2 February 2003, Willem II Stadium, Tilburg

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the home team's coach's bench was in the dugout. Adrian hugged his arrogant head tightly, and the coaches of Wilhelm II sitting around him were dazed, overwhelmed, and at the same time, a little relieved.

Yes, they should breathe a sigh of relief, even if the red scoreboard looks so shocking with a 0:6 scoreline, but they should be thankful that the game is over, because if the referee doesn't blow the whistle again, they don't know if Ajax will score more goals.

6:0, this is definitely a bloody massacre that happened at the Willem II Stadium, in front of all Tilburg Willem II fans, and it was a one-sided slaughter, Ajax not only showed their strong attacking power, but also let everyone see the team's solid and solid defensive skills.

In this game, both teams are playing offensive football, Adrianse's team is playing at home, without the slightest reservation, Ye Qiu's team has been recuperating for three weeks, constantly improving the team's offensive and defensive system, and everyone in the whole team is eager to test the team's training effect through a game.

Since both sides fought without reservation, it stands to reason that Wilhelm II should not be without a chance.

But on the contrary, Wilhelm II lost this game completely and lost.

Ajax's performance in this game is a testament to the saying, attack is the best defense!

When the game reached the 8th minute, Van der Vaart dribbled the ball on the right side and shot through Willem II's goal, Adrianse was not in a hurry at all, and kept calling on the players on the sidelines to stay calm and continue to adhere to the pre-match tactics.

Playing Ajax, it is not uncommon to fall behind, even those big teams are often pressed to play at the beginning, let alone Willem II?

But when Willem II finally gained a foothold and just wanted to make a plan, Ibrahimovic scored again in the 18th minute, which put Willem II in crisis again and his morale was greatly weakened.

Ajax played very active on both flanks in this game, Robben and Van der Vaart frequently threatened on the wings, and in the 33rd minute, when Willem II had not yet recovered from the previous goal, Ajax took advantage of a corner kick opportunity, Lucio's header was ferried, and Kifu scored with a header, 3-0.

The first half was spent in a 0-3 deficit, Adrianse at half-time, it was obvious that the players had already felt signs of emotional breakdown, almost all the Willem II players lost their fighting spirit, they still don't know, why this game will be played so badly?

In the second half, Ajax's first attack was the opening goal, with Ibrahimovic taking the ball with his back and passing it back to Sneijder, who cut in and fired a long-range shot past Willem II.

The crazy Ajax can create a threat in almost every attack, the disabled Willem II seems to be unable to hold no matter how he defends, and the ball can barely pass the midfield, while Ajax boldly moves the defense forward to Willem II's half, and Mascherano is directly moving in the 30-meter area.

In the 67th minute, Ibrahimovic scored the fifth goal of the game, and substitute Huntelaar also scored another goal for the team in the 78th minute, and finally locked the score at 6:0!

The fans in the stands at the Willem II Stadium looked very angry, and they used boos and curses in the stands to accuse the team's manager and players, suspecting that they did not give their best in the game, and some even held up improvised cards asking if the players had received money and played match-fixing.

The irrational emotions of the fans could not hide the near-perfect performance of Ajax in this game.

Adrianse himself knows very well that the team's strength is not as good as Ajax, this is only one aspect, on the other hand, Ye Qiu has played the ball control tactics of high defense and 30 meters to the fullest, Mascherano is also very stable in this game, and the Ajax players are also in excellent condition.

It should be said that through the secret training camp in the past three weeks, Ye Qiu finally found the strongest combination in the midfield of Ajax.

Arteta, Mascherano and Sneijder are still the same, and the tactics are still 433, but there are adjustments in the division of labor and running areas, and the players have improved in terms of how they interact with each other, for example, Arteta is a little further back than before, closer to Mascherano.

Sneijder is positioned further down the middle, partly to ensure distance and connection with Mikel Arteta and Mascherano, but also to provide space for Van der Faartneche on the right or Ibrahimovic to drop back.

Did Ajax play well in this game?

No, it's not too good!

Adrianse knows very well that if it weren't for the fact that Ajax itself is not smooth enough, not skilled enough, and the players are still a little rusty with each other, it would not be too much to score 10 goals against Willem II in this game, because they have created too many chances, and the number of shots on goal alone is as many as 32 times, most of which are within the 20-meter area, if Ajax grasps the opportunity a little higher, how many goals can be scored?

Because the midfield is running smoothly, Ye Qiu has enough confidence to boldly press the defensive line forward and boldly take a high defense, and because Arteta's position is slightly retreated, with Mascherano protecting and assisting from the side, he dares to boldly control the ball and organize within 30 meters, which makes Willem II unable to parry.

Just imagine, the ball can't get out of Willem II's half, Ajax keeps pressing Willem II to play, ground penetration, side breakthroughs, 45-degree crosses, how to play threatened...... What would that look like?

Adrianse himself has a preference for offensive football, so he can see that Ye Qiu's team has run in very well, especially at the offensive end, after the introduction of Arteta, the offensive potential of the whole team has been thoroughly tapped.

The reason why there was no performance in the first half was more caused by the lack of strength on the defensive end, and during the winter break, Ye Qiu spent three weeks to carve the team's defense, and as soon as the defense was firm, the offensive threat was completely reflected.

Although Adrianse has typical Dutch pride, he also has to admit in his heart that he not only lost this game, but also completely defeated, and I am afraid it will be difficult to have a chance to turn around.

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Ajax bloodied Willem II 6:0 away, which made Ajax fans excited as if Christmas was not over, and at the same time, the entire Dutch media followed suit, and some media even joked, thinking that after Ye Qiu's engagement, it meant that he had matured, and this also made the young Ajax mature.

Willem II had only a pitiful 3 shots on goal in the whole game, and none of them were on target, which shows that Ajax is not only excellent in attack, but also very solid in defense, and really has achieved some kind of balance between attack and defense.

But this also made many competitors feel pressure, Eindhoven's performance in this round was also excellent, but now it has been completely suppressed by Ajax, Hiddink had to admit in an interview with the media, with the strength shown by Ajax in this game, Eindhoven want to reverse, it is very difficult.

Whether it is out of tactics, in order to paralyze the opponent, or out of sincerity, at least Hiddink, who was arrogant before the season, as if he had already won the Eredivisie championship without fighting, said such a thing, Ye Qiu and Ajax themselves have already won.

But Ye Qiu is not proud of this at all, he said in an interview with the media, Eindhoven is still Ajax's strongest rival to win the Eredivisie title, Ajax is only 4 points ahead, not enough to ensure the championship, everyone in the team must guard against arrogance and rashness, and play game by game.

Three days later, in the round of 16 of the Dutch Cup, Ajax beat Roda JC 2-0 at home, this time Ye Qiu boldly used most of the substitutes, and goals from Huntelaar and Donny van der Meyde helped the team win and advance.

The next round of matches is in March, when Ajax's opponent is Groningen.

Returning to the Eredivisie, Ajax welcomed Van Marwijk's Feyenoord at the Arena Stadium.

For this team, which is known as Ajax's sworn enemy, Ye Qiu can only be described in one sentence, sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat.

Although PSV Eindhoven seems to be frugal in the past two years, there are also a lot of powerful factions that can be added, such as the Korean double stars, Kezman, Hovland, and several other rookies who have not performed well after being introduced and have been abandoned, which are all signals that Eindhoven has strengthened its strength.

And not to mention, in 2000, Eindhoven was in the Eredivisie with one hand, and his own strength was very strong.

In the past few years, PSV Eindhoven has not lost much in terms of strength except for the sale of a Ruud van Nistelrooy, but has steadily improved.

But Feyenoord sells people almost every year, from Cruise to Dudek to Van Gastere and Tomasson, when Feyenoord sells these players, the players introduced failed to meet the original expectations, and the full play is the introduction of Japanese international Shinji Ono to improve the midfield.

On the other hand, Ajax, in order to challenge PSV Eindhoven, Ye Qiu has built a strong star lineup, perhaps many of these stars are not mature enough, but there is no need to doubt the strength and talent, and when they are blended into a team, the strength they can play is amazing enough.

is also because he saw through the current situation of Feyenoord's regression, so Ye Qiu was not worried about this game, and still adopted a strong attack tactics at home, and launched a fierce attack on Feyenoord from the beginning.

Van Marwijk knows Ajax and Ye Qiu well, and has dealt with each other for three or four years, and he is very aware of Ajax's tactical characteristics, so he started very steadily and defended Ajax's attack, but near the end of the first half, Ajax launched another round of attack, and Feyenoord's goal was lost.

In the second half, Ajax defeated Feyenoord 2-0 thanks to Ibrahimovic's goal.

A week later, Ajax hosted FC Groningen.

The refreshed Ajax knocked on the Groningen goal in the first minute with Sneijder's goal at the Arena Stadium, and in the third and ninth minutes followed, Ibrahimovic scored twice to give the team a 3-0 lead.

In the 12th minute, Robben's goal extended the score further, and in the 25th minute, Ibrahimovic scored a hat-trick, and at this point, the game was completely out of suspense, and Ajax also ended the first half with a 5-0 lead.

Yaya who came on as a substitute in the second half? Toure scored another goal to lock the score at 6-0.

At this moment, the whole Eredivisie is crazy, and all the competitors can't sit still.

Since the start of the second half, Ajax have played four games, scoring a total of 16 goals and conceding clean sheets, which is an astonishing record that can be said to be almost a transformation of the entire team, and to everyone's surprise, in these four games, the combination of Arteta, Sneijder and Mascherano appeared in three, including those two 6-0 games.

Everyone began to be surprised by Ajax's performance in the second half, which also attracted the attention of Champions League opponents, including the game against Groningen, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson's assistant, Carlos? Queiroz sat in the stands at the Arena Stadium and watched the game throughout.

However, no one knows if the Portuguese has seen any clues from this game.

Ye Qiu was also not polite to his opponent, and when the whole Netherlands was hyping about Ajax's amazing results since the second half, he took his assistant Roland to appear at Old Trafford in a low-key manner to watch Manchester United's FA Cup round of 16 knockout match against Arsenal.

The FA Cup game is a decisive match, and the opponent is a sworn enemy like Arsenal, Ye Qiu is not worried about Ferguson keeping his hand.

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"It's been a long time since I've seen Peron!"

Sitting in the stands at Old Trafford, Roland held Manchester United's starting line-up and said teasingly.

Ye Qiu glanced at this chubby, ill-intentioned Dutchman, and couldn't help grinning, sometimes he would be by Roland, but sometimes he would be laughed to death by him, as if now, for no reason, he suddenly mentioned Veron.

The Argentine's situation at Manchester United is really getting worse and worse, there are many fans in his previous life who thought he was terrible at Manchester United, but he was not, he was never scolded by the Red Devils fans in two years at United, at best a small group of fans blamed him, and neither the club's management nor the manager blamed him.

The combination of Manchester United and Veron was supposed to be a pair of talented and beautiful people, but sometimes the timing was wrong, resulting in this pair of beautiful people completely becoming enemies.

Veron's performance in the first half of the Champions League was still good, which was remarkable, but after the injury, Ferguson readjusted his tactics back to Manchester United's traditional 442, and the same was true for this game against Arsenal.

Sitting in the stands of Old Trafford, Ye Qiu listened to the deafening shouts of the fans after the players entered the stadium, and he had to say that the atmosphere at Old Trafford was still good, at least when playing Arsenal.

There is also David Beckham, who still looks very energetic, and after this game, it is estimated that he will not only have another scar on his eyebrow bone, but his departure will also completely cause Manchester United's midfield to plummet, and he will not be able to return to his former strength for several years.

Ferguson is now afraid that what Beckham can do on the right side, I believe Veron can also do it, the Argentine is a right midfielder, and letting Veron play on the right side can also minimize the ball conflict between Veron and Keane and Scholes in the middle, which is why he decided to let Beckham go.

Of course, these decisions came after the Flying Shoes incident.

However, Ferguson miscalculated again this time, for the same reason as he let Stam go.

Selling Stam and selling Beckham is not wrong in itself, Ye Qiu has always believed that any team has no players that cannot be sold, and it is absolutely unacceptable to let players override the manager.

But the key is that you have to sell skillfully, of course, treating Beckham as an item on the supermarket shelf and putting a price tag on it for sale, this is not something that Ferguson can decide, but Ferguson's mistake is that he did not know Veron's wishes in advance.

When the sale of Beckham was a foregone conclusion, Veron refused to go to the wing, and even transferred to Chelsea because of this, which undoubtedly put Manchester United into a great passivity, Ferguson's prestige in Manchester United is too high, he takes it for granted that he can convince Veron, but he forgot that Veron is not Beckham.

When Beckham wanted to play in the middle, Ferguson was able to use his prestige to convince him to stay on the right, but Veron couldn't.

Sometimes when I think about it, Ye Qiuzhen feels that an overly tough character is still a double-edged sword after all.

That's true of Alex Ferguson, so is Adrianse, so is Louis van Gaal.

The match between Manchester United and Arsenal ended in 0:2, and the two sides played very hotly, but Manchester United finally lost at home, even if Ferguson tried his best, but still lost in the end.

Ye Qiu could only smile bitterly at this, it seems that there are some things that cannot be changed by himself, and what should happen will still happen.

However, this game was not completely fruitless, at least he saw through Manchester United's soft underbelly.

If Arsenal's first goal was a direct free-kick and that doesn't tell the story, then the second goal was definitely a problem with two centre-backs, two of whom couldn't stop one Wiltord, and it was in a face-to-face situation, which can only be said to be the problem of the defenders themselves.

"Let's go, Roland!" After the whistle blew at the end of the game, Ye Qiu also felt that there was no need to continue to sit down, anyway, he couldn't see the flying shoe incident happening, so it was better to go back to Amsterdam as soon as possible.

The two walked one after the other, slowly walking towards the exit of Old Trafford.

Just as they were approaching the exit passage, someone gently patted Ye Qiu's shoulder from behind.

"It's really you, Mr. Ye Qiu!" The man sounded full of surprise.