168 Qin Xiong after liberation
The Amsterdam Athletic Stadium is boiling!
The fans were depressed and nervous for a long time.
When Qin Xiong challenged Vieira with a rainbow pass, they wanted to stand and cheer for Qin Xiong, and when Qin Xiong assisted with a Marseille slalom, they almost shouted loudly.
However, I was too nervous.
It wasn't until Van der Vaart sent the ball into Arsenal's wicked door that they frantically stood up and cheered.
Van der Vaart showed his wild side and ran to hug Qin Xiong with an excited expression.
The rest of Ajax's teammates also came running, and everyone hugged each other.
They firmly believed, and they had been firmly convinced before they set foot in the 1/8 finals: we can go further!
We can beat Arsenal!
Although it was just an equaliser, the confidence and encouragement it can bring to Ajax is huge.
'Ajax equalised! Qin Xiong single-handedly tore through the Arsenal defence, and finally gave Van der Vaart a comfortable assist, Van der Vaart lived up to the expectations of his teammates and fans, and he blasted Arsenal's goal open with a groundbreaking volley! 1:1, this score is still not good for Ajax, but they are no longer in a situation of falling behind the score. ”
Coman swung his fists, but his expression remained solemn.
It was just an equaliser, in fact due to Arsenal's take? With away goals, Arsenal can be said to be ahead.
Arsene Wenger was stunned.
If you only look at the scene of Van der Vaart's goal, Arsenal's defence is simply a heavy mistake of marking mistakes.
But that's not the case!
How could Arsenal, who are in the top three in England, make such a low-level mistake so easily?
Qin Xiong!
Before this attack, Qin Xiong made all the instigated attacks in the second half. They were all evaluated as naïve by Arsene Wenger!
But after this goal. The previous naivety has been subverted. That's a brilliant midfield command strategic layout!
Constantly playing on the left side, even if it is unsuccessful, playing on the left side, paralyzing, seducing, arrogant, Qin Xiong's seemingly naïve, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains and biasing towards the tigers, is just an illusion!
Fool Arsenal. Blind confidence, thinking that he had figured out the trajectory of his activities.
On the court, we must not only always be ready for the opportunity to come, but also take the initiative to create opportunities!
When the opportunity came, Qin Xiong did not waste all his previous efforts, strategically attacked the west, defeated Vieira in personal ability, and then turned to the middle after hitting the front waist line, with the aim of giving Van der Vaart a single chance to score a goal!
Almost alone, Qin Xiong pinned down and attracted Arsenal's defensive forces. All pressed on the right and middle of the defense zone, the left side is completely empty!
Arsene Wenger's mind kept repeating the whole process of Ajax's goal.
Qin Xiong was calm and cold to the point of outrageousness. In the process of his possession and dribbling, even for a moment, he thought that he would complete the shot by himself, not that it was impossible, but that the probability of scoring a goal was definitely not as high as the single chance of creating a zào for Van der Vaart.
And what is needed for this one-shot creation of the attack is not only the cooperation of his teammates with Qin Xiong, but also his overall situation and strategic awareness on the field are unprecedented!
Yes, unprecedented!
Arsene Wenger has coached so many players and has never seen a player at this level who can play Arsenal between applause!
It is precisely because Ajax's overall strength is not as good as Arsenal that Ajax played such a wonderful and dazzling fast attack that brought out Qin Xiong's core role.
Wenger closed his eyes and sighed: He is in Ajax, what a condescension!
After opening his eyes again, Wenger began to think about the end of the game.
Wenger is very similar to Chen Shou's evaluation of Zhuge Liang when he wrote the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Governance is long, and strategy is short.
Since his arrival at Highbury, he has been able to transform Arsenal's home stadium from a library boredom into one of the most sought-after in the Premier League, he can also change Arsenal's extremely dull and utilitarian style of play in the Graham era, and can also overturn the domination of the Red Devils in the long-distance league run, but Arsenal has been languishing in the Champions League for many years, and has a sense of being an insider in a civil war and an outsider in a foreign war.
That's because the league and the Champions League are, after all, two completely different competitions.
Especially in the Champions League knockout round, the outcome will be decided in 180 minutes or 210 minutes, the shape is ever-changing, in the on-the-spot command, when you need to change your moves, Wenger can not make Arsenal have a sudden outburst, in other words, he is not fickle, but the opponent changes, then Arsenal in the passive response, will also make mistakes in panic, this is why Arsenal under Wenger, even if it has the world's top striker, midfield, solid defense, tacit team as a whole, adhere to the implementation of the technical and tactical style, but in the Champions League is difficult.
The Champions League is sometimes an adventurer's paradise.
Professor Arsene Wenger, who is not good at taking risks.
Because of this, Arsenal's defensive counterattack in the Champions League may be the safest and the lowest error tolerance technical and tactical play.
If they can get a 1-1 scoreline on the road, Arsene Wenger will be satisfied.
According to conventional thinking, back in Highbury, Arsenal will be stronger and Ajax will not be able to beat Arsenal there.
So Arsene Wenger chose to withdraw his troops!
He gestured to the players on the pitch to get the team to be relegated to the offensive input, concentrate on defending and not give Ajax any chances.
Originally, Arsenal's defense was very solid, and the flashpoint was dominated by Ashley Cole, and the goal just now was related to Ashley Cole's absence from the position, and now with Wenger's instructions, Ashley Cole simply did not step forward to participate in the attack and concentrated on defense.
Bergkamp was replaced by the veteran Parlour who is over 30 years old, and before Vieira + Silva's tough back, Arsenal's most solid midfield combination is Vieira + Parlour, and Parlour's defensive strength is undoubted.
Arsenal, who originally had Bergkamp in central midfield, did not make a couple of decent counter-attacks in the second half.
Ashley Cole didn't step forward, Parlour replaced the talented and aging Bergkamp, and Arsenal's attack up front became even more difficult.
The development of the shape on the field is very weird.
Ajax's second-half adjustment was to weaken the attack, strengthen the defence, and then Ajax scored.
Arsenal also strengthened their defense and weakened their attack in the final 15 minutes of the game, but the dangers in their defensive line occurred one after another.
Because Ajax's defense is more stable, but Ajax's offense is deriving more changes, from Qin Xiong!
The liberated Qin Xiong can recklessly switch positions with his teammates and cover the entire frontcourt!
In the 81st minute of the game, Qin Xiong moved to the right side, Van der Vaart gave the ball back to him, and before Parol helped defend and pressed, Qin Xiong suddenly sent a cross.
The ball fell into the back of the penalty area, and at the back of the Arsenal goal, Lehmann hurriedly moved over, and he was horrified to see that Sneijder shook off Lauren diagonally into the back of the penalty area, and desperately flew to tackle the ball, trying to kick the ball into the goal!
But he was still slow, maybe Qin Xiongchuan's strength was greater.
The tip of his toe touched the football, but he couldn't control the angle, and the ball was shoveled out of the bottom line by him.
Arsene Wenger watched from the sidelines in a cold sweat.
The fists couldn't help but clench.
Extremely nervous.
Qin Xiong's cross, maybe he doesn't have much imagination, but he is better than surprise!
He and the winger Sneijder on the other side of the pass and run combination is already close to perfect, but unfortunately, Sneijder may have a shorter leg, if he starts early, he will be offside, Qin Xiong's pass is light, and he will be cleared by the opponent.
Patrick Vieira tried to cut in from midfield to create a killing.
But after his long-range shot was saved by Lobont, Ajax's counter-attack almost left Vieira in remorse.
He thought that with Parol and Silva there, Qin Xiong still didn't dare to attack the middle.
He was wrong!
As soon as he went up, Qin Xiong immediately returned to the middle, received Grigra's diagonal pass, and rushed forward in the middle.
Ibrahimovic did nothing in the penalty area, he was blocked too tightly, so he took the initiative to retreat, acting as a fulcrum, and cooperated with Qin Xiong in the middle of this attack.
Qin Xiong's pass penetrated the defensive zone of Silva and Parlour, and Ibrahimovic took the ball with his back, did not turn around, and used his body against Campbell.
When Silva turned around to press, he passed the ball diagonally back to Qin Xiong.
Qin Xiong, who rushed past Parlour, did not see a good chance for Van der Vaart to cut forward in front of the penalty area, and Ashley Cole defended with him, so he could only choose to shoot from distance.
Bang!
In the case of a narrow angle, Qin Xiong's long-range shot hit the goalpost and popped out of the bottom line!
After the shot, he stood there and raised his hand to wipe the sweat that had slipped down to the tip of his chin.
Coming from the back of his hand, there was the sigh of tens of thousands of Ajax fans at the Amsterdam Athletic Stadium. (To be continued......) R1292