
Van Bommel mistakenly followed Pinard, but Pienaar actually returned to midfield to take over Qin Xiong's midfield position.
Maxwell crossed the middle and handed the ball to Sneijder, who was in the forward midfield position at this time, who did not hesitate to choose to kick the ball out and pass the ball diagonally to Qin Xiong, who had already killed the winger position.
On his side was Oyer, Qin Xiong accelerated and ran in the direction where the football was rolling, and Oyer followed him like a shadow.
Qin Xiong suddenly paused, Oyer thought that Qin Xiong would stop the ball and go outside, so he also chose to stop.
If Park Ji-sung could communicate with Oyer at this moment, he would definitely tell SΓΉ Oyer: Don't be deceived by him!
In other words, when defending Qin Xiong, don't believe your habitual first prediction.
This Chinese is a magician who starts feints before touching the ball!
Qin Xiong paused and then accelerated, cutting across the middle of the penalty area, Oyer was thrown away in the rhythm difference, and he couldn't stop Qin Xiong at all.
When Hovland stepped forward, Qin Xiong raised his leg to make a long-range shot, Hovland blocked with his body, but Qin Xiong faked the shot and continued to advance horizontally.
Baoma couldn't ignore Qin Xiong's unscrupulous wilderness in front of him, he decisively stepped forward to intercept, as soon as he moved, the football under Qin Xiong's feet was gently passed by him with the arch of his foot to the empty back between Baoma and Hovland.
Ibrahimovic easily received Qin Xiong's wonderful pass, stopped the ball with the outside instep to adjust, and then fired a powerful heavy cannon in the face of Watlerus.
The football rushed into the top right corner of the goal in the blink of an eye, and the goalkeeper was powerless!
After the goal, Ibu turned around and pointed at Qin Xiong with a smile on his face.
Qin Xiong also smiled.
It's strange that he rarely laughed after scoring a goal, but when he came to Ajax, he not only learned to laugh after a goal, but this smile was full of arrogance!
It's like domineering!
"Ajax has scored! Ibrahimovic opened the scoring and it was Qin Xiong who provided him with the assist! It was no surprise that Ajax had the advantage from the start, they had more chances to create and players were more active on the pitch, PSV Eindhoven vowed to take the win here before the game, but what exactly were they doing? Can only be exhausted on the defensive line, and the offense only relies on Kezman and Robben? It doesn't look good. β
Hiddink's worst fears came when Ajax dominated the pitch and then, naturally, scored the goal.
He couldn't understand that a few months ago, at the Philips Stadium, the Chinese boy who made a splash was actually a point he asked the players to focus on in this game, but the rest of the Ajax players seemed to have improved more than before.
Ibrahimovic, Van der Vaart, Sneijder, Pinard, including two full-backs, Griguera and Maxwell.
They, surrounding Qin Xiong, make almost no mistakes, confidently and energetically show themselves on the pitch and contribute to the team.
What has happened to Ajax in the past few months?!
Just look at Ajax's record in the league, in fact, I can't see much difference from before, because Ajax itself, PSV Eindhoven, their advantage in the Dutch local league is very obvious, 80 games are obviously strong and weak, so winning, big win, crazy win, does not necessarily mean anything, just like Ajax won consecutive battles, PSV is bad? If the first half of the national derby is excluded, PSV Eindhoven is only four points behind Ajax, and in the league, PSV Eindhoven will also stage a shocking game of 7 goals to slaughter opponents and 5 goals to wrench opponents.
But it was really after the direct dialogue between the two teams of equal strength that Hiddink personally felt the changes in Ajax and the qualitative leap in overall strength.
Coman shook his fist on the sidelines and Ibrahimovic's goal came just right.
If you can't attack, it will make the players mentally anxious, and at this point in time, it's very good.
And the questions he had been thinking about before were also intuitively presented in front of him.
Qin Xiong!
It's not that he is dissatisfied with Qin Xiong.
No, not the slightest dissatisfaction.
Instead, Qin Xiong, as the team's offensive organizer, will take the initiative to undertake the task of accelerating the team's attack.
The question is, when Qin Xiong goes up front and comes to the opponent's penalty area, what about his defensive position?
After all, it was almost 20 yards away from midfield.
Koeman's unforgettable image is that during the battle against AC Milan, Qin Xiong and another Brazilian talent, Kaka, repeatedly played the scene of chasing me on the field.
In the tug-of-war between offense and defense, Kaka accelerated from the middle of the dribble, Qin Xiong couldn't catch up from behind, turned around, and replaced Qin Xiong with the ball to instigate a counterattack, and Kaka couldn't catch up with Qin Xiong.
Back and forth, it was like a stalemate.
But is that good?
Not good.
On the one hand, it will allow Qin Xiong to take care of the defense and reduce the forward insertion, on the other hand, when facing a higher-level opponent, that precious counterattack opportunity, the opponent will take advantage of it, and it will inevitably break out into a stronger threat, once Qin Xiong is not in the defensive position, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Koeman could only have this thought in his heart, but he did not dare to operate on the team, for a simple reason: the winning team does not change.
Ajax are now on the winning track, and a hasty change is not the best policy.
Witnessing the team conceding the goal, Robben and Kezman were full of resentment, and the ambitious Robben shouted angrily at his teammates.
He received too little, too little!
But his teammates felt powerless.
Ajax dominated possession and their attacking pressing kept them disconnected from the front and back.
Arjen Robben was back in front of the attack, and it would be unrealistic for him not to drop back and expect a big kick from a backcourt player to get the ball at his feet.
Don't look at Qin Xiong's chic and freehand style of play, but he never stops on the court, there is only the difference between speed and slowness, his jersey has long been soaked with sweat, and before every run and touch the ball, he is actively observing and paying close attention to the changes in shape on the court.
PSV Eindhoven burst out with a wild spirit, and the midfielders began to encircle and suppress Qin Xiong.
When Park Ji-sung and Van Bommel fiercely rushed towards Qin Xiong, who was holding the football, Qin Xiong seemed fearless, but when he was about to make contact, he would always decisively divide the ball.
He has maddened the midfielders of PSV Eindhoven!
The unpredictability of Qin Xiong's football has become the biggest problem they encounter when defending.
In the 37th minute of the game, Qin Xiong controlled the ball in the front court, and Park Ji-sung speculated who Qin Xiong would pass the ball to, and it seemed that his first prediction was correct.
Qin Xiong will pass the ball.
Suddenly, a diagonal pass from Qin Xiong's feet was sent from the feet of Qin Xiong.
The point where the ball flew was the left winger position, which looked like Qin Xiong had passed to Sneijder.
But Sneijder didn't move, and Oyer followed Sneijder closely before he realized that the ball was a little too big.
He suddenly turned his head to look, only to see fullback Maxwell cut inside and stop the ball steadily!
Probably except for the players of Ajax, not many people will perceive that Qin Xiong's ball is passed to Maxwell after seeing Qin Xiong's pass, which is unexpected and accurate!
It's the concealment of the pass that comes into play.
The Ajax fans didn't have time to cheer for Qin Xiong's pass, they stared at Maxwell, only to see the Brazilian fullback decisively cross, and the half-high ball flew to the back of the goal, Ibrahimovic was a cover in the middle, and Van der Vaart volleyed at the back point!
Bang!
The ball bounced off the near post, the second time Ajax hit the post!
Ajax supporters, although a little disappointed, applauded the team enthusiastically.
PSV Eindhoven, nothing to fear! R1152