Volume 1 Chapter 9 Here's your chance

In 2013, when many fans mentioned Barcelona, they would think of the Dream Team, and they would think of Cruyff.

History, sometimes really extreme.

In 2013, fans will worship the Dream Team because of the Dream Team II and Dream Team III, and even many people look at Cruyff's Barcelona Dream Team in an almost deified way, but is this really the case?

In the early 90s, the status of La Liga was inferior to Serie A, and the Bundesliga was on par, at that time, the country was dominated by Real Madrid and Barcelona, almost taking turns to sit in the bank, first Real Madrid won five consecutive championships in one breath, and then Barcelona won four consecutive championships in one breath, and the two teams completely dominated La Liga.

It is undeniable that Barcelona during the Cruyff period was indeed very effective in La Liga, but in Europe, in addition to winning the championship in the 91/92 season, in the next three years, in the 92/93 season, Barcelona lost to CSKA Moscow of the Russian Premier League in the first round of the qualifying round, and although the 93/94 season stepped on the corpses of Galatasaray, Porto and other teams along the way to the final, but was slaughtered by Capello's AC Milan 4:0.

The 94/95 season was slightly better, but it also lost to Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1 in the last eight.

If you count by the European record, the Dream 1 team is much inferior to Pep Guardiola's Dream 3 team, and even Rijkaard's Dream 2 team may not be able to win.

Speaking of the league, in addition to the first year, in the second and third years, a very important reason why Barcelona was able to win the championship was thanks to Tenerife coached by Baldano, who defeated Real Madrid in the last round of the last round of two consecutive seasons, which finally contributed to Barcelona's reversal to win the championship.

In the fourth year, Real Madrid performed poorly, being slaughtered 5-0 by Barcelona at Camp Nou, but in the league title race, Barcelona also narrowly suppressed Deportivo La Coruna in the last round to win the championship.

In other words, Barcelona's so-called dream team, the real peak was only the 90/91 season, at best, the second season to win the Champions League is barely counted, but before and after that, Barcelona did not have too convincing results in terms of results or playing style.

Of course, Cruyff's excellence is worthy of recognition, but it must not be his coaching and tactical use, but his understanding of football and his tactical insight, which is what makes him really good, and it is also the root cause of the ups and downs of Barcelona under his leadership.

Cruyff's Barcelona tactics were not based on Pep Guardiola's style of possession, but in fact played a complex style that was very similar to England's traditional combination of long balls and Spanish short balls.

European football in the 90s was the world of the number 10, and the midfielder won the world, which was profoundly confirmed at the time, and the midfield was greatly valued at the time, but the attention to the side of the forward line and the defensive line was far from enough, which was completely seen from the popular three-back configuration at that time.

In this case, Cruyff clearly understood the shortcomings of the back three, and also realized that the midfield was overcrowded and had to find a way to withdraw from the mire of the midfield, so he adopted a winger strategy, arranging two wingers with excellent surprise and individual ability in the front field to tear apart the wide passage in the front court.

The midfield is more of a traditional Dutch midfielder, because their midfielder is not responsible for organising, Cruyff's team retreats to the midfield, or even the central defender position, so in Cruyff's team, the central defender Koeman takes on a very large responsibility for organization and passing.

At that time, Barcelona often saw the routine that looked for Coman after the midfielder broke the ball, Coman directly made a long pass over the top, directly found the winger, and then tore the defense through the side to create a killing opportunity in the middle.

Following Cruyff's philosophy, but in Ajax, Louis? Van Gaal basically inherited this set of ideas, but continued to adjust and add more of his own understanding of football, but to a certain extent, Van Gaal still used winger breakthrough tactics, so Ajax's wingers were very good at that time.

However, there is a fatal flaw in the 433 winger tactics, even in the heyday of Barcelona, Cruyff could not change the problem, that is, in the offensive end, in order to ensure that the wingers can play the most threatening, they must move close to the full-backs of the defensive line, which will lead to a longer distance between the wingers and full-backs.

Fans often talk about loopholes, what is a loophole?

The area that the player can't cover is the hole!

In other words, if the distance between the two players is too long, resulting in the opposing player taking the ball in this area, and neither player can give the first shot, then it means that there is a hole between them.

And the hole caused by the long distance between the winger and the full-back is the fatal flaw in Ajax's 433 tactics!

Ye Qiu read Cruyff's views on the 433 formation, and also looked at Beckenbauer's understanding of the arrangement and attack and defense on the football field, he admired these two seniors very much for their understanding and insight into football, and he also understood that the strongest 433 tactics that Cruyff relied on to become famous were wingers, but the biggest weakness was precisely the wingers.

Ajax's decline in the past two or three years actually began with the departure of a group of outstanding wide players such as Davies, Overmars, and Litmanen, because you don't have a strong wing attack and defense with excellent individual ability, and continuing to use 433 will only make the holes infinitely magnified.

Just like the current B1 team of Westerhoff, the speed of the two wide players is not fast, and the speed of the full-backs is also very average, which makes the original coverage area between them smaller, and more dependent on the connection of midfielders, but even so, the wingers and full-backs are still frequently disconnected.

This situation was not obvious at the beginning of the game, when the B1 team took the initiative to attack and suppressed the B2 team, but as the game continued, especially in the 45 minutes of the first half, Westerhoff's team was unable to break through the B2 team's goal, and it was even more obvious in the second half.

The wingers wanted to continue to strengthen the attack, but the full-backs were running back and forth throughout the first half, and the physical consumption was too great, and by the second half they could no longer keep up, and the holes between the two were bound to be further amplified.

In this case, the opportunity that Ye Qiu was waiting for finally came!

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Sneijder looked a little depressed because his B2 team has been suppressed by the opposition for a long time from the opening day to the present.

He was originally given more playmaking and attacking tasks, but as the situation became passive, he had to drop back more to support the midfield and take on more defensive duties.

However, in his heart, he still has a glimmer of hope.

This glimmer of hope comes from a sentence that head coach Ye Qiu said at halftime.

"They're going to show their flaws, they're going to have a time to slacken, and that's our chance!"

Ye Qiu gave them encouragement in the middle of the field, not many words, just a few words, but this sentence is the most weighty, because this sentence made all the players of the B2 team see hope.

No one wants to be born a loser, and who doesn't want their team to win? Who doesn't take pride in defeating a strong enemy?

In this case, in fact, too much incitement and encouragement are unnecessary, the key is to see hope!

Therefore, when Sneijder saw Ye Qiu coming out of his seat on the sidelines and waving at them, his spirits were lifted, and then he looked at De Jong, Maduro and Rui and others, and found that each of them had excitement and hunger on their faces.

It's a kind of ** similar to what a long-starving hungry person reveals when he sees food!

The B1 team also wanted to keep the ball at Van der Vaart's feet, and despite the fact that the same thing had been missed countless times in this game, they did it again and again, because there was nothing they could do but do so.

However, De Jong broke the ball successfully!

The ball passed to Van der Vaart again and again seemed to be helping De Jong brush up on the game data!

After breaking the ball, De Jong kicked the ball to the side as soon as possible.

I saw that the right full-back of the B2 team, who had been retreating to the defensive line, suddenly moved forward, received a pass from De Jong, and kicked forward, at this time, the wingers of the B1 team had to rest and take a breath, and the fullbacks were too far away to press for the first time.

The B2 right-back quickly brought the ball into the B1 half, and the B1 left-back had to scramble first, but the B2 right-back quickly handed the ball to Sneijder, who was in front.

Sneijder won the ball and quickly distributed it to the right winger.

The right winger was ambushed behind the B1 team's left full-back, and as soon as he got the ball, he quickly formed a breakthrough along the right side, and before the opponent's central defender Heiting added a scramble to block, he crossed the ball into the penalty area.

Rui is a typical Dutch centre-forward, tall and strong, not fast, but with good awareness and solid fundamentals.

When he saw Sneijder split the ball, he already knew what to do, and he stepped forward as soon as possible.

By the time Rui reached the right post in the penalty area, the cross from the wing had already crossed Heitinga's defence, and the ball was low and fast, and it went straight to the front point, and Rui was just right to get into the attack.

Almost at the same time, Westerhoff in the coach's seat had already seen that something was wrong, rushed out of his seat directly, and shouted loudly on the field, "Front, pay attention to the front!" ”

In the stands, Leao, who previously felt that Ye Qiu's team would have a chance to turn the situation around? Ben Hack also stood up dumbfounded at this time, looking at the tall striker wearing the B2 team jersey on the field, picked up his right foot, met the low flat ball, and stabbed his foot.

This shot is not very difficult, although the speed of the ball is fast, but the angle of attack is very large, and it is close to the goal, as long as the basic skills are solid enough, if you want to miss, the difficulty is really not small, and Rui's basic skills are absolutely solid.

The right foot touched Rui's right foot, made no visible noise, turned in one direction and drilled into the B1 goal before Stekelenberg's best save arrived.

At this moment, everyone in the entire second team stadium was stunned, looking at the ball in the B1 team's goal on the playing field in disbelief, and then watched in amazement at the striker who lost his balance because of the shot and fell to the ground, jumped up, turned around and rushed out of the penalty area.

Beside him was a group of stunned B1 players, all of them looking at the group of B2 players celebrating the goal in disbelief, they felt incomprehensible, didn't they still have a huge advantage just now? How did you score in the blink of an eye?

Perhaps, it is difficult for them to understand, but Leo? Ben Hack knew that this was the tactic!

Rui rushed to the sidelines, clenched his fists, and waved hard, and behind him, Sneijder, De Jong, Maduro and others also pounced one by one, rushed to Rui's side, surrounded him in the middle, and celebrated the team's first goal and took the lead.

This goal came so suddenly that they were all caught off guard and full of surprises.

In the stands, although there were not many spectators, only hundreds, but there was a burst of applause, obviously they were all surprised by this goal, but also affirmed.

"Ha Luha, I'll just say it, I'll just say that Ye Qiu must have a back move, no matter how you look at it, this kid doesn't look like he wants to be flat!" Van Praag smiled and was proud of his previous wisdom.

And the chairman's expression was naturally seen by Waters, which made his eyes even more gloomy.

Ye Qiu waited hard for the goal, and he waited for nearly an hour.

For the past hour, he had been terrified, and his heart had to endure more horrors than he had ever endured in his previous life, which made him feel a sense of prostration all over his body, but at the same time it brought him a kind of excitement that came from the depths of his heart, and his whole body was as excited as fire.

He suddenly felt that this kind of adventure to the unknown really brought him a thrilling thrill, so exciting!

looked at Westerhoff again, the latter's face suddenly looked like eating a yellow lotus, where was there still the spirit before the game, and now he had walked back to the coach's seat to sit, so that people couldn't see his face clearly, but it must be interesting.

"Goal! We really scored a goal! We actually scored! ”

Beside Ye Qiu, Roland? Shepas was already dancing excitedly, hugging Ye Qiu excitedly, obviously still immersed in the surprise brought by the goal, unable to pull away.

He is the person who knows Ye Qiu's arrangement best, but he is also the most worried, because he is very worried, in front of the old Jianghu Westerhoff, whether Ye Qiu's wishful thinking will work, he is also very worried, if Ye Qiu loses, will he also follow Ye Qiu to be expelled from De Tokmost.

However, all these worries disappeared with this goal.

Yes, it was just a goal, but in Ye Qiu's arrangement and planning, this goal was enough to fatal Westerhoff's team.

"Don't get too excited, Roland, it's just a goal!" Ye Qiu looked dissatisfied and shouted with a smile.

Roland grabbed him by the shoulder and shouted: "Yes, don't get too excited, it's just a goal!" However, his action of squeezing Ye Qiu's shoulder hard made it difficult to doubt that he would be able to calm down.

Westerhoff is indeed famous in the Netherlands, but it is only in the Netherlands, but Ye Qiu in the godfather system, some of the tactical analysis he has seen, and the tactical explanations he has come into contact with, are all from Michels, Cruyff and Beckenbauer, a group of famous talents in football history.

In the eyes of this group of historical bulls, let alone Westerhoff, Leo? Ben Hack is ashamed of himself!

However, although he took the lead, Ye Qiu was not complacent at all, he was not Waters, he clearly remembered that he had heard a sentence in his previous life, 1:0 was the most unsafe score in the world, so he was not only unwilling to be willing to draw, he was not willing to be 1:0, he wanted to win more.

Didn't Vesthoff boast that he wanted to use a game to settle the battle and completely destroy Ye Qiu's fighting spirit and morale?

Returning the favor to the other in his own way, Ye Qiu also wants to do this now!

Therefore, I saw Ye Qiu walk out of the coaching area, walked to the sidelines, and raised his right hand high, this was the first time he walked to the sidelines and shouted in this game.

"Boys, they're obviously not going to do it anymore, don't be polite to them, kill them, give it to me!!"

All the people who heard Ye Qiu's shout suddenly collapsed, this is too disrespectful to the opponent, right?

Westerhoff was already a little distracted, but as soon as he heard Ye Qiu's words, he immediately rushed out of his seat and yelled at the players of the B1 team on the field, "You damn bastards, is the ball kicked like this?" What do I usually tell you about? Don't mess around, what's the mess? If they dare to attack, I will suppress them and completely press them back! ”

"Rafael, you have to hold the ball more, don't pass the ball at every turn, you are the core, the core is to take the ball more and pass more, create more threats, understand? If you don't, what kind of bullshit core are you? ”

"And you, John, go up with the ball and know how to come back, don't be so reckless, do you really think you're Koeman?"

Westerhoff also looked very angry, he couldn't imagine that he boasted so much about Haikou before the game, if he accidentally lost to Ye Qiu in the game, what would he become?

Needless to say, it is certain that he will become the laughing stock of everyone above and below Ajax, and it is also certain that he will leave Ajax in a gloomy way, and more seriously, he will definitely become a big joke in the whole Dutch coaching world.

"That damn Chinese......" turned his head sideways, and Westerhoff glanced at Ye Qiu, and the more he looked at it, the more dazzling he felt.

But the damn guy seemed to sense his eyes, and he also looked over, and the one who wanted to die showed his white teeth and grinned, so angry that Westerhoff went crazy.

But just when Westerhoff was about to go wild, the situation on the pitch changed abruptly, and the B2 team once again used the B1 team to pass the ball to Van der Vaart, and when the latter stuck to the ball, De Jong and Maduro teamed up to break the ball, and then handed it to the full-back to advance with the ball, and passed to Rui when he reached the front court, who knocked back.

Sneijder was at the edge of the penalty area, got Rui's knockback ball, and without the slightest hesitation, he pulled away and shot hard!

The kick was so powerful that Sneijder seemed to want to vent all the depression and frustration he had suffered in the hour before the game.

And the ball speed is also very fast, past Stekelenberg's hand, straight into the corner of the goal, 2:0!

Suddenly, the audience was boiling again, and even Van Praag couldn't help cheering for Ye Qiu's B2 team!