When 1.88 meters of Barak see 1.91 meters of Yaya? Toure, he must be thinking in his heart, this black-headed and black-brained stupid boy, smirking over there?

Say, Yaya? Toure's black face, grinning with white teeth, is really silly to laugh, but this kid has no consciousness at all, he still likes to laugh, so he gave him a nickname in the dressing room of Ajax, Black Bean!

"We'll let me stare you to death!" Yaya? Toure said with a smile as he approached Barak.

Barak glanced at the kid, smiled coldly and proudly, and didn't answer him, just turned his head sideways.

Yaya? Toure doesn't feel like he is being left out by Ballack, he is more excited now, because this time he is directly talking to the core of the midfield that is now in the limelight in the Bundesliga, and the manager has told him that if he kills Ballack, he will become famous in one fell swoop.

This kind of good thing can't be asked for by others for eight lifetimes, Yaya? Toure was naturally excited.

The game sounded the horn in Leverkusen's kick-off, and Berbatov in front quickly knocked the ball back to the back line and handed it to Novotny, and the German central defender stopped the ball steadily, with the style of a general.

The center-back combination of Novotny and LaMelo is the best combination in the Bundesliga this season, in which Novotny definitely shows the world's world-class central defender level, his defensive skills are almost impeccable, especially the frontal defense, which is insurmountable, and countless strikers across the Bundesliga have fallen in front of him.

The ball quickly returned from the backline to midfield and to Ballack.

As soon as he saw Ballack take the ball, Yaya? Toure pounced on the first spot, but the German didn't wait for him to get close, and directly passed the ball to Basturk in front of him, who was quickly divided to the right, Schneider crossed with a cross, but Lucio got ahead of Berbatov and cleared the ball with a header to defuse a Bayer Leverkusen attack.

The ball was flying in mid-air, and Barak and Yaya on the ground? Toure is judging the landing point, but it is clear that Barak is more judgmental about the landing point than Yaya? Toure, so he quickly got stuck in position and smashed the incoming ball to Basturk with a header.

"You're going to stare at me, can you?" After Barak landed, he looked back at Yaya behind him? Toure, asked disdainfully.

Yaya? Toure was a little angry, headers are indeed not his strong point, just now he was robbed of the opportunity by Ballack, and now he was hit, and he felt ashamed, watching Leverkusen pass the ball to Ballack's feet again, Yaya? Toure learned wisely this time and glued it straight on.

Both of them are the kind of tall macho men, and as soon as they come into contact, Barak doesn't look like Yaya? Toure was knocked away as he thought, but both men felt a struggle, and the German reacted more quickly, quickly kicking the ball to the left before losing the ball and passing it to Ze Roberto, but the position was a little behind, and Brazil had to retreat to get the ball on the left side, missing the opportunity to attack.

"Just staring at you, what's wrong?" Yaya? Toure glared at Barak and replied.

Barak smiled coldly, and didn't say much, he still had patience and temper.

Ajax didn't play the kind of high defense that they were good at before, and the midfield pressure on Bayer Leverkusen was not very strong, but Gilberto? Silva was firmly on the edge of the box and Keita was always on the move, which led to Bayer Leverkusen's attack being tightly limited as it was near forward Basturk.

When the front was blocked, Ballack in the back naturally began to take on more tasks, so it can be seen that Ballack began to frequently participate in the team's frontcourt attack, and even sometimes the position was higher than Basturk.

I don't have to say anything about the skills of the Turkish front midfield, but it is most suitable for Barak to do this kind of work.

Ballack's first shot was a sudden long-range shot from outside the box, when Gilberto ? After Silva stabbed the ball at Basturk's feet, Ballack stepped in to catch the ball and got up without saying a word, and Van der Sar in front of goal could only react, habitually holding the ball over the crossbar with both hands.

The long-range shot missed, but it startled Ajax up and down.

Ye Qiu couldn't sit still any longer, and came to the sidelines, towards Yaya? Toure waved his hand, and anyone who looked at it with an angry expression must be asking, what are you doing boy? Won't you stick to him like a dogskin plaster? Why did you go?

Yaya? Toure knew that he was wrong, and he lowered his head and did not dare to look at his manager, but he leaned in to Ballack for the first time.

Really good players don't usually shoot, but when they do, they have to be a threat.

Ballack has the heaviest defensive task among Bayer Leverkusen's midfielders, not only because he is in the middle, but also because his partner Basturk is hardly involved in defense, so almost all of the interception tasks in the midfield fall on Ballack, which makes it impossible for him to cut forward every time.

But a very important reason why the German midfielder can become the world's top midfield core player is that he knows how to see the timing, and he can go up at any time if he wants to, but the problem is that when to go up is the least risky for defense and the greatest help for attack, which requires players to have an excellent overall view and ability to read the game.

Yaya? Toure was next to Ballack, he wanted to defend Ballack, but it was difficult, because Ballack hardly let the ball stop at his feet, his technique was very practical, basically he could touch the ball with one foot and not two, so the ball was more of a transition at his feet, very fast, it was difficult to stop.

But Yaya? Toure wasn't stupid either, and after a bad start, he started to learn smart.

Since you don't stick to the ball, then I'll interfere, interfere with your catching the ball in advance, interfere with your touch of the ball, anyway, my task is to do nothing, I'm just sticking to you, sticking to you, see what you do with me!

Barak also began to have a headache about the stickiness of the Ivorians, this kid has physical strength, height and speed, and is very flexible, and the work under his feet is not bad, sometimes he is deceived and he catches up again, almost like a bullshit plaster, you can't get rid of it, and the specialist is disgusting you on the side!

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"Is he going to play one-on-one marking?"

Top? Muller sat in the inside of the away team's dugout at the Arena Stadium, frowning as he watched the game.

The game has been going on for 13 minutes, Leverkusen's attack has always been difficult to develop, the midfield has been strongly suppressed by Ajax, although Ballack has a very threatening long shot, but the overall performance has also been limited, a very important reason is that Ye Qiu has arranged a player to mark him in this game.

Ajax's tactical formation is still 433, with Edwin van der Sar in goal, Abidal, Kivo, Lucio and McCone at the back, and Keita and Gilberto in midfield. Silva and Yaya? Toure and the trident are Robben, Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart.

The change in Ye Qiu's game is to leave the previous main midfielder Sneijder on the bench and instead arrange Yaya? Toure starts, and the Ivory Coast midfielder has been a substitute before, and his performance has not been very impressive, so Topo? Mueller didn't have much information about him in his hands.

Judging from the game, this player is indeed very accomplished, at least in terms of clinginess.

With the typical physical qualities of a black player, fast and agile, coupled with good tactical execution, it is very clingy.

"Let Ze Roberto and Basturc pick up Barak more!" Top? Mueller confessed.

Assistant coach Pierre? Rietbasky immediately nodded in agreement and walked to the sidelines to explain.

However, as soon as Bayer Leverkusen moved, Ajax immediately adjusted, and the midfielder and McCone on the right began to press forward with the retreat of Ze Roberto and Basturk, and Bayer Leverkusen's midfield was a little disconnected from Berbatov and Neuville in the front, and it was more difficult to attack.

It was at this point that Ajax finally played a defensive counter-attack.

After Ballack got the ball in front of him, in Yaya? Toure tried to pass the ball to Schneider, but Keita intercepted the ball in the middle of the way and a kick was passed behind Ballack, and Van der Vaart pulled the ball from the right to the middle to get the ball, then turned to face the Bayer Leverkusen goal.

Van der Vaart took the ball directly to the Bayer Leverkusen defence, chose to dribble forward, attracted LaMelo out, and after a diagonal pass, Ibrahimovic and Novotny had a one-on-one battle at the edge of the Bayer Leverkusen penalty area, and finally the German central defender grabbed Ibrahimovic before he entered the penalty area, decisively kicked down and intercepted the ball in his own defensive area.

It was a seemingly non-threatening, but very dangerous contest, and if Ibrahimovic was to be told, it would be a one-on-one shot, and with the Swede's ability, it would be almost a sure thing to score a one-on-one goal.

So understand this, so Top? Muller, startled, walked to the sidelines and gave Novotny a round of applause.

This is a defense that even Ye Qiu has to applaud and admire, Novotny's ability really doesn't have to be said, if it weren't for the injury, it is estimated that his achievements would be quite high, and he may even become another late bloomer in the world's top central defender.

While Ye Qiu applauded Novotny, he was also paying attention to Top? Muller.

The attack just now seemed random, but in fact he deliberately arranged it, and if he insisted on finding a fatal flaw for Leverkusen, it would undoubtedly be the gap left by Ballack as the team's midfield barrier.

Therefore, he tasked his players with the task of cutting from the right to the middle as soon as Ballack left his position, replacing Ballack, and once the team had the ball and counterattacked, he went straight to Van der Vaart.

Of course, if Ballack sits in the midfield, Ajax's passing is more on the left, and McCone on the right is more defensive, although the performance was not good in the first game against Bayer Leverkusen, but Ye Qiu saw that McConn has been in good shape recently, and this game will continue to be entrusted with heavy responsibilities.

"He doesn't seem to care!" Rick Link laughed a little luckily.

There is so much information in a football game that it is impossible for any manager to remember all the information, and most of it is still a certain amount of chance, so every manager will miss some information in every game, or ignore some things that they think are insignificant.

It's like Van der Vaart's inchement just now, Top? Muller obviously felt that it was an accident, and there was no need to make any special changes to the team, after all, as soon as the team was adjusted, the team could be affected and more problems would arise.

"Wait, there will be a chance!" Ye Qiu said with a smile.

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Ye Qiu, for Van der Vaart, is full of mystery.

Sometimes, Van der Vaart, like everyone else, is full of curiosity about Ye Qiu, where did he find so many strange but capable players?

Ibrahimovic, Keita, Lucio, McConn, Gilberto? Silva...... All of them are players who were unknown before, but after joining Ajax, they all showed outstanding strength, Ye Qiu's eyes on people even the club's most vicious Rick Link admired him so much, let alone others.

This has led to a saying that has been circulating in Detokmost, in the past two years, the players who have been favored by Ye Qiu are all geniuses!

Sometimes, Van der Vaart sympathized with Ballack, because he had experienced the loss of Yaya? The frustration that Toure sticks to, you can't shake it off, you can't kick it away, you can't do anything about this guy.

Usually this kind of tall and strong player has a weakness in speed and flexibility, but this kid is not, he is not fast, but he is definitely not slow, and he is also very flexible, and he can play with his feet, which is simply a midfield version of Ibrahimovic.

Being stuck to such a soft and hard guy who doesn't eat, it's a headache, an absolute headache!

Van der Vaart was overjoyed, at least Yaya? Toure is his teammate, not an opponent.

In this game, his movement was more based on Ballack's movements, as long as the distance between Ballack and the two central defenders at the back was widened, Van der Vaart would run into the area as soon as possible, and then wait.

Wait for a teammate behind you to be able to break the ball and pass it to your feet.

As the minutes ticked by, Van der Vaart ran from the right to the middle again and again, but again and again he ran back to the right, because as soon as Ballack came back, he had to run back, at least five or six times.

At the end of the day, Ballack seemed to be aware of Van der Vaart's intentions, and began to consciously step forward less aggressively, but more at the back of the team, freezing Van der Vaart's in-cut, which directly led to the scene becoming very stale.

The time jumped steadily into 40 minutes, and the score on the field was still 0:0.

"It can be seen that both sides do not have a good way to break through the opponent's defense, although the home team of Ajax is at a disadvantage in strength, but Ye Qiu's team is very solid in defense, this time he obviously learned from the experience of the previous game, and more of a steady and steady strategy."

"Topp? Muller was equally afraid to take risks, with both teams seeing the game as a do-or-die battle in the Champions League group stage, with neither willing to risk their Champions League prospects, resulting in neither side investing more in attack. ”

"Frankly, it's important to say that this kind of game is very important, but it's not very enjoyable."

The on-site commentator was obviously a little disappointed by this, Ajax has always been a big offensive football banner in the Eredivisie, but in the Champions League, because of the strength of the team, when encountering strong opponents, they have never been able to play a convincing scene, whether it is facing Barcelona, Lyon, or Leverkusen, Ye Qiu has chosen a more balanced tactic.

From a professional point of view, this is understandable, after all, Ajax have the lowest average age and the least experienced team among the 32 teams in the group stage of this season's Champions League.

"Perhaps, the first half will end with a score of 0:0!" The on-site commentator guessed.

But at this moment, Ajax launched a quick counter-attack after a break.

When does the ball come to Gilberto? At Silva's feet, the Brazilian was watching the situation with his head up, the ball at his feet, and at this moment, in front of him, Bayer Leverkusen's defensive formation was in place, like an impregnable wall in front of the Ajax trident.

Follow Gilberto? Silva usually has a more conservative passing strategy, and he will choose to return the pass to reorganize in this situation, because he is a midfielder, and once the pass is wrong, it is likely to cause the opponent to launch a direct counterattack.

But just as he was about to knock back, he saw Yaya? Toure raised his hand to ask for the ball, and the Brazilian didn't think much of it and poked the ball forward.

The ball follows a straight line from Gilberto? Silva's feet, clinging to the turf, rolled to Yaya? Toure's feet.

At this time, Barak immediately left his position and ran forward, trying to stop Yaya? Toure turned, but the Ivorian turned sideways, shouldered Ballack, protected the ball and dribbled directly to the left side after stopping the ball.

Ballack quickly followed, but he found that the Ivorian was very skilled in dribbling the ball, which made him want to break the ball but couldn't get off his feet, and he was a little surprised in his heart, but he didn't expect this big black man to work quite well at his feet.

In the midst of a quick dribble, Yaya? Toure also noticed that Arjen Robben was pointing behind him on the left, so he flicked the ball forward with his right foot, and the ball immediately passed through the gap between LaMelo and Sebetzen as if it were being pulled by a line, and went straight to the left side of the Bayer Leverkusen penalty area.

Robben, who was on par with Sebetzen, immediately started his engine, shook off Sebetzen at lightning speed, caught up with the ball on the left side of the Bayer Leverkusen penalty area, and without the slightest hesitation, directly crossed it.

Tens of thousands of Ajax fans throughout the Arenal Stadium cheered excitedly, and many fans in the front row even stood up involuntarily, ready to start celebrating.

Ibrahimovic in the middle tried his best to squeeze Novotny, but the German central defender seized the most advantageous position in advance, and did not fall behind in the physical confrontation, suppressing the Swedes to the death, but unfortunately, Robben's cross did not come to Ibrahimovic, but to the back point.

Van der Vaart, who cut to the middle after following Ballack's movement, immediately changed his mind and rushed straight to the back post when he saw that there was no chance!